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choice between truth and re
pose. ..Take which you please,
you can never have both.
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SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1954
PRICE 10 CENTS
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
HEARS LATEST ON POLIO
Tn spite of the shortage of Cham
ber of Commerce officers, the
Tuesday meting was well attended
and had three guests present as
well as full compliment of mem
bers.
■GUESTS
The three guests at the lunch
eon were Rev. John Nolan of At
lanta. Georgia, and Leroy McCon
nell of Fort Worth, who are here
working with the Rev. B. t. Car
penter at the First Baptist Church
of Seward. The other guest was
a new businessman and Chamber
of Commerce prospective member,
Mr. Vernon Laird of the newly
formed Seward Painting Company.
POLIO REPORT
Dr. J. B. Deisher reported on the
local polio situation saying that
local doctors had no information
about the reported four cases from
Seward, but the official tally was
IS new cases in the past two
weeks.
The doctor gave a breakdown
bv age groups, of the latest known
polio victims. Of the total, six of
the cases are new ones with the
other twelve being ones where
the victims have apparently had
the disease but it was not previous
ly reported or diagnosed as polio.
Four of the total are school age
children and twa of these have had
their onset since school opened.
This would indicate, the doctor
stated, that the opening of school
had no major effect on the incid
ence of polio. Of the balance of
the cases, two were pre-school
children and 12 were adult women.
NEW MEMBERS
Tom Ousdale reported that the
memberships were rolling in and
as of October 19th. there were 32
paid up members as follows:
Alaska Broadcasting Company.
Alaska Freight Lines. Alaska
Steamship Company. Balmat Real
ty, Brown & Hawkins, B. I. Car
penter. Dick's Diner. Seward
Branch First National Bank of An- ,
chorage. Gateway Drug. Gil's Lift- i
uor Store. Mr. Hall the U.S. Com- 1
tnissioner, H. & R. E. & B. I. U.
Local 885. I.L.W.U. Local 39. Mart j
Variety. John McAnerny. Methodist
Church. Northern Stevedoring Cor
poration. Osbo’s Flectrical Supply.
Orlander’s Jewelry. Mrs. L. V. Ray.
Seward Bakery. Seward Clinic.
Seward Drug. Seward Fish and Cold
Storage. Seward Sanatorium. Sew
ard Trading Co.. Solly's. Sourdough i
Transfer. Standard Oil Co., Mr.
Chet Steer. Valle Sommers Con- j
struction Co., Yukon Bar.
Memberships run from Septem
ber 1st of 1954 to September 1st,
1955.
One of the pew members was
the H & R E & B I U, perhaps
better known as the Bartender i
Union, and their representative,
John McAnerney. was right on
hand to make a couple of sug
gestions for projects of the Cham
ber of Commerce. The first was
a suggested study of the State*
-
Iiood material being offered by the i
University of Alaska to responsi
ble civic groups. ]
The second was a proposal that t
the Chamber take up the fight to \
get more equitable freight rates
from rail points in the States to <
Seward. At present it is a known I
fact that it is cheaper to ship s
some items from rail points in the i
States to points on the Alaska 1
Railroad, such as Moose Pass, than i
It is to ship direct to Seward and
pick up freight on the dock. £
McAnerney introduced letters <
from t h e Interior Department's i
Alaska Railroad. Inter-state Com- (
merce Commission and the Alaska t
Steamship Co., which disclaimed <
any authority to change the situ- j
it ion. j
LETTER ,
A letter was received from Her- t
man Porter. Director of Aviation j t
stating that the Chamber's request t
for lighting for the Municipal Air- j 1
port had been received and would
be acted upon at the next meeting it
of the Aeronautics Commission j
which is scheduled to he held in ,
Nome the 26th of October. j t
Lennie L. Davis Death
Report from Puyallup
Word was received from Puyal
lup. Washington, this week of the
death of a well known former
Seward resident, I,. L. Davis. Mr.
Davis was one of four brothers,
all long-time residents of Alaska,
in the Hope, Sunrise. Kbnai and
Seward areas.
One of the brothers, A1 F. Davis
was for a number of years engaged
in business in Seward. The only
surviving brother is Clint Davis
who now resides in Tacoma.
Lennie Davis, the deceased, and
his family were residents of the
Seward area for ten years before
they moved outside where he was
pmployed by the WesJ Coast Ilureau
of Grades and Inspection as a Su
pervisor, of Grades of . Lumber.
Survivors besides his wife. Alma,
are Leonard A. Davis, Roy Dean
Davis, sons, and Adella (Davis)
Roethler, a daughter, all living
outside, and eight grand children.
Born in Tenino. Washington, in
August. 1896, death came on Octo
ber 3. 1954, at Puyallup. Washing
ton, following a heart attack.
Funeral services were conducted
by the Rev. William P. McCormick
in the Garden Chapel of the Mount
ain View Funeral Home, on Wed
nesday October 6th. Interment
was in the Mountain View Memor
ial Park.
You’d think with all the hot air
up at Mile 128 on the Highway,
that they could have held off that
snow storm. They've been heard
to say it would be a cold day in
(then they’d look this way) before
they'd give up trying to have a
port up there. We didn’t have any
snow to speak of here, none at all ,
in the down town area. i
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Canadian ’Cellist
jives Fine Concert
A most responsive audience was
rented to some exceptionally fine
uisic Tuesday evening when tile
Vinter Concert Association pre
ented ’Cellist Zara Nelsova, ac
orn panied by Roy Bogas.
Miss Nelsova's first number was
’relude by Moor, who she explain
d, was an Hungarian and the in
entor of the double keyboard.
The next selection was Bocch
rini’s Sonata in A Major. Miss
Jelsova commented that this was
favorite selection of hers be
ause Boccherini had been a cellist
limself, and his music expressed
. deep feeling.
The piece de resistance of the
fternoon came with the Sonata for
'ello by Kodaly. The strings of
he instrument had to he tuned
ine half note lower for this selec
ion which was undoubtedly a test
if the virtuosity and skill of the
lerformer. Kodaly is one of the
ireatest of the modern Hungarian
omposers. and this particular sel
ction is considered to be one of
he greatest sonatas written for
he cello, interweaving as it does,
aany of the folk tunes of the land,
diss Nelsova was given oppor
unity to show her full skill as she
;ave the performance without ac
ompaniement. and she was more
han equal to the occasion.
Orientale by Granados, a Span
sli pianist, was followed by Prok
ifieff's Masquess, Scriabin's Re
liance. and Tschaikovsky’s Varia
ions on a Rococo Theme; the
atter three representing the cream
if the Russian composers.
The audience was deeply appre
■iative. and would not allow Miss
s'elsova to retire until after their
ipplause had drawn two encores,
ilarch For Children by Prokofieff
ilayed without accompaniement,
ind The Swan by Saint-Saens.
Miss Nelsova's Cello is one of
he three known Pietro Guarneirius
nstruments, and is valued at
J30.000.
At the conclusion of the eon
lert. the artists and audience ad
ourned to the basement of the
dethodist Church where an infor
nal reception was held and light
efreshittenta served by the BPW.
The refreshments were handled
>y a committee consisting of Mr|
3etty Lindberg, Mrs. Vance Hitt
ind Mrs. George Everett, Mrs.
■>ed Wilmans and Mrs. Mildred
virkpatrick poured.
Ushers for the evening were
diss Audney Horton and Miss
5atsy Williams.
The next concert of the season
vill feature the famous Brazilian
3oprano-Guitarist Olga Coelho, who
vill be heard during November.
Catholic Ladies Group
Chooses Rug Material
Rugs for the Catholic Church
,vere given final decision at the
Dctober meeting of the Catholic
toadies Club held recently. Suffic
ent rug material to cover the
rntire floor from the Altar to the
Communion rail was chosen In a
•ich brown taupe color. The re
'ent drive conducted by the ladies
s believed to have collected suf
iclent material to cover the area
lecided upon by the ladies.
A report on the progress of the
Seward Public Health Council was
leard from the group's representa
ive, Mrs. Katherine Ling.
The resignation of the Vice Pres
dent Mrs. Katherine Ryan was
endered due to the fact that she
•xpects to leave for the States*
ihortly.
Plans for the collection and sto
■age of materials for an annual
all Rummage Sale were discussed
ind it was decided that the group
vould go ahead with the plans for
mch an annual fall sale.
The next meeting of the group
vill be held on November Sth, that
s the second Monday, instead of
he usual first Monday, at the
tome of Mrs. Martha Hoffman at
127 Fifth Avenue, starting at 8:00
I’clock.
Tannery Being Built
At Anchor Point
According to an article appear
ng in a recent issue of the Homer
''lews, a Tannery is being built at
\nchor Point by a Mr. Weaver,
rhe new enterprise will be located
it Mile 19 out of Homer. Hides of
ill types will be processed in the
tew plant which can be located
>a the highway as across the road
rom the Eagle Valley Lumber Co.
dgn.
Ambulance Corps
Dance Planned
The Seward Volunteer Ambul
ance Corps is now forming plans
for a Big Halloween Dance to be
held in the Civic Center on Sat
urday evening, October 30th. Pro
ceeds from the sale of tickets will
go into the treasury of the Corps
to defray expenses of the group.
As will be remembered by most
folks in Seward, enough funds
were raised last year to huy a new
ambulance. The gleaming new
red and white ambulance has been
an object of community pride and
has more than once in the past
few months proved to be worth its
weight in gold for rushing sick or
injured beople to the Seward or
Anchorage hospital.
During the month of August, the
Corps records show a total of 37
trips carrying sick people to or
from the Hospital, to planes at
the airfield and to the Sanatorium,
or the hospital in Anchorage. The
September record was not quite
so heavy, but 14 trips were made
and of these, 5 were to the Anch
orage hospital. Each call requires
at least two Corps members who
who either take time off from
their jobs or give up their night's
sleep to help someone in distress,
and this all without pay.
All funds raised by public sub
scription go for upkeep of the
equipment of the Corps such as
the ambulances.
Since there is only one mechan
ical respirator in town, the one
purchased by the American Legion
and in custody of the Fire De
partment, and this has on several
occasion been used when the Corps
was moving someone from Seward
to Anchorage. This has left the
City without this vital piece of
equipment for six or eight hours
at a tretch, and it has ben sug
gested that the Corps should have
a respirator of its own.
Now that the Corps has a new
Ambulance, it has become more
urgent than ever before that it
be properly housed. The building
where it has been housed has been
sold and though garage space has
been arranged for temporarily,
somthing must he done to assure
bousing for the ambulance in the
future. The old ambulance has
been used on several occasions in
the past few, months when the
new one was in use, so housing
should be provided for both ve
hicles.
Charges for the services of the
Ambulance have recently been re
duced to a minimum of $5.00 per
call in town, plus 50c per mile for
calls outside of town. During the
polio epidemic there have been a
few times when hard hit families
were not able to assume even these
nominal charges, and in these
cases the cost was absorbed by the
Corps.
The Corps is not asking for any
thing for themselves, hut just
some help with the financial part
of the job so that you can be as
sured that should the need arise,
you could call and cheerful, gentle
and skillful hands would come to
move you or your loved ones swift
ly and efficiently to the hospital.
Saturday night, October 30th, at
the Ambulance Corps Benefit
Dance is the time, the Civic Cen
ter is the place, to lend your sup
port by making a purchase of
dance tickets, whether or not you
care to dance. You can do your
bit by buying a ticket.
Rebekah Dinner Party
Next Friday Night
Plans for a dinner party to be
held next week on Friday evening
were announced by the officers of
the Rebekah Lodge this week.
The dinner will feature Chili as
the main dish and following the
meal, guests will be invited to re
main for an evening of cards. The
dinner is open to the public and
will be held in the Oddfellows
Hall.
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Elmendorf Tour Set
For Explorer Scouts
“Elmendorf Here we come,” was
the shout taken up by the Seward
Explorer Scouts who are planning
a tour of the base this weekend i
with their two supervisors. The |
plans were formulated at a recent
dance held in the basement of the
Episcopal Church.
Guests at the dance found their
numbers depleted somewhat from
the anticipated large attendance
by the unexpected illness . How
ever, those who were able to at
tend enjoyed the evening dancing
traditional waltzes and the more
lively numbers to the music of a
j record player.
The Investiture cerem o n i e s
which had been scheduled for the
evening were postponed until a
later date, however, cards were
given out to the scouts who were
present and papers relative to the
Elmendorf trip were distributed.
Boys from all over the territory
who are Explorer Scouts will at
tend the vocational Explorer en
campment at Elmendorf this week
end.
The program and itinerary for
the weekend include an Oriontn
tion flight in a C-124 Air Force
cargo and troop transport, Link
Trainer instruction. Navigation,
weather. Ground and Air Safety
instruction. Jet Engines and types
j of aircraft.
j The Scouts will be taking their
j sleeping bags and toilet articles.
! but otherwise will be provided
with whatever they need at the
Post, at a nominal charge.
Future Explorer plans include a
weekly get-together, two business
sessions per month on the first
and third Thursdays, social pro
gram. outside and inside vocational
training and service project ses
sions. The next meeting of the
Explorers will be held October 2S
in the basement of the Episcopal
Church.
Explorers planning to make the
Elmendorf trip include Tony White,
Daniel Rose. David Rosem, John
Arins. Max Campbell,, Pete Wag
ner, Bernard Hollebeck, David
Harrell and Sidney Blatchford.
Accompanying the Scouts will be
advisors “Lightning” Gibbons and
Ben White.
Seward Women’s Club
Studies Fine Arts
The topic for the October 14tli
meeting of the Seward Women's
Club was Everyday Art. Mrs. Hazel
Erwin was chairman of the pro
gram for the evening.
One of «he first projects of the
Fine Arts Committee was the beau
tiful hand painted covers for the
year book. Mrs. Lila Jones gave a
very interesting talk on’ ceramics
and showed samples of her work.
She explained in detail the process
of making pottery, firing the clay,
glazing, and the painting of designs
to make the finished product.
Jo Fraser had an exhibit of some
of her oil painting, and gave an
outline of a really easy way to
learn to paint with oils. Her can
vasses depicted landscapes, mostly
] of scenes around Seward.
Else Norden had used the me
dium of water colors for various
sketches she presented. Her field i
of interest was in character por-1
traits. Many were of the people I
J of the various countries she has '
^visited, Hawaii, the Fiji Islands,
and New Zealand. She also brought
a few black and white sketches of .
Eskimo life drawn by a thirteen
year old native lad at the San- •
atorium.
The Club is actively participat
ing in two of the vital projects of
the people of Seward, the Health
Council and the newly formed
Polio Committee. The reports
from the representatives to these
meetings were most informative
and encouraging.
The meeting was held in the
Community Library, and Mesdames
Cecil Horton and Emma Jones were
the hostesses.
NOTICE
Until November 1, 1954, the City of Seward, Alaska
will sell at 1-3 off of the original advertised price,
any item or building now on hand i nthe housing area.
There are stoves, hot water tanks, space heaters,
miscellaneous furniture, lavatories and stools that
will be sold on a first come first served basis. Con
tact Mr. Penderey, Hut 33, in the Housing Area, for
full particulars.
MONDAY COUNCIL SESSION
HEARS MORE ABOUT DITCHES
The regular session of the City i
Council was well attended on Mon
lay evening as two new Council
nen and one holdover took office. :
riarry West and Alex Petrovich :
ook the pledge along with O. T. 1
31air who' was reelected at the
October 5th election .
After the formalities were dis- 1
losed of Mayor Painter called on 1
he 19 visitors present to see what '
;hey had to bring before the Coun
cil. Mr. Elbe was on hand once
igain to ask why rocks had not :
reen picked up from the streets,
rhe City Manager answered that 1
he rock bucket had just been re
paired and the City crews would
je getting on the job shortly.
TAXES
Mr. Eads was on hand to ask
if the Council would not consider
:he tax assessment placed on the
jquipment of Eads Brothers. The
Council was told that the Eads were
put of town during the period of
issesment and thus had not been
ifforaed the opportunity to pro
est the assessment placed on their
equipment. The Council voted to
Pave a hearing on the matter and
settle it at the next meeting.
DITCHING FEES
Attorney Earl Gregory was on
band to speak for Ray James re
garding the charges made by the
City Water Department for water
book ups. Mr. Gregory reviewed
the history of the Ordinance how
the Council until recently had
failed to enforce the charge. His
client feels that he should not be
charged the fee when numerous
others have not paid it or when
as has been reported by the City
Manager there is a change con
templated in the Ordinance.
Gregory asked that winking at
the Ordinance be continued or the
Ordinance be suspended until a
new Ordinance could be drawn
and approved. Since that wasn't
legal it was agreed that the dig
ging fee could be placed on de
posit and would -be refunded if
the new Ordinance was passed.
There seemed little liklihood that
it would not, even though Petro
vich and Hodson voted against
any such agreement.
EQUIPMENT
The matter of a prospective pur
chase of a Quickway Crane was j
next on the agenda and City Man- |
ager O’Hara reported that they 1
had looked at four pieces of eq- !
uipment, two of them in town and !
one in Anchorage. It was his j
recommendation that the crane
from Anchorage be purchased at
a price of $7325. The other two
cranes were priced at about $6000
and $13,000, %vere in good condi
tion, but had been used, while the
one in Anchorage was completely
rebuilt and appeared to be a bet
First Baptist Church
Has 1st Anniversary
The First Baptist Church will .
celebrate its First Anniverary on
Sunday, October 24th. The day’s
program will include the regular
services plus a Special Program at
2 o’clock at which time colored
slides will be shown of the con
struction of the church building
followed by a brief resume of the
organizational growth during this
first year.
The evening service will climax
the series of revival services which
have been in progress for the last
two weeks with Rev. John Nolan
from Atlanta. Georgia,' preaching
and Mr. Lee Roy Till of Fort
Worth, Texas leading the sing
ing.
We had 75 in Sunday School on
October 17 and our attendance goal |
for our First Anniversary Sunday I
is 85. *’ou are cordially invited,
to attend any or all services.
er machine for the price.
After considerable discussion it
vas finally decided to purchase
in air compressor with accessor
es for $1500 in addition to the
:rane. On the vote all voted yes
vith the exception of Petrovich. .
Discussion brought out that the
3ity had need of both a crane and
lir compressor in order to carry
>n its maintenance work. Also it
vas felt that the City could save
noney by doing its own digging
lince local contractors had declin
!d to bid on a yearly contract for
tigging water lines for the City
vater department.
JAIL
An agreement with the Alaska
fail System was read and accepted
)roviding for the temporary board
ng of Federal prisoners in the
Hity Jail. The agreement provides
or payment of $3.00 per day board
>lus any special guard or matron’s
'ees as well as medical expenses
>f such prisoners,
The agreement was accepted.
QUONSET HUTS
The City Manager reported that
he sales of quonset huts had come
to a halt and he recommended
hat the price be reduced about
me third so as to move the huts
tefore the snow fall. O’Hara in
formed the Council as he made the
recommendation that he was in
;erested in buying one of the huts.
It was finaly agreed to cut the
price, hut to make City Employees
wait until after the first of Nov
ember. There is also one K-D
unit left in the area but the price
an that was not cut.
TAX SALE
A resolution directing the City
Clerk to draw up a list of pro
perty for sale for delinquent taxes
as provided in an order from the
District Court was read and passed.
The list will be published and the
sale will take place on November
30th.
GAMBLING
A letter was received from the
Chief of Police in which he stat
ed that numerous instances of
suspected abuse of the Card Lic
ence Ordinance had been reported
to him. This was backed up by
statements from the Mayor, City
Manager and others who said they
were being subjected to heavy pre
ssure by the wives of alleged vic
tims but had not been successful
in getting a complaint. signed
against any of the alledged offend
ers.
The Council agreed to write an
Ordinance at once and in about
five minutes passed and approved
an Ordinance abolishing legal card
games in the City.
The Ordinance had originally
been passed for the purpose of
controlling recreational card games
such as Pan and. Pinochle, how
ever, since it seemed that the
situation had gotten out of hand it
apparently seemed the easiest sol
ution was to outlaw the games all
together.
PORT SURVEY *
A letter to City Manager O’Hara
was read in which Col. Eugene
Ledderer reported that he had
found in his survey of tht port
of Seward for the Alaska Rail
road that the Port was second to
none in the territory and was in
deed one of the finest in the world.
According to the Mayor and
Council this was something new
as previous reports had apparently
been strongly prejudiced against
Seward for some reason.
The Mayor ended the meeting by
welcoming the new members and
biding the outgoing members of the
Council a farwell and thanking
thejn for their many hard nights of
work. It had been a pleasure to
work with them, he said. Neither
’ormer Councilmen Rose or Johnson
were present at the close of the
meeting.
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