Salmon Industry i
Cant Stand Full
Statehood Burden
JUNEAU, \A>) — Alaska should
not expect to attain statehood and
pass the burden of financing on to
the salmon industry, a spokesman
for the industry told the House
sub-committee on territorial and
insular affairs at a hearing here.
W. C. Arnold, managing direc-,
tor of the Alaska salmon industry,!
made the statement yesterday
when asked by sub-committee
chairman Fred Crawford R
Mich.) whether the industry could
pay one-third more taxes. Arnold
said the salmon industry already
paid 58 per cent of the taxes to
support the Territory.
Arnold * presented figures con
cerning the industry and suggest
ed better conservation and reha
bilitation measures were needed,
particularly to save the declining
pink salmon pack in Southeast
Alaska. He said he believed the
early ping run could be built up
in four to six years through better
protection and enforcement of
regulations.
Phillip Briggs, president of the
Briggs Steamship company, told
the committee the maritime com
mission had sidestepped his re
quest for them to furnish addi
tional vessels for his service on
the same basis as provided for the)
three companies operating out of
Seattle. He said his operation had
not been profitable because of
competition from Seattle lines
“which are subsidized by the fed
eral government,” because of un-'
certain labor conditions and «
“terrific increase” in labor costs
both aboard ship and on docks.”
Briggs also criticized what he
called “featherbedding tactics” of
longshoremen.
William Paul, another witness,
charged the fish and wildlife serv- i
ice with “improper enforcement (
of regulations,” and with being i
“controlled by members of the
salmon industry.” He said con
servation could be accomplished
by abolishing fish traps.
An Irishman died, much to the
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relief of a long suffering wife. At i
the wake one of his cronies in
quired the time of burial. On be
ing informed quite shortly, “in
the morning.” His friend remon
strated “he is hardly cold yet.”
Whereupon the long suffering wi
dow replied: “Hot or cold, he gets
the hell out of here at 9 A.M.”
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Seward Appeals
For More Land
For Settlement
SEWARD, Alaska, —<£>)—Res
idents of the Kenai Peninsula ap
pealed to members of a congres
sional public lands subcommittee
at a hearing here Friday for legis
lation to open more land to sett
lement.
Sen. Hugh Butler »R-Neb>,
chairman, declared the committee
came to the Territory to deter
mine the best method of helping
Alaskans help themselves.
Former mayor Phil Harding
and James McCracken, American
Legion post commander, told the
committee much of the best farm
land on the peninsula is closed to
settlement. Harding, using maps
pointed out that at practically
no point along the new Seward
Homer highway could a man
homestead.
He said that the Chugach for
est stretches from three miles
north of Seward to Russian River
and that a moose reservation ex
tends from there to the town of
Kenai. He added that lands
south of the Kenai River are also
closed to settlement as far as the
Fox River. He said that some
of the finest farm country in the
Caribou Hill land lies between
Tustamenta Lake and Deep
Creek.
Both Harding and McCracken
contended that Kenai cannot be
expected to increase in population
when so large an area is given
over to governmental reserves.
Harding also decried the inter-1
ior department ownership of the
Seward waterfront, terming it
“another governmental strangle
hold.”
Gus Werner, secretary of the
longshoremen’s union, spoke of
the advantages, from the work
ingman’s point of view, of keep
ing Seward as a terminus.
Cap Visor Idea
Adapted To Houses
CHICAGO, (/P>—The visor of a
man’s cap has been adapted as the j
principle for a new architectural J
trend.
In 'order to utilize rays of the
sun as an auxilitary heating unit, i
and thereby reduce fuel bills, an
architect here has designed “solar
houses’ with flat, extended eaves
which permit the low-hanging
winter sun to penetrate deep into
the living rooms in winter, but
block out the glaring rays of the
sun in summer.
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SPECIAL NOTICE— The last sailing for Nome and St. Michael
This year. The MS JUMPER HITCH is scheduled from Seattle
September 15th.
SS BARANOF scheduled to sail from Seattle for Ketchikan.
Juneau, Cordova, Valdez and Seward, Sept. 13th.
SS BARANOF scheduled to sail from Seward for
Juneau, Ketchikan, and Seattle Sept. 19th.
I SS ALEUTIAN scheduled to sail from Seattle for
Ketchikan, Juneau, and Seward, September 20th.
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Reservations made through Anclvorage, Fairbanks or Nome Agent
1. S. Disapproved
Returning Jews f
To Germany
WASHINGTON. </P>—Secretary
of state Marshall disclosed today
that the United States futilely
urged the British government to
reconsider its decision to send the
4.400 "Exodus” Jews back to Ger
many.
In a news conference comment,
Marshall revealed strong Ameri
can disapproval of the British ac
tion.
Three shiploads of the Jews,
seeking to enter Palestine on the
“Exodus 1947” were turned back
and their disembarkation at Ham
burg was completed yesterday.
Marshall said American offi
cials had been keenly aware of the
unfortunate results which would
follow from the British decision to
unload the Jews at Hamburg.
The British had to use force to
remove some of them.
Their final disposition is still!
unsettled and some are reported
on a hunger strike. j
Marshall said the American]
government urged the British to
reconsider their decision.
The British replied, he said, that j
the only available housing was in
Germany.
However, Marshall added that a
French offer of admittance was
still open and that the Jewish
refugees therefore need not neces
sarily remain long in Germany.
NOTICE
Written applications for the fol
lowing positions in the Nome Fire
Department shall be received in
the City Clerk’s Office until 5:00
o’clock p.m., Monday, Sept. 22,
1947:
Chief of Fire and Police Depart-1
ment .$400.00 per month';
Utility Man.$300.00 per month
CITY OF NOME.
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk.
Pub. Sept. 10, 12, 15, 17, 19. 22.
NOTICE
Rebekahs will meet in I.O.O.F.
Hall, Wednesday evening Septem
ber 10th.
Rosa B. Hagen. Secy.,
Classified Ads
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1 Show, Sept. 10 and 11, 7:30 P.M.
Wednesday and Thursddy
, "HER HIGHNESS AND THE
BELLBOY"
Hedy Lamarr - Robert Walker
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2 Shows, Sept. 12, 7:15 & 9:00 P.M.
Friday
"WEST OF THE PECOS"
Bob Mitchum - Barbara Hale
Also Chap. 6, "Dick Tracy"
Juneau Stages
Lively Debate On ,
Alaska Statehood
Juneau. Alaska, —(/Pi—A House
subcommittee heard Alaska state
hood debated with lively inter
est in two sessions Monday and
a third on Tuesday to take more
evidence.
Atty. H. L. Faulknee and Allen
Shattuck were the principal op
ponents of statehood at the Mon
day forenoon meeting and Atty.
Mildred Hermann led the sup
porters in the afternoon.
Mrs. Hermann said that pre
vious figures submitted as to the
cost of statehood were wrong. She
asked for taxes on what she said
were untaxed businesses, naming
the construction industry, trans
portation companies, banks, oil
companies, radio stations, logg
ing operations and property out
i Church Chimes
i Aid Drv Election
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PITTSBURGH, </P)—Chimes in
the First Presbyterian church yes
terday spurred dry forces in a
referendum on the sale of beer in
suburban Ingram.
Shortly after polls opened in
Pennsylvania’s primary, the
chimes played “Onward Christian
Soldiers.” The Rev. Karl Bow
man, the pastor, said this was a
1 "call to arms” for the “drys.”
Similar music continued
throughout the day.
side incorporated towns.
The additional time required
for the sessions changed the com
i
mittee’s plans. They will be in
1 Petersburg today, go to Wrangell
Thursday and to Ketchikan Fri
day. The committee is headed
by Rep. Fred L. Crawford.
COLD WEATHER IS COMING
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Drastically marked down to sell.
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