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Vol. VI, No. 61
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JAN. 31, 1950
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Anch. Eagles Defeathered J)y
Sea Hawks in Fast Games
Saturday, January 28
Our Seward High Sea Hawks
defeated the Anchorage Eagles.
The Sea Hawks, in fine trim,
were not threatened until the
last quarter, displaying fighting
spirit, fast breaking, and scor
ing skill. All of the Seward team
played a fine game, controlling
throughout three quarters, con
sistently building up their lead.
The cooling off of the varsity
when reserves were in the game
caused their letdown in the final
stanza.
Both teams showed smooth
teamwork, aggressiveness, and
good sportsmanship.
Stan Anderson was Seward s
high point man with Captain
Don Steele a close second: Fred
Richards racked high for An
chorage. The Eagles glued Fultz
to Antril Suydam, Seward’s
deadliest scorer. Stan Ander
son’s hook shots brought the
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Health Unit To Give
X-rays, Dental Service!
The Railroad Health Unit ex-1
pects to arrive in Seward on I
Monday Feb. 6. The clinic is
condutced in the Railroad car
and will be located on the rail
road tracks.
Chest X-rays on everyone
12 years of age and over will
be taken. One hundred people a
day can be accommodated.
People are asked to report di
! rectly to the clinic.
Sodium fluoride treatments
will be offered to all children
from grades 1 to 8 inclusive.
The American Dental Asso
ciation recommends this treat
ment for all children. It reduces
tooth decay approximately 40
per cent. The treatment is sim
ple. The dentist cleans the teeth,
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'Round V *Bout Town . . .
—The Roving Reporter—
The Rev. Paul A. Shadura, of
the Russian Orthodox Church of
Kenai, celebrated his 75th birth
day Saturday, Jan. 28. His two
sons, Peter and Isaac, and wives,
who live in Anchorage, shipped
a car down and drove out to
Kenai last Tuesday and spent
the week with their folks. While
here they toured the Peninsula,
saw lots of game and marveled
at our fine weather.
Peter Shadura, who works
for the M. K. Construction Co.,:
recently spent some time in
South America. He and his new:
bride remarked that the scenery!
here is more beautiful than any
they have seen in all their tra
vels.
Rev. Paul Shadura has lived
in Kenai since 1905. He and his
wife will celebrate their 50th
wedding anniversary next
August.
Julia McCann taught school
in Kenai previous to the war
and Sunday she spent the day
renewing old acquaintances
there.
Everywhere she went the cof
fee pot was put on and there
was much reminiscing about
good times they had and of the
changes that had taken place. I
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Several more Sewardites took
advantage of the beautiful
weather and drove to Homer,
Kenai and out the road. Mr.
Schuster’s ski tow is in opera
tion at Mile 12 and several were
seen skiing Saturday and Sun
day.
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Congratulations to the Sew
ard High School basketball
team. We were really proud of
the ability they showed. Folks
are still talking about Stanley
Anderson’s beautiful hook shots,
Antril Suydam’s long shots, Don
Steele’s fighting spirit and Dick
Deigh’s and Ray Anderson’s
wonderful guarding.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Dixon
were down from Anchorage on
business and to see the basket
ball games.
Mr. Dixon, formerly with BJL
at Seward coached the winning
army team here in 1947 and
won the city league.
Ada Millerman left today for
a visit Outside. She will visit
her son and daughter-in-law in
Texas and a little granddaughter
to whom she hasn’t been intro
duced as yet.
Judy Gerwer said, “Oh you
should see all the pretty gifts
I got for my birthday last Sun
day.” Her folks had a party for
her with cake, ice cream and all
tiie trimmings. She was 11 on
Jan. 30th.
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There was a personal party
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Erwin in honor of Robert
Biggs, who was 21 last Wednes
day, Jan. 25th.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Williams,
who recently moved into an
apartment in the Medical Center
building, entertained at a house
warming late Sunday nite.
Larry Williams plays the
piano at the Nobby Club and
after closing a large group of
their friends gathered at their
home, had a good time dancing
to records and eating the food
which we hear was prepared
most artistically.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Harris
and daughter just returned from
a business and pleasure trip to
Albany, Oregon. Mr. Harris is
the owner and manager of the
Aleutian Livestock Co. in Mi
kolski. He has from four to five
thousand sheep on Mikolski1
Island and prior to the war had
only 1500 head. He was mayor
of Unalaska in 1946. He will be
sailing on the M.S. Garland next
Friday.
A lovely social event took
place last Friday night when
Mrs. Alice French gave a formal
dinner party at the Marathon
Cafe. Sixteen places were set at
a beautifully decorated table.
Turkey diner was served to her
guests who included Mrs. L. V.
Ray, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Erwin,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Campen,
Mrs. Pat Williams, Mrs. Jack
Jeffrey, Mrs H. A. Horten, Mr.
and Mrs. Van Nyman, Mr-, and
Mrs. Baird French, Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Cowan, and Mrs. Martine
Johansen.
Governor Requests
Committee On
Youth Conference
Dear Mayor Lanier:
The President has called a
Midcentury White House Con
ference on Children and Youth
to be held during 1950. He has
appointed a National Commit
tee made up of more than 50 J
educators, labor leaders, phy- j
sicians, clergymen, economists,
and civic leaders. The National
Committee has met and formu
lated the seven objectives for
the 1950 Conference, which are
set forth 'in the proclamation
now being issued. A copy is at
tached for your information.
As Governor of Alaska, I have
been requested by the President
to appoint a committee to or
ganize and direct this program
in the Territory. This I have
done by establishing the Alaska
Commission on Children and
Youtn.
The Alaska Commission will
be composed of the Directors of
the Territorial agencies con
cerned with the welfare of chil
dren; namely, the Departments
of Health, Education, Welfare
and Labor, a representative of
the Alaska Native Service, a
representative of the Federal Se
curity Agency, a representative
from each of the private and
volunteer groups which have
Territory-wide organization, and
a representative from each com
munity committee.
However, this is only a begin
ning. In order to make our
work effective, we must secure
the widest possible citizen par
ticipation. Therefore, I am ask
ing you as the leader of your
community to organize within
the town and its environs, a local
community committee whose or
ganization and functions will
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Lose Your Sled?
Some little boy or girl has
lost his sled! Andi Anderson
says they have one at the Police
Station that was brought in by
a little boy who found it, so if
you lost your sled, go down and
identify it and if it's yours, you
can take it home with you.
TREVETHAN GIRLS BOOST
HOME TOWN OVER
CALIFORNIA RADIO
The Territory ot Alaska!
proved to be a timely subject |
lor the radio station KUbA
broadcast, Jan. 5, oy students Oi.
Pleasant Grove School, Y uba,'
Cain. Particularly so since iVlur- j
lene and Carol Ann Trevethan i
ot Seward appeareu in tne cast
ot ihe Sutter County recreation
department sponsored broadcast,
and really “plugged" AlasKa.
A letter containing a picture j
ot the cast showing iVluriene and'
Carol Ann at the microphone i
was received here this weeK. The j
girls are visiting with their par
ents in Caliiornia at the home ot
their Grandmother Koss. Alter
visiting Santa Cruz and San
Francisco, the Lougheads at San
Jose, and Mrs. Peterson at San
Leandro, they will head tor
home, stopping in at Camas Val
ley, Aberdeen and Seattle. It
sounds as though the Trevethans
will be back in Seward next
month.
They have been feeling sorry
for all us poor people back home
enduring the cold, winds and
snow. They have had a lot of
rain during their vacation in
sunny California.
Galaxy of Performers for K. P.
Potlatch Show Friday Eve.
Osbo Files For
Legislature
Thorwald “Tom” Osbo filed
today as Republican candi
date for the Territorial Legis
lature.
Osbo filed at the request of
the Seward Republican Club,
whose members pledged their
support in his campaign. He is
the only Republican candidate
for the Kenai Peninsula, and up
to date, the last one to file of
the slate of seven.
Tom Osbo is not a newcomer
to Alaska. He has lived in Sew
ard since coming here as a boy
in 1915, when he began his
training in the. electrical busi
ness with the original Seward
Light and Power Company. He
has been in business for himself
for the past 25 years. He has
grown up with Seward and
has experienced all the ills and
thrills of a growing community
under Territorial Government.
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Shipping News
Four Alaska freighter sailings
for the month of February were
announced last Friday by the
Alaska Steamship Company.
The motorship Terminal Knot
is the first in the series, sched
uled Feb. 3 for Yakutat, Cor
dova, Valdez, Whittier, Seward,
Seldovia, Homer and Kodiak.
The motorship Square Knot is
set for Feb. 10, to call at Tam
gass Harbor, Ketchikan, Wran
gell, Petersburg, Juneau,
Haines, Skagway and Sitka.
A vessel, not as yet named,
is scheduled to sail Feb. 17 for
Seward and Valdez, and a sec
ond vessel, to be named, is set
Feb. 24, calling at Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau
and Sitka.
These listings supplement The
Alaska Line regular weekly
combination freight and passen
ger vessel sailings scheduled to
depart at 11 a.m. each Saturday.
Insurance Dividend
Check Received
The first of the veteran’s
Service Insurance Dividend
checks to be received in Seward
came Saturday to Glenn Barber.
Veterans will be interested to
know that Mr. Barber had 33
months of service, and his check
was in the amount of $184.00.
His serial number ended in 035.
Payment was to be made ac
cording to serial number, ac
cording to information from the
Veteran’s Administration. The
checks are being mailed at the
rate of 200,000 per day, each
5 day week, making a total of
one mililon each week. At this
rate every veteran should have
received his check by the end
of 16 weeks, or the end of April.
Barber’s check had been sent
to his home address in the
States, dated Jan. 16, and for
warded airmail to Seward.
This may acount for its being
somewhat earlier than other
Seward veterans’, whose checks
will no doubt begin arriving
with each weekly boat, as go- i
vernment mail comes that way ■
rather than by air.
Enthusiastic response from
the available talent within the
Kenai Peninsula was proven in
the turn-out Sunday evening,
Jan. 29, at the school gym.
With this public- and civic
minded group of entertainers,
the Potlatch public should be
adequately entertained.
Helen Waialiali, the formost
professional entertainer in this
vicinity, will open the show
with one of her famous Hawai
ian dances.
Then follows the amateur tal
ent contest with Chuck Ander
son presiding as master of cere
monies. Following is the list of
registered contestants to date:
Garwin Smith, vocalist; The
Johnson Dancers (Donna, Eren
da and Lena); Linda Norton,
batonist: Ruth DeWolfe, vocalist;
Sandra Dangler, batonist; Art
Sanders and Richard Stevens,
guitarists; Judy Johnson, toe
dancer; JoAnn Milroy and Phyl
lis Baker, skit; Lorena (Flicker
in’ Red) Stolp), comedian; Bren
I da Johnson, dancer; Phyllis
Baker, vocalist; Lena Johnson,
dancer; Jean Germain, vocalist;
Donna Johnson, acrobat; Llew
elyn Shuster, vocalist.
Final rehearsal will be held
at the Civic Center this Thurs
day evening at 7:30. Then—the
big night—Friday. The show
will start at 9 p.m, at the Civic
Center.
JAZZ CONCERT A*ID JAM
SESSION IS ADDED
POTLATCH ATTRACTION
As an added attraction for
the young people of Seward and
Potlatch visitors, there will be
a “Jam Session'’ or all jazz con
cert Sunday afternoon, Feb. 5,
from 2:00 until 4:00 o’clock in
the high schol gym.
Only the grown-ups 21 years
of age and under will be allowed
on the floor, to dance to their
heart’s content. All other grown
ups wil be restricted to the bal
cony, where they will be al
lowed to listen to the jazz music
and watch the younger folks
enjoy themselves.
The music will be furnished
by the various orchestra groups
in town under the direction of
Doris Smith, their versatile and
popular pianist.
Everyone is invited to enjoy
this event, winding up the Kenai
Peninsula Potlatch Sunday af
ternoon, without charge.
HOMER DRAMATICS CLUB
TO PRESENT PLAY
The Homer Dramatics Club
will present their production of
a rollicking three-act comedy,
“Thank You Mr. Parker,” in the
Seward High School auditorium
on Saturday evening, Feb. 4,
beginning promptly at 7:00.
The production is being spon
sored at the Potlatch by Ameri
can Legion Post No. 5. The cast
is adult, the play is well re
hearsed, and the dramatics club
presents the play as Homer’s
contribution to the Potlatch cele
bration.
Jimmy and Evelyn Peterson,
Kenai Wildlife Refuge, came into
town for a little pre-Potlatch
shopping Monday afternoon.
They left again Tuesday morn
ing, laden with purchases for
their friends.
Basketball Game!
PALMER HIGH SCHOOL vs. SEWARD HIGH SCHOOL
Friday, Feb. 3 — Preliminary Starts at 7:30 P.M.
SEWARD HIGH SCHOOL GYM
Final School Game of Season.
DON'T MISS IT!
“Thank You, Mr. Parker”
A Three-Act Comedy
Presented by Homer Dramatics Club
HUGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM — SAT., FEB. 4 - 7-9 P.M.
50c Admission at Door
No Tickets Sold in Advance