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Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18
SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNCIL TO DISCUSS WATER SITUATION

The City Council will meet in special session Thursday, April 20, to discucc the city water situation. Members of the Sew ard Water Supply Go. are ex- pected to be present, and Ed ward Arnell, City Attorney, will attend the session.
 The public is invited to hear the discussion and to present any complaints or suggestions.
Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18
Letters 10 the Editor:
 Anri1 1QSO
April 2, 1850
To the newspaper at Seward, Alaska

To the newspaper at
 Seward, Alaska
 Twenty-Five years, one quar- ter of century, seems like a long time but the years have gone swiftly for us and as I look back it brings to me a wealth of reminiscense.
 In July, 1924, my wife and I sailed from Seattle on the Alas ka Steamship Company's liner Yukon" for Seward, to us seem- ingly into the unknown, and re- mains one of the most enjoyable adventures of our lives, one that brings fond memories and the never to be forgotten friend ly people of Seward.
 We arrived at Seward on the following Saturday morning and were met by MT. and Mrs. Leon Urbach, who owned the clothing store where I was to work for the next 16 months. For a short time, we lived in the Urbach' s apartment, which was up over the newspaper office, then we moved into a three room quar- ters over Graefs Hardware Store. MT. and Mrs. Urbach had taken trip westward with that fine old skipper Capt. Johansen. MT. Urbach was very considerate employer, allowing me time off for fishing and hunting trips, or just plain sightseeing tours. These trips were for ptarmigan on Marathon Mountain, also for grouse in the mountains across the bay, beyond the Naval Sta ton radio towers. Most of these trips were made with my very good friend, Dr. A. R. Roberts, who was the dentist at that time, and a very good one, too. One fishing trip that l recall was for dolly warden trout with the owner of the hotel, whose name 1 can't remember. He wore golf knickers most of the time. This was to a stream about two miles from town.
 Other friends who might still be in Seward were Martin Lan- ming, the police and fire chief, MT. and Mrs. Fucker, lawyer, MT. and Mrs. Schmidt, who had bakery-incidentally my wife worked for them for a few months. Then there was Pistol Pete", the old prospector that MT. Urbach was always grub stalking, but Pete was unable to find anything worth while;
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BUILDING PERMITS NECESSARY

With the spring building pro. gram about to get under way the City Clerk reminds towns people that according to City Ordinance No. 31, all buildings, whether new or additions and improvements, require a Build ing Permit.
 The permit can be purchased from the City Clerk at a nominal fee.
Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18
REPUBLICAN, CLUB MEETS
 FRIDAY NIGHT

A special meeting of the Sew ard Republican Club which was scheduled for Wednesday night of this week, has been postponed until Friday, April 21 at 800 pm. in the Lutheran Church basement.
Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18

Councilman Don Wilson, who has been very ill is in Seward General Hospital, is recovering and expects to be back at his desk in the American Express Office before very long.
Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18

The Boss" is laid up, and the printers devils put out the paper today. Don't say it! We know it looks like it! But if you will bear with us maybe we'll learn.
Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18
NOTICE

The Sterling Road will be closed from April Is to May l. 1850.
 No traffic will be permitted and violators will be prose- cuted.
 The closed area is as fol- lows: from Henton's Lodge at Russian River 10 Kenai: from Kenai 10 Kasilof: from Kasilof to Homer.
 ALASKA ROAD
 COMMISSION
 Ralph Soberg.
 General Foreman
 George Puckett.
 Highway Potrolman
Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18

Miss Ernestine Zollman, Child Welfare Director of the Veterans Administration in Juneau, is in Seward for a few days.
Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18
Round 'N' Bout

Mrs. Fannie Kirch returned Friday from Billings, Montana, where she has been visiting her brother.
Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18

Miss Marion Munson left town last week for an extended va cation StateSide.
Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18
Mayor ProcIoims Month of May
 'CIeon-Up Month
A PROCLAMATION

Every adult and child of Seward can enlist in the drive to clean up our City, Mayor Eugene N. Lanier stated today in issuing his proclamation off cially designating the month of May as Clean-Up Month.
 During the past winter months the City has been strewn with papers and rubbish by the winds. The melting snow has uncovered trash of all kinds leaving our City in need of some spring housekeeping. With warm wea- ther coming this becomes inn mediately necessary to avoid a health hazard. Therefore the following proclamation:
 "Whereas, trash and rubbish litter our alleys, streets and va cant lots and constitute a major health hazard: and
 "Whereas, the general debris scattered around our City is un- slightly to the public view; and
 "Whereas, it is Spring;
 THEREFORE, I, Mayor of the City of Seward, Alaska, do off cially designate the period from May 1st to May 31st, 1850, as CLEANUP MONTH in the City of Seward, Alaska, and do urge the residents of Seward to sup port the Clean-Up Drive.
 Eugene N. Lanier,
 Mayor of Seward
Seward seaport record., 1950-04-18
BOY SCOUTS WILL HELP

6O1 SOOO S WILL 116LF
 The Seward Boy Scouts are working very hard on a project to provide uniforms for the whole troop before the 4th of July. The people of Seward can help them by calling upon the boys in this cleanup campaign to clear off vacant lots and ad- joining streets. All debris, when piled either at the front or on the alley, will be collected by city trucks. Debris consists of stumps, logs, and trash - but NOT stones.
 This is the opportunity to clean up the town, and at the same time to lend a helping hand to the Boy Scouts on their uniform drive.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13

Ask Pay Boost
Across Board
ATLANTIC CITY NJ (LPA)

ATLANTIC CITY NJ (LPA)
- The CIO Steelworkers will
ask for an S s-the-board
wage boost for 100000 steel
workers. The unions 175-man
wage policy committee, meeting
here, did not set any figure,
but union leaders insist that
healthy and su b T.
raises can be granted without
hiking steel prices. They plan
to present detailed evidence to
support their position.
USW President Philip Muir
ray told reporters the union is
not interested in a cost-of-liv-
ing escalator like those in auto
industry contracts.
Other demands will include
elimination of geographical
wage differentials, severance
pay, better overtim e, union
shop, and better rates In iron
ore and other mining opera
tons where the union has con-
tracts.
All major producers except
US Steel and Bethlehem, the
two biggest, have agree to
start talks with the union Oc-
tober 9. Union contracts do not
call for negotiations to open
until Nov. /, but the pressure
Of rising prices, and raises in
other industries, led the steel
workers to ask for an earlier
reopening date. They are not
free to strike under the con-
tract until January 1.
Iron Age, official trade
journal of the industry, predic-
ted that the union would be GER
tain to get some raise, but also
predicted a rise in steel prices.
In a speech at McKeeSport,
Pa. last Sunday, Murray said
the union would strike If nee
essary. Steelworkers recognize
their responsibility to the de-
Tense effort, he declared, but
added that they would not run
away" from a fight, and are
worked up over the induStry's
Ego to hell attitude.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13

George J. Bot smiles after
President Truman announced
his appointment as General
Counsel of the National Labor
Relations Board. Bott was
named to succeed Robert N.
Denham, who was working at
odds with the Board. He i'm
mediately made several
changes in procedure, so he
could work i'm cooperation
with the Board m e m b e s.
Bolts father was for 80 years
a member of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen. (LPA)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13
ToIedo's 1850
Flower Show
Begins Oct. "a

Toledo's 1850 Fall Flower
Show Is scheduled to start Sat
urday, October 14th and con-
tinue for ten days to two weeks,
depending on the weather.
This years show will get
under way with q Saturday and
Sunday October 14th and 18th
combined Safety Building and
Civic Center Mall showing.
The Safety Building inside dis
play will include floral arrange
ments of eighteen local florists
In the first floor corridor Of the
building and a varied exhibition
featuring fall picnic arrange
ments, flowers and table settings
and an illuminated display OF
the Ohio State Department OF
Conservation In the two large
Municipal Court Rooms.
The court room display Is be-
ing sponsored by the Toledo
Garden Forum and Mrs. r. Ben
iamin Gillette, president of the
Forum has named Mrs. F. B.
Ashenfelter as chairman of the
committee TO handle hat part
of the show.
The inside display will start
at 100 o'clock Saturday after
noon and at 1900 noon on Sun
day. II will be open until 1000
PM. each OF those nights.
The showing of chrysanthe-
NUNS around the Safety Build
ing and on the Civic Center Mall
will be more extensive than ever
before, due to the fact that more
than 10000 plants were set out
this year at the House of Correc-
ton at Whitehouse. II is esti-
mated that more than $50, 000
blooms will be ready for the
start of the show Saturday.
The outdoor showing Of NUNS
will be augmented by displays of
several Of the larger landscape
architects and growers of the
Toledo area.
For the convenience of those
who cannot visit the outdoor dis
play during the daytime hours,
floodlighting has been installed
on the Erie Street side of the
Building and on the Mall
to permit a satisfactory viewing
Of the flowers at night.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13
Schools For Millions
ndard,
Says CIO Bulletin

WASHINGTON LPA) = Up
wards of four million American
children must endure substand-
ard schools because Congress
won't come to their aid, the CIO
Outlook for October charges.
The Outlook, published by the
CLOS Department of Education
& Research, declares that the
nation should spend SIS billion
on school construction during
the next 10 years. OF this, about
Az billion should be spent in
the next three years, the publ
cation say but points out tina
only $3.50 million Is being spent
this year.
Meanwhile, the Outlook re
ports, millions of Americans
are disappointed" because the
Labor & Education Committee Of
the House of Representatives re-
fused to report favorably on
legislation providing + d
money for school construction
and other aids to education.
These people "are watching with
more than passing interest
whether Congress gets around
to facing the situation, the
monthly bulletin declares.
One factor intensifying tn c
problem is that the nations
child population will rise, the
CIO economists believe. T h e y
quote Bureau of the Census esti-
mates that the child population
will increase by nearly IL mil
lion between now and 1860.
This means that $40, 900 new
o m s and 10000 new
teachers will be required in the
same period, they say.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13
Fear Of infection
Root Of Summer
Buying We've

ing the reserve requirements for
the member banks, thus freez-
ing huge sums of money so
can't be loaned. W
Still another initiation ther-
mometer, the Federal Reserve
Boards report or volume of
bank deposits and currency in
the hands of the people, showed
that at the end of August there
was more d dough around than
ever before. The Aug. 80 figure
was STILL billion, $500, 000, 900
more than on July rs. This rise
was entirely in bank credit. Saw
ings went down.
Consumer credit rose $614,-
600 900 in August, only slightly
less than it gained during the
wave of scare buying in July.
Installment buying regulations
issued by the government in
September may cut down or
these purchases - the kind ycS
make on a car, washer or TV
set.
The next curb expected is
housing credit controls. Down
payments on new homes will
probably be raised, including
homes b bought under Federal
Housing Administration loans.
Even if you're a veteran, you
won't be able to buy a house un-
less you have a pile of cash saw
ed up.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13
Food Price
Index Falls

NEW YORK (LPA) - The
Dun & Bradstreet wholesale
food price index for the week
ended Oct. 3 was $3.50. a drop
of IL cents from the week be-
fore. A year ago the index w
$5.65, and on July Is the figu11
was $6.49. The drop was the
largest in 10 months, and was
due to lower prices on wheat,
barley, beef, hams, lard, cocoa,
eggs, potatoes, raisins, steers and
hogs. Flour, corn rye, oats, milk
a n d cottonseed oil advanced.
Other prices were unchanged.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13

WASHINGTON .(LPA) -
Americans, afraid. their savings
will count for little in the face
of shortages and initiation, are
rushing to buy goods with what
ever cash they have on hand.
Others are buying on the in
stallment plan or borrowing
from banks to get houses, cars,
refrigerators, furniture-almost
anything in preference to
money. No one expects green
backs to get so cheap they can
paper the wall with them. AL
most everyone, though, expects
them to be worth less six
months or a year from now than
they are today.
Financial reports for the sum-
mer m o n S show that bank
transactions have increased.
Bank loans have spurted up to
break all records. More people
have cashed in savings bonds
than bought them.
Some pieces of the monetary
jigsaw puzzle are missing, but
those there are fit the picture
And the picture spells higher
prices to come for you.
A report from the Security &
Exchange Commission for April
May and June, even before the
terrific impact of the Korean
War was felt, showed that indi-
viduals saved $500, 600, 900 less
than in the spring of 1949. The
money was used to buy things.
particularly houses. M one y
spent in the corresponding 1915
more than 81 billion over that
spent in the corresponding 1949
period.
After the fighting started in
Korea, the trend intensified.
Figures from the Treasury De
partment show that in June peo-
pie cashed in $36,524,00 0 more
Series E Savings bonds than they
bought. In July they redeemed
$50,300,00 more than were
purchased. In August the mar
gin was $123 1853, 900. BY Sep
TENDER it was down a little to
$104, SOS, 900.
This is the first time since
the beginning of World War II
that the Treasury was giving
out more than it was taking in
in bond business. And these fig
ures are only for bonds that
haven't reached the end of the
ten year payoff period. 1t does
not include matured bonds that,
naturally, were cashed in.
Heads of savings banks in
New York state cried the blues
at their convention at Lake Pla-
cid this week. The initiation,
they said, will ruin them. They
continued, however, to pour
business loans into the pot.
Loans by banks belonging to
the Federal Reserve Board shot
up to $208, 900, 900 the w e e k
ending September 81, smashing
the record established at the
crest of the 1913 boom. Real
Estate loans also hit a new high
of $5,047,000.
The Board may soon take the
anti-inflationary move of rails.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13

CHICAGO (LPA) The
American Medical Association
touched off its loudly trumpeted
advertising campaign to forestall
national health insurance Oct. 3,
The ANA was spending $780,
600 and another 100000 600 was
beng spent by indutry for news
paper and magazine space and
radio time. National health in
surance is backed by the AFL,
CIO, Machinists and other lib
eral groups. Purpose OF the doc
tors drive was believed to be
election Of a Republican Con-
gress.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13
Judge Wont Stop
P~ieke+ing. Says II
Is Peaceful

ST. LOUIS, lLPA) - / h ?
pickets kicked up a row when
railroad cars were brought into
the plant they were trying TO
organize, and the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad asked the court to
issue a restraining order TO stop
the picketing, The Judge refused,
saying the incident was an iso-
lated one and that the picketing
by the ALL Warehouse and Dis
tribution Workers Of the Cocoa
Cola Bottling Co. had b e e n
peaceful.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13
Civilians And Army
FeudO Over Manpower;
Shortage Feared

WASHINGTON (LPA) - The
greatest shortage we would have
in another war would be man
power, especially skilled man.
power, defense production chief
w. Stuart Symington has warn
ed.
Symington met with General
Marshall, Labor Secretary Maui
rice Tobin, and other mobillza-
ton and manpower experts, Oc-
tober 6, to work out a policy on
the manpower issue.
Army and civilian officials
have been feuding about VINO
gets the men. Labor Department
officials and experts at the Ma
tional Security Resources Board
are concerned lest our factories
and laboratories be stripped
down to the point where they
Gail pLOAuSCs
Draft chief General Lewis B.
Herhey drew fire from them
after a speech in which he called
for selective service laws con-
tanning fewer deferments for
scientists and technicians. Her
shey says we can't reach a 81
600. OOO-man army unless this is
done.
At the same time, Tobin was
pointing to "the costly mistakes
Of World War II, when it be-
came necessary to furlough
thousands of men from the arm
ed forces to bolster tagging pro-
duction Of vital military sup
plies"
The Labor Secretary also dis
cussed the problem of switching
present plant and manpower
from civilian TO military produc-
ton. A long stretch of that could
ruin our economic system, he
warned. "If we expand our de-
tense production by contracting
our civilian production, our
overall plant and trained man
power will be essentially the
same as before.
"But II we expand our total
plant by adding defense produc-
ton on top of civilian production,
and enlarge our total trained
manpower sufficiently for the
expanded production, we can
convert more rapidly to total
mobilization than II we had to
expand our plant and capacity
after a crisis was upon us.
Compulsory manpower on
trolls are not yet needed, he said,
hut urged all state and local en-
ployment services to give prior
ity to employers with defense
Jobs. He has already set up an
Office OF Defense Manpower as
q central clearing house for
manpower problems.
The u. s. Employment Service
announced plans to enlarge the
labor supply by a voluntary pro-
gram. Robert c. Goodwin, direc-
tor of the Bureau Of Employ
ment Security, said that "a much
larger supply of skilled labor
must be trained" G W n
pointed out that there Is a much
smaller pool of unemployed per-
sons 10 draw on now than before
World War II. Before the last
wal there were 5000, 900 unem-
ployed. Today there are
1900, 900.
USES Is aiming 10 reduce this
figure TO 100000 by July /,
1851. II expects TO do this
through recruiting activities,
spreading Information sbout
where people r needed, pro-
viding adequate housing and
community services In crowded
areas, and assisting workers who
have to move their homes in or
der to accept essential employ
ment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13
Utility Firms
Will Try
Courts Next

WASHINGTON (LPA)-The
utility lobby forced three in
vestigations and a special joint
committee hearing in the Sen
ate in an effort to block federal
loans to farmers cooperatives
or power plants and transmits
sion lines. They failed. So now
10 utility firms in Missouri and
Arkansas have gone to court.
They want an injunction to
block construction of two gov
ernment-financed steam-power-
ed generating plants in Missouri.
If they manage to stall long
enough, shortage of c%onstruc-
ton materials may make it vir-
tually impossible to build the
plants, according to the Nation
al Rural Electric Cooperative
Association. The NRECA repre-
sents $50 rural cooperatives
serving 5000, 900 rural fami-
lies throughout the US.
The injunction would prevent
use of Rural Identification Ad-
ministration loans to finance
the two generating p a n S,
which farmer coop leaders
want to intograte with hydro
electric dams of the Southwest
ern Power Administration. Do
ing that would cut rates two
thirds for FL local co-ops. Com
mercial power companies in
Oklahoma and Arkansas have
been tieing into the resources
of SPW in Oklahoma and Ar
kansas, for their private bene-
fit, ever since SPA was created,
but they don't want the co-ops
to have the same privilege. OF
438 1913, 900 kilowatt hours of
energy sold by SPA last year,
private companies got 413,393,-
900 with power sold to the Ar
kansas Power & Light Co. for
as low as one mill per kilowatt
hour, while rural co-ops In Mis-
souri, pay as much as 90 mills.
The companies charge in the
court suit that the REA loans
would finance unnecessary
duplication of private facilities"
but as a recent survey showed
that more than half the rural
electric co-ops In the Southwest,
including Missouri, do not have
an adequate wholesale power
source; that new rural power
lines r standing idle because
adequate supplies of power are
not available.
Clyde T. Ellis, executive man.
ager of NRECA, called the
court action arrogant disre-
gard of the nations security and
rights of Nthe public" He said
the suit was "only part of a
n a I | o NV d conspiracy by
power companies to prevent
rural power systems, munich
palities, or any other distribu-
tors from developing their own
independent source of power
supply" He said the utilities
are "robbing rural people OF
their rights to decent living
conditions and fair electric
power rates" He cited reports
to the National Security Re-
sources Board showing that the
US has only half the reserve
generating capacity for expand
ing production compared to be-
fore World War II, and called
for immediate expansion "rath-
er than sacrificing national Sc
curity to the lust of private
utilities for monopolistic power
and profits"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-13
Clio Ship Union
In Unicn-Shop Drive

CAMDEN, NJ. (LPA) - The
Industrial Union of Marine &
Shipbuilding Workers-CIO h a
launched a union-shop drive for
is, 1000 Bethlehem Steel Co. ship
yard workers on the Atlantic
coast.