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VOLUME XVII
Thursday, December 15, 1955
NUMBER 4
Tight area registration faces
fishermen in coming season
Farley advises
grandfather clause
plan illegal
JUNEAU (/P) The Fdsih and
Wildlife Service pdfan to restrict
fishing next year to fishermen
who upended in Alaskan1 wat
ers the piast five years was
dealt a death blow by the re
ceipt oif a telegram tocfay from
FWS ddrector John Farley.
Farley’s wire informed eom
metrdial fisheries administrator
Donald L. McKernan thal. In
terior department solicitors
have ruled that the proposed
“grandfather clause” plan is il
legal.
The ruling means that the
FWS will recommend that str
ict area licensing throughout
Alaska Ibe established in the
1956 regulations, McKernan
said today. The FWS has been
considering area licensing aft
er it learned earlier that the
‘^grandfather aiause” plan was
open to legal question.
Farley’s wire stated in part: i
“The solicitor advises prefer
ential treatment may not be j
shown Alaska residents in is
suance of licenses for fashing
boats and gear operations. , j
Farley told McKernan that J
the “liimitdlatdon of licenses to
boots of historical record in Al
aska is also coii.rary to exist
ing law.” He added, however,
that limitation of operations to
one district or area should be
possible with slight changes in
the registrations requirements
Under the area licensing plan
fishermen will be required to
declare ait the tiime they regis
ter their gear which area they
plan to fish. They will then be
restricted to fishing in that
area only.
Area licensing, while if will
help relieve pressure of exces
sive fishing, is not looked upon
by the FWS biologists as the an
| V eatchcombing
# And after aill these years!!
LEXINGTON, Ky. (/P) Juv
enile trial commissioner W.
Jfcodes Clay aigreed yesterday
Khi&t matrimony was a good
idea for a roan who said he
plans to marry the mother of
frjs 8-year-old son.
The roan ‘.old Olay he has
.Jived with the woman for 11
•years and that the marriage
“wiil be her Christmas pres
et”
+-I
0 Wander what the fisher
men who voted for Bartlett; a
gjgiwflt Bob Reeve now think of
the salmon situation?
-++-■
g This legal voting age thing
has me stumped — if you are
old enough to vd.e will you be
permitted to purchase liquor—
even if you are only 19.
-H-+
• The season for Christmas
parties is at hand. And all the
origlanuziaittiJons are planning one.
Hope they remember whose
hjfrtihday they are celebrating.
I
swot to produeiinjg the amount
of escapement they feel is nec
essary to restore itihe salmon
papulation to former abundance
in those areas where it is now
in a depleted condition, MlcKer
nan said.
Consequently, to ensure as
great an escapement as possible
fishermen will lose a day’s fish
ing a week next summer in
Bristol Bay asd Cook Inlet.
McKeman said that the re
commendations for these two
areas will provide for only two
days a week fislhdng. Under the
proposed “grandfather clause”
plan the FWS had planned to
permit three days a week fish
ing in these two red salmon
fishing districts.
McKernan stated, however,
that next year’s regulations
wiijll not be inflexible in their
application. They might be re
laxed during the season if it de
velopes that fishing effort in
certain districts in Alaska pro
ves lighter, thru the declared
choice of fishermen under area
licensing, than the FWS feels j
is necessary.
He said that if it turns out
that in Bristol Bay, for example
that a lesser number of units |
Of fishing gear operates than in;
the past regulations might be j
relaxed in relation to the a
mount of escapement.
Danger - hunters
at large
SACRAMENTO (/P) Sports
men hunting in Modoc county
during special doe hunting
season were advised today io
keep their heads down.
Modoc sheriffs deputy Ger
ald Wilson, described one sec
tor as only slightly less dan
gerous than some wartime
beachheads.
“The wildest -and heaviest
shooting I’ve ever seen,” said
Wilson.
He reported (two men who
went into the area to rescue a
wounded hunter had to crawl
on their stamadhs to avoid be
ing hit ithemselves.
Cold and stormy
in wide areas today
by The Associated Press
Cold and stormy weather
struck broad areas from the
Rockies to the Appalachians
todlay.
Near iblizzard conditions
were report.ed in eastern sec
tions of the Dakotas and Min
nesota.
Icy winds sent temperatures
tumbling to the. lowest marks
of the season in many midwea;
; areas. Below zero readings ex
* tended from Montana east
ward across North Dakota to
northern Wisconsin.
The cold air headed for the
east coast this morning. The
leading edge exi. ended from
the Ohio River valley south
eastward to extreme southern
Texas.
It was 15 degrees below ze
ro this mominjg' at Butte, Mont
Bt was cloudy in Seattle.
U. S. calls Soviet
veto of Japan a
'glaring injustice'
WASHINGTON (/P) The Un
ited Staltes today denounced the
Soviet veto of Japan’s bid for
Unlilted Nations membership as
a “glaring injudioe.” and call
ed for Russia to reverse its
stand promptly.
A state department spokes
man said the Soviet are engag
ed in a “cynical action”’ to pre
serve a “(bargaining pawn” in
'jheir negotiations with Japan
over a peace settlement.
Russia accepted 16 countries
for U. N. membership yester
day but blackballed Japan.
East-West cold war
on again, Dulles
tells NATO council
PARIS (/P) U. S. secretary of
siate Dulles told the NATO
council of ministers today the
east-west cold war is on again
after nearfly a year of Soviet
policy zig-zagging.
The American secretary, dlis
cussing the trends and motives
of Russian .policy in 1955, de
clared the new rulers of the
Soviet Union have opened dan
gerous new cold war fronts in
the Middle Bast and south
Asia.
He added, however, the 15
nation Atlantic alliance had
overcame .greater dangers in the
pad-: by remaining ever vigil
ant and united.
Dullles spoke at the opening
of the first council meeting
since last summer’s Rig Four
summit conference at Geneva
and the foreign ministers’ sub
sequent. deadlock .in the Swiss
City.
Ailso attending the annual
year end meeting of NATO for
eign, defense and finance min
isters were U. S. defense secre
tary Wd'lson and treasury sec
retary Humphrey.
Dulles recalled that when
the NATO council mei a year
ago it was in the shadow of So
viet threats of awful things to
come if the allies fulfilled their
intention of bringing the West
German Federal Republic into
their grouping, with the right
to rearm again. The worst of
those threats never material
ized, Dulles noted.
The period oi threats i>uuies
went on, was followed quickly
by a pihiase of what he called
Soviet" “sweetness and light”
beginning with the Big Four
chiefs of government meeting
at Geneva in July.
Since then -a new rigidity, a
1 new war has become apparent
in Soviet pronouncements and
actions and the so-called spirit,
of Geneva seems ito have been
repudiated by the Russians,
Duffles said.
What, he asked, are the rea
sons for this year of Soviet
! “zig-zagging.”
Dulles suggested three possib
ilities:
1. It might be due to he ele
ment of confidence, flowing
from the belief in Russia’s in
creased strength.
2. It might derive from the
Soviet’s fear that, new ideas
would affect the compact struc
ture of their system.
3. And it might be the result
of a recrudescence of Stalinism
which he believes is by no
means dead in the Soviet Union
16 new members welcomed
into U. N. by 60 nation group
Assembly approves
security council
recommendation
UNITED NATIONS (/P) The
general assembly brought the
five-year freeze on new U. N.
members to a happy end last
night by welcoming 16 nations
into the international organi
zation. ,
In a jutbiiliant session, l‘he as
sembly overwhelmingly placed
its stamp of approval on the
security council’s dramatic re
commendation of the 16, boost
inig the total U. N. member
ship to 76.
Arrangements were quickly
made todJay for the 12 non
communiist and four Red na
tions to take their seats at
once.
The security council also
prepared to meek again late
today to vote on a U. S. reso
Juneau would be
temporary capital
with election later
FAIRBANKS (/P) A recom
mendation that Juneau remain
Alaska’s capital temporarily,
with vd.ers to be called on af
ter a 10-year period to decide
the permannemt site, was plac
ed before delegates to Alas
ka’s constitutional convention
yesterday.
The resolutions and recom
mendations committee, headed
by John Cross of Kotzebue,
brought in its report. It pro
vides:
An ordinance should be ac
cepted by the convention set
ting the capital at Juneau tem
porarily. Ten years after the
eonstitul Aon is adopted, the leg
istature would be directed to
make a study of a permanent
location. Then, the voters
would be faced with deciding
at It'he next general election.
Under the ordinance’s terms
a favorable vote of 65 per cent
would be required to decide
the site. If such a margin were
not obtained for any one site,
the two communities receiving j
the most votes would be plac-'
ed on the ballot again. This
time, 55 per cent would be the
required margin. j
Cross told the convention
his comma! tee supported thej
proposal unanimously. It was
sent to the rules committee for
a place on the calendar, as no
discussion is permitted on first
reading.
■tins carmmitte, he saaa, oaa
Whree proposals and one reso
lution before them. One called
for Juneau as site: another left
the issue to the people but
specified three areas from
which to choose; and the oth
er two called for a referendum
wiith no recommendation as to
communities. -
Another controversial pro
posal was submitted by Irwin
Metcalfe, a delegate and Sewr
ard merchant. It read:
“No site property may be
used directly or indirectly in
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j luitiou that the next assembly
I session should consider the ap
plication off Japan .
Japan’s exclusion — along
with Outer Mongolia — oast
the only shadow over the pro
ceedings. Of the 18 applicants
originally proposed for accep
tance in a package deal, they
were the only two not to make
the grade. Because Nationalist
China’s veto kept Outer Mon
golia out, the Soviets vetoed
the Japanese.
These were the new addi
tions to l.he U. N. roster:
To the Soviet bloc, now a
group of nine members — Al
bania, Bulgaria, Hungary and
Romania.
On the non-communist side
— Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Aus
tria, Finland and Spain — all
European, and Libya, Jordon,
Ceylon, Nepal, Cambodia and
Laos, recruits for the Asian*
Araib bloc.
When Spain, last of the 16
nations to apply, was accepted,
the assembly hall Resounded
w'ith 26 seconds of applause.
In an emotional speech, as
sembly president Jose Maza of
Chile declared the admission
of the 16 would give new vigor
to the U. N.
Chief U. S. delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr. said the Uni
ted States was “overjoyed that
12 free countries have been eh
ected.”
“They will bring us much in
civilization and wisdom,”
Lodge said.
A general assembly session
set for today o try algain to
choose between Yugoslavia and
the Philippines to fill a va
cant security council seat was
postponed unitil tomorrow.
Turncoat 61 says
he doesn't want
communism
TOKCO (/P) American turn
coat Richard R. Tenneson, re
turning home after two years
im Red China, said tonight,
“Communism is alrilgiht for peo
pie who want it. I don’t.”
The 22 year old former pri
vate (first class who refused re
patriation after the Korean war
added in a plane side interview,
“I have betrayed no one.
I have never made any sta/t~
ments saying I was in love with
communism. I stayed behind
only because I opposed Ameri
can policy in Korea.”
The short ex-GI who left
an hour and 15 minutes later
aboard a Northwest Airliner is
due in Minneapolis at 8:10 a.
m. Friday. It will be his first
Christmas at home since 1949
with his and her, Mrs. Portia
Howe, of Alden, Minn.
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[ Marine forecast from Thurs
day to Friday.
| Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Yakaatat east to north
east winds 10 Ito 20 mph today
i becoming 20 to 30 mph tonight
I FAIR.