Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established Auttuit 19. 1904
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THE COAL BLOCKADE
Utah coal is exported to every States and Terri
tory in the Union. Senator King of Utah was a member
of last summer’s special senatorial investigation com
mittee which turned in such an adverse report on the
Alaska Railroad and recommended a raise in rates in
order, so the good book says, to put the railroad on a
paying basis.
For about two years, it is said, the city of Los An
geles has had a representative in the railroad belt, look
ing into the possibilities of the coal fields with the view
of shipping Alaska coal direct to Los Angeles. Los An
geles, so the story goes, is tired of paying Utah dealers
what they consider an exorbitant price. It is further
claimed the representative, with government assistance,
has located a huge field where big veins are in place,
in the Palmer Creek area, not so far from Anchorage.
Now comes a raise in freight rates.
Is there any connection?
A year ago The Gateway charged Utah interests
blocking the Alaska coal industry; blocking it at Wash
ington, D. C. For years we have said Alaska coal can
compete in the coal marts of the Pacific Coast. We are
still of the same conviction.
SOUNDS LIKE DISCRIMINATION
The Zeigler bill, introduced in the Territorial legis
lature Wednesday, seeking to penalize cannery men
who import fibre board boxes for their products, -as
against using box shocks made in Alaska, appears to
be based on discrimination. If so, the bill hasn’t a ghost
of a show to go through. We doubt very much if an in
terstate embargo of this sort is permissable. It is re
gretable an Alaskan industry may suffer from such
importation of lighter weight boxes but it also must
appear logical shippers and buyers are going to cut
every corner possible to reduce the price of a commod
ity.
For the moment the exact figure eludes us but m
commenting on this same subject last summer The Gate
way published an accurant statement of the saving in
a carload of cased salmon going overland from the
Pacific to the Atlantic seaboards. It was around $60
a car, that we are certain. In other words, cased sal
mon, or clams, in wood boxes, cost approximately $60
a car more in freight rates than fibre board.
It would appear with pulp mills going in Southeast
ern Alaska, fibre boxes could likewise be manufactur
ed. On the other hand, if Alaska could tax all importa
tions shipped in, our progress would be assured. Local
industries of all sorts would blossom overnight. If the
legislature can put the Zeigler bill through, protection
should be given every business in the Territory.
There is an interesting novel published in the
French language called “My Body Is My Own.” It puts
into form the philosophy of many. Has any person or
corporation or county or society the right of telling one
where and how they shall find their pleasures? Has
anyone the light to say that one should not drink wine,
as many do, and thoroughly enjoy, or that one should
not use perfume if its fragrance gives one pleasure?
There are, of course, poor, weak-minded individuals
who carry the thing to excess. But then, there are peo
ple who smoke to excess and eat to excess.
Alaska will probably have a game law in the near
future, similar to that in the State of Washington, where
sportsmen are now permitted to hunt geo'ducks—a clam!
For those not in the know, a geoduck is a giant clam
and is the daddy of neckers, having an extension from
three to six feet. By this latter token we judge a geo
duck and a “snooper” are of the same specie.
I
MEM01L
The following memorial was
passed at last evening’s adjourn
ed meeting of the City Council.'
See opposite page for details of j
the session.
MEMORIAL
TO THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA. IN
The TENTH REGULAR SES
SION THEREOF ASSEMB
LED AT JUNEAU, AL
ASKA
We, your memorialists, the Com
mon Council of the City of Seward,
Alaska, respectfully represent:
That incorporated cities in Al
aska that construct new school
buildings are without authority un
der existing law to sell or otherwise
dispose of their old school build
ings and property thereby abandon
ed and no longer needed for school
I purposes.
1 That such cities are therefore de
prived of the money to be derived j
from a sale or rental of such ab- .
: anddned buildings and property, j
! or the power to make other dis
| posal of the same for the best in
• terests of the city.
That the Legislature of the Ter
! ritory of Alaska took cognizance of
j a similiar situation which existed
! prior to 1929 relative to school
j buildings in school districts outside
| of incorporated cities and incor
1 porated school districts abandoned
because of the construction ol new
; school buildings, and be Section
100 of Chapter 97 of the Laws of
11929 empowered the Commissioner
: of Education with the approval of
! the Governor to sell or rent suci
1 abandoned school buildings.
That similiar authority should
! be given to incorporated cities to
; dispose of their school buildings e nd
| property abandoned because of the
| construction of new school build
' ings.
NOW, THEREFORE, your memor
ialists respectfully urge that the
i Legislature of the Territory of Al -
| aska at the present session there
of grant to incorporated cities
power to sell, lease or otherwise
dispose of school buildings and real j
: property abandoned because of the
I constiuction of new7 school build-;
! ings.
j For your consideration we re- ’
j spectfuliy suggest and that saifi
1 Section 100 cf Chapter 97 of the;
Laws of 1929 be amended by add- j
ing thereto the folowing:
i “When a schoo building and real!
: property in a school district in an
; incorporated city is abandoned be
cause of the construction of a new
school building the common coun
cil of such incorporated city may
in their discretion sell, lease or
j otherwise dispose of said abandoned
1 building and property under such
terms and conditions shall ap
pear for the best interests of said
city.”
And your memorialists will ever
pray.
Adopted this 5th day of March,
1931.
Mayor. City of Seward,
Alaska.
City Clerk.
At the last meeting of the Sew
ard Radio Club Mr. Curtis was
appointed radio expert. His chief
duty will be to eliminate foreign
noises.
The fishing boat Rolph III
cleared for the banks Thursday.
Capt. Ingwald Jacobsen was at
the wheel
"Snowshoe Wireless”
—and further more, there is ab
solutely no truth in the report
that Abul-Bull-Bull Skavinsky
Skivar ran down the city hall
stairs when the warriors clashed
in the council chambers
Mrs- E. P. Harwood is teaching
Mrs- C. E. Anderson’s classes in
the high school owing to the ill
ness of the latter with a very
bad cold.
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and many others give you a wonderful performance in
the great crook play
“Forgotten Faces”
A fine 8-reel picture version of the story by
Richard Washburn Child. A detective story .
that will keep you interested every minute.
We will make you laugh with a Bobby Vernon
two-reel comedy
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And also with Krazy Kat in "Beaches and Screams”
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