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Sitka's Home-Owned Newspaper
Interpreting News
by J. M. Roberts
A. P. New* Analyst
Red Chiniai has a serious
grain shortage is requiring farm
ers to deliver a larger share of
their crops to the government
and is (taking other stringent
farm regimentation measures.
The United States has a grain
surplus, largely owned by the
government, wthich. is a serious
enonomiic embarrassment.
Red China, among other
things is seeking through
the Geneva discussions to get
a relaxation of the complete
trade embargo imposed by the
United States, and olf the em
bargo on strategic materials
maintained by other nations of
the free world.
The United States, among oth
er things, is seeking at Geneva
to get Red China to renounce
the uise of force pending settle
ments by peaceful means of Far
Eastern issues. The Reds seek
an immediate high-level confer
ence on these issues.
Here then are two nations,
one considering the other bar
barous and a violator of world
opinion as an aggressor, but
each having something the oth
er vitally Wan lb .
The United States is banking
heavily on the pressure df Rus
sia’s internal need's to provide
the basis of compromise when
the foreign ministers meet at
Geneva in a few days.
Perhaps there is an internal
situation in China which could
be responsible. Several years
ago China greatly relaxed the
communist “line” with regard
to agriculture in an effort to
improve production. Private
borrowing and selling in farm
land was permitted in order
that more efficient [farmers
might procure holdings of work
able size.
Rut at the same time taxes
in-kind drove workers from the
land, and spreading industrial
ization lured them to the cities
Mow the rate of prdgress in in
dustry has outstripped agricul
ture and farmers are showing
iiftle interest in providing for
urban people who have reeeiv
ed tby far the lion’s share of(
the benefits from an improved
general economy.
Mow the Peiping regime has
announced renewal df the orig
inal collectivization program
in an effort to do by force what
it has not been able to do by
other means. Tt admits a ‘"tense
situation.”
A “tense situation” with re
gard to China’s food supply
doesn’t mean belt tightening.
“Where [few ever have even what
other peoples consider a bare (
subsistence, any sort of short-'
age means not malnutrition,
but starvation.
The situation, then, would ap
pear to contain the factors for
successful trading, in commod
ities which mean much to both
sides. But Red logic is not the
same as ours.
RICHARD PERKINS WINS
ALASKA DAY ESSAY PRIZE
by Mary Frances Hall
The Alaska Day Festival
Committee wishes ’to thank all
the Sitka High and Mt. Edge
cumibe students who painted
posters and who wrote compo
sitions in the essay contest,
for the Alaska Day Festival.
After careful judging of all the
essays the composition written
by Richard Perkins, a sopho
more at Sitka High School,
was awarded the first prize of
five dollars, and Foetch G.
Wagner won the second prize
of one dollar. From Mt. Edge
cnmibe High school came the
prize winner Walter Baldwin,
with Victor Willock winning
second prize. .
in tne art department,at Mt.
Edgecumbe many very origin
al and festive posters were fa
shioned, and the judges had a
hard time choosing the (best
one. They finally picked Clif
ford Black’s poster for the
five dollar prize. All students
please pick up your awards
money at Vi’s Apparel shop
from George Beacom, and we
hope you will enter in the com
petition next year with your
ALASKA DAY NOTES
by Mary Frances Hall
Behind every worthwhile
project is usually a prominent
figure, ia dynamo of energy
charged with enough enthusi
asm, and geared with enough
common sense to carry the
project safely through all cri
ses to a successful conclusion.
The worthwhile project in
Sitka was the Alaska Day Fes
tival, and the man behind the
whole panorama was George
Beacom.
| The Alaska Day Festival
j commit}:ee wishes to publicly
thank him for doing such a
truly wonderful job in direct
ing and actively pitching-in to
help each and every Alaska
Day Festival committee sec
tion. We could not begin to
enumerate all 'the various jobs
he did, and did so well to make
the Festival so enjoyable; So
again we say thanks George
Beacom for putting so much of
your time, enepgy and self in
to the Alaska Day Festival.
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- In and Around Sitka -
ILASKA COASTAL PLANE
PASSENGER LIST
Arriving Tuesday:
Governor B. Frank Heinltzle
roan, Henry Wentz, Carroll
Greilger, William Spear, -Mr.
and 'Mrs. Jess Ison, M. H. Fritz
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Getman,
C. Peterson and Mr. Fueff 'from
Juneau.
Leaving Tuesday:
Larry, Julia, Bill and Andy
Brady and infant, Fred Nelson
Harry Halofif, Mr. Feather
stone, Mr. and Mrs. George
Jorgenson, Dick Johnstone. Mr
and 'Mrs. Hanlon, David Han
lon, Mrs. Jessie Gray, M. Rich
ards, Fred Morris to Juneau
Bernice Stokke and J. Cav
anaugh to Petersburg
J. McKane to Ketchikan
Hans Basina 'to Chatham
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NATIONAL FOREST
TIMBER FOR SALE '
LOCATION AND AMOUNT —
This sale includes 5,250,000
000 board feet, more or less,
of merchantable timber of
wediern hemlock, Sitka
spruce, western red-cedar
and Alaska-cedar and other
species designated for cutt
ing within Pulptimber Allot
ments B and H and also under
certain conditions set out in
the contract within a portion
of Pulptimber Allotment C or
Pulptimber Allotment A-l, in
the general vicinity of Baron
oiff, Chichagof and Kuiu Is
lands within the Tongass Na
tional Forest, Alaska. The
boundaries of these Pulptimb
er Allotments and the princi
pal areas reserved from cut
ting or given other special
status by the terms of the con
tract are shown on maps on
file at the Office of the Chief,
Forest Service, Washington,
D. C. and the Regional Forest
er, Juneau, Alaska.
SALE CONDITIONS — A
sample timber sale contract
which fully states the condi
tions of sale is available on
request from the Regional
Forester, Juneau, Alaska, or
the Chief, Forest Service,
South Ahgiculture Building,
Washington 25, D, C.
STUMPAGE PRICES — The
appraised value of the timber
according to long-term normal
market and operating condi
tions is $2.05 per thousand
board feet (for Sitka spruce,
$1.30 per thousand board feet
for western hemlock, western
redcedar, AHaska-cedar and
other species. No bid will be
considered which is less than
these rates as a base rate ap
plicable (through the entire
period of the sale contract,
plus at least $0.55 per thous
and board feet for! Sitka
spruce, $0.15 per thousand
board ifeelt for western hem
lock and $0.05 for western
redoedar, Alaska-cedar and
other species, the (total to ap
ply to all timber cut prior to
July 1, 1971. Rates for all
species and products are sub
ject to redetermination by the
Forest Service on July 1, 1971,
and at five-year intervals
thereafter. In no event shall
redetermined rates be less
than the base rates set forth
in this paragraph, nor shall
rates lower than those bid be
come effective until 250,000,
000 board feet of timber has
been paid for, cut and scaled.'
In addition to the prices bid
for stumjpage, a deposit of
$.30 per M board feet for all
material scaled as logis will
be required tfor use by the
Forest Service in improve
ment of the future aland oif
timber on the areas cut over.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR BID
PVT. NELSON FRANK
COMPLETES COURSE
Miarine Pvt. Nelson D. Frank
son of David L. Frank of Sitka
graduated in Septemiber from
a two-week school in atomic,
biological and chemical war
fare alt the list Marine Divis
ion’s schools center at Camp
Pendleton. Calif.
MT. EDGECUMBE
HOSPITAL ROSTER
Louis Basco and Sarah
Thompson of Sitka and Aimer
Vickers of Juneau were admit
ted Monday to Mt. Edgecumlbe
hospital. Timothy Smith was
discharged to Hooper Bay.
Tuengel case
directed verdid. based on the
contention the landlord or ten
ant were not liable for Tuen
gel’s injury & that no evidence
was presented oil wififul negli
gence.
Crux of the dispute is con
flicting testimony about the
lighting of the hospital hallway
and existence of a sign reading
“Basement” on the door open
ing to the (basement. Tuengel,
who says he was misdirected to
the room of the patient whose
hair he had (been called to cut,
testified, with two other wit
nesses, that there was no sign.
Witnesses Ifor (the defense testi
fied there was such a sign and
the defense produced pholto
praphs showing the sign.
The jury is expected to reach
its decision some time today.
Another civil suit involving
members of the Cathedral Build
ing Corp. of Sitka is next on
the docket.
—
i ANCHORAGE {/P) John
Sponheim, GO, of Seattle, was
found dead in his room at a
local hotel Monday. Police said
death was (apparently due to
! natural causes. He was a car
penter who had recenty come
to Anchorage from a job at the
port of Whittier.
DING — Parties wishing to
enter bids must file with the
Regional Forester, P. O. Box
1631, Juneau, Alaska, on or
before January 11, 1956, state
menus evidencing: (1) their
financial and other resources
to make surveys, designs and
plans needed prior to opera
tion and construction; (2)
general manner in which the
entire project will be financed
if the bidder is declared the
successful one; (3) names,
business standing and exper-i
ience of the prospective bid
der and his associates in lhe<
manufacture and distribution
of forest products, and in the
construction or operation of
industrial projects; and (4)
the principal features of their!
plan for opera.inig, process-j
ing and marketing the timber!
which the prospective bidder
will follow if he is the suc
cessful bidder and qualifies
for final award. The 'Regional
Forester will inform each ap
plicant on or before January
18, 1956, whether he . has
qualified as a bidder. No ap
plicant will be approved as a
bidder unless his statement
shows, in the opinion of the
Foresee Service, reasonable
evidence that he will be able
to qualify for the final award
of the timber sale contract.
The right is reserved upon
published notice prior to Jan
uary 10, 1956, to extend the
date for receipt oif qualifying
statements and of bids.
Prior to July 1, 1958, the suc
cessful bidder will be requir
ed to show that he has im
mediately available, or will
have available as needed, suf
ficient funds to provide the
improvements, equipment, and
working capital necessary to
enable him to meet the re
quirements of the contract.
As a minimum such showing
before final award must in
clude evidence that a fund of
at leasii1 $15,000,000 will be
availalble to draw on for plant
construction. An extension of
time for qualification for final
award beyond January 1,
1059, may be granted by the
Chief, Forest Service, if the
successful bidder has demon
strated good faih through
substantial expenditures on
essential surveys, designs and
plans and has evidenced his
ability to qualify within such
extended period.
DEPOSIT AND BOND —. In
addition to qualifying for bid
ding, any person entering a
bid at ithe auction must post
with the Forest Officer in
charlge as a guarantee, a bank
draft or certified, check in the
amount of $25,000. payable ito
the Forest Service, USDA;
which will, in the case of the f
successful bidder, be applied j
to the purchase price of the'
I timber or retained as liquid
ated damages. Remittances
of unsuccessful bidders will
be returned immediately af
ter completion oif the auction.
Within fourteen days of de
signation alt the auction the
successful bidder must also
deposit with the Forest Ser
vice negotiable securities of
the United States to the value
of $75,000 (face value) or
make an additional deposit of
$75,000 payable to the Forest
Service, USDA, as an addi
tional guarantee of qualifica
tion for final award and ex
ecution of the sale contract
within the specified time
limits. In event the success
ful bidder fails to furnish a
financial statement, to ex
ecute the sale contract and to
furnish the bond required by
its terms by January 1, 1959,
or not to exceed such addi
tional extension of time as
may be granted by the Chief,
Forest Service, then, in view
of the difficulty of estimating
the actual damages which will
be sustained thereby, said de
posits and said securities
shall be retained by the Unit
ed States as liquidated dam
ages. Upon furnishing these
financial statements, execut
ing the contract, and furnish
ing the bond, the additional
deposit of $75,000 will be re
turned to the purchaser.
AUCTION BIDDING *— Oral
auction bids will be received
by the Regional Forester, Fed
eral and Territorial Building,
Juneau, Alaska, startinlg at
10:00 a. m. on January 25,
1956. Bach qualified bidder
must. Drier tn thp hocrinnirnr
of the auction, submit a seal
ed bid as a qualification to
participial e in the oral bid
ding. Preliminary award to
the highest qualified bidder
will be made at the close of
bidding. Such high bidder
must thereupon immediately
sign a ' Bid for Advertised
Tirhber” at the highest rate
bid by him at the acution.
The right to reject any and
all bids is reserved.
PLANT CONSTRUCTION RE
QUIREMENTS — The con
tract contains requirements
for installation of a pulpmill,
and also a schedule of dates
on which various showings
required of the purchaser are
due. Prospective bidders
should familiarize themselves
wilth these requirements. Full
information concerning the
character of the timber, con
ditions of sale, and require
ments to qualify as a bidder,
may be obtained from the
Chief. Forest Service, South
Agriculture Building, Wash
ington 25, D. C., or the Re
gional Forester, Juneau, Al
aska.
Published Oct. 19, Nov. 22, ’55