THE DILLINGHAM
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7/20/55
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After seven starvs^icn yeare, the
Uushagak watershed is day agog with
•oho excitement and activity aroused by a
bumper salmon catch*
With the season still in progress, the
Pacific American Fishery Cannery at
PixlIngham, under Superintendent Bill
Nelson, has a ourrent paok of better thar
50$000 (unofficial figu*-.-) cases* The
FWS, satisfied with the 1 in, extended th€
last fishing period by 30 additional houi
with the last week of fishing opened to
continuous fishing*
Business owners are ’’floating on air”
with the prospects of closing their fi&*
cal years this time with a nice, big
profit—for once again* Bills will hft
paads credit-letting will bo unnecessary]
everyone will face the winter with a
good grubstake; and the first step to
wards the old-time economy will be con
cumatedl
The Department of the Interior, in
its vigorous program for the restoration
of depleted salmon runs in Alaskan water:
has signed a second oontraot with the
University of Washington for salmon re
search in the territory.
The new $55,400 contract provides for
exp anded research under the Saltonstall
Kennedy Act on problems affecting the
survival of salmon. It supplements an
earlier $64,000 contract as well an the
extensive government program.
The work will be oondueted at the
University*s Fisheries Research Insti
tute under the supervision of its Dir
ector, Dr, ¥,F,Thompson, a noted author
ity on the life history'and conservation
of salmon, halibut, tuna, and sardines.
The tagging contract (first) will be
administered by Clinton Atkinson, Chief
of the Service* $ Pacific Salmon Investi
gatic ns? hdqs at Seattle! the fresh
water research program (second) will be
headed by Donald L, McKernan, newly
appointed Administratar of Alaska Com
mercial Fisheries at Juneau,
\ wdlf who was too poor to buy etch
ings invited a g|trl up to see the hand
writing on the \/alll
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SCHEDULED FOR TRIP TO ORIENT
Four, and perhaps five, residents of
Alaska are scheduled to go to Tokyo in
October for the next meeting of the Ii>
ternational North Pacific Fisheries Com
mission* A meeting of the American sec»
tion is scheduled for Juneau, Sept* 6 & 7
to prepare for the conference in Japan*
Going to Tokyo arc John Clawson of
Anohoragc, member of the oommissionf
®C1 arena# L* Anderson and Larry Fitzpat
rick of Juneau and Robert Kallenberg of
Dillingham, members of the advisory com
mittee to the United States section*
Probably to attend is Robert Parker of
Juneau, advisor to the committee on Bio
logy Research*
DEATH TAKES PR. GREIF* S BROTHER
Dr# Forrest V. Greif of Port Blakely,.
Washington* a dentist, who practiced in
Seattle for thirty years died in Pro
! videnee Hospital there on June 10th and
a. requiem mass was said in St# Joseph1's
Ghureh, Seattle, on Monday, June l^th,
9 with burial in Holyrood Cemetery#
Fr# Harold Greif, S.J# of Dillingham,
was in the states upon request from his
family when news was received of his
brother* s critical condition# He was in
* attendance at the time of death#
Fr# Greif is back in the Bay now and
busily engaged in his church work up
and down throughout the district#
Fr# George Endal, S.J*.., also of
Dillingham, has just returned from a two
week trip to the area canneries and has
been well received by them. They have
contributed freely to the needs as pre
sented for the re-establishment of the
Holy Rosary Mission School which burara
to the ground just before Eaerter this
ri-i.__
A Scotch traveling salesman, ho\(\ ' ,
in th9 Orkney Islands by a bad etcrm#
telegraphed to his firmi?l Marooned ht:.
storm* Wire instruct ions t”
Replys n Start suminor vacation as oi
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