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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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NEED WINTER CUTTER PATROL
It is hoped that the government will see fit to provide
some sort of medical assistance for the citizens located
on the Alaskan peninsula. As conditions are at present
the nearest physician is located several hundred miles
from all these people. Serious illness generally means
death.
A doctor stationed on a revenue cutter, constantly
subject to call, could save many lives of those that are sac
rificed annually for lack of expert medical attention.
We grant the revenue cutters in the Bering Sea Patrol
perform useful service during the summer months but
why are these government boats sent north in the summer
seasons only when in the fall and winter the individual
need of them is so much greater?
To provide succor for the ill, aid large and small ves
sels in distress, to continually keep in touch with the in
habitants on the remote and widely scattered islands,
seems to us, to be a fair idea of the duties for revenue cut
ters provided they were stationed in southwestern Alas
ka, both summer and winter.
GREATEST OIL OUTPUT
Crude oil production in the United States for the first
week in November reached 2,386,000 barrels a day, a new
record for all time. The greatest daily production pre
viously recorded was 2,3447,984 barrels an May, 1925.
Tremendous production from new fields' in Seminole
county, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and California
served to swell the total to an unprecedented figure.
The Seminole pool was discovered only a few weeks
ago, yet its production now reaches about 120,000 bar
rels a day, with many more wells being drilled. The indi
cations are that the present high rate of production will
be exceeded in the immediate future.
Prices of crude oil have been reduced to some extent
as a result of overproduction, and this may be followed by
correspondingly lower prices of gasoline if the present
situation is long maintained.
Although anxiety for the continued supply of crude
petroleum has befefi voiced by economists during recent
years, the oil industry has able to keep ahead of the
demand so far, and in view of pTc£€nt conditions it is un
likely that there will be any shortage otgasphne or allied
products for a long time to come. " .~
Forward looking news editors are now reserving a
little space on one of the inside pages for the hunter who
climbs through the wire fence and then pulls the gun after
him.
If we do have a race of women with beards and bass
voices, they won’t have to worry much about fighting ofi
the flirts.
The cost of Senate seats doesn’t seem so high wher
you try to buy two on the aisle for a popular show.
McAdoo says he doesn’t yearn to be President. Now
Al, you tell one.
Most of the people who think they are tolerant ar(
merely powerless.
Even Alaska has dictators, but most of them are un
der the age of 5. *
There are indications that affairs in Europe are be
coming stabilized. France has had the same cabinet fo]
several weeks.
The government departments at Washington ar<
getting their annual instruction on how to cut down ex
penses.
The farm girl fiancee of James A. Stillman, Jr., play
the harmonica, he said in answer to a query if she is musi
cal. He is in love all right.
CREWjlSJPPEJRS
CANNERY AND WHARF AT UNGA
WRECKED REPORTS JUDGE
DRIFFIELD
CORDOVA, Dec. 8. (^P)—A tempest
swept Bering sea and the Aleutians
and none of the personnel of the Pa
cific American Fisheries Co. cannery
at Squaw Harbor have been seen since
the storm started yesterday. Saint
Paul Island navy wrireless reported
the wind was the highest in years.
Judge Driffield informed the naval
radio that the wind wrecked the can
nery and wharf at Unga, and spray
flewT all over the village. The wind
blew directly into the harbor and
the wharf of the Alaska Commercial
company at Dutch Harbor was
flooded.
C. HGUG. SHOWMAN,
DIES AT SARATOGA
SARATOGA, Dec. 8. (&>)—'The cir
cus world today mourned the death of
Charles Ringling, former showman
banker and capitalist who died here
last night from a cerebral hemorr
hage. Ringling, owner of the circus
bearing his name, had been retired
from active connection with the cir
cus for a number of years.
NEW YORE, Dec. 8.—The newly
published social register has failed
to include the names of Irving Berlin
and his wife, whose social position as
Irene Mackey, daughter of Clarence
Mackay, was expected to bring the
song writer what social recognition
the register affords.
MORE ON SPORER
(Continued from Page Three)
fore Thanksgiving, shortly after mid
night. Sporer reports that wiien he
saw the masthead light of the Starr
appear aroudd the corner of an island
he knew exactly how Columbus felt
when he saw the tiny gleam of ligfift
ahead during the night preceding/the
day of the discovery of Ameri;Ca.
With the coming of Father Hoto
vitzky, life speeded up Y/onderfuIly in
Belkofsky. Father ^iotovitzky does
'not Vt/ok-li^"a priest; he is a tall
broad-shouldered man, with a very
forceful personality. It is said that
none of the natives in Belkofsky drink.
He takes very good care of his flock,
and the natives of Belkofsky are gen
erally believed to be better situated
than any other natives in Alaska.
And he enjoys outdoor activity, hunt
ing, fishing, and the like. A traveler
meet few characters as interesting as
the priest who lives in t^is tiny native
village.
Big Thanksgiving Dinner
And in passing one must make note
of one of the biggest events of the so
cial season in Belkofsky, the Thanks
giving dinner given by Father and
Mrs. Hotovitsky. The wild ducks
were shot Thanksgiving morning by
the Father and Sporer, Miss Richard
son prepared oyster cocktails and Mrs.
Hotovitzky the delicious French pas
try. Then, when the gaps wrere filled
in with sweet potatoes, cranberries,
a steaming samovar full of tea and
everything else that goes to make a
Thanksgiving dinner successful, every
body dressed up for the occasion and
sat down to enjoy a dinner long to be
remembered. Those present were:
Father and Mrs. Hotovitzky, Miss
Margaret Richardson, Miss Lydia Ho
tovitzky, Messrs. Eugene and Claude
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Hotovitzky, Mr. Sporer and Mr. and
Mrs. Leff Leffchinkoff. It was a most
enjoyable occasion.
The steamer Starr returned to Bel
kofsky November 27 and reached Sew
ard December 1. Sporer sails for Se
attle1 aboard the S. S. Admiral Watson
tonight. He is already formulating
plans for another trip to Alaska in
1932.
DEMAND — Henry the
Fourth Cigars. “It's in the
taste ”
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