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Vol. VII, No. 44
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 1950
Noted Artists
in Concert
Here Dec. 7
Coming as the next concert
on the Alaska Music Trail will
be two noted artists, Desire
Ligeti, bass-baritone, and Mar- (
cus Gordon, pianist, who will
be heard here next Thursday,
Dec. 7, at 8:00 p.m. in the Meth
odist Church auditorium.
Fresh from his fifth consec
utive season of opera, Desire Li
geti offers a wide choice of
songs sung with great dramatic
ability and beauty of tone; his
bass-baritone range enabling
.him to give great variety and
interest to his selections.
Marcus Gordon will play two
groups on the program and ac
company Mr. Ligeti. His succ< ss
in concert programs where he is
the only performer, have been
acclaimed by audiences and
critics alike. A joint program
by these artists promises the
most in real artistry and appeal.
To add Alaska and Northern
British Columbia to their tour
record gives both men real
pleasure. Europe, South Amer
ica. Central America, the Phil
ippines and the U. S. and Can
ada have applauded Mr. Ligeti.
During his service with the
Army Air Corps, Mr. Gordon
played lor many groups in out
of-the-way places. As accompa
nist for Luigi Silva, ’cellist,
known to many Alaskans, he
has been prepared by Mr. Silva
for the great experience of play
ing for audiences in the North.
As a student at the Juilliard
School of the great teacher,
Josef Lhevinne, Marcus Gordon
was well prepared for his con
cert career as a ranking Ameri
can pianist.
The program to be heard here
includes a song group of concert,
favorites by Mozart, Handel,
Schubert and Schumann. Beau
tiful sonatas by Scarlatti and
Beethoven, (the famous Moon
light Sonata) on the piano. Some
modern composers including the
Sweetheart Waltz by Strauss
and spirituals, None but the
Lonely Heart, and the amusing
Song of the Flea in the last
group.
After the concert Alaska Iota
Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi invites
the audience to attend a recep
tion in honor of the artists. It
will be held in the church par
lors.
DOCTORS DISCUSS
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
Dr. Francis Phillips, thoracic
surgeon at Seward Sanatorium,
and Dr. Thomas F. Keyes, just
appointed to the San staff, led
the discussion of socialized medi
cine during the round table
meeting of the Woman’s So
ciety of Christian Service Thurs
day night in the Nurses Home.
Dr. Keyes lies recently come
from England and Sweden,
where he studied socialized med
icine at first hand, as it is
practiced in those countries.
Mrs. Fannie Kirch and Miss
lone Frances presented ques
tions of interest to all in the
discussion.
The meeting was called to
order by Miss Frances Clark,
vice president, in the absence
of the president, Mrs. Gladys
Bogard. Refreshments were serv
ed by the hostesses, the Misses
Anna Martin, lone Frances and
Delia Gabriel.
The next meeting will be a
Christmas Social, Dec. 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Cobban
will leave on the Denali today
for a winter in the sun outside.
House Cleaning?
Have Any Whodunits
Or Westerns?
Sanatorium patients enjoy the
pocket size books, especially
westerns and detective stories.
One of the ladies who is doing
volunteer work at the hospital,
Mrs. Cora Jacobs, asks that any
one having such books, leave
them at the Nobby Club and she
will take them to the patients.
Hundreds of these pocket
books are purchased in Seward
every month. People also have
good intentions of passing them
on to the patients, but just
never get around to delivering
them. This is the chance to clean
out that bookrack. and give a
little pleasure at the same time.
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN JOINS
SANATORIUM STAFF
Dr. Thomas F. Keyes joined
the Seward Sanatorium staff as
Resident Physician this week,
according to an announcement
from the Alaska Department of
Health.
Dr. Keyes recently completed
courses of study in thoracic sur
gery in England and Sweden and
will assist Dr. Francis J. Phil
lips, Thoracic Surgeon at the
Seward institution.
A graduate of the University
of Rochester School of Medicine,
Dr. Keyes is a member of the
American Board of Surgery.
His wife and two children will
join him at Seward in the early
Spring.
NAVAL COMMANDER
VISITS SEWARD
Commander D. Dillon, USN.
member of the staff of Military
Sea Transportation Service, Ko
diak, paid an unofficial visit to
Commander Keene and the staff
of NCSO here yesterday.
The Commander visited with
Mayor Lanier, who had lunch
aboard the ship with the other
officers.
SEA HAWKS' FIRST GAME
TONIGHT IN GYM
The first basketball game of
the season tonight at 7:30 will
give the Sea Hawks a chance to
work out against a team made
up from the three teams in the
City League.
Coach Dahlberg says that this
should be a good game as both
teams are in gooci shape. The
Hawks need real competition
to put them in shape' for the
coming games against other
schools.
Girls' teams will have a pre
liminary game at 7:30. There
will be a charge for the game
of 50 cents for adults and 25
cents for students.
P-TA ATTENDANCE SMALL
Seward's Parent-Teacher As
sociation meeting was called for
last Wednesday night to discuss
the hot lunch program and to
plan for the annual Christmas
tree and treat for the town chil
dren.
Only two members besides the
officers were present. The next
meeting is in January after a
December recess. Officers < x
pressed great disappointment
and discouragement with the
lack of interest shown by par
ents of Seward school children.
GINOLA RITES LAST SUN.
Eugene Ginola, who died as a
result of a highway accident on
November 10, was buried Sun
day with services in the Metho
dist Church.
Members of the Seward Bar
tenders’ Association were the
pall bearers.
Mr. George Hutton, district
manager for the Coastwise Line,
who recently replaced E. A.
Gardner in the Anchorage office,
is this weekend making his first
visit to Seward.
Strange Flash
Reported
As Meteor
Longshoremen reported see
ing a bright flash in the sky be
fore 9:00 o’clock last night. To
some it resembled a lightning
flash, to others a sudden flare of
Northern Lights.
Shortly afterwards, radio re
ports from Anchorage described
the same strange light as accom
panied by a heavy explosion that
shook windows in some areas
and flooded the radio and police
stations with questions from an
xious citizenry. Fairbanks re
ported the same phenomena,
which was unexplained for a
while.
Meteorologists from the Wea
ther Bureau announced the flash
and explosion to be a meteor,
falling somewhere in the Chu
gach Range, and no cause for
alarm.
Despite the meteor story,
comment here is to the effect
that “it seems odd that stars are
suddenly falling on Alaska, and
especially in the neighborhood
of Fort Richardson,” recalling
that only a few weeks ago there
was a similar occurrence, which
is still unexplained. One man
predicts, ‘‘If there should be an
other mysterious flash and ex
plosion in the next six months,
all the scientists in the world
will never be able to convince
Alaskans liiat meieors are con
centrating in a rather limited
area.”
i FRANCHISE ORDINANCE
The full text of the ATEC
; Franchise Ordinance is to be
found on Page 3 of this issue.
The Electric Power Bond or
j dinance was printed in full in
; the Nov. 28 issue of this paper.
Mews !vsn*
Our community was sorry to
hear of tiie sudden death of an
old timer known as ‘‘Long Ed."
He had been a resident and fish
erman of Kasilof for years.
Abe Erickson and Ed Lovedal
left by plane Tuesday and spent
Thanksgiving in Anchorage, re
turning on Saturday. They re
port Anchorage weather colder.
Mr. and Mrs. Harris spent
Saturday evening at Walter
Franklin's. The Harrises have
built a new cabin on their fish
ing site and will stay there this
winter.
Emii Berg spent Thanksgiving
at Walter Franklin’s.
Neighbors here have had no
truck service, but Howard Ful
ton brought some freight in on
Wednesday. When food supplies
g t 1 w th > problem soon must
be solved as there are children
who require the best.
Mrs. McClain gave a Thanks
giving program for the parents
of the school children and a
good crowd attended. It is in
deed a great joy to see the ad
vance our pupils are making.
The Harmony Band was an
attraction which pleased us all.
We don't need to go to “Para
mount Theater’’ in Seattle when
we have a school in our com
munity.
Elder Zumwalt, head of Al
aska Mission of Seventh Day
Adventist, called on Will Cros
kie Monday. We are glad to
have these friends here and we
know a good thought is follow
ing them.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Cove
went to Seward on Wednesday
to spend Thanksgiving. They re
turned on Thursday.
Wayne Feller was in Seward
on Tuesday.
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Carson Reports
Killing of Another
Cow Moose Nearby
C. M. Carson, Fish & Wildlife
enforcement agent, reports the
killing of another cow moose.
He found the carcass at about
one mile beyond Tin Can Creek
on the Seward-Portage Highway.1
It had been dead approximately
10 days or two weeks.
The Seward Izaak Walton
League chapter offers a reward
of $100 for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of
the killer. Information kept con
fidential.
BIDS RECEIVED FOR
ROAD CONSTRUCTION
Bids were received this week
by the Bureau of Public Roads
in Juneau for construction of
the first 912 miles of new road
north of Seward. This project
extends from Mile 5 to Mile 12
and Mile 15 to Mile 18. The
section from Mile 12 to Mile 15
will be included in a later con
tract.
The Manson Construction and
Engineering Company and Os
berg Construction Company of
Seattle submitted the low bid
of $1,054,418. Other bidders
were Peter Kiewit Sons, $1,119,
223: Lytle and Green, $1,239,
031; and Stock and Grove,
$1,453.180. Award of the con
tract is expected to be made to
the low bidder.
FUNERAL SERVICES
SUNDAY
Funeral services for Albert
(Whitey) Smith will be held
from the Adkins Funeral Home
Sunday at 2 p.m. Services will
be conducted by American Le
gion Post No. 5, of which he
was a member.
Mr. Smith, who died Monday,
Nov. 21, was a veteran of World
War I. He was stationed at
Nome, Alaska.
SORORITY MEETS AT
WERNER HOME
Alaska Iota Chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi held its regular meet
ing at the home ot Mi's. Jack
Werner, with Mrs. Russell Pain
ter as co-hostess.
Plans are being made to have
a reception for the visiting
artists after the concert in the
Methodist Church next Thurs
day. All of those attending the
concert are cordially invited to
attend the reception.
To raise funis, the Sorority
plans to sell a Tern Doll, com
plete with wardrobe, sometime
before Christmas.
JUNIOR WOMEN HAVE A
SPELLING BEE
The social evening of the Jun
ior Women's Club, held at the
home of Mrs. Gwen Cobban
Tuesday night, featured a spell
ing bee instead of the usual card
party. Members attending found
it good fun.
Mrs. Cobban served coffee
and hot peach cobbler which
was pronounced “wonderful.”
Tom Jones, General Agent
for the Alaska Railroad at Sew
ard has been transferred to the
Public Relations Office in Anch
orage. Irwin (Bud) Dyer, being
on vacation for several weeks,
caused a general rearrangement
of work in the local office. All
Seward wishes Mr. Jones the
best in his new job. He has been
Agent in Seward for the past
10 years or more, and is known
to all residents here. Seward's
loss is Anchorage’s gain.
Mrs. Virginia Shuster is visit
ing outside. The photographic
work at the Alaska Shop is
being done by Casey Cobban in
her absence.
Expansion Of
Phone System
Up To Voters
To the Qualified Voters of the
City of Seward:
Much has been said in criti
cism of our present telephone
system and justl} so. No one
is more conscious of the inade
quacy of the system than the
operating company itself.
Seward has grown and is
steadily growing despite the
gloomy and pessimistic predic
tions of a minority among us.
The time has come when the
expansion and improvement of
communication facilities in this
area reyts with the people of the
community. The planning and
engineering of the proposed ex
panded system has advanced
to a point where the next step
must be a grant of authority
from the public to build and
maintain such a service if they
feel it is for the public good.
No investment in such an en
terprise would be justified with
out such authorization and no
expansion program can be
started without it.
Now let us see what may be
gained by the support of such
a program.
1. Adequate and dependable
local service.
With the present overloaded
facilities it is impossible to ac
commodate the number of sub
scribers who wish telephone
service. The new system could
immediately handle approxi
mately three times the present
amount and will be built so
that there will be no delay in
enlarging it should there be a
demand in excess of this amount.
Modern enlarged switchboard
j facilities mean more operating
! personnels thus faster and bet
, ter service.
! No more than two parties on
1 any one line and the availability
of all main line phones desired.
A properly engineered system
will eliminate the greater por
tion of the troubles now en
countered and speed up the re
pair of any encountered to a
marked degree.
2. Personnell.
, The proposed system will re
quire at least double the amount
of wage earning personnell now
employed.
J. Location.
The new location not only
conforms with correct engineer
ing practice, it also brings toll
and office facilities within easy
reach of the public.
4. Construction.
Joint pole construction will
speed maintenance and will re
move almost one-half of the
present unsightly and space con
suming installations from our
streets and alleys. Also the con
struction standards set forth are
accepted as the best practiced
today.
In this we are fortunate in
being able to take advantage of
the research and development
of the largest and oldest or
ganization of this kind in the
world today.
While the construction and
operation of a modern system
in the City of Seward is the
prime consideration of the mo
ment. it by no means can be
considered the end of the pro
ject. It is our firm belief that
Seward is the communications
hub of the Kenai Peninsula,
and it is our intent to make
the creation of this plant the
first step in an overall plan to
link all the communities on the
peninsula together in a common
system.
The advantages to Seward and
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