Sen. Bartlett Wants U.S. to Demand
Renegotiation of Fisheries Treaty
Measure Calls for
Sleeperettes On
Alaska’s Ferries
JUNEAU (tfi — A bill which
would appropriate $300,000 for the
installation of sleeperettes on the
Southeast Alaska ferries got an
airing before the Senate Finance
Committee Monday.
The measure was introduced by
Sen. Howard Bradshaw, chairman
of the committee.
B. L. Lewellen, Director of the
Marine Transportation Division,
estimated the $300,000 would pro
vide funds for the installation of
34 sleeperettes on each of the three
ferries to be operated on the Pan
handle run.
The ferries now carry 14 state
rooms each.
Sleeperettes are compact sleeping
units, they no not include toilet
facilities.
Lewellen said that if funds were
made available now, sleeperettes
could be installed on the last of
the three ferries to be delivered
to the state, the Matanuska.
He said the Matanuska is sched
uled for delivery on April 30, and
if authorization were given for in
stallation of sleeperettes, the de
livery date would have to be de
layed a month.
In answer to a question by Sen.
David Harrison, Lewellen ack
nowledged that in that case, the
one ferry would miss one-third
of the 1963 tourist season.
“As I see it,” commented Sen.
Vance Phillips, “the wise thing
to do would be to use them as is
this year and add the sleeperettes
during the winter layup.”
Lewellen said that could be done,
but he pointed out that money
would have to be appropriated
now. Each ship is scheduled for
a one-month overhaul each win
ter.
“It would be my suggestion,”
Bradshaw said, that we get this
bill passed by the Senate and over
to the House and leave it to the
experts whether to put the sleeper
ettes on board now or later.”
Snowball Barrage . . .
HORG, Norway UFt — When the
home of Trygve Naess caught fire
Sunday morning, the Horg Fire
Co. ran out of water.
The house next door was threat
ened. Volunteer firefighters threw
snowballs on the walls to keep
them from igniting.
Ice Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Nenana Ice
Classic was started, the Ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917 — APRIL 30.11:39 a.m.
1918 — MAY 11.9:33 a.m,
1919 — MAY 3.2:33 p.m.
1920 — MAY 11.10:45 a.m.
1921 — MAY 11.6:42 a.m.
1922 — MAY 12.1:20 p.m.
1923 — MAY 9.2:00 p.m.
1924 — MAY 11.3:10 p.m.
1925 — MAY 7.6:32 p.m.
1928 — APRIL 28. 4:03 p.m.
1927 — MAY 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928 — MAY 6.4:25 p.m.
1929 — MAY 5.3:41 p.m.
1930 — MAY 8.7:03 p.m.
1931 — MAY 10.9:23 a.m
1932 — MAY 1.10:15 a.m.
1933 — MAY 8.7:30 p.m.
1934 — APRIL 30 . 2:07 p.m.
1935 — MAY 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936 — APRIL 30.12:58 p.m.
1937 — MAY 12.8:04 pjn.
1938 — MAY 6.8:14 p.m.
1939 — APRIL 29. 1:26 p.m.
1940 _ APRIL 20 . 3:27 p.m.
1941 — MAY 3.1:50 a.m.
1942 — APRIL 30. 1:28 p.m.
1943 — APRIL 28 . 7:22 p.m.
1944 _ MAY 4. 2:08 p.m.
1945 — MAY 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946 _ MAY 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947 _ MAY 3.5:53 p.m.
1948 — MAY 13.11:13 p.m.
1949 — MAY 14.12:39 p.m.
1990 — MAY 6.4:14 p.m.
1951 — APRIL 30 . 5:54 p.m.
1952 — MAY 12.5:04 p.m.
1953 — APRIL 29 . 3:54 p.m.
1954 — MAY 6.9:01 p.m.
1955 — MAY 9.2:13 p.m.
1956 — MAY 1.11:24 a.m.
1957 — MAY 5.9:30 a.m.
1998 — APRIL 29 . 2:56 p.m.
1959 — MAY 8.11:26 a.m.
1960 — MAY 2.7:12 p.m.
1961 — MAY 5.11:31 a.m.
1962 — MAY 12.11:23 p.m.
& JUNEAU M — Sen. E. L. Bart- I
lett said Tuesday the United
States should demand renegotiation
of the International North Pacific
Fisheries Treaty with Japan and
Canada.
Bartlett made the comment in
a speech before a joint session of
the Alaska legislature, reporting ,
personal observations on congres- :
sional hearings concluded here
Monday.
Bartlett presided over a Senate
House Merchant Marine and Fish
eries Subcommittee hearings on a
recommendation by the Interna
tional North Pacific Fisheries Com
mission that Japan be permitted
to fish for halibut in the eastern
Bering Sea.
Bartlett said he and Sen. Warren
Magnuson, chairman of the Senate
Commerce Committee, will rec
ommend to President Kennedy that
he add an experienced fisheries
man to the White House staff.
Bartlett said the man he and
Magnuson will recommend will be
former Sen. Benjamin Smith of
Massachusetts, whom Bartlett said
has been actively engaged in the
Atlantic Coast fishing industry for
many years.
“We can move forward from a
position of strength if we can ob
tain stronger representation for
fisheries in the executive branch in
Washington and if the President
will give assurance that he will
use his authority to increase tariffs
if Japan refuses to negotiate in
good faith an abstention type gov
ernment,” Bartlett said.
Bartlett repeated previous argu
ments that the INPFC had no al
ternative, with the information
it had in hand, but to recommend
Japanese entry into the eastern
Bering Sea halibut fishery.
He said the American and Cana
dian sections of the commission
could not prove, as required by
the abstention principle of the
treaty, that additional halibut could
not be taken from the eastern
Bering Sea on a sustained basis.
The blame for the lack of infor
mation on this point, Bartlett said,
must fall directly on the Ameri
can and Canadian governments.
“Little wonder there is confu
sion, there is dismay,” he said.
“The United States government,
with Canada, has had a treaty in
existence for almost 10 years un
der which these two governments
have been obligated to prove each
year that they were fully utilizing
the fishery resources, and the gov
ernments have never cared enough
even to find out what those re
sources were. . .
“I believe that the inevitable
conclusion is that both the United
States and Canada have failed the
fishermen in Alaska, Washington
State, and Canada by not provid
ing the necessary research to prove
their case.
“I believe that if the United
States and Canada engaged in an
agreement with Japan or any
other country that requires sci
entific proof that a fishery re
source is being fully utilized, then
these governments have a duty to
their fishermen to conduct and
pay for the research necessary to
determine the extent of the re
sources and the level of use.
“This has not been done in the
eastern Bering Sea for halibut.”
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Vatican Approves
Beatification of
Two U.S. Figures
VATICAN CITY, — The
Vatican Congregation of Rites yes
terday approved the beatification
of two American Roman Catholic
figures, Mother Elizabeth Ann
Seton and John M. Neumann,
fourth Bishop of Philadelphia.
Ceremonies for the beatifications
were scheduled next month. Beati
fication frequently — but not al
ways—is followed by the church’s
highest honor, canonization, or
sainthood.
Mother Seton, a convert to
Catholicism, may become the Unit
ed States’ first native-born saint.
Born in New York in 1774, she
turned after husband’s death to
the education of youth and to
charitable work. She founded the
Bisters of Charity of St. Joseph in
America and died in Emmitsburg,
VId., in 1821.
Her beatification is scheduled
March 17.
Bishop Neumann was born in
Bohemia in 1811. After studying for
the priesthood in Budweiss, he
came to America in 1836 and was
ordained in New York.
Pope Pius IX named him Bishop
?f Philadelphia in 1852. He died
there in 1860.
His beatification is scheduled
for March 19, the Feast Day of St.
loseph.
The way for the beatifications
was cleared Tuesday as cardinals,
prelates and theologians belonging
to the Vatican’s Congregation of
Rites met with Pope John XXIII
in the papal throne room.
With the Pope lokking on but
not voting, the cardinals and pre
lates approved formally two mir
acles proposed for the beatificatior
of each figure. The approval of th(
miracles amounted to approval o
the beatifications.
After they are beatified at glit
tering ceremonies in St. Peter’:
the two will merit the nami
“Blessed.”
U.S. Polaris Subs May
Show Up In Turkish Ports
WASHINGTON UT> — U.S. Po
laris submarines may show up ir
Turkish ports to give the Turk'
evidence their Jupiter missiles arc
being replaced by more modem
nuclear power, it was learned Mon
day.
U.S. officials discussing this pos
sibility said that such visits would
come after the first U.S. Polaris
missile-firing sub is sent into the
Mediterranean Sea around April 1.
No such demonstration current
ly is planned for Italian ports.
Italian government leaders, locked
in an election battle with Commu
nists and pro-Communists, have
disclaimed any intention to base
Polaris subs in Italian harbors.
Normally, Polaris submarines are
not paraded into foreign ports.
Those patrolling the North Atlantic
spend most of their time submerged
and appear near land only when
touching at the remote Scottish
port of Holy Loch where a U.S,
Polaris depot ship is berthed.
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$625,000 Damage Award
In “Bug Bite” Case
WASHINGTON UP) — A $625,000
damage award to a railroad freight
yard conductor who said he was
bitten by an insect while working
near a pool of stagnant water was
upheld by the Supreme Court in a
6-3 decision.
The worker, James Gallick of
Cleveland, Ohio, contended body
ulcerations developed from the bite
and resulted in amputation of his
legs. He said his employer, the
B & O Railroad, was negligent in
permitting the pool near its tracks.
Gallick said that while working
along a track under the Columbus
Road bridge in Cleveland he felt
a bite on his left leg above the
knee. He reached down, felt an
insect about a half-inch thick and
‘wo inches long, squeezed it and
aeard it “pop,” felt it roll down
ais trouser leg to the ground but
aever saw it.
in your organization would like to
see those cookies placed all around
the table, wouldn’t they?”
Dickey allowed as how that was
a valid statement.
At that point, a wag in the
audience, in a stage whisper, sug
gested it was about time for a
cookie break.
Committee chairman Bennie
Leonard icily ignored the hint and
the meeting hummed on.
And, as the saying goes, that’s
the way the cookie crumbled.
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