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Vol. 5., No. 34
SEWARD. ALASKA, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1948
Price 10 Cents
Railroad Barge
Arrives After
Rough Trip*
After having been tied up at
Yakutat to wait out the bad
weather encountered earlier in the
week, The Alaska Railroad’s Barge
754 arrived at Seward at six o'clock
yesterday evening. Of the 2220 tons
of food and supplies in its cargo
152 tons are consigned to Seward.
Eighteen Railbelt communities
will get a share of the cargo. Es
sentials are due for Woodrow,
Moose Pass, Gulkana, Matanuska,
Jonesville, Wasilla, Talkeetna, Cur
ry, Summit, Cantwell, Healy, Sun
trana, Nenana, College. Fairbanks,
Palmer and Anchorage.
Seward's consignment consists of
wallboard. feed, and foodstuffs.
Woodrow will get 2.7 tons of
supplies, and Moose Pass over half
a ton.
Bulk of the consignment consists
of essential items such as food,
feed, and building materials.
Supplies for small Railbelt com
munities have thinned out prob
ably more dangerously than in the
towns, merchants declare.
The 754—the ARR's barges are
numbered—sailed from Seattle on
Oct. 20. A second railroad barge is
tentatively scheduled to leave Se
attle about the first of the month.
Order for the operation of the
barge service came from the In
terior Department the first of Oc-y
tober. This is the second time in
ten years that the ARR has run a
shipping service to Alaska because
of a maritime strike.
Shipping News . . .
The Chief Washakie arrived in
Seward Wednesday, October 27,
with two million feet of lumber for
points along the railbelt.
The Standard Oil tanker bound
for Seward is reported to have
notified the Coast Guard that one
of its boilers was out of commis
sion, but was still making out un
der its own power in the heavy
weather.
A second railroad barge is re
ported due to leave Seattle on No
vember 2 with a cargo of food
stuffs.
LOCAL POSTOFFICE HANDLES
LARGE AMOUNT OF MAIL
Three big truck loads of mail
came into the Seward Postoffice
this week. With the mail that
came in on the barge last night,
the week's total will run well over
500 bags. That means a lot of
work for the force at the Postof
fice. Instead of a steady stream of
mail coming in daily, they get it
all at once and have to work like
beavers to keep it moving to the
public.
MOOSE PASS SPORTSMEN
HAVING^HALLOWE'EN PARTY
The Moose Pass Sportsmen's
Club is having a Hallowe'en party
this evening, Oct. 30.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Malcolm
met their daughter Tanya Rose in
Anchorage one day this week. The
young lady has been Outside for
a couple of months.
Mrs. Nina Robbins was in town
for a couple of days this week with.
her little nine-months-old son. Mr.
and Mrs. Robbins are homestead
ing near Kenai an<J Mr. Robbins
works for the Road Commission.
Clean Health Bill
Given Seward
By Territory
The latest Territorial report on
communicable diseases gives Sew
ard a clean bill of health for the
17 diseases included in its statisti
cal report.
Mrs. LaPreil Bie said yesterday
that the good record is due to" the
health consciousness developed in
the people of Seward by the per
sistent work on the health educa
tion plan. Both local doctors, Mrs.
Bie said, are worthy of praise for
•.his type of work. They have been
most interested in preventing ill
ness and contagion and the results
have been a great benefit to the
people of Seward. t
Both the clinical and educational
work of the Public Health and
Welfare Council have been very
effective. Public Health Nurse,
Mrs. LaPreil Bie, said that at the
last immunization clinic 45 children
receivVd immunization treatment.
That is a record number, since the
largest number heretofore has been
32. Two years ago the number ot
children receiving treatment was
sometimes only three or four.
The City Council, at its meeting
on Monday evening, October 25,
approved a check to the Seward
Department of Public Health for
payment to the Health and Wel
fare Council in the amount of $1350
for services extending over a
period of a year and a half and
' ending with July 1949.
j IMMUNIZATION CLINIC
NOVEMBER 4
The monthly immunization clinic
will be held at the Public Health
Nurse’s office in the Medical Build
ing on Thursday, Nov. 4. from 2:00
to 3:30 p.m.
BIRTH CERTIFICATES
AVAILABLE
!
The following birth certificates
are available at the Public Health
Nurse’s office:
Marilyn Ann Toloff
Judith Eileen Painter
Gilbert Wood Ferguson
Jeanette Sue Davis
Anne Woodan Ronne
Marshall George Ronne, Jr.
Sharon Ann Quayle
Michael William Gillem
Dawn Renee Trevethan
Kenneth Dale Nyman
Scott Francis Roth
RADIO STATION OFFERS
Services to city
Mr. W. J. Wagner, head of the
Alaska Broadcasting Company,
which is opening the new radio
station here, has offered to the city
the facilities of the station for po
lice and fire calls, accidents, and
other emergencies. It is expected,
too, that ships and planes will find
the local station a valuable aid to
navigation.
ARR PHOTOGRAPHER TAKES
SEWARD PICTURES
Dick Chase, photographer for
The Alaska Railroad, has been in
town for several days taking pic
tures for the railroad’s publicity
department. Weather permitting,
he intended to get shots of the ar
rival of the railroad barge as well
as of the dock area. He climbed
Mount Marathon for the purpose of
taking a good view of the whole
city, but by the time he got up
there the sun had dipped behind
the mountains.
Mrs. Roy Cuff of Moose Pass is
a guest of Julia McKann.
New Bus Line
Is Started By
Gene Lanier
A 25-passenger Yellow Coach of
modern type was brought to Sew
ard this week by Gene Lanier,
when he returned from his trip
Outside. The bus will be used to
carry city passengers, Lanier said
yesterday.
A few trial runs will have to be
made, Lanier said, before a sched
ule can be published, but the pur
pose will be to furnish convenient!
transportation to people who must
travel from outlying districts to the
shopping center in Seward.
It is also proposed to run a bus
service on the highway. So far it
has not been determined whether
service will extend all the way to
Kenai, or whether they will make
arrangements to pick up passen
gers at Mile 58. At any rate, there
will be service to Moose Pass regu
larly.
The 23-passenger bus, while not
new, has been completely recondi
| tioned from a new motor to new
leather covering on the seats. A
| new motor and tires, besides many
spare parts were brought up with
( the bus.
The bus is a vehicle designed for
; passenger transportation with all
■ the safety features incorporated
i into the design. It is built on a
short, narrow wheelbase which
makes it especially adaptable, to
the roads over which it must travel
on the Kenai Peninsula.
MAYOR FINDS SEWARD'S
TROUBLES NOT SO BAD
Mayor Lanier returned to Seward
lasr Tuesday with gratitude in his
heart that he had only the prob
lems of Seward to contend with,
after visiting with the mayors of
cities like Seattle and San Diego.
San Diego’s mayor said that no
official has ever known trouble till
he has a great city on his hands
and no water. That area usually
has an annual rainfall of 27 and
one-half inches compared to the
two inches that have fallen this
year. Lanier said that they are
growing lettuce and celery in river
and lake beds, and San Diego is
one city that hopes its population
will not increase and put a greater
demand on its water supply.
Lanier offered to trade a couple
of our streams for a block or two
of paving and the San Diego ex
ecutive replied that for two such
streams he would personally cut
the paving into one-foot squares
and carry it up here.
Mayor Lanier reported that when
he visited Seattle he found that
Mayor Devin is working overtime
to find a basis for setting the ship
ping strike, since that seaport de
pends almost entirely on trade and
commerce.
On his return trip. Mayor Lanier
traveled over the Alaska Highway
with his new bus.
AT THE NEW SEWARD HOTEL
Bruce Cruikshank, KIBH, Sew
ard; Mrs. Dominic Kelly, Lake
View; Mr. and Mrs. Hans Hae
meister, Anchorage; Jack Moly
neux, Seattle; George R. Jones,
Anchorage; Bailey Covey, Anchor
age; James C. Connors, Anchor
age; Larry Moore, Wm. Akers, Ray
Boyd, E. J. Kunz, and W. D. Mc
Kinney, Jr., all of The Alaska Rail
road, Anchorage; .Mr. .and Mrs.
Geo. Hayden, Alfred Smith, Jay
Pierson and A. Sambo of Anchor
age.
Railroad Aid m j
Ship Emergency
Is Appreciated
Ross Mann, president of the Sew- J
ard Chamber of Commerce and ad-1
juster for the damaged cargo of!
the ship Southeastern, said yester-1
day that the work of moving the
cargo of the ship is nearly com
pleted. All goods from that ship
have been removed from the dock.
The 80 tons of meat has been
placed in the local cold storage i
plant, and it is expected that’two ;
carloads will be moved today. ;
Word has come to the Record that
the buyers of the meat have ac
cepted it at the full price.
Cooperation from The Alaska
Railroad in this matter has been
beyond all expectations, Mann
said. From over-all policy right
down to such small things as han
dling telephone calls efficiently
for him, the services and courtesies
extended him by the railroad have
been valuable in the extreme.
Second Tax Notice
To Delinquents
The city council has voted to
send out a second notice to delin
quent taxpayers. Collections have
been very god to date it was
been very good to date it was
oil meeting it was decided to give
Gus Manthay a credit of $140 on
his taxes in return for work done
on the new fire hall.
Bills presented by the City
i Clerk at Monday’s meeting were
approved by the council and en
tered in the minutes. They were
as follows: *Pat's Garage, $318.61;
Hamilton’s Garage, $84.86; Bill
Estes, $27.20, and City Express,
S888.00.
Other bills presented by the
Seward Electric System were ap
proved also. They were for the
purposes listed: bonds and inter
est, $6760.85; payroll, $3010.00, and
other bills amounting to $4890.74,
making a total of $14,661.59.
Search Goes On for
Whitey Barnett
An unbroken wall of silence sur
rounds the disappearance of
Whitey Barnett, Seward flyer who
sent a radio message to the effect
that he was lost with only a 20
minute supply of fuel left last Sun
day evening.
Bad weather has hampered the
searchers in their strenuous efforts
to locate the missing plane. Many
planes have taken part in the
search, which so far has proved
fruitless.
The fact that so far no oil slicks
have been sighted on the waters
of the search area leads many to
believe that Barnett may have
made a landing in some isolated
spot from which he will eventually
return.
New Babies . . .
On Wednesday night. October 27,
a girl was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Nucuacciaro at the Seward Gen
eral Hospital. The baby had not
been named yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Keating
took their baby boy home yester
day. He was born on October 23. '
Homer Boe of Hope was in Sew
ard yesterday. He said there is to
be a big Hallowe’en party at the
Hope Social' Hall this evening.
Jimmie Newman, retired Alaska
Railroad emplpye frpm Hope, was,
in town Friday to' do his winter
shopping.
Seward Unions
In Accord With
Railroad Plan
In a two way interview between
Phil Harding, spokesman for the
Seward CIO Longshoremen’s Un
ions, and Larry Moore, assistant to
tlie general manager of The Alas
ka Railroad, is was announced that
the two CIO locals had met with
officials of The Alaska Railroad in
a meeting that turned out to be a
veritable love feast.
Harding went on record as say
ing that the local unions were
more than pleased with the propo
sition put up to them at their joint
meeting Thursday afternoon, Oct.
28. “This is the first time the rail
road has come to the unions with
a specific proposition and laid its
cards on the table, and the union
is pleased to cooperate with the
railroad in every respect.’’
The proposition of which Hard
ing spoke is the unloading of The
Alaska Railroad barges, the first
of which docked at Seward last
night.
“It was a real meeting in which
everyone spoke his piece,’’ Hard
ing said. “And the unions are post
poning their regular meeting until
! further announcement so that the
^barge may be unloaded with the
, greatest efficiency.’’
Larry Moore, speaking for the
railroad, said that the barges would
begin loading freight for shipment
to Seattle. Between the loadihg
and unloading of barges, Moore
j promised, there would be sufficient
| work to keep local longshoremen
j working steadily.
It was also made known at the
interview that the unions had also
made an agreement with the
Northern Stevedoring and Han
dling Corporation, so that there
should be no question but that all
ships docking at Seward will be
unloaded without delay.
The local longshoremen’s unions
have not been on strike, and there
has never been a question of their
willingness to unload any freight
which was brought to the Seward
dock. But there has sometimes
been a question in the minds of
some people as to whether they
could expect full cooperation from
the unions. It seemed last night
that all such doubts had been dis
pelled.
In speaking for the railroad, Mr.
Moore assured the Record that the
people of Seward can expect full
cooperation in any problems that
may arise. This cooperation is an
actuality, as may be seen by the
way the railroad has extended
every effort to aid in an equitable
disposal of the damaged cargo that
arrived at the Seward dock . ast
week.
ARMY TO INSTALL
MOORING FLOAT
Major J. S. Grygiel. acting chief
of operations of the Corps of En
gineers, Seattle District, announced
that application has been made by
a department of the Army to con
struct a float for mooring small
boats in Resurrection Bay. Any ob
jections to this float from a stand
point of navigation should be filed
by November 5 with the Army En
gineers.
The site selected for the float is
north of the small boat harbor.
George Janikula of Enumdaw,
Wash., is in Seward for a visit. He
helped Gene Lanier drive the new
passenger bus from Seattle over
the Alaska Highway.