Forecast And !
\ /eather Report;
I ,one and Vicinity
Wednesday* March 28* 1951
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy i
tonight and Thursday. N to NE
winds 15-25 mph. Lowest temp,
expecied tonight —7, highest to
morrow 5.
Nome data last 24 hours as of |
7 -a.m. today: Precipitation, trace.
Total this month .13 inch. Temp
eratures: highest —2, lowest —25.
Maximum wind 17 miles an j
hour from the ENE. Sunrise at
5:38 a.m., sunset at 6:42 pjn..
Comparative data: Tempera-i
tures one year ago today: highest
13, lowest —7. Extreme tempera
tures this date since 1907: high
est 32 in 1940, lowest —31 in 1934.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today: I
Station .Temp. Weather
Barrow —17 Partly cloudy
Gambell 1' Partly cloudy
Nome —5 Snow
Bethel —21 Cloudy
McGrath 2 Snow
Anchorage 27 Cloudy
Fairbanks 3 Cloudy
Edmonton 41 Partly cloudy
Juneau 35 Rain
Ketchikan 35 Rain and Snow
Seattle 50 Cloudy
San Francisco 54 Partly cloudy
Grilening Protests
Seal Bounty Bill
(Continued from Page One)
would be permitted in the Alas
kan coastal waters of the Pacific
Ocean east of the 152nd Meridian,
in Bristol Bay area, and nowhere
else.
“Although the conservation val
ue of the hair seal bounty pro
gram has never been clearly es
tablished, the program itself has
often been justified as a relief
measure. Since 1927 the Territory
has adopted all of the standard
relief programs and has extended
relief within the limits of appro
priations to all eligible categories.
“It may be noted that uniiKe
other relief recipients those in
position to claim hair seal boun
ties are limited both as to num
ber and to geographical location.
I do not hold with the view that
these bounties are justified as re
lief since I feel that a particular
governmental program should
stand on its own merits, if at all,
and be labelled for what it is. I
have been advised of annual
yields so great from particular
areas as to suggest that the bounty
program is more a business than
a relief measure. In any event, if
relief is the paramount aspect, as
distinguished from conservation,
such appropriations should go to
welfare programs and be classi
fied for what they are.
“If the hair seal bounties do
not aid in the conservation of the
fishery but provide, instead a
territorially subsidized business,
benefiting no one but the bounty
claimants, the bounty should in
my judgment be discontinued.
“Supporting the view that the
hair seal bounty program is more
business than relief, its cost to the
Territory during the past bien
nium was just $1,708 less than
ALASKA AIRLINES
Nome- Anchorage passengers
were D. McLean, Capt. L. Ost, and
Ernest Blatchford. Arriving from
Anchorage were Daniels McLean
and Charles Dance.
Passengers from Unalakleet to
Nome were Mrs. Engtakak, A. C.
Steinwandel, Ben Hyndman, and
Paul Galloway. Feton Commack
WuS a passenger from Nome to
Kotzebue.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Gerald Modrow, local manager
of Wiens returned from Fairbanks
yesterday.
Paul Dryden of the Tax Dept,
returned from Kotzebue.
Lincoln Ost, Sig Wien, Dr. Gor
don Gould and Dr. Middleton, Mr.
Carlson and Mr. Viksten were
passengers to Fairbanks.
M’Arthur Ordered
To Clear
Thru Washington i
(Continued from Page One)
itary bases on China’s coastal
areas. State Department officials
said MacArthur’s statement had
not been dispatched to Washing
ton in advance..
Officials said the purpose of the
new message to MacArthur was
to assure that in the future any
such statements could be approved
or disapproved here or that modi
fications could be suggested.
MacArthur’s statement was de
scribed in command circles here'
as “cold estimate of a military j
situation.” Circles which general-j
ly support the general said they
ccmld see no political implications
in it.
$300,000—plus its cost of admini
stration borne by the treasurer’s
office. The 19491egislature appro
priated $100,000 for the purpose
I and the 1951 legislature was ob
, liged to provide an additional
$198,292 deficiency appropriation
to cover claims presented during
the past biennium in excess of
I funds earlier appropriated.
“By contrast, there was appro
! priated for the Alaska Depart
ment of Fisheries by the 1949
1 legislature $250,000 for the bien
nium, of which $82,000 remains
‘frozen’. This agency is charged
directly with conservation efforts
and evpended for the past bien
nium slightly more than half Of
the amount expended for bounties
1 on hair seal. Bounty payments
have heretofore been exempt from
‘freeze’ action by the Board of Ad
ministration, whereas the Depart
ment of Fisheries program was
curtailed 30 % during the bienium
by such withholding of its appro
priation,
“It is my hope that the next
session of the legislature will re
examine the entire subject of
bounty payments, toward giving
the Territory maximum value for
public moneys expended.
‘^Meanwhile, because House Bill
No. 82 reduces to $3 the bounty
on hair seal, which otherwise
would remain at $6, and because
it limits the geographical area
within which hair seal may be
taken for bounty, I am signing the
bill.”
Hospital News
Gladys James of Solomon,
Thomas Takok from Unalakleet
and Frankie Johnson, a. child,
have been admitted to the hospi
tal.
Discharged are Mrs. Paul Ara
arok and child, Nels Larsen and
Hans Arp.
HELEN STANISCLAUS
JUDGED INSANE
Helen Stanisclaus, of King Is
land, who was brought over a
few weeks ago for killing her
husband, was declared insane by
a jury in Fairbanks and sent to
a mental hospital in Wash., D.C.
Paul Dryden, Tax Assessor for
Second Division, made a busi
ness trip to Kotzebue and reports
that Kotzebue is humming with
activity, due to the many projects
getting under way in that area.
He stated that Willie Foster is
very busy on his new venture at
the Kotzebue Grill.
—ARCTIC CLUB—
Members and Guests
DANCE
MARCH 31, — 9:00 P.M.
Arctic Club Hall
japan’s Whaling Fleet
Return With G::d Catch
TOKYO, Tuesday, (JP)— Ships
of Japan's Antarctic whaling ex
pedition have begun to arrive
home with meat and oil.
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
said today the 34-vessel expedi
tion reported a successful 78-day
season. It took enough whales to.
supply half Japan's needs for edi
ble and industrial oils. It is the
fifth such expedition since the
war.
Minute Pool Cards at Nugget
Lockheed Predicts
10,000-m.p.h. Rocket Ships
LOS ANGELES, <JPh- Passen
ger rocket planes that will ‘fly
from New York to London in *an
hour at altitudes up to 500/11J
feet are forecast by Hall L. Hill
ard, vice president in charge of
engineering of Lockheed Aircraft
Corporation.
Speeds in excess of 10,000 miles
an hour will be practical with
such craft, Hibbard told a lunch
eon group yesterday. He did not
say when the rocket ships will be
placer in operation.
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