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Vol. X. No. 7
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1953
Price 10 Cents
To Publicize Alaska —
Who says Alaska is not des
tined to be a great land for tour
ists? Let that man read forth
coming issues of Screenland.
Silver Screen, Inside TV, TV
Carnival, and other magazines.
Early issues will contain articles
of both fact and fiction about
the Northland and Nome.
Michael O'Shea, nationally
known magazine writer and
actor, returned from Nome this
week with Dorothy Arnold,
singer and actress: Michael Ray
hill. Hollywood night club sing
er: Danton Walker, Broadway
columnist; Lynn Bowers, of the
Louella Parsons staff, and Peter
Perri, photographer.
“Where else," Miss Arnold
exclaimed, “can you go hunting
for gold nuggets on the beach,
and in 20 minutes pick up
enough for a pair of $80 ear
rings! And only 180 miles from
Siberia, too!”
New Office of Land Commissioner
Brings About Changes
JUNEAU NEWS LETTER
W. A. Chipperfield, Alaska's
first Land Commissioner, com
menced his new duties August
1. The Department of Public
Lands was created by Chapter
126 of the 1953 session of the
Alaska Legislature.
Chipperficld recently retired
from the United States Forest
Service and served in that agen
cy in Alaska for many years.
Most recently he had been in
charge of the lands work of the
Forest Service in the Alaska
Regional office.
The first major job of the
new Land Commissioner will
have to do with the leasing of
school lands. An Act of Congress
approved Mar h 4, 1915, reserv
ed Sections Id and 3G of each
township in the surveyed lands
of Alaska for the support of
public schools. The new Terri
torial law provides that the
Land Ccmr.i -toner shall have
the administration of ;• . i U
ing jurisdiction o\\r these
school lands.
School lands leasing has been
handled by the Governor's Of
fice since 1915. l or many years
there were few leases of school
lands and the revenues of the
Public School Permanent Fund
were small. Recently, however,
with the increased population
of the Territory and with addi
tional school lands being made
available through new public
surveys, the leasing of these
lands has become increasingly
important. During the first halt
of the calendar year 1953 the
Territorial Treasurer reported
receipts of $9,472.97 from rent
als. Most of this came from the
leasing of school.
The Land Commissioner is
presently in Juneau working on
the details and procedures for
the leasing of school lands. For
the time being, persons con
cerned with the leasing of these
lands should communicate with
the Land Commissioner, Box
1571, Juneau, Alaska. All pres
ent school lands leases will con
tinue in effect. The law passed
by the 1953 Legislature provides
that new leases may not be
granted for a term longer than
Two years.
In the near future the head
quarters cffice of the Depart
ment of Public Lands will be
established in Anchorage, as re
quired by the law which creat
ed the department.
In addition to handling the
leasing of school lands, the Land
Commissioner is authorized and
directed to:
Act on behalf of the Territory
with respect to the disposal of
materials by the United States
from lands withdrawn in aid of
the Territory. This will include
the leasing of mineral rights
and the sale of timber from
school lands.
To ascertain Alaska’s lieu or
indemnity land entitlement un
der any reservation or grant by
Congress and to maintain a con
tinuing record of such lieu land
entitlement.
To have custody of all land
registration records assembled
by the Territory. These rerords
have been kept by the Auditor
and the Tax Commissioner.
To prepare proposed land leg
islation for submission to the
22nd and subsequent se ;s:ons of
the Alaska Legislature.
To accept and exercise admin
istrative jurisdiction over all
lands granted, transferred or
reserved to the Territory includ
ing lands granted or transferred
for public park or recreation
purposes.
Still other duties are imposed
upon the Department of Public
Lands by Chapter 134 of the
1953 Session Laws. This chap
ter reinstitutes the old land reg
istration program first set up
by the 1945 Legislature.
In brief. Chapter 134 requires
that each owner of real property
in Alaska who has not registered
this ownership prior to July 1.
1949, shall file a sworn state
ment giving his name, post of
fice address, a description of the
tract of land and its area or
acreage. The statement must be
filed with the Recorder of the
recording precinct in which the
property is located not later
than December 31, 1953.
In addition, upon any trans
fer of title to real property, a
similar statement must he filed
by the new owner of the land.
Recorders are required to
keep a special record of state
ment? of ownership and will
transmit the original statements
to the Land Commissioner.
Failure to file the r-mitircd
statements will subject the own
er of the property to a penalty
of So, which will become a lien
upon the property.
The Land Registration Law of
1945 specifically exempted from
the registration requirements all
lands within incorporated towns.
In the drafting of the new Land
Registration Law of 1953. per
haps through inadvertence. this
exemption was not included and
the law now applies to all lands
in private ownership, wherever
located in the Territory.
Gives Reon-t On
Territorial T«xes
Tax collections by the Ter
ritorial Department of Taxation
for the first seven months of
1953 amounted to $10.21(5.083.16
according to a report made to
Governor B. Frank Heintzlcman
by Acting Tax Commissioner
R. D. Stevenson.
This compares with $9,016,
145.52 collected during the same
period last year and $3,02-4.
347.75 collected during the first
seven months of 1951.
Tax collections by Divisions
during the seven month period
were:
First Division: $3,866.298 74
in 1953: $2,623,838.01 in 1352;
and $2,567,589.75 in 1951.
Second Division: $140,566.52
in 1953 $149,738.39 in 1952; and
$147,320.70 in 1951.
Third Division: $5,343,878.19
in 1953: S4.964.283.73 in 1952;
and $3,956,950.61 in 1951.
Fourth Division: $1,360,344.71
in 1953: $1,878,280.34 in 1952;
and SI.352,486.69 in 1951.
School Bus Bids
Opon Friday
Opening of bid to furnish pur
chase of two school buses for
the Seward School Board was
postponed last week until Fri
day, August 14. Capacity of the
buses was increased to 18 each
by the Board last week after a
survey of apparent neads fo"
the coining year.
It is understood that delivery
of the vehicles cannot be made
under 60 days or three months.
An interim contract will be ne
gotiated locally to transport
children from outside the city
limits until the new buses ar
rive.
Man Gives Up Ship After
Three Hours of Smoke, Gas
James Roy Stoltzfus held out
for three hours last Saturday
night against five law enforce
ment officers who tried to re
move him from the cannery
tender Grebe, of which he had
allegedly taken unlawful pos
session.
Witnesses present described
the battle as starling at about
7:30 when Stoltzfus, whose name
was unknown then, boarded the
boat where it was tied at the
Resurrection Bay Co. cannery
dock. Two boys, Martin Teresin
and Mark Wider, were fishing
off the boat with hand lines.
Without preliminary talk, Stoltz
fus is said to have grabbed
Teresin and struck him in the
wrist with a knife, saying, “This
is it, fella.” The youngster broke
away and scrambled onto the
dock, closely followed by the
other boy. They ran for town.
On the way, Teresin met a car
whose driver took him to the
police station. Wider met Mar
vin Viale, partner with Bill Ev
critt in the cannery, who was on
his way to the Grebe.
By the time the two arrived
at the cannery dock, lines had
been cast off the Grebe, pre
sumably by Stoltzfus, and the
boat was adrift about 13 feet
from the dock.
An incoming fi king boat was
hailed by Y:ale and with its as
sistance the Grebe was nosed
within jumping distance of the
dock and she was again secured.
Stoltzfus refused to come ashore
and disappeared below deck. He
said later that "he just wanted
to see how far it would go.”
Two members of tire city po
lice force arrived with the U.S.
Deputy Marshal, the special
agent from the ARR, and the
Territorial Police representa
tive They went aboard, but
Stoltzfus barricaded himself be
hind the galley bulkhead, refus
ing to come out. Three charges
of tear and smoke bombs
failed to dislodge the man for
three hours. The only reply to
question: £r m the officers was
a fusillade of “iron skillets,
canned conds and glasses of
jelly shown with great force,”
it was stated at the hearing.
At about 11 pun., Stoltzfus
gave up and emerged with red
watery eves to be lodged in jail.
Even alter being handcuffed,
witnesses stated that the man
kicked an officer in the face
v hile getting up the plank to
the dock.
A preliminary hearing was
held Friday, August 14, before
U.S. Commissioner Anna B.
Southard. Two charges were
brought: one, assault with a dan
gerous weapon; the other at
tempt to rtcsfroy a boat.
At the hearing, Stoltzfus stat
ed that “someone had shot at
me. My actions may not have
seemed rational at the time, but
I thought I was protecting my
life.” He testified it was never
his intention to harm the boy
nor to destroy a $50,000 boat.
He was held for the grand
jury with bond set at $5000.
Sfisdi-33 Marine Borer
In Locs! Wciters
Mr. E. F. Rico. Engineering
Department, University of Alas
ka, has been in Seward this
week studying the destructive
effects of marine borers in Res
un ection Bay structures. Both
the teredo and limnoria are pres
ent in these waters, Mr. Rice
stated.
The object of this project is
to find if possible a less expen
sive way to. combat the borer
than by the use of relatively ex
pensive creosoted piling. It has
been found that dynamiting
around piling just after the
breeding season for marine
borers will protect untreated
piling for a single season. The
process must be repeated every
year, however.
All Alaska waters are infest
ed, Mr. Rice explained, and a
cheaper control might encourage
the use of native timber if it can
be protected from the borer,
either by installing crcosoting
plants in Alaska, by the dyna
mite method or some other, still
to be discovered, way.
EDGAR HOET RESIGNS
Edgar L. Holt, formerly of
Valdez, has wired Governor
Heintzleman his resignation as
a member of the Territorial
Board of Road Commissioners.
Holt, who represented the Third
Division on the Board, has
moved to California for reasons
of health.
Set Three Days For
Salmon Derby
The first big silver salmon
derby }n Seward will begin next
Friday morning at 6 o'clock.
Registration closes promptly at
9 p.m., Thursday, August 20.
Fishing is confined to the area
between an imaginary line run
ning from the Army Dock across
the bay to the Alaska Freight
Lines dock, and. the north end
of the bay.
Entry fish will be weighed at
the Bayside Sporting Goods
Store. Prizes, to be announced
Thursday, will be awarded on
live weight.
Seventy-five people have reg
istered to date for the derby, but
the more entrants, the more and
bigger prizes, said Mr. Cox of
Bayside Sporting Goods.
Nimrods Prepare For
Big Game Hunts As
Season Draws Near
Approach of the big game
hunting season finds many local
nimrods preparing to take to the
brush in search for their quota
of the animals. From the 1953
regulatory announcement of the
Fish and Wildlife Service comes
the following information:
No birds or animals may be
taken by shooting from, on, or
across or within 33 feet of the
center line of any public high
way, or any railroad: nor may
any big game animal, except
black bear west of 138 degrees
west longitude, be taken within
the one-quarter mile area on
each side of any public highway
or within the one mile area on
each side of any public highway
on the Kcnai Peninsula.
No aircraft or motor driven
vehicle shall be used for the pur
pose of tiriving._circling, herd
ing, following, molesting, spot
ting, or in aiding in the taking
of big game animals except as a
means of transportation between
a settlement or point of outfit
ting and a hunting site on which,
when trasportation is by air
craft, a camp must be erected
and established prior to hunting:
and provided further, that no
helicopter shall be used for the
purpose of transporting any big
game animal nor may it be used
as a means of transportation in
any manner connected with tak
ing of such animals.
Deer. On the Kodiak-Afognak
Island group, August 20 to Au
gust 23. Limit, 1 buck a season.
Elsewhere, east and south of the
Alaska Range (Prince William
Sound area) August 20 to No
vember 15. Limit, 2 deer in ag
gregate (either sex except fawns.)
Moose. Bulls (with forked
horns or larger). On the Kenai
Peninsula, September 1 to Sep
tember 20. Limit, 1 a year: Pro
vided that each hunter taking
moose on the Kenai Peninsula
shall report such kill to the Fish
and Wildlife Service representa
tive at Kenai, Seward, or An
chorage, within 5 days from
date of such kill.
Mountain Goaf (except kids).
West of longitude 141 degrees W.
(but not in the Cooper Landing
and Sheep Mountain areas, or
on Kodiak Island), September 1
to October 31. Limit, south of
the coast range from longitude
141 degree? W. to and including
the drainage into Prince William
Sound, 2 a season. Elsewhere, 1
a season.
Identification of sex. No per
son shall have in possession the
carcass of any deer, moose, cari
bou, elk, mountain sheep or
bison from which has been re
moved all evidence sufficient to
determine conclusively the sex
of the animal, unless the carcass
has been transported to, cut and
placed in storage for preserva
tion at the locality where it is
to be consumed. When head is
removed from carcass, some
other evidence of sex must be
visible.
B&PW CHARTER DINNER
TO BE AUGUST 28
The Business and Professional
Women’s Club will hold its
charter dinner August 28. The
dinner will be held at the Le
gion Club at 7:30 p.m. It will be
preceded by a social hour be
ginning at 6:30. Caterer is to be
George Englebert.
Guests will be present from
Anchorage as the club which
sponsored the Seward group last
year. Tickets will be on sale
next week.
Audit Shows Balance
In City Funds
The audit of City books now
in progress indicates that there
will be an unexpected balance.
The exact amount is not yet
known, as several budget chang
es were made at the special
meeting of the Council last Mon
day night. These changes will
alter the figure, probably a de
crease from that previously an
nounced.
This paper will publish offi
cial figures after the audit is
accepted by the Council.
Coast Guard Officer
Here To Issue Port
Security Cards
Lt. Sherry, U.S. Coast Guard,
arrived in Seward Friday to take
applications for Coast Guard
Port Security Cards.
He will have an office in the
Federal Building for one week.
All persons having business or
working on either of the docks
in Seward, and who have not al
ready received the required
identification cards may make
application during the week. The
office is to be open from 9 to
5 except at noon time.
Reporter's
Notebook
Derailment of a triple unit
diesel engine last Saturday night
help up traffic at the approach
to the Army dock for several
hours. The big engine had to
be jacked onto a new track, the
old one repaired, then the en
gine switched back. It was a
real operation for a crew not
equipped for heavy wrecking.
Bob and Wilna Henrickson
and family spent several days
this week in Homer and Scl
riovia. They got back Wednes
day or Thursday—all back on
the jobs.
Mrs. Vance Hitt went to Fair
banks this week to spend a few
days.
Miss Sarah May Garrett was
listed as a northbound passen
ger on the Denali. Miss Garrett
is on the Jesse Lee Home staff.
Mrs. Forrest Bogard went to
King’s Lake as counsellor for
the local group of 4-H girls this
week. They came back on the
Thursday train. Mrs. Bogard is
a trained worker in 4-H, having
been employed by the Agricul
ture Extension Bureau in that
work in Oregon before her re
cent marriage to Mr. Bogard.
Joe Deisher, 10 year old son
of Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Deisher,
is in Rochester, New York. He
went back with his grandmother.
On his return home alone he
will stop over in Windsor, Colo
rado to visit his other grand
mother. Quite a trip for a young
man of 10!
Coach Don Dalbcrg is back
in town. Almost any time you
'go by the Civic Center these
days, you can hear the sound of
thumps, presumably basket ball.
Maybe he is lining up the team
already, or just playing for the
fun.
Mrs. Troy Bogard spent the
day Thursday in Anchorage
shopping, etc. Made the round
trip shoppers special.
Another Fish Fry is scheduled
at the Legion Club, Sunday,
August 16. Fish will be ready
from 4 till 8 p.m. Everybody is
invited. Folks who went to the
last one say it is really wonder
ful eating. It is silver salmon
this week.
Teddy Gerwer is home on
leave from the Marine Corps.
He has finished boot camp in
San Diego and is now awaiting
assignment.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Smythe
have been vacationing this week
from Werner's Market and the
bank, respectively.
Looks like the Homer people
are planning a real fair for Au
gust 23, 29 and 30. The official
premium list is pages long!
There will be a meeting of the
Seward recreation group next
Thursday, August 20, at 3 p.m.
in the City Council room. All
persons interested in recreation
are invited to attend.
Don’t let yesterday use up too
much of your today.
A.S.C. Representative
Commends Longshoremen
Local Businessmen
At Anchorage Meet
Jack Werner and Sol Urie
represent Seward in the con
ference being held in Anchorage
this week. Men from Anchorage,
Fairbanks, Palmer and Seward
are holding a conference on the
Western Alaska situation, and
preparing for the visit of Sena
tor Butler and other Congress
men.
This meeting is not held un
der the auspices of the Alaska
Chamber of Commerce, although
the meeting was announced at
the luncheon here. Tom Bie is
also at the conference and
Mayor Painter planned to attend
some of the meetings on his
way back from Fairbanks. It
is a three day meet from Thurs
day to Saturday.
Another topic to be discussed
is the proposed bill for port
authority which was turned
down in Legislature, but which
will be presented again, accord
ing to advice received here.
Kids To Picnic At
First Lake Sunday
Local 885, Culinary and Bar
tenders' Union, have big plans
for entertaining Seward kids on
Sunday, August 16. The picnic,
everything furnished but the ap
petite, will begin at 2 o'clock
and run till 6:00 at First Lake.
In case of rain the affair will
not be cancelled, but transferred
to the Civic Center.
All sorts of games and con
tests are scheduled including a
pie-eating contest, shoe scram
ble, clothes scramble, swimming,
etc. *
A committee of five planning
the big day are Flicker Red,
Helen Stevens, Tony Kessler,
Jerry Smith and Frcnchy
Blanchard.
This event has been the high
light of the union’s activities
for two years and is given for
the benefit of all children of all
ages in and around Seward.
Senate Committees
May Visit Seward
Members of two Senate com
mittees may be crossing paths in
Alaska later in August when
groups from the Senate Interior
and Insular Affairs Committee
and the Senate Public Works
Committee are in the Territory.
The Public Works group, com
posed of Senators Martin, Case,
Chavez, Holland, Stennis and
possibly one or two others, will
not hold hearings but will make
an inspection trip, flying from
Portland on August 21 to Ju
neau, leaving there the next day
and flying to Elmendorf, staying
overnight there and going to
Eklutna on the 23rd and then to
Naknek. staying overnight at
Naknek and flying back to El
mendorf on the 24th. On the
25th, the group plans to fly to
Fairbanks and on the 26th will
fly from Ladd to the States. The
Alaska trip will be part of a
comprehensive visit throughout
the Northwest. Although not in
cluded in the published itiner
ary, Seward expects to be visited
by at least part of this commit
tee, according to Chas. Malin,
secretary of the local Chamber
of Commerce.
Governor Heintzleman will
fly to Ketchikan on Saturday,
August 15, to meet Senator
Hugh Butler of Nebraska, chair
man, and other members' of the
Senate Committee on Interior
and Insular Affairs.
Members of the Senate party
will include Senator Earle C.
Clements, D., Kentucky; Senator
James E .Murray, D., Montana;
Senator Clinton P. Anderson, D.,
New Mexico: Senator Frank A.
Barrett, R., Wyoming: Senator
Guy Cordon, R., Oregon; Sena
tor George Smothers, D., Flor
ida; William C. Strand, former
Fairbanks newspaper editor and
now Director of the Office of
Territories, a branch of the In
terior Department; a court re
porter and an administrative as
sistant.
The committee is due to ar
rive in Ketchikan on Sunday,
August 16, and has announced
that it will also visit Juneau,
Fairbanks, Point Barrow, Nome,
Anchorage and perhaps other
points to hold hearings on Al
aska statehood, the elective gov
ernor bill and other matters
concerning the Territory.
The Governor will accompany
the party during a part of its
Alaska tour.
“Seward longshoreman are
due credit for the excellent job
they arc doing in moving freight
here with inferior facilities.”
The statement was made by
Henry Clark, Washington, D.C.
representative of Alaska Steam
ship Company to the Chamber
of Commerce this week.
Washington, D.C., Clark re
marked, is a place of “confusion
and uncertainty” these days, re
sulting from the change of ad
ministration, and cut-backs in
funds and personnel. He contin
ued to describe the capital as
“a business administration made
up of businessmen whose objec
tive is to get the government out
of business.”
Mr. Clark did not make the
statement here that Alaska
Steam will go out of the winter
passenger business definitely. He
did state, however, that only
five ships are operating passen
ger service on the Pacific Coast
without government subsidy.
These are the four Alaska Line
ships and the Lurline in the
Hawaii trade. All other lines are
subsidized.
“Alaska cannot afford dis
agreements,” Clark remarked in
referring to the differences be
tween Southeastern and Western
Alaska. He is himself, from
Southeastern Alaska, born in
Wrangell, where he grew up,
and was the first general mana
ger of Alaska Development
Board.
Other guests at the Chamber
of Commerce this week were
Tom Maloney, Alaska Steamship
Company, Anchorage, and Lt.
Hanson, U.S. Air Force, who
was passing through town.
THE AMERICAN LEGION
DEPARTMENT OF ALASKA
PASSED AT THE
CORDOVA CONVENTION
June, 1953
RESOLUTION NO. II
WHEREAS, The American Le
gion Department of Alaska rec
ognized the perilous situation in
which our country now finds
itself, and the resultant threat
to the safety of our Government
and to the liberties of our peo
ple, and that in this situation
we deem it the sacred duty of
every citizen to support our
Government in its.foreign and
domestic policy, and to preserve
our spirit of National unity; and
WHEREAS, we believe that
partisanship and irresponsible
criticism of our Government of
ficials merits the condemnation
of every patriotic citizen.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED by the American
Legion, Department of Alaska,
in regular convention assembled
at Cordova, Alaska, this 25, 26,
27 days of June, 1953, that we
do heartily condemn and repro
bate factionalism and any at
tempt to derive personal or par
tisan advantage from the diffi
culties encountered by our mili
tary and civil leaders.
AND BE IT FURTHER RE
SOLVED that we pledge our un
qualified support to our Govern
ment and to its officials, both
civil and military, in their ef
forts to deal with the crisis
which confronts us, and that we
do now call on every loyal and
patriotic American citizen to
give his utmost, without reserve,
in furtherance of the ultimate
victory of our armed forces, and
in support of those who bear the
burden of directing our affairs.
AND BE IT FURTHER RE
SOLVED that copies of this reso
lution be transmitted to the
President of the United States,
The Hon. E. L. Bartlett, Delegate
to Congerss from Alaska, to the
Honorable B. Frank Heintzle
man, Governor of Alaska, and
to the Press of Alaska.
SVAC First Aid Class
For Recruits Starts
Ten new recruits of Seward
Volunteer Ambulance Corps will
begin a class in First Aid Mon
day, August 17, at 8 p.m. in the
fire hall.
The course will be given by
Mildred Kirkpatrick, certified
instructor. Anyone else interest
ed cither in volunteering for am
bulance duty or in a refresher
course in first aid to renew
certificates is welcome to join
the class, Mrs. Kirkpatrick
states.
All members of SVAC must
hold valid first aid certificates
to qualify for service. The first
group qualified earlier this year
and have been busy with am
bulance service all summer.