PORT HEEDS R POLISH
The short summer season, when all of *1 r
aska's outdoor road-building and construc
tion work must be done, is fast disappear
ing, and still no work has been done at Sel
dovia airport during the present council's
term of office
The field, in its present condition^ is
being widely publicized through Homer sources
as unsafe for plane landings, and as unplea
sant as that publicity is, it is undoubtedly
true. Pilots who land there risk an acci
dent, even when lightly loaded, and it is
impossible for larger planes hauling passen
gers and freight to taHlize the field now*
Last year's council spent a preliminary
$10,000 in roughing out a field, which will
probably cost another $70,000 before it is
finished, although the additional work has
struck a -snag because of territorial legis
lative shortcomings, it dpes seem unwise to
rub out the $10,000 . as a bad 'investment an-d
to forget that Seldovia ever wanted an air
port.
There’s'more than *>2,000 remaining in the
city’s airport fund, far more than it would
take to do the surface trading and dragging
which would fit the field for all small
plane landings at this time*
Granted that the labor and eauipment mar
ket is practically nil at this time of year,
but it still seems that concentrated council
effort might find some way to overcome tho:se
problems. By the time the fishing season is
closed and Seldovia’s men are in the humor
to work again, cold weather will prevent
anything’s being done this year.
The unfavorable reports circulating at'
present in regard to the fieldfwill'be hard'
to overcome, even when the field is put in
condition. *nd, in the event of an accident
at the port, that public ity-would do immeas
urable harm to Seldovia* ,
The city needsr indeed must ,have., an air
AT THE CHURCHES
Gospel Center
Sunday School 11:00
Church 7:30
Sermon: Studies
in the bookof
Colossi an s '
Services held in
Union hall.
Methodist Church
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Sunday School 10:00
ndventists
Sabbath School 10:00
Church 11:00
Services held in
Methodist church
port. It now appears
that we may get no
favorable action on
increased mail ser
vice until, we have
our port. In addi
tion, that port.will
bring business, into
the town. - The number
of float planes and
amphibian ships ‘land
ing '■ on the bay and
■moored to-the beaches
over the weekends in
dicates that we are,
even now, drawing bu
siness from the air.
Letfs double and
triple that business
by preparing our port
so that all small
planes can find a
weekend berth in Sel
dovia•