GARBAGE, GARBAGE, GARBAGE
While the city council debates and dis
cusses, the garbage which litters Seldovia’s
beaches continues to grow in volume daily*
Beaches this year are in the worst condition
ever known here, according to long-time res
idents, yet the council worries over the
knotty nroblem -of.,whether the town will ap
preciate the . assessment ‘of a $2ha-month
charge for garbage collection.
The Public Health Council, which submit
ted rec.PmmencLatiops for proper garbage dis
posal to the’ city council over a year and a
half ago**': has re-submitted ,those suggestions
to this council, h.'' twice-weekly garbage
collection( which is just double what the
city' of anchorage gives) for home-owners,
the .contract for the work to be: let t-o the
highest biddert and the collected refuse to
be carted to a city designated dump anc
burned. That problem seems simple enough,
even for Seldovia, doesn’t it?
Garbage cans are ’ a problem, says the
council. Werenft they that in anchorage,
Fairbanks, Ketchikan, and a dozen othei* Al
askan towns when a garbage collection System
was .first inaugurated? Cer,thinly there ought
to be enough empty oil drums . available diere
to do duty as-garbage cans until cf regula
tion supply cah be purchased, if we simply
must be proper about our style in garbage
cans.
Lids will prove difficult to remove in
the winter’s freezing weather and the suc
cessful garbage bidder will find his work
more difficult, another councilman hazards.
Will they freeze any tighter ih Seldovia
than in Fairbanks where 40 below temperatures
are often the rule for days on end? •
Maybe SeldoVia’s residents „• won’t pay
their garbage bills, still another•counci]
member argues* Why not? *They' pay the light
bill and the water bill,-don’t they? Or if
they don’t they stand to lose those serv
ices. *fcnd if the city ordinance'.which pro
vides for garbage disposal has. teeth55enough
in it t.o enforce* stiff finest 'for/;.anyone
caught dumping on beaches-', once the: system
is installed, garbage bills will be paid,
too...
• a _**■' v'**
AIR VISITORS
CROP IN SUNDAY
Planes which ran
ged in size from the
Port Williams twin
motored ’Judge on to
Ray Henderson's two- *
pla-ce * Taylorcraft
found the waters -and
beaches of Seldovia
Bay good stopping
places last Sunday,
•* 11 Sikorsky from... .
Homer and a Piper
Supercnuiser piloted t
by Ward Gay of unch
orage, were included
in th.e Sunday census
of aircraft ; parked
L on JGeldovia's 4 bea
ches,. .... 1 *
There .is no prob
lem^. in ,Seldovia*s
garbage disposal that'r
has not .been faced
*and met by any pro
; gressive ^laskan
town. If we of Sel
dovia are so backward
that we do not Care
to meet the.- obliga
tions of a growing
and prospering muni
pality, there, are
territorial officials
of .the health depart
ment who- can. and
will, fix regulations
for. us and then see
to their enforcement.
V/ouldn^t it be far
better . to clean up
our ov/r doorstep in
our own. way, so thaft'
when and if visiting
territorial health
personnel do stop
hare, we can poirt to .
clean beaches and say
with prider ‘We did ,
it by ourselves?’