Seward Seaport Record
Formerly The Seward Polaris Sr Kenat Peninsula-Aleutian Chain News
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman .. Publisher
Frank DeLoughery . Editor
Subscription rates . 75c per month, $8 per year
NEW RADIO SERVICE
SHOP FOR SEWARD
Jerry's Radio Service, operated
by Jerry Martin, opened its doors
March 10 in the store room former
ly occupied by a liquor store.
THE MART
VARIETY
Heavy Duty
FIRESTONE
Batteries... . $17.50
$2.00 allowance on old battery
Martin has been a resident of
Seward for the past year and a
half, nd has worked at repairing
radios in his spare time since his
arrival. A recent increase in the
amount of work coming to him has
necessitated the opening of a shop
on the main street.
Before coming to Seward, Martin
operated a radio service shop in
Brainerd, Minnesota, and has held
| positions with TWa in Chicago as
| well as the CAA in Anchorage.
During the war he saw service with
the Army Airways Communications
System. He holds a second class
radio engineer’s license.
Collared lizards can run on
their hind legs for a distance of
30 yards or more.
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Stretch Your Pay
The BLUE SHOP Way
25 DAYS TILL EASTER
AT THE BLUE SHOP YOU'LL FIND THE
NEWEST SPRING STYLES IN
HATS — BLOUSES — SKIRTS
SUITS and COATS
— Blue Shop Specials for the Week —
SWEATERS and WIND JACKETS
SHOP and SAVE at
The BLUE SHOP
When In Seward
ITS
The New Seward Hotel
Oscar Dahl, owner
TRAVEL AND SHIP VIA
THE ALASKA LINE
PASSENGERS, FREIGHT,
MAIL AND EXPRESS
FOR RESERVATIONS
OR INFORMATION
Contact
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Phorre Main -125
W. W. SIPPRELL
lieneral Agent
SEWARD
ARRIVALS AND
DEPARTURES
, Northbound
, SS Baranof . . March 24
' SS Alaska .... April 1
SS Baranof .... April 7
,
Southbound
SS Baranof
SS Alaska .
SS Baranof
March 25
. April 1
. April 8
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In the current issue of Cosmo
politan, Henry Bemelmans tells of
why NIarch is his favorite month.
Winter is breaking up, streets,
washed clean of snow, trees bud- j
t^ing and crocusus blooming in
sheltered yards. Income tax over,
dentist sessions behind him and
only the pleasant things of the
i year ahead, such as the annual
| trip to Paris.
j Of course Mr. Bemelmans is
'speaking of New York. Let’s bring
| this famous world traveler to Alas
I ka to see how the other half lives.
I was disgruntled with his arti
cle and somewhat envious, it’s
| true that there are so many of 0115
1 people who can just run off to j
! Paris or Hawaii or what have you j
whenever the notion strikes them, j
I ' ,
1 Then I got my thinking straight
ened out. I peered thru the snow J
toward my favorite mountains— j
and could not see them, but I
knew^they were there, and that'
they were shedding their winter
1 coats, however slow the process.
The bay was hidden in the storm
but I saw the Chief Washakie head
out into it sturdily as if the sun
were shining. The streets were
ankle deep in slush and the rain
1 was beating in under my front
door.
Then I recalled the sunshine last
week—a whole glorious week of it.
There were no crocusus but the
pussy willows are out along the
creeks.
I looked again at Bemelmans’
I article and his trip to Paris, .and
| told myself that I wouldn’t go to
I Paris anyhow, if I were offered the
chance this minute, but thank God
this is still a free country and
people who want to can go when j
and where they please without the !
permission of any bureau. We can |
start out for Paris or Kenai with- !
out police protection; we can 1
speak to our neighbors and criti
cize our president or hte mayor
without fear of concentration
camps.
Thank God also for fearless and
sturdy people who are willing to
put up with cold and backward
weather at the top of the world in
order to make a home for the gen
erations to come. We are still pio
neers in Seward and the rest of
Alaska. Some day we will be
proud of the fact that we lived
here “when it was still a territory”
and our great-grandchildren will |
have something to brag about. We
are not quitters, and neither the
weather, politics nor empty pocket
books can make us give up.
I think Mr. Bemelmans was j
whistling in the. dark. I am not.
and I should like to ask him that
instead of his plan to cut and run
to the beauties of Paris, he might
travel to Alaska and learn how to
take it on the chin, then he would i
really have something to write
home about.
These observations may be the
result of either sour grapes or
spring fever — maybe a little of
both, but when one takes a prob
lem apart it quite often resolves
itself and becomes nothing. There
fore. I don't agree with Bemelmans '
about the beauties of March, but
April! Oh, April in Alaska! And
May, June and July! Let’s go on
and say Alaska any time.
In 1800 it took 373 man-hours of
labor to produce 100 bushels of
wheat, in 1900 it took 108, in 1940
only 47.
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
(This is a public service, per
formed free of charge by the Sew
ard Seaport Record.)
PUBLIC LIBRARY HOURS: Mon
day and Wednesday, 3 to 5 p.m.;
Tuesday and Saturday, 7 to 9
p.m.
March 23
MESSIAH CHOIR, METHODIST
Church, 8:00 p.m.
March 24
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Ban
quet, 8 p.m., Army Mess Hall.
March 25
LIONS CLUB meets at Totem
Fountain for noon luncheon.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND WEL
FARE Council, Medical Bldg.
March 26
EPISCOPAL GUILD, 2 p.m.. Parish
Hall.
March 28
ORDER EASTERN STAR, 8 p.m.,
Masonic Temple.
April 9
LUTHERAN LADIES AID BAKE
Sale, 1 p.m., Osbo's Supply.
CONTRACT WIRING
TROUBLE SHOOTING
Dodge Electric Co.
Phone Madison 151
£PIC& JPAN
Telephone Adams 92
Pickup & Delivery
Cleaning Pressing
Alterations Hat blocking
OUR MILK
is produced by
Tuberculin and
Bangs-Free
Cattle—
5‘i
Sold at . . .
Your Grocer's
100% Health Record for
2 5 Consecutive Years.
Setvard S/)airy
PatroniM Home Industry
IF YOUR DEALER CANT SUPPLY YOU.
Let Qeorge Do It!
G. H. EVERITT
Merchandising Service
Box 416 Seward Madison . 51
Anomie Horn
Dave Patterson, Mgr.
Extends a
HEARTY WELCOME
TO SEWARDITES
SEWARD
B. P. O. ELKS
Meet 2nd Monday of Moirth
OPEN DAILY 8:00 P. M.
Except Sunday
SEWARD LODGE
No. 219
F. & A. M.
Regular Meeting First and Third
Tuesdays of Each Month.
Visiting Brethren Welcome.
R. E. Baumgartner-—W. M.
W. C. Erwin—Secretary
United Brotherhood of
CARPENTERS and JOINERS
Seward Carpenters' Union 2304
Meetings in Local 82 Union Hall
| Affiliated With A. F. of L.
Meetings 2nd & 4th Tuesdays
Frank D. Gibbons — President
A. G. McRae—Fin. Sec. & Bus. Agt
International Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen's Union
Local 39
Meets First and Third Tuesdays of
Each Month at 7 p.m.—Union Hall
President — Harold Davis
Secretary — B. D. Bowen
TANNING
| Send us your furs and skins to be
j tanned. Quick, efficient, reliable
| workmanship. We return your
finished skins immediately.
Valcauoa Fur Co.
National Bldg. — Seattle, Wash.
Charter
LOCAL AND HIGHWAY
FREIGHT SERVICE
Heavy Truck
Telephone Monroe 166
Post Office Box 716
Patronize Home Industry
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TRAVEL FUNDS
Protected
AGAINST LOSS
OR THEFT I
Safeguarding money against |
loss when one travels is as |
important as protecting it by |
deposit when at home—and |
is just as easy. You merely |
convert your travel funds 1
here, before you start, Into -f
American Express Travelers |
Cheques. They are readily 1
spendable as cash, and if lost |
or stolen, the amount in- |
volved is refunded to you. |
The cost of the protection |
is but 75c on each $100. f
Minimum 40c. There is no |
time limit on use. Thous- |
ands of people carry these |
protective Cheques when |
away from home, and find |
them invaluable. This la fj
one of the bank’s services |
to the traveling public.
BANK of I
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