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THAT HAUNTING REFRAIN
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FIVE LONG WEEKENDS
The movement to shift our non-religious holidays
around so they will fall on a Monday is gathering con
siderable headway. This scheme of the National Asso
ciation of Travel Organizations would give us five long
weekends every year.
Since Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays are
variously observed, these would be merged and called
“President’s Day,” which would fall on the third Mon
day in February. The last Monday in May would always
be Memorial Day. The Fourth of July would not be
the fourth very often, since it would .inflexibly be the
first Monday in that month. Thanksgiving would be the
fourth Monday in November. Labor Day, of course,
would require no juggling.
Swallowing our respect for tradition, this sounds
pretty exciting. Practically everyone who has to meet
a payroll is all for it.
Hunting Season Will Bring Its
Usual Toll of Plane Accidents
Aviation Safety Discussion No. 165
By DON GRETZER
For the Office of Aviation Safety
5th Region. C.A.A., Dept, of Commerce
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 13—“Say,”
Agent A1 Young said to me the
other day, “why don’t you write
about accidents before they hap
pen instead of after they hap
pen?"
“Like the hunting season is
coming up on us,” he went on.
“From past experience all we
have to do is complete a dozen
aircraft accident report forms
and then wait for the hunting
season in order to fill in the name
of the pilot and the airplane num
ber.”
There is more truth than po
etry to what he says.
If the weather is marginal,
there will be at least one pilot
who pushed it too far because he
had to report back to work the
next day, and who reported to
I
the hospital or the morgue in
stead .
There will be the pilot who
took off from the same sand bar
three times in a row and didn’t
make it the fourth time with the
same load, and who didn’t notice
there was no wind and the tem
perature was 10 or 15 degrees
higher than on the other trips.
There will be the pilot who
loaded the extra hind quarter on
board because one quarter is not
worth making an extra trip for,
and who * consequently lost all
four quarters and an airplane as
the result of clipping treetops on
the takeoff..
Someone will probably stall
spin in while spotting a critter of
the wilds, or else hit an isolated
tree which has no business grow
ing in the tundra anyway.
Someone with a sick engine
probably won't get off in time. If
Denies Thai Dulles
Warned Japan on
South Kuriles
LONDON Iffi—A high American
official said Friday Secretary of
State Dulles has warned Japan
the United States could take pos- |
session of Okinawa if Japan rec
ognizes Soviet sovereignty over
the southern Kurile Islands.
But Japanese Foreign Minister
Mamoru Shigerfiitsu denied Dulles
has made such a statement.
Dulles and Shigemitsu were in
London for the Suez conference.
The Russians occupied the
southern Kurile Islands north of
Japan in 1945 and refuse to re
linquish them. Control of the is
lands is the main block in the
prolonged Russian-Japanese peace
treaty negotiations.
The United States reportedly is
worried that Japan, anxious to
get the peace treaty, eventually
may recognize Russian sovereign
ty over the islands.
The U.S. and 48 other non
Communist countries signed a
peace treaty with Japan in San
Francisco in 1951. The Soviet
Union attended the conference
but would not sign.
Japanese diplomats here de
nied the United States would have
a claim to Okinawa if Tokyo rec
ognizes Russian sovereignty over
the southern Kuriles.
AFL-CIO Council Meets
To Decide Whether
To Endorse Democrats
By the Associated Press
The 29-member Executive Coun
cil of the AFL-CIO started meet
ing today in the Pocono Moun
tains of northeastern Pennsylva
nia to decide whether to endorse
the Democratic ticket or avoid an
outright commitment.
As members started their re
view of the slates, there appeared
strong sentiment tor renewing
labor’s 1952 outright endorsement
but some opposed taking a formal
stand.
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Candidates Go to Church
(By the Associated Press*
All four top candidates went to I
church yesterday.
The President and Mrs. Eisen
hower toured the historic Roman
Catholic Mission of San Carlos
before attending regular services
at the Presbyterian Church in
Carmel, Calif.
Stevenson and Kefauver went
together to the First Presbyterian
Church in Lake Forest, 111.
Vice President Nixon attended
Quaker services at the East Whit-1
tier Friends Church in California, j
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with rain tonight and
Tuesday with little change in
temperatures which will remain |
in the low 50’s.
Nome data last 24 hours as of I
7 a.m. today: precipitation .01 in.,
month total 5.6 inches. Highest
temperature 55, lowest 51. Max.
wind 13 mph from the N.E. Sun
rise at 4:31 a.m., sunset at 7:33
p.m. *
BALL FAN SHOOTS AT
UMPIRE AFTER GAME
MIAMI, Fla., UP>— Nobody laid
a finger on umpire Dink Lester
during an amateur baseball game
yesterday, but a motorist fired a
salvo of pistol shots at him on a
street afterward, he complained
to police.
Lester said a driver pulled out
of a parking lot by banging an
other car out of his way. Then,
said Lester, the motorist fired
four to six shots at him and sped
away.
Government - Run Pribilof Sealing
Pays Off in Record Pelt Harvest
SEATTLE, (fli—The largest har
vest of fur seal pelts in modem
history is going aboard ship in the
Pribilof Islands for delivery to
Seattle.
This year’s harvest of 118,000
pelts is the biggest since the Unit
ed States government took over
administration of the Pribilof fur
seal rookeries in 1911. It is val
ued at more than $10 million.
Resurgence of the seal herds
under federal supervision permit
ted the government to extend the
normal month’s sealing season by
two weeks this year and almost
double the take.
This year’s 118,000 pelts com
pares with 65,638 taken in 1955.
When the U.S. outlawed private
hunting in 1911, pelagic (offshore)
sealing had almost wiped out the
herds on the Pribilof Islands of
St. George and St. Paul in the
Bering Sea.
Under a pact with Canada, na
tives of the islands do all the seal
ing. They kill only among herds
on the shore. Their aim is to take
only the pelts of three-year-old
males, altho a few cow seals and
two- and four-year-old males
were killed in this year’s harvest.
Seal population of the islands
now is estimated at 1,800,000 ani
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mals, and government men think
they can maintain the 1956 rate
of kill without exhausting the
herds.
The Military Sea Transporta
tion Service ship Washburn was
sent north this month to resupply
the islands and bring down the
pelts. The ship is expected to re
turn to Seattle about Sept. 10.
From Seattle, the multi-million
dollar cargo will be shipped to
St. Louis for processing.
Proceeds will be divided be
tween the United States and Can
ary, with Canada receiving 20
percent, and most of the pelts will
be used for women’s coats.
The Pribilof Islands are about
550 miles south-southwest of
Nome, in a direct water route.
When the federal travel tax re
moval goes into effect Oct. 1,
visitors to Alaska and others will
make a savings of from $15 to
$19.20 on roundtrips to the ter
ritory.
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