Rehabilitation
Of Salmon
Sought In Bills
A bill introduced recently in the
House of Representatives by Rep.
Ralph J. Rivers and more recently
in the Senate by Sen. Ernest
Gruening is designed to further
commercial fisheries rehabilitation
and development.
The bills, co-sponsored by col
leagues in the House and Senate
from coastal states, increases the
present allocation of 30 per cent
of import duties on fish and shell
fish, under provisions of the Sal
tonstall-Kennedy Act, for transfer
(to the Department of the Interior
for domestic fishery programs, by
an additional 30 per cent and au
thorize, allocation of this addi
tional 30 per cent to the states on
a pro-rata basis.
Rep. Rivers, in his remarks be
fore Congress reviewed the history
of salmon in Alaska, which he said
goes back to 1878 when the first
canneries were established. By
1928, he said, Alaska had become
the world’s principal salmon pro
ducer, and fisheries the territories
largest single source of revenue.
The salmon pack, he said, in
creased from about 2 million cases
in 1906 to over 6 million cases in
1928 and over 8-million cases in
1936.
The increases over the years, he
said, were due to overfishing by
means of fish traps and intensive
seine fishing. From then on the
runs began to decline, until, by
1941, the pack dropped to 6,906,503
cases. The continuing decline
brought the Alaska salmon pack
to the low ebb of 1,600,000 cases in
1959.
“My bill just introduced,” Rep.
Rivers stated, “would create an
other fund, also composed of an
amount equivalent to 30 per cent
of the gross receipts derived from
duties imposed on imports of fish
ery products.” The Secretary of the
Interior, he said, would apportion
the money to the States according
to a formula based upon the pro
portion which the value of raw fish
landed and the value of manufac
tured fishery products of each
State bears to the total of such
items attributed to all of the par
ticipating States.
“Under this formula,” Rep. Riv
ers stated, “Alaska would get about
$600,000 per year from the second
fund to use under its own manage
ment for fishery rehabilitation pro
jects including stream clearance
and spawning ground develop
ment.”
Sen. Gruening stated in a recent
newsletter that the National Fish
eries Institute, meeting recently in
Washington, D. C., through its
legislative committee, gave ap
proval to his bill, S.1230. 22 other
senators from coastal cities, he
said, co-sponsored the bill.
Naval Station
Births
A daughter, Angela Dee, weigh
ing 7 lbs. 214 ozs., was born on May
1 to Sally Mae and William E. Leist
ner, AL1, USOG.
A son, Frederick, weighing 6
lbs. 13 ozs., was born on April 27
to Mary Lou and Frederick Joseph
Ferrari, Lt., USN.
A son, Sabin Gregory, weighing
6 lbs. 4 ozs., was born on April 30
to Mary Sue and Howard Bates,
EN3, USN.
A son, Matthew Jon, weighing 7
lbs. 2 ozs., was born on April 27
to Marjorie Claire and Louis Her
schel Sparks, AC2-P1, USN.
Sunrise — Sunsets
MAY Sunrise Sunset
6 . 4:07 8:07
7 . 4:05 8:09
8 . 4:03 8:11
9 . 4:01 8:13
10 . 3:59 8:15
11 . 3:57 8:17
12 . 3:54 8:19
Clam diggers had several field
days, and no doubt many tables
boasted fresh clams in one form or
another—chowder, fried, steamed
or what have you. Weekend tides
and most of this week were minus.
Saturday is the la&t of them until
later this month, with a -0.3 tide
prevailing.
SOUGHT—James S. Stephens,
16, above, of Holland, Mich., is
being sought in the slaying of
two neighboring school girls.
Their bodies were found cov
ered by leaves a short distance
from their homes.
(AP Wirephoto)
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Speaker Attacks
Fallacies About
U. S. Farmers
“The estimated farm population
(April 1960), 15,635,000, was about
the same as the farm population a
hundred years ago when half of the
people of this country were on
farms.
“According to the 1959 agricul
ture census, those who don’t live
on farms now outnumber those
who do by more than nine to one.
“The public image of agriculture
has been distorted by too much
stress on problems created by sur
pluses and by too little information
about the benefits of abundance.”
These statements were made by
Dr. Frank J. Welch, Assistant Sec
retary of Agriculture who spoke
before the Symposium of Poultry
Health in Washington, D. C. last
month.
Dr. Welch said the United States
has contrived the best system of
agriculture research and education
the world has even seen.
Commenting on what he terms
the fallacies about agriculture in
the minds of the public, the sec
retary lists five fallacies which he
said have gained widespread cur
rency. “The first is the fallacy that
food costs are increasing much
faster than other living costs and
are responsible for inflation. The
fact is that U. S. consumers pay
about the same share of their in
come for food (21 to 23 per cent)
as in the years immediately before
World War II. . . . Rent, transpor
tation and medical care have gone
up twice as much as food in the
past ten years.
“The second fallacy is Chat the
farmer is chiefly responsible for
the cost of food . . . the famer
doesn’t even get half of the food
dollar ... on the average, in 1960,
it was only 39 cents.
“A third fallacy is that farmers
are getting rich at the expense of
the rest of us. The fact is that the
average per capita income of the
farm population from all sources
in 1960 was less than a thousand
dollars ($986). Average per capita
income of the non-farm population
was two and one-third times as
great. Total net income for all
farms in the United States aver
aged $2,568 in 1960.
“A fourth widely accepted fal
lacy is that farm support programs
are wasteful. They encourage the
buildup of surpluses. What is not
recognized is that support pro
grams are necessary to protect our
investments in agriculture. We
have built an agricultural plant
without historic parallel in the
abundance and diversity of its out
put. We have built an agricultural
plant that produces nearly two
thirds of all the raw materials used
by the American economy and that
ranks with the best anywhere in
the efficient use of land and labor.
“Between 92 and 95 per cent of
our agricultural abundance moves
through regular marketing chan
nels. Production is fairly closely
adjusted to demand for livestock
products and fruits and vegetables.
Our surpluses are chiefly in wheat,
feed grains, and cotton-storable
crops that, if necessary, can be
used to meet emergencies at home
or in other parts of the world.
“The fifth fallacy is that the
cheapest way to solve the problem
of surpluses is to make drastic cuts
in farm research.”
Dr. Welch summarized his re
marks by stating the great need
for research, the growing knowl
edge of nutrition, a knowledge of
the compisition of foods and man's
need for different foods for health
at various stages of life.
“Farm programs must be revised
in light of advancing technology,
promise of new markets, changing
foreign policies.
U. S. agriculture faces many
crucial problems,” he concluded.
“Our success in meeting them de
pends on full understanding and
support of this work by the public.”
Historic Signs
Now In Place
“Welcome to Kodiak” signs and
eleven historic site signs are now
in place, according to Dr. Bob
Johnson, president of the Kodiak
Chamber of Commerce. The signs
were replaced by City crews this
week.
These attractive signs were pur
chased by the Chamber, and made
by a firm in Seattle. “We wish to
thank the City for placing the
signs,” Dr. Johnson stated. “They
are now in place for the King Crab
Festival, and will assist visitors in
identifying some of the historic
sites in Kodiak."
At South Kingstown, Rhode Is
land, Alexander Kogut has pre
sented the town council with a bill
for $1.89. He says it’s for a wind
shield wiper broken on his car
when a patrolman put a parking
ticket under it.
Police in San Francisco say 41
year-old Alleyn J. Bertantz missed
a turn while driving her conver
tible. The car jumped a curt) and
entered a bedroom of a house on
one side and came out the other
side—through the walls. Neither
the driver nor a woman in the
house, who was reaching for the
bedroom dooricnob at the time, was
injured.
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