FROm UJHRT I HEAR
Today this column makes its bow in The
Frontiersman. It is my intention to make it
a weekly substitute for Saturday’s editor
ial. Now that spring is coming on, and the
weather certainly going to be warmer some
time within the next two months, it’s going
be difficult to find enough peeves worth
editorializing on, anyway.
Most important happening of note in Sel
dovia this week was the arrival of the
city’s first 1947 baby. He was born at Sel
dovia hospital last Sunday. He so long de?
layed his arrival that he barely made it in
the first month of the new year. The lad is
a fine seven-pound boy.
I’ve been reading the anchorage papers,
which have been devoting a lot of space to
the visit of the Portland Chamber of Com
merce delegates, with a good deal of inter
est. From the details of the speeches re
ported at various civic and fraternal ban
ouets, it would seem Portland has something
to sell, and she has an 3ye on Alaska as her
biggest potential market of the future.
One Portland official told Chamber of
Commerce lunchers that in three days Port
land could have all the lumber needed to
complete every building under construction
in Anchorage on Seattle docks and ready for
shipment. He maintained that cement and
plyboard ' were to be had for the ordering.
Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Won
der why a few carloads might not be diverted
t9 Seldovia, where it certainly could be put
to good use.
In connection with the Portland visits,
tne man, interested in starting a barge ser
vice between Portland and Alaska, visited
Homer last week, according to the Homer
Homesteader, The man was interested in pos
sible backhaul loads, and was investigating
Homer coal in that respect.
Again it seems as though Seldovia might
have a good bit to offer, too. Let them
take coal from Homer, but why not pick up
some of our fish and shellfish products at
the same time?
M/55 JACOBSEN
GOES TO HOMER
Miss Anette Jacob
sen, public health
nurse, left on Thurs
d^ s mailboat, to
spend two weeks in
Homer, She said be
fore leaving that un
less there is a sud
den change in her
plans she would not
be back in Seldovia
before mid-February,
Miss Jacobsenfs
recent illness has
prevented her from
making a visit to Ho
mer since last fall.
It always seems
extremely unfortunate
to me that Seldovia
continues to plug
along in Outside
minds under the label
of the ’’Homer area.”
It would be a mighty
good thing for Seldo
via if a few visiting
firemen could be made
to understand that
there!s another town
just 15 minutes
•flight from Homer
that has something to
offer, too.
Maybe when we fi
nally get an air ser
vice established here
again we can get some
of the business men
'from the states plan
ning springtime 'jun
kets to Alaska to
come and look us over,
to©.
f. 4
Sounds like an
ideal time to revive A
our hibernating Cham
ber of Commerce and
get to work on it.