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<53rd Year No. 56
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1962
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State Senator Charges
State Department
Bartering Alaska
Fishery Resource
ANCHORAGE W — State Sen,
Bob Logan, D-Cordova, charged
here the U.S. State Dept, is at
tempting to barter “the only re
newable resource Alaskans have
(the fishery)” for friendship
abroad.
“We have the phony idea we can
buy friends—we’ve got to harden
up our thinking, especially for
Alaska,” Logan told members of
the Greater Anchorage Democratic
Club at their weekly meeting.
Logan was commenting on the
appearance of Japanese and Rus
sian fishing fleets on traditional
Alaska fishing grounds. He des
cribed Gov. Wm. Egan’s seizure of
two Japanese boats in Shelikof
Strait last month as “courageous
act” necessary to preserve U. S.
fishing rights.
One of the boats was seized a
mile inside the three-mile limit
and the other approximately three
miles offshore.
The senator said the United
States has got to demand a 12
mile limit to preserve traditional
Alaska fisheries.
The encroachment of foreign
fishing fleets on Alaska fishing
grounds is “tragic for the state,”
Ajogan, a marine surveyor, said
Russian trawlers are now working
about 14 miles off Kodiak Island’s
Cape vniniak, on the Portiock
Bank, where a number of Wash
ington State fishermen are seek
ing halibut.
These American fishermen re
portedly have expressed anxiety
that their stationary fishing gear
might become entangled with So
viet trawls.
Logan said this would be “amus
ing if it were not so tragic. Con
gressman Thomas Pelly of Seattle
fought the 12-mile limit and now
Seattle fishermen are caught in
their own traps.”
The United States has got to
stand firm to preserve its rights—
appeasement is not the answer and
won’t command the respect of for
eign nations, Logan emphasized.
Iceland has a 12-mile limit and
Peru a 200-mile limit, to the edge
of the continental shelf, and Ijoth
nations are enforcing these limits,
ne said.
Logan suggested that perhaps
the United States should establish
Its territorial waters at the con
tinental shelf — at approximately
the 100-fathom mark offshore.
“Let’s stand up for our rights
and fight,” Logan said. “We have
no guts — the United States has
become a fat boy trying to buy
friends with candy.”
NENANA BREAKUP
NOT EXPECTED UNTIL
SUNDAY OR MONDAY
NENANA OB — Open water is
running along the dock on the
Nenana side of the River, but
townspeople are still guessing the
river breakup will not occur until
Sunday or Monday, at the earliest.
The open spot was about 12 feet
wide and about 200 yards long
early today, running parallel to
the bank, according to city counsel
Bob Speck. The area is about 300
feet from the official tripod that
must move and pull a line taut,
stopping the Ice Classic dock.
IRS CONFISCATES
ARCTIC AMUSEMENT CO.
BLDG. IN KOTZEBUE
Joe Brantley, Kotzebue police
officer, reports that he has been
made custodian of the Arctic
Amusement Co. Bldg., in Kotzebue
by the Internal Revenue Service,
who have attached it due to the
fact that its owner, Archie Fer
guson, owes the government over
$190,000 in income taxes.
The post office and bank have
been allowed to overate, as the
bank rental goes into payments to
the M & M Bank on their loan to
the Kotzebue organization involved.
All apartment rentals are turned
over to the Internal Revenue and
the theater, restaurant and pool
room are closed pending other ar
rangements.
Mr. Brantley did not believe
that the property owned in Nome
by Mr. Ferguson, was involved in
the seizure.
Ferguson was making plans to
open a theater here in the old
Federal Building.
ADMINISTRATION WILL
GRANT DEPRECIATION
TAX WRITE-OFFS
HOT SPRINGS, Va. — The
Kennedy administration made a
major move today toward better
relations with business by an
nouncing that liberalization of tax
depreciation write-offs will be or
dered soon.
Unofficial estimates set the 1962
tax "savings at about $1.25 billion
for big and little businessemen.
The announcement was made at
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the Business Council, an organiza
tion of major industrialists headed
by chairman Roger Blough of
U.S. Steel Corp., President Ken
nedy’s chief antagonist in the
April steel price tussle. Big steel
rolled back its price increases un
der pressure from Kennedy.
I . Secretary of the Treasury Doug
las Dillon sent the word that the
revision is now in its final stages.
He said the write-offs will be
ordered into effect late next month
or in July at the latest.
The Treasury gave no actual
figures and made no estimate of
the amount industry would save—
and the Treasury would lose—by
shortening the periods in which
companies can write off the cost
of new machinery and equipment.
"MISS HIPS OF 1962" . . .
TOKYO (0) — Mariko Harada,
a 20-year-old fashion model from
Yokohama, is Tokyo’s “Miss Hips
of 1962."
Judges decided yesterday her hip
contours are more pleasing than
those of some 900 other contestants
in a competition sponsored by an
importer of French films and a bed
manufacturer.
Miss Harada won $417 in yen
and a bed.
Her hips spread out to a cir
cumference of 35.6 inches from a
22.8-inch waist. This is balanced
by a 34.8-inch bust.
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
By Order of Name Fire Dept.
Due to the fact the Nomerama
does not have an adequate smoking
room, and that the ever increasing
number of teen-age smokers con
ttitutes a definite fire hazard; until
frariher notice, there will be no
smoking anywhere in the theater
building. Containers will be pro
vided outside of file theater, where
lighted cigarettes may be discard
ed before entering the lobby. The
REMEMBER THE NOME FINE
“Tons of Fun”
For Nome Monday
Literally “Tons of Fun” will ar
rive in Nome next Monday when
the 10-piece Eielson AFB band ar
rives to perform what they call
“SNAFU Review” at 8 p.m.,
Monday at the school gym.
The show stealer is Gil Martin
with 10 years as a concert pianist.
Another soloist is Jack Benny
of the Air Force, CWO Sanger (he
plays the violin). Maj. Bob Faulk
ner, who is the Public Information
Officer for Eielson and performs
magical wonders to delight all. If
you have a flair for Spanish music
there is a Mexican trio. If this isn’t
enough, vocalists are a trio and an
entire chorus.
The master of ceremonies will be
Army Col. Francis Naughton, who
commands the 1st Battle Group,
9th Infantry, stationed at Fort
Wain wright.
The purpose of the show is to
honor “Armed Forces Week,” which
is May 12-20. Armed Forces Day
is Monday, May 19. Other activities
have been scheduled by Maj. David
Money, who is the Armed Forces
Day project officer for Nome. Sub
sequent announcements will follow
next week.
No children under 10 will be
permitted to see the show.
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GOV. ROCKEFELLER GETS
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World’s Fair gave its warmest wel
come yesterday to Gov. Nelson A
Rockefeller who described himseb
as another tourist here to observe
New York Day at the big exposi
tion.
More than 550 persons attended
an 8 a.m. breakfast honoring the
governor whose state will present
a similar fair of its own in 1964,
It was a non-political event as
the Republican gcverhor was wel
comed to Washington by Gov.
Albert D. Rosellini, a Democrat,
who thanked Rockefeller for the
assistance he gave Seattle in pre
paring for the Fair.
FIRST DELEGATES ARRIVE
FOR GOP MEET SATURDAY
The Republican State Central
Committee is tentatively slated to
hold its opening session tomorrow
morning at 10 o’clock at the Ar
mory, subject to the arrival of
members of the committee on the
morning flight from Fairbanks.
Here for the meeting are Cen
tral Committee members: John
Coghill, Bruce Kendall, John Daly,
Mrs. Tillie Reeve, Mrs. Doris Mc
Kinley, Mrs. Edith Bullock, Mrs.
Grace Johnson, Wallace Mclver,
and Bob Oliver.
Interested persons are welcome
to attend the opening session of
the meeting tomorrow morning,
subject to limitations of space in
the ANG classroom, where the
meeting will be held.
Sen. John Coghill is the only
Republican gubernatorial candi
date on the central committee and
he said he will go to Kotzebue
after this meeting. He said he in
tends to campaign intensively
throughout the Northwestern Dis
trict and will be returning this
way soon.
A potluck supper is to be held
tomorrow evening at the Pioneer
Igloo starting at 6:30 when the
public will be given a chance to
meet the Republicans of the State
Central Committee.
Arrangements for the supper
were made by Mrs. Betty Doyle
and tickets sell for $2 for adults
and $l for children.
U.S. GOLD STOCKPILE
DROPS $30 MILLION MORE
NEW YORK UP) — The U.S. gold
stockpile was reduced by $30 mil
lion in the week ended Wednesday,
statistics of the Federal Reserve
Board showed.
The drop, third in four weeks,
left reserves at $16,465,000,000 —
the lowest since they totaled $16,
335,000,000 on Aug. 16, 1939.
For the year to date the gold
outflow has amounted to $425 -mil
lion compared with a loss of $372
million at this point of 1961.
The latest drop increased the loss
in the four weeks to $145 million.
As usual, the board declined to
identify what foreign government
or central bank purchased the gold.
MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS
SEATTLE UPi — Test pilot Joe
Walker says film taken during his
recent flight in the rocket-power
ed X15 experimental plane to a
record height of 246,700 feet show
ed five or six mysterious objects.
Walker, pilot for the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration, made the disclosure at the
National Conference on Peaceful
Uses of Space yesterday. He was
one of an eight-man panel of Am
erican space explorers discussing
experimental flights.
Walker said the film was from
a camera mounted on the fuselage
of the XI5 and pointed toward the
rear. He said the objects appeared
as the plane arced over the top
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“I don’t feel like speculating on
the nature of these objects,”^ he
said. “All I know is what ap
peared on the film in later study.
I saw nothing myself during the
flight of this nature.
“From what we can tell, they
seemed to be disc-shaped, or per
haps even cylindrical. But it’s im
possible to estimate size or their
distance from the camera.”
PROPOSE SURVEY
OF ALASKAN LANDS
WASHINGTON UP) — Additional
funds that would expedite sur
veying of land in Alaska by the
Bureau of Land Management were
recommended yesterday by the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
The committee approved $500,
000 more than requested in Presi
dent Kennedy’s budget for surveys
“in view of the desirability of car
rying out this work in Alaska, as
well as on public domain lands
in other states.”
The budget request for Bureau
of Land Management surveys is
$4,490,000.
Public land surveys are im
portant in Alaska because the state
can select only surveyed areas for
its 105 million acre Statehood land
grant.
LESS THAN A $1,000 A YEAR
WASHINGTON UP) — A Mutual
Fund Sales company reported yes
terday that 90 per cent of its 6,108
active salesmen earn less than
$1,000 a year, and that some 2,800
were recruited from the armed
forces.
Testifying at a public investiga
tion of fund sales tactics by the
Securities and Exchange Commis
sion, Anthony Tyrone of Hamilton j
Management Corp., Denver, said it
was fair to assume that the low
income salesman work part-time.
Tyrone, Hamilton’s executive
vice president, said the company’s
salesmen take 24 to 35 hours of
home-study training before Hamil
ton tests their qualifications to sell
fund shares to the public. None has
had previous experience in the
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Russian Trawlers
Are Sighted Off
Kodiak Island
SEATTLE GP> — The invasion
by Russian trawlers of waters east
of Kodiak Island are the “farthest
eastern penetration of any signi
ficant fishing effort by the Rus
sians,” a Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries spokesman here says.
Dayton A1 verson, Base director
of the Bureau’s Exploratory Fish
ing and Gear Development, con
firmed today Alaska reports of
Soviet trawlers sighted some 90
miles east of Kodiak, on prime
halibut grounds.
Alveron said at least two of the
Russian ships have been sighted
by the survey ship John N. Cobb
and that they appeared to be
catching ocean perch.
He said that A1 Prunter, aboard
the survey ship, reported they were
rigged for fly-trawling, a system
believed unlikely to take many
halibut. Pruter also messaged the
trawlers were outfitted to fish
alone, and did not have the num
erous catcher boats that accom
pany trawl mother ships in Rus
sia’s Bering Sea fisheries.
Einar Pederson, a Seattle fisher
man and owner of the halibut boat
Susan, also telephoned he had
sighted the Russian craft. He said
they appeared to be between 120
i and 180 feet long.
Harold Ldkken. veteran manayp
i of the Fishing Vessel Owners
. Assn., said members were trembled
I over the Russian move but are
| awaiting more information about
I its effects on halibut stocks.
JAPANESE MINISTER TO
CONFER WITH U.S.
OFFICIALS ON FISHERY
WASHINGTON U!) — The Jap
anese Embassy said today Agri
culture Minister Ichiro Kono will
arrive next Tuesday for a two
day meeting with U.S. officials
on Japan’s fishing difficulties in
Alaskan waters.
Japanese Ambassador Koichiro
Asakai sent a formal note to the
State Department last Thursday
on the question of Japanese fish
ing operations in the waters off
Kodiak Island.
The Japanese government con
siders the waters between Kodiak
and the Alaskan mainland, known
as Shelikof Strait, to be interna
tional waters open to fishing oper
ations by all vessels.
Alaskan authorities contend the
straits are territorial waters, closed
to all but American fishing com
panies. The U.S. government has
not yet announced its position in
the matter.
HAWAIIAN FLATCARS
HEAD FOR SKAGWAY
SEATTLE (A — “From the 50th
to the 49th State” — 40 narrow
gauge railroad flatcars are at sea
today enroute to Skagway.
The flatcars were loaded aboard
the Steel Foss Barge 207 in Hono
lulu and departed Monday under
tow of the tug Donna Foss.
The 3-foot gauge flatcars wer«
found surplus to needs of the Oahu
Railway & Land Co. in Hawaii.
The White Pass & Yukon Railroad
bought them for its run between
Skagway and Whitehorse.
As one of the last remaining
narrow-gauge roads in the country,
general traffic manager Frank
Downey said yesterday, the White
Pass & Yukon Line has difficulty
buying rolling stock. It usually
builds its freight cars in its own
shops at Skagway.