VOLUME XVI
Thursday. October 20, 1955
NUMBER 220
Area-licensing for fishermen
brings mixed reaction today
Would limit fishing
to one area by craft
here last 5 years
SEATTLE (/P) Proposal to in
stitute area-licensing of sal
mon boats in the Cook Inlet
Kodiak-Prince William Sound
triangle drew support and op
position here today.
The differences were brought
out in the second day of hear
ings by the Fish and Wildlife
Service on 1956 Alaska fishing
rules.
The proposal would permit
fishing boats which have fished
in any one of these three areas
in the past five years to fish in
only one area. The Prince Wil
liam Sound area will be re-open
ed next year after a two-year
closure to commercial fishing.
C. F. Johnson, representing
Prince William Sound and Cop
per ftiver packers, indorsed the
plan although seeking clari'fica
tion of details of its operation.
Mrs. Lottie Edelman, of the
North Pacific Marketing Assn.,
protested area-licensing be
cause her group feels it will
hurt independent fishermen.
Mrs. Edelman said the inde
pendents would be forced to
take a chance on one fishing
area. These one-man operations
now 90 per cent independent,
would become dependent on the
large packers for loans and in
fact, would become “company
fishermen” under these restr
ictions, she said.
Johnson said ms grous oppos
ed a proposal to close the fish- (
ing season in Prince William
Sound on August 3 at what nor
mally would he the peak of the ■
run.
The federal fisheries officials
are proposing the closing to al
0, Yesterday was one of three
important dates in the indus
rtial life of Sitka and one that
the Veatchcomer has worked
toward for fifteen years. The
actual offer for sale oi this
timber is (but one of three big
stops — the next the actual pur
chase and then the 'big, big day
— opening of the mill.
—M
# I was asked why we used
the word “bloc” in the headline
yesterday instead of “block *.
The timber is in a number of
different Allotments and is not
— in 'theory —* a solid mass of
timber. Understand why? —
also the “K” wouldn’t go on
the line.
• It seems they are fighing
at the fisheries hearings to
catch that “last fish” as they
did when you “walked across”
streams on the backs of them.
• If this is a “s’hower” accord
inlg to the weather bureau;
deliver me from a “rain.”
V eotchcombing
low greater escapement of fish
to spawning grounds. Johnson
backed the August 6 closing
date to give more time to gauge
the size of the run.
If the area-licensing propos
al is accepted, the federal of
ficials also proposed 2 one and
one-hallf days of fishing a week
in Cook Inlet instead of two
days a week in effect now.
In Prince William Sound, it
was proposed no giliners should
be allowed as a matter of offi
cial policy. Donald L. McKer
nan. administrator of Alaska
fisheries, said there was no dis
crimination intended against I
gillnetters, igut the experts feel
the gillnetters, who have been
few in this area, should not be
encouraged when the yield of
salmon cannot support tradi
tional gear.
On the Copper River, which
wuld be included in the Prince
William Sound area-licensing,
an opening date of May 7, in
stead of May 1. was proposed.
SEATTLE </P) Tentative
plans to /bar any more salmon
fishing gear from going to Al
aska were announced Wednes
day at a U. S. Fish and Wild
life service hearing on 1956
regulations, to be finally de
cided after ,Novemiber 18.
“We feel that we should
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President enjoys .1
visit with old
'!
golfing partner
DENVER (/P) President Ei
senhower today had his ‘first
hospital visit with one of his
old (golfing pals as doctors re
ported the chief executive is
continuing to convalesce satis
factorily.
The president chatted from
his bed for about 20 minutes
with Clifford J. Roberts, New
York investment banker who
also is board chairman of the
Augusta National Golf Club in
I Georgia.
The course at Augusta has
long been one of Eisenhower’s
favorite vacation spots, and
Roberts has played golf with
the president many times there
Roberts’ visit with the Presi
dent today marked the first
1 time since Eisenhower’s Sept,
i 24 heart attack he has been per
! mitted visitors other than fam
! ily members and top administra
I tion officials.
The doctors’ medical report
at 11:15 a. m. today said Eisen
hower “awoke feeling refresh
ed and in a happy mood” after
a comfortatble night’s sleep of
more than eight hours.
The bulletin included the fam
iliar phrase — “The president’s
condition continues to progress
satisfactorily without compli
cations.”
The chief executive’s steady
improvement wias keeping pace
with the advance calculations
of his physicians as he turned
again to one of his favorite hd
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The last word
j Cambridge, Mass. (/P) Ross
Vardon, longtime (principal of
the Greenwood school who died
last Sept, 29. ordered that the
headstone on his grave be mark
ed:
“No School Today
Teacher Gone Home.”
The order was contained in
Vardon’s will, filed for probate
Tuesday.
Jury's verdict
awards nothing to
Charles Tuengel
JUNEAU (JP) A A jury today
declined to award Charles Tuen
gel of Sitka any damaruges he
said he suffered in a plunge
Nov. 1, 1951 down the base
ment stairs of the Sitka Com
munity hospital.
Tuenlgel, 69, an unemployed
barber, had asked $68,700.
The jury took five hours to
reach its verdict favoring the
defendants, the City of Sitka
and the National Board of Pre
byterian Missions. The verdict,
was given at the opening of dis-^
trict court this morning.
Neither counsel for the plain
tiff or Judge 'Hodge had any
comment on the verdict.
Tuengel’s plunge occurred
when he had gone to the hos
pital to cut at patient’s hair.
He claimed he had been misdir
ec'.ed to the patient's room by
the nurse in charge, that the
basement door was not identif
ied by a sign and that the hall
was poorly lighted.
Sen. Murray favors
firing of interior
secretary McKay
! HONOLULU (IP) Sen. Mur
ray (D-Mont) said yesterday
it would be “a (good thing for
! the country if secretary of the
interior Doulglas McKay is
fired.”
Murray, chairman ox tne
senate interior and insular af
fairs committee, arrived for a
vacation and “a reappraisal of
the Hawaii statehood situa
tion.”
Murray said in a shipboard
interview “McKay is not the
( right man for the job.” He ac
; cused the interior secretary of
! favoritism to business and in
dustry.
“We should have a man who
is free and independent and
willing to do a job in the best
interest of the development of
the country,” he said.
The 79-year-old senator al
so was critical of his 1954 op
ponent, Wesley D’Ewart, who
| earlier this month was named
to a recess appointment as as
sistant secretary Of the interior
Murray said he would op
pose D’Ewart’s confirmation
i when congress reconvenes “be
| cause he is not qualified for
j the job.”
Hawaiian statehood could be
approved by the next session
of congress, Murray said, “if
the administration would with
ddraw its ill-founded opposition
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"Measured hope" in Big Four
meeting ot Geneva, Dulles
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Some concrete
progress expected
on Germany
DENVER i/P) Secretary of
state Dulles said today that
President Eisenhower shares
with him a “measured hope”
for concrete progress a1; (the
Big-Four foreign ministers con
ference in Geneva on issues
dividing east and west.
Dulles got Eisenhower’s (fin
al “counsel and advice” on the
conference opening Oct. 27 in
a 25-minute meeting with the
chief executive at Fitzsimons
army hospital.
Then, at a news conference
at the Denver White House,
the secretary said that while
Three Sitka ns seek
to recover $35,000
in district court
JUNEAU {/P) Testimony in a
suit by stockholders of the now
defunct1 Cathedral Building
Corp. to recover $35,000 on the
furniture of the FHA-foreclosed
Cathedral Apartments at Sitka
continued in district court here
this morning.
Stockholders are sueing as
intervenors in the case, claim
ing the foreclosure judgment
by the late George Folta last
January did not include the fur
nit-ure in the building. The mul
tiple-unit apartment was order
ed sold, but has been operating
under a receivership pending
actual sale.
Intervening plaintiff are J.
F. Cushing, Martha P. Cushing
and Dr. William C. Charteris,
all of Sitka. They claim the
FHA mortgage on the property
did not include the furniture
as security and that said furni
ture is still owned by them.
They are seeking either to re
cover the furniture itself or its
equivalent worth in cash, plus
rental since the foreclosure by
by Judge Folta.
The case opened yesterday
with testimony by Robert C.
Magnuson, assistant director
of the FHA in Anchorage. Mag
nuson told the court that the
FHA, aa a matter of policy,
does not secure real property
insurance on loans. He said the
FHA never claimed the furni
ture as security in the Cathed
ral case.
Judge Hodge this morning
said his study of Judge Folta’s
judigment showed that the jud
gement did include foreclosure
on the building’s furniture, but
that Folta had reserved judg
ment on the claim of the inter
venors that the furniture their
personal property.
The government is resisting
claims of the plaintiffs on the
basis that since the furniture
was owned by the defaulting
corporation, it is subject to the
terms of the foreclosure judg
ment by Judge Folta.
he doesn’t expect “spectacular
results,” he does.think tha't he
and the British. French and
Soviet foreign ministers will
make “concrete progress to
ward unification of Germany
within a framework of Euro
pean security.”
He said he also looks for
definite progress on increased
contacts between east and west
on clearing away some of the
misunderstandings that seem
to have arisen over the dis
armament issue.
In touching thus on all four
points on the Geneva agenda,
Dulles shied away from using
the word “optimism.”
'‘'But, any results at all,” he
said, “would mark an advance
on most, if not all, of our pri
or conferences with the Soviet
Union.”
Dulles leaves for Europe
Friday, after (briefing congress
ional leaders of tooth parties
on the Geneva parley in Wash
ington tomorrow.
“I go to Geneva,” he said,
“with the assurance ‘.hat I
have (behind me a president
who fully knows the issues
and who has given me a full
and comprehensive mandate to
speak for our nation at that
conference.”
It was the second Eisenhow
er-Du lies meeting since the
president’s Sept. 24 heart at
tack. The first was a week ago
yesterday.
With the doctors continuing
! to report that Eisenhower is
making satisfactory headway
without complications. Dulles
said that he found ‘“'very dis
tinct evidence of more vigor
— more vigorous health.” He
! said (the president’s mind was
1 as vigorous as it could be at
their last meeting and “this
time there was more evidence
of physical robustness,
of physical robustness.” , _ j j
Oh, No!
LEICESTER, England (JP)
Two hours after escaping from
jail Monday night. 25 year old
Dennis Anson rang the bell at
the front gate and asked the
warden to let him back in.
“I’m tired, cold and hun
gry,” Anson explained, “and
besides I split my pants climb
ing over the fence.”
Marine 'forecast from Thurs
day to Friday.
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STORM WARNING
A deepening storm 400 miles
southwest of Annette moving
northward 30 m/ph decelerating
and curvinlg northward. Will
be in the vicinity of Sitka by
early Friday morning.
This storm will cause gusty
winds of 25 to 35 mph over out
Iside waters.
Cloudy with occasional rain
today. Showers tonight.
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