Wildlife Service, Using Pribilof
Funds, Conies Close to Discharging
Responsibilities In The Territory
AttorneyThreatens
Run Legislator
Out of Business
JUNEAU, UP—A member of the
Alaska Development Board
denied Monday before a joint leg
islative session that he threatened
to run Rep. William Boardman
out of Ketchikan and ruin his
insurance business for his role in
House passage of a bill to abolish
the present board and create an
other.
Wilfred C. Stump, Ketchikan
attorney and long - time intimate
friend of Boardman, acknowledg
ed readily, however, that he told
Boardman he was going to with
draw all his own business from
the legislator.
Boardman, a Republican repre-*
sentative, is an insurance agent
in Ketchikan and secretary of the
Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce.
Stump said he voted for Board
man, had turned insurance busi
ness to him and took Boardman’s
action on the Development Board
bill as a “politically inspired af
front” because of their long per
sonal and business relationship.
Asked by legislators if he told
Boardman he would see that he
is defeated for re-election, Stump
retorted:
“After all, I’m a member of the
Democratic Central Committee; I
make that statement to all you
Republicans.”
He denied all allegations made
in an affidavit sworn out by
Boardman except that he would
take his insurance patronage from
Boardman and refuse to steer any
other insurance business his way.
Legislators took no action on
the case.
Boardman’s affidavit that
Stump had threatened him with
business ruin was read before
both houses earlier. It also said
a complaint would be made to the
U.S. District Attorney asking dis
barment proceedings against the
’ attorney.
The bill has yet to be acted
upon by the Senate, and if ap
proved there could be a veto by
the governor.
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> By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, W)—Dr. Albert
M. Day, US. Fish and Wildlife
Service director, believes Alaska’s
salmon runs “can be restored
within a reasonable time in spite
of the ever - increasing fishing
pressure that we are now ex
periencing.”
He credited this new outlook, in
testifying recently before the
House Interior Appropriations
subcommittee, to congressional
action authorizing use of 25 per
cent of receipts from the Pribilof
Islands sealing operation to ad
minister fish and game laws in
Alaska.
“That action of this committee
last year,” Day declared, “did
more to improve the service’s ad
ministration of the highly im
portant fish and wildlife resources
of the territory than atiy other
single move taken within ray per
sonal experience.”
The funds, which amounted to
$831,000 last year, have permit
ted reorganization of research
activities and increased personnel
for enforcement activities.
“We have been rehabilitating
our fleets of vessels and air
planes,” Day said in testimony re
leased by the committee Tuesday,
“have installed excellent war sur
plus radio communication facili
ties on our vessels and planes
and in shore stations, which has
greaty increased efficiency of op
erations; have increased the staff
of enforcement and stream guards
and have constructed and staffed
new headquarters at remote spots
for more adequate patrol of the
big game and fur resources.
“In short, we have been able
to come much closer to meeting
our responsibilities in the terri
tory.”
Actually, Day said, the depart
ment spent only $602,500 of the
$831,540 received from the Prib
ilof operations.
Instead of spending the entire
sum as “we could well have done,
so far as need was concerned,”
Day said it was felt that it would
be wise to hold approximately
$200,000 in reserve to carry over
into this year’s operating season
in event the appropriation bill
was delayed in passage.
Need of such a large reserve
was questioned by Rep. Jensen,
subcommittee chairman. Day con
ceded it might be too large and
agreed to look it over again, al
though pointing out that past ex
perience with delayed appropria
tions made some reserve neces
sary.
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Sens. Taft and Sparknian
To Examine FBI File On
Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen
WASHINGTON, iffi — The Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
decided Tuesday to have two sen
ators examine FBI files on
Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen, nomin
ated for ambassador to Moscow.
The task was assigned to' Sens.
Taft and Sparkman.
Taft, Senate Republican lead
er, and Sparkman, the 1952 Demo
cratic vice presidential nominee,
both are supporting Bohlen’s ap
pointment.
s During hearings on Bohlen, Sec
retary of State Dulles gave the
committee his evaluation of the
material in the FBI files. He said
there was nothing to raise doubt
as to Bohlen from the standpoint
of loyalty or security.
But some critics of the appoint
ment have been insisting that the
senators themselves should look
over this material.
Taft suggested Monday during
a torrid Senate debate on Bohlen
that it might be well to have such
an examination although Taft said
he personally was perfectly will
ing to accept Dulles’ appraisal of
it.
BOY SCOUT NEWS
Troop 666 of Nome will present
a Boy Scout Tenderfoot investor
ceremony tonight in the Nome
High gym at 7:30.
The Scouts have also planned a
little skit to go along with the
balance of the program which is
open to the public, especially to
parents of the boys in the troop.
A1 Enix is scoutmaster and
Herb Williams assistant scout
master. Robert Summers and Al
len Russell are junior assistant
sboutmasters. Patrol leaders in
clude Charles Fagerstrom, David
Bell, Everett Enix and Larry Os
carson. -Paul Glavinovich is the
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