Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman ..... Publisher
Subscription rates . 75c per month, $8 per year
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Black
recently received word that
their daughter and son-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hume, in
Los Angeles, became the parents
of a baby girl June 8. The baby,
who was named Donna Jean, is
the Black’s fifth grandchild, all
born within the past two years
and one month.
Mrs. Kendall Cobban and
their five children will be leav
ing next week by plane for
Tacoma, Washington, for a two
month's visit with her relatives.
1st Sgt. Monroe Winn, who
was in Seward for about two
weeks on a replacement basis,
left Tuesday to return to his
base at Whittier.
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“Walt’s acting up again. He called and found me out
when I wasn’t in.”
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Oscar Dahl, owner
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WALTER W. SIPPRELL. Gen. Agent • Phone Main 125
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
I had occasion last night to stand
looking over beautiful, beautiful.
EMPTY Resurrectic.il Bay. The
dock was idle, not a ship in sight,
not even a fishing boat. It gave
one a queer feeling of dropping
back into history, when there was
! nothing to interrupt the quiet oi
the bay and surrounding country.
Why siiould this harbor be empty
in the height of the construction
and shipping season? We were
told to prepare for a very heavy
summer. Arrangements were made
to use the army dock facilities be
cause of the expected shipping rush.
As it is, our docks are bare as
often as during the winter months.
Why?
Do not blame the freight lines,
the rtailroad nor the contractors
Preparations and well made plans
were laid. Contracts were awarded,
workmen are on the scene, but
everything is at a practical stand
still because of the paralyzing
strike of two relatively small
unions.
Why, at the most critical time
in the defense construction of the
country and the development of
the Territory should everything be
halted by strike? One wonders
what percentage of the member
ship in those unions is held by
Alaska residents and how many of
them are recent arrivals. Could it
be possible that the thinking of
union men has been deliberately
twisted by the insinuating propa
ganda of communism?
Labor unions and the protection
they give the laboring man is un
disputed. A fact equally undisput
able however is becc#.iing more
and nrore evident, and that is that
union men are no longer doing
their own thinking. If they were
they would not allow themselves
to be so completely dominated by
the pink tinged stateside leaders.
Alaskans have been working for
years to bring about the kind ot
development that was to start this
summer. How many of those strik
ers spent last winter in Alaska?
How many expect to stay through
next winter?
The contractors — what do they
care about the good of the coun
try? Its defense, development?
Money is a cold proposition ana
the business is a greedy one. We
have few philantropists in Ameri
can business or that of any coun
try. There must be right and
wrong on both sides, but why can
they not make a serious effort to
get together before it’s too late?
I don’t know the answers to the
questions in my mind, but it cer
tainly makes one shudder to see
an empty bay and the short con
struction season rapidly drawing to
a close, with Alaskan defenses
postponed another year.
Helen and Mary Owens, at
tractive young school teachers
from Detroit, Michigan, have
been touring Alaska and voted
Seward and area the most at
tractive part of an exceedingly
lovely territory. They flew in a
chartered plane out to Colum
bia Glacier to take pictures to
day and also got a look at some
of the wildlife, such as moun
tain goats, seals, and bear.
DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS!
A few days ago the Missus came
from the store with several pack
ets of flower seeds and with the
determination to plant flowers in
the back yard.
Investigation showed an area of
approximately 32 feet by 100 feet
which we could call our own; but
all the soil on the whole thirty-two
hundred square feet wouldn’t have
filled a small size wash tub. So,
fifteen good American dollars went
for two truck loads of good top
soil.
Working diligently with shovel
and rake we managed after a few
hours (and blisters) to level the
small lot off to our complete satis
faction.
Next evening a group of small
boys came down the alley ana
spread out over our back yard. One
youngster about ten years of age
walked the length of the newly
installed flower bed.
“What’s the idea of walking
through there?” he was asked.
"I didn’t know it was,” came the
answer.
“Didn't know it was what?”
“Dirt.”
Well, we’ve come to the decision
that if any people in this town
have children who don’t know what
dirt 4s, just have them come up and
ask us and we will be glad to take
them out in the back yard and
show them OURS.
LOCAL THEATRE GETS
FACELIFTING
The Liberty Theater is get
ting a face lifting and exterior
decorating job. It will have a
stucco finish when done.
New windows have been put
in and later on interior work
will be done which will result
in business offices on the first
floor and apartments on the sec
ond floor. The interior work will
not be done for a while, how
ever, according to Don Carlos I
Brownell, owner.
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CONNECTIONS FOR FAIRBANKS FROM ANCHORAGE ON
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY.
For Reservation* at MeKINLEYi
Phone Seward Agent — Main 153
TANNING
Send us your furs and skins to b«
tanned. Quick, efficient, reliable
workmanship. We return your
finished skins immediately.
Valcauaa Fur Co.
National Bldg. — Seattle, Wash.
gPIC & gPAW
Telephone Adame 92
Pickup & Delivery
Cleaning Pressing
Alterations Hat blocking
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays
I.O.O.F. Hall - Adams St.
N. G.. Art McKeough
V. G., George Kipsgard
Sec., Tom Jones
SEWARD POST
No. 5
Meets
lst-3rd Wed. of Month
Legion Log Cabin
SEWARD
B. P. O. ELKS
Meet 2nd & 4th Wed. of Month
OPEN DAILY 8:00 P. M.
United Brotherhood of
CARPENTERS and JOINERS
Seward Carpenters' Union 2304
Meetings at Medical Building
Affiliated With A. F. of L.
Meeting 2nd Tuesday of Month
Frank D. Gibbons — President
A. G. McRae—Fin. Sec. & Bus. Ag
International Longshoremen's
end Warehousemen's Union
Local 39
Meets First Monday of Each Mont
7 p.m. — Union Hall
President — Harold Navis