V iolence Flares
In Coal Strike
(Continued from i'Jjge One)
Va.. school board ordered its
school buses off the highways in
fear of battling between pickets
and non-union workers.
It was with this background
that Lewis’ union was to confer
with leaders of the southern coal
operators and of the northern and
western men.
The walkout of 480,000 miners
entered its 11th day yesterday.
Lewis, who wasn’t expected to at
tend either meeting, said it was a
spontaneous demonstration of the
union men, that it was not a strike.
Coal stocks were dwindling
rapidly. Thousands of men had
been laid off because of the coal
stoppage.
The Grass Flat episode came
yesterday morning. State police,
already bulwarked by extra de
tails, said they were investigating
the dynamite blast, but had made
no arrests.
Robely Smith, president of the
company which employs 45 men,
said it’ll take a week before he
can resume operations. The tipple
is valued at $10,000.
Smith ordered his strip mining
operation shut down Wednesday
after, he said, UMW pickets at
tacked his non-union truckers
with stones. The non-union men
were hauling coal from mine pits
to the tipple where coal is clean
ed, crushed and loaded onto rail
road cars.
Some 1,400 non-union miners
were at work in Pennsylvania pits.
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FAIRBANKS, </P>—Five candi
dates for mayor were added in the
final 24-hour rush for filing pre- ;
paratory to the city’s Oct. 4 elec
tion.
In addition, residents will ballot
on 11 candidates seeking three va
cant city council seats, three aspi
rants for one school board post,
and two persons seeking a place
on the utilities commission.
The mayoralty seekers are Har
old Gough, former Anchorage po
lice chief now employed at the
University of Alaska; Mrs. Mil
dred Meiers Hansen, secretary to
attorney Warren A. Taylor, who is
j also a candidate; Maurice T. John
I son, attorney; and Earle Hause
man. grocer.
Councilmanic candidates are
Philip Anderson, department store
proprietor; Henri Dale, sports
i store operators; Lazar Dworkin,
tax consultant; Maurice Burroughs
druggist; John L. Hedde, account
1 ant; Barney Holtrop, accountant;
Milary Kling, president, central
labor council; George Jarris, car
penter; Thomas Murton, ice cream
company operator; and C. H. van
! Scoy, bar owner,
i Dawson Cooper, hardware store
operator, and Vincent T. Thier
man, city electric service employee
are candidates l'or the utilities
board.
Seeking school board posts are
Mrs. Nick Eidem, past president of
the Fairbanks Woman’s club. Mrs.
Myra Rank, past president Alaska
department of American Legion
! and president of the Fairbanks
health council. Forbes Baker,
maintenance superintendent for
the Aeronautics Association and
an Alaska resident for 45 years.
Voters also will decide whether
they wish daylight saving time
and ballot on a $400,000 general
obligation bond issue to augment
$1,300,000 voted last year for con
struction of a new high school.
Mrs. to Smith, who is going to
i town—Don’t forget to bring some
thing back for the mice.
Smith—If the mice can’t eat
what we got in the house, let them
do without.
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\VA S HINGTON, (7P) -v- South
eastern Alaska’s pink salmon kept
the Territory this year from hav
ing the poorest fishing in its his
tory, the Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice said Saturday.
The agency said the Southeast
ern Alaska pack was “surprising
but gratifying’’—2,4000,000 cases,
compared with last year’s 1,275,
000, a five-year yearly average of
1,465,000, and the best year since
the phenomenal 4,000,000-case
pack in 1941.
By contrast, the valuable red
salmon pack of Bristol Bay—in
some years among the largest in
Alaska—this year was only 524.
000 cases, compared with 1,236,
000 last year.
The total pack for Alaska, said
Howard Baltso, acting chief of
Alaska fisheries for the fish and
wildlife service, was 4,250,000
cases. The record low. for recent
years, were the slightly less than
4,000,000-case packs of 1946 and
1948.
‘‘The good run in Southeastern
Alaska was due in part to the se
vere limits on fishing imposed in
, 1947, shortening the season to per
, mit great escapement of spawning
j salmon,” Baltso told a reporter.
‘‘But we had an assist from na
ture. The natural factors must
; have been very favorable.
50TH ANNIVERSARY
CHURCH DINNER
The Methodist-Federated Church
will observe its 50th Anniversary
with appropriate services next
week with an Anniversary Dinner
on Friday evening, and special
services through the week. Rev. P.
Gordon Gould, superintendent of
the Alaska Methodist Mission, and
Dr. Fred Pedersen, of the Section
of Church Extension of the Meth
odist Chyrch will be here lor the
dinner and the services.
The outside guests are expectd
to arrive on Wednesday from Fair
banks. That evening besides the
Senior Choir practice, the first of
a series of Sunday School leader
i ship training sessions will be held.
On Thursday, Dr. Pedersen and
Rev. Gould will be guest speakers
at the Rotary Club, will meet with
committees of the church, and
lead the service at the Lavinia
Wallace Young Mission that eve
ning.
As a part of the Friday Anni
versary Dinner, there will be a
brief Church business session
hearing reports and confirming
the nominations of the nominating
committee for the church officers
for the coming year. *
The Senior Choir will make its
first appearance this fall at the
Sunday morning service, October
9th, with Dr. FYed Pedersen giv
' ing the sermon. The guests will at
tend the regular 3 o’clock service
of Hymns and Scripture, and visit
the hospital. Rev. Gould will give
the message at the 8 o’clock eve
ning service.
Also expected to arrive in time
for the week’s services is Miss Es
ther McCoy, who is coming to di
rect the activities at the Club
House for the Woman’s Division
of the Methodist Church.
Both Rev. Gould and Dr. Peder
sen were born in Alaska, Rev.
Gould at Unga, and Dr. Pedersen
is the son of one of the former
pastors of the Douglas Methodist
church, where Dr. Pedersen was
born.
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hundreds of victims among Alas
ka’s natives and there is a shortage
of doctors, particularly general
practitioners.
Dr. M. M. Van Zandt, chief
medical officer and assistant med
ical director of the Mt. Edgeeumbe
hospital said today.
Dr. Van Zandt said that at pres
ent Alaska hospitals operated by
the Alaska Native Service—need
three physicians and 28 staff
nurses.
By June, 1950, an additional
three physicians, 65 staff nurses,
50 ward attendants, 40 hospital at
tendants and others will be need
ed.
The doctor pointed out that pos
itions are open for interior Alaska
as well as in coast hospitals. Kates
of pay, under civil service are
high. Dr. Van Zandt said. To per
sons stationed at the hospitals,
cost of living is nominal .
The Service operates under the
department of the Interior’s Bur
eau of Indian Affairs.
Mrs. Tolbert Scott and grandson
1 Butch returned Wednesday from
! Iron Creek where the Scott dredge
I is operating and states that the
j crew have had a busy season. Up
, to the time of her departure there
! had been little frost.
Radar Screen
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WASHINGTON, UP) — The air
force said this week radar air de
fense systems are operating on
both coasts of the United States
and in Alaska.
Beyond confirming their exist
ence, however, the air force de
clined to give any details on the
radar stations along the northwest
and northeast coastal area.'..
Operation of. the Pacific North
west system was first disclosed in
Seattle on Monday by newspaper
reporters and Rep. Jackson fD.
WashJ who made a tour of de
fense posts. The air force, in re
sponse to questions today, said a
similar setup is working in the
northeastern area.
Although there was no direct
indication of the scope and effi
ciescy of the radar spotting areas
in detecting a possible sneak ap
proach of hostile planes, it is sig
nificant that the air force refers
to thorn only as "systems.”
Air force experts recently have
emphasized that there is a de
cided difference between a system
and a true network. A network,
they explained, is a solid fence of
radar stations, with their range so
overlapped that any air craft com
ing across it would be detected.
A system can be a network with
holes in it—that is it is made up
of radar units for guarding only
certain areas.
The radius of one system does
not necessarily reach out to that
1 o fthe next system.
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