Seward
"he Gateway City of Interior Alaska Since 1903.
Seaport
Record
Seward*s All-IVcather Port is Alaskans Greatest Asset.
THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD THAT GIVES A HOOT ABOUT SEWARD. ALASKA
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1951
Price 10 cents
VIII, No. 34
2 Story of
■WARD
By Jay Siauier
itor's note: Mr. Stauter
s from Juneau: "Found fa
?s at the Alaska Museum
fine indeed for any sort of
rch. Old newspaper files in
condition, easily accessible,
y of table space and com
ble chairs for researchers,
typewriters to use. Would
o spend a month here!”
XIX
SEWARD'S FIRST
NEWSPAPER
rticulars of the origin of the
rd Gateway, first news
r, are already lost, unless
reader happens to possess
>y prior to September, 1905.
first issue on file in the
ta Museum at Juneau is
l September 2, 1905, and is
i on the masthead to be a
, priced at 5 cents the copy,
mts per week. However, it
jrs to have been actually a
ly, published on Saturday's,
these old file copies. It was
ed as 2nd Class matter with
jost office on August 25th,
but no copies are known
:ist prior to the date men
d above.
e Seward Gateway was an
of the varied enterprises
le Ballaine Brothers, and
d not only as a local news
1 and advertising medium,
ilso as a powerful promo
1 medium for the Alaska
:al Railroad and for the sale
wn lots. Taking an equally
inent position with stories
e Russo-Japanese War then
g, w'ere publicity puffs
t the Alaska Central, about
Ballaine and other officials,
t local mining activity, new
ings, wondrrful climate,
The original Gateway read
like a stock prospectus
a small-town paper,
of September 2nd. 1905,
is a list of paid advertisers:
Daggett, dentist, S.E, Cor
:th and Washington,
. C. L. Hale, dentist, over
n and Hawkins,
ink H. & O. Lascy, civil en
rs, surveyors, and agents
tie steamer Dora,
iwnell’s Hardware, adver
; the only pocket knives in
worth having,
vard News Company, car
also “an assortment of
j patent medicines.”
vard Fuel Co., coal, gaso
wood, with sheds at the
if 2nd Avenue,
tel McNeilley, rates 50c to
;r day. Will A. McNeilley,
ietor.
rthern Saloon, 4th Avenue,
emore and Smith,
le Commerce,” 4th Avenue,
t's Resort & Club Rooms,
■nished rooms upstairs. We
ase gold dust at regular
)ard of Trade,” Saloon, F.
lomas. ‘‘Only the choicest
dispensed: new, neat, and
>rtable.”
•e arc additional advertise
;, taken from this 1905 is
f the Gateway:
; last—20 cheap lots, oppo
able office, at living prices.
Hildreth, Agent.”
/ard Commercial Company,
fhite House on the Levee,
ember, we have a full line
ies underwear and furnish
silk, wool, and muslin. Lace
s, laces and embroideries,
en’s underwear, men’s fur
gs, ladies’ silk waists, cor
ners, and gowns. Thomp
love-Fit corsets.”
Concluded Next Issue)
Interest Revived In
Alaska Tungsten
Deposits
Washington (J*)— The 35-year
history of tungsten development
in three Alaska areas northeast
ox Fairbanks is outlined in a re
port and maps prepared by F.
M. Byers Jr., of the U. S. Geo
logical Survey.
Their release was announced
today by Interior Secretary Os
car Chapman.
All of the areas—Gilmore
Dome, Steele Creek-First Chance
Creek and Pedro Dome—are
within 10 to 20 miles of Fair
banks.
Although all are primarily
known for the presence of gold
bearing quartz lodes, tungsten
has been produced at intervals
since 1916. The principal pro
ducer has been the Stepovich
Mine in the Gilmore Dome area.
Surface explorations by the
Bureau of Mines and under
ground development by private
operators on the Stepovich lode
indicate that about 7,000 tons of
ore containing about 3 per cent
tungsten trioxide may still be
present.
Other known deposits in this
vicinity are on the Colbert prop
erty, Yellow Pup property and
Schubert property. Five deposits
have been more or less prospect
ed in the Steele Creek-First
Chance Creek area. The Wack
witz and Mizpah gold-quartz
mines have produced small
amounts of schxelite concen
trates as a by-product of gold
production in the Pedro Dome
area. Scheelite is the form in
which tungsten occurs.
Copies of the report are on file
in Geological Survey offices at
Juneau and Fairbanks, and at
the Bureau of Mines office in
Anchorage.
Bill in Congress
To Sell Land
Washington uP) — A 24.25 acre
site developed by the Tanana
Valley Sportsmen's Association
of Fairbanks could be sold to
the association under terms of
a bill passed by the House this
week.
Price of the land, located on
the Chena River iuar Fairbanks,
would be set by the Secretary
of Interior but could not be
less than SI.25 an acre.
The association has been using
the land under a 5-vear permit
from the Bureau of Land Man
agement as a site for a club
house, trap and skeet shooting
facilities. It has made about
$10,000 in improvemetns.
In urging the passage of the
bill, which now goes to the
Senate the House Interior Com
mittee said the association
makes the facilities available
to numerous youth groups.
Famous Physicians on
Military Mission
Seattle i.P> — Dr. Charles W.
Mayo, of the Mayo Clinic in.
Rochester, Minn., and Dr. W.
Randolph Lovelace, 2nd, a noted
researcher, visited here briefly
last night en route to the Orient
on a project for the Defense
Department.
The doctors left by Northwest
Airlines plane this forenoon for
Anchorage, where they will
meet Dr. Leonard Sheeley, sur
geon general of the United
States Public Health Service.
The physicians will inspect
American military medical in
stallations in the Orient and
in Europe. They will report
their findings to the secretary
of defense when they return in
about six weeks.
"Sad Sack" Destroyed
As Propaganda
Ford Ord, Calif. '/PI — The
Army recently burned several
hundred copies of its comic
book depicting a “sda sack” who
lived happily ever after only
after re-enlisting in the service.
The book is the one Senator
Capehart (R., Ind.) denounced as
“Socialistic propaganda” 10 days
ago.
A Fort Ord public information
officer said several unopened
packages ox the colored books,
containing several hundred
copies, were thrown into the in
cinerator recently on orders from
Sixth Army.
Forest Fire Turned
From Wash. Town
Forks. Wash. UP) — This fire
encircled logging town survived
a nignt with the doomed.
Doggeu fire fighters and a
“providential'’ shift in the wind
brought it through last night
after authorities had virtually
given it up for lost late yester
day. The forest fire veered off
after consuming most of one
residential corner of.the town.
Nearly a score of buildings were
burned.
Evacuees of the town of 1,200
began returning to their homes
in smoky haze this morning. An
estimated 85 per cent of the
populace left before or after an
evacuation order in mid-after
noon yesterday.
ARMY MAY WITHDRAW
SUSITNA FLATS
Anchorage — The Army is
considering the advisability of
requesting a land withdrawal in
the general vicinity of Susitna
Flats lor use as a gunnery range,
an Army spokesman said today.
Susitna Flats is due west of
Anchorage, across Cook Inlet.
The Army Public Information
Office here said the action might
be taken in a move to accelerate
the Army training program, and
strengthen anti-aircraft defenses
in the Anchorage-Elmendorf Air
Force Base-Fort Richardson area
against passible air attacks.
The area under consideration
runs from Kairn Point on Eagle
River west and north across
Knik Arm into Susitna Flats.
FAIRBANKS PRESENTS GIFT
TO SEATTLE MAN
Seattle UP) — A special gift
from the business men of Fair
banks was made yesterday to
Thomas M. Pelly, who recently
retired as president of the Se
attle Chamber of Commerce, for
his contribution to the “better
ment of Seattle and Territorial
understanding and cooperation.”
The award, a pair of gold cuff
links inlaid with gold nuggets
panned from the Tanana River,
was presented to Pelly by Morris
Johnson, former mayor of Fair
banks and now president of the
Fairbanks Chamber of Com
merce.
FIND PLANE WRECKAGE
IN CANADA
Campbell River, B.C. (/P) — A
weary search party reached the
wreckage of a United States
Navy bomber yesterday, but def
inite identification jof the plane
was not revealed in radio mes
sages from the party.
The plane is one of two U.S.
Navy Neptune patrol bombers.
One disappeared with its crew
of nine ,three years ago. The
other, with 11 aboard, vanished
in the area last December.
The wreckage was located on
the southwest side of bleak
Mount McCreight, 200 feet be
low the peak.
Ridgway Silent on
Red Proposals
Tokyo </Pi — Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway withheld his answer
today to a Communist proposal
to resume the Korean truce talks
at Kaesong.
But while the move to resume
armistice talks hung fire, Allied
armor roared out loudly across
the Korean battlefront.
United Nations tanks and in
fantry thrust into the former
Communist iron triangle buildup
area on the central front.
The battle of words over how
to get the wheel of peace revolv
ing again was as muted as the
United Nations' limited offen
sive action was loud. Red China’s
Peiping radio—the Communist
sounding board that pours out
tens of thousands of words each
day in anti-United Nations Com
mand propaganda—was notably
silent.
There was only a dribble of
hashed-over complaints of Kae
song neutrality violations where
torrents used to flow.
Jet Bomber In
Mysterious Fire
Fairbanks UPv—Fire of mysteri
ous origin destroyed a B-47 jet
bomber al Eielson Air Force
Base yesterday.
The Air Force said there were
no casualties but referred all in
quiries to the Alaska Command
at Anchorage.
Witnesses said the plane ‘ just
burst into flames” while resting
on the runway.
A civilian employe of the base
who asked not to be identified
said he walked by the bomber
shortly before the fire. He said
the plane was parked near a
hangar and no one was aboard
it.
About ten minutes later he
saw smoke.
The Air Force had been using
the B-47 on test flights between
Alaska and the United States.
Pay Raises for Posta!
Employes
Washington I* — More than
a million and a half postal em
ployes and government white
collar workers can each look
forward today to around $400
a year more in their pay en
velopes from now on.
Three pay increase bills retro
active to July 1 -and totaling
$670,000,000 annually were
shouted through by the House in
rapid-fire order late yesterday.
The Senate had approved al
most similar measures earlier
—one of the biggest pay boosts
ever given federal employes at
one time—and a Senate-House
compromise committee must
now iron out the differences.
The big salary hike even had
the House talking about more
money for its own members,
now getting $15,000 a year in
salary and expenses.
TWO HURT IN PLANE CRASH
AT EKWOK
Anchorage (A»)—A small plane
crashed last night at Ekwok, a
small village 40 miles northeast
of Dillingham on Bristol Bay,
injuring the pilot and an un
identified passenger.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration here said the plane was
a Taylorcraft belonging to Bris
tol Bay Airlines. It was piloted
by Dick Armstrong.
The CAA said a meager re
port from the scene said the
pilot was unconscious but the
nature of his injuries was not
reported. Other details of the
crash, including the identity of
the passenger, were not avail
able here.
Report of Plane
Wreckage
Believed Mistaken
Anchorage (/Pi—The leader of
an Air Force train crew sent to
investigate a report plane wreck
age was sighted on a Kenai Pen
insula mountain said today he
believes the “report was of low
merit,” but worth investigation.
A construction worker
Wednesday spotted w'hat he said
appeared to be wreckage of a
DC-3 or DC-4 in the Kenai
Mountains 10 miles southwest of
Kenai Lake.
The Air Force ordered an in
vestigation on the possibility it
might be the wreckage of a Ko
rean Airlift plane which disap
peared July 21. Thirty eight
were aboard the DC-4.
Lt. Richard Swan, in charge
of the four-man trail crew, dis
cussed the report with James A.
Carey, Manson-Osberg-Halvor
son Construction Company work
er who said he sighted the
wreckage.
Swan said later the country
where the plane reportedly was
spotted was low on the normal
Anchorage-Seward airlane. He
said the wreckage should have
been seen by pilots flying the
route.
“However, there still is a pos
sibility there is wreckage of a
plane,” Swan said. “It would be
covered by heavy underbrush
not easily spotted from the air.
The trail crew will go up to in
vestigate.”
Reports of local pilots who
cover this area on routine flights
state that the “wreckage” is
nothing more than patches of
ice. Chris Christensen covered
the area carefully yesterday and
substantiates the claim of ice
which could easily be mistaken
for metallic substance if seen in
the right light.
Tanks Battle Positions
In Korea
U. S. Eighth Army Headquar
ters. Korea. Saturday OP)—Allied
armored columns jabbed into the
north corner of the old Commun
ist triangle in Central Korea Fri
day, shot up everything in sight
and then withdrew for the night.
It was perhaps the heaviest
armored thrust of the Korean
war. Infantrymen followed the
tanks into action.
Elements of three Allied divi
sions smashed northward within
a short distance of Pyonggang,
apex of the trangular area used
last spring as a massive build-up
area by the Chinese and Korean
Reds.
One tank - infantry column
reached north of Chorwon, the
southwestern corner of the tri
angle, at dawn and met only
light resistance from Reds lin
ing the hills.
A second armored column met
bitter opposition north of Kum
hwa after poking northward only
a mile.
“What appeared the toughest
resistance in the day’s action
was met by the third tank
tipped column northeast of Kum
hwa. The column ran into a hail
of anti-tank fire near a town and
a “knockdown dragout” battle
ensued.
TRUMAN ORDERS KOREAN
GRAVES MARKED
Washington (P) — The word
“Korea” will be inscribed on
markers on graves of all U.S.
Armed Forces men killed in that
country and buried in national
cemeteries.
President Truman ordered this
yesterday, untangling red tape
which had prohibited such iden
tification because the Korean
conflict is not officially a war.