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Sports Trail —
by Whitney Martin
NEW YORK f/P) It was the
same old partners putting on
the same old act in the sunlight
and shadows and glow of the
Yankee Stadium Wednesday,
with the same old ending.
T'he Yankees took this first
game of the World Series, 6t5,
ibut not before they had ibeen
given a graveyard scare as the
Dodgers took their supposed
inferiority complex by the
heels and all but rapped their
American league opponents ov
er the head with it.
There was no quit in the
Bums, and when Carl Furillo
fanned for the (final out the
crowd of 63,869 still was in the
seats tingling with hope or ap
prehension.
When a gniai lad old codger
named Jackie Robinson can
forget his (battered and sliced
and aching legs ain’t what they
used to be and steal home to
bring his Dodgers Within one
run of tying the score in the
eighth inning, well, the Brook
lyn (fans knew that whatever
the outcome of t'he game they
could (be proud of their belov
ed Bums.
There were temporary heroes
galore dn the up and down
yame in which home runs were
sprayed tall over the place, but
it will go down as the day the
Yankees (had one Collins too
many Ifor the Brooklyns.
Joe, that, is not Tom. His two
healthy blows into the right
field seats were the difference,
and iprobdbly would have en
abled Whitey Ford to be the
only southpaw to go the dis
tance against Brooklyn tois
year and win if Casey Stenigel
hadn't decided it might be a
little healthier to have right
hander Bob Grim in there in
the ninth inning.
Don Neweomibe had plenty
of “swift,” as the players say,
and was tough enough until
the sixth, but once the Yankees
got to him in that inning he
was finished, and he obviously j
was relieved in more ways
than one when he got out of
there.
All in all, (it wias Yankee po
wer again in the driver’s seat,
^although there was nothing
part iculairly puny about the
Brooklyn alttack. There just
happened to be only one Collins
in the game, and he played for
Casey Stengel.
Read Sentinel Want Advts.
Want Advts. Bring Result*.,
MT. EDGECUMBE
HOSPITAL ROSTER
Elizabeth Johnson of Sitka,
Aloysios iS'mith olf Hooper Bay
Irene Waskey of Crooker
Creek, Nastasya Mark of Mar
shall and Oliver Williams of
the boys dorm were admitted
to Mt. Edgecumibe hospital' on
'Tuesday.
Discharged that day were
Harry Olsen to Metlakatla,
John Okoyuik to Teller, Clar
ence Frame to Nome, Spencer
i Williams to Klawock, William
Cook to Sitka, Mrs. Irene Ot
ten and infant son to Shaktoo
' lik, Maria Oyagaik and Ada
Teta to the girls dorm and
Gbacles Ketzler, Herman An
derson and Robert Edenshaw
to the boys donm.
itka toward goal
Advertisement of the Sitka
[pulp unit wall 'be the fourth in
a series of large timber sales.
The first, that at Ketchikan,
went to the Ketchikan Pulp Co.
and comprised eight billion
'board feet. The second, at
'Wrangell, wenlt to Pacific
[Northern Timlber Co., a block
jf three and one-half billion
[ board feet. The third, a block
of seven and oneJbalf billion
board feet, recently was award
jed George Pacific, Alaska, Co.
at Juneau.
This Sitka block will be the
last of the large, timber sales
contemplated by the Forest
Service for the time being, or
at least until the forest inven
tory which is underway in the
Tonigass National. Forest is
completed, officials state. This
survey began last year and it
is estimated will require five
ye'ars to bring to completion.
As the final step to the goal
of industrial expansion ap
proaches, it is well to recall
that under Forest Service re
gulations, the Japanese com
pany or any other successful
bidder on the timber sale,
wmuld be bound by these rules:
1. Primary manufacture of
pulip must be made in Alaska.
2. Basic manufacture of lum
ber must be made in Alaska;
no “Japanese squares’7 or chips
may be exported.
3. Operation under American
laws governing employment
both in the mill and in the
woods, under working condi
tions and wages standard for
this type of enterprise. With
the exception of top technic
ians, it is understood if the Al
aska Lumber & Pulp Co. are
successful bidders, all other
employees will be Americans.
4. .bid compat;lively for the
timber sale.
5. Have a .pulp mill in full
scale operation by June 30, 1062
Sitka’s proposed pulp mill
will provide employment for
■about 400 persons in the mill
itself, and an additional lour
hundred or so in the woods.
' Computing the average family
| at .a total number o.f four, the
project will add 3,200 to pre
sent papulation. But, in addi
tion, all sales and service 'bus
iness now operating here will
expand facilities and increase
personnel — while at the same
time other new and needed
business will spring into ex
istence — wihiich should add
another thousand persons
to the population rolls.
I Forest Service officials also
foresee a substantial number
off smaller industries utilizing
1lumber 'Which will come into
1 existence as a direct result of
the pulip mill, in the way of
wood-working plants, specialty
mills and possibly even a ply
, wood plant — all as a natural
I growth of minor forest indus
tries which naturally follow a
major industrial expansion.
While two sites — Herring
Cove and Sawmill Creek —
have been finder investigation
and consideration by the Alas
ka Lumber & Pulp Co., the
company holds a purchase op
tion, upon whidh several pay
ments have been made, to the
Sawmill Creeik site where Blue
Lake Farms are located. Fred
and John VanHorn, owners of
the dairy have been killing off
their milk cows and making
preparations to wind-up that
business. From all indications,
Sawmill Creek is the preferred
site.
It is noteworthy that while
a 300-ton plant is stipulated for
Sitka, the Ketchikan Pulp Co.
plant was designed for a daily
production of 350 tons but is
currently producing nearly 450
tons of high alpha cellulose
pulp, daily.
Additional safeguards set up
by the Forest Service require
i the successful bidder to log on
a “clear cut” basis, with pro
vision for adequate seed sources
Wildlife habitat and protection
of salmon streams and spawn
ing areas are provided for.
With the magnesium process—
the same as used at Ketchikan
incidently — the liquors are re
used and there is no pollution
of waters adjacent to the site.
This is a valuable considera
t'ion in Southeastern Alaska,
where fishing has long been a
major industry and every ef
fort is now being devoted to
restoring the vanished salmon
runs.
Protection is afforded, too,
to small loggers or independent
operators, for a half-billion
board feet of timber after the
pulp unit sale will be made
available for their use. Provi
sion in* the contract is made
also for protecting other for
est users — preservation of re
creation areas, tourist spas
and secenic beauty spots.
So it appears that at long
last progress will reach out to
touch Sitka a id leave in its
wake a permanent year-around
industry with a substantial
payroll and at the same time
utilize forestry resources which
have been long-neglected. Lo
cal interest is centered about
the latter part of October when
the advertisement for bid's on
the timber gale twill put this
industrial development in line
for actual construction. Hopes
are high that .preliminary work
will get underway this winter,
if weather permits, or early in
the spring; and that before
many more years have passed
Sitka will be reaping a share ;
of the vast undeveloped na
tural resources which form the
wealth on Alaska.
Land Claims
di'an office,” he said, “even itf
ne’s done nothing for-10 years.”
Another witness asked more
attention to existing industries
in Alaska in their efforts to
obtain contracts with the 'fed
eral government.
J. C. Dodd, sales manager
of the Alaska Plywood Corp.
and the Columbia Lumber Co.,
; told the committee Alaska lum
' ber firms are feeing bypassed
on federal defense projects in
the territory.
i Dodd, who said his firm’s pro
felerns are the isame as “those
lof the entire lumber industry
) in Alaska,” pointed to the Dis
| tant Early Warning Line radar
projects in the Arctic.
| He charged the required
lumber and plywood was not
placed up for bid, resulting, he
said, in several fruitless trips
to the states to conifer with pur
chasing officials.
“■By the time we got to him
(the purchasing agent) the
lumber had already been pur
chased from stateside firms,”
Dodd said. ■ I
j “We don’t want any special j
consideration — all we want is
■on opportunity to bid on these 1
jobs. We can save them mon
ey.”
Cyrus Peck, grand secretary
of the Alaska Native Brother
hood, discussed the depleted
salmon runs in Alaska and cal
led for new measures to permit
Natives to fish for food.
Peck charged the Fish and j
Wildlife Service had told the j
Natives they “could go to the
streams to take fish for our
own personal use . . . but when
they catch us they throw the
book at us.’’ j
Peck declared Alaska is
“fast becoming a ‘dust bowl’
through the depletion of sal
mon. He said the ‘overtaking’
of (fish and fish traps were the
main causes of the depletion, i
Donald McKernan. FWS com j
mercial fisheries administrator,
appeared before the committee
to outline the fisheries research
program currently in pregress.
McKernan told the commit
tee Alaska fisheries “are in a
deplorable state, to say the
least,” and listed three main
causes:
1. Manmade depletion.
2. Natural causes.
3. Curtailment brought a
(bouit by the FWS in its efforts
to rehabilitate the runs.
Carl Heinmiller of Port Oh.il
koot, near Haines, called for a
free (port of entry at Haines.
He said such a step “would
certainly make Haines the big
gest port in Alaska.
A free port, he said, would
enable a “two way haul” for
raw mineral oab.o from Brit
ish Columbia and the Yukon
territory bound for the states.
The subcommittee was to
end its Juneau hearings Thurs
day and proceed to Sitka on Fri
day.
Chairman Leo O’Brien (D
NY) left the committee Wed
nesday and returned to his
home at Albany, N.Y., Rep. J.
Edgar Chenewoth (R-Colo) ar
rived in Juneau Wednesday
and took his seat with the
group. Other members are Reps
Grade Pfost (©-Idaho) .B. F.
Sisk (D-Calif.) James B. Utt
(R-Catif) and Alaska delegate
E. L. Bartlett.
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