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64th Year No. 71
Canada Proposes
12-Mile Fishing
Zone Limit
OTTAWA UP — Prime Minister
Lester Pearson announced yester
day that effective in mid-May,
1946, Canada will establish a 12
mile exclusive fishing zone off
Canadian coasts.
At the same time the govern
ment will establish the “straight
base line principle” in meas
uring the exclusive fishing zone
and the territorial waters zone.
At present the territorial waters
and exclusive fishing zone is three
miles from the coast line.
Pearson said that in the light
of the failure of past efforts to
get international agreement on
establishing a 12-mile fishing zone,
the government believes the time
has come “to take firm and nation
al action” to protect Canadian
nsnenes.
On the east coast, growing use
of the fisheries had depleted the
resources and posed other prob
lems and there are indications that
on the west coast the fisheries
soon would be affected, he said.
Pearson said more than 40 coun
tries have extended their terri
torial waters beyond the three
mile zone and some 30 had ex
tended the fishing zone.
Pearson said Canada’s decision
would have implications for the
fishing rights of other countries,
principally the United States and
France. In addition to some areas
in which they have been fishing
in recent years, they claim his
toric rights to other areas, he said.
Canada would hold discussions,
starting immediately with the
United States and other countries,
to determine what these historic
rights are and how they can best
be met.
Pearson recalled that when he
met last month with President
Kennedy at Hyannis Port, Mass.,
he told the President Canada in
tended to extend its fishing limits,
and Kennedy reserved the Amer
ican position in favor of a three
mile limit.
Canada and the U.S. have al
ways had friendly relations on
fisheries matters, and Pearson said
the Canadian government “hopes
and believes” it will be able to
reach a satisfactory agreement on
the fishing rights.
50 Visitors Become
111 from Food Poisoning
WEST POINT, N.Y. US) — About
50 distinguished visitors became
ill from food poisoning after an
awards luncheon Tuesday at the
U.S. Military Academy.
Although about 25 spent the
night in the base hospital, none
was seriously ill, said Lt. Col.
Everett Post, information officer.
The banquet, held at the Officer’s
Club, was for donors of awards
presented to outstanding members
of the Class of 1963 which gradu
ated today. No cadets became ill,
Post said.
The information officer said he
did not have the names of the per
sons who became ill, numbering
about one-third of the 150 at the
noon banquet. ,
Selects Walter Reed Hospital
WASHINGTON US) — Mrs. John
Kennedy has selected Walter Reed
Army Hospital for the place of
birth of her third baby, expected
late in August.
The White House said Tuesday
the First Lady plans to make use
of the hospital’s presidential suite.
Fishing Industry
Opinions Differ
SEATTLE — Spokesmen for
the fishing industry in Washington
State differed today in their
opinions of the effect of Canada’s
proposed plan to ban foreign fish
ermen within 12 miles of her coasts.
One U.S. fishing organization
spokesman said he didn’t believe
Canada would bar U.S. fishermen,
but an official of another group
expressed concern.
“As long as they grant historic
fishing rights, it’s not going to
‘have any effect on our boats,’’ said
an official of the Halibut Pro
ducers Co-Op, Seattle.
“According to what we’ve read,
that’s waht they’re shooting for.
I don’t think they have an ani
mosity toward American boats. I
think it’s to protect their interests
from the Japanese and Russians.”
Fred Bullock, manager of the
Fisherman’s Cooperative Assn,
Seattle, said:
“We would be dead ducks if a
12-mile limit went into effect.”
Bullock said Washington salmon
trollers would lose 60 per cent of
their annual catch if pushed out
of waters 12 miles off British Col
umbia. That would be about six
million pounds a year.
“And these are the silver and
chinook salmon we are propagating
and planting,” he said. “All the
efforts from our fish farms and
hatcheries would be eliminated.”
George Starlund, state fisheries
director, said he would ask the
State Department to protect U.S.
fishing rights.
“We are well aware of what the
Canadian proposal could cost our
fishermen,” he said.
Tough New Liquor
Regulation Goes In
Effect Tomorrow
JUNEAU — A tough new
liquor regulation designed to keep
minors out of licensed premises
goes into effect Thursday.
It would make it a misdemeanor
for a person under 21 to even
enter upon a licensed premise un
less accompanied by a parent,
spouse or guardian.
Chairman Bill Ray of the Al
coholic Beverage Control Board
said the new regulation applies to
any premise licensed to sell liquor,
including bars, cocktail lounges,
restaurants where drinks are sold
with meals and retail liquor stores.
The new regulation applies to
everyone under the age of 21, in
cluding newsboys and delivery
boys, for instance.
Minors would not be prohibited
from entering a hotel or restaurant
which holds a liquor license if they
did not enter that portion of the
premises where liquor is regularly
sold and consumed.
Ray said the new regulation was
drafted to keep minors from coming
into contact with liquor in a pub
lic place.
Minors who violate the new
regulation will be subject to a
maximum fine of $500 or a jail
term of up to one year.
The new regulation also gives
the licensee the right to refuse
a minor entry into a licensed pre
mises, even if accompanied by an
adult.
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.
UP> — Honor graduates of Air Force
Academy to whom President Ken
nedy presented diplomas today
in order of rank include Sam Wil
kins Westbrook III, who has been
selected as a Rhodes Scholar, El
mendorf, Alaska.
JFK Announces
U.S. Will Develop
Supersonic Liners
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.
Of) — President Kennedy used the
background of his commencement
address at the Air Force Academy
today to announce the government
is going ahead with plans for
super-sonic airliners.
At the same time, the White
House staff announced the Presi
dent will go ahead with his trip
to Italy within the month and will
extend his western tour with a trip
to Hawaii.
Addressing the fifth graduating
class at the nation’s newest service
academy, Kennedy said the surest
way to bring war is to embrace
the idea of a nuclear stalemate—
to believe that war is too terrible
to happen.
In his announcement of plans
for the super-sonic plane, the Pres
ident said it will travel two to
three times the speed of sound
and surpass anything “that is being
built in any other country in the
world.”
Press secretary Pierre Salinger
said Kennedy will fly to Honolulu
Saturday evening and will address
the National Conference of Mayors
which is holding its annual meeting
there.
In his address to the graduating
cadets, President Kennedy said
“we believe in the ability of man
to triumph over the terrible forces
he has created.
“We believe in the dignity of man
and his eternal right to be free.
And we believe, finally, that we
are going to prevail.”
The President chose an appro
priate setting for his announcement
of the super-sonic commercial air
liner—the stadium of the academy
which turns out future officers for
a large segment of the nation’s
military air power.
The chief executive injected in
to his commencement address at
the academy word that he has ap
proved the super-sonic commercial
aircraft program. Development of
the plane is expected to cost at
least $1 billion. The goal is an air
craft that will streak through the
skies at 2,000 miles an hour or
more.
Kennedy claimed this the birth
of an important new program in
commercial aviation. He said that
this country “can’t stand still in
this area.”
Accordingly, he said, it is his
judgment that this government
should go ahead immediately in
partnership with private business
to develop the new plane.
The President attached an “if”
to the announcement. He said that
if designers failed to come up with
a plane they believe would be com
mercially feasible, on which fares
would be low enough to attract
customers and that the carriers can
afford, then the project will be
called off.
An open competition on design
will be announced soon. The aim
is to j^ave the plane in the skies
by the end of this decade.
Not Too Concerned
TOKYO (M — Japanese fishery
industry circles were reported not
too concerned over a Canadian an
nouncement that Canada will
establish a 12 nautical mile exclu
sive fishing zone off its coastline
next year.
An official of the Japanese gov
ernment fishery agency said that
will hardly affect Japan because
very few Japanese are fishing in
waters near Canada.
Tens of Thousands View
Pope John in Death
VATICAN CITY (*> — In si
lence and awe, tens of thousands
of people filed past the body of
Pope John XXIII in St. Peter’s
Basilica today.
As they had their last look at
a humble Pope who had been
closer to the people than most, the
cardinals of the Roman Catholic
Church took up their duties of in
terim administration and sorrow
ful tradition.
The 32 cardinals in Rome said
they decided to call a conclave
June 19 for the election of a new
Pontiff.
Carpenters already were at work
on construction for the conclave in
and around the Sistine Chapel
where the cardinals will chose
Pope John’s successor.
At the meeting the Dean of the
College of Cardinals, French-born
Eugene Tisserant smashed Pope
John’s fisherman’s ring with ham
mer and chisel. A new ring, the
symbol of papal authority, will be
created for the new Pontiff.
The people came singly and in
groups to see Pope John in death.
Romans and visitors moved into
the Basilica and down its main
aisle between the empty seats of
the Ecumenical Council to within
30 feet of the 6-foot-high cata
falque.
10 to 15 New Spacemen
WASHINGTON UP — The Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration is accepting applica
tions from civilian volunteers for
astronaut duty. From 10 to 15 new
spacemen will be selected this sum
mer—but there may not be fur
ther additions to the ranks for
two or three more years.
Injunction Forbids
Gov. Wallace From
Interference
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. UP — A
federal judge issued a injunction
today forbidding Gov. George Wal
lace from physically interfering
with the enrollment of Negroes
at the University of Alabama.
The defiant governor had vowed
to bar personally any integration
in the university system.
The injunction by U.S. District
Judge Sevbourn Lynne prohibits
Wallace or anyone in concert with
him from stopping the court-order
ed desegregation.
In clear language, the Alabama
born jurist spelled out federal su
premacy and swept away any ves
tige the validity to the state sover
eignty power claimed by Wallace.
“The governor of a sovereign
state has no authority to obstruct
or prevent the execution of the
lawful orders of a court of the
United States,” Lynne wrote in an
opinion which ended in a moving
appeal to Alabama’s people.
The 56-year-old jurist took a dra
matic departure from the stiff for
mality of court procedure to express
a prayer that all Alabamans “will
join in the resolution that law
and order will be maintained.”
Lynne wrote: “I know that many
of both races are troubled and, |
like Jonah of old, are ‘angry even
unto death’ as the result of distor
tions of affairs within this state,
practiced in the name of sensa
tionalism.”
The judge said it was clear that
unless an injunction was issued,
irreparable injury would result
“from obstruction to the lawful
orders of this court and the con
sequent impairment of the judicial
process of the United States.”
High-Speed
Schedule of Ferries
Called “DYnamite”
J
SEATTLE OP — The high-speed
schedule laid down for Alaska
state ferries is driving ships and
men close to the danger zone, the
senior master of the Alaska ferry
fleet warned here yesterday.
Capt. Reuben Jacobsen, master
of the MV Malaspina, has recom
mended some reduction in the pace
the ferries must keep up, he said.
Capt. Jacobsen took the MV Mal
aspina out of Seattle on her in
augural run to Alaska last Janu
ary 23. Since then, the Malaspina
alone has carried more than 9,000
passengers, Jacobsen said yester
day as he wound up a week’s va
cation at his Seattle home. The
Malaspina and her sister ship, the
Taku, have proved excellent ships.
Passengers and the State of Alaska
have been pleased.
However, Jacobsen said yester
day:
“That schedule is dynamite! It
gives us only a half-hour at each
port, with short layovers at Skag
way and Prince Rupert on each
end of the run.”
The schedule is set up to cover
the 490 miles from Prince Rupert
to Skagway in 30 hours.
“I’m not so concerned about the
Malaspina,” Jacobsen said. “Our
crews are broken in now in good
shape. But those other two ships,
with new men, could have trouble.”
The MV Matanuska has been
completed and she is scheduled to
sail Saturday to join the Malaspina
and Taku.
The Malaspina, under Capt.
Jacobsen, and the Taku. under
Capt. Maitland Merkley, have
fared well on their runs. However,
the Taku struck an uncharted rock
in Wrangell Narrows a month ago,
and Jacobsen was forced to take
emergency navigational action
when the Malaspina veered off
course late last month in Olga
Strait, near Sitka.
Stack vibration that plagued the
Malaspina on her first run has
been corrected, Jacobsen said, al
though her rpms had to be cut
down.
The state ferry system also has
beefed up its docks by sinking ad
ditional pilings, but Jacobsen said
the ships still must take care in
making landings.
Takes Opposing View
KETCHIKAN UP — Capt. Tilman
Dagle. who shares command of
the Alaska ferry Malaspina with
Capt. Reuben Jacobsen, today took
a sharply opposing view of the
ferry schedules than that expressed
by his colleague.
Jacobsen had said that the high
speed schedules laid down for the
Alaska state ferries is driving ships
to the danger point.
“The trouble is to k^ep the fer
ries operating slowly enough to
keep the schedules,” declared
Dagle, a veteran Alaska mariner
whose home, like that of Jacob
sen, is Seattle.
“I slow the Malaspina down, I
lay over in ports to kill time. I
I wait for slack water in Wrangell
Narrows and it’s no strain at all. I
wonder what he’s doing?”
Dagle came ashore here yester
day after being relieved by Jacob
sen who will operate the vessel
for the next week. Dagle will as
sume command of the Taku, second
of the three vessels delivered for
use on the Alaska Marine High
way.