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Seward seaport record., 1954-12-24
Continuing Boom Seen Tourisn in 1855

Hundreds of inquiries about tra- vel in Alaska are pouring in to the office of the Alaska Visitors Association during the winter mon- ths, according to Bernice Morgan, Executive Secretary of the Assoc iation.
 If the interest shown in this correspondence is any indication of the volume of tourist traffic for the coming year. We can predict a boom year for the 1855 Alaska Tourist Season.
 Any one who has information about musical contributions made by Alaskans either in recordings, or printed form, are asked to write this to the Juneau office of the AVA. A survey of Alaskan music is being made in the interest of tourist information.
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-24
Special Court Term Set January Sixth

A special term of the Third District Court will convene in Se- ward early next year. it was an nounced recently by the Clerk of the Court in Anchorage.
 Sitting on the bench during the term in Seward will be Judge Walter H. Hodge of the Second Division District Court. Judge Hodge has been helping out with the heavy load in the Third Dis trict for the past couple of months.
 Hodge was formerly a Cordova attorney. and was appointed to the Nome bench last spring.
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-24
Seward Seahawks Split With Fairbanks

This is the second in a series of student reported" games to appear in the Seaport Record. It is our sincere hope that all future games will be given full coverage even though, due to the limited staff of the Record, we cannot at. tend each game personally.
 We are indebted to Wilbur Ham. blin for last weeks report, how ever, We do not have the name of this weeks reporter.
 A two game series with Fair. banks this past weekend saw the local squad come from behind after taking 46 to 9S beating Friday night. to wallop the Fairbanks Nal mutes 55 to 45.
 In the first game the Malmutes paced by 6 10" John Nelson took an early lead and by the end of the first quarter were ahead 12 to g. Pete Wagner kept the Hawks in the lead by netting of the nine points tally for the local squad.
 The second quarter saw the sea hawks take on little life and baskets by Rose, Bahr and David Hughes put the local squad in the lead by 2 points with a score of 26 to A.
 In the second half of play, the Malmutes clipped the Seahawks' wings and recovered the lead. Only once during the Third quarter did the local team threaten the Fair. banks lead and that trick was near ly turned by Pete Wagner when he made basket and free throw narrowing the Malemute lead to one point with the score at 34 to B. Scoring honors for Fridays game went to Pete Wagner with l5 points and runners up were Jerry Williams and John Nielsen of the Fairbanks squad who each had 13 points to their credit.
 In what was possibly their best game of the season. the Seahawks ] took a quick lead over their adver. saries on Saturday night, and soar ed off into the wild blue wonder for first quarter score of r to s. Much of the credit for the first quarter lead goes to Doc Blatch. ford who hit couple of long shots, and Wagner who poured in a jump and set shot
 The Seahawks. unable to keen up the pace they had set in the first quarter, played a somewhat slower game in the second quarter but managed to keep their lead out of danger with the half time score standing at 31 to IS in their favor.
 The Malemutes were handicap. ped by not being able to use 8 of their starting five who were in danger of being retired for fouls. By the end of the third quarter the Fairbanks squad had edged up a little closer to the Hawks with the score standing at 3i to A with much of the scoring made on free throws. The third quarter had started out good for the local squad but fouls on Dan Rose and Pete Wagner sent them to the showers. The tall Fairbanks five took heart and brought the Hawks down a few pegs, narrowing the Seward lead to four points. It didn't look like the "birdmen" stood a chance until Kenny Bahr made three con. secutive baskets and the crowd went wild.
 The final quarter of play saw the Seahawks role up 19 points. almost two for one over Fairbanks to end the game in the lead 55 to 45.
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-24
CITY MANAGERS REPORT GIVEN TO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

" S&6A 1At&&% AAAW VI
 The regular session of the Cham. Der of Commerce was once again tull to overflowing at the Tuesday noon meeting.
 POLIO CENTER
 It was reported to the Chamber that the work on the stringing of phone wires to the Polio Rehabil- itation Center was just about completed. The job has been done by a group of the fellows from the powerhouse.
 CITY MANAGERS REPORT
 Ray O'Hara just back from the City Managers conference held in St. Petersburg, Florida, reported that he had enjoyed his trip and felt right at home as the temper ature the morning after he arrived in the sunny south dipped to the 34' mark.
 The City Manager reported hay ing full cooperation of MT. Clark,  ka Steamship Go. in Washington, who arranged several meetings for him with various Washington of ficials.
 One of the main topics discussed at the meetings was the need to develope the kenai Peninsula tour ist traffic as one of the best sourc- es of additional revenue for the area. Other forms of develop ment would also relieve Seward S dependence on the Interior Alaska freight and thus stabilize the local economy the discussions decided.
 Checking up on the status of the Small Boat harbor project, Mir. O'Hara said he found that the project had been approved by Con- gress and that it would now have to go back to Congress for an ap, propriation. It is estimated that the project will cost about SS0,000.
 On the hydro-electric project, O'Hara said he found some sur prise on the part of Washington officials that such project was being undertaken by the City. The officials were pleasantly surpris- ed and said that the completion of the facility would be a forward step for all of the kenai area.
 Checking up on the feeling in Washington about a dock at An chorage, the City Manager said that he had found no wide spread enthusiasm for the project and thought it unlikely that money would be appropriated in the near future for the project. Mir. O'Hara said that in his discussions of the project he had not voiced opposi- tion to the proposition other than holding that Alaskan Rivers and Harbors funds should not be used to build the port.
 SEATRAlNS
 O'Hara's findings on the Sea train situation were much h Q same as those voiced at meeting between the Manager of the Alas. ka Railroad. Frank Kalbaugh, and the Seward Chamber of Commerce.
 He had also found that Whittier was favored as being the shortest haul with lack of steep grades. Also that the bulk of the traffic would be Military in nature and thus should go through the mili- tary port. Also Washington offic- ials said that some of the carriers were dissatisfied with the history of local cooperation with carriers serving this port.
 The decision on who will run she Seatrains is still pehding. however the Interior Department will likely be the one to decide who will carry the freight, in as much as the connecting facility on
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the Alaska end will be owned by them.
 In conclusion, O'Hara described his tour of the Pentagon and urg- ed all members to be sure to visit the unique building if they were ever in Washington.
 ALASKA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
 Tommie Bic reported that he had returned from the meeting of. the Alaska Development Board. Much of the meeting, Bic said. was devoted to becoming familiar with the functions of the Board. as many of the members were new on the job.
 A budget was also prepared and an increase of $12.000 will be asked by the Board. making the request for the biennium $137,000.
 Other business included accept ance of the resignation of Dr. Al exander Baird who has been Gen. eral Manager of the Board for the past several months. No reason for the resignation was given. and Bic said he had nothing further to say about it. No successor has been named as yet.
 The Manager of the Railbelt of flee, Jim Dalton of the ADB, has also indicated that he will resign. He has been offered a better pos ition and has indicated his desire to resign.
 Mir. Bic said that it was his hope that before MT. Dalton left the AIDE that development survey of the Kenai Peninsula could be com pleted.
 AIR SERVICE
 A letter was read from the White House advising that the Chambers recent protest of rumored plans to discontinue the services North West Airlines to Anchorage had been filed and the contents noted.
 In view of the new threat to Alaska air service which has aris- en in the past week. the Chamber voted to send new protest ask ing that the present air carriers serving Alaska be recertified to fly the same routes and no new outside carrier be substituted for them.
 According to recent rumors, there is danger that Pacific North ern Airlines and Alaska Airlines might have their States-Al a S k routes discontinued in favor of having Pan American Airlines fly the Seatle-Anchorage route This route was pioneered by Northwest and Pacific Northern after Pan American had turned down requ- ests to serve the area in the past. NEWS covERAGE
 A discussion of the lack of news coverage of the Seward area by the Anchorage News while the other Anchorage paper had coverage, was discussed.
 The discussion brought out the fact that the News is represented by United Press which is handled by the Seward Seaport Record. Mir. Bonser being present. outlined some of the problems involved in the local newspaper operation, the main one being the limited person. mel, and thus an inability to even give adequate coverage for the local paper much less providing coverage desired for out of town papers. The problem of the An chorage coverage as well as the local coverage seemed to resolve itself to finding someone interested enough to see that news of local happenings was provided to the papers.
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The City Council session got underway on schedule Mon d ay evening, with all Councilmen ex- cept Blair present. The City Man. ager was also back from his re- cent trip outside to the City Man. ager's conference in St. Petersburg Florida.
 Following the reading of the minutes of the previous sessions citizens present were asked to present whatever business they had to the Council for considera.- l tion.
 MT. Heinbaugh was the only there with problem, and he showed the Mayor and Council a bill which he had paid the Brady Construction Co., for connecting up couple of sewer lines. From the bill, it appeared that he had been charged for couple of Y's which should have been installed as part of the project which the City paid for. Heinbaugh asked that the Council consider taking off the price of the two Y's from his regular sewer assessment. The matter was referred to the City Manager for investigation and re. port.
 HEALTH OFFICER
 Mrs. Hull was present to bring recommendation of the Health Council that the Regional Health ! Officer for South Central Alaska Health District be appointed City Health Officer.
 Under this arrangement the Re- gional Health Officer would act as City Health Officer with a local ly appointed trained Sanitarian do- ing the work of inspection and making recommendations for the i improvement of health standards of the area In any case where disciplinary action was dee m d necessary, the Regional Health Officer would make an inspection and report and decide what action was warranted.
 Some discussion was held by the Council regarding the recom- mendation and it was decided to approve the recommendation if after oOntaeting Df. Staff it Was found that no legal physician is interested in having the job.
 CITY MANAGERS REPORT City Manager O'Hara was next on the floor and gave a report of his findings while in Washington in behalf of the City and. the Cham 1 Der of Commerce. He credited much of his success in getting to see many folks in Washington to MT, Clark who is public relations man for Alaska Steamship Com pany in Washington. He was also assisted by the Delegate to Con. gress' office though the Delegate was vacationing in Hawaii at the time.
 While in Washington Mir. O'Hara met with several officials includ- ing representatives of the Bureau of Budget. Department of Defense, Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Maritime Commission. Labor and many othrs.
 In discussions with the Defense and Interior Departments the Man. ager said he received assurance that the Seward Railroad Dock would be replaced, regardless of what the Seatrain decision was. However, no definite plans for a start of construction have been made.
 The City Manager also discussed the possibility of the City obtain. ing title to the. Army Dock. How ever, Washington officials advised that this request would have to be channeled through the Alaska Commanders office.
 MT. O'Hara was also told about the same story which the Railroad Manager had told local citizens regarding Seatrain service and it's history. He also heard rumors that the Alaska Steamship Con- pany was being the favored one to serve Alaska.
 LAGOON AREA
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BY Mereditl


TALES OF treasure meath
Il the sands offshore, Ma
tion-wide recognition resulting
from an inedible 10-inch fish
caught" from the air, and
beach lots going for only SIS,
lend an aura of incredulity
and romance to this Delaware
Bay town.
Lewes pronounced Lewis
is Just behind the breakwall
where bay and ocean embrace.
At night the black mouth
sparkles with lights as men
haden boats steam through,
laden with fish. And Lewes,
S miles northwest of Rehoboth
Beach and 100 miles from
Washington, has come into its
own as a fishing port.
This tiny port last year
landed $50 million pounds of
menhaden, the Fish and Wild
life Service reports. This was
81 million pounds ahead of
its closest rival, San Pedro,
Calf, where tuna is caught.
Two menhaden plants, the
larger operated by Otis H.
Smith, Mayor of Lewes, ac-
count for the whopping sta
tisticS. His 11-boat fleet,
operating between Cape
Charles and Long Island,
locate the schools via three
spotter planes lowering over
head. The fish meal is valu-
able as chicken and animal
food, the pressed oil being
used in paint.
Lewes Is a picturesque little
town of 1880 people. On
Evening star., 1954-04-29
THE EVENING STAR B-3
Washington, D. C. ''s
THURSDAY, APRIL go, 1871

Pool. chairman Of the Gold Cup
Committee. and Mrs. Pool are
entertaining at Grove.
Subscribers to the races this
year range from the Cabinet to
Ringing Brothers. Secretary of
the Treasury George Humphrey.
Secretary of the Air Force Har-
old Talbot. the Morris Cafritzes,
the Robert Woods Bliss and
Mrs. Martin Vogel. ST., will be
out from Washington; Gladys
Tartiere is expected up from
Mexico City; the Bryce Wings
are coming over from Monkton,
Md; the William Fits Ryans
from New York and John Ring
ling North is leaving his circus
for wider range on Saturday.
Fauquier White sulphur
Springs, where the Gold Cup
dinner-dance will be held after
the Schulsymeyer's party. Is
carrying the horse motif even
unto it's walls for those who like
their horses caught in stride.
Prints by Raoul Duty and orig
inals by Denes de Holesch have
been loaned from the Veerhoff
Galleries in Washington as q
back-drop to the music of Lester
Lanin and to Nal Burke. who
will solo during dinner on his
well ll-known guitar.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
India Edwards Sees Democratic Victory,
Including Jimmy Says Mccarthy Slipping

toboggan sled. You can see it
reflected in the newspapers too"
She added that she was in
terested in observing the news
papers in cities across the coun-
try, during her fight here.
Many of them indicated a dis
gust at the whole proceeding,
but particularly at Mccarthy" :"
she declared.
Mrs. Edwards will be in WASH
lngton for two or three weeks.
The essential purpose of her
visit is to attend a meeting of
the Defense Advisory Commit
tee on Women in the Services,
to be held tomorrow and Sat-
urday. She also will attend
Democratic committee meetings
next week, of course, and be on
hand for former President Tru-
mans birthday party May 7
and the big Jefferson-Jackson
day dinner.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
BY Dolores Phillips

If Saturday is sunny and CO.
operative the intrepid mob that
turns up each year for the run
ming OF the Virginia Gold Cup
can make the William Schluse-
meyers private little mountain
without it's rubbers and mud
tires. If it rains, which has been
known to happen but which has
never thinned the crowd, the
same obliging tractors and little
men selling big hats will be
there to make life easier.
Broadview Farm, which sits
atop the race course and upon
whose lawns the racing royalty
leave the better brand of emptieS.
'>will, under the hospitable hands
of its new owners. the Schulse-
meyers, open its doors to around
300 guests after the races. Who
ever wins the new cup will be
the toast of the afternoons party
but this year it's anybody's guess.
After Chris Greer entered two
horses in the Cup race last year,
even the children, who romp up
and down the hill all during the
races, knew what was up. Chris
retired the trophy. the fourth
the Gold Cup Committee has put
up since 1922. with Rayquick, one
of his double-entries.
Saturdays winner might be
Warrenton's own Mrs. Amory
eCarhart, who is running her Icy
Evening star., 1954-04-29
CHcling the Countryside
Virginia Gold Cup Race
IWn Attract Hundreds

Fingers, or it could be Joe Rog-
ers of Hamilton. Va, whose Big
Breeze is as breezy as they come,
or Middleburg's Cappy Smith.
who has entered his Benton Boy.
It might even be Cy Manierre.
who has already been toasted at
the Melons and Randolphs'
when his Uncle Pierre retired
the Rokeby Bowl at Piedmont's S
point-to-point or it could be any
other owner of the big field of
top timber horses entered in
Saturdays race.
To start the afternoon off in
the proper spirit. luncheons will
be given in number of War;
renton homes. Mrs. Carhart
is entertaining; the Frederick
Wachtmeisters are giving a
luncheon at Whitehall for New
York, Washington and Virginia
guests, among them Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Tunnicliff Fox and Mr..
and Mrs. Edmond Mcneil of New
York. the Taylor Chewnings and
the Ambassador from Argentina.
DR.. Hipolito j. Paz. who are COM
ing out from Washington, the
r. H. Dulany Randolphs from
Upperville, and the Robert Win
mills and the Schlusemeyers
from Warrenton.
The Kenneth Edwards are
having guests before the races
at Fenton, the William Emorys
are giving a luncheon, and Harry
Evening star., 1954-04-29
By IsobeIIe Shelton

Mrs. India Edwards, who pi-
loted Democratic women to more
than one election triumph, is in
town this week, breathing con-
fidence of Democratic victory
this November.
She is "quite sure" the Demo-
Gratis will win control of the
House next fall. and maybe the
Senate too," said Mrs. Edwards,
who still is vice chairman of
the Democratic National Com
mittee. although she relinquished
control Of the committees wom-
ems activities when she moved
to California last october.
She and her husband have a
house in the Westwood district
of Los Angeles, and plan to
make their permanent home in
California, she said, where we
can be near the three grand
children and Herbert's cher hus-
band) work" Mr.. Edwards is
a consultant to motion picture
firms.
She hasn't been very active
politically in California ("just a
few speechesD., ), but may decide
to lend a hand to a few candi-
dates later on. She is emphat-
ically not interested in running
for Congress or any other office
herself. she said.
Actually, I should think Pres
ident Eisenhower would be
pleased if the Democrats win
control of Congress, she OBJ
served. He would get more of
his program through that way.
He must feel thoroughly i'll now,
watching what is happening to
it while that clown performs at
that disgraceful hearing or
should I say clowns? And I
don't mean the Army"
ITO tell the TRUTH" she added,
There are so many critical things
Evening star., 1954-04-29

in the air today that it is hard
to look at things from a partisan
standpoint. All Americans have
to back the President and the
Secretary of State on |Indo-
China and our foreign policy.
I feel rather different than the
Republicans seemed to feel when
the Democrats were in power. "
The Democratic woman leader
also predicted that his California
district would send James
Roosevelt to Congress.
THE California Republican
legislature has practically as
sured it for him." she said.
They gerrymandered the dis
tricts in such a way as to put
almost all the Democrats in that
one district where he is running.
It's a low-income district, with
large population of minority
groups. They simply adore him.
They say the words Roosevelt
and God in the same breath.
And Jimmy is very good cam
paigner. He has his fathers
charm and voice and hearty
handshake.
AS for herself, she is keeping
hands off" the Roosevelt race.
II made my position clear in the
beginning. I urged him not to
run. I pleaded with him. So did
other people. He wouldn't listen. "
Mrs. Edwards said she feels
far removed in California from
many of the issues that excite
Washington. Maybe its because
we don't get such detailed news, VI
she surmised. Anyhow, the
crises don't seem so great"
McCarthyism gets through as
an issue, however, she added. 1T
has been very interesting to
watch the turn" she said. INC
Carthy was very popular in
Southern California. Now he is
on the downgrade so fast it is a
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Society News
Secretary Of Navy
Honors the Kyes
Andersons, Van Roijens and Mehtos
Have Dinner Guests; Senator Feted
By Doisy CIeIond

in Europe and all in an official
capacity. They are Mrs. Oswald
Lord, United States Delegate to
the U, N. Human Rights Com
mission: Mrs. Hiram Foughtor1.
Assistant Director of the For
eign Operations administration,
and Mrs. Charles p. Howard,
Deputy Administrator of Federal
Civil Defense.
An exception to the rule of
entertaining in a small way yes
terday was the cocktail party
given by Mr.. and Mrs. Judson
Bowles. The gathering was in
honor of the hostess mother
and sister, Mrs. Martin Griffin
of New York City and Mrs. CAL
vim MCGOWAN of @Charleston,
S. c. Both are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. BoWles.
The party took place at the
hosts Georgetown residence and
about so were expected. Among
them were Mrs. Dolly Corbin,
just back from Mexico, Mr.. and
Mrs. Meade Patrick, DR.. and
Mrs. Leo Brison Norris, Mr.. and
Mrs. William P. MacCracken,
jr., Comdr. Bill Higgins, Mr.
and Mrs. James Purdy, Col. and
Mrs. Hunter Drum, Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth Watson. Col. and Mrs.
Jess Bryan Bennett and Mr.. and
Mrs. Royce Powell.
Mrs. Bowles chose a becoming
black organza cocktail dress for
the party.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Miss McVey
TOBe Bride

Representative and Mrs. Will
liam E. McVey of Harvey. Ill.
and Washington, announce the
engagement of their daughter
Katharine Jane to Mr.. Edward
Thorpe Reynolds, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Irvine Reynolds of New
Haven, Conn.
Miss McVey attended the Uni
versity of Illinois and now is a
Junior at The George Washing
ton University. Mr.. Reynolds
attended Yale University before
serving two years in the United
States Navy. He plans to con-
tinue his studies at the Uni
versity of Connecticut next fall
and upon graduation will enter
medical school. -
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Benefit Proceeds

A check for 81 600 will be pre-
sented today to the Korean
Charge d'Affaires. The money
represents proceeds from the
three performances of Tom
Sawyer" presented by Rose Rob-
ison Governs Children'S Studios
in March. The money will be
used to construct additional
buildings for the Dong In Or
phanage in Pusan, Korea.