Sauve Qui Puet
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The adventure and romance is
about to be taken out of Seward
phone calls. It was kinda fun to
look up a number in the old
book and never know to whom
you were going to talk. But the
new book is about ready, which
will reduce phoning to its nor
mal drab level.
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Have our grocers become cal
loused? Last, year when butter
was so high they explained
humbly. "On account of the air
freight,” but this year they just
say, "$1.20, please.”
If you're nostalgic for the old
farm, follow the bales of hay
into the Nobby Club every Tues
day night. Every Hiram can
swing his Mirandy to his heart’s
content in the good old Square
Dances. A marvelous caller, and
we don’t mean a hog-caller—or
do we? How about it. Ralph?
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We hear the B.J.L. machine
shop is being fixed up ready for
B.J.L. to start operating next
month. We’re passing this rumor
on gratis on account of we don’t
know its true worth.
And now. folks. Professor Calm
side will do his famous juggling
act. Taking in his hand a ten
dollar hill and two city lots, he
will endeavor to keep these th
ree articles up in the air until
by some strange alchemy, they
have turned into S390 in his poc
ki t. A slick trick successfully
performed. Well done. Professor.
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Come on. you folks, get out
the knife.
Stab someone in the back,
beat up your wife.
Throw off your inertia, let’s
have a scandal or two,
Then we'll have something to
. write that will really interest
you.
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Very soon the woods will be
as full of candidates as they are
of mosquitos. Reminds me of the
old rhyme I used to hear years
ago:
‘‘Mama-a-a, who is that out
at the gate?”
“Hush my child—’tis a candi
date.”
A Sewardite slightly saturated
walked through Skinner’s Cozy
Grocery and accidentally knocked
over a barrel of potatoes, a case
of apples, some oranges, a few
canned goods, etc. He finally
stopped in the middle of the
street and looked back. Earl, ex
asperated, was standing by a
case of eggs. Earl yelled: ‘‘Don’t
bothbr to come back. I'll kick
the damn eggs over myself.”
He may be old but he’s still
in there pinching.
In the crowded train the Ken
tucky salesman sat down by a
young woman who fought a con
tinuous but losing battle in her
effort to keep her skimpy skirt
from creeping up over her knees.
After another futile yank, she
lookd up and met the gaze of
her traveling companion.
“Don’t stretch your calico, Sis
ter,” he advised her gallantly.
“My weakness is liquor.” '
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The first hotel under construc
tion to include a system for tele
vision is the Terrace Plaza Hotel
in Cincinnati. It will have video
cutlets in 350 rooms.
WIN A PLANE OR
$2,500 CASH
(Continued from cage 1)
dez have contacted their var
ious friends in other Alaskan
communities and asked their sup
port in the sale of tickets on
the Aeronca Chief that will go
to the holder of the lucky ticket.
Newspapers, theaters, and radios
will also be asked to cooperate.
The Aeroanca Chief has been
purchased from the airplane div
ision of the Northern Commercial
, Co., and will be delivered to the
| lucky winner complete with land
ling lights and two-way radio.
Arrangements for free instruc
tion have been made with an
instructor at Valdez, and if the
winner wishes the instruction, he
or she can take delivery of the
| plane at Valdez. In the event
; that the winner does not wish
j the plane, a cash award will be
made.
Drawing for the plane will bo
on Memorial Day. May 80, 1948.
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MEN RETURNED
TO ANCHORAGE
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Last Friday night all the men
who had been sent down here
by the police of Anchorage were
put aboard a train and sent back
to Anchorage.
According to the Chief of Pol
ice. the city of Seward has paid
their transportation to Anchorage
but it is expected that this cost
to the city will he collected
from the city of Anchorage at a
later date when more details of
the entire situation are learned.
Contrary to the general opin
ion of the Anchorage Police De
partment. many of the men
seemed to be very desirable citi
zens and willing to work, but
unfortunately, there was no work
for them to do here.
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RALPH HATCH RETURNS
HOME TO SEWARD
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Ralph Hatch returned to his
home in Seward last Sunday ,
afternoon from the University of j
Alaska at Fairbanks. He came
as far as Anchorage by train. |
then to Seward by plane.
Ralph spent one semester at
the University studying mining :
engineering. lie was very active '
there, belonging to both the Uni- !
versity Chorus and the Univer- j
sity Mining Society. His interest
in basketball was reflected by
his participation in the Junior
Varsity Team, which ran a series
of intermural games at the Uni
versity.
Now that he is in Seward, lie J
;s working at the Seward Steam J
Laundry. He intends to work
there until next September, at
which time he will return to
the University of Alaska. Ralph ]
says that when he goes back to
the university he will enter the;
Arts and Letters Department.
BERT REAMEY STARTS
TRUCKING BUSINESS
Bert Reamer, a veteran of
World War il lias started a
trucking business in Seward. His
office is next to the Reliable
Cab Stand Office. He is now
j working part time at the Seward i
I Steam Laundry where he can be 1
j easily contacted for trucking
business.
Bert has been a resident of
Alaska since 1942, and has lived
in Seward since the 1st of Dec
ember last year.
He is using surplus property
which he purchased recently and
is ready and eager to help any
j one with the moving or hauling
! problems.
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, The great rock fortress of j
! Gibraltar withstood the greatest i
j siege in history when the Span-!
1 iards laid siege from 1 779 to \
1 7 S 3. ,
Around Hollywood
AROUND TOWN LAST WEEK—
Before wife and friends, a 22
year-old police officer decided
to play a game of Russian rou
lette. . .He removed three shells
from his revolver, spun the
chamber and pulled the trigger,
he smiled. . . he smiled. . .again
he spun the chamber, put the
gun to his head, and pulled the
trigger. . .a loud explosion. .
and the officer dropped dead.
Hereafter, a house slipper can
lie considered a deadly weapon.
. . .at least in the hands of some
women. This was brought out
when two battling housewives
landed in court. . .one charged
a neighbor heat her with a slip
per. . .but the neighbor denied
it and said: “T only used my
fists." Two bandits walked into
a cafe, .and held the place up.
They pushed the owner around,
took his money and then tied
him to a chair. As the bandits
left, they tossed off a few in
sulting remarks, and that made
the owner mad. . .lie yanked
himself loose, dashed out and
caught the bandits a few blocks,
away. Fists flew thick and fast.
When police arrived a few min- j
utes later, the owner arid: “One i
guy got awa\. but here’s the
other."
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It you don t see any bogie-man
around town, it's because they're
all down at Universal-Internat
ional getting ready to work with
I ou Costello and Bud Abbott in ■
"The Brain of Frankenstein." j
Bella Lugosi as "Dracula,” Lon
Chancy as "The Wolf Man" and i
Glen Strange (not Boris Karloff) j
as “The Monster" are all set to !
give Lou nad Bud a frightful i
time, and maybe the audience'
too.
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Some time ago coyotes came
down out of Griffith Park to an
noy residents in foothill homes.
Now it's deer. Scarcity of edible
vegetation in the hills has driven
the deer to a greener pasture.
One woman went so far as to
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United Brotherliood of
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Seward Carpenter’s Union 2304
Affiliated With A. F. of L.
Meetings 2nd anr 4th Tuesdays
— OLD USO BUILDING —
•las. McCracken, President
A. G. McRae, Financial Secretary
INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE
MEN'S & WAREHOUSEMEN’S
UNION
Local 1 — 82 SEWARD. ALASKA
O. H. McCLANK, President
HARRY KNUTSON. V.-Pres.
A. D. McDonald, Secy.-Treas.
Meets FIRST TUESDAY of eaet
month at 7 P.M. in the waiting
room at the DEPOT
Belva Theatre
NOW SHOWING THREE SHOWS WEEKLY. SATURDAY SUNDAY'
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MONDAY TUESDAY' AND WEDNESDAY THURSDAY'.
AND FRIDAY
ConiimiaJ Shewing Every Nite 6 To 10
take out a permit to shoot the
marauders if they invaded her
rare-plant garden.
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Though studios have been cut
ting expenses right to the bone,
they’re still making plenty of
money. In fact, Columbia just
announced the other day that
for the fiscal year ending June
30th, they earned the biggest
profit in it’s history. It’s always
the little fry who takes it on
the chin.
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It’s getting to be a habit. A
few weeks ago, a man had no
place to sleep. So he became a
“guest” at tile Hollywood jail by
calling out the fire department
on a false alarm. The other day
a similar case came up. A man
had no place to sleep lb* walk
ed into a valley police station,
smashed his fist through a glass
paneling and told the desk offi
cer to "arrest me. 1 need lodg
ing." He got lodging 90 days
of it.
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SS DENALI PASSENGER LIST
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Seattle to Seward:
H.J. Baker, C'us Barks. Betty
Baskett, Carl Bates. T.R. Belcher,
A. Brasher, Roy Broo, Lloyd By
ron, Bernett. Mr. and Mrs. A.R.
Dias. Irene Doheny, Mr. and Mrs.
H.J. Fitzpatrick, Mr. ad Mrs. IL
Fleming, Dexter Kirk. Mrs. Bruce
Lawyer, Michael, Gary. Phillip
Lawyer. Elizabeth Lissman. E.H. '
Marin. Jack Marshall, Franklin
McGarvev, Earl McHenry. Rev. j
and tMrs. E.E. Parker. Albert
Sanvig, Mrs. Wm. Shirley. Mr. !
and Mrs. C.C. Starkey. Phyllis
Valentine, L.C. Victors, J.D. Wil- ,
son. Mrs. R.H. Wilson, E.F. An
derson, John Jones, Paul Pieuve,
Steve Whitney.
Seattle to Seldovia:
Mrs. L.J. Thorsness.
Ketchikan to Seward::
Joe L. April. Mrs. S.G. Carter, j
A. Understadt, Geo. Fitzpatrick.
Juneau to Seward:
L E. Bonn. Dolores Cardinal, ,
C. Davis. Jas. Endicott, U.B. Gil
rov, Priscilla Harmon. Mrs. So
phia Jensen, H. Neil. Mary Voul
kos. A.E. Waisanen.
Cordova to Seward:
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Brown, P
E. Stoekard. Lucille Leitch.
Cordova to Seldovia:
Mabel Pryor.
Valdez to Seward:
Mrs. Walter Holmes, Elizabeth
Mosher, C.C. Stith.
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It's against the law, states The
American Magazine, to use tomb
stones for advertising in Miami,
Oklahoma.
ARTHUR C. AMMERMAN
RETURNS TO SEWARD
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Art. Ammcrman, who left Sew
ard on the 20th of October, has
returned to Seward. He arrived
here on the 15th of this month.
He comments that he had a
very pleasant trip coming back
on the Alaska Steamship Com
pany's ship "The Aleutian.”
Art. said that he went outside
to visit his home in Vancouver,
Washington.
While he was "outside” he
went on a hunting and fishing
trip through the Olympic Moun
tains in the Callalom country
and Mason County area of Wash
ington. His sister Verda, and her
husband Jack Murray accompan
ied him1 on his hunting trip.
Verda shot a four-point buck
deer and Art shot an elk which
weighed out at 900 pounds. The
total catch for the party was
two elk and four deer. Art said
that the deer averaged about
105 pounds each.
Rube Siebel of Vancouver.
Washington was the head man
of the party and most of the
credit for a successful trip should
he given to him. Although they
had very rainy weather on the
trip, their two weeks of hunting
were very enjoyable.
After their hunting trip, the
party spent twelve days on a
motor ear trip through the Hoods
Canal country. They made two
trips into the Cowlitz River
country and caught the limit of
steel head each time. The steel
head averaged twelve pounds
a niece.
It's interesting to note that,
the largest steelhead ever re
corded was caught in that same
area in 1946, by Mrs. Malek of
Portland, Oregon. The largest,
steelead ever taken out of tin*
Kalama River in 1946, was also
caught by a woman. It weighed
twenty-eight pounds.
Art says that one year ago
last fall while he was cooking
for the Survey outfit in the 40
mile country, known as Chicken
Country, he shot the largest
brown bear ever killed with a
six-shooter. He states that five
brown bears broke into his meat
house and started raising plenty
of commotion. When the largest
of them saw Art, it headed for
the kitchen and was about to
continue the damage when Art
pulled a 38 Special, which he al
ways carried and laid out the
entire five of them. Art says
that is a record kill of bears
with a six-shooter!
Art is living at the Spokane
Rooms now and expects to do
longshoring on ship-side here in
Seward.
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MEETING OF SEWARD
REGISTERED NURSES
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The Seward Registered Nurses
Association met at the home of
Mrs. Park Smith. Tuesday eve
ning Jan. 20th. The 15 members
present took care of a large
amount of business which was
on hand, and laid plans for the
coming months.
If there are any Registered
Nurses in town “incognito”, the
organization would like to wel
come them as guests Feb. 17th
at the Gene Lanier home.
Vet’s Transfer
W HAULING of ALL KINDS
OFFICE at
RELIABLE CAB STAND
BERT I. REAMEY, Prop. Telephone MONROE 10 9
M. V. Aleutian Mail
J. H. PETRICH, Master
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Sand Point, Squaw Harbor, I nga, Belkofski, King
Cove. False Pass, Sanak, Scotch Cap, Sarachef,
Akutan, Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, Makushin,
Kasluga, Chernofski, Nikolski and Atka.
In.'o-mation available at the Seward Polaris.. Main 168
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tbs day EEFORE SAILING DATE ,