Midnight Sun
Broadcasting Co.
Asks to Sell Out
WASHINGTON, UPl — Midnight
Sun Broadcasting Co. today asked
the Communication Commission
for authority to sell its five Al
kan broadcasting stations to All
Alaska Broadcasters Inc., for
$1,200,000.
The stations involved are KENI
AM-TV, Anchorage; KFAR-AM
TV, Fairbanks; and KTKN-AM,
Ketchikan.
The purchasing company has
■been formed by Midnight Sun
employes, headed by Alvin Bram
stedt of Anchorage, present gen
eral manager of the chain, and in
cludes 65 stockholders.
The Lathrop Co., owner of the
Midnight Sun Co., said it desired
to give long term employes a
chance at station ownership, and
that it also wanted to ocncentrate
on its real estate holdings in Al
aska.
CHAIRMEN OF CHAMBER
COMMITTEES ARE NAMED
Pearse Walsh, president of the
NWA Chamber of Commerce, has
announced the following chair
men for the heads of the most im
portant committees of the organ
ization:
Heading the Legislative Com
mittee is Don Hoover; Roads and
Transportation, Lloyd Sundstrom;
Civic Affairs, John Maakestad;
Mining, Carl Glavinovich; Pub
licity, Ruth McLean; Memership
Floryn Rhode; Tourist and Junior
Miss, Robert Harwood; Retail
Trade and Midnight Sun Festival,
Roy Walker.
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Bartlett Protests Ban On
Alaska Jade Processed
In West Germany
WASHINGTON — This week
Sen. Bartlett protested the failure
of the Treasury Department to
effect an agreement with the Fed
eral German Republic, which
would allow the re-entry into the
United States of Alaska jade pro
cessed in Germny.
The problem came about when
Alaskans engaged in the jade in
dustry sent mined Alaska jade to
West Germany to be processed
from the raw material, and re
turned as finished products, rang
ing from finished stones to fig
urines.
The Alaska Senator said that
the United States Customs Office
in Seattle has not permitted the
re-entry of the Alaska jade from
the Federal German Republic
since existing regulations pro
hibit the importation into the
United States of jade from Com
munist countries. The agreement
recommended with Germany
would have German authorities
certify that a given piece of
Alaska jade was not produced be
hind the Iron Curtain. Similar
agreements have been made with
the governments where jade-cut
ting is an expert trade, including
Hong Kong and Taiwan, but the
United States is still in the pro
cess of negotiation with West
Germany.
DIOMEDE BIA SCHOOL
PUBLISHES "MIDNIGHT SUN"
According to a publication of
the BIA school newspaper “Mid
night Surf’ at Diomede, with Ar
thur Ahkinga as editor, the is
landers are having a busy social
season.
The paper reports that modern
dancing follows the party cele
brations, and Eskimo dances are
very popular, too.
Tissue paper prizes were the
unique prizes for the Paper Bin
go game, managed by Oscar
Ahkinga.
Villagers were taking turns
baking bread in a “spic and span”
kitchen, and were being encour
aged to make Diomede the clean
est village in Alaska.
A visit from Major Flanagan,
Captain O’Rourke and Sgt. Jam
ison and Sgt. Luke was enjoyed
by the villagers when they ar
rived recently with Pilot Martin
Olson.
The age of ice can be deter
mined by Navy radar. “Young”
ice is slick; “old” ice is bumpy
after being tossed about by
weather.
Polar Bear Are
Easier To Find
Every Year
WASHINGTON — Polar bears
are easier to find every year, ac
cording to a preliminary report on
the 1959 season sent to Senator
Bartlett by the Fish and Wildlife
Service in transmitting a report
written by Sigurd T. Olson of the
U. S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries
and Wildlife at Juneau.
But, Mr. Olson said, there is
not yet enough evidence to state
reliably that Alaska’s polar bear
population has actually increased.
“Perhaps experience is produc
ing better polar bear guides and
hunters,” the Interior Department
official suggested.
The known kill for 1959 was
225 bears, Mr. Olson reported.
Trophy hunters took 182 bears,
natives 43. Of these, 161 were
males, including five cubs; 37
were females, including three
cubs, and 27 were unidentified as
to sex, including two cubs.
By locality, trophy hunters out
Kotzebue took 92 bears; out of
Barrow, 44, and elsewhere along
the coast, 46.
Those figures and records of
square miles covered by aircraft
per bear seen in the last four
years led Mr. Olson to conclude
that bears are easier to find each
succeeding year. Last year 11.9
square miles were covered per
bear seen, as compared with 2d in
1958, 37 in 1957, and 57 in 1956.
Hunting season was busiest
from March 1 to April 4, when
two-thirds of the kills were made.
HOME ARTS MEET TUESDAY
The Home Arts Club, Women’s
Federation Club, will hold its
monthly meeting on Tuesday at
the home of Mrs. Gerald McCray
with Mrs. John Maakestad as co
hostess. Visiting Federation Club
members are cordially invited to
this meeting.
Program will be a talk on edu
cation by Conrad Potter, super
intendent of the Nome Public
Schools.
The Richardson Highway from
Valdez to Fairbanks, is named as
a monument to the first great
road builder in Alaska, General
Wilds P. Richardson of the Corps
of Engineers.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 460
Radioactive Tag May Be
Used for Study of Small
Fish Migrations
WASHINGTON, UP — Plans to
use a slightly radioactive metal
tag as an aid in studying migra
tion of some species of fish were
announced yesterday by the In
terior Department.
The new tag would be used in
studies of species caught in such
quantities, such as herring and
menhaden, that customary tag
ging methods are impractical.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion has issued a license to the
bureau for use of the new meth
od, in which the tag is inside the
fish.
An Interior Department offi
cial said the likelihood of any
member of the general public
ever coming in contact with a
tag or part of a tag would be
practically nonexistent. And even
if this did happen, he said, the
tags are of such low-level acti
vity there would be no hazard.
Knowledge of where fish trav
el is one of the things necessary
for intelligent harvest of the
crops of the sea.
NOME BOWLING
LEAGUE STANDINGS
(at end of the first half of play)
Won Lost Pet.
1 Linaments 33 11 .750
2 Mizers 33 11 .750
3 Bering Sea 31 13 .705
4 Polar 30 14 .682
5 B. P. R. 27 17 .614
6 P. A. A. 26 18 .591
7 Fed. Electric 24 20 .525
8 Airlines 22 22 .500
9 N. C. Co. 17 27 .386
10 Morgan's 12 30 .318
11 North Star 7 37 .159
The Linaments won the play
off for first place, 4 to 0, and are
the champions of the first half.
* * *
. Standings for first week of
Second Half:
Won Lost Pet.
1 Linaments 4 0 1.000
2 Morgan's 4 0 1.000
3 Bering Sea 6 2 .750
4 Mizers 3 1 .750
5 N. C. Co. 3 1 .750
6 Polar 1 3 .250
7 B. P. R. 1 3 .250
8 F. A. A. 1 3 .250
9 Fed. Electric 1 7 .125
10 Airlines 0 4 .000
11 All Girl Team — — -
12 North Star — — -
NOTICE
All vehicles in use on city
streets must have their state li
cense plates and city stickers by
March 1st.
JOHN MARVIK,
26 Chief of Police.
SCORCHY SMITH
CARSON BAILEY SOMEWHAT THAWED OUT
AFTER HIS HARROWING EXPERIENCE,
AWAKENS TO SEE SCORCHY WHOM HE
CONSIDERS HIS ARCH ENEMY SUSPENDED
HIGH OVER THE DEEP CHASM /
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Super-Trawler For
Bering Sea Urged
By U.S. Fishermen
SEATTLE, liP—A group of Pac
ific Northwest fishing industry
leaders yesterday urged federal
construction of a large, refriger
ated super - trawler to compete
with Russian fishermen in the
Bering Sea.
James G. Talbot of Bellingham,
chairman of the industry group,
said construction of the U. S.
super-trawlers was the only al
ternative to “losing our historic
fishing rights in the Bering Sea
by default.”
The fishing leaders suggested
the proposed trawlers be equip
ped with a research laboratory,
with the government subsidizing
operations during the first few
years, then later applying catch
profits to paying off the cost of
the ship.
Talbot and his group said there
has been increasing concern
among U.S. fishermen since the
Russians moved a large fishing
fleet into the Bering Sea last
year. Japanese fishermen have
been taking bottomfish and king
crab in the Bering for years.
While the Russins thus far ap
parently have devoted their ef
forts to bottomfish, American
fishermen fear the day when the
Russians might decide to take
salmon from dwindling Alaskan
stocks, industry spokesmen said.
Egan Signs Three Minor
Legislative Measures
JUNEAU, Iffl — Governor Wil
liam Egan signed three more bills
late Wednesday, bringing to nine
the number of measures that
have passed both houses and
been signed by the Chief Execu
tive during the current Alaska
legislative session.
One of the bills requires a doc
tor’s presence at coroner’s in
quests. Another lowers the license
fees for clubs with less than
$5,000 annual gross liquor sales
from $400 to $200 per year. The
third permits a $1,250 fund trans
fer in the current appropriation
for the Divsion of Legislative
Audit.
Oliillian Funeral Sunday
Graveside funeral services for
Oscar Ottillian of Gambel will be
held by Rev. Gerald McCray at
Belmont Point Cemetery at 4 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 28.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYRON G. REED, W.M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ash Craft
President
Heri> Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER. President
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Secty.
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