for membership in the new agen
cy. Soviet Russia certainly will not
agree to that. The United States
would be foolish to agree. As Sen
ator Vandenberg promptly pointed
out, the Ball formula “would com
mit the United States to war on
the vote of foreign countries.”
The Ball proposal recognizes the
futility of depending upon U. N. to
preserve world peace. That organ
ization has been as dismal a fail
ure as the old League of Nations.
And there is no reason to believe
that any new supercouncil would
be any more successful.
SEATTLE, (/P)—The hole in a
doughnut has been described as
“nothing—surrounded by bread.”
But to Boyden Fish, Seattle baker,
it is worth $25,000.
Fish, owner of the dunk-a-do
unt Bakery, filed suit in superior
court Wednesday against Frank J.
Van Hoeter, another baker.
He asserted that he has the ex
clusive right in Washington to
manufacture and use a heart
shaped doughnut cutter and to
bake the “pretzel donut.”
Fish charged that Van Hoeter
usese a similar cutter and also
produces a two-hole doughnut
similar to the “pretzel donut.”
HAZEL’S
Temporarily Closed
from Friday, March 5
until
Further Notice
May Place Alaska
R.R. Employees On
Retirement Act.
((#*) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (£>) — Senator
Langer (R.-N. D.), proposed today
that employees of the Alaska Rail
road be placed under the civil
service retirement act.
He introduced a bill to repeal
the Alaska Railroad retirement
act. All money in the Alaska Rail
road retirement fund would be put
in the federal treasury. All em
ployees now under the Alaska
plan would be given full credit
for all salary deductions. They
could be retired at 65 after 15
years of service.
Each employee retiring under
provisions of the Langer bill
would have his life annuity in
creased by $36 multiplied by the
number of years service in Alaska
in construction of or working for
the railroad, plus the number of
years, if any, worked on the Pan
ama railroad. They filso would be
credited with one additional year
of service for each ten years serv
ed in Alaska.
Any employee already retired
would have his annuity increased
25 per cent or $300 a year, which
ever is the smaller.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska said
the Langer bill is intended only to
consolidate government retire
ment laws and would not bring the
Alaska Railroad employees under
civil service regulations. He said
representatives of the employees
agreed to the bill.
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CIO Demands I
“Hiring Hall”
SAN FRANCISCO, (^—Lead
ers of CIO longshoremen and
clerks renewed today their de
mand that the present hiring hall
system be written into a new
coastwise longshore agreement.
Eighty delegates from Pacific
Coast locals of the clerks and of
the international longshoremen’s
and warehousemen’s union voted
here over the week end to begin
immediate negotiations for renew
al of the contract that expires
June 15.
Preservation of the hiring hall
will be the chief point, the union
said. Other demands were not re
ported but they can be negotiated
or arbitrated if agreement is
reached on hiring, a spokesman
indicated.
A representative of the water
front employers association said
the WEA was willing to retain the
hall system but wants the hiring
hall dispatcher to be an impartial
third party. He is a member of the
ILWU under the present agree
ment.
Farmers Criticize
U. Of A. Research
In Agriculture
<(/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — An offi
cial of the House appropriations
committee says farmers of Alaska
and research people both are crit
.Cal of the agricultural research
program at the University of
Alaska.
The committee made public a
report by Arthur Orr, executive
secretary of one of its sub-com
mittees, that farmers of the Terri
tory have “a very strong feeling
of dissatisfaction with the charac
ter of work being carried on by
the university agriculture experi
ment station.”
Orr also reported they found that
research people would not remain
at the university station “because
they felt that a genuine research
program was not being carried
on.”
“It was charged,” he continued,
“that while certain research pro
jects were set up . . . the research
personnel did not regard them as
genuine research, that the selec
tion of a research project was gov
erned primarily by the question
whether it would result in a large
production of food products at a
cost suitable for use of the uni
versity dining table. Some of the
research personnel told me that
they had quit because they felt
they were wasting their own time
and the government’s money.”
The committee also made public
testimony by Dr. W. V. Lambert,
research administrator for the ag
riculture department, on plans for
the department’s Alaska agricul
ture experiments for the year be
ginning July 1. The committee
recommended $185,900 for the
work and up to $300,000 for equip
ment, buildings and facilities.
Dr. Lambert said the experi
ments will be in soils, field and
horticultural crops, animal and
dairy products and agricultural
engineering.
“There are good possibilities for
producing locally much more food
and feed needed for the popula
tion than is grown at the present
time,” he said.
Lack of modern laboratory fa
cilities is one handicap faced in
the Territory, he said, and recom-1
mended that the central research,
station be located at Palmer, in
the Matanuska valley.
First Nome Sailing
On June 3
SEATTLE, (JP) — Nome, St.
Michale and other far north ports
can set their annual “spring” cele
bration for sometime in June.
The Alaska Steamship company
listed for June 3 the first sailing
for the Bering Sea.
The Victoria, known fondly by
the old timers as “Old Vic,” will
be missing from the scene this
year, after many seasons of serv
ing Arctic ports. She will see duty
in the Southeastern-Southwestern
Alaska trade this season and will
be replaced by a vessel yet to be
selected.
The June 3 sailing from Seattle
will call at Unalaska, Nome, Solo
man, Golovin, St. Micheal and
Unalakleet. Other sailings: June
24—Unalaska, Nome, Teller, Sa
voonga, Gambell; July 15—Una
laska, Nome, Teller, Wales, Shish
maref, Deering, Keewalik, Kotze
bue; August 19—Unalaska, Nome,
Solomon, Golovin.
Furs Shipped from
Alaska During 1947
The following list of furs ship
ped from Alaska during the cal
endar year 1947, was compiled by
the Alaska Game Commission:
Bear—black and glacier, 141;
polar, 68. Beaver, 27,349. Coyote,
900. Fox—red, 3,071; cross, 785;
silver, 3,918; "white, 1,868; "blue,
929. "This does not include pelts
shipped from Pribilof Islands.
Hare, 132. Lynx, 883. Marmot, 21.
Marten, 13,172. Mink, 42,772.
Muskrat, 182,969. Otter, 2,609.
Squirrel. 2,990. Ermine, 4,815.
Wolf, 490. Wolverine, 157.
Total number of furs shipped
were 290,039 with a total value of
$2,876,862.26.
Prospective Roomer—This win
dow is quite small. It wouldn’t be
much good in an emergency.
Landlady—There ain’t going to
be no emergency. My terms are
cash in advance.
ARCTIC CLUB
Annual Carnival
and
Queen Contest
APRIL 3
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Only 8 More Days
Queen Contest
will end at
Midnight
Remember....
50 PERCENT
Of All Proceeds From The
SALE OF QUEEN TICKETS
March 22 to April 3 inclusive
Will Co To The
HOSPITAL FUND
*