The Story of
SEWARD
By Jay Siauier
XIX (Continued)
uwi urug, -tin Avenue, ixo
daks and Supplies.
Coleman House (hotel), Elec
tric lights and electric bells in
every room. Hates 50C-2.50. Ex
cellent Cate in connection.
Bay City Market, Small and
Glassbrenner. Been'. Pork, Veal
and Lamb. ;1 .ms. Bacon and
Lard always in stock.
Now Lumber Yard by the
Glacier Stream. (No further par
ticulars.)
Alaska Transfer, Christensen
and Laubner. Pianos and safes
moved: General forwarders,
wood and coal.
Wilkes and Cameron, sign
painters.
The Louvre, saloon, Eidson
and Dodson, cor. 5th and Wash
ington, gold dust bought-at reg
ular rates.
Brown and Hawkins, Phone
13. We Sell at Prices that Defy
Competition.
Chas. Crawford, Gen. Black
smith and horseshoeing, 6th &
Washington.
Bank of Seward, F. G. Hale,
pres., G. E. Dickerman, vice
pres.
Wagner's Place, saloon, Fred
Wagner.
Seattle Bar. Tecklenberg &
Cummings, 4th and Washington.
Other advertisements w.re
mixed in with personal items,
after the custom of old-time vil
lage newspapers. The Gateway
thus had a sizable little income
from local Seward business
firms, and even carried a few
ads for out-of-town concerns, in
cluding a dock in Seattle, and a
fur buyer in Minneapolis.
Here are some of the more in
teresting news items of Septem
ber, 1905:
The railroad sawmill was near
ing completion, at the head of
the bay.
Wm. Clay son was expecting
Airs. Clayson and son on the
Steamer Portland.
Deputy U.S. Marshall Wybrant
left for Sunrise to foreclose on
some mining property.
Another lawyer arrived in
Seward' .T. l. Reed. Cecil H.
Clegg was the first lawyer to
hang out his shingle in Seward.
Mr. Reecl was to open offices in
the Coleman House Hotel.
Second Ann.versary of Sew
ard cel b ; i -Iasi nil
smoker at the Kcnai Club. Near
ly 20 of the men who landed
August 28. 1903. were present,
having plenty to eat and smoke,
and “all the waur they wanted
to drink."
New water pipes were being
laid on 4th Avenue, old iron
pipes being removed. Tarred
wood p:p_s being laid to Adams
Street.
Pal McDonald, a driller, died
suddenly at Mile 44 on the rail
road. Death due to natural
causes, according to Chief Sur
geon Burns of the Alaska Cen
tral RR, the ex-officio coroner.
Doctors Applewhite and Rich
ardson also signed certificate.
Track is now laid to Mile 39.
Hunting season now open.
All of these items were taken
from the oldest existing copy of
the Seward Gatev/ay, the town's
first newspaper, issue of Septem
ber 2. 1905.
(Next chapter: Some Addition
al Details of ‘he Alaska Central
Railroad, from old “Gateway"
Files at Juneau.)
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Iris Mae Smith and Budd C.
Tr sslcr were married in St.
Peters Episcopal t hurch f atm
day evening at 8 o'clock. Eother
Russell Clapp performed the
ceremony.
The little blond bride was
beautiful in a bridal gown ol
white slipper satin, a fingertip
veil, fastened with a coronet of
pearls, and carrying a white
Bible with ribbon and rosebud
streamers.
The couple's attendants were
Mrs. John Sume, sister of the
b; ide. and Don Smith, her bro
_ . no was home on leave for
me ,.c 'ion. Mrs Sume's gown
was light pink. She also wore
a pink halo veil and carried a
colonial bouquet.
A reception followed the wed
ding. It was held in the parents’
home and attended by nearly a
hundred guests, most of whom
are members of the large family.
Mrs. Build Tressler is the
youngest child of Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde W. Smith who reside on
Second Avenue. She graduated
frqpi Seward High School in
Max*. 1951.-.,.
Budd C. Tressler is the son
of Mr and Mrs. Raymond Tress
ler of the Bear Lake Sawmill
Company.
The young couple will reside
in their new home at Bear Lake.
Italian Says Europe
Can Defend Itself
Washington P', — Premier
Alcide de Gasperi of Italy told
Congress today that a United
Europe would be able to take
care of its own defense.
He addressed a joint session
of the Senate and House a few
hours after arriving for three
days of talks with President
Truman. Seer, tary of State Dean
Acheson and 'Other top officials.
•‘Europe, once solidly united."
the 70-year-old premier said,
“will relieve you of your sacri
fices in men and arms, for she
will herself contrive the d: tense
of her peace and common free
dom."
De Gasperi reaffirmed Italy's
desire that Trieste be returned
to Italy as recommended by the
B,g Thr.e in 1948. But this does
m<... at Italians
••are v let lifts of a narrow nation
alism."
Rather, he explained, it was
evidence cf Italy's wish “to con
solidate our western coalition in
Europe."
"A.- ir-e men." he said.. “we
wis i .0 tell you w are grateful
to you because, by demanding
lows u'l of our uniair peace
tv my.' v i have acknowledged
that an • ift ctiye and staunch
all fa:ice van not exist without
lity rig i full rcc
... iti . )f ‘ ifldept ndc nee.
>o\t rt_nty and dignity of a
nation."
T'h premier paid tribute to
Am r.can aid to Europe. “With
out Vv.,r generous contribution."
<ai... “Europe—at least most
certainly the anti-Communist
: tal Europe
—would a 1 r c a d y have col
lapsed."
Dj Gasperi’s arrival here co
incided wit'n reports that the
Unite'7 States. France and Brit
fting a joint dcclara
tiov of their plans to change the
arms limitation provision in the
Italian peace treaty.
MORE ABOUT . . .
Red Losses
(Continued from Page 1)
During this period United Na
tions losses have be. n compara
tively light. U.N. troops have
smashed forward up to 15 miles
and captured scores of im
portant hills on the eastern
front.
The Allies have not lost a
yard cf ground ;n either North
or South Korea, Van Fleet's
statement said. Allied irocps lor
the second lime were pushed
off the highest peak of "Heart
break Ridge" in eastern Korea
Monday, iwo days after the per
iod covered in the report, but
apparently the Arrny never had
considered the peak "secured."
Tito Ready To Defend
Yugoslavia
Against Reds
Tifovo Uzice, Yugoslavia ■?> —
Yugoslavia’s Pre: . r LI; .-shal
Tito described Stab a to ay ...
“the greatest nv .Idler in .. or.d
history,' and sail hie Soviet
leader is "b nt on an imperial
istic campaign ■;' conquest r th
Balkans unrivalled even by old
czarist Russia.-’
Tito's blistering attack on his
one-time ally was Ids first mayor
broadcast addi than
a year, and the first since his
operation early this year for a
kidney ailment.
Tito, clad in th • uniform of
a field marshal, leaked confi
dent and health.v as he spoke
from a flag-bedecked rostrum
in this town of 15.0 •1 in the
he; rt of Serbia which has parti
sei freed fro? (r ia » >e
cupiers in 1041 i the fir-t pnr
pri ■ war
Yu? 'slavia.
Tito, now r.f rred to by Mos
cow as < ■
said military experts in Com
munist Yugoslavia know all
about war preparations of the
Com inform which ousted the
Yugoslav party He said “we
are ready" to defend the nation's
independence.
HOME-BUYING VETERANS
AIDED BY NEW
DEFENSE HOUSING ACT
Conditions under which World
War II veterans may finance
home ownership with the aid of
G.I loans have been eased con
siderably by provisions in the
new Defense Housing Act, ap
proved recently by the Presi
dent. according to the Veterans
Administrat .on.
The new law:
1. Reduces substantially the
minimum down payment requir
ed on homes priced up to
$12,000.
2. Makes eligible for addi
tional home loan guarantees
many veterans who previously
used all or part oi their guar
anty entitlement for home, iarm
and business loans.
3. Revives the direct govcm
m nt loan program for veterans
in areas where 4 pm- cent mor,
gage financing is unavailable
from private sources. This last
provision oi the law is of par
ticular importance to veterans
living in rural and less-populat
ed areas, the YA said.
The direct loan program, ori
ginally author.z»..d by the Hous
ing A< con t in u<
until Jura 20,
to June 30. 1953.
No additional funds are made
available beyond the loo mil
lion dollar.- originally provtaed
for t*i -proerarn. • jut t.1nt*w
law, by it viie limit; on
the total of direct lot ns w.iicu
. b.i, n kes ssibh
the reuse « £ the authorizi £ .
as a rev : g f
Thus, payments' made to apply
against direct loans and pro
ceeds front tn - sale of direct
loan mortgages to private in
vestors will go into the fund
and become available for
loans.
Currently, about 33 million
dollars remains available for the
making of direct loans, the bal
ance of the 150 million dollars
originally provided. Direct loans
have be.n approved lor some
17.000 approved applicants.
The amount remaining will
finance six to seven thousand
additional loans, the VA said.
MORE A ROUT
British King
(Continued from Pace 1)
It came after a Fuck'.ngham
Palace source had report'- 1 that
the King "made it safely" thru
the first crucial .iOd actor his
optratio er rning
Anxious Britons. who had
prayed ier the safety ,.f tin. ir
beloved m mar: h, got no ind.ra
tion of tlu xact condi
tion in h.s battle agamst the
after-effects of the surgery.
Nairobi. East Africa T — The
A.ga Khan has instruct d all of
his Ismaili Moslem follo'.ver? in
East Africa to pray every day
for a week for the health of
King George VI.
Brownout Expected In
NW Power Shortage
Porl-and (,?) — Tite big search
;• r new sources of electric pow r
is underway in the drought
stricken Pacific Northwest.
The s' arch was touched off
Jest week when the ‘defense
I' ectric Pow r A imini; t rat ion
(DEPA) ordered cuts which re
sulted in a 10 p r cent reduction
of power to the area's booming
aluminum industry.
Then Saturday the apparent
seriousness of the situation was
( niphasiz ci when m o b i 1 i z e r
Charles E. WiVron told the alum
inum producers to prepare plans
for the possible removal of some
of the Pacific Northwest plants
to areas of assur d power supply.
What caused the power short
age?
Mos4 public and private power
officials blame the drought. Tins
has b< rn one of the driest sum
mer; 1 h the area.
And not enough rain, has fallen
to swell the Columbia River—
which with its hum hydro-elec
tric generators is the source of
much of the Pacific Northwest's
power supply.
Rep. Hugh Mitchell (R-Wash.)
said a delay in building addi
tional generating facilities also
was responsible.
What can be done to ease the
situation?
Among suggested solutions is
a “brownout’’ of the Pacific
Northwest, calling for outdoor
lighting and advertising signs
to be shut off. the power saved
then to go to the aluminum in
dustry. Joseph H. Gumz. region
DEPA director, said a brownout
may be ordered within two
weeks.
No Fault Found
In Navv P’ores
Washington V — The Navy
said Saturday that .none of the
series of crashes of planes in
its Alaskan Patrol Squadron
Nine was caused by faults in
plane structure.
All the PB4Y-2 planes of the
s q a ariron. which had been
gi v...: h• . Nn\w . r
inv sti stated. therefore were re
turned to c p' ration, the Navy
said in answer to questions.
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