Small Newspapers 1
Should Organize
To Produce Print ;
—
WASHINGTON, {/P)—A Senate
committee Friday advised small
and medium-sized U. S. newspa
pers to finance news print mills in
Alaska cooperatively to supply
their demands.
The report said:
“The sub-committee r e c o m*
mends that until such questions
have been determined, small and
medium sized newspapers, who
are the principal sufferers „from
lack of newsprint, should give se
rious consideration to banding to
gether in a cooperative enter
prise—perhaps even to the extent
of participation in the financing
of a newsprint mill, or newsprint
mills, in Alaska, to assure them
selves a steady source of supply.
“The sub-committee recognizes
there are gi'eat difficulties in
working out such a venture, but
feels that it is a challenge to the
ability of free enterprise to solve
its own problem—a challenge
which free enterprise and a free
press cannot afford to ignore.”
The groiip, a sub-committee of
the Senate small business commit
tee, said development of the news
print industry and the Territory
generally is dependent upon
“vastly improved transportation
facilities.”
ine commmee inciucies senator
Cain <R.-Wash.).
They reported fears in Alaska
that newsprint production might
result in discharge of acid into
the waters, thus harming the fish
ing industry. They said care must
be exercised to prevent this.
The Senators recommended a
careful survey of housing condi
tions in the Territory and a com
plete study of power possibilities
by the federal power commission.
It proposed a plan be drawn up
for recruitment of labor for the
proposed paper mills.
The committee said it has con
cluded that no appreciable amount
of pulp wood can be produced
from the Tongas national forest
until at least the spring of 1951.
MRS. JACK LENCER
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Mrs. Jack Lencer is recovering
from a major operation in the
Maynard Columbus hospital yes
terday, and is reported doing
nicely.
Indians May Jump
Trap Sites If Leas- I
ing Law Passes
WASHINGTON, </P) — Alaskan !
Indians may “jump” fish traps if
the bill to license traps in Terri
torial waters for 15 years becomes
law, a tribal attorney told a Con
gressional committee.
“This may be called trap jump-1
ing by those who don’t like it,” i
said Miss Frances Lopinsky, coun-,
sel for Southeast Alaska Jndians,
“but who is doing the jurfiping?'
The Indians were there first.”
Her arguments against the bill
were set forth in a brief filed with
the joint Senate-House sub-corn
mittee which is considering the
legislation. The committee con
cluded its hearing last Friday but
permitted Miss Lopinsky to come
in later with her brief.
She said big salmon canners
had been buying and selling traps
for years for $10,000 to $100,000 or
leasing them for as much as $3,500
a year.
“What the operators are buying
and selling,” she said, “is the
promise of the last user of the site
not to attempt to use it during the
teim of the agreement, a promise
valuable only because all of the
big operators have combined to
make life miserable for any new
comer who tries to break into the
j industry.”
She said the industry ought to
be happy with such an arrange
ment but there was the danger it
might be interpreted as illegal or
some other person might get to a
trap site first.
“As a matter of fact,” her brief
continued, “several Indian groups
I represent are planning to set out
their own traps this coming sea
son, if this Congress does not pro
hibit them from setting out traps
and earning their own living.”
She contended the bill would
grant salmon packers vested
rights in the trap sites and bar
newcomers from the best fishing.
THE SENSE OF SMELL IS
probably responsible for the (orig
inal idea of smoking. According to
the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
this sense was much keener in
primitive man, and along with the
pleasure he derived from aroma, he
probably also experienced a sense
of mystery at the sight of the
smoke rising up into the air.
For Good Printing Call Main 125
BERING SEA CLUB
Dancing — Cards — Liquors
Open 10 A.M. to Midnight
I MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
TRY OUR
DAILY ICE CREAM SPECIALS
Root Beer Floats - Sundaes - Milk Shakes*
Hot Fudge Sundaes Soft Drinks - Candies
Also Cigars - Cigarettes - Tobacco
THE GLUE POT
Airlines Prepare
For Large Influx of
Baby Passengers
SEATTLE, (/P) — Airlines pur
chasing agents in Seattle plunged
bravely into “operation diaper”
as they prepared for heavy fights
of army dependents — women,
children and babies — to Japan
and Alaska.
Northwest Airlines took off yes
terday from the Seattle-Tacoma
airport with the first of an estim
ated 2,000 dependent- who will be
transported to Japan during the!
next three months.
Today Alaska Airlines began
similar flights to Alaska and will
continue them through March.
A heavy backlog of dependents
awaiting transportation to the Or
ient and Alaska caused the army
to switch from surface to air trav
el. The backlog was created, army
officials said, when several trans
ports were laid up for repairs and
conversion.
It’s the number of babies who
must be cared for that has fur
rowed the brows of airlines offi
cials.
Said V. R. Ostrander of Alaska
Airlines:
“Have you ever tried to buy di
apers for an unknown quantity of
infants? Have you ever tried to
devise, in one day, a method of
heating bottles in the air? Of mix
ing babies’ formulas?
“It’s got me running in circles.”
Lewis May Start
Coal Strike 1
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WASHINGTON. (/P)—'The fuel
conscious nation faced a possible
threat from John L. Lewis yester
day of a nationwide soft coal
strike by spring.
Lewis told the industry he feels
free to “take any independent ac
tion necessary” to start benefit
payments to miners out of their
untapped fifty million dollar wel
fare fund.
Lewis’ cryptic note yesterday
puzzled the mine operators.
Some said they fear it may mean
an April 1 strike by the 400,000
members of the united mine
workers union Lewis heads.
The present bituminous contract
runs through next June but can be
opened by either party at will.
Where Did De Soto
Land In America?
TAMPA, Fla., (/P) — There is
prospect of a 25-acre public park,
if someone can decide just where
Hernando De Soto landed in
America.
The park is intended as a na
tional monument to the Spanish
explorer. The public lands com
mittee of the U. S. House of Rep
resentatives has recommended a
bill to set aside 25 acres at the
1539 landing place as a national
monument.
But nobody knows just where
to put it.
A Congressional commission
once made a study. It reached no
conclusion, but suggested the site
might be at Shaw’s Point, on the
south side of the Manatee river.
Other historians theorize it may'
have been even as far south as the
shores of Charlotte Harbor.
THE PRACTICE OF VETER
inary medicine and surgery orig
inated in France as a means of
saving horses injured in war, ac
cording to the Encyclopaedia Bri
tannica.
Fire-Ravaged N. E.
Being Rebuilt
BAR HARBOR, Me., (VP)—The
harshest winter in recent years
hasn’t chilled the comeback spirit
of wealthy summer colonists and
rugged townsfolk determined to
repair havoc of the worst forest
fire in Maine’s history.
In a foot and a half of snow
cloaking this playground of the fa
mous, today a score of new homes
already are rising among ruins of
200 leveled structures. More new
construction is scheduled.
A new guest house of R. Amony
Thorndike, former Boston broker,
stands nearly completed on a hill,
in clean-timbered contrast to the
blackened debris of surrounding
dwellings.
Nearby on ravaged Eagle Lake
Road, Robert H. Dumond, disabled
coast guard veteran, is raising
with Red Cross aid a modest home
for himself, his wife and two lit
tle boys.
The Dumonds are only one of
nearly 1,000 burned-out Maine
families which, the Red Cross
jays, now are ‘‘actually weather
ing the winter in reasonably com
fortable circumstances” in disas
ter huts, winterized cottages anti
andamaged houses.
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