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VOLUME XVI
Tuesday, October 18, 1955
NUMBER 218
Heintzleman sees industrial
future in timber for Sitka
{Will not become
"boom and die"
expansion
Principal speaker at the Al
aska Day Festival program this
afternoon was Governor of Al
ston, B. Frank Heintzleman
who foresees fa great industrial
future for Si'tka which, if cou
pled with intelligent planning,
will add to the historic and
see hie beauty of the city.
In speaking to a capacity
crowd this afternoon, the gov
ernor said:
“Sitka was a trading center
long before the cities of Seat
tle and Portland were thought
off. and while San Francisco
was only a sleepy Spanish ham
, let. California wheat was mill
ed into flour here; ice was cut
and packed for export, and
Sitka foundries cast bells for
California missions, and turned
ouit picks land shovels for the
49’ens in the gold diggings off
that State.
“'All thirteen of the Russian
governors had their headquar
ters here, and Sitka continued
as the capital Of Alaska under
six American governors. I,t was
also the military headquarters
for Alaska long before either
Anchorage or Fairbanks were'
founded.
“It was 'from Sitka, in the
spring of 1880. that a party of
19 prospectors sailed for the
head of Lynn Canal, pushed ov
©r Ohilkoot Pass, and opened
that route to the headquarters
of the Yukon River. This pion
eering effort resulted eventu
V eofchcombfng
# Tonight will see many
men shaving at a late hours —
no they are not going out, it’s
just that their wives want to
see who is under that bush.
# Tomorrow the Daily Sitka
Sentinel wiill make a very im
portant announcement to the
readers of this (family journal.
Be sure that you see it and
we know you will like it as
much as we hope you will.
# B. Frank is with us for the
celebration (a few days rest)
and Henry Roden agrees witfh
me that the celebration should
be held early in the summer
m that Charley Carter can en
joy fine Sitka weather.
# My grandfather wouldn’t
have liked to see me in a Union
uniform — hut on the other
hand another would have crow
ed over the fact. Divided loyalty
in the “War of the Rebellion”
is hard to maintain even sifter
all these years.
—f—f—
• The Alaska Day mug-up is
going on now — hope there’s
enough left for me when I get
to the multi-ipuripose room.
ally in the discovery of the
Klondike Igold field and the
subsequent Gold Rush to the
north.
“Numerous other prospecting
parties also left Sitka during
that year of 1880 and one of
them, Joe Juneau and Dick
Harris, made a discovery which
resulted in the founding of Ju
neau.
“While Sitka had a piart in
nearly every important event
in the early history of Alaska,
it continues to participate ac
tively in the forward progress
of the territory.
“It has betn chosen as the lo
cation of a huge plant for the
manufacturing of pulp — an
enterprise otf a size and type
that would be the envy df any
city in the United States many
times your size. This installa
tion will practically double
your present population of
2,000 persons and your munici
pa government is assuming a
very heavy obligation in plan
ning for and actually providing
the many public facilities need
ed to care for this great ihfux
of new residents.
“It is important to set up stan j
dards for city planning and re
gulations covering buildings. J
both residences and business
houses, that will enhance and \
not detract from the present:
matchless beauty of your city.
This is possible, and at no ap- j
preciable extra cost, through
careful advance planning and!
holding to these plans.
“A pulp mill, along with the!
other timber-usirig industries it •
will bring, all based on forests'
that are to be handled for the
permanent production of tim
ber for your mills, means that
you can plan for permanent
prosperity. Timber will be han
(continued on page four)
Land Office due for
overhauling
I WASHINGTON (IP) The gov
eminent is going to modernize '
its public land records for the
first time since it began them
in 1812. That’s the year it set
( up the general land office. }
Director Edward Woozley of
the bureau of land manage
I’ ment announced yesterday a
ward of a $108,405 contract to j
s York (Pa) Tabulating Service1
; to get the job started. It will j
key (punch, veriify and sort |
I some six million tabulating
j cards and make them into a
i control document index. This!
| job is to be completed by j
I June 30, 1956.
* A second phase of the mod
ernization calls for a total re
vision of the basic federal
land records for the 17 western
' states over a period Pf five j
j years at an estimated cost of
' five million dollars,
j “The modernization pro
| gram will constitute the first
inovation since 1812 in a rec
ords system that has become
.badly antiquated.” Woozley
•said.
Waterlogged?
ALREWAS, England, (/P)
Tom Hill, 76, was presented
with a silver tankard last night
for drinking 11,000 gallons of
beer.
Torn began his marathon
guzzle in 1695. He boasts he
hasn’t missed a nig’hlt at the
Crown Inn since — and has
drunk precisely four pints per
night year in and year out.
It adds up to just under 88.
000 pints.
Steve Chadwick, the inn’s
present owner, awarded the
tankard to Hill.
Faure wins vote;
French gov't, will
continue
PARIS (/P) Premier Edgar
Faure tonight won a 308-254
vote of confidence from the
French national assembly on
his government’s program for
restoring order in Algeria and
putting political reforms into1
effect.
The outcome was uncertain
to the last minute. In an appeal
Faura candidly admitted the
possibility his term' in office
might be nearing an end.
He said after about 6 months
in office, any French govern
ment “seems to fall victim to a
pernicious ailment which soon
is fatal.”
Faure has been in office al
most eight months.
The 54-vote margin was a sur
prise for even the most optimis
tic government supporters. Es
timates during the counting of
the ballots had given a margin
of only about 15.
For the first time, the assem
bly used a new swstem of indi
vidual — instead olf party bloc
— balloting in a vote of confi
dence.
Faure pleaded just before the
deputies voted that his cabinet
be retained to conduct a series1
olf conferencs before the end of
this year with all sectors of Al
gerian political opinion to find
a method of coexistance for the
million Frenchmen and eight
million Moslems in Algeria.
Newly christened
baby killed in
plane crash
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Cal
if. </P) A small plane piloted
by wealthy playboy Joel W.
Thorne crashed into a two
siory apartment house last
night, bringing (flaming death
to himself and two others —
one a newly-christened balby.
Nine persons were injured,
including the infant’s celebra
ting parents. Two other Child
ren were critically burned.
Thorne’s plane plummeted
out of the overcast less than 12
minuts after taking off from
Lockheed air terminal in near
by Burbank. An eyewitness
said a wing dropped off before
the craft plunlged into the
building.
The 40-year-old sportsman
and former auto' racer was re
(contir.ued on page fourj
Proposal made to "farm"'
salmon runsin Alaska waters
Use same methods
as those used by
agriculture
SEATTLE (/P) The use of
aquaculture — the science of
water farming — was advanc
ed by a University of Wash
ington fisheries exiperL yester
i day as a means of bolstering,
Alaska’s sagging salmon in
dustry.
Dr. Lauren K. Donaldson of
the UW school of fisheries, told
a senate interstate and for
eign commerce subcommittee
there would be an almost
boundless harvest of salmon
if the industry would accept
methods available in the sci
ence of aquaculture.
Such methods, Dr. Donald
son said, would include the se
lection of crops, hybridazation
and fertilization of ithe grounds
in much the same way a farm
er cultivates his field.
The University of Washing
Flood waters drain
from six states on j
East coast
by The Associated Press
With flood waters draining
back into river beds after a
weekend rampage, stricken sec
tions of six northeastern states
today tackled a backbreaking
cleanup job.
For some areas it was the j
second such task in less than j
two months.
The floods, which lefft a 1
dead and missing toll of 42,
hit hardest at Connecticut.
The same state took the brunt
of ithe Aulg. 19 floods that rode I
the tail of hurricane Diane.
Rains that (fed the latest
floods stopped or changed to
light showers yesterday thru
out the flood belt, which
, stretched through sections of
; Massachusetts. Rhode Island.
I Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Today New England had
fair weather, with no rain fore
cast for the ba tered states of
M ass achu setts, Rhode Island
and Connecticut.
The receding waters left be
hind piles of slimy debris,
wrecked homes and businesses
washed-out highways and rail
roads. broken bridges and
snarled power lines.
The federal government pro;
vided a variety of aids for the
stricken areas.
The governors oif Connecti
cut, New York and New Jer
sey were advised by Sherman
Adams, assistant to the presi
dent, that the “major disas
ter” declaration of two months
ago had been extended to cov
er the new floods. This enabl
ed the small (business admini
•stration and the housing and
home finance agency in Wash
ington to take steps to help
flood victims. j
ton scientist told the subcom
mittee salmon now are being
[ harvested in 'Alaska without
any major eiffort to sow new
crops.
He said relatively minor
quantities of chemical fertil
izer can rebuild the natural
balance that produces food to
help fish develop.
He cited as an example a
group of rainbow trout under
study at the university since
1930, The first fish matured to
one and one-half pounds in
four years and produced 800 to
1,200 eggs.
The descendants today ma
ture in two years ito five to
seven pounds and produce
some 3.250 egtgs.
“I am firmly convinced/*
Dr. Donaldson said, “that with
proper emphasis we can make
fishing produce at about any
level we wish. Enough techni
cal data is now available for
us to start moving toward
that end.”
Clarence iPautzike, chief of
the Washington state game de
partment’s fisheries manage
ment division, described how
the state had rebuilt its trout
and steelhead stocks by “bare
ly scratching the surface” of
methods recommended by Don
aldson.
Another witness, Ted Nakke
rud. fishermen’s representative
of the Seafarers International
Union, endorsed suggestions
made at the Juneau phase of
the hearings last Friday that
management of Alaska fisher
ies be transferred ifrom the U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service to
the territory.
Nakkerud also expr<»ssed
concern over extensive Japan
ese fisheries operations in the
north Pacific. Maigmuson told
Nakkerud:
“American members of the
forth Pacific fisheries eom
nission are going to Tokyo
early next month. We have
strongly urged them to serve
notice we intend to ask Japan
to put the (North Pacific fish
eries) treaty on the table. We *
(continued on page four)
Marine forecast from Tues
day to Wednesday.
STORM WARNING
An increasing pressure grad
ient today over Southeastern
Alaska wiill cause winds of 26
to 35 mph tonight.
End of warning.
Outside waters from Yakut
at to Sitka southerly winds 10
; to 20 mph today increasing to
25 to 35 mph from the south
east early tonight and shifting
to south after midnight.
Cloudy. Rain (beginning this
evening.
Outside Waters Dixon En
trance to Sitka southwest wind
8 to 15 mph today increasing to
20 to 30 mph this evening and
25 to 35 mph late tonight,
i Fair today. Cloudy tonight
j with rain beginning aibout mid
I night.
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