Commissioners of Health
And Public Safety Appear
Before House Committees
JUNEAU, UP)—Two of the seven
cabinet appointees yet to be con
firmed by the Legislature ap
peared this week before the House
Rules Committee.
The seven appointments were
made by the Governor after ad
journment of the last Legislature.
First to appear before the House
committee was Paul Winsor, Com
missioner of Health and Welfare.
He was followed by Martin B.
Underwood, head of the State’s
Department of Public Safety.
Underwood, a former Federal
Bureau of Investigation agent at
Fairbanks, has been criticized for
requesting the resignation of A. P.
(Hob) Brandt earlier this month.
Brandt, former Superintendent of
Territorial Police, has been a state
employe for 17 years.
Because of this action, there
has been speculation Underwood’s
appointment may run into oppo
sition in the Legislature.
For the most part, testimony
was given behind closed doors.
Action on the confirmation is
not expected until all prospective
cabinet members have been heard.
Five members of the Governor’s
cabinet were confirmed at the
1959 legislative session.
RIVERS DISCLOSES NEW
APPOINTEES TO ANNAPOLIS
AND MARINE ACADEMY
WASHINGTON, UP) — Rep.
Ralph Rivers yesterday announced
his principal appointments to the
Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Md., and the Merchant Marine
Academy at Kings Point.
Principal appointments to the
Naval Academy went to William
Romney Burke, Fairbanks, Ron
ald C. Short, Kodiak, and C.
James Edenso, Ketchikan.
Russell McKechnie, Palmer, re
ceived the principal appointment
to the Merchant Marine Academy.
•PARK? — WHERE? . .
SEATTLE, UP) — Marie Carter
took her driver’s license test yes
terday and did just fine except
for one thing. When the patrol
man told her to park the car she
drove it through the wall of the
patrol office.
State Patrol Examiner David
Pieterick said Mrs. Carter, 47,
stepped on the gas pedal instead
of the brake. Neither she nor Piet
erick was injured, but the car
knocked a hole six by four feet
in a concrete wall.
She didn’t get the license.
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Russian Fishing
Fleet Reported Off
Nunivak Island
SEATTLE, UP) — At least 50
Russian trawlers and 10 refriger
ator and support ships are lying
off Nunivak Island in the Bering
Sea, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
said Monday.
The newspaper said Sen. Mag
nuson (D-Wash) had been notified
at Washington, D. C., of the pres
ence of the Russian fleet by the
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. It is a
full month earlier than the ap
pearance of such Russian boats
last year, Magnuson said.
The Russians this year are
using stern trawlers which can
withstand heavy weather and go
out earlier than usual, and are
apparently equipped for bottom
fishing, Magnuson was quoted.
The fleet would be able to con
vert to salmon fishing by chang
ing its kind of gear, he said. Its
position was described as vir
tually in the path of salmon runs
that will head up the Yukon.
Magnuson was also quoted as
criticizing the State Department
for not taking the threat to Amer
ican fishing seriously enough. He
also urged the government to
create an interest among Amer
ican fishermen to take up bottom
fishing.
‘‘Unless we get action,” he said,
“we will be run off the seas —
but everywhere.”
Asks Six Million For
Forestry Research
WASHINGTON, UP) — Congress
was urged this week to provide
six million dollars this year for a
new national forestry research
program.
The proposal came from Sen.
John Stennis <D-Miss), who said
it would be four million over the
amount recommended by the Ad
ministration.
Stennis said the program sub
mitted to Congress last year for
putting the nation’s 181 million
acres of national forest to work
showed it was a six million dollar
job in the first year. “Unfortu
nately,” he added, “Only $1,786,
400 is included in the 1961
budget.”
The senator’s proposal envis
ions 2Vfe million dollars for labora
tory construction and 3Vfc million
for various other programs.
Stennis said the construction
fund would provide facilities at
numerous locations including a
$250,000 office laboratory for tim
ber and fire protection research at
Fairbanks.
The national forests, Stennis
said, would return to the treasury
“A substantial part of the costs of
the program from the very be
ginning from sales of timber on a
sustained yield basis.”
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Restrictions on Hunting
Eider Ducks In the Spring
May Be Lifted
The Alaska Department of Fish
and Game last week proposed
possible revision of current inter
national agreements to permit Es
kimos and Indians to take eider
ducks during the spring and early
summer.
Existing international conven
tions involving the United States,
Canada and Mexico, and the Mig
ratory Bird Treaty Act, provide
that the annual hunting season
for migratory birds shall not ex
ceed 3V£ months but shall not
occur between March 10 and
Sept. 1.
An exception permits Eskimos
and Indians to take auks, auklets,
guillemots, murres and puffins
and their eggs at any season of
the year. No exception, however,
is made for eider ducks.
Commissioner Clarence Ander
son of the Fish and Game Dept.,
said eiders produced in our Arc
tic and utilized by the residents
of our State’s western coastal
areas do not migrate out of
Alaska.
“We believe that allowing our
residents to make use of eider
during the spring and early sum
mer, when they are needed,
would have no detrimental effects
on the preservation of the Pacific
Coast populations which, to our
knowledge, have never been
threatened.”
ELECTION HELD AT DEERING
from the Deering News
The village of Deering held an
election on the 26th of December.
Dan Karmun, who lives in Nome
at present, but who is expected to
return to Deering in the spring,
Vas re-elected Mayor. Vice-Mayor
is Gilford Barr. Other members
of the Council are Harold Dim
mick, Wilbur Karmun, Elmer
Thomas and James Moto Jr. Paul
Jones is the ANICA director.
• * *
Bessie May Barr, very young
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Barr, died January 9. The cause
of death was unknown, but it is
believed to be caused by suffoca
tion with foreign material in the
respiratory system.
* * *
Mr. Charlie Clark, reindeer
herder of Deering, has been in
Willow Bay. He is awaiting trans
portation of the meat to Kotzebue.
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Clown Felix Adler
Dead at Age 62
NEW YORK, UP) — Felix Adler,
62, who tickled ' five decades of
circus audiences by waddling
around the rings in a droopy
clown’s suit followed by oinking
piglets, died Monday.
Adler, who left the Ringling
Brothers Barnum & Bailey cir
cus last May after 50 years under
the big top, died during an opera
tion at St. Clare’s Hospital.
It was his second operation
since January 15, when he en
tered the hospital suffering from
an ulcer. Liver complications de
veloped.
Adler knew the same gimmicks
got laughs year after year, and his
life was dedicated to laughter.
Children and grownups alike
roared when he topped his gro
tesquely misshaped costume with
a tiny umbrella or when the red
light glowed in thq tip of his
make-believe nose.
But his piglets, always the tini
est creatures he could find, pro
voked the biggest laughs. He
trained them to stand on their
hind legs and to prance along
with him around the rings. When
the pigs outgrew the act, he often
gave them away. He loved to
hear from peoplq who had adopted
his pigs.
ANCHORAGE YOUTH NAMED
TO ACADEMY; CLIFFORD
STEELE IS ALTERNATE
WASHINGTON, (UP) — Rep.
Ralp>h Rivers has named Usto
Schulz, Anchorage, as his prin
ciple candidate for entrance to
the Air Force Academy, Colorado
Springs, Colo.
Included in the list of alter
nates is Clifford Steele of Nome.
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No Arrests Yet In
Oregon Newspaper
Truck Bombings
PORTLAND, Ore., W — There
were no arrests and few leads in
the explosions that ripped 10
trucks used to haul for Portland’s
two struck daily newspapers, po
lice said yesterday.
“This was the work of, someone
experienced in handling dyna
mite,” said Police ‘Lt. Dean Black
wood, who defused one bomb that
failed to explode.
The Sunday night blasts tore
apart four trucks parked beside a
warehouse here and six parked at
a warehouse in nearby Oregon
City. They were owned by firms
which do contract hauling for the
Oregonian and the Oregon Jour
nal, struck since November 10 by
the Stereotypers Union.
The Portland inter-union news
paper strike committee said it
was shocked by the violence and
matched the City Council’s $1,000
reward for the arrest of the dyna
miters.
The explosions at the Oregon
Film Service warehouse here fol
lowed by minutes those at the
Wymore Trucking Co. in Oregon
City.
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