THE SEWARD POLARIS
Peninsula-Chain News
Dedicated to the Building
of the "Kenai Empire”
Independent
United Press Service
Published Semi-weekly
by
H. \V. and N. M. Hunt
Sewanl, Alaska
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NO BIDS TO BE
MADE ON TIMBER
Bidding for April 4 in the office
of the Chief. Forest Service.
'V„-hiogton, D.C. for the Ketchi
kan Pulptimber Allotment has
he n cancelled because no bids
will be submitted, according to
th- office of Regional Forester B.
F. nk Hcinlzlman.
Aithough the Puget Sound Pulp
and Timber Company of Belling
ham. .Washington had done an
impressive amount of investiga
eperience an dbusiness standing
tioa .md advance work and th°*
of the persons and organizations
who would participate in a pro
nosed now company to be known
as the Ketchikan Pulp and Paper
Company are highly satisfactory
to the Forest Service, the latter
wa, informed by L. Tureotte, Ex
ecutive Vice President of the
company that they were not as
sured of being able to go ahead
with their plans. Mr. Tureotte
forth t stated that they are still
.vti.-e in the situation and should
anything favorable develop they
will at that time get in touch
with Fie Forest Service and fur
ther d'seuss sales proposals.
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IN Tin: III.STRICT COl'RT FOR
11 IK TF.RRITORV OF ALASKA.
THIRD DIVISION
t’LAR ENVE P. KEATING. JR . i
Plaintiff .»
vs. t
11 EVERETT HOY )
Defendant >
No A 1272
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that on
the till day of May, If* IS. I, th ■
undersigned. United States Mar
shal for tin; Third Division, Ter
ritory ni Alaska, by \ irtu* ot I
and under a judgment and do- !
rree obtained by the plaintiff:
against, the defendant in the!
above entitled cause, and a Writ
of Execution issued by the Clerk !
of said Court therefrom on the i
4th day of February. 19 IS, have|
levied upon and attached accord
ing to law, the following d>
scribed real property:
Ail and entire the hinds pm-:
braced in ILK. Survey No. 2 2 4. J
situate on the South Shore oi
Kenat Lake, Alaska, contain
ing i Lateen acres and forty -
‘wo hundredths of an aor
more or less, according to tii
Otuial Plat of the .-urvey oi
t:!<• said land, on file in tli• • j
li’eneral Land Office, together |
vith structural improvements
located thereon, including
One Cabin
One Storage House
Fox' Corrals and . i! otln i
buildings not lis’ed abov.
At: I further not ire i > h ■< 1*\
cri' > a that all and i■ vholi- i
t !< ' erein before • nunn : att d
real i.'oporty, or so much there
of as may he Beers -ary to sat is •
:‘v tie pp'inMff’s jud ••v>nt. will
1'- sold at public au"tion to the
; -" d ’ ■ ’ : ’ <•
’ vfu] money of fh 1'nited
States of America, and the said
sail is to l-o h -’d on the prom
ts ' on the -1th lay of May. 10 4 3
if the hour of Eleven o'clock
<11:001 A.M.
DATED this 31st day of March,
: 0 4 3,
JAMES TE PATTERSON
t’nited States Marshall,
Third Division. Territory of
Alaska
Ry: Trwin L. Metcalf
Deputy TES. MarshaE
First Publication April 3rd 1948
4th Publication April 24th 1948
BDOfMtLL’S LETTED TO COMM.
OF CO^RESSMEU IS PUBLISHED
; GENERAL WEEDING NEEDED.
ALASKA RAILWAY; PLANT
NEW CROP
<S>
Published in the Seward Weekly
Gateway, Seward, Alaska; Satur
day. September 13, 1930
□
By DON CARLOS BROWNELL
(font inued from Iasi i sue I
* * * •
Make a careful survey of lire
tributary country around Anchor
age and Fairbanks for two pur
poses: one to grade agricultural
land by one-fourth sections into
classes A, B. C, D, etc. consider
ing different elements, such as,
soil, case of clearing, distance to
market. The other, to determine
the one or two. products that will
grow to maturity in the largest
quantity for the least labor. Pro
ducts that can he manufacured.
or canned, wih the lowest chance
of a handling deficit. When the
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE PROBATE <X)URT FOR
SEWARD PRTNCINOT THIRD
DIVISION AIiASKA
In tho Matter of tho Estate)
of )
JOSEPH GROSSMAN. )
Deceased)
No. 47 9
NOTICE OF HEARING OF
FINAL ACCOUNT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That tho Administrator of the
i above-entitled Estate lias filed
in the above court his Final Ac
count and petition for discharge,
proposing to pay over to the
Territory of Alaska the residue
of said estate, by way of escheat,
and that Tuesday the 1st day of
June 194S at 2 p.m, and the of
fice of the IT. S. Commissioner j
for Seward Precinct at Seward
Alaska have been fixed as the
time and place for hearing said
petition and account; and any
persons interested may then and
there show cause why such ac
count should not he approved
and the petition of th<. Adminis
trator granted.
Dated this Jlst March CMS.
ALFRED II. BRYANT
Prohate Judge
t SEAL)
LEGAL ADVLRTLSr.M! Y / j
BID ASKED
Sealed bids in duplicate, sub
ject to the conditions contained
herein, will he received until 2:00
p.m.. May 10. 1948, at Anchorage,
Alaska in the Office of Superin
tendent of Motive Power and
Equipment of The Alaska Rail-1
road, and then publicly opened
in this office for the painting of,
five hundred < r>00 > Gondola Cars.
Attention is directed to the spe
cial conditions of bidding set
forth in the specifications. Upon
application, two sets (if drawings
and specifications will be supplied
free to each car painting con
tractor interested in submitting a
proposal. The above specifica
tions must be returned to Ibis of
fice. Contractors requiring addi
tional sets may obtain them by
purchase from this office at r
cost of $10.00 per set, which will
not be returned. Checks offered
as payment for drawings and
specifications must be made pay-,
' bio to 1 he order of the Treasurer
of the United States
Specifications will not be furn
* > n! who ha\ ••
consistently failed to sub : it pro.
po alo.
•\pr. 24. 28 May 1. 5 8
NOTICE
The Cilv of Seward will nol
be responsible for any labor
'’ebls, liens or debts incurred
fcv the lessees, the Seward
Fish and Cold Storage Co.,
nor is the City of Seward re
sponsible for any material used
on the premises known as the
Marine Ways.
Dated April 10, 1948.
Eugene N. Lanier
Mayor
product was decided upon: we
will say for purpose of argument
that il is the sugar beet, LET
THE RAILROAD BUILD A FAC
TORY, at Hit* most accessablo
place, for converting beet into
sugar. (THE MONEY USED IN
BU ILD IN G T IT IS FACTORY
WOULD BE FAR BETTER
SPENT THAN ON THE PRO
POSED LUXURY RIVER STEAM
ER TO ACCOMODATE THE
TOURIST' and operate it. even
at a loss until such time as it
would become self-supporting. An
other method would be to induce
one of the larger sugar compan
ies in the States to build the fac
tory under a governmen subsidy.
Then buy all crops of the selected
commodity, at a price sufficient
to make it profitable; bus assur
ing of a livlihood from agricul
ture. If this proposition, or some
tiling similar, were put into prac
tice quickly, there would be im
mediate and steady growth of
farming. I have talked with .1
number of farm erson this sub
ject, and the idea has been com
Ll.G.IL .IDl HKTiS!\G
INVITATION. KIR, AND
ACCEPTANCE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT
COURT. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
April 1, 19IS
INVITATION TO I5IO
Sealed bids in triplicate for
the sale of the following type
writers will lie received at the
office of the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court. Ilox 9 20, Anchorage,
Alaska, until 5:00 o'clock p.m.,
April 50, 19 1'-,. and then public
ly opened:
Underwood Typewriter No.
5-3866938
Underwood lypewrit.-i* No.
14-4680S96
Hid must lie accompanied by
a certified chock, a cashier’s
check or a United States postal
money order made payable to
the Treasurer of the United
States in the full amount of tip
offer.
This equipment is offered “as
is. where is, and in the condi
tion as of that date” without
warranty as to condition for any
use. Equipment is to he re
moved at the expense of the suc
cessful bidder within five days
from notification of award, and
if the successful bidder fails to
remove the machine or machines
within the time specified herein,
the Government reserves the
right to cause such equipment
to he removed at the expense of
the successful bidder.
The equipment may be inspect
ed at th(1 o i f i < ■ * - of th«' Deputy
Clerk of the District Court, Fed
eral Building, Seward, Alaska,
between the hours of 9:00 a.m,
and A: tm» p m., on the follow
ing days of tlv week: Monday
through 1-Tidaty. Failure on the
part of the bidder to inspect, th
'■quiptne-nt will not constitute
rounds for tiny claim, adjust
ment. or revision of centract.
NO member, or delegate of
Co;e_re s, (if rc-sidenr commis
■ :oner. -hall he admitted to any
. hare or part, of thm contract
er to any benefit that may arise
i ltf-refi-iiiii but tliis prox ision
hail not hi construed to extend
to -11is contract, if made with a
'■orporution for its benefit.
Envelopes containing bids
should ho plainly marked “BID
for the purchase of typewriter
to he opened at 9:00 o’clock
a.m., May 1. 19 IS, in the office
of the Clerk of Court at Anch
orage, Alaska", on the outside
of the envelope in the lower left
hand corner.
M. E. S. BRUNELLE
Clerk
Apr. 10-17-24-28c
mended as the solution to the
problem. Each said that if they
could sell one particular product
at a fixed price, it. would remove
all worry and uncertainty, and
enable them to be successful. A
farmer is a great experimentalist
and would expand into other pro
ducts. planting only so much of
the staple as to insure a good
living, thus providing diversified
crops.
In selecting the income product
it would be well to choose one
j that can be stored indefinitely
without deterioration so that can
ning or refining could be done
when most convenient—the idea
i is to have a winter industry to
provide labor when it is most
needed. The technical operation of
' the project should be under the
I Alaska Agricultural College.
TOURISTS
The train schedule, the ehang
' es and additions to rolling stock,
the proposed new river steamer,
' gives evidence that the desire to
increase tourist travel is the con
| trolling factor of present policies.
This is, no doubt, an effort to in
crease the revenue. BUT ANY
EXPENDITURE WHATSOEVER,
i SOLELY FOR THIS PURPOSE,
j IS A WASTE AT THIS TIME and
! WITHOUT GOOD RESULTS TO
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALAS
KA. Strict tourist travel does not
now, and never has, stimulated or
helped the development of a
country’s internal resources. Small
European States are very greatly
helped financially by tourist trav
I el, but the inhabitants are chang
| od from industrial workers to the
status of personal servants. Ala
kans are not: at all a tvpe of har
I dv frontiersman whose instinct
and pleasure is to hew a home
i and living from a new country.
Tiiis is the last frontier, yes. but
most of the inhabitants are cos
mopolitan city folks, with the
one idea of making money with
the least effort. If. therefore,
this country should gain enough
tourist travel to provide Alaskans
with more of an income than
they could get. at first, from the
development of the resources, IT
WILL RETARD GROWTH, and
turn the population into a bunch
of servers.
The great majority of tourists
visiting this country are people
of small means, using years of
savings on the trip. From obser
vation I would say the average
age of adults is 50 years ad of
children 16 years. These two ele
ments combine to create far
;.iL .mrr-iriishmuxt
IN THK PRORATE (OIKT I OK
SEWARD PRECINCT THIRD
DIVISION ALASKA
111 tile Mattel- of the Estate t
of )
•JOSEPH P DOSHEN I
Deceased )
PROBATE Xo. 4DO
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
notice is hereby given:
To the creditors and all per
.'(>r. x having (laiins against the
Esttit. of JOSEPH P. DOSHEN
di ceased, to file iheir claims,
properly verified, within six
month..- after the first publica
tion of this NOTICE, in the o
lice of the Probat.■- Judge for
Seward Precinct, it Seward, A
laska; or io exhibit the same,
x'. iih the necessary vouchers, to
tin undersigned Administrator
at the office of Mr. R. E. Baum
gartner atorneiy for the under
signed. which office has been
selected as the place for trans
acting all matters in connection
with said Estate.
Dated at Seward, Alaska this
9th day of April 1948.
JOHN MATICH
Executor
| Pub. Sat. April 10-17-24 & May
,1. 1948
greater expectations of pleasure
and beauties to be seen, than A
i laska can fulfill. They are not
i seasoned travelers, and so the
length of the trip, combined with
! the unfulfilled expectations, make
, THE MAJORITY OF THEM DIS
! CREDIT THE COUNTRY AND
EVERYTHING IN IT..
| I believe this knocking to be
one of the main reasons for the
great slump in tourist travel this
season. Especially is this true of
those making the trip down the
'Yukon River, and out this way
to the states. That trip is both
tiresome and uninteresing nine
j tenth of the distance. For the
! good of Alaska it should be dis
jcouraged. The only one that
should be encouraged at present
is the round trip from Seattle to
Anchorage, or at furtherest to
Mt. McKinley National Park.
For the best interests of the
ralroad belt, all passenger carry
j ing trains should leave Seward
not earlier than 10 o’clock A. M.
the DAY FOLLOWING the arriv
al of the passenger steamer, stop
ping at Anchorage over-night and
proceeding the next day to Fair
banks. Southbound, leaving Fair
banks in the morning, stopping
over-night at Anchorage, leaving
there at 1 P.M. or so, arriving in
Seward in the EVENING BE
FORE BOAT DAY.
J (So ns soon as the Curry Hotel
; is moved to Mt. McKinley Park
| station, or a new one built, it
i would be good to stop three ov
ernight also.) That would give
leisure in Anchorage and Seward,
ad ing considerable business to
both. It would bring the south
bound tourists over this scenic
section after they had a good
night's rest at Anchorage putting
them in a better frame of mind
on leaving this part of Alaska.
Complaint that lack of hotel ac
commodations would work a hard
ship if this were done is not true.
So far as I have been able to
learn, the hotels in Seward have
been full but twice in the last
three years.
The one valid argument of in
terior people against this proposed
schedule is that the delay of a
day in Seward keeps them wait
ing for mail, and is detrimental
to perishable shipments, (fresh
fruits and vegetables). The com
plaint of an extra day in mail
transit is farfetched, for in the
old days when it took three
weeks to deliver mail to Fair
banks they were happy and con
tent when it was cut down to
two. The other objection can be
met by equipping the cold stor
age cars with freezing apparatus,
to make them equal in this re
spect to the boats. But if that
proved unsatisfactory, then one
of the large gas combinations
(Continued on page 3)
RR'i.iL . i L > » ib\ / .a. \ .1
[\ THE PROBATE COURT FOR
SEWARD PRECINCT THIRD
DIVISION ALASKA
In th“ Matter of the Estate )
of )
IIEDLEV VICAR IIOEEX, )
Deceased )
PROBATE No. 492
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
To the creditors and all per
sons haveing claims against the.
Estate of IIEDLEV VICAR HO
BEX deceased, to file their
claims, properly verified, within
six months after the first publi
cation of this NOTICE, in the
office of the Probate Judge for
Seward Precinct, at Seward, A
laska: or to exhibit, the same,
with‘the necessary vouchers, to
the undersigned Exe utor at the
office of Mr. R. E. Baumgartner,
attorney for the undersigned,
which office has been selected
as the place for transacting all
matters in connection with said
Estate.
Dated at Seward, Alaska this
Sth day of April 1948.
ELWYN SWETMANN
Executor
Pub. Sat. April 10, 17, 24& May
i 1. 1948