Willie Foster and family are
leaving fo*r Kotzebue where they
are entering into a new venture.
They have taken a lease on the
Kotzebue Grill which they intend
to operate this summer.
Willie Foster wha had leased
. the Munz Air Service last year,
state dthat Reggie Joule and Bill
Major will operate Munz Air Serv
ice this coming season.
The Kotzebue Grill is well
known, having been operated by
Archie Ferguson for many years.
The Foster home here has been
leased to Mr. and Mrs. H. Alex
ander.
Gordon McKenzie, veteran bush
pilot and well known in this area,
passed through Nome today with
Alaska Airlines.
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day session—one which has been
in sharp contrast to the rapid-fire
bill'passing of two years ago.
While Senate and House com
mittees have consideration of a
budget to run the! Territory for
the two years, highlights in the
House have been debates over me
morials to Congress of federal of
ficials.
Both the Senate and the House
have scheduled resumption this
afternoon of a join session for
hearing former Rep. Marcus Jen
sen of Dougins. As on Friday, Jen
| sen will speak behind closed doors
| on his investigation into some
| phases of Territorial affairs.
Authoritative reports indicated
some high Territorial officials
| would be called today in connec
tion with information or charges
Jensen laid before the Legislators
during Friday’s executive session
of nearly four hours.
The House was slated for a
| showdown controversy this morn
! ing over ai> attempt of “statehood
j now” advocates to push to the U.
S. Senate interior committee. The
memorial would appeal to the
f committee to bring the statehood
' issue to a vote in the Senate with
out holding any more hearings.
Proponents want to telegraph
the memorial to Washington today
because the committee is slated to
make a decision on the issue to
morrow, Republicans and a few
Democrats blocked an attempt to
push the memorial ahead on the
House calendar Sunday.
Alaska Legislators have leveled
their sights at the famed Kodiak
brown bears.
The Territorial House voted, 18
5, Saturday for a recommendation
for a vear-around open season on
the island’s brown brutes after
thev had been maligned as unde
sirable predators and extolled as
on^ of the world’s Greatest animals
and one of Alaska’s top attrac
tions.
The vote was on a memorial to
I the secr^tarv of the interior and
game officials. It actually is only
a recommendation.
The memorial, bv Rods. C.Ches
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| ter Carlson (D.-Cordova) and
! Jack Scavenius (D.-Anchorage)
Jack Scavenius ,(D.-Anchorage)
brands the bears as predators
; which are choking attempts by
1 cattlemen to get a big meat indus
try started on the 100-mile-long
island.
The vote came two days after
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who have been in Fairbanks, re
turned from a visit. Mrs. McGin
nis is regularly employed at the
Polar Curio Shop.
Anvil Lodge F. and A. M. No.
140 are having their annual Wash
ington Birthday Party. All Masons
and families, Eastern Stars and
families and visitors cordially in
vited to the Temple on Thursday,
Feb. 22, at 8:00 p.m.
Clarence Rhode, Alaska director
of the fish and wildlife service,
predicted open shooting would
mean extermination of Kodiak Is
land’s famed bears within two or
three years. He denied they kill
many cattle.
The bears’ defenders suggested
that conservationists and big game
hunters of the nation probably
would throw up their hands in
horror at the possibility of slaugh
ter.
Memorial supporters argued an
army couldn’t exterminate Alas
ka’s bears and that there were
plenty of others on other islands
and the mainland if the Kodiak
population became depleted.
Andrew Hope, leader of the
i Alahka Native Brotherhood, de
clared:
“You can never kill off the is
land bears. I speak from what the
native people know. When hunted,
the bears move far into the back
country and survive.”
Carlson a veteran fisherman, ar
I gued also that the bears are mak
ing serious inroads on salmon
runs, “flipping salmon from
streams like a cat at a goldfish
bowl.” When bear backers sug
gected an open season in cattle
areas only; Carlson replied:
“You can’t fence them in; not
i
those babies.”
Rep. Glen Franklin (D.-Bound
ary) a central Alaska mining op
erator, added that “regardless of
how conservationists cry, if any
one ever had any kind of a bear
breathing down his neck he would
not vote any protection.”
The House Saturday afternoon
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also defeated, 13-10, a bill for
licensing and regulating Alaska
real estate operators. It has been
proposed by the Anchorage real
tors board. It may come back for
a second round today because
Rep. Stanley McCutcheon (D.-An
chorage) gave notice of reconsid
eration.
Arguments showed the main
desire was for regulation at An
chorage, where the city’s growth
h?d brought alleged abuses.
Rep. Wendell P. Jay, (D.-An
chorage) argued it would protect
peoole of all the Territory from il
legitimate practices.
Reps. Mike Stepovich (R.-Fair
banks) and Franklin argued the
laws already on the books should
give ample protection without cre
ating another board.
Rep. Doris Barnes (R.-Wrangell)
pueaded that “probably'this is de
sirable in some places but ,1 feel
Alaska is a last frontier where
the rugged individualist still can
operate” without so many restric
tions.
The House blocked an attempt
to get a statehood memorial ap
proved on a rush basis. It voted,
13-10, to bring the memorial from
committee, but, Mrs. Barnes* mo
tion to adioum blocked further
consideration until today.
It is an appeal to the U. S. Sen
ate interior committee against fur
ther statehood hearings, but for a
vote by the Senate instead.
McCutcheon argued futilely for
special House consideration be
cause the Congressional commit
tee meets next Tuesday to decide
the issue.
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Frank Martin 'returned from
Fairbanks where he enjoyed a
visit with his daughters and
grandchildren who make their
home there. While there he was a
guest at the home of his daughter
Mrs.' Kenneth Sly.
Frank Martin is one of Nome’s
oldest pioneers, having arrived
here in June, 1899. He arrived in
Alaska the year before, landing at
Skagway and returning to Seattle
to come to the big strike at Nome.
Fine Railway
Trainmen $75,000
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connections of the blocking of
shipments of munitions and sup
t plies to Korea.
The union already had drawn a
$25,000 fine in a parallel case be
fore federal judge Igoe in Chi
cago. That verdict is being ap
pealed.
Judge Tamm today said that in
all his research he had never en
countered a plea of guilty by a
labor union in a -similar charge.
He called it “a unique case.”
The stoppages first broke out in
December with men reporting
“sick” in protest over failure of
pay and working rules negotia
' tions.
Similar walkouts occurred again
early this month. They were end
ed ten days ago when the army,
operating the rail carriers under
government seizure, threatened to
j fire non-working unionists with
j resulting loss of treasured senior
|ity. '
Highway Engineer
Lists Work On 2nd
division Roads
The report of the Alaska High
way Engineer and Superintendent
of Public Works lists the work
done on roads in the Second Divi
j sion for 1950 in cooperation with
! the Alaska Road Commission, as
| follows:
Nome-Council Road- (including
the Ophir Creek bridge) $70,000;
local roads around Nome $23,000;
flagging trails $2,000; Bunker Hill
$40,000; Candle Road $3,000;
I Charlie Creek Road $500; Coffee
Creek airfield $1,590; Salmon
| Lake airfield $900; Savoonga air
i field $1,500; North Fork and Har
ris Rood $1,800; Harris Creek air
strip $450; Buck Creek to York
$3,000; and $1,250 toward Nome
harbor.
A total of $170,250 was spent
in the Second Division, in com
parison to $391,350 for the Third
Division; $221,750 for the 4th Di
vision and $270,405 for the 1st Di
vision.
The report also shows an inter
esting comparison of cars enter
ing and leaving the Territory over
the Highway. In 1947, 387 cars
entered the Territory with 717
passengers, and in 1950 8,097 cars
entered with 19,622 passengers.
Fines imposed during the year on
the highway totaled $52,536,
which reverts to the U. S. Gov
ernment.
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