VOLUME 4 ❖ INDEPENDENT ❖ SEWARD. ALASKA * SATURDAY JAN. 31. 1948 " PRESS SERVICE * price 10 cents NWIO
LETTER RECEIVED FROM
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
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We believe you will be inter
ested to know that the Alaska
Steamship Company initiated the
following wire to the Alaska Rail
road on January 14th:
“IF AGREEABLE TO RAILROAD
WE REQUEST THAT RESTRIC
TION ON HANDLING LESS CAR
LOAD FREIGHT AT WOODROW
BE REMOVED AS QUICKLY AS
POSSIBLE STOP WILL YOU
CHANGE STATUS OF STATION
AUTHORIZING US TO HANDLE
r BOTH CARLOAD AND LESS
CARLOAD FREIGHT AT WOOD
ROW EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATE
LY AND AMEND TARIFF LA
TER WHEN OTHER CHANGES
ARE INCLUDED IN SUPPLE
MENT PLEASE ADVISE.”
The Alaska Railroad has advis
ed that they will be pleased to
eliminate the restriction on less
than carload shipments to Wood
few as soon as a supplement to
present tariff can be issued.
It may therefore be stated that
said restriction on less than car
load shipments to Woodrow will
be lifted as soon as tariff sup
plement is issued by the Alaska
Railroad.
Very truly yours,
"v , F.A. Zeusler.
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NORTHERN CAFE
NOW OPEN
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taken over the management of
the Northern Cafe. They invite
Dorothy and Meryl Byrd have
the Public to come in and try
their tasty foods.
3RD AVE. BEAUTY SALON
SOLD TO MRS. ELHART
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Mrs. R. B. Elhart has purchased
the r3d Ave. Beauty Salon from
Mary L. Sargent. She will oper
^ ate her business at a new loca
tion and will announce same
later.
SEWARD SANATORIUM GIVEN
COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
j Two greatly needed units, an
intev-communication set and a
I .
public address system, soon will
i
be installed at Seward Sanator
ium. the same being a donation
1 from the Alaska Tuberculosis
Association. D. C. Langdon, of
tin* Alaska Eletronics Company
is preparing the specifications
and the installation will be made
by an Anchorage firm.
Speaking of the need for these
projects, Mrs. Bess Winn, secre
tary of the Association, states
that the hospital is situated with
in a sprawling army unit, and
without a means of rapid com
munication, the physician cannot
always be contacted in an emer
I gency. Telephone messages must
| also wait for delivery. She states
that the inter-communication set
| will greatly,increase the hospit
al's efficiency and the public ad
dress system, can be used in giv
ing messages by the physiean to
the wards, and in broad-casting
music and other entertainment.
Physicians, she added, have de
! dared that any light diversion.,
sub as music, is of genuine assis
tance to the cure.
Tiie Association, in cooperation
with the Veteran's Administra
tion. expects soon to start a re
j habilitation program, featuring
| both educational subjects and
occupational therapy, at Seward
| Sanatorium. In the meantime,
Mrs. Winn states, the Associa
tion has done many things for
the betterment of the hospital.
Included has been the purchase
of four steam tables with accom
panying pans, for use in the var
ious wards. Before the addition
,;of the steam tables, food served
j in the farthest wards took 20
j minutes to deliver and so was
I served cold. “It has been our
; privilege and pleasure to correct
j this condition,” concluded Mrs.
i Winn.
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CLAD IN A NIGHTGO.WN and coat, Rks. Rose Carlan (left) is led from her
Chelsc-a, Mass., home by a detective after police found the body of her
infant son, wljom she had leported kidnaped 16 days before, jammed in a
closet drawer close to her bed. Booked on suspicion of murder, she told
police she had concealed the baby after he had suffocated to death while
she attended a party. At right, her husband, Machinist’s Mate James
Carlan, is grief-stricken over the news. (International Soundphoto)
, BULLETIN
ai o:id r\.M jan. 31, ty^B, j
1 shots wore fired at Mahatma
i Ghandi, who, as he fell made the
j siign ol forgiveness to his as
i sassin. i
! The assassin, a Hindu is in jail.
The Hindu stood but eight
l'eet. away.
Twelve hours after tie died,
Orville Wright, 7(i. died in the
hospital in this country.
Wright, had he lived but ten
days longer would have seen the
anniversary of t lie 40th year
since lie sold the U.S. Army its
first plane on .Fell. 10, 1908 for
' $25,000.
Throughout the world 73 per
sons lost, their lives in airplane
| accidents. Two in a British-South
i America run and the third acci
dent in the U. S.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
GOES TO ANCHORAGE
Among those who left his homt
in Seward for Anchorage after
.2 or 3 days of extremely had
j Hying weather, was Leo Douglas,
prominent business man here
I who will file for Representative
S for the 3rd District, on the Dem
ocratic ticket.
He expects to remain in Anch
i ora go 3 or 4 days arranging his
i campaign for the office.
! He has almost solid hacking in
the Seward area among the tax
payers because of his successful
business experience and his prom
ise of economy—economy which
wiil not cripple the Territory but
which will take care of the nec
essary projects as viewed by a
taxpayer of which he is one of
tlie heaviest.
In a statement previously issu
ed it was written that, lie taught
school in the westward. The stat
! merit should have read that he
i was interested in the organiza
lion of the school at Coopers
, Landing.
I CHANGE IN CARGO
DEADLINES FOR FEB. 6
SAILING
, Changes in cargo acceptance
deadlines for the Feb. 6. barge
sailing to Seward by the Alaska
Freight Express Corporation were
announced today by T. A. Thron
son, traffic manager of the new
common carrier firm.
Tacoma cargo will be accepted
until 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3. at
Shaffer Terminal No. 1, Dock St.,
Tacoma. The previously announ
ced Tacoma deadline for general
frenght was 3 p.m. Friday, Jan.
30. The Seattle deadline is 3 p.m.
Wed.. Feb. 4.
Steel Barge 730 will make its
maiden voyage on the third Alas
ka Frenght Express trip, utilizing
I revolutionary cargo handling me
Ithods. Newly installed movable
; hoists and stern loading opera
tions will be utilized. Completely
| palletized, the cargo will be driv
! en aboard the barge from the
dock by fork-lift trucks. Freight
i will be stowed in place on pallet
boards, ready for rapid discharge
on arrival at Seward,
i According to Thronson, the new
Alaska Freight Express loading
I eouipmeht will provide all-wea
jthcr protection in loading and
j discharging cargo and will im
| prove segregation of freight.
The Alaska Freight Express
I Barge 719 returned to Seattle
shortly before midnight Monday,
x'\ days and Ifi hours after leav
ing Seward. The seagoing tug
El Sol. skippered by Capt. Ing
vald Wick, made the tow. The
2f>0-foot-long covered steel barge
carried southbound cargo for Pu
get Sound destinations. (
Miss Herzig of New York Here to
Investigate the Seward Sanitarium
For the past 5 or 6 months
members of the Seward Regis-'
tered Nurses Association have
been very much concerned over
the rapid “turn-over” in the nurs
ing staff at the Seward Sanator
ium.
They had recently set up .1
plan which was ready to be pre
sented to the proper persons in
authority within a few days.
Timed beautifully with their
call meetng of Tuesday evening
was the arrival of Miss E. Herzig
a woman trained to set up work
able .modern policies in just such
places.
Miss Herzig of . New York, is
from th.e U.S. Public Health Dept,
and is being loaned to the Ter- '
ritorial Tuberculosis Association
for only one year.
She comes to us from south
eastern Alaska., and is to con
tact all parts of Alaska before
her return to the states.
Miss Ruth Muriel, Supt. of Nur
ses at the Seward General, and
Miss Herzig have been very busy
setting up a fine workable pro
gram. One which will not only
meet the needs of the Sanatorium
patients, but will also be conduc
tive to a more permanent nurs
ing staff.
Wo feel that Miss Herzig's visit
is most timely, and that she is
to be given a great deal of credit,
for the fine professional manner
in which she is approaching a
situation which had become al
arming. and which was causing
a great deal of controversy.
The Nurse’s Organization is
anxious to back the policies now
being set up, 100%;and arc* going
to do all in their power to make
the "San” a better place in which
to get well. It is very appreciative
of the individual effort and co
operation of its members and of
the townspeople.
We hope the goal for which we,
the nurses, are striving will be
achieved, and that the Sanator
ium will be a more pleasant pl
ace in which to work and noe
in which the patients will be
more content to remain until they
are well.
We feel that the new policies
which are to be put into effect
at once will remove cause for
criticism and make the Sanator
ium tlie Pride of Seward.
Mrs. Stiiwell Visits the
Freedom Train.
Before leaving the States an
outstanding priviledge was mine,
an opportunity to visit the Free
dom Train. With thousands of
others 1 stood in line many
hoiu's, waiting and listening to
the conversation about me when
suddenly the Freedom Train came
roaring out of the pages of his
tory. She is a smoothly stream
lined train and powered with a
mighty Diesel electric locomotive
but she looked not unlike any
other sleek modern passenger
limited. She is different though.
Roaming her silent corridors
while on this tour of, the 18
states are the ghosts of Ameri
can history's great men and
women. They were brave men
and women; brave enough and
oftimes just adventurous enough
to battle through the ages to
give America its Heritage of
Freedom. There was Christopher
Columbus who sat alone in his
cabin on the high seas of the
stormy Atlantic in 1493 and wrote
a letter to a friend about a, new
world he had found. The friend
published that letter and it lies
today enclosed in a heavy glass
ease aboard the Freedom Train.
Another ghost is Peter Zenger,
who had a notion about the
l'rpedom of the press and when
he spoke of it too loudly in his
New York Weekly Journal, back
in 1734. he found himself editing
his paper from jail. He was vin
dicated by a jury, however, and
thus paved the way for Che free
doms enjoyed by the nation’s
press today.
Even the galloping ghost of Paul
Revere, who rode through the
night to spread the alarm that
the British were coining, is near
at hand. Among its treasured lore
of documents is the original of
the commission to Revere, signed
by General Warren, to serve as
the official messenger bn that
nieht of April 18. 1775.
War was not long in coming.
that war from which the United
States of America emerged blood
stained but undaunted as a free
democratic nation. The very Dec
laration of Independence which
proclaimed those freedoms lies
aboard Freedom Train, safe be
neath a half-inch plastic cover
ing and behind two sheets of
heavy glass.
There is a copy of the first
printing of the pamphlet written
in December of 1776 by Thomas
Paine, who gave literature its
-THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT
TRY MEN'S SOULS." “The sum
mer soldier and the sunshine
patriot” he wrote in the best
seller of the day “will in this
crisis shrink from the service of
his country; but he that stands
now deserves the love and thanks
of man and woman.”
Gallant ghosts of great men?
Freedom train is filled with
them. History almost fails to re
cord the brave men at old Fort
Stanwix in New York, who tore
up their shirts and cloaks, im
provised from the material a
flag designated by the Contin
ental Congress and hauled it up
into a stiff breeze to wave on
June 14, 1777, as the first Ameri
can flag to be unfurled in battle.
Freedom Train carries the only
known manuscript describing tho
event.
The conditioned air which fl
ow's through Freedom’s train is
a far cry from the wintry winds
which swept through Valley For
ge in 1778 and found General
George Washington sitting alone
and writing to Governor Morris
the plight of his pitiful little
ary. The original letter in Wash
ington’s handwriting is one of
the guarded treasures aboard the
train.
And there’s the letter of the
unforgettable John Paul Jones,
which was written in 1782 to
Gouvernor Morris. “I take no
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