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H. W. and N M. Hunt
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Subscription l<;itc SHOO n»*r vo*r
There is no doubt that the hos
pital needs a roof, according to
those who know conditions.
In 1932 a 10-year lease was
made between the Methodist Wo
men's Missionary Society of New
York, an Ohio Corporation, and
the City of Seward in which the
price on the former schoolhouse
and eight lots per year was set at
$3.00. The city was obligated to
take care of the outside, painting,
roofing, etc. and was to be oc
cupied by the hospital exclusively
and to be available to all physi
cians who had patients there.
Rents from a doctor’s office if
situated in the building, should
therefore be paid to the city, and
at one time this was agreed upon
but at the present time the phy
sicians at tiie hospital is taking
care of the Jesse Lee children in
return for his office rent. This is
not a fair arrangement for the
City as this shows the City is
furnishing a physician for the
Jesse Lee Home.
If the rent had been paid to the
city and allowed to accumulate
(here would be enough cash on
head to pay for a permanent roof,
namely about 6000 square feet
covered with aluminum ® $19.00
per square and an estimated cost
of labor of about $400.00. This
adds up to about $1600.00.
The City is in no condition to
spend this money. As the matter
stands we see no reason why the
city should spend this money even
if it were available.
The cost of a health nurse
quarters amounts to S900.00 per
year which the city must pay and
is paying. Quarters for the nurse
have been refused at the hospital
because they state _ they are
crowded. i
If the hospital is crowded it
should be using more black ink
on the ledger than red. and so
be able to furnish the roof for
themselves.
It would truly be much better
for charity to begin at home and
send less money to New York for
foreign missions in China or in
India.
Because the city is unable to
put up the cash for a roof at this
time we are bound to say that
the hospital could underwrite this
expense and let the rent item
i Uncle Sam Says I
How many things have you had to
forego because you did not save up
money to pay for them? Perhaps in
your own experience yon muffed an
nnusnal opportunity to get ahead or
to make a dream come true. Ton
simply didn’t have enough money.
Millions of Americans are buy*
ing Savings Bonds either on the par*
tial payment^plan where they work
or on the Bond-A*Month Plan where
by your bank deducts the full amount
of a Bond monthly from the money
you have on deposit. They will be
ready for opportunities, but how
about you? u._s. Trtasury Deparimtnt
Iietolofoto mentioned take rare of
the situation. <
It is now necessary to rewrite
a broader, fairer lease winch does
not throw so much financial
weight on the city.
In checking over the lease we
find that there is no longer any
lease, it having expired in 1942. |
There are no addenda attached
showing that it was extended.
Former councils have been as j
negligent in the city’s business
as the hospital was with their
own.
Later:—
Evidence that an attempt may
have been made to renew is at
hand but the language is so am
biguous that nAught can he. made
of it. The matter would neces
sarily have to go before the peo
ple as a proposition at the next I
election.
TO LATE TO CLASSIFY .
FOR RENT—2 rooms w’ith large
kitchen, refrigerator, furnished. :
Complete. Front apartment. Wal- j
ter apartments. 13tfc
STEEL BARGE TAKES
HIGH TONNAGE OF
CAMP EQUIPMENT
(Continued from page 1)
shipping 96 tons of car stakes to
the McKinley project via the
barge line.
Included in the 730\s lower-hold
and ’tween deck cargo ate eight
railroad carloads of cement for
the M. P. Munter Company, to be
vrmd in construction of 23 bridges
on a highway between Turnagain
Arm and Porlan'1, Alaska, north of |
Seward. The $1,700,000 construe-,
turn assignment for combination
concrete, steel and wood-piling
bridges of varying designs is a
subcontract venture of Munter
and Alton V. Phillips from Lytle
Green. prime contractors for tin*
new roadway to link the Kenai I
Peninsula with Anchorage.
Steel Barge 730 also carries 18
tons of road camp materials for
the Public Roads Administration
at Seward. 240 weight tons of
lumber, 760 weight tons of ee
ment, 28 vehicles, concrete build
ing blocks, structural and rein
forcing steel, asphalt, canned
goods and groceries, flour, roofing
materials and 180 weight tons of
beer.
According to Alaska Freight
Express, the barge line’s next
northbound sailing will he Aug
ust 30. General cargo is accepted
at Shaffer Terminal No. 1, Taco
ma, until 3 p.m. August 26, and !
at Pier 50. Seattle, until 3 p.m.
August 27.
World News
The spy ring developements are
several. Harry J. While who testi- j
find before the Congressional
Committee ast week is dead of
a heart attack at the age of 56.
m i
Next Monday Congress wi 1 in- j
vestigate the Foreign trade and j
Industrial s»crots which probably j
GENERAL FREIGHTING BY TUG AND
BARGE DIRECT TO SEWARD FROM PUGET
SOUND/
NEXT SAILING:
AUGUST 30—General freight accepted at Tacoma. Shaffer Termin
al No. 1. until 3 p.m., Thursday August 26; at Seattle. Pier 50, un
til 3 p.m., Friday, August 27.
CONNECTIONS AT SEWARD FOR ALL POINTS SERVED BL THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
WIRE YOUR AGENTS TO MARK YOUR FREIGHT
via
ALASKA FREIHT EXPRESS, "THE BARGE
LINE!"
Leland Loranq. Seward Agent
Seward. Alaska
Engineering & Concrete Products CoJ
P. O. Box 621 Telephone Gar. 48 j
CONCRETE CINDER BIJILDING BLOCKS — CHIMMEY BLOCKS '
ALL SIZES - PRICES ON REQUEST
GENERAL SURVEYING AND ESTIMATES
A. G. McRAE & W. H. ESTES
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 YOU.
LET GEORGE DO IT
ENGINES. POWER TOOLS. MACHINERY
G. H. Everltt
Merchandising Service
Seward
Box 416
Madison 5 8
means that the I G Farben in
tc reals in Ihe United States will
he probed as well as an expose
of all the personnel connoted
there with.
One Congressman is so sore at
the committee that he has asked
that it investigate itself. ("Kinda
like looking for bed bugs in your
own bed"'
MP:
A blood transfusion for the 52
year old teacher who jumped
from Ihe Russian embassey will
probably save her life. <Ai 1 she
lias to do to keep from going to
Russia is to make application for
citizenship, right?)
Truman still insists that Red
Herring smell the same as they
did last week and that the Re
publicans are responsible. Sen
ator Alben Barkley his running
mate seems disposed to agree
with him.
H!
Aerial feighting goes on and a
Russian conference is scheduled
Later a meeting between the big
4 may be arranged but it is not
too promising. .
England says be ready and calls
for 150.000 new recruites.
Sixteen jet fighters return home
to the United States as sixty
prepare to leave for England and
the continent to replace them.
Rain has washed out a bridge
at mile 199 on the Alaska R. R.
If will be several days before
trains get through to Fairbanks
Another washout one mile north
of Valdez, road closed at Tok
Junction, all due to rain with a
LEGAL ADVERTISING
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
Office of the Auditor
Juneau, Alaska
CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION
I. FRANK A. BOYLE, Aud
itor of the Territory of Alaska,
and custodian of corporation re
cords for said Territory, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that there has
been filed in my office on this,
the 21st day of July, 1948, the
written consent of the stockhold
ers of the
BROWN & HAWKINS
CORPORATION
a corporation organized and exist
ing under and by virtue of the
laws of the Territory of Alaska,
to the dissolution of said corpora
tion.
WHEREFORE, in view of
the above premises, I DO FUR
THER CERTIFY that Brown &
Hawkins Corporation, a corpora
tion, is dissolved, pursuant to Sec
tion 924, Compiled Laws of Alas
ka. 1933. upon the filing in the
office of the proper proof of pub
lication of this certificate.
IN TESTIMONY WHERE
OF, I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my
(SEAL) Official seal, at Juneau,
the Capital this 21st day
of July A D. 1948.
Frank A. Boyle
Auditor of Alaska
July 28, 1948—Aug. 4-11-18, 1948
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Inrg* stretch unpa--able on In
Alcan are reports now filed
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Salmon fishing will stop for 7
days so that salmon ran have i
chance to enter spawning streams.
All kinds of methods of catching
fish have rut the runs as never
before.
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Communications
Dora Editor:
Could it be possible we have
“Fifth Columnists” 'remember
Franeet in Washington? If not, it
seems that someone is literally
sticking out their necks when
they say abandon the railroad to
the port of Seward. If war should
strike at our front door and Whit
I tier were our only port of entry,
I wonder if anyone could say just
who was responsible for tearing
up the railroad to Seward.
There were a good many thous
ands of tons of essential war mat
erial moved from Seward to tha
interior during World War II.
Material that could not be moved
by airplanes.
If we were sure of peace I
could understand such a move;
but with such a large segment
of the national income being in
vested to insure peace; why cut
off such an important artery. In
; comparison to money spent in de
j tense this seems like just a drop
; in the bucket.
i You just can’t pull a curtain
! across the best port in the terri
tory—even an iron curtain.
• name withheld by request)
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
jIN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THIRD DIVISION, SEWARD
PRECINCT.
In the matter of the estate)
of )
LOIS HUDSON ALLEN)
Deceased.)
Probate No. 505
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
To the creditors and all persons
having claims against the Estate
of LOIS HUDSON ALLEN de
ceased to file their claims, pro
perly verified, within 6 months
after the first publication of this
NOTICE, -in -the office of the
Probate Judge for Seward Pre
cinct, at Seward Alaska; or to ex
hibit the same, with the neces
sary vouchers, to the undersigned
Executor at the office of Mr. R.
E. Baumgartner, attorney for the
undersigned, which office has
been selected a»> {he place for
transacting all matters in con
nection with said Estate.
Dated at Seward. Alaska this
10th day of August 1948.
Elwyn Swetmann
Executor
(Pub. Aug 11, 18, 25 and Sept. 1
1948)
See
Joe Lanier
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