Order 15% Cut In
Marshall Plan
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400,000.
The full $50,000,000 asked for
aid to Greece and Turkey was ap
proved by the committee, as was a
fund of $1,074,000,000 sought for
Marshall plan operations for the
April-June quarter of this year.
The overall amount recom
mended for all operations in the
bill was $5,542,470,000. The Pres
ident had asked $6,322,200,000.
The actual amount of money to
be made available depends on
what the full House and Senate
vote when the bill comes before
them.
Rep. Cannon (D.-Mo.), chair
man of the appropriations com
mittee, told newsmen the motion
for the 15 per cent cut was made
by Rep. Albert Thomas (D.-Tex.^
and was supported almost solidly
by the Republicans.
The cuts the committee made
ere on top of a $157,800,000 reduc
tion that Mr. Truman himself sug
gested because of the decline in
price since he sent his budget to
Congress in January.
’baccalaureate
8ERVICES SUNDAY
Baccalaureate services for the
1949 graduating class of the Nome
High School were held in the
gymnasium on Sunday evening.
The program began at 8:00 p.m.
with a prelude by Juanita Fager
strom. This was followed by the
^ processional, in which the grad
uates marched to their preaanged
places.
Following the invocation, an an
them was sung by the high school
girls glee club.
The baccalaureate address was
given by Father Neil Murphy.
Miss Jennie Sayers sang a solo,
“Avtf Maria.” Then came the ben
ediction, followed by the postlude,
played by Juanita Fagerstrom.
I Alaska Salmon
I
; Remains Canneries
j Bargaining Agent !
I WASHINGTON, (&) — The na- j
tional labor relations board an
' nounced late Friday a ruling that
the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., I
is still the proper industry-wide
bargaining agent for canneries in
Southeastern Alaska.*
It rejected a petition by two
AFL unions that each of a dozen
firms would be recognized as in
dividual bargaining units for resi
dent cannery workers.
The two petitioning unions
i were the United Alaska Fisher
! men and Cannery Workers union,
j local 24359, and the Fishermen
I and cannery workers union, local |
I 24366.
The latter union s petition m
! volved only Libby, McNeill & Lib-1
; by at Yakutat.
j The companies involved in the
other union’s petition were New
England Fish company; Pyramid
Fisheries Co.; Nakat Packing
Corp.; Libby, McNeill & Libby;
! Pacific American Fisheries; Icy
Straits Salmon Co.; Angoon Com
munity Association (the only non
! member of ASI); Superior Pack
ing Co.: Todd Packing Co.; West
Coast Salmon Co.; Northern Pa
cific Canning Co.
The companies and the inter
national union of food, tobacco,
| agricultural and allied workers of
Amer ica (CIO) opposed any
change in the industry-wide bar
gaining setup.
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Winfred Adloat was given three
1 months in the federal jail for be
ing drunk in a public place.
• Chester Adloat who was held
on an insanity charge was re
leased Friday after being judged
sane by a jury in the U. S. Com
missioner’s Court.
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| Imports Do Not '
Harm American
Fisheries Industry j
! WASHINGTON, </P)—The state
department reported to Congress
last week that despite industry,
I protests there is no present need
to curb import of fishery prod
ucts. *
New England and Pacific fish
ery interests have repeated 1 y .
asked Congress to limit fishery j
imports, particularly fozen fillets, j
At various Congressional hear-1
ings, industry representa t i v e s j
have pleaded that higher tariffs'
will not help; that rigid quotas
are mandatory.
The House fisheries committee
i last month asked the state depart
ment to study the effect of im
ports on the domestic industry
and to recommend remedial steps.
The department said that a fish
and wildlife service' review de
scribed 1948 a healthy year for the
U. S. fishing industry.
“The total commercial catch
was normal, the production of
frozen fish was a record, the total
canned pack was relatively large,
and consumption of fishery pro
ducts in the United States increas
ed over the previous year.” the re
view said.
Tne report admitted imports of
certain fish products have increas
creased much more than others.
Noting particularly an increase
in groundfish fillet imports, the
department said however, that
that there is a v'gorous and ap
parently expanding demand for
the product.
“There fs reason to believe,” it
added, “that the United States
market will continue to support
expanding domestic production
1 even should imports continue to
increase.”
The department sai dthe domes
tic industry apparently has,” by
, and large, maintained and in
I creased production in the last
three years. Imports have increas
ed, but less, in absolute terms,
than production.”
Limiting imports, the depart
! ment explained, would mean re
establishing trade barriers, may
lead 10 retaliatory actions by other
countries and aggravate “the basic
I problem which concerns the world
; today—the so-called dollar short
age.”
Under the general tariffs and
trade agreement there are provi
sions for limiting imports in spe
cific situations, “none of which
aDoears applicable to the United
States fishing industry,” the de
partment said.
Mass Light Plane
Flight Crosses U. S.
PORTLAND, Ore. (/P)—A trans
continental mass flight of light
planes took off from here Satur
day with 58 of them scheduled to
land at Portland, Me., next Fri
day. The 39 planes which left here
Saturday morning were to pick up
nine added starters at Pendleton
and Boise. Pilots for ten new
planes to join the flight at Lock
Haven, Pa.. May 26, are passen
gers on the western part of the
trip.
Tour secretary Frank Womack
said the tour—seventh for Ore
gon’s businessmen pilots—is the
longest mass flight of small planes
ever attempted. The purpose, he
said, is to have fun and publicize
the state.
On its previous flights the tour
group has flown 18,500 miles with
a cracked propellor the most seri- i
ous damage.
Monday. May 23. 1949
Alaska Industries
Film Being Made
JUNEAU — Production will be
gin this week on a documentary
motion picture in color and sound
to illustrate the Territory’s indus
trial and business opportunities as
well as recreational attractions, it
has been announced by the Alaska
Development board.
When completed, prints of tfce
picture will be distributed widely
throughout the United States and
will be used to attract and interest
investors.
Engaged by the development
board to film and edit the picture
is Frederick Machetanz, outstand
ing pi'otographer and artist, who
is a nephew of Charles Trager of
Unalakleet.
Machetanz is no stranger to
Alaska. He spent nine out of the
last 15 years in the Territory.
During World War II, he served
with Naval Intelligence in the
Aleutians.
Machetanz has already produc
ed three motion pictures in color
l about Alaska for use with his lec
! tures. He wrote and illustrated
two books for Scribner’s entitled,
“Panuck, Eskimo Sled Dog” and
j ‘‘On Arctic Ice.” He also illustrat
| ed Evalyn Stefanson’s book “Here
i Is Alaska.” He has lectured and
I shown his films to the American
| Museum of Natural History, the
Detroit Institute of Arts, San
Francisco Town Hall and many
other places.
Machetanz will be assisted in
his work by his wife Sara, who is
j also an accomplished photogra
pher. They will be on “location”
in the Territory all summer.
| The Machetanz’s will “shoot”
the first scenes of the Alaska de
velopment board production in the
[Ketchikan area. They will work
i their way north visiting communi
, ties throughout Southeastern, In
i terior, South Central and North
| western Alaska.
THE NOME NUGGET 7
1 Morrow-Tait
Grounded At
; Minneapolis
' MINNEAPOLIS, UP) — Customs
• inspectors of Wold-Chamberlain
(airport here Friday night ordered
i Mrs. Richarda Morrow-Tait, Bri
tish round-the-world flier, ground
ed here “until further orders.”
Mrs. Morrow-Tait and her na* -
i igator, Jack Ellis, a former Royal
Air force flier, flew here from
Fargo, N. D., Friday.
The inspectors said they had
been ordered by the Chicago cus
toms office to “hold” Mrs. Mor
! row-Tait’s ship, a converted Vul
! tee BT-13. The federal agents here
j said they had no idea why the o;
1 der was issued.
I The plane was financed by avj
i ation enthusiasts in this country
j after the British woman’s ship in
j which she had flown from Japan
| was damaged in an Alaskan crash
i landing. It was purchased in Seat
j tie.
} Mrs. Morrow-Tait expressed
j surprise over the grounding order.
(She explained that she had been
j given customs clearance at Cut
jBank, Mont., upon her entry info
i the U. S. from Edmonton, Alta.
“There are lots of rules and
regulations that have to be com
plied with,” said the 25-year-old
red haired English housewife, the
mother of a two-year-old daugh
ter. *This will be straightened out
all right.”
i Mrs. Morrow-Tait said she and
j
; Ellis would fly to Chicago Satur
day, assuming the grounding or
der was lifted by that time. She
has been on the world flight now
for about nine months.
T. P. Horan, assistant collector
of customs here, said later that
“Mrs. Morrow-Tait would not be
leaving here either Saturday or
Sunday.” He said he could not dis
close the reasons for holding the
plane but that the customs office
j would “probably have a statement
on the matter today.”
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