Will Coordinate
Interior Agencies
' JUNEAU, (JP)—An Alaska field
committee has been organized to
coordinate the activities of agen
cies of the department of interior.
This was announced Friday by
Kenneth Kadow, following his ar
rival in Juneau to establish com
mittee headquarters. He was ac
companied by Carl Depiro, his
chief assistant.
The first meeting of the com
mittee will be held at Anchorage
Aug. 10. The committee will make
its reports and suggestions direct
ly to James A. Krug, secretary of
the interior.
The agencies involved are the
Alaska Railroad, bureau of land
management, Alaska Native Serv
ice, Bureau of Mines, geological
survey, Alaska road commission,
governor’s office and the fish and
• wildlife service.
BENSON PLANS FOR
SETTLEMENT OF
LABOR DISPUTES
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JUNEAU, (#*) — Territorial la
bor commissioner Henry Benson
announced yesterday that he had
requested the bureau of labor sta
tistics to make a complete survey
of Alaska wages, cost of living,
working conditions and industri
al conditions.
Benson, who has just returned
from a two month trip to the
States, said he also had worked
out a cooperative program with
the federal conciliation service in
settling labor disputes.
I Benson said there was possi
bility that Governor Earl Warren
of California, Republican vice
Presidential candidate, might
come to Alaska on a fishing trip.
The trip, he said, will depend on
the governor’s campaign pro
gram.
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BERLIN, (/P)—Gen. Lucius D.
Clay declared Saturday there is
“absolutely no change in plans of
the three western powers to pro
ceed with the establishment of
responsible self-government in
Western Germany.”
The American military govern
ment made this statement at a
news conference when asked for
comment on a report the United
States, Britain and France would
freeze the arrangement for es
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ernment pending discussions on
the German problem with the
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Unalakleet News
—
Unalakleet, Alaska
July 29, 1948
Nome Nugget,
Nome, Alaska.
Dear Mr. Boucher:
Thank you ever so much for the
paper you’ve been sending to me.
Your paper is the only paper we
enjoy reading, it gives lots of
news of interest to us as we know
most of the old-timers and the
Native people everywhere.
Here’s a bit of news you might
like to print if you have room in
your paper.
Cannery workers came back in
7 big two-motor planes carrying
26 passengers each trip from the
Bristol Bay area. These people
are destined to Golovin, Elim.
Koyuk, Shaktoolik, Unalakleet,
St. Michael and Stebbins. Unala
kleet has tripled its population of
400 or more, to 1200.
Today they celebrated the 4th
cf July by playing games of all
kinds. The supervision was in the
hands of two capable young men,
Charlie Katchatag and Allen Soo
suk. They gave out $60.00 in
prizes, donated by the public. The
outstanding feature of the day
was the Eskimo interpretive danc
ing given by the Stebbins men.
There were foot races for men,
women and children. Allen Soo
suk won the men’s race, school
boys race was won by Vernon Au
liye and Leonard Brown second.;
Little boys of 6 years to 7 was
won by Charles Degnan. M.s.
Martha Nanouk won the orange
eating race. She gobbled it in 12
seconds. John Auliye won the
wrestle match, while Allen Soo
suk won the 75 lb. throw the dis
tance of 17 feet. Robbit Hop was
won by Frederick Katchatag. Lo
well Anagick won the men’s one
hand lift. Mrs. Marie Anagick
\£on the 100 yard dash. Men’s
high jump was won by Allen
Soosuk. Ladies high jump was
won by Pauline Gunner. Every
body enjoyed the games very
much.
Mrs. Ella Beouensteadt and
daughter Margaret are visiting in
town. And Mrs. Tony Joule also
arrived from Elim to visit her
brother and his wife Elaine Up
icksoun of C. A. A. Mrs. Joule is
the ANS teacher at Elim. Frank
Williams has been storm bound
here for five days on account of
the bad weather.
I think this is about all the
news I could think of.
When your wife comes back I
will send her some fresh vege- i
tables, and I'm sure you will en- J
joy Unalakleet greens.
Thanks again for your kindness !
in sending those newsy papers, I
remain,
Sincerely,
]
Emily Ivanoff Brown, j
ANS Asst. Teacher, j
To Set Up New
Forest Research
Station In Alaska
MISSOULA, Mont. (TP)—A new
forest research station will be set
up in Alaska to help develop the
Territory’s great pulp and paper
resources, the forest' service said
Saturday.
The northern region office said
the station will be established at
Juneau under the direction of
Raymond F. Taylor, a former for
est ranger on the Tongass Nation
al forest in Alaska.
“Though the great spruce and
hemlock forests of Southeast
Alaska could provide in perpetu
ity about one-fourth of the na
tion’s pulp and paper require
ments,” a forest service statement
said, “this is the first time that
funds have been available to the
forest service for the establish
ment of a research center to deal
with the management of Alaskan
timber stands.”
Taylor will be transferred to
Juneau from the northeastern
forest experiment station i n
PORTLAND BUSINESS
MEN VISIT ALASKA
PORTLAND, (VP)—Forty flyiir
businessmen left here today on .
7,000-mile flight to the Arctic
Circle and back—on a longer
route than their flight to Mexico
five months ago.
The group, which flies both for
fun and business, left in 15 pri
vate planes over the week end
and will catch up with the group
at Whitehorse and Fairbanks.
Led by L. S. White, the busi
nessmen-pilots expected to reach
Calgary this afternoon. They will
fly on to Fort Nelson Saturday.
Philadelphia. He has been in
charge of the station since June,
1942.
A graduate of the university of
Washington, Taylor worked sum
mers on the Tongass national for
est before he was appointed as a
ranger there in 1925. He served
on a research assignment in
Washington, D. C., in 1934 and
worked at the Rocky Mountain
forest experiment station at Fort
Collins, Colo., before going t *
Pennsylvania.
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