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carefully as we want your story to
be accurate of course.” Close ex
amination of the chart’s legend
showed the date—“1905.”
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Have had occasion to listen to
Emil Knudsen report to the Cham
ber of Commerce on progress of
the proposed Lost Fishermen’s
Memorial which is to be located in
the Small Boat Harbor area. We
go along wholeheartedly with pres
ent plans which call for a simple,
yet dignified, memorial not en
tailing costly bronze castings. After
it is completed, however, we would
like to suggest that it be sup
plemented with a “living” type me
morial . . . one taking the form of
scholarships for outstanding stu
dents whose fathers are lost fish
ermen.
NOW HEAR THIS . . . With the
Legislature and Congress both get
ting ready to settle down o busi
ness again all elements of the fish
ing industry will have a job keep
ing track of various bills affecting
their interests. State Senator Brad
Phillips, Anchorage Republican,
has announced he is introducing a
bill to permit commercial fisher
men to work in all of Alaska’s fish
ing areas. The licenses would, be
good anywhere in Alaska, Phillips
says, and would permit packers to
take better advantage of local per
sonnel during the fishing season.
He said fishermen would be able
to work where the fish are instead
of gambling the season on their
ability to predict the location of
good runs. Present regulations re
quire commercial fishermen to be
licensed by specific fishing dis
tricts. Just thought you’d like to
know about this particular idea.
&
Kodiak promoters better start
promoting quickly on the matter
of enlarging our small boat har
bor facilities. Other communities
are avidly eying the half million
dollars the state has left for in
ner facilities purposes from ma
rine gasoline taxes. Anchorage,
Juneau and Seward are making
every effort to get their pro
grams readied for consdieration
by the upcoming legislative ses
sion. According to statements
made by another Anchorage
legislator a serious attempt will
be made to divert our Kodiak
Homer ferry into some sort of
floating tourist hotel scheme.
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Del Valentine, whom many will
recall was here with Halferty’s, is
this month taking over as superin
tendent of PAF’s Petersburg Can
nery. . . . Coast Guard Capt. A. E.
Harned of Juneau has been ap
pointed Anchorage Port Director.
. . . We concur with the editorial
position of the Petersburg Press
endorsing Gov. Egan’s suggestion
of the creation of a cabinet level
department of fisheries and ocean
ography. Considering President
Kennedy’s somewhat lukewarm re
ception of this idea, we suggest
that perhaps somebody start whis
pering into Senator Ted Kennedy’s
ear about this idea . . . after all,
Massachusetts also has an import
ant stake in American fisheries
too! . . . We note that the Peters
burg High School teaches a course
in seamanship . . . they’re one
jump ahead of us there. ... Alaska
Steam received strong support this
past week from the Cordova Cham
ber of Commerce, and more im
portantly, the state is backing their
position insofar as operation of
the three Knot vessels is con
Attention
Bowlers
The Alaska Bowling Proprietors
Association will hold its first
annual
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cerned.. . . Overfishing of the Ber
ing sea by Russian and Japanese
fleets in the past few years has
cut down the number and size of
bottomfish in the Bering, accord
ing to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service report . . . ain’t this inter
esting . . . ’specially in light of the
.recent move to open the Bering to
them for halibut-.. . JFK’s budget
includes $2,650,000 to build a fish
ery research vessel for the North
Pacific and Bering Sea. He also
asked for $35,000 to design a gear
research vessel and $100,000 to de
sign and exploratory fishing ves
sel—all for use by the U.S. Bureau
of Commercial Fisheries... . From
Tokyo now comes word that our
Japanese neighbors are demanding
revision of the four-power fur seal
agreement so as to permit sealing
on the open seas. Reminds me of
that saying . . . “Give ’em an inch
. . . etc., etc.”
PACIFIC FISHERMAN NOTES:
Friends here of Roy Rickey will
recognize him on page 5 of the
January Pacific Fisherman maga
zine. . . . “We are sure that the
Soviet Union will fish for King
Crab south of the Aleutian Islands
and the Alaska Peninsula in 1963;
and that means that we must fish
there also, some day,” sez “Knowl
edgeable Japanese spokesman,” ac
cording to an article on Page 21.
. . . New England Fish Co. will ad
vertise canned salmon “on a scale
unprecented in the merchadising
history of that industry,” begin
ning with four full-color, full-page
advertisements in the Feb. 22,
March 8, 22 and April 5 editions of
Life Magazine, sez a report on Page
32. . . . Our own Oscar Dyson ap
pears in a formal group photo of
the Alaska Fish and Game Board
on Page 33.
Opening Of Bids For Kodiak Ferry
Postponement of a scheduled
opening of bids for construction
of a vessel to operate over the
Southwest Alaska marine highway
route was announced today by
Commissioner of Public Works
Richard A. Downing.
He said complications in the de
sign of the ships automobile ele
vator prevented the naval archi
tectural firm from completing re
vised design at this time.
The redesign is necessary in or
der that the cost of the ship can
be kept within available funds.
An allocation of $3,000,000 in
State bond funds is available for
construction of a car and passen
ger-carrying vessel to connect Ko
diak with the highway network of
mainland Alaska.
Downing said some $d4,uuu win
have been spent on design and
specifications, leaving the remain
der available for meeting the ves
sel’s construction costs.
Commissioner Downing esti
mated delay in receipt of the re
vised specifications will postpone
the bid opening for approximately
39 days.
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