EWARD
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I VIII, No. 38
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1951
Price 10 cents
ward electors will have 12
s in which to vote tomor
Tne office of mayor, three
oilmen, three to the school
d and one to the utility
d are to be filled from the
of 13 petitions,
igene N. Lanier ii? running
i third term as mayor. Op
lg him is R. E. (Bob) Baum
ler. Seward attorney,
“write-in” campaign is gain
lorce by the friends of Stan
emann, employee of Stan
Oil Co., who is also Scout
er. His petition failed to
e the deadline for filing at
city clerk's office on Sep
>er 25. The deadline is 3
, but there was a 3-minute
epancv between the watches
lose filing the petition and
City Hall clock. The city
z verified the time with the
>hone office.
iree councilmen retire this
: Don Wilson, police com
biner; Richard (Dick) Myers,
commissioner, and Mildred
Patrick, commissioner of
ic health and welfare. The
r is running for re-election.
:maining on the council are
les (.Chuck) Cole, Lawrence
ets) Whitmore, and A. G.
tty) McRae.
indidates for the three coun
seats are Mildred Kirkpat
managing editor, Seward
ird; C. E. Johnson, steward
ird Elks Club; Dale Greene,
?r Dale’s Diner (former po
chief); J. S. Doyle, owner
e’s Hardware; and Max
ilton, owner Hamilton's
ige.
lere is a choice between two
for the Utility Board: Ray
rovich, owner of Ray's Oil
ice, and John Coleman, pub
r Seward Record,
lere is no contest for the
ol Board. Mrs. Beryl Wag
is up for re-election, and
Kent Spaulding and Tom
ell are on the bailot as new
ibers, building the School
d to five members in corn
ice with the new territorial
le polls will open at 8 a.m.,
>rrow morning in the City
, closing at 7 p.m., giving 12
s in which to vote.
iur hundred and eight per
have registered, according
e report from tiie city clerk.
BROWN LEAVING
ANCHORAGE
Vic (Bud) Brown, owner of
Alaska Shop, is leaving
ird shortly to live in An
age where he will take over
management of the J. Vic
m jewelry store in Anchor
e Seward store will be man
by Mrs. Mabel Wisdom.
McDonald Re-Opens
Fight for Shorter
Alaska Highway
Seattle UP) — Saving Alaska
from Russia in the event of war
is dependent on constructing a
550-mile stretch of highway, in
the opinion of Donaid McDonald.
McDonald, of Fairbanks, is a
retired exploratory engineer. He
is known as the lather of tne
Alaska Highway. Ironically, ha
no .v despises it as “an economic
waste and wholly inadequate,
largely because ox rough, steep
stretches susceptible to washouts
between Whitehorse, Y.T., and
Edmonton, Alta.”
The solution, McDonald be
lieves, is constructing a road
from Atlin to Fort St. James,
B.C., that would connect witn
the Fairbanks road 58 miles
south of Whitehorse and with the
Cariboo road at Fort St. James.
Connecting the two roads
would cut the mileage irom Fair
banks to Seattle from tne pres
ent 3,400 miles to about 1,900
miles, McDonald said.
“Alaska is an economic island,
dependent on the sea for all
means of war or development,”
said McDonald. “If it is true
that it is one of the most stra
tegic areas in the world, and I
think it is, it is mandatory for
the United States to hold it.
"Bui I don't see how we can
unless we build this new road.
Russia has submarines and they
easily could cut Alaska off from
being supplied by sea.
•‘That leaves the present high
way. It is so bad that only 1,700
trucks used it last year.'’
McDonald was a member of
Ihe American commission which
worked jointly witn a Canadian
group in planning the Alaska
Highway beiore the Second
World War.
‘‘When the Second World War
came along,” McDonald said,
‘‘planning the road was taken
out of our hands and some
‘brain’ ordered it built from
Whitehorse to Edmonton and
down into Montana. That was
deliberate sabotage.
‘‘Tiie Canadians are about
ready to scrap their section. Any
good engineering outfit would
give that part of it up as extrava
gant and wasteful to maintain.”
The western route that Mc
Donald favors would have 35
bridges, costing an estimated
$1,500,000, compared with the
present road’s 78 bridges costing
$16,575,000, McDonald said. He
estimates the new road could be
built for $50,000,000, compared
with the $140,000,000 he says
the Whitehorse-E&monton sec
tion cost.
Ridgwcy "Prepared
To Strike Hard" If
Reds Prefer War
U. S. Eignih Army Headquar
ters, Korea V — The Eighth
Army is “prepared to strike and
strike hard” in Korea if the
Reds want all-out war instead
•of truce talks.
That warning was issued to
night in Tokyo by General
Matthew B. Ridgway's Public
Information Office.
It came as Gen. Omar N.
Bradley. America’s top military
leader, and Ridgway toured com
mand posts on the eastern front
where the United Nations’ au
tumn offensive got underway
last Tuesday.
South Korean troops in that
mountainous sector bared their
bayonets Monday and drove 5JO
to 600 Reds off the third crest
of a ridgAine .’-cst of Heart
break Ridge. Tney won the
other two peaks Sunday night.
Otner South Koreans captured
a hiii northwest of the Punch
bowl, north of Yanggu.
On the other side of the war
torn peninsula, s u n n y skies
brought the air war back to
Korea. Twenty-seven U.S. F-86
Sabre Jets clashed with about
40 red-nosed Communist MIG
15s in a series of dogfights that
swirled for 25 minutes north of
Sinanju.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
one of the Russian-made MIGs
was destroyed and three were
damaged. No Allied losses were
reported.
Tokyo LW — Red leaders per
sisted today in their long silence
on an Allied proposal to change
the Korean truce meeting place
irom Kaesong to No-Man s-Land.
Gen. Omar Bradley said Sun
day the future of the armistice
negotiations “will depend on
the nature'’ of the Communist
reply.
He had told a news conference
in Tokyo Sunday “no one can
foresee if they (the truce talks)
will be successful or unsuccess
ful. I don't think anyone expects
quick insults.”
He expressed hope that an
armistice can be reached, but
made it clear that was up to
the Reds.
Eimendorf Air Force Base.
(AMNS) — According to the
Tactical Air Command at Lang
ley AFB, Virginia, the Conti
nental Air Command has given
a new name to its new combat
ground troops charged with con
struction, maintenance and de
fense of Air Force installations.
They are to be known as the
“Airbees,” Air Force counter
parts of the Navy’s Seabces.
British Oil Men To
Be Evac^aied Frosts
Abadan Refinery
New York i/P) — The United
Nations plunges into the bitter
British-Iraniao oil dispute today
with Britain apparently bowing
in advance to Iran’s order ex
pelling Britons from the great
Abadan refinery area.
A London announcement said
Britain plans to evacuate all her
oil men from Abadan by Thurs
day, the deadline set by the
Nationalist Iranian government.
Abadan dispatches said most of
the oil men would leave by war
ship irom Basra, Iraq, Wednes
day, and the remaining few offi
cials would go to Basra Thurs
day.
Iran made it clear she was
insisting upon the expulsion in
spite of the pending British com
plaint before the Security Coun
cil.
Deputy Premier Hussein Fate
mi said in Tehran that the Se
curity Council had no power to
recommend that Iran lift the
expulsion o r d e r. Previously,
Hussein Makki, of the Iranian
National Oil Board, said if the
Britains insisted on staying at
the refinery, they would be
“escorted oii by police with the
greatest respect and kindness/’
Iran's aged, frail and emo
tional Premier, Mohammed Mos
sadegh, has not yet mentioned
flying to New York for the Se
curity Council meeting. His
deputy, Fatemi, said Iran still
has received no formal notice
from the Security Council on the
British complaint and no deci
sion on whether Mossadegh
would go to New York would
be made until such official no
tice was received. The govern
ment hud announced previously
Mossadegh would attend the
New York meeting.
Ten British warships are an
chored off Basra, only 40 miles
from Abadan on the Shatt-El
Arab estuary, and there was
some talk in London of an “oil
blockade’’ of Iran to insure that
the Iranians do not sell stored
Abadan oil which Britain con
siders property of the Anglo
Iranian Company.
Makki has said that if such
a blockade were imposed, it
would be “most dangerous and
would be the beginning of hos
tilities.”
STAUTER JOINS
NEWSPAPER STAFF
Jay Stauter, well known to
all the businessmen and people
of Seward, is introduced as the
latest member of the staff of
Seward Seaport Record.
Mr. Stauter is now advertis
ing manager for the newspaper.
New York (/Pi — A tieup of
the nation's shipping threatened
for last midnight was averted
just ahead of the deadline by a
tentative agreement on the west
coast and a 43-hour "truce” for
Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Shippers and AFL Masters,
Mates and Pilots Union (MMP)
have been trying to reach new
contracts in separate negotia
tions in New York and San
Francisco. Federal mediators
have been participating.
On the Pacific, the MMP
agreed to a two-year wage pact
subject to formal approval by
the union membership, the snip
pers Pacific Maritime Associa
tion (PMA) and the Wage Sta
bilization board.
CnaiicS F. May, president of
the D^ck Officers Union, said in
San Francisco that MMP mem
bers would refuse to worz At
lantic and Guif ships if they do
not get an agreement equal to
that attained in the west.
Union d e m a n d s concerning
hiring procedures are a key
point in tne eastern dispute. The
union wants all ships' officers,
except mast.rs, to be signed on
from union lists. Employers re
portedly want to make an ex
emption of first mates, too.
J.UC West CvjnSl
announced by May, granted the
union its demands on this point.
A 25 per cent wage increase
had been sought by the union
in both New York and San
Francisco, but the MMP settled
for 6.2 per cent on the Pacific
after once rejecting this figure.
However, there was pq indi
cation the union would budge oT?
wages in tiie east.
Other details in the west coast
agreement, May said, include a
40-hour week in port and at
sea, with time-and-a-hali for
overtime; doubling of the ship
owners' present 25 cents per
man day contribution to the
union pension fund; longer vaca
tions, and a number of other
benefits in work conditions.
Current pay rates range from
S378 to $75u a month.
West coast companies will
consider their agreement today.
The union promised to present
the proposed pact to the mem
bership oy Wednesday.
CHAMFER OF COMMERCE
LUNCHEON TOMORROW
The regular noon luncheon of
Seward Chamber of Commerce
is at noon Tuesday in the Hard
ing Cafe dining room.
Jay Stauter, Record advertis
ing manager, will give an inter
esting talk on his historical dis
coveries in the Alaska Museum
and Library at Juneau.
All business and professional
men and women are invited to
attend the luncheon.
A.C.S. ON WINTER SCHEDULE
Sgt. Powers announced the
winter schedule of hours for the
ACS office today.
The office will be open from
8 a.m. till 5 p.m. on week days,
and Saturday. Sunday and Holi
day hours will be from 9 to 10
a.m., and 4 to 5 p.m.
SAVE THE DATE!
OCTOBER 26, 1951
AnnuaI School Cat nival
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Seward High School
7:30 p.m.