Fisheries Show
Curtailed Profit
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SEATTLE, (/P) — Heavily cur- \
tailed earnings because of sharp
increases in Alaska Territorial
taxes and license fees and a drop
in the pink salmon market price
were reported this week by Pa
cific American Fisheries.
In a report covering the fiscal
year ended Feb. 28, company pres
ident J. A. Green listed Consoli
dated net earnings at $631.240—
equivalent to $1.67 a share—com
pared with $1,748,681 and $4.64 a
share last year.
Green said efforts to reduce
costs rompted joint oerating ar
rangements in the Petersburg and
Kassan plants in Alaska. Both will
be in operation this year.
“The Bellingham plant is ready
to run,” Green said, “and the Pu
get Sound area is expected to pro
duce a substantial pack of sock
eye salmon.”
Sally Carrighar, scientist who
spent most of last year studying
the habits of the Arctic lemming,
arrived today and plans to be in
the area this summer.
News of the World
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before the year is out.
Veteran Associated Press cor
respondent Fred Hampson said
capture of Hainan removes an
other obstacle in the communist
advance into Southeast Asia. He
said one story from Hainan is to
the effect that its fall may be
partly attributed to Chiang’s re
fusal to reinforce because of sus
pected ambitions of two Hainan
generals.
Hampson observed: “This
sounds like the same old dismal
internal distruct that in the recent
tragic years has been a hallmark
of Chiang Kai-Shek.”
Washington Senators gave the
cold shoulder to a British proposal
that the United States assume part
of Britain's $9,000,000,000 debt in
Sterling areas in Asia. The pro
posal was announced yesterday as
an “exploratory” plan being con
sidered by high administration of
ficials. Key Senators strongly op
posed the measure.
A shake-up in the communist
dominated cabinet of Czechoslo
! vakia has been announced. In
Prague the official Czech news
agency said Dr. Alexi Cepicka
has become minister of defense,
i One of the government’s staunch
est communist party members,
Cepicka has been minister of jus
tice and head of the state office
for chuch affairs.
Dispatches from Cyprus said a
s t rong communist minority is
quietly building up strength in
the hope of seizing the British
Mediterranean island base if the
communist revolt is successfully
revived in Greece. Four-fifths of
the island’s 482,000 population are
Greeks.
Correspondents in Western Ger- !
many said there is going to be a
lot of tough talk by German poli
ticians in the next two months.
Several states are electing legis
latures. Politicians are blasting1
the occupation powers and threat- !
ening to resign and return the !
running of the West German Re
public back to the Allies. It is a
political dodge to win votes and
influence people, American ob
servers said.
Berlin dispatches said the com
munist-dominated East German
government is forcing Protestant
clergymen to join the “National |
Front” communist wass organiza
tions.
Geiger Counters
For Air Use Seen
Useful In North
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(Juneau Empire)
A “new look” in uranium pros
pecting, in which a Geiger count- :
er may be carried in a light air- j
craft, holds promise for develop
men of searching for the atomic
ores in Alaska, it has been an
nounced by Leo H. Saarela, Ter- i
ritorial commissioner of mines.
A counter known as a “prospec
tometer” has been developed by !
the Radiac Company of New I
York, which has proved highly!
successful in Colorado, Utah and
Ontario, he said.
Geological Survey officials tried
the device out first, and reported
that 200 mile an hour cruises
could pick up radioactive deposits.
A gas known as radon escapes
from radioactive zones, and an air
intake in the aircraft’s nose passes
the counter, allowing a count to
be taken.
A second devise, a “prospecto
scope” for air use is said to have
30 times the sensitivity of ordin
ary Geiger counters.
A device to hook up on an auto
mobile, with two Geiger tubes, ,
has also been tested by the Geo- j
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U. S. Marine Dan Daly had the
rare distinction of twice winning
the Congressional Medal of Hon
or, the Nation’s highest award. He
received the first award for serv
ice in China in 1900 and 15 years
later won the Medal again for ac
tion against Haitian bandits. The
famed Leatherneck died in 1937.
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NOTICE
TO THE PUBLIC
The Alaskan Commission on
Children and Youth has offered
a Community Questionnaire on
Education-Health-Child Labor
and Youth Employment and So
cial Services for Children. This
Questionnaire has been recently
filled out and is offered to the
Community for panel discussion
at 8:00 o'clock P.M., April 28. 1950
in the City Hall. Anyone interest
ed in the welfare of the children
and youth of our Community, is
urged to attend.
Steve Andersen,
Mayor of Nome.
Pub. April 21, 26, 27, 1950.
DRESSMAKING
All Kinds of Alterations
— Call —
BERTHE BOURRET
King's Way
MMMi. t1 HiMrifaMKi
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Northern Gun Shop
NOME, ALASKA
BRONSON
WATER
DELIVERY
Phone Main 19
Nome Directory ♦
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Stanley R. Morgan, Pres.
Ron Brousseau, Secy.
ANVIL LODGE
NO. 140
Meets First and
Third Thursday
each month
STANLEY R. MORGAN, W. M.
NORVZN W. LEWIS. Secy.
ORDER OF THE
WALRUS
NOME, ALASKA
WES WELCH, Pres.
A. L. WALKER, Secy.
MEETS EVERY THURSDAY
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40