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Letter To The Editor—
Howell's Radio Talk:
Following is the text of the
talk Tom Howell gave over the
radio earlier in the week:
I am a resident of Seward and
a taxpayer, both of real and
personal taxes, and also a mem
ber of the School Board.
I am for a new hospital in
Seward.
I have lived in Seward for
■seven years and previous to that
at Jesse Lee Home for nine
years. At one time I was City
■Clerk, for two years before tak
ing a job in the post office.
M; ly things have been offered
to Seward by the Government
at little or no direct cost to the
city. We have not always been
very wise. Because of arguments
and divisions, we have had to
pay dearly for some of the things
we could have had at one time
—free. Oh, I know that nothing
is actually free. We pay for
everything that the government
gives us through taxes.Jaut the
fact is that we pay those taxes
anyway.
If this hospital, for example,
is built in Anchorage instead of
in Seward, on Federal funds, it
isn’t going to make my income
tax any lower. Therefore. I be
lieve in letting the taxes I pay
to the government come home
to work. I feel personally that
tiiis new Nurses’ Home hasn't
cost me one penny, for there is
no difference in the tax I owe
to either the city or the govern
ment as a result of having this
fine building. It did not cost the
City of Seward one cent. It did
not decrease our borrowing capa
city one dime. I may be selfish,
but I can’t help but feel glad
that some of my income tax
came to Seward instead of going
to some foreign government for,
who knows, what purpose?
It has been stated that we
cannot possibly get all the Pub
lie Works projects for Seward
that we are putting in for.
Friends, that's more than any
one knows.
But one thing I do know, we
gannot get all of these improve
ments if we do not ask for them.
The priority list is already
established. The people made
this clear in the last election,
and the City Council has recog
nized that fact. Those men on
the City Council do not always
vote as we believe they should,
but they arc citizens of Seward
the same as 1 am. They are my
neighbors. They have to live
here, too. If I can’t trust them
to do a good job with the re
sults of the last election, then
who can I trust in Seward? Must
I live in a community where I
can’t trust anyone? Or can I.
when I vote for someone to rep
resent me on the City Council,
say, "Thank you for the 4>nie,
the effort, and sacrifice that you
put into making my town a bet
ter place in which to live.”
I may not see the day when
we have a new school and a
new hospital, but no one will
ever accuse me of not trying to
get both for my town,
I want a new school—first,
last, and always. And I want a
new hospital, too. That goes for
paved streets, a new water sys
tem, sewers for the entire town,
and a new dock for the water
front- If I make enough noise,
someone back in Washington
will hear me after a while, and
I have enough faith in my coun
try as well as in my town, to
believe that I will get them. But
it certainly won't happen if I
sit back and do nothing.
The post office here in Seward
is in hopes that the business we
did last year will make us a
First Class Post Office this next
year. We made it by about one
hundred dollars. We could lose
it very easily. What does that
mean to Seward? Better salaries
and more help in the post office.
In connection with the hospital,
I would be crazy if I went to
the polls next Tuesday and voted
against another payroll for Sew
ard. It will help me as well as
my neighbors financially, in the
"years to come.
No. I don’t expect to be em
ployed by the new hospital, and
I pray God that neither myself
nor any of my family will have
to use it. But by the same token,
I don’t expect to work on the
docks cither, but that doesn’t
keep me from seeing the great
benefits to the town, if we get
a new dock. And I intend to
work as hard as I can for it, too.
Someone has said that we
could use the new Nurses’ Home
for a new hospital. I’m not a
hospital man in any respect, but
even I can see how impractical
that would be. How. for example,
would we put patients on the
second floor without an elevator?
Would they be carried from the
operating table upstairs? Maybe
it would be more practical to
operate on the second floor and
let them walk down. While we’re
on the subject, the real reason
there are so few nurses in the
new home is simply because the
furniture for the rest of the
rooms hasn't arrived yet. I doubt
if anyone would want the nurses
to move in and sleep on the
floor.
Did you know that since the
first of the year, the Seward
Sanatorium has been able to go
on a forty hour week, because
now they have enough room to
house nurses? That means new
jobs, new people for Seward,
and—they have to spend their
money someplace.
As I see the picture, it’s sim
ply this: Can we afford to pay
about $165,000 back to the gov
ernment over a period of, say,
thirty years, for a $725,000 hos
pital? I say yes. I believe that
this town has a future, that its
growth alone will make it a
relatively easy task. This is part
of the growing pains any real
’live town passes through. I hope
we can be progressive enough
to ease our growing pains, so
that we won’t have to go through
the pains of another Anchorage.
Vote “Yes” for the hospital.
SEWARD DISTRICT NURSES
MEET JAN. 20
A regular meeting of Seward
District No. 2. Alaska Nurses
Association, will be held in the
new Nurses’ Home on the eve
ning of January 20. Hostesses
for the evening are LaPreal Bie
and Melva Torvanger.
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