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Vol, IV No. 3 July 22, 1953 Price 10^
CONFLICTING OPINIONS
In a recent press conference in Anchor
age aftor a brief visit to the fishing
grounds here, Judge W.C.Arnold, General
Manager of the Alaska Salmon Industry, ex-a
pressed the following opinion:
’’The pack is far below what had been es
timated; the run is not as heavy as last
year,” He said approximately 450,000 cases
had been packed by July 15 compared with
a pack of 611,851 cases by July 12 last
year, (NOTE: On July 10th, T.F.Srndoz,
President of the Columbia Riv* r Packers
Association, Inc., in Astoria, Oregon, is
sued the report that the Bristol Ray salmon
pack in Ala.ska wan running *f% ahead of f52.
Arnold stated, "The escapement so far
indicates that the FV/S v/as right in its or
iginal proposal te close the Nushagak en
tirely during 1953. I think the FV/S made a
serious error in reversing themselves.”
The Bering bea Fishermen*s Union offic
ials insist that red. salmon are coming up
the Nushagak river thick and fast in the
Dillingham area in spite of FhS predictions
of a poor run#
Early this year the service announced
complete elosure of the Nushagakj then n
greed to a limited seasen ef 2 days a v/eek
frvm June 25-July 23 after a pretest to the
closure was executed# This "war •£ the fish
season” started whe* the FV/S announced the
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"GREENER PASTURES"
Leaving behind a host of friends and
acquaintances to mourn his departure, Ole
Poulson, 84 years old, succumbed on July
6, 1953 at the Kanakanak Hospital where ht
had been admitted on July 4 for medical
reasons*
Ole Paulson, a native of Sweden, was
the youngest in a family of 12, He was
"Horn in Northern Sweden in September, 1861
and came to the United States in 1^96.
A few years later the "America'’ sailed
from San Francisco harbor with Ole as a
passenger and, by sheer fate, the boat
swain on the same vessel was Henry "Guriy1
/Karloffj the ship headed north and these
two men struck up a friendship which has
lasted through the years.
Arriving in Dillingham in 1901, Mr,
P oulson fished for a few years and then
joined the staff of Felder and Gale whore
he worked until too feeble to continue,
ne spent the last few years in retirement
in his little cabin by the beach.
Funeral services were held on July 7
under the e.uspicies of the Pioneer Lodge.
Igloo 28, with President Tom Gardiner of
ficiating.
Pallbearers were George Jaynes, Tom
Gardiner Sr,, Tom Gardiner Jr., Olaf St re
Vfassily Ekopak and Paul Kingsmith, Honora.
pallbearers were Butch Smith and Bill Bar
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