lENAI fall festival to be HELD AUGUST, 24
riday, August 24 is the date
the Kenai Fall Festival,
ious committees are busy in
>aration for the big event,
tors from all the Peninsula
munities are cordially in
d to participate in the Festi
Come and get acquainted
1 your neighbors! Come and
>y the fun! If you can’t come,
send your produce exhibits with
the Matanuska Valley Bus Fri
day August 24.
Among recent visitors in Ke
nai were Bernice and Harry
Heckel and their friends Mr. and
Mrs. Edward R. Flynn, all of
Anchorage. The visitors spent a
week on the Kenai Peninsula
visiting friends in Homer, Kasi
lotf and Kenai.
Mrs. Margaret Hafemeister,
District Worker, Kenai Penin
sula for the Territorial Welfare
Department, spent a few days
in Kenai on official business.
Mrs. Hafemeister was assisted by
Public Health Nufrse, Shirley
Denison.
U. S. Commissioner, R. W.
Castleberry and Deputy U. S.
Marshal Allan Peterson drove
to Ninilchick on official business
this week.
Construction and improve
ments continue in the communi
ty. A basement excavation for a
new house for Mike Juliussen
was dug by D. C. Walker. Mor
ris Coursen excavated a base
ment for the new house being
built by Raymond Gee. A vol
unteer crew of workers from
Kasilof, Homer and Seward as
sisted with the cement pouring
at the Kenai Chapel. R. W.
Castleberry is having an addi
tion built on his store building
which will increase the present
store space by 50 per cent. The
work is being done by Peter
Kalifomsky and Ralph Petter
sen. Mr. Castleberry operates
the Kenai Mercantile Store.
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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22, 1951
tov. Dewey Guest Of Alaska Governor
fNEAU (AP) — Republican
Thomas E. Dewey of New
was the dinner and house
t last night of Democratic
Ernest Gruening of Alaska,
e two-time Republican
i i n e e for president was
ked away to the Democratic
■rnor's mansion from the
port yesterday afternoon
e the official heads of the
tblican Party in Alaska
l by. The Republicans met
ey at the airport, along with
■rnor and Mrs. Gruening.
public reception was held
for Governor Dewey at the
;ion.
vernor Dewey appeared a
veary and curt, after the
flight from Seattle, at the
of a seven-week tour of
rar East.
swering a ne.vsman's ques
abruptly as he walked
with Governor Gruening,
?y said:
ve always been for state
for Alaska.”
also expressed the opinion
large standing armies mas.
;pt m Western Europe and
tor protection of the demu
rs. He declined to comment
question about the •■Draft
hower” movement,
en Governor Gruening
sted a drive to scenic Men
lll Glacier, the New York
rnor replied:
e just flew over it.”
also passed up an invita
for an immediate visit to
Jruenings' picturesque
on the Eagle River, a
of miles outside Juneau,
vernor Dewey is scheduled
sit Ketchikan, Anchorage
'airbanks during the weeK.
iy he is to be in Kotzebue,
kimo village north of Ber
trait and north of the Arc
rcle. He is to dedicate a
lirport there.
ding Republicans who met
V at the airport were Ei
ngstrom, Alaska National
litteeman; Mrs. Albert
, National Committeewo
and White, the controver
arty leader who bears the
f General Counsel. All are
political foes of Alaska’s
:ratic governor.
Fires Still Take Toll
On West Coast
(By Ihe Associated Press)
Fires continued to chew into
the huge timber stands of the
West Coast today as many areas
began their 101st day without
rainfall.
Danger of the new outbreaks
was ever present with new ma
jor fires being reported from
British Columbia.
Logging operations were shut
down tight in Oregon and Wash
ington as half a dozen big fires
ran wild, spurred by low humid
ity and high temperatures.
In northern California light
ning had kindled some 300
blazes since last Saturday.
To the north in the Nelson
Forest district of Britisn Colum
bia, 1.600 men wer struggling
against 32 fires, one of them
covering 8.000 acres
Foresters said the west coast
fire potential was the highest
in 30 years.
Csmimies Decrease
11,000 in Year's Time
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mem
bership in the U. S. Communist
Party has dropped from 54,174
to 43,217 in a year’s time, FBI
director J. Edgar Hoover has
told Senators.
And each party member now
has back of him seven to eight
fellow travellers, as against ten
several weeks ago. Hoover told
a Senate Appropriations Sub
committee March 1 while testi
fying in support of his request
for funds. His testimony was
made public today.
But Hoover cautioned that the
remaining party members con
stitute “a hare core dedicated to
sabotage and to militant revolt
against this country if and when,
the time comes.”
TWO LOCAL BOYS RETURN
Stanley Anderson and Antril
Suydam, both local boys, re
turned after spending a year in
the States. They both finished
their last year of high school
while Outside, Stanley in New
port, Oregon and Antril in Lin
coln County High School, Los
Angeles.
Moose Pass
Ray Woods, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. G. Woods recently re
turned from a visit in Anchor
age with his grandparents.
Last Wednesday evening the
ladies of Moose Pass gave a
surprise Bon Voyage party for
Mrs. Leora Roycroft who left
on the SS Denali for Seattle.
The guests all gathered at Mrs.
Roycroft's home at 7:00 p. m.
Canasta preceeded the opening
of the gifts. Cake and coffee
were served by the hostesses,
Mrs. Ray Foster. TKrs. T. L.
Wolfe and Mrs. Salman Pear
son . • *.
Mr. T. L. Wolfe^recently re
turned from a trip Outside.
Pr. Rjpert-Kefchikan
Air Service
OTTAWA (AP) — The Cana
dian A:r Transport Eoard an
nounced today it has approved
a license for Queen Charlotte
Airlines, LTD., to operate a com
mercial air service between
Prince Rupert, B. C„ and Ket
chikan, Alaska.
The license calls for a non
scheduled service to carry pass
engers and goods between Prince
Rupert, in northern British Col
umbia, and Ketchikan, about
100 miles northwest in the Alas
ka panhandle.
The company told the board
the chief means of transporta
tion linking the two points now
is a once-weeklv boat service.
Commie Spying and
Intrigue In U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maj.
Gen. Charles A. Willoughby,
former Army Intelligence Chief
in the Far East, said today he
believes the same kind of Com
munist spying and intrigue dis
closed in Japan is going on now
in the United States.
Willoughby testified before
the House Un-American Activi
ties Committee about the famous
‘•Sorge Ring,” a Soviet spy net
work which reached into high
up Japanese government circles.
Across the capitol, a Senate
Subcommittee also was digging
into subversive activities with
Louis Budenz, ex-Communist
editor, in its witness chair. Bu
denz told the Senators that when
he was in the party (he left it
six years ago), the Institute of
pacifie Relations was “comnlet
ly under control” and the Com
munists spoke of it as "The Lit
tle Red School House.”
TRUMAN TO ASK STRONGER
PRICE CONTROLS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
White House said today Presi
dent Truman has decided defin
itely to ask Congress for strong
er price control powers and
hopes to send a message to the
capitol by the we:k end.
Word yesterday that Mr. Tru
man was considering reopening
this issue—only three weeks af
ter Congress passed a bill he
didn't like—got a cool reception
from some key legislators.
“Now rent control legislation
puts teeth in the legal means by
which the tenant may seek pro
tection from overcharges, de
crease in services, illegal evic
tions and black market premium
payments,” Attilio Bandettini,
Alaska Area Rent Director an
nounced today. “Penalties for
willful violation of evictions are
stiffer, so that is is essential to
landlords to check the status of
their rentals, and the legal
grounds on which they may
evict.”
In illegal evictions, a new
clause specifies the maximum
amount of recovery for which
the tenant or the U. S. Govern
ment may sue is three times
the amount of the monthly rent,
or $150, whichever is greater.
In addition, reasonable attorney
fees and costs, as determined by
the court, may be allowed in
such actions.
The rent office as well as the
tenant must be advised before
any eviction action, and the
grounds for eviction fully sub
stantiated Mr. Bandettini said,
since in some cases eviction cer
tificates setting a specific waiting:'
period must be issued by the
rent office.
“A strong effort will be
made, Bandettini warned, “to
insure that members of the
armed forces around military
camps are protected on all rent
al problems over which we have
jurisdiction.” While only certain
types of accomodations are now
under control in this area, Mr.
Bandettini pointed out that he
Secretary of Defense and the
Defense Moblizer may now de
clare crucial military or de
fense localities “Critical Defense
Housing Areas,” thereby auto
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FISH GARBAGE TO HELP INDUSTRY
AP Special Washington Service
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alas
ka’s fish garbage may help as
sure the survival of the Pacific
Northwest Salmon Industry, the
Fish and Wildlife Service said
yesterday.
The agency said in a report
that Alaskan canneries throw
away 50,000 tons of salmon vis
cera or entrails each year.
It said its laboratories at Se
attle and Ketchikan, Alaska have
"successfully tested this waste
as a new source of fish haichery
food to replace the Pacific North
west's threatened supply."
The construction of dams on
major rivers in Washington and
Oregon has considerably reduc
ed the area of salmon spawn
ing grounds. To make up for
this loss, hatcheries are being in
creased in size and many new
hatcheries are being built.
The agency said this produc
es an abnormal drain on fish
food supply “already too high
in price and difficult to get.”
The laboratories are collect
ing and testing 100,000 pounds
of salmon waste, to determine
whether it can be profitably fro
zen and shipped to Pacific Coast
hatcheries. •
The material is shipped fro
zen in plastic-lined burlap bags.
The agency estimates that
about 30 per cent of Alaska’s an
nual salmon catch of 360.000,
000 is waste. It estimates the
potential value of this material
now dumped into the sea or al
lowed to rot at the canneries,
at .$5,000,000 to $10,000,000 a
year.
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