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1. VIII, No. 27
SEWARD, ALASKA, WED., SEPT. 5, 1951
Price 10 cents
J.S. Eighih Army Headquar
>, Korea t-P1—U.S. Second Di
on infantrymen smashed
ir way to the top of a bloody
le in East Korea today. They
e locked in bitter battles for
ee other heights,
eeond Division troops drove
ough heavy Red resistance
captured the hill mass north
Yanggu. Then they pressed
vard to assault another
?ht just to the north. Reds,
securely into crags and
jes, checked the American
i the same sector other Sec
Division soldiers were
ted in a heavy day-long fight
i Communists atop two tow
ig crests.
he Second Division action,
he center of a limited United
ions offensive, was the only
lificant engagement on the
it Wednesday. Yanggu, at the
ern end of Hwaehon Reser
', is seven miles north of the
l Parallel.
.N. trooos killed, wounded or
:ured the equivalent of three
divisions last month, the
. ground commander report
oday, mostly on the eastern
t.
imcin's Speech
For ReoIecHon
in Francisco :.T) — President
|nan appeared ieday to have
the re-election campaign
with a 1952 platform vir
|y written.
did everything but formal
jnnounce his candidacy at a
kocratic rally where he call
}is opponents names ranging
“special privilege boys” to
Inomic fossils.”
pd he constructed his 1952
form under the famlljar
deal” banner as he pre
id “we are going to elect a
[dent next year.”
didn’t say it would be Har
|. Truman, but the way the
>crats stood up and cheered
|d his own obvious relish of
Applause—made things pret
lear to those around.
ERS MUST REGISTER
>RE SPECIAL ELECTION
[ce again, Seward voters are
to register if they have
lone so since January 1,
A special election is called
|eptember 17 to vote on the
lase of the Seward Water
|m. All voters must register
callendar year to be eli
to cast a ballot in either
[pecial election or the regu
lunicipal election on Oc
2.
ly voters go to the polls
lection day under the im
Jon that their names are on
|egister, only to find that
lave not registered in the
it callendar year,
lustration books are open
week day between the
of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. ex
[Jaturdays when the book is
at noon.
lek Williams left town
ly afternoon to return to
near Seattle. Derek is the
son of Mrs. Pat Williams
city.
Gromyko Silent At
Opening of Treaty
Conference
Ey John H. Hightower
San Francisco (4*1 — Russia
blocked immediate adoption of
British-American rules for con
trol of the Japanese peace con
ference today and protested Red
China's absence from the meet
ing.
The United States and Brit
ain faced an immediate show
down with Russia over control
of the Japanese treaty confer
ence after President Truman
challenged the Soviets to make
good on their talk cf peace by
signing the treaty.
The Kremlin's delegate, un
smiling Andrei Gromyko, grim
ly heard the President's chal
lenge at the conference opening
last night.
“The treaty now before us of
fers more than talk of peace,”
Mr. Truman said emphatically.
“It offers action for peace. This
conference will show, therefore,
who seeks to make peace and
who seeks to prevent it: who
wishes to nut an end to war, and
who wishes to continue it.”
Mr. Truman in his speech pic
tured the Japanese treaty as af
fording * Japan, defeated and
broken in World War II and re
organized under the six-year
American occupation, an oppor
tunity “to win the friendship and
trust of other peoples over the
years to come.” He reminded
the Japanese, however, “the
United States has not foraott n
Pearl Harbor or Bataan." And
he made it plain that the soften
ing of its memories will depend
on aJpan’s future conduct.
Peninsula Mapping
Project Nears
Completion
Six officers attached to the
30th Topographical Engineers
here were guests of Seward
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
luncheon. They represented Col.
Free, Commanding Officer. The
mapping project on Kenai Pen
insula, under way since May 1,
is approximately 90 per cent
completed, it was stated. The
project, scheduled as a two-year
operation, has reached this point
in record time by the use of heli
copters. It was thought at first
that five years would be neces
sary to complete the work. This
period was cut by three years in
the planning period by the heli
copter service, which has in
turn been shortened to this one
season. Over 3000 flying hours
have been possible this summer.
Hope Revived For
Carsesdian Pitot
Edmonton (P-A note Pilot
Johnny Bourassa left in his
crash-landed lig'ht plane in the
Northwest Territories last May
23 has revived the R.C.A.F.
search for him which was called
off more than two and a half
months ago.
The Peace River, Alta., pilot,
about 30, said in the note that
he was leaving his damaged Bel
lanca on the rock-strewn shore
of Wholadaia Lake, to trek thru
the northern wilderness in hopes
of finding civilization.
Bourassa said in the note that
he intended to walk in a north
westerly direction which he be
lieved would take him to Great
Slave Lake, somewhere near
Fort Reliance. The distance is
about 950 miles by air.
"Smilin' Jack” Will
Operate In Alaska
Elmendorf Air Force Base—
Zack Mosley, creator oi' the
famed aviation comic strip
“Smilin' Jack" has been a guest
in Lieutenant General William
E. Kepn.-r's Alaskan Command
for the past ten days obtaining
authentic background material
for a forthcoming episode in his
While in Alaska. Mosley flew
on several operation flights, in
cluding a routine search for the
missing Canadian Cl54 which
disappeared in southeast Alaska
while on a flight to Korea. He
also flew to Barter Island; made
a flight -over an ice pack in the
Arctic Ocean and crossed the
famous Brooks Range in north
ern Alaska: flew over glaciers in
the panhandle and over the
Harding Ice Fie1.!. Mosley cov
ered almost every’ part of the
Alaskan theater during his stay
here.
The cartoonist resides in Stu
art. Florida, but travels exten
sively to obtain material for his
strip He is a colonel in the Civil
Air Patrol in Florida. He has
been cited several times for his
outstanding contributions to the
advancement of aviation.
VETS ADMINISTRATION TO
FIRE 5020 EMPLOYES
Washington 4—The Veterans
Administration said today it will
fire about 5000 employes by Oct.
10 to meet budget cuts.
The agency said the reduction
will be nationwide and will in
clude all administrative activi
ties.
Excluded are emoloyes of the
Department of Medicine and
Seward's Annual Fire
Prevention Week
Underway
Inaugurating Seward's Annual
Fire Prevention Week, Fire
Chief Fred Kielcheski was asked
to express his views upon the
very important question of de
sirable public attitude toward
fire prevention and fire control.
In Chief Kielcheski’s opinion
the one main consideration from
a fire fighter's point of view is
public cooperation before, dur
ing and after a fire alarm is
sounded. By following a few
simple rules, divided into three
sections, most causes of costly
fires and avoidable delays in fire
control can be eliminated.
If all the people in Seward
would study and act upon the
listed suggestions our city would
be a safer and happier place in
which to live.
What To Do Before
The Fire Starts
Keep premises clean of dry
grass and rubbish.
Check your stove flues every
fail before cold weather sets in.
Don't leave oily rags lying
around. Keep them in metal con
tainers or well ventilated loca
tion.
Keep matches well beyond the
reach o. children.
Examine your oil stove before
you light it. A flooded stove may
mean a serious fire. Be sure
your stove has an automatic
cut-out to prevent excessive
flooding.
Be sure the chimney has a
draft regulator.
Check to see that the chimney
hood is intact and will prevent
leakage and down drafts.
Check guys on metal flues.
Never pile or store any kind
of materials or supplies against
or around your furnace or stove.
Every home should have a fire
extinguisher mourned in a prom
inent location.
Be sure you are familiar with
the type of lire extinguisher you
have and keep ii filled.
Never overload your electrical
circuit by plugging too many ap
pliances to one outlet.
Keep spare in fuse box. Never
replace blown fuses with pennies
or similar devices.
Check exposed wiring in at
tics, etc., to see that they are
free of stored supplies and are
insulated from contact with any
pari of the building.
Don't use live light lines or
cords for clothes line.
This one cannot be overem
phasized: Do nol smoke in bed!
Too Much Buil For Seivard?
A blooded Aberdeen Angus
yearling bull proved too much
for Seward longshoremen last
night. After his removal from
the ship he gave the boys the
run-around in the dock ware
house for several minutes.
Finally taken into custody and
placed in the Transfer Company
barn, the angry bull broke .out
and took off for the hills. A
search continued throughout the
heavy rain and pitch dark of the
night failed to reveal the Angus’
whereabouts, and it was not un
ti! nearly noon today that he was
finally located grazing peace
fully near First Lake.
The young bull's journey is
still not ended. He has passage
booked north via ARR, but is
definitely disinclined to further
travel.
Anchorage UP) — Alaska’s air
tragedies climbed to 10 in the
space of six weeks when a twin
engined Cessna smashed down
in suburban Rogers Park y:ster
day just after taking off for Sew
ard, killing five people.
Pilot Norm Maither fought
valiantly to keep the wounded
plane from striking houses,
bringing it down in flames in
the back yard of an occupied
home.
Horribly burned, he was
pulled from the wreckage alive
but died en route to a hospital.
Also killed were the four pas
sengers of the Christiansen Air
Service craft, identified as O. M.
Beaver of Anchorage; Laurence
Arndt, Palmer, Alaska, and a
military captain and his wife.
Military authorities withheld
the identity of the latter two un
til next of kin could be notified.
Eighty-nine people have been
killed or lost in the series of ac
cidents since a Korean Air-Lift
plane disappeared July 21 with
38 aboard.
Maither and two passengers
were living when rescuers
reached the scene but flames
prevented their rescue.
The plane was the first sec
tion of an afternoon flight to
Seward. Jim Chadwick, an air
line employe, said one engine
appeared to catch fire just after
the take off. The craft angled
down between two houses, one
occupied by a mother and baby
and the other by two men.
Witnesses said it appeared
that Maither fought the plane
all the way to the ground to keep
it from striking the houses.
He was a veteran pilot, form
erly with the Civil Aeronautics
Administration and for a time
manager of the Anchorage air
port. He leave his widow and a
daughter here and a son, Brian
Maither, who is cn route to
school at Napa Junior College in
California.
Albert McGee and his son,
Donald, were among those who
witnessed the crash. They were
building a house about 30 feet
from where the plane hit the
earth.
“I was sitting on a sawhorse
putting a catch on a cabinet
door,” Albert McGee said. ‘•The
explosion knocked me off the
horse. I thought it was an atom
ic bomb when I saw the flames.”
Donald McGee, working on a
floor in the house, said he. too,
thought it was a bomb.
‘T looked at the burning en
gine and saw the plane bounce
like a big rubber ball,” he said.
‘‘The first thing I thought of was
my wife and baby in a tempor
ary house diretciy behind where
the plane crashed.
“I went over there and saw
they were all right, then went to
the plane but it was impossible
to help. There was too much fire
and heat. A highway patrolman
arrived just then and tried using
hand extinguishers but they
were of little, avail.”
O. M. Beaver, Certified Public
Accountant, was on his way to
meet w-ith the Seward City
Council last night to present the
budget which he had prepared
for their consideration.
Laurence Arndt, although liv
ing in Palmer at the time of his
death, has been a Seward resi
dent for many years. He operat
ed a sawmill on the Nash Road,
and was prominent in Repub
lican circles here.