May Take 100 Years
Complete Charting
Of Alaskan Waters
By Frank W. Vaille
WASHINGTON, (^—Although
charts and soundings of Alaskan
waters have been made for the 84
years of U. S. ownership, -another
100 years may be required to com
plete the work.
That is the estimate of Comdr.
Robert W. Knox, nominated by
President Truman as assistant di
rector of the Coast and Geodetic
Survey.
. The Seattle, Wash., native
should know whereof he speaks.
Of his 28 years with the survey,
20 have been spent at sea—12 of
them in Alaskan waters. His latest
sea duty was as commander of the
survey ship Pathfinder, directing
survey operations in the Bristol
Bay area of Alaska.
Knox' view that it would take
another 100 years to complete the
Alaska work was brought out in
questioning by Senator Magnuson
when Knox appeared before the
Senate Commerce Committee
which was considering his nom
ination.
Magnuson recalled difficulties
of the Navy in World War II. One
of his assignments as a naval of
ficer, he said, had been to find
Alaska fishermen with sufficient
knowledge of Alaskan waters to
^keep the Navy from running
aground.
Knox agreed that charts were
“spotty.” Southeast Alaska waters
he said, are “fairly well’’ covered,
but Bristol Bay and the Aleutians
are only “about half complete.”
Only reconnaissance surveys have
been run in Prince William Sound.
Farther north, except for work in
connection with the Navy’s oil op
eration at Barrow, the Arctic
waters are virtually virgin area.
The Bering Sea, he said, is the
priority project now. Knox told a
reporter later that many surveys
made years ago have become ob
solete because of the size of pres
ent vessels.
“In those days a ship with a
draft of 12 to 15 feet was a big
ship,” he explained. “Now they
run to 24-25 feet.”
To illustrate the immensity of;
the Alaska operation, Knox
pointed out that the territory has |
more miles of coastline than the!
Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the \
' United States combined.
He said chartings are proceed
ing at roughly 600 to 700 square
miles a year.
“It’s faster, of course, out in the
Bering Sea, where water is deeper
than it is in a place like Bristol
Bay,” he added. “In the deeper
water our soundings are farther
apart.”
Knox was bom in Seattle Oct.
29, 1897, and was graduated from
the University of Washington in
1923 with a Bachelor of Science
Degree in civil engineering. He
also served as technical advisor
to a King County, Wash., aerial
survey.
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Refuse Submit Oil Dispute
To International Court
TEHRAN, Iran, (/P)—Iran re
fused today to recognize the juris
diction of the International Court
in the dispute with Britain over
nationalization of Iranian oil re
sources.
Deputy Premier Hossein Fatemi
announced that the Iranian for- j
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eign office rejected a notification
from the world court of the com
plaint lodged there Saturday by
Britain and the Anglo-Iranian Oil
Company. The British earlier had
notified Iran of referral of the
dispute to the world court at The
DAYTON, O., (iP)—There was
a mad scramble to peer into sacks
of groceries in Dayton recently.
Mrs. Mildred Soendlin, a check
out clerk at a Day ton supermarket,
told police a packet of stamps val
ued at $300 to $500 was placed in
a customer’s sack by mistake. No
body yet has reported looking into
the right sack.
Hague, asking that the United Na
tions-spansored body name an ar
biter.
Meantime, Iran’s Communists
were moving to take advantage of
heated nationalist emotions stirred
up by the oil dispute.
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Annotated 1949, persons subject to the Alaska
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