VOLUME 4 * INDEPENDENT * SEWARD, ALASKA * WEDNESDAY JAN. 21 1948 ❖ UNITED PRESS SERVICE * Price 10 cents No. 57
SERIES OF SMALL ACCIDENTS
KEEP SKIPPER AND CREW
GUESSING
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A series of accidents has dog
ged tile steps or should we say
* knots of Capt. Joseph Zardis of
the Hastings Victory, which is
now in port here unloading autos
and trucks for the military’ in
the interior.
The Hastings Victory is in the
Army Transport Service and on
November 7th was ordered to
Yokohama where she arrived on
November 21sl. From there the
H.V. was ordered to Manila, P.I.
where she loaded steel and was
sent to Batangas which is nearby
arriving on Dec. 13th where she
Sicked up over a hundred ve
■liicles. ,•
At Batangas. the ship struck
the dock causing considerable
damage.
y From Batangas the Hastings
was ordered to Adak to complete
her load and took on 110 vehic
les for Seward.
At Adak she was rammed by
a tug and a hole stove in
her hull.
The former captain of the Zal
inski. which was lost near Jun
-c*au some time ago is beginning
to believe in his bad luck as the
break slipped as the anchor was
let down and the (>,000-pound
anchor and 110 fathoms of chain
hit the bottom of the bay.
The army will probably fish it
up this summer so it won’t be
a total loss.
Rations got rather thin aboard
the army transport and the cof
fee was cut a third; no supplies
will be put aboard, it is said,
until the ship arrives in Seattle
her next port of call, it is sup
posed after discharging her cargo
here.
Crew members state that Adak
soldiers claim they were short of
vehicles there even before 110
were shipped out. but that’s the
old army game—ship here and
Iship there—and keep things
moving regardless.
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Mrs. Leon Urbach left on the
Aleutian for a well earned vaca
tion in Washington and Calif
ornia.
HOME FOR SOURDOUGHS
DEDICATED LAST WEEK . j
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A community dream came true'
last week when the Oceanview
Home for sourdoughs w;is dedi
cated. Through the efforts of
Mrs. Elizabeth Stilwell. Mrs. Hel
en Parke, owner of the Ocean
view Apartments, and a number
of Seward organizations and in
dividuals, the basement of the
Oceanview has been converted
into two dormitories and a sit
ting room. Here tlie oldsters can
obtain low cost living quarters
and board and be together to
hash over tin* glorious old days
when Alaskan men were really
men.
In answer to a letter sent out
by the Health and Welfare Coun
cil local organizations contributed
thp following: chair coverings by
the Junior Women’s Club with
the Red Cross donating the ma
terial. a new Philco radio by the
local longshoremen’s union No.82,
two table lamps by the Seward
Woman's Club, a subscription to
the Saturday Evening Post by
the Parent-Teachers Association,
wool shirts by the Lions Club,
and candy and apples by tin*
Registered Nurses. Other contri
butions were made by individ
uals with Jack Cobles doing the
[painting and decorating.
Oldest of the present five res
idents is John Stiefel, who cele
brated his birthday with a cake
and 92 candles just before Christ
mas. John, who prospected all
up and down the Richardson Ili
"Aay has a new ambition in
life—to grow the biggest cabbage
and the finest lettuce north of
54-40. Eighty-nine-year-old Chris
Amodt can tell you some tall
tales of the days when he struck
pay dirt in the Livingood area—
once to the tune of $22,000. Al
bert “Pack" Olsen, 81, can re
member mushing supplies back
in '07 from Livingood to Nome.
Oscar Erickson, 77, used to drive
a dog team in the Kuskokwim
area and there's Thomas Gordon,
77. who was released from Home
in-the-Woods Hospital.
According to Mrs. Parke addi
tional pioneers are expected to
take up residence in the new
quarters soon.
Incredible Shanghai
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By A. M. Goul
U.P. Staff Correspondent
SHANGHAI (U.P.)—I can scar
cely believe it, but I like it. That
was my impression of Shanghai
after my first five days of open
mouthed study of the most in
credible city in the world.
Five days in Shanghai doesn’t
quadify anyone to “learn all about
^ it,” and my bet Is five years
would not provide a full story of
this place. But in five days I
saw things I have never seen be
fore and do not expect to see in
any other place in the world.
The things I have heard, seen
and smelled!
The vast mixture of races and
peoples, natives and foreigners
who are qualified to speak about
Shanghai, no longer sec anything
unusual about it. To them its
^ routine.
World of Carnival
But to a freshman, green from
the United States, Shanghai is
something beyond description. Th
ere’s nothing freakish about Sh
anghai to Shanghaiers, but to me
it’s a worid of carnival and cir
cus side-show talent.
There’s the man with hi§ bam
boo pole across Ipis.shoulder, with
a couple of hundred dead rats
hanging by their tails. He is sur
rounded at his sidewalk stand by
eager natives bidding for the pl
umpest, lushest rats of the lot.
For the skins and fur. that is,
not the meat. They use them for
glove-making.
There’s the man, a hunter one
supposes, who squats on the side
walk across Garden Bridge, with
a row of wild mallard ducks sp
read out before him.
! There’s the traveling butcher
j shop, the man with two baskets
of raw meat and his sidewalk
1 customers picking them over for
the choice cuts. At his side is the
with the small iron stove slung
; from his shoulder pole, with a
little fire going. He will reach in
to his basket slung from the oth
er end of the pole, bring forth
; a hit of meat, cook it and hand
you a hot sandwich—if you want,
it. I didn't
Traffic Incredible
Then there is the unbelievable,
crowded traffic of the streets,
with thousands on thousands of'
rickshaw boys trotting along with
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SEWARD 4-H CLUBS
BEING ORGANIZED FOR 1948
The Seward 4 H-Cubs are or
ganizing for the 1948 work. Mrs. j
Mildred Kirkpatrick was elected
president of the council and held
the first council meeting at. her
home last week.
The Photography Club leader
ship was accepted by Mr. Ed.
Stockhausen, and Mrs. B. Davis.
This club has an expected mt n
bership of thirty boys and girls,
and will be a very active and
progressive culb, with the wealth
of photographic material in tins
area, and the excellent guidance
of Mr. Stockhausen, the children
should become eligible for good
prizes.
The first year sewing will be
led by Mrs. Kirkpatrick, and wiil
also be a large group composed
of children from the age of ten
years up. The work will consist
of plain sewing beginning with
the hemming of towels, pot hold
ers and aprons, besides which
the girls will learn to conduct
their own meetings according to
correct rules, and plan them own
outing's.
Volunteers for leaders are ur
gently needed for Baking Clubs
and Camp Cookery, which clubs
will niclude both boys and girls.
The 4-H Clubs are sponsored
by the Extension Bureau of the
U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, which
furnishes medals and awards for
achievement besides the cash
awards made by the town groups
sus?y as the Lions’ Club. Women’s
Turn to page (4) four
FOREST SERVICE REPORT
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B. Frank Heintzleman, Regional
Forester, U. S. Forest Service, ad
vises that a warrant for $37,196.61
is being forwarded to the Treas
urer of Alaska to cover the am
ount due the Territory from Nat
ional Forest Receipts for tlu‘ Fis
cal Year ending June 30. 1947, un
der provisions of the Act of May
23, 1908 (16 U.S.C. 500). This
money, representing 25% of gross
receipts from tlie Tongass and
Chugach National Forests in Alas
ka. is to be used for roads, trails
and schools by the Territorial
government in the First and Third
Judicial Divisions. An additional
10% of the National Forest re
ceipts, amount'ng to $14,878.64 is
used by the Forest Service for
roads and trails within the two
Forests.
The amount received by the
Territory since 1908 for its 2.V;
share of the Forest receipts totals
$737,334.89. The amount spent bv
the Forest Service on roads and
trails, representing the 10'; of
Forest Receipts since 1903, totals
$286,859.74.
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SHIPPING NEWS
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The date for the sailing of the
Coastal Rambler has not been
changed. She will leave Seattle
on the 23rd of January.
The Denali will arrive in Sew
ard on Friday Jan. 23rd at 4:30
A.M. Shortly thereafter she will
continue westward, her first stop
being Seldovia. Kodiak next, and
several other small ports in the
area before returning to Seward
on her way back to Seattle.
She will bring 47 passengers
and have 640 tons of freight
when docking at Seward on the
way west.
City Council
The garbage collection will be
; brought before the people for
bids in March. There are several
who are at present collecting
but the city does not seem to
be holding the present contractor
to his agreement as many citi
zens seem to feel the charges
are unjust, and are not paying.
The city shipped the men who
came in from Anchorage for
work and who were on relief
there, back to Anchorage on No.
110 Friday and will present a bill
to the city of Anchorage for
over SI00.00 costs for the usual
winter spree of shipping peoplo
out of that city to get out. of
taking care of them.
The unual hills wore allowed
and paid.
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There was no discussion on
the bonds, the storage plant, and
no mention was made of the suit
agiiinst the city for the last
bond election in which bonds
were authorized to purchase new
equipment and enlarge the plant.
According to Attv. Peterson in
Anchorage no bonds may be
sold before all suits against the
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city arc settled.
Attorney Nesbitt of Anchorage
was hired as attorney for Sew
ard .
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Shorthaired dogs, whose natural
habitats are the torrid zones, sh
ould never be made to sleep out
doors in winter months.
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If America’s crop land 'were
1 fenced into equal shares, each in
dividual’s plot would be smaller
than three football fields.
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SNYDER MEETS WITH TOPFLIGHT INDUSTRIALISTS
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary
, of the Treasury John W. Snyder
poses with group of nation’s lead
ing personalities in the business
and industrial world for mutual dis
cussions of problems facing Gov
i eminent and private business. Tax
ation. public debt management
' and fiscal planning, particularly in
relationship to the part the United
States Savings Bonds program can
play in preserving a stable econ
omy, came up for consideration
during conference held at the
Treasury Department. Seated; left
to right, Secretary Snyder. Ui\der
Secretary A. L. M. Wiggins; Mar
tin W. Clement, president Pennsyl
vania railroad; Philip R. Clark,
president City National Bank, Chi
cago. Back row, left to right, 'Wal
ter White, assistant chairman Busi
ness Advisory Council, Department
of Commerce; H. Frederick Hage
mann, Jr., president, National
Rockland Bank, Boston, Mass.;
William R. Kuhns, secretary Amer
ican Bankers Association Savings
Bonds Committee; Thomas V.
McCabe, president, Scott Paper
Co., Chester. Pa.; Gale Johnston,
president. Mercantile - Commerce
Bank and Trust, St. Louis, Mo.;
Ernst Mahler, executive vice presi
dent, Kimberley Clark Corp., Nee
nah, Wis.; Albert Bradley, execu
tive vice president. General Mo
tors Corp., Detroit; John Holmes,
president, Swift and Co., Chicago;
Paul Clark, president, John Han
cock Mutual Insurance Co., Boston;
Alexander Fraser, president. Shell
Union Oil Co., New York City: Clar
ence Francis, chairman of the
Photo by Haniss and Ewing
board, General Foods Corp., New
York City; C. R. Fay, comptroller,
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.; Robert
Whitney, executive director, Na
tional Federation of Sales Execu
tives; Frederick C. Crawford, pres
ident, Thompson Products, Cleve
land; R. J. McMath, vice president, i
Bethlehem Steel Corp.; Arthur Sur- i
kamp, treasurer, U. S. Rubber Co., j
New York City; John J. O’Connor,
U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Oth
ers at the meeting but not in pic
ture: Earl Bunting, president, ;
O'Sullivan Rubber Corp., Winches-j
ter. Va.; Robert Fleming, presi-‘
dent, Riggs National Bank, Wash-'
ington, D. C.; Walter D. Fuller,
president, Curtis Publishing Co.,
Philadelphia; and Philip D. Reed,
chairman of the board, General
Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.