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The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-07-21
INCREASE IN HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION FUNDS

pr. C. Earl Albrecht. Territorial Commissioners of Health, Tuesday announced an increase in funds for hospital construction within Alaska.
 President Truman's recent sign ing of the hospital construction bill, introduced by Alaskan Dele gate Bartlett, raises the territorys yearly appropriation from $4l : 400 to SlOO.000
 A survey made last year by the Territorial Department of Health showed that sixteen Alaskan hos pitals are elegible for federal aid. Communities requesting funds for hospital construction must raise one-third of the estimated cost of construction and meet territorial and federal specifications. Allot- ments will be first made to those communities with the greatest need for hospital facilities.
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-07-21

Almond trees provide one of our most tasty delicacies and one of our most poisonous chemicals. The oil of the bitter almond is the source of deadly hydrocpanic tor prussic) acid.
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-07-21

The Evan Jones Mine will re- opea in about 90 days, The con- tract is 10 be signed but work men will no> return until the names are on the dotted line.
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-07-21
City Council
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vice is health measure and City Health Officer Sellers informed the Council that certain specifi- cations had to be met. In this the Council agreed
 The new dump truck which the Council has decided to buy will be used for this In the meantime, the City garbage man is indeavor- ing to cover the city with a truck of smaller capacity than he should have.
 City Attorney Hutton will have an ordinance ready to present to the next council which will call for the burying of every oil bar rel in the alley between 3rd and 4th Avenues and between 4th and 5th Avenues from Railroad street 10 Jefferson street.
 IL is contended these barrels or tanks as now arranged are a fire hazard and it is proposed to elim- mate. as far as possible, fire haZ- ards in the City of Seward. This may have a bearing on insurance rates also.
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-07-21
In Your Interest
WALTER w. HE A D, President, General American Life Insurance Co.,, St. Louis, Mo-, says:
 Tnf1ation has become

national plague. It infects our entire economy. Every citizen in the land feels its ill effects when he is forced to pay high prices for food, for clothing, for housing, and for the other basic necessities of daily life. Each of us can do his bit to combat this dread fiscal disease by saving more and squandering less. One of the best and most con- venient saving methods available to the average person in America is the payroll allotment plan for purchasing Series k Bonds"
 .. s. Tredsary Department
 COMMERCIAL PRiNTlNG
 See the "POLAEIS"
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-07-21

The stock market regained some loss in points after the decline on Monday. Total sales Tuesday were 500 GOO shares.
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-07-21
< TRAP FISHING IS REGULATED
Here's why YOU Should VOTE to CONTINUE
 TRAPS:

]. Traps mean jobs-not just for 45 days but for six to nine months for approximately 4OOO people, mostly Alaskans. 2. Traps are the best means of conserving Alaska's salmon.
 would have to levy additional taxes on all other Alaska businesses and individuals. 4. Traps, together with mobile gear, allow can. neres to operate efficiently. Without traps, ct least 25 large canneries would close down because they would be stripped of their de- pendable supply of fsalmon-thousands ot men would lose their jobs.
 5. Traps are vital to Alaska's economy. Confscate them and you undermine the Territory's sta- bility. An unstable region cannot develop diversified economy.
 6. Traps so stabilize the entire salmon industry that they make it possible for packers to pay fishermen na1in,un, prices. Conhscate traps and you cut down these earnings. Nobody gans-everyone loses.
 '. Traps are vital in maintaining U. s. world leadership in the canned salmon industry Con- fscate them and you weaken America $ posi- tion that it will be possible for Russia, utilizing US. built floating canneries. to seize this prize in world trade. The Japanese demonstrated, in 1887, by their operations in Bristol Bay. that such floating canneries constitute real threat
 8. Traps represent large investments in venture capital. Confscate them and you discourage other industries from investing in Alaska's future.
 g. Traps provide healthy competition. Conhscate them and you establish gear monopoly in the catching of salmon.
 10. Traps senes and gill nets - ALL THREE TYPES OF GEAR ARE ESSENTIAL to maintain Alaska's canned salmon pack. Vary ing conditions in the Alaska fishing grounds make it economically feasible to fish certain areas to full advantage only by means of traps.
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-07-21

PatroniZe those who Advertise
, 1948-07-01

it would have borne fruit if
permitted to continue. We ask
for such a policy, and the initia.
ton and execution Of such a
program. At this stage Of our
life we need the assurance of.
bigger and better things to.
come, and an opportunity to.
share in a recovery program
which is worldwide.
, 1948-07-01
National Politics And The Virgin Islands

National Politics And The Virgin Islands
I,400 miles away, and playing but a very
small part in national politics, the Virgin Islands should be
vitality concerned with the goings-on at the two great conven-
tons which this year meet in Philadelphia. The Republican
Convention has ended, and Governor Dewey of New York is
again the standard bearer, with Governor Warren Of Calfor-
MIA his running mate.
OUR interest in the national politics is concerned natural
y with the financial condition of these Islands, and the sym
pathetic response we can get from Congress. It is known that
these Islands cannot support themselves, not at present any
way, and that until effective, long-range programs can be
worked out, we will be knocking at the doors of Congress for
the necessary allimportant deficiency appropriations. More
than likely these appropriations will be coming, but the speed
with which they come, and the amount of reduction will re-
main questions Of vital concern, A sympathetic and under
standing Administration, plus a willing Congress can mean
much to us.
ANOTHER matter is the appointment of key officials.
The American spois system carries with it a change of off.
cials, from the Chief Executive down, and for us that is likely
to cause a change Of administration for the Virgin Islands.
Those who have observed the functioning Of the government
and our many serious problems, chief of which is the econom,
ic now that it is necessary not only that we get normally cap
able officials, but those whose sympathy for our problems
runs high. To serve in the Virgin Islands calls for more than
routine ability. So that any change which comes will Of neces-
sty bring with it an unusually large measure Of uncertainty
and concern.
SHORTLY after Herbert Hoover re-christened us Uncle
Sans PoOrhouse there was a change of administration. For
tunately, at the helm was one whose understanding and sym
pathy were high, and under the great Franklin Z. Roosevelt
we enjoyed a measure Of prosperity. Much Of the same atten-
tive ear followed with President Trumans administration.
WHAT would be best for us is a stable administrative
policy, unaffected by the fluctuations of politics, and carried
out to a logical, planned end. We have known what it meant
to see a program started only to have it torn apart, pulled up,
and those who administer it called away just at the time when
, 1948-07-01

- AZ hOb AAACo41 WA4SAA i odJ
educated leaders that they must
have a diploma. We only need to
look around us to see that being
educated does not mean that. AL
fred E. Smith who was once gov
ernor of New York and also a
candidate for the presidency of
The United States, is a good ex-
ample of an educated man who
boasts no diploma. Our own Presi
dent, Mr.. Truman, is another good
example. He did not graduate
from college, yet he has won the
highest honor that the American
nation a grant a citizen. The
great Irish dramatist, George Ber-
nard Shaw, it is said, did not have
more than four years of formal
education. There are several other
such outstanding figures, both ma
tional and international, too nu-
merous to mention. The impor-
tant point here, however, is that
these men did not permit their
thirst for knowledge to die, but
kept it alive by seeking educa-
tional advancement-always.
Many of us, on account of cir
cumstances over which we have
no control cannot leave our homes
to seek higher education aboard.
Nevertheless, with literature as
available as it is today, and in a
community such as ours that can
boast a well-equipped Public Lii
brary, there can be no valid ex-
cuse for failure to improve one
self, despite the existence of other
factors.
Education in our democracy,
like many other things of a Gull
tural nature, is more easily oh
tainable than in any other part of
the world. The only cost, of course
is your own initiative, hard work,
strict attention to your daily les
sons and a comparatively small
outlay on the part of our parents
or guardians.
In conclusion, permit me to say
that we of the graduating class
are keenly consciuos of the fact
that the future belongs to us in
the sense that we have been given
no less than a mandate from our
kind and self-sacrificing elders to
go forward and play our part
wisely and well in the building of
a better st. Croix, and the pushing
of our economic and cultural from
tiers beyond vaster and vaster
territories Of the mind, the soul,
and the spirit. So that we may be
able truthfully to say with the
poet Holmes:
Build thee more stately man
sions, oh my soul,
~ n a
, 1948-07-01
vALEDIcToRY ADDRESS

0AA0S
Delivered bYJacqueline Lam
mers. Frederiksted Junior
High School.
Mr.. Chairman, Madame Super
intendent of Education, Honored
Guests. Members of the Clergy
Fellow Graduates, Ladies and
Gentlemen:
It is not only a pleasure but also
a great in spiration to US to see so
many of you here tonight to wit
ness our graduation. This is an
evidence of your keen interest in
the education and training of the
younger generation to take their
proper place in the life of our
beautiful island.
The theme / have chosen to
speak to you on is Education.
However, I realize that / could
not even begin to touch upon all
the different branches and rami-
fcations of education. For educa-
ton, as we all know, is the founda
ton of everything. And / feel l
am too young to have the exper-
fence and knowledge to explain
education fully. But | shall try to
present to you a few thoughts
which to my mind are fundamen-
tai to the field.
First then, what is education, if
not the constant longing and
searching for the truth and know
ledge. Is not education the ever
continuing experience by which
a peoples civilization is both con-
served and changed? And since
this experience is necessary for
the exchange of ideas and customs
across national boundaries, then
it matters tremendously who the
agents of exchange are and how
they conduct themselves. / would
like to quote a few words from a
letter John Milton wrote in the
seventeenth century to a friend,
on education. Milton wrote: "That
if schooling were sound, young
men going to different countries
will be such as deserve the regard
and honor Of all men where they
pass and that as a result other
nations will be glad to visit us
for our breeding or else initiate
us in their own country" It is diff
ficult for me to state more effec-
lively the imperative demands
which today confront education,
even as they did in Millions day.
Yet where would a nation be with
out intelligent and educated lead
, 1948-07-01

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Evening star., 1948-11-29
Eagles, Browns CIinch
Titles; Other Pro Grid
Races Remain Torrid
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

Half OF the professional football
scramble was unscrambled today
with the Cleveland Browns and
Philadelphia Eagles clinching divi-
sional honors in their respective
leagues.
The pulverizing Browns came
from behind yesterday to whip the
San Francisco 49ers, 1928. and nah
honors for the third straight yeal
in the All-America Conference West
er,l Division.
Philadelphia. meanwhile. stowec
away the National Leagues Eastern
Division title for the second season
in a row by blanking the Pittsburgh
Steelers. ITO.
The Eagles and Brownies now car
coast through their remaining games
and wait for the other half of theil
circuit to bring out challenger fol
the championship in the rival loops
Two clubs in the AAC Eastern
race and two in the National
Leagues Western division have a
chance and one scrap may be settled
next Sunday at Baltimore.
Colts Still in Running.
| The Buffalo Bills, leading the
AAC Eastern Division by one game,
can win the dubious honor of meet
! ing Cleveland in the AAC cham
pionship playot1 by beating the
Baltimore Colts. If the Colts win,
it would throw the race into a tie
and a playoff game would be re-
ouired to determine the team to
play the Browns. Buffalo bounced
Baltimore, 35-17, in a previous
meetings.
! Barring an unforseeable upset,
the National Leagues Western titlist
won't be decided until the two Chi
cago powerhouses - the Cardinals
and Bears-collide. The teams, each
with nine wins and one defeat, have
date December II. The Bears
should get by Detroit next Sunday,
likewise the Cardinals in their game
with Green Bay. Earlier this sea-
son. the Bears defeated the Cards,
28-17.
Buffalo knocked the New York
Yankees out of contention yester-
day, 35-14, while Baltimore retained
mathematical chance by rallyins
to sock the Brooklyn Dodgers, 38-
20. Chicago and Los Angeles in the
AAC were idle. q
Bears Big Help to Eagles.
In the National League, the
Eagles got an assist from the Bears
who swamped the Washington Red.
skins, 48-13, and left them ne
chance of catching up in the East
ern flag chase. Two other Nationa
contests saw the New York Giant:
down the Boston Yanks, 28-l4. anc
the Los Angeles Rams sink Greer
Bay, 24-10. The Cardinals and De-
troit Lions had an of day.
Cleveland. in winning its thirc
game in eight days, was led by Otto
Graham's accurate passes. Otto
tossed four touchdown passes, one
more than the 49ers' aerial ace
frankie Albert. 1t was Lou Groza s
(See PRO FOOTBALL, Page A-17.)
Evening star., 1948-11-29
~ the A,seeiatsd Press

With scattered exceptions, the
myriad bowls could start printing
programs today and begin Dragging
about who plucked the best foot
ball game.
The debate over the outstanding
postseason attraction is bound tt
wax a bit hotter than usual because
six of the 10 top teams In last
weeks Associated Press poll are
squared of in three OF the annual
fixtures.
The Sugar Bowl at New Orleans
might be excused for pufnng out
its chest a little farther than the
others because it landed the No. 4
team, North Carolina, and the
No. 6, Oklahoma, the Big Seven
champion.
The papa of the January l ex-
travaganzas-the Rose at Pasadena
counters with one of the two un-
blemished powers in bowl action
fifth-ranked California, and North
western, No. 7.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Six of 10 Top Teams in A.P. Poll
To Souure Off in Bowl Games

The Cotton Bowl at Dallas matches
Southern Methodist University, No
8 in the last A.P. poll, and Oregan
No. 10.
A seventh member of the select
bracket - ninth-ranked Clemson
also unbeaten and untied-will meet
Missouri in the Gator Bowl at
Jacksonville, Fla.
Miamis Orange Bowl reached
down to pick Georgia from the
No. IL spot. Sponsors haven't named
an opponent yet, but are expected
today to give the nod to Texas
whose record OF seven victories, two
defeats and one tie has failed to
bring it into the first 20 teams.
Dana x. Bible, athletic director
of the Longhorns, acknowledged
that Texas was being considered for
the Miami bid and he left little
doubt about the teams acceptance.
The national championship as
poets have been removed from the
bowl events, so the boys can go
ahead and argue 1t out.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
1S-Doy Meet Opens
At Charles Town
Ry the Assoeiotsd Press

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, Nov.
3s.-The 1s-day Charles Town
session, last chapter of the East
srn racing season. gets under way
today.
Featuring the opening day card
Il the 1890 Inaugural Purse, at
81 furlongs. Topweighted at 123
pounds are G. Y. Booker's Lawless
Miss and j. N. Barnes Miss
Prime.
Others among the IL entrants
are z. P. Prices Virginia Beach
and G. 4. Murphy's Margaret E.
Albert J. Boyle, president of
the Charles Town Jockey Club,
says 1000 horses are on hand for
the meeting.
Special trains will carry Wash
ington and Baltimore fans to the
Aalf-nils track.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Condit, Ex-Skin, Resigns
As West Virginia Aide
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Nov
29.-Merlyn Condit. former player
with the Washington Redskins and
at Carnegie Tech, has resigned as
assistant football coach at the Uni
versity OF West Virginia. The resig-
nation is effective tomorrow and
Condit will not accompany the
Mountaineers to their Sun Bow
game against Texas Tech.
Condit said he was not at liberty
to disclose his immediate plans. He
and Head Coach Dud De Groot
have been associated for a number
of years. Condit played under De
Groot with the Redskins and went
with him as assistant coach to the
Los Angeles Dons and to West Vir-
ginia.
Evening star., 1948-11-29

Carolina and California, with 1,071
and GOT total points, respectively.
Nays squad on the Army trip
numbered AZ members but, as one
official pointed out, why not leave
out the steak-eaters and poll only
the kids who've been trying to stop
Sitko of Notre Dame, Elliott OF
Michigan, Stephenson of Army.
Jensen of California, and all the
rest?"
Actual Performers Polled.
"Steak- k-eaters" is a joking term
used to describe requirements who
rarely replace anybody in a game
but who enjoy the same bounty at
the table. As a result, the poll in
cluded those of the Navy squad who
have tackled California, Cornell,
Duke, Missouri. Penn, Notre Dame.
Michigan, Columbia and Army IN
succession-probabl the toughest
college schedule of the year.
I'VE ought to be pretty good ex-
perts," cracked one Midshipman.
How can guys sitting in the press
box know whether Sitko runs
harder than Jensen? Those jolts
you have to feel"
Whether players actually are bet
ter qualified than newsmen who
vote for teams probably never will
be determined. AS one Navy stall
wart said, Personally, I think the
field and the bench are terrible
places to watch a game. I'm voting
largely by feel. myself" The speak
er was a big linesman with a hand
in a plaster cast.
Nevertheless, there it is-Notrs
Dame as No. i. Michigan as No. 2.
California as No. 3 and Army as
No. 4-by the guys who vainly have
been trying to beat 'em all. How
now. AP, with your unscarred
pixies?
Evening star., 1948-11-29
By the Assoeiofsd Press

CLEMSON, S. c., Nov. 29.-1f in
vitations continue to pile up on
Frank Howard's desk, the Clemson
football coach is going to need a
secretary.
The balding Howard, who has
piloted his Tigers along an un-
beaten, united trail thus far, has
added two important dates to his
schedule of appointments.
First, he accepted an invitation
for Clemson to play Missouri in
Jacksonville's Gator Bowl New Year
Day.
Then, yesterdays mail brought
along another bid. He was invited
to Durham. N. c., where next Mon
day he'll be acclaimed as the South
ern Conferences coach Of the year.
Howard, a slow talking gentleman
Evening star., 1948-11-29
CIemson's Howard Easy Winner
As Conference Coach of Year

from the cotton fields Of Alabama
was an easy winner for the honor
in a poll of 81 members of the
Southern Conference Sports Writers
Association.
The boys who beat the typewriters
Saturday after Saturday took one
look at Clemson's unimpressive 1947
record and then glanced at 1948
when Howard, with almost the same
material, built his Tigers into one
Of the Nations powers.
Only three other coaches received
votes in the poll among the writer's
in the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland
and Washington, D. C. Pinhead)
Walker of Wake Forest was runner
up with five. North Carolina's Carl
Snavely got three and Rube McCray
of William and Mary, last years
winner, two.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
One-Armed Busketer
Sturs in Pro Show

One armed Bold Buie impressed
the 1900 spectators at U1ine Arena
last night by dumping in IL points
and helping the Kansas City Stars
edge the Philadelphia Sphas, $3.50,
in the opening game of an exhibi-
ton twin bill.
The Harlem Globetrotters lived
up to advance notices by trouncing
the Indiana Clark Twins, 65-43. in
the nightcap. Reece Goose Tatum
led the 'Trotters with 81 points.
Evening star., 1948-11-29

knew holding Va
our Young nemen played much all year. deliver 1or US
and spe off our Schweck Art knozen BOD
Hunt Scott Beeer 1t put the squad on
this really went at each other saw some
football hadn't seen then weren't going to be
disgraced"
The Domooed Hawkins Was the Hero
combination old young veteran backs that
held the Nations The two graduating
n.sves Bavsinge and Horne superb Pete Williams finally
lived I'm to promise varsity compeon Jim
Green and Bill excellent as was al McCuiV; -
But the No. guy Bill Hawkins OF Richmond Va playing
ri, last aame for Navy although of schooling
to TO- He the game for any length OF me never
theless he played at least so minutes - ,
"A YOU know part of the season with oooo
disorder infectious nononueos we olon nave n d" "
for Missouri, Dame and Penn , . - .
Against Michigan played for while but without any prep
aration his shoulder In the Coiua game e
for three minutes reinured his shoulder
Until the opening against Army sighed sau with an
admiring head Hawkins had about II Gays Oh coa
work all season You'd never have known It,
THEY'D Never Have Coueht the Hawk
Hawkins not only reliable ground gamer
ored two Of Nyvs three tried to spell him
on defense afford to the guy developed ana
IN tho waning minutes threatening to run dow" ne
ned for winning nodded the big already twice
injured and Hawkins his lett arm oanghns uS
out to back up the Mdshipmens tired line w.
with one arm he out Of 10 inebacke I've
fomthdovn pass deep Some people swear that
Bill raised his left he would nave intercepted w
: -. 49,, ,. :. +bo,,d ,sver bove
caught him tired as the clear all by himself
80 d have RIM that s or 10 yards those
Army satisfied though just to see MIN 0a' oo"
Souer's Team PIoys Even Faster
One sidelght of swftness Of play Army
slwavs was recognized of the hudde and as
cuk eleven stood the center
hooed Sauer to match Army IN TINS
rsect said 1t Col public information ocer at west
Point because game in which so many
OF"
For the record the number Of plays exclusive
o points:
In the perodNavy 12 second peod-NaVy 2o
ARMY 49, third period-Navy fourth per1od-NaVy %
Army II. ..u
The total was IS plays SO for Ary4S IN all
No wonder that light hat Harry s. truman
broke all rules by staying the final whistle.