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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
Why do people return to Se w
ard? A former resident, who left
Seward two years ago to estab
lish his family in Oregon, re
turned this week—to stay. I ask
ed him, as I have asked so many
others, ‘'What brought you back?
Why were you not satisfied Out
side, after you got there?” llis
reply was another questi o n.
"Why do you stay here?”
To me the answer is perfectly
obvious. 1 like the people. The
mountains and the Bay form
surroundings o f unsurpassed
beauty. Even the weather is all
right, in spite of an occasional
spell of rain and fog. Freedom''
Hedged about with an increas
ing number of rules and regula
tions, how much freedom do we
have that is not different from
stateside living? I don't really
know why Alaska—Seward—
holds my interest. I just would
n't live anywhere else now.
"I guess.” my friend said,
"that it is because I felt hedged
in. It is too crowded in the
States. Freedom means plenty
of space.” »
Maybe that is it. We are still
on the frontier, even though it
is rapidly closing in on us. That
still does not explain, however,
why people return to Seward. I
have come to the conclusion that
there is only one answer to that.
A community is only as good
or as pleasant as the people who
live in it. We can quarr- 1 and
criticise one another, but we all
love it just the same. Back of
everyone’s publicly expressed
opinion, is the feeling that Sew
ard is pretty much all ri»ht. “All
it needs is a few change s.”
Wouldn't we have a s.vell time
if everybody set out to make
the "few" changes that each one
thinks are needed!
We are drawing together more
and more, and agreeing more
often imen the changes that
would benefit the town. Person
ally. the word "change” doesn't
fit. D velopment, agreement and
cooperation have a better sound
and seem to ring with a finer
m eanin g, and closer to the
point.
FOSTER HOMES FOR
CHILDREN TO BE LICENSED
Effective May 15, a new Alas
ka law providing for the licens
ing and supervision of boarding
homes and foster homes, nurs '
rios and institutions caring for
more than one child under 16
years of age, is in force.
This will affect several homes
in town, now caring for children
under the foster-homo plan.
“Many community leaders and
organizations sponsor: d this li
censing law, and with their con
tinued interest it will be possible
not only to enforce it but to
make this beneficial legislation
effective by bringing all child
care homes up to desirable, even
though not elaborate standards,"
according to Henry A. Harmon,
director, Department of Public
Welfare. .
“Since there were no regula
tions prior to the 1951 legisla
tion, there are many homes oper
ating in the Territory as child
care cor tors of which we have
no record. Only community co
operation can aid us in finding
these places, particularly if they
are sub-standard and somewhat
hesitant about applying for per
mit or license.”
Temporary permits for child
care have been mailed to 27
children's institutions in the
Territory. Temporary permits
are effective until November 15,
or until the Welfare Depart
ment is able to visit each home
and issue the actual permit.
There is no fee for the permit
or license and application for a
temporary permit should be
made immediately by persons
operating foster homes or day
care centers, if they have not
already received one.
‘‘Boarding home or foster
home” means any establishment
providing regular care for less
than 6 children not related by
blood or marriage to the foster
parents.
‘‘The licensing law is not de
signed to hamper or close any
children's homes giving good
child car?, nor to prevent the
opening of any qualified chil
dren's homes, Mr. liar m o n
stated.
RE ADVERTISEMENT OF EIDS
BY DISTRICT ENGINEER
A dispatch from Col. L. E.
Seeman, Alaska District Engin
eer, reveals that the bids re
ceived on construction of two
military projects exceeded the
government estimate. Projects
will be readvertised and deferred
bid opening dates are proposed
Low bidder on two infir
maries at Ladd and Eilson Air
Force bases is the Pacific Con
struction Company of Vancouver
with $415,000 which is $48,842
more than government esti
mates.
Col. Seeman proposes to issue
an advance notice to prospec
tive bidders announcing read
vertisement of the temporary
boil r plant at Eilson Air Force
Base. Bids are to be opened on
June 10.
Bid openings on the construc
tion of a field maintenance and
artillery shop at Ladd Field and
a special maintenance and ordin
ance shop at Eiison Field have
been def.rrcd from June 22 to
July 12.
Dates were deferred from
from June 20 to June 28 O” the
opening of bids, for wat r treat
ment and storage facilities and
sewage plant at the above Air
Force bases.
Arivci used dates for four
other June bid openings have
be n received and are now pro
posed as follows:
Bid opening date on construc
tion of outside utilities to serv’c
about 115 building:- construc
tion of about 10 miles of rail
road and access trackage and
classification yard at Ft Rich
ardson is changed from July 15
to June 14.
Invitation to bid on the con
struction of a permanent heat
ing and power plant at Whittier
consisting of 6 boilers, 5 tur
bines. a power plant buil.i ng,
fu 1 oil pump house, salt water
pump house, necessary utilit s
and pipe lines, dismantling of
certain generators and c u'p
ment now located at Dutch Har
bor. moving and reinstalling
same at Whittier—new bid open
ing date is June 14.
Two other clef rred bidding
dates were June 7 and 8. T,.r.v
additional bids on construction
projects are to be opened in Se
attle, on June 27 and 28. The
projects arc at Whittier, Ft. Rich
ardson and Eilson Air Force
Base.
LITTLES BOARD BARANOF
Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. Little
left aboard the Baranof for a
trip in the States. Mrs. Little
will spend the summer in Mem
phis. Tennessee with her family,
but Dr. Little will return to the
University of Alaska and Geo
physical Institute in six weeks.
He is the head of the new Geo
physical Institute.
lie has a brother, Herbert Lit
tle, attorney in Seattle and a
sister there. Ruth Millet, writer
of a syndicatrd-column carried
in the Anchorage Times, is a
sister of Mrs. Little’s.
Mrs. Ray James leaves for
Seattle next week. She will at
tend the annual fashion council
to be held in Seattle.
People who live within their in
come today will find it a very ef
fective way to reduce.
FATHER BORBECK LEAVES
FOR SUMMER
Rev. Martin Borbcck, S.J.* of
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
here, left by plane this afternoon.
Father Borbcck, very popular with
people of all denominations in
Seward, will spend the summer
teaching in u seminary in Seattle.
He is expected to return to Sew
ard at the end of his teaching ses
sion. but the possibility is that
lie may receive an appointment to
some other charge.
Father Borbeck has been in Sew
ard for about three years, and now
says that lie hopes to return, al
though he did not like the climate
at first.
District of Confusiort
A grade school student who said
he thought D. C. meant District
of Confusion has Washington of
ficials puzzled—they can’t figure
out if he was just dumb, or was
making a dirty crack.
Fighting forces probably will al
ways be necessary—but education
will always be a nation’s best de
fense.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Casey are
parents of a son, born in Sew
ard General Hospital, June 7.
The young Casey weighed 7
pounds, 4 ounces. lie is Cecil
Junior.
This is the first boy for the
Caseys. They have two little
girls. The Dad is popping his
buttons with pride,
tion!
Seward’s famous 3 pound
baby is progressing as any child
of normal birth weight. Her
gain has not been announced,
but the child is doing well. She
has a name now—Susan, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pete
Kesselring.
Patronize Home Industry
SCHOOL BUS UP FOR BID
The office of the Commission
er of Education, Juneau, ha3
called for sealed bids for the
transportation of children to the
Seward Public Schools for the
biennium 1951-1953.
The call for bids docs not
specify the district to be covered.
In past years only the highway
to Mile 8V2 has been included
on the bus route. Whether these
areas are being taken into con
sideration this year could not
be discovered in the advertise
ment for bids. Any interested
parties can probably get infor
mation from Carl R. Carlson,
Superintendent of Schools in
Seward.
W. A. OF RAINBOW LEAVES
Ruth Hoogland left Seward
today to attend the Grand
Assembly of Rainbow Girls to
be held this year in Spokane,
Washington. Ruth is the present
Worthy Advisor of the locaL
Assembly. While Outside she
hopes to see her brother Jack
who has just returned from ac
tion in Korea.
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