Tenfold Increase In
Pt iliilof Seal Herd
“The primary annual yield of
the Pribilof seal herd seems to
have leveled off at around 70,000
skins, taken from young males, so
far as [>ossible between 41 and 45
inches in length, and mostly three
years of age,” states Dr. G. C. L..
Bertram. St. John’s College, Cam
bridge, England, in his first re
port to Dr. Terris Moore of the
University of Alaska, concerning
the results of his research on the
Pribilof Islands during the sum
mer of 1949.
Working under a grant from the
Arctic Institute of North America
with funds provided by the Office
of Naval Research, and by the
Fi.lbright Act and the sponsorship
of the University of Alaska, Dr.
Bertram further states that “the
primary objectives of the United
States Government and of the Fur
Seal Treaty of 1911 have been
fulfilled. There has been a more
‘ban tenfold increase in the seal
herd in less than 40 years. The
present size and value of the fur
seal herd is a very real tribute to
the wisdom, resourcefulness and
skill of the management. That is
internationally recognized.
Throughout the world there is no
■comparable achievement in the
successful management of any
wild stock of animals. The Prib
ilof Seal Herd is the shining ex
ample which can spur others in
■dealing with conservations prob
lems elsewhere.” s
“The harvest, derived from this
wild stock of seals,” declares Dr.
Bertram, “is quite uniform in
quality. This feature, of great com
mercial desirability, must be at
tributed to the seals themselves,
ar.d the technical competence of i
the Management, Government and
Coal Shortage
Lays-Up Trains
NEW YORK. (/P)—Hundreds of
the nation’s passenger trains today
were headed for the storage yards.
From New Orleans to Chicago
and east to New York, operators
prepared to lay-off trains to save
fuel supplies dwindling fast in the
face of a three-day work week de
creed in the nation’s coal mines by
United Mine Workers chief John
L. Lewis.
The interstate commerce com
mission has ordered all railroads
with less than a 25 days’ supply of
coal to take one-third of their
steam-operated passenger locomo
tives out of service Sunday night.
In the Far West, most of the
major lines use diesel or oil pow
ered locomotives and would not be
immediately affected, unless asked
to share their locomotives with
coal-powered lines.
So far, there were few reports
of plans to lay off railroad work
ers.
One of the biggest cutbacks in
service was scheduled on the New
York Central Railroad, which an
nounced it would discontinue 147
trains at midnight Sunday.
Operator alike.”
Dr. Bertram spent July and part
of August (1949 > at the Pribilof Is
lands, followed by a visit to the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
offices ad collections at Seattle,
and later discussions in Victoria,
Vancouver, Washington and Mont
real. “It is with great pleasure and
real thanks,” concludes Dr. Bert
ram, “that I acknowledge my in
debtedness to those who made
possible my visit and work last
summer.”
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damage to California citrus and
vegetable crops. Mild weather:
continued in the Southeastern :
states and northward to the mid- j
die Atlantic region.
Hundreds remained homeless in :
the flooded areas. At least three |
persons drowned as waters from j
swollen rivers swept over widely :
separated areas of Illinois and In- !
diana.
A wide band of freezing rain j
and sleet impeded highway travel
from Northern Ohio and northwest
Pensylv-ania southwestward.
The worst ice storm in 17 years i
curtailed all public utilities, in
cluding transportation, in Mem
phis. No immediate relief was in
sight. All schools were closed un
til Monday.
Thousands of Memphis homes
were without electricity and many
without heat. Some 6,000 tele
phones were without service.
No immediate relief from the
cold was in sight for southern ;
California. Temperatures of 24
above were reported in inland
points today but generally the
readings weer not as low as yes
terday.
Growers in the Imperial and Co
achella Valley vegetable areas
said tomato crops were badly
damaged by* the freezing weather.
But thus far the damage to citrus
groves has been confined to frost
ing of new leaf growth already
nipped during the December
freeze.
Three night of freezing tempera
tures in the Salt River Valley of
Arizona has resulted in an estim
ated $5,000,000 citrus crop loss.
Byron J. Showers, manager of,
the grapefruit administrative com
mittee, made the estimate of dam
age to a crop the growers had ex- I
pected would be the best in recent
years.
“It is now-doubtful if more than
700.000 boxes of grapefruit and
400.000 boxes of oranges will be
salvaged for fresh fruit consump
tion,” Showers said.
Temperatures dropped in sec
tions of the Salt River Valley to
as low as 13 degrees
PAT MILLER DIES AT
SUNSET MINES
Pat Miller, caretaker for the.
Sunset Mines which is on the Sun
set Road was found dead Wednes- |
day by the Willoya boy who went
to the camp to take Pat supplies. I
He had been at the camp the
latter part of December at which
time Pat was all right. An inquest
was held yesterday and it was de
termined that Pat apparently died
from suffociation caused from the
fumes of the stove during the
night.
Pat was well known in town,
having been messenger boy or the
ACS for many years before taking
the Sunset job.
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CAMBRIDGE, O. f/P) — Five
Ohio coal mining companies today
filed five suits in common pleas
court asking nearly $8,000,000
damages from John L. Lewis and
other United Mine Workers union
leaders individually, and the un
ion treasury.
The same companies filed com
panion suits against the members
of the union asking court injunc
tions to bar them from abiding by
Lewis’ three-day work week.
Filing the suits were the Pitts
burgh Consolidated Coal Co., The
Warner Colleries Co.. The Y. and
O. Coal o., the Jefferson Coal Co.,
and the Cadiz Mining Co., all of
eastern Ohio.
The firms asked damages on the
basis of tonnage lost by various
miner strikes and work stoppages.
They estimated the loss in 1949 at
7.000,000 tons.
The suits were filed under
Ohio’s Valentine Act, which pro
hibits restraint of trade.
Ohio’s Valentine Act is more
than a score of years old. It, in
effect is a state-wide anti-trust act.
Its sections under which damages
are asked prohibit restraint of
Ohio commerce, reduction of pro
duction, fiving of prices and abol
ishments of competition.
It has not been evoked for many j
years. 1
SUES FOR HUSBAND'S DEATH
IN BARGE SINKING
SEATTLE, (/P)—A $100,000 suit
was filed here Wednesday for one
of the four deaths in the 194!'. .ink
ing of the power barge Skarstone
in the Gulf of Alaska. Mr; Helen
Jane Stone filed the action in su
perior court against tin* Cape
Douglas Canning Company. She
asked the sum for tile death of
her husband, Byron P. S'one, 47,
master of the 105-foot bi.r; e.
Stone and three othr*r crew
members lost their lives Oc\. 15,
1948, while trying to escape from
the storm-battered barge in a life
boat.
George A. Skarbo, the pilot and
ony survivor of the barge, also
was named as a defendant. The
craft was owned by the Cape
Douglas company.
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