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NUMBER 221
VOLUME XVI
Friday. October 21, 1955
140,000 barrels of herring
proposed for '56 in Alaska
Herring plants
oppose trailers
testimony
SEATTLE (/P) Sharply diver
ging views on the relation of
salmon and herring fishing op
erations in Alaska were present
ed at concluding sessions of a
Fish and Wildlife Service hear
ing here today.
Salmon trollers and bait fish
erfnen contended that fishing
operations for herring-reduc
tion plants destroyed available
food for saiimon. A series of
witnesses for the herring plants
denied that this was the case.
Donald L. MoKernon, Alaska
•fisheries administrator, said
the Fish and Wildlife service
had no explanation for the “vio
lent fluctuations” in herrinlg
runs during recent years, but
is proposing a three year pro
gram of experimestal regula
tions.
The proposed 1056 operation
calls for maximum protection
of herring spawning in the Jun
eau area. Heavy fishing will
be allowed in Prince William
Sound. In the Kodiak area the
plans call Ifor a heavy operation
and light operation in altern
ate years.
The service’s proposal is for
a total take of 100,000 to 140.
000 barrels of herrinlg next
year, half to bt taken north of
Chichagof and half to the south
McKernan said ne nopea
that a committee on which sal
man trailers, herring bait fish
ermen and herring reduction
•fishermen wouilld be represent
ed would work with the ser
vice to observe the effects of
the new regulations.
Lowell Wakefild. operating
a king-crab fishing operation,
suggested that regulations ap
pllied to king-crab fishing in
Alaska waters should be exten
dedl to dflfshore areas where
Japanese crab fishermen are re
ported following destructive
methods.
Wakefield said this might be
taken up by the Wildlife ser
vice with the North Pacific
Treaty Commission.
Previously the Seattle hear
ing had been devoted exclusive
ly to salmon rgullations. Wild
: V eatchcombinq
• And we talld about little
deer in Alaska!!
DETROIT (/P) The opening
of Michigan's small game hunt
ing season yesterday brought
varying reports df what sports
men thought was game.
Hunters, shooting at over
head calbles, knockedout long
distance telephone service be
tween Salginaw and Bad Axe.
A charge of 'buckshot in a tele
vision audio cable , knocked
out the service for three hours.
In Macomb county, Earl Le
Roy Doxer, 35, was fined $100
for bringing down a doe with
three shotgun blasts explained
“l thought it was a rabbit,”
life service officials said all
testimony taken in Seattle and
at the preceding! hearings in
Alaska will be studied in Wash
ington, D. C.. as a preliminary
to issuance of 1956 regulations
These are expected to be pro
mulgated in January.
Meantime salmon packers
and fishermen were weighing
proposals concerning the Kod
iak and Alaska Peninsula areas
Roland L. McKernan, Alas
ka fisheries administrator,
proposed yesterday that a 500
yard area at the mouth of the
Karluk River be closed to
insure added escapement of de
pleted red safltmon to spawning
areas.
McKernan also proposed
short progressive closures a
long the route the fish follow
down the northeast coast of
Kodiak Island.
While pink salmon runs off
Kodiak have remained healthy
the red salmon yield has not,
McKernan said. The red sal
mon pack has been reduced
from about 120.000 cases in
;he 1930’s to 18,000 in 1955.
William Calvert Of the San
Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
and Aubin Barthold of the Al
ask Packers Association asked
for time to study the plan.
Witnesses may submit supple
mentary briefs up to Novem
ber 16.
McKernan said, “The pink
salmon picture off the Alaska
Peninsula is very bad.” From
a 1936 high of 500,000 cases1
the yield has fallen to less1
than 100.000 cases.
The Wildlife service feels
l the answer to rehabilitation of
the pink salmon runs off the
peninsula lies in closinig the
(continued or; pace four’
Deplorable says j
Magnuson of some
situations in teri\
SEATTLE (/P) Several “de
plorable” situations in Alaska’
and Pacific northwest fisher-1
ies. shipping and land and air
transport “merit the immedi
ate attention of congress and
other responsible federal algen
cies.” Sen. Warren G. Mag
nus on (D-Wash) said yester- j
day.
Senator Maignuson, chair- j
man olf the senate interstate
and foreign committee, has
headed a subcommittee which
has been holdintg hearings in
Alaska and Seattle. They were
concluded here yesterday.
“The hearings are over, but
the problems uncovered must
be solved,” he commented.
In a general summary of
what 'the hearings sessions
had brought out, Senator Mag
nuson said:
“Lake and stream fertiliza
tion in Alaska, coupled with
conservation measures and
predator control steps which
have been described in con
siderable detail, hold promise
for Alaska salmon.
; “But all the studies in the
world, by the Fish and Wild
■ life service and other agencies
j (continued on page three)
Government has
interest in furniture
JUNEAU (ZP) Judge Walter
H. Hodge this morning decided
that the government despite
•lack of claim of such by its a
gent, the FEA does have an in
terest in the ownership of fur
niture of the Cathedral apart
ments at Sitka.
The case wthiCh had taken on
the overtures of a legal hanger
from its inception yesterday,
concerns an effort by stockhold
ers of the Cathedral Building
Corp. to restrain foreclosure on
the 36 unit apartment building
which was foreclosed by FHA
last January for default of mort
gage payments.
Stockholders John and Mar
tha Cushing and Dr. William C.
Chatteris, oil of Sitka, assert
the furniture is their personal
property and does not come
under the terms of the mort
gage contract.
They are seeking the value
of the furniture plus rentails.
Several times during yester
day’s trial session Judge Hodge
expressed his perplexity about
the issues involved since the
FHA’s own witnesses have not
claimed any right to the furni
ture. Assistant FHA director
Robert C. Magnuson and former
Alaska director Clarence A.
Caroll yesterday testified that
not only had the FHA not se
cured its mortgage insurance
with the furniture but that the
FHA policy has always been to
disclaim any interest in furni
ture.
juaige rioage mis inoimiig,
whilie restating his conclusion,
ruled that the FHA had a right
to disclaim such ownership. !
Effect of the judges ruling
was to reverse the positions of
the parties in 'the case.
_——
President approves
major overall
attack on crime
DENVER (/P) President Ei
senhower approved today a
major program designed to stiim
ulate an overall attack on crime
in this country in a 25 minute
conference) with Atty. Gen.
Brownell.
Brownell outlined the pro
gram at a news conference in
which he refused to discuss
whether he thought President
Eisenhower would run again
since he said he thought it wou
ld be “entirely inappropriate”
at this time.
The judicial program for the
! fiscal year 1956, which Brown
! ell said the president approved
would call for:
j i — Lelgisation making it a
I “criminal offense” to invade
the privacy oif a jury while It
is deliberating on a case. This
grew out of developments dur
ing a recent trial in Wichita,
Kansas.
2 — Construction of a $9,
000,000 “maximum custody”
prison in the midiwest to house
criminals of the type now sent
to Alcatraz, Leavenworth and
Atlanta; and of a $7,500,500 in
stitution west olf the Mississi
ppi river for the treatment and
: imprisonment of youthful o»f
| fenders similar to those from
the east now housed at Ash
land, Ky.
3 — Appointment of public
(continued on page four)
Russia fries to get unlimited
debate on armament in U.N.
Claims attempt to
delay report of
big-nation comm.
UNITED NATIONS (/P) Rus
sia demanded today a fulll de
bate on disarmament in the U.
N. assembly political commit
tee, without waning for disarm
ament decisions by the Bilg 4
foreign ministers.
Arkady A. Sobolev, penman
ent Soviet delegate to the U. N.
made the demand in the 12 na
tion U. N. disarmament commis
sion.
He accused the commission
of attempting to delay a report
on disarmament debates of its
big-nation subcommittee. Furth
er delays would be harmful,
i he said.
“If has been alleged that dis
cussion jof disarmament here
would interfere with or pre
vent discussion by the Big Four
ministers,” Sobolev said. “But
disarmament was a major topic
of all the general policy state
ments in the assembly. Every
member of the United Nations
has the right to debate this sub
jeet.”
Sir Leslie Munro, New Zea
lander who is also chairman of
the assembly political commit
tee, quickly protested the Sov
iet request.
He said the commission coma
not give the general assembly
an intelligent report on the dis
armament discussions until it
had studied the verbatim re
ports from the 47 dosed meet
ings of the subcommittee. The
meetings began in London last
sprinlg and resumed here Ang.
29 on the instructions of ’.he
Big Four summit meeting. The
reports made a pile oif docu- j
ments a foot and a half high on
Munro’s desk.
His statement was regarded
as mirroring the over-all posi
tion of the Western powers.
Israel launches
drive for funds to
buy armaments
JERUSALEM, Isreal Sector
(/P) Premier Moshe Sharett
! made the drive for funds to buy
Israel arms official today with
a broadcast appeal for contri
butions by Israeli citizens in
all walks of life.
snarett urged mat ail con
tribute to the limit of your abil
ity” 'because the purchase of
heavy armaments will require
“many millions of Israeli pou
nds which have no coverage in
: this year’s ordinary (budget.”
i He referred to “the imipend
, ing decisive military advant
! age of Egypt ’— an enemy of
j the country planning aggression
' against Israel’ and said, “citiz
; ens must realize this danger
' and give money Ifor arms purch
’ ases without delay.”
Egypt, which recently an
! nounced it will purchase arms
from communist Czechoslovak
ia, also is conducting a financi
al campaign amonlg its citizens
to pay for them.
The Big Four foreign minist
ers meet at Geneva Oct. 2J7.
The disarmament commis
sion subcommittee — composed,
of the United States, Britain,
France, the Soviet Union, and
Canada — recessed sessions
here Oct. 7. They were dead
locked over disarmament p^lans
especially on U. S. insistence
that President Eisenhower’s
“open sky” plan toe adapted as
a prelude to disarmament.
Under that plan, the United
States and the Soviet Union
wound exchange aerial recon
naissance and defense blue
prints to prevent surprise at
tack.
Sobolev told the commission
— composed of the 11 security
council members and Canada—
that everybody agrees of the
necessity of measures to avert
surprise attack.
That, together with close
ness of agreement on the nec
essity of reducing armed forces
and the necessity Of continuing
inspection make it desirable to
open the disarmament detoate
here, Sobolev said. He said
there was now a definite poss
ibility of reaching agreement.
He blamed the United States
for blocking progress :in the
closed suib-committee sessions.
Henry Calbot Lodge, Jr., the
chief U. S. delegate, listened in
tently.
Expect trouble in
Saar plebescite
SAARRRUCKEN, Saar (iP)
Saar police tightened their pre
cautions today agains'l possible
disorders as the hotly disputed
weekend plebiscite on the bor
der territorys future approach
ed.
Saarlanders will vote Sun
day for or aigainst the French
German plan to give their coun
try a “European” autonomy un
der Western European Union.
“From now on, as the cam
paign closes, things will get
tougher and tougher,” a high
r police official predicted..
Members of the international
I commission on neutral observ
ers supervising the plebiscite
were known to fear an invasion
of rowdies from Western Ger
many in the next 48 hours.
Set general election
PARIS (/P) Premier Edgar
Faiure said tonight his govern
ment has agreed to submit a
bill to the French national as
sembly next week asking for
new General elections in the
first half of Dcember.
I
Marine forecast frohi Friday
to Saturday.
Outside waters Cape Spencer
to Dixon Entrance west to north
west winds 15 to 25 mph this
afternoon and backing to south
westerly ,10 to 20 mph this ev^*
ening. Becoming south td south *
east 15 to 25 mph late tonight, f
Partly cloudy with occasion
ail snow or rain showers today, V
, Cloudy with rain tonight.