Anchorage Citizens
Protest Dismissal
Of City Manager
ANCHORAGE. </P)—A group of
citizens circulated a petition Sat
urday which stated “We, the un
dersigned citizens of Anchorage,
deplore and regret and ungentle
manly and deceitful manner in
which Mr. A. J. Koenig’s tenure
of office as city manager was ter
minted by our city council.”
The petition which leaders said
would be sent to Dr. C. E. Ridley,
director of the international city
managers association, Chicago,
added that “neither the action nor
method of action correctly reflect
the attitude of the majority of the
citizens of this community.”
The city council and mayor
Francis Bowden abruptly dismis
sed Koenig and police chief Elmer
Johansen early this week, after
expressing “dissatisfaction” with
their services. The entire police
force promptly resigned in pro
test, but later all but two return
ed to their duties. Koenig expres
sed surprise at the dismissal and
said no reason was given him.
The petition said further that
under Koenig’s management “ef
fects of political meddling had
been largely eliminated from the
city organization,” “greatly im
proved and sound business pro
cedures had been instituted,” and
that desirable economies had been
effected.
Koenig has been here about a
year, after the city voted over
whelmingly for a city manager
plan.
The landing of the Great Sibe
rian Meteor in 1908 affected
weather instruments all over
Europe.
Bert Parker New
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Sourdough Head
SEATTLE, UP)—Bert Parker of
Vancouver, B. C., was elected
president Saturday of the interna
tional sourdoughs at the conclud
ing business session of their annu
al reunion. He succeeds Capt. A.
J. Goddard of Woodinville, Wash.
William Brown of Los Angeles
was named first vice president,, a
post held last year by Parker. Lulu
Fairbanks, Seattle, was returned
as secretary-treasurer for her 17th
consecutive term.
A picnic tomorrow in Seattle’s
Woodland Park will wind up the
1947 program for the 500 Alaska
and Yukon Territory old timers
present.
The Sourdoughs passed one res
olution favoring construction of a
Pacific Coast highway to the Yu
kon and Alaska, and another ask
ing Hollywood to present Alaskan
backgrounds “as they really are.”
‘No Alaskan can recognize
Alaska cities as they are portrayed
in motion picture backgrounds,”
the resolution said.
The convention selected Van
couver as the preferred site for
the 1948 meeting, but the final de
cision is to be announced at a
later date. Tentatively planned
also for next year was a boat trip
to Skagway by the Sourdoughs
during the convention, to join that
Alaskan city in celebrating the
50th anniversary of the gold rush.
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PONCA CITY, Okla. (/P)—At
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made their appearance in a place
where you would least expect
them—the police station here.
The idea came from Chief of
Police Joe McFadden who wanted
to “brighten the place up.”
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Senators Demand
More Speed In
Fishery Problems
WASHINGTON, i/IVTwo Sen
ators and a Representative insist
ed today the state department act
more speedily on “numerous in
ternational fisheries problems”
now pending before it.
Rep. Tollef son 'R.-Wash.),
chairman of the House merchant
marine and fisheries sub-commit
tee on salt water fish, Senator Sal
tonstall iR.-Mass.) and Senator
Magnuson 'D.-Wash.) asked in let
ters to the state department what
was causing the department’- de
lay.
Tolefson. who wrote a letter for
himself and Saltonstall, said it
was not incriticism but that the
fishing industry is very much con
cerned and expected that progress
would have been made before
this in establishment of Pacific
Ocean conservation zones.
“It seems to us that it is h.goly
important that something be done
to establish conservation zones off
the West Coast of the Uniled
States and Alaska to protect our
salmon and other fisheries,” Tol
lefson wrote.
“The question arises as to whe
ther something along this line
should not be done in advance of
consideration of the Japanese
treaty which it is understood is
pending now.”
Tollefson said that in addition
there “are a host of other interna
tional fishery problems and so fa’*
as the fishing industry can ascer
tain little progress has been made
in solving them.”
The sub-committee chairman
said problems now pending before
the department include two Mexi
can treaties, one affecting Pacific
fishing and the other Gull' of
Mexico problems; the fur seal
treaty, the problem of conserving
fisheries of the western Atlantic,
the Great Lakes treaty, revision
of the sockeve salmon treaty; a
series of treaties with South
American countries about tuna,
whaling treaties and a series of
problems with Russia and other
foreign countries.
“The fisheries form an import
ant part of the economic welfare
of the nation and the purpose of
this letter is to inqu:re whether
everything possible is being done
by your department to protect an
important American industry,”
Tollefson said.
He told the department the fish
ing industry had noted that some
of the personnel with whom they
had dealt have been transferred
to other work and as far as could
be ascertained their places had
not been filled.
Soviets Demand
Greater Fish Catch
MOSCOW, <>P) — The govern
ment newspaper Izvestia Urged
eastern fishermen today to * in
crease their catch this year 41 per
cent over 1946.
The article said that one-third
of the total this year should come
from the former Japanese-held
areas around southern Sakhalin
and the Kurile Islands. It said
new settlers from Siberia and Eu
ropean Russia had arrived by
“thousands of families” in 1946
and 1947 on southern Sakhalin.
The article called for develop
ment of a fishing fleet and said
“wasteful methods of exploitation"
must cease. Especially critici/nd
was the use of explosives to ’ ill
fish. *
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Calif. Democrats
Praise Truman's
Domestic Policies
LOS ANGELES, Members
of the California State Democratic
central committee, meeting in a
long week-end session, adopted
i resolutions praising President
Truman for his domestic policies
and brushed aside attempts of a
! small Henry A. Wallace faction to
block commendation of the Presi
dent’s foreign policies.
The meeting, presided over by
James Roosevelt, committee chair
man, adopted resolutions approv
ing Truman’s veto of the Taft
Hartley labor and the Republican
tax reduction bills.
A proposed statement of policy
for the California party, which
had been amended to delete a por
tion considered critical of Tru
man’s foreign poicy, was adopted
170 to 19. Robert W. Kenny, for
mer state attorney general and
leader of the Wallace group, spoke
against the policy statement, say
ing he favored it before it was
changed.
The 19 votes against the policy
statement were considered to rep
resent the Wallace group.
Later Kenny said: “We are in
fine shape. We built our big Wal
lace corral at the Fresno meeting
I last week (where Kenny launched
i the Wallace-for-President move)
and now all we have to do is to
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wait for the issues to drive most
of the people into it.”
*IO SLOWPOKE
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., UP)—
Sim Romero submitted his civil
service rating of clerk-typist, as a
qualification when he applied for,
and got .the job of city police
clerk.
Among other things he can rat
tle off 45 words a minute on the
typewriter. That may not sound
fast to most stenos—but Romero
lost his right arm in an auto acci
dent 14 years ago.
Girl Scout News
(Wilma Stephenson. Troop Scribe)
Wednesday night we started on
our health and safety point in our
second class badge. We started to
learn about first aid bandages,
and some of us tried it out on
others. We are proud because we
fin shed our home-making in two
weeks.
We have been talking about our
city at our meetings and we are
starting a public service.
These have been so many mem
bers late for meetings that we
have decided to try to put a stop
to it. So we have started what we
call a "late fund," whenever the
members aren’t on time, those who
are will go and get ice cream or
something special.
Some night we will probably go
to the movies.
CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED
FOR NOME CEMETERY
Last Friday evening the Nome
Cemetery committee met with rep
resentations from all active or
ganizations in town.
Mrs. Don Travis, of the ways
and means committee reported the
following contributions to date:
Pioneers of Alaska $50.00; East
ern Stars, $50,00; Bob Ledgerwood
$5.00; Albert Miller $20.00; B. B.
Mozee. $15.00; Nick Simeon,
$20.00; A. Polet $25.00.
The following were nominated
for office:
Steve Anderson, president; Jack
Dowd, vice president; A. Polet
secretary; and Robert Baldwin,
treasurer.
Mrs. C. F. Yenney, Mrs. Don
Travis, and Bert Bell. trus4ees.
Sam Mogg, stated that members
of the Arctic Native Brotherhood
would be glad to subscribe labor.
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FOR BARROW
The Vicky C and its veteran
captain, A. Castel, left for Bar
row yesterday with a capacity load
of freight for Barrow and way
points.
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