THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME*___
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,750 ' JUNEAuTaLASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
Fishing Regulations for Season Announced
TEACHERS'
PAY RAISE
APPROVED
J _
By Bcb i)e Armonil
The House of Representatives this
morning approved pay increases for
Alaska school teachers and super
intendents of schools. The increase 1
voted by the House was in line
with recommendations of the Ter
ritorial Board of Education but
were not as great as the increases
requested by some of the teachers.
The bill, a substitute measure
brought in by the Ways and Means
Committee, provides a $300 annual
increase for teachers and superin
tendents in the First Division.
$400 for those in the Third Division
and S500 for those in the Second
and Fourth Divisions.
An amendment to increase these
figures to $500, $650 and $800 respec
tively, was offered by Rep. Conright i
and was voted down after consider
able debate.
The $300-$400-$500 raise would in
crease the Territory's budget by
$520,600, Rep. Franklin, chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee,
told the House. The $500-$650-$800
figures would cause an increase of
$848,000 in the budget.
“Any municipality may pay its
teachers more than the scale set
here," Franklin reminded the mem
bers. “This is merely the part of
the salaries in which the Territory
will participate.”
Far Too Low
“I feel that these recommenda
tions of the Board of Education and
the Ways and Means Committee are
far too low,” Rep. Kay announced.
“The increases are barely enough
to meet increased taxes.” Kay went
on to compare monthly earnings of
school teachers with those oi plum
bers, carpenters and other workers.
“This is an unfair comparison,”
Rep. Hendrickson charged. “Skilled
labor is frequently employed only
a part of the year and the fact is
that plumbers and some other
trades have priced themselves clear
out of the market.”
Rep. Carlson agreed with Hen
drickson and said that in the Cor
dova area craftsmen receive an
annual wage lower than that of
school teachers.
Rep. Scavenius asserted that such
comparisons had no bearing upon
the main question, which concerned
the desire of the Territory to main
tain teaching staffs and keep up
educational standards.
Not in the Red
Rep. Conright challenged state
ments that the Territory is in poor
financial condition. “The Ways and
Means Committee hasn't proved any
such thing,” he said.
“Well, we have $3,400,000 in frozen
appropriations left over from the
last Legislature," Rep. Franklin re
torted. “We haven’t been able to
raise the money to pay them.”*
“People are opposed to more taxes
and I believe the figures brought
in by the Ways and Means Com-'
mittee are fair,” said Rep. Hope.
“People in asking for increases gen
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. ny Bell Syndicate. Inc.
(Ed. Note: Drew Pearson is on a
flying tour of Europe end the middle
East, surveying the world situation.)
Istanbul.—Musings of an Ameri
can loose along the highways and
byways of Turkey—most people
don't remember it but Turkey once
came within a liairsbreadth of
slipping into the Soviet orbit. This
was after World War I, when Eur
ope spurned the liberator of Tur
key. Mustapha Kemal, and S-alln
wooed him . . . All you have to do
is walk through the ornate palaces
of the Ottoman Empire to see how
easy it would have been for Tur
key to have gone Communist, for
Communism comes from extremes—
extremes of poverty and wealth.
You're not likely to find Norway
going Communist because the Nor
wegians have found a middle
ground, but in Turkey under the
Sultans there was the same kind of
luxurious living and the same kind
of extremes of suffering which ex
isted ynder Czariat Russia.
While Russia went to the vfo
(Contlnucd on Page Four;
3 Indicted,
Embezzling,
In Westward
ANCHORauh, AmSka, March 6—
(#)—'Two former officers of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electri
cal Workers (AFL, Local 1547). were
indicted for embezzlement in a se
cret grand jury indictment made
public in the District Court.
The indictment named Lou Tay
lor, former union business agent
and financial secretary, and Ger
aldine Strauch, former recording
secretary and assistant union busi
ness agent.
The indictment charged the pair
with “embezzling and fraudulantiy
converting to their own use" $1,601,
37 between July 1, 1948 and Jan 10
1951. Taylor and Miss Strauch
were held in the Federal jail in lieu
of $10,000 bail each.
Paul Wise, U. S. Commissioner at
Kenai, also was indicted on charges
of taking $4,000 in public funds be
tween April 1. 1949 and Feb. 8, 1951.
Wise was held in the Federal jail
in lieu of S5.000 bail.
In addition to being commissioner,}
Wise was ex-officia justice of the
peace, coroner, ex-officio probate
judge for the Kenai precinct. He
was appointed October 31, 1946.
NO VOTE YET
ON HAWSIAN
STATEHOOD
WASHINGTON, March 6 — Wl— '
The Senate Interior Committee dis
cussed the Hawaiian statehood bill;
today, but did not reach a vote. j
Chairman O’Mahoney iD-Wyo) j
said the committee approved several,
“technical amendments” to make
the bill conform with the fact that
the Hawaii state constitutional con- j
vention has been held and the pro- j
posed state constitution ratified. I
O’Mahoney said he expects that
the committee can complete its con- ■
sideration. of technical changes at
its next meeting March 13 and be
gin action on the “merits” of the j
bill.
He said the proposal of Senator j
Butler (R-Neb) to permit the people !
of Hawaii to elect their owm gov- j
crnor without the status cf state-1
hood probably will be considered ai
the next meeting.
BURKE FUNERAL TO BE
ANNOUNCED LATER
_ i
Funeral arrangements will be an- '
nounced later for Jacob Burke, who
was found dead in one of the i
Martin cabins yesterday noon j
Medical examination showed that1
he did not freeze to death but died j
of natural causes.
Burke was born in Finland June
23, 1880, came to the United States
in 1903 and to Alaska in 1933. He
lesidcd in Tenakee from 1936 to
1947 when he moved to Juneau,
where he had been living since.
CIIIPPERFIF.LIJ RETURNS
W. A. Chipperfield, Forest Service
official, returned on the Denali
after several weeks in Washington,!
D. C., on Service business.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature :or P4-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
12- minimum, 2.
At Airport — Maximum,
13; minimum, 0.
FORECAST
Continued fair with some
high cloudiness and gusty
northeasterly winds tonight
and Wednesday. Not so cold
with lowest temperature near
10 degrees tonight and high
est Wednesday about 21 deg.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — None;
Since March 1 — .32 inches;
Since July 1 — 51.21 inches;.
At Airport — None;
Since March 1 — .41 inches;
Since July 1 — 32.38 inches.
EARMARKED
FUNDS BILL
IS TABLED
i —
The bill to put earmarked funds
into the Territorial general fund,!
where they would be subject to ap
propriation by the Legislature, was
tabled in the Senate this morning.
A vote of 10 to 6 sent it into i
nothbalis after an amendment to
cut the heart out of it carried by
a 9 to 7 margin.
The amendment, by Sen. Frank
Bass, removed funds for aeronau
tics, airports and schools, from the ,
bill. That meant the receipts frohi
the tobacco tax and the aviation |
share of motor vehicle fuel taxes j
would have remained earmarked.1
The tobacco tax goes for school j
construction purposes.
After the Barr amendment was
adopted, it left the highway and
the harbor funds, as about the
only earmarked funds still involved.
Table Corpse
Sen. Howard Lyng then moved to j
table the corpse. Even Sen. John
Butrovich, who authored the bill as :
a finance committee measure, voted
for tabling what was left of it.
Butrovich labeled the earmarking ,
process as “sugar-coating" to get
such measures as the cigaret tax i
bill passed. But he charged that the i
legislative habit is whittling away !
at the general fund until it will '
“become a little, inflexible fund" of '
small consequence.
Barr contended that the argu- j
ments to eliminate the earmarked ^
funds were “bookkeepers’ argu- ■
ments.” He declared earmarked
funds “are justified for construe- i
tion needs. I’m not biased because
I'm on the board (aeronautics). I’m
biased because I realize the need
for airports. Also I'm biased be
cause of the need for schools.
Double-Crossing
“If we shifted the tobacco tax:
into the general fund, we would be ;
double-crossing the people who ac
cepted it without complaint when j
it was earmarked for schools.”
Both sides cited the statement of
II. Clyde Reeves, the government
consultant from Kentucky whose
government financial reorganiza
tion bill was scheduled for intro
duction in the house late today.
Reeves had said at a joirjt ses
sion, in response to a pin-down
question from Butrovich, that ear
marked fund; are generally con
i sidered inadvisable “in principle,
but sometimes are justified.”
Butrovich told the Senate that
tne implication was they might be
justified to get a bill passed.
Barr countered that Reeves’ re
sponse supported his thesis of just
ification for airport and school con
struction.
Party Lines Smashed
The Senate rollcall on the Barr
amendment shattered party lines.
The nine yeas were Democrats
Barr, Beltz, Huntley and MacKen
zie; Republicans Engstrom, Gar
nick, Ipalook, Snider and Enge- j
breth.
The seven against were: Repub- |
licans Butrovich, Coble, Lhamon
and Democrats Anderson, Lyng,
McCutcheon and Nolan.
In his arguments, Butrovich cited
highway department financial re
ports to support his contention that (
I the Legislature could provide better j
for public needs out of the general
fund.
Highway Patrol Upkeep
He said the highway engineer’s
report for the past biennium show
ed more spent on the highway pa
irol than on roads and trails. He
said the report showed $419,473 for
the patrol and $392,215 for roads
and trails.
“The highways didn’t suffer when
the Legislature did the appropriat
ing,” he said. By comparison, he
cited roads and trails appropriations
of $400,000 for 1937-39 at a time
when the total appropriations from
the general fund for all purposes
were only $2,801,820.
He said in 1939-40, out of general
fund appropriations of $3,300,000,
highways got $800,000 although only
$553,000 of it was spent.
He cited the present enlarged
j school budget and declared schools
! never would suffer at the Legisla
; ture’s hands, either.
Steve McCutcheon, Democratic
[ floor leader, swung over to vote
| against the Barr amendment after
declaring that his only worry was
the financing of schools in small
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Northwest
Hit Record
Snowfalls
\
By Associated Press
More snow and cold hit the Pa
cific Northwest today in winter's
late stage assault that has cracked
snowfall records in many localities
for the first week of March.
Hardest hit was Northwest Wash
ington where Bellingham had 18
inches on the ground at 11 a.m.
with snow still falling.
Colder weather and new snow’
flurries were predicted for tonight
and tomorrow, with 5 below zero
due in Northeastern Washington.
The belated cold spell, which took
the form of a blizzard in Western
Canada, already was responsible for
four deaths. Three were from traf
fic accidents in Washington and
Oregon, while the fourth victim was
a middle-aged women who froze in
Northern British Columbia after
alighting from a bus.
Heavy, wet snow broke down pow
er lines from Western Oregon to
Eastern Washington early today,
Bonneville Power Administration
reported.
ANICA PROGRAM FOR
NEXT YEAR HANDLED
AT SEATTLE MEETING
Hugh J. Wade, Alaska Native I
Service area director, returned over
the weekend from a meeting In
Seattle with Louis C. Peters, man
ager of Alaska Native Industries
Cooperative Association, and Ervin
J. Utz, assistant commissioner of
the division of resources.
Discussed at * the meeting were
proposals on the marketing and
buying association to be submitted
to the stores owned by residents j
in native villages throughout Alaska. I
The loan agreement the Alaska |
Native Service has with ANICA and
the manager’s contract for the next
year were also discussed.
Operation of the ANS M S. North
Star was handled at the meeting
with sailings from Seattle set up
for April, May and early August.
On the April sailing, the North Star
! will dofik at Juneau.
The appointment of W. B. Kim
i tall as the new associate area direc
| tor was made at the meeting in
| Seattle. He fills the position left
i vacant by the transfer of Reinhola
Brust. Kimball is well known in
Juneau and Alaska as he was with
the National Recovery Administra
tion in Juneau, later transferring
to the Forest Service in Ketchikan.
! He will arrive in Juneau about
March 12.
! Marvin G. Ripke, who has been
acting ANS assistant area director,
becomes administrative officer re
sponsible for administrative matteis
with the arrival of Kimball.
EXCURSION INLEI,
PETERSBURG SEA
PLANE BASES OK
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Three of the Territorial 1951 pro
posed ^Federal aid airport projects
have received military approval, it
was learned today by Tony
Schwamm, director onf the Alaska
Aeronautical Commission.
He said that the approved proj
ects were a seaplane facility ioi
Excursion Inlet, construction of ar
airfield at Quartz Creek on the
lower Kougarok in the Nome area
and dredging and additional sea
plane facilities at Petersburg.
Engineering contracts are being
prepared for approval by the at
torney general, Schwamm said. At
projects are approved by the mili
tary, contracts are forwarded to the
attorney general. No estimated cost;
of the various projects were re
vealed.
NEW KINY MAN HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Asplund
have arrived here from Bellingham.
Wash., where Asplund had previ
ously been with radio station
KPUG. He has joined the staff of
KINY here and will do both broad
casting and sales work. They are
living at the Gastineau Hotel. ■
FAIRBANKS VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wildt have
arrived here from Fairbanks via
PAA and are stopping at the Hotel
Juneau.
SENATE SAYS
'NO' ON BOND
ISSUE AGAIN
By JIM HUTCHESON
For the second time in two weeks,
the Alaska Senate rejected yester
day a proposal that the Legislature
ask Congress to allow the Territory
to bond iself for school construction.
The vote against Senate Presi
dent Qunnard Engebreth’s memorial
was 8 to 7.
Territorial auditing came up for
a bit of bouncing around yesterday,
too.
The Senate voted, on motion of
Steve McCutcheon, to instruct Sen.
John Butrovich and Rep. Glen
Franklin to go ahead with an order
for an audit of all Territorial of
fices that have not been checked
recently.
Butrovich said a quick decision
was desirable because representa
tives of Arthur Anderson & Co. of
Seattle are just finishing an audit
of the auditor’s office and could be
kept on the job. The check would
be for the 1947-49 biennium.
House Holds It
When the recommendation reach
ed the House, however, it decided
to hold up a decision until the Ways
and Means Committee could look
I into the matter.
Rep. Stan McCutcheon suggested
! having a representative of the aud
' iting firm appear before the com
mittee for a discussion of fees in
’ volved. !
Butrovich estimated the complete
audit probably would run to $15,000
to $20,000.
When another senator asked if
! the audit weren’t mandatory, Bu
trovich responded:
“It’s mandatory but we closed our
eyes to it for a good many years.”
Butrovich Irked
On returning to the Senate from
addressing the House. Butrovich was
so irked by the House delay of the
auditing issue that he notified the
Senate he never again would bring
up the audit problem.
He did serve notice, however, that
he would bring up the previous
audit by the Anderson Company as
a special order of business, 2 p.m.
Monday, March 12. It is the aud
j itor’s report that took jabs at some
| of the Territorial departments.
School Bond Issue
The school bond issue, however,
was the main event of the Senate s
afternoon.
The issue this time was over ask
ing Congress to amend the Organic
Act to allow bonding up to 50 per
cent of tax revenues from the previ
ous biennoum. Engebreth estimated
his proposal would allow bonding
of approximately $10,000,000.
The measure previously rejected
was a request to Congress for bond
ing up to $12,500,000 for school con
struction.
The issue still isn’t dead. A House
approved memorial by Rep. Jack
Conright (D-Anchorage) is still
awaiting Senate action.
Referendum
Conright’s memorial proposes
asking Congress for permission *c
i issue $9,000,000 in bonds, but car
ries an amendment specifying the
Territory would not bond withou
a favorable referendum vote by the
people. Engebrth also has a Sen
ate bill proposing a referendum at
the next election.
Voting for the Engebreth memor
ial yesterday were Sens. William
Beltz, Anita Garnick. Walter Hunt
ley Percy Ipalook, Dr. R- N. Mac
Kenzie. Steve McSutcheon. and
Engebreth. Against the proposal
were Sens. Ed Anderson and John
Butrovich, Howard Lyng, James No
lan, Gerrit Snider. A. F. Coble, El
ton Engstrom and W. L. Lhamon
Frank Barr was absent.
The vote came after Henry Roden,
Territorial treasurer, said there was
no way to finance school buildings
except through a bond issue.
Roden declined to say definitely
he favored the measure. He said he
would have to have more exact in
formation on school needs.
Delays School Financing
Engebreth argued that if Congress
does not grant the Territory the
right to issue bonds before the next
Legislature meets it would be four
years before anything could be done
about school financing if the Legis
lature and the people both approved
the bond issue.
McCutcheon insisted bonding for
capital improvements is a good
(Continued on Page Two)
Former Fairbanks' Secretary
Facing Death Calmly; Has But
Short Time Before End Comes
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ALLIED PUSH
IS NEARING
HONGCHONC
By Associated Press
The Allied forward push to take
the key Communist defense center
of Hongchong on the Central front
today met increasing Red resist
ance. Elements of the U. S. First
Marine Division, spearheading the
drive plodded through new snow
to within 11 miles of the town.
Gen. MacArthur reported the
Third Chinese Field Army of about
90,000 men was moving down from
Northeast Korea to reinforce the
some 300.000 enemy troops already
believed to be concentrated south of
the 38th Parallel.
Allied ground force commander
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway said,
however, an enemy counteroffensive
did not appear immediately immi
nent.
The Marines were punching north
and northeast of recaptured Hoeng
song. The enemy met them with
heavy artillery, mortar and ma
chinegun fire, but continued to fall
back slowly.
North Korean Reds, routed yes
terday from Taemi on the East-Cen
tral front, held on bitterly to the
rugged ridges near there and air
reconnaisance reported more Reds
were moving in to bolster the line.
A U. S. First Cavalry tank-infan
try team captured Yongdu on the
western end of the 60-mile Central
front line yesterday and today were
swinging eastward toward Hoeng- ;
song. Heavy Red fire from the hills |
to the north made the lateral supply
highway between the two towns a
no-man’s land.
HEROISM IS
DISPLAYED
PLANE DOWN
VANCOUVER, B. C., March 6—
Ijpi— two crew members stood on
the wingtips of a Queen Charlotte
Airlines amphibious plane to guide
it to safety through a howling bliz
zard after it was forced down in
Johnstone Straits Monday.
The plane carried 18 persons, in
cluding 14 passengers — all loggers—
and four crew members.
The blizzard forced the pilot,
Capt. Robert Duncan, to set his
plane down in the storm-tossed j
strait, 170 miles northwest of Van
couver.
After the safe landing, the pilot
couldn't see the shore. Second Pilot
Jagindar Johl and Engineer Bert
Ormston climbed out onto the wings
to direct the plane into Blinkinsop
Bay about a quarter of a mile away.
The passengers were being flown
to Vancouver by special plane to
day. The QCA crew is expected to
bring the plane, the Alaska Queen,
here under her own power, Only
damage to the plane was a bent
strut.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, March 6 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3 V American Can
107Ti. American Tel. and Tel. 156
General Electric 41%, Douglas Air
craft 102 rli, General Electric 56,
General Motors 51, Goodyear 77V
Kennecott 75, Libby, McNeil and
Libby 9%, Northern Pacific 35V
Standard Oil of California 93%,
Twentieth Century Fox 22 V U. S.
Steel 43%. Pound $2.80, Canadian
Exchange 95.75.
Sales today were 1,490,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows
Industrials 251.57, rails 84.56, utili
ties 43.41.
| Jack Flint of Seattle is registered
I at the Gastineau Hotel.
DENVER, March 6. —itfl—How
would you feel if you had only a
few weeks to live?
That’s all Mrs. Marie Tennyson
can expect. The attractive, 37-year
old woman has a cancer.
“I'll say one thing—I’m not
frightened at all.” she said today.
“I feel I've had a very full life,
and it was fun while it lasted.
"People often exclaim over how
calmly I'm taking it, and I look
at them and think, 'Well, gee, you
might die before I do’.”
"A lot of people who go out for
a Sunday afternoon ride are tak
ing a greater chance than I am."
Mrs. Tennyson was a secretary
in a Fairbanks, Alaska, clinic when
she discovered a lump on her breast
a year ago Christmas. She had an
operation, but the disease had
spread into her glands.
X-ray showed later that it had
invaded 'Every bone in my body.'
Death will come when the disease J
strikes a vital organ.
“It’s at the stage where it can go
anywhere," she said.
Mrs. Tennyson has schooled her
self not to think about things like
the outcome of the cold ^ar, or how
next fall’s fashions will look.
“If I died at the age of 90.
there’d still be things I would be
missing,” she said.
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ROTARY HEARS DR.
MOORE ON U. OF A.
EXPANSION ANGLES
Dr. Terris Moore, the flying presi
dent of the University of Alaska,
was guest speaker at a regular
meeting of the Juneau Rotary Club
at the Baranof Hotel this noon, j
He spoke on how best a university
could reach all parts of a state or
territory and pointed out that it
was essential to maintain a central
campus with prestige and the neces
sary extra curricula activities that ]
are a vital part of the educational '
process.
He did not feel that at this time
Alaska had sufficient population
to maintain another college but
suggested that seeds could be
planted that would eventually lead
to three branches in Ketchikan,
Juneau and Anchorage by main
taining two or three rotating faculty
members in each community to give
the courses most desired in culture
and vocational training, with credit.
As population and demand war
ranted it, these facilities could be
expanded to meet the needs.
Ed Keithahn was in charge of to
day's program and introduced Dr.
Moore. Visiting Rotarians were
Marshal Crutcher of Kodiak, Ed
Locken of Petersburg, and Gunnard
Engebreth of Anchorage. Guests
were Coach Ray Bassett of Ketchi
j kan and Bill Scates, Seattle insur
ance man. *
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FWS OFFICIALS TO
ATTEND SERVICES
FOR LEONARD BRAOG
Funeral services for Leonard
Bragg, well known enforcement
agent of the Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice at McGrath, are to be held at
2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon in An
chorage, according to advices re
ceived today at the local FWS of
fice. Bragg died March 2 in Provi
| dence hospital, Anchorage, follow
ing two successive major operations
! for an intestinal ailment.
I Attending the services will be
Bragg’s brother, Don Ellery Bragg
who has returned to Anchorage
from the States and FWS Regional
Director Clarence Rhode and En
forcement Supervisor Dan Ralston 1
who are going to Anchorage from'|
Juneau.
Rhode and Ralston will make the
trip to the westward on the FWS j
Beechcraft which is taking a ship
ment of plane equipment to the
FWS hangar at Anchorage from
Juneau and bring back certain
[ equipment for planes used here. The
officials plan to return to this city
Thursday or Friday.
FROM SEATTLE
J. W. Cawdrey and R- E. Hunton
of Seattle are registered at the
Bnranof Hotel.
CHANGES IN
MANY AREAS
ANNOUNCED
WASHINGTON. March 6 — UP—
For the first time In Territorial
history, Alaska will have restric
tions on non-commercial fishing
next summer.
Secretary of the Interior Chap
man announced today the 1951 reg
ulations for protection of Alaska’s
commercial fisheries. They include
the closing of specified streams in
the Cook Inlet area, near Anchor
age, and in the Upper Copper River,
to salmon fishing — "including that
for local use.”
"Only four out of the hundreds
of streams ir. Alaska have been
closed,” Chapman said, in a news
release.
"Without such protection, the
salmon runs in those streams, al
ready greatly reduced, would be
completely destroyed."
Chapman said the new regula
tions contain more changes than
raal, because of changing condi
tions in the fisheries.
Bristol Bay Changes
Most important change is the ad
mission of power boats for the first
time into the Bristol Bay area.
"So that the burden tof competi
tion by power boats) will not fall to
heavily on the local residents, the
department has opened to set net
fishing all inter-tidal waters outsidJ
of the drift gill net markers,” Chap
man said.
“At the same time it has prohib
ited the use of set nets above thJ
drift gill net markers.
"This, in effect, permits netting
along the ■thores of the bays wher
ever drift netting is permitted.
"The set net regulations have
been relaxed, also, to allow opera
tion anywhere in the inter-tidai
zones instead of confinement to a
narrow strip of beach adjacent to
the high tide line, as in 1950."
Mother-Ship Operations
Chapman said commercial fish
ermen in Alaska have been voicing
j strong opposition to the use, of the
so-called mother ships, especially in
gill net fishing, because of tne
clanger in overfishing.
He said the prohibition against
mother-ship operation, formerly ap
plied only to purse seining, there
fore has been extended to include
all forms of mobile gear.
Trap Regulations
The 1951 regulations also decree
a new method of rendering salmon
traps inoperative during seasonal
and weekly closed periods.
A section of the pot wall oi each
trap must be opened and sealed in
place during such closed seasons.
In the areas of Central Alaska,
the principal changes include longer
weekly closed periods in Cook Inlet,
Resurrection Bay, and Yakutat.
On Kodiak Island the midseason
I closure from July 15 to August 1
will be effective this year in the
Red River district as well as in the
other districts of the area.
The fishing season in the Karluk
district will close July 15 for the
remainder of the year.
In Copper River
In the Copper River area a sum
mer season from July 10 to August
7 will be permitted for red salmon,
because of the possibility that a
small run in that area is not now
being fully utilised.
In the Yakutat area the king
salmon season has been curtailed in
Dry Bay. However, the red salmon
season has been liberalized by al
lowing fishing for this species to
start June 18 instead of July 1.
In Southeast Alaska
Throughout the Southeast Alaska
area the maximum length of purse
! seines h*s been standarized at 1150
fathoms, with which a lead of 75
fathoms may be used.
Taking of coho salmon by any
I means is prohibited in the area
from Sept. 20 to July 1. 1952.
An Alaska-wide prohibition of
last year against taking or possess
ing undersized king salmon will ap
ply this year only in Southeast
Alaska.
The Alaska regulations are made
and enforced by the Fish and Wild
life Service.
“Good Escapement"
That agency said there was a
! good escapement” and good sur
! vival of pink salmon in Southeast
! Alaska in 1949.
; As a result, the run this year is
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