DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ISSUED NEW FUR
FARMING PAMPHLET
“Fur Farming Opportunities in
Alaska” is the title of a new pam
phlet issued this week by the
Alaska Development Board at Jun
eau. The publication is edited by
Richard F. Gorman, editor of The
Fur Journal, and contains articles
on various phases of the fur farm
ing business by Michael Dederer,
Jesse Ames, Mrs. M. Everett, Er
nest Anderes and Dr. C. K. Gunn.
Very substantial opportunities
exist for expanding fur farmnig in
Alaska, according to the pamphlet
which points out that the Terri
tory today has only about 75 fur
farms as compared with 1,500 in
the State of Wisconsin alone. Alas
ka produces an estimated two per,
cent of the total ranched fur crop,
of the United States.
The new pamphlet ot the Devel- i
opment Board contains general in-J
formation on fur farming, hints
for beginners, advice on market I
points and separate articles on fur
farming in Southeast Alaska, thei
Anchorage area and the Ketchikan |
district.
George Sundborg, general man- i
ager of the Alaska Development!
Board, states that the new infor
mation pamphlet was published in
response to hundreds of inquiries
received from all parts of Alaska
and the United States.
Truman Asks For
Extension Of War
Export Controls
WAS! UNGTON, I A*)—President
Truman has asked Congress to
extend the government’s controls
over exports for a year beyond
their present expiration date. June
30.
He said in a message requesting
speedy action that an uncontrolled
outflow of foodstuffs and goods
would heighten domestic shortages
and increase the “already sub
stantial burden of living costs
borne by the American people."
About 500 items—mostly foods—
remain under export control com
pared with some 3,000 at the war
time peak, he said, adding: “I look
forward to the day when the
United States and other countries
can remove these interferences to
the free flow of commodities in
world trade.
"But the danger of immediate
and complete decontrol in the face
of continuing domestic and world
scarcities is too great for this na
tion to undertake at this time."
Delay by Congress would "prove
unsettling to business and would
handicap the planning and execu
tion of our food and other export
programs,” Mr. Truman said in
asking the Senate and House to
act “well in advance” of the mid
year deadline.
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Chilkoot Barracks
Will Welcome
Tourists
i
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Alaska’s
new “planned community” at
Chilkoot Barracks will have the
welcome sign out for tourists as
well as for war veteran settlers.
The Alaska Cooperative com
pany bought for $105,000 the town
it values at $1,000,000, and expects
100 families to install themselves
there by early summer.
Chilkoot, an army post since
1898, consists of 70 buildings—
most of them barracks—and water,
sewage and electric power systems,
declared surplus a year ago. Yes
terday the bureau of land man
agement sold it to the cooperative
for a down payment of $20,500.
Already 25 members of the co
operative are at Chilkoot, repair-'
ing leaky roofs, cleaning up the
hospital and fire-fighting equip-1
ment, and converting the barracks
into family-size apartments, saysi
Steve Larson Homer, one of the
directors.
Seventy-five others will go north;
this spring most of them piling j
their household goods and families
into trucks and cars as did the
earlier party.
Chilkoot is on the Haines Cutoff,
which links with the Alaska High
way across Canada to the United
States northwest of Juneau.
Although the community pur
chase was on a cooperative basis,
through the purchase of $100 in
stock share by each member, the
settlers will engage in private en
terprise as in a normal community.
They will share in low-cost food
purchases through a cooperative
store.
"We have facilities for 100 fam
ilies without putting in a nail, but
the town will support many more
than that number, and we have
many more applications than we
can handle,” Homer* told a report
er. "Our first job will be to get
settled, and our second will be to
incorporate as a city and to estab-j
lish local government.
"Then we’ll start out on our sep
arate ventures. The fishing and
hunting in that part of Alaska is
wonderful, and we are counting
upon tourists—and that includes
seasonal laborers on their way to
and from their Alaskan jobs—as
our No. 1 source of revenue.
"We hope this will be only the
first of several planned communi
ties to help Alaska develop its tre
mendous resources.”
Co-operative members who al
ready have moved to Chilkoot,
Homer said, include Mr. and Mrs.
Martin A. Cordes of Kodiak.
About 75 per cent of the colon-'
ists are World War II veterans J
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Applications for membership, Ho
mer said, have been received from
46 states, and from Americans in
Brazil and Czechoslovakia.
U. N. To Get
Palestine Problem
LONDON, {£)—A foreign office
spokesman said today Britain will
ask immediately for a special ses
sion of the United Nations assem-|
bly to consider the problem of the!
Palestine mandate. • I
Sir Alexander Cadogan, perm
anent British representative to the
United Nations, has been author
ized to make the formal request,
the spokesman said.
“It is within the latitude of his
instructions to take the step at
once” he added. “He may act to
day, but formalities may not be
completed until next week.”
Will Return POW
By End Of 1948
MOSCOW (JP)—Qi itain proposed
tonight to the Soviet Union, France
and the United States that all pris
oners of war be returned to Ger
many by the end of 1948.
This action was disclosed as the
foreign ministers council decided
to come to grips Monday with the
key questions of .German econo
mic, military and poltical prob
lem*, in line with secretary of state
Marshall’s plan to complete dis
cussion of these matters by Wed
nesday night.
The British recommended that
France, Russia, Britain and the
United States furnish to the Allied
control council for Germany not
later than June 1, 1947. their plans
for repatriation of prisoners, in
cluding provisions “whereby such
repatriation would be completed
by Dec. 31, 1948.“
Russia holds more prisoners
than any of the other nations.
An authorized source, mean
while, said talks were taking place
between Soviet and British offi
cials concerning revison of the
British-Soviet alliance, but that no
concrete developments were ex
pected for some time. The discus
sions grew out of the talk last
Monday between British foreign
secretary Ernest Bevin and prime
minister Stalin.
In a one-hour session, the short
est of this conference thus far, the
ministers agreed on a schedule for
the German discussions and set up
Hindus-Moslenis
Riot In India
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! CALCUTTA (/P) — Troops are
1 aiding Indian civil authorities in
the;r efforts to restore order in
i Calcutta, as Hindu-Moslem vio
! lence continues into its fourth day.
i
Police say there have been 17
incidents in the early morning
hours—including stabbings and
other assaults, attempted looting
and arson. Authorities say they
! have arrested 43 persons.
A check of hospitals shows that
eight persons were killed yester
day and 59 others injured.
PUEBLO, Colo. (£>)—Mike Ma
karina, a steelworker, wants his
funeral attendants to have a good
time when he dies, and he’s willing
to pay for it.
In his will recorded recently by
the county clerk, Makarina pro
vided a bequest of $100 “to be ex
pended for the celebration of the
attendants at my funeral to have
a good and jolly time.”
a special committee to attempt to
draw up a directive on the lesser
problems of the report of the Al
lied control council for Germany.
The agreed agenda for Monday
summing up three weeks of pro
posals made thus far, was:
1. Germany as an economic unit,
including reparations; plus a re
view of the levels of industry, in
cluding industrial demilitarization.
2. The form and scope of a pro
visonal German government.
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