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Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11
Alaska Representative Attends CHICAGO
Conference on Children and Youth

Nationwide participation in
the Midcentury White House
Conference on Children and
Youth is now in full swing, ac-
cording to George F. Crisman,
executive secretary of the Al
aska Commission on Children
and Youth, who has just return
ed to his Juneau headquarters
after attending an advisory
council meeting in Chicago. The
council on state and local action,
which has just closed it's pre-
conference meeting, was host to
$50 persons representing the
states and territories, and two
observers from Germany and
France.
Crisman explained that local
action in Alaska encompasses
participation in the 1850 Mid
century White House Conference
by 1875 communities in the ter
ritory, including those with pop
ulations as low as so. The Alas
ka Commission on Children and
Youth, established by proclama-
ton of Governor Ernest Gruen-
ing in January of this year, is
acting as liaison between the
local committees and the nation
al committee Of the White House
Conference which is scheduled
to be held in Washington, D. c.,
December 3 to 7, 1850. "The
meeting in Chicago" Crisman
said, was one of the preconfer-
ence activities wherein the rep
resentatives of the states and
territories reported on partici-
patton of their citizens who are
gathering facts which will form
the basis for subsequent action.
After all, this is intended to
be citizens conference, nom
partisan and non-sectarian. The
purpose of the White House
Conference is to consider how
we can develop in children the
mental, emotional, and spiritual
qualities SO necessary to indi-
vidual happiness and RESPONSE
BILE citizenship, and what physi-
cal, economic and social condi-
tons are considered necessary
to this development.
The 1850 Midcentury White
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11
CAB. Hearing
In Seward
Tues. July Is

A meeting of the greatest
Importance to Seward and it's
citizens will be the hearing of
the Civil Aeronautics Board at
200 pm. in the Commissioners
Court room.
Although the hearing is being
held for the purpose of consider
alton of several airlines on their
applications of convenience and
necessity for operation between
Anchorage and Seward, the best
interests of Seward will be serv-
ed by the establishment of a
Seward based airline.
All townspeople interested in
the certification of a. Seward
based airline are urged to attend
the hearing next Tuesday.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11
Tenants Protected
Under New HOUSING
And Rent Act

Increased responsibilities for
the Alaska communities in con-
nection with federal rent con-
troll which continues under the
Housing and Rent Act of 1850,
effective July /, are included
in the new law, it was stated
today by Walter E. Walsh, Area
Rent Director-Attorney.
He said that the new law is
substantially the same as the
old one and that under it tenants
continue to be protected against
unreasonable rent increases and
against illegal evictions, while
landlords are assured fair net
operating incomes.
THE Office of the Housing
Expediter is continued to June
80, 1851 by the new law and
authorized to carry on rent con-
troll administration through rent
offices like ours said Walsh.
However, even though the
law is extended one year, con-
troll will continue after Deem
Der 81, of this year only if, be
fore that date, city officials take
affirmative action to declare
that shortage of rental hous-
ing exists that requires the con-
tinuation of rent control"
He added that this affirmative
action to continue federal rent
control after December 81 could
also be taken by popular refer
endum, conducted under local
law. If no affirmative action is
taken, rent control ends Deem
Der 81.
The rent office pointed out
that, as in the previous law
local rent control may be ended
at any time between July /, 1866
and June 80, 1851 by resolu-
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Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11
Governor Will
S peak At Lions
Club Luncheon

Governor Ernest Gruening
has accepted the invitation of
the Seward Lions Club to attend
their regular luncheon meeting
Friday noon in the Methodist
Church dining room.
Mr. Tom Howell, president of
the Lions, being away from
town, Charles G. Cole, past pres
ident, will officiate.
The Governor will meet the
people at 8 pm. Thursday in the
City Council Chamber to talk
over the economic situation in
Seward and to answer questions
any one cares to put to him.
The names of any other mem
bers of the Governors party
have not been made known
here.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11
Newiyweds Visit
Recreation Center
Last Week End

Sgt. and Mrs. Beasley, bride
and groom from Fort Richard
son, were among the 60 guests
at the u. S. Army Fish and
Recreation Center this past
week end.
Prizes were given for the big
gest and best fish over the week
end, and Sgt. Beasley received
this weeks award for the big
gest catch" Other awards were
given to Mrs. T. j. Morrison,
wife of Capt. Morrison, Port of
Whittier, for the biggest salt
water fish. Mrs. Morrison hook
ed 81 inch halibut off Thumb S
Cove. AS halibuts go, hers was
not big one, but as her first
catch, Mrs. Morrison was more
than thrilled. Private Gross
caught the largest rainbow (the
exact size remains a secret)
The group enjoyed movies
and dancing, with party in the
recreation hall Monday evening.
Next Sunday camera enthu-
siasts in Seward are invited to
accompany the recreation party
down the Bay in the BSP, which
will leave the Army Dock at
1000 am. for an all day trip.
The Recreation Camp has
proved so popular that there is
full house every week and a
long waiting list.
The permanent party at the
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Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11

House Conference will be the
fifth to be held in this century
The first one was conducted
under esident Theodore
Roosevelt in 1909, the second I'M
der President Woodrow Wilson
IN 1919, the third under Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover in 1880.
and the last under President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1910.
The National Commission on
Children and Youth, with mem
bers from 81 organizations, first
proposed a 1850 conference at
its meeting in 1916. Plans have
been progressing since that time,
eliminating in the meeting to
be held in December.
of particular note to Alas
kans," Crisman said, lis the
report of local action which
was made to the advisory coun-
Gil regarding one of Alaska's
progressive communities, Sitka.
An account of formation of the
Youth Progress Organization of
Sltka was received with a great
deal of interest. The purpose of
the Sitka organization is to pro-
mote the welfare and training
of children in the home, school,
church and community; to raise
the standards of home and COM
munity life; to secure adequate
laws for the care and protection
of children and youth; to bring
into closer relation the home,
church, school and community
that parents and educators may
cooperate intelligently in the
training of the child, and to Sc
cure for every child the highest
advantages in physical, mental,
social and spiritual education.
Local committees for chill
dren and youth in the territory
will be holding additional meet
ings between now and the time
of White House Conference in
December" Crisman explained,
land the office of the Alaska
Commission on Children and
Youth is available at all times
for any assistance or informa-
ton needed"
Rev. R. ROLAND Armstrong
Of Juneau is chairman of the
Alaska commission.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11
$500 FINE FOR
LOCAL MAN

Kenneth NJ Anderson was
fined $500 in Commissioners
Court Monday when found
guilty as charged of operating
a motor vehicle without valid
operators license.
Anderson also received a
warning against operating a We
hicle with an overlength load
without having red flag at
tached.
Patrolman George Pickett
warns all residents that it is I'M
lawful to carry loads extending
more than Az feet beyond the
end of the bed of any vehicle
unless the load end is marked
with a warning red flag.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11
CARD PARTY AT CATHOLIC
PARISH HALL

So as to keep the people of
Seward from going stale and
losing their skill at cards during
this quiet summer season, the
ladies of the Altar Society of
Sacred Heart Church announce
card game for Thursday eve
ming, July 10, in the Catholic
Parish Hall, at 500 o'clock.
Bridge, pinochle and canasta
will be the order of the eve
ming. All of Seward and their
summer visitors are invited.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11

Listed below are the MAN pro-
visions of the Alaska Statehood
Bill as it goes to the Senate:
l.. A total of Il, 100000 acres
to the new state: 20 million to
be granted after five years from
admission date of Alaska into
the Union with the state to select
land from the vacant, unapprO-
priated and unreserved public
lands in reasonably compact
tracts with surveys to be made
only of the exterior boundaries
of any area selected; 100000
acres from the national forests
and another 100000 acres from
! the public domain "all Of which
lands shall be primarily valu-
able for uses other than timber
or mineral production and ad-
jacent to established commune
ties or suitable for prospective
community centers and recrea-
tional areas" with language pro-
Viding protection to those per-
sons having valid, existing rights
to land in the national forests
or on the public domain; and l
million acres to the state for
internal improvements, such as
penal institutions, asylums, ETC.
The state may sell land granted
to it in tracts of not more than
$40 acres for any purpose. In
come and proceeds from the
land granted to the state would
go for support of the public
schools and other public educa-
tiOnal institutions. CThe House
approved version of the bill pro-
vided that four sections out Of
every township in Alaska would
go to the new state after surveys
had been completed, with lieu
selection allowed only within
the particular land district and
no provision made for any land
within the national forests. The
grant for internal improvements
is similar in both versions of
the billy
2. The new state would be
paid 3712 per cent of the reve-
nues from the national forests
rather than the 25 per cent
which goes to Alaska as ter
ritory and to the States.
3. A royalty of not more than
1912 per cent is reserved to the
state on all minerals produced
from lands sold by the state,
leaving to the state the rate to
be fixed from zero to 1912 per
cent.
4. The bill to be reported will
contain language having to do
with the states disclaimer to
any land which may be found
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11
Text Of Alaska Statehood Bill
As Presented TO Senate

to be the property of the natives
of Alaska, technically changed
from the House language, and
similar to language which has
been in every statehood enabling
act since 1889.
5. The one amendment made
at the last meeting of the COM
mittee provides that no reserva-
tions for use and occupancy Of
the natives of Alaska may be
created pending action by the
people of Alaska and the Con-
gress in effecting statehood.
This amendment resulted after
Senator Butler had proposed
that in the statehood bill the
power of the Secretary of the
Interior under the Wheeler
Howard Act which was extended
to Alaska in 1886 to create In
dian reservations be repealed.
6. No person who advocates
the overthrow by force of the
government of Alaska or of the
United States or belongs to any
organization or party advocat-
ing such overthrow may hold
any public office under the state
constitution.
7. The new state would con-
troll it's fisheries, as provided
in the House version, with re-
tention of the Pribilof fur-seal
fishery, because of international
complications, in the federal
government with SO per cent of
the net proceeds of this industry
to go to the new state and the
other SO per cent to go into the
federal treasury for retirement
of the public debt.
8. Congress would have the
right to approve or reject the
state constitution, the House YER
sion providing a proclamation
by the President and no further
action by Congress following
enactment of the enabling act.
y. Inc federal building and
the federal Jail at Juneau would
be granted to the state in addi-
ton to the Governors House
as provided in the House bill.
10. Delegates to the constitu-
tional convention would consist
of 20 delegates, seven from the
First Division, three from the
Second, seven from the Third
and four from the Fourth with
eight delegates to be chosen at
large.
II. Certain technical amend
ments have been added over the
House version dealing with the
judicial and Federal Reserve
systems.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11
Reed Daniels
Wed In Formal
Ceremony

OO
The most beautiful formal
wedding of the year joined Miss
Jacquelyn B. Reed and George
II. Daniels in marriage, last
Thursday evening, July 6, in
the Seward Methodist Church,
Rev. Paul Irwin officiating.
The brides gown was OF
heavy white satin, made on a
yoke of transparent net with
trapunto embroidery around the
neckline. The gown had a short
train. Her veil was fingertip
length arranged in a cap, and
caught up with seed pearls. She
carried a white Bible with a
rainbow of four blush rosebuds
and lily of the valley, with
white satin streamers caught
with stephanotis and fern.
The only jewelry worn by
the bride was an antique neck
lace of carved ivory. A family
heirloom worn by the oldest
daughter for five generations.
1t will be laid away now until
Mrs. Daniels oldest daughter
is ready to be married, or, if
she has none, the next oldest
granddaughter of the Reed fam
lily. 1t is an intricately carved
rose of purest ivory.
Miss Wilma Myers, maid of
honor, wore gown of green
organdie and carried a colonial
bouquet of green and white
carnations. Two bridesmaids
continued the rainbow effect
Miss Jeanne Reed, sister of the
bride, was goWned in yellow
net over taffeta, with a colonial
bouquet of lavendar Dutch iris
Mrs. Edward Barnes, in a gown
of orchid net and taffeta, car.
ried yellow daisies in colonial
arrangement. 49,:
Mr.. Donald Smith was grooms
man; Perry Stockton and Ed
ward Barnes, ushers.
The wedding march and other
selections were played by Mrs
Paul Irwin on the Roberta Smith
Memorial organ. Mrs. William
Bland sang Because" anc
always"
One hundred fifty guests at
tended the reception in the
church parlor, where the many
gifts were displayed. The bride
and groom cut the four-tiereo
wedding cake, which was sup
plemented with tiny tea cakes
punch and coffee.
Mrs. Daniels is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Reed
Of Seward. Jacquelyn attended
school in Seward for the pas,
six years, and is popular mem.
Der of the younger set.
Mr. Daniels has lived in Sew
ard for about three years. He
came here from his home in
Puyallup, Washington. He has
a position with the Alaska Rail.
road Mrs. w. A. Daniels, his
mother, attended the wedding.
The couple slipped away dur
ing the reception to change and
set out upon their wedding jour
ney. They are spending their
honeymoon on Kenai Lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H.
Daniels will be at home to their
friends at 203 Madison Avenue
after Friday, July IA.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1950-07-11
HARRY E. SOUTHARD
APPOINTED TAX ASSESSOR

Harry E. Southland, long time
resident and taxpayer Of Sew
ard, has been appointed tax
assessor to succeed the late A. A.
FairWeather. Mr.. Southland, who
has held the office before, will
assume his duties Immediately.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Jubilee of MendeIism

The Genetics Society and several associated
groups of scholars have been in convention at
Columbus, Ohio, celebrating the golden jubilee
Of that branch of organized common sense"
with which they are especially concerned. One
speaker after another has paid tribute to the
work of Gregor Johann Mendel, abbot of the
Augustinian monastery at Brunn in Moravia,
the founder of their science. He has been dead
since 1884, but his name is immortal in connec-
ton with the study of organic inheritance
Culinary peas were the subject of Mendel's
researches and experiments. He wanted to know
how the various varieties within species are
related Taking sharply contrasted pairs of
characters as a clue he watched their persist
ence through successive generations of hybridi-
zation, keeping careful pedigree records and
counting meticulously the numbers of similar
and dissimilar kinds. The prevailing factors
now are called "genes" or determiners. Without
them, there would be no systematic heredity.
But Mendel did not live long enough to
evaluate all his materials. His contemporaries
not understanding the significance of what he
had discovered, belittled and neglected him. He
also has been rejected by party line" followers
of Karl Marx and Josef Stain, who see in him
critic of their expedent dogma of environment
talism. The Soviet biologist Trofim D. Lysenko
has alleged that "a cell can be educated to
change in desired ways" and offers to prove his
contention by producing bd2h red and yellow
tomatoes on the same stock.
Evening star., 1950-10-01

important committee meetings. as well
as the Senate sessions. The leader for the
morning opened his Bible to Habakkuk,
and read one of the most inspired and
inspiring passages of the Old Testament.
He was not the first Senator to read 1t
publicly. Many many years ago, Sem
atoc Daniel Webster read it to group
of artists, and said: This is one of the
most sublime passages in any literature.
What finer concepts for masterpiece
could any artist desire than a picture of
the prophet Habakkuk, sitting in the
midst of utter ruin and desolation, sing
ing. in spite of everything, faiths joyous
and triumphant song?" Some one has
called it Song of Suppositions.
Suppose the fig tree shall not blossom
Suppose the vine shall bear no fruit.
Suppose the labor of the olive shall fail
Suppose the flock shall be cut off from
the fold. Suppose there shall be no
herd in the STALL Certainly, the picture
couldn't be worse for land that depend
ed for everything upon the soil. But the
prophet sees all these as gifts only tenn
porarily vanished. Yet the Giver remains.
Which means that the ultimate had not
been touched by the drought. The ulti-
mate values were safe. And so, with
defiance, trust and triumph. Habakkuk
cries: Therefore, will rejoice, in the
Evening star., 1950-10-01
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mentation by dictatorship of spend
thrifts.
He is so right!
Rejected as Democratic nominee for
Governor of New York by contemptuous
majority Mr. Ewing is now running on
the crony ticket. He wants to be master
of American medicine. But doctors have
faith in the common sense of the elec-
torate. We believe Mr.. Ewing's COM
pulsory health scheme means socializa-
ton for several undeniable reasons: It
is the spit image of England's; it prom
ises the impossible; the only way to
pay it's bankrupting cost is to make the
doctor the compulsory servant OF ex-
panding bureaucracy. This, we believe,
is Socialized medicine in most ur-
American form.
Doctors are the last ones whom arro-
CANT labor demagogues can charge with
obstructionism We are the only group
of essential manpower drafted for COM
pulsory service. While labor strikes for
higher wages and resists all controls
over its, right to strike in national
emergency, doctors accept the draft. Are
those who yield >their lives and fortunes
to the survival and security of the Nation
'reactionary obstructionists?" And If
they are, what brand of infamy must
our contempt coin for the irresponsible
labor politicians, whose votes Mr.. Ewing
was bribing.
Thomas E, Mattingly, M. d.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
A Blow Below the Belt

when ingratitude barbs the dart OF in
Jury, the pound has double danger In Il"
falling out between politicians is always
fair game. But there are rules such as those
which regulate prizefghting, established to guard
against an unfair advantage by one of the
contestants-the sort of advantage, for example,
that is gained by hitting below the belt. When
such rules are violated the discontinue of the
injured man is shared by the audience.
The remark attributed to President Truman
by Jonathan Daniels in his new book, 1.-THE Man
OF Independence" that "He Byrnes) failed
miSerably as Secretary of State and ran out on
me when the going was very rough and when I
needed him worst is foul. Fouls sometimes
occur accidentally. That may have been the case
here MIR. Truman gets mad, an understandable
weakness. He was bitter about something when
he made the remark and he may not have
attached to it the significant implications that
Mr.. Daniels, the reporter, saw in 1t and put down
for all to read. The injury, moreover, does not
lie in the fact that the remark was made by
Harry S. Truman of Independence, Missouri The
injury comes from the fact that the President
of the United States made the remark, and made
it about man whose long record of honorable
public service stands in no need of defense here
or anywhere else.
The remark recalls number of things One
is an August day in the rose garden at the White
House in 1945, where the President stood smiling
as he pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on
Mr. Byrnes and read the long citation which
concluded-"Wth vast understanding, excep-
tional ability arbiter, answering devotion
to the national interests and firm determination,
Mr. Byrnes performed difficult services (of high
importance), making major contribution to
the war effort"
The man who received this decoration had
come back to Washington to help Mr.. Truman
in his greatest hours of trial after Mr.. Roose
yet's death. AS Secretary of State, pressed into
service by the President, he was thrown into the
most difficult negotiations in the history of this
country and he found himself representing his
country abroad, dealing with a calculating
dictator over the fate of millions of people, with
very little to support him back home. His
opponents were building up their armies. We
were tearing ours apart, rushing "the boys back
home" destroying equipment, dismantling with
a frenzied sort of responsibility that great war
machine that few months before, but not then,
could back up what Secretary of State said
abroad Mr. Byrnes doubtless made his mistakes
But the situation he inherited as Secretary OF
State was tragic evidence of a whole series OF
blunders He conducted himself with dignity,
integrity and ability.
When the President says of the services OF
any honorable public servant that che failed
miseraby" it hurts-and the injury is felt even
by those who witness the blow from the sidelnes.