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Vol. VI. No. 59
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JAN. 24, 1950
Anch. Eagles
Vs. Sea Hawks
Fri., Jan. 27
The Seward High Sea Hawks
will be matched- against the
powerful Anchorage High Ea
gles, this Friday, Jan. 27. here
at the school gym. The game
promises to be jammed with
action and a battle throughout
for top honors.
The Eagles have won all
three of their interscholastic
games played this year; the Sea
Hawks have won the only game
they have played. Incidentally,
each of the wins was at the ex
pense of the Palmer High squad.
Seward will go into action
with the same team which de
feated Anchorage both games
here last year. This game will
count toward the Class “A” bas
ketball championship of Wes
tern Alaska.
The preliminary, which tips
off at 7:30, is between top notch
city teams, the Palace DeHorns
and the Nobby Club. Officials
are Perry Stockton, Stan Niege
mann and Jacque Roth.
Anchorage will return home
Saturday.
Bowling Team Plays
In Anchorage
This Week
The* Alaska Shop bowling
team left Seward Monday by
plane to play against the Elks
team in Anchorage on Monday
night! They will meet teams
from the Aleutian Bowling Al
leys on Tuesday night.
The Seward team composed
of Frank Lewis, Ed Burke,
Everett Skinner, Jim McSwain,
and Bud Brown, have been play
ing a good consistent game, with
a team high 10 of 1002, high 30
of 3057. Four of the team were
among league leaders last week:
Burke's average 164, Brown
162. Lewis 160 and Skinner 160.1
Brown had a high 30 for the!
week at 560.
They went to Anchorage in i
two planes, Brown taking half!
the team and Skinner the rest. !
Ralph Van Guilder should be j
included in the team lineup.
POLICE PATROLMAN ILL
While Pete Gutekunst, police
patrolman, was at home ill last
week, and Chief Clark was out j
of town on police business, the
force was so reduced that j
Patrolman Anderson put in 36
hours of unrelieved duty.
To relieve the strain, Max
Eads was sworn in us relief pa
trolman to serve until Gutekunst
could return to duty.
*Round 'n1 'Bout Town . . .
—The Roving Reporter—
i
Friends of the Urbachs have
received word that they were
held up by the heavy snow
storms in Washington, Oregon,
and Northern California. They
have their car with them, but
were unable to proceed south as
soon as they had planned.
&
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elhard
and Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Gilbert
drove to Homer the past week
end. They spent the night there
and came back via Kenai.
&
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Campen
and Mrs. Martine Johansen en
tertained at a bridge dinner at
the Campen home Saturday
night,
VS
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Erwin, Dr.
and Mrs. Russell Wagner, Mrs.
L. V. Ray, Mr. and Mrs. Baird
French, Mrs. Alice French and
Pet Williams were their guests.
Mrs. Ray won high prize for
the ladies and Mr. French for
the men. ,
VS
Frank Brooks is in Anchor
age visiting his son and daugh
ter-in-law.
VS
There was a neighborhood
birthday party for Mrs. Clar
ence Larsen and Mrs. Delbert
Robbins at the home of Alberta
Stanton. Rose MacSwain was
also one of the hostesses.
VS
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Neff had
a Sunday birthday dinner for
Mrs. Robbins.
VS
Sam Axtell is going to An
chorage on a business trip today.
VS
Baby Johnnie Coleman is
celebrating his first birthday
today.
VS
Donn Lee had a birthday Sat
urday. He and some of his
friends square danced and later
they all went up to Margaret
Spencer’s for birthday cake.
VS
Speaking of square dancing,
there were quite a few who
were at the Methodist Church
basement dancing Saturday nite.
There were three sets going
strong before the evening was
over.
VS
There will be a meeting of the
Catholic Altar and Rosary So
ciety tonight at 8 p.m. in the
Rectory of the Catholic Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Yonker,
the Wendall Hermans and Lu
cille Stephan gathered at the
home of the Paul Lees to look
at slides Saturday nite.
Max Reger, division super
visor for the Forest Service,
returned from a trip to Juneau
Monday.
There will be a Bowling
League meeting at the Elk's
Club tonight, the 24th. All mem
bers are urged to attend.
Katie Shelton, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. J. H. Shelton, had a
birthday party Sunday, 22nd.
There were seven candies on her
cake which some of the neigh
borhood children were invited
to enjoy. Afterwards they went
roller skating.
Margaret Mullen of Victoria,
B. C., came in on the Denali
for a visit with her daughter,
Mary Barnett.
&
Margaret Hoghkinson from
Hope is spending the week in
Seward as a guest of the Homer
Boes.
Dr. L. Lowell, thoracic spe
cialist at the Sanatorium, flew
to Spokane on Monday’s plane
on a business trip. He is ex
pected to be away a week or so.
Lucille Stephan entertained
Mrs. Clarence T. Larsen and
daughters, Mrs. Chris Johnson
and Dr. Colberg of Anchorage
Sunday afternoon.
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Mr. and Mrs. George Puckett
entertained the Gentry Schus
ters, the Lawrence Kirchs, and
the Phil Hardings Sunday nite.
A tasty buffet supper was serv
ed and afterwards Mrs. Schuster
showed them movies of the trip
she just recently made.
&
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bomar
are busy moving into an apart
ment in the Arcade Building.
There were several Homerites
in Seward over the weekend
and many Seward people are
making the trip over there.
Harry Knudsen and Ben
Faust went over last Saturday
and Mr. and Mrs. Barton Stan
ton, the Russell Painters, and
the Delmar Zentmires left today
for a two day trip.
Phenomenon
Over Seward
January 24th.
The strang e phenomenon
which held Sewardiles enthrall
ed with its beauty for an hour
this morning, between 8:30 and
9:30, was also visible in Anchor
age, according to the Weather
Bureau there.
When reporting the weather
this morning, Mrs. Howell was
asked whether it could be seen
here. It was near the southern
horizon from Anchorage, but di
rectly overhead in this region.
Later in the day, Cordova also
reported the strange cloud as
being very beautiful.
According to Weather Bureau
officials, the cloud is called a
“mother of pearl cloud,” and is
almost never seen below the
Arctic or sub-Arctic regions,
and is truly a phenomenon.
One's first impulse on seeing
the cloud, was to call all one's
friends ty see it, too, although
at the time we did not know the
name of it, and suposed it to be
a last lingering trace of the
vivid Northern Lights visible
earlier. Mr. Howell first called
the newspaper’s attention to it,
and further information was
supplied by Mrs. Howell from
the Weather Bureau.
It is difficult, if not impos
sible to describe the dainty,
yet definite colors, forming two
definite lines in a perfect ex
ample of the spectrum. Merg
ing from silver to palest blue,
deepening into green, yellow,
orange, rose and silver, only to
repeat itself again. The cloud
was visible all day, drifting
slowly westward until in late
afternoon it stood directly over
Bear Mountain, allhough it had
lost its color and appeared more
as a diaphanous cloud.
We were told that these
clouds are never less than 15
miles from the earth's surface,
and may be as much as 30 miles
up. Even old time Alaskans
have rarely seen the real thing
appearing below the Arctic
Circle.
Oscar Dahl Returns
From Trip To Sweden
Oscar Dahl, popular hotel
owner, returned Monday night
from his two-month vacation
trip to Sweden, He came in un
expectedly as a surprise to his
wife, Pearl.
He says that he flew half way
across the world to find good
weather right here at* home, it
was very cold, but no snow in
New' York City, 25 below and a
blizzard in Minneapolis that de
layed him a day, the same tem
perature and snow in Spokane,
and rain with slush in Seattle,
where there was another delay.
When he arrived home to find
a temperature of 50 degrees
(above, that is) in Seward, he
was sure that it’s God’s Country.
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Basketball . . .
• CITY LEAGUE GAMES
Wed., Jan. 25—School Gym.
7:30—Boosters vs. DeHorns
9:00—Nobby vs. Sea Hawks
‘More Prizes in Store
! For Kenai
Peninsula Potlatch
In addition to the big prizes
listed last Friday for the win
ners of the Amateur Show,
Hobby Show and Square Dance
Contest, and the chest of silver
j put up by J. Viv Brown & Sons,
I the following list, and the don
, ors, is given:
1 Thirty records from Osbo’s;
S15.00 cash, Alaska Bookkeep
ing Service; $10.00 credit card,
Kenai Sales; $15.00 credit card,
Brown & Hawkins; $10.00 credit
at Seward Steam Laundry & Dry
Cleaners; $10.00 credit, Seward
Trading Co.
There are still more prizes to
be listed later. This is the great
est list of prizes, both in length
and value to have been given in
Seward for any one event.
REHEARSAL '
All entries for the amateur
talent show will hold a rehear
sal in the High School gymnasi
um on Sunday evening, Jan. 29,
i at 7:30. This is necessary to set
i up split second thinking in case
! it is possible to transcribe the
program for broadcasting.
SQUARE DANCE CONTEST
I All teams or sets wishing to
; compete in the square 'dance
must register with Mrs. Jerry
Noyes, at the Youth Center.
Enter as teams, not as couples,
because the prizes will be
awarded to sets.
Sid Urie, owner of Sid’s Flow
er Shop, will present each of
the winning ladies with a beau
tiful corsage; boutonnieres for
the men.
The square dance will be a
part of the March of Dimes
Dance on Saturday night, Feb.
4, to begin at 9:30.
GOING TO HOMER IN
THE NEXT FEW DAYS?
Il is earnestly requested
that "for goodness sakes" if
anybody is going to Homer,
Kenai, or Kasilof in the next
j couple of days, please stop in
at the Record office to pick up
! a message about the Potlatch.
i LUTHERANS ENTERTAIN
j DR. ARTHUR COLEERG
Dr. Arthur Colberg. Lutheran
medical missionary, who, with
! his family, spent 22 years on
| the mission fields ox China, was
j a visitor in our city the past
1 weekend.
j Dr. Colberg delivered two
! faith inspiring messages at the
; local Lutheran Church. While in
| Seward, he was a guest in the
i following homes: Mr. and Mrs.
j R. Elhard, Mr. Carl Carlson,
; Miss Lucille Stephan, and Mr
| and Mrs. K. S. Rustad.
A daughter was born to Mr.
' and Mrs. Ralph Harris, Cooper
! Landing, at Seward General
i Hospital, Friday, Jan. 20, 1930.
The little girl weighed 6 pounds
• and 10 ounces. She was named
Sue Ann.
YOU BE THE JUDGE
In deciding the real banana
belt of Alaska, we publish tiie
i following weather report for
| today, Jan. 24, and let every
I man be the judge.
S At noon, Anchorage: 8 de
grees above zero.
At noon, Seward: 50 degrees
above zero.
’Nuff said!!!!
Sandwich Spread—What one
gets from eating between meals.
Hobby Show
Prize To Be
Silverware
The Kcnai Peninsula Pot
latch Committee announced to
day that the first prize for the
adult vviner of the Hobby Show
will be a chest of Community
I Plate silver, contributed by J.
Vic Brown.
Russell Norton, manager of
the K. P. Potlatch Hobby Show,
issues the following suggestions
and instructions:
Any kind of collection, from
one item to 100 or more, is eli
gible for prizes.
Collections
Doll collections, stamps, salt
and pepper shakers, glassware,
photographs, historical or mo
: dern, slides, tintypes, buttons,
books- and manuscripts, coins,
etc.; any sort of collected arti
cles.
Handicraft
i Among the hanclcraits are
I soap carvings, paintings, ivory,
i basketware, embroidery, knit
i ting, crocheting, rugs, quilts,
! leatherwork, lamps, woodwork,
etc. The number and kinds oi
handicraft is unlimited.
Entries will be placed in four
categories: collected articles or
: hand made articles for adults,
| and collections or hand made
j articles for children. Judges
will be entirely impartial, and
will be from out of town if
possible.
j The entire display will have
' police protection and is to be
! patrolled by Boy Scouts in uni
form. It is suggested, however,
that each entry will be the re
sponsibility of its owner.
If it is possible, the entry
should be accompanied by a tag
explaining its history, if an
tique, name and age of the mak
er if a child, and any other in
teresting details.
There will be a typist in at
tendance during the afternoon
of Friday, February 3, at the
Civic Center to help entrants
tag and arrange displays if such
jobs cannot be done at home.
All displays should be in the
Civic Center building ready for
! arranging, beginning 1 p.m. on
' the day of the show, Friday,
j Feb. 3.
J Mr. Norton also requests that
j the committee be notified in ad
, vance by local entrants, the kind
1 and size of each display. Call
1 Air. Norton at Adams 192, write
! Box 3(34, or leave word at the
newspaper office.
LOCAL WOMAN ON BOARD
OF CANCER SOCIETY
Mrs. Phil Harding was noti
fied this week by Mrs. Mildred
Harmon, Commander Alaska Di
vision, American Cancer Socie
ty, that she has been elected to
the Board of Directors of the
Territorial Cancer Society.
According to Mrs. Harmon,
38 people are to represent nine
communities in Alaska from
Petersburg to Nome-.
Mrs. Harding was president
| of the Seward Health and Wel
fare Council for the past two
| years, and the former chairman
of Seward Chapter, American
■ Red Cross.
Basketball Special!
ANCHORAGE H.S. EAGLES vs SEWARD SEA HAWKS
SEWARD SCHOOL GYM — FRIDAY, JAN. 27
Preliminary 7:30 p.m. — Nobby Club vs DeHorns
ADULTS $1.00 CHILDREN 60c