Sportsmen Disappointed
In Alaska Constitution’s
Wildlife Provisions
FAIRBANKS, (jTt—Organized
Alaska sportsmen expressed dis
appointment that no “safeguards”
were included in the Alaska Con
stitution covering Alaska fish and
wildlife. But they decided at the
annual meeting held here this
past weekend not to oppose ratifi
cation of the constitution in the
April election.
These decisions were made dur
ing the annual Alaska Sports
men’s Council. The meeting was
attended toy representatives of
sportsmen's organizations from all
over Alaska. It ended Tuesday.
The sportsmen decided to back
two bills to be introduced at the
next session of the legislature.
One bill .would create a wildlife
department, while the other bill
would set up a system of licenses
fees to pay for the department.
MAN PAYS FOR FUNERAL
THEN KILLS HIMSELF
MISSOULI, Mont., W)—Eugene
Tull, 85-year-old rancher, went '
into a mortuary Monday and paid
for his funeral^ Then, said Coro- |
ner Ralph M. Simmons, Tull went
outside and killed himself.
A passerby found the body ly
ing in the mortuary drivewayr"A I
bullet had pierced Tull’s head.
THUMPING GOOD RADIO
JACKSON, Term., LD—A solid
thumping is sometimes good med
icine for a balky radio but Ed
mund Noel no longer recom
mends it.
He opened a sleepy eye yester
day morning, turned on his bed
side radio and handed the con
trary thing a few wallops when
all he got was a roar of static.
While he walloped, lightning
ripped into the house, sent the
radio spinning, shattered plaster
on the walls and knocked out
every electrical appliance.
Noel, no longer half asleep,
wasn’t hurt.
"Wise Old Owl" Is Just "Dumb
Cluck" to Hiway Chicken Farmer
CHARLIE LAKE, B.C., UP —
Don’t go peddling any “wise old
owl’’ stuff to Ray Sandy, owner
of a chicken farm at this Alaska
Highway town. But he’ll buy that
“dumb cluck’’ stuff.
One of the goggle - eyed birds
perched on a sapling 20 yards
from a henhouse spotted the sha
dow of a hen on the window.
Z-o-o-m, it sailed into the win
dow in a great shower of glass.
And 30 frightened leghorn hens
huddled under a board, suffocat
ing 58 of them.
The owl died, too, with the help
of Sandy.
Del. Bartlett Says,Opposition to
Alaskan Control of Kish, Wildlife
Is 'Half Truths and Pure Fietion"
WASHINGTON, (fP)— Opposition
arguments to legislation to give
Alaska control of its fish and
game resources were described
yesterday by Delegate Bartlett as
a combination of “half truths and
pure fictions.”
Various bills have been intro
duced to accomplish the transfer
from federal control. A hearing
to consider them is scheduled for
Thursday before the House Terri
tories subcommittee.
Bartlett said many members of
Congress are now receiving let
ters from constituents—“especial
ly from those in the business of
distributing and selling food"—
opposing the bills.
Although they come from many
sections of the country, Bartlett
said, the letters are almost identi
cal in text “and many do not vary
by so much as a comma.”
“It is obvious that this letter
writing campaign has been in
spired and has a common origin,”
Bartlett said in a statement, add
ing:
“The letters present arguments
which are a combination of half
truths and pure fictions. They
plead for continued federal con
trol over the splmon resources of
Alaska in order to preserve the
resource while the statistical rec
ord shows clearly that under fed
eral management the supply of
salmon has almost reached the
point of extinction."
Bartlett said various Seattle
union locals have joined with the
Alaska Salmon Industry Inc. in
opposing transfer of the fisheries
administration to the territory.
The Department of the Interior,
which now controls both fish pud
game in Alaska through its Fish
’ and Wildlife Service, has not
taken a position on the transit i.
DAUGHTY BEAVER IS
WINNING CULVERT BATTLE
QUINCY, Calif., W—Cecil Koe
nig is fighting a losing battle with
a beaver over a culvert under
Highway 89 near Greagle.
Each morning for the past 20
days the district highway mainte
nance superintendent has opened
the dammed culvert. Each nigh*
the beaver has dammed it all over
again.
Koenig has installed creosote
drips, arrowhead barriers and
metal stakes'. The beaver simply
uses Koenig’s weapons in his new
dams.
TWO TEETH PULLED
FROM WEEK-OLD BABY
SAN FRANCISCO, UPr—Steven
Malatesta—just one week old—
had two teeth pulled Monday.
He was born with the teeth. A
pediatrician said they might ge*
loose and Steven might swallow
them.
Replacement teeth will appear
in six or seven months, a doctor
said.
Weather Balloon
In Surprise Trip
West to Siberia
TOKYO UP—A U.S. Navy weath
er balloon was radioing weather
information from 30.000 feet over
Soviet Siberia Tuesday after
“wild and unpredictable” winds
over the Aleutians reversed its
course.
The Navy said the 40-foot plas
tic gas bag, which headed east
across the Pacific after its launch
ing Saturday night, was now trav
eling westward toward Russia at
100 miles per hour.
Because the high altitude jet
stream in which the ballons travel
almost always moves east, this
was the first of 12 weather bal
loons launched by the Americans
from Japan to go the wrong way.
The Air Force suspended simi
lar launchings from west Europe
last week after the Soviet Union
and other Communist countries
complained they were being used
to spy on them and were endan
gering their aircraft.
Tracked by its automatic radio
transmissions, the runaway bal
loon made a 180-degree course
change over the North Pacific is
land chain Monday night and
crossed into Soviet territory over
the Kamchatka Peninsula at 7
a.m. Tuesday '2 p.m. PST Mon
day).
A Navy spokesman said the bal
loon was radioing “valuable”
weather information on an area
which "has hitherto been a blank
to countries outside the Iron Cur
tain.” But he added that the in
formation was “not what we
wanted.”
The United States has vigorous
ly denied the Communist charge
that the balloons were being used j
for espionage and said they flew j
too high to endanger aircraft. But ;
Secretary of State Dulles said the [
U.S. would be “disposed to try to
avoid the territory of any country
which felt violent objections."
* * *
A late report from the Ntvy
has said the balloon has apparent
ly landed somewhere. The balloon
last radioed its position at 6:20
a.m. Wednesday 30,000 feet above
the Siberian city of Chita, some
1,300 miles inland and near the
border of Outer Mongolia.
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