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lands on the route to Tokyo.
Representatives of the civil
aeronautics board, the civil aero
nautics administration, the post
office department and the com
merce department discussed the
proposal of Senator Magnuson
(D.-Wash.i that the base be re
tained with him and Senators
Young <R.-N. D.> and Humphrey
(D.-Minn.).
Magnuson said the government
officials agreed to review the pro
posal and give him their decision
this week.
BELLINGHAM, Wash., (/P) —
Lawson P. Turcotte, who started
as an accountant when Puget
Sound Pulp & Fiber company was
organized in 1926 has been elected
president.
He has been the company’s ex
ecutive vice president for several
years. He succeeds Fred G. Steve
not of San Francisco. Turcotte has
been the kingpin in planning for
a proposed pulp mill at Ketchi
kan. he appeared before 1949
Alaska legislature.
Stevenot was moved up to the
post of chairman of the board fol
lowing the annual stockholders
meeting.
Puget Pulp this month puts in
to operation a new $1,300,000 ad
dition for the chemical treatment
of pulp which Stevenot said will
expand the company’s marketing
field.
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Charles B.
West, owner of the Arctic Alaska
Travel Service here, has been
elected president of the Fairbanks
junior chamber of commerce. He
held the same post in 1947-48. He
succeeds James McMullen. West
is a candidate for the Republican
I Census 'lakers
Lei "Experience"
FAIRBANKS. </P)—Census tak
ers are supposed to count noses.
But—what do they do when the
nose belongs to a buffalo
They do just what Mrs. Martha
Lundstrom did recently in the Big
1 Delta region, apparently.
Her path to a cabin was blocked
by an obviously unfriendly buf
falo. The buffalo turned tail and
headed right into the cabin of
Alaskan guide Bert Hanson for
refuge.
i Unruffled, Mrs. Lundstrom fol
lowed the buffalo to the cabin.
Then—she counted the nose of
guide Hanson.
Hers was one of many experi
i ences described by Mrs. Lund
| strom and Mrs. Julia Mayfied,
whose task was to enumerate in
i the Tok Junction area also south
east of here.
One of Mrs. Mayfield’s prob
lems was crossing 10 lakes and
two rivers in the middle of the
spring thaw by dog team to count
the villagers in Tetlin.
Her guide took soundings with
a pole while she mushed the
team.
The day they finished and
slush-mushed back across the
Tanana River, the trail washed
out behind them.
But the Tetliners had been
counted. There were 75 of them.
Both Mrs. Lundstrom and Mrs.
Mayfield agreed on one thing:
There was nothing in the fine
print of the extensive instructions
the census bureau gave them to
cover some of their experiences.
nomination for the Territorial
House af Representatives in the
forthcoming primaries.
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ROCKLAND, Me. f/P)—Is there
no end to this mechanization of
the fishing industry?
Now they’re going to pump sar
dine herring right out of the sea.
Centrifugal pumps through
which the small fish can pass
without damage are not new.
They have been used for some
time for discharging herring at
dockside.
Now the pumps are going to
sea.
Several sardine carriers are fit
ting out with pumps here this
spring. The pumps will be used
to load the herring into the car
riers either from weir or purse
seins.
This means an end to a danger
ous, backbreaking job that long
has been the bane of fishermen
and carrier crewmen. Balancing
in a dory while taking in the
slack of a big purse seine full of
fish is no picnic.
Roy Wallace, who is installing
the pumps here, says that they
will take about 10 per cent fish
and 90 per cent water into the
carriers.'
That brings up the question:
Why doesn’t all that water and
fish sink the carrier?
It would if the water weren’t
diverted back into the ocean.
From the pump the fish pour
out onto a grid of wooden slats.
The water passes through the
slats and a porous bag before
Order U. S. Airmen
To Pursue All I ll
identified Planes
! WASHINGTON, </P) — While
i Russian planes have orders to fire
! on foreign aircraft which fly over
their territory and lxfuse to land,
American pilots have orders not
to shoot under similar circum
stances unless instructed to do so
! from the ground.
The difference was pointed up
i Friday by Russia’s note rejecting
j a U. S. protest over the shooting
down of an American navy plane
j by Soviet fighters.
The note from Moscow made
clear that Russian pilots have
standing instructions to use their
guns when foreign aircraft resist
a command to land on Soviet ter
ritory.
American airmen could not fire
on their own hook unless the for
eign plane committed an openly
hostile act, the air force said
Under a recent order covering
the Continental United States, the
North Atlantic corridor and
American bases overseas, uniden
tified planes are to be challenged
and pursued until they turn away
from restricted areas.
draining overboard.
In the turbulence of the pump
, ing the fish lose most of their
scales and the porous bag catches
these valuable scales, which are
used in the pearl essence industry.
Clamp Down (hi
t ransmission Of
Cam!>lin<r Info.
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—Attorney
genera! McGrath said last week
that big time gamblers apparently
have moved into amateur and
professional sports with large
scale operations.
He urged that Congress crack
down on the organized gamblers
by forbidding the sending of gam
bling inforcation across state lines.
McGrath testified before a Sen
ate commerce sub-committee. The
group is considering a bill to ban
interstate transmission of gam
bling information.
Favoring the measure, McGrath
said Congress could give horse
race bookmakers a “knockout
blow" by denying them the use of
telephone, telegraph, and radio
information needed in their opera
tions.
In addition to illegal bookmak
ing on racing, the gamblers “have
apparently moved into large scale
betting operations in such ama
teur and professional events as
baseball, basketball and football.”
McGrath said.
He added: “It is fairly obvious
that none of these betting opera
tions of any size could be main
tained without telephone, tele
graph, and other rapid transmis
sion facilities.”
Daniel Boone led axemen blaz
ing the Wilderness Road through
Cumberland Gap in 1775.
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