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FOR SALE, MISC,
G.E. ELECTRIC RANGE. Good con
dition. $90. Call Monroe 152.
90tfc
JUNE 1—FLOWER PLANTS ready.
Shizanthus, pansies, chrysanthe
mums, dahlias, stocks, snapdrag
ons, babybreath, sweetpeas, nas
turtiums etc. Half-dozen rhubarb
chard FREE with each order of
$1.00 or more. Sid the Florist, 219
3rd Ave. Phone Garfield 24.
94-95c
USED JOHNSON OUTBOARDS &
biggest stock of Johnson parts on
Peninsula. Hal Thornton, Kenai.
91-109C
NASH ROAD STORE
8 Kinds Garden Fertilizer
100 lb. bags or less.
Fancy Home Laid Eggs.
Open Early and Late Hours
A small business—a large ideal.
Visitors Welcomed.
92-3-4p
7-CU. FT. FRIGIDAIRE. Just like
new. One year old. Glenn’s Sec
ond Hand Store Adams 184.
92tfc
DAHLIA plants and seed potatoes.
Mrs. P. Coulter. 93-94p
FOR SALE - LIVESTOCK
TWO MARES, 2 sows, milk goats.
R. K. Peden, Box 725, Seward.
88-96p
FOR SALE, REAL ESTATE
TWO-BEDROOM, furnished house
and garage on 50x100 lot. Also
car for sale. W. G. Hughes, Madi
ison 150. 94-95p
TWO-BEDROOM LOG HOUSE on
three lots. Cliff Add. Call Bl. 5U.
94tfc
FOR SALE. VEHICLES
MODEL A lVfc-ton l.w.b. truck and
1947 Packard sedan. R. K. Peden,
Box 725, Seward. 88-96p
FOR BETTER USED CARS and
trucks, call Hamilton’s Garage,
Madison 66. 32tfc
1950 ONE TON Chevrolet pickup
with bed, deluxe cab, radio, heater.
Has only run 4500 miles. Wayne
Racine, Moose Pass. 93tfc
hauling
LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE. Fill
dirt, gravel, sand, silt. Four-yard
load $6.00. Boom for heavy lift
ing See Chris Sorenson, 6th and
Madison, or Write Box 696.
89-95p
LOCAL OR LONG DISTANCE —
Top soil, fertilizer, sand, gravel,
by the yard. Joe Edwards, Madi
son 145, or write Box 673. 90tfc
HELP WANTED
WOMAN OR GIRL for kitchen help
at out-of-town lodge. Inquire news
paper office. Madison 168. 93tfc
FOUND
PURSE WITH SUM of money. Call
Garfield 60 after 5 p.m. 94-95c
— FOR SALE —
6x6 G.M.C. TRUCKS
Good Condition
$750.00
Spenard Rd. & Northernlight
Frank G. Dickson
Box 518, Anchorage, Alaska
Spenard Road and
Northernlight Blvd.
A professor sent his wife to
the bank and kissed his money
goodbye—and still people say
they are absent-minded.
The best insurance against
automobile accidents is a Sun
day afternoon nap.
Talk of opportunity, which
formerly was the chief topic of
conversation, has been replaced
by talk of pensions.
MORE ABOUT—
'Alaska So Selfish1
(Continued from Page 1)
to get set for the shot. Mrs. Zim
merman encountered her bear
at a distance of 45 feet as she
was rounding a point and had to
fire quickly.
Mrs. Zimmerman is a recent
convert to big game hunting,
never even having handled a
rifle before this trip. On their
way north from New Mexico Mr.
Zimmerman stocked up on .22
shells and had his wife practice
target shooting whenever feas
ible. After she had shot the
Kodiak, the Zimmermans sent
a wire about the feat to their
grown daughter who had no
idea that her mother knew
which end of a gun the shell
came out of. The daughter re
sponded with a single word tele
gram. “Gosh.”
The Zimmermans have bagged
two fair sized black bear on
the Kenai Peninsula—and have
| taken roll after roll of colored
film of the scenery which they
! declare is incomparable.
| Leaving this morning for An
chorage, the Zimmermans plan
to go from there to Juneau and
then Outside. But they say they
will be back. Alaska is a won
derful country.
NOTICE
Dr. R. O. Sellers. City Public
Health Officer, advises the boil
ing of all drinking water until
further notice, upon receipt of
the following telegram:
R. O. Sellers
Seward, Alaska
Water samples May 22, 1950,
contaminated. Boiling indicated
until contamination subsides.
Will keep in touch.
Wm. L. Deering, Sanitarian
Territorial Public Health
Service
Anchorage, Alaska
MORE ABOUT—
AOS Anniversary
(Continued from Page 1)
munication was possible between
Fort Davis, Fort St. Michael and
Fort Gibbon, a combined land
line and cable system running
a distance of 605 miles.
The WAMCATS constituted, it
is believed, the world’s first
wireless telegraph system regu
larly operated as part of a tele
graph system handling messages.
The ^.circuit ran between Port
Safety and St. Michael across
Norton Sound. Certainly this
was the first point-to-point wire
less channel put in commercial
service on the American conti
nent. Cable systems were still
in demand, however, and an
other was laid in 1902 between
Juneau and Skagway, connect
ing .at Skagway with Canadian
lines, thence to the U.S.
Before the telegraph lines
were in operation, it took as
much as one year to receive a
reply from Washington to a
question asked at some of the
northernmost forts. Within
three years of the inception of
the project, Headquarters, De
partment of Alaska at Fort St.
Michael was brought into direct i
communication with the United I
States over a telegraph circuit
approximately 2500 miles in
length.
General Adolphus W. Greely, i
chief signal officer of the Army
at that time, reported on this
operation that the supply prob- j
lem alone was one to test the
ingenuiy and resourcefulness of
the hardiest group of pioneers.
Practically all materials had to
be sledded into the interior in 1
the roughest imaginable trails,
or over primitive undeveloped j
country, in the summer time.
From Fort Egbert alone between
November. 1902 and June, 1903,
a total of 220 tons or 440,0001
pounds of suoplies and materials |
were sledded or packed out onto i
the line in the interior of Alaska.
On October 5, 1905. just five
years after the system was au
thorized, a station was estab
lished at Seward. It’s chief duty
was the maintenance of the
cable line, which is still to be
seen on the beach just west of
the City Dock. The first station
was set up in the Griffith house.
Westinghouse
SALES & SERVICE
Ranges - Refrigerators
Automatic Washers
Driers - Water Heaters
Home Freezers
Dodge Electric Co.
407 Madison St. .Mad. 151
Insurance & Real Estate
and the only
NORTHWEST AIRLINES
AGENT
ill Seward
236 6th Ave Madison 9
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Milk from Your Local Dairy—
REGULAR DELIVERIES or AT YOUR GROCER'S
SEWARD DAIRY
Phone GARFIELD 50
which is now used as living
quarters for ACS personnel.
In 1927, Seward became head
quarters for ACS in Alaska, and
remained so for many years. In
late 1942, however, the ACS fa
cilities here consisted mainly of
the cable terminal and mux re
lay point for the Seward-Ketchi
kan ocean cable, landline to
Anchorage and standby radio.
During the period from Janu
ary 1943 to June 1944, several
small projects were intiated and
completed. Among these was a
radio net to provide communi
cation between construction
camps, harbor craft installations,
extensions and repairs on the
Post telephone system and re
installation of ACS station equip
ment to serve ATS and the gov
ernment agencies remaining at
Seward.
In October of 1949, the Sew
ard ACS station took over all
the bookkeeping and handling of
telephone and telegraph for the
Railbelt between Seward and
Anchorage, enabling the direct
communication between the in
termediate stations and the' out
side world. Recently a telephone
call was made from Moose Pass
to Hawaii.
M Sgt. Willie Williams, with
a record of 28 years service is
commanding officer of the Sew
ard installation. Quiet, conserva
tive and efficient, he and his
personnel of three maintain the
indispensible service of com
mercial communication between
Seward and the Outside, with
skill and competence, and have
become an integral part of com
munity life.
We are indebted to the ACS
50th Anniversary Bulletin for
the information and history con
tained in the story of ACS, and
to S. B. Akin, Major General,
USA, Chief Signal Officer, for
the use of it.
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