V^l* VJ No* 4
April 30, iM
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„ ..BELCVED PIONEER PASSES AWAY IN SEATTLE
Ur* Paul "Hcinio” Hildebrand, local mer
* * chant and old-time resident, of Bristol Bay,
died at the Virginia Mason .Hospital.in
SonM,J.e. 6u April 17, following an emergency
* * * Aps’ration for abdominal ulo.br* . . .
Paul Hildebrand, one of our most*beloved
and spirited pioneers combined an enviable
mixture of hard work:, ho'hbst ondeaVOr and
h^mor into his life*
*> B*?rn in Germany in April of 19Q0, Paul
shipped to America as a young man of 23,
determined to mako this country his new
home* In 1923 he landed, and disembarked
at the port of San Pedr#, California and
simply * forgot* to get back aboardl (Paul
said that the reason for his forgetfulness
(?) was his attempt to buy a pair of shoes
in Germany prior to his departure but found
to his dismay that a mere 100,000 marks
would just pay for ONE shoe.)
Paul took his adopted country to his
heart and five years after landing here,
unable to speak English, he had securea his.
final eitizenship papers and shortly there
after he acquired his Seaman*a Papers hav
ing decided to follow the sea*
As early as 1926, Paul began brushing
shoulders with Alaskans, and more specifi
cally., Bristol Bay Alaskansl He met Milton
Christiansen while both wero in California
and "Chris’* talked Alaska to Paul* Tom
Overwiok, also a fishermon from here, t alke<
to Paul about the possibilities of Alaska!
as a matter of fact, Tom did more than talk
he actually got Paul lined up with John
Schuren as a fishing partner and a job at
the Wood River Cannery and a 11 four men
came north together for that fishing season
of 1931, The operations were fruitful and*
the following year Paul returned again but
this year he remained behind in the fall*
He built himself a little cabin at Vfood
River and has lived here in the Bay ever
since,
In 1933 Paul and Chris spent the win
tor bea ver trapping at Black Slough, In
1934 Paul and Marvin Smith started out with
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FWS HAS TROUT-SALMON PROBLEM
Ono of the many problems faced by the
PWS in Alaska is whother to protect or
destroy trout* Eemands to do both arc* be
ing recoiled at. the Regional Direotor of
fice every day, .and Rhodes has decided
that here agai.41.i3 another argument whore
it will be impossible to please everybody.
As a samplo ho points to an experience
on Kodiak Island! "A lot of people sug
gested the solution for producing more sal
mon is to eliminato the trout which are
alleged "to eat large numbers of eggs and
young salmon* They believe this* too. for
they have seen trout guzzlo eggs and have
found small fish inside of them* The bio
logists decided to find out* They seined
and trapped thousands of pdunds of trout
from the Karluk river and reduced the
trout population to a very low level*. Then
they sat back to see what would happen*
Guess whatl The sticklebacks promptly
took over the lake, multiplying by the
thousands without their arch enemy the
trout to feed on them* These sticklebacks
are plankton feeders ana ate up all the
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