IVopose New Tax
' >n "Bottom” Fish
J’ XEAU </P)—A bill to tax hal
>ut, herring, cod. clnms, crab
id aottom fish for the first lime
1 Alaska headed toward a special
ass ion of the Territorial legisla
te today.
It would increase an estimated
>m ’ > five times the present tax
a earned salmon. Rep. Marcus
. arisen. Democrat, president of the
ouglas Packing company, draft
i the bill and said he planned to
•treduce it today.
He said he was offering it as a
otential revenue source which
ould fluctuate with the market
> preferential to property taxes.
The measure proposes a tax of
;ur per cent on raw fish with the
due based on price paid the fish
man. For canning fish, the tax
g "aiue would be 50 per cent of
\e wholesale value in Seattle for
at specific kind of fish.
Estimated on present prices, this
ould make the tax on sockeye
>out 56 cents a case compared
Ith the present tax of 10 cents.
The estimated revenue is about
ree million dollars a year com
!red with about one million cur
ntly derived from the canned
imon industry.
Jensen said he though there was
tie danger of halibut being di
rted to Prince Rupert to avoid
i tax because only southernmost
tellers go there, only amounting
* about 10 per cent of the total
tch the past season and fisher
en couldn’t afford to take the
le to go to Prince Rupert and
ss valuable fishing time just to
aid a tax which wouldn’t
lount to more than S50 for a big
“Negotiate Alaska
Agreements In
TerritoryAFL
SITKA </P>, The building trades
section of the Alaska Territorial
federation of labor voted today to
insist that all future union agree
ments in the construction indus
try in Alaska be negotiated within
the Territory.
The action is directed against
the negotiation of contracts out
side Alaska which have been prev
alent in cannery and major con
struction contracts.
Newly elected president George 1
Davis declared:
“In view of the fact that Alas- |
ka, American’s last frontier, soon
will take its rightful place in the
political and economic life in the
United States with the coming of
statehood, we regard the move as 1
essential to continued growth and
development of Alaska. This will
result in a better understanding
between labor and management
since the agreements will be nego
tiafed by the persons dirctly in
volved.”
Glen Irving, business represen
tative for the plumbers and pipe
fitters. Anchorage, was elected ex
ecutive secretary.
About 125 delegates are on
hand, among them Lee Flynn of
Seattle, representing AFL presi
dent William Green, and Clayton
W. Buildderback of Portland, rep
resenting the steamfitters’ union.
boatload.
Jensen said the bill was based
on a study of prospective Washing
ton State legislation.
Alaska Airlines
NOW
NOME to
EVERETT WASH.
stArliner
DC-4
Scheduled Daily
FROM ANCHORAGE
FREIGHT RATE
NOME to EVERETT
22 Cents per pound
Many Dead In
Slates' Blizzards
• Continued from Page Onei
1 D., a hamlet of 13 population. The
71 had lived in two houses and two
I .
filling stations, the town’s only
buildings. Highway crews also
worked to reach other motorists
believed snowbound in the same
general area.
Federal forecasters, in predict
ing blizzard conditions, cautioned
highway travellers to seek shel
j ter. Below zero temperatures were
, forecast for most of the storm
: belt.
The federal weather bureau said
I the snowfall was not expected to
be as heavy as the recent falls,1
which in parts of Nebraska mea- ^
sured as much as 40 inches. How
ever, heavy, drifting snow was
predicted for Nebraska. ,
Strong winds blew across the
plains and swirled the snow onto
newly cleared highways and rail
road track. Train service in the
erea was nearly back to normal
but all highways were not yet
open for travel.
Temperatures dropped sharply
as the mass of cold air moved
across the border into Montana
and North Dakota. Outside the
storm area, mild weather prevail
ed and unseasonable temperatures
were reported in nearly every sec
tion of the country. Th new cold, ’
however, was expected to spread
over most of the norih central ,
states. I
_ i
A benumbing cold wave heaped
more misery today upon the west
ern plains and ocky Mountain re
gions which s'.ill were counting
their losses from last week’s par
alyzing blizzard.
Citrus fruit growers in Southern !
California were fighting again to'
save the remainder of their crops
from another freeze. Snow fell in
Los Angeles yesterday for the first
time since 1932, and in Long
Beach for the second time in 50
years. It melted rapidly.
Temperatures as low as 19 de
grees were forecast for tonight or
early tomorrow in the fruit area
which suffered a $25,000,000 dam
age last week to the $100,000,000
a-year crop.
Fresno had a low of 28 degrees
early today and Los Angeles 24.
The frigid blast in the great
plains and Rocky Mountain was
Montana’s coldest in 10 years. It
brought renewed fear for the sur
vival of livestock already weaken
ed from lack of feed during the
blizzard which brought death to at
least 22 persons and tied up rail
and highway travel for three days.
Blizzard conditions were again
reported in some Wyoming areas
and in northwestern New Mexico.
At Livingston. Mont., the mer
cury skidded to ^26 below zero
early today.
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| Thar's Gold
In Them Hills
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' SEATTLE, (JP)—Alasliu still is a
gold country and some prospec
tors are making a good living, ac
cording to H. N. Nagley, who ar
rived in Seattle Wednesday night
, on the Alaska Line’s steamship
Denali with a chest containing
| $2,000 worth of nuggets.
Nagley, veteran Alaskan, whose
| home is at Talkeetna 112 miles
north of Anchorage, said he also
shipped a quantity of fine gold
during the past year. The largest
of the nuggets was worth $75.
Nagley said that placer miners
on Cash Creek had taken out more
than $60,000 worth of gold during
the past year.
Vet Will Try I
To Salvage Tug
VANCOUVER. B. C., WP)—John
Pieters, young army veteran of
Chilliwack, B. C., Saturday pre
pared to risk his life and $6,000
on a $100,000 salvage gamble in
the waters of Howe Sound, 27
miles north of here.
With a seven-man crew, he will
attempt to raise a 98-foot tug sunk
last April 4 in 1,000 feet of water.
Pieters bought the tug for $1,000
and invested $5,000 in salvage
equipment. A diving bell, equip-;
ped with telephone and oxygen
tanks, will be used to spot the tug,
and grappling hooks will be drop
ped as the first step in operations.
The tug, the F. M. Yorke, sunk
when rammed from behind by her
tow, a rail barge. One man lost
his life, and six escaped.
Both Clemson and Missouri, 1949
Gator Bowl opponents, are called
the Tigers.
Clergymen Ask
::z:; yji:::, *;*)—viuee hun
dred and 71) New York State Pro
testant and Jewish clergymer uni
ted yesterday in urging enactment
of legislation to legalize “mercy
killings” under proper safeguards.
In a petition mailed to state leg
islators, the clergymen advoated
a law which would permit physi
cians to “end the physical exist
ence of an individual at his re
quest when afflicted with an in
curable disease causing extreme
suffering.”
The petition specified that
“mercy death” should be admin
istered only with court approval
following investigation by a court
named medical committee.
ASKS BAN ON "PERSONAL
USE" SALMON FISHING
WASHINGTON, i/p) — Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska says there has
been widespread wanton destruc
tion of salmon in Alaska under the
guise of catching them for person
al use. He has introduced a bill to
stop the practice.
His measure would permit the
interior department to issu • regu
lations covering taking salmon for
personal use.
Under the law now a person
may catch as many salmon as he
needs for his own use.
Bartlett said the privilege has
been widely abused. Fishermen
under the guise of catching the
fish for their own use, toss them
on the banks to spoil, he contend
ed, and continue fishing.
When the United States adopted
a flag with thirteen stars in 1777,
it also had 13 stripes, but when
the frist two stars were added,
two stripes were also added in
179o to make the present 15.
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