Is Vitamin A
In Seal Liver
Worth Savings?
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haps 10 per cent have fat, yellow,
oily livers laced with up to $4.25
worth of vitamin A.
Pale yellow livers appear to be
slightly richer in oil and “signifi
cantly greater" in vitamin A po
tency than seal livers of normal
reddish hue, the agency said.
The service each year kills, pri
marily for their valuable furs,
about 65,000 of the 3,500,000 seals
that summer on the Pribilof Is
lands.
Blubber scraped from the skins
is converted into oil. The car
casses themselves are processed
into meal and oil. Average value
of a seal carcass in terms of re
duction products, F.O.B., Seattle:
about $1.60.
The service has been wondering
whether it would be profitable to
render the livers separately from
the carcass, because of the vita
mins in the liver oil. -
It assigned chemist F. B. San
ford and biologists K. VV. Kenyon
and V. B. Sceffer, from its Seattle
office, to investigate. They report
ed their findings in the service’s
magaine, Commercial Fisheries
Review, yesterday.
‘ At the prevailing price for
vitamin A—about 15 cents per
1,000,000 units — the average seal
liver is worth about 25 cents. So
little it is questionable whether
the liver could be handled profit
ably under existing conditions,”
they said.
"Perhaps 10 per cent of the to
tal seem to be rich enough in vita- |
min, A to warrant commercial ex- '
ploitation at present prices. The
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Wildlife Institute
Against Hoover
Control Plan
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1The Hoo
ver commission’s plan for separ
ate control of commercial and
sports fisheries is “ridiculous and
impossible,” the wildlife manage
ment institute said yesterday.
If put into law the plan would
“immediately widen the breach
between the sport angler and the
commercial fisherman,” the in
stitute charged.
The commission headed by for
mer President Herbert Hoover
recommended that responsibility
for commercial fishery manage
be transferred from the fish and
wildlife service, in the interior de
partment, to a reorganized com
merce department. Control over
sports fishing would remain with
the wildlife service.
“We need consolidation and a
united front rather than segrega
tion and lack of understanding,”
the institute commented in its bi
weekly publication, the Outdoor
News Bulletin. The institute is a
privately-supported organization
of sportsmen naturalists.
"Sportsmen, both hunters and
anglers, have been helping com
mercial fishermen fight conserva
tion battles, and unprecedented
progress has been achieved under
a joint banner," the institute said.
It added that Albert M. Day, di
rector of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, recently told the national
fisheries institute that "split ad
ministration of fishery resources
would be virtually impossible.”
most valuable one examined con
tained $4.25 worth of vitamin A.”
Alaska Timber
Resources Not
Being Utilized
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week.
“Against this (Canadian and U.
S.) fast-dwindling timber supply,
Alaska offers its huge coastal for
ests, now rotting for want of use
but capable of providing 1,000,
000. 000 board feet of timber an
nually—now and forever.
“Once the hungry domestic mar
ket is satisfied, there is the grow- j
mg literacy of the Orient—which
will demand more paper for
ixioks, magazines and newsprint.
“Alaska is closer — closer by
hundreds of miles—to the mar
kets of the Orient than is the con
tinental coast of the United States
proper, including the paper-pro- j
ducing regions of British Colum- j
bia.”
The forest service estimates
that the Tongass national forest,
in Southeastern Ala ska, has
enough timber and water power
to supply half a dozen pulp and
paper mills of 500 ton daily ca
pacity—for a total output of one
million tons of newsprint every
1. vear, in perpetuity.
The reclamation report pointed
out that the forest service already
has approved a contract for es
| tablishment of a pulp mill near
Ketchikan. It said there is “active
i interest in the building of similar
mills at Sitka, Thomas Bay and
other Southeastern Alaska locali
ties.
Alaska’s forestry, it added,
could be producing all sorts of
woodenware, barrels for the fish
ing industry, pre-fabricated log.
houses, and material for building
or repairing the thousands of
small boats used in the Territory.
And power-line cedar poles, it |
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The IV. C. Co. wish to announce that they are
changing, within the next few days, their grocery
department into a SUPER-MARKET.
The new arrangement will offer larger displays,
more convenient shopping services and modern
methods of merchandising that will mean lower
prices and better values to the customers.
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U. S. SEEKS TO INTERVENE
IN INCOME TAX CASE
JUNEAU, (/P)—The department
of justice is seeking to intervene
in the Alaska Steamship com
pany’s court challenge of the Alas
ka income tax law.
The intervention move was au
thorized by the U. S. attorney gen
eral at the department of interi
or’s request. The motion was filed
by assistant attorney general
Theron Caudle in federal court
here.
Judge George W. Folta set a
hearing on the motion for yester
day.
The case is against tax commis
sioner M. P. Mullaney.
said, are so much in demand in
the middle-western and eastern
states that they could profitably
be exported by boat to Prince Ru
pert, B. C., and then by rail to the
lucrative markets.
“Power transmission lines now
being studied for construction in
Alaska would require within the
next few years more than 20,000
poles with a total length exceed
ing 1,200,000 feet,” the report
pointed out.
"By 1958, Alaska power trans
mission and distribution pole re
quirements should exceed 10,000
each year.
“Alaska’s forest industries will
be one of the foundation stones of
the much-needed industrial devel
opment of the Territory, provid
ing a new and vital role for Alas
ka in the framework of world
economy.”
Fairbanks Assures
Every Visitor a Bed
FAIRBANKS. — Every person
desiring to attend the President
Emeritus ceremony honoring Dr.
Charles E. Bunnell a^ the Univer
sity of Alaska on July 1 is assured
of a bed, according to an an
nouncement made today by Herb
Hilscher, chairman of the commit
tee on arrangements for the event.
‘•Through the cooperation of the
board of regents, we have been
permitted to set up Harriet Hess
Hall and the Veterans’ Dormitory
on the campus as hotels to accom
modate alumni and visitors,” the
chairman announced. “Harr i e t
Hess Hall will provide quarters
for 75, and the Veterans’ Dorm
will house 50. Families and single
women will be housed in Hess
Hall, and single men in the Vet
erans’ Dorm.”
Out-of-towners who desire ac
commodations are requested to
write or wire the Nordale Hotel,
Fairbanks, for room reservations.
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