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VOLUME 4 ♦> INDEPENDENT SEWARD. ALASKA 4* * Wednesday February 18. 1948 * HNJTED PRESS SERVICE 4* Prim in m
GEO. WASHINGTON
BIRTHDAY PARTY
TO TOP YEARS FUN
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This Friday night at 8 P.M.,
February 20th. at the Schoolhouse
there is going to be a George
Washington Birthday Party feat
uring Pinochle and Bingo Games;
Square Dancing and of course the
proverbial Cherry Pie. The party
is sponsored by your Seward Par
ent Teachers Ass'n with the
help of the High School Girls and
Boys, and all proceeds from the
oarty will go into the rebuilding
of their school library.
We don't expect to make a mil
lion dollars on the evening and we
haven't a million dollars worth of
prizes to give out but we do have
nice prizes and expect to give you
a million dollars worth of fun and
happiness in our three rooms of
fun. The second grade room will
be for the Pinochle players. Mrs.
Ray McCann ana' Mrs . Mablo
Lewis are your hostesses and
they have planned an evening of
fun for the players. There will be
a traveling prize that will beheld
by the players when they get a
200 Pinochle. A nominal charge
o£ 10 cents for a set of four
hands has been made and each
person reaching a score of 10.000
will receive a prize.
Bingo games are the order of
lire evening for the first grade
root-1. The games can be played
for one thin dime with a prize
attached' and occasionally we
might slip a quarter game to you
with a little extra prize attached
but we haven’t definitely decid
ed on tat yet.
in the gymnasium there will he
good old Cfeorge Washington
Square dancing and Mrs. Lillian
Dangler and Mrs. Robby Robbins
who are your hostesses plan
to give you te works in square
ci'ancing. schottiches, waltz s and
maybe a few others. It is going
to cost you 25 cents to dance for
the evening and you will receive
a little ribbon for a decoration so
that you can come and go as you
please at the dance.
When you come in the door we
plan to nick you for two-bits ad
mission but promise if you arc
the lucky one to have a nice door
prize awaiting you.
Homemade Cherry and apple
pie will be sold for 15 cents a
piece, coffee a (Time a cup and
various flavors of soda pop will
be 20 cents a bottle. We are
planning a delivery service thru
cut the game rooms so that it
you are having such a good time
'■'ou can't leave what you are
playing we'll bring it to you.
Any pies that we should have
left will he sold at the close of
the evening.
There will be enjoyment and
cats galore for the youngsters and
tin oldsters so come and spend
the (‘veiling and help put a lib
rary back in our school.
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In the l iiitt'd States alone tli
' re are 50 different kinds of
woodpeckers.
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Two years after planting the
banana plant often attains a
height of 20 feet.
THEIR FIRST MEETING IN 11 YEARS
WHILE EN ROUTE FROM CALIFORNIA to Washington, Vice Adm. Marc A.
Mitscher and his wife, Frances, made a surprise stop at Hillsboro, Wise.,
the town of his birth, for a reunion with his 82-year-old mother, Mrs.
Myrta Mitscher. It was their first meeting in 11 years. Here the group
poses for this happy reunion picture. (International Soundphoto)
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MEXICAN “LAND CANAL"
SUGGESTED TO SUPPLEMENT
PANAMA ROUTE i
MEXICO (U.P.)—A gray*-haired
man stood beside a 600-foot-long
scale model of the Isthmus of Te
huantepec. He talked of the day
when drydocks on wheels will
whiz 25,000-ton vessels across the
southern part of Mexico from
oc'jan to ocean in 12 hours.
That day is not far off, accord
ing to Modesto Rolland, the civil
engineer commissioned by Presi
dent Miguel Aleman to survey
the possibilities of a $240,000,000
scheme. Rolland. who is due to
submit the results of his year
long study to the president soon,
revealed some of the (retails in
an exclusive interview with the
United Press.
Rolland is no amateur at con
verting large-scale projects into
realities. He is the man who in
troduced rein forced-concrete con
struction to Mexico. He also is re
sponsible for some of this coun
try'.-, best buildings, ranging from
luxury hotels for tourists, one of
the continent's most lavish gamb
ling casinos (now out of exist
enceh 1 ho Jalap-' Stadium, port
installations and Mexico City's re
cently completed “Sports City".
Dream is Big
Rut he readily admits the Te
huantepec project dwarfs any
thing ho has (/reamed up in a life
time of massive engineering. And
roughly the idea runs like This:
Ocean-going ships would pull
into one of the two ports to he
constructed on fho Gulf of Mex
ico at the mouth of the Coat/ n
coalcos River and at the e<*g< of
l.aguna Superior on the Pacific.
They then would be floated in
Diesel-motored super-trains which
would speed them over 156 miles
of 20-railed track to the other
si(/e of the continent.
On the subject of the advant
ages of the Tehauntepec railroad
over such competition as tlK>
Panama Canal, Rolland grows lo
quacious.
"As a matter of fact.” lie pro
claimed, wavig a hand to empha
size the point, “the Panama Ca
| nal is already inadequate. It
would be difficult to defend in
the event of a new war. And
you must remember that a rail
road can be much more rapidly
repaired after a bombing attack
than a canal.
‘Tehuantepec is much closer to
United States production centers
and markets than Panama. Its
climate is more favorable. Ships
could be moved over a railroad
such as I have in mind 5 times
as fast as in tho Panama Canal.
Safety Important
“Safety is another important,
factor. In one part of the Pana
ma Canal, ships frequently smash
into the cliffs. There has been an
average of 50 accidents a year
since the canal has been in use—
something which has not always
been in the newspapers.”
Holland similarly dismisses the
proposed Nicarguan Canal under
consideration by Congress as “dif
ficult and expensive to build”
and “slow to navigate.”
But the biggest advantage of
tlm Tehuantepec railroad, as he
sees it. is its “low cost”. While
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Five Alaska National
Forest Homesites
Five Alaska National Forest
homesites have been made avail
able for patent under the applica
ble public-land laws through the
signing of Public Land Order 441
on January 30, 1948, according to
information received in the Jun
eau office of Regional Forester B.
Frank Heinzleman. These are as
follows:
Tongass National Forest
Herring Bay Group, Tongass Hi
way, near Ketcrkan.
Lee E. Dickenson, Lot 74. 1.45 A.
Clover Pass Group, Tongass lli
way, near Ketchikan
Mrs. Larry McCann, Lot A. 2.7 A.
Leo II. Ingmnn. Lot AA, .77 A.
Fay L. Bullock, Lot G. 4.41 A.
Chugach National Forest
Elisha W. Hall. Boswell Bay.
Hinchenhrook Island. 4.31 A.. The
elinmination' of the above tracts
from the National Forests is the
first step towards patent. Origi
nal occupancy of the areas was
autorizod by te Fere d Service
troug Sneei; ! l’.-e permits ana*
the pormitees have since resided
continuously on tlie permit areas
for at least three years to the ex
clusion of a onto elsewhere. The
Regional Forester states that this
is in line with tlie Forest Service
policy of providing tracts for
homes 6f bina-fide settlers along
the Forest Highways and other
sections adjacent to th > various
communities. The Regional For
ester also point- out that thous
ands of dollars have been spent
from Forest Service funds in
building spur roads to open new
groups of homesites and laying
out these groups of homesites and
ia> ir.g out these groups in ac*
w.nce of demand.
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H. V. HOBEN IN HOSPITAL
WITH FRACTURED HIP
!!. V Hohen fell on the street
between A! Peel's house and the
A T Barns. He sustained a frac
tured hip. It was a clean break
and Mr. Hohen is curing very
well. He should not be out of cir
culcation very long.
.Tii'! as wens was getting a lit
tle scarce ana* we were beginning
to worry about our circulation
figures, this $30,000 law suit came
up, and circulation has jumped.
Owing to the fact that we expect
to more than treble our newspap
er output, Mr. and Mrs. Hal Hunt
have gone to Anchorage to see a
bout. more paper and ink. While
there, if they have time, they
will probably see their lawyer to
nsortain who lias to pay for a
lost lawsuit. Wc are almost sure
wo has to pay. We would like to
have more ews tat makes such
DO YOU KNOW
ABOUT ALASKA?
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Alaska produces the largest,
moose in the world and also the
smallest moose in the world. The
largest species is known as the
Kenai moose. These bull moose
have been known to dress out at
eleven hundred pounds.
The smallest species of moose
in the world are the Colville
River District moose. This area
is in the extreme arctic and the
exceptionally large bull moose
of that area weighs only six
hundred pounds.
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SOURDOUGH BILL
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If you want anything hauled,
baggage, furniture, boxes, etc.,
and you want it hauled quickly
to the right place, just call
Sourdugh Bill. Bill is always
ready to handle your baggage.
You'll have to live in this town
a lot longer than Bill has in
order to give him an address ho
can’t find.
When you see that red truck,
you can be sure it’s also a ready
truck.
In 1895 Levassor, a French mot
orist. raced in a “horseless" car
riage from Paris to Bordeaux at
an average speed of 15 miles an
hour.
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GEORGE LESKO FILES
PETITION FOR COUNCILMAN
George Lesko has filed his pe
tition for Councilpian n the ciom
ing City Elections to be held the
first Tuesdaj in April.
Three councilman will be chos
en at that time to fill the vacan
cies left by Oscar Dahl, William
Noviek and Barton Stanton, the
councilmen whose terms expire at;
that time. A mayor will also b?
voted on to fill that office which
is now held by Clarence Keating,
NOTICES
EVERY VOTER
MUST REGISTER
SECTION 4. The Municipal Clerk
shall be ex-officio Registration
O'ficer,
All persons, before voting at
any general or special election in
ihe City of Seward must register
as hereinafter provided in this
section, provided, however, in
case of vot ng for members of th;'
School Board, oli voters having*
the requisite qualifications shall
be allowed to cast their ballot
wlhout having previously regis
tered.
All persons desiring to vote for
officers other than cr member of
the School Board, must register
prior to 10 P.M. of the Saturday
preceding the election.
NOTICE
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Anyone interested in Special
train from Anchorage to Seward
following Fur Rendezvous, Feb.
23, call H'gh School.
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