Seward Seaport Record
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Seward, Alaska
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Mildred Kirkpatrick . Managing Editor
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By Mildred Kirkpairick
Uncle Sam is making a raid
on tilt* piggy bank that is rem
iniscent oi WW II days. A mes
sage ircm tne Federal livserve
Bank oi San Francisco this week
complains that there is a nation
wide shortage oi coins, iirst oo
served after the outbreak of hos
tilities m Korea.
The shortage is becoming
acute and banKs are finding u
increasingly difficult to meet
the present heavy demand, par
ticularly for pennies and half
dollars.
"The principle shortage prob
lem throughout tlie country is
that of the lowly penny,” the
appeal reads. "Even though
mints have operated an as high
as a bO-hour work week, they
have been unable to relieve the
situation ... A reduction in the
supply of copper allotted by the
NPA and delays in deliveries
of metal have been contributing
factors.”
Other reasons given for the
penny shortage, outside of the
general effect oi greatly expand
ed business activity, are the pre
valence of odd-cent pricing,
sales taxes, parking meters and
vending machines. "Not to be
ignored, above all.” says the
Federal Reserve Bank, “are the
cookie jars, piggy banks and
other household containers
which hold much of the more
than 17 billion one-cent pieces
which are outstanding ”
If each American family will
return to circulation just ten
pennies, nearly 338 million of
them would come out of hiding,
a number that would take the
mint five months of 60-hour
work weeks to produce, using
up 1260 tons of scarce copper.
As for Alaskans, with the 12
per cent increase in federal tax
es November 1st and the conse
quent hike in Territorial income
tax along with the raise on cig
arettes, tobacco, gasoline and li
quor, most of us will have no
pennies to hoard anyhow. Maybe
the penny situation will clear
itself up in this way.
HELICOPTERS ARRIVE AT
DOCK UNDER OWN POWER
Four 'copters of the Rick Heli
copter Company were shipped
back to the states yesterday.
They landed at the dock under
their own power.
Much interest centered around
the approach to the dock when,
•one after another, the odd look
ing craft settled down and was
dismantled for shipment.
The 'copters have been em
ployed by the Army Engineers
in the mapping of the Kenai
Peninsula this summer. Their
use shortened the project by a
whole year, according to a state
ment made recently by the com
manding officer.
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October 13 and 14
Call Main 53
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
MORE ABOUT . . .
Story of Seward
(Continued rrom Pane 1)
spring of 1906. No matter how
dark things looked on the finan
cial ledger, shrewd Mr. John
Ballaine always had something
up his sleeve—something to k ep
up the morale of the workers
and the townsite folks, some
thing to encourage his stockhold
ers and attract new investm nts.
Although he had little control
over actual railroad construc
tion, lie still maneuvered like a
master general ro keep the pro
ject alive.
In April, 1906, he announced
the location of a northern ter
minus for the railroad, by filing
a homestead of 40 acres of land
near the present town of Nenana,
at the point where the Nenana
River empties into the Tanana.
Studiously overlooked was the
booming town of Fairbanks. Bal
laine was not about to build a
railroad to someone else’s town
site lots. The action, that of lo
cating a northern terminus,
sounded reasonable in the Sew
ard Gateway account, but when
one stops to think that the pro
moters were at that very mo
ment desperately struggling for
additional financial backing to
run the track from Mile 49 to
Turnagain Arm. it now seems a
little impractical, to say the
least, to be starting a new town
site some 300 additional miles
from nowhere. But that is the
technique of the promote r, and
Baliaine was the promoter par
exeellance!
In all fairness, however, it
must be admitted today that
John Balia ine had one very sub
stantial thing on his side at all
times, and that was geography.
Ilis route for the railroad, how
ever sketchy Ids surveys must
have been, has outlived a score
of others which at one time or
another were favored by prom
inent engineers, great corpora
tions, and even the United States
Government. Today, The Alaska
Railroad runs almost precisely
along the route originally select
ed by the Major back in 1901
and 1902.
Incidentally, through an un
forseen event, Major Baliaine’s
choice of 40 acres of unpopulat
ed land as a northern terminus
rather than thriving Fairbanks,
acquired a certain logic. Just
one month later, on May 23,
1906. a fire destroyed practically
all of the great northern gold
camp, laying more than 100
' hidings to the ground. Few at
the time expected Fairbanks to
recover from the blow.
Continued Next Issue
CUB SCOUT PROGRAM TO
GET UNDERWAY SUNDAY
Pack No. 327 will have a roll
call and inspection at the Parish
Hall of St. Peter's Episcopal
Church Sunday evening, Oct. 14,
at 7:30 o’clock.
This will be the first Pack
meeting this fall and all Cub
Scouts with their den mothers
and the Cub Scout officials are
urged to attend. It is especially
important that all Cubs who
have uniforms wear them to this
meeting as ther: wall be an offi
cial inspection and the Pack will
receive a rating on its efficiency
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October 16
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Oct. 25
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October 13
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October 15
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