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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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HAVEN’T HELPED HIS ACHING BACK MUCH
“Whitest, Brightest Flame”
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM of commerce provides
the “whitest, brightest flame of hope” in the world
today. And American “businessmen could save the
w'orld” — but they can’t do it with a “big, fat plati
tude.”
That striking little observation was made by
President Walter W. Straley of Pacific Telephone
Northwest, before a joint meeting of Rotary and Ki
wanis Clubs of Portland, Oregon. He also specified a
trouble that prevents businessmen from exerting the
leadership they could. Mr. Straley believes that too
many of them are bashful and tongue-tied.
This is a highly rational and well-grounded at
titude. The businessman who devotes himself entirely
to the affairs of his own enterprise is only doing half
the job. What is needed is an articulate business com
munity that “sell” not just products and services, but
the ideals and principles that made this country great
and powerful, and that have given more good things to
more people than any other system ever devised by
man.
Many business leaders have urged that business
men take a far larger interest in the problems that
confront the town, the state, the nation, and the world,
and make their influence felt. If business fails to pro
vide leadership, it will have only itself to blame if its
standing grows less and less dn the eyes of the people
at large.
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MUSFIIY
THROUGH
WASHINGTON
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON UP) — An Inter
ior Department decision to allow
operation of 11 fish traps in three
Southeastern Alaska villages
drew a strong protest from Sen.
E. L. Bartlett.
In a letter to John A. Carver
Jr., Assistant Secretary of the In
terior, he said:
“I must say that I am not only
gravely disappointed in your de
cision, but almost equally in the
reasons you cited for having
made it.”
The issue has been argued be
fore the Supreme Court which
sent it back to the state courts
where it is pending.
Carver told the state delegation
that three traps will be allowed
at Angoon, and four each at Kake
and Metlakatla.
As to the department’s view
that operation of the 11 traps is
“in no way inimical to good con
servation practice,” Bartlett said
“this contention runs counter to
the belief of Alaskans who know
this subject best.”
Carver said the department has
long exercised powers to protect
the interest of the Indians and to
aid their social and economic
improvement.
He said the government has
loaned $2 million to Angoon and
Kake for operation of salmon can
neries and allied activities. Metla
katla is not financed by the gov
ernment, but has about $1 mil
lion invested in trap gear and
equipment.
“None of these three canneries
could operate economically with
out trap - caught fish. Welfare
needs in all three villages would
increase if the canneries did not
operate,” he said.
Bartlett said if this reasoning—
that loans must be protected by
maintaining the traps — is valid,
“then the federal government is
placed in what I regard as the
very strange position of saying its
investment must tae protected by
the use of anti-social and anti
conservation devices . . .”
• • •
For the present, at least, ru- |
mors can be discounted that the
Air Force is considering closing
Elmendorf Air Base.
“The Air Force has no current
plans of this nature,” said Brig. ;
Gen. Joseph Kingsley in a letter
to Bartlett in which he con
cluded :
Kingsley, who wrote in reply
to a query by Bartlett, suggested
the rumor about Elmendorf might
have arisen over a Defense De
partment study of possible use of
all military installations by all
military services.
The Air Force is participating
in this study which is expected to
be completed this fall, Kingsley
said.
• • •
The Post Office Department
has assured Bartlett that if it de
cides to truck mail over the Al
aska Highway for interior points,
there will be no cutback in fre
quency of mail delivery by ship
to southeastern Alaska.
Also, if truck service is started,
the department plans to start
studies on the possibility of in
creasing the frequency of delivery
to panhandle communities.
“At the present time,” the de
partment told Bartlett, “there is
no change contemplated in the
present system of mail delivery
in southeastern Alaska.
The department plans to trans
port mail between Seattle and the
Anchorage and Fairbanks areas
by highway on a daily basis in
stead of the present twice-weekly
steamship schedules.
Are you an imaginative sleep
er? It is a fad now to buy odd
shaped beds and mattresses. They
j come shaped like a ship, a piano,
or, for the amorous, like a heart.
Gruening Would Provide
$5 Million More Annually
For Fishery Research
WASHINGTON UP) — A bill to
give fishery states more than $5
; million annually in additional
j federal research funds won en
; dorsement from Alaska represen
tatives, the Interior Department
and industry spokesmen.
The bill by Sen. Ernest Gruen
ing and 22 other senators would
allocate to the Secretary of the
Interior for distribution to the
states 30 per cent of customs re
ceipts on imported fishery pro
j ducts.
This would be in addition to
30 per cent of such customs re
! ceipts now turned over to the In
I terior Secretary under the Salton
stall-Kennedv Act for fishery re
; search and promotion through the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
I If the bill were enacted it
would mean that 60 per cent of
customs revenues on fishery pro
ducts would go toward research
and development of domestic
fisheries—half by the federal de
partment and half by agencies in
producing states.
Sen. Gruening estimated the to
tal amount at about. $5,321,000 an
nually. He said 38 states would
receive grants under the bill.
Alaska salmon fisheries, he
said, “were wrecked through de
liberate nonfeasance and malfea
sance (during territorial days) of
the federal government after
warnings by the people of Alaska
in words as strong and as plain
as words could be ”
Taught Her Dancing . . .
... In a Hurry . . .
CLEVELAND UP) —Miss Hazel
Tipton, 36, a typist seeks re
payment of $15,840, which she
paid for dance lessons, and
$25,000 in punitive damages in a
suit filed on Common Pleas Court
Friday against the Arthur Mur
ray dance studio.
She charges that she was
“danced, talked, flattered, cheat
ed and swindled” out of the
$15,840 in a two-month period in
1959. She also asserted in her peti
tion that the local studio, its di
rector, Sam A. Costello, and Ar- !
thur Muuray, Inc., of New York,
entered into a conspiracy to de- J
fraud her of her money.
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Neutron BomR or
“Death Ray” May
Be Next A-Weapon
WASHINGTON (S) — A “death
ray” bomb that would kill all life
in its target area has been dis
cussed as the weapon of the fu
ture. But just how far in the
future is worrying at least one
senator.
The projected bomb — which
might make the awesome hydro
gen bomb seem clumsy—is called
the neutron bomb, and it has been
thrust back into the news by Sen.
Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn.
Dodd hinted the Russians could
be secretly experimenting to de
velop the neutron bomb while the
United States is honoring an atom
test moratorium.
He put forward such a possibil
ity as an argument for resuming
tests.
Dodd—who referred to the neu
tron bomb as “a kind of death
ray” — said in a Senate speech
Wednesday that the bomb “would
do next to no physical damage.
It would result in no radioactive
contamination. But it would im
mediately destroy all life in the
target area.”
Dodd, in warning of the pos
sibility of the Russians develop
ing such a bomb,.said it was one
way “for destroying us at rela
tively small risk to themselves.”
Scientists have speculated on
two possible versions of the
bomb—
1. A small nuclear reactor that
would shoot radioactive neutrons
through a lead tube.
2. A scaled-down version of an
atom bomb tailored to give out
more neutron radiation than a
bomb producing energy. In con
ventional A-bombs, 85 per cent of
the energy causes blast, shock and
■heat; the rest is radiation.
When told of the two alter
native versions, Dodd told news
men—“You are not far off.”
Asked to explain the nature of
the bomb he had in mind, Dodd
said: “I think I know, but I’m
sure I should not say.”
PLANNING . . .
WATERTOWN, N.Y. UP> — The
public works department closed
Stone Street to paint new traffic
lanes.
Stone Street was closed again
the next day while the depart
ment recovered the road —with
tar and stone.
Now the street needs another
paint job for traffic lanes.
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