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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, October 6, 1948
CLOSE COOPERATION NECESSARY IN FISHERIES
(Fish and Wildlife Service) *
This chart demonstrates the appalling decline of a re-1
source that can be worth 10 million dollars a year to
Southeastern Alaska's fishermen and 40 millions a year
to its packers. It reveals an alarming drop in the indus
try that has been the chief support of the region.
During the last years, when the Southeastern salmon
fishery has been subjected to the heaviest pressure by
vessels and other gear, the lowest packs in history have
been recorded. The economy of the entire Territory has
been seriously affected, and unless something is done to
restore the pink salmon fishery of the Panhandle to a
healthy, fully-productive condition, the various com
' munities will suffer immeasurably.
This fall the Fish and Wildlife Service will once again
hold public hearings in Alaska’s fishing villages. Local t
people will be asked to advise on how the fisheries can
be more effectively managed. They will be counseled
to look ahead, probably to make temporary sacrifices,
in order to bring the pink salmon back to former
levels.
In previous hearings, effective action has been ham-!
pered by contrasting and conflicting opinions. This
year, the gravity of the situation demands constructive
action.
Albert M. Day, Director of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, says, “No one can be more interested in the fu
ture of the salmon resource than the people who make
their living from them. No group should be better qual
ified to recommend means of bringing the salmon runs
back. We must not minimize the fact that the heavy
pressure on the pink salmon fishery since the beginning (
of the war, the inadequate biological and enforcement j
staffs that have been available to the Service, and the
public apathy which has led to violations of the regula
tions have all combined to bring about the present sorry
plight. This fishery can be rehabilitated, but only if we
squarely face the situation. Adequate spawners must
reach the streams, even at the price of temporary losses.
This can be accomplished only through the close coop
eration of the packers, the fishermen, and the Fish and
Wildlife Service.” .
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FIRE PREVENTION WEEK—OCTOBER 3 TO 9
Fire, the Fifth Horseman with his flaming torch, sow
ing death and destruction, has joined the four horsemen
of classical fame—War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.
Throughout America, fire is a constant menace—every
where, day and night. Its toll is close to 11,000 lives a
year—men, women and children burned to death and
killed by its deadly gases. Another 50,000 persons suffer
painful and crippling burns. And in addition, fire de
stroys over $700,000,000 annually in homes, factories,
stores, schools, churches, warehouses, farms and
forests.
Every life lost is a tragic, economic blow to one of the
nation’s families. And it follows that no nation, even one
as amply endowed with the natural resources, the in
vested wealth, the economic stability and skilled “know
how” we now enjoy, can continue to absorb, without
permanent impairment, the disastrous and preventable
scourge of fire. Lives and property destroyed by fire are
gone forever.
Whose Job Is It?
In a democracy, such as ours, it is easy to say that the
responsibility for fire safety rests with state and muni
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cipal officials elected or appointed for that purpose.
This is not enough. The President’s Conference on Fire
Prevention, held a year ago last May, determined among
other things that “aceptance by the highest state and
municipal officials of their direct responsibility for fire
safety requires organized public support from all possi
ble sources, and a greater sense of responsibility on the
part of every citizen.”
There fore, the responsibility is yours and mine.
Organizing A Local Fife Safety Committee
If a fire safety committee has not been formed in your
community, now is the time to promote a fire safety
committee within each group or segment in your com
munity.
Nearly every man, woman and youth in the nation is
a member of some organization,—such as a veterans’
post, service club, women’s club, insurance agents’ as-j
sociation, Scout troop, fraternity or church. One indi
vidual, entirely on his own, may do a good job of preach
ing fire safety, but he will make a very small dent in the;
wall of public indifference. Bv using this same drive and j
effort among the members of his own group, he may be
able to organize a fire prevention committee. A repre
sentative of that committee can work with members of
similar committees of other groups, and eventually a
working community fire safety committee will
evolve.
Since last year, scores of effective commuiity fire
safety committees have been organized as a result of
the recommendation of the President’s Conference on
Fire Prevention.
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ALASKA’S INTERNAL U. S. TAXES—$18,885,047.52.
Taxes collected by Uncle Sam in the Territory of
Alaska jumped by more than $3,000,000 in fiscal 1948
over the previous year, acording to figures released to
the Alaska Development board by the Collector of In-!
ternal Revenue for the Washington and Alaska district
at Tacoma.
In the year ending June 30, 1948, total internal rev-;
enue collections in Alaska were $18,885,047.52. These
compare with a total of $15,827,370.49 in 1947.
Income tax totals reported for the Territory of Alaska
include only those paid J?y corporations adn individuals
within Alaska. They do not include the very substantial
payments by outside corporations or individuals who':
conduct all or part of their activities in the Territory.
Most of Alaska’s salmon canneries, for instance, would
fall in this category and thus would not be included in j
the figures given. %
The large increase in Alaska collections £ame despite
tax rate reductions during the year and are evidence
increasing activity and prosperity in the Territory, the
^aska Development Board believes. Increases were
noted in all classes of collections including corporation,
individual, withholding and other. The largest increase,
however, was in the withholding tax which went up by
almost $2,000,000 over the previous fiscal year.
Interna tion l News
At A Glance —
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cials said the strict enforcement
of the Moscow edict might keep
tightening to the point of breaking
off formal diplomatic relations.
(PARIS)—A French official pre
dicted trouble from the 335,000
communist-led French coal strik
ers.
(MORGES. Switzerland) — Boy
’£ing Phumiphon Adulet of Siam
was hurt severly in an automobile
accident in Switzerland. His young
brother, King Ananda Mahidol,
was killed in 1946 in a palace as
sassination. The new king, a na
tive of Boston, hasn’t seen fit to
take up his regal job in Bangkok
actively, preferring to remain in
Switzerland for the time as a stu
dent.
(Wednesday, October 6, 1948
The United States indicted Rus
sia today before the United Na
tions security council on a charge
..f menacing peace with the “starv
ation” blockade of Berlin.
Suiprisingly, Russia’s Andrei
Vishinsky attended the session,
which he had asserted was illegal
and indicated he would boycott.
He first took copious notes as
. hilip C. Jessup ran up the charges
jgainst the Soviet Union; then he
took out a French Socialist news
paper and started to read as if
uored. He left the session raging at
newspapermen.
Jessup, a Columbia university
professor, declared the United
States is determined “to take such
measures as may be necessary to
insure the safety and subsistence
of our forces in Berlin and of the
2,500,000 population committed to
their charge by the four power
agreement.”
He accused Russia of trying to
force the western powers from
Berlin. He said the blockade pre
vents free negotiations but that the
U. S. is willing to talk on all points
about Germany “the moment the
blockade is lifted.” Russia blocked
the land routes in June but has as
serted several times of late that
.here is no blockade.
Jessup accused Russia of starv
ing Berlin. He called her offer to
eed the western zones propagan
da. He accused the Soviets of cre
ating “organized and inspired mob
violence” and with welshing on a
directive agreed upon with Prime
Minister Stalin in Moscow for lift
ing the blockade, by making a
fresh demand for permanent con
trol of traffic, including the air
lift, from Berlin to the west.
(WASHINGTON) — Presi dent
Truman summoned Secretary of
State Marshall home from Paris
by Saturday for a report. John
Foster Dulles, another U. N. dele
gate, is home already and is re
ported to have told the GOP
Presidential candidate, Thomas E.
De^qy, relations with Russia are
mc^e* critical than at any time
since the war.
(PARIS)—In another section of
the U. N. Britain demanded that
Russia give a yes or no answer to
whether she agreed to control
of atomic energy before existing
atomic bombs are destroyed. Hec
tor McNeil of Britain said his
country and the United States
“will not hand over information
unconditionally.”
(BERLIN)—The U. S. military
government’s official German
newspaper said the cominform—
ihe communist information bureau
—met recently in Dessau in the
Russian zo^e of Ge'-mnny. German
communists attended. A major