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The Fish Traps are
owned by Outside com
panies, not by Alaskan
Fishermen.
Traps will kill all of
Alaska’s Fish.
Put an X in the box on
the Referendum Ballot
that says:
X Fishing with fish
traps in Alaska
should be gradu
a 11 y abolished
over a ten-year
period.
It Is Your Duty To
VOTE-OCT. 12
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Navy To Select 2300
Candidates For
NROTC College
College aptitude tests for the se
lection of approximately 2,300
candidates for 1949 college schol
arships under the Naval Reserve
Officers Training Corps program
will be given throughout the
United States, Hawaii, Alaska,
Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone on
December 11, 1948.
The deadline for submitting ap
plications for the tests, which will
be given in 550 cities in the 48
States, is November 15, 1948.
Candidates selected will be given
a four-year, Government-sibsi
dized college education. The Navy
Department pays for their utition,
books, and normal college fees,
and in addition, provides the stu
dent with a $50-a-month living al
lowance.
Male high school seniors and
graduates between the ages of 17
and 21 are eligible to take the apti
' tude tests. Application blanks and
complete information concerning
the program are available from
high school principals, college
deans, and professors of naval sci
ence in colleges and universities,
Naval Officer Procurement of
fices, and Navy recruiting stations
throughout the country.
In addition to the aptitude test,
j candidates must meet prescribed
! physical and mental standards.
! Those receiving satisfactory marks
' on the aptitude test will be inter
viewed and given physical exam
inations at a later date. State and
Territorial boards, composed of
prominent civilians and naval of
, ficers, will then review their cases
to select the *most out-standing
j candidates. Students from each
state and territory compete among
themselves for the quota of naval
scholarships assigned each state
and territory.
The candidates selected will be
gin the Fall, 1949. term at one of
the 52 colleges and universities in
whch NROTC units are establish
ed. They may take any course
leading to a bachelor or higher re
gree but must include prescribed
naval science subjects.
In return for his scholarship,
the NROTC student is obliged to
participate in naval drills and
cruises, and upon graduation, to
accept a commission in the regular
The State of Washington Went
Through The Fish Trap Fight In 1934
%
“The biggest catch of Sockeye Salmon in
Paget Soand since 1917 occurred in 1946, and
the biggest catch of Pinks in Puget Sound
since 1917 occurred in 1947.
“We credit this to the elimination of Fish
Traps and the nefarious politics that control
them.
*
“The citizens of Alaska are to be congratu
lated on their move to abolish Fish Traps in
the Territory.”
KEN*McLEOD,
Secretary, Washington State Sportsman’s Council,
Secretary, Salmon Conservation League,
Advisory Member, International Pacific Salmon
Fisheries Commission.
This Ad Paid for by Local Alaska Fishermen
NOME RELIEF SHIP
MAY ARRIVE OCT. 13
The Alaska Steamship vessel
M/S Square Sinnet which sailed
from Seattle for Nome on Sept. 30,
will arrive in St. Michaels Tues
day and should arrive in Nome
roadstead Wednesday evening.
The vessel is under command of
Captain Art Howgate, veteran pi
lot of the Alaska fleet.
BILL NORTON HERE
TO FILM ARCTIC
Bill W. K. Norton, veteran pho
tographer of the Arctic is in Nome
this week preparing for a trip
north to Point Hope and other
areas where he will film native life
in Alaska.
Norton is taking pictures for In
ternational News and also for a
New York television syndicate.
Navy or Marine Corps, if quali
fied. After two years of active
duty, he may elect to transfer to
the appropriate Reserve Corps and
return to civilian life, or he may
j request retention in the regular
: service, and if selected, make the
j Navy or Marine Corps his career.
Candidates are permitted to in
dicate the colleges they wish to at
tend, and, subject to quota limita
i lions, will be recommended to the
college of their choice. Final enroll
ment in' all cases, however, will be
subject to acceptance by .the col
leges to which recommended.
KIMBALL CAMPAIGNS
AGAINST FISH TRAPS
_
Ross Kimball, Fairbanks me
chanic, arrived in Nome Saturday
with the Wien Alaska Airlines on*
a campaign against fish traps in
Alaska.
He states that he firmly believes
“the fish traps should be abolish
ed” and that "the fish traps is the
prime reason for the depletion of
| the salmon runs in the Territory.”
. Kimball has been in the political
limelight in the past as he was
campaigning for nomination to the
office of Territorial Labor Com
missioner in 1946, losing by a not
(too great margin.
Kimball is making a personal
j contact with each and every citi
zen of Nome and is attempting to
explain the reasons for abolishing
I the fish traps in Alaska.
I MOTORSHlt* MALIBU INEZ
REPORTED SAFE
LONG BEACH, Calif. </P)—The
motorship Malibu Inez, believed
lost after radioing an sos last
Thursday is safe and due in San
Diego Oet. 20, the coast guard re
ported today.
The 112-foot ship was 12 peo
ple aboard had asked for immedi
ate help, reporting she was being
buffeted by high waves and 60
mile-an-hour winds off the tip of
Baja California.
But the ship, homeward bound
from a fruitless search for pirate
j gold in the Cocos Islands off the
I Costa Rican coast, rode out the
storm, although taking on some
water.
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