Interior Allocates $273,000
For Research To Improve
Fish Products Markets
Secretary of the Interior Doug
las McKay announced recently
the allocation of $273,000 for a re
search program aimed at improv
ing markets for fish meals and
fish oils. These markets now han
dle approximately one-fourth of
the total domestic commercial fish
production each year.
The basic purpose of the Salton
stall-Kennedy Act, under which
the study will be made, is “to
promote the free flow of domes
tically produced fishery products
in commerce.”
Designed to strengthen the Am
erican commercial fishing indus
try as a whole, the legislation
provides that an amount equal to
30 percent of duties collected un
der the customs laws on fishery
products shall be transferred an
nually for three years from the
Department of Agriculture to the
Department of the Interior.
Expenditures for any one year
may not exceed $3,000,000.
B-47 JET BOMBER CRASHES
IN CANADIAN WILDERNESS
THE PAS, Man., iff)—An Ameri
can B-47 jet bomber with four
men aboard crashed Saturday in
the snowy wilderness of northern
Saskatchewan, 435 miles north
west of Winnipeg, and s£ven
planes carrying rescue personnel
were sent into the area.
The RCAF reported the bomb
er, in company with a second
four-engined B-47, was on a
routine training flight through
the sub-Arctc to its base at River
side, Calif. (
Gen. Somervell, 62,
Dies of Heart Attack
OCALA, Fla., Iff)—Gen. Brehon
B. Somervell, 62, who command- i
ed the Army Service Forces in j
World War II, died of a heart
attack yesterday at his Florida
home.
Since retiring from the Army
in 1946, he had been president
and chairman of the board ofj
Koppers Co., Inc., manufacturer
of industrial machinery and in
dustrial byproducts at Pittsburgh.
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House Bill Would Tighten Cigaret
Tax Collections W hile Removing
Tax From Other Forms of Tobacco
New Series of Atomic
Tests To Start Tomorrow
At Nevada Testing Ground
LAS VEGAS, Nev., UP—An im
proved atomic trigger for Ameri
ca’s H-bomb may be the first de
vice to undergo test in the Atomic
Energy Commission’s new series
scheduled to start tomorrow.
The pre-dawn shot, 32nd at the
AEC’s Nevada test site, will be
‘‘a major effort” for the AEC lab
oratory at Livermore, Calif., that
specializes in hydrogen weapons
planning.
The disclosure was made by Dr.
Alvin C. Graves, veteran U.S. nu
clear weapons tester, on the eve
of Operation Teapot, 5th and most
exacting series the AEC has held
here in four years.
The opening test also is sched
uled to include Army participa
tion. Several hundred troops will
take trench positions about 4,000
yards (2Va miles) from Ground
Zero.
The device probably will be
detonated from one of the AEC’s
higher towers, in line with the
new official concern for radiation
fallout in surrounding communi
ties. The higher the atomic fire
ball, the less dust sucked off the
desert floor and less danger of j
contamination within the imme-1
diate area.
Barring a change in weather,
the first shot is set for about 5:45 i
a.m., PST, on the Yucca Flat, i
larger of the two AEC proving
grounds. The other is Frenchman
Flat.
Despite the smaller nature of
the devices to be tested here,
there is no underestimating their
importance. Every test in this
series, AEC Chairman Lewis L.
Strauss declared yesterday, has
been deemed necessary from the
standpoint of our national secur
ity.
Discarded Cigaret Fire
Takes Man’s Life in Hotel
FAIRBANKS, UP—A man ten
tatively identified as Lester Vance
lost his life in a room fire in the
Colonial Hotel Annex early yes
terday. He was dead on arrival
at a hospital.
Fire Chief Gene Woodcox said
a discarded cigarette caused the
blaze.
All available fire department
equipment was called out and the
fire was confined to the man’s
room.
The filament in a typical elec
tric light bulb is 21 inches long
before it is coiled and placed in
the bulb.
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j> By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, (£i — After two days
of debating and some minor
; amendments, the House approved
i Friday 20 to 3 a bill tightening
j up tax collections on cigarettes
! and removing the tax from other
! forms of tobacco.
| The House also passed a bill
r to allow veterans benefits to men
' who served 90 days in the Korean
fighting, instead of requiring a
year’s service, and to relieve a
man who fought in both World
War II and in Korea from having
to pay back his World War II
bonus before he could get a loan
; as a Korean veteran,
j The vote on final passage was
j 22 to 0 after a brief but lively
debate on the floor.
The Senate, meanwhile, passed
an even dozen biljs during its
busiest afternoon burst of bill
j approving. All were non-contro
versial. The bills now go to the
House.
One calls for creation of a
Territorial Library Service, with
a library board and a territorial
librarian. The purpose of the bill
is to provide territorial assistance
in getting federal or other grants
for library facilities for outlying
I areas.
Cieate Territorial Library Service
The Senate also passed a bill
j by Sen. Frank Barr (©-Fairbanks*
I to create a fire marshal within
the territorial police organization,
j He would have the pay of a police
| captain and would have extensive
i authority to crack down on any
conditions or institutions which
he judged to be fire hazards. He
also would cooperate with fire
department authorities in the
cities.
Other measures approved un
animously were routine bills
which came from the Legislative
Council.
Taylor Opposes Cigaret Tax Bill
Before final passage of the
cigaret tax bill in the House,
Warren Taylor warned the House
“the bill is all hashed up,” the
penalties for violation of the
licensing provisions are too se
vere and it covers too many sub
jects.
“It won’t collect as much taxes
as we do now,” he predicted. “If
the question ever comes up, I’ll
advise my clients not to pay the
tax.”
It would provide for license
fees on vending machines as well
as on all types of cigaret handlers.
Rep. Ken Johnson (D-Anchor
age), chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee that sponsored
the bill replied tartly: “I think
Mr. Taylor has convinced the
House it is a good bill.”
Johnson said the legal counsel
had approved the penalties as
being in line with most states
and much lighter than some.
Johnson cited figures to show
that 92 per cent of the tobacco
tax comes from cigarets—$754,026
last year, while pipe and chewing
tobacco and snuff produced only
$28,607 and cigars only $34,694.
He said the tax commissioner
considered the collection on the
other forms of tobacco as too
troublesome for the amount of
revenue involved and predicted
the tightening of the loopholes
would add close to a million
dollars additional during the bi
ennium. •
FAITHFUL DONKEY
MODENA, Italy, (£1 — Funeral
services for Ariosto Malavasi, 45,
were attending here by his faith
ful donkey.
The animal broke out of his
stable and followed the funeral
car to the cemetery. He kicked
at those who tried to drive him
away.
After the burial, the donkey re
turned quietly to his stable, where
he has since refused food.
10 Alaska Delegates to
Education Council Is Plan
Of President’s Group
Alaska would be allotted 10
representatives to the White
House Conference on Education
this year under the tentative plan
announced last week by President
Eisenhower’s Conference Com
mittee.
Alaska’s quota, based on popu
lation, was disclosed when the
Committee for the White House
Conference on Education pub
lished its “working plan” for the
nation’s first concerted study on
educational requirements.
The committee is headed by
Neil H. McElroy oi Cincinnati,
president of Procter & Gamble Co.
Alaska’s portion of the $700,000
appropriated for state meetings is
$5,000. Applications have been
made for funds.
Six broad areas of education
will be the discussion agenda at
the White House conference. They
are:
1. What should our schools ac
complish?
2. In what ways can we organ
ize our school systems more effi
ciently and economically?
3. What are our school building
needs?
4. How can we get enough good
teachers—and keep them?
5. How can we finance our
schools, build and operate them?
6. How can we obtain a contin
uing public interest in education?
TOOTHSOME FRUIT
SNAGS LOWER PLATE
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., UPl —
Louis Xifras is looking for a
toothsome orange today and no
fooling.
He tossed away part of an
orange yesterday and didn’t real
ize his lower dental plate was
still in it.
Actress Ona Munson
Found Dead From
Overdose Sleeping Pills
NEW YORK, —Actress Ona
Munson, 48, former stage and
screen star, was found dead Fri
day in her apartment, apparently
from an overdose of sleeping
pills.
Miss Munson who climbed to
stardom via vaudeville, left a note
reading: “This is the Only way
I know to be free again , . .
please don’t follow me.”
Police, quoting friends as say
ing she recently had been ill and
despondent, listed her death as
suicide pending an autopsy.
As Belle Watling in ‘Gone
With the Wind,” Miss Munson
gained an Academy Award nom
ination. »
$1,000.°°
(ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS)
REWARD
For INFORMATION leading
to the LOCATING
DEAD or ALIVE
Richard John Lill, 2nd Lt.
U. S. Air Force
(Service No. A03-033-632
Lt. Lill landed 1 mile off
shore in NORTON BAY. ap
proximately 23 miles South
Southeast of KOYUK, Alaska
October 16, 1954
Notify Proper Authorities
And the Undersigned
(Signed) Frank J. Lill, Father
109 W. 109th Street
Chicago 28. Illinois
U. S. A.
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