THE SEWARD POLARIS
Peninsula-Chain News
Dedicated to the Building
of the "Kenai Empire"
Independent
Phited Press Service
Published Semi-weekly
by
H. W. and N. M. Hunt
Seward, Alaska
Subscription Hate $8.00 per year
This practice of paying one’s
sell out of city money is not in
good taste, and it goes to show
how helpless a taxpayer is in the
hands of a council which gets the
bit in its teeth or is bestirred by
outside interests.
The Bonds themselves were not
advertised for bids and it is not
unlikely they could have brought
$100 instead of but $0.94 which
his resignation which was accept
A mayor, in recent years, wrote
his r.signtaion which was accept
ed by the council when he accept
ed a commission on a sale to the
city.
Why is it not in order to ask
llie.se two men. Dahl and Kenne
dy to resign for the same reason,
same reason?
Indignant citizens are asking
how a municipality as “broke" as
Seward wlreh has not the funds
to pay th city's obligation now
said to be about $5000.00 due to
the school district—can dabble
in the “high finance" of a ques
tionable scheme to cold store
fish—questionable in so far as
whether it will pay or not—and
turn to a question of giving up
$2400 00 in the premature pay
ment of interest on S40.000.00
worth of bonds, the $2400.00 being
within $100 00 of enough to pay
half th. city's bill to the school
district.
This next regular meeting is
the last, one for the present coun
cil and many a taxpayer breathes
a sigh of relief. It has indeed
been a heavy year on the taxpay
ers.
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CITY COUNCIL GETS GIFT
OF PACKAGED GARBAGE
I
BUTLER, Pa. (UP>—Citizens of j
this community have been caught
in the middle in a year-long dis- j
I pute between the city council
I and the Butler Refuse Collection
j Co.
| The garbage complaints jumped ,
from 37 in 194(5 to 1.097 in 1947.
| One irate housewife solved the
| problem of garbage disposal at
; least to her own satisfaction. She
stalked into city hall council |
chambers plunked down a ribbon
wrapped package and departed
saying. “Maybe you know what
to do with it. I don’t.”
The package contained garbage.
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BONUS LAW
NAVY PAYMENTS
Thousands of veterans and rela
tives of deceased veterans of
World l^ar II, who . at time of
entry into the service, were resi
dents of Conecticut. Illinois, Mas
sachusetts. Michigan, New Hamp
shire, Rhode Island. Vermont, or
Alaska: but who pesrcntly live
elsewher. may qualify for pay
ment uno’er bonus laws enacted
by those states.
I
For service information needed
in filing applications, Navy veter
’ ans and their survivors should
contact the Navy’s District Civil
Readjustment Officer at the Nav
al Disrict Headquarters nearest
their present homes, and not the
Bureau of Naval Personnel.
Applicants under the iRhode
Island bonus laws must have
their applications on file with the
Rhode Island authorities on or
before June JO to he eligible for
payment unct'er the act.
Several other states have veter
ans’ bonus laws pending.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
need funds for their Youth Foun
dation. So they're launching a na
tionwide slogan contest. Each en
trant will finish out the line: I
want to fight juvenile delinquen
cy because . . .” and make a
donation to the foundation. Priz
es so far total S20,0d0. including
an airplane, an automobile and
a baby elephant.
IF IT’S BEER OR LIQUOR YOU WANT
TRY OUR
NORTHERN
COCKTAIL BAR OR LIQUOR STORE
THE YELLOW CAB THAT IS PARKED
AT OUR DOOR IS AT YOUR SERVICE
The Northern Bar
" A Gentlemans Place of Recreation"
Relax While You Travel
w hen you go by steamer, you can relax in the luxuri
ous comfort of staterooms, lounges and decks ... sit
back and enjoy the scenery as you sail.
£at the Best Food —No Extra Charge
The Alaska Line is famed for the exrellenre of its
^ cuisine. You will marvel at the deliriir.rdv prejnred
meals. The cost of all meals ii ineliid' d in t! • ’ ir
Your berth, too!
' Soiliros /*re Frequent */
SS ALEUTIAN
March 25th
SS BARANOF
April 2nd
SS DENALI
calls at Valdez, Cordova, .Jun
eau, Wrangell Ketchikan and
Seattle.
Calls Juneau, Ketchikan, and
Seattle.
Due Seward westbound March
30th, then to Seldovia and di
•ect to Seattle from Kodiak.
RbflSKR STERmSHIP COmPBna J
NAVY
EXPERIMENTS
Seeking to improve the bill of
fare on ships of the fleet and re
mote overseas bases through win
ter use of frozen fruits ana* vege
tables. the Navy is conducting
new experiments in the handling
of frozen foods in cheap, throw
away containers capable of with
standing tropical climates.
Thirty experimental canvas-cov
ered containers, each holding 200
pounds of flash frozen fruits and
v getables. were recently shipped
from the Naval Supply Depot.
Oakland, California, to Guam a
board- the USS Graffias, refriger
ated store ship
Accurate records are being kept
of the temperature and efficiency
of the containers and the condi
tion of ttic food, and the bags will
be reshipped to the Oakland Sup
ply Depot for further checking as
soon as they arc emptied
The containers which are cork
lined with zipper tops, were pre
cooled for two days in a 10-helow
temperature before being filled
and sealed. By this method the
Navy hopes to sufficiently retard
defrosting of the food after its
removal from refrigerators to
eliminate one of the greatest haz
ards in the present handling of
frozen foodstuffs—the danger of
spoilage while containers are be
ing transferred from one storage
place to another in tropical cli
mates.
At present, only relatively small
amounts of frozen foods are be
ing shipped overseas, and these
prinicipally to hospitals, because
of the danger of spoilage when
containers are exposed to tropical
climates for even a few minutes.
Satisfactory throw-away con
tainers are sought to eliminate
the cost and time involved in re
shipping empv containers to sup
ply depots. In addition, the high
er cost of frozen foods would be
more than offset by the economy
resulting from no waste.
The present experiment;; are
the first to be made under a pro
gram aimeo' at improving the mo
rale. health and efficiency of Na
val forces in all parts of the
world.
FADED INK ON OLD LETTERS
REVEALS MADISON AFFAIR
WITH TEEN-AGER
NEW YORK (UP)-Despite me
use of secret cipner:; and a deter
mined effort to overline them lat
er, the story of how 51-year-old
James Madison, future president
of the United States fell in love
with a 15-year-oln' giri, then lost
her is told in a new biography.
Madison, short, shy and sensi
tive, is reported by Irving Brant
in James Madison: The National
ist iBobbs-Merril!) to have dis
closed the affair to his fellow Vir
ginian. Thomas Jefferson, in per
sonal letters.
After Jefferson's death when
Madison was nearly So years old,
the letters were returned to Mad
ison. who by that time h a o' long
boon married to Dolly Payne—
herself 20 years younger than he.
The aging statesman vigorously
crossed out the number code he
and Jefferson had used in tire ox
chango of information. He even
wrote “Undecipherable" alongside
the main passage.
Time browned the ink however,
and Brant claims to have d.cod
er* most of the matter.
Confided in Jefferson
The young lady in question was
named Catherine Floyd. Madison
saw her briefly, then wrote to
Jefferson (as translated by Brant)
“I did not fail to present as you
desired your particular compli
ments to Miss K. Your inference
on the subject was most ground
less. Before you left us I had suf
ficiently ascertained her senti
ments. Since your departure the
affair has been pursued. Most
preliminary arrangements, altho
definitive, will be postponed un
til the end of the year in Cong
ress. At some period in the inter
val I shall probably make a vis
it to Virginia. The interest which
your friendship takes on this oc
casion in my happiness is a plea
sing proof that the dispositions
which l feel are reciprocated."
Jefferson answered, also in ci
pher “l rejoice at the information
that Miss K. and yourself concur
in sentiment. I rejoice as it will
render you happier and give me
a neighbor on whom I shall set
high value.”
Miss Flovd, however, shortly
changed her mind. She chose to
marry William Clarkson, a 19
ycar-old medical student. He died
early, leaving her a widow just
four years after Madison’s elec
tion as president.
United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners
Seward Carpenter's Union 2304
Affiliated With A. F. of L
Meetings 2nd anr 4th Tuesdays
— OLD USO BUILDING -
Jas. McCracken, President
A. G. McRae, Financial Secretary
JEWELER
C.E.Orlander
DIAMONDS
WATCHES - OLD IVORY
NUGGET JEWELRY
VICARIOUS
FORGERY
V£
LYNCHBURG, Va. (UP)—Rus
sell Cofflin, who can’t write,
pleaded guilty to forgery. Police
said Martin Bowling wrote $14B
in bad checks and that Cofflin.
cashed them
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The Aleutian will arrive Thurs
day with 231 passing'rs, 11 an-.
Roe
Joe Lanier
RHOE REPAIRING or
FURNITURE REPAIRING
International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s Union
Ijocal 30
Meets First and Third Tuesday at
7 p.m. Union Hall
President — L. Rogers
Vice-Pres. — A. Lorlng
Secretary — L. Dick
Marshal — J. Chilleago
Dispatcter — D. McMillan
Dispatcher — L Rogers
CITY ELECTION
You cannot sign a petition un
less you have registered—Regis
tration Closing Date April 3rd at
10 P.M.
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Patronise those who Advertise
IF YOUR DEALER CAN'T SUPPLY YOU,
LET GEORGE DO IT
ENGINES, POWER TOOLS, MACHINERY
G. H. Everitt
Merchandising Service
Box 4 1 6 Seward Madison S 8
A Trip To Moose Pass!
And a Stop at the \
Estes Bros Grocery j
p'nr ,m Order of Groceries
or
Estes Bros Garage |
|
In nnanue for an overhaul on your Car |
H il l HAY IIIG DIVIDENDS |
Estes Brothers I
Proprietors |
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