Reindeer— .
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ly include Eskimos.
Whoever develops reindeer will
benefit Natives — and everyone
else. Bellies and the sensitivity of
skins to cold know no race. Rein
deer themselves are without ra
cial prejudices: they merely want
help from men.
It is not only unfair to non-Na
tives to make development of
valuable resource entierly de
pendent upon members of a Na
tive race. It is, also, unfair to put
burden of raising reindeer wholly
upon Natives. No one wants to be
forced to raise cattle in order t(
get leather shoes. It would not be
sound to permit none except, say,
Polish-Americans, to raise cattle.
To the degree that a racial psy
chic isolation has been fortified in
Natives of Alaska by various
forces, competition of Lapps and
others would stimulate them.
To prevent speculators from
grabbing herds, the law might call
for a certification of experienced
reindeer growers and issuance of
grazing permits to them alone.
They could then sell breeders to
other certificated growers; or all
their stock to a butcher, specula
tor or otherwise. But incompetent
get-rich-quick folks could no*
clutter up ranges with misman
aged herds. The resource would
get much protection thereby.
To protect its breeding stock
against loss the Government
should not loan stock to any per
son unless he could prove at least
three years steady reindeer herd
ing. He should, also, be required
to submit a sound plan for man
agement.
This would bar no race. Certain
Na'ives and Lapps could qualify
immediately. Others, at the st irt,
including Veterans, would have to
serve apprenticeships under them.
A very desirable weeding-out pro
gram would operate thus. It would
dismay mere promoters. Reindeer
owners should be herder-owners
who work with other members of
the herding crew in the field.
Loans of breeders could be for
5 year periods. The herder would
repay equivalent anirrtals then,
keep the increase as his own. This I
plan, used for many years in Alas- ’,
ka, is one I helped revive here.
At the same time, reindeer op
erators should be eligible for loans i
from farm loan funds.
The present Reindeer Law <50
Stat. 900) should be killed. Its
race-discriminatory features are
un-American and stupid. It can- j
not be well defended by this Ad-1
ministration, particularly, in view j
of its Civil Rights protestations. I
On Jan. 5, 1949 (State of the Union
Message) President Truman said [
many things about freedom of ec-;
onomic opportunity, including:1
“We believe that no unfair preju
dice or artificial distinction should
bar any American from ... a job
that he is capable of performing.”
Cattle raising does not fit men
for reindeer management on Alas
kan tundra any more than rein
deer raising would fit a man for |
cattle management in Texas. Nei-}
ther do animal husbandry courses i
* I
in schools. Experience with rein- i
deer on northern tundra will do it, j
or will not, depending on the man.
And if developing reindeer for
Alaska is the objective, let us notj
cast them into the roll of being a ;
mere instrument to get Veterans
up here. Reindeer are already in
the bad legal spot of being a mere
racial bootstrap. Men should be
the instrument to accomplish rein
deer development — good rein
deer men, Veterans or not.
Meanwhile, the Governme n 1
should map the lichen areas and
analyze potential markets, as rap
idly as possible, and “get going” i
with a new program.
J. SIDNEY ROOD
ALEANDER C. STEWART
EX-NOMEITE PASSES ON
SEATTLE, UP) — Funeral serv
ices for Alexander C. Stewart, 75
years old, Alaska gold mining op
erator, were held Saturday in the
Home Undertaking company, fol
lowed by cremation. He died
Thursday after a long illness.
Mr. Stewart, a native of Can
ada, came to the United States in
1894 and settled in Michigan. In
1900 he joined the gold rush to
Alaska and later founded his own
company in Nome. He spent his
summers in Nome and his winters
in Seattle. Stewart was a past
president of the Northwest Min
eral association.
DINNER HONORS
METHODIST OFFICIALS
The board of directors of the
Federated Church and invited
guests are planning a dinner this
evening at the Pioneer Hall hon
oring Bishop Gerald Kennedy. He
is accompanied on the trip by his
wife, Rev. James Geiser, Metho
dist delegate to the World Coun
cil of Churches, and Rev. G. Ed
ward Knight, superintendent of
Alaska Methodist Missions.
Mrs Robert Baldwin, president
of the Ladies Aid is in charge of
dinner arrangements.
FATHER HUBBARD
BECOMES CHAPLAIN
Father Bernard Hubbard, S. J.,
well known lecturer and authority
an Alaska is reported returning to
Alaska in the capacity of chaplain
of the Armed Forces and will be
on a tour of duty from Pt. Barrow
to the Aleutians until August. He
will also visit the Catholic mis
sion at Holy Cross.
In August he will embark on a
picture taking trip out of Juneau
with 12.000 feet of Ansco color
film. He will be accompanied by
his nephew.
NOTICE
The Alaska Property Tax Law is now in effect and applicable
to the calendar year 1949. Assessment return forms are being
mailed to known property holders, and can also be obtained direct
from the Office of the Territorial Property Tax Assessor, Second
Division. Box 259, Nome, and from Post Offices throughout the Sec
ond Division. The program got a late start here, and self-assessment
will have to do for this year, subject to check and corrections where
warranted. The properly filled out assessment forms should He re
turned to Box 259, Nome, by July 15th, 1949, or as early afterwrards
as mailing conditions permit. After the returns are in and the tax
rolls completed, the Tax Commissioner has sole authority in the
field of" collection of this tax coming to one per cent of the total of
the assessment statement. Taxes so levied will be due by the first
day of February, 1950.
It should be distinctly understood that this new tax set-up ap
plies only to lands and properties located in the outlying districts,
outside of the municipality of Nome. Therefore do not submit a Ter
ritorial return on any property within the Nome city limits, already
being taxed by this municipality.
%
PAUL DRYDEN,
Divisional Assessor,
Box 259,
Nome, Alaska
News of the World
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western truck traffic to Berlin to
a mere trickle in a move denounc
ed by western officials as a clear
breach of the four-power agree
ment on Berlin reached last month
in Paris.
The Russian move, without ex
planation, came on the eve of
scheduled new four-power con
sultations on normalizing Berlin’s
existence. Western nerves already
have been stretched taut by the
Russian off-again on-again block
ade tactics in Berlin, and the new
est move is bound to increase the
tension.
Only lour cargo trucks an hour'
—96 a day-are going from the]
West to Berlin. These go over the
Helmstedt highway. All other
highways have been closed up by
the Russians. On the Hellstedt
road alone some 300 trucks a day
had been traveling into the city
with supplies.
The latest Russian move,
amounting to another in their se
ries of ‘‘little blockades” empha
; sized once again Berlin’s position
as a political and economic island
i 100 miles inside the Soviet zone
; and underscored the importance
I of the airlift, still roaring into the
i city with supplies against the pos
sibility of another full blockade
such as the Russians imposed for
almost a year.
Premier Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia, in his first major policy
speech since April, informed the
world last night he intends to seal
off his border with Greece. There
has been talk that Tito, in Mos
cow’s doghouse for a year, is
ready for peace with the Athen
government, which Yugoslavia
had helped to harry by her aid to
the communist-led guerrilla rebel
lion.
“It has come to this: That we
must gradually close this frontier
and safeguard the lives of our
workingmen in this part of the
LARGE CODFISH CATCH
IN BERING SEA
According to Capt. Ed. Shields
of the C. A. Thayer, codfish ship
now in the Bering Sea, a record
catch of 161,000 fish has been
made in one area.
This is very unusual as it is
customary to move around every
two or three days. They are re
ported to have been in the same
place for six weeks.
country,” Tito told some 40,000
persons at Tola.
Such a move could be interpre
ted as a gesture toward the West.
Tito spoke at the same time oi his
need for a loan from the west.
However, he said he wanted it
made clear that his is still a social
ist country with no inclination
toward the west politically. He
still claims Trieste as Yugoslav
and has no intention ol giving up
his claims on Austrian Carinthia,
Tito told the world.
In neighboring communist Cze
choslovakia, a visitor to the palace
of Archbishop Josef Benin report
ed the Roman Catholic primate a
prisoner in his own palace, under
guard of a plain clothes police
man. The leader of the Catholics’
tight against government control
has not left his palace since Mon
day, June 19, when communist
hecklers broke up his sermon in
St. Vitus cathedral.
The church leader who visited
him said the archbishop intends to
remain in the palace as a “gesture
of protest against the government
actions against the church,” add
ing that if the archbishop left, the
communists probably would lock
him out of his palace and deprive
him of his symbol of opposition.
Britain continued to wrestle
with her dollar problem, hoping
to come up with a solution by Sep
tember. John W. Snyder, U. S.
secretary of the treasury, has met
for three days with British econ
omic chief Sir Stafford Cripps
and Canadian finance minister
Douglas Abbott.
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