Seward seaport record., 1954-10-22

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 After considerable discussion it was finally decided to purchase an air compressor with accessor- ies for $500 in addition to the crane. On the vote all voted yes with the exception of Petrovich. Discussion brought out that the City had need of both crane and air compressor in order to carry l on it's maintenance work. Also it was felt that the City could save money by doing it's own digging since local contractors had declin- ed to bid on yearly contract for digging water lines for the City water department.
 JAIL
 An agreement with the Alaska Jail System was read and accepted providing for the temporary board ing of Federal prisoners in the City Jail The agreement provides for payment of $3.00 per day board plus any special guard or matron's fees as well as medical expenses of such prisoners,
 The agreement was accepted. QUoNSET HUTS 1 The City Manager reported that the sales of quonset huts had come to a halt and he recommended that the price be reduced about one third so as to move the huts before the snow fall. O'Hara in- formed the Council as he made the recommendation that he was in- terested in buying one of the huts
 It was finally agreed to cut the price, but to make City Employees wait until after the first of Nov ember. There is also one KID unit left in the area but the price on that was not cut.
 TAX SALE
 A resolution directing the City Clerk to draw up list of pro- perty for sale for delinquent taxes as provided in an order from the District Court was read and passed. The list will be published and the sale will take place on November 30th.
 GAMBLING
 A letter was received from the Chief of Police in which he stat ed that numerous instances of suspected abuse of the Card Lie ence Ordinance had been reported to him. This was backed up by statements from the Mayor, City Manager and others who said they were being subjected to heavy pre- ssure by the wives of alleged vic tins but had not been successful in getting complaint signed against any of the alledged offend CTS.
 The Council agreed to write all Ordinance at once and in about five minutes passed and approved an Ordinance abolishing legal card games in the City,
 The Ordinance had originally been passed for the purpose of controlling recreational card games such as Pan and, Pinochle, how ever, since it seemed that the situation had gotten out of hand it apparently seemed the easiest sol ution was to outlaw the games all together.
 PORT SURVEY
 A letter to City Manager O'Hara was. read in which Col Eugene Ledderer reported that he had found in his survey of tht port of Seward for the Alaska Rail- road that the Port was second to none in the territory and was in- deed one of the finest in the world. l According to the Mayor and I Council this was something new as previous reports had apparently been strongly prejudiced against Seward for Some reason.
 The Mayor ended the meeting by welcoming the new members and biding the outgoing members of the Council farwell and thanking them for their many hard nights of work. It had been a pleasure to work with them, he said. Neither former Councilmen Rose or Johnson were present at the close of the meeting.
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