Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman . Publisher
Subscription rates . 75c per month, $8 per year
MRS. RUSTAD HAS FRIENDS
FROM LOS ANGELES
Two friends of Mrs. K. S. Rus
tad, Mrs. Elsie Page and Mrs.
Fannie Mushsaud, from Los An
geles. were round trip passen
gers on the SS Alaska last Tues
day.
Mrs. Clarence Larson and Mrs.
Rustad took them for a drive
out the highway so they could
see the mountains and scenery,
after which the ladies and Mrs.
Larsen's small daughter Christ
ina were entertained at dinner
aboard the ship.
The visitors exclaimed at the
beauty of the Seward scene, say
ing that it far surpassed any
thing they had seen on the way
up the coast. The day was bright
and sunny, and some of their
other stops had been in bad
weather.
MAIL DELIVERY TO HOMER
EFFECTIVE JULY 1
The contracts for delivery of
mail to Kenai, Homer, and way
points as awarded to Robert
Smith, Homer: and the route to
Hope and way points, awarded
to Bill Brattain become effec
tive Saturday, July 1.
A check with the post office
disclosed that definite orders
have not been received yet
(press time today), as to the
days of the week assigned for
the routes. The contract speci
fied two round trips per week.
Deliveries are to be made to pri
vate mail boxes along the route
as well as to established post
offices.
Floyd R. Evans, who received
a temporary appointment as po
lice officer in Seward last week,
lived in Seward back in 1943.
Since then he has been in other
parts of the Territory, including
the Railbelt and Fairbanks. He
has about nine years of police
experience, including some time
as a railroad detective.
BARBARA BEDFOriL) oaor.
IN BUSINESS
Good word for the ladies of
Seward was that Mrs. Barbara
Bedford has reopened her beau
ty shop in her home on Fifth
Avenue.
Mrs. Bedford formerly oper
ated the shop in the Seward
Drug Store, but illness forced
her to discontinue. While Out
side for treatment she took a
brush-up course in modern hair
styling, and her many friends
will receive the benefit of new
ideas in style and skill.
SOUND PICTURE AT SUNDAY
SCHOOL JULY 2
A sound moving picture, "No
Other Gods," will be shown at
the Methodist Church Sunday
School on Sunday, July 2.
The Episcopal Sunday School
picnic will be held on the second
Sunday in July, weather permit
ting. If there is rain, the picnic
will be postponed a week.
Mr. and Mrs. James Harrow
of the Seward Sanatorium have
returned to Seward after a
month vacation. Mr. Harrow
spent most of his vacation in the
States while Mrs. Harrow visited
in Cordova. On the way back.
Mr. Harrow stopped at Cor
dova and he and Mrs. Harrow
flew to Seward together.
John H. Sattler of Ptarmigan
Creek pleaded guilty in Com
missioner's Court yesterday to
the charge of driving a vehicle
without license plates. He was
fined $25.00.
This is the time of year when
many a father finds himself up
against it: his daughters have
grown into his shirts, and sonny
his pants.
A little patience is worth
much more than great talent.
WATKINS
Products
Extracts - Spices
Soaps
Medicines - Perfumes
Cosmetics
PAUL M. WANGLEY
612 3rd Ave. - Madison 166
Westinghouse
SALES & SERVICE
Ranges - Refrigerators
Automatic Washers
Driers - Water Heaters
Home Freezers
Dodge Electric Co.
407 Madison St. Mad. 151
The New Seward Hotel
Your Home A way from Home
Oscar Dahl, owner
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tSKA steamship company
MK SAILINGS- r—«—,
FROM SEWARD
SS DENALI
July 4 for
Scldovia Sitka
Homer Ketchikan
Kodiak Seattle
SS ALEUTIAN
July 2 for
Juneau Ketchikan
Wrangell Seattle
SS ALASKA
July 11 for
Valdez Petersburg
Cordova Ketchikan
Juneau Seattle
SS BARANOF
July 14 for
Juneau Seattle
Ketchikan
Freighter Sailings from Seattle
Sailor's Splice.July 6 Victoria .July 13
WALTER W. 8IPPRELL, Gen. A««nt • Phone Main 12*
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
Seward will be full of visi
tors from Friday night until
Tuesday night. Our reputation
for hospitality and friendliness
will get a good workout. It is
up to every individual in town
j to see that reputation upheld,
i so that every visitor will return
to his home with words of
praise for Seward.
Such publicity is far more
effective than any amount of
paid advertising. We are at the
beginning of the tourist trade
that will do a great deal to
build Seward, and the attitude
of residents is very soon known
in other places.
The Seward Fourth of July
Committee has worked very
hard to make this year’s cele
bration a success, and without
too much cooperation on the
part of other townspeople. Sev
eral of them have devoted their
entire week to preparations, in
addition to an entire year of
planning, at their own expense.
! Townspeople seem to have taken
! the idea that this is a private
! corporation, that the Committee
I is to gain some profit from the
j celebration, which is not true.
EVERY PENNY that is taken
in from concessions, food sales,
dances or the Marathon Race
goes into the general fund to
clear expenses. The Committee
is working for the good of Sew
ard, for your benefit.
Next year, YOU will be called
upon to do your share for the
community. This year, all that
is asked of the citizenry is to
enter into the spirit of the cele
bration, extend the hospitality
of the city to all visitors, carry
on Seward’s reputation as The
Friendly City. Only YOU can
do it!
POLICE ASK COOPERATION
The Seward Police Depart
ment suggests that merchants be
careful about checking the doors
and windows of their establish
ments, particularly back doors
and back windows, before leav
ing in the evening.
Burglars and other crooks,
the police warn, have a tendency
to take advantage of an influx
of tourists into a town and move
in to see what they can garner.
Don’t make it easy for them, the
police ask. Law enforcement is
aided by careful citizenry.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Bristow and
Bea Davis and her two boys,
Donald and Gary, were at Coop
er Landing from Monday to
Wednesday this week. They
weeded their gardens, chased
moose out of the gardens, and
fished. They reported, honest-to
gosh, they had to shoo a cow
moose out of the vegetables.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Edgington
and Mr. Edgington’s mother,
Mrs. Fannie Edgington, flew to
Kodiak Wednesday to visit rela
tives there.
Catholic Information
Let's go "mercy" killing
How about all those poor in
curables, who do nothing but
suffer and cost a tidy sum for
their upkeep. Let's get out our
lethal gas and put some of them
“mercifully” away.
Here's a case in Washington,
DC.—a lady permanently in
jured when a school girl, lying
on her back for more than 50
years—positively incurable. But
hold off that chloroform! Let s
scan the record. Fifty years be
fore, this helpless girl had time
to think and plan and pray and
so founded the Christ Child So
ciety, which from her bed she
directed from then on. Branches
grew up in more than 30 cities.
If 50 years before someone had
“mercifully” gassed her, what
about those thousands of needy
and handicapped children whom
her society care for yearly? Let's
let this incurable live on, for
surely hers is an exceptional
case.
Well, here’s another one —
not nearly so dramatic—quite
commonplace, in fact. In a home
for incurables he lies, flat on his
back, unable to move aught but
his head. So he has been for ten
years. So he may be for forty
years more. But hold off that
poison just a minute. I have inti
mate knowledge of this case. Let
me tell you.
Jimmy smiles when you visit
him and my, how he enjoys non
sense. He's loath to talk about
his illness, but should you gain
his confidence, he would tell you
how gladly he accepts the
cramps in his immovable legs
when he looks at other immov
able legs over there on a cruci
fix on the wall—how readily he
accepts the tortures of a fly
walking down his face, when he
thinks of blood-drops trickling
down the face of the Redeemer,
j who also was powerless to move
His hands. Jimmy is an out
standing exemplifier of the
Catholic teaching of the accept
ance of the suffering which God
permits—of the offering up of
our own agonies with Christ’s
agonies in reparation for our
sins and those of all men.
No, I'll not “mercy” kill Jim
my. His example and his pray
ers means too much to me. No,
I'll not take from any man the
right to live and fulfill his des
tiny as God ♦has planned it. I'll
not take from the world one who
suffers for the world. And be
sides, “mercy” killing is out
and-out killing—murder! You
can’t get around it. It’s there in
the Bible—in God’s own words.
Look it up—Exodus 23:7—“The
innocent and the just person
thou shalt not put to death.”
Plain enough, isn’t it?
If it's anything Catholic, ask a
Catholic!
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