THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME?*
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,870
juneau, Alaska, Thursday, july 26.1951
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'Fishing Pox' Will
Break Out All Over
Juneau on Weekend
By KAY KENNEDY
An epidemic of “fishing pox” is ,
expected to break out here to- i
morrow—the opening day of the
tilth annual Golddft North Sal
mon Derby sponsored by the Ter
ritorial Sportsmen, Inc.
“(lone Fishln’ ” signs will be on
most Juneau places of business on
I Saturday and Sunday when the
fishing fever reaches its peak. The
Territorial capital will be a
“ghost town" while the populace1'
migrate to the fishing area.
All fishermen, experts and ama
teurs, have their sights trained
on the new 1951 sedan given oy
sponsors for the biggest salmon
to be taken during the three days.
The second prize, a 16-foot boat
and 10 horsepower outboard mo
* tor donated by the Alaska Sal
mon Industry, is being eyed wist
fully by land-bound fishermen.
Third prize is a winter season
roundtrip via Pan American
World Airways to Honolulu and
the fourth award is a 9-cubic-foot
relrigerator.
The other 114 awards donated
by Juneau mijbchants are in the
process of beihg grouped in order
of value for the runners-up, John
* Satre and Hazel McLeod, prize
committee, said today.
Awards Tuesday
Award night will be held at the
Elk’s Hall next Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Dr: D. D. Marquardt and Curtis
Shattuck, co-chairman of the ev
ent, announced today.
Elton Engstrom, local fish buy
er has been placed in charge of
judging and weighing in. There
will be two stations, one at Auke
Ray and one at Tee Harbor, where
derby tickets will be authenticated
each morning and where fish will
i be weighed in each evening.
An opening gun will be fired
at 7 am. each morning, a warn
ing shot will be given at 4 p.m.
and the closing signal will be fired
at 5 p.m., Marquardt said.
The C. S. Coast Guard will have
a patrol vessel on hand to enforce
its 6-knot speed limit within Tee
Harbor (inside Tec Harbor Light
to Point Stephens).
Bath Tubs, Too?
* Everything that floats is expec
ted to be pressed into service for
Juneau's big sportsman event.
Even many commercial fishermen
have indicated they will accom
modate their boatless friends.
Derby ticket sales last night
had reached only a little over 300
and chairmen urged that all get
their tickets at one of the four
places de ignated. They are on
, sale at Juneau-Young and Thom
as Hardware stores, Madsen's
Fishing Supply and Percy’s. Cop
ies of the rules are also available
at those stores.
Among OUlLcaiuc viaiiuio **
Tor the Derby is Dr. A. J. Kotkis
of St. Louis, Mo., who arrived
here Tuesday on Pan American
Airways. He was planning a fish
ing trip to Jackson’s Hole, Wyo.
when he learned of the Golden
North Salmon Derby through Ju
neau friends. He quickly changed
his plans.
Doctor Kotkis fished salmon in
the Campbell River, Vancouver
Island, B. C. in 1935. He said, “The
largest fish I caught on that trip
wasn’t worth mentioning, but I
expect to do better here.”
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
B> DREW PEARSON
(Cosrrlcbt. MSI. or Bell Syndicate. Inc..
Pr ASHINGTON. — The demor
alized mobilization chiefs met be
hind closed doors the other day
and tried to be cheerful about
the gutted controls bill which
Congress voted them.
The meeting was called by ec
onomic stabilizer Eric Johnson,
but it was Jolly price boss Mike
Di Salle who tried to cheer up his
colleagues with some of his fa
mous wise cracks.
"Hello, fellow sufferers,” he
boomed cheerily. He said his feel
ing about the new controls bill
was best illustrated by a Berry
man cartoon.
“A guy went into the gas sta
tion to get some gas. and they
took two tires off his car,'’ quip
ped Di Salle.
Di Salle was philosophical,
however, and remarked ruefully:
"We went in for an operation.
(Continued on Page Four)
In New Scandal
These four Bradley University basketball players were named by
New York District Attorney Frank Hogan in new basketball scandal
announced in New York. Ilogan said the four had admitted accepting
bribes to fix backetball games and were being questioned in Peoria,
III., by the state attorney. Top, left to right: Eugene Melchiorre,
an All-America player; and Charles Grover; bottom, left to right:
Aaron Preece and William Mann. <P) Wirephoto.
Alaska Airport
Funds 'Inadequate'
Says Administrator
WASHINGTON, July 26 —OF)—
The $225,000 which the House ap
proved for operation of public
airports in Alaska will be "inad
equate” to do the job, civil aero
nautics administrator C. F. Horne
believes.
In a letter to Rep. Hinshaw
• R-Califi Horne said that a min
imum oi $370,000 would be re
quired for maintenance and op
eration of the two public airports
at Anchorage and Fairbanks.
The letter was written before
the House yesterday tentatively
approved 1951-52 funds for the
CAA.
The original request was for
$450,000, but this was cut in half
by the House Appropriations Com
mittee.
Horne said the committee ap
parently based its slash on the
premise that not all facilities at
the two new fields would be avail
able during the next 12 months.
“While it is true,” he continued,
“that the administration buildiifk
and certain other structures will
not be completed,., the runways
and other basic operating facili
ties are ready, and., should., be
glaced in service.”
He said the "primary purpose"
of constructing the fields was to
remove civil air traffic from air
force bases at the two cities, and
added:
"The department of defense is
insisting that civilian operations
be moved to the new airports at
the earliest possible date.”
In order to put the fields into
operation, he explained, a com
plete new complement of person
nel will be needed bcause the air
force bases are manned by air
force personnel.
DEPUTY MARSHAL
TAKES PRISONERS
SOUTH TODAY
Max Rogers, deputy U. S. Marsh
all from Sitka left Juneau today
with two prisoners and three in
sane persons. In Ketchikan two oth
er insane persons will be picked up.
• Prisoners are Paul K. Paulson who
was recently sentenced to the pen
itentiary under a forged check char
ge.
Dorothy Greenhalgh, sentenced to
serve a year and a day on a larc
eny charge, was to be taken to the
Women’s Federal Reformatory at
Alderson, West Virginia. However,
she will be turned over to the U. S.
Marshal at Seattle for transport
ation east.
The insane persons were bound
for Momingside in Portland, Ore
gon.
IJuneau
Plywood
Plan! Okayed
Juneau will hae a new $800,000
plywood plant.
Word was received today by T.
A. Morgan, of the Columbia Lum
ber Company and B. Frank Heiif
tzleman, regional forester for the
U. S. Forest Service from Wash
ington that approval for the pro
ject had been granted by the
National Prhdifctlon Authority
and the Defense Production Ad
ministration.
Such approval clears the way
for obtaining materials for con
struction and for an accelerated
5-year plan amortization for the
$800,000 plant.
"The concern will be known as
the Columbia Plywood Corpora
tion," said Morgan today. He will
be president of the concern.
120 Men !
He added that the mill will em
ploy at least 120 men on a two
shift day. At least half that many
will be needed in the woods, he
said. Annual production, accord
ing to present plans, will be about
! 30,000,000 square feet of finished
1 plywood. The plant will be built
at the north end of the Juneau
Lumber.. Company property on
south Franklin street.
Morgan said that engineering
surveys and drawings will get un
der way immediately. Under the
approval of NPA and DPA, part
of the money for financing will
be available from the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation.
“We hope,” Morgan said, “to
have the plant in full production
by mid-1952.”
Alaska first
! Alaska’s military and civilian
j construction will have priority for
j use of the plant’s output, Morgan
I added. Any surplus will be sent
to markets in the States.
| This is the third of four projects
for Southeast Alaska to be given
approval by NPA and DPA, on
which Heintzleman has been work
ing the past eight month* in
Washington.
The first, enlargement and new
construction for the Columbia
Lumber Company mill at Sitka re
ceived approval about a week ago.
Yesterday approval for Ketchi
kan’s $40,000,000 pulp and paper
mill was anounced from Washing
ton, D. C. _
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Mr. ad Mrs. F. O. Spence of San
Francisco are guests at the Bar
anof Hotel.
Three Canadian Air Force
Planes Join Search for
Missing Tokyo-Bound Liner
Three Royal Canadian Air Force
planes departed from Sea Island,
near Vancouver, B. C., this morn
ing to Join 21 other aircraft on the
fifth day of a search seeking a
trace of the Canadian Pacific air
liner that mysteriously disappeared
last Friday night.
The missing plane, last heard
from off Cape Spencer, carried 31
passengers and a crew of seven, in
cluding two stewardesses. It was
on the first leg of a flight to Tokyo,
Search areas have included both
land and water from Cape Spenc
er northward to Middleton bland.
Concentrated efforts are being made
In the Prince William Sound reg
ion today.
169 Hours
Yesterday 26 aircraft spent 169
hours systematically covering the
“areas of probability." This does
not include the flying time spent
in transit from bases to the region
being combed.
Only two of the five huge C-124
planes expected from McChord Field
Wash, arrived yesterday.
The three RCAF planes due to
day are two 4-engine Lancaster
bombers and one amphibious 2-en
gine PBY, They will base out of
Elmendorf Field near Anchorage.
icecap Studies Delve J
Deep W;Mth Use ai m*cemm
Pr-Ph-Pyrheliometer
*
Pulp Mill Will
Get Maximum
Tax Exemption
The $40,000,000 Ketchikan Pulp
and Paper Company of Ketchikan
will be granted the maximum ex
emption of one-half Its tax, it was
determined at a final meeting of
the Territorial Board of Assess
ment and Equalization yesterday.
This is the maximum exemption
allowable under the industrial in
centive clause of the Alaska Prop
erty Tax Act passed by the 1049
legislature. The exemption can run
for a period not to exceed ten years.
The new mill is a joint venture
by the Puget Sound Pulp and Tim
ber Co. of Bellingham, Wash., and
the American Cellulose Co. of New
York. It would be located at Ward’s
Cove, a few miles north of the “sal
mon capital."
The tax of one-eighth the true val
uation of the property, quoted in
last night’s Empire, was erroneous
and does not comply with the law.
M. P. Mullaney, tax collector for
the Territory, said the Ketchikan
School District must assess the val
ue of the property.
Attending yesterday’s meeting
mere Mullaney, W. A. Bates, vice
president of the Miners and Mer
chants Bank of Ketchikan, B. Frank
Helntzleman regional forester of the
Forest Service and members of the
Board of Assessment and Equaliz
ation: Ernest Parson, chairman and
Peter Wood. Joe Krause, board
member from Ketchikan was un
able to attend.
WEATHER FORECAST
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 0:20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum.
79; minimum, 49.
At Airport — Maximum,
75; minimum, 45.
FORECAST
Juneau and vicinity. Fair to
night with lowest tempera
ture near 54 degrees. Increas
ing cloudiness Friday becom
ing cloudy with occasional
light rain by afternoon. High
est Friday about 65.
PRECIPITATION
(Pait 24 hour* ending 1:30 a m. todar
City of Juneau -- .00 inches;
Since July 1 — 4.02 inches;
At Airport — .00 inches;
Since July 1 — 2.28 inches.
That august body, the United
States Weather Bureau, daily scans
Its barometers and thermometers
to tell us whether It'll be sunsuits
or raincoats.
Now they’ve come up with a
pyrheliometer—no, that's not a
printer's error—and they’ve plant
ed one on the Juneau Icecap to
study radiations of the sun.
The Juneau Icefield Research
Project, now deeply engrossed in
studying the Jiuge hunk of cold a
few miles out of town, installed the
instrument in the field’s center at
elevation 3,862 feet.
Harry Carle, supervising electron
ics technician from Weather Bur
eau headquarters in Anchorage, is
here to Join the project and inter
pret findings of the device. He
will go to Camp 10, the main base,
to make his studies. I
The instrument records the quan-1
tity of radiated heat from the sun
"in terms of gram calories per
square centimeter per minute” as
received by a special glass bulb
erected on the main research cabin
The instrument was in operation
ing Ferbruary this year. It is run
three months last summer and dur
by electricity from generators at"
the camp. One 3,000-watt generator
and an auxiliary 1,500-watt gener
ator were delivered by the recent
paradrops made by the C-82 Fly
ing Boxcar” from the 54th Troop
Carrier Squadron.
It is Hoped that data obtained
through use of the pyrheliometer
will aid in interpreting some of the
changes talcing place over a long
period of time on the icefield re
lating to growth and decay of glac
iers near their source, according to
Maynard Miller, project head.
The instrument was loaned to the
project by the Weather Bureau in
its program of cooperation in the
meteorological studies being pur
sued.
Carle will be flown to Camp 10
in a 10th Rescue Squadron ski plane
as soon as the aircraft is available.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, July 26, Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock today is 2%, American
Can 111, American Tel. Si Tel.
156%, Anaconda 41%, Douglas Air
craft 48%, General Electric 55%.
General Motors 48%, Goodyear
89%, Kennecott 75, Libby, McNeil Si
Libby 8%. Northern Pacific 48%,
Standard Oil of California 49%.
Twentieth Century Fox 19%, U. S.
Steel 41%, Pound 2AO-1/16, Can
adian Exchange 94.43%.
Sales today were 1,480.000 sharees. I
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 359.08, rail 80.08, util
ities 44.90.
The Coast Guard cutter Storis
arrived here from Seattle at 5 p.m.
yesterday, unloaded and was en
route by 7:45 p.m. to Join three
other cutters scouring the district
from Cape Spencer northward.
The search area includes around
35,00t square miles of rugged mount
ainous and glacier terrain as well
as a large slice of the Gulf of Al
aska.
Six major organizations are par
ticipating in the operation with
bases at Juneau, Yakutat and Anch
orage.
Crew members from planed
based here looked weary and
bleary-eyed upon their arrival from
yesterday's operations. With good
weather holding they expeected to
be back on the job early this morn
ing.
Meanwhile reports yesterday from
Prince Rupert of smoke ‘signals’
north of there may have been "sud
den cloud formations in turbulent
atmosphere,'' Pilot Norman Jermyn
reported.
Jermyn made a two-hour search
of the area after observers reported
25 small, black balls rose’ over the
mountains, then broke Into what
appeared to be clouds of smoke.
Loaded Soldier
t
Agenda Set;
Foes Differ
On Truce Line
Prisoner Exchange,
Cease-fire Supervision
Are U. N.'Musts'
U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUART
ERS. Korea, July 20 —(JB— Allied
and Red delegates agreed today on
the exact limits of Korean armist
ice negotiations.
United Nations spokesmen said
negotiators approved a five-point
program and immediately disposed
of the first item. A Communist
spokesman heralded this a "pro
gressive move toward an armistice.”
But the U. N. announcement caut
ioned: (1) Delegates are far apart
on the remaining four points; <2>
Nobody knows how long it will take
for them to agree, and (3) Shoot
ing will continue until an armistice
is signed.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway's
headquarters announced the five
point agenda (list of subjects to be
debated) covers:
1. Adoption of Agenda. (They
did that in the first nine minutes
of Thursday's session.)
2. Deciding where to draw the
truce line and establishing a buffer
zone between oposing armies.
Two Chinese Communist soldiers, one loaded with gear including: a
submachine gun, walk away from a UN photographer whose convoy
to Kaesong was halted July 20, Korean time, by high waters. Allied
engineers have been working to repair flood damage so cease-fire
convoy can get through when the Communists are expected to give
their answer to the armisticr agenda, (PI Wirephoto by Associated
Press photographer Jim Pringle.
Reds Dominate
U. S. Policy:
MacArthur
BOSTON, July 26, -W— Gen
Douglas MacArthur charged last
night that Soviet propaganda
“cbhnpletely dominates” American
foreign policy and claimed the
result of the war in Korea has
been "indecisive."
Coupling a bristling attack on
administration policies abroad with
what he called "reckless" spending
at home, the five-star Oeneral
laid down the major points:
1. —The United States has no
foreign policy.
2. —Costs of government have
risen at “an accelerated, alarm
ing and reckless rate" with iio
plan for curbing taxes or infla
tion. *
3.—“The survival of the free
world Is infinitely more depend
ent up on the maintenance dr
a strong, vigorous, healthy and
independent American than upon
any financial aid which we might
provide under our own existing
stringencies.
In the eyes of Massachusetts
politicians, MacArthur has thrown
himself into the 1962 Presidential
fight—either as a candidate or a
campaigner.
Both Republican and Democrat
ic leaders see the 71-year-old
General as far from “fading
away” after he opened a two-day
tour of the bay state with a
bristling attack on ' administration
policies—foil ign and domestic^
Territorial Fishing
License Required
For Derby Days
Sports fishermen will need a fish
ing license to participate in the
Golden North Salmon Derby and
commercial fishermen participating
will have to have two.
Dr. D. D. Marquardt a“hd Curtis
Shattuck, co-chairmen of the Derby,
have been plagued with inquiries
today as the people of Juneau turn
serious thoughts to fishing.
All persons, except resident Esk
imos, Indians and Aleuts will be re
quired to have an Alaska Territor
ial sports fishing license which costs
$1 for residents and $3 for non-1
residents and aliens. The tax meas
ure was passed by the last legis
lature. Licenses are sold by the loc
al hardware stores.
Commercial fishermen on a ‘ bus
man’s holiday" will be required to
have a Territorial sport fishing lic
ense in addition to their commer
dal license.
A Fish and Wildlife Service lic
ense is not required for salt water
fishing—only fresh water fishing.
Battle Casualties
Reach 79,723
WASHINGTON, July 26, —IM~~
Announced U. S. battle casualties
in Korea reached 79,723 today, an
increase of 584 since last week.
Only two previous casualty reports
showed a lower one-week rise since
the Defense Department began
issuing its summaries last August
7.
The smallest one-week toll—413
—was reported last week, reflecting
the comparative lull in fighting
since the first efforts to achieve a
cease-fire. The second smallest rise
—574—was reported February 7.
Today's weekly report based on
notifications to families through
last Friday reported:
Killed in action 11,777 100 11,877
Battle deaths (x) 13,230 110 13,340
C'r'nt missing (y) 10,632 2 10,634
(X> Includes killed in action,
1,349 fatally wounded and 114 dead,
originally reported missing.
(Y> After deducting from gross
total 1,342 returned, 149 known
captured and 114 dead.
Last New
Friday Iner. Total
Wounded
Missing
Total
55,125 472 55,597
12,237 12 12,219
79,139
Jorgenson Motors
Donates Commission
On Derby Car
In the list of donations to the
Golden North Salmon Derby an un
intentional omission occurred in
falling to mention Jorgenson Mot
ors had donated Its commission cn
the sedan given as first prize.
Arrangements for the purchase of
the automobile, which will be the
finest yet given in the Derby, were
made last January by the Territor
ial Sportsmen, Inc., board of dir
ectors. At that time George Jor
genson, owner of the firm, offered
to knock off his commission on the
car.
It has been the policy of the
organization to rotate the car pur
chase among local dealers.
BILL BATES IS HERE
William Bates, Ketchikan banker
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
Ship Movements
i " .
Aleutian scheduled southbound
early Sunday.
Alaska northbound due Satur
day afternoon or evening.
Denali scheduled southbound 7
a.m. Friday morning, sailing south
at 10 a.m.
-Freighter Sailors Splice leaves
Seattle Friday northbound.
Baranof scheduled northbound
from Seattle Friday,
\
J. Concrete arrangements to end
the shooting and supervise the
truce.
4. Arrangements for exchange of
prisoners.
5. “Recommendations to the
governments of the countries con
cerned on both sides." (The Com
munist demand’ for withdrawal of
foreign troops from Korea comes
under this heading.)
Negotiators agreed on the agenda
In the shortest session they have
yet held. It lasted only 58 minutes.
Discussions Begin
“Preliminlary dicusslons began
Immediately after the agreement on
the agenda,” Ridgeway's headquart
ers announced.
They will go Into It more deeply
In the 11th session scheduled for
10 a.m. tomorrow (4 p.m. Juneau
time today.)
The announcement emphasized
that agreement on the agenda "is
merely the initial step for the final
goal of a military armistice and re
sultant cease-fire.”
The second and third points 11st
1 ed on the agenda offered the big
Rest hurdles that negotiators will
have to overcome.
The first point, adoption of the
agenda, is a routine matter similar
(Cmtinned on Page Six)
It Wasn't Katmai
Which Blew Up, But
Little Ml. Mageik
KODIAK. July 36. —An air
line pilot landed here last night
with word that Mt. Mageilc, not Mt.
Katmai as first reported, is the
active volcano on the Alaska Pen
insula.
The volcano erupted Tuesday
with clouds of smoke and ash.
Alaska Airlines pilot Vance Daly
made a second flight over the area
yesterday. He reported an “atom
bomb-like cloud of smoke” arising
from Mt. Mageik, several miles '
southwest of Katmai, the volcano
which caused widespread damage in
its 1912 eruption.
Both volcanoes are near the Val
ley of 10,000 Smokes, northwest of
Kodiak Island across Shelikoff
Strait. Mt. Mageik is 1,250-feet
high, overshadowed by 7,000-foot
Mt. Katmai.
Daly said ash continues to fall
on Kukak, a cannery on the main
land coast, but residents have not
been evacuated.
Two Seattle men, Charles P. Tur
ner and Larry Freeburn, accom
panied Daly on the flight.
Samples of drinking water from
the vicinity of the volcano were to
be tested at the naval base here.
Daly, who brought back the samp
les. had reported after his first
flight the crater still smoking so
that visibility was cut to two mil
es. He said fine ash and smoke was
hanging over a 100-mlle area.
No injuries to residents in the
area have been reported.