wBooze at Bottom*
Of Most Natives’
Tangles With Law
SEATTLE, UP)—U. S. Marshal
Albert F. Dorsh Jr. of Fairbanks
told a reporter here Wednesday
“in most cases booze is at the
bottom” of any difficulties Alaska
natives have with the law.
Dorsh, 46, is attending a region
al marshals’ conference here with
three other marshals from Alaska.
They are Robert W. Oliver, 36,
Nome; Clair A. Wilder, 65, Ju
neau, and Fred S. Williamson, 62,
Anchorage.
Marshal-Sheriff
Wilder said Alaska marshals
“do the same things the marshals
do down here, plus what the sher
iffs do down here.”
Williamson commented that this
comes about because of the dual
jurisdiction over territorial and
federal law enforcement in Alas
ka. “But,” he said, “we also do
our own investigating in criminal
oases.”
He pointed out that marshals
in the States are aided by federal
investigative agencies.
In 1953, Williamson said Alas
ka’s Highway Police Department
was converted into a police force
which has taken some of the mar
shals’ load.
1400 Miles for Prisoner
“To pick up a prisoner recent
ly,” said Williamson, “I flew from
’ Anchorage to Kodiak, which is
more than 400 miles, got on the
Coast Guard cutter Clover and
went 1,000 miles to the Aleutians.
“In comparison, if W. Bud Par
sons <U.S. marshal in Seattle) had
to travel 1,400 miles to make an
arrest, he’d go all the way to Los
Angeles,” Williamson said.
“Virtually all our work is by
bush flights,” Oliver added.
Dorsh, whose 4th District is the
largest, said he has an area of
about 280,000 squaTe miles—
“larger than Texas.”
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The next time a veterinarian is
confronted with a dog made snarl
ing and vicious by its illness, he may
pop a tranquilizer into the animal’s
mouth, and the snarls will vanish
into cooperative friendliness.
Sick dogs — even those which are I
not naturally bad-tempered — can
turn vicious toward strangers. Not
only do they resist examination and
treatment by the
veterinarian, but
they may tear off
bandages, or rip
open surgical stit
ches.
Many animals,
however, respond
to the new tran
quilizing drugs,
giving the veterinarian a new ad
vantage. Ataraxoid, for instance,
seems to work as well with pets as
it does with their masters. It’s a
combination of a mild tranquilizer
used to treat everyday tensions in
humans, with the latest hormone for
relief of arthritis, rheumatism, and
skin diseases.
The tranquilizing drugs open
many other possibilities, too. They
may be employed to soothe nervous
horses so that they can be trained
better, and to treat cattle before
shipping so that they won’t lose
weight through loss of appetite. Zoo
and circus vets hope that the drugs
can be used to calm animals during
long trips, so that exhaustion will
not make them easy marks for dis
ease. The drugs may be used to
tranquilize flighty birds, too.
They may even help make a
watchdog out of the pup who runs
and hides under the bed when it
thunders!
COASTWISE PUTS
2nd PASSENGER SHIP
ON ALASKA RUN
SEATTLE. IjPI—Assignment of a
second passenger-carrying ship to
the Alaska run was announced by
the Coastwise Lane Wednesday.
The C-2 freighter Pacific Bear
is scheduled to leave Seattle on
July 15 for Seward, Valdez and
Whittier. She has accommoda
tions for 12 cabin passengers.
The Pacific Bear’s sister ship
the Philippine Bear is scheduled
to sail from Seattle next Tuesday
with the first Alaska ocean pas
sengers to leave a stateside port
since October 1954.
Permanent assignment of the
two ships to the Alaska run, at
least for the busy summer season,
would give Seattle passenger ser
vice to the north about every
three weeks.
The Coastwise Line also has
filed tariffs for southbound pas
enger service from Alaska and as
liar south as the California ports
of Long Beach and San Francisco.
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more pardonable than the tales
figured out to hide them.
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