No Agreement
Reached On
Dogfish Bounty
WASHINGTON, UP) — A hear
ing on a bill to pay bounties on
dogfish shark to reduce their
threat to salmon and other food
fish ended Wednesday with the
suggestion that the Fish and
Wildlife Service has too many
office workers and not enough
field men.
The suggestion was made by
Milo Moore, director of the Wash
ington State Department of Fish
eries, before the House Fisheries
Committee.
The bill would authorize pay
ment of $10 ton for unlivered
dogfish sharks or 10 cents a
pound for their livers.
Ralph C. Baker, chief of the
service’s commercial fisheries
resource management branch,
told the committee the Depart
ment of the Interior had taken no
position on the bill although it
had opposed an earlier proposal
which would have provided
bounties also on sea lion and hair
seals.
He said he didn’t believe the
bounty program would be too
successful. The best way to re
duce the number of dogfish, he
indicated, is to use them for pets
for fur farm animals.
Studies conducted some years
ago, he said, showed that dog
fish eat relatively few salmon
smolt but do eat herring which
also are eaten bv salmon. The
principle trouble with the dogfish
shark, he said, is its a nuisance
to commercial and sports fisher
men.
Moore challenged Baker as
being “in no way capable of ex
' plaining the problem” and said he
agreed with hardly any of the j
testimony given by the bureau j
witness.
Studies conducted by the Wash- J
ington department, Moore said, j
indicated dogfish will eat any
thing that is handy when it wants
to eat.
He agreed the dogfish probably
couldn’t be varadicated but said
it could be controlled under a
bounty system.
The small sharks are so num
erous, he said, it isn’t unusual
for a vessel to haul in some
30,000 pounds of them on a single
half-hour setting in Puget Sound.
Moore’s criticism of the Fish
and Wildlife Service drew a
protest * from Rep. George P.
Miller (R-Calif). Miller said he
felt it was “not in good taste for
you to come and leave an innuen
do” against the service.
Baker’s testimony also drew
critical comments from Reps.
Thor Tollefson and Tom Pelly,
Washington Republicans.
No date was set for a further
hearing.
Pelly said he felt it only stood
to reason that if the incentive
was there, fishermen would go
after the dogfish. He drew agree
ment from Baker that in the
1940s, before the development of
synthetic vitamin A, fishermen
had trouble finding sufficient
dogfish for the market.
At one point, Baker’s answer
to a question from a committee
member indicated he was uncer
tain whether it would be pos
sible under the bill to import
shark livets from other countries
to collect the bounty.
Tollefson said the possibility
was “ridiculous” and that Baker’s
answer was an “insult” to Sec
retary of the Interior Fred A.
Seaton and Ross L. Leffler, as
sistant secretary for Fish and
Wildlife, who would administer
the program.
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From "Golden Windows"
A business firm in Seattle
which, owns a large six story
building operates a hardware
store' on the main street floor
and rents the five upper floors.
The building iiad been vacant for
some time.
I was in the owner’s office one
day and he said,“I wish we could
rent those five upper floors. It
is very expensive having them
vacant.
I said to him, “We will pray
about it and aslc God to give you
a renter.”
He is not a Christian man, and
he answered in a sceptical way,
“O.K. go ahead.”
I asked God to give them a rent
er. In two weeks one of the
largest department stores in Seat
tle took the space and moved in.
They are still there, a very de
sirable firm to have as a tenant.
We should all pray about every
thing first, not use it as a last
resort. Always ask God’s advice
first before we do things. God
cares for us in the little things of
life as well as the big and impor
tant things. Nothing is too small
to ask Him to help us with, .and
He will guide our thinking as well
as our acting in all the things
that concern our daily life and
our business life. The Bible says,
“The effectual, ferment prayer of
a righteous man availeth much.”
James 5:16, and again—“What
soever ye shall ask in my Name,
that will I do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son. If
ye ask anything in my name I
will do it.” (Matt. 14:13, 14)
J. B. Pamment*
*Mr. Pamment is the son of a
former missionary, Puyallup In
dian Mission now Tacoma Indian
Mision Center.
Storm Clouds Hover
Over Midwest, Heat Wave
Hits Southern States
(By The Associated Press I
Storm clouds hovered over wide
areas of the Midwest Thursday
in the wake of violent weather in
some sections.
Showers and thunderstorms
struck areas in an east-west belt
from the lower Great Lakes
region to the central plains. Rain
fall in most of the wet region
was light. However, heavy rains
and strong winds struck some
sections.
Strong winds raked western
Kansas, with wind gusts up to
65 mph reported in the Garden
City area. Tornadic winds lashed
Monroe, Mich., Wednesday, caus
ing an estimated $100,000 damage
to 5 homes.
Three inches of rain drenched
the Detroit metropolitan area in
less than three hours Wednesday.
One man was electrocuted while
working on felled power lines
Thousands of basements and
streets were flooded by the down
pour. Heavy rain also was re
ported in sections of northeastern
Ohio.
Generally warm weather was'
the rule in most areas. Temper
atures reached above 100 degrees
again Wednesday in the south
and southwest, including 107 at
Presidio, Tex., 104 at Phoenix,
Ariz., 103 at Red Bluff, Calif.,
and 102 at Hobart, Okla. Read
ings were near the 80-degree
mark in the central Canadian
border area.
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Contempt Charge
Against Arthur
Miller Dropped
WASHINGTON, UP) — The U.S.
Court of Appeals Thursday struck
down the contempt of Congress
conviction of playwright Arthur
Miller, husband of actress Mari
lyn Monroe.
Miller was convicted of con
tempt in U.S. District Court here
last year for refusing to tell the
House _ Committee on l#n-Ameri
can Activities the names of Com
munist writers with whom he ad
mittedly met in New York in
1949.
U.S. District Judge Charles F.
McLaughlin gave him a sus
pended 30 day jail sentence and
imposed a $500 fine.
The Appeals Court, in revers
ing the conviction, directed the
District Court to enter a judg
ment of acquittal.
The Appellate Court said in a
brief unsigned opinion that from
the record it appealed to be
clear that Miller “had a right to
leave the hearing thinking that
the direction to answer was still
suspended, if not abandoned.”
Miller whose plays have won a
Pulitzer Prize -and other awards,
was called before the committee
in June 1956 during an investi
gation into allegedly fraudulent
procurement and misuse of pass
ports. Miller was an applicant
for a passport at the time, tjut
during court arguments fraudu
lently obtained or misused a
passport.
Miller answered about 200
questions in the committee hear
ing and acknowledged that he
had supported Qommunist causes
in the past. He balked only at
naming Communist writers with
whom he said he attended five
or six meetings in 1947.
Miller said his conscience would
not permit him to use the names
of other persons and bring trou
ble to them.
Miller also told the committee
that he would not now support
the Communist causes he had
■backed in the past.
Seven of the Appellate- Court’s
nine judges heard Miller’s ap
peal in June. All nine concurred
in Thursday’s decision.
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Union Advises
Rejection Of New
Salmon Price Offer
VANCOUVER, B.C., (JV—Union
officials Wednesday night advised
rejection of a new salmon price
offer by packing companies and
said a strike deadline for Sat
urday remains in effect.
President James Sinclair of
the Fisheries Association of B.C.
said earlier the new offer would i
enable the province’s salmon
fishermen to make $5,800,000
more this year than in 1957. It
showed increases for every spe
cies over the association’s offer
June 20.
The new figures are: sockeye,
26 to 28 cents a pound, compared
with 25 cents in the June 20 of
fer; coho, 16 cents, compared
with 14 cents; pinks 9V4 cents,
compared with nine cents; sum
mer chums 71/£ cents, compared
with 6V£ cents, fall chums IVz
to 10V£ cents.
The joint negotiating commit
tee of the United Fishermen and
Allied V/orkers Union and Native
Brotherhood of B.C. said it took
exception to the sliding scale
established for sockeye.
The salmon net fishermen
have suffered from small runs for
the last three years and with an
improved run in view this year
they see no reason to take a cut,
the committee said in a state
ment. It also objected to a cut of
from Vi cent to 1V£ cents in fall
chum prices.
The committee also objected to
the offer of unchanged prices
for pinks and summer chums
and only a JAt cent increase for
coho.
36-Pound Chum
Claimed To Be Record
PETERSBURG, W» — A 36
pound chum salmon was caught
in a fish trap near Petersburg
this week and Thursday T. F.
Smith, U.S. Bureau of Commer
cial Fisheries agent claimed the
chum was the largest of its
species ever caught.
The huge fish was 39V£ inches
long. Smith said chum salmon,
sometimes called dog salmon,
normally weigh between eight
and 18 pounds at maturity. He
said fish up to 30 pounds have
been caught but he ^aid no chum
over 30 pounds has ever been
listed.
“I’m calling the 36-pounder a
world’s record for chums until
someone catches a bigger one,”
Smith said.
The chum salmon is one of
five species of commercial salmon
caught and processed in Alaska
for human consumption. It is a
white-meated fish.
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