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Vol. VII, No. 33
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCT. 24, 1950
Price 10 cents
NAVY SETS UP SHIPPING CONTROL HERE
Possibility Of
Peninsula
Phone Service
Alaska Telephone Engineering
Corporation (ATEC), under the
management of Wm. M. Maxey, i
has been assured of the definite i
possibility of REA assistance in j
the construction of a Kenai Pen-1
insula telephone service. This'
encouraging word was contained
in a letter from the Honorable
Claude Wickard, Administrator
of REA, Washington, D.C., this
week.
Mr. Wickard says, “The urgent
need for adequate civilian com
munications in Alaska, especial-1
ly on the Kenai Peninsula, is I
fully appreciated. The efforts of,
the Alaska Telephone Engineer-1
ing Corporation to fill this need ■
are highly commendable.'’
Feasibility studies have been
made, maps, etc., which will be
presented personally by Mr.j
Maxey in Washington next j
week. He will also stop in Chi-,
cago for equipment.
Robert (Bob) Freeman has
been appointed commercial man
ager for Seward and Kenai Pen
insula. He assures the people of
Seward that ATEC is working
very closely with the city elec
tric system'manager to assure;
the city of no power failure this
winter. ,
A franchise ordinance is being
prepared by the company and
city attorneys for the operating
of an enlarged telephone service
in Seward, which will be offered .
for a vote of the people in the !
near future.
SEWARD ELKS OPEN SOCIAL*
SEASON WITH PARTY OCT. 23
The Seward Elks Club will
open its winter social program
with a Hallowe’en party at the!
clubrooms on October 28. All
Elks, their ladies and guests are !
invited.
Robert Freeman, chairman of
the entertainment committee,
wishes to announce that other
Elks parties have been planned
as follows:
Fisherman’s Party, November'
11; Thanksgiving Party, Novem
ber 21; Christmas Party. Decem
ber 20; Tom & Jerries, Decern-'
ber 25, and New Year's Party, I
December 30. Dates for the bal-J
ance of the season will be an-,
nounced later.
SEWARD CHORAL SOCIETY
INVITES MEMBERS
The Seward Choral Society,
under the direction of IVt*^
Ralph Hatch, former clirectofS
of music in the public schools, j
held a business meeting and first
rehearsal last Wednesday.
It was decided to give a con
cert with a varied program
sometime before Christmas. The
group is still open to anyone
who likes to sing. They plan to
work on simple music, avoiding
heavy classics until such time
as they feel capable of tackling
it.
Miss Bertha Cowles, nurses’
aide at Seward General Hospital
for the summer, left for her
home in Kansas City, Kansas.
Miss Cowles spent her summer
vacation nursing here.
Mrs. Eva Fairweather left
Friday for a visit to Mayo Clinic
in Rochester, Minn. She will
return to Seward after a few;
weeks. I
Kenai Scenic Bus Lines
Offers Daily Service
To School Children
Carol Gage, owner of K^nai
Scenic Bus Lines, will attend
the meeting of Seward P-TA to
morrow night to offer bus serv
ice to school children.
His plan is to issue a monthly
ticket for tvvo rides per day at
10 cents each for all children
within the city limits. The 14
children at the Sanatorium will
also receive bus service at \ix >
cents per ride, or 25 cents a day.
This cost compares favorably
with any city bus service in the
States. Anchorage children pay
25 cents per day, but Gage in
tends to make pick-ups of Sew
ard children right at the homes
rather than at street corners if
the police department will per
mit his stopping in the middle
of a block.
In order to start the service
it will be necessary to have a
minimum of 20 children every
day, he said.
Gage stated that he intends
to concentrate on bus service,
both in town and on the Penin
sula, by disposing of his taxi
and airline business. He is
leaving soon for the States to
pick up three more busses to
put into service in the spring.
After his return, and if the
school bus proves popular, he
will start regular passenger
service in the city.
Last winter Mr. Gage hauled
children to school free of charge
in severe weather. The new
service will not interrupt the
regular Territorial School Bus
line from Mile 8, but will be
an added service.
W.S.C.S. TO MEET
THURSDAY EVENING
The Woman's Society of Chris
tian Service will meet in the
Seward Memorial Church parlor
at 8 p.m. Thursday, October 26.
Members are urged to be present
and to bring their friends.
An interesting program has
been arranged under the leader
ship of Nell Schnoeker and Bet
ty Nelson. Hostesses for the eve
ning include Hannah Chesnutt,
Helen Malcolm and Virginia
Shuster.
INCREASED FEDERAL
WITHHOLDING TAX
The higher individual federal
income tax withholding rates
took effect October 1. as speci
fied in the new tax law. New
tax withholding tables have been
distributed by the Bureau of
Internal Revenue to all muni
cipalities.
Checks due next week will
be the first to feel the pinch.
It has not biten established here
s^s to the effect on Territorial
withholding. vTen per cent of
the Innount withheld for federal
tax hasNjeen the amount set up
till now, fcitj-t if the tax was based
originally uptsa gross income,
not the federal ta*vthere--s.hould
be no change in the Territorial
rate.
Chief Green had"'H letter from
formre chief Leonard Clark. He
is with .the Detective Division
of the .TClamath Falls, Oregon
Police/ Department. The Clarks
have'bought a home and a new
car. They are well pleased with
their new location, but are keep
ing up with the Seward news
through this newspaper.
UNITED NATIONS DAY
Today, October 24, is being
observed all over the United
florid as United Nations Day.
Tourist Assoc.
To Form In
Territory
| Charter meetings to organize
, an Alaska tourist association are
I to be held by businessmen of
| the Territory at Juneau Satur
| day, November 4, and at An
I chorage Monday, November 6,
; it was announced by the Alaska
Development Board.
At this pair of meetings a
name will be selected for the
! citizens’ group, a plan of organ
j ization adopted and temporary
officers chosen.
All communities in Southeast
Alaska have been invited to
send representatives to the Ju
neau meeting which will be held
in the Wickersham Room of the
Alaska Historical Library at
10 o'clock the morning of No
vember 4. Other places in Alaska
have ben invited to send repre
sentatives to the Anchorage
meeting which will open at 10
o’clock the morning of Novem
ber 6 in the studio of radio
station KENI there. Delegates
from the Juneau meeting will
attend the one at Anchorage.
Organization of the tourist
association is the result of efforts
by the Alaska Development
Board assisted by Chambers of
Commerce and transportation
companies. In August George
Sundborg, consultant to the
Board, accompanied George Ar
mitage, secretary of the Hawaii
Tourist Bureau, on a trip to 35
different communities in Alaska
to explain the objectives of the
proposed organization.
The tourist association, which
will be entirely independent of
the Alaska Development Board,
will coordinate travel programs,
advertise Alaska’s tourist attrac
tions and make the many ar
rangements necessary to build
this industry up to a major one
in the Territorial economy.
CITY TO RUN OWN
GARAGE '
Beginning November 1, the
City Garage will be open in
charge of a full time mechanic.
A gasoline pump has been in
stalled, tools and equipment
| secured, and the garage will
! soon be able to make all small
; repairs on the several city
owned vehicles. Council mem
bers estimate the savings on gas
and oil alone will amount to
j more than 50 per cent.
Vincent (Doc) Nelson, employ
ed at the Lytle & Green camp at
Mile 38, was treated for burns
about the face at Seward Gen
eral Hospital this week. He was
burned while clearing brush on
the new road project.
--
1 Bill Stinson, who has been
here about four years, left town
this week to visit his parents
in Pennsylvania. After his visit
he will go to Oregon to attend
school.
Oscar Woodman, former spe
cial agent at the dock, is visit
in Seward for a few days. He
lives at Homer now, where he
has a large farm and raises pigs.
Mr. Woodman brought his five
small * grandsons over to visit
their mother, Mrs. Bellamy, who
is awaiting the stork as an out
patient of the hospital. “There’s
good money in pigs,” Mr. Wood
man says, and he intends to
raise more of them next year.
Coast Guard Ship To
Supervise Discharge
Of Explosives
Mayor Eugene Lanier was ad
vised today that the Coast Guard
ship Bittersweet will make port
Thursday and remain over Sat
urday, or until the explosives
aboard the SS Nadina are com
pletely discharged.
The Bittersweet will furnish
fire protection and personnel to
supervise unloading of much
needed class-A explosives. This
is in line with the recent ruling
of Coast Guard controlling the
discharge of explosives in civil
ian ports.
Highway construction projects
reports of an alarmingly low
supply of blasting powder influ
enced the Coast Guard headquar
ters to make an exception of the
port of Seward, but require that
the unloading must be super
vised by Coast Guard personnel.
SCHOOL LUNCH PAYING
ITS WAY
Mrs. Harold Davis reports
that the school lunch program
inaugurated this year is paying
expenses. It is hoped that by
next year it will afford paid
services and relieve the volun
teers who are now assisting with
the cooking, preparation and
clean-up every day.
Six additional volunteers are
needed in the program to re
place several mothers who have
left town recently. The volun
teers give four hours each month
to the project.
An average of 150 meals per
day are being served at school.
Two days of nice weather will
cut down the demand, but a
few days of rain and cold builds
it up again to nearly 200. To
date the cafeteria has served
4432 meals.
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GOOD CROWD AT EASTERN
| STAR PARTY
About 75 guests enjoyed
\ bridge, pinochle, canasta and
| dancing at the Eastern Star
| party Saturday night. Card
tables were filled with good na
tured card amateurs who seemed
to enjoy one another's company
as much as their game.
Dancing was under the direc
tion of Dick Myers, who furn
i ished the music (by phonograph).
Sandwiches, cinnamon buns and
coffee were served during the
i evening.
i :
Capt. Burke To Stay
As Army Port Comdr.
Two officers and three enlist
ed men arrived in Seward Mon
day to set up a permanent Naval
Control of Shipping Office. The
extent and nature of their work
was not revealed, but it is un
derstood that this office will ex
ercise control over all shipping
in this port.
This work has been carried on
temporarily under the Army
Port Commander, Captain John
H. Burke, who will remain as
Army Port Commander.
This first group will be aug
mented by another officer and
one or two more enlisted men
in the near future. They are all
members of the Naval Reserve
who have been recalled to duty.
Most of them come from homes
on the East Coast and they are
all seeing Alaska for the first
time.
Lt. Glenn H. Easton, Jr.,
USNR, is Acting Commander-in
Charge of the NSC Office. His
home is Beverly, New Jersey.
Lt. Stanley F. Junemann, USNR,
comes from Queens, N.Y.
Thomas J. Lindsay, Haddon
field, N.J.; James H. Paul, Phila
j delphia, and Walker M. Guil
bault, Los Angeles, are the three
I enlisted men who excited the
interest of townspeople today,
' Navy uniforms being rarely seen
on Seward streets except on spe
cial occasions.
The three enlisted men have
settled in the Housing Area,
where they will “batch” for
! a while. They are slightly appre
hensive of an Alaskan winter
and wondering about the cost of
heating, but are game to try
their own housekeeping. The of
ficers plan to bring their wives
and become a part of Seward so
cial activities.
CURFEW BEGINS TONIGHT
j One blast of the fire siren
at 10:00 p.m. will be the signal
for all children under 10 years
of age to get lo their homes
immediately unless accompanied
by their parents.
An extra patrolman will be
on duty Hallowe’en and any
damage done by pranksters will
be punishable. On the night of
Hallowe’en, small children will
not be deprived of their treats
if they are off the streets by
10:00 o'clock, but older boys and
girls intent on destructive mis
chief will be closely watched.
For the Peaceful Rebuilding of Korea
Railroad workers in Germany are shown here loading medical sup
plies earmarked for Korea by the International Refugee Organiza
tion (IRO), a U.N. Specialized Agency. Four IRQ welfare officers are
already in Korea with the U.N. Mission aiding civilian refugees.