Sen. Bartlett Says Commission Had
No Choice But Recommend Japanese
Entry Into Bering Sea Halibut Fishery
JUNEAU (j*F — The Internation
al North Pacific Fisheries Commis
sion had no choice, under the cir
cumstances, but to recommend j
Japanese entry into the eastern
Bering Sea halibut fishery, Sen. E.
L. Bartlett said Monday.
In a news conference on his ar
rival back in the United States
from Tokyo where he served as a
congressional adviser to the Ameri
can commissioners at the INPFC
meeting now being held there,
Bartlett said:
“The commission could have
taken no other action, with the
facts it had in hand, and still have
preserved the abstention prin
ciple.”
The INPFC recommended at a
meeting in Seattle last November
that Japan be permitted to enter
the halibut fishery of the eastern
Bering Sea, a recommendation
which brought angry protests from
fishermen and from officials of
the states of Washington and
Alaska.
Under the absention principle of
the INPCF treaty between Can
ada, Japan and the United States,
Japan agreed to abstain from
catching certain fish, including
halibut, east of 175 degree west
longitude as long as U.S. and Cana
dian fishermen made full utiliza
tion of the stocks.
“Six years ago,” Bartlett said,
“the halibut catch in the eastern
Bering Sea was only 250,000
pounds. Last year it was 7 million
pounds. 1
“While it is the feeling of Am
erican and Canadian fisheries peo
ple that this may be the limit,
we have no supporting research
data.”
Bartlett said the Tokyo meeting,
called to formulate conservation
h
principle prior to Japanese entry
into the eastern Bering Sea halibut
fishery, said he sees little possibil
ly of the INPFC reaching an ag
reement.
“The Japanese proposals are
simply not acceptable to the U.S.
commissioners and it its my under
standing that the Canadians enter
tain a like view.”
“I am convinced that if the
Japanese do not concede import
ant elements of the American de
mand, the meeting will adjourn
without any adoption of the con
servation measures.
“If this happens, the Japanese
will probably move to abrogate the
treaty, which means they would
then be able to take any fish they
want within three miles of our
shores.”
In a personal observation, Bart
lett said:
“The American section feels it
would be unfortunate to have the
treaty abrogated, but that it would
be equally bad to have to yield
point by point.
“It is not true, as many fisher
men have stated, that our commis
sioners, when they sit down at the
commission table, keep negotiating
our rights away.”
Bartlett said he had planned tc
speak to the Russian observers at
the Tokyo meeting about the des
truction of American king crab
fishing gear by Russian trawlers
off Kodiak Island but had not had
the opportunity to do so.
He said the American delegation
to the North Pacific Fur Seal Con
vention in Tokyo Feb. 18, which
will include Alaska Secretary of
State Hugh J. Wade, will have the
authority to discuss the question
with the Soviets.
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Corps Volunteers
Will Be Heading
Home This Year
WASHINGTON UFl — The first
trickle of Peace Corps volunteers
returning home from overseas will
begin early this summer.
In a few years this trickle will
grow to a flood and the Peace
Corps w’ill contribute to the final
phase of its mission: providing
leadership in a complex world.
A year ago when the Peace
Corps was a fast-growing infant,
one of its founders commented:
“Just wait until we have some
10,000 to 15,000 Peace Corps vet
erans back in the United States.
They will help provide enlightened
leadership in this country.”
Some 400 volunteers will return
this summer — 700 by the end of
the year — after a two-year term
of service to the people in the de
veloping nations of the world.”
A survey of the first group
show’s that amost two-thirds of
them plan to go back to school
and an equal number intends
eventually to enter some sort of
public service, either with the
Peace Corps, other government
agencies or international organiza
tions.
“The Peace Corps has changed
their perspective,” said one staff
member. “It has been a very deep
experience for many. They realize
they need to go to graduate school
to get what they need.”
For those wanting to go back to
school there are opportunities in
abundance. Some 20 colleges and
universities already have set up
fellowships for Peace Corps vet
erans.
Qualified ex-volunteers can study
everything from clinical psycholo
gy to public administration and
international affairs at such places
as Yale, Columbia, Notre Dame
University of Chicago, the George
Peabody Teachers College in Nash
ville, Tenn., and the American In
stitute of Foreign Trade.
The majority of volunteers over
seas are teachers and about 14 per
cent of those returning this summer
say they plan to continue teaching.
Public- schools in California.
Michigan and Chicago, plus such
private institutions as Phillips
Exeter Academy in New Hamp
shire and the St. Louis Country
Day School are clamoring for re
turning volunteers.
GAMBLING PERMIT
FOR LABOR UNIONS
JUNEAU m — A bill which
would permit labor unions to ob
tain a gambling perfnit for the
operation of games of chance was
introduced in the House yesterday.
The measure simply adds labor
organizations under the definition
of “fraternal organizations” which
also includes civic service clubs and
charitable organizations which may
conduct bingo, games, lotteries and
ice pools.
It was sponsored by Reps. Robert
Blodgett, Frank Cashel and War
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Soviets Break Ties
With NBC In Moscow
MOSCOW 0P> — The Soviet gov
ernment ordered the National
Broadcasting Co. yesterday to close
its Moscow bureau because of a
program about Premier Khrush
chev.
The Foreign Ministry’s press de
partment called in NBC corres- j
pondent Russell Jones and told i
him to leave the country.
Press director Leonid Zamyatin
told Jones that an NBC program
Feb. 3 titled “The Rise of Mr.
Khrushchev” and another late in
January were anti-Soviet.
Tass, the Soviet news agency,
said: “This step was taken in con
nection with a recent series of
malicious anti-Soviet broadcasts by
the National Broadcasting Co.
which grossly distorted Soviet
reality and had the obvious pur
pose of arousing in the U.S. popu
lation hospitality toward the So
viet Union.”
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Abortion Measure
Is Up for Study
JUNEAU — A bill which
would permit Alaska doctors to
perform abortions under certain
circumstances was the subject of a
public hearing here Monday, but
no one showed up to testify.
Three telegrams were received
by the Judiciary Committee, which
is studying the bill, expressing op
position and suggesting changes.
The measure was introduced last
Wednesday and the hearing date
was announced the following day.
Committee chairman William H.
Sanders, <R-Anch.>, deferred any
action on the bill until a further
expression of public opinion could
be heard.
Under present law, a doctor may
perform an abortion only when the
alternative is death to the mother
of the unborn child.
Under the proposed legislation,
a licensed physician would be
justified in terminating a preg
nancy “if he believes there is a
substantial risk that the continu
ancy of the pregnancy would grave
ly impair the physical or mental
health of the mother, or that the
child would be born with a grave
physical or mental defect, or that
the pregnancy resulted from rape,
incest or felonious intercourse.
“Justifiable abortions may be
performed only in a hospital ex
cept where hospital facilities are
unavailable.”
The measure was sponsored by
Rep. Wm. Whitehead, (D-Juneau),
who has practiced medicine in
Alaska for 29 years. He is a past
president of the Alaska State Medi
cal Assn.
Whitehead said the bill had been
drafted at his request by the Leg
islative Council, which studied the
American Law Institute’s model
penal code and legislation in other
states before drafting Whitehead’s
bill.
“I am not trying to legalize
abortions,” Whitehead, who is a
member of the Judiciary Commit
tee, explained. “What I want to do
is make abortions illegal except
when they should be performed.”
He added that he would prefer
to have action on the bill deferred
so medical and religious groups
would have the opportunity to give
it complete study.
Four of the major hospitals in
the state are operated by the Cath
olic Church.
Measure Would Create
Alaska-Japan Trade Commisison
JUNEAU (At — Creation of an
Alaska-Japan trade commission to
develop commerce with Japan is
provided for in a bill, introduced
in the Senate today.
The measure was submitted by
Sens. R. J. McNealy, John Hall,
and Pearse Walsh.
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