SIGNAL CORPS OBSERVES
85TH ANNIVERSARY
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Exactly 85 years ago on March
3, 1863 Congress established the
Signal Corps as a separate branch
of the Army at that time the
Corps was composed of less than
100 personnel. This all happened
as a result of an assistant Army
surgeon's development of a sys
tem of signalling with flags called
wig-wag. This surgeon, Albert J.
Myer was appointed the First
Chief Signal Officer of the Army
and later promoted to Brigadier
General.
In 1870 the Signal Corps estab
lished a weather reporting sys
tem which grew into the present
Weather Bureau now in the Do
partment of Commerce, Point Bar
row, Alaska, still is operated by the
Signal Corps.
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: Alaska Communications System
in Seattle was one of these early
(,'ay weather stations. In 1892 the
Signal Corps established a balloon
an Aeronautical Division was es
section. Fifteen years later in 190’S
tablished with one plane capable
of a speed of 40 miles per hour.
That was the beginning of to
day’s mighty Army Air Forces.
During the second World War,
it was the responsibility of the
Signal Corps to establish a global
communications network requiring
a procurement program aggregat
ing more than $6,000,000,000 as an
example of the speed attained by
the Signal Corps in transmitting
messages.
During the war a 9-word mes
sage was sent completely around
the world by radio and landline
through 4 relay stations in 3'u
minutes. The Signal Corps was
mainly responsible for much of
th(' research and development of
radar for military usage in World
War II.
The Alaska Communication Sys
tem presently commanded by Col
onel T. J. Tully, a Signal officer
with nearly 30 years service in
the Army is one of the units that
has consistently played an import
ant part over the past half cent
ury in bringing to the United
States Signal Corps the prestige
and reputation it enjoys for its
demonstrated ability to produce
results in the communication
tield. This organization with head
quarters in the Federal Office
Building in Seattle was original
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ly known as the Wamcats, Wash
ington-Alaska Military Cable and
Telegraph System., ana* has been
busy since 1900 providing a com
bined military and commercial
communications link between Al
aska and Seattle. It was the maj
I or communication agency for Al
aska during World War I and ACS
I men followed the troops ashore
during the Aleutian Campaign.
| To Alaskans the ACS gives a
service similar to the Western
Union and Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company combined as
it handles over its facilities for
the general public, telegrams and
long distance telephone calls be
tween Seattle and all key-points
in Alaska, as well as furnishing
the important telegraphic money
order service for the north coun
try.
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ROYAL MARINES TO PLAY
AT FDR UNVEINING
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LONDON <UP> -The Franklyn
Roosevelt Memorial Committee
announced that the Royal Marines
will furnish the guarn* and the
hand for the unveiling of the
Roosevelt Memorial in Grosvenor
Square April 12,
The marines were chosen be
cause of the late President's nav
al associations, the* committee
said. The choir from St. Paul’s
cathedral also will be pronounced
by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
It alrean.v has been announced
that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will
unveil the memorial with the king
and queen present.
BREAD CAST ON WATERS
RETURNS IN THIS CASE
PONCA CITY. Ok la. iUP>- C.
S. Bush and 1.. C. Harsh, pioneer
grocers, ended their partnership
here 12 years ago. but they're
still receiving checks for back
bills. They were good to thci:
customers.
A 35-vear-old grocery bill a
mounting to $140 has just been
paid by the son of a family which
had been helped by Harsh and
Bush in days when the family
was having a hard time financi
ally.
“Harsh and Bush helped' Moth
er out. so I figure it was a prop
er bill," the son said.
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There are 18 Indian pueblos in
New Mexico, in addition to rser
vations of the Navajo, Jacarilli.
Apache. Ute and Mescalero Inal- j
ans.
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The
Seward Light & Power
SERVING SEWARD SINCE 1S05
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O. T. WELCH
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U. S. AIR FORCE EXPANDING
IN NEAR EAST AND ARCTIC
0
Transport Command Builds Big
ger Service to Two Key Trouble
Spots
i By WILLIAM F. McMENAMIN
United Press Staff Correspondent
! WASHINGTON (‘UP)—1The Air
Transport Command, globe-cover
ing arm of the Air Force, is ex
panding its facilities in the two
key world trouble spots of the
Meditteranean and the Arctic.
The; big transport planes of the
Air Force have added Athens,
Greece, and Ankara, Turkey to
their list of stops. That’s a direct
result of the $400,000,000 Greek
Turkish Aid Program.
Still a second Meditteranean ex
pansion is planned that will give
the Air Transport Command a
shortcut to the Meditteranean po
litical hot-bi'd. Planes will fly
from the United States to Ber
muda, the Azores, Port Lyautey
in French Morocco, and Wheelus
Field, outside Tripoli.
From Wheelus Field’ they can
branch off to Athens, Rome, An
kara. Cairo. Dhahran. Saudi Ara
bia and other points in the Near
East. They will avoid sending
planes the long route through Eu
rope as they now travel.
The new route also is expected
to provide an ideal one for possi
ble ferrying of planes to be turn
ed over to the Greeks and Turks
under the Greek-Turkish program.
The Air Force has re-surfaced
five fields in Greece. It has turn
ed* over a few trainers and trans
ports to the Greeks but so far no
combat planes have gone to them.
The Turks also are expected to
get some surplus American planes
left over from World War II.
The Air Transport Command
expansion in tlie Arctic has he n
extensive. Its planes now fly from
Westover Field. Mass., to Ottawa
and Fort Churchill. Canada. Lab
rador and Goose Bay, and remote
Air Force posts in Greenland,
stretching as far north as Thule,
Eureka Sound and Resoulte Bay.
The ATC lines in Alaska, pre
paring for a $140,000,000 airfield
expansion program there, have
been extended. New points add
ed are Norman Wells, Sawmill
Bay. Cambridge Bay and Kittiga
zuit.
The ATC began last summer a
Great Circle air run from Seattle
to Tokyo via Anchorage and
Sh.mya in the Aleutians.
The Air Transport Command is
America's largest global airline.
It carried 1.33,000,000 ton miles of
cargo and flew 300.000,000 passen
ger miles in 1947 without a pas
enger fatality on regular sched
uled' flights.
it already has Degun replacing
its aging C-47 and C-54 war-time
transports with the modern C-97
Boeing Stratofreighter and the
Douglas C-74 Glohemaster. known
in commercial fields as the DC-7.
Its flights across the Atlantic
daily carry passengers and freight
to Frankfurt. Germany, via Ste
pensville, Newfoundland, the Az
ores and even Meeks Field. Ice
land.
There is a Caribbean run that
stretches as far as Panama ana"
British Guiana.
The central Pacific route con
nects Fairfield-Suisin. Cal., with
Honolulu, Johnstone Island. Kwa
jalein. Guam. Manila. Okinawa,
Shanghai, Iwo Jima and Tokyo.
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SR. MUSIC APPRECIATION
GROUP TO MEET MARCH 10
On March 10th at 7:30 p.m. the
Senior group of music apprecia
tion will meet at the home of Bud
Dyer.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all our Sew
nrd friends for their kindness and
many floral offerings sent during
nur bereavement and the long ill
ness of our beloved son and
brother.
Mr. ana* Mrs. Fred Wood
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ferguson
Miss Evelyn Gilbert
JACOB LINT SERIOUSLY ILL
IN KALAMAZOO. MICH.
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Word was received today from
Mr. and Mrs. E. Senft. who are
vacationing in the States that her
father, Jacob Lint is critically ill
with pneumonia in Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Senft left Alder
grove, B. C. Saturday for Michi
gan to he with Mr. Lint. They
expect to return to Aldergrove in
April to continue their visit with
Mr. Senft’s brother.
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WILL ROGERS FUND HELPS
HANDICAPPED STUDENTS
1 NORMAN, Okla. (UP)—Twenty
six hano'icapped students are at
tending the University of Okla
homa this year through Will Rog
ers Memorial Fund scholarships.
The fund was established in 19
39 in memory of the Oklahoma
humorist-philosopher. Since then,
136 students have been assisted
according to Dr. M. O. Wilson,
chairman of the fund committee.
Wilson said almost every schol
arship granted is capped by a
success story. Generally, students
ire not required to repay scholar
ships. hut a few insist on paying
th m back. Wilson added.
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Hand grenades were used by
U. S. Marines who serverf under
John Paul Jones during the Revo
lution.
MID—NIGHT COUNCIL
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So we'll wait ana' see with our
gh'e maintained
To cut loose the glee or bottle
it again
So with everything under epntrol
We'll wait for the words from the
court house to roll
For the words which will set u.s
free again
And out of the clutches of grasp
ing men.
But all we've to use is your vote
and mine
So we might as well start
With the bunch thats so smart
And the money changers wipe
clear out
So that Seward city, which we
know is pretty
Can keep on a level course,
. throughout.
JEWELER
C.E.Orlander
DIAMONDS
WATCHES -- OLD IVORY
NUGGET JEWELRY
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Joe Lanier
FURNITURE REPAIRING
SHOE REPAIRING or
International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s Union
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Meets First and Third Tuesdav at
~ P.m. Union Hal]
President — I.. Rogers
Vioe-Pres. — A. I.oring
Secretary — I.. Dick
Marshal — J. Chilleago
Dispatcter — D. McMillan
Dispatcher — L- Rogers
United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners
Seward Carpenter’s Union 2304
Affiliated With A. F. nf L
Meetings 2nd anr 4th Tuesdays
— OLD USO BUILDING —
Jas. McCracken, President
A. G. McRae, Financial Secretary
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