^Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman . Publisher
Frank DeLonghcry . Editor
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THE HIGHEST BUDGET in the
history of Seward was approved
Wednesday evening by the City
Council. The amount of $119,319
exceeds last year’s budget by
twenty-five per cent.
THERE IS A QUESTION as to
whether the city can actually raise
that much money in taxes in the
coming year. There is also a ques
tion as to whether the city is jus
tified in asking for that much.
INCREASED POPULATION is
the key to the situation. Because
of rapid growth the city finds it
self forced to accomplish in a short
time what could be done over a
period of years with n o r m a 1
growth.
CIVIC PLANNING is a virtue
practically unknown here. It is true
that ten* years ago Seward had
less than 1.000 population. At that
time Seward had adequate water
supply, power, sewage system, and
other facilities. The city had plenty
of money apd administration was
not much of a problem.
TODAY SEWARDS UTILITIES
are not adequate for the larger
population. Every indication is that
the city will grow much larger,
even though the Territory never
does reach the predicted popula
tion of ten million.
A PLANNING COMMITTEE
should be formed so that all city
expenditures should fit a broad
pattern of expansion. Not a penny
should be spent for anything that
does not fit .into a long range
program.
PAVED STREETS could be paid
for out of the present street de
partment budget if a small section
were paved every year or two. A
street does not need much atten
tion once it is paved, but unpaved
streets have to be graded contin
ually. It would take a long time
and a lot of planning, but it could
be done.
SEWER AND WATER SYSTEMS
would have to be sound before
the new paving could be laid. The
present systems will not last for
ever. There is no point in waiting
till dire necessity requires tem
porary and makeshift repairs. Plans
should have been formed even
before this.
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
is a lot of money, but the fifty
thousand which the city is spend
ing on' the addition to the power
system will just about give Seward
adequate power for next winter.
If there is a sudden growth in
population the city will be right
hack where it started. A planning
committee should be working now
to provide a program for in
expensive water power, instead of
expensive engines that burn ex
pensive fuel and require repairs
as well as a number of operators
on the job. It is easy to see the
people of Seward spending well
over a million dollars in the next
ten years for which they will have
little or no return.
THE DESIRABLE PROGRAM
would be one which would tie in
with expansion programs of neigh
boring cities, thereby making it
feasible to employ the best of
engineering and legal help on such
projects.
COUNCIL ACCEPTS ELECTION
BALLOTS, AUTHORIZES MAYOR
TO NEGOTIATE FOR BONDS
The City Council voted to accept
the ballots on the election for
issuance of $104,000 in revenue
bonds for improvement of the
city's power plant.
The ballot count showed that
only 132 people had voted in the
election, but the bond issue had
carried by a wide margin, since
only 17 votes were cast against it.
The council authorized Mayor
Lanier to negotiate with some
bonding company to float the
$104,000 loan. One New York firm
had shown an interest in the deal
earlier and it was hoped that the
interest might be revived. The ■
mayor said there is a possibility '
the bonds might be handled by an |
insurance company.
When In Seivard
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While walking down the street
this morning I noticed several
groups of tourists looking around
town. One elderly couple asked a
townsman if there was anything to
see. I could have shaken that Scw
ardite when lie looked vaguely
around and drawled, “Well, no, I
guess not. There’s lots of scenery,
but 1 don’t kjiow of anything else.”
He did not tiiink to tell them
about the Marathon Race, which at
the time was the only thing that 1
could have thought of myself.
Ever since then I have been mak
ing a mental list of things of in
terest.
We Seward people know that we
have a fine town: that we are more
or less happy with it. that once
having lived here people quite
often return. But how many of us
can put our reasons into words?
The tourist business, we are told,
i can be built up, but surely it will
be necessary to have interesting
things to show and talk about. The
list I have made so far includes:
1. Marathon Mountain and the
race.
2. Handling of fish in season by
the cold storage plant and the
cannery.
3. The waterfall and its inlet up
the canyon.
4. The swimming pool and ad
jacent gold mine.
5. The fine Alaska paintings and
works of native„art on display.
6. Curios to be had in the shops.
7. City water comes from glacier
on the mountain.
t>. The glacier field that runs for
80 miles back of Marathon and
Bear Mountains.
9. Point out the location of the
Russian occupation in the time of
Baranof.
Things that were of particular
interest to us when we arrived in j
Seward are now so commonplace !
that we do not think about them. !
But it seems to me a good idea to
prepare ourselves to answer ques
tions and make suggestions for the
benefit of our town and the tourist ;
trade.
City Beautiful Award
Goes To W. C. Erwins
With decisions on weekly prizes
in the City Beautiful Campaign be
coming more difficult each time,
due to the vast improvement in so
many homes, the prize was given
this week to Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Erwin. They have one of the best
kept homes in Seward.
While the city authority does not.
extend beyond the legal city limits,
the City Beautiful Committee feels
at liberty to extend its appreciation
to the fine landscape work done by
Mr. and Mrs. El. L. Senft, Mr. and
Mrs. West, and Mr. and Mrs. Leo,
Douglas at their homes out on the
highway.
Those within the city who are
especially commended this week
are Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Wilkinson,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kelly, and Mr.
and Mrs. William Allen.
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One way to be sure your Buick
stops when you want i. to —
quick, no-swerve stopping at
a toe-touch—is to have your
brakes checked by the Buie.;
specialists in our Brake Shop.
Come in today.
Hamilton's
Garage
Catholic In formation
Is the Golden Rule Sufficient?
“Creeds and dogmas mean noth
ing to me. The Golden Rule is my
religion.” A common statement.
A growing'sentiment. A danger
ous tendency which bodes ill for
the human soul and for the good
of our country.
With the Golden Rule, no real
Christian has any quarrel. It is
Christ's own command to “love thy
neighbor as thyself.” But is that
all that God commands? Is that
all that Christ taught in His three1
years of missionary life?
No Bible student—no true Chris
tian—iwll concede this, nor can he
help hut deplore a condition today
which enables mere man, with his
vaunted freedom of conscience," to
cast aside one by one God's eternal
truths finding himself at last with
only the Golden Rule—which he
too often follows merely from an
innate sense of decency and from
a desire to maintain the respect
of his fellow-men.
The Catholic Church with its
positive creed, its absolute dogmas,
its uncompromising adherence to
eternal truths, has not only existed
basically unchanged throughout
the ages, but has flourished in all
parts of the world, under all sorts
of conditions and persecutions. To
the unbiased thinker, all this must
cause a wonderment and a desire
to know the Catholic secret of
success.
There is no Catholic secret.
Everything Catholic is open to the
world to inspect, dissect, to ask
questions about, with a demand for
the authority and reasonableness
of the answers.
Sponsored by The
SACRED HEART
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Seward, Alaska
adv.
Home Sites for Sale
AT REASONABLE TERMS
One-Acre Wooded Tracts with Good Top St>il
250-Foot Fronts on Wide Streets
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Located at North End of Resurrection Bay Beyond Airport.
About Four-Minute Drive from City Dock.
Frank D. Gibbons
Seward, Alaska
Phone Adams 151
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General Contracting
Ray F. James - R. A. Beissner
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