SEWARD’S
All-cW<?atkec
SEAPORT
Is Alaska’s
Greatest Asset,
Vol. V, No. 97
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1949
Price 10 Cents
Adm. Wagner Appointed
To Alaska Sea Frontier
Rear Admiral Frank D. Wagner,
USN. relieved Rear Admiral Alfred
E. Montgomery, USN, as Com
mandant, Seventeenth Naval Dis
trict and Commander Alaskan Sea
Frontier, in formal ceremonies at
the Naval Operating Base, Kodiak,
Alaska, in the presence of the Na
vy, Marine and Coast Guard per
sonnel of the base and the Com
mandant’s staff.
Rear Admiral Montgomery, who.
assumed command of the Seven
teenth Naval District on August
30, 1947, has been ordered to duty
with the Atlantic Fleet as Com
mander, Naval Operating Base,
Bermuda.
Rear Admiral Wagner, who has
served in the Navy for 34 years,
is a veteran naval aviator. He
came to Kodiak from San Diego,
Calif., where he was Commander,
Fleet Air West Coast.
When Japan attacked the United
States Rear Admiral Wagner was
Commander Aircraft, Asiatic Fleet,
and Commander Patrol Wing Ten.
In the retreat from the Philippines
he directed the hazardous oper
ations of PatRon Ten in its last
ditch stand with Admiral Hart and
General MacArthur in the Philip
pines. In the spring of 1942 he was
ordered to duty in the Navy De
partment where he served as the
Director of Naval Air Transport
Service under the Chief of Naval
Operations. Following this duty he
was ordered to Seattle; thence to
duty as Assistant to the Deputy
Chief of Naval Operations for Air,
and in April, 1944 Admirall Wagner
became Commander of Carrier Di
vision Five and later Commander,
Aircraft Seventh Fleet, during the
New Guinea. Morotai, and Philip
pine campaigns until the end of
the war. On November 1, 1945, he
reported for duty at Glenview, 111.,
as Chief of Naval Air Reserve
Training and on January 4, 1946,
he became Chief of Naval Air
Training at Pensacolla. Florida.
Rear Admiral Wagner has been
awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal with one gold star, t he Le
gion of Merit, and Victory Medal
of World War I with Escort Clasp,
Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal,
World War II Victory Medal, the
Order of Oranje-Nassau (Nether
lands) and is eligible for the Army
Distinguished Unit Badge for serv
ice in the defense of Bataan and
Corregidor. He also holds the
Philippine Liberation Ribbon, Phil
ippine pefense Ribbon, the Ameri
can Defense Service Medal and
American Area Medal, World War
II.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Mont
gomery leave behind them a host
of friends in the Army. Navy and
Air Force, as well as in civilian
circles in Alaska. Lt. General Na
than C. Twining, USAF, Com
mander in Chief, Alaskan Com
mand, forwarded the following
message: “It is with sincere re
gret of everyone in the Alaskan
Command that your tour of duty
% has terminated., Our best wishes
go with you and Mrs. Mont
gomery.”
D. P. Holbrook of the Northern
Stevedoring Company has arrived
to take up his duties with the com
pany at the port of Seward. Hol
brook was in charge of the port of
Anchorage last year, but it has not
been opened this year. He intends
to make Seward his residence and
will have his family with him as
soon as housing is available.
! City Fathers Pleased
With Annual Audit
Mayor Eugene N. Lanier told the
City Council at its meeting Mon- I
day evening that the annual audit
showed the city operated entirely
within its income during the past
year, and styowed a surplus for the
year of about $29,000.
This surplus was used to pay off |
a debt of $21,000 and various other
bills inherited from the previous
administration. At the moment the
city has a number of unpaid bills
amounting to about $8,000, but it is j
expected that these will be brought
up to date in the very near future.
Formal Report
Mayor Lanier told the council
that the auditors had told him the
city had the sales tax to thank for
bringing the city out of the red, in
asmuch as the sales tax relieved
the city of much school expense.
The city’s boks are entirely up to
date now, and the auditors will
render a formal report within a
I couple of weeks.
'
CITY BUSINESS LICENSES
PROPOSED HERE
| The City Clerk has been author
ized to correspond with authorities
in Anchorage concerning a city
businese license. City Treasurer,
Aaron Erickson, stated that local
licenses would enable the city to
assist the territory in collection of
Ttrritojial licenocs.
The city receives a major of all
; business license fees paid to the
Territory, and it would be to the
; advantage of the city to see that
all such license fees are collected
i by the Territory.
Small Fee
! The amount of the fee for a city
business license would probably
amount to only a dollar. The ob
I ject is that the city would not
! authorize a local license to any
one not previously licensed by the
Territory.
Erickson said he knew of at least
two firms who advertise as doing
business in Seward, but who have
! not secured licenses.
RECEPTION FOR REV. TURNER
TO BE SUNDAY AT CHURCH
j There will be a reception in
; honor of the Rev. Edward M. Tur
, ner next Sunday at the St. Peter's
; Episcopal Church. It will be the
1 last time Father Turner will con
duct services here, since he is leav
i ing for New York very soon.
It was learned that the pastor to
succeed Father Turner will be the
Rev. F. Russell Clapp, who will
come here from the States.
Father Turner has been pastor
of St. Pter’s Church for about five
| years and he was well known here
| before that.
REAL ESTATE DEALER
TO RETURN HERE
Word has been received here that
Mrs. Mary Ann B. Brown, who was
in the real estate business in Sew
ard before going to Tulsa, Okla ,
last fall, will return to Seward in
the near future.
Mrs. Brown hA been working
with real estate in Tulsa this past
winter, where she operated a suc
cessful business for a number of
years before she came to Alaska.
During the past several months she
has been specializing in Alaska
real estate*and invites listings from
anywhere in the Territory.
LIONS CLUB TOLD -
OF PUBLIC
HEALTH SERVICE
At a regular meeting of the Sew
ard Lion’s Club held in the Metho
dist church basement on Friday
noon, Mrs. LaPreal Bie spoke on
the activities of the public health
service.
Mrs. Bie stated that a patient
must be under medical supervision
before a public health nurse can
come into the home. The public
health nurse cannot diagnose or
treat but her duties include carry
ing out instructions of the attend
ing physician. Her duties also in
clude the teaching of isolation,
care and technique in care of tub
erculosis in the home. The public
health nurse tries to see every ex
pectant mother.
Mrs. Bie also stated that the De
partment of Health has monthly
immunization clinics for smallpox,
diptheria, whooping cough and ty
phoid. There is on charge for this
service.
The public health program can
secure glasses for patients and will
arrange eye examination by a re
liable opthalmologist.
Anyone is eligible for an initial
chest x-ray. Care is available for
crippled children through the De
partment of Health regardless of
financial status, and a general
sanitation inspection can be re
quested from the Department of
Health at any time.
Next Friday Dr. Frank Maresh,
resident doctor at the Seward San
atorium, who spent several days in
Haiti will show slides and speak ,
on "Ten Days on a Banana Planta
tion.” |
CARIBOU DECREASE,
MOOSE INCREASE
i
A seriously depleted caribou pop- ;
ulation was reported by Regional
Director Clarence Rhode of the
Fish and Wildlife Service upon his
return to his headquarters follow
ing a three weeks reconnaissance
of the Brooks Range and the Arc-'
tic Slope.
Alaskans have long been accus
tomed to talking in terms of mil
lions of caribou. "Today,” ■ said
Rhode, "we cannot speak in terms
of even half a million, not even in
terms of hundred thousands."
Sportsmen anti residents through j
the Territory have reported that
caribou were down in numbers in
many localities. But each locality
has always been able to hope that
the "big herd” had migrated north
or west or “over into Canada." The ;
wildlife officials have now re-1
moved the doubtful comfort of that |
wishful thinking by stating flatly 1
that the caribou supply has dwin
dled all over Alaska.
BISHOP OF ALASKA
HERE SUNDAY
The Most Reverend Francis D. ,
Gleeson. bishop of Alaska, will be I
in Seward to administer the Sacra-i
ment of Confirmation at the Sac- j
red Heart Catholic Church at 7:30 l
Thursday evening.
This will be the second visit hv |
Bishop Gleson to Seward since ™ '
became bishop of Alaska last year.
For many months he has been
traveling throughout the Interior.
Last Sunday he was in Anchorage
where he confirmed a class of one J
hundred candidates.
Superintendant for Schools, Carl '
R. Carlson, is expected to leave i
Tuesday morning for a trip out-1
side. He expects to send some time
in Astoria, Oregon, he said. Prior
to departure he appeared before
the city council to check progress
on the installation of the heating
system in the school.
The end of the journey for four of the 200,000 persons for whom
IRO, in less than two years, has found new homes and new futures.
The road was long; it led through Concentration camps, separation,
hunger and fear to a far-away country with new people and
customs. But the family is together at last and hope lives again.
City Has Oportunity
To Purchase
New Garbage Truck
The City Council Monday night
authorized Charles Lechner to ne
gotiate with the Glenn Carrington
Company of Seattle for a garbage
truck for the City of Seward.
The new truck is a big bargain,
according to council members, and
jvheregs the regular price is a
thousand dollars more.
The truck has an enclosed body,
with a device for lifting the gar
bage into the box. The council
members suggested that such a
truck could be operated by one
man, since it would eliminate
lifting.
Henry Horton, who is in charge
of garbage collection for the city,
said that one man could not very
vyell dump a garbage can. climb
into the truck, drive it a few feet,
and get out to dump another can
with any kind of efficiency.
The truck now in use cost the
city $4,000 and is being paid for
at the rate of about S500 per month.
The reason the truck is for sale
at SI,000 below the regular price
is that it was damaged in ship
ment. but council members were
of the opinion that it is still good
as new for practical operation, al
though the city of Anchorage re
fused to accept it.
COURT NEWS
Two divorce decrees were hand
ed down in the special session of
court in the Federal Building last
week.
Dorothy Delozier was awarded a
divorce from John G. Delozier on
the grounds of incompatibility, and
Martin Goreson received a divorce
from Pauline Goreson.
A judgement was awarded to Dr.
R. O. Sellers against Donald Mc
Donald of Anchorage on a prom
issory note. One naturalization
case was heard in which Tom Bie
was granted the right of U. S.
citizenship.
Two divorce cases were dis
missed. The case of the city against
the Seward Light and Power is ex
pected to be dismised. It was an
appeal from a local court decision
involving a $50 fine against the
Seward Light and Power Co.
21 STATESIDERS
ARRIVE FOR
; KENAI HUNT
A party of 21 hunters from Cleve
land, Ohio arrived in Seward by
train Monday evening after having
flown to Anchorage in a chartered
plane.
; The group will split up into
! three separate parties, one going to
j Russian River, a second to Kenai
i Lake, while the third group will
be located at Skilak Lake,
i Bud Winkler, who served as a
i lieutenant in the Army at Seward
during World War II. organized the
party for Air Vacations, Inc., of
I Cleveland, Ohio,
The party arrived in a plane
1 piloted by Cook Cleland of Wil
| loughby, Ohio, who is also a veter
! an of World War II. He is the pilot
: who won the Thompson Trophy at
j the Cleveland air races recently.
The party is accompanied by a
Cleveland journalist who is to give
j a running account of the group's
1 activities, along with pictures, to
j Outside papers.
Woodrow (Red) Snyder of Sevv
| ard was found pinned beneath his
! overturned automobile Saturday
morning byMerl Starr and Warren
| Goodwill at the intersection of the
j highway and the road to the Jesse'
; Lee Home. Snyder was pulled from
j underneath the car and brought to
| the hospital in town. He was suf
Ificiently recovered to walk with
. a cane Monday afternoon.
Tide and Sun
AT SEWARD
High Today Low
! 9:30 a.m. 7.7 3:19 a.m. -2.0
9:24 p.m. 11.2 3.08 p.m. 0.1
High / Wednesday Low
10:32 a.m. 8.1 4:10 a.m. -3.4
10:10 p.m. 11.8 3:59 p.m. 0.3
High Thursday Low
11:30 a.m. 8.4 4:58 a.m. -4.4
10:54 p.m. 12.0 4:47 p.m. 0.5
High Friday Low
12:17 p.m. 8.6 5:44 a.m. -4.9
11:39 p.m. 12.1 5:30 p.m. 0.7
June 7 2:42 a.m. 9:16 p.m.
Daylight: 18 hours, 34 minutes
Sunrise Sunset
j June 8 2:41 a.m. 9:17 p.m.
Daylight: 18 hours, 36 minutes
June 9 2:40 a.m. 9:18 p.m.
Daylight: 18 hours, 38 minutes
June 10 2:39 a.m. 9:20 p.m.
Daylight: 18 hours, 41 minutes
$25.00 in merchandises for Fourth Celebration
furnished by SEWARD KENAI CO-OP
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