Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman .-. Publisher
Subscription rates . 75c per month, $8 per year
In a single recent year, the
Red Cross issued 346,871 first
aid certificates to persons com
pleting courses.
Why are a few numbers in
a private notebook so much
more interesting than the num
bers in a telephone book?
Family reunions usually are
considered successful if the
event ends up with no blows
being struck.
Progress is impeded greatly
by folks "who expect to reap
the benefits without the accom
panying obligations.
Mr. Belchrad
Representing
Mutual Benefit of Omaha
UNITED BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE
Life, Health, Hospitalization
and POLIO
WILL ARRIVE IN SEWARD ON
APRIL 18
and for the remainder of the week
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WALTER W. SIPPRELL. Gen. Agent - Phone Main 125
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
No one knows any better
than I the objections and com
plaints that are offered against
Red Cross. I should, because I’ve
heard them for two years with
out ceasing. It is even quite
possible that I could tell you
some that you have not heard
before. One odd thing about it
is, that the very same stories
about the very same incidents
with local names are to be
found in every community in
the country.
The fact remains, however,
that if people would take the
time to investigate known cases
where Red Cross has apparently
failed to function in local cases,
it would be found that there
were circumstances which pre
vented the giving of assistance.
So many of us accept as gospel
truth what is actually only
rumor and basically untrue.
Whatever may be said against
the service in the past, none
can detract from the wonderiul
peacetime service rendered by
the organization in the last five
years. Not one of the victims of
flood, fire, earthquake, blizzard,
marine and other disasters in
the country but will swear by
Red Cross now, except the few
chisellers who are found any
where at any time. I have been
hurt and insulted more than
once, but it has been because
of misunderstanding, and I have
not let it interfere with my be
lief in Red Cross nor in Seward.
We have raised several funds
in this little city since New
Year’s Day, some of them three
times the amount of the Red
Cross quota. I know it can be
done and will be, if for no
other reason than to prove to the
Territory and Pacific Area that
Seward is made up of responsi
ble people who can hold up
their end of anything.
The boys in the shop today
are talking about getting rich
quick. Ronnie has been reading
about fabulous treasure in dia
monds to be picked up off the
beach in a certain spot in Africa.
“The only trouble is,” says Ron
nie, “they have a snake down
there that spits in your eye,
and then you die.”
Another suggests that Monte
zuma’s treasure has been located
some place in Colorado, or is
it Utah?
Maybe it would be a good
idea to prospect over in Fourth
of July Creek. Lots of gold over
there, they say.
Well, most of us haven’t lost
any treasure in Seward, we
don’t expect to go hunting any
one else’s, but we can dream,
can’t we?
Jim Kirkpatrick returned by
train last night from a week end
visit in Anchorage. He went up
Saturday, and was on the train j
which was delayed several hours j
by the disastrous explosion in
which four men of the dynamite \
crew were killed.
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COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
Library Hours
Mon. and Wed.—3 to 5 p.m.
Tues. and Sat.—7 to 9 p.m.
Well Baby Conference
Thursdays — 2 to 4 p.m. in
City Council Chambers.
Tuesday, April 18
SEWARD REG. NURSES meet.
Wednesday, April 19
AMERICAN LEGION and AUX
ILIARY meet at Club. 8 p.m.
Thursday, April 20
RAINBOW GIRLS meet.
Friday, April 21
P-TA MEETING.
Saturday, April 22
EPISCOPAL GUILD.
Monday, April 24
EASTERN STAR meeting.
Tuesday, April 25
VFW and AUXILIARY meets.
JUNIOR WOMEN’S CLUB.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Saturday, April 29
BAKE SALE, Lutheran Ladies’
Aid, Watsjold’s Grocery, 1
p.m.
OWNER OF KENAI CANNERY
HERE ON BUSINESS
Harold A. Daubenspeck, own
er of the Kenai Packer’s Co.,
Kenai, was in Seward Friday
and Saturday buying lumber.
It will be hauled into his can
nery when the road opens.
This is Mr. Daubenspeck’s
first year in the cannery busi
ness, but he is not new to fish
ing. He fished in Southeastern
Alaska before the war, and has
fished in the Philippines since.
He lives in Seattle now.
Logan Varnell expects to
make a trip to Anchorage on
business this week. Mr. Varnell
recently returned from an ex
tended visit in California. His
friends are beginning to call him
the “Travelling Varnell.”
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