1,082 Reindeer
Killed by Eskimos
9
On Nunivak Island
JUNEAU, {IP)—Like a roast or
steak at 38 cents a pound?
That has been the price at the
slaughterhouse for some pretty
fair meat this season — but it
would be a long shopping trip for
you to get it.
The meat is from the wild rein- j
deer herd of Big Nunivak Island
in Bering Sea, where a game
sanctuary is maintained Dr Bel
cher, the Alaska Native Service ,
reindeer specialist, reports the
Eskimo workers slaughtered 1,082 ;
of the animals under this year’s j
herd-thinning program. Belcher,
returned here after supervising
the annual job.
The meat, as usual, is being
distributed to ANS institutions
and native-operated stores. What
is left, he said, will be sold through
other outlets, but there is little
prospect of much meat being left
for the general consumer by the
time the ANS ship North Star
gets this far south.
Belcher said the price at the
island plant this year was 38 cents
a pound, with the purchaser pay
ing the shipping costs. Consider
able meat is flown to Interior Al
aska native villages, after ANS
needs are met.
Belcher said the annual killing :
has become a big business, by;
Alaska standards. It is an impor
tant Eskimo food source. A cold
storage unit on Nunivak will hold
1,290 carcasses.
The herd numbers about 5,000 j
reindeer. It was acquired by the
ANS more than a decade ago j
after its growth to 20,000 or more
animals threatened it with a food j
shortage. It had been managed by
a private corporation that failed, j
The roundup is a big-scale spec- |
tacle. Men drive the grazing ani
mals slowly toward a corral that
has “wing” fences extending out
for two or three miles to' guide i
them in.
Hunter Wants Revenge
For Being Mauled by
900 - Pound Brown Bear
(By the Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Bears had best be
ware when Henry (Red) Knack
stedt, 39, gets back to his home
stead near Kenai, Alaska. He
wants revenge for the near-fatal
mauling he suffered on Labor Day
at the hands of a 900 - pound
brown bruin.
A long road of skin grafting
and hospitals lies ahead for ‘Red’
Knackstedt, but doctors tell him
he will save the sight of his left
eye, which was nearly ripped out
of its broken socket by a swipe
of the bear’s massive paw.
The Alaskan encountered the
mother bear and her two cubs
while hunting moose near his
home on the Kenai Peninsula.
“I was looking right down her
throat when she reared up and
roared,” Knackstedt said.
The bear swung and smashed
the hunter’s left eye socket and
cheekbone. He lost consciousness
and when he revived the bear
was gone. A series of shots
brought another hunter, who
helped him out of the woods.
Knackstedt, a commercial fish
erman who has lived in Alaska
five years, was flown to Anchor
age and then to a Seattle hospital
Sept. 4.
He’s never killed a bear, but
says “of course that’s changed
now; I’m going to have some re
venge.”
Yankees’ Mickey Mantle
Found Physically Unfit
For Military Service
WASHINGTON, The Army
Monday held New York Yankee
star Mickey Mantle physically un
fit for military service. The find
ing, based on new examinations,
renewed a previous ruling.
Maj. Gen. George E. Armstrong,
Army Surgeon General, made the
announcement after examining
the record of physical examina
tions recently conducted at Fort
Sill, Okla.
Armstrong said the current dis
qualification of the baseball play
er was based on. a chronic right
knee defect resulting from an in
jury sustained in the 1951 World
Series. The Army examination
found his condition to be “serious
enough fov mandatory rejection
under Armed Forced physical
standards.”
Mantle had been rejected pre
viously because of a history of
osteomyelitis of the left leg.
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Korean Military Adviser
Learns Sizeable Increase |
In ROK Troops Is Ordered
TOKYO, (/P)—Brig. Gen. Cor
nejius Ryan Tuesday said he had j
“received information that n size
able increase in the South Korean
arm' had been ordered in Wash
ington.”
Ryan, whose headquarters are'
in Taegu, Korea, told the Asso- :
dated Press in a telephone inter- j
view “the exuct size o‘f the in- j
ci’ease of South Korean troops is !
classified information, but it’s go- :
ing to be substantial.”
Ryan has spent 17 months in
Korea and is credited with build
ing the Republic’s force to its
present strength of 10 divisions.
Ryan is head of the Korean
Military Advisory Group.
Gen. Mark Clark, Fur East!
commander, recommended some
time ago that the ROK army be
increased by “several divisions.”
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Queen Elizabeth’s Address
To Parliament Pledges
Friendship With U.S.
LONDON, (#*) — Queen Eliza
beth II pledged “the closest and
most friendly relations” with the
United States Tuesday in her first
address to Parliament.
In a setting of gold and scarlet
pageantry harking back to the
first Queen Bess, the 26-year-old
sovereign told a joint session of
' the Houses of Lords and Com
mons that friendship with the
U.S. will continue to be -a corner
stone of British policy.
The address, marking the open
ing of a new session of Parliament,
coincided with the U.S. Election
Day.
The queen spoke from a gold
and scarlet carved throne to mo
tionless rows of scarlet and ermine
clad peers and their bejeweled
wives, grey-wigged judges, and
decorated ambassadors.
On her left hand, about six
feet away, and one tier below her
on the three-tier dais, sat the
Duke of Edinburgh on a plain j
little chair.
The queen’s speech itself, which ■
she delivered in u firm young j
voice for seven minutes, accord- j
ing to tradition reflected the j
thinking of the party in power— ;
the Conservative government of i
Prime Minister Churchill.
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WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
HAS HEART ATTACK
NEW YORK, </P) — Whittaker
Chambers, confessed Communist
spy and leading witness against
Alger Hiss, is in a Baltimore hos
pital after suffering a serious
heart attack, it was revealed to
day.
Chambers testified against Al
ger Hiss, State Department offi
cial who was convicted to perjury
lor saying he did not know Cham
bers or give him State Depart
ment secrets for transmission to a
Russian spy ring.