Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward. Alaska
John M. Coleman . Publisher
Frank DeLoughery . Editor
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A.R.R. HAS NEW PUBLICITY
AND ADVERTISING MAN
Herb Rhodes, former employee
of i he Anchorage Daily Times, will
be the new publicity and advertis
ing man for The Alaska Railroad.
He will assume the position now
occupied by Guy Zalbourg, who is
leaving the Railroad’s employ at
the end of the month.
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G. V. Johnson, civil engineer
from the office of Victor Rivers,
Territorial Engineer, came down
from Anchorage Monday to check
tiie job on the Small Boat Harbor.
Johnson, who makes his home in
Anchorage, is a graduate civil en
gineer from the University of
Alaska. Although new to the Ter
ritorial Engineer's office, lie has
had a number of years experience,
including a year as utilities engin
eer with the Alaska Airlines and
two years with the CAA.
EPISCOPAL SERVICES SUNDAY
Father Albert Sayers, the Epis
copal minister at Anchorage, will
conduct two services in St. Peters
Mission Church, Sunday, July 31,
services to bo at 8 and 11 a.m.
Father Clapp, the newly appoint
ed rector for Seward, is expected
to arrive near the end of August,
after which time regular services
will be resumed at St. Peters.
LEGION CLUB RECEIVING
BEAUTY TREATMENT
The exterior of the Legion Club
is receiving a real face lifting, and,
when the job is completed, will
have a smart looking coat of brown
stucco with blue trim. The Legion
colors are gold and blue.
The picturesque log building was
a non-com's club during the late
war, and since the American Le
gion took it over it has been made
into one of the finest clubs in this
area.
When In Seivard
ITS
The New Seward Hotel
Oscar Dahl, owner
Mt McKinley
Park Hotel
In the Heart of Scenic Alaska
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Last week the Anchorage Times
reprinted an editorial from tlie
Bridgeport, Conn., Telegram titled
"Interior Department Study.” The
leading of this editorial filled me
w'ith a deep and abiding anger.
Not because of the article itself,
because it was simply a mild ob
servation on the activities of the
| Interior Department, but because
■ it is one of a long series of evi
dence that Stateside papers are
considering at a great and safe
distance the “Problem of Alaska.”
At the same time, we receive
news (hat the possibility of state
hood is once again postponed to
an indefinite future.
Our petition for alliance with the
rest of the Union reminds one of
the position of the skinny boy
and the city gang. They will not
accept him as a member until he
has licked the whole gang or the
chief bully. But just let him sud
denly acquire a baseball bat and
mitt, then he is eagerly sought
after.
Alaska's baseball bat is well
known to be here through the
studies and investigations of the
various government departments
in the? form of mineral deposits,
oil and power potentials, but they
cannot be developed because of the
strangling regulations.
We are growing so tired of
“studies” and “investigations” by
arm chair strategists that after a
flying visit to the recreation cen
ters of Alaska result in reports
which are buried in Washington
without results except a few news
paper and official comment.
How many inquiries or boards of
inquiry have included men from
Alaska who know from long years
of experience what conditions are
in the Territory and what assist
ance is needed? The only man
in Washington who knows from
actual living what is best for
Alaska is Bob Bartlett, and he
talks himself blue in the face to
accomplish the last detail. If ever
a man had reason for utter dis
couragement it is our lone repre
sentative. For more than 75 years
the Congress and Interior Depart
ment have been making “studies
and investigations" of Alaska. One
wonders how long it takes to learn
the “facts.” For that matter, what
is meant by “facts”? Is it really
development or continued exploi
tation that will result from inves
tigation of the facts?
We strongly suspect that the
area recently withdrawn for study
by the Agricultural Department is
to be set aside for a special colony',
to be wrapped in wool and bene
volent subsidies, while the veteran
and real pioneer alongside who
has homesteaded his land at the
cost of backbreaking labor and
heartbreaking disappointments must
continue without assistance, or fail
for the lack of a paltry loan. If
half the money now spent on
studies and investigations of facts
E
Dave Patterson, Mgr.
Extends a
HEARTY WELCOME
TO SEWARDITES
were to be made available to the
farmers and small home owners,
struggling communities already es
tablished; if real estate loans were
possible; if a real and intelligent
effort could be made to offer co
operation to the man on the fielld,
there would be no need for huge
and unwieldy development
schemes. Alaska and Alaskans will
develop itself with a minimum of
Congressional benevolence if given
the chance.
If our friends, neighbors and rela
tives in the Slates can only be
made to see that we must not be
considered as being in a foreign
far-distant country, that we are
a part of the U. S.. that we do not
ask or need any portion of their
substance; that ail we ask is a
little sound financial understand
ing for the little man, then the
little man in Alaska will build ut>
a bulwark of prosperity and de
fense for the protection of the
continent.
The Bridgeport, Conn., Telegram
hopefully expects "The Interior De
partment, through Congressional
authorization, is making the most
of its opportunity to get at the
faes. Therefore the pursuit of this
program should eventually reveal
many interesting facts.” The facts
are here, Bridgeport, but you will
never get them until you talk to the
little man in the field. Intestinal
foritude cannot be seen from the
air.
Mrs. Wayne Blue enjoyed a pic
nic on the beach with her son, Mr.
Walter Blue, and granddaughter
Ginger and Patty Elhard last Sun
day. After their picnic lunch the
children went beachcombing.
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SEWARD POST
No. 5
Meets
1st Wed. of Month
Legion Log Cabin
SEWARD
B. P. O. ELKS
Meet 2nd & 4th Thursday of Month
OPEN DAILY 8:00 P. M.
Except Sunday
SEWARD LODGE
No. 219
F. ft 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 at Medical Building
Affiliated With A. F. of L.
Meeting 2nd Tuesday of Month
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
TANNING
S4nd us your furs and skins to be
tanned. Quick, efficient, reliable
workmanship. We return your
finished skins immediately.
Valcauaa Fur Co.
National Bldg. — Seattle. Wash.
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JULY CLEARANCE SALE
Th/s Week At THE SLUE SHOP
NAME BRANDS IN SLAX, SWEATERS, SKIRTS & BLOUSES
25 to 50 Per Cent Reduced
Lingerie, Bra’s, Girdles, Hosiery included
DRESSES FROM $1 to $25
Low Prices are Born at The BLUE SHOP —
and Raised by Others!