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eninsula-Chain News
VOLUME 5 ♦:* INDEPENDENT ❖ SEWARD, ALASKA ❖ WEDNESDAY JULY 21, 1943 * UNITED PRESS SERVICE * PRICE 10 CENTS No 5
City Council Notes
Regular Council meeting set for
July 19 was marked by the ab- j
s-ence of Dahl and Miller.
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Catalogues, prices and specifi
cations on a Ford dump truck
were given the Council by Lech
ners Machine Shop. Max Hamil
ton garage will make a bid with
the G.M.C. and Pat Friede with
the Dodge as soon as the newest
specifications arrive, it is under
stood
Attorney Baumgartner. Hal Gil- j
Liien and Mrs. Hal. Jacobs were
present in the interests of tire
few Liquor Dealers Association.
Baumgartner and Gilfillen both
spoke, Gilfillen bringing out the
f-wt that beer sells from Ketchi
kan to Nome for 50c or more and
the $8.00 to $10.00 raise in ease
prices in the last two years and
also locally, the $5.00 per day
rise in bartender prices, made it
imperitive that prices no up and
that prices be standardized im
mediately.
It was also brought out that
limiting the number of bars in
Seward would have the same ef
fect as in Anchorage where many
road houses sprang up over night,
free from tax and the city tax
payers suffered for it. On the
•other hand Gilfillen stated he
knew of persons here who were
ready to put in a S50.000.00 re
tailer's store at anytime the situ
ation warranted it in order to
take care of the local market
Dr. Sellers made the motion
that the plan be given a 60 day
fry out.
The entire proceeding will have
to wait til the first regular meet
ing in August because of the ab
sence of the two council mem
bers.
What will probably be asked
■- a suspension of rules to en
able the council to enact legisla
tion enabling the liouor dealers
to take advantage of changes in
the ordinance governing them as
soon as sanctioned.
Now that a note for S6.000.00
he s been paid off by the city
from money collected from the
Veteran's project, f o r money
s'c-nt by the last council for the
jri't, the manager will he able
■ ■ go ahead with the improve
' ■ ' ■ ■ ,, 4■ ■ ■ projee ■ 4 :
. project, management plan
... . go:- f; ils brought up the
olei:..-. of heating and it was
4 ted that certain stoves were
•.dec! for the project.
The heating problem was furth
• ■ discussed by Councilman Sef
• ovlch who with Councilman
J . mter had been appointed to
r. ram it tee to check the condition
:f the project with the idea of
: ung as much as possible to
. ake ready for winter.
Pege of the Cold Storage Com
- ny sent word that a number of
; rbage cans were available at
:r.e plant and would be released
:■-< the project on request. They
cnamoer
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Coiss fierce
MEMBERS WILL MEET IN THE ;
EASEMENT OF THE
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
AT 8:00 P.M.
SECOND AND FOURTH
THURSDAYS
belong to the project..
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Mrs. Carl Ling turned in her
forms all filled out with the ex
ceptions of 5 or 6 which will be
checked and also those of two
taxpayers who refused to be as
sessed
Among other statements made
by Mrs. Ling was a complete cen
sus of the dog population. There
are 110 dogs in town who are
claimed by their owners. There
are 47 dogs who are not claimed.
Dog population of Seward: 157.
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The council will meet in closed
session next Monday. July 26 to
go over the tax list and try to
justify it with the present set up.
it is hoped this move will iron
out and place the assessments on
a fair basis for everyone who
pays taxes.
Aletter from Culberson & Ohl
stm, Attorney, representing P. .1.
O'Connor Bonding Co. of Chicago
who were interested in extending
the right to take advantage of
the possibility to sell $300 000
worth of Bonds 31 g for 60
days
,The Council took the additional
time on motion of Painter and
Kennedy's second.
This $3(10.0n0 is what the former
Council planned to use to give
the Citv ownership of the Marine
Wavs, the Water System and to
buy out the holdings of the RFC
This was explained by Keating
who was present.
T|ie Seward Light and Power
were given a year by the former
Council 1o remove poles, etc.
from City streets and alleys, it
was stated, and August the 1st
is the dead line.
It was not made plain what
will be done but legal action will
probably be planned but whether
by the City or the Utility Board
s not known.
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Six hundred forty-two barrels
of asphalt of kind for use speci
fically in Alaska has been acquir
ed by the city from the govcrr.
n cut at a cost of 25c per barrel.
T!i:s will be used on 4th Avenue
as soon as a range; .enls can 1 •*
made to lay *.
Method.- wh.eh will enable an
airesting offset’ ‘o determine the
• mount of liquor consumed and
the resultant elimination of the
ability to in r.dle an automobile
by the person arrested was en
dorsed by the' Council on request
of Council men Painter and Sel
lers.
The complete setup which is in
use in Washington and other
states will cost but little and
will eliminate any guess work in
determing the degree of intoxi
cation.
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Citizens who have not paid their
garbage bill may receive a
caller in the person of a police
officer whose inquiry will be em
bodied in the one word. Why?
Dr. Sellers, in an article on the
garbage situation in Seward
which was published in the May
22nd issue of the Polaris asks
that stress r;n the fact that the
payment is for a SEV1CE and
not on how much or how little
garbage is taken away
Certain persons tire fussing be
cause only half a can of garbage
is picked up where a full can
costs the same The garbage ser
Turn to page (4) four
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
World News
Mat thews of New York, former
lv a member of the Dies Com- ;
mittee states war with Russia is
; inevitable.
Seventy-five U. S Jet planes
are on the way to England on
board the flat top “Sicily": fif
teen others will fly across the
i Atlantic to eventually be based
near Berlin.
He?
! General Eucius Clay is enroute
j to Washington to confer with the
l State Department heads. He will
return to his post in Germany by
Sunday. Some talk of General
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| Eisenhower going to Berlin but
i nothing definite has been made
public.
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The Rtissains are planning to
j offer 100.000 bushels of grain to
‘ people of Western Germany. The
j Allies look at this as a propa
| ganda move.
i Two hundred eighty-two Ameri
; can planes landed 1000 tons of
j supplies in Berlin and among
I this was 17 tons of matting for
i plane runways.
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Russian planes "buzzed" the
! English flying field and endanger
ed property and lives according
I to a British report.
i The Special Session of Congress
| called by President Truman will
be well war-featured inspite of
the fact that it is said to be call
ed expressly for the purpose of
giving the Republicans a lesson
in the art of governmental ad
minstrat ion.
The draft taking in men from
! 19 to 25 years of age starts on
Aug. 30. The last to register will
be the younger of the group
j which will probably be finished
September 17th and 18th.
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New Jersey's Governor has re
activated the entire groupe v.h"
were in charge of guard work : w !
black out during the war.
Koreans killed two Aa.wavt.
' out of five by hiding in the Ann -
ican zone near a Korean city and
throwing grenades and the i.
small arms. The fire urns >•< .
turned but the attackers fled.
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France is looking for a new 1
Premier as a shakeup occured as ,
l result of the size of the budget. 1
An American and his wife
were stoned in Cairo. Egypt, and j
the American lost his life. He and
his wife were touring. They were
from Baltimore.
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Cairo was bombed from the air
i by a lone unidentified plane
which dropped a land mine on a
movie damaging it and two de
partment stores.
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Three U. of A. students out of
five made it to the top of Mt. j
McKinley. Two were unable to
proceed further than the 18.000
foot level. Only 5 good days were ;
enjoyed out of 25 taken for the
triri. At the 15,000 foot level, 90
mile winds were encountered.
They lost 15 pounds ea h m
weight.
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Col. Tulley of the A.C.S. is due
in the terra ::y - << >.
ALASKAN
PILOT-OWNERS
The Civil Aeronautics Board
lias made a determination in the
long-pending and so-called hush
pilot case by exempting a num
ber of air carriers in Alaska from
certan priovisions of law.
The new regulation designates
such carriers as “Alaskan Pilot
Owners” and exempts them from
the requirement of holding certi
ficates fo public convenience and
necessity. The term means "a
certified pilot twill a commercial
or airline transport rating who
beneficially owns and flies ex
clusively in air transportation
within the Territory aircraft none
of which is certified to carry
more than four passengers and
who is not otherwise authorized
to engage in air transportation.
The Board. in establishing the
regulation, issued a statement
reading in part as follows:
“The Board recognizes the de
pendence of the Territory upon
air transportation and its great
need for a variety of specialized
air services and feels that these
needs at this time justify allow
ing a ready avenue for inaugura
tion and performance of these
specialized services in order to
satisfy immediate public demand
and to provide for full develop
ment of these services. On the
other hand, stabilization and fur
ther development of the whole
Alaska air transportation system
can. in the Board's opinion be ac
complished only through proper
observance of the legal and order
ly processes laid down in the Act.
The types of service which the
Board will regard as being in
conformity with the regulation
are flights made for such purpose
a» sport fishing hunting, or sight
seeing or to carry or supply t,ap
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BISHOP MARTIN TO SPEAK
AT MEMORIAL CHURCH
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The following people will
arriving on Friday’s boat: El :.op
Charles Selecman. retired Metho
dist, bishop: Bishop Paul Marin
of the Arkansas-Louisiana ana
of the Methodist Church.
Perkins, donor to the Perk.r.
school of Theology of the Sou -
ern Methodist University: l..\
Ruth Haugen daughter of '
founder of the Methodist
in Seward. Rev Louis Peelers-,
and Rev. and Mrs. G. E v.. .. 1
Knight.
Bishop Martin will be speak!.- g
at the Seward Memorial Cr .
at 3 p.m. Friday night. A x.t
hour will be held in the churra
parlor after the service honoring
the visiting personages .
All friends of the church are
welcome to attend.
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BEVERLY COURVOISIER AND
OSWALD DANA UNITED
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At 6 p.m Monday night he: /•*
the beautiful alter of the Seward
Memorial Church, Miss Lev*
Courvoisier and Mr. Oswald
(Ozzie i Dana, of Anchorage re
peated vows in a double
cereemony.
Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien of Sev.
were their attendants. After ■-,.e
ceremony the party were e: ve -
tained at the Legion Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Dana will rr.; • o
their home in Seward.
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Terry Moore, eenterfield ;: d
captain of the St. Louis Cardim ,
claims an outfielder should r. «
judged 70 per cent on field : g
ability and 30 per cent on r Is
hitting.
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Black pepper consumed in ■ e
United States amounts to 15'. 1-0
tons a year, it is estimated.
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Reprinted by permission of The Chicago Trlbcn*
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Collectivism, bv whatever name, is but organized larceny, aggrandi*
Ing and clinch,ng a running few—out of declining productivity of the
aiai.y therefore Communism hates, and seeks to destroy, our laws
against lareenv. Henry Wallace, long before he so openly embraced his
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or detenus, would be destroyed. • *