Remaining Residents Of Ghost Town
Up In Arms Over Flying Lead From Sky
Fish Packers Hit
Federal Proposal
To Cut Season
SEATTLE, GT> — Fish packers
protested Wednesday against fed
eral proposals to halve the 1954
southeastern Alaska pink salmon
seasons.
Spokesmen told U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service officials at the
start of a three-day hearing into
next year’s Alaska fishing regu
lations, the industry cannot oper
ate under proposed 17- to 20-day
openings.
They said the restrictions would
force most of them to suspend
1954 operations, and might cause
them to ship much of their pink
salmon catch to Puget Sound for
processing.
FWS officials produced figures
showing an increase of Alaska
salmon fishermen from 6,000 in
1945 to more than 12,000 today.
In the same period, they said,
catches have decreased and last
season they were under the 3 mil
lion case mark for the first time
since 1921.
W. C. Arnold, managing direc
tor of Alaska Salmon Industry,
Inc. said, “The operators face fin
ancial ruin, fishermen are desti
tute and the President has de
clared Alaska a disaster area.”
Industry and federal officials
were unable to agree however, on
steps to save the salmon.
IT DIDN'T PAY
INDIANAPOLIS, W»—'Two pals,
Bob Casey and Joe Price, went on
a fishing trip west of Indianapolis
recently. Bob paid $1.50 to fish in
a private lake while Joe fished for
free in a creek. Bob didn’t get a
nibble and Joe came back with a
bucketful of fish.
Black Mukluk — Na-koo
— At The U. S. Merc —
GOLD HILL, Utah, (ffl — Gold
Hill, like many other western
mining towns, probably has seen
its share of flying lead, but it
wasn’t 50-caliber and it didn’t
come from the sky.
That’s why the seven remaining
residents of this ghost town in the
desert near the Nevada State line
are up in arms over an airplane
strafing on a recent moonlit night.
And the unidentified fighter
pilot who did it had better steer
clear of Mrs. Leatha Millard. She
has only a shotgun, but she just
might make like a machinegun
with it if he comes prowling
around in his souped up airplane
again and shoots any more holes
in her bedroom.
Mrs. Millard, a resident of Gold
Hill since 1907, says she had just
got into bed when she heard the
plane.
“I thought at first it was in
trouble because of the sudden
chatter and roar,” she said. “But
when the bullet hit my house and
crashed through the ceiling I
knew what was happening. Sud
denly I knew something of what
war would be like, for my first
thought was ‘where can I run?’ ”
One 50-caliber slug, after pierc
ing the roof, went through a cur
tain rod, through a carpet and
plowed a furrow along the floor
until it stopped smack under
Leatha’s bed.
A gunnery range used by planes
from several western bases is on
the desert about ten miles east of
Gold Hill. The Air Force so far
is reticent, saying only that the
plane and pilot are unidentified
and that an investigation is con
tinuing.
Dinah Shore Loses Voice
2 Hours Before Telecast
HOLLYWOOD, un — Dinah
Shore has lost her voice.
This happened Thursday two
hours before she was scheduled
to appear on NBC’s national tele
vision hookup.
Her doctor says she is suffer
ing from laryngitis and will be
silent for at least three days.
Her guest, Johnny Desmond,
did all the singing on the show.
Miss Shore appeared, occasionally
holding up signs reading, “Hi, I
can’t talk.”
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Essay Contest for elementary and high school students
ends November 15. "
Essays submitted in this contest must be post
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