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NEWS IN BRIEF
CORNER BROOK, Newfound
land, (/P)—Up in these northern
parts they use ship and lariat to
get a moose.
A crew member of the motor
vessel Trepassey spotted a 400
pounder floundering in thin ice in
Humber Arm Channel. The ship’s
captain brought his ship along
side and afte wing of the lariat
bagged her.
The moose rode here in the Tre
passe>’s hold, was transferred to
a truck, and turned loose a few
miles inland.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (/P)—
Bing Crosby, fully recuperated
from surgery, is out in the open
again and hankering for the feel
of his clubs against a golf ball.
The crooner had an operation
Feb. 12 for a kidney ailment.
SAN FRANCISCO William
B. K. Clark, 22, was indicted by
the federal grand jury Tuesday on
charges he embezzled $1,300 in
silver coins from the Northern
Counties Bank at Marysville,
Calif.
A native of Juneau, Alaska, he
is under arrest at Gainsville ,Ga.,
after being the object of a nation
wide search since his disappear
ance from his bank job Jan. 16.
Using the name “Jon O. Ny
gaard” he got a job as clerk in the
bank Nov. 1 after deserting from
the U. S. Air Force at Brooks
Fields, Tex., officers say.
SEATTLE, (&)—The Fish and
Wildlife Service’s explorat o r y
vessel John N. Cobb is going
shrimp hunting in Alaskan waters.
The Cobb will leave Seattle
March 1 for the Icy Strait and
Lynn Canal areas.
Object of the cruise, which is
scheduled to last nearly two
months, will be to ascertain the
extent and size of shrimp and
other shellfish in the Icy Strait,
Lynn Canal and adjacent areas,
as possible commercial fishing
grounds.
Various types of gear will be
used, including beam trawls and
crab pots, Donald E. Powell, fish
ery engineer, tempora r i 1 y in
charge of the exploration program
said.
Experiments in freezing and
canning shrimp at sea will be con
tinued by the Fishery Products
Laboratory at Ketchikan, he add
ed
SEATTLE {/P)—A recommenda
tion that Local 7-C, International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
men's Union <Ind.) be certified as
collective bargaining agent for
3,000 non-resident Aleska salmon
cannery workers was made Wed*
nesday by Thomas P. Graham, Jr.,
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Wins 4th Straight
Game: 46 to 40
ANCHORAGE, <^P)—Anchorage
and Nome took Class A and Class
B titles, respectively, in finals of
the Fur Rendezvous high school
basketball tournament here Wed
nesday night.
The Anchorage Eagles trounced
Seward 70-42 for the Eagles fifth
Class A championship in six
years. Nome scored its first tour
ney championship with a 46-40
win over Kodiak City, Class B
titlists for the last two years.
Anchorage, beaten once by Sew
ard, in the double elimination
tournament, won Wedne s d a y
night’s game going away. The
Eagles, paced by Roger Cam with
16 points and Fred Fultz with 14,
led 31-20 at half time.
Ray Anderson topped Seward
! scorers with 12.
Nome’s jet-propelled team ral
! lied in the final two periods for
| its victory over Kodiak City. Gil
Ozenna starred for the winners
with 16 points.
At the end of the first quarter
Kodiak was leading with 18 points;
at the end of the half Kodiak still
! had the lead with a score of 22-19
at the end of the third quarter the
score was tied 34-34. Gil Ozenna’s
long shots are credited with win
ning the game.
Coach Hawkinson, it is reported,
is optimistic about the results of
the game to be held tonight.
A nine-man all-star team in
each class was named after Wed
nesday night’s tournament.
The Class A squad: Pedro Den
ton, Ray Anderson, Dick Deigh,
Seward; Jack Lafon, Fairbanks;
Fred Fultz, Roger Carmen, Jack
Brown, Anchorage; Gus Klem,
Edison Thuma, Palmer.
Class B squad: Gil Ozenna,
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Try To Plant Red ,
Herring In RFC
Loan Hearings
WASHINGTON, (JF) — Senator
Fulbright CD .-Ark) accused the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion today of planting reports he
had tried to influence an RFC
loan.
Fulbright, head of a Senate
banking sub-committee now in
vestigating RFC lending called it
“gross wrong” to “discredit the
work” of the Senate group.
The Senator, in angry tones,
brought this up when the sub-;
committee began its third day of
hearings.
Fulbright said a radio commen
tator, on “a tip-off from someone
informed by. or within the RFC,”
had asked yesterday whether Ful
bright himself had tried to influ
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Civilian Defense
Activities
At the Civilian Defense meeting
Wednesday, Capt. Calvin McKay,,
commander of the Nome Base,
was introduced, also Lt. William
Moore, who will be the military
adviser to the Board of the Civil
Defense and is invited to attend
all meetings of the organization.
Lt. Moore stated that he was
here td work with the civilians on
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their plans for defense and com
plimented the group for the prog
ress they have made to date. He
also stated that the military had
nothing concrete to offer at this
timd and the “problem of evacua
tion was under scrutiny and plans
will be forthcoming.”
Marc Anderson reported that 18
boys have been lined up and as
signed to all zones for messenger
service.
The most interesting report of
the evening was made by Mrs.
George Bayer on the organization
of Zone No. 1.
Leaders for Zone One are head
ed by Wardens Clyde Kammerer
and W. C. Stephenson and a sub
division on Belmont Point headed
by Bill Major. First Aid head
quarters location will be at the
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Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
Friday, February 23, 1951
(By Jim Hutcheson)
JUNEAU, </P) — Pay increases
ranging from $300 to $500 annual
ly for Alaska school teachers were
recommended td the legislature
yesterday toy the Territorial board
of education.
The recommendation accom
panied presentation, at an after
noon session. Of a budget of $9,
354,592 to operate Alaska schools
in the next biennium. If the lefis
lature approves the recommended
teacrers’ pay increase, the budget
will be increased to about $10,
500,000. The appropriation for the
present biennium was $7,789,811.
Members of the board of educa
tion and commissioner of educa
tion James Ryan appeared at the
legislative session, which lasted
through most of the afternoon.
Prior to a recess for the educa
tion budget hearing, the House de
cided to hold another closed door
session Friday. This time the
House will hear reports on civilian
defense plans and preparations.
House Speaker William Egan
<D.-Valdez) announced the closed
session had been requested by Col.
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Oslo, Norway, Making Preparations
For Winter Olympic Games In 1952
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Bislett Stadium in Oslo, scene of the 1952 Olympic Games.
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((i*P) Newsfeatures)
(By Henry Henriksen)
OSLO—For the first time in his
tory the Winter Olympics will be
held in a large city. Not only that
but the 1952 games, from Feb. 14
to 25, will be held right in the
heart of Oslo, capital of Norway.
Patron of the games is His Majes
ty King Haakon VII.
Thirty countries are expected
to compete. All forms of winter
sports will be seeh. The bob sled
races will cover four days. About
15 teams are expected to take part
in the ice hockey. All types of
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skiing will toe seen, including ski
jumping. Ice skating includes fig
ure and speed,competition.
(Main arena for the games will
be Bislett Stadium in the center
of Oslo. The games will open and
close in this stadium and the
speed skating and figure skating
will be held’ there.
In the event of mild weather,
which is unlikely at that time of
year, two excellent reserve stadi
ums are handy. One is up the hills
above Hoymenkollen andiFrogner
saeteren, some seven miles fromj
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Committee States
“There Can Be No
‘Pearl Harbor’
In Alaska
(By Frank W. Vaile)
(</P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (£>)—The Sen
ate armed services preparedness
sub-commitee said yesterday all
out war with Russia would force
this country to abandon certain
isolated areas of Alaska.
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It gave assurance, however, that
“criitcal areas can be held.”
The sub-committee said it ap
pears “reasonable to assume that
little could be donq to protect the
Seward Peninsula area from either
bombing of actual invasion if the
Russians so desired.” It was the
only specific reference made by
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the Senators to areas within either
category.
A 120-page report prepared by
the sub-commitee’s three -man
Alaska task force stated:
“The military in Alaska, within
the limit of the forces made avail
able ... is embarked upon a real
istic plan for the defense of the
Territory.”
But, the Senators added, there
is a need for additional combat
and service troops and more air
power.
“Service troops,” the report
continued, “are inadequate- to
properly support the forces in the
area plus the remaining incre
ments of the authorized establish
ment. They are nowhere near
adequate to support an increased
effort in the event of the emer
gency movement of troops to
Alaska.”
The task force, headed by Sena
tor Hunt (D.-Wyo.) and including
Senators Morse (R.-Ore.) and Sal
tonstall (R.-Mass.), has been stud
ying the Alaska program since
last fall. It spent six days in the
Territory and conducted other
studies here.
| Declaring it found the military
establishment alert and ready for
any eventuality, the task force as
serted that “if the present state
of alertness and vigilance is main
tained, there can be nor ‘Pearl
Harbor* in Alaska.’*
Despite this, however, the re
port stated that the defense pro
gram was crippled by numerous
factors.
“Housing appears to be the big
bottleneck,” Hunt explained. “The
little bottlenecks within that big
one are a scarcity of labor, unrea
sonably high costs of construction
and transportation, outrage o u s
costs of living,,and a strangling
amount of governmental red tape
upon which the whole program
exists.”
Citing 47 individual steps which
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