The U* 5* Fish and Vtldlifa SwTtte decided last year, to close the
fishing season in this and other nearby areas from Apr, #0* 1*957 ‘'to . .
Juno 6, 1957# This included the entire Copper Riyer “watershed ’in;,vCri
areas 11 and-15 v/hich takes in a heck of a lot of'territory# **
n:'
# Vf 'yi l
explanatory
to kno* why it was done* MV
r*:v vvis of people wore ready to come in here to Chitina'orT Memorial*'
dry this year to go fiching as thoy had"done*'for many years. The
lakes were open ana airplanes were standing'by to take fishermen out
avor*
5j.orc, wnat wo v/ouia nice to know is why.jft
ir thot* period, while -it Was open in .other#• mor^e-heavily fished* areas*
Tiio Jish and Wildlife Service have done a g^opd, job of keeping fish
°.pl -ney hi our streams and.lakea where strict regulation*was necess
ary, wo e.-.jid sure enough like' to know why they close the season in
one of tiie me 31 remote areas *in this‘part* of the territory where it
3C*.:ms impossible to damage the fish population by sport fishing*
THE OLD: CYNIC1S COLUMN ; / •; * *
Lnwyors arc trained to think straight, even tho they are also train
ed co talk' in convincing and evasive circles.. The new Governor,of
A1 :.ska is too intellectually honest to say that Alaska is ready for
St at :h>Ou. .he said, " i primary goal and objective of my administra
tion ' ill be to point toward statehood.' The majority of Alaskans
wr :• t statehood and-they want it without delay, It is time for the
Al' -.deans' to closS ranks on this issue and tupn their united efforts
' t hard obtaining that for which the overwhelming majority have spoken#11
The Governor very well put3 tho responsibility for the^ statehood
effort on "cho majority, of Alaskans" and very sensibly avoids aornmit
y_/iug himself; he think ho .is honest and smart. •
Thau racket known as the _ Bureau of Indian. Affairs'has spent a'lot
of effort and taxpayers money"teaching the Indian that he is an abused?
vunderprivileged creature and that the white man has mistreated him'and.
that therefore nu should lie down and whine, It took a lot of doing
\to get this idea into us^Indians* heads because the idea would never
..have olckurod to us if It'~had*'not' b’edn driven in. Wo would be pretty
h«er the same as anybody if anything was expected and demanded of us,
’here is a typical example,of the results of this devastating none-^
.ease that is preached to the Indian till he cannot help believing^it.
Here in Chitlna is a healthy, vigorous Indian in his thirties. He
has been exposed to several years of excellent school opportunities.
Recently he was employed" for ‘a~ few days Tn helping finish the air
port' hv.ro' The contractor was In a hurry to finish and offered this
Indian "double time" pay if he would wprk the last day, something
oyer ^40, The Indian felt like, going on a drunk and walked away from
the job. Within a f-e^months he' will "be "getting some kind of puddle
charity as he has many .time's . in the past, And a few days ago he was
standing on the street .’hero'and siacled up to a visiting tourist with
11 tie just a poor pridian boy, got no food and have hard time, ire long
time .’iiyv here, have, hard tire •11 ( he knows the effectiveness of
aff'ecvl>^yp the supposedly characteristic Indian linguistic blob). The
visitor in a generous Impulse gives the .poor hungry Indian boy a
.dollar so he can oht# (get drunk) . -
The first "jitter-bug"was invented by a Scotchman standing in front
of a pay-toilet. f. . • ..***.
The' first "rock-n-roll??was invented by an antistatehood Alaskan
with a belly ache caused from' listening to'“a*pro-statehood Alaskan
giving a lecture on tho advantages and benefits of statehood.