SEWARD’S
AIl-TVeatkiec
SEAPORT
Is Alaska’s
Greatest Asset
Vol. V, No. 94
Price 10 Cents
Registrations
Close June 15
For Bond tfote
Taxpayers are straggling into the
City Hal] daily to register for the
bond election to be held June 17.
Upon inquiry Friday morning, it
was learned that those who reg
istered for the postponed city elec
tion in April may vote in the com
ing election without registering
again.
The City Hall is open each day
from 10;00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., ex- j
cept htat on Saturdays it is open
only till noon. On the Tuesday qnd !
Wednesday before the election the j
City Hall will be open from 7:00 j
until 10:00 in the evening. The reg
istration books will be closed at
10:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 15.
Qualifications for Voters
Any U.S. citizen, who has been
a resident of the Territory for one
year, and a resident of Seward for j
30 days may vote at the election. ]
They must, of course, be able to
read and write the English lan
guage. These are the only qualifi
cations listed on the official notice,
except that the voter must be reg
istered.
The repayment of the $125,000
bond issue is to be made from the
revenue of the power plant, and
not from taxes. Many Seward resi
dents have been under the impres
sion that the addition to the light
plant would increase their taxes.
Paying Concern
In the past three years, the Sew
ard Electric System has made more
than double payments on the bonds
which '.he* RFC now h«lds. Al
though tar behind at one time, im
proved management under the
present Utility Board has brought
it far out of the red.
With an increase in generating
equipment, the Utility Board con
tends. it will be possible to accept
more customers »and increase the
income of the plant while holding
the overhead at about the same
level as now.
Sportsmen Prepare For
Trout Season Opening
With the opening of trout season
on June 5 the population of Sew
ard will make a' sharp drop, at
least temporarily, and every able
bodied person possessing a rod
and reel, or the money to buy one,
will be looking for that special
place where the big ones bite.
Local stores are making tanta
lizing displays of every imaginable
type of fishing gear and eager
tourists are bringing models never
seen before. At least two trout
derbies have been announced so
far. Fred Henton is sponsoring one
contest with special prizes offered,
and a second contest is being
sponsored by Joe Doyle.
FIREMEN ANSWER TWO CALLS
The Seward Volunteer Fire De
partment answered two calls this
week. The first was a grass fire
near the Jesse Lee Home at 3:30
Tuesday afternoon and at 5:110
Thursday morning o i 1 flooding
from a cooking stove at Chuck’s
Grill brought the firemen out
again. Damage in both fires was
negligible.
Miss Frances Clark of the staff
of the Seward General Hospital
will leave next week on a six
weeks tour of the western states.
Miss Clark plans to attend a con
vention of X-ray workers In San
Francisco.
Efood Plasma
Supply In
Alaska Dwindles
The supply of blood plasma in
the Territory is dwindling so rapid
ly that in a few months Alaska
will be without this vital weapon
agdinst deaths by accident and
disease.
This situation was brought out
in the Regional Conference of the
American Red Cross Chapters held !
in Anchorage this week.
Alaska chapters protested the |
allocation of supplies to the Ter- !
ritory on the ground that, being j
relatively scarce throughout the J
nation, it should be reallocated to |
allow Alaska a larger amount than j
has been indicated.
The large quantities of plasma ,
surplussed after the war is now !
largely used or outdated. New la- !
boratories are being set up to re- '
activate or obtain derivatives from'
outdated plasma.
The present demand greatly ex- I
needs the supply, and altho there i
are privately owned plants for the
processing of blood, the country j
depcnts greatly upon the Red Cross
for blood plasma supplied free of
charge.
Eight new laboratories under
construction in the Pacific area
are expected to increase production
materially in the near future, but
at this time there is definite
scarcity in the country of safe and
usable blood plasma.
Several territorial committies are
carrying on the program of blood
typing for local use. In view of
the shortage of plasma this is a
very important move for Seward.
Seattle Visitors Meet
With Seward u of C
Members of the Seward Chamber
of Commerce held a brief meeting
with members of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce who arrived here
on the Aleutian Thursday after
noon.
The meeting took place aboard
ship, and was necessarily brief,
since the visitors had to leave on
the special train from Anchorage.
At the twenty-minute meeting,
Jack V. Rogers, director of the
Department of Conservation and
Development of the State of Wash
ington, delivered a greeting from
Governor Langley.
The visitors told Seward mem
bers that they are very much in
terested in the development of the
Territory, since any benefits gain
ed would be mutal.
JUDGE KEHOE TO
! PRESIDE AT COURT
The special session of the district
court postponed since last fall will
take place May 31 in Seward.
Judge Joseph Kehoe of Nome will
be judge of the court, and Mrs.
Maude McAlee, court reporter for
the Nome court will also be here.
There will be no “floating court"
such as was held last year aboard
a boat in the islands and outlying
districts.
DR AND MRS. LOWELL
RETURN TO SEWARD
Dr. and Mrs. Laurence Lowell
returned to Seward Thursday on
the passenger ship SS Aleutian
after a visit to Juneau. The parents
of Dr. Lowell accompanied them
to Seward and expect to remain
for the summer. Dr. Lowell expects
to attend a medical convention at
Atlantic next month.
Roy Mitchell, who has been in
charge of maintenance of the
northern part of the highway from
Seward to Hope for a number of
years, expects to make a trip to
the States next week.
Acute Problem
Faces Alaska
Relief Offices
Large numbers of emigrants from
the States, arriving at the rate of
50 cars a day over the Alaska High
way, is causing an acute relief
problem in Fairbanks and Anchor
age.
This situation was stressed in the
Regional Conference of Red Cross
Chapters held in Anchorage Tues
day of this week.
Families are arriving in worn-out
cars loaded with personal posses
sions and children, totally .without
funds, without prospects of hous
ing or work. Although Red Cross
has no responsibility in this situ
ation, except for the mandatory
cases involving veterans and de
pendents of the military, it has
been forced to meet the situation
with emergency assistance because
there is no Territorial or civic set
up to meet the need.
It was made clear that no single
agency such as Red Cross which
derives its funds from voluntary
contributions will be able to meet
t it is continuing and growing re
sponsibility without Territorial,
civic, or Federal assistance.
That this important problem of
development is definitely one
which must be assumed by other
than a charitable agency, was
pointed out by Mr. Earl Dumbrose
and Mr. Robert Shea, manager and
assistant manager of the Pacific
Area of American Red Cross, who
met with the chapter chairmen a'
the conference.
Mrs. Mildred Kirkpatrick, Seward
chairman, who attended the con
fereryre, stated here that with trie
completion of the highway into
Seward, this city will inevitably
face the same problem as the other
cities and feels that some of the
difficulty might be forestalled by
farsighted city planning now.
July Fourth Committee
Reports Progress
In spite of the continued efforts
on the part of the Fourth of July
Committee ' the weekly meetings
do not seem to have the attend
ance of the people who will most
benefit from this celebration. How
ever. progress is being made. Fol
lowing is a report of progiess to
date:
Marathon Race—Prospective en
trants in the race are requested to
I contact Ted Lesko at the Legion
iClub.
Street Decoration—The Fire De
partment has ordered necessary
material and will cooperate with
the light company in dressing up
the town.
Concessions—No report made
this week.
Dance—Decorating material has
been ordered and a preliminary’
survey made to line up an or
chestra. The Bartender’s Local has
promised a report next week on
their part of the dance.
Parade—The Elks Club repre
sentative, Lloyd Calvert, presented
an outline of the parade forma
tion. Anyone intending to enter a
float should contact Lloyd at Main
195 or Black 106 so that plans for
a record parade can be completed.
Picnic—The Izaak Walton League
has promised a community picnic
for Sunday, July 3. Plans were
discussed for a big affair but the
location has not yet been estab
lished.
(Continued on page 2)
Grader Falls Twenty j
Feet From Highv/ay,
Me Cart Hurt
Denny McCart, of Hope, was in
jured Thursday noon at Mile 531
when a grader he was operating |
for the Public Roads Administra-,
tion went off the road and down i
a 20-foot bank, catching fire as it j
fell.
McCart, although badly shaken, !
apparently suffered no serious in
juries. He did suffer a severe blow
on the head and the loss of two
teeth, as v\dll as bruises and con- i
tusions.
As the heavy machine came to
rest, it caught fire, McCart said,
lie threw a can of gasoline away !
from the machine before he left !
the scene. I
In spite of his injuries he forced '
himself to walk two miles before
he found help. He was admitted to
the Seward General Hospital for
treatment.
Cause of the accident, McCart
said, was the failure of the hy
draulic steering mechanism, which
locked as he was rounding a curve.
The wheels refused* to straighten
out, he said, and the -machine
plunged down the embankment.
"A fellow tries to straighten it
out,” he said in explaining how he
was injured, "as long as it seems
possible, and then it’s too late to
save yourself.”
McCart is an experienced em
ploye of the Public Roads Admin
i istration and has worked on this
! highway for several years.
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S5 Aiaska On
Summer Schedule
i Sailing a! 11 v m. May 2.'5, the
steamer Alaska of the Alaska
Steamship Company in; ugurated
its twelve-day summer cruises to
Southeastern and Southwestern
Alaska.
The itinerary of the Alaska in
cludes Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sit
ka, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
The call at Sitka will mark the
first time since prewar that Alaska
Line tourist steamers have called
I at this port, the former Russian
I capital of Alaska.
Captain Henry Burns, who has
I been with the company since 193G,
: will command the Alaska this sea
1 son.
SS Victoria
The steamer Victoria, senior ves
sel in the Alaska service, is being
j recommissioned to augment tiie
I active fleet of the Alaska Steam
i ship Company.
Sailing for the first time June 3.
the Victoria will inaugurate direct
service from Seattle to the ports
; of Valdez and Seward. According
; to present plans, she will remain
on this run throughout the sum
| mer.
Captain Adolph Danielson, who
j has served with the Alaska Line
j since 1921, will command the Vie
1 loria this season.
!
The freighter Sailor Splice is due
to arrive at Seward May 27 and the
Abigail Adams, which is in Seward
today, is due to leave Seattle again
! June 10 for Veldez, Whittier and
j Seward. On the same day the Sail
, or Splice will be leaving Seattle
i again for Ketchikan, Petersburg,
Juneau, Cordova, Valdez and Sew
ard.
Mrs. Lillie E. James, long time
resident of Alaska and former
owner of the Alaska Shop in Sew
ard, was to leave on the SS Aleu
tian today. Mrs. James will make
her home n Seattle.
Gity Beautiful
Campaign Hits
Poplar Favor
Judges who decide on the week
ly awards for the city beautiful
campaign find themselves con
fronted with difficult decisions
when it comes to naming the win
ners.
The clean up campaign has tak
en an unprecedented hold, on lo
cal residents and a new cUic: con
sciousness has caused people to
organize clean up parlies for pub
lic places as well as for their own
property.
Members of the Sacred Hearth
Catholic Church had a clean up
party last Saturday night to re
move rubbish from the vacant lots
behind the church. Six huge truck
loads of old lumber and trash were
hauled to the city dump.
Housing Area Improved
A great improvement in the ap
pearance of the Veteran’s Housing
area has been made during the
past couple of weeks, mostly by
residents of the area. People living
in the units have gathered up
stones and rubbish, which they or
the city trucks have hauled away.
Manager George Turnbull said
that about eight truckloads of
stones and debris were removed
from the corner near his house.
Besides that, residents had gath
ered up large quantities of rocks
and other unsightly material from
the ground about their houses.
Bill Terry and Walter Hill set up
a little fenced playground very
ingeniously equipped.
Weekly Winner
Although there were many pos
sible choices for the weekly awafd,
the great improvement which the
Hugh Milroys made in the appear
ance of their property on Fifth
Avenue brought them the weekly
City Beautiful award. The im
proved appearance of the place
seemed to add most to the general
good of the town. They will re
ceive a prize of five dollars in
trade at the Seward Laundry.
Joe Doyle has done a lot of
work on his lot at the corner of
Third Avenue and Adams Street,
cleaning and leveling the ground,
j He has placed new top soil on the
lot and is planting a lawn.
Four boys have won theater
tickets this week for clean up jobs
they have completed satisfactorily.
They are Peter Wagner, Rodney
Hardesty, Dick Murphy and Rich
ard Giardina.
Weekly Winners
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cole
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Neff
Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Zentmire
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Milroy
Tide and Sun
AT SEWARD
High Saturday Low
1:01 p.m. 8.0 6:31 a.m. -3.7
6:19 p.m. 1.5
High * Sunday Low
0:15 a.m. 10.9 7:10 a.m. -3.8
1:40 p.m. 7.8 6:57 p.m. 1.8
High Monday Low
0:50 a.m. 10.8 7:52 a.m. -3.7
2:21 p.m. 7.6 7:40 p.m. 2.1
High Tuesday Low
1:28 a.m. 10.5 8:38 a.m. -3.'4
3:06 p.m. 7.4 8:30 p.m. 2.4
Sunrise Sunset
May 28 2:56 a.m. 8:59 p.m.
Daylight: 18 hours, 3 minutes
May 29 2:54 a.m. 9:00 p.m.
Daylight: 18 hours, 6 minutes
May 30 2:53 a.m. 9:02 p.m.
Daylight: 18 hours, 9 minutes
May 31 2:51 a.m. 9:04 p.m.
Daylight: 18 hours, 13 minutes
JULY 4 - Giant Pet Parade - JULY 4
Managers
JO ANN MILROY GAIL JACOBS
CASH PRIZES
Ass'L Managers
HELEN VARNELL SHIRLEY COWAN