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Seward1 s AHAleather Port is Alaska's Greatest Asset.
THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD THAT GIVES A HOOT ABOUT SEWARD. ALASKA
Vol. IX, No. 21
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1952
Price 10 Cents
Reporter's Notebook
Billy Anrig, popular young
Seward graduate, is attending
Olympic College in Bremerton,
Washington.
The Harold Manions planned
to leave Friday tor Colorado via
the Alaska Highway. Frc m there
they will go to Oklahoma. Man
ions will be missed in Seward
by their many friends and Don
na’s school mates.
The Clark McCanns and the
three girls leave soon tor an
Outside trip.
Mr. Charles Leehner. Sr., re
turned last Sunday alter an ex
tended stay m Seattle where he
underwent medical treatment.
Mrs. Cecil Horton returned
Sunday iron! eortiana, where
she went lor medical attention
several months ago.
The nurses met at Mrs. Walter
Blues home iuesday nignt. Tne
Sewarci group is Uistriet i\o. 2,
AlasKa A arses Association. Tney
are preparing tne quarterly edi
tion oi the "Alaska Nurse,' a
puolication ol the Alaska Asso
ciation, wmch is done eacn quar
ter by a diilerent District.
Mrs. Kathryn Ling is invalid
ed tor at least a m-ontu uom a
back injury sustained irum a
lull. Airs. rung is in ner Home
on Second. Avenue.
Mrs. Irwin Aietealf lias been
ill at home tor sever..! weoKs,
ir-w uling.
Corine iutci nt-arcl irom Mrs.
Hazel Glints thui Mie and way.it*
are moving 10 Kticnikan. \vayne
will worK rn tnv banK there.
Gillies have been in Seatue
since leaving Seward last spring.
Friends hear from Gene and
Rene Skinner that tney luce lire
at Dutch Harbor. A movie cnang
mg every night keeps their eve
nings lull. Rene expects to visit
Seward next June—a long time
oil.
Don Smith, who left Uncle
Sam's service as a sergeant Iasi
wees, did not come back to
Seward to live. He is driving
heavy equipment for an Anchor
age' : r:n. he and iiarvey Mitch
.... too; re batching to
getiicr. D-on is glad to be a civil
ian again.
Another civilian is Gene Kirk
patrick, also glad to be out ot
unitorm. he is working with a
local firm.
Other Seward boys who were
inducted in the first call from
Seward and who are now out of
regular service, but in reserve,
are Frank Sanders, Bobby Weils,
Earl Moore and Bill Green. What
kind of employment they are
taking up or whether they will
live in Seward or elsewhere,
could not be discovered at press
time.
Frenchy and Emmie DuBeau
are on an auto trip to Fairbanks
to see the new baby in the fam
ily and his mother and daddy,
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Dunham.
They took A1 with them—ex
pect to be gone a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jeffrey arc
in Fairbanks this week. They
plan to be back Sunday. Bud
Dyer is also in Fairbanks. We
don't know what is going on
up there to take so many Sew
ard folks north, or is it just co
incidence?
Jerry Protzman has moved
his family back to Seward. His
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Find Body of Woman
tilissing 33 Days
A coroner's jury Friday, Nov.
21, gave a verdict of death from
natural causes at the inquest
into the death of Mi’s. Dora Mi
chelson. The woman was report
id mi;’sing on October 30 by her
bin )an !, Pe e Nick Mich-i Ison
•; thi- cilv. At that time he re
i > the U.S. Con. r
; :d Dinidv Marsh;.1 that his
v-.-ie had been gone about la
('ey -- and lie did not know her
whereabouts.
Michelson is blind and cannot
move .ii’ound outside tiie house,
so he had given his wife, an Un
; . -ka native woman, SI.00 to
buy some fish. Feeling "pretty
gi id" that day. he had also
given her a dollar tor a bottle
of wine.
Later in the day, he said, he
had heard her calling him from
across the ditch, which was be
ing dug for the water main at
the foot of his property on the
edge of Cliffside Addition. He
could not see to go to her aid,
and told her to go tip around
the ditch. She left. Michelson
said, and never came back,
lie supposed that she had gone
back to town, or “gone off"
some place to visit fas she often
has in past years) "or maybe
fell in the water ditch." He was
not too much concerned about
her absence since it had hap
pened before.
On October 30, he did how
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Rcrasdel Hospital
Two front rooms on the first
floor of the Seward General
Hospital are being remodeled
tor use of patients. They have
been used as office space for tlu
doctors. These offices will be
moved into basement rooms with
an outside entrance on the south
side of the building.
The hospital office is not being
changed.
"Flicker Red"
STOLP-TRAXLSR WEDDING
TO BE SUNDAY
The wedding of Loranna Stoll
and Donald E. Trailer will tak.
pi; ce Sunday at 7 p.i.i. in the
home o.l Mr. and Mrs. Phi
Harding. Commissioner Anna B
Southard will perform the' cere
mony.
The bride will have t.vo at
tendan e. Mrs. Helen Stevens
matron of honor, a.a! Miss Mar
garet Ann Lindsay, bridesmaid
Lest man is to be Bing Dupries
friend ot the groom, and fore
man for Babler & Rodgers Con
strut tion Company.
Mr. Traxler came here t<
work lor the construction com
pane on the new highway pav
ing. and met his bride-to-be a
Harding’s, where she is cm
ployed. He is from Filmore, Cal
ilori ia. They plan to stay ir
Seward until next fail.
After the wedding a recep
tion will be held in the Harding
bane net room on Fourth Ave
nue, for 300 guests. Mrs. Jack
Jordan, Mrs. Dan Southard anc
Mrs. Joseph Diesher will serve
at the reception, which is tc
begin at 8 p.m.
The couple will then leave fot
Tasalina Glacier Lodge for i
week long honeymoon.
GREENE RESIGNS FORCE
Dale Greene resigned from the
Seward Police Department thi:
week. No reason was given foi
his resignation.
Dr. Sellers reported today the
road to Moose Pass is terrific
Guess the chuck holes were al
most as big as his little car.
Seward Urged to
Observe Trise
Thanksgiving Day
‘■'.ward churches will hold
their ovn individual k 'l'viee:; on
Thanksgi dug thi. year, alum
doning ihc former piactice of a
Commit . 11 > Sor\ ice .
P,io*t of thi- churches will h >!d
services beginning at 10 a.in. All
minisb rs remind their m mbers
t > remember the reason for the
day and to i t turn thanks in
church on Thanksgiving Day.
Like to Ski? Aitend
Meeting Tuesday
Anybody interested in skiing
this winter is asked to meet at
the office of Mrs. Patricia Wil
liams. on Fourth Avenue. Tues
day night, November 25, at 7:30.
The meeting is not especially to
form a club, but to see how
many people in Seward will be
interested in the project.
Several local boys have put
in many hours brushing out the
course at Mile 12 and have it
all ready for snowfall. They
also have 800 feet of good rope
to use on a ski tow. The rope
was given them by the Anchor
age Ski Club. By next week
they will also have a motor for
the tow, but more interest is
needed to make a real ski run
of it .
If you like to ski, why not
meet with the fellows and girls
Tuesday night and see what
can be done about having a real
place this year?
Aiauka Frssqhi Lines
Bringing Mai!, Food
An Alaska Freight Lines barge
will dock Saturday, Nov. 22 with
fresh vegetables, meats and tur
keys for Thanksgiving — and
MAIL!
Magazine and book hungry
Sewardites will be glad to get
that mail. Bill Brown, a com
pany executive, assured towns
folk's today that the barges will
arrive every Saturday from now
on with mail as long as the fie
ri i> lasts in Seattle. This week's
barge is carrying 100 tons of
mail and will also" lake back a
1 oa d.
'3.*. SaSScrs' Associate
Arrives This Week
Dr. Norman D Ilall. formerly
from Phoenix, Arizona, arrived
in Seward this wt k as an asso
ciate of Dr. R. O. Sellers at Sew
ard Clinic.
Although Dr. Ilall is coming
from the States now. he is not
new to Alaska. Several years
ago he owned and operated the
hospital in Cordova. Phoenix
became too crowded to suit the
doctor and his memories of Al
aska called him back.
lie and his wife looked over
several Alaskan communities, in
cluding Cordova, \ aldez and
Fairbanks, before deciding to
come to Seward.
They have two sons. One is
in college, the other in the Oc
cupation Forces in Germany.
Dr. Ilall will join Dr. Sellers
in an associate capacity for the
present, then take over his prac
tice while Dr. Sellers is Outside
in the spring.
NEW COCKTAIL LOUNGE
Solly’s, Seward’s newest cock
tail lounge, is proving to be quite
an attraction with its small, but
beautiful bar, and unique light
fixture. For information con
cerning other innovations, just
ask the ladies!
Car Wreck Takes
Life of Mike Kerns
Funeral services will be held
Sunday, November 2,» lor Stan
ley L. (Mike) Korns of this city.
Mr. Kerns was killed in an ac
cident near Gird woo 1 last Sun
day win n the e. r in which he
was riding left the road, plunged
down an < mbankment and pin
ned him underneath.
Stanley L. Kerns was born De
cember 4. 1921 in Cumberland,
Maryland, lie came to Alaska in
1!)47 as a serviceman in the
54tii Troop Carrier Squadron,
U.S. Army. He had seen duty
in the Asiatic and Pacific thea
tre's of World War II where he
was presented with the Bronze
Star medal for bravery. He also
had the Victory Medal and Ger
man Occupation Medal. He was
discharged from Fort Richard
son separation center in 1949.
He had been a railroad brake
man in the States but worked
on the docks in Seward.
He is survived by his wife
Fannie George Kerns and two
stepsons, Raymond Kibsgaard,
U.S. Army, Ladd Field, and
William Kibsgaard, ATS, Sew
ard; a brother, Gilmore Kerns
of Cumberland, but now in the
Paratroopers, and his mother
who lives in Cumberland. Mr.
Gilmore Kerns is expected to ar
rive in Seward for the funeral.
Services will be held at 2 p.m.
in Seward Memorial Methodist
Church. Rev .J Lloyd Dean,
Faith Chapel, officiating.
Fire cst
A fire alarm wakened Sew
ardites last Tuesday at about
12:20 a.m., and called firemen
to the Plantation Club at the
edge' of town.
The fire was not serious, but
"it could have been," as describ
ed by one of the firemen. The
wall behind the stove in the
kitchen became ignited but was
soon extinguished.
Letter to the Editor
From Rec.’ Oid-T?mer
Editor The I! cord
Seward, Alaska
Dear Sir:
Sorry that I i > no1 know your
uanv.. but I don't think 1 know
a half dozen p< \e,le in So war. .
mit v. lien I lived there 1 knew
every man. woman and dog in
the town and nearly everyone
on the Kenai Peninsula. And 1
loved Alaska and still do and it
1 wa.-ai t so old. 85, I would be
back there. Since leaving Sew
ard at the beginning of the first
war in which I served two years
in a very interesting experience.
i:i all my travelings through Eu
rope and other countries. 1 have
always given my home as Sew
ard. Alaska.
We had a nice little Seward
party here a few days ago. and
1 am sending you an account ol
the party and the names of the
old timers that were there, that
you can use if you desire and
have space for. I worked on the
old Seward Gateway many times
when it was a weekly and a
month when it was a daily when
the editor went to Seattle for a
months vacation. And was it a
job I will never forget.
With kindest regards to you
and any of my old friends whe:
are still there.
Vcrv truly,
11. 11. HILDRETH
3347 San Fernando Road
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 5—
Fourteen of the old original resi
dents of Seward, Alaska, were
guests of Mrs. Thelma Ellsworth
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Unions Release Two
Alaska Ships in
Waterfront Tie-Up
The Seward office of A'aska
Steamship Company has been
advised lhal the Denali, sched
uled to sail today, Friday, has
been cancelled.
The following telegram was
received from Burke Riley, act
ing Governor of Alaska:
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday night advised Gov
ernors office that union confer
ees on Seattle waterfront dispute
had agreed to release two Al
aska Steamship Company ves
sels, the Susitna and the Coastal
Rambler both now scheduled to
sail north November 25 or 26,
erne to serve Southeastern ports,
the other Westward. This ampli
fied by D. E. Skinner as follows,
'The AFL Maritime Trades
Council has authorized the re
lease of two Alaska Steamship
Company vessels to sail Novem
ber 25: the Susitna for Yakutat.
Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Ko
diak, Seldovia and Homer, and
the Coastal Rambler for Ketchi
kan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sit
ka, Juneau, Haines and Skag
way."
Moreover, general agreement
reported reached that one vessel
every two weeks or two montly.
ly would bo released for Alaska
trade. These developments said
to have come about largely
through forceful presentations
made by Alaskans present from
Sitka, Ketchikan, Juneau and
Matanuska.
Meanwhile of interest to
Southeastern ports, representa
tive of Alaska Freight Lines,
Inc. has advised if tonnage avail
able that firm will endeavor to
provide emergency barge serv
ice to Southeastern ports.
THE KIDS ARE GOING TO
TOWN WITH A NEW CLUB
At last the teenagers have a
club -they started it themselves.
It seems that a few formed
the habit of going to Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Lewis' home on Third
Ay. :uie and having a jam ses
sion in Donna's front room. Fin
ally. Bo!) told them that if they
would ch an the trash out of the
basement thee eould dance down
there once a Week.
it ended with the kids form
ing a club with Jo • S voboda
as president. With Judy Gerwer
and a oven other willing help
ers. the • is .-anted an enthu
siastic cleanup.
Some suggi.-.c i a paint job
so Gus Johnson of Seward Hard
ware gave them enough paint
for their walls.
"You need a tile floor." some
father said. Ilmie Werner sup
plied the flooring—at cost. A
father is laying it.
Other fat Tiers have contribut
ed a ten dollar bill here and
there. Walt Ilolben is giving
them a juke box. Dale and Ruth
Greene have promised to chap
erone the deal and the kids
have something of their own.
Jack Werner is backing them
with coke and pop. They will
have a snack bar. etc.
The kids are going to town.
More power to them and those
thoughtful people who are mak
ing it possible!
LOCAL WOMAN ARRESTED
ON NARCOTICS CHARGE
Barbara Rogers was arrested
on a federal warrant Thursday,
November 20. charged with pos
session of marijuana. The arrest
was made by U.S. Deputy Mar
shal Irwin Metcalf.
The woman was taken to fed
eral jail, but released upon post
ing of $5000 bail. A preliminary
hearing is set for November 23.