THE NOME NUGGET
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WORLD WARNING
FINLAND’S PREDICAMENT
The plight of little Finland,
summoned before the Soviet tri
bunal at Moscow with the ap
pturent purpose of forcing her in
to a pact giving the greater pow
er dominance over the lesser,
spells terror to the independence
loving people of the stout little
Republic.
That Finland fears the worst—
practically annexation by Russia
it evidenced in the way her pop
ulace is fortifying and fleeing to
places of safety. In all liklihood
Finland will capitulate. In the
face of the overpowering legions
of the Soviet the Finns see their
doom if they resist.
America has every reason to
he more than sympathetic with
Finland, remembering that of all
European nations she alone paid
all her World War debts when
due to the United States. Others
bLandly repudiated them, and
now doubtless would be ready to
accept new loans and receive the
support of Uncle Sam.
With a population of only
3,600.000—an area one fifth that
of Alaska—and situated north of
the 60th parallel of latitude—the
same which passes a little south
of Fairbanks—Finland has been j
a world example to what can be
accomplished in the Far North.
Now in no position for defense [
against the greater power she j
stands a tragic example of a j
country exposed to foreign ag
gression. America will do well to
see that her Farthest North pos- i
session does not some day face a!
simiar predicament.
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SPEED IS KEYNOTE IN
CANNING OF SALMON
Alaska’s canned salmon which
has won world-fame for its tasti
ness and nutritional values is to
day a products of a mechanized
industry which contrasts sharply
with the operation which produc
ed the first commercially canned
Alaska fish sixty-one years ago
at Klawock on Prince of Wales
Island.
During that summer of 1878,
.Alaska's two salmon canneries
produced about 8,000 cases of
canned salmon. Virtually the en
tire operation was performed by
hand.
The fish heads, tails, and fins
were removed by hand labor.
The fish were opened and clean
ed by hand. They wrere cut into
proper lengths to fill the cans
which had been previously cut
out, rolled and soldered by hand
work. The tops were fastened to
the cans and they wtore then plac
ed in the cooker.
Today, high speed machinery
does most of this work. The cap
acity of the canneries to produce
the finished product has been
greatly increased. But more im
portant the quality of canned sal
mon offered to the consumer has
been immeasurably improved be
cause of the speed and care with
which the salmon is now pro
gressed from the fishing boa/t
through to the cooking retorts.
The first major improvement
in the salmon canning industry
was the introduction of the ‘Iron
Chink’ in 1903. This machine,
which won its name because it
performer the labor formerly
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; fone by Chinese hand labor, pre
! pared and cleaned the salmon be
fore canning.
The salmon, fresh from the
sea, goes into this machine which
! cuts off the head tail fins, slits
| the fish open and removes the
i vicera. This machine has stepped
• up the speed with which the sal
‘ mon could be handled. It not on
; ly introduced ia cleaner, more
sanitary method of canning but
| it improved the quality of the
| finished product by cutting down
I the length of time required for
canning.
Next step to add to the speed
and efficiency of the industry in
supplying a high quality product
to the consumer was the intro
duction of the re-formed or col
lapsed can. These cans, now man
ufactured at the rate of over 300
a minute replaced the hand made
cans which were so tediously
produced. They contributed to
establishing the industry on a
basis where it could utilize more
fully the fishery resources.
More recently, the vacuum ma
chine replaced the steam box
method of obtaining a vacuum in
the cans. This machine added
; speed to the canning operations,
j and also reduced the cannery
I space required.
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$10,000,000 for Alaska Business
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IN JUST ONE AVERAGE YEAR the Canned Salmon Industry brings
over $10,000,000 to Alaska. This is money paid directly for local labor, j
lumber, wire, cannery supplies, taxes. It is money which benefits not
only Alaskan fishery workers and workers in other industries, but also
Alaska's professional people and merchants, whom it reaches in the form
of trade for services and goods. Thanks to the Salmon Industry, Alaska
prospers.
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Latest development to step up
the speed of the canning process
has been the high speed filler
machine. This modern machine:
fi'ls 160 cans per minute four
times the speed of older methods
and the workmanship of the fill
ers is greatly improved.
Speed in getting the salmon
from the sea into the can has
been the keynote of the mechan
ical changes in the industry thru
its 61 years. To deliver to con
sumers everywhere a high grade
products that will win repeat cus
tomers. quality is necessary, and
speed in canning means quality.
Machinery has also enabled
canneries to produce an absolute
ly canitary food products.
Today’s Canned salmon from
Alaska canneries shows almost
as great an improvement from its
counterpart of 1878 as does the
process by which the canned sal
man is produced.
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