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Report From
Fort Riley
Harold Fuller, graduate from
Kenai High School last year
and new with the U S Army at
Fort Riley. Kas.. writes. ' .After
being raised around an Army
post ail my life you would think
I would be used to it Well. I
can tell you that it is a lot dif
ferent being in the service But
so far it has been good to me.
although I will be glad to get
out when my hitch is up.
■'I got my first real big pro
motion on the 13th of February
when I was promoted to the
rank of Private First Class. I
have been selected to attend
the Army Information School,
located at Fort Slocum, which
u located on a small island off
Long Island. New York."
Harold has been working in
the Public Information Office
handling two ten-minute shows
a day entitled Report From
Riley ’ and articles on home
town releases, since his arrival
at Fort R.iey ast October.
Harold was sports reporter
for the Cheeefaako News before
going into the service
Seward Seeks
Pow. Release
The city of Seward has filed
an application with the Federal
Power Commission for surrend
er of its license for a proposed
water-power project which was
to have been located on Cres
cent and Carter lakes on the
Kenai Peninsula. Petitions to
intervene or protests may be
filed with the FPC until April
18.
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Egan Criticizes Crab Ban
Death As ‘Negative Reasoning9
Governor William A. r-gan
today criticized reasons given
by federal officials for lifting of
the ban against imports of Rus
sian crabmeat as being nega
tive reasoning for such a posi
tive action."
In separate letters to Secre
tary of the Treasury Douglas
Dillon and Richard H. Davis,
deputy assistant Secretary of
State * for European Affairs.
Egan said he was “once again
. . compelled to register vigor
ous disagreement” with the ac
tion.
Noting that the reason given
for the action was the lack of
evidence that prison or forced
labor is being used by the Rus
sians in production of the crab
meat. the Alaska Governor de
clared:
Tt would appear to me that
this is negative reasoning for
such a positive action. Rather
than having no evidence of such
a condition. I should think the
United States should in a matter
of this importance require posi
tive. fully documented evidence
that no such condition exists in
Russia today. I feel that accept
ance of ‘no evidence' indicates
no effort to collect such evi
dence.”
Egan also dinerea witn views
expressed by Davis that he
could "see no reason to expect
that Alaskan canned crabmeat.
taking into account the tariff
and market situation, should
not be able to maintain a fully
competitive position with Soviet
crabmeat.”
The Governor, however, said
he could only assume that the
initiative for lifting of the ban
came from the Russians and
that the action was made "as a
Recent Arrivals
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Aldrich.
Kenai, a boy, weighing 9 lbs.,
14 oz. born at Seward General
hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee McFarland,
Soldotna, a girl Marquita Ann.
born March 16th at Sew'ard.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Hess of
Kenai, a girl born March 20th
at Seward.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Law
rence o£ Soldotna, a boy. born
March 24 at Seward.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Grainge of
Soldotna. a boy, Ted Van.
weighing 10V4 lbs., at Seward.
Alaska has the lowest per
centage of population of persons
65 years of age or older of any
other state. The more-than-65
years-old population comprises
only 4.L per cent of the total.
gesture of goodwill
I hardly think.’* he added,
•that the Russians would seek
an empty gesture of goodwill,
so this action must have some
meaning for them. For this rea
son. I cannot be satisfied w ith
the statement that Alaska crab
meat will be fully competitive
with Russian crabmeat because
of existing import duties.”
However, Sen. Ernest Gruen
■ ng has been informed that the
impact on king crab sales from
Alaska may not be as great as
originally expected because of
the high* tariff (15 percent on
frozen crabmeat and 22.5 per
cent on prepared), and because
crabmeat is in short supply.
To See Film
' The Big Hunt” and Alaskan
film will be shown by the
Kaknu Rifle and Pistol Club at
their next meeting at 7:30
April 3rd, at the CAP hut in
Kenai.
The club has reactivated and
has plans underway to build
its rifle range close to Big Eddy
in Ridgeway. They have cut the
logs and are ready to construct
a 12x20 ft. meeting hut with
an additional 12x50 ft. covered
shooting range.
New officers for the coming
vear are: Jim Gibson, president;
Gene Smith, vice - president;
Dorothy Enzler. sec.-treas.: H
G. Van Sickle, instructor; Cal
Stiiwell, executive officer, and
Glen Kipp and Warren Enzler.
members at large.
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