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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Alaskan Says Continued Japanese
Fishing In North Pacific Will End
Profitable Fishing In Bristol Bay
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, Itf—A spokes
man for an independent pooper
ative salmon marketing associa
tion believes continued Japanese
fishing pressures in the North
Pacific will wipe out profitable
commercial fishing in the Bristol
Bay area of Alaska.
“They may already have re
duced the runs to virtually no
commercial value,” said Truman
Emberg of Dillingham, business
agent for Bristol Bay Fish Pro
ducers, Assn., Inc. Ninety per
cent of the association’s member
ship is Eskimo.
Emerg arrived here several
days ago to impress upon officials
of the State Department and Bu
reau of Commercial Fisheries the
importance of continued red sal
mon runs to the “one-shot econ
omy” of the Bristol Bay area.
But he said he has received lit
tle reassurance for his pessimistic
outlook on the area’s fishery.
Although government spokes
men have been reluctant to dis
cuss what if any effort is being
made to curtail the Japanese
fishing activity, the Alaskan said
he found government depart
ments aware of its seriousness to
the Bristol Bay economy.
Other than handicraft and
hunting, Emberg said commercial
fishing is the sole livelihood for
some 3,500 Eskimos in the Bristol
Bay area and some 600 miles up
the coast. Another 6,500 Eskimos,
he said, depend upon salmon for
food.
He tied continued existence of
the Bristol Bay fishery in with
the national defense program by
noting that virtually the only
military strength along the coastal |
area is that represented by the :
Eskimo National Guard units.
If the fishery collapses, he said,
these Guardsmen will foe forced
to move elsewhere to engage in
construction or other activity, or
to subsist on welfare as they have
in recent years when poor fishing
resulted in designation of the re
gion as a disaster area.
Emberg and Delegate Bartlett
plan also to meet with represen
tatives of the Fish and Wildlife
Service to protest proposals for
creation of a 3,000 square mile
waterfowl refuge in the Kusko
kwim area.
Emberg described the area as
important to the natives for food
and said he feared that restriction
ncessary to the refuge would fur
ther limit the Eskimo economy.
Bartlett, in whose office Em
berg met newsmen, said he also
is opposed to the Kuskokwim re
fuge “because no one has ever
explained to me why it is need
ed.”
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Stassen Resigns
To Run For Gov.
Of Pennsylvania
THOMASVILLE, Ga., UP)--Har
old E. Stassen resigned Saturday
as President Eisenhower’s dis
armament adviser in order to run
for governor of Pennsylvania.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, said at the Presi
dent’s vacation headquarters the
decision was Stassen’s own and
he was not asked to resign.
In accepting the resignation,
Eisenhower wrote Stassen “I
deeply regret that you are leaving
the federal government, effective
today, and that our five-year
association together in govern
ment is to terminate.”
In recent months Stassen and
Secretary of States Dulles have
been at odds over disarmament
policy. That led to reports —
pinned to at least one high ad
ministration official* — that Ei
senhower had decided Stassen had
outlived his usefulness.
Stassen, in a press conference,
said he felt progress had been
made during his tenure as dis
armament adviser but declined to
comment on the need for ap
pointment of a successor to the
cabinet level job he left. He also
declined to comment on his re
ported differences with Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles. j
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
GOP chairman George Bloom
commenting on Stassen resigna
tion and gubernatorial candidacy,
said:
“Everywhere I have had any
contact with Republicans in Pen
nsylvania I have found no senti
ment for Harold Stassen. In three
party meetings held recently the
sentiment was opposed to him.”
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Girl Scouts To Hold
“Thinking Day” Party
On Saturday, Feb. 22
Nome Girl Scouts are observ
ing International Month with a
program and party on Feb. 22,
which in the project, is known
as “Thinking Day.” A special j
film, courtesy of Pan American
Airways, will be featured on the
program.
The Girl Scouts will also ob
serve the special month with win
dow displays in business houses
and each troop is to have a \
luncheon or dinner.
They have scheduled their
bazaar for March 15.
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Hot Creek Is Coldest
Spot In California
SACRAMENTO, UPI — Califor
nia’s proposed budget calls for
$8,500 to build a three-car gar
age at a state fish hatchery.
“Why do they need a garage?”
asked Assemblyman L. Lowery.
“That’s just about the coldest
spot in the state,” said assistant
legislative analyst Don Wright.
“Men freeze to death walking
from one building to another,”
“Where is this?” asked Low
ery.
“Hot Creek,” answered Wright.
(Hot Creek, not listed in the
postal guide, is’ 60 miles from
Bishop at an altitude of 8,000
feet).
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