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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, August 1, 1951
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PULP MILLS AT KETCHIKAN
With Alaska’s first big year-round industry as
sured by the signing of the contract between the Forest
Service and the Ketchikan Pulp and Paper Co., Ketchi
kan can look forward to growing pains at a rapid pace.
It is estimated that 1,200 new wage earners will
be working on building of the pulp mills for which
$40,000,000 is to be spent. The contract stipulates that
the company must produce 300 tons daily, and within
10 years increase to 525 tons daily. It also provides that
the company must be in production by August 2, 1954.
This project has long been awaited and dreamed
of in Southeastern Alaska and opens the way for fur
ther expansion in the lumber business. The bulk of
the timber in this contract is hemlock with smaller
amounts of Sitka spruce and western cedar.
OPS Announces New
Amendment To Ceiling
Price Regulation 11
JUNEAU — The Territorial Of
fice o’f Price Stabilization an
nounced today a new amendment
to Ceiling Price Regulation 11,
the restaurant, bar and tavern
regulation, which provides an ad
justment procedure for operators
who find that their food-cost-per
dollar of sales ratio* for their base
period is not representative of op
erations for the period subsequent
to their base period and prior to
April 1, 1951.
In the event such establish
ments have made changes in the
type of service or the manner of
operation, or have instituted more
efficient methods of controlling
their food handling, they may
apply to the Office of Price Sta
bilization for permission to use a
different base period, which re
flects a food-cost ratio more rep
resentative of their current op
erations.
Application for permission to
use a different base period may
be submitted to the Director of
the Office of Price Stabilization,
Fred G. Hanford, Juneau, Alaska.
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Bill SmitK Identified
As Murderer By Accuser
In Police Lineup
TACOMA, (/P)—Bill Smith, Jr.,
charged with the first degree mur- j
der of Noreen McNicholas, was j
identified by his accuser yester
day in a police lineup, deputy
sheriffs reported.
Deputy Lyle Lathrop said Ella
Mae Cooper picked Smith from a ;
lineup of 12 men at the Pierce
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County court house and identified
him as the man who killed Noreen
McNicholas in Spanaway Park
Nov. 5, 1948.
Miss Cooper, who said she wit- |
i nessed the sex-slaying ot the 17- ,
year-old beauty student, took little
more than a glance at the lineup
before identifying Smith, the de
puty said.
; Smith, arrested in Burlingame,
i Calif., last week, told reporters he
knew Noreen but did not kill her.
His attorney said Smith would
plead innocent to the charge.
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Further information on the meth
od of making such application, re
quired contents, etc., is available
at any of the offices of Price
Stabilization, Juneau. Ketchikan,
Fairbanks and Anchorage.
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Migratory Game Hunting
Regulations Announced
<AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of the Interior Chapman announ
ced today the hunting regulations
for next fall for migratory game
birds other than waterfowl.
Chapman said the waterfowl
regulations will be issued late in
August, in order to give the Fish
and Wildlife Service more time
in which to analyze reports from
the northern breeding grounds.
The hunting season for ducks,
geese and brant and coot, in Al
aska will be as follows:
In the Second and Fourth Jud
icial Divisions, Sept. 1—Oct. 25;
Third Division Sept. 7—Oct. 31;
First Division Oct. 1—Nov. 24.
The Alaska daily bag limit for
ducks is four and the possession
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limit is eight. Shooting hours for
ducks, geese and brant in Alaska
will be the same as last year, from
half an hour before sunrise to an
hour before sunset.
Ben-Gurion Ahead In
Palestine Elections
TEL AVIV, Israel, (/P)—Official
returns from 987 of 1500 polling
places showed Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai <laborl
party leading with 38.63 per cent
of votes counted in Monday’s par
liamentary elections. The conser
vative General Zionists were sec
ond with 17.76 per cent through
out the nation.
Results so far gave the com
munists only 3.32 per cent and
the leftwing pro-Russian Mapam
11.85.
One political observer com
mented that the election was
“Ben-Gurion’s victory, but it also
is Ben-Gurion’s dilemma.”
His comment referred to the
fact that even if Mapai winds up
with 48 or 49 seats in the 120
member parliament it still would
be difficult for him to muster
allies for a stable coalition gov
ernment.
MONETARY PLUG NEEDED
LONDON — Britain soon will
call a conference of the finance
ministers of the Sterling Bloc
nations to discuss ways of stop
ping the serious decline in their
joint gold and dollar savings.
The high price of raw materials
in the United States is said to be
one of the factors causing the ster
ling area’s gold-dollar surplus to
sag in the second quarter of 1951
by more than 75 per cent com
pared with the first quarter.
And That's No Bull
OSLO, Norway, (/P)—The little
town of Frederikstad in southern
Norway reported today what is
believed to be the first success
ful ski-jump ever made by a bull
calf.
The calf wandered to the top
of the well-known Oeya ski-jump,
took a good look around, sat down
on his haunches and shot down
the 40-foot long run.
Tail flying, the calf made a
perfect landing and walked away.
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa., (&) —
James C. Bagshaw, 61, of Holli
daysburg, took his family for an
auto ride the other night.
About the same time his son,
Emory, 31, of nearby Williams
burg, also decided it was a nice
evening for a drive.
Both father and son chose the
same country road. Their cars
collided head-on. Six persons, in
cluding father and son, were in
jured, two seriously enough to be
hospitalized.
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California Street
Cable Car Co. Has
B-a-d Trouble
SAN FRANCISCO, </P) — The
California Street Cable Car Co.—
whose quaint hill-climbing cars
are a tourists’ delight but a poor
source of stockholders’ income— j
faced new woes today.
1. Lloyds of London cancelled
the company’s insurance.
2. Out-of-towners sought mys
teriously to buy up the stock.
3. Myron Kunin of Los Angeles,
largest stockholder, tried to re
sign as vice-president.
4. Stockholders were called to
meet on a city offer to take over
the money-losing cable. The city
already operates the other two
cable car lines which carry ped
estrians up and down the steep
downtown hills here. Sentimen
talists have won out against prac
tical souls who periodically have
sought to have the unprofitable
cable cars abandoned.
The taxpayers got a look at
some headaches they may inherit.
The city utilities manager said
that if the city takes over the
line Sept. 1 as proposed, the tax
payers will have to make up a
$121,577 deficit at the end of the
fiscal year next June 30.
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Phone Strike Threatens
SEATTLE, (/P) — The threat of
another telephone strike hung
over the Pacific Northwest today.
At the same time, no progress)
was reported toward settlement o*f
an eight-day walkout by 1,100 em
ployes of the West Coast Tele
phone Co.
Negotiations were under way
here on a new contract for 7,300
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Company workers in the principal
cities of Washington and northern
Idaho.
The president of the Communi
cations Workers of America, said
“economic pressure” may become
necessary if an agreement is not
reached in the next ten doys.
His words “ecenomic pressure”
appeared synonomous with
“strike.”
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We've Often Wondered
PITTSBURGH, f/P)—Ever won
der what Alaskan policemen do
in the winter and summer?
Sgt. William L. Waggner of An
chorage, Alaska, says they sit I
around the station and dream up j
screwy bets when the snow falls.
Then on their summer vacation
they try to win them.
Take for example this one:
Waggner bet $250 he could
travel from Anchorage to Pitts
burgh depending only on other
police for funds. Under the terms,
Waggner could only hint for food,
cignrets, transportation and lodg
ing.
How did he do?
In little more than a week he
made the trip and didn’t spend
a solitary dime.
CITY WATER FROM
"BEYOND THE BORDER"
CALAIS, Me., (/PI—This Down
East Maine city is one of the few
communities in the nation getting
its wnter supply from another
country.
Since 1906, Calais—population
4,600—has received its water from
St. Stephens, New Brunswick,
just across the Canadian border.
Reds Charge Americans
Avert Peace In Korea
TOKYO, Thursday, (/P) — The
Pyongyang radio today said the
U. N. truce team had “orders from
above” to set a cease-fire line in
North Korea and charged the Am
ericans are making every effort
to avert the arrival of peace to
Korea.
It said the line proposed by
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief
U. <N. delegate, would run from
Kosong on the east coast to the
tip i of Ongjin peninsula on the
w.
west coast.
Kosong is 27 miles north of the
3P»th parallel. Ongjin peninsula
juts out along both sides of the
33th parallel.
“Thus the Americans try to rob
a large territory inside North Ko
rea,” the broadcast concluded
from Pyongyang, North Korean
capital. “The Americans are mak
ing every effort to avert the ar
rival of peace ter Korea.”
Somewhere in Korea, -(TP)—Lt.
Robert S. Keeler is a firm believer
in artillery support—if it’s not too
close.
The tank platoon leader from
State College, Pa., led his steel *
monsters into battle recently with
Allied artillery covering the front
of the advance. As the tanks drew
near the barrage, Keeler radioed
the artillery observer:
“We re getting a little too close
to your artillery.”
“I can see where it’s hitting but
I can’t see you,” radioed back the
artilleryman. “I’ll send over a
round of white phosphorous and
you tell me how far it hits from
you.”
The white smoke shell was fired.
Keeler radioed this message:
“As soon as the smoke clears
away from around the tank, I’ll
be able to see where it hit.”
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 889
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT, .
SECOND DIVISION, TERRI- **
TORY OF ALASKA
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF JOHN T. BRICE, De
ceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that by order of the Judge of the
above-named Court, GEORGE A.
BAYER of Nome, Alaska, is the
duly appointed, qualified and act
ing Administrator with Will An
nexed of the estate of John T.
Brice, Deceased.
All persons having claims
against the said estate should pre
sent them, with proper vouchers
attached, to the said Administra
tor at Nome, Alaska, within a ^
period of six months from the
date of this notice.
Dated this 16th day erf July,
1951.
George A. Bayer,
Administrator with
Will Annexed
Publish July 18, 25, Aug. 1, 8,
1951.
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