B. C. Fishing Strike Set
Back 1959 Salmon Output
VANCOUVER, B. C., UP) — A
two-week strike in British Co
lumbia’s fishing industry set the
season’s production back by 250,
000 cases, it was reported here
Monday.
The catch was expected to
reach 1,400,000 cases but indus
try spokesmen now say it may
be 1,100,000.
Sockeye and pink salmon fish
ermen on the Skeena River and
rivers inlet in northern B. C., were
the hardest hit by the walkout.
Their season was just beginning
when the strike was called.
An almost total failure of the
chum season in Alaska waters
^during the summer saw many
Canadian fishermen sell their
hauls fresh to American canners.
Under Canadian regulations
only the spring and chum species
■may be sold to foreign buyers
for canning.
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Ketchikan Arson Trial
Charges Canning Co.
Chiefs Burned Own Plant
KETCHIKAN, — The prose
cution in the first degree arson
trial of Bernard Oxenberg, 39, and
E. W. Muller, 66, completed its
fifth day of testimony in U. S.
District Court yesterday with fire
Chief R. M. Bartholemew on the
witness stand.
Oxenberg, president of the In
dependent Salmon Cannery Inc.,
with headquarters at Bell Street
Terminal, Seattle, and Muller,
former fish buyer for the cannery,
are charged with first degree ar
son and attempting to defraud
an insurance company in connec
tion with the October 3, 1958, fire
that destroyed the firm’s $250,000
Ketchikan plant.
The pair was indicted by a spe
cial grand jury last April, along
with Alvin Saliner, 29, captain of
the boat Madame X.
Salinger entered a guilty plea
and was given a four year sus
pended sentence in spring court
term.
Salinger has claimed he was
promised $2,000 by Oxenberg to
start the fire. He said he lighted
gasoline poured over fishing
nets spread on the second floor.
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New B-58 Jet
Crashes; 1 Dead
HATTIESBURG, Miss., Iff! — A
B-58 jet bomber crashed and ex
ploded near here last night about
an hour after taking off on a test
flight. Two of the three civilian
crew members were safe but the
third was killed.
All three worked out of the
Fort Worth, Tex., office of the
Convair Aircraft Corp.
Everett Wheeler, the pilot, and
Michael Keller, flight engineer,
escaped. Rescue teams early to
day found the third crew mem
ber dead.
The new B-58 had been deli^
ered to 'the Air Force. Wheeler,
37, a test pilot for nine years,
said they left Carswell Air Force
Base in Fort Worth about 6:30
p.m. and were flying at 25,000
feet en route to Eglin AFB, Fla.,
on radar work when trouble de
veloped.
He wouldn’t specify the nature
of the trouble. But, he said, they
didn’t have time to advise nyone
d>y radio of what was happening.
The B-58 is the costliest and
fastest manned bomber in the
United States arsenal. Estimated
cost for the first models is nearly
20 million dollars each. They have
been flown at about 1,2G0 miles
an hour.
TRAVEL AGENTS WILL
HONOR 'HAWAII IN 1960
HAVANA, UP — The American
Society of Travel Agents will hold
its 1960 convention in Hawaii to
help celebrate the island’s state
hood, it was announced today. The
society, now meeting here 2,000
strong, meets in U. S. territory
one year and abroad the next.
FAIR WARNING!
'DEM BUMS' — who are in the habit of pounding
on my door at all hours of the night . . .
HAVE A GREAT SURPRISE IN STORE —
AS OF OCTOBER 29th!
— O'TOOLE.
• The Bargains You’ve Been Waiting For •
AT HALF PRICE!
LADIES’ BULKY SWEATERS
FUR and WOOL PULLOVERS
NORWEGIAN SKI SWEATERS
COSTUME JEWELRY SETS
.ALSO — CHILDREN'S SNOWPANTS at Reduced Prices — AT
THE FAMILY STORE
Air Force Will Cut
Manpower June 30
DAYTON, Ohio, UR — The Air
Force will cut its uniformed
strength by 20,000 men by June
30, so it can stay within its
budget, Secretary of the Air
Force James H. Douglas said
Monday night.
In a press conference, Douglas
said this is 15,000 more than the
cut contemplated by Congress
when it passed the 40-billion
dollar Defense Appropriations
Bill last month.
Money saved by reducing man
power will be channeled into mis
siles, air defense weapons and
development of the supersonic,
high-altitude B-70 bomber, he
said.
Iceland Elections Appear
Leaning Toward Pro
American Parties
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, UR —
Political forces friendly to the
United States appeared to have
the edge in early returns from
Iceland’s parliamentary election.
The Western-minded Social
Democrats gained and the pro
American Independence Party,
biggest in this island nation of
166,000 persons, held its own in
the • counting of ballots in the
capitol.
Communists and Isolationists
appeared to have failed to cap
ture the popular fancy.
Their big target has been the
radar warning base operated by
the U. S. armed forces at
Keflavik.
Flynn Will Leaves
Confused Intent
NEW YORK, UP)—An unsigned,
unwitnessed ddcument proclaim
ing Beverly Aadland, 17-year
old protege of the late Errol
Flynn “one-third owner” of the
actor’s estate in Jamaica has
turned up.
The document, which Miss
Aadland says was written by her
and dictated by Flynn 10 months
ago in Havana, was filed Monday
in Surrogate Court by Justin
Golenbock, Flynn’s attorney and
executor. •
Golenbock last week filed a
will signed by Flynn in 1954, long
before he knew the blonde teen
ager, leaving the bulk Vf his es
tate to his widow, actress Patrice
Wymore.
The swashbuckling movie star’s
estate is valued at fnore than
$100,000 and estimated as high
as a million dollars, including a
60,000-acre copra plantation in
Jamaica.
The latest document, written
on stationery of the Hotel Na
I tional, Havana, also provides for
any child that Miss Aadland might
have by Flynn.
Golenbock’g law partner, Don
ald S. Shack, said the document
was filed for information only
and had no real bearing on the
actor’s will. .
Informed that the paper was
unsgned, Miss Aadland snapped,
“That’s ridiculous. I saw Errol
sign it.”
Two Old U. S. Satellites
Lost to Observers
By VERN HAUGLAND
WASHINGTON, UP)—Two U. S.
satellites, Explorer IV and Dis
coverer VI, disappeared from the
skies last week.
Tracking scientists said both ar
tificial moons burned up upon
re-entering the earth’s atmos
phere.
Explorer IV had been aloft for
a year and three months, Discov
erer VI for two months.
Their demise left in orbit six
U. S. satellites, three of them ac
tively broadcasting information
to the earth, and two Soviet Voy
agers, both still transmitting.
In addition, two artificial plan
ets, the Soviet Lunik I and the
U. S. Pioneer IV, launched early
this year are still in orbit around
the sun.
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Russell Hermann, President
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Order of Eastern Star
I >ris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
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Norvin V". Lewi*. Sec.
Meet* First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ast Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets lait Tuesday of eyery
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER. President
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