BIA Officials
Review Access
Roads for Chamber
Robert Tier, chief of the branch
of roads for the US. Bureau of
Indian Affairs from Washington,
DC., accompanied by Charles H.
Jones, area realty officer of the
BIA from Juneau, attended the
noon meeting of the Chamber on
Monday and explained their pur
pose in this part of Alaska.
Mr. Trier stated that the BIA
has had funds for many years for
the development of access roads
on reservations or remote places
where the Indian and Eskimo
people live. Under territorial
status it was not necessary to use
this money in Alaska as the Alaska
Road Commission took care of the
roads.
He stated that when Sen. Les
Bronson put in a bill at the last
legislature for the appropriation
of $80,000 for the survey of places
needing roads most urgently, the
BIA also decided to make a survey
to see if they also could assist in
the program as they have found,
stated Mr. Trier, that transporta
tion goes hand in hand with de
velopment of any area.
Festival . . .
Members of the Chamber and
their guests cere entertained by
Festival Queen Ann Chambers, and
her assistant Alice Arnold, by
dancing part of the can-can girl
rountine which they with other
can-can girls will use on Friday
evening.
Queen Ann also presented five
of the six Queen contestants:
Gloria Carlson, sponsored by the
CAP who will have as her talent,
piano playing; Gladys Cannon,
sponsored by the North Star, will
sing as her talent; Grace Aukon,
sponsored by Cavota’s Store, who
plans to sing; and Daphne Ryland
er, sponsored by the U.S. Merc,
which will display and model some
of her dressmaking, some of which
she has styled herself. June Oman,
sponsored by the Lions Club, was
not present.
Other guests at the meeting
were Mrs. Lucille (Cindy) Hussey
of Montgomery, Ala., Lennie Mae
Nerland, in Festival costume, and
Father Nevue who has just return
ed from Diamede Island.
Experts say American paper
currency is the easiest to counter
feit, French banknotes the hard
est.
j Propose Extension of
Territorial Fishing
Limits Under the Ocean
SEATTLE liW — Extension of
coastal nations territorial limits
to the Continental Shelf under the
ocean was proposed Tuesday by
W. A. (Bill) Ritter, president of
Pan-Alaska Fisheries Inc.
The step would save most of
America’s fisheries resources from
“foreign enchroachment” and also
protect stocks of underdeveloped
nations from “plundering” by Rus
sia and Japan, he said.
The United States should take
the lead in establishing such a
Continental Shelf boundary
through the United Nations, Ritter
urged.
“A 3-mile limit, or a 12-mile
limit, doesn’t mean a thing any
more,” he said. “Today we are
thinking in terms of Polaris sub
marines and nuclear missiles.
“The time has come to do some
thing about saving our fish, before
it is too late.”
Ritter cited the disputed Bering
Sea area. He said the Continental
Shelf, otherwise known as the 100
Fathom Curve, sweeps far out and
a recent airplane survey for his
firm showed the area behind it
to be“ literally covered” by Japan
ese and Soviet fishing vessels.
“With the Continental Shelf
theory, we could save that fishery
for ourselves,” he said.
Ritter recognizes, he said, that
a Continental Shelf line boundary
would offer inadequate protection
for far-ranging salmon. But it
would give “tremendous protec
tion” for bottom fish and shell
fish, including halibut, crab and
shrimp, he insisted.
He estimated Russians now have
some 250 fishing vessels around
Kodiak Island, in addition to their
Bering Sea activities.
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jjNome Harbor Is
North Coast
Distributing Point
NOME HARBOR: Nome is the
commercial port for the extensive
ly mineralized Seward Peninsula,
and principal distributing point for
the coast of Alaska from the Kus
kokwim River to Herschel Island
in the Arctic Ocean, a distance of
about 2,000 miles.
The original project provided
for two parallel timber and con
crete jetties, each 400 feet long
at the mouth of the Snake River,
and a channel 75 feet wide and 8
feet deep from Norton Sound to
the mouth of Bourbon and Dry
Creeks ending in a basin 200 feet
wide and 250 feet long. Work was
completed in 1923 at a cost of
§272,950 in federal funds. Owing
to extensive storms and ice dam
age, the jetties were reconstruct
ed with concrete and steel to
modified lengths of 240 and 400
feet.
This work was completed in
1940 as a maintenance project. A
modification in 1930 recommend
ed that the east jetty be extended
approximately 616 feet and the
west jetty extended not more than
216 feet. A review of reports in
1934 recommended that the exist
ing project be further modified to
provide an extension to the exist
ing turning basin 250 feet wide
and 400 feet long and 8 feet deep.
Both modifications were adopted
in August 1935 and dredging of the
basin was completed in 1951 at a
cost of $19,159 in federal funds.
The authorized extension of the
jetties has been placed in the in
active category. Cargoes from ocean
vessels are lightered to and from
shore, a distance of about 2 miles.
Traffic enters the dredged channel '
and freight is handled over the
revetment, where transfer facili
ties are available The average an
nual tonnage handled at the Port
of Nome for the years 1940 through
1959 amounted to 46,799 tons.
A project to provide for con
struction of a rock-mound seawall
extending from the east jetty east
erly 3,350 feet along the water
front was authorized in 1948 to
afford protection to shore installa
tions from southerly storms.
Work on the seawall commenced
in 1949 and was completed in June
1951 at a cost of $1,056,131 in fed
eral funds. Since completion of the
seawall, 14 storms have been ex
perienced, two of which were of
an intensity that would have
caused damage estimated to exceed
one-half of the cost of the seawall.
Total estimated damage prevented
by construction of the seawall is
approximately $1,000,000.
This figure does not include
possible damage to structures abut
ting the seawall such as the post
office and courthouse building
costing about $1,000,000 and the
Alaska Communication System
building costing about $500,000
which were constructed in recent
years in their present locations
because of the protection afford
ed by the seawall.
Corps of Engineers states dredg
ing needed, plus annual bank sta
bilization of the seawall.
Amount in 1964 fiscal year bud
get: $60,000. Amount requested for
1964 fiscal year budget: $60,000.
Men, don’t throw your old
double - breasted suits away. De
signers predict they’ll be, back in
style next fall.
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ARA Approves Two
| More Projects in Alaska
The Area Redevolpment Admin
istration of the U.S. Dept, of Com
merce approved 15 projects to help
create an estimated 2,200 direct
and indirect new jobs in economic
ally hard-hit areas of 12 states.
Here are ARA actions that have
not been previously announced:
Unalaska — A $148,367 indus
trial loan to help the Aleutian De
velopment Corp., Unalaska, ex
pand its salmon and king crab
canning facilities, helping to cre
ate 40 direct new jobs.
Total project costs will be
$230,608. Supplementing ARA’s in
vestment, which will run for 15
years at an annual interest rate of
4 per cent, the Native Village of
Unalaska, Inc., a local develop
ment group, will invest $23,061, and
the company will put up $59,180,
as equity. Funds will be used to
buy machinery and equipment for
expansion of the canning and
freezing facilities and to purchase
two fishing boats.
Kodiak — Approval of an $86,665
industrial loan to help Alvine’s
Marine Repair, Kodiak, expand fa
cilities to serve Navy, fishing and
pleasure boats. Fifteen direct new
jobs will be created. The ARA
loan will run for 15 years and bear
an annual interest rate of 4 per
cent.
Total cost of the project will be
$133,333. In addition to the ARA
funds, the Kodiak Development
Co., will invest $13,334, and the
applicant will put up $33,333 in
equity. Funds will be used to en
large existing docks and buildings
and for the purchase of land and
equipment for general expansion.
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“South Shall Rise
Again,” Is Rallying
Cry of Southerners
JACKSON, Miss. “The south
shall rise again in 1964” is the
rallying cry of 1,000 southerners
backing a move to throw next
year’s presidential election into the
House of Representatives.
They were named charter mem
bers Monday night of the southern
committee to elect the next Presi
dent of the United States.
The call—as in the unsuccessful
1948 Dixiecrat movement — was
for unity as Govs. Ross Barnett of
Mississippi and George Wallace of
Alabama thundered defiance of the
federal government.
‘•The issue is not the south versus
the north, Republican versus De
mocrat or integration versus seg
regation. The issue is freedom.
Freedom is not equal and equal
men are not free,” the principal
speaker, Tom Anderson of Nash
ville, Tenn., editor of Farm and
Ranch magazine^ said at the $25
a-plate dinner.
Barnett said “misuse of power”
was one of history’s great trage
dies. He called for a fight against
what he termed federal encroach
ments.
Barnett and his supporters ori
ginated the elector plan and push
ed it to passage in the Mississippi
legislature.
It allows state party conventions
to name two slates of presidential
electors, which would be presented
in a primary after the national
nominating conventions, one slate
loyalist and one unpledged.
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