THE SEWARD POLARIS
Peninsula-Chain News
Dedicated to the Building
of the “Kenai Empire"
Independent
United Press Service
Published Semi-weekly
by
John M. Coleman
Reward. Alaska
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With this issue of The Polaris.
Seward. Alaska, becomes our
“home town."
We are newcomers to Seward
and to Alaska, hut the friendly
smiles a n d hearty handshakes
make us feel we “belong."
In the past few weeks we have
been favored with plenty of ad
vice, both good and bad. Our de
rive is to heed the good and for
get the bad.
Many pessimistic remarks have
been directed our way anent the
future of Seward and the wise
ness of our move. However, we
came to Seward and the past
week we have met and talked
with many Sewardites. The very
evident interest in the welfare of
the town and confidence in its
future have convinced us that we
4are right. Seward is a good “home
town."
Be seeing you around — for a
long, long time!
LARGE SHIPMENT OF CATTLE
TO LATIN AMERICA j
1* i
The largest shipment of pure
bred beef cattle ever flown from
the United States into the Latin
American area, left Washington,
D.C. by Pan American Cargo Clip
per, bound for Jamaica, Aug. 23.
The cargo consisted of 11 Aber
deen Angus heifers aiid nine bulls
weighing 10,000 pounds.
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AMERICAN WOMAN FINDS
HAPPINESS AS BUDDHIST NUN
By AUSTIN DE SILVA \
United Press Staff Correspondent
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COLOMBO, Ceylon (U.P.i— An
American woman, whose interest
in Buddhism was awakened in j
her undergraduate days at Ore- ,
gon State University, has found
happiness in her ordination as a
Buddhist nun at Vajirarama Tem
ple here.
She was Mrs. Beatrice Hunt
Winans, who took the name of
Bhikkhund Soma when she was
ordained by Bhikku Kassapa,
who was Dr. Casius A. Periera.
Dr. Periera w'as a widely-known
authority on Buddhism even be
fore he became a Buddhist monk.
Sister Soma made her act of ,
renunciation when she left her j
husband and tw'o sons to come
to Ceylon and become a Buddhist
nun. Her interest in Buddhism j
began when she first encountered
Buddhist texts published by the i
Dxford University Press.
Head Now Shorn
Some years ago she attended
lectures fn the United States de
livered by Bhikku Silavansa an
American Portuguese Buddhist
monk. Mrs. Winans accompanied
Bhikku Siiavansa to Ceylon from !
Ihe United States last November
and decided to take the vows.
Her hc-ad now is shorn and she
wears a yellow robe.
"I am very happy in these
robes,” she said. She parried re- '
porters’ questions with a smiling
remark: “I did not work on a
newspaper for nothing."
Another Re-Ordained
An American Buddhist monk,
Seelavansa Thero, who was John
Silva of California in his lay life
recently was re-ordained at a sol
emn ceremony at a historic Budd
hist temple at Kandy.
Bhikku Seelavansa first was or
dained about 20 years ago at Pol
gasduwa. where he spent some
years. Later he went to Thailand
and received higher ordination.
For the past ten years, Bhikku
Seelavansa has been teaching on
the Pacific Coast of the United
States. When he embarked recent
ly from the United States for
Ceylon, ho had to abandon his
saffron robes because of the dif
ficulties of the journey.
Re-ordained, he planned to live
henceforth on the Buddhist-be
loved Island of Lanks.
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Lt-.UAL . :ui hl<l / ■■>. ’V 'j
No. 509
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
SEWARD PRECINCT, THIRD
DIVISION, ALASKA
In the Matter of the Estate of
CLAUDE E. BLANKENSHIP,
deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
To the creditors and all persons
having claims against the Estate
of CLAUDE E. BLANKENSHIP,
deceased, to file their claims,
properly verified, within six
months after the first publication
of this NOTICE, in the office of
the Prohate Judge for Seward
Precinct, at Seward, Alaska: or to
exhibit the same, with the neces
sary vouchers, to the undersigned
Executrix at the office of Carl J.
Hutton, attorney for the under
signed. which office has been se
lected as the place for transacting
all matters in connection with said
Estate.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, this
30th day of August, 1948.
M. A. DECKER.
Executrix
Wed.. Sept. 1,8,15,22.1948
ON THE BALLOT in the Oct. 12th election there will be a referendum on “the practice of fishing by means of traps should
be continued or ... should be abolished.” To abolish traps, we believe, would amount to confiscation and would permanently
injure the Territory of Alaska.
Season Months
j All three types of fishing gear are needed
r
to continue Alaska's largest industry—
i
salmon fishing. Of the three, only traps
I
provide much off-season employment.
The equivalent of 4,000 men in the
j
I piling, sawmill, logging and wire netting
I industries work six to nine months a
I year to supply and maintain traps.
' %Hf*r Traps expand the seasonal nature of
Alaska’s salmon fishing. Don’t vote any
: Alaska residents out of their jobs.
| VOTE TO
k CONTINUE TRAPS!
Here's why YOU Should
VOTE to CONTINUE
TRAPS:
1. Traps mean jobs—not just for 4:> day* b’tt for
six to nine months for approximately 4.000
people, mostly Alaskans.
2. Traps are the best means of conserving
lj Alaska's salmon.
3. Traps pay taxes. Without them the Territory
would have to levy additional taxes on all
< other Alaska businesses and individuals.
4. Traps, together with mobile gear, allow can
neries to operate efficiently. Without trap*,
at least 25 large canneries would close down
because they would be stripped of their de
pendable supply of salmon—thousand*, of men
would lose their jobs.
. /
5. Traps are vital to Alaska's economy. Confiscate
' them and you undermine th-' Territory’s sta
bilily. An unstable region cannot develop a
diversified economy.
6. Traps so stabilize the entire salmon industry
that they make it possibe for packers to pay
fishermen maximum prices. Confiscate traps
and you cut down these earnings. Nobody
gains—everyone loses.
7. Traps are vital in maintaining U. S. world
leadership in the canned salmon industry. Con
fiscate them and you so weaken America's
position that it will be possible for Russia,
utilizing U. S. built floating canneries, to
seize this prize in world trade.
8. Traps represent large investments in venture
capital. Confiscate them and you discourage
other industries from investing in Alaska's
future.
9. Traps provide healthy competition. Confiscate
them and you establish a gear monopoly in
the catching of salmon.
10. Traps, seines and gill nets — ALL THREE
TYPES OF GEAR ARE ESSENTIAL to
maintain Alaska’s canned salmon pack. Vary
ing conditions in the Alaska fishing grounds
make it economically feasible to fish certain
areas to full advantage only by means of traps. '
COMMITTEE OF ALASKA TRAP OPERATORS
Tanning
Send us your furs and skins to be
tanned. Quick, efficient, reliable
workmanship. We return your
finished skins immediately.
Valcauda Fur Co.
National Bldg. - Seattle. Wash.
Charter
local and highway
FREIGHT SERVICE
Heavy Truck
Telephone Monroe 166
Post Office Box 716
See
Joe Lanier
SHOE REPAIRING or
FURNITURE REPAIRING
International Longshoremen a
and Warehousemen’s Union
IxkhI 3!)
Meets First and Third Tuesday at
7 p m. Union HaLl
President — L. Rogers
Secretary — L. Dick
,'Oli JMU VKIN'TING- THF VOLARIi
Arthur E. W. Dodds
ARCHITECT and ENGINEER
Phone Red 620
Anchorage, Alaska
A
CALL FOR BIDS
•
At the regular meeting of the
Common Council of the City of
Seward held Aug. 16, 1948, it was
decided to call for bids for the use
of a dump truck to haul garbage
with. Bids to be based on so
much an hour for the actual time
said truck is used by the city.
The owner to keep said truck in
repair. The city will furnish gas
and oil. Bids to be submitted not
later than 3:00 P.M. Sept. 7, 1948.
TROY BOGARD,
City Clerk
Aug. 21,25,28-Sept. 1,1948
LEGAL ADl'ERTtSlXG
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THIRD DIVISION, SEWARD
PRECINCT.
In the matter of the estate)
of )
LOIS HUDSON ALLEN)
Deceased.) .
Probate No. 506
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
To the creditors and all persons
having claims against the Estate
of LOIS HUDSON ALLEN de
ceased to file their claims, pro
perly verified, within 6 months
after the first publication of this
NOTICE, in the office of the
Probate Judge for Seward Pre
cinct, at Seward Alaska; or to ex
hibit the same, with the neces
sary vouchers, to the undersigned
Executor at the office of Mr. R.
E. Baumgartner, attorney for the
undersigned, which office has
been selected as the place for
transacting all matters in con
nection with said Estate.
Dated at Seward, Alaska this'
10th day of August 1948.
« '
Elwyn Swetmann
Executor *
| i Pub. Aug 11, 18, 25 and Sept. 1
i 1948.)