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SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1953
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Vol. IX, No. 46
'Aii is Not Lost,' Says
Mayor Painter
From Washington
Several telegrams have been
received from Mayor Hassell
Painter, Kenny Baker and Tom
Bie from Washington, where
they were granted a hearing
Monday and Tuesday on the
railroad rehabilitation appropri
ation.
Just what Mr. Painter meant
by his words, “All is not lost"
is not understood here, but the
feeling is that there may still
be some possibility of the ap
propriation being granted.
Mr. Painter was in Seattle
Thursday where he expected to
sign the bonds for the water re
habilitation project, and it is
supposed that he will arrive
home over the weekend.
It is more than likely that
the mayor and Mr. Baker as
well as Mr. Bie will make a
report at the Chamber of Com
merce meeting next Tuesday if
not before.
Sipprell, Jeffrey
Receive Promotions;
New Agent Here
Four Alaska Steamship Com
pany personnel promotions be
come effective today, May 15, it
was announced this week by H.
N. Peterson, company general
traffic manager.
J. J. Dillon, the Nome agent
has been appointed special as
sistant to J. D. .Nelson, assistant
general traffic manager, Seattle:
W. W. Sipprell, general agent,
Seward has been named Nome
agent; J. W. Jeffrey, superin
tendent at Seward, to general
agent here, and Tom Ousdale,
assistant chief clerk in the Se
attle freight office to assistant
agent, Seward.
A native of Skagway, Sipprell
joined the Alaska Line as as
sistant agent, Seward in July,
1942. He is a graduate of Skag
way High School and had nine
years prior transportation ex
perience at Skagway with the
White Pass & Yukon Route and
the .Canadian Pacific Railway
in the operating department and
as assistant agent respectively.
For four years beginning in
1943 Sipprell was Alaska Line
agent at Kodiak and has been
general agent, Seward since
1947,
Mr. Sipprell and his wife
had become an integral part of
social and civic life in Seward.
He is past president of _ the
Chamber of Commerce, chair
man of the Boy Scout Council
and treasurer of the Winter Con
cert Committee. He was also
an officer in the Elks Lodge.
On the eve of their departure
friends honored the Sipprells
with a farewell party at the
Elks Club.
Jack Jeffrey was born in Wil
liston, North Dakota, graduated
from Williston High School and
attended the University of North
Dakota. After diversified trans
portation experience in the Pa
cific Northwest and Alaska, he
was appointed Alaska Steamship
Company assistant agent, Sew
ard in 1945 and promoted to
district superintendent, Seward
in September, 1950.
Tom Ousdale joined The Alas
ka Line as freight office clerk
after graduation from Mt. Baker
high school, Bellingham in 1947.
In October, 1952 he returned
to the company as assistant chief
clerk, freight office, after two
years’ military leave of absence
which included six months’ Ko
rean combat service as an army
first sergeant.
Mr. and Mrs. Hinie Werner
made a short trip to Anchorage
this week.
Funeral Services for
Swan Lind This Week
Funeral services for Swan
Lind, aged 59, were held Wed
nesday, May 13, in the Seward
Lutheran Church, Rev. Kent
Spaulding officiating.
Swan Lind, born in Sweden
February 19, 1894, died of heart
failure in Seward May 9, 1953.
Mr. Lind was a naturalized
citizen. He had lived in the
neighborhood of Seward for the
past 26 years, where he worked
on the Seward dock. He had
been ill for several weeks but
was at home at the time of his
death.
Swan Lind is survived by his
widow Wilma, two daughters
Joan and Mrs. Jeanette Wright,
a son Ronald, and his mother
Mrs. Josef ina Rensfaldt, who
lives in Sweden.
Mr. Lind was buried in the
Odd Fellows Cemctary, Seward.
Sanatorium Staff
Honors Mrs. Chao
Chi-Mei Hwang Chao, wife of
Dr. Shuh Shin Chao at the Sew
ard Sanatorium, was honored
at a tea Friday afternoon in
the Sanatorium dining room.
The tea was given by the staff
of the tuberculosis hospital.
Mrs. Chao came to Tennessee
from China in 1949. She joined
her husband at the Sanatorium
this week after graduating in
anesthesia from the Gallinger
Municipal Hospital, Washington,
DC.
Dr. Chao is on loan to the
Territorial Department of Health
from the U.S. Department. He
worked for many years in China
but was forced to discontinue
because of Communist oppres
sion. He is a specialist in tuber
culosis.
Their 18 months old daughter
Mary is with them.
Coopers Attend
Conventions
At the same time that the
Seward, Nebraska basketball
players are in Seward, Alaska,
Mrs. Ruth Cooper, a former resi
dent of the Nebraska town, will
be visiting her parents there.
Mrs. Cooper's parents are Mr.
and Mrs. George W. Porter of
Fremont, Nebraska, and she has
relatives and friends in several
towns in the vicinity of Seward,
and lived in Seward herself be
fore coming to Alaska.
Among the visits she will
make is one to Mrs. Nina Wea
ver who is a sister of H. Everett
Hoy of Seward, Alaska.
Mrs. Cooper, who is secretary
treasurer of District 2, Alaska
Nurses’ Association, will attend
the nurses’ convention in Juneau
beginning Monday.
After the convention she and
her 4-year-old daughter, Karen,
will fly to Omaha, Nebraska en
route to Seward, where she will
be joined in June by her hus
band, Frank Cooper.
Mr. Cooper will leave June 18
to attend the convention of Odd
Fellows at Tacoma, Wash. He
will then join his wife and
daughter in Nebraska and the
family will go on to Toledo, O.,
to visit Frank’s brother whom
he has not seen for 31 years.
This will be Mr. Cooper's first
trip Outside in 26 years.
The Coopers will be out for
about two months.
O.E.S. BAKE SALE
SATRDAY, MAY 16
Members of the Eastern Star
will conduct a bake sale Satur
day, May 16, at McMullen’s. The
sale will begin at 11 a.m.
A.C.S. Increases
Hours of Service
Effective Today
By official announcement
from Sgt. Jack Powers, the Al
aska Communications System of
fice in Seward will now give
several hours added service.
Effective May 15, office hours
for telegrams and long distance
phone calls are: Week days, 8
a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday and holi
days, 9 to 10 a.m., 4 to 6 p.m.
With cessation of long dis
tance service by the local tele
phone company, business people
in Seward have been lodging
complaints with A.C.S. and re
quests for more service. The
Chamber of Commerce took up
the complaint and addressed a
letter to the Seattle office of
ACS.
In a reply this week, A.C.S.
headquarters in Seattle assures
the Chamber that they are-*
aware of the need for service
here and that steps are being
taken to amend the difficulty.
The letter states that, restrict
ed budget permitting, additional
personnel will be sent to Seward
and that by June 1 or soon there
after, 24 hour service will be
resumed here. This information
did not come from the local of
fice, but direct from Seattle.
Seward Oldtimer
Injured in Texas
Word was received by the sis
ter of Andy Rasmussen that he
was injured in an automobile
accident in Texas on,May 5 and
is in a hospital recovering from
a broken arm and internal in
juries.
Mr. Rasmussen's brother John
was killed in the same accident,
according to the message from
Henry Rasmussen, another bro
ther. who is remembered as hav
ing lived here.
Bartlett Advises
Claim Holders To Do
Assessment Work
The deadline for the past
year's requirement for assess
ment work will be reached on
July 1 with no prospect in sight
for conrgessional action to sus
pend the necessity for doing such
work on mining claims in Alas
ka and the rest of the country.
The Alaska legislature me
morialized the Congress to waive
the requirement but the senti
ments of the territorial legisla
tive body face the prospect of
negative response from the na
tional Congress.
"My personal recommenda
tion,” Delegate Bartlett stated
after talking with a number of
key members of Congress includ
ing the chairman of the mines
and mining subcommittee of the
House Interior and Insular Af
fairs Committee, the subcom
mittee having initial jurisdiction
over any legislation seeking
waiver, “would be that all claim
holders perform their assessment
work. They would endanger
themselves if they waited in an
ticipation of a suspension law.
“The admonition stating the
position of the committee when
it last acted on a waiver seems
to hold good today," Delegate
Bartlett said with reference to
action taken in the 81st Con
gress. The report stating the po
sition of the committee said: “Al
though the committee is agree
able to the enactment of this bill,
the committee is of the opinion
that the outright suspension of
the annual assessment work re
quirement on mining claims held
by location is no longer neces
sary or desirable. The committee
strongly recommends that no
further legislation be enacted
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Undersecretary Tudcr
Due Tuesday
Mayor Russell Painter advised
members of the Chamber of
Commerce the Undersecretary
of the Interior Tudor will be
in town Tuedsay, May 19.
If he is here by noon Mr.
Tudor will be a guest at the
Chamber of Commerce luncheon
meeting.
Weather Stations
Close in Two Cities
Disturbing news is contained
in the announcement that two
weather stations in Alaska are
being abandoned by the U S.
Weather Bureau.
Both Cordova and Galena
will be closed. The announce
ment states that other Alaskan
stations may possibly come
under the block. Nothing has
been said to date concerning
the station at Seward.
Offer $25 Prize for
Window Display
Welcoming Visitors
A cash prize of S25 is offered
to the business or store which
puis up the best display and
decorations to welcome the
Seward, Nebraska basketball
players.
The committee hopes by this
method to encourage decorating
of streets and stores for the
visit.
“These people are comirtg
from a long way, at a great
expense, to visit our town," Mr.
Malin stated, “and it is the least
we can do to show our pleasure
by putting out the flags."
Since the Army Recreation
Center opens at the same time,
there will be a large number of
strangers in town and decoration
will be all the more appropriate.
No restrictions are placed by
the committee on the kind or
extent of display or decoration.
Just the best. The committee
will act as judge.
Spenard Boy Scouts
Pay Visit to
Seward Troop
One Patrol, eight boys, from
Troop 673, Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, Spenard, together with their
Scoutmaster Fred Mathew s,
made an overnight trip to Sew
ard last week.
The boys camped the • first
night near Lawing and arrived
here Saturday morning. The
local Scouts and Stan Niege
mann, their leader, met the
visiting troop and took them
on a tour of the Standard Oil
plant. They then went aboard
the Alaska Steamship Company
vessel Iliamna and were shown
over the ship from stem to
stern.
Later in the day, Peter Wag
ner, Senior Patrol Leader, es
corted the boys to points of
interest around Seward. They
went up Lowell Canyon to look
over the big snow slide, inspect
ed the dam, tunnel and water
fall and saw other natural oddi
ties.
They stayed overnight at the
Scout cabin, then on Sunday
morning made a tour of the
Standard Oil tanker SS Hannah.
They started -for home on Sun
day afternoon. The trip was
made in a car donated for the
weekend by the father of one
of the Spenard Scouts.
Postoffice Seeks
Mail Messenger
Postmaster Clarence Larson is
accepting bids for mail messen
ger between the Seward postof
fice and the airport. Bids are
open until May 25.
The messenger is to contract
to meet all planes carrying mail
and to get mail from the postof
fice to the planes. Information
on the contract can be obtained
from the postoffice.
George Giardina says they're
going to have some special en
tertailnment at the Flamingo
starting about the 20th.
Seward High School *d Graduate Seventeen
Graduation exercises for the Class of '53 will begin Sunday, May
17 with Baccalaureate services in the Methodist Church at 8 p.m.
Reverend B. I Carpenter will deliver the address "Knocking Op
portunities." The Invocation and Benediction are to be pronounced
by Reverend Charles Malin.
Special music will be played by Audney Horton and Gloria
Schaefermeyer.
COMMENCEMENT WEDNESDAY
Commencement exercises will be held in the High School on
Wednesday at 8 p.m. for the 17 graduates.
PROGRAM
Processional . School Orchestra
Invocation . Rev. Kent E. Spaulding
The World We Face . Dale Lindsey
“Alice Blue Gown” . Sharon Jones
Class History . Marie Jordan
"The Green Cathedral” . Vocal Ensemble
Class Prophecy .. Audrey Denton
"Reverie” by Debussy . String Ensemble
What Have We Inherited Jerry Van Gorder
Presentation of Awards. Carl R. Carlson
Man With a Cause—And How! . Lou Ann Dick
Presentation of Diplomas . Mrs. Beryl Wagner
Class Memorial .-. Don Owens
Benediction . Rev. Kent E. Spaulding
Recessional . Orchestra
Graduating students are James D. Black, Nellie Pearl Brandal,
Jerry R. Caley, Betty Leone Cook, Audrey Denton, Billy Z. Evins.
Ronald Guy Frederick, Lou Ann Dick (Valedictorian), Robert
R. Condit (Salutatorian), Sharon Lynne Jones, Helen Marie Jordan,
Dale R. Lindsey. Robert Onstott, Donald R. Owens, Gloria Ann
Schaefermeyer, Mary Elizabeth Thomas, Jerry L. Van Gorder.
Chcrie Lubon, who would have been with the group, is now in
Colorado.
The class emblem is Orion, the Hunter. Class colors are blue
and silver. Class motto: “Ideals are like the stars—we set our
course by them.”