Four Non-Striking Maritime Unions
Criticize Seattle Mayor For Failure
To Call Meeting of Parties Involved
SEATTLE, (/P) — Four non
striking maritime unions Thurs
day criticized Mayor Allan Pome
roy for failure to call a meeting
of all parties involved to get re
lief ships to Alaska.
The statement was signed by
the Northwest Joint Policy Com
mittee of Maritime Unions. The
committee is composed of the Ma
rine Engineers’ Beneficial Associ
ation (CIO', the International
Longshoremen & Warehousemen’s
Union find', the Marine Firemen,
Oilers, Watertenders & Wipers’
Asosciation <Ind>, and the Marine
Cooks & Stewards’ Union (Ind).
The unions noted that they had
announced more than a month
agct that they “were ready and
willing to load and sail any ship,
regular or relief, to any port in
the world, as long as those ships
were manned with respect to the
time - honored jurisdiction of the
West Coast Maritime Unions.”
The ship strike is by the rival
Sailors Union of the Pacific
<AFL>.
“We have attempted to arrange
a joint meeting through Governor
Gruening and Mayor Pomeroy,
among all interested parties, to
devise ways of releasing a relief
ship or ships to Alaska from
Seattle,” the four - union state
ment continued.
“A request by Gov. Gruening
<to the mayor) for such a meeting
has been disregarded. We, in the
interest of public welfare, wish
to know why this meeting has not
been arranged.
“Since the ships Lundeberg has
offered to release are from San j
Francisco, it appears that his rea
son is not to release them to feed
hungry Alaskans, but only to di
vert Alaskan cargoes from Seat- |
tie to other ports, and to crew
those ships with men from his
own striking organization.”
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Alaska Radio Man Named
Information Officer For
Office Rent Stabilization
Appointment of Jack McCahill
of Juneau as Assistant Regional
Information Officer for Region
VIII of the Office of Rent Stabil
ization was announced last week
in San Francisco by O. H. Peter
son, Regional Director, ARS. Re
gion VIII includes the nine west
ern states and all of Alaska.
McCahill, formerly with Radio
Station KFRB in Fairbanks, has
been in the Territory since 1948.
McCahill’s duties will include
providing the press and radio of
the Territory with information
concerning the rent stabilization
program in order to convey to
the public all essential informa
tion on rent stabilization.
In making the appointment,
Peterson said that MacCahill’s
function is of great importance to
the public in Alaska.
STUDY CAUSES OF CANCER
Researchers at a world - wide
cancer conference in Paris theo
rized that cancer results from
many rather than a single cause.
Such factors as degenerative
changes in tissue are believed to
combine with outside agents of
this modern industrial era to
cause cancer. Research into can
cer’s causes is supported by funds
from the American Cancer So
ciety. Give to the 1952 Cancer
Crusade.
It is estimated that insects each
year destroy enough U.S. wheat
in storage to fill the wheat needs
of 16 million people.
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George Ahgupuk,
Shishmaref Artist,
Working On RR
ANCHORAGE—George Ahgu
puk, famous Eskimo artist from
Shishmaref, is now in employe of
the Alaska Railroad. At present
he’s getting the “feel” of rail
roading on the Anchorage section.
Railroad officials hope to find
something more suitable to Ahgu
puk’s talent than tamping ballast
between ties, however. It is likely
that the artist’s sketches soon
will be including streamlined
trains, roundhouses and steel
bridges as well as polar bears,
igloos and seal hunters.
Ahgupuk has won international
fame for his drawings cm bleach
ed reindeer skin. Last winter he
went to Seattle to take part in
the opening of the new Seattle
Historical Museum, where some
of his works are on exhibit.
Ahgupuk and his family now’
live in Anchorage. The boys of
the family include Ralph, 7; und
Henry, 11, who sells newspapers.
Ruth, 13, does most of the house
work since her mother is ill.
A second girl, Stella, 6, ap
parently has inherited her father’s
artistic talent. Already she has
turned out some notable draw
ings.
Ahgupuk’s Christmas cards, on
sale throughout Alaska every
year are particularly fine. Re
cently he completed a series of
drawings for the Alaska Housing
Authority as illustrations far the
AHA’s annual report.
Ahgupuk’s drawing began
when he was a small boy, but
no one took it seriously except
George until he was confined in
the Alaska Native Service hos
pital at Kotzebue with a leg in
jury.
For six months he had nothing
to1 do but draw. His work was
noticed, and from then on he de
voted his life to drawing. The
medium of drawing on bleached
sealskin is an Ahgupuk “trade
mark.”
Many of Ahgupuk’s sealskin
works are elaborate depictions of
an entire Eskimo village—show
ing the daily activities of his peo
ple in hunting seal, whaling,
fishing, hunting polar bears and
driving dog teams.
Ahgupuk, a genial and compla
cent individual, says he likes rail
roading. Anchorage counts him
and his family an asset to the
community.
In 1900, 41,000 Americans died
of cancer. An estimated 210,000
will die of cancer this year, the
American Cancer Society says.
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