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Fishermen Charge
Appeasement By
Federal Govt.
KODIAK (/P»—'The federal gov- |
ernment has adopted an attitude I
of appeasement toward Russian |
encroachment on Alaskan fishing
waters, Kodiak fishermen charged
at a public hearing before Under
secretary of State William Her
rington and Gov. William Egan.
Approximately 100 fishermen
were on hand to tell how they are
losing crab fishing gear and buoys
30 mill's southeast of Kodiak, as
a result of Russian trawling op
erations. By Alaskan law, Ameri
can fishermen must use crab pots
in their operations.
Gov. Egan presided at the some
times stormy meeting.
Oscar Dvson. a crab fisherman
and member of the Alaska Board
of Fish and Game, charged the
federal government with contin
ually backing off under Russian
pressure. “It’s appeasement,” lie
said. “We’ve got to take a stand
somewhere.”
Egan expressed similar feelings
and told Herrington the state “has
no fear whatsoever of the Rus
sians or Japanese.”
He said the problem encountered
in the Kodiak fishery is not just
an Alaska problem. “It’s a nation
problem that’s going to have to be
faced on all our coast.”
Jim Jones, skipper of the Kit
ovia, said he had lost nine pots
and was convinced the Russian
trawlers had dragged over them.
The Russians with their large
vessels can “fish out” an area and
then move elsewhere, but Alaska
fishermen must continue to rely
on their local fishery, he said.
“It’s perfectly obvious” to the
Russians that Alaskans are trying
to maintain a fishery off Kodiak
but they have moved in anyway,
said State Rep. Gil Jarvela, D
Kodiak, chief pilot for Kodiak
Airways.
Herrington, Assistant Undersec
retary of State for fisheries and
wildlife, told the hearing national
defense has top priority and the
protests of Kodiak fishermen
would receive sincere attention
with a full report made to Wash
ington. He indicated the State
Department would not favor ex
panding the three-mile limit to
a continental shelf suggestion or a
50-mile limit, as proposed by some
fishermen.
None of the score of fishermen
testifying said that Russians ves
sels were violating the three-mile
international limit law, but their
ships hovered in an area eight to
10 miles from shore. They esti
mated that about 35 Russians ships
are in the Kodiak area today, al
though as many as 185 have been
in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering
Sea this year.
Gov. Egan concluding the hear
ing said, “The federal government
hasn’t made an effort to get an
agreement with Russia over fish
ing right,” and that historically the
Kodiak area was developed by
American fishermen for king crab
fishing.
This morning Egan, Herrington,
and a party of state and federal
officials, accompanied by news
men, left by plane to board the
Coast Guard Cutter Storis to
search out some of the Soviet fish
ing vessels.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair but with in
creasing cloudiness. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight 20, the
high tomorrow 35.
Seattle Fair Plans
“Night to Remember”
SEATTLE v?! — Details of a daz
zling closing ceremony for the
Seattle World’s Fair, in which
President Kennedy may partici
pate. were announced Wednesday.
Joseph Gandy, Fair President,
said it would be “a night to re
member.”
The two-hour program, begin
ning at sunset Oct. 21 <5:11 p.md,
will feature opera star Patrice
Munsel, formerly of Spokane,
nearly a score of bands, fireworks
and a grand parade of representa
tives from participating nations,
exhibitors, concessionaries and
operating departments of the- Fair.
President Kennedy has an
nounced plans to visit the Fair
on its closing day. Efforts are being
made to have him take part in
the. finale.
State and civic dignitaries and
Fair officials will participate in
the program.
SBA Helps 337
Alaska Businesses
Win U.S. Contraets
JUNEAU — The Small Busi
ness Administration helped 337
Alaska businesses win governmeni
contracts during the lR-mont?
period ending last June 30, SBJ
Administrator John Horne said to
day.
Horne, stopping off in Juneai
on the third leg of a trip whicl
will take him to Fairbanks ant
Anchorage, made the commen
during a news conference in which
he outlined the goals of the federai
agency.
Accompanied by Sen. E. L. Bart
lett. Horne is scheduled to fly tc
Fairbanks later today. He flies to
Anchorage Thursday night and
speaks before the Alaska State
Chamber of Commerce Conven
tion Friday, returning east Satur
day.
He visited Ketchikan and Sitka
enroute to Juneau.
Horne said that in his opinion,
based on what he has already seen
during his first visit to Alaska,
there is a more pressing need for
Small Business Administration ac
tivity in Alaska than in many
other sections of the country.
“The development of your re
sources alone,” Horne said, “will
require a great deal of funds, for
their development by small busi
nesses.”
The SBA staff at Anchorage,
Horne said, will be increased “as
justified by the increase in SBA
services in Alaska.”
He said he personnallv hopes
to see the Anchorage staff in
creased to the point where cities
distant from Anchorage could be
assured of regular visits bv SBA
personnel.
Yanks Down Giants 5-3
NEW YORK m — The New
York Yankees have taken a three
to two edge in their World Series
against San Francisco by beat
ing the Giants, 5 to 3, in the
fifth game in New York.
Tomorrow will be an off day
for travel as the two teams go
from New York to San Francisco.
The series will resume in San
Francsico’s Candlestick Park Fri
day. A seventh game if necessary,
also will be played in the Giants’
home field Saturday.
To date, the series has followed
the same pattern, the Yanks win
ning one game, and the Giants
winning the next.
Alaska Capital
Move Estimated to
Cost S262.700.000
JUNEAU l.-P — A group of en
gineers and architects, employed
I privately and by the state and
federal governments, estimated last
night it would cost §262,700,000 to
move the capital of Alaska.
Tie engineers and architects,
using the provisions of the capital
relocation proposal. Initiative No.
1, as a guide, selected the area just
north of Willow as the site: for a
1 new capital.
j The total cost, the engineers and
architects said in a written report
made public last night, would in
clude site preparation; capital
buildings and park; residential,
commercial, civic utilities, hospi
| tal, church and school buildings; a
| transportation and distribution
center; an aviation center, primary
highway links; streets and alleys;
utilities; and provisional fees, su
pervision and contingencies.
The new capital city, as out
lined in the study, would consist
of three separate tracts of land, an
actual capital site, a transporta
tion and distribution site and a
capital airport site.
The engineer-architect r e p o r 1
said the total cost would be borne
by the state, the federal govern
. ment and private business, the
■ state's share $148,700,000; the fed
cral share $19,100,000 and privati
i business’ share $94,900,000.
i The study envisions a capita
1 city with a population of approx
; imately 10,000 residents.
The 37-page report said indirec
costs of constructing a new capi
tal city would probably run arounc
$30 million, but this figure was
not included in the $262,700,000
estimate.
The report was prepared by
members of the Juneau Chapter of
the Alaska Society of Professional
Engineers; the Juneau section of
the American Society of Civil En
gineers; and Juneau representa
tives of the American Institute of
Architects.
In a statement of purpose, the
engineers nncl a reintools snid’
“It was not the purpose of this
study to argue whether the state
capital should or should not be re
located to a new city to be con
structed somewhere in Alaska.
“Its sole purpose was to arrive
at a professional, objective and
honest estimate of the probable
costs of such a decision and what
sources would have to be drawn
upon to finance the project.’’
Cuban Raiding Party
Reports Killing Russians
NEW YORK — A New York
representative of "Alpha 66," a
group of Cuban exiles, said today
one of its raiding parties shot up
the Cuban Port of Isabela De
Sagua and killed “20 of the en
emy,’’ including Russians.
The attack began at 12:20 a.m.
Monday, the spokesman said, and
the raiding party withdrew at
2:12 a.m. with captured arms.
Details of the raid will be given
out at the organization headquar
ters in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the
spokesman said. He said defense
forces at the port, in Las Villas
Province, included Cuban militia
men and Russians.
MOSCOW UP — The Soviet gov
ernment organ Izvestia has started
running news briefs from the West
under the heading "Behind the
Iron Curtain.’’
U.S. Schodulev Hi”h
Altitude Shot Next Week
WASHINGTON .•? Tie United
Statis announced today it has
scheduled a high altitude nuclear
test for next Sunday or Monday
in tin .Johnston Island test area
of the Pacific.
The announcement from the
Atomic Energy Commission said
the device to be detonated will be
of "sub-megaton range” — that is
with an explosive force- of lew
than oni million tons of TXT.
The A EC said the device would
be set off at an altitude of "ten;
of kilometer.'” without being more
specific.
A kilometer is a little more than
six-tenths of a mile.
OVR Conference
Concludes Work
The Second Annual Review
Conference of the Nome Rehabili
tation project being held at thr
MMM Hospital concluded its wort
today following a three-dav sessior
and turned out to be not only ;
study on the demonstration of th<
development and applications n
methods of providing rehabilitn
tion services in regions of lov
population density but concerns
matters on a broader base of econ
, omic and sociological concern.
’ I The deceleration of the move
51 ment of the handicapped to th
south forty-eight for m e d i c a
I treatment or vocational rehabilit:
tion was recommended as it w;
felt that such services could fc
. and should be developed withi
the new state and within the locr
area of the person being treated
The impression that the Nonn
project was one of isolation wa:
dispelled by statements and visit
ors from other states whose prob
lems of a decade ago, parallelec
those of Alaska today.
A more unified approach by the
several federal and state agencies
involved in rehabilitation was fell
necessary in order to achieve a
more effective solution to the
problems involved.
Among the things revealed of
interest to the laymen was a prob
lem being resolved in Canada
where the conditions are similar
to those of Arctic Alaska. These
people are turning from mining
because, although they have the
potential, the market is not favor
able. and concentrating on pro
ducts of the sea which are market
able. The need of more research
in the potential of Bering Sea
was brought out, as an important
factor in our economic develop
ment which has not been given
enough emphasis.
The many visiting guests, dur
ing their three-dav stay, were
guests of the Chamber of Com
merce on Monday, guests of the
staff of the MMM Hospital on
Tuesday and enjoyed the Eskimo
dancing last evening.
PIONEERS GATHERING
AT KETCHIKAN FOR
GRAND IGLOO CONVENTION
KETCHIKAN OR — More than
200 delegates—representing thirty
year residents of the state — art.
expected here for the Grand Igloc
Convention of the Pioneers ol
Alaska.
Delegates from the westwarc
sod interior will be arriving to
morrow at Annette Island by tvvt
! chartered DC-4s.
j Gov. Wm. Egan will address th<
! grand session at 10 a.m. Friday
j following which the roll call am
first business session will start.
Newsman Detained
Bv Police Covering
Storv on First Ladv
line
three
brief
after
him
Hirer
The
Whit,
.SHINGTON </P> — A news
grapher overing Jacque
Kennedy's return from a
•month vacation was held
y by National Airport Police
a Secret St twice agent ruled
off limits and confiscated
rolls of film.
■ film was i turned at the
Pr,
■cre
was
port,
House late
I laty Pit-'Te Salinger said "i
J a misunderstanding.”
Mr . Kennedy and her
i children flew in from Ne
R I . late Tuesday amid elaborate
. pre autions to guard her privacy.
Photographer Roddey Mims and
J courier John Steinberger. both of
1 United Press International, were
1 taken into custody lay airport po
j lice who said the two had entered
| a restricted section of the airport.
Mrs. Kennedy’s Air Force plane
I taxied to a remote part of the field,
far from the military and com
mercial passenger terminals.
A wire fence rings the area,
. used primarily for parking of air
. planes. Signs reading "restricted
, ; area, keep out" are posted along
^ i the fence.
5 The White House had announced
i the First Lady’s expected arrival
j time. A White House motorcade
Sand Secret Service men waited
H near the fence for the plane.
i i It taxied to a stop almost half
. I a mile away. The motorcade
a j moved out onto the field to meet
0 j the First Lady and the Kennedy’s
j | two children, Caroline and John
j Jr. Newsmen were kept behind the
' J fence.
Mims and Steinberger riding
j the courier's motorcycle, follow
; ed the White House cars across
1 the field.
1 Mims said later they entered the
! area through an open gate with
i out seeing the signs.
Mims said he was taking pic
j hires with a long-range lens about
' 100 yards from the plane when
he felt a hand on his shoulder.
Mims said he turned and saw Clint
i Hill. Mrs. Kennedy’s persona!
! Secret Service agent.
“You're under arrest.” Mims
said Hill told him. “I’m with the
Secret Service. I'd like to have
that film."
Airport police took Mims and
Steinberger to a terminal, where
they were questioned by H, F.
Fletcher of the Federal Aviation
Agency. Both were quickly releas
ed.
A spokesman for UPI said the
news service “considers the inci
dent closed.”
Equal Pay Bill Killed
WASHINGTON </P — A bill that
would require employers to give
equal pay to women who do the
i same work as men apparently was
! killed in the House Wednesday.
A move to have a House-Senate
conference meet on the bill was
blocked by Rep. Frank Row. <E
Ohiob With Congress due to ad
| journ any day a further effort to
! save the bill is not expected.
Lions to Hold Turkey Shoot
' j The Lions Club, at its meeting
j last evening at the Polaris Dining
l j Room, took action to sponsor a
• bowling team composed of mem
) bers, and also to sponsor a boy’s
bowling team.
! Another activity decided upon
, was to conduct a turkey shoot
i on the weekend before Thanks
giving.