THE SEWARD POLARIS
Peninsula-Chain News
Dedicated to the Building
of the “Kenai Empire”
Independent
United Press Service
Published Semi-weekly
by
H. VV. and N. M. Hunt
Seward, Alaska
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WORLD NEWS
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Europe. It is believed that he is
completely "outside" so far as
Stalin is concerned and that he
i; ,iy turn to the Western Powers
now although there is no indica
tion as yet.
|e?
A conference of the World Fed
eration of Churches listened to
two men One argued in favor -of
the Western Powers and the other
a Checko Slovokian from Prog.
Joseph Romonka, states that the
West is confused and the rabble
uj in control. That communism
js greatly misunderstood.*
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The Russian teacher who jump-,
c 1 from the third flood of the
embassy is on the road to recov
' • y. Newsmen will be allowed to
■ • e her soon.
The President left on a nine-day
cruise during which time he will
compile his campaign speeches.
'Nine-day wonders perhaps?)
|es
A’ .-karts, it was given out, will
■ m be affected by the strike
which has been set for September
M at midnight. Longshoremen will
continue serving ships, it is said
No local information was avail
able at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
fe
Many long and bloody wars were
fwght to separate the church and
state. -Sta‘e' in this case means
polices Small communities and
great nations, even the world, are
menaced by a few who have not
yet learned the lesson or choose
to ignore it.—the editor. ^
SHIPPING
NEWS
SS Denali, commanded by Cap
tain Ben Aspen, is due to arrive
in Seward at 6 p.m- August 25.
She has twelve passengers disem
barking at Seward, and sixteen
lourists are making the round trip.
After completing calls at Kodiak.
Kodiak Island canneries, Seldovia
and Hotuer, tlfe Denali is due in
Seward southbound about Sep
tember 2,
In a previous issue of this paper
it was announced that the Jumper
Hitch was to sail on August 26,
but word just.’ received advises
that the SS Victoria, sails from
Seattle about August 31. making
the following ports of call: Cor
dova, Seward and Whittier. Cap
tain Chris Trondsen will be master
of the SS Victoria.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Weinans
of Cooper's Landing are planning
to leave on the next boat. They
will be accompanied by Sherie
Lubin as far as Seattle who will
go on to California to stay with
her mother.
Charter
LOCAL AND HIGHWAY
FREIGHT SERVICE
Heavy Truck
Telephone Monroe 166
Post Office Box 716
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SHOE REPAIRING or
FURNITURE REPAIRING
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BOOK OF THE MONTH
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Around Hollywood
FLASHES—Film slump is ex
pected to end in the fall . . .
with the exception of a few stu
d'os, it's practically at a stand
still right now ... a burglar en
tered a home and took two small
coin banks . . •. he kept the
nickels and dimes . . . and re
turned the pennies . . . while ten
ants were away on a vacation, the
landlady moved into their home
. . . for a change, the tenants
have filed suit to. evict tire land
lady . . . there's a midnight cur
few now in effect at Cabrillo
Beach . . . when the siren soudns.
neckers will have to fold up their
tents and leave . .. . shortages
of materials have slowed up plane
production here . . . Air Force and
aNvv have orders for over 2000
planes . . . D. W. Griffith, pioneer
film director, left an estate close
to $50,000 . . . his pictures grossed
a total of over $60,000,000 ... an
Tanning
Send us your furs and skins to be
tanned. Quick, efficient, reliable
workmanship. We return your
finished skins immediately.
Valcauda Fur Co.
National Bldg. — Seattle. Wash.
18-ycar-o!d girl received a divorce
the other day because
her lie-band spent most of h is
money on "beer and funny books."
. . a gas s!gn read: “Serve
Yourself.". . . two men did . . .
they took nearly $100 from the at
tendant .
Vic Yet says
^HOLD fl^MAC? DONT CASH THAT
SUBSISTENCE CHECK IF YOU
THINK YOU'RE NOT ENTITLED
TO IT... CONTACT YOUR NEAREST
VA OFFICE INSTEAD
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Pee Hie “POLARIP"
Visit Mt. Mckinley
Park Hotel
A Palace In the Heart of
America’s Scenic
Wonderland
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
at 7:30 A. M.
For Reservations at McKINLEY
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Phone ARCO 1 1. Anchorage
or Wri’.e ALASKA RAILROAD,
Anchors ge
Engineering & Concrete Products Co.
P. O. Box 621 Telephone Gar. 48
CONCRETE CINDER BUILDING BLOCKS — CHIMMEY BLOCKS
| ALL SIZES -' PRICES ON REQUEST
GENERAL SURVEYING AND ESTIMATES
A. G. M<RAE & W. H. ESTES
DAVID J. THOMPSON
NOV/ AT PENSACOD/l
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Midshipman David J. Thomp
son, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J.
Thompson of Seward, Alaska, is
{■.attending the Naval Pre-Flight
School. Naval Air Training Bases,
Pensacol; , Fla., the initial step in
winning hi ■ wings and commis
sion as an En sign in the United
Stales Navy
Pro FHghl is .a t-month course
of intense r.c identic physical, and
military training. The courses are
designed to produce the highest
type of pilot, mentally and phy
sica'ly, and to instruct him in the
requisites necessary for the ser
vice of an officer in, the United
States Navy.
The Women's Society
lian Service will n ect at
l Thursday evening at tie
Mrs. J. C Metcalf.
of Chris
8 o’clock
home of
'a,A PAYK0U SAVINGS ‘
I CAI.IF0P.2riA CAT TURNS U?
! ON INDIANAPOLIS PORCH
9
; INDIANAPOLIS (UP)- A black
cat. wandered up to the porch at
the home of Mrs. Cecile York.
She let. it in the house and found
; a tag around its reck with t.h;s
' ip.'cri’-'tion:
“Eleanor Bauble, 284 Kenyon
Ave. Berkeley 8. California.”
I Mrs. York is trying to find out
where the cat came lfom. She
doubts thru it walked all the way
from Califonva.
• In Your Interest
Commissioner JOHN 1L
STUDEBAKER, U. 8. Of
fice of Education, says;
“According to recent
reports from more than
one Hundred large city school gys*
terns scattered over the country, an
estimated 5,000,000 school children
are saving regularly through Stamps
Day purchases of U. S. Savings
Bonds and Stamps. I am confident!
that we shall see a rapid increass
in the number of boys and girls
participating, as more and mors
teachers become aware of the edo«
cational opportunities which th®
School Savings program provides
for their use.”
_V. S. Treasury DetmrtmeuH
RADIOPHONE TO SERVE AUTOS
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RADtOTELEPHONE SERVICE which will permit drivers of motor vehicles
to carry on two-way voice communication is in the post-war blueprints
of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and already appli
cations have been filed with the Federal Communications Commission
for installing the necessary stations in a dozen key cities. Surveys are
being made in scores of cities from Coast to Coast and along the con
necting roads and here is how toe vehicular service would work in a
City area: (1) Customer asks for connection with mobile service (2).
Cafl routes through local phone office to (3) Control Terminal where spe
cial operator sends radio signal to vehicle desired (4). When driver an
sweas voice is picked 19 by radio by nearest receiver (5). phone wires
take it back to toe control terminal and toe customer. If the driver were
mar (6) another receiver, dotted tinea indicate how call would get back.
AND HERE 1$ HOW mobile radiophone service would link the inter-city
highways. (1) Customer’s call goes to special operator at (2) Control
Terminal and call goes over phone wires (indicated by black lines) to
one of the transmitting-receiving stations (3) from which radio signal
goes to car-driver (4) an the road. (International)
Listen !
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