Seward Seaport Record
Postoffice Box 204 - Telephone Main 168
Published on Friday of Each Week at
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman.Editor and Publisher
$5.00 per year by mail. 10 cents per copy.
Editorial
By MEK
WILL SEWARD CONTINUE
TO GROW? This has boon a
question in the minds of many
of the older residents for several
years. A glance at the figures
presented this week by the
school enrollment should con
vince the skeptics that a very
substantial and steady growth
during the past ten years is un
likely to stop in any foreseeable
future.
Ten years ago, in 1943, total
enrollment in Seward schools
was 110. Five teachers took care
of the system. Today, an enroll
ment of 600—an increase of ap
proximately 500, speaks for it
self. Now the services of 30
teachers are necessary to keep
up the standard of education
held by this city as one of the
four Alaskan schools fully ac
credited by the Northwest Edu
cational Association.
Enrollment at the end of last
school year. May 1953, was 470.
In four and a half months 130
children have been added to the
school population. This docs not.
of course, mean an increase of
130 families in four months, but
it does indicate a steady growth
in population of the area.
What to do with the big school
population is a question that the
School Board lias attempted to
solve by the construction of a
new building for the higli school.
Taxpayers cooperated whole
heartedly by passing a bond is
sue for S600.000 to build a school
FROM SEWARD
SS ALEUTIAN, Thurs., Sept. 17
Valdez, Cordova. Juneau.
Ketchikan, Seattle
SS ALASKA, Friday, Sept. 25
NADINA, Sept. 22
Valdez, Seward
FROM SEATTLE
ILIAMNA, Sept. 22
Seward, Valdez
ILIAMNA, Sept. 23
Seward, Valdez
JUNIOR WOMEN OPEN
SEASONS WORK
Fifteen members of the Sew
ard Junior Women's Club open
ed the winter season Tuesday
night. They met at the home of
Mrs. Ludine Knight. Mrs. Aud
rey Anthony was co-hostess.
Mrs. Marge Lovett announced
that materials for the Tubercu
losis Seals Sale at Christmas are
all on hand for an early start
on the campaign. The club spon
sors the TB Christmas seal sale
in Seward.
Plans are being made for a
social to be held in a larger
building at tire next meeting.
under the Alaska Public Works
program.
Delays, misunderstanding, and
haggling in other departments of
government place Seward school
construction in an uncertain po
sition. Don Wilson, director of
APW, informed Mayor Painter
recently that witli the appropria
tion of $12 million for Alaska
Public Works, the Seward school
is assured. No official confirma
tion has been received to date by
either the Mayor and City Coun
cil or the School Board. Gover
nor Heintzleman states this week
that no slash will be made in the
Alaska appropriation. His “Ju
neau News Letter"lists the pub
lic works projects that are to be
continued under the program. It
mentions divers school buildings
about the Territory but the Sew
ard project is conspicuously ab
sent from the list.
What to do and how to plan is
a burning question in the minds
•of School Board members and
all parents. It is felt generally
that the Mayer and City Council
should take immediate steps to
confirm or deny the prospects of
immediate construction of a
school buildir to alleviate the
congested condition in Seward
schools.
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or GARFIELD 50
A daughter was born to Rev.
and Mrs. David Blackburn of
Anchorage in Seward General
Hospital Monday, September 7.
The little girl, named Mary
Elizabeth, weighed 7 pounds at
birth.
BUS. & PROF. WOMEN WILL
COMPLETE PLANS TUESDAY
The regular meeting of the
Business & Professional Women
will be held as usual at 6:15
p.m. Tuesday at the Diner.
Onnolee O'Brien, Doris Smith
and Mildred Kirkpatrick, a plan
ning committee, will report on
a show which they are preparing
for club production in the near
future.
Members are requested to call
Mrs. Gus Johnson if they do
NOT expect to attend the dinner
meeting.
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TWO HOUSE MOTHERS JOIN
STAFF AT JESSE LEE HOME
Edna Sexton, Union City,
Pennsylvania, and Tommy Dil
lard, Dallas, Texas, have joined
the staff of Jesse Lee Home as
House Mothers. Miss Sexton will
supervise the younger boys. Miss
Dillard will serve as relief
House Mother in the girls’ build
ing and edit the Ke-en-it.
Before coming to Jesse Lee,
Miss Sexton served as director
of the Tacoma Community
House in Tacoma, Washington.
She has also done Settlement
House work and nursery school
and kindergarten work in Nash
ville, Tennessee, and Danville,
Virginia. She holds the title of
Deaconess with the Methodist
Church, having received her
training at National College in
Kansas City, Kansas. She re
ceived a B.S. in education at
Northwestern University and
began her teaching career in
Union City.
Miss Dillard was graduated
from Southern Methodist Uni
versity in Dallas, Texas, witli a
B.S. in Journalism, in January,
ST. PETER'S AUXILIARY
LUNCHEON SEPT. 19
The Woman’s Auxiliary of St.
Peter’s Episcopal Church will
hold the annual Past President’s
Luncheon on Saturday, Septem
ber 19, at the Parish Hall at 1:15
p.m. The luncheon will be fol
lowed by a card party. Charge is
one dollar per person, and all
women of the community are in
vited to attend. Reservations
should be made by Thursday,
Sept. 17, by calling Mrs. Leland
Miller at Lincoln 45, or Mrs.
Vance Hitt at Lincoln 112, or
Mrs. R. C. Lee at Black 124.
1953. She received training at
Scarritl College in Nashville,
Tennessee, for six weeks this
summer and was consecrated as
a US 2, stationed for three years
at Jesse Lee. During her school
ing she worked with the Trailor
ville Nursery School on the SMU
Campus, which served families
of veterans who had returned
to college.
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WOMAN'S CLUB OPENS
SEASON WITH RECEPTION
TO TEACHERS
Seward Woman’s Club opened
the season with a reception to
all the school teachers and new
people in town, Thursday night
in the Methodist Church parlors.
Because the president-elect,
Miss Martine Burdick, was out
of town when other officers
were installed in May, Miss
Frances Clark installed her at
this first meeting. The club also
had a short business session to
accept the responsibility for the
Cancer drive in which they were
so successful last year.
After the business was con
cluded Carl R. Carlson, superin
tendent of schools, introduced
the teachers and get together
games introduced all newcomers
to the community.
A black-face skit was present
ed by 15 couples with Donn Lee,
of Jesse Lee Home, as inter
locutor. The skit “Southern
Hamstrings" was accompanied
by Mary Gilbert. It was pro
nounced very good and extreme
ly funny.
The Woman’s Club meets the
second Thursday of each month.
All Seward women are invited
to attend and join in the work.
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The cost of an automobile is more than the
initial purchase price. Operating costs and
repairs must be considered too. And re-sale
value is all-important. All things considered,
Mercury is the “smart money" car. Ad
vanced styling and dynamic V-8 perform
ance have made it "most wanted" in its price
field in many Western localities. Famous
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ness to match—over 90% of all of Amer
ica'sMercurys are still going strong! Re-sale
value is up where most cars can’t touch it.
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