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Vol. VI, 56
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JAN. 13, 1950
Price 10 Cents
Big Game For
Seward Tonite
As Scheduled
Verification has been received
that Palmer will arrive via the
ARR this evening for ■ a one
night stand against the Sea
Hawks. The Sea Hawks and the
Palmer Moose will meet tonight,
Friday, the 13th, at the school
gym. The preliminary between
the F r o s h and Sophomores,
will begin at 7:30.
Palmer has named Feb. 3
for a second game at Seward.
The reason why Palmer prefers
one-night stands is that playing
two games on the same trip
means a two or three day lay
over, the first train back being
not until Tuesday. By playing
only one game, the team can
arrive Friday evening hnd re
turn the next morning.
Seating has been improved
in the school gym. Two com
plete rows of seats have been
provided around the balcony,
the back row being benches in
order to not crowd. The playing
court is lined with the new
folding chairs. The stage is pro
vided with seats for those who
prefer an end zone view.*
which promises
Civic Center Says
"Thanks, Joe" For
Record Player
The Seward Athletic Associa
tion wishes to publicly extend
their sincere thanks to Joe
Dovle at this time for his cour
j teous and generous gift of an
! RCA Victor, 45 RPM Automat
i ic Record Player, the use of
which was inaugurated at the
Civic Center during the inter
mission time at the New Year's
Eve Ball.
The record player is now a
permanent addition in the Cen
ter and its use will add to the
enjoyment of all Sewardites
participating hi the various pro
grams of entertainment which
are held in the building,
j In behalf of the people of
j Seward, our deep appreciation,
Joe.
Don Steele and John Salit,
by hard work and long hours,
have installed an excellent
electrically operated score board
which gives score, quarter and
remaining minutes in lights.
In the half time of the main
game Miss Calnan's 6th, 7th
and 8th grade Baton Corps, six
teen in number, accompanied
by the high school orchestra,
will enact a number called “At
the Barn Dance.”
It is school spirit in action
tonight!
*Round V 'Bout Town . . .
—The Roving Reporter—
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Carli are
back from their honeymoon
trip.
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Phil Holbrook returned to
Seward after a vacation to the
States.
Elmer Hardesty was admitted
to the hospital a few days ago.
He is feeling much better now.
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Hal Gilfilen is leaving for
Seattle today. He expects to be
away about a month.
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Carl Carlson is in Juneau at
tending a convention for the
superintendents of Alaskan
schools.
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Mrs. H. A. Werner had a
birthday Jan. 12. Her family
and some of her friends helped
her celebrate it Thursday eve
ning.
Dick Carpenter flew a plane
over to George Tibbett s in Nak
nek Wednesday.
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“S tubby” Stubblefield is
working north of Anchorage on
the northern snow fleet of the
Alaska Railroad.
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Harry McGee, Pat and Helen
Gwenn, Harold Johnsons and
George Nelson from Cooper
Landing were seen in town
Wednesday night. *
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Mrs. J. P. Johnson, wife of
the Alaska Railroad's general
manager, is expected in Seward
today and will leave for the;
States on the Baranof. She will
join her husband, who flew
Outside several days ago.
Ross Mann was in Anchorage
on business the last few days.
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Mrs. Sol Urie is in Seward
and expects to go to Anchorage
soon to visit friends there.
A large new rotary snowplow
for BPR came in on the Termi
nal Knot yesterday.
St. Peter's Auxiliary business
meeting will take place at the
Van Nyman home tomorrow at
2 p.m. After the meeting Mrs.
Rose will review the book, "The
Miracle of the Bells,’* by Rus
sell Janney.
Since the Kenai-Homer road
has been opened the Alaska
Railroad has set up a freight
depot at Moose Pass and now
have a freight agent there on
1 a full time basis. Mr. Carlson,
formerly of Portage, is the
agent.
The employes of the Seward
Cleaners had a birthday cake
for Willie Kipsgard at the
Marathon Cafe Jan. 10.
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Members of the Catholic
Altar Society met at the home
of Mrs. Herman Leirer Wednes
day night. A discussion club has
been organized and regular
weekly meetings will be held
in various Catholic homes.
Mrs. Helen Malcolm and Mrs.
Helen Bern were hostesses at
a stork shower for Mrs. Ann
Hatch Thursday night in the j
Methodist Church parlor. There!
were 32 guests.
The entertainment for the
evening was a sort of bingo
game, but instead of calling it
bingo, winers had to say. “Wah.
wah.'’ If one should forget and
say “bingo"’ she had to pay for
feit. All prizes were gifts for
the baby.
Brahm's Lullaby was sung
by Shirley Calnan, Miss Boyd
and Jane McMullen, accompa
nied on the pipe organ by Mrs.
Irwin and carried to the par
lor on the PA system.
Tables were decorated with
little storks and nut cups in the
shape of diapers.
Mrs. Marie Green is confined
to her home with illness.
Miss Frances Clark is back at
work as hospital X-ray techni
cian after a siege of flu.
Festival To Be
Held February
4th, 5th & 6th
The mid-winter Kenai Penin
sula get-together in Seward is
set for the first weekend in
February, beginning on Friday,
Feb. 3rd, ending Sunday noon,
Feb. 5th.
At a meeting Wednesday
night, final plans were complet
ed and chairmen appointed to
carry through the various events
scheduled to make the three
day festival a time of contin
uous entertainment, for the out
of-town guests and for Seward
ites. Committees and program
hours of events will be an
nounced next week. Members
of the promotion committee will
visit Homer, Kenai and other
communities next week to ar
range for the transportation
and contest entries from those
villages.
Free movies, hobby show,
square dance contest, talent
show, bowling exhibition, yvin
ter games and races, a get ac
quainted afternoon tea, big pub
lic dance, and possibly a basKet
ball game are on the schedule.
The greatest problem is to
determine how much lodging
must be provided. The housing
committee is asking that ail
Sewardites who have friends
in the Kenai Peninsula make an
effort to invite those friends into
their homes for the two nights,
thus relieving the congestion in
hotels.
ocwaiuues snouia De minx
ing of what they have to ex
hibit in the hobby show, which
will take on something of the
nature of a county fair. Many
people have only one item, sucn
as a single piece of antique fur
niture, or a family heirloom,
which can be displayed with
others in the same category.
Stamp collections, dolls, fancy
work, arts and crafts, photo
graphy, buttons, picture post
cards, salt and pepper shakers,
the list is infinite of things that
people collect. It is thought that
h omestead e r s might have
canned goods, smoked and pre
served fish and foods, furs, fur
niture, etc., that would be in
teresting exhibits.
Tuesday's paper and station
K1BH will announce the names
of chairmen in charge of en
tries.
Entries for a name are still
coming in and will be judged
soon.
Street Signs Arrive
For Fourth Avenue
F o u r - vv a y, baked . enamel
street signs, each with its steei
standard to be sunk in concrete,
have arrived in town. They will
be placed on Fourth Avenue as
far as C Street.
This is only a beginning of
the business of labelling the
streets, but with even one street
and its intersections plainly
marked, strangers will have
considerably less trouble in lo
ehting house numbers (if house
numbers were up.)
BE SURE TO GET YOUR AUTO
MOBILE LICENSE BEFORE SAT
URDAY NOON. THE CITY HALL
CLOSES AT NOON. JAN. 14. AND
ANYONE DRIVING WITHOUT A
LICENSE AFTER JAN. 15 WILL
BE CITED INTO COURT. 1
Fourth of July Com.
Opens Contest For
Celebration Slogan
The Seward Fourth of July
Committee is offering a prize of
$25.00 for the best slogan sub
mitted which most aptly de
scribes Seward Fourth of July
Celebration and Marathon Race.
Entries are limited to ele
mentary and high school stu
dents of the Territory of Alaska.
Just follow these sirrtple rules:
1. Slogan must be of ten
words or less and contain the
two words “Seward” and “Mara
thon.”
2. Each contestant may sub
mit as many entries as he or she
wishes.
3. Entries must be postmarked
no later than March 1, 1950.
4. Slogans will be judged on
the basis of originality and
brevity.
5. Judges’ decision is final. All
entries will become the property
of the Seward Fourth of July
Committee and none will be re
turned.
Make your slogans as short as
possible as we wish to keep the
number of words at a minimum
for advertising purposes. An
entry of ten words will receive
less consideration than one of
seven or eight and an entry un
der six or seven words will re
ceive the most consideration.
Address all entries to the
Seward Fourth of July Commit
tee. Seward, Alaska.
An Open, Letter to the
People of Seward
Following is the complete text
of a letter under the date of
January 11, 1950, written by
Rev. Paul Irwin to The Rev. P.
Gordon Gould. Superintendent.
Alaska Mission Conference. This
is Rev. Irwin's report on his re
cent trip to New York as the
representative of the City of
Seward:
"I will in this letter try to
summarize the high points of my
trip to Buck Hill Falls but not
go into meaningless details.
’ First of all let me say that it
was a very wonderful privilege
to get to represent Seward in the
cause of the proposed college for
Alaska and to have the oppor- i
tunity of meeting the many fine
people I did.
“Everything seemed to click
and it seemed that I was at the
right place at the right time all
through the time I was gone. De- j
tails would be too lengthy but!
it seemed as if the whole trip I
were meant to be. On two dif-;
ferent trains I got to have long
visits with two different Bishops, j
At the hotel in Philadelphia I i
ate breakfast and visited later'
with other Bishops who, remark !
ably, remembered my name and j
are deeply interested in the pro
posed school. In all I met and
talked with eight Methodist
Bishops: Werner, Raines, Ox-!
narn, Reed. Flint. McGhee, Ken-!
nedy. and Lowe; two Epispocal
Bishops: Bentley and Welles: a
number of District Superintend
ents, various secretaries, had
coffee with Admiral Salisbury,
Chief of Navy Chaplains m his
office in Washington: met and
talked with the Chief of Army
Chaplains, and many others too
numerous to mention. While in
Admiral Salisbury’s office one
of the commanders there
checked the Navy Department
records and discovered that I am
the only Naval Reserve Chap
lain in the Territory of Alaska.
He also asked me if I would like
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Junior Women
To Sponsor
Presidents Ball
Mayor Eugene N. Lanier ap
pointed the Junior Women’s
Club of Seward to sponsor the
March of Dimes and President’s
Birthday Ball in the fight
against infantile paralysis.
Mrs. A1 Noyes, club president,
is chairman for the drive. Her
assistants are Mrs. Dick Beiss
ner, in charge of decorations and
music for the.dance, which is to
be Feb. 4; Mrs. Carl Ling, pub
licity chairman; and Mrs. Law
rence Whitmore, who will han
dle the check foom at the dance.
Governor Gruening is chair
man of the Alaska Campaign.
He appointed Mayor Lanier as
Seward chairman, with instruc
tions to turn the campaign over
to some civic organization if he
could not assume the responsi
bility. The Junior Women’s Club
was glad to take the drive in
hand.
Collection jars are to be out
soon but the ball will be the
biggest attraction. The date of
the ball was originally set for
Jan. 28, but was postponed a
week in order to make it a part
of the mid-winter festival. There
will be a ticket-selling contest
before long, so get your prom
ises, kids!
The March of Dimes was start
ed by Franklin D. Roosevelt,
who was a victim of polio, and
has been carried on since his
death by the National Infantile
Paralysis Foundation.
Shipping News . . ,
The motorship Coastal Mon
arch of the Alaska Steamship
Company is scheduled to sail for
Alaska January 20, calling at
Yakutat, Seward and Valdez.
Simultaneously the Square Sin
net was named to make the sail
ing scheduled January 27, call
ing at Ketchikan. Wrangell, Pet
ersburg, Juneau, Pelican and
Sitka.
The Coastwise Line ship SS
James W. Cannon is scheduled
to leave Seattle Jan. 16 and the
SS John Cropper is scheduled
to leave Long Beach on Jan- 24,
calling at San Francisco, Port
land and Seattle.
Mrs. Bee Speaker At
P-TA Meeting
Mrs.' Homer G. Boe held her
audience spellbound during her
talk of her travel in Europe at
the Parent-Teachers Association
meeting last Tuesday evening
in the school auditorium. She
told many interesting stories of
the countries she visited, the
home life of the.people, their
customs, rebuilding programs,
education facilities, transporta
tion problems, and other inter
esting highlights.
After her talk a question and
answer interview between Mrs.
Boe and her listeners was held
which proved most enlighten
ing.
The group present was also
favored by a short talk from
Mr. Gene Butler, representative
of the Territory for the Boy
Scouts. His topic was primarily
about the Cub Scouts, who are
sponsored in Seward by the
P-TA.
RaoWholl! PALMER HIGH SCHOOL vs.
DdolVclUalll SEWARD SEA HAWKS
SEWARD HIGH SCHOOL GYM — FRIDAY, JAN. 13 — Preliminary 7:20 P.M. — Adm., Students 60c; Adults $1.00*