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Tuesday, October 23, 1951
PROGRESS VS. REGULATIONS
In an informal hearing in the Senate chambers
yesterday, vessel owners and members of Southeast
Alaska chambers of commerce testified to the hard
ships impo ed on them by rigid enforcement of Coast
Guard regulations and the classification of Southeast
Ala kn waters as coastal rather than inland.
Tiia in aring. conducted by a visiting Congressional
party, was held at the request of Delegate Eartlett
and its findings will be considered by the House Mer
chant Marine and Fisheries Committee, according to
Rep Herbert Bonner of North Carolina, chairman of
that committee, who presided.
Incompatibility of Coast Guard regulations with
commercial development in this area has long been
a sore point and the Juneau Chamber of Commerce
and other." have long sought hearings that might
bring about a revision of some obsolete restrictions
and rulings. Until several weeks ago, little progress
had been made in that direction, but, on the recom
mendation of the Juneau chamber, Governor Gruening
promised to do what he could to assure a hearing by
member; of Congress. The governor has come through
handsomely and it is hoped that yesterday’s hearing,
followed by the Coast Guard hearings commencing
Wednesday will produce much-needed relief.
Whil" little blame for the situation can be at
tached to the Coast Guard, since they merely enforce
the regulations set down for them by their head
quarters and the Congress, there has, nevertheless,
been severe criticism of local interpretation of those
rules. Clarification, or better still, revision of the
rules would eliminate much of the present ill-feeling.
Barge owners and mining, logging and construction
operators contend that the regulations requiring in
spection of vessels after beaching virtually eliminates
the use of barges for the transport of heavy machin
ery, material and supplies. Operating in isolated
sections not served by regular carriers and without
facilities for docking and material handling, the barge
has been the only practicable means of supply.
In practice, it was pointed out, the barges arc
beached by bringing them in at high tide and per
mitting the receding tide to leave them high and dry.
Then the cargo is unloaded and the barge refloated
at high tide. This method virtually eliminates damage
to the bottoms and there are no known cases of lost
vessels or cargo resulting from beaching. Testimony
of operators pointed up the expense and hardship
attendant upon dry-dock inspection following each
such operation.
It was this regulation that contributed to the
failure of the Chilkoot Ferry as a commercial opera
tion and forced its owners to turn it over to the
Territory, which now operates it at a substantial loss.
Other major complaint was the classification of
the protected waters of Southeast Alaska as coastal
waters. This classification puts the small charter
boats and barges under the same regulation as large
ocean-going vessels and forces their owners to either
incur prohibitive expense in manning and equipping
their craft or discontinue operations.
It was explained by Coast Guard representatives
at the hearing, that these matters are not for local
determination, but will have to be acted upon by
Coast Guard headquarters in Washington and the
Congress.
We hope that ventilation of these problems will
bring about an early overhauling of the oppressive
restrictions. Until such time, outlying operations will
either remain at a stanstill or continue only at un
reasonable expense.
BOOKMAKER (JETS AHEAD
Every honest income taxpayer should be interested
in the efforts of the Government to prosecute those
who make false returns for the purpose of avoiding
the payment of their share of taxes. ,
An instance of this kind comes to light in New
York, where a man, described as a top bookmaker
and racketeer, filed income tax returns, putting his
gross earnings at $35 a week, although he had a net
worth of $471,400 in a statement made to a bank.
In addition, he owns an estate of 3500 acres, with a
house that has forty-four rooms and thirteen baths.
While the Government is proceeding very vig
orously against gamblers and criminals and those on
the fringe of criminality, it would be a good thing
for the nation if some plan could be devised to check
up on the income of all taxpayers. Naturally, many
honest taxpayers fear an examination of their re
turns, recognizing the possibility of error, but realize
that if every person paid the income taxes due the
Government, there would be little necessity for the
$10,000,000,000 tax increase the Administration now
says is necessary to meet current governmental
expenses.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
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ed. This will not require a state
ment from him—which it’s agreed
he cannot make while he is still
in uniform.
ROLL CALL FOR IKE
It is expected that those attend
ing the full-dress draft-Eisehhower
meeting will include the four big
“D’s” of the Republican Party—
Dewey, Duff, Darby of Kansas and
Driscoll of New Jersey. Also expect
ed to attend will be Senator Carl
son ot Kansas, Gov. Val Peter
son of Nebraska, Senators Lodge
and Saltonstall of Mass., Senator
Ives of New York, Gov. Theodore
McKeldin of Maryland, Senator
Tobey and Governor Adams of New
Hampshire.
The plan is to gather such an
impressive phalanx of progressive
Republican leaders that local GOP
leaders will get on the Eisenhower
bandwagon without a definite state
ment from the general. The prob
lem here ip that Ike’s program in
Europe is at a crucial stage when
he cannot leave it without undoing
month: of careful planning. On the
other hand, he feels he cannot
make a public statement of political
Intentions without taking off the
uniform and retiring from the army.
However, a solid front of powerful
anti-Taft Republican leaders would
enable the organization work to
proceed without a personal an
nouncement. It would also prevent
local leaders from getting sewed
up, long in advance, by Taft.
Note—Senator Carlson of Kansas,
long-time friend of Ike’s, is leav
ing for Paris today. Since the Eis
enhower movement will have its
roots in Kansas, - Carlson will prob
ably manage its midwest phases.
Duff of Pennsylvania, who is likely
to handle the eastern campaign, will
fly to Paris later this month or
early in November.
PAT HURLEY PREDICTS
El uilient, handsome Pat Hurley,
Hoover' cx-Secretary of War, was
making predictions at a dinner party
the other day about who will win
British elections and how to settle
various other affairs of state.
“Churchill will win in a walk,”
opined Pat, who said he had just
come from London. "Flew from
three to Dublin where I was the
guest of President De Valera.
‘‘Our new ambassador to Ire
land," continued the man who once
changed his name from O'Hurley,
"is going to be a flop. I can already
feel it in the air. Nice old man,
Francis Matthews, but he’s already
made a speech the Irish don’t like.
"Saw Ike in Paris,” Pat rumbled
on. "MacArthur is really going af
ter Ike. That’s one fight I'm not
going to get in between. They’re
both my friends."
Hurley says he is definitely leav
ing Washington, will spend a solid
year in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
where he once ran for the Senate.
DRY LOBBY SCORES
The breweries are screaming over
I a fast one pulled on them by South
Carolina's fast-working Sen. Olin
Johnston. Thanks to Johnston,
temperance organizations now get
cheap postal rates—together with
a new lease, on life in waging the
battle of prohibition.
For the Senator from South Car
olina, himself a dry, quietly slipped
temperance literature alongside re
ligious, educational and philan
thropic literature when the Senate
was voting the postal concessions.
No one noticed that temperance
literature was in the bill until the
Senate-House conferees came across
it while ironing out differences be
tween the Senate and House bills.
Now the breweries are really
screaming. ,
REVERSE DISCRIMINATION
Sen. Alex Smith, the ex-Princeton
professor who ran out on his Col
umbia colleague, Dr. Philip Jessup,
almost had a fit when Senator
Sparkman of Alabama showed him
the record on Dr. Channing Tobias,
the Negro alternate delegate to the
United Nations. The un-American
Activities Committee had a record
on Tobias far worse than Jessup's,
showing that he iiad once belonged
to nine Communist-front groups.
“That’s going to be bad for our
side i* we vote against him," re
marked Smith, a Republican. “The
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People cer
tainly will jump down our throats.”
This was the reason why GOP
Senators wanted to duck a vote on
confirming Tobias. To refuse him
confirmation meant that the party,
supposed to be the traditional friend
of the Negro, would make enemies.
Yet they couldn’t vote for Tobias
and against Jessup, since Tobias’ re
cord was far worse.
Senator Sparkman, patient chair
man of the Senate subcommittee,
seemed to enjoy the Republican dis
comfiture.
“It seems to me that every mem
ber of the Senate should stand up
and be counted on these two men,"
he told colleagues. “You Republi
cans ebn't vote for the colored man
and against the white man unless
you spurn the un-American Activ
ities committee record."
In the end, two southern Demo
crats— Sparkman and Fulbright—
voted for Tobias, along with GOP
Senator Smith. Senator Brewster of
Maine, Republican, and Gillette of
! Iowa, Democrat, did not vote. The
| result was that Tobias, a onetime
| member of nine Communist-front
organizations, got a better vote than
Jessup who had nowhere near
that record. Sometimes it pays to
be a member of a minority group.
Note—Dr. Tobias testified that he
later withdrew froft the nine Com
munist-front organizations. So also
did Dr. Jessup, though he didn’t
have many to withdraw from.
Abalone Too Small
For Commercial Use
That It would not be feasible
to inaugurate commercial abalone
fisheries was the preliminary report
issued by two Pish and Wildlife
Service scientists who recently com
pleted a two month's study in the
Craig district.
Robert Livingstone, biologist from
the FWS Seattle laboratory, headed
the expedition which chartered the
Lady Bess, owned by W. E. Walker,
deep sea diver. Walker was employ
ed to dive for abalone which is
found just beyond the lowest tide
mark. The abalone gathered for
study was too small and scattered
over a wide area making it difficult
to use the beds commercially.
The abalone near Craig is gath
ered by the local people when the
tides are lower than minus three
feet.
FERRY MAKES ROUND
TRIP IN GOOD TIME
After a six day delay due tr
high seas on Lynn Canal, the Terri
torial ferry left for Haines and
Skagway on Saturday making the
return trip here Sunday after
noon. f
There were 10 passengers and 11
cars aboard the vessel on the re
turn trip. The ferry is scheduled to
leave again on Sunday, October 28.
The barge will continue to operate
as long as the Haines Cutoff re
mains open to winter traffic.
Many Salmon Eggs
Planted in Test
Near Juneau
Using a new method, Department
of Fisheries men planted over 25,
j 000 sockeye eggs in Dredge Lake
; drainage and Duck Lake Saturday
j in an attempt to foster a run of
; red salmon in the area.
I The experimental planting was
! accomplished with a two-inch tube
| of aluminum five feet long. The
tub? was placed -in a pocket dug
under the gravel and the eggs wash
ed down as the pocket filled in. The
method ordinarily used is digging
out a pocketat the bottom of larger
caisson-like tube, and planting the
eggs by sprinkling them into the
pocket along with gravel. The new
method is quicker, easier, and be
lieved to be more effective.
Six quarts of advanced eggs were
taken from A. J. Sprague's eye
ing station. To prevent freezing,
they were planted 12 inches down in
the gravel beneath two feet of
water.
About 13,000 eggs were planted
near the inlet of Dredge Lake.
Clint Stockley, Fisheries biologist,
reported several spent coho salmon
still fanning their nests in this
area. Over 4,000 eggs were planted
in Duck Creek in the riffles above
the first large dredge pond. Over
8,000 were planted near the outlet
of Dredge Lake where, Stockley
says, cohoes were still actively
spawning.
Fisheries men say the egg plant
ing is showing itself to be more
successful than the planting of
iingerlings in salmon experiments.
They say while only a percentage
of the eggs hatch, of those hatching
mope fish get by the fingerling
stage than if a planting of finger
lings is made. They say that fish
hatched in a natural stream seem1
to become better acclimated and
to be able to escape their natural
enemies better than do transplanted
fish of small size.
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Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and tempera
tures at various Alaska points also
on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 p.in.,
120th Meridian Time, and released
by the Weather Bureau are as
follows:
Anchorage . 29—Clear
Barrow .. 27—Cloudy
Bethel . 32—Cloudy
Cordova . 18—Clear
Dawson . 3—Clear
Edmonton . 17—Snow
Fairbanks . 3—Clear
Haines . 39—Clear
Havre ... . 25—Clear
Juneau Airport . 32—Clear
Annette Island . 38—Rain
Kodiak . 32—Clear
Kotzebue . 17—Clear
McGrath . .% 4—Clear
Nome . 26—Cloudy
Northway . 6—Clear
Petersburg . 33—Clear
Portland . 48—Rain
Prince George . 26—Snow
Whitehorse . 4—Clear
Seattle. 47—Cloudy
Yakutat . 41—Clear
20 YEARS AGO empire j
OCTOBER 23, 1931
The National Geographic Board at a meeting in Washington, D. C.,
gave the name, "Mount Stroller White” to a prominent peak on the
northwest side of Mendenhall Glacier, 15 miles from Juneau. The late
E. J. White, was an able pioneer journalist of Alaska. "Stroller" White
came north in the gold rush days of 1898 to serve on the staff of the
Skagway News and lived continuously in Alaska and the Yukon Territory
until his death in 1930.
private First Class Alex Sokololf was visiting his parents here. He
was a chief radio operator from Spokane.
Glenn C. Oakes, wharfinger for the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining
Company, was an incoming passenger on the steamship Alaska. He had
been vacationing in the States.
Livingston Wernecke, superintendent of the Treadwell Yukon Mining
Comapny at Mayo, Y. T., left Juneau to return to Mayo.
Ralph Martin was elected post commander of the Alford John
Bradford Post No. 4, American Legion. Others elected to office in
cluded: Royal M. Shepard, John McCormick, A. B. Clark, E. M. Goddard,
T. B. Setzer, E. M. Polley, Joseph Thibodeau, A. L. Zenger, R. S. Raven
and H. G. Nordling.
Douglas High School students who were placed on the honor roll
included: Hilja Reinikka, Stephanie Africh, Enne Kronquist, Elsa Lun
dcll, Helen Pusich, Wilma Feero, Astrid Loken, William Cashen, Marie
Fox, Phyllis Lundell, Arne Kronquist, Nina Baroumes, Helen Baroumes.
Fresh killed. chickens were selling for 20 cents a pound at the
United Food Company.
Weather: High 47; low, 37; partly cloudy. .
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J Daily Lessons in English & L. cordon I
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, "Johnson could not be
swerved in his course." Say, “swerved FROM his course.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Bellicose. Fronounse bel-i-kos, E as
in BELL, I as in IT, O as in NO, accent on first syllable preferred.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Entree; three E’s, though pronounced ahn
tray.
SYNONYMS: Enthusiasm, eagerness, vehemence, ardor, fervor.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us
increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word:
ADVENTITIOUS; accidental; casual. “He gained much from this ad
ventitious meeting.”
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1 MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE
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Q. Is it proper for the bride to wear her engagement ring and
' have the bridegroom put the wedding ring above it?
A. No; the engagement ring belongs above the wedding ring. On
her wedding day, a bride either leaves her engagement ring at home
or wears it on her right hand until after the ceremony.
Q. Is there any fixed rule as to how two couples should be seated
j in a theatre?
A. No; although a man should always have the aisle seat — if their
I seats are next to the aisle. Usually, in the case of two married couples
; the women are seated next to each other, between the two men.
Q. When a man has taken a girl out to dinner and the theatre,
should she thank him?
A. She should not thank him, but she should tell him how much
she has enjoyed the evening.
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ii LOOK and LEARN A. C. GORDON
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1. What countries compose Scandinavia?
2. Which portion of an airplane rises first when it takes off?
3. Which takes the least time to digest — beef, pork or bread?
4. What is the great mountain range of South America?
5. What is wort?
ANSWERS:
1. Swden, Norway, Denmark and Ic land.
2. Its tail.
3. Beef.
4. The Andes.
5. The solution of malt and other substances which is fermented
to yield beer.
FROM FAIRBANKS |
f Carl Jensen and Lavrik Nielsei) of j
Fairbanks are staying at the Bara- :
nof Hotel.
FROM YAKUTAT
Glenn McMillan and son, of Yak
utat, are guests at the Gastineau. j
FROM SEATTLE
W. L. Hockinson and J. Raj
Heath of Seattle are registered a
the Baranof Hotel.
FROM PORTLAND
R. C. Sheldon of Portland, Ore.
is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
ACROSS
I. Pouch
4. Corrupt
9. Timid
12. Vegetable
13. Moving
14. American
author
15. Segment of
a curve
II. Science of
speech
sounds
II. Owns
!0. Close
11. Cast off
13. Be profitable
15. Biblical town
18. Small rude
dwelling
19. Low monoto
nous sound
!0. Flower
11. Exist
12. Protective
railing
34. Perform
35. Strike and
rebound
37. Menagerie
3S. Title of a
knight
39. Was
acquainted
with
40. Chop
41. Farm building
42. Roman tyrant
44. Assistance
45. Rock oil
49. Follow closely
52. Constellation
53. Surfeited with
pleasure
54. Recline
65. Nothing
56. Gluts
57. Tree
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form
g. Distinctly*
mark
4. Bugle call
E. Kind of wood
6. Japanese
statesman
T. Simpleton
t. Rack for
hanging
things
9. Helical curve
10. Old card game
11. Affirmative
17. Understood
but not
expressed
19. Paid publlo
notice
21. Roughly built
house: colloq.
22. Pertaining
to man
23. Soft murmur
24. Astound
20. Point opposite
the zenith
27. Fruit of the oak
29. Kind of meat
30. Sign of the
zodiac
32. Strength
33. Head: Scotch
36. Money paid for
use of
property
38. Horseback
rider’s seat
40. Exclamation
41. Two: prefix
43. Steals
44. City in Iowa
45. Broad open
vessel
46. Silkworm
47. Devour ,
48. Utility
60. Lubricate
51. Jewel
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