Govt. In Black;
If You Close Your
Eyes To Deficit
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The gov
ernment has broken into the black
on its budget operations for the
first time in this fiscal year, treas
ury figures showed yesterday.
Heavy quarterly income tax
payments gave th egovernment a
technical surplus of $281,625,000
as of Sept. 21, with almost a fourth
of the 1949 fiscal year gone.
The situation was less rosy than
it looked on the surface, however.
The “surplus” could be recorded
only by ignoring $478,725,000 in
European aid program outlays. If
those were counted, as they have
been up to this year, there would
DEVELOPMENT BOARD MAN
TO ARRIVE HERE SOON
According to word received by
A. Polet, Second Division member
of the A. D. B., Ralph Browne has
been appointed to conduct Second
Division development study and
will arrive in Nome Wednesday on
the Alaska Airlines plane (Sept.
29th).
PARIS, (£*)—Andrei Vishinsky,
Russia’s top man at the United Na- i
| tions assembly, reported sick to- '
i day. A Soviet spokesmen, who de
| dined to say what was wrong with i
j Vishinsky, said he probably would i
make his keenly awaited policy ,
i daclaration to the assembly to-;
! morrow or Monday.
j
i not only be no surplus but a $197,
100,000 deficit.
VOTERS
For sound representative government
elect
%
For Delegate to Congress: E. L. (Bob) BARTLETT
For Attorney General: J. GERALD WILLIAMS
For Auditor: FRANK A. BOYLE
For Highway Engineer: FRANK A. METCALF
For the Senate: EDWARD ANDERSON
HOWARD LYNG
For the House: WILLIAM E. BELTZ
GEORGE P. MADSEN
ALMER RYDEEN, Nome
' FRANK DEGNAN,
Unalakleet
All of the Democratic Candidates are pledged:
1. To the support of our schools and the University
of Alaska.
2. To seek economy in our Territorial Government.
3 To enact an equitable tax program to support our
Territorial institutions.
4. To give equal opportunity to every citizen in ac
cordance with the rights guaranteed by the Con
stitution and Laws of the United States and the
Territory of Alaska.
5. To grant pensions and financial support of the
pioneer and needy commensurate with the needs
of the times.
6. To support the right of the people to elect their
own Governor.
7. To the passage of a Municipal Airport Act to pro
vide all communities with adequate air service.
8. To work for fair and reasonable regulation of
child labor for the protection of our children.
9. To the improvement and expansion of our high
way system in the Second Division.
10. To the enforcement of all laws including the
liquor laws.
11. To work for additional home facilities for pioneer
men and women.
12. To work together for the betterment of the Terri
tory in harmony and without self-interest.
FRANK A. METCALF — TERRITORIAL HIGHWAY
ENGINEER. Resident of Alaska since 1913. Graduate in
Civil Engineering from Cornell University, New York.
Hold Engineer’s License No. 1 among Alaska’s register
ed engineers. With U. S. Enginers in France World War
I. Four times City Engineer, Juneau. In charge dredging
Sitka Harbor 1942-43-44. Chief of Party, Adak, 1945-46.
Appointed Acting Highway Engineer, vice Leonard
Smith, deceased, 1947. Has maintained Juneau office
Consulting Engineer since 1913. Married—1 child.
NOME DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Herring Catch On !
Steady Advance
. I
<(£*) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, </P)—'The gov
ernment-controlled Southeastern
Alaska herring catch for 1948 to
taled 400,000 barrels, the fish and
wildlife service said yesterday.
The agency said the catch was
twice that of 1939, when uncon
trolled herring landings were so
low that 14 of Southeastern Alas
ka’s 18 herring production plants
were forced out of business.
The fish and wildlife service
prohibited herring fishing in 1940
to protect the spawning stock. The
fishery had recorded catches as
high as 500,000 barrels of 250
pounds each in the 1920’s.
In 1943 the government reopen
ed the herring fishery, restricting
the catch to 100,000 barrels.
Each year since, the quota has
progressively increased as the
herring were restored. Quotas are
determined annually on the basis
of scientific study.
Most of the catch is reduced to
meal and oil. Only a small part is
i salted, pickled or smoked as food.
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Salmon Pack
Lower Than 1947
((TP) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (A*) — Alaska’s
salmon pack is some 300,000 cases
! smaller than last year but still
ahead of the 1946 all-time low, the
} fish and wildlife service said yes
| terday.
Wholesale prices currently are
higher than last year. C. E. Peter
son, market specialist, told a re
porter. But it’s too early he said,
to determine whether the public
■ is going to have to pay more f^r
; its canned salmon this winter
“Sales thus far, though at higher
prices, have been limited,” Peter
son said.
Through Sept. 11. the Alaskan
salmon pack was 3.913.041 43
pound cases.
; On the corresponding dates in
1947 and 1 946, said Peterson, the
packs totaled 4.253,875 and 3,815,
378 cases, respectively.
The season in the Yakutat dis
trict extends through September,
in other areas the runs will con
tinue into November, Peterson
said. For the most part, however,
the pack has been completed.
|Two Trucks
f
Collide; Explode
CAIRO, (#*)—Explosions in two
North African communities Wed
nesday killed 38 persons and in
jured 147.
A blast in the village of Lag
houat in southern Algeria killed
, 19 and wounded 100, 20 seriously.
A shattering explosion in Cairo’s
Jewish quarter killed 19 and in
jured 47.
The Algerian disaster occurred
when two French army trucks
loaded with explosives collided,
the French news agency said. Fire
following the blast destroyed most
of the community, causing dam
age estimated at $1,000,000.
RITA JOHNSON REGAINS
CONSCIOUSNESS
HOLLYWOOD, f/P) — Actress
Rita Johnson has regained con
sciousness in St. Vincent’s hospi
tal after being in a coma for 16
days. A special nurse said that
Miss Johnson could recognize per
sons in the hospital room but still
was unable to talk. The actress
was injured Sept. 6. Investigators
believe a heavy hair drier fell on
her head.
French Workers
Get Pay Hike
(By Harvey Hudson)
PARIS, (/P) —The government
decided yesterday to grant French
workers a 15 per cent wage in
crease. #
The increase was less than the
demands of both communist and
non-communist unions which have
been calling a series of harassing
strikes. A two-hour nation-wide
general strike to support such de
mands has been scheduled for to
morrow afternoon.
Reliable American sources said
Premier Henri Queuille’s cabinet
received a lifeline through an
American decision to unfreeze 70,
I The Fire Department was called
| out this afternoon at one o’clock
to the lower apartment of the Hite
building on First Ave., West and
C St. No damage was reported
other than the stack and stove
were overheated.
000,000,000 francs <about $230,
000,000) representing profits from
sale of goods furnished France un
der the European Recovery Pro
gram <ERP).
However, Queuille’s new coali
tion government, less than two
weeks old, still faces possible po
, litical troubles as a result of the
vote by the national assembly
I Wednesday night to hold local
elections throughout the country
next month. The vote was 284 to
271.
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