Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward. Alaska
John M. Coleman . Publisher
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Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Palmer
of Ninilchik became the parents
of a 7 pound 14 ounce baby
girl in the Seward General Hos
pital Friday afternoon, June 9,
at 3:55 p.m.
More people around Cooper
Landing have reported seeing
the pinto moose reported by
Fred Henton two weeks ago.
As far as is known, no one yet
has obtained a picture of the
animal.
! Robert W. Greene, son of Mr.
i and Mrs. George Greene of
Jesse Lee Home, arrived in Sew
ard Saturday. He will spend the
summer working in the Terri
tory.
Robert Greene is a teacher at
the Iowa Wesleyan University
at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where he
lives with his wife and children.
He also spent last summer in
Seward after helping to drive
up a bus for the Jesse Lee Home.
Ward Whipple, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Cliff Whipple, arrived
home from the University of
Washington last Thursday.
A group of friends helped
Mrs. Harold Croxton celebrate
her birthday Sunday with a
cake and party.
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WALTER W. SIPPRELL. Gen. Agent • Phone Main 125
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
Anchorage and other boom
towns in Alaska have been and
are faced with the problem these
days of big time gambling. Sew
ard so far has been a clean place
and fairly free of the gangster
ism fostered by crooked gam
bling. Let’s keep it so.
The inveterate gambler will
tell you that it is the thrill of
winning, the surety of winning
“next time” that prompts him
to sit in on a poker game. May
be the fact that it is illegal, car
ried on in the secrecy of a back
room, also adds a thrill.
That person can not be con
vinced that the odds are against
him, that there is no such thing
as an “honest” professional
gambler. As for secrecy, can’t
men see that in a community
this size there is no such thing
as a secret? Do they imagine that
before many hours the word
does not go up and down the
street that So-and-So lost $700,
or $500, or $200 in somebody’s
back room in a poker game?
The amount of the loss makes
little difference. No doubt the
report is greater than the truth.
The fact is that if the loser
should happen to be a business
man, can such a story help but
affect his business?
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that there are at least two such
games to be found at any time
right in Seward, and the location
is also broadcast. If this be true,
then we have no room to criti
cize other towns, and with an
increase of population it is the
beginning of broken homes, wor
ry, financial ruin, fights, delin
quency, and even gansterism in
Seward. If this be true, it should
be stopped, and it is up to every
man, if he considers himself a
citizen who has the good of the
town at heart, if he is one of the
players, to see that it is stopped.
I have no intention of expand
ing upon the moral issues of
gambling. It is the report of big
gambling in Seward, and the ef
fect it can have on the economy
and the good name of the city
that has disturbed me increasing
ly. This is just an attempt to
point it out to the fellows who
are gambling for big stakes in
back room poker and dice games
that it is to their advantage, and
for the safety of their children
that they forego this one thrill.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gilli
land and baby daughter Nancy
-Carol arrived in Seward last
Thursday to spend the summer
vacation in Alaska. Robert Gilli
land, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Gilliland of Seward,
has been attending the Wash
ington University of St. Louis
law school in St. Louis, Missouri.
His wife has also been attending
college, taking a business ad
ministration course.
Nancy Carol is the youngest
grandchild of the Charles Gilli
land's and they have been anx
iously waiting to sec her.
Mrs. Merle Starr was admitted
to the Seward General Hospital
Saturday for an appendectomy.
CAMERA CLUB ORGANIZING
TONIGHT
The Seward Camera Club will
organize tonight at 8 p.m. in
the basement room of the Metho
dist Church. All camera fans
and persons interested in learn
ing how to take good pictures
are invited to meet and help
organize a club.
Equipment is available for a
dark room, slides and photos
will be discussed and compared.
Photography is an expensive
hobby, but one of the most pop
ular hobbies in Alaska. Poor
photography is too expensive to
fool around with, so the ama
teurs who are anxious to im
prove their pictures are banding
together in a club to work out
a program of improvement.
Miss Kay Kellett, Special
Services Hostess of the Army
Fish and Rest Area, who is an
expert photographer, will be on
hand to help with the club. The
public is invited to meet Miss
Kellett, talk over plans, and
enter into club work tonight.
Mrs. George Linn and son
Kenneth Linn left today to fly
Outside. They expect to spend
some time in Tacoma, Wash
ington. Mr. George Linn, who
is convalescing at the Seward
Sanatorium, is improving in
health rapidly but has not suf
ficiently recovered so that he
could accompany his family on
the trip. Mr. Linn was formerly
superintendent of schools at
Dillingham.
A lot of th-e sport fishermen
trying to catch trout on the
Konai Peninsula now, are strik
ing carpenters from Anchorage
and Fairbanks taking a vaca
tion during their dispute with
the contractors, according to
Carlos Carson, enforcement
agent of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, who has been checking
up on fishing licenses lately.
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