Mining Claim j
Assessment Work
Due Date July 1, ’50
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claim is located.
It was further pointed out by
Mr. Stewart that, should condi
tions in Alaska continue during
the coming year to be such as to
justify an additional period of ex
emption from the assessment re- •
quirement beyond that allowed by
the law now in effect, that may be
accomplished by legislation intro
duced and enacted by the Con
gress as late as the spring of 1950.
New legislation during the year
1949 is not imperative, therefore, j
in order to provide such addition
al exemption.
Will Chrysler
Reduce Prices?
DETROIT, i/P) — The nation's
automobile industry focused its
attention today on Chrysler Corp.
to see if the third member of the
“big three’ would follow the ex
ample set by General Motors and
Ford and trim its prices.
Meanwhile, the Ford Motor Co.
put into effect new reductions of
$12 to $120 on its Ford. Mercury
and Lincoln models.
That move, announced ye-de
day. carried out a company policy
to "keen prices .just as low as
costs will allow,” a statemen*
said. It also brought Ford into line
with G.M., Kaiser-Fraser and Wil
lys-Overland, all of which have
put lower price tags on their cars
during the last six weeks.
Under the new price schedule.
Ford cars will cost from $12 to $30
less than before, Mercurys will be
down $80 to $120, and Lincoln and
Lincoln Cosmopolitan models are
reduced by $100. In addition, the
' company cut the prices of cc'hdn
truck models from $10 to $40.
Omnibus Bill
Totals $671,047,172
WASHINGTON — Emergency
allotments of $110,000,000 for the
atomic energy commission and
$43,000,000 for the Berlin airlift
were approved today by the House
appropriations committee.
They were included in an omni
bus $671,047,172 money bill sup
plementing current year appropri
ations for miscellaneous govern
ment agencies. The bill is sched
uled for House consideration to
morrow.
The bill’s total is $26,981,225 be
low the President’s budget re
quests, but the atomic energy com
mission and the Berlin airlift
funds were not cut.
The committee also approved
the full request for $40,000,000 for
stockpiling of strategic and criti
cal materials being stored up for
use in any possible future emer
gency. In addition to the cash, the
stockpiling fund was authorized
to incur $278,000,000 in contract
obligations for which future ap
propriations may be necessary.
The new fund for the atomic en
ergy commission is for paving off
on contract authority previously
authorized by Congress. The total
contract authority was $400,000,
000, against which Congress pre
v ously appropriated $250,000,000.
The estimated cost of the airlift
operation this year is $153,000,000.
Present plans, air force officers
testified, contemplate the use of
287 air force C-54 carrier planes
through June 30. From an orig
inal daily lift of 225 tons, they
said, the operation has increased
to average 5.620 tons daily. Up to
March 27, the United States had
carried 926.131 tons of supplies by
air into Berlin.
There was no explanation by
the committee cf what supplies
will be purchased with the new
funds for stockpiling.
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Witnesses Testify '
Against Fish Traps
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were no salmon industry represen- |
tatives at the hearing and added: j
“They are well able to have
witnesses, and if they are to ap-1
i pear, the committee should re-1
quire their presence very soon.”
Lester Roberts of Juneau, rep- |
resenting the Native Brotherhood
of Alaska, said the salmon fishing
industry is “now in a bad state” ;
and added that the “principal lac- j
tors in the reduction in seed sal- 1
mon is due to the intense opera
tion of fish traps.” He said that
Only a few of the traps are owned
by year-round Alaskan residents.
Wm. L. Baker, publisher of the
Ketchikan Alaska Chronicle, said.
the abolition of traps would have
an improved effect on business. He '
i added that business was found to
be more stable in areas where the
traps have been eliminated.
Baker said he believes Alaska
itself could better handle the sal
mon problem. "Our status as a
stepchild has a tendency to leave
us wide open." he added.
Peter Tandstad, who said he has
lived in Alaska for 25 years, tes
tified that the traps were causing
the "destruction of all kinds of
fish.” He said "I believe if we get
rid of the traps the fish will come
back in a period of years.”
Others to testify for abolition
ol the traps included: Robert J.
McNealv, representing United
Fisheries union; Robert G. Korn
of Cordova; Mayor K. C. Patton of
Seldovia, and H. J. Lannen of
Cordova.
The hearing will resume Mon
day with Alfred Owen of Anchor
age. a Representative of the Alas
ka Legislature, and Mayor Ira
Roth well of Cordova, scheduled to
testify.
“Doe” Walker Of
Ketchikan. Dies
KETCHIKAN, </P) — One of
Alaska’s best-known political fig
ures, former Territorial Sen. Nor
man (Doc* Walker. 60, died at a
hospital yesterday.
He was found on a burned
mattress at his home Sunday.
Until his defeat last fall, Walker
served 16 years in the Alaska Sen
ate and was an active opponent of
Gov. Ernest Gruening. He became
active leader of the “Walker bloc”
in the Senate after breaking with
the governor in 1945.
A Democrat, he was author of
the board of administration bill,
the world war 2 veterans’ act, a
narcotics act, a “cocktail” bill and
many others.
During his administration as
Ketchikan Mayor, the New Eng
; land fish company was invited
heer and founded a large cannery
and cold storage plant.
| A graduate of the university of
Washington school of pharmacy,
in 1911, Walker worked two years
in Seattle then came to Ketchikan
and opened his own store. He
lived here since, except for two
years in the army in the first
world war. Survivors include his
widow and daughter here and a
son William in the States.
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hospital.
Mrs. A. Saario has b^en dis- ;
missed from the hospital. i
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Airport Contract
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ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Tne civil;
aeronautics administration today
announced award of a construction
contract for a Fairbanks airport to ,
the Morrison-Knudsen Co., on a
bid of $2,845,728.25.
The company will have 565
days to complete the work, alter
being given the authority to start
work by CAA.
Other companies bidding were
NWA Construction Co., Seattle,
$3,293,991.50; Hoops Construction
Co., and Nottingham Construction
Co., Boise, Idaho, $4,184,239,35.
The contract calls for clearing,
grading, drainage, paving, seeding
and lighting of the airport.
Bowdoin College
Honors Peary
J
BRUNSWICK, Me., i/P) — Bow
doin college paid tribute to Alum
nus Robert E. Peary today—the
40th anniversary of his discovery
of the North Pole.
“ . . . the college joins with the
nation in hailing that glorious
achievement,” said President Ken
neth C .M. Sills.
The explorer’s 85-year-old wi
dow, Josephine, and their son,
Robert, Jr., attended the brief ex
ercises—part of a morning chapel.
In Peary’s life, Dr. Sills said,
can be found “a very real inspira
tion for American youth.”
“Peary’s career,” he added, “is
a protest against the submergence
of the individual. It is an out
standing example of fortitude and
self reliance.”
Admiral Peary was graduated
from Bowdoin in 1877.
The city of Lub'n’s civic hi-torv
goes back to the 10th century.
House Approves
Sale of Public
Land In Alaska
WASHINGTON, (JP), The House
approved legislation yesterday to
authorize the interior department
to sell unreserved public lands in
Alaska for industrial or commer
cial uses.
The measure provides that no
company may secure more than
160 acres of land except in cases
where the department believes
larger tracts are justified.
The measure now goes to the
Senate.
The House also passed and sent
to the Senate another measure re
stricting the taking of salmon n
rivers and streams in Alaska for
food requirements or for dog food
to the amount necessary for food
or feed for personally owned ani
mals.
The House also approved an
amendment to the small tract act
which permits its extension to
Alaska by removing the restric
tion that such land must be sur
veyed. The amendment permits
unsurveyed land in Alaska to be
leased by the department in small
tracts but not to be sold.
The leasing privilege also is ex
tended to small tracts of land n
the. revested Oregon and Califor
nia grant lands and the Coos Bay
wagon road grant lands in Ore
gon.
This measure also went to the
Senate.
The Home Arts Club met at the
home of Mrs. B. Smith Tuesday
evening for regular meeting and
to discuss plans for raising fund
for their civic project, the play
field.
An interesting paper was read
by Mrs. Robert Long on the Mar
shall Plan, followed by discussion.
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