THE SEWARD POLARIS
Peninsula-Chain News
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ot the "Kenai Empire"
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t'nited Press Service
Published Semi-weekly
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11. \V. and N. M. Hunt
Sewaril, Alaska
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EDITORIAL
(Continued from page 1)
Several sell appointed emissar- i
les who hold no portfolio either
with t!ie present civic govern
ment or the Chamber of Com
merce were on hand. i
What we need is the presenta- 1
tion of plans: not statements of
what “we 'gotta have" if the rail- i
road is taken up.
in the first place there is near
18 months before the service is
discontined. In the second place
if we haven't quit yapping about
it and formulated some plan to !
off set it we can jolly well ex- I
poet a deserted town. In the third
place if we don't quit this
"death song" we'll all be singing
it and won't have a club to knock
the wolf in the head when he
squats on our front door step.
The only three things that went
into the “little black book" of
the Secretary's were:
1 Ray James proposition on
birch wood working.
2 -The w idining of the highway.
3—Mayor Lanier's statement re
garding the city dock after the
railroads "funeral."
The Mayor wants ideas, and
more ideas.
The necessity for ideas is not
that IF the railroad is discon
tinued we must have other pay
rolls to take the place of the
railroad and the longshoremen in
part.
There will be thousands of tons
of freight which will go to the
other towns of the Peninsula if
we lay plans for truck lines and
lay the ground work for merch
andising in the interior of the
Kenni Peivnsula.
All the city need do is wake up: i
—forget about the railroad and]
plan that it will he gone at a |
certain time.
Get ready for the funeral, if'
1 Day Service
MINOR WATCH
Repairs
1 Week Service
MAJOR WATCH
Repairs
J. Vic Brown
& Sons '
ARCADE Bldg. Tel. Adams 74
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CLEANERS
Spic & Span
Telephone Adams 92
Pick-Up & Deliver
Cleaning Pressing
Alterations •> Hat blocking i
there is to bo a funeral.
Wo think that truck linos out
ol' Seward will moan more than
a railroad hut wo are willing to
bet that Seward will never lose
the railroad—not so long as wo
have Resurrection Bay.
Why listen to pessimists? Make
plans. Hatch out ideas. Kick “old
man gloom" in the puss and come
out on toj).
* "SEWARD BEATS ITS SEEK
TO DEATH," is the way the head
line may read if vou people of
Seward listen to all the pessimis
tic rumormongers you hear.
Don't let others make fools of
you: do it yourself and you'll feel
better.
Around Hollywood
AROUND TOWN— Hearing a
a noise in the living room, a ten
ant turned on the light . . .and
saw two feet protruding from be
hind a chair. . .the tenant gasped
and a figure leaped through an
open window and escaped. . . .
later, the tenant identified a sus
pect as the figure in the house
. . .bv the loud blue and yellow
socks he was wearing. . .the same
loud blue and yellow socks he
saw on the two feet behind tire
chair. For a number of nights, a
mother and her son had been
hearing a prowler around their
house.the other night they
heard him again. . .the son grab
bed his shotgun, went outside and
yelled "halt!" at a moving figure
. . .and then fired . .the figure
turned out to be his own mother
who had to have 60 shotgun pel
lets renfoved from her back and
legs. Tenants of a rooming house
were up in arms the other day. .
they filed a SoO.OOO damage suit
against their landlady. . .charged
I A BIT OF THE GROOMING JOB AT GRAND COULEE
THE HAULING OF THIS 86,000-lB. STEEL BEAM called for designing and building the special 16-wheel trailer
that you see (above) in service at Grand Coulee dam (background) in Washington State. With this and
I other beams the engineers were building a barge, itself just one item of special grooming and dredging
i equipment—ali designed for the single purpose of keeping Grand Coulee’s downstream channel open and
' free. Accumulations of silt and debris were thus to be avoided in the eddies formed by the torrential flow
seen here pouring down the spillway from mftre than twice Niagaras height. , (International)
that they were unable to use the
bathroom.beeause the lanfl
lad} s'.e;>t in tiv bathtub every
nitjht.
' FLASHES An I, A n.un
sailed last we for C’or i ; Island
to seek $2.000..000 in S;>.ursh _ 'Id
bullion believed there. . .it's his
third attempt to find the trensjie
. . .build'.:!}; eonstruetion here dur
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FREE
Christian Science Lecture
Entitled
Christian Science: The Science of
Health and Salvation
By
Clayton Bion Craip, C. S. B.
of Cincinnati, Ohio
Mcmer of the Beard of Lectureship of
Mother Church, The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
I. O. O. F. Hall
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1948 AT 2 P. M.
All Are Welcome
IF IT'S BEER OR LIQUOR YOU WANT
TRY OUR
NORTHERN
COCKTAIL BAR OR LIQUOR STORE
THE YELLOW CAB THAT IS PARKED
AT OUR DOOR IS AT YOUR SERVICE
The Northern Bar
** A Gentlemans Place of Recreation"
IF YOUR DEALER CAN'T SUPPLY xuu.
LET GEORGE DO IT
ENGINES. POWER TOOLS, MACHINERY
G. H. Eveeltt
Merchandising Service
Box 4 1 6
Seward
Madison 5 a
:ng the first seven months of 1948
is $100,000,000.00 higher than the
same period last year. . .‘"Broncho
Bill” Morgan, 79. former irony
express rider, died la.-: wee;;. . .
lie sed to he with Buffalo Bill’s
v. .Id west i\v. . . nee. da:ly pa
p-r. the Bos Angeles M’rror. will
hr gin publication lvre in Oct. or
Nov. . .a man jailed on a drunk
eh " ■ • was old enou h to know
better. . . he had just reahed his
100th birthday. . .a mother of two
children admitted stealing over
$6000. . she blamed high cost of
living . . .city and county traffic
death toll has reached 480 so far
this year. . .and they're talking
of increasing the speed limits. . .
a kiss loss bride asked for an an
nulent. .she said she had a “wan
and affectionate nature” and
couldn't stand a kissless marriage
. . .when no one claimed a valu
able ring that had be n turned
in to the sheriff's office, it was
returned to the man who found
it. . .value: $6000.
See
Joe Lanier
SHOE REPAIRING or
FURNITURE REPAIRING
THE OLD HOME TOWN
Sbfft'vd U 1 0**44
By STANLE »
31
'mi?s dustenfuss- ive hun<*out everything
LIKE You 5AIO, BUT THE PIANO-I PONTTH/NK
THERBS ENOUGH CLOTHES LINE FOR IT/
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house cleaning pays
C BUS
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SUNDAY & BOAT-DAY TRIPS
STOPS AT
Moose Pass — Soper's Lodge — Hentons Kenai Lodges
Chugach Lodges — Russian River
Charter and Special trip* arranged
CALL
3u-, Tcrmnal si Treasure Cove
opposite Van Gilder Hotel
for information and tickets
Adams 84