WARD
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Vol. VIII. No. GO
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1952
Price 10 Cents
Moose Pass
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Waite of
Seward were visitors at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Foster on
Wednesday afternoon and eve
ning of Jan. Id. The time was
spent in visiting and playing
canasta.
Floyd Wolfe was remembered
on his birthday, Jan. 15. by
members of the family and
friends coming in to enjoy ice
cream and cake.
The weather in Moose Pass
has been cold and clear for near
ly a week now with the tempera
ture falling to 30 to 35 degrees
below z.ro at night.
Rev. Gene Elliot', was forced
to spend the nighi in his car.
Jan. 10. near the former location
of Soper s on the Cooper Land
ing road due to drifted snow.
He was on his way hum. from
Ninilcidk and could see that an
other car from the opposite di
reel ion was unable to make it
through the drift so waited until
morning. By then the top of the
other car was showing so Mr.
Elliott got busy with the shovel
and dug out the driver who was
pretty cold by then. The Bureau
crews soon came and opened the
road so that traffic could be re
sumed.
Mrs. Delbert Wolfe enter
tained with an afternoon of can
asta on Thursday. Jan. 17.
Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn Brossow
were callers at the homes of
Mrs. Ray Foster and Mrs. Thur
man Wolfe on the afternoon of
Jan. 21. The Brossow family
formerly lived in Moose Pass
wh;ie "Bross” was section fore
man for The Alaska Railroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Foster. Mr.
and Mrs. Max i osier and Lurry
and Billy Foster, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Wolfe and Wanda, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert G. Woods and
Ruth. Marjorie and Roy. Air. and
Mrs. Delb.rt Woke, and Floyd
Wolfe gathered at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Wolfe
•on Saturday evening. Jan. 19,
for an old - fashioned Dutch
lunch and evening of visiting. A
very good time was iiad by all.
Bub Estes, Bob Moore and
“Smiley," the n.w relief agent
lor The Alaska Railroad office
at Moose Pass, drove to Kenton's
Lodge at Cooper Landing on
Saturday evening to attend the
hard time dance being held by
the Sportsman s and Rifle Club
of that community. They report
ed having a very good time.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Miller had
Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Wolfe as
dinner guests on Monday eve
ning. Jan. 21. The evening was
spent playing Monopoly.
Friends in Moose Pass have
received word from Mr. and Mis.
Lyle Saxton that they expect to
be back by March 15. The Sax
ton family has been living in
Boise, Idaho, this wintcu* to be
near Mr. Saxton’s father who is
in poor health. Mr. and Mrs. R.
C. Leibelt and son Corky have
been living in the Saxton house.
Masons Intall Officers
For 1952
Tin* Seward Masonic Lodge
met in special session on Janu
ary 22 lor the installation of of
ficers for the year of 1952. Del
bert Robbins, Past Master for
1951, was Installing Officer;
Harold Campon, Installing Mar
shall, and Reverend L. Russell
Clapp, Installing Chaplain.
Elective and appointive offi
cers were installed in the follow
ing order:
Don S. Wilson, Worshipful
Master: Charles Lechner Jr.,
Senior Warden; Leland Miller,
Junior Warden; Park Smith,
Senior Deacon: Baird French,
Junior Deacon; Jack Ives, Trea
surer; Tom Howell, Secretary;
Reverend Russell Clapp, Chap
lain; Harold Campon, Marshall:
George Green, Senior Steward;
Irving Metcalf. .Junior Steward:
and Phil Harding, Tyler.
Past Master Delbert Robbins
was congratulated for his re
gime of inspiring and construc
tive leadership by the incoming
Master.
Refreshments were served and
plans generally discussed for
1952.
Sea Hawks-Whittier
Gafrie Saturday
One mole borne game beroiv
the Seward High School Sea
Hawks l ave for Fairbanks is
scheduled for Saturday night at
the Civic Center gymnasium.
The Whittier team is expected
to arr ve Saturday evening for
the second game between the
teams this season. The Sea
Hawks won the first game.
Basketball fans ar. assured
that the game will end in time
for people to attend either of the
March of Dimes affairs, being
held separately at the Elks Club
and the Legion Club.
V/h i$;n©ro Re s i g r. s
From Co*jr?cia
Pressure of work was given by
C mine, in inn Lawrence Whitmore
as reason tor i 11> resignation from
the city council this week.
Mr. Whitmore was elected in
October. Idol). lie has bee n popu
lar with Seward rcsiderus be
cause at his conscientious atten
tion to his duty as a councilman
and his keen business sense. C’on
iderabL regret is being ex
pressed at his decision to resign
from the city affairs.
MARCH OF DIMES DANCE
AT ELKS CLUB SATURDAY
Seward Elks will make their
contribution to the March of
Dimes by donating door receipts
from the dance Saturday night.
The dance, for Elks and their
guests, will follow initiation of
a class earlier in the evening.
Fire broke out at Soper’s
Moose Pass Inn at about 10:30
p.m., Monday evening, Jan. 21,
in and about the chimney but
was put out with the help of
elose-by neighbors. Wood forms
which had been left when the
concrete chimney and flu were
built had overheated and burst
into flames. Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Woods have been operating the
Inn during the Sopers’ visit to
the States.
Announce Winners In
Girl Scout
Poster Contest
All posters turned in by the
(till Scouts for publicizing the
training program for leaders,
tioop committee members and
prospective leaders and associa
tion members were so exception
al that it was very difficult to
choose the four best ones. The
poster winning first prize was
made by Jane Phillips, third by
Barbara Carr, Scouts of younger
intermediate troop. The second
and third prizes were awarded
to Beverly Sellers and Esthel
Bahr of the Brownie troop.
Mrs. Roberta Thornton, leader,
and Mrs. Kathic Garrison and
Mrs. Violet Gorsen, co-leaders of
Brownie troop, hope that the
Brownies who haven't been at
tending meetings since Christ
mas aren't on the sick list and
will be at the future meetings at
3 o'clock every Wednesday in
the Methodist Church basement.
New and interesting programs
have been plan . \d and leaders
look forward to si ng all of the
Brownie troop v.Mmbers present
to .start these new activities.
Brownie Troop No. 2. spon
sored by the Lutheran Ladies
Aid are working on an interest
i;.g project. A d< 11 and a sa M
thirty two international uni
hu m dresses was p aenased o>
the group, in order to properly
display all the u iiforms the girls
have made thirty-one more dolls.
They are made of heavy card
board, tinted flesh color, and
have real doll hair. Troop No. 2
hopes to have the d ills displayed
somewhere in town during the
month of February which is In
t.rnational Brownie and Girl
Scout Month.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
EMILIO EUSSO TUESDAY
Sri'vicom will b • h.ltl for
Liiili-o Eusso Tuesday. January
2.K at !) a.in. in Sacred Heart
Catholic Church, Rev. Martin
Borbeck, S.J., officiating.
Emilio hitb-io ,va - barn in Az
zida. I aly. November 22. lHal.
He died in Seward General Hos
pital January 23, after living in
S . ward 30 years. He was well
known as a fisherman in Bristol
Bay and, in late t ears, as a long
slier; man hero. Few people
knew his last name. He was al
wa\ s knowm as Emilia. There is
no record of a wife or famih.
Emilio will lie buried at Seward,
the home of his choice.
INFORMATION WANTED
ABOUT WILLIAM ALBERTS
Anyone having information
about William Alberts is request
ed to write to his brother, John
Alberts, McAdenville, N. C.
William Alberts was last heard
from by his brother about 25
years ago. He is known to have
been a l’isherm: n at Nahnek in
1937.
JIMMIE WEBB PROMOTED
TO CORPORAL
Jimmie Webb, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. D. Webb of this city, has
been promoted to the rank of
corporal in the Army, according
to word received here this week.
Jimmie is stationed at Big
Delta.
Republicans To Rally
Here Sunday
A general call to Seward Re
publicans for a meeting Sunday
at 2:30 p.m. in the I.O.O.F. Hall
has been announced by Thor
wald Osbo, vice-president of the
local club.
This is not a club meeting,
Osbo stat e!, but a general rally
of all Republicans in the city.
Several Anchorage party mem
bers are expected ta be present
in preparation of a federation of
Third District Republicans.
A similar meeting was held
last week at Homer. Forty per
sons attend d there and two
Homerites were chosen to file
far the Legislature from that
district.
Up to Friday no candidate had
filed from the Seward area.
Episcopal Bisiiop
Y:si>s Seward
The Right Reverend William
J Gordon, Bishop of Alaska, is
visiting St. Peter's Episcopal
Church her. this weekend. In
his honor the Woman's Auxiliary
will hold a tea an Saturday at
the Rectory from 3 until 5 p.m.
Services Sunday will begin
with Holy Communion at 8 a.m.
Church School is at 0:45 and will
include a special film in sound
aim caiur snowing work in
Alaska.
Holy Communion and Con
firmation will be at 11 a.m..
Bishop Gordon officiating.
At 8:30 p.m. a Parish dinner
will proceed a meeting far el c
tion of officers. The film will be
shown again for benefit of those
who may miss it in the morning.
JUNIOR WOMEN TRAVELING
BREAKFAST BENEFITS
MARCH Or DIMES FUND
The S '.Viinl Junior Women's
C Inh lii- i January 2g at She limn;
oL ..Irs. Katner.ne Ciurri on. 1!
was defined to give away a
eiobu .s hamper Iilied until to .v
■ ;. . ■ - i towels, siieels. pi 11 ow
cases. ;uici other linen.-- on Feb.
14.
Alter discussi ig the contribu
tion to till? March of Dime.. toe
voting women di cidcd to hoid a
series of travel ini' breakfasts at
tnc various homes of the mem
bers during the week following
the meeting.
Response to the breakfast has
b. en surprisingly good, accord
ing to club officers. Members at
tending with their neighbors and
their neighbor’s neighbor plus
all the children. The number at
the first breakfast was 15
women and 23 children. •
Refreshments at the January
22 meeting were served by Airs.
Garrison and Mrs. Wilma Kirk
patrick.
LEGION CLUB SPONSORS
MARCH OF DIMES PARTY
All those who enjoy playing'
Alaska's favorite game are in
vited to attend a party at the
Legion Club on Saturday night,
Jan. 26, beginning ai 8 o'clock.
Proceeds of the affair will go
to the March of Dimes and the
sponsoring Legionnaires request
all attendants to bring plenty of
the little poiio combatants with
them.
Red Cross Reports
&JLS. BSood Donations
Over MiiSion Pints
Washington—In the If} months
since the start of war in Korea
the American people have donat
ed 1,225,000 pints of blood
through the Red Cross for our
military forces, E. Roland Harri
man, Red Cross president, an
nounced this week. Approxi
mately 100,000 pints were
shipped to the Far East in the
form of whole blood. The bal
ance was processed into plasma.
An additional 1,801,000 pints.
Mr. Ilarriman said, were collect
ed during the same p riod by the
Red Cross for civilian use in the
nation’s hospitals.
In congratulating the Red
Cross for its coordination of the
nation's blood bank program
since its inception four years
ago. Dr. George I'. Lull, secre
tary and general manager oi the
American Medical Association,
r nevvcil the pledge of America's
physicians to "do everything
possible to make the blood pro
gram a continuing success this
year and in the years to come."
Seward maintains a "walking
blood bank" containing a hun
dred names of voluntary blood
donors who respond whenever
needed, either at the sanatorium
or the hospital. This was spon
sored in part by the local chap
ter of Red Cross early in 1951.
VA To Pay Third
Dividend
On G.l. Insurance
The Veterans Administration
in March will start making pay
rn. nls of another dividend on
National Service Life Insurance
policies held by World War 11
veterans, the VA has annou .ced.
The VA estimates that IT0.*‘,/u
veterans living in the Pacitie
Northwest will receive approxi
mately seven million dollars
from the dividend payment,
which is the third to be paid on
G.l. insurance policies by the
VA since the end of World War
Ii.
Veterans who wish to receive
their 11)52 dividend in cash must
notify the VA. Policy holders
who do not notify the VA will
not receive their dividend in
cash. Instead, it will b. used by
the VA to pay G.l. insurance
premiums coming due after the
dividend is payable, if the policy
holder fails to pay such premi
ums.
The VA will mail a special
form to all eligible policy hold
ers which they may use to re
quest cash payment, the VA said.
However, any type of written
request for cash payment will be
acceptable.
Veterans should give their lull
name and address, and their in
surance numbers when request
ing cash paym nt of the divi
dend.
The VA said G.l. insurance
policy holders have two other
dividend payment options:
On permanent plans, policy
holders may request the VA in
writing to place their 1952 divi
dend on deposit at interest: or to
apply his 1952 dividend as an
advance payment on premiums.