Sewas* J. Seaport Hecord
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week.
Seward, Alaska
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John M. Coleman .. .Editor and Publisher
Mildred Kirkpatrick. - .----- Managing Editor
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Automatic Phones
Ordered for Seward
Chicago, 111. — Alaska Tele
phone Corporation has placed
order for automatic telephone
equipment for the City of Sew
ard at an approximate cost of
$175,000.
The equipment will be spec
ially engineered for the installa
tion by ATEC and will include
the latest type of switching
equipment and toll facilities. It
is anticipated that this equip
ment will be ready for installa
tion early in 1953. Ordered from
the Automatic Electric Com
pany the system will be similar
in type to that recently installed
at Fairbanks.
The telephone company also
placed orders for automatic
equipment of smaller capacity
for installation in Wrangell, Ne
nana and Haines, which proper
ties are also owned by Alaska
Telephone Corporation.
SENIOR METHODIST YOUTH
FELLOWSHIP
SUNDAY EVENINGS
The first meeting of the Sen
ior Methodist Youth Fellowship
will be held in the Seward Me
morial Church Sunday at 7:45
p.m. All young people from the
ages of 15 through 23 are invit
ed to take part in the discussions
of such topics as Pre-Marital
Preparation, led by Dr. Francis
Phillips; Music Appreciation, led
by Mrs. Dixon, from the high
school teaching staff, and others.
The group is planning a youth
canteen for Saturday nights, the
program to bo featured by square
dancing and other folk games.
Later announcements will be
given as the program advances.
LEW WILLIAMS "WAITING
FOR LETTER" »
Juneau I/P) — Llewellyn (Lew)
Williams has had a telegram that
he’s fired as Secretary of the
Territory of Alaska. He’s also
heard of yesterday's press con
ference at Washington in which
President Truman said he fired
Williams because he held him to
be incompetent.
But. Williams said today, he’s
still waiting for a letter from
the President telling him he’s
fired and why.
BODY OF BART J. REYNOLDS
ON BARANOF
Mrs. Elinor Reynolds accom
panied the body of her husband,
Bart J. Reynolds, on the SS Bar
anof this morning, en route to
Iheir home at Luskin, Texas.
Mr. Reynolds, operating steam
engineer at the Mile 24 camp of
the Bureau of Public Roads, died
suddenly Wednesday, Sept. 12,
after an illness of two weeks. He
had been released from Seward
General Hospital and was on his
way to the taxicab which was
waiting to take him home. As
Mr. Reynolds reached the steps,
he was stricken with a heart at
tack and died.
He was 59 years old. He and
his wife have lived in Seward
for several months. He is sur
vived by his wife Elinor and a
son, James, who was not in the
Territory.
The body lay at the Adkins
Funeral Chapei until departure
time, and was visited by the
many friends Mr. Reynolds had
made in his quiet way since com
ing to Seward.
BAKER MUSIC SHOP
and STUDIO
—Exclusively Music—
Certified Teacher
425 FOURTH AVENUE
Telephone Black 85
MORE ABOUT . . .
Freight Rate Boost
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chorage and $1.75 to Fairbanks.
The rate has been reduced to
30 cents on 100 pounds to An
chorage and to $1.28 to Fair
banks.
Referring to li is statements
before Congress, concerning re
ducing operating expenses as a
result of railroad rehabilitation,
Johnson said a general tapering
off of prices was expected dur
ing the planning stage.
Improvements resulting from
the program have reduced ex
penses considerably—in the face
of rising costs—and postponed
the necessity for a tariff increase
by ‘‘several years” during the
post-war inflationary period.
“After World War I the costs
and economy of the nation be
came more stable. If wage rates
and material prices were the
same now, as at the beginning
of the railroad’s rehabilitation
program in 1947, a redutcion of
30 per cent in freight rates
would have been made.”
“Rehabilitation also resulted
in the continuation of the rail
road in Alaska,” he said. “Fol
lowing the end of World War II,
it was a case of rehabilitation
or abandon the line as being
too delapidated and unsafe.”
Restrictions by the Coast
Guard on high tariff explosives
and ammunition which deprived
the railroad of that traffic was
also blamed by the general man
ger for a loss of railroad reve
nue.
In response to charges by a
local merchant that pilferage is
excessive on The Alaska Rail
road, Johnson said “there is
littl^. if any. pilferage while
the railroad handles freight.”
“There is pilferage aboard
ships, cn route to Alaska, and at
the unloading dock, but once
freight goes into cars and is
sealed the loss is negligible.
Wherever damage or loss occurs
in transit, claims arc paid mer
chants in full.”
The proposed new rate sched
ule in course of preparation will
not be a “shot in the dark" ar
rangement. but a carefully plan
ned adjustment supervised by
a tariff expert. He is W. J.
Bohon, former chairman of the
North Pacific Freight Tariff
Eureau. who stepped out of re
tirement to aid the railroad.
Revising the rates has been a
tremendous undertaking under
Bohon’s supervision.
‘•Rates on The Alaska Rail
road are not out of line at all,”
Bohon said in commenting on
the new increase. “But there
seems to be no relations as to
the rate and what the product
sells for in Anchorage.”
Johnson said that the increase
planned for next month is an
interim emergency increase and
any inequities that become ap
parent will be corrected in the
revised permanent rate revision
forthcoming.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Brown
arc parents of a daughter born
Sept. 12 in Seward General Hos
pital. The little giri, named
Myrlcne Faith weighed 5 pounds
14 ounces.
The Browns now live in Ko
diak, but were former residents
of Seward. They have another
child, a boy one year old.
A Russian peasant, who claims
to be 140 years old, is still active
and able to do his work. It is
possible, though, that he is much
younger, but living under the
Soviet system just makes it seem
that long.
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GEORGE EVERITT MADISON 93
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applications from restaurant kitchens to galleys, you will find
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For more information about Pro-Gas
economy and its many uses, just ask
JOHN PAULSTEINER
SEWARD
It’s a good thing remember
that if you think you arc argu
ing with a fool that the other
fellow is probably doing the
same thing.
Wo look this country froi
Indians, who scalped our
fathers, and then turned it
to the politicians, who arc
ning us.
HEART OF KENAI
Cocktails
Lunch Room
Cabins - Gas - Oil
MATANUSKA VALLEY LINES BUS STOP
FREDDIE MILLER
JOHN CON3EIL, Proj
THE PLACE FOR—
BEER and LIQUOR
One-Fourth Mile West of Moose River
on the Sterling Highway
Stop in and Get Acquainted
Tom & Florence Harriso
FARNSWORTH
SOI.nOTNA. AI.ASK A
General Freigh
and Hourly Rates
OIL - FUEL - LUMB
Seward - Kenai
Homer
and Way Points
THIRSTY? STOP!
HILL TOP HIDAWAY
Lodge & Bar
OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS
10 MINUTES WALK TO ANCHOR RIVER FISHING
Open 24 Hours a Day!
TEX & HELEN 8 Miles Norl
Proprietors of Homer
CLAM GULCH STORE
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Gas - Oil - Cold Bser - Groceries
PER CSMAR
FRAN OSMAR Proprietors
Clair. Gulc:
Posioifice
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OFFERING FREQUENT FREIGHT SERVICE BETWEE?
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Lv. Portland .Sept. 1
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Lv. Portland .Sept. 1
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Arr. Seward .Sept. 2
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ANCHORAGE
223 Central Bldg.
P.O. Box 552
Ph. 3-4401
George Hutton
District Mgr.
Modern Coa.'
FAIRBANKS
M. J. (Bill) V/ilcox
Dist. Freight Agt.
Jameson Eng. Bldg.
tzvise .7team ship
SEWARD
ARR Freight Depo
Main 164
Captain T. Bie
Operating Mgr.
T rans port ation