publication by Truman Emberg who returned
to Dillingham this week from Washington,
D*C./ where he and Jim Downey went to in
tercede for the residents of Bristol Bay
relative to this areats future economy,.)
There will be a commercial operation in
the red salmon fishery on the Nushagak
River this season. The terms of the amend
ment of the closure order which will per
mit fishing are not yet known; so, until
the Secretary of the Interior, ivfcKay, signs
and releases the order, we will not know
•dufinitoly what weekly fishing time* is tp
bo allowed or whothor the floaters will be
allowed to como in and take a large portioir
«f the run*
Wo wore given an opportunity to present
our protest against the closure of the
Nushagak River at a hearing before tho
Sub-committee of Interior and Insular Af
fairs which was held at Washington, D.C«
•n March 26th. From our statements and
the statements of Director Day and Seton
Thompson of the Fish and Wildlife Service,
it was established that no reliable method
exists for forecasting saTmon runs. The
member.*! of the subcommittee in questioning
the officials of the FWS left no doubt but
that they considered closure as an un
reasonable and unjustified policy which
WMuld ruin the economy of this area•
At this hearing, and’Tn suksaqu¥nt meet
ings with Senators Knowland and Taft, with ^
Congressman Tollefsen, with officials of ;
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, of the Of- z
fioe of Territories and the Fish and Wild—'?
life Service, and with becretary of the
Interior McKay and his Assistant Secretary £
Lewis, it was pointed out that if this
closure order was not amended it would be :
the responsibility of tho Federal Govern i
ment to set up relief measures to care for_
ilio residents pf the Niish.aga.lc watershed. z
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“BOARDINGHOUSE REACH”
The annual Dillingham High School play
will he twice present© d at Lowefs Theater
on Thursday, April 16th, at 2 PM and ft PM»
(The afternoon showing is to accommodate
those adults who cannot get away in the
evening and those children who prefer the
earlier hour.)
The Three .acts of the play take place
in the living room of the maxwell home
and .cover- less than a 24-hour time sparu
Boardinghouse Reach, directed by Mr*
Kallon^r^ will W dramatically told by
a oast of sixteen students; the story
itself will bo kept a secret until the
performance dato*
The children taking part in this year*8
stage production arc*
Harlan Adkisona.... .Wiibor
Carl Larson.....Hercules N.
Hattie Smith.Betty Maxwell
Delores Johnson.••••»••..Connie ”
Carole Nielsen...........B. Smith
Don Sagmoen..John Maxwell
Audrey Roberts...........Janet ”
Josephine Schaefer.......Aunt Mary
Ado4(b Larson.•••«••••••.Limpy
Parana Anderson.*•••••••.Nora
Don Pelagic...”9fr-Volt”
Anne -Nelson..... .Roughhouso
Ralph Sorenson..•••••Mr. Potter
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