French Airliner Crashes
BORDEAUX, France, l/P) — A
French passenger plane crashed
in a fog near here Saturday kill
ing at least six of the 21 persons
aboard. Twelve others escaped
death but some of them suffered
severe burns. The fate of the
other three was not immediately
known.
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Owners of the DC-4 said the
plane was carrying 14 passengers
and seven crewmen on a flight
from Abidjan, on the French
Ivory Coast of West Africa. The
plane was attempting a landing
here when it cracked up on a
forest road.
Legal Blanks at The Nome Nugget
WASHINGTON, (A — President
Eisenhower was invited to ad
dress the annual meeting of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors here April 16-18.
He took the invitation under
advisement.
OLYMPIA, Wash., UP) — Legis
lation was being drawn Saturday
to boost the price of drivers’ li
censes to $6 for two years, a move
that would double the take from
some 1,500,000 Washington State
automobile drivers.
The brown rat which has mi
grated to most parts of the world
since the 18th Century has killed
off other types of rats in most
places where it is found.
New Blizzards Hamper
Work on Holland Dikes
AMSTERDAM, un — New bliz
zards driving like icy whiplashes
over the Dutch floodlands brought
further hazards and misery today
to the men repairing Holland’s
shattered dikes.
The wind-whipped water, snow
and ice complicated the engineer
ing problems of the ceaseless ef
fort to mend temporarily the vast
protective network before the
next flood tides on Feb. 16.
Government engineers thought
they could do the job.
The rough weather, however,
threatened to ground Dutch, Am
erican and British planes flying
in vital supplies. The men handl
ing the picks and shovels were
chilled by the bitter cold.
Communists Stop Mail
PANMUNJOM, UP)—U.Ijl. postal
officers said the North Korean
and Chinese Communists stopped
their people from writing Red
prisoners of war in U.N. camps
seven months ago.
These officers said they were
given no explanation why fam
ilies of Red prisoners had to
stop writing.
From Dec. 3, 1951, when the
first prisoner of war mail was
exchanged here, until July, the
Reds turned over to Allied postal
officers 36,000 letters for deliv
ery to Communist prisoners held
on Koje island and in U.N. POW
camps.
Since July, no' mail has come
through for Allied prisoners from
writing home.
WRITES CARROLL HAGGARD:
ALASKA SALMON ARE PRECIOUS RESOURCE
Entries submitted in the Alaska Salmon In- growth and development of the Territory.
stitute’s $1,200 Student Essay Contest show Tj(h® following essay won Carroll Haggard
, ’ , „ of Denali School in Fairbanks first prize of
that Alaska’s boys and girls are well aware $3qo jn the Elementary School Division of
of the salmon industry’s vital role in the the contest.
Is the salmon industry very im
portant? Yes, to people all over
the world, salmon is a popular
food. Most people know it at least
by taste. Also the salmon industry
gives work to many people.
There are several kinds of com
mercially used salmon. They are
sockeye, humpback, Chinook, chum
and coho.
When salmon hatch from their
eggs, their mother is nowhere to
be found. She has left them in a
jelly-like substance called milt,
which they will eat until they are
strong enough to find food for
themselves. Soon they have a feel
ing they want to go to the sea.
Oh! just to feel that fine salt
water. They swim day after day;
finally they reach the sea. After
they have been there two years,
they want to go back to where
they were born. They leave the sea.
They go on a journey upstream to
spawn. As they go upstream many
are caught in a trap or by fisher
men. If they get to their birth
place, they lay their eggs in a
spawning bed and then try to re
turn to the sea. Usually they die
on the way. Soon the little salmon
start over again and do just like
their mothers.
There are four ways of catch
ing salmon. One is with a gillnet.
It is called a gillnet because when
fish try to get out, they are
caught by their gills and cannot.
Pound nets were used by the In
dians long before whitemen came
and they are still very common.
There are two kinds of traps in
Alaska: standing or pile, and
floating. There are over 400 traps
in use in Alaska. By hook and line
is another way. The salmon caught
in this way are usually frozen or
cured. The last way of fishing is
purse seining. A little boat and k
bigger boat work together. One
end of a net is attached to each
boat. Then the little boat rows in
a circle as a school of fish passes
by, and the fish are caught in the
net.
After the salmon are caught
they are canned. The fish are
dropped into a large bin. Then
they are carried to the cannery
on a moving belt. At the cannery
their heads and tails are cut off.
Another machine scrapes off ,the
scales. The insides are taken out,
the fish are washed. They are cut
into pieces and put in cans. The
lids are put on the cans loosely
and put in the sealing machine.
Afterwards they are labeled, then
> sent to stores all over the world.
Salmon not only feeds people
every day, it furnishes jobs for
18,000 people in Alaska. Millions
have been invested in the equip
ment needed. The industry is
Alaska’s chief source of tax rev
enue. It was the search for gold
that first brought people to
Alaska. Now another precious re
source attracts many workers.
Perhaps that is why salmon are
called “The Silver of the Sea.”
Alaska Salmon Institute
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Democrats Oppose
Proposed Election
Reform Measures
By JIM HUTCHESON '
, JUNEAU, UPi — An argument
over another of the Republican
Party’s reform bills brought this
protest Saturday from Democrat
Wendell Kay of Anchorage: .]
“I don’t know why the Demo
cratic party should be put in a
straight jacket just because the
Republicans have been having
trouble.”
Kay made the retort while ar
guing against some provisions of
another of Dorothy’s Prior’s (R
Anchorage) series of political
party and election bills.
One of Kay’s objections to the
bill on political party organiza
tion activities was a clause call
ing for one committeeman and
one committeewoman to be elect
ed from each division to a party’s
territorial central committee.
He said the Democrats have
been electing four and they did
n’t care whether they were men
or women and thought the system
was as democratic as anything the
Republicans had proposed.
Kay also protested against a
provision that the precinct com
mitteeman would have to give his
proxy to the divisional convention
to another committeemen from
his own recording district.
Kay contended the committee
man should be able to give the
proxy to “someone who thinks
near you instead of someone who
lives near you”; that vast dis
tances in the territory often pre
vent outlying residents from get
ting to meetings.
William Boardman (R-Ketchi
kan), arguing in support of Miss
Prior, declared “The evil we are
striking at is a tendency for con
centration of proxy votes among
Anchorage or Juneau party mem
bers when the meeting is held in
one of those cities.”
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of* Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
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Phone Main 40
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, W.M.
Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber o! Commerce
Mee«,
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry Galvin, President
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