Big Salmon Run In
Columbia River
PORTLAND, Ore. i/P>—1The re
juvenated bluback salmon run re
sulted in a catch of more than a
half-million pounds for Columbia
River fishermen this June and:
July.
The Oregon state fish commis-1
sion, reported this and said a joint!
Oregon-Washington study would |
be made in an attempt to deter-,
mine if the blackback is back to
stay.
The bluebacks, had been dwin
dling since 1930, getting down two
years ago to a mere 57fi(> pounds in
the two-month commercial catch.
Arnie J. Suomela, Oregan mas
ter fish warden, said a public hear
ing would be called next winter or
spring, prepartory to regulating
blueback fishing in order to build
up the runs.
JACKSON, Miss. </P)—'The late
Theodore G. Bilbo’s seat in the
Senate will remain vacant until
the general election of November
4 unless Congress goes into special
session, Gov. Fielding L. Wright
said.
The governor, empowered by
law to appoint a Senator who
would serve until the election, said
yesterday such an appointment
“would, under the circumstances,
be of no benefit to the people of
Mississippi.”
Many Miners Die
In Britain Coal
Mine Explosion
ANNFIELD PLAIN, Eng. </P)—
Nineteen Durham coal miners per
ished in an explosion in the Mor
rison North mine here Saturday.
All the burned and mutilated bod
ies were brought to the surface.
It was the second mining disas
tre to hit coal-short England with
in a week. Only five men sur
vived the blast, and they suffered
multiple injuries.
William Welch, national coal
area manager, said undertakers
and relatives were experiencing
difficulty identifying the victims.
William Younger, who was work
ing in another section of the mine,
gave this description of the blast:
“There was no noise but we felt
a blast of hot air rush past us. We
went in. Dust was flying through
from the seam to the bottom.
“As we entered the explosion
area we came upon three men,
two alive, one dead. We raised the
alarm and started to get the men
out. Eventually we got 10 men out
to a place where there was some
air. Five were alive.”
Post Office clerk—Is there any
writing in this package?
i Grocer—No, but there’s a can of
alphabet soup in it.
Facts
W e do not raise prices on mer
chandise that we have in stock
when and if wholesale prices
go up
As an example: Dry pack but
ter is now quoted at 83c
wholesale which would make
the Nome cost 863-4c- Our re
tail is still 90c per pound
Qualtiy, Service
and Lowest Prices
is our policy
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On Timber Oct. 1 j
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part of the Alaska Railroad will
proceed through the Cook Inlet to
a new railway terminal at Fire Is-1
land, off Anchorage. A railroad
causeway will link Fire Island
with Anchorage and the main line
to Fairbanks.
"This will reduce the cost of sea
transportation from Seattle by
eliminating the need to unload car
goes at Seward,” Silverman said.
"High water transpor t a t i o n
charges still remain a major bar
rier toward rapid development of
the Territory.”
Heintzelman told a reporter that
the 1,500,000.000 cubic feet of pulp
timber up for auction Oct. 1 will
support a newsprint plant produc
tion of 500 tons a day for 50 years.
Its sale would be the first concrete
step toward development of an
Alaskan pulpwood industry, ne
said. Krug has estimated that
Alaska's forests could supply in1
perpetuity up to 25 per cent of the I
U. S. newsprint.
i The initial offering is in the
j area of Thomas Bay and Peters
burg, in the Tongass National For
! est. The project would involve
construction of a pulp mill, power
I plant and a town of more than
j 2,000—one of the largest in Alaska
—16 miles east of Petersburg.
The lowest acceptable bid,
Heintzelman said, is 85 cents per
100 cubic feet, for timber intended
for pulp manufacture before July
1, 1960. Bidder must agree to pay
these fixed rates until that date
for material to be manufactured
for sale or sold in other forms than
pulp or its products:
S3 per 1,000 board feet for
spruce sawlogs: $1.50 for cedar; $2
for sawlogs of hemlock and other
species, and from 1 to 1.5 cents
per linear foot for piling or poles.
i The rates are subject to read
justment in 1960 and at five-year
intervals thereafter, to meet
changes in market conditions.
Heintzelman estimated that the
successful bidder will have to
j spend from $300,000 to $500,000 in
; the first year for plans and sur
veys alone. Production probably
could begin in 1950.
Congress made the auction pos
sible in the dying hours of its re
cent session by adopting joint res
olution 205 authorizing the secre-1
; tary of agriculture to sell Tongass
Timber and to hold receipts in a
special account pending determin-:
: ation of the rights of Alaska Indi-;
ans in the forest. Alaska natives
claim most of the Tongass area by i
virtue of use and occupancy since
: aboriginal times.
The area offered for bidding
embraces 400,000 acres of com-1
mercial timber out of an estimated
5,000,000 to 6.000,000 acres in the
I Tongass forest. The forest service
has tentatively surveyed two other,
areas near Ketchikan, two near,
Juneau and one near Sitka for,
s i m ilar pulp-industry develop
ment.
CPL. ANTHONY REED
FINISHES FURLOUGH
Marine Corporal Anthony J.
Reed left Friday morning for the
Marine barracks at Kodiak Island
after having spent a very enjoy
able furlough with his parents Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Reed. Young Reed
states that he likes Nome and l
thinks he will come here to live!
when he is discharged from his
present term of enlistment.
____ _• •
. Iron canal boats were used in
Britain as early as 1788.
Spark In Greece
Could Start War III
'Continued From Page One
ture enough it should handle all
world affairs, but we believe the
United Nations is a baby inswad
dling clothes without the power to
act. I don’t believe the United Na
tions *is capable of acting at this
time.”
Griffith issued a prepared state
ment demanding a special session
of Congress "For the specific pur
pose of enacting universal military
training legislation and for the
purpose of strengthening our na
tional defense.”
While the legion leader dis
closed that preparedness would
be the "theme” of the Legion con
vention, preparedness also was the
watchword of city officials who
remember that 500,000 persons at
tended the 1937 convention here,
when the Legion had a member
ship of a million, and don’t know
how many to expect this year,
with Legion membership more
than tripled. The parade is expect
ed to last 12 hours.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
All-Stars Beat
Chicago Bears 16-0
CHICAGO, i/P) — Although the
football season still is just around
the corner, a terrific upset al
ready is on the books—the Ail
Stars 16 to 0 triumph over the Oh -
cago Bears.
The score doesn’t begin to indi
cate the beating the national foo
ball league champions took Fridav
night as 105.840 spectators wh i
poured $355,000 into the till
watched in surprise and near di>
belief in Soldier Field. The Bears
failed to get beyond the All-Star '
30 yard line.
'Four Pacific Coast players got
into the All-Star lineup as substi
tutes. They were: Gray ‘Orego i
State*, center; Case (UCLA*, bad;
Gillom (Nevada* and Baldwi i
UCLA* ends.
THE MODERN TYPE OF
sealing wax contains no wax, ac
cording to the Encyclopaedia Br -
tannica. Fine red stationery seal
ing wax, for instance, is composed
of shellac, Venict turpentine ard
vermillion.
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