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Let’s Get On With It -
WHOSE NAME SHALL BE on the back of the
General Election ballot has caused so much
trouble that a suit has now been filed in Anchorage
to settle the point.
With so many more important things coming
before Alaskans at this critical time of impending
Statehood, it seems like a waste of time and tax
money to make such an issue of it. By so doing, those
absentee ballots which citizens are now using, may
not be legal, therefore some Alaskans may be deprived
of their vote.
Why not put both Commissioner of Election Pree’s
name and the U. S. Clerk’s name on the back of the
ballots and get the election materials on the way
to the outlying precincts without further confusion.
Japan Agreeable To ‘Reasonable’ Line
To Divide N. Pacific Salmon Fishing
By TAK ISHII
TOKYO, (jPI. — Japan will press
for a reasonable line dividing the
salmon fishing zone in the North
Pacific. So says its chief delegate
to the International North Pacific
Fisheries Commission which
opens a session here November 4.
Iwao Fujita, vice president of
the Great Japan Fishers Associa
tion and chairman of the commis
sion, said in an interview, “We
only want to arrive at a reason
able line dividing the salmon
fishing zone in the North Pacific.”
The 1952 Japan-Canada-U. S.
Fishery Treaty places the provis
ional dividing line between the
North American and Japanese
fleets at 175 degrees west meri
dian running north and south
through the Aleutians.
United States conservationists
and fishing interests are reported
«• to have become worried over the
seasonally small run of young sal
mon in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
They reportedly are urging the
U. S. government to have Japan
move the line 540 miles farther
west.
This point will be taken up
during the fifith annual meeting.
Committee meetings for the con
I ference will begin October 20.
Fujita said he hs heard of the
1540 mile request, but not official
ly, as he said Japan’s desire in
this regard “is for a line that will
take into consideration all fac
tors” before replacing the present
demarcation 'line. He did not elab
orate.
He pointed out some species of
salmon of Asiatic origin have
been known to travel close to the
I Alaskan and Canadian areas, and
“it would be difficult to arbitrar
ily set a dividing line.”
Before moving the line west
ward, Japan would have to be
shown how much intermingling
is going on in the area where the
Japanese are fishing, Fujita
added.
He said it was difficult to dis
tinguish between Asiatic and
North American salmon, refuting
American claims that differences
between the two can be made,
j Fujita said “no definite results
I have been obtained from our re
j searches so far to distinguish be
i tween Asiatic and North American
J salmon.”
j Americans have claimed wide
'intermingling of Bristol Bay sal
mon in the fishing area west of
President
Soft-Pedals
Politics
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
ABILENE, Kans., UR —- Presi
dent Eisenhower wound up an
overnight stay in his boyhood
home city here by assuring the
Kansas Republican nominee for
governor that he is in his corner.
The President, accompanied by
Mrs. Eisenhower, then left en
route to Colorado for a quiet
weekend visit with his ailing
mother-in-law.
Republican Clyde Reed Jr.,
Parsons newspaper publisher who
is trying to capture the governor’s
chair which went to the Demo
crats for the first time in 20
years in 1956, spent about 10
minutes with the Eisenhowers
Saturday morning.
Asked if they talked politics,
the President said:
“We talked things over. Things I
look good. I’m in his (Reed’s)
corner, I’ll say that.”
It was the only time the Presi
dent, waging a soft-sell campaign
so far in his cross country tour,
touched publicly on politic^ dur
ing his visit to Kansas.
Reed’s opponent, Democratic
Governor George Docking, greeted
Eisenhower here yesterday. Dock
ing is co-chairman of the National
fund-raising drive for the Eisen
hower Library which will be con
structed here.
Reed and many other Repub
lican leaders met Eisenhower
when he arrived at Schilling Air
Force Base near Salina, 22 miles
from here yesterday.
The Eisenhowers motored from
Abilene to Schilling base Satur
day morning to board the Colum
bine for a flight to Denver.
The President arrives in Cali
fornia today. He speaks in Los
Angeles this evening and in San
Francisco Tuesday morning, be
fore flying on to Chicago for a
Wednesday night talk.
Oh his .first stop at the national
corn picking contest at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, the President told
a crowd of 85,000 at the outset
of his speech, he would talk no
politics. Never once did he men
tion the words “Republican” or
“Democrat.”
He did make a pledge: that his
last two years in office his over
riding task will be to work for a
just and lasting peace — “If the
Lord spares me that long.”
— Slack Healers A1 Cavota's —
the 175 degree line, he said, but
this year there was “practically
no American red salmon caught
in these waters.”
Fujita said the worldwide sal
mon catch has shown a decline
and this cannot be laid to just
overcatching by world fishermen.
“Natural environment condi
tions play a big role in salmon
breeding and the encroachment of
civilization on the breeding
grounds of salmon may be the
main reason for the smaller sal
mon run,” Fujita said.
Fujita, as chairman of the com
mission, would not comment di
rectly on the forthcoming meet
ing, but insisted Japan will be
agreeable to “a reasonable line”
to divide the fishing zone.
Observers here, however, pre
dicted the meeting will see some
exciting exchanges between Jap
anese and American delegates on
the dividing line.
At the Vancouver, B. C., meet
ing last year, Americns pressed
the Japanese to shift the line 10
degrees westward, but arrived at
no agreement.
Japan voluntarily limited red
salmon fishing this year in the
Japanese side of the line.
The coming meeting is expected
to decide on the dividing line
and whether to continue present
five year conservation measures
taken by Japan, Canada and the
U. S. Japanese observers said the
same conservation action is ex
pected to be continued.
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