TJl_E_BEACON
g ra^-r is published twice a month
by Maria? opeare of Dillingham, Alaska*
Sulsoiiption rates: $6-.C0 pe- year*
ml ST ATTACKS FITS RESTRICTION
Father George 5* Endo.l, S.J«, local
Catholic priest, vigorously attacked the
restriction imposed upon personal use fish
ing by the FV7S in an address to the FVfS
a uthorivies while in public session at
the N & N Hall /.ugU'pb vbii»
After reading a telegram to Bartlett,
.Delegate for-Alaska rpia&ivjp to :the matter _p
7«irrifld bv (11 JvJ&oi&eti;rk^'l^
•s^ned-'by
JWfify* Juneau, 'hr
thoughts contained in that message, namely
that th3 hardships claimed were greatly ex
aggerated and that personal supervision
would require at least doubling the enforce
ment crew. In support of his contention
that the claims were not exaggerated, Fr*
Endal presented an incomplete list of well
over 70 families who were affected by the
restriction and stressed the fact that the
list didnot include the resident* of Clark*g
Point and Ekuk.
He then stressed the point that the FWS
was aware of the alternative course it
right pursue by doubling its present en
forcement crew but preferred in the name of
economy to bear down heavily upon the al~
ready destitute residents* Fr# Bndal ques
tioned the wisdom of this course* MThe
agoncy making the regulation*11 he said*
’’must be guided by a consideration of the
common good. The question which the PY/8
must ask itself and answer honestly is
this: in which way will the community suf
fer the least? And here vre must consider
the fact that the additional expense of.
law enforcement would, be* distributed over r
a pnach, greater|W|
more easily carried; while the present re
gulation weighs heavily upon a few and those
very poor." Since this restriction affectec
the residents in providing for their very
primary need of food merely for the sake of
facilitating law enforcement in matters of
secondary importance* Fr.Dndal said he caulc
not see how it was a wise or even a just
law; and felt the Agency should have been
all the more reluotant to have recourse to
sush a harsh measure in view of the faot
that it was expressly forbidden by Congress
to prohibit the taking of fish for local
food requirements and for dog feed*
In closing he regretted that the FW3 has
not suooeeded in establishing better rela>
tiona between it and the community it seeks
to serve* The key to this failure he thot#
lay in the attitude of the agency which
seems to look upon itself more as a restric
tive foroe than as a constructive one* "The
Agency"* he said*"seems content to allow
irrational predators unhampered liberty ire
depleting the salmon runs* to devote their
full energy to control of the "human pre
dator'" • He urged immediate correction.
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hitting the beacon box office the past
few weeksl For instance*• *
««.there* s the guy who came into the
store looking for some insecticide ta
de-womanize his hornet••.and the tv/o guys
who live out the road and bought all the
stuff to make a batch of spaghetti—even
the wine—then wanted to se+tie for
noodles* Finally* talked them into Dry
ing spaghetti (after all*) and heard thejy
havervft been to work since;>*.and th'ise
other two * dream boyof nhc actr.c.My wyred
their cabin floors (what fugi -jtx.ja .fre-u
the alimony gangl)*•.and that cne che rant
who work8 for AB and is enjoying - he snr.b
he* 8 getting from his pals because; hc
likes the shine in his "mama?eyes to
the shine he gets at the
5 «..V7ell, it*8 like I just saiijr the
men have just taken .ojrer the cov.n-.*
•j- tfit. *■ "ii- ^ -L -- — .j— • t. ,r» <U».
Some of you kids cotfldWre been kilV
,ed when you played around on the vet ce- *
pnent in the sohool-house the n.ghh
Didn*t you see those iron scrubs all ovov
the floor below you? If you?d fallen* yc
might have had one of them right through
^you* (jet smart—keep away frejo* any buili
ing that is unaer construction*••
• ••You can sure tell the difference b’.
tween a young and an old man by his eyes
One looks at the past and the other look;
at what is passing.••
••.Dates nowadays are so perplexing* lb
always turns out hefs as smart as the
next guy* but the next guy always turns
out to be a moron***
• ••Kinda got my feelings hurt last
night* Overheard my husband telling a
pal* "Some women always have the lest
word* mine never gets to it*rt (T.*m still
telling him off..*) Everythings going
wrong* Bet on a horse called Poison Ivy
but he was scratched*•• Call back later*
- "00se"
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