INSURANCE SURVEY MAY
"LOWER RATES IN SEWARD
(Continued from page 1)
Jet' months, when tiie weather
may be unusually severe, two
things are usually done that may
had ( disastrous consequences:
the stoves are turned up and the
water taps are left on to avoid
frozen pipes. When a fire breaks
out, the fact that so many fau
cets are open, reduces seriously
1he water pressure—and instead
of serving to extinguish a hos
tile fire and safeguarding pro
perty, the water runs down the
•family drain while Seward sleeps.
He conferred with John A. Wil
Jiamson of the Seward Electric
•System, under whose manage
ment the miticipal plant has
made such outstanding progress,
and with Orin Welch and his as
sociates at the Seward Light and
Power Co., owners of the Seward
Telephone Exchange. He learned
from these gentlemen that the
telephone is immediately acces
sible to any resident of Seward.
and that a distress call from the
(scene of any fire can be com
municated to the Fire Department
almost instanteously. Carson stat
ed that he had heard of the ef
ficiency of Mrs. Jean Trotter and
the other operators even before
he arrived in Seward.
In a conference with Mayor
Eugene N. Lanier both Carson
and the Mayor agreed and strong
ly urged that the City's Building
Code be more strictly enforced
and that it be enlarged to in
clude an Electrical Code More
over they thought that the city
would become a better insurance
•;sk if oil were pumped to heat
ong systems from buried fuel
tanks instead of it being conduct
ed by gravity as is usually now
the case. Engineer Carson told
the Mayor that he was pleased
to note the presence of high pres
sure salt water mains placed in
strategic places throughout the
city.
Before leaying town. Carson
called Mrs. Thomas E. Howell,
the local weather recorder. He
asked Mrs. Howell questions
5-DAY FREIGHTER SERVICE
SEATTLE
TO
SEWARD
NEXT SAILiNG
on MU 30th
FOR INFORMATION,
CALL OR WRITE
Wayne Alkire
AGENT
Telephone MAin 360
513 E Streep Am horage
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WHEN YOU ORDER
ALASKA TRANSPORTATION Co
KARL K, KATZ, Traffic Mgr.
Pier 58, Seattle 1. Washington
bee
Joe Lanier
SHOE REPAIRING or
FURNITURE REPAIRING
about tlie snowfall aiul severity
i of the winter ins order to judge
the difficulty which lire equip
ment encounters getting to the
scene of a fire. Mrs. Howell sup
plied facts and figures with an
j experlness pleasing to hear,
j Carson took with him a number
'of copies of the Seward Polaris,
j stating that this publication
could be depended upon for ready
! co-operation in all civic enter
j prises—-especially those relating
to fire prevention.
Seward was fortunate to have
had an authority like Fire Insur
ance Engineer Carson make this
survey for he is very well quali
fied in fire prevention and in
dustrial safety engineering work
For sereval years, he was with
the New York Hoard of hire un
derwriters and during the war,
with the Intelligence Section of
the United States Army Air
Forces, which work included in
spection and fire prevention acti
vities with war plants through
out the nation. Recently he was
.Chief Fire Protection Engineer
for the War Assets Administra
tion for the eight Pacific Coast
States.
As a result of the visit of Fire
Insurance Engineer Carson, sev
eral properties here have already
had substantial reductions in the
insurance rates and there is good
reason to believe that a general
lowering of rates will follow if
his recommendations to city of
ficials are carried out
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The North American population
more than doubled in the 60 years
between 1880 and 1940. according
to Encyclopaedia Britannica
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JOB PRINTING
Buy the “POLARIS"
—MV ' ~ MV ' W--«W—
The peculiarist man 1 ever see'd,
was one who tried to live up to
a creed.
He had hisself a good daily sheet
that was three quarters ads and
hardly no "meat".
Clot so busy that he hired one
day
a guy who shipped in from out
States way.
This bird, no card did he have to
his name
but this 'ployer hired him just
the same.
And when the men caught on in
the shop
The guy, to the union, was an
awful flop.
He wouldn’t sign this, nor would
he sign that.
So the Union crew on with coat
and with hat.
So the guy with the daily sheet
looked around
for a union printer, there warn't
none to be found.
Uncle Sam. with the statutes in
books to ilie editor said.
If you "can" this non union guy
might as well be dead.
Cause
You can't fire so
You can't hire.
Cause —
You can't hire
if you can’t fire
And no union m<jn will work,
in a shop with that kind of a
quirk.
Listen !
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MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 4:00 TO 4:45 P.M.
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& Barge direct to Seward
| from Puget Sound ....
NEXT SAILINGS: JULY 30th —
General freight accepted at Tacoma, Shaffer Termin
al No. 1, until 3 p.m., Tuesday. July 27: at Seattle.
Pier 50, until 3 p.m., Wednesday. July 28.
AUGUST 10th —
| General freight accepted at Tacoma. Shaffer Termin
al No. 1, until 3 p.m., Thursday. August 5; at Seattle
Pier 50, until 3 p.m.. Friday. August 6.
Connections at Seward for all rail points and Tanana
and Yukon River points served by the Alaska Railroad.
Alaska Freight Express Corporation
Phone: Adams 118 P- O. Box 372
p Seward Alaska
Used Cars for sale
'36 Pontiac Sedan
'36 International Vz ton pickup
—Will pay CASH for used Cars—
See ^Pete”
I 2nd and Madison -♦>- Telephone Adams 121
Around HoiSywood
AROUND TOWN LAST WEEK
A woman landed in court for
driving through a red light. . .
the judge fined her $5. . .th'e wo
j man said she lacked the $5 and
offered, instead, a 10-pound buck
let of honey she had with her. . .
:the judge suspended the fine and
accepted the honey—turning it
| over to jail trusties A pretty 29
year-old woman went amok the
other day . .when she discovered
her husband didn't love her any
more. . .she smashed every mir
1 ror and window in the house; re
iduced chairs to kindling; broke
■the front door; ripped out the
I telephone and splashed ink all
iover the walls. . .fortunately, her
husband wasn't in. . she was
| charged with disorderly conduct
t and forfeited a $50 bond. A 56
year-old woman went before a
judge on a drunk charge, .when
the judge informed her that this
I was her 103rd arrest for intoxi
I cation, she insisted that for the
| 103rd time "it's not so.". . .she
pleaded not quilty and asked for
a jury trial. but went to jail
just the same when she couldn't
[lost bail.
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FLASHES—The county jail, built
to house 1800 prisoners, how has
nearly 3000 inmates. . 800 sleep
on mattresses on the floor. . .an
epidemic of measles is sweeping
L.A. . 4700 cases have been re
porte for the year to ate as com
pared, to 190 last year for the
same period. . a British made
car is selling for S4.185 here. . .
burglars were unable to open a
safe which contained $13000 in
cash and checks. . so they took
the safe. . .five men were picked
up by police at Hollywood and
Vine for making "wise cracks"
at passing woman. . they were
released later without charge. . .
to locate witnesses, a man has
been parked nightly at the scene
| of the accident holding a sign
which reads: “Who hit me?" . .
he's been there nearly three
weeks hut still no results.
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seventeenth naval dis.
WINS PISTOL SHOOT
ue
The Seventeenth Naval District
pistol team, with a score of 989.
won team honors in the Navy
I Pistol eliminatio ns held at the
Naval Air Station. Alameda. Cal
ifornia. last week between teams
representing the Eleventh Twelf
th. Thirteenth, and Seventeenth
: Naval Districts.
Sat. Ival I.. We. ' coll. C. S. Ma
ilin' Corps of Kodiak was the se
! cond place Individual Winner
with 260, and Captain Theodore
O. Dahl, Commander. Naval Op
crating Base, Adak, plac'd fourth
with 251
The Group team with Dali I and
Westcott representing the Seven
teenth Naval District will com
pete with other Pacific Unit
Teams in the West Coast Tourna
ment. to he held in San Diego in
the near future.
The winning team of this tourn
ament will represent the Pacific
Ocean Area in the All Navy
Tournament at Camp Perry Ohio.
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PITTSBURGH (UP.i-A smartly
dressed woman entered the beau
ty shop where Mildred Wampler
worked and identified herself as
a sister of Miss Wampler's fiance.
She said she needed $20 and her
brother had suggester borrowing
it from Miss Wampler. A much
wiser Miss Wampler discovered
later her fiance has no sister.
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14 inch wood Cord 17.50
12 inch wood Cord 18,09
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