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Vol. VII, No. 5
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1950
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Stowell To Be
Temporary
Police Chief
Charles H. Stowell, formerly
chief of the Anchorage Police
Department, accepted the posi
tion as temporary chief of the
Seward Police Department Sat
urday. He will take over his
duties as chief this week.
Chief Leonard Clark, who has
extended leave of absence from
Seward, will notify the police
commissioner before Sept. 1 of
his resignation or return to duty.
In the meantime Chief Stowell
will be in charge.
Mr. Stowell will be asked to
head up and coordinate the ci
vilian defense for the city. He
has had a great deal of exper
ience in the security and de
fense of civilian populace. He
was an officer in Chemical War
fare, trained at Edgewood Ar
senal, Maryland, and was secur
ity officer at Norfolk, Va., dur
ing the last war.
The Council feels that a man
of Chief Stowell's ability and
experience as chief and coordin
ator of civilian defense would
give residents a greater feeling
of security and receive the
whole hearted cooperation of
the people.
Methodist Women
To Visit Seward
Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, nation
al president of the Woman's Di
vision of Christian Service, who
has been attending the Alaska
Mission Conference in Juneau
for the past several days, is
scheduled to arrive in Seward
for a short stay Tuesday eve
ning. Accompanying Mrs.
Brooks on her trip from New
York are Mrs. Robert Stewart
and Mrs. A. C. Johnson, also of
ficials of the Woman’s Division.
A tea honoring Mrs. Brooks
and her companions will be
held in the Methodist Church
on Wednesday evening, July 19,
beginning at 7:30. All members
of the Woman’s Society of Chris
tian Service and friends are
invited to attend.
EX-COAST GUARDSMEN
NEEDED FOR RESERVE
The Commander, 17th Coast
Guard District, with Headquar
ters in Juneau, announced last
week that former Coast Guard
and Coast Guard Reserve enlist
ed personnel, including SPARS,
may now enlist in the Coast
Guard Volunteer Reserve for in
active duty without physical ex
amination other than visual ex
amination by recruiting person
nel for obvious physical defects.
Former Coast Guard and Coast
Guard Reserve enlisted person
nel interested in enlisting in the
Coast Guard Volunteer Reserve
for inactive duty should for
ward their request for enlist
ment to the Commander, 17th
Coast Guard District, Post Office
Box 2991, Juneau, Alaska.
Former Coast Guard and
Coast Guard Reserve enlisted
personnel interested in a com
mission and who are now col
lege graduates or those who
through technical or profession
al knowledge have gained quali
fications for a commission in
the Coast Guard Volunteer Re
serve on inactive duty should i
make application for a commis
sion to the Commandant, U. S.
Coast Guard, 1300 E Street, N.
W., Washington, D. C. Enlist
ment in the Volunteer Reserve
will be advantageous in being
considered for a commission.
Local Camera Fans
Go On Bay Tour With
Recreation Center
About 40 local camera fans
took advantage of the invitation
from Lt. Burke and Miss Kay
Kellett, of the Fish and Recrea
tion Center last Sunday for an
all day trip on the barge Sgt.
Weber.
The party left shortly after
9:00 o'clock with cameras and
lunch bags. They were given j
open house on the ship, with
hot coffee for everyone at any
time during the day.
A cruise into Thumb's Cove
was a new experience to many i
aboard, as was also the close-up
view of Bear Glacier on the
other side of the Bay.
An hour stop off the glacier
brought out fishing tackle j
galore, and several Stateside
fishermen demonstrated their
skill.' Vieing with one another
for the most and the biggest
sea bass, the fish were soon flap
ping around on the deck, and
dozens of pictures were taken
of the catch.
Miss Kelleti Leaving
Miss Kay Kellett, the popular
hostess at the Recreation Center
is leaving for the States this
week. She has done a great
deal to promote the Seward
Camera Club, and has been very
helpful with instruction and ad
vice on photography, being an
expert herself.
Miss Kellett's successor has
not been appointed, and the
boys of the permanent personnel
will take over the operating of
the Center dark room, movies
and fishing cruises until such
time as a replacement for Miss
Kellett arrives.
P-TA HOT LUNCH PROGRAM
MEETS GOVERNMENT
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
This is the summer vacation
when all thought of school is
far from a parent's mind and
that is as it should be. However,
there are several parents who
have been hard at work a 1 1
summer on the School Hot
Lunch program to be inaugurat
ed this fall when school again
takes up.
The wind is going to blow
again this winter and some of
the days will be miserable and
that is when your boy or girl
will appreciate your efforts in
seeing that there is a warm
lunch at school when the noon
bell rings.
Mrs. Mabel Lewis has been
engaged as cook and menues
and costs have been studied.
Metal trays have been purchased
and other necessary equipment
lined up for maintaining a com
plete healthful and sanitized hot
lunch for your child.
The hot lunch to be served
will meet all the government
requirements for the Type A
school lunch which will give
your child one-third of his daily
minimum vitamin requirements,
which are as follows:
One-half pint whole milk
beverage; 2-ounce serving of
meat or fish or 1 egg, or 2 ounc
es of cheese, or one-half cup
(cooked measure) of dry peas
or beans or soy beans, or 4
tablespoons of peanut butter;
three-fourths cup vegetable and
(or) fruit; 1 slice of bread, or a
muffin or other hot bread made
of whole-grain or enriched flour
cereal; 2 teaspoons of butter or
margarine with added Vitamin
A.
Meal tickets good for five
lunches at 25 cents a lunch will
be sold to children from the
First Grade to the Fourth Grade.
Children from the Fifth Grade
on, including the faculty, will
be charged 30 cents a meal.
The Committee has worked
faithfully in endeavoring to lay
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CAB Hearing
To Continue
Tomorrow
The CAB hearing convened
as scheduled today at 2:00 p.m.
in the Federal Building before
Hearing Examiner Ralph L.
Wiser.
The hearing is being held in
connection with the matter of
the application of Christensen
Air Service, Safeway Airways,
Alaska Airlines, Inc., and Alas
ka Scenic Air Service for cer
tificates of public convenience
and necessity and or exemption
orders authorizing air transpor
tation of persons, property and
mail between Anchorage and
points on the Kenai Peninsula:
and of the revocation of the cer
tificates of public convenience
and necessity issued to Pacific
Northern Airlines, Inc., author
izing transportation between An
chorage and Seward, Alaska.
Considerable interest has been
shown by Seward residents in
the proceeding to date and be
tween thirty and forty people
were on hand for the beginning
of the hearing, length of which
is indefinite. There is a possi
bility that the hearing could be
completed in about three days,
but could go considerably longer
depending upon the amount and
nature of evidence submitted by
the interested parties. Today's
session was confined to exam
ination and crc~s examination of
Hakon Christensen for Christen
sen Airways, which at press
time seemed likely to extend
into Wednesday morning.
SIDEWALKS FOR
FIFTH AVENUE
A petition of the property
owners for sidewalks on Fifth
Avenue from Adams Street to
Washington, was accepted by
the City Council last night. A
call for bids will be given in
a few days.
According to ordinance, side
walks in this block must be
eight feet in width.
SEWARD FIRM GETS BID ON
PALMER CONSTRUCTION
James Construction Company
of Seward was low bidder on
the Palmer housing project, it
was learned here today.
The Alaska Housing Adminis
tration project calls for 25
dwellings of one, two and three
bedrooms, work to begin imme
diately.
Subcontracts for plumbing
and electrical work will also
go to local firms, Seward Plumb
ing and Heating and Dodge
Electric Company.
POLICE CAR DAMAGED
The city police car was dam
aged slightly Monday when
struck by a bus operated by
Melvin Vail.
The patrol car was parked
at the edge of the landing field
when the bus backed into it,
crushing the fender and putting
a dent in the door. The bus
driver claimed responsibility for
the accident.
TO CANCEL GOVERNMENT
LEASE ON CITY LAND
The government lease on city
property on Sixth Avenue and
along the railroad will not be
renewed by the City Council.
The Council decided against
renewal of the lease last night,
on the grounds that the property
is not being used, although it
has been leased for several
years, and normal city expan
sion in an easterly direction to
ward the Bay warrants the city
decision to retain the land for
municipal use or sale.
Delegate Bartlett
Writes Chapman In
Detense of Seward
A few days ago we published
the letter received from Acting
Secretary of Interior Warne, in
reply to that of Mayor Eugene
Lanier. A copy of the Mayor’s1
letter went to Delegate Bart
lett, and following is his urgent
communication to the Secretary
on the behalf of Seward:
Hon. Oscar L. Chapman,
Secretary of the Interior,
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Secretary Chapman:
Mayor Eugene Lanier of Sew-j
arci has been good enough to
send me a copy of the letter he [
wrote you on June 12 regarding
the southern section of The Al-'
aska Railroad. In that letter he
called for a frank statement
from the Department of the In- j
terior as to its plans regarding
the railroad. From my personal i
I contact with you and other offi
cials within the Department
over the last several years I
realize that all of you have i
given much thought and atten-1
tion and, indeed, worry to the!
Seward situation. I know, too, ;
tha} you can do only those j
things for which funds have •
been appropriated by the Con-!
gress and it is not always simple j
to secure funds even for pro- '■
jects that are needed.
So in expressing once again
what has become almost a con
suming interest- in this matter
I do so with no thought of cri
ticizing the Department of the
Interior but I should feel negli
gent, indeed, after reading May
or Lanier’s letter if I did not
restate here a belief which 1
have held for a good many years
past—that is, it would be bad
policy to take steps which might
react to the very serious eco
nomic disadvantage of one of
the principal communities of
Alaska, and it is not in the in
terests of Alaska or even in
these times of national interest
to abandon substantially one of
the greatest natural ports in the
world. I submit that in these
trying days when we are making
every effort to fortify Alaska
there is a distinct requirement
that every last possible avenue
of ingress and egress be utilized.
To abandon an existing facility
needed even now- and perhaps
desperately needed in a time
of crisis would be disadvanta
geous from the standpoint of the
nation as a whole,
i I sincerely hope even yet and
! preferably in cooperation with
1 the Department of Defense some
i way may be found to rehabili
i tate the southern section of the
railroad. Whatever expenditure
of money might be required for
that purpose could be justified
without any straining of con
science.
E. L. Bartlett
LUTHERAN MINISTER HELD
FIRST SERVICE SUNDAY
Reverend Kent E. Spaulding,
first pastor of th'e Seward Lu
theran Church, arrived with
his family late Saturday night.
Mr. Spaulding was ordained
June 11 in Phinney Ridge Lu
theran Church, Seattle. This is
his first parish. He drove over
the Alaska Highway to Anchor
age with Rev. and Mrs. A. O.
Odegaard of Anchorage.
He conducted worship service
Sunday morning, although the
official installation will not be
until July 30.
Mr. Spaulding has spent some
time this week getting acquaint
ed in Seward.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MEETING WEDNESDAY
Businessmen are" urged to
attend the Chamber of Com
merce meeting Wednesday, July
19, 8 p.m., in the Council Cham
bers at the City Hall.
Work Begins
On The New
Phone Bldg.
Work was started today by
Lcsko Brothers at the corner
of Fourth Avenue and Jefferson
Street on a building to house
the offices and switchboard of
the Seward telephone system,
owned and operated by the
Alaska Telephone Engineering
Corporation.
The single story 30 by 80
foot building will be of con
crete block construction with
solid concrete floor.
Relief switchboard equipment
is in Seward now ready tor in
stallation as soon as the new
building is completed. New tele
phone cable is on the way from
the factory for complete reha
bilitation yf the entire system.
'lne switchboard to be in
stalled is merely a relief ooaru,
manually operated, to bring tne
quality 01 service up to tne stan
uaru required tor tne size of
the community, a uiai system
is on oruer which wifi even
tually replace tne manually
operated set up.
Tne building, according to
Llsko Bros., should be complet
ed in three or tour weeKs trorn
tne time preliminary worn is
done and actual construction
uegins.
250 Publishers
bxpected in 1951
Arriving in Seward on the
AlasKa steamship Denali today
to maite aavance arrangements
tor one of the largest convention
delegations ever to tour the Ter
ritory, were Cliff Kaynor, new
national president, and Don
Et'K, manager, or tne National
Manorial Association.
Kaynor, publisher of the El
lensourg, wash., Record, and
Eck or Chicago, anticipate at
least z50 newspaper puonshers
trom an parts ox tne nation will
rnaKe tne niasKan trip loliowing
the ;\Ka convention in oeatue
in June, lyal.
Flying to Seattle from New
YorK alter attending the 1950
NEA convention, Eck and Kay
nor declared tnere is "Tremend
ous interest in AlasKa and every
editor anu publisher who can
find the time is planning on the
Territorial jaunt in 1951.”
The route which the conven
tion party will take will depend
in part upon accomodations,
Kaynor said. He and Eck will
contact hotels, resorts, civic lea
ders ana organizations air, rail
and steamship lines.
"The editors and publishers
want to see as much as they can
within the time limits,” Kaynor
said. “They want to get nrst
hand information.”
Among others welcoming Eck
and Kaynor to Seattle and help
ing to arrange their preliminary
trip to Alaska, was Earle W.
Knight, publisher ot the Alaska
Weekly. “We have nad news
paper visitors before,” said
Knight, "but never such a large
and representative group as that
which has already signed up for
the contemplated 1951 tour. It
should result in a million dollars
worth of constructive publicity
which could not otherwise be
purchased at any price.”
Exclusive use of the steamer
Aleution for the 1951 cruise,
has been arranged. According
to H. N. Peterson, general traffic
manager of The Alaska Line,
an extensive itinerary is plan
ned.