Seward Seaport Record
'Post off ice Box 204 - Telephone Main 168
Published on Friday of Each Week at
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman . Editor and Publisher
S5.00 per year by mail. 10 cents per copy
PASSENGER SERVICE
FROM SEWARD
SS BARANOF, Thursday. April
23. Sitka. Juneau. Ketchikan.
Seattle.
SS DENALI. Thursday. April 30
Cordova. Juneau, Petersburg.
Wrangell, Ketchikan, Seattle.
FROM SEATTLE
SQUARE SINNET, April 21
Seward
RING SPLICE. April 24
Seward, Port Bailey, Kodiak.
Womens Bay, Shearwater Ray,
Alitak, Larsen Bay, Uganik.
Telephone Polk 1G3
McRae Concrete
Products
P.O. Box 621
SEWARD, ALASKA
Robert Dan Bradley was born
in Seward General Hospital
April 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Ben
jamin Bradley, who live on the
Seward highway at Mile 5. The
young man weighed 7 pounds
7 ounces.
W.S.C.S. Elects
Now Officers
At a meeting of the Women’s
Society of Christian Service held
at the former Nurses’ Home on
Friday, April 10, the following
•officers were elected:
Helen Lambert, president:
Ruth Malin. v.rpresident; Helen
Case, recording secretary, and
Helen Priebe, treasurer.
Srcret.iries of line of work
were appointed for the year:
Goldie Busko, local church ac
tivities: Sarah May Garrett,
spiritual life: Marilyn Edwards,
student work: Esther Chipman,
children’s work: Marline Bur
dick, supply work: May Metcalf,
literature: Ruth Murrell, status
of women; Gradys Bogard, mis
sionary education, and Bertha
McGhee, youth work.
Plans were made for the
Mother-Daughter Dinner to be
held May 9, at the Methodist
Church. It is to be a planned
potluck dinner instead of a ban
quet by ticket. The committee
for planning the menu is May
Metcalf, Goldie Busko and Ber
tha McGhee.
Hostesses for the meeting were
Betty Nelson, Esther Chipman
and Marie Green.
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FOR SALE BY OWNER
9-ROOM STUCCO HOUSE ?■. 5 LOTS
House completely furnished. Hoi water heat.
Garage and Green House.
SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED BY OWNER
UP TO MAY 1, 1953
night reserved to reject ar.y or all bids.
ADDRESS BIDS TO
LEON URBACH
P.O. Box 144 Seward, Alaska
Milk from Your Local Dairy—
REGULAR DELIVERIES or AT YOUR GROCER'S
SEWARD DAIRY
PHONE MONROE 4
or GARFIELD SO
Editorial
By MEK
LETTERS NEEDED IN
DEFENSE OF SEWARD
To prove to the United States
Congress that Seward has a
definite need for a new dock
and improvement of the Portage
to Seward end of the railroad,
it will be necessary for Seward
residents to write to Washington
in justification of the appropria
tion for funds for the project.
To help residents in writing
letters and get them to the right
people in Washington, the
Chamber of Commerce has em
ployed a stenographer who will
take the letters at your dictation
and mail them to the proper
places.
The Chamber of Commerce
stenographer will be on duty for
the next two or three weeks in
the Northern Stevedoring office
in the Arcade Building. Her
hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
except an hour at noon. Begin
ning-next Monday, April 20,
she will be available.
The town of Cordova has sent
out 200 telegrams and hundreds
•of letters to inform Congress of
their demands for the highway.
Seward must get>to work now
if we are to save the new dock
program. It will cost you noth
ing to stop in and have the steno
grapher write your letter for
you. The Chamber of Commerce
is doing all it can in the defense
of Seward. It is preparing sta
tistics for the Governor and
enlisting aid from the Alaskan
Command. DO YOUR PART.
Help the Chamber of Commerce
to help you. They are providing
the office, stationery and writer.
You go in and tell her what to
say. Let every man and every
v. man in Seward send a letter
to Congress saying that we want
—we need—we must have a
bigger dock and better railroad
in order to live!
Congressmen have never b&en
here, they do not know the con
ditions. Tell them that the pres
ent dock is too small. It is old
built in 1916. It is ready to fall
down because thp^piling is eaten
through by toredos. It gets the
full brunt of the north wind, it
should be moved to a place
under the mountain. It was built
to accommodate 1300 tans a
month—it now handles 300,000
tons a year. Warehouses are too
small. Truck approach too small,
loading platforms too small. It
is the only commercial dock in
Alaska serving the railbclt and
interior with the railroad. It
means the economic life of Sew
ard.
Let's fight for our rights,
fight for Seward, keep the rail
road coming into town, and get
a new dock. Go in and have
those letters written.
Bowling News . . .
MEN'S HANDICAP LEAGUE
v Won Lost
Seward Hardware* 20 8
1st Nat’l Ramblers 19 9
Elk’s Club 16 12
Dreamland Bowl 16 12
Seward Trading 16 12
Gil’s Lounge 10 18
Seaport Record 10 18
Sanatorium Five 5 23
•Winners of the 4th round.
WEEKS HIGH SCORES
Individual High 10
Frank Markey 212
A. Torvanger, B. Hendricks 205
Jacque Roth 200
Individual High 30
Bob Hendricks 558
Butch Martin 550
Tom Jones 544
Team High 10
Elk’s Club 990
Gil’s Lounge 969
Sanatorium Five 944
Team High 30
Gil’s Lounge 2787
Elk’s Club 2782
Seward Trading 2759
League Leaders
Bob Hendricks 180
Marty Kowalski 173
Gene Thorn 172
Louis Dick Sr. 171
Jacque Roth 170
Tony Murkowski 168
Oscar Watsjold 165
Jim Van Pelt 165
Van Guilder Sr. 165
Everett Skinner 165
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