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[THESE WOMEN! By d’Alessio^j
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“Imagine that man! Tv'o weeks after we were married I
learned he was keeping something from me . . .
and he STILL refuses to spend it!”
, AHA Considering
Yukon Lumber for
Remote Dwellings
ANCHORAGE, —The possi-!
bil: y of ivinr lumber from the ,
* Yukon and Kuskokwim River
country in the Alaska Housing
Authority’s remote dwelling pro
gram is under consideration, offi
cials said Friday.
Father Paul C. O’Connor, chair
man of the agency’s board of com
missioners, pointed out there are
a number of saw mills on two
rivers from which rough lumber
might be purchased.
“Thus we will eliminate high
* freight costs from the States to
St. Michael and Bethel, then up
the rivers. Our local purchases ■
will give employment to persons
in lumber mills on the lower
rivers.”
About 50 homes were either
built or improved last year under
the remote dwelling program.
• ' “No one in the big cities of
Alaska can appreciate without
seeing for himself how much the
. living and health standards of
natives have- been improved in
recent years,” Father O’Connor
said.
“Getting natives out of make
shift structures off the ground and
out of overcrowded barrabaras
isod or turf hits' into adequate
living units is remaking the vill
ages of the delta country,” he
added.”
The Housing Authority commis
sioners concluded their regular
quarterly meeting here without
■approving any new housing pro
jects.
The commissioners noted that j
a good supply of modern housing
exists in Anchorage and Fairbanks
sufficient to attract permanent
. residents to those communities.
• Father O’Connor said it was
unlikely that federal funds might
be* approved for slum clearance
and urban development programs
in Ketchikan and Fairbanks so
that projects in those two cities
could get under way.
He said there is an acute hous
ing shortage in Ketchikan, where
a proposed project with 400 units
failed to materialize last year.
Three Survive Crash Of
Plane On Baranof Island
JUNEAU, UP.—A plane carrying
three men crashed Friday in Red
Bluff Bay on Baranof Island but
a tug picked up the men and re
ported they were unhurt.
Pilot Dick Phearson of Sitka
was flying two Geological ^Survey
e-mployes, Ronald Mayo and Juan
Munoz, of Juneau, to the island to
check a stream gauge. Details of
the crash were not learned.
The Alaska Freight Lines tug
Shinn, Seattle-bound from west
ward, radioed the Coast Guard it
had picked up the trio and asked
that a cutter be sent to take them
ashore.
Seattle First National Says
Salmon Drought Due To
Too Much Fish-Catching
SEATTLE, OF—The basic prob
lem of Alaska’s salmon drought
boils down to too many fishermen,
too many boats and too many can
neries, the Seattle First National
Bank suggested Saturday.
In its quarterly summary of
Pacific Northwest industries the
bank said there is “some senti
ment for Congressional action”
1 which would permit the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife- Service to limit the
number of fishermen.
The report said the very effi
ciency of the fishermen had inten
sified and “curtailment of the sea
son has allowed this equipment to
shift from area to area, increasing
the danger of over-fishing a single
run.”
The summary added that only
in areas such as Bristol Bay,
where great numbers of fishermen
are controlled by packers, has vol
untary regulation been feasible.
POLIO'S SIX FATEFUL YEARS 1948-1953 Join the March of Dimes
POLIO caused more damage
in ,he last six years than «>
any previous period m h,s ,
tory During that same 1
time, however, the Not,one ,
Foundation for Infant,I.
Paralysis made more re
search progress against th
disease than had been ac
complished in the P'e«d'"f
century. Here are the deb.t
and credits:
1
ALMOST TWICE
AS MANY
CASES
(ll+.OOO
VS. H4-.000)
AS IN
PREVIOUS
DECAOE '38*'47 '48-'53
1225*
pETERM/NEO
THERE WERE
3 POL <0
VIRUSES
THAT
A VACCINE
WOULp
nave to
rrctect
A&A/nST
I ——u
nnV///^
MORE THA/t ' '
primes as hiuch
March op p/Me*
MOHC* NPEOEO
FOR patient
CARE A* IN
PREVIOUS
DEC. APE
S OCR EE PEP /H
lapse scale
SRO/HT/4 OP
PURE POL>0
Virus >h
test TO EES
TPOS
ENHAHCIN6
PROSPECTS
OF VACCINE
MORE CHILDREN
(S-14 YEARS OF
AGE) KILLED BY
POLIO IN 194-9
AND r9SZ THAN
BY ANY other
COMMUNICABLE
DISEASE
ESTABLISHED
&AM/AA
61080UN
AS MAN'S
FIRST
ANT!-POLK?
WEAPON
RENDING
A FACC/NT
.md
S32»
H/&HER
PROPORTION
OF APULTS
stricken
THAN 1/4 *
PREVIOUS
PCCAOe
PEYELO'EP
TRIAL POLIO
l/ACCIKE
^_ THAT tVILL
_ Sf TEiTEO
THt* YE'AR'
b -J
Fire Loss Over
$1,000,000 When
Tanker Hits Pier
SEATTLE, Wl—A Standard Oil
Co. tanker sideswiped a pier at
the Pt. Wells “tank farm” 13 miles
north of here and sparks from the
collision set off a fire which did
damage estimated at more than a
million dollars Saturday.
Hundreds of Coast Guard men
and employes of the oil company
fought the billowing blaze for
three hours before bringing it
under control.
There were no injuries although
the flames leaped hundreds of feet
into the air, raced along docks and
piling and spilled over the waters
of Puget Sound with amazing rap
idity.
The fire started shortly before
midnight Friday night when the
Standard tanker, J. L. Hannah hit
the 1,000-foot pier as it came in
with 130,000 barrels of oil and
other products aboard.
The crash severed 10 feed lines
which extended from the storage
tanks ashore to the pier end. High
ly inflammable liquids spewed out
on the ship’s side and sparks set
off by the grating of metal on
metal set them aflame.
Within seconds the entire end of
the structure was sheathed in
flames while the Hannah backed
away and into the stream. It did
not catch fire and suffered only
minor damage in the collision.
U.S. Junior Chamber
Honors 10 Outstanding
Young jHen Of 1953
SEATTLE, Ufl—The United
States Junior Chamber of Com
merce Saturday honored here the
10 men it has chosen as the out
standing young men of 1953.
Theodore C. Streibert, director
of the U.S. Information Service,
was main speaker at the banquet
here and the delegates were greet
ed by Washington’s Gov. Arthur
B. Langlie.
All the the men are between the
ages of 21 and 35. They include:
The Rev. William Jones Gordon
Jr., 35, Fairbanks, Alaska, famed
as the “flying Alaska bishop;”
Maynard M. Miller, 32, Seattle,
a geologist and explorer who or
ganized and directed the Juneau
Icefield scientific project in Al
aska.
After receiving his placque,
Bishop Gordon said “I hope to
serve in Alaska for another 30
i years.
Both men said they accepted the
| placques with pride and humility.
“What I am doing in Alaska is
what I love to do,” Bishop Gordon
| responded, “and a man never
should be honored for doing what
j he loves.”
—
L The river Ri in Italy which
flows from Mt. Baldo into Lake
Garda is only 525 feet long but
passes under a bridge, runs a mill
and has a waterfall.
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