THE SEWARD POLARIS
Peninsula-Chain News
Dedicated to the Building
ol the “Kenai Empire”
Independent
United Press Service
Published Semi-weekly
by
H. \V. and N. M. Hunt
Reward, Alaska
c script ion Kate SK.fiO por year
THESE QUESTIONS SHOULD
HAVE BEEN ANSWERED BE
FORE ANY PAYMENT WAS
MADE
Who bought these bonds?
How much was paid?
Dia the money go through the
City Treasury?
What was done with this mon
ey?
Who made the check for pay
ment?
Where did Brownell's $8000.00
come from?
Who now holds the bonds’
If these questions are not an
swered or if they are the public
is entitled to know the whole
i ransaction.
There are two things to remem
ber:
The former city council cannot
obligate that following, and any
payment of either interest or
principal will be an illegal act
and may lead to court action.
Court action will bring all these
things out into the open and
serve to show what interest those
outside official circles had in en
gaging in the practice of mixing
in city business.
March 22 must have been a
grc.-t day in the Cits Council
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when the Marine Ways "Deal”
was finished and they were in po
sition to get hold of funds which
! can be counted as city money.
! To do this it was necessary to
j embroil the incoming council and
| that is just what was done.
| Here's How: Through the city
Attorney then employed, Buell
| Nesbitt. D. C. Brownell “sat up
til 2 A.M.”, he said in Council
Monday night last, planning the
way to put this cash payment
made by Pege and Riley of the
I Seward Fish and Cold Storage
[Company into a separate account
j which could not be touched by
anyone but tin* Mayor and thus
did not have to go through offi
cial channels via the council to
be paid. It was “earmarked" cash
available at a certain time to a
’ certain group.
No one thought it possible that
anyone but Mr. Brownell would
be elected but in this case Mr.
Lanier became the new Mayor.
Apparently this "upset the apple
cart" to the extent that much
too much publicity is the result
too much, that is. for certain of
the “old" city council and their
followers.
Publicity is one of the planks
with which Mayor Lanier budded
his platform. He has brought up
certain arguments in favor of
publicity time and again.
| On top of the tact that the
council just out of office received
I and used $9000 Liquor Tax money
in addition to the $9000 they were
supposed to receive—$18000 in all
AND SPENT IT. they are now
spending through "so-called" leg
al methods, cash which the city
should use for a year before re
tiring any portion of the princi
pal or paying any of the interest.
We are glad to state that Dr
Sellers did not seem to be of the
opinion that these were right
methods and he did not condone
the payment of the interest nor
the principal but after voicing
his disagreement and finding no
approval from either of holdover
Councilmen Dahl or Kennedy
i both stockholders' he voted yea
The situation has not ended
Brownell has received two checks
for $1000 each, today. May 11.
It was at this point that an at
torney to advise the Mayor should
have been present to protect the
rights of the city and guide the
Mayor in this “tight corner"
The city in dire straits has
been forced to yield and out of
the $6000 paid by Pege and Riley.
$1600 has been paid for expenses.
$780 for interest before it was
earned. $2000 which the city could
have used for a year. The total
amount is $4380 leaving $1620.
This amount the city cannot
touch because of an illegal ordi
nance and it lays in the bank
neither working or growing. As
we said before the end is not yet.
We have $200.00 in hand to
take the case into court and force
■;.e replacement of that cash. We
t -ed hat amount in a she’’ time
. ml if there are those who can
afford to see fair play for a poor
city come on in with your “shock
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les", get a receipt for your cash
and help smash the Bloc.
This is a matter of the honor of
the town.
Keep the present council and
Mayor clean and help keep them
from becoming involved in PAS I
ombroglios.
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WOMAN'S CLUB TO GIVE
SPRING LUNCHEON
t.
The outgoing officers of the
Seward Woman's Club will hon
or the new officers of the club
at a spring luncheon to be given
in the banquet room of the Sew
ard Memorial Church at noon on
Thursday, May 13. This annual
event closes the years’ activities
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and includes the installation of
new officers. President, for this
year will In1 Mrs. Areta Howell
i with Mrs. Pearl Dahl as Vice
President. Miss Helen Head secre
tary. Miss Frances Clark Treas
urer. Outgoing President, Mrs. Ln
Prea! Bie, will have charge of
the installation program assisted
by others on the committee.
A special program has been
planned for the entertainment of
the guests.
Each club member is entitled
to bring one or more guests. Res.
creations for the luncheon should
be made by calling Mrs. Areta
Howell or Miss Helen Head, who
also have tickets for sale.
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WOODS VS
RAFTER
(Continued from page 1)
the first week of February had
been revised to the extent of in
serting Mrs. Rafters name in
place of her husband' name.
He also brought out vcr.\ force
fully that the deed conveying the
property to Mrs. Rafter had not
been filed until February 3. 1947.
several days after the shooting.
Mr. Grigsby emphasized that
intent to defraud would be actual
intent to deceive and defraud
subsequent creditors, and that
only the strongest evidence should
be had to hand down such a de
vision.
The case will he continued to
morrow.
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City Council
(('oht inti'd from l’age 1)
I'd by Kennedy moved that the
city proceed to borrow $21,000
from the Bank of Seward at 8
to take care ofthe School bat
; nee and other pressing items
which motion was unnaminousiy
approved.
CITY TO ENTER
GARBAGE BUSINESS
With a definite action which
was welcomed by those who have
long had dangled before them the
prospects of a garbage contract
the city quashed such hopes b\
following the lead of the city
health officer. Dr. Sellers, and
cow propose to buy one of the
ompressor t cl Jo haul garbage
every r 1 \ frm the business hous
e- and by zoning the city into fi
r<the time remaining out of
a h day may be used to keep
• dump in shape and haul grav
el 1" streets and do other ncccs
i.y things which will have to
bo with better health conditions
in Seward.
It v as brought out in a check
f in a house-to-house can
\ !■ at a \! ir or 1(5 months ago
i " e woro 240 residences and
mr.vrrcn ox nmuo.\i> avk
(formerly in Old IT.SO. Bide:, f
MAIN 7
i Now is the time to have the
Cabinet work you have promised
your self, put in. Call us.
that today this number is now
262. Seward IS growing!
Mrs. Katherine Ling, the asses
soress, was present to receive her
contract and brought out everal
interesting facts which were (1)
Not one of eight persons contact
ed knew they were supposed to
pay any personal tax.
Much difference in the estimat
ed amount of floor space which
is a basis for assessing valuation
is a basis for assessing valuation
against homes is evident under
the Henretla assessment and two
eases were cited. Cost runs from
22 cents to 65 cents per square
foot. The council decided to al
low Mrs. Ling to fill out a new
set of inventory sheets which
will probably give a fairer pic
ture to both the city and the tax
payer.
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Lutheran Services will be held
in the evening at 8 I’.M. al St.
I Peter's Episcopal Church Rev fr
iend Odegaard officiating.
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AL-AY-ESKA
(Continued from page I)
For the past two years, we
have been busy repeating the
mistake of the first World War
by giving away our merchant
; ships, by letting the Europeans
again rule the seas. It is a fore
gone conclusion that Alaska will
probably be one of the first plac
es to be hit in World War III.
We hope not, hut if this comes
to pass, we arc going to need ev
ery old till) we possess to save
you and to establish a line of
communications to carry on a
war in the north.
You are asking for a repeal of
the Jones Act. so every nation
in the world, including our poten
tial enemies can sail into your
harbors, sound your harbors, map
your coasts and photograph your
military installations, drive the
American merchant ships from
the sea. In other words, you want
to wrap up Alaska and hand it
to anyone attacking you. That is
one of the greatest troubles with
Alaska and some of the tinhorns
running the Territory. Your one
and only thought is more money
in your pocket as quick as possi
ble and retirement down in sun
ny California, let the Territory
take care of itself.
Repealing the Jones Act is licit
the answer to your problem. The
merchants in Alaska have for
years been hollering high freight
rates on the steamships, when
you have* the highest freight rates
in the world right within your
own Territory . I am referring to
the six cents a mile it costs to
ride over that Toonerville Trolley
that you call a railroad and which
has the unadulterated nerve to
charge $1,250.00 to haul a tank k
car of gasoline from Seward to
Fairbanks.
You people better wake up to
the danger facing you, instead
of asking for the repeal of the
Jones Act and statehood at the
same time. Your first job is to
run the parasites, tinhorns and
phonies out of Alaska, your sec
ond job is to learn to look out
over those nugget encrusted vests
into a future for the Territory in
stead of trampling into the dust
every vestige of a future the con
tinent is trying to give you. You
talk about high steamship rates
holding down the Territory from
development, a great deal of it
is in the minds of the merchants
only because the people, the good
people who are trying to build
Alaska up are not against the so
called shipping interests hut the
small time political machine that
is bleeding them raw.
I walked into a drugstore in
Anchorage a short time ago and
asked for a roll of film. The cost
was 45 cents. I asked the drug
gist why film was 32 cents in
Seattle and so high in Alaska
and he replied, “The freight rates
are terrible from Seattle to An
chorage”. A roll of film weighs
two ounces and can be mailed
common mail to Anchorage from
Seattle for six cents. I suppose ‘
the other seven cents was to
compensate him for his headache
over high freight rates. In some
parts of Alaska, the lighterage
cost from ship to store is higher
than the entire cost from Seattle
to that point. ,
If the Jones Act is repealed, it
will not only effect Alaska but
the territory of Hawaii, the Vir
gin Islands and Puerto Rico. In
other words lift the Jones Act
and drive the American Merchant
ships from the seas and in World
War III all Vishinski will have
to do step over, pick up Alaska,
stuff the Territory under his arm
and walk home. Lifting the Jones
Act is not the answer to your
problem and neither is statehood
Its about time Alaska emerges
out of the adolescent period and
learns to think and instead of
knocking lhe continent, learn to
work with the continent and ac
cninril sh what the backaches and
frozen fingers of the past fifty
years wanted worked out. Here
of late. Alaskans have turned
out to '.50 traitors to their own
pioneers. Lets forget Palm Springs
for a while and sit down and see
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