Poaching Reduces
\\ i Id life Species
WASHINGTON, (JP)—Poaching
and over-fishing—especially in
the Florida Everglades — axe a
menace to resources of the na
tional parks, Newton B. Drury,
director of the park service, said
last week.
Although some of the x*are spe
cies of wildlife are increasing,
Drury said in his annual report,
illegal destruction of wildlife
“continues to be serious in a num
. ber of aieas.”
lie said poaching has helped re
duce the antelope of Wind Care
National Park, S. D., to the low
est number in 10 years and has
resulted in a “marked scarcity of
goats, deer and hair seals in Gla
l cier Bay National Monument,
Alaska, where the service has no
protective staff.”
Druxy said encouraging devel
opments among park wildlife in
clude:
The apparent increase of cer
tain rare species, including the
Dali sheep in Mount McKinley
National Park, Alaska.
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stepping up operations, with three
and four flights a week scheduled
to Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Construction and fishery work
ers are beginning to head north
ward, too, and impressive increas
es in passenger volume are being
recorded.
/vpparenuy every line serving
the Territory will have to assign
all available planes to Alaska (
service not later than May 1. And
even then it’s doubtful if the:
firms can meet the demand.
Word has been going around '
the aviation industry here, for ex-!
ample, that contractors bidding
on secret government projects in i
the Far North are seeking air line
bids on cargo ranging up to three
million pounds this season alone.
Air-line officials are convinced
that the civil aeronautics board
must approve more scheduled
Alaska air service to meet this ’
5tepped-up demand. They want a(
decision soon so additional pl*m ^
can be placed into service during
this rush season.
If Pacific Nerthern Airlines
wins its Juo* au_seattle link, for
example, **ae fjrm pians to a<
quire b' lcj|tional DC-4 transpor ts,
ul arguments in the Alaska
rvicc case were completed in
Washington, D. C., last week.
Conceivably a CAB decision on
the route award could be. made
within a month.
Cargo consignments d e 1 n k
flown north by Pan American in*
elude food caches destined fot
^geological survey parties of the
"department of the interior work
ing far inside the Arctic Circle.
Small containers of food are
loaded in huge drums, resembling
regular «oil drums, and then the
drums are carried out into un
mapped wildernesses by bus^ pi
lots and dropped on the tundra,
on river sandbars or other terrain
where their shiny, black surface
will be visible.
Food thus cached in the air
tight containers is sought out bv
survey parties working from cen
tral survey camps. The drums arc
delivered two or three weeks ir
advance of the land parties.
jReds Release Film
^American Pirates’
LONDON, </P) — The story of
“American Pirates” being chased
from Russia's Chukotski Peninsu
la back across the Bering Strait
is shown in the latest Soviet prop
aganda film.
The Moscow radio reported to
day the release of “Alitet Goes to
j the Hilly”—the story of the es
tablishment of the Soviet System
on the peninsula, in Russia’s ex
treme northeast.
The action of the film, laid in
1923-24, shows how, before the
Red revolution, American traders
j crossed into Russia vit the Bering
Strait. In the words of the Mos
cow radio, here is what they did:
“They turned the chukchi (peo
ple) into drunkards and robbed
them, carrying away from Russia
valuable furs and also tried to lay
their hands on other riches of this
' area.”
The broadcast, heard in Lon
don, said Russia now “has for
ever liberated the chukchi and
other peoples of the north from
i the predatory raids of American
, pirates.”
Alaska Bureau of
\ ital Statistics
Now Year ()Id
—
i Alaska’s Bureau of Vital Statis
! tics celebrated its first birthday
i on April 1. This isn’t an April
i fool .joke— the law setting up the
! Bureau within the Alaska Depart
ment of Health became effective
| on April 1, 1949.
The attending physician at its
I birth, Dr. C. Earl Albreche, com
missioner of health for Alaska,
reports that the infant is in good
health and doing fine.
The bureau has on file the birth
j records of most persons born in
Alaska since 1913, according to
Francis E. Krster, director of Vi
tal Statistics. The bureau is kept
busy issuing birth cards and cer
tified copies of these certificates
to the individuals who need them
to prove age, birthplace and citi
zenship. Many verifications are
also made directly to local, Terri
torial or state, and national agen
cies who need them to help pro
vide benefits to the individual or
his family.
Besides the records of births,
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the Bureau of Vital Statistics files
certificates of death, marriage and
divorce. These records are im
portant in filing claims for insur
ance, and for benefits under vet
erans, public welfare, and other
laws, Kester states.
One important and growing part
of the work of the bureau is the
making out of a new birth certifi
cate in cases of adoption or legit
imation. Although the law was
passed three years ago, the public
is just becoming aware that a
now record may be made out and
substituted for the old one when
a child is adopted or when the un
married parents of a child later
marry, Mr. Kester explained. The
child is thus spared the embar
rassment of explaining differ
ences in name, or of being stig
matized as “illegitimate.”
Mr. Kester emphasized the fact
that “most” birth records for per
sons born in Alaska since 1913
are on file. Since that date there
has been a law requiring such fil
ing. However, lack of doctors and
other factors peculiar to Alaska
prevent 100H compliance with
this law even today, he said. Any
person born in Alaska either be
fore or since 1913, who does not
have a certificate on file, may
have a birth certificate filed at
the present time.
Copies of these records may be
obtained from the Bureau of Vital
Statistics in Juneau, or from the
U. S. Commissioner of the pre
cinct or recording district where
the birth, death, or marriage oc
curred. In the case of divorce, the
record should be obtained from
the Clerk of the District Court
where the divorce was granted. A
fee of $1 is required for each copy
of a record issued by the Bureau
of Statistics.
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