Propose Closing
Cook Inlet 84 i
Hours A Week
ANCHORAGE, (iP)-^Closing of
Cook Inlet to salmon fishing for
a continuous period of 84 hours a
week during the season was pro
posed by the Fish and Wildlife
Service at a fishermens’ meeting
i
here.
The FWS officials suggested a
closure from 6 a.m. Monday to 6
a.m. Wednesday in addition to the
present 36-hour week-end closing.
Calling the proposal a “strin
gent measure,” FWS officials con
tended it was necessary because
of a sharp increase in commercial
fishing in Cook Inlet.
They said this year’s catch was
almost 100 per cent of the salmon
run, and said it may be necessary
to impose further restrictions if
the increase in commercial fishing
continues.
A big increase in use of floating
gill nets was cited as one reason
for the proposed measure. The of
ficials also proposed making of
transparent nylon gill nets illegal,
tightening of loopholes on “per
sonal use” fishing, and stricter
control on purchase and use of
commercial fishing gear.
Purpose of the meeting here
was to acquaint Alaska fishermen
with proposed changes in regula
tions for 1951 and to give them an
opportunity to suggest changes.
The FWS said it also would
recommend that an area in line
from a marker one mile southwest
of the mouth of the Beluga River
80 degrees north to a marker one
mile northeast of the mouth of the
Susitna River be closed to salmon
fishing.
Clarence J. Rhode, regional FWS
director, presided at the meeting,
the fourth in a series. Other ses
sions are planned for Cordova,
Ketchikan, Wrangell and other
Alaska cities, with a final meeting
at Seattle November 6 and 7.
Congress Takes
Slap At Triinan
In Closing Hours
(Continued from Page One)
lapsed from exhaustion on the
Senate floor after speaking for
five and a half hours against the
bill. He was taken to the naval
hospital at Bethseda, Md., and is
reported to be “doing well.”
Another major enactment of the
adjourned Congress will have al
most immediate effect.
Starting next Sunday, income
tax withholdings will jump one
fifth for most of the nation’s 50,
000,000 income taxpayers.
The tax boost, estimated to* pro
duce about $4,700,000,000 yearly.
! was approved by Mr. Truman
about the time Congress was
winding up its chores. He acted
swiftly, just a day after Congress
sent him the bill.
Even before that, the tax-writ
ing House ways and means com
mittee decided to start public
hearings Nov. 1 on a second tax
increase which Congress has
pledged will include an excess
profits tax on corporations. Estim
ates are that it will produce from
four to six billion dollars a year.
Rep. Spence <D.-Ky.> told news
men that he hopes to have a new
rent control bill ready for action
during the short session. The pres
ent law exuires generally on Jan.
first.
Although local communities can
extend controls for another six
months by taking positive action
to do so.
Spence is chairma nof the House
banking committee, which handles
rent legislation.
Theer appeared to be consider
able doubt that Congress would
find time to act before next year
on rent controls, or on such other
items of unfinished business as
the government’s master plan for
civil defense.
House and Senate set Nov. 27
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Plane Falls On
City Club Roof
SEATTLE, (JP)—A light plane
crashed into a Renton club three
minutes after a takeoff late Friday
killing Dr. J. Lewis Fretz, 51, the
pilot.
The plane burst into flames
which burned through the roof of
the Renton City Club but firemen
extinguished them quickly and no
one in the club was injured.
Dr. Fretz, a Seattle obstetrician,
took off just before 6:30 p.m. from
the Renton airport in the plane he
had been flying for a year and a
half.
Max Witters, a flying service
manager said: “He was about
three minutes out on his first
take-off when something went
wrong with the engine. He headed
back for the field.
“A wing of the plane struck a
tree. The ship spun around 180
degrees and fell on the roof of the
club.”
to get back to the legislative
grind. Some members are bound
to return as defeated “lame
ducks,” as all 435 House seats and
36 of the 96 in the Senate are at
stake in the November election.
The new 82nd Congress will open
Jan 3.
A Congress in which Democrats
had majorities in both Senate and
House gave the President only
part of the domestic legislation he
asked.
On the list of accomplishments,
besides the tax increase, were
items like:
A big expansion of the social se
curity program to increase bene
fits and make perhaps 10,000,000
more people eligible for them.
Removal of federal taxes on
oleomargarine.
Raising from $5,000 to $10,000
the federal insurance on bank de
posits.
Boosting the national minimum
wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
A $1,500,000,000 slum clearance
and low-cost housing program.
But many a Truman proposal
went to the scrap pile and stayed
there. For example:
Civil rights legislation. The plat
forms of both big parties backed
it, but it couldn’t climb past the
threat of a southern filibuster. In
addition:
Federal aid to legislation, repeal
of the Taft-Hartley labor law,;
compulsory health insurance, thej
farm plan sponsored by secretary)
of agriculture Brannan.
The Senate also turned down
some of the President’s pet nom
inations.
Certainly in the fields of na
tional defense and international
affairs, President Truman could
i
find little to complain about.
Congress kept the Marshall Plan
going and provided ten billion dol
lars for two years of economic aid
to nations living in the shadow of
the iron curtain. The Senate ap
proved the North Atlantic Military
Alliance and Congress put up $5,
800,000,000 for arms aid to Amer
ica’s cold war partners.
House and Senate also okayed
the “Point Four” plan to provide
American technical help and
know-how to the world’s under
developed areas, plus some funds
to start the program going.
Congress also went on record as
wanting an excess profits tax. It
will be considered first in the
House.
That might give the Senate time
to vote first on bills to grant state
hood to Hawaii and Alaska—pro
vided southerners don’t start a
filibuster or something approach
ing it. i
Four Die As Boat
Capsizes
TAFT, Ore., (/P) — A fishing
boat, bucking a strong ebb tide,
capsized in the surf of Siletz bay I
Friday, * causing the apparent |
deaths of four persons.
Another fisherman rescued two
other occupants of the 14-foot
skiff. The victims' were Mrs. Eileen
Hicinbothom, 33, of Depoe Bay;
her two sons, Freddy, 6, and Mike,
1; and Don Hicinbothom, 27, her
brother-in-law.
A. A. Ferguson, Portland fisher
man, rescued the husband and
father, Walter Hicinbothom, 36,
and Alfred Stuber, 39, Salem, a
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HARRY NELSON SERIOUSLY .
ILL AT JUNEAU
*
Word was received Saturday af
ternoon of the sudden and serious
illnes of Harry Nelson of the
C.A.A. while' enroute from An
chorage to Juneau. A special
C.A.A. plane was dispatched to
take Mrs. Nelson from Anchorage
to Juneau to be with her husband.
Wien Airlines stood by Saturday
evening here until Grant Nelson
could be contacted and took him
to Fairbanks from where he and
his sister, Mrs. Tony Johan son,
will fly to Juneau.
family friend. Both were placed
under a physician’s care.
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Ross E. Kimball
for
Commissioner
Of Labor
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
He asked liis Opponent to meet him
\
on Radio for a Debate—
His Opponent Refused
If HENRY Can’t Fight for Him
Can He Fight for YOU?
WILL INSPECT
YOUR WORKING PLACE PERSONALLY
WILL STAFF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
WITH QUALIFIED ADVISORS
NOT POLITICAL PROTEGES
Someone will represent the Absentee
Landlords in Juneau at YOUR EX
PENSE!
SO MAKE YOUR ABSENTEE BAL
LOT REPRESENT YOU!!
X] VOTE KIMBALL
See or write U. S. Commissioner about Absentee
Ballot on or before October 6.