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by Muriel Spears of lri.llii%ham, Alaska •'
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GUEST EDITORIAL,
(TRUMAN EffflERG)
History repeated itself on the Nushagalr
Rirer during the 1952 rod salmon season#
After a short operation the Pish and Wild*
ax n%»
life Sarrleo orderod an early 0-iosure#
Supposedly# the purpose of such an early
eloeure is to allow red salmon to reaoh th
spawning grounds in sufficient numbers te>
insure a good return $f red salmon to the
river at some fyture date# If it served 1
that purpose# no one oopld objeotj or#^xf
the eloeures were ordered only occasionally
and so oajused only a minor dislocation ef
our economy, then we might bear with them
in silence. However# 1952 was the FOURTH
straight season during jitoiofc suph a‘closure
was ordered for the HUeha gak River, Early
closure has become a major faotor in redue*
ing the earning power of every fisherman
living here.
From the best sources of infomatien
amaUAhle it is becoming more and morn pvi*
dent that an early olosure of commercial
fishing does more harm than t,ood, There
are many different races of red salmon
which jpawn in the /Jushagak watershed. They
come at different times and they spawn in
different areas. Spawning conditions are
most favorable to these raoes which enter
the river in early July* consequently# those
raoes comprise the bulk of the annual sal*
mon return to the river* That parly es
oapement cannot be replaced by red salmon
from later runs or differing races* There*
fore# early closure of the river to com*
mercial fishing is worse than useless#,••
it is also wasteful and unreasonable!
The Fish and Wildlife Service has sohe^p
MXad an open hearing at Dillingham for a
date early in August, We should see that
there is a good attendance at that hear*
ing. And ve should, for the sake of the
record, see that a strong protest is
lodged with the Fish and Wildlife Service
against an administration of the salmon
.fishery in which early closure has be
come a rule and not an exception*
The primary aim of the Fish and WiId
life Service should be to insure the per*
petuation of the red salmon resource while
permitting a reasonable annual cateh to be
taken. The record of repeated closures
through an entire spawning cycle demon*
strates the utter failure of the Fish and
Wildlife Service to accomplish this.
YJhy is it the little flies oan*t see
through the windows?
Because they leavo their speos bmhinfll
The May way i can xigure ox ma*.xu6
a dollar go any distance at all nowa
days ia to put In an envelope and
send it to Shina***
.^She was asleep and "they tried to
wake her up and explain that they were
eeming to the rapids# She wouldn’t* they
couldn't* the rapidt came* it DID!**#
•. • After "yak-inj# for ten minutes
in the store the other day# she said*
111 want muslin#" And I heard another
Customer mumble* "bhe needs it!"###
• ••Lent to a birthday party the other
day and saw a woman actually put candles
on her cake to match her ago* I just
couldn’t get over it—-asked her# "How
come?* and she said it was the only way
she knew to make light of her agel...
#.,Wfll* anyway* with Social Security
at sixty^fire* we’ll have one foot in
the grave and the other in the gravy. ••
••.Don’t give your mind to lying#
A lie may do very well for a time* but#
like a bad shilling# it*8 found out at
last# \
...Well...she1s nuts# you know and
he’s so darn tight*.«.yeah...he married
her because she was l'3/0 <£f#..
...Some of us aren’t as strong as
think we are. All it takes for some o:
us is a guy to say# "Vrilt thou?" and
wilt#••
...Through personal observation* I
find that a narrow mind (if any) and a
wide mouth usually go together...
Si|i«i(|iwwwwpww ~ ~
...See it's' getting late and suppose
I'd better be running along.•.this sun
lamp's heavy* too but-I promised Moths,
ltd eprwad a little sun eveywhere I g-'
Call you back#
"OOsie"