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Vol. VI. No. 28
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949
Price 10 Cents
Post Office Asks Bids On
Mail Route To Homer
The Post Office Department has
announced that it will accept bids
on a Star Mail Route between
Seward and Homer up till Jan. 5,
1950 with the contract becoming
effective next July and running
for four years.
The route will extend for 203.5
miles and back, starting at Seward
and including Anderson Place.
Lawing, Moose Pass, Cooper Land
ing." Naptowne, Soldatna, Kenai
Road Junction, Kenai, Soldatna,
Kasilof Road Junction, Kasilof, Ka
silof Road Junction, Ninilchik, and
Anchor Point to Homer.
He will provide service between
the mail vehicle and each contract
point of call. The service may be
gin at Homer if desired.
The present route from Seward
to Hope will be changed to extend
only from Moose Pass to Hope to
prevent duplication of routes. The
present Seward to Hope route
pays S64 per month.
Inquiry revealed that a consid
erable amount of mail now goes to
Homer, and that a large truck, or
possibly two trucks, would be re
quired for the job. Bidders will be
required to post a $3,000 bond.
Mailboai Contract
Bids for bi-monthly trips for a
mailboat from Seward to Nikolski
and Unalaska will also be received
by the Post OfMce Department till
January 5, and this contract will
also be effective July 1, 1950 to
'continue through four years.
The present contract is held by
the Berger Transportation Corpor
ation of Seattle and is being serv
iced by the Motor Vessel Garland
at an annual rate of $156,794.40.
The first trip with approximately
50 calls will be from Seward to
Unalaska, a distance equal to 1,215
miles and back and the vessel will
be required to leave Seward on or
about the 20th day of each month.
The second trip, to Nicolkiski,
will also be made once a month,
starting on or about the first day
'of the month. The distance is equal
to 1,040.5 miles and back.
The contractor must furnish a
seaworthy vessel of sufficient size
to provide adequate space for mail,
passengers and freight of a type
satisfactory to the Postmaster Gen
eral. A bond of $10,000 will be re
quired and bids must be accom
panied with a description of the
vessel, including its name, tonnage,
speed, engine capacity, length and
beam.
Postmaster Charles A. Sheldon
at Seward has all necessary infor
mation available concerning the
mail routes to Homer and the
Aleutians as well as other routes
open for bids in Alaska.
Junior Women Meet
At Moore Home
The Seward Junior Women’s Club
held a business meeting Thursday
evening at the home of Mrs. Earl
Moore, President Mrs. A1 Noyes
presiding.
Mrs. Richard Beissner was chosen
cutodian of the many small items
the club seems to be collecting. It
takes a large, roomy house to hold
it all.
Mrs. Paul Wangley was appoint
ed chairman of a committee for the
coming bingo party. It will be held
on December 3 in the Civic Center
if nothing interferes with plans.
Needlework for the cedar chest
was passed out among members,
to be finished in a month. Mrs.
Lawrence Whitmore was chosen to
\ buy the cedar chest.
Club dues have been raised from
one dollar to two dollars per an
num, and most of the dues are now
paid.
Meeting nights have been chang
ed again, back to the old schedule,
the second and fourth Tuesday
nights of each month. Hostesses of
the evening were Mrs. Arnie Apted
and Mrs. Earl Moore.
TB Seals Arrive For
Christmas Season
The Alaska Tuberculosis Associa
tion will start its Territory-wide
Christmas Seal Sale campaign on
November 20, Mrs. Katheryn E.
Ling, chairman of the Seward Com
mittee of the Alaska Tuberculosis
Association, announced Thursday.
The Christmas Seals have arrived
and the task of placing them in
envelopes for mailing will begin
soon.
Last year’s campaign netted ap
proximately, $900.00, with 80 per
cent going to the Alaska TB Ass’n.
Headquarters of the association are
in Juneau and the remaining 20
per cent remained in the local com
mittee treasury. This, amount, to
gther with the balance left from
previous years has been used to
provide emergency transportation,
hospitalization, x-rays and other
treatment for TB patients. Bibs
were purchased for the children of
pre-school age at the Seward Sana
torium.
The local committee of the ATA
conducted the blood donor cam
paign this spring as part of the
program to help stamp out tubercu
losis.
Sea Hawk Sport Show
Features 16 Events
A sport$ show featuring a pro
graiti of 16 events that is sure to
please the audience is being whip
ped into final shape by Seward
school students.
The show, which is to take place
in the high school gymnasium Fri
day. Oct. 14, at eight o'clock in the
evening, is for the purpose of rais
ing money to purchase needed ath
letic equipment and to defray part
of the expenses of intercholastic
games.
Aside from the fact that no op
ponent has been found to meet
Danny Merino in an exhibition box
ing match the program is practical
ly complete. The latest informa
tion is that the Gordon-Cobban
Acrobatic Trio has worked out over
thirty feats of skill for the show.
Program
Calesthenics Drill*Team, 7th and
8th grade boys.
Tumbling and Acrobatics Exhibi
tion, Seward High tumbling team
under direction of Capt. Ronnie
Lewis.
Boxing Match, Tracy McCracken vs
Gary Dufresne.
Blindfolded Pillow Fight, Russell
Lohman, Ted Howell, Dan Rose,
and Rodney Hardesty.
Boxing Match, Billy Evins vs Ted
Gerwer.
Balloon Battle Royal, Freshmen
Dale Lindsey and Robert Stevens
vs Sophomores Terry Cobban and
Leonard Gilliland.
Boxing Match, Donnie Sanders vs
Jerry Van Gorder.
Sack Boxing, 7th graders* Louis
Dick and Dick Murphy vs 8th
graders David Gray and Pete
DuBeau.
Boxing Match, Art Sanders xs Dick
Deigh.
Chef’s Hat Boxing, individual con
testants, Louis Bemtsen, John
Walch, Larry Williams, Jimmy
Black.
Wrestling Match, Bill Erwin (210
pounds) vs Ray Anderson (200
pounds).
Masters of the Ring, Sophomores
Donald Strutz and Darrell Mack
ey vs Juniors Stan Anderson and
Antril Suydam.
The Battle of the Sexes, Don Steele
vs “Miss Stry.”
The Gordon - Cobban Acrobatics
Trio: special exhibition exhibi
tion by Clyde Gordon, Keith Cob
ban, and Eldoris Cobban.
Exhibition Boxing Match, Danny
Merino vs .?
Finale: The Sea Hawks in Green
and Gold.
Install New Council
At Special Meeting
Monday Evening
Mayor Eugene N. Lanier an
nounced Thursday that there will
be a special City Council meeting
at 8:00 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, for
the purpose of seating recently
elected members of the Council.
Lanier will retain his office as
mayor, having won over Don Car
los Brownell by a margin of 267
votes to 239.
Council members who will take
their seats for the first time are
Mildred E. Kirkpatrick, Richard O.
Myers, and Donovan S. Wilson.
Wilson will leave within a week
for two months in the States.
Those retiring from the council
at Monday’s meeting are Forest
Kennedy, Dr. R. O. Sellers, and
Oscar Dahl. None of the three was
a 6andidate for reelection.
In an after-election statement,
Mayor Lanier expressed optimism
concerning the future activities of
the council, since the new mem
bers have already shown a willing
ness to cooperate.
In spite of the large vote piled
up in the early hours on election
day the total was ten short of the
previous record of 521. Toward the
end of the day voting slacked off
considerably.
Unopposed on the ballot, Dr. J.
H. Shelton was elected to the five
year term on the school board with
a total of 500 votes. Barton L. Stan
ton was elected to succeed himself
on the utility board. He had served
out the term after the resignation
of Murl Trevethan recently.
How They Ran
For Mayor
Don Carlos Brownell. 239
Eugene N. L&iiiet 267
Councilmen
For Two Year Term
Three Elected
John M. Coleman 172
Joseph S. Doyle .152
Patrick J. Friede 112
Mildred E. Kirkpatrick 254
Leon D. Lewis . 177
Richard O. Myers 338
Donovan S. Wilson 289
Utility Board (5-Year Term)
One Elected
Frank E. Brooks .145
Barton L. Stanton 334
School Board (3-Year Term)
Dr. Joseph H. Shelton 500
Exchange of Right-of-Way
For Exchange « 322
Against Exchange . 50
Methodist Banquet
Features Musicaie
The program for the musicaie to
follow the turkey dinner for the
benefit of the Methodist Church
Building Fund has been an
nounced by director Miss Shirley
Calnan.
The dinner and musicale will take
place in the Methodist Church base
ment at 7 p.m. on the 8th of Oc
tober. Attendance will be limited
to ticket holders, due to the limited
facilities of the church parlors. The
dinner will be prepared by Norman
Wengert.
The program includes:
Vocal selections by Miss Betty
Boyd, Mrs. Ruth Cassel, Rev. Paul
I. Irwin, and Arlee Hayne.
Irish musical reading by Miss
Phyllis Baker; soprano solos by
Llewelyn Shuster; accordian selec
tions by Mrs. Paul I. Irwin; guitar
duets by Don and Art Sanders.
Dance numbers are: Toe S<^lo by
Judy Johnson; acrobatic number
by Donna Johnson; character dance
by Brenda Johnson, and ballet by
Lana Johnson.
Final number on the program is
a grade school clarinet quartet
composed of Jonna Sweat, Janice
Edgington, David Gray and Peter
Wagner. They will play two selec
tions.
Elmer Johnson, who came to
Seward recently to take a position
with The Alaska Railroad, has pur
chased a home on Second Avenue.
It was formerly owned by Florence
Heaston, sister of H. H. Leonard.
Plan Huge Expansion Of
Municipal Airport Here
Request Boat Owners
To Register Vessels
Owners of commercial and fish
ing boats who reside in Seward are
requested to stop in at the City
Hall and register their boats with
the City Assessor before the 15th
day of October, 1949.
M. P. Mulvaney, Territorial Tax
Commissioner, has requested the
City of Seward to file a listing of
all boats taxable here with the
Juneau office by that date. The
reason for this is that the City has
the 'authority to tax boats harbored
here, but they are all registered
in Juneau so the Territorial Tax
Commissioner has no way of know
ing whether the City has assessed
and taxed a boat and. therefore
may assess and tax the same for the
Territory. This leads to duplication.
The tax rate by the City and
Territory is the same, being set by
statute. Fishing boats and commer
cial boats are taxed at the rate of
S4.00 per net ton.
Be sure and register your boat
with the City Assessor not later
than October 15.
MARGARET WEBB REPORTS
TO REBEKAHS
Mrs. Margaret Webb, District
Deputy President of Seward Re
bekah Lodge No. 6 A, made her
report to the Lodge on the con
vention held In Tacoma, Wash.
Aside from strictly lodge busi
ness, she reported that about 575
members and visitors from Wash
ington and Alaska jurisdiction
were present besides visitors from
almost every state.
Mrs. Webb wa reappointed for
her seventh term as District Dep
uty President.
REGULATIONS AND PENALTIES
TO BE POSTED AT CITY DUMP
A sign will be erected at the
entrance to the Seu'ard City Dump
showing regulations for garbage
disposal and penalties for breaking
the rules. It is being put up at
the request of Henry Horton, who
is in charge of garbage disposal
here.
Plans are now definitely in the
making to give Seward an airport
capable of handling planes at least
as large as the DC-3 type.
In his last visit to Anchorage
1 Mayor Eugene N. Lanier and Gen
try Shuster finally got the ball
rolling on the project. While the
exact amount of money to be spent
on the local airport has not yet
been determined, it will necessarily
be much more than the $37,500
previously allotted.
Legal Work
Plans have, so far advanced to
the stage that Stephen McCutch
eon. legal officer for the Territorial
Division of Airports, was in Sew
ard Thursday to check on land
rights- for the acreage required.
The minimum length of runway
would be at least 4,600 feet, and a
large apron would be located at
the water’s edge on the South end.
Director Here Friday
“Tony” Schvvam, Director of the
Territorial Division of Airports,
was expected to be in Seward Fri
day to look over the local situation
and to make recommendations. He
was to travel by train from An
chorage, stopping at Girdwood to
look over a site for a landing strip
there. Another such strip is being
considered for the vicinity of
Coopers Landing. Kenai already
already has a 5,000 foot runway.
Plans in Washington
Preliminary work here will clear
the way for definite plans and
specifications to be drawn up this
winter in Washington, D.C., and
in the spring actual work on the
field will begin.
Tentative plans call for a “Y”
shaped approach which will con
nect to the main runw'ay. This type
of approach will enable planes to
take advantage of prevailing winds.
For many years Seward has
been badly in need of such an
airport and a number of local busi
ness men have said that the city
has lost a very great amount of
business for lack of a suitable air
port. During the shipping tie-up
a year ago it was necessary to
have air cargo shipped to Anchor
age and brought to Seward by rail.
Memorial to a Soldier of Peace
The memory and work of Count Folke Bernadotte, U.N. Mediator
fin Palestine who was slain in Jerusalem a year ago, is now perma
nently honored at United Nations headquarters by a bronze tablet.
Here U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie, in a simple ceremony,
unveils the tablet. Behind him are Dr. Ralph Bunche, who carried
on Count Bernadette’s work in bringing peace to the Holy Land;
Sir Alexander Cadogan, permanent representative of the United
Kingdom to U.N.; and Sven Grafstrom, permanent representative of
Sweden, Count Bernadotte’s native land, to the United Nations.