Seward Seaport Record
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Seward, Alaska
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red Kirkpatrick Managing Editor
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
Once again the question of sleep
ing quarters for transients comes
to the fore. It is not a new subject,
nor one that has been in abeyance
for [he past year. Everybody re
al'.res that ‘•something” must bo
done, but the question is “what,
and by whom?"
To be specific about the busi
ness—Officer Kellogg reports that
he counted 35 cars along the high
wav Outside (i Seward on the
night of July 4 with people sleep
ing in them—no rooms in Seward.
Soldiers on leave from Whittier
and Anchorage, who are not with
the Recreation Center, are forced
to walk the streets alt night be
came of no place to sleep. Police
n and cit jail .ay filled every
night with “sleepers.”
A query put to Capt. Carr and
Capt. Bistany brings the answer
that if there is a bed to spare in
the Recreation Center those boys
era have it. but the Center is usu
ally filled to capacity.
Twice in a week. Mr. Elms has
put up families with children
rather than leave them on tho
highway without shelter. He is not
equipped for such trade, but took
them in out of kindness.
It has been suggested as a pos
sible solutTn to the immediate
problem, that a corporation could
be formed on a community basis
to build a motor court or some
thing of the kind. Does that appeal
to Sewardites? If so. 1 Ts hear
from you. and lock into the matter.
On the Fourth of July, many
complaints were heard from visi
tors who had not been able to got
enough to eat. Of course, we na
tives know that there was food
here, if the visitors h. * ust had
patience—but tourists and short
time visitors do not have patience.
The fact remains, however, that
there is not enough housing in
town for permanent residents, not
to mention transients. The high
way will be open to limited traffic
by next month—what happens
then?
Business will not profit as it
should unless some provision is
made for housing. It is something
important to think about.
LIARS' CONTEST WINNER
TO BE ANNOUNCED
NEXT TUESDAY
A liars' contest, organized by
Seward Chamber of Commerce
among the 'touring Editorial As
sociation visitors in June, be
came a popular feature of the
vsitors" trip. Several lies were
turned in before they boarded
ship on their return journey.
Others have been received since.
Selection of the winner will be
made at the Tuesday luncheon
of the C. of C.
Another project to be dis
cuss'd is the Golden Anniver
sary program for the City of
Seward. The C. of C. has tenta
tive plans for a big celebration,
coincident with the opening of
the Seward Anchorage highway,
which will be officially com
pleted in 1952 or 1953.
Efforts are being made in
some ouarters to have the open
ing date moved up, even though
the black-topping of the road
may not be completed. If this
occurs, before next year, plans
for a 50th year celebration Jor
Seward must be stepped up im
mediately.
President Keating hopes for
a good turn-out at the luncheon
meeting in the Kenai Lounge
next Tuesday to discuss this im
portant subject.
Personalized Stationery
Made to Order
MORE ABOUT .
Story of Seward
(Continued from Page 1)
party oi British noblemen, com
plete with cook and valet, sailed
the Atlantic and started across
Canada to get their share of
the diggin's. They had travelled
the Edmonton Trail as far as
Fort McPherson, when news of
the Boer War reached them. All
were officers of the British
Army except Mr. Fisher, and
immediately retraced their steps
back to rally around the King,
leaving Charlie Fisher to pusn
on to C i r c 1 e City alone, and
breaking up what must certainly
have been the most picturesque
of all the parties of “prospect
ors.” In Tacoma. Washington,
the mayor and the chief of
police both quit to head for the
gold fields. At Skagway, an
other party of stampeders land
ed with a ‘‘steam-driven ice
sled.” devised to speed them
effortlessly over the glaciers to
the land of great wealth (fuel
was a point they hadn't thought
of.) At Nome, a man hurried off
the sUamer into the lighter that
was taking passengers ashore.
O.i touching land, lie jumped
out, picked up a handful of
sand, iooked at it a moment,
then said, “I knew it was all
a lie," and immediately returned
to the boat to sail home.
Needless to say. the sound
development of Alaska had to
bide its time, until this com e,
and often tragic, spectacle came
to an end.
For what Alaska needed most
of all, was not more gold rushes,
nor even more population, but,
of all things, common, ordinary
coal.
(Next week: More About the
Great Coal Question.)
TOM JONES' GET PRIZE
FOR GARDEN
This week’s prize for house
and garden improvement, upon
recommendation of Beta Sigma
Phi, goes to Tom Jones at 609
Fourth Ave. The prize is $5.00
in service or merchandise from
Hamilton's Garage.
Honorable mention went to
the Virgil Zentmires, 327 Sec
ond Ave.
The prize last week was taken
by the Episcopal Church, given
by Sew’ard Trading Co., and
honorable mention went to Com
mander Keene. USN, 1036 Sec
ond Ave.
LUTHERAN LADIES' AID
MEETS MONDAY
The Lutheran Ladies’ Aid will
hold their July meeting Monday,
July 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the
church basement. Miss Alice
Sanne, executive secretary of
the Women’s Mission Fed. ra
tion, will be a guest at the
meeting.
SOURDOUGH
TRANSFER
Day or Night Service
For Service Call
GEORGE EVERITT
406 Wash. St.
MADISON 93
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When in Seward It’s
The New Seward Hotel
Oscar Dahl, owner
(By The Associated Press)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 1, Cleveland 0 (night).
Detroit 5, Washington 4.
Boston 3-5, Chicago 2-4 (second
game 17 innings, twi-night).
Phil: dclpl ia 5-13, St. Lonnis 7-0
(twi-night).
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 2. New York 0.
BrooM' n 0 Chicago 3 (night).
Philadelphia 11, Pittsburgh 0
(night).
Cincinnati at Boston, postponed,
rain.
No Pacific Coast League games,
RED SOX GRAB AMERICAN
LEAGUE LEADERSHIP
CHICAGO (AP>—-The rampaging
Boston Red Sox. grasping the
American League leadership for
the first time this season* today
hoped they had pricked the pen
nant bubble of the amazing Chi
cago White Sox.
"Those were two big ones to
win.” grinned stout Steve O'Neill
after his Red Sox had polished off
the erstwhile pace-setting Pale
Hose 3-2 and 5-4, in a marathon
session of six hours and 19 min
utes before 62,592 at Comiskey
Park last night.
"Well be back.” dourly predict
ed Manager Paul Richards of the
White Sox. who dropped from H-C
to third r>b'r'c only a percentage
point behind tlm New York Yan
kees and one game from the Red
Sox.
O'Neill, obviously elated bv his
team's double success in opening
t*eir western tour, still was cau
tious in sizing up the pennant
dr ve.
"You have to keen the Yankees
in r.vod '-clause of the'r fine pitch
ing and in September, look out for
Cle .-eland.” added O'Neill.
Did O'Neill think the White Sox
have run out of gas?
“Any team that can hit and run
like the White Sox means trouble
all the way." Rig Steve grunted.
Everything went right for the
R-d Sox last night In the opener.
Clyde Vollmer belted a two-run
homer in the seventh and Lou
Boudreau belted across the decid
ing marker with an eighth inning
double. A ninth-inning White Sox
rally was stifled by reliefer Harry
Taylor, who checked Chicago with
two runs after Mcl Parnell had
filled the bases with nobody out.
The finale dawdled into the long
est night game in American Leagu<*
history before Boudreau romped
home from third after Vollmer's
long fly to left field in the top of
the 17th.
WELL BABY CLINIC TO
REOPEN AUGUST 13
Srward's Well Baby Clinic
and general public health pro
gram will not re-open until Au
gust 13, according to an an
nouncement made yesterday.
Mrs. LaPreal Bie. public
health nurse, will be on sick
leave until that time. It was
planned to re-open the full pro
gram before that date, but Mrs.
Bie’s condition will not permit
her to resume work in less than
a month.
Hero of VcaSdez Glacier Rescue in ’35 Await:
Transportation to Outside Hospital
John Roy (Tip) Tipton, aged
72, hero of the rescue of four
men from the Valdez Glacier in
1935, is now in Seward General
Hospital, awaiting transporta
tion to an Outside hospital
where he can receive treatment
for cancer.
“Tip-’ Tipton’s heroism was
the first case in Alaska to be
investigated by the Carnegie As
sociation and to be awarded the
Carnegie Medal for heroic serv
ice. The award was made in
1936.
Mr. Tipton packed supplies to
a mine over the Valdez Glacier
for several years. During a bliz
zard in January of 1935, four
men were trapped on the gla
cier, one caught in a crevass.
Whether Tipton went looking
“for them, or ran across them on
a routine trip is not understood
here, but the fact remains that
he was the first to the rescue.
The party was on the glacier
from January 7 to 10. He got
two of the men to a cabin then
went back to town for help. A
rescue party was organized in
FRIDAY THE 13TH
UNLUCKY?
PITTSBURGH, Friday (AP)—
Who says Friday the 13th isn't
unlucky?
Pittsburgh has a group of 13
men who call themselves the
Friday the 13th Club.
Every time the calendar turns
up a Friday the 13th these 13
men get together and defy the
jinx.
They smash mirrors, walk un
der ladders, spill salt, consort
with black cats, and otherwise
scorn superstitions.
So what happens today, Fri
day the 13th?
So many members are out of
town that the club, unluckily,
had to call off its meeting!
Valdez. William Egan, now
the Territorial Legislature, '
one of the party. Planes and
sleds brought the men out,
living, the other two dead,
only living survivor of the pa
aside from Tipton, is Gene f
ler, thought to be living in P
land, Oregon. i
Tipton sinared his socks
clothes with the distressed rr
and his own toes were so ba
frozen that they were remo
from both feet. His right h
also suffered a permanent
jury.
He remained in Alaska
for the past several years
lived in Ilomcr where he ha
small homestead. Last week
came back to Seward for
first time in 10 years. An in
tion on his jaw is keeping 1
partly hosptalized until tr;
portation can be arranged C
side.
Tipton’s first job in Ala
was in Seward in 1909. “All
old friends are gone now,”
remarked wstfully. He has
family.
RECORD EMPLOYE IN
HOSPITAL
Miss Beverly Abraham'
linotype operator at the Sear
Record, is in Seward Gem
Hospital for an appendector
She is reported this afternoon
doing well. ;
INDIANS BACKWARD?
American history would have
believe tIre Indians were an une
cated, backward race, but w
they were running 1h> coul
there were no taxes, no debts
the women did all the work. V
could hope to improve a setup i
that?
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