New Waterfront Facilities at Seward
To Cost Alaska Railroad $100,000
Repairs now underway at the
Seward dock, and planned ware
house extensions, will provide |
adequate waterfront facilities for:
unloading two ships simultane- i
ously, according to Colonel J. P. i
Johnson, general manager of the
Alaska Railroad.
The large scale improvement
project, slated to cost slightly
over $100,000, is being completed
on the eve of what stands to be
the largest shipping year in Alas
kan history.
Two crack Alaska Railroad
bridge and building gangs, No. 5,
under Jack Hansen, and No. 7,
directed by Cliff McAdams, are
assigned to the project.
The improvements are timed
to step up “immeasurably all i
freight handling at the deep water I
port of Seward,” Johnson de
clared. The “gate city” handles
most of the freight for bustling
Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Besides the dock repairs and
the warehouse expansion pro
gram, a 1,000-foot storage spur
is already being installed near
the dock approach. The spur per
mits pooling a reserve of railroad
freight cars to assure that freight
can be kept moving.
A new “wagon”approach to the
main deck, connecting with Sec
ond Avenue in Seward, is being
constructed. The newly located
approach makes way for extend
ing two warehouses, located on
the dock, by linking these struc
tures as one.
Formerly the old wagon ap
proach, which was badly in need
of repair, split the dock ware
house area and restricted avail
able freight storage space.
By moving the approach to one
end of the dock, extensions can
readily be built on the two edi
fices. Two extensions, one 50 feet
Jong and the other 71 feet, are
planned for the warehouses.
Upon completion of the addi
tional storage facilities, the rail
road will be able to spot more
cars on the dock and longshore
men can conveniently unload two
berthed ships at one time.
Warehouses will also be lined
and insulated under the renova
tion program. A new oil furnace
system, replacing coal burning
stoves, is to convert the entire
warehouse space into a “warm
room,” At present only a small
section of the dock warehouse
space is heated as protection for
freight that might be ruined by
$2,247,914 Federal Funds
Benefit Alaskans in 1950
The people of Alaska have
benefited from Federal funds
amounting to $2,247,914 during
the fiscal year 1950 under the
health, education and social se
curity programs of the Federal
Security Agency, according to a
summary released this week by
Dr. Jack C. Haldeman, deputy
regional director of the Federal
Security Agency for Alaska.
Operation of these programs is
•described in a forthcoming Fed
eral Security Agency annual re
port for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1950. The highlights of
these operations are given in the
Administrator’s report, just is
sued by Federal Security Admin
istrator Oscar R. Ewing.
MRS. HOSLER RETURNS
Maude Hosier, of the Matanuska
Valley Gardens, has returned
irom a visit in the states. Her
mother, Mrs. L. H. Benson of
Van Etten, New York, has re
turned to Palmer with her and
(plans an extended visit here.
A world survey indicates the
use of dope is on the decline, but
there is no decline in the num-'
her of dopes.
the cold.
A truck loading platform, 14
feet wide and 66 feet long, is
planned for the west end of the
dock in the area immediately ad
jacent to where the new wagon
approach touches the wharf.
Bridge & Building Gang No. 5
inching forward on the project
despite bitter, low temperatures
and lashing winds.
Bridge A Building Gang No. 5
is spearheading the dock repairs
with McAdams and his B and B
No. 7 men handling the ware
house work.
TWO NOME BOYS
MEET IN KOREA
The only two boys from Nome
known to be with the Air Force
in the Korean campaign had the
pleasure of meeting each other at
Pusan recently for the first time,
according to reports received by
their parents at Nome.
Jack Dowd, oldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Dowd of the ACS
wh.o is with communications and
Emery Martin, son of Mrs. H. F.
Harper, who is in the chemical
division, met each other at a Red
Cross center at Pusan after the
evacuation of Seoul, and enjoyed
exchanging news from home.
Both boys wrote home about their
LEGION AUXILIARY
CARD TABLES ARRIVE
Twenty-four card tables re
cently arrived here for the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Anne
Deming announced today. One of
the tables is on display and may
be seen at Dee-Jay’s shop.
The tables are “monogramed”
in a clever advertising program
sponsored by the ladies of the Le
gion. Various merchants and busi
ness establishments in Palmer
used the tables as an advertising
medium by having their names
nlaeed thereon.
meeting.
The only other Nome boy
known to be in Korea is Bob Har
wood. who is in the navy.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Tonight as the crescent showed
her sword
Of narrow gold in a bloody sky,
I sensed him seeking still the
word,
The wiU to serve for which men
die,
The arc which gives more light
for seeing—
An echoed chant of his own being.
—Fania Kruger
122 East 62nd Street
New York 21, N. Y.
After sampling vodka, some
people wonder why Russia would
have any need for an atomic
bomb.
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