Seward Seaport Record
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Published on Friday of Each Week at Seward, Alaska
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
HEAR EDITOR: Will you please
publish in your paper this little
item. “Merry Christmas to all of
Jimmy Hughes’ friends. Since 1
left Seward I have lost contact
with them. Send me a copy and
I will send the money for it.
Mr. JIMMY HUGHES
Rt. 2, Box S3. Counelly Springs,
North Carolina.
DEAR EDITOR: About the middle
of July 1905, 1 left Seattle on the
steamer Portland with the Rev.
Louis H. Pederson and family. He
established the first Methodist
Church in Seward, and I worked
on location and construction in
the engineering department o f
the Alaska Central R,R. William
B. Portland was Chief Engineer;
John B. Camnieron, Construction
Engineer; Harry R. Gabriel. Mr.
symonds, Walter Jones, Fred L.
Hunt, John C. Baxter and Charles
C. Donovan were d in
eers. Dill Weaver n;
Dr. Richardson cc r.
and Jerry Odale wi
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I’d like to get in t
Pederson or his so.
Ralph. I wonder if
records of their wher
Although a half ce
most passed. I still
memories of long, long
country which I liked s ■
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believe, was “The Se . <
way.”
Sincerely,, WINN R
Rt. 1, Uox 219, Lak
Washington.
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the slightest idea of wher
for any of the Pedersons
haps there is some one
readers who could help
them for Mr. Reel.
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A Merry Christmas
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Christmas is to be able to extend
again to you and yours Best Wishes
for the Holy Season, and may all
the Blessings of Providence enrich
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SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EVE AND
CHRISTMAS DAY SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1954
2:00—sign On
_News
2:05_Musical Matinee
3:30_News
3:35_San Request
3:45—-Aunt Mary
4:00_Hilltop House
4:15_Helen Trent
4:30_Second Mrs. Burton
4:45_Our Gal Sunday
5:00_News
6:05_Talk Of The Town
5:15—Christmas Carols
5:30_The Littlest Angel
6:00i—News
6:15_Weather
6:20—T.B.A.
6:30_The Singing Americans
?:45—News
:55_Local Seward News
7:00_Santa Claus Rides Again
7:30_Perry Mason
7:45_Mr. Keene
8:00—News
8:05—T.B.A.
8:15_Twas the Night Before
Christmas
8:30_Story of The Nativity
9:00—News
9:15_Perry Como
930_Christmas Music
9:45—Christmas Hymns
10:00—News
10:15— Dreamtime
10:30—Christmas Cheer
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25
CHRISTMAS DAY
2:00—Sign On
—News
2:05—Christmas Carols
2:30—Lutheran Christmas Program
3:00—Christmas Miracle of Jasper
Crown
3:30—News
3:35—Hour of Charm Album
4:00—A Christmas Carol
5:00-lack Church
5:15—Melachrino Christmas Fan.
tasy
5:30—Merry Christmas
5:00—News
i:15—T. B. A.
:30—Tenpin Tunes
:45—News
:55—Local Seward News
00—Lullaby of Christmas
30—Dennis Day
30—T. B. A.
15—House Party
'.0—Christmas Visit with Ted
Malone
3—News
l—Hour of St. Francis
'—Revival Time
—Dancing Party
—Sign Off
sfmas Eve Set
jdgement Day
hristmas decorations com
f the Chamber of Corn
sued an invitation to all
ers this week to dress
tomes for Christmas and
le competition and may
'hemselves a little loot
ut with the Christmas
OXD !... i
..o chamber of Commerce is
offering local householders an op
portunity to win up to $40 for
their artistic efforts in the way of
Christmas decorations which can
be seen from the street. They
need not be outdoors but must
be where they can be judged from ,
the street.
Many popular women’s maga-1
zines are now featuring easy to
make decorations and they are i
not very expensive either. Out
door Christmas tree lights are
available in at least two local
stores and placed on shrubbery
would do much to brighten the
town up and spread the Christmas
spirit.
The City got into the swing of
the season this week when they
erected a lighted tree in front of
the Fire Hall and it is hoped
that others will follow" suit so
that Seward will be among the
brightest and gayest at this Christ
mas season.
Judging of the decorations will
be made on Christmas eve and the
results will be announced over
KIBH that evening.
First prize is $40, second $30,
third $20, and forth $10 in addition
to the cash awards there will also
be some honorable mentiqps.
The gal with the '
peek-a-boo nose
.ehanvir make-vp ih« used, her'nose
would sneak out from under cover by
11 a.m. Then she turned to Max Factor
Pan-Cake* Make-Up. Now her face looks
fresh and natural all day long. And Max
Factor Pan-Cake is far and away the finest
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a sponge just short of dripping wet. Then,
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Church Directory
ST. PETER’S EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
Rev. L. Russell Clapp
The chief service of Christmas
will be at midnight, Eucharist
beginning with carols at 11:30 p.m. j
Decemmber 24.
Christmas day Eucharist at 9:30
a.nt.
Sunday after Christmas, Decem
ber 26, St Stephen's Day, 8 a.m.
Holy Eucharist. 9:45 Church school.
11 a.m. Choral Eucharist and ser
mon.
Monday, St. John the Evangilist
Day, Communion Service at the
Sanatorium.
Tuesday, Holy Innocent's Day.
Communions for the sick.
Thursday. December 30th, Cub
Scout Christmas Pack Meeting, 3
p.m.
Saturday, New years day, feast
of the Circumcision, Holy Euchar
ist at 9 a.m.
Sunday .January 2, services at
regular hours, 7 p.m. the church
school program, a showing of the
sound color film “Plight into
Egypt.”
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
B. I. Carpenter, Pastor
Sunday:
Sunday School . 10:00
Morning Worship . 11:00
Baptist Training Union . 6:30
Kvening Worship . 7:30
Fellowship . 8:30
Wednesday:
Mid-week Prayer Service .... 7:30
Saturday:
Girl's Auxiliary . 10:00
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
207 Second Avenue
(Church with a Christian Welcome)
Sunday:
Sunday School . 9:30
A class for everyone.
Sunday Kvening Service .... 7:30
Wednesday:
Prayer Meeting . 7:30
Friday:
Christ Ambassadors . 7:30
(Young Peoples Services)
Saturday:
Revival Time, KIBH . 9:30
SEWARD MEMORIAL
METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Charles Malin
Sunday School . 9:45
Morning Service . 11:09
Kvening Service . 8:00
SEWARD LUTHERAN CHURCH
3rd Ave., and Church Streets
Rev. Dwight J. Boe
Sunday School for all ages .... 9:45
Morning Worship Service .... 11:00
Holy Communion Service, first
Sunday morning of each month.
Family Night Pot Luck Supper,
first Sunday evening of each
month at 5:30.
Church Council Meeting, first
Tuesday of each month at 7:30.
Ladies Aid. second Monday of each
month at 8:00.
BAHAI WORLD FAITH
Sunday:
Public Fireside Meeting . 7:00
Bussell Residence at Mile 7%
on the Seward-Anchorage Hiway.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARINE
Rev. L. C. Hopkins
Sunday:
Sunday School . 10:00
Morning Worship . 11:00
Young People’s Service . 6:30
Kvening Evangelistic Service .. 7:30
Wednesday:
Mid-week Prayer Service . 8:00
FAITH CHAPEL
Rev. J. Lloyd Dean
Sunday:
Sunday School .. 10:45
Evening Service . 7:45
Wednesday:
Bible Study and Prayer . 7:45
Thursday:
Listen to “Truth and Life” ....9:15
over KIBH
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
8ERVICES
Sunday School . 9'.45 a.n».
Church .v.. 11:00 a.m.
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VAST AREA IN ALASKA RAILBELT
NOW READY FOR DEVELOPMENT
By LOUIS R. HUBER
FAIRBANKS — With five large
military and air bases situated
along Its 470-mlle lerffeth, the rail
belt of Alaska is ripe for industrial
development.
That Is the belief of the Alaska
Development Board which recent
ly Issued two separate 80-page re
ports on the economic resources
of this region.
Reading them,'one realizes that
this territorial agency wants indus
trial development to come, not be
cause of defense bases and their
needs alone but rather, because
the exploitation of resources re
cently made accessible will aid
Alaska, the nation and the bases.
You get this much from one of
the titles: “Possibilities of Com
mercial Development of Gubik Gas
"Field and Use of Natural Gas as a
Source of Heat and Power in the
Railbelt Area of Alaska.”
The Gubic Gas Field. 465 miles
northwest of here, near the Arctic
Coast, is one of the by-products
of the United States Navy’s search
for oil in its huge Petroleum Re
serve No. 4 north of the Brooks
Range.
The other report, on Fairbanks
itself, points out that industrial
: expansion in this region can occi/.•
at surprising times. When the
rest of the' nation was sunk in
economic depression in the 1930’s.
Fairbanks experienced prosperity
due to introduction of modern gold
mining methods.
As for the Gubik gas field, the
report states that “a minimum of
?,on billion cubic feet of gas” exists
there in two test wells,
j It would cost slightly over $18.
000.000 to build a pipeline from
i Fairbanks to the Gubic field: with
that done, however, an immediate
market would commence using the
1 gas.
“In Fairbanks and vicinity al
one." says the report, “the annual
cost of fuel used for generation
of electric power and for heating
purposes by all consumers, includ
ing the milltarv. is estimated to be
in excess of $11,000,000.”
If the Gubic gas were used in
place of coal and fuel oil. a saving
of $4,000,000 yearly would be effec
ted. the board asserts.
In addition, the pipeline could
easily be extended southward al
ong the railbelt with stimulation
for several potential industries.
At present the Gubic gas field Is
tied up as a part of the Navv's
37.000 square mile Petroleum Re
serve No. 4. Close to $60,000,000
was spent in oil exploration in this
t area in the nine years preceding
-1953. at which time the work was
stopped.
t The Alaska Development Board
I suggests that, since the Navy has
no use for the gas deposit, it should
be opened up to industrial use.
Then, says the board, ore-reduc
tion plants could be built for re
fining local deposits of antimony,
tungsten, copper, molybdenum, gold
and silver; fertilizer and chemical
plants could be built with great
benelt to Alaska agriculture: and
a ceramic industry could be estab
lished for producihg building ma
terials that now cost dearly in the
area.
"Any progress toward economic
self-sufficiency will strengthen the
position of the military establish
ment in Alaska and thereby have
a beneficial effect on the defense
of the United States in event of
national emergency." say the board.
It also points out a pressing
need for lowering the high cost
of electricity in this area—which
could be accomplished by harnes
sing some, at least, of the 21 hydro
electric sites hereabouts whose
combined potential is estimated at
around 3,000,000 kilowatts.
Close to a billion dollars has been
poured into .{he present, defense sys
tem id Alaska, it is. pointed out,
and by exerting a comparatively
small push in the direction of nat
ural economic expansion up north,
a valuable saving to the entire
nation will result.
The report on Fairbanks traces
the history of this far-north metro
polis, whose greater-area popula
tion now is estimated at 40,000.
The city got its start in 1901
when goldseekers picked this spot
as a likely one for a trading post.
In those days you reached Fair
banks either via St. Michael on the
Bering Sea coast, traveling up the
Yukon and Tanana Rivers for
3,500 miles; or through Skagway
and Whitehorse and thence down
the Yukon for 2,375 miles.
In 1913 a route overland from
Valdez on the Gulf of Alaska coast
was established, only 365 miles
long; and by 1923 the Alaska Rail
road, running north 470 miles from
Seward, was finished. In 1944 the
Alaska Highway was pushed
through 1,523 miles from Dawson
Creek, British Columbia.
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World War II established Fair
banks as a center for airlines ra
diating to every part of the north
land, as well as to the States.
Military and civilian payr oils
here now average $40,000,000 year
ly. and property valuations in the
immediate area are estimated at
»50,000,000.
While a reduction in overall in
come is expected as the defense
construction program is completed,
all the important ingredients are
here, says the board, for a per
manent high level industrial act
ivity.
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