Alaskan Game
Resources Being
Badly Depleted
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. WASHINGTON, </P) — Wolves,
airplanes and an influx of what he
described as trigger-happy job
seekers are ruining Alaska’s game
resources, Earl N. Ohmer, chan
man of the Alaska game commis
sion, said today.
Ohmer, a businessman of Po
p tersburg, 100 miles south of Jun
eau, and a resident of Alaska 32
years, flew to Washington to
“bend the ear of everyone in Con
gress” on Territorial wildlife
problems.
“Alaska gets $175,000 a year
for game law enforcement and
fish and wildlife administration
—less than for any state,” the
grey-bearded, bespectacled Ohmer
^ told reporters.
“With $200,000 additional, we
could just barely hold the line on
our game resources. We could
double our game law enforce
ment, which now consists of seven
officers for an area one-fifth the
size of the United States.
Alaska’s resources have “slip
ped badly”—particularly regard
ing big game—within the past five
or six years, Ohmer said.
Caribou have decreased the
most seriously, from 1,000,000 to
about 250,000; reindeer herds
have diminished to the point that
“within a very short time what
reindeer are left will be mixed
with caribou and there won’t be
any reindeer herds left as we now
know them.”
Commercial fisheries, most val
uable resource in the Territory,
are very seriously depleted and
decline noticeably every year.
Alaska cans 510,000.000 pounds of
pink salmon a year, more than 90
per cent of the U. S. salmon pack.
Jet Plane To “Land” In Sky
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(By James J. Strebig)
((£>) Aviation Reporter*
WASHINGTON (/P)—A new jet
fighter plane is expected soon to
start and end a flight high in the
sky for the first time in history.
This is the McDonnell XP-85,
known as a “parasite” fighter be
cause it is based on a larger craft.
The XP-85 has no landing gear.
It can take off and land only on
a special gear slung under the
belly of the parent ship.
The radical little fighter—only
about 15 feet long—still is a high
ly classified secret in the air force,
but many of the details have leak
ed out over a period of months as
construction neared completion at
The earliest modern form of
commercial insurance was for
ships and their cargoes.
“Aside from wolves and coyotes
airplanes and the Alaska highway
have contributed to the decline by
making Alaska easier to get to,”
Ohmer said.
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start soon at the air force base
near Muroc, Calif.
The nearest approach to the
condition under which the XP-85
will make its first flight was that
of the Bell XS-1, a research plane
powered by rocket engines. This
plane was carried aloft under a
B-29 and launched ns a glider in
mid-air. It was piloted to a nor
mal landing on its tiny wheels. Af
ter numerous glider flights, the
XS-1 began power flight tests.
The XP-85 cannot “land” ex
cept on its hook, located just
ahead of the cockpit. It was de
signed to be carried in the bomb
bay of a B-36 bomber, but initial
test flying will be from the belly
of a B-29.
' “Parasite” fighters are an old
idea. The navy based such planes
aboard the dirigibles Akron and
Macon. Those planes could land
and take off on the ground, how
ever and flew at less than 200
miles an hour—compared with
more than 600 miles an hour ex
pected of the XP-85.
| This little fighter, carrying four
50-calibre machine guns and a
wing load of rockets, is powered
with a Westinghouse 24C axial
flow jet engine, capable of 3,000
pounds thrust (equivalent to about
twice that many horsepower when
i traveling at top speed).
Its folding wings are 21 feet
wide when extended, and it has
extra fins behind the cockpit to
aid stability, a problem which is
serious because of the wing sweep
back and the short fuselage.
Arctic Coast Well
Supplied With Coal
WASHINGTON (TP)—Sufficient
coal to meet the needs of Eskimo
villages and government schools
and hospitals along the Arctic
Coast of Alaska can be produced
there, the bureau of mines said
yesterday.
It said engineers examined the
coal deposits in Arctic Alaska
during the summer of 1D46 and
f iund several suitable for 'devel-,
opment. They investigated the
Dcering, Fairhaven. Point Lay and
Wa.nwright areas.
The bureau said the engineers
found two plans feasible for work
ing for coal deposits. To develop
sources of coal at points nearest
each village or group of villages
or stockpile coal in the winter for
barge movement to the villages in
the summer.
The plans, it continued, would
result in cheaper coal than when
it is shipped from the United
States.
It said the mining should be
done in the winter, owing to cli
matic conditions, and the mines
scaled in the summer to prevent
thawing and consequent roof fall-.
Partition Meetings
Still Secret
LAKE SUCCESS, i/P)—‘The U.
N. Palestine partition commission
was called together for more se
cret discussions yesterday as Bri
tish and Zionist representatives
stood by awaiting bids to appear
before the five-nation body.
Yesterday’s session, the third
since the commission was organ
ized last Friday, was expected to
be confined largely to drafting a
plan of work and ironing out sev
eral preliminary problems.
Informed quarters said Moshe
Shertok, representative of the
Jewish agency for Palestine, and
British representative Sir Alex
ander Cadogan would be called
later this week. The Arab higher
committee for Palestine already
has indicated it would refuse to
send a representative.
The consultations with the Bri
tish and Jews will bring the com
mission face to face with a series
of major problems which now
have begun to take definite shape.
Shertok outlined some of these
problems in a news conference
Monday and a British spokesman
has indicated others.
India Takes Control
Of Woolen Industry
NEW DELHI. I/Pi—The govern
ment of India under a new order
has taken up control over the
manufacture, disposal and price
of woolen goods in the dominion.
It now has power to regulate
the manufacture of woolen goods
over specified periods and to con
trol the sale and distribution of
all or part of production.
The measures are intended to
organize the woolen industry in
India on scientific lines.
Truman Ups 1949
Budget Demands
WASHINGTON, (A>)—Here, in
brief, is President Truman’s bud
get estimate on how the govern
ment will spend and collect in the
1949 fiscal year which starts July
first:
Total outgo: $39,669,000,000.
This compares with $37,728,000,
000 during the current year.
Total income: $44,477,000,000.
Income this year is put at $45,
210,000.000.
Surplus: 14,800,000,000. For this
year the surplus is estimated at
seven and a half billion dollars.
The national debt: A reduction
is forecast from $258,000,000,000
on June 30. 1947. to $246,000,000,
000 by June 30, 1949. This is based
on a budget surplus of more than
$7,000,000,000 this year and more
(than $5,000,000,000 next year.
Where the government looks for
most of its income: $22,506,000,
000 in individual income taxes;
$10,000,000,000 in corporation in
; come taxes.
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Paul Revere Loses
Race To Traffic Cop
BURLINGTON, Vt. (/P,—Paul
Revere strayed off his route, tied
his horse to a parking meter out
side the Hotel Vermont—and got
a ticket.
Revere—impersonated by Vet
erans Club President Robert Jolly
—claimed diplomatic immunity.
He said he was a guest at the ho
tel’s Freedom Train luncheon and
had no time to put a coin in the
meter or leave the horse else
where.
Not even Paul Revere gets a
ticket torn up. said Burlington po
lice. and they haled him into
court.
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