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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Formal Protest Planned For "Hasty"
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Banning of Alaska Fisli Traps
SEATTLE, UP) — A spokesman j
for the Alaska salmon packing in
dustry said Friday a formal pro
test would be made against what
he termed the “hasty and total”
elimination of salmon traps in the
northern state.
The protest will be filed with
the Bureau of Commercial Fish
eries d*t Washington, D. C., soon,
K. C. Hardwicke of Seattle, chair
man of an industry committee,
said.
Hardwicke explained that un
der ordinary circumstances prep
arations for the trap season each
year would be underway in Jan
uary. He said that if the traps
are to be readied for the 1959 sea
son, preparations must start no
later than February 28.
Hardwicke said millions and
millions of dollars in inventories
are at stake and will be lost if
the traps are eliminated this sea
son.
The Seattle man said members
of his committee planned to meet
FAMOUS SARGENT PAINTING
RETURNED IN DALLAS
DALLAS, UP* — Highland Park
Police Chief W. H. Naylor found
the missing John Singer Sargent
painting ‘Swallows’ Thursday in
an unlikely place, the front seat
of his prowl car. The 24- by 30
inch painting was taken from the
Humphrey Lee Student Center at
Southern Methodist University on
December 28. It was considered
a valuable part of a $6,000 art
collection.
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with Interior Secretary Fred Sea
ton in the nation’s capitol Jan
uary 19.
Hardwicke said that while the
decision by Alaska Govednor
William Egan to hold up licensing
of the traps was “consistent with
political campaign promises by
the Governor and other officials
now elected,” the salmon packers
plan to rely on a provision of the
Statehood law which requires the
Interior Secretary to approve
Alaska’s fisheries program before
relinquishing present federal
controls.
Hardwicke indicated the sal
mon packers wanted at the very
least an interim period in which
the industry would be able to ad
just its trap inventories and fish
ing arrangements.
Seaton, during a campaign trip
through Alaska prior to the elec
tion of state officers last Novem
ber 25, said he favored abolition
of fish traps, but Seaton, a Re
publican, took no action toward
that end.
Egan, a Democrat, ordered state
officials to hold up the issuance of
fish trap licenses for 1959. While
not actually banning fish traps,
Egan’s executive order, in sub
stance, has the same effect since
the traps cannot be operated un
less licensed.
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Bartlett Questions i
Sufficiency Of
Ike*s Program
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator I
Bob Bartlett thinks President
Eisenhower’s remarks on govern
ment spending “may have been
aimed at the 1960 elections rather
than to a realistic appraisal of
our immediate needs.”
Commenting on the Chief Exec
utive’s State of the Union mes
sage, Bartlett said:
“I too am concerned with
avoiding deficit financing but, as
the President said, 60 per cent of '
all direct appropriations will go
for defense. The question then is
whether the remaining 40 per cent
is sufficient to keep our country
moving ahead.
“Government investment means
national economic growth. This is
a necessity just as much as arming
ourselves and our allies. In Alas
ka, resource development is par
ticularly dependent upon govern
ment financing.”
Representative Ralph Rivers
also referred to the need for con
tinuing resource development.
“I concur on a need for thrift in
governmental operations,” h e
said, “but not at the expense of
far-seeing self-liquidating public
works of a developmental nature.”
Rivers also took note of the
President’s departure from his
prepared speech to welcome Alas
ka, and said the gesture “gave me
a warm feeling.”
Senator Ernest Gruening, third
member of Alaska’s first Con
gressional voting delegation, de
clined to comment on the Presi
dent’s speech.
Carrier ‘Independence’
Is Third U.S. Warship
To Bear The Name
NEW YORK, Oft — The proud
name “Independence” rejoins the
United States Navy’s lists as the
nation’s newest aircraft carrier is
commissioned at Brooklyn Navy
Yard.
The 60,000-ton leviathan, as tall
as a 25-story building, was built
at a cost of 190 million dollars
and launched last June. The fifth
warship to bear the name, she is
oceans apart from the first — a
Revolutionary War sloop of 10
guns.
The new carrier has space for
100 aircraft, including jets that
can deliver atomic bombs, and
will have 140 pilots assigned.
BACK IS BACK,
ALL SHOT AS USUAL . , .
LEXINGTON, Ky., Oft — Bruce
Back may not draw fast, but he
sure shoots fast.
That’s the trouble.
The 23-year-old quick-draw j
practioner was hospitalized Friday j
for the second time within a year j
for a bullet wound in the right leg. j
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