Seward Seaport Record
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P-TA Membership
Drive To Start Feb. 1
The Parent-Teachers Associa
tion is having a drive for new
members beginning the first of
February and continuing until
the first of March. There will
be a room prize for both the
boys and girls whose room
brings in the highest number of
memberships during the drive.
A rotating prize will be given
each month to the room having
the highest attendance of mem
berships at each meeting.
The P-TA needs you, whether
you are a mother, a father, a
teacher or any other civic-mind
ed adult, and it is hoped by the
membership committee that par
ents and neighbors will give
their full cooperation to the boys
and girls to further this drive
in the interest of taking an ac
tive part in doing something
practical and effective by join
ing hands with those members
who are now working for better
homes, a better school and a
better community, thus hasten
ing the coming of a better fu
ture for our children.
A lively dinner party took
place at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Schnoeker last Satur
day evening. Mr. Arturio Mar
tini of the Bureau of Public
Roads prepared an Italian spa
ghetti dinner which was a
gastronomical accomplishment, i
Their guests included Mrs. Nell;
Schnoeker. Misses Shirley Cal-|
nan and Jane McMullen. Mes
sieurs Bob Swenson, Ken Shear
er and Whitey Backlund.
There was a pot luck supper
at the George Puckett’s last
week. The Leland Miller’s and
Delbert Robbins' shared their
supper and the increasingly
popular game of Canasta was
played.
A community that is worth living
in is worth doing something for.
The
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
You will notice that hereafter
this column bears the name of
the writer, who has been ac
cused of hiding behind a cloak
of anonymity. This I hasten to
disclaim. I began the column
without a byline simply because
as an unknown, and relative
newcomer, I did not want to ap
pear to be presuming. I am will
ing, however, to stand for any
thing I say, even though I may
not be right more than half the
time.
“Why,” said a man, “why are
the people afraid to proclaim
their beliefs? Their politics, or
religion, if it differs from the
ordinary?”
That question set up a train
of thought in my mind that has
come to this conclusion:
There seems to have been a
prevailing attitude of apathy
and defeatism in Alaska for
many years, from which we are
only now emerging.
In early days, during the gold
rush and for a few years after
the turn of the century, there
was wide -spread enthusiasm for
the development of Alaska. It
died out through the neglect and
indifference of Congress and the
ignorance of the American peo
ple who pictured the territory
as a land of ice and snow popu
lated only by eskimos, and from
which there were no more op-1
portunities for sudden riches.
The fact that the people of
Alaska, and particularly of Sew
ard, have been rebuffed at every
turn,*- when they raised their
voices in protest of unfair treat
ment or neglect by the Federal I
Government, has. it seems to I
me. caused us to appear quies-1
cent and even brow beaten.
No one knows better than we
that the people of Seward, ana i
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Osbo’s Electrical Supply
The New Seward Hotel
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Oscar Dahl, owner
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SCHEDULED SAILINGS
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Feb. 3 lor
Sitka Ketchikan
Juneau Seattle
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Feb. 10 for
Juneau Ketchikan
Wrangell Seattle
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Feb. 17 for
Sitka Ketchikan
Juneau Seattle
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Feb. 24 for
Juneau Ketchikan
Wrangell Seattle
Freighter Sailings from Seattle
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WALTER W. SXPPRELL. Gen. Agent - Phone Main 125
of Alaska are neither quiescent
nor brow-beaten. We are watch
ful, hopeful, and growing angri
ly impatient for our rights, and
a brilliant future for the terri
tory.
There is still, however, an at
mosphere of secretiveness, the
lone-wolf attitude that pervades
over business both public and
private in the area, that incli
nation to hide a good thing in
fear that some one else may
want to be cut in on a deal, or
otherwise cramp one’s style.
And there may be good reason
to feel that way. Regulatory
measures for fair business com
petition is a fairly new thought
even in the States.
One wonders, for instance,
why the non-sched airlines oper
ators do not drop their lone wolf
tactics and band togetehr. The
strength of the pack is still un
changed. If a combination of
such operators should appeal to
the people for aid in their fight
for life, they would gain an un
beatable ally. For, strangely
enough, we are more ready to
go to bat for the other fellow
than for ourselves.
We are no longer willing to
accept the decree of Authority
as final and tell one another
that if They want to take away
our livelihood, .They will, and
we cannot stop them. Or that if
They want to ignore Seward as
a Coast Guard Station. They
will, and we cannot help our
selves, if They this and They
mat.
Wake up, all ye who sleep.
Proclaim yourselves. Sewaru
and Kenai Peninsula is growing
in population and importance.
We had very little to do with
it, but we can certainly see that
it continues to become of impor
tance in the scheme of things to
come, and the time to build our
state is NOW.
Our people MUST have
homes, must have adequate
standards of living conditions.
We must have a good harbor,
we must have transportation,
and we must have industries.
And we will have all these
things, if we do not hesitate to
name our beliefs, our desires,
and clamor for our rights, and
proclaim ourselves—in the right
places.
Mrs. Dorothy Woods, R.N.,
employed at the Seward Sana
torium. returned this week after
several weeks vacationing at
Colorado Springs, Colo.
WELCOME!
PEOPLE OF THE
KENAI PENINSULA!
You are invited to visit the
SEWARD FISH & COLD
STORAGE PLANT
while you are in Seward.
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
Library Hourg
Mon. and Wed.—3 to 5 p.m.
Tues., Sat.—3-5 and 7-9 p.m.
Wed., Feb. 1
AMERICAN LEGION and AUX
ILIARY
Thurs., Feb. 2
WELL BABY CONFERENCE,
Methodist Church basement,
1 to 4 p.m.
RAINBOW FOR GIRLS
Friday, Saturday. Sunday
Feb. 3. 4, 5
Kenai Peninsula POTLATCH
Sat., Feb. 4
BAKE SALE, Werner’s Market,
10 a.m., Catholic Altar Soc.
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Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Smith are
parents of a boy born Jan. 28.
He was named Rockwell Gordon
and weighed 8 pounds.
A son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Merle Lee Brown, Sunday,
Jan. 29. Eric Vernon Brown
weighed six pounds, 12 ounces.
This youngster got a head start
on most Seward babies, having
arrived with a tooth.
Mr. and Mrs. James Louis De
Cicco are parents of a son,
James Harry. Born Monday,
Jan. 30, little Jimmie weighed
7 pounds, 8 ounces.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hatch
are proud parents of Seward's
youngest lady. Carol Ann Hatch
was born Monday, Jan. 30, and
weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces.
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