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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-02-01
MRS. HATTIE MURPHY HOWELL

Mrs. Hattie Murphy Howell died at
her home at Mt. Lake Park on We'd
nesday morning, January 81, after a
lingering illness.
She was the widow of the late John
W. Howell and was born in this
county September 26, 1879. She was
aged II years She was daughter of
the late William and Ellen Enlow
Murphy and is survived by one son,
Philip Howell, at home; three daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Mabel Craig, Sparrow's
Point; Mrs Margaret Fatkin, Frost
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-02-01

m.; Sunday School at 1920 a. m.
Grace, Friendsvlle-Sunday school
at 10 a. M; Holy Communion, l a. m.
st. Paul's, Accident-Sunday School
at 1000 a. M; Service at 1880 p. m.
Wednesday, February T, Ash We'd
nesday service at Grace Church at S
p. M.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-02-01
MT. LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. w. c. Rogers. Pastor

10 a. m, Bible School.
II a. m., Preaching and Communion
service.
7 p. M, Training Union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-02-01
ST. MATTHEW'S EPISCOPAL
IL

ST. MATTHEW'S EPISCOPAL
The Rev. Frederick f. Meyer. Rector
The Rev. John j. Atwell, Curate
St. Matthew's Church. Oakland
Holy Communion at 500 a. m.
Church School at 1000 a. m.
Morning Prayer at 1900 a. m.
Saint Johns Chapel Deer Park,
Evening Prayer at 100 p. m.
Our Fathers House, Altamont
Morning Prayer at 11:00 a. m.
Ash Wednesday. February 7, Holy
Communion at $3.50 a. NJ. Litany and
Penitential office at s p. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-02-01
THE MAPLE GROVE CHURCH OF
THE BRETHREN
Rev. Richard Grumbling, Pastor

You are invited to attend these
services.
Worship services, 1000 a. m.
Sunday School, HOO a. m.
Evening service, 1870 with Brother
Saylor Wamplei Us guest speaker.
Union Prayer meeting, Wednesday
evening, 1880 p. m.
Choir practice, Thursday evening
7:3O O'Clock.
Bethesda Church
Sunday school, 1000 a. m.
Worship service, 1900 4. m.
I.aughlin Church
Sunday School. 200 p. m.
Worship service, 800 p. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-02-01
BITTINGER LUTHERAN PARISH
Curt II. Rune, Pastor

Sunday school: 10 at Bittinger;
1O:45 at Jennings.
Worship: 9:45, Jennings; II, Bit
finger, s, Meadow Mountain.
Luther League: Bittinger at s p.
m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-02-01
Sunday Services in the Churches
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
EiUht Street Oakland Md

Rev. K. +. Brohawn. Pastor
Sunday School, 10 a. M; Morning
worship, l i a. m.
Evening Service, 1880 p. m.
Tuesday. Church Prayer meeting
Cottage Prayer Meeting this Friday
evening Mt 1890 p. m, at the home of
Mrs. ID. Edward Offutt, Second st.
Union Holiness Tabernacle
Saturday, 1880 p. m. The public is
invited
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-02-01
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH
Red House

Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Divine Worship at II o'clock, with
the sermon to be delivered by Fred
ericll Eckhardt, a student from the
Gettysburg Seminary.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-02-01
OAK GROVE CHURCH OF THE
BRETHREN
Rev. d. w. Tusing, Pastor

Rev. y. W. TuSlng, PastOr
Sunday School, 10 a. m. Claude
Cuppett, superintendent. Glasses foi
all ages.
Morning Worship, IL a. m.
Young Peoples meeting at Gas p
Church services, 1870 p. m.
m.
SANG RUN NJ. f. CHURCH
Rev. Howard Hall. Pastor
Sunday School, 1880 a. m.
Church services at 1880 p. m.
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Ash Wednesday service, 7:I5.
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
". .S.C.S Officers insfa!'ed May 24

Rev Paul Irwin installed the new officers of WSCS at the Thursday evening meeting, held in the home of Mrs. I. L. Met calf.
 Mrs. Troy Bogard took office for the second term as president of the organization, as the unan- imous choice of the group. Other officers installed were Mrs. Guy Kearns, vice president; Mrs. Gentry Shuster, secretary; Miss Della Gabriel, treasurer; Mrs. I. l.. Metcalf, secretary of publi- cations; Mrs. Nell Schneider, secretary of spiritual life; Mrs, Tom Howell secretary of ciiIs1- drens work; Mrs. Paul Nelson. Mrs. Norman Wengert and Mrs. Victor Mahan, secretaries of youth and student work.
 Gifts were exchanged after short business meeting, with de- Votions led by Mrs. Russel Nor ton.
 Mrs. Jacobson, mother of Mrs. Melvin Deck, was guest of the evening The annual Mother and Daughter Banquet was held un- der the auspices of the WSCS last Friday evening in the Meth odiSt Church social hall. This is always one of the outstanding events of the club year.
 Tables seating approximately 250 guests, were tastefully dec Orated in spring colors. with amusing miniature hats as fa- VOrs. The dinner was served by Boy Scouts in uniform.
 A musical program was ar ranged to include a quarter-harp, violin, flute and piano combi- nation. Little JoAnn Jeffrey DOT trayed a bunny in a clever little song, accompanied by her moth CT. Vocal and piano numbers rounded out the program.
 The oldest and youngest moth- CTS were introduced and were presented gifts by the president of the society. Group singing was led by Mrs. Lyman Graves.
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
Yesterdays Holiday Air Misleading

Bright red poppies distributed by the American Legion Auxili- ary and their assistants Thurs day, and the closed stores. gave the city something of a holiday air to the m n y uniformed guests who arrived on the after noon train for the Seward Rec reatiOn Center.
 Within an hour of their arriV- al, soldiers in groups and singly were wandering about the streets in all parts of town, looking the place over" This was the first group of 75 to visit the Rec reation Center this season.
 Although it might have look ed like a holiday to strangers, plenty of work was in progress Docks, railroad, cement and cold storage plants were working full blast, and road construction work moves at a rapid pace. Seward can always take time out for a few hours fishing, but the work goes on.
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
Fresh Fruifs and Vegetables Under Price Control

Fresh fruits and vegetables are now under price control in Alaska if they are shipped in from outside, the Territorial Office of Price Gtabilization said this week.
 The territorial office made the announcement to amplify and explain further to Alaska gro- cers and others affected by the changes in Regulation 9 which were made known in Washing ton early last week. Regulation is the price-control regulation for retailers and applies to all the territories and possessions of the United States.
 The change in the territorial regulation came after reports were received in Washington that wider margins were being taken on some items previously exempt. Although most fruits and vegetables are not begged in the states until th9y reach parity, Alaska handlers can in no case take more than the same dollar-and-cent-profit on these products than they took in the base period, December 19-Janu- ary 25.
 Several other items of lesser import are covered in the amendment, which went into effect May IT. Some of these items are seeds, hay and fish oil. With fresh fruits and vege- tables, they had previously been exempt. .~: ..
 A report that stores doing less than S100,000 year business would be exempt from ceiling price regulations was labeled in- accurate today by Fred G. Han ford, Territorial Director of the Office of Price Stabilization.
 Hanford said the rumor ap- parently started through a mis- construed release from Wash ington D. C. early last week. He said the territorial office check ed carefully with Washington o. P. s. officials and found no basis for any such exemption.
 Hanford further reminded that all retail businesses should have their base period records com pleted in accordance with Reg ulation 3.
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
Airport Construction Is Definite

The Territorial Department of Aviation has arrived at an agree able price for the Dufresne prop erty, and the engineering and construction of the Seward Mu- nicipal Airport will proceed as promptly as possible. This infor- nation was contained in a tele- gram to CouncilWoman Kirk patrick from Tony Schwamm, Director of Aviation, today
 Considerable discouragement had been felt with Dufresne, whose house and 30 acres re- mained to be obtained for the runway. Dispute over the orig inal appraisal, made locally, and Dufresne's demand, promised to be a stumbling block in the pro- cedure
 Mir. SchWamm ordered a sec ond appraisal by disinterested parties, in sincere effort to reach an equitable price for the property. Terms of the final agreement are not known here today, but the city is jubilant over the assurance that the final obstruction has been removed and actual construction is to be- gin at last.
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
Mori+ime Commission Suspends Rofe Boosts By A!dska Sfeum

Rate increases sought by the Alaska Steamship Company, to have become effective June 1, have been suspended by the Fed eral Maritime Board, subject to public hearing, according to word from Washington and the Governors office
 The increased rates scheduled to go into effect on dates vary ing from May 21 to June 1, would have affected all parts of Alaska and such commodities as ore and concentrates, fisheries products and livestock. Passen- ger rates to both Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska also would have gone up.
 A general rate increase was scheduled in addition for South east Alaska on all commodities.
 A vigorous fight was put up by Governor Gruening when the company filed application with the Maritime Board for the in- crease. Announced by the com pany as a 20 per cent increase, the Governor stated, analysis of the tariff filed with the Fed eral Maritime Board showed the increase to range from 20 to 33 and one-third per cent on groceries and from 19 to 24 per cent on general merchandise. :"
 The Board, in it's order, held that The rates and fares may be unjust or unreasonable to the detriment of the shipping pub lie, in violation of the Shipping Act, 1916, and the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1883, as amended; and the Board is of the opinion that the effective dates of the schedules should be suspended pending hearing as to the law fulness of the rates and fares"
 While no date has been set as vet for the hearing, the Board deferred effectiveness of six tariffs containing the increases until September 21, unl @ S s otherwise ordered by the Board.
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
GUS MANTHEY PUBLICLY THANKS HONEST PERSON"

MT. and Mrs. Gus Manthey, one of Stewards Oldtimer fam lilies, left town yesterday on the Baranof for few months in the States.
 Before leaving, MT. Manthey asked us to offer his thanks to the unknown person, who, upon finding the wallet belonging to his family, dropped it into the postoffice for delivery. Every thing was intact, even the $1.81 it had contained"
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
ARR Train Schedule Chenaes MondaY

A change in the Seward Anchorage train schedule is to start on Monday, according to The Alaska Railroad
 A train will leave Anchorage at am. for Seward and will make a round trip each Monday through June II. It is scheduled out of Seward for Anchorage at 3 pm.
 Under the new schedule, the railroad annuls the Seward Anchorage train normally sched- uled on Tuesday. The new run will carry troops to the Seward military recreational leave post and return men whose passes have terminated
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
CIVIL DEFENSE GROUP MET THURSDAY

Col. Clarence Johnson, direc- tor Seward Civil Defense Board, met with his staff in the fire hall Tuesday night. Because of sev- eral other meetings in progress at that time, the Board was de- layed an hour.
 Col. Johnson asked all section heads to draw up detailed plans and submit them at the next meeting, which will be announce ed.
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
FINED FOR SPEEDING

H. H. Malcolm, Seward divi sional manager of Matanuska Valley Lines and vice-president of Alaska Bus Transportation Association, was recently fined for exceeding the speed limit within the thirty-five mile zone on the Seward-Moose Pass high way.
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25

The first inspection of Feder- al Housing Authority buildings was made in Seward last Friday by MT. Woods, Washington, DC. and MT. Sutter of the Juneau office.
Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
Governor Eigh4s Cost of Livinq

by the House of Representative in discontinuing payment of the 25 per cent cost of living allow ance to Department of Agricul- ture employees recruited in Al aSka, Governor Ernest Gruen- ing has sent a detailed protest to each of the 21 members of the United States Senate Appro- priations Committee. Highlights of the protest were:
 The allowance, in the case of agriculture, dates from 1924. Cost of living surveys demon strate it's justification, the latest showing Fairbanks to be. 47 per cent and Anchorage 40 per cent above Seattle costs. Dis continuance of the allowance to employees hired locally would promote a colonaism and a caste system by establishing a higher paid class recruited from the 'Motherland 70 work with a lower paid, presumably inferior, class of resident Alaskans
 The proposal would deny the capacity of Alaskans to govern themselves, by providing greater pay for imported officials. It would be inefficient in favoring locally uninformed employ over resident employees. Direct increased costs would result from outside recruitment, travel costs being met by the govern ment from point of hire to job location. A greater turnover rate, and longer training peri ods would add to such costs. Finally, the proposal under mines national policy which aims toward permanent settle ment of Alaska. It would mean the domination of federal agen- cies by transient workers hay ing roots and basic interests elsewhere.
 The Senate Appropriations Committee was urged to block the proposal not only as it affected the Department of Az riculture but in it's application to any other federal agency in Alaska, since those opposing the allowance are seemingly attack ing it in every appropriation bill.
 The Governor pointed out that the matter is of general interest to the business com munity since federal employees are so widely distributed that their loss of buying pow would be felt throughout Alas ka.
 In the Anchorage area, for example, the Railroad had last fiscal y2ar, an average year a round total of 1400 employees, the CAA 663, Road Commission 200, and civilian employees of the military totalled 3200 All of these programs are directly related to defense.
 In the Fairbanks area there was an average of two thousand year round federal employees during the period, most of them railroad and military employees.
 The average total for the Juneau area was approximately 600. Most of these people re- ceived the cost of living allow ance.
 The annual federal payroll for the Anchorage area during fiscal 1850, exclusive of military personnel but including seasonal and wage board employees, to- tailed $31 ,321, ,669. Were this payroll cut back by the amount of the cost of living allowance probably as much as five mil lion doHars-all business would suffer sharply reduced volume as lowered federal salaries were stretched to meet rising costs.
 The danger of Alaska's econ
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Seward seaport record., 1951-05-25
He StoW of
 SEWARD
STORY OF SEWARD "


 In last week S column we told something about the formation of the Alaska Central Railroad Company, and the landing of survey parties from the North and South of the proposed route from Resurrection Bay to the Interior of Alaska.
 w. H. Whittlesey, chief clerk and attorney for the Railroad promoters, tells. of landing from the steamer Bertha in small boats, at point near the pres ent Seward dock They found a few cabins, one belonging to Mir. Shackleford of California (possibly the same Shackleford who was attorney for the Tread well mines in Juneau, and later very active in Alaska politics. who had already constructed a wagon road to Kenai Lake for the purpose of transporting large iron pipes for a hydraulic gold operation on Cooper Creek. The other cabin belonged to the Lowell family-Mrs. William Lowell and her children.
 Two camps were established by this survey party: one in the vicinity of the present Railroad street and First Avenue; the other at the mouth of ReSurrec- ton River, at the head of the Bay, near the present airport.
 The first job was to establish base line for future toWnsite plating, since the promoters Of the Alaska Central meant to derive all possible revenue from the sale of lots at the Southern terminus, to aid in the financing of railroad construction Unfor- tunately, the only box missing grom the gear checked off the Steamer Bertha, was the most important one-the case contain ing surveyors rods and chains and other instruments. Whittle- sey decided to improvise, and produced from his personal eff fleets a tailor's tape measure of cloth HayWire was cut from bales of hay and straw, and six foot links were made, joined into a makeshift chain 100 feet long, more or less. Using this chain, a tWo-mile base line was meas ured off, along what is now First Avenue. Whittlesey claimed that later surveys with the most ac- difference of only two inches, but information supplied today by Harry Southard indicates that the 'base line" was not nearly so accurate; that differences be- tween original plats and modern surveys have been found that amount to as much as 60 feet in some places, and 30 feet in others.
 The Lowell family claimed a homestead of 160 acres. This claim was recognized as just by the Alaska Central Railroad Company, and the Lowell home stead was surveyed stakes were set, and notices posted in Mrs. LoWell's name, by the survey party. The Railroad Company then leased this same property for ten years, at $50 per year, with an option to purchase the tract for S20O0, except ten acres on the waterfront which was their homesite.
 All of these events took place, according to records, in the sum- mer of 1902, prior to the arriv- al of the first party of perma- nent settlers. The only inhabi- tants were the Lowells, since the survey parties broke camp and moved on before the coming of winter, leaving only some horses to be cared for by the Lowell family
 Next week: How the Ballaine brothers obtained additional rights to Resurrection Bay land,
, 1951-10-23

"Col. Tyler. Calhoun, Jr., of
Nashville, Tenn, post chief of
staff, said that, under the law,
the posts schools must operate on
an unsegregated basis. This is be-
cause the schools are wholly sup
ported by Federal funds.
"The colonel, who has two chill
dAen in the post schools, told
his five and one-half-year-old
daughters first day in kindergar-
ten:
"tI asked her if there was any
colored children in her class,
Yes she replied. His name is
Butch and he gan wiggle his ears.
He's going to teach us how to wig
gle ours
General Menoher said Fort
Bragg, which boasts it is the larg-
est military establishment in the
United States, is run on a non
segregated basis.
"'We have Negroes in every
housing unit he said, pointing out
that Negroes at Fort Bragg COM
pose 10 to Is per cent of the
population, although not nearly
as many Of the Negroes as white
have families.
"The general born in Fort Mon
roe, Va, and nov makes his home
at Southern pines. He said he has
observed no reaction from neigh
boring areas to the posts unsegre-
gated education policy"
, 1951-10-23

ed by o1ai vote. DR.. Fagin indicat-
ed that his resolution would lie
put into writing for formal a.
doption by the Baltimore Theater
Guild within the next few days.
In the meantime, the Baltimore
NAACP, which has fought relent-
lessly and tirelessly to end the
Jim Grow policy, circulated a new
leaflet appealing to Baltimoreans
to boycott the theater. The leaf
let quotes comments by The Coun-
Gil of Actor'sa Equity Association.
Irving Berlin, Patricia Neway,
Uta Hagen, Todd Duncan, Muriel
Rain, Langston Hughes, Basil
Rathbone, and numerous other i'll
dividuals and groups, condemning
Ford's for its segregation.
, 1951-10-23

Allan Rich, a member Of the
cast of the Pulitzer prize-winning
play, Darkness at Noon," scored
the segregation policy because of
theological considerations" and
also because it drastically reduces
the number of theatergoers and is
therefore bad business.
DR.. Bryllion Fagin, director of
the Johns Hopkins University
Playshop, informed the group that
a number of students refused to
take a course in experimental
theatergoing last year because
they would not cross the NAACT
picket line in front Of Ford's. A
resolution proposed by DR.. Fagin,
calling upon .Ford's management
to drop the segregation was pass
, 1951-10-23
Observation-Disclosures Hurt
Bv Five Year Picketinq

BALTIMORE, Oct. % Worried Theater Guild mem
bers who met to discuss factors involved in the decline III
attendance at legitimate shows in Baltimore voted this
week that the management of Fords theater-Which has
been picketed for five years by the Baltimore branch of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People-be urged to discontinue It's segregation policy.
, 1951-10-23

and finally a last straight run to
Suez and Port Tewfik.
1t is at Ismailia, where the Anti
British riots erupted a week ago,
that the Canal company has it's
traffic control headquarters ..
, 1951-10-23
and the Orient.

Europe and the Orient.
The Suez Canal is the worlds
greatest short cut and vital to the
west in a military emergency. 1t
runs almost due south from Port
Said to Suez. 1t goes through flat
desert land and does not have the
complications of the Panama
Canal with it's differences in water
levels and enormous locks.
Even SO a ship does not just
enter the canal on it's own and
proceed drought it. The long ship
way is an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
system with carefully-timed ship
speeds, blocking signals and pass
ing ports.
1t takes a ship about IA hours
to go through the canal which
runs straight south for some 70
miles from Port Said, where it
connecs with Lake Timsah at Is
MALTA. From Timsah there is a
short run into Great Bitter Lake,
then a link with Little Bitter Lake,
, 1951-10-23

The British retreated from Iran
rather than risk violence and pos
sible war.
It is conceivable that after that
retreat Nahas Pasha might have
thought that the British would not
use force in he Canal Zone to pro-
tect the vital waterway and the
military treaty which Nahas Pasha
himself signed back in 1886.
He might have thought that all
he had to do was pass a law
breaking the treaty and the Brit
sh would walk out. If so, he b
been rudely disillusioned.
The British quickly suppressed
anti-British riots for which the
Egyptian government disclaims
responsibility. They also speedily
death with a small band of Egypt
ian troops-and with gunfire-
when they were opposed in Selling
the key Ell Firdan bridge over the
canal.
The British within a week have
flown in approximately 5000
troops achievements. Thousands
more are to follow and it is esti-
mated that 100000 troops with bat
tie equipment already are here.
The British navy quickly sent
in big warships and now it's Of
ficials have taken over partial
control of canal traffic.
Canal traffic is reported or
NAL, meaning that more than 81
ships daily are going through the
1O7-mile-long waterway linking