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Vol. IX, No. 41
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1953
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Seward Lady Takes Part I
inauguration
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Maiin Attending
Seattle Hearing .
On Transportation
Rev. Charles Maiin, secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce,
left town Tuesday night to tes
tify at the Transportation Hear
ing now in session in Seattle.
The move was decided rather
suddenly by the Board of Direc
tors which met at 4 p.m. Tuesday
afternoon. Win Ervin, chairman
of the Board, drove Mr. Maiin
to Anchorage to catch the early
morning plane.
On his return trip, the secre
tary will stop over at Juneau
to consult with Governor Heint
zleman and urge him to go to
Washington, D.C., to assist Dele
gate Bartlett in his presentation
of Seward’s case on the hearing
for railroad and dock appropria
tions. If it is possible to raise
funds, the Chamber of Com
merce also anticipates sending
a local representative to that
hearing.
Fur Factory Seeking
Location Here
Ed Shepherd. Alaska Fur Fac
tory, met with the Chamber of
Commerce Tuesday and explain
ed that he is looking for a suit
able iccntion to establish a pro
cessing plant, possibly in Sew
ard.
The processing of raw furs
will begin with hair seal skins,
with the hope of Icier obtainin'.;
the government contract for the
fur seal trade, which is now sent
to St. Louis, Mr. Shepherd stated.
A rather large business is in
prospect, which will offer em
ployment to 200 to 400 persons
if the government contract ma
terializes. Shepherd requested a
conference with the Mayor and
city officials.
B&PW Club Plans
Busy Year
The Seward Business & Pro
fessional Women’s Club met
Tuesday night for the first reg
ular dinner meeting of the
month at the Diner. President
Norine Reed presided.
A wide variety of projects
was presented by the Program
Committee, from which the club
could choose one or more per
manent programs for the year.
Among these suggestions was
assistance in the annual cleanup
of Seward with prizes for indi
vidual effort. Another proposal
was establishing a park in the
park reserve near First Lake.
The third proposal was the hold
ing of an art show of the work
done by local professional and
amateur artists.
Two committees were appoint
ed to investigate and plan for
•the last two projects.
Seward Hiway Put
On Limited Weight
Beginning Saturday morning,
load limits on trucks traveling
the Seward-Anchorage Highway
will be set at 50 per cent of
normal.
This is done in conformity
with the policy on highway
maintenance in Alaska during
the spring breakup season.
Highway patrolmen will make
a check on all traffic leaving
Seward and Anchorage on the
highway.
Police Dep't Warns
Smai! Boat Owners
Police Chief James Kirkpat
rick this week asks cooperation
of all small boat owners at the
shelter harbor in cleaning up of
the harbor shore and approach.
Harbor facilities are there for
the use of all boat owners, but it
is being mis-used by a few,
Kirkpatrick states.
Boats and gear are blocking
the street right of way and clut
ter up the approach to the float.
Even the float itself is so heav
ily loaded that it is partly under
water.
Boats blocking the right of
way will be marked, he states.
If owners do not remove them,
the city will do it and the owner
will be billed for the moving.
BPR To Pave Hiway
To City Limits
The Bureau of Public Roads
has announced the advertisement
of Alaska Forest Highway Pro
ject 3-A10, Seward-Anchorage
Highway, on April 3, 1953. This
advertisement consists of Bitu
minous Paving Type 4241 begin
ning at Station 1 +31 and ending
at Station 28 * 74.8, or a total of
U.520 miles.
Plans and specifications may
be examined by prospective bid
ders at the Bureau of Public
Roads District Office, Federal
Building, Seward, Alaska.
Bids Oil this project will be
received until 9:00 a.m. on April
20, 1953, in the Office of the
Division Engineer, Bureau of
Public Roads, 419 Federal and
Territorial Building, Juneau.
Reporter's Notebook
Gene Sutt, popular square
dancer and member of the Char
ter Gateway Swingsters, is leav
ing Seward and the Territory
on the Denali next week. Gene
is going to Saudi Arabia—must
be tired of the cold weather.
Gene has worked for the Al
aska Railroad for several years,
in the Seward office, on the
Yukon and at other stations.
Bruce Cruikshank was a visi
tor in Seward Easter Sunday.
He will be remembered as the
first manager of radio station
KIBH. Mr. Cruikshank has just
recently returned from a winter
visit to his home in Connecticut.
Swann Lind is a patient at
Seward General Hospital where
he was admitted for treatment
this week, but is reported as im
proving.
Don’t forget the “Open House’’
music recital Sunday at the
Methodist Church. The program
starts at 2 p.m. with music stu
dents of the seven teachers
performing.
Mr. and Mrs. John Paulsteiner
were passengers on the Baranof
this week. They have been Out
side for several months.
Doctor Sellers, his wife and
family left Friday for the States.
They will spend some time with
their respective families in Penn
sylvania. Dr. Sellers said, “See
you in about six months.” A
farewell party was given in their
honor last Sunday at the Elks
Club.
Mrs. George Brown drove to
Anchorage and Wasilla last Fri
day to meet her husband and
spend the Easter holidays.
T>3 fted Cross Drive
Starts Monday;
(p’wo'fv*—$1750
April 13 will sec the begin
nins ol the local Red Cross drive
for funds. As there was no drive
held in Seward last year, it is
hoped that the fund will reach
the quota of SI 750, more than
half of which remains in the
local chapter.
A house to house canvass will
be made for individual member
ships of S1.C0 each. In addition,
tables will be set up in three
places in the shopping district
every afternoon of next week.
Mudi publicity has been given
nationally to the blood program.
Gamma Globulin, the new won
der treatment in preventing
crippling by polio, is obtained
from human blood. The process
ing of blood into gamma globulin
is an expensive one which is
done only by a few special lab
oratories about the country. Red
Cross takes the blood from
donors, piocesses 1't, then turns
it over to the Department of
Defense Mobilization for distri
bution.
There is no way in Alaska to
donate blcod for use in gamma
globulin or for plasma for the
Armed Forces. We can, however,
help by giving dollars toward
the processing.
Seward was on» of the first
communities in Alaska to set up
a walking blood bank. Even be
fore t ie 'blood typing program
two years ago, which was partly
financed by the local Red Cross,
a large number of Sewarditos
were registered as blood donors
at tin- Sanatorium and hospital.
During tlie typing program, an
other 90 names were added to
the bank. Many of these persons
have since moved away, and the
bank is again in need of donors.
We are asked to remember
that every pint of whole blood
donated to patients at the Sana
torium or hospital, saves a pint
of plasma needed by the boys
in Korea and for making the
polio serum.
Alaska has been assured that
every district will be supplied
with gamma globulin wherever
there is any indication of an
outbreak of polio. It was used
in Ketchikan last Fall and pre
vented crippling in a majority
of the large number of cases in
that area.
Give your dollars, and give
your blood. You will have oppor
tunity to do this the first of
next week, and you can be reg
istered as a blood donor at any
time by going to the Sanatorium
for a test. A total of 180 pints
was used in Seward last year,
no one knows how many will be
needed this year.
Two Scouts Prepare
For Nat'1 Jamboree
Two local Boy Scouts, Peter
Wagner, 14, and Danny Hose, 15,
will be among the delegation of
76 Alaskans to attend the 3rd
National Jamboree of Boy Scouts
of America to be held in south
ern California during July.
Peter, son of Dr. and Mrs.
R. M. Wagner, is Senior Patrol
leader. Dann^, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Rose, is scribe. Scout
Master in Seward is Stan Niege
mann. Explorer advisor is Har
old Mathews. Seward Scouts
are expected to earn one third
of their expenses for the trip.
Pat and Jean Bogan left this
week for a vacation and busi
ness trip in the States.
Sewer Bonds Musi Be
Voted Upcn Again
Mayor Russell Painter an
nounced this week that he has
been informed by Dan Wilson,
Director of Alaska Public Works,
that it will be necessary to vote
again upon the sewer bond issue
which was passed by election
November 26, 1951.
It seems that a flaw in the
wording of the original ballot
made tire election unacceptable
to the government. Although
the work was begun and nearly
completed last year, payment is
still to be made. Another elec
tion to legalize the issue will be
held in the near future.
A clarification of the situation
will be given by Mayor Painter
over the radio, according to the
proposed plan.
Rent Control Officials
Here This Week
Robert II. Tiiorp, Regional
Eoard Coordinator. Office of
Rent Control, from San Fran
cisco, and Edward J. Stanton,
new rent Director Attorney for
the area, of Anchorage, were in
Seward two days this week to
meet with the local rent ad
visory board and develop' plans
for administration of the pro
gram.
Stanton was formerly O P.S.
Territorial Enforcement director
and Special Assistant U.S. At
torney at Juneau.
A rent office official will be
at the New Seward Hotel on the
second Monday and Tuesday of
each month in order to give
landlords and tenants opportun
ity for discussions.
The local Rent Advisory
Board will meet the second
Monday night of each month in
the Sample Room of the New
Seward Hotel.
Landlords and tenants who
are unable to meet with the
Rent Control officials at the
scheduled times may write direct
to the Rent Control Office,
Pearl Building, Anchorage.
Yukon Bar Under
New Management
Doris and Howard Smith, pop
ular young Seward couple, are
returning to the entertainment
field in town with the opening
of the new Yukon Bar next
week.
The Smiths will be remember
ed for the clean and pleasant
atmosphere maintained in their
two former ventures into the
liquor and entertainment busi
ness here. Doris is well known
for her playing of the piano and
solovqx, both of which will be
features at the new bar. In re
cent years, they took up other
business, Doris as a beautician
and Howard as butcher in a local
market.
The new Yukon will feature
something new in decoration.
The theme, strictly Alaskan, will
be emphasized by a mural de
picting the west side of Fourth
Avenue done in line drawings
by Shelmerdine & Kirschbaum,
commercial artists of Anchorage.
The entire block from the Yukon
corner to the laundry on Adams
Street will be shown, caricatured
but recognizable. All new light
ing is included in the remodel
ing plan.
M. H. Sidener, Seward Drug
Co., is back from a visit to his
mother’s home in Iowa.
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IN INAUGURAL PROGRAM
Mrs. Cal M. Brosius, a long
time resident of Seward and
vice chairman of the Territorial
Republican Central Committee,
was the only woman having a
prominent part in the program of
inauguration of Governor B.
Frank Heintzleman Friday.
The program began at 10:30
a.in. in the Century Theater at
Juneau and continued through
out the day, ending in the In
auguration Ball at the Elks Club
Friday night.
After presentation of the
Colors with bugle accompani
ment by the National Guard,
accompanied by the Juneau High
School band. The Rev. Willis
R. Booth pronounced the In
vocation.
Mrs. Brosius then introduced
Waino Hendrickson, the new
secretary of Alaska, who in turn
introduced the Governor.
Mrs. Brosius has been a mem
ber of the Central Committee
for the past six years, a strong
and enthusiastic Republican and
booster for Seward. She was
asked to serve on the inaugura
tion committee and to remain in
Juneau for the event. She re
turned to Alaska only recently
after attending the inauguration
ceremonies of President Eisen
hower in Washington. She is
expected to arrive home in Sew
ard on the SS Denali next week.
Army liec Center Tc
Reopcjn May 15
Captain Victor P. Rizzo in
formed the Chamber of Com
merce this week that the Army
Recreation Center will be offi
cially reopened about May 15.
It will function throughout the
summer with a similar program
as of other years. A few changes
are being made, however.
Last year, a fewer number of
guests came to the Seward Cen
ter because of the leave arrange
ment. This year, visits will be
made on a TDY arrangement,
which increases prospects for a
big year. The Center is expect
ing 150 guests each week, with
accommodations for 16 families.
There is some indication, Capt.
Rizzo stated, that the Army will
operate the Center during next
winter if a good location can be
found for skiing and ice skating.
Capt. and Mrs. Rizzo will re
turn to Anchorage early next
week but will return about May
1 to make final arrangements.
In the meantime a cadre of 45
men will be assembled to handle
the summer’s work.
Elderly Man Injured
While Burning Trash
John Coffey, caretaker of the
bank building, was seriously
burned at 7:45 Friday morning
when he fell into burning trash
in the bank yard.
The elderly man, thought to
be about 80 years old, followed
his usual custom of burning
trash in the burner in the yard
on Fourth Avenue back of the
bank. Mrs. Neely glanced from
her window in an upstairs apart
ment and saw the man lying in
the fire and the burner over
turned in the yard. His clothing
was afire. She immediately
called for aid and Mr. Coffey
was taken to Seward General
Hospital in the Fire Dept, rescue
truck.
Friends say that the oldtimer
has been in Seward for more
than 30 years.