Alaska’s 1946 Pack
Of Salmon Poorest
On Record
WASHINGTON, iff) — Alaska’s
poorest salmon season in two dec
ades and one of the greatest Cal
ifornia tuna catches in history
highlighted the nation’s fishing in
dustry as it swung into the final
quarter of 1946 production.
Milton C. James, assistant di
rector of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, said production in sever
al major fisheries sent the pack
of canned fish in the United States
and Alaska, during the first nine
month of 1946, down to 386,580,
600 pounds, 8 percent below last
year.
The pack on Sept. 30, 1945, was
421,592,700 pounds.
“The decline occurred in spite
of high production of California
tuna and Maine sardines, and is
largely due to the failure of the
Alaska salmon fishery, the alba
core fishery off Washington and
Oregon, and the Pacific sardine
fishery,” James said.
“Unless there is an unexpected
improvement in fishing for Pacific
sardines, there is little chance that
production will equal that of
1945.”
The west coast' sardine pack on
Sept. 30 was 760,275 cases, about
half the total for the same period
in 1945: 1,492,441 cases.
Alaska’s salmon pack fell to the
lowest level since 1927 — only
3,879,955 cases at the season’s end
in September. The 1945 pack, also
small, was 4,350,371 cases. Over a
10-year period, production ranged
from 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 cases.
The salmon pack on the north
western coast of the United States,
only slightly below the 1945 level,
continued a downward trend evi
dent since 1941. The 1946 pack on
Sept. 30 was 516,729 cases, com
pared with 550,000 cases Sept. 30,
1945.
In contrast to low yields, the
California tuna fisheries, third
largest on the Pacific coast, pack
ed 3.590,817 cases in the first nine
months of 1946, about 35 percent
above the figure for the corre
sponding period last year. Packers
expected the 1946 pack to exceed
the largest pre-war pack of 4,162,
336 cases in 1940.
The albacore, a white-meated
tuna, was mysteriously scarce in
the northern waters, where it has
supported a fishery since 1937.
Landings at Astoria were the
smallest in history, and receipts
at other Oregon and Washington
ports 'were correspondingly low.
First Aid Aid
First With First Aid
CUMBERLAND, Md. (/P) — H.
Lee Sillcox, Red Cross first aid
chairman, happened along just in
time. Sillcox was waiting for an
ambulance to go on a call when a
woman walked out of a nearby
doctor’s office and fainted.
He stepped up, caught her, put
her into the ambulance and took
her home.
BORN TO TROUBLE
JOHANNESBURG. (/P)—An ex
pectant mother living near Har
rismith started for a maternity
home in an automobile. The car
stuck in the mud. Her husband
hurried her back to the farmhouse
, and telephoned a doctor. The doc
' tor’s car stuck in the mud. So the
husband served as midwife him
self — following telephoned in
structions from a nurse. When the
doctor finally came, the mother
li. x>rne an e git-pound boy.
Krug Discusses
Alaska Transporta
tion Expansion
(Continued From Page One
general staff and the interior de
partment.
This indicates, the army trans
' portation association said in a
statement, that the program “is
woven into national defense
plans.”
Krug said President Truman
has given "the green light” to his
department to hasten the Alaskan
development and that it will be
good news to thousands of persons
who have written government
agencies expressing a desire to
settle “America’s new land of op
portunity.”
The secretary added, however,
that because of a housing shortage
in Alaska, any mass migration
now is not encouraged.
Long range plans under discus
sion, the article said, include:
Construction of a 500-mile rail
road from Fairbanks to Teller on
the shores of the Bering strait.
Possible construction of another
railroad from Fairbanks north
ward in the Arctic region.
Expansion of port facilities
along the Territorial coastline to
serve as feeder bases.
Construction of a fleet of ships
designed for all-weather operation
in Alaskan waters.
Development of the Alaskan
highway in conjunction with Can
ada.
Establishment of all-weather
highways linking all Alaskan hab
itable areas.
Expansion of the airport sys
tem.
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Pennsylvania is the leading,
state in open hearth steel capacity.
Terrorists Explode
Bomb In Frankfort
FRANKFURT, (/P)—'The Amer
ican military government an
nounced today that terrorists,
.striking for the second time in
eight days, exploded a bomb on a
windowsill of the denazification
board office last night.
By noon today 10 persons had
been taken into custody for ques
tioning, including one person who
was said to have been seen run
ning away from the building a
few minutes after the explosion.
Security troops cordoned off the
area and bloodhounds were called
into action in an attempt to lead
the investigators to the terrorists.
Joseph Swift was the first grad
uate of West Point.
RUTH SEIFFERT MARRIES
ORLAND J. PETROCINO
Mr. and Mrs. Binks Seiffert an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter Ruth to Orland J. Petro
cino of Providence, R. I.
The couple was married in Og
den, Utah, on October 19 and will
live in Providence, R. I.
Mr. Petrocino was stationed in
Nome during 1942 and 1943 with
the 75th Coast Artillery.
Ruth was Miss Nome 1946.
SEATTLE, (/P)—The apartment
house owners’ “strike” appeared
headed for the courts today as
Victor H. White, editor of the
apartment house magazine, chal
lenged prosecutor Lloyd Shorett
to act on this recent warning that
he would bring conspiracy charges
if a concerted move was made to
hold apartments vacant.
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