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Demos Stop Watch
Nixon Presiding
Os er the Senate
WASHINGTON, W — Senator
Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio) told
the Senate Tuesday he used a stop
watch to figure out that Vice
President Nixon spent precisely
two hours, 55 minutes, 40 seconds
in the presiding officer’s chair
during about 57V£ hours of Sen
ate session last week.
He said this showed that “the :
honor and responsibility of pre- !
siding have been relinquished by ;
the Vice President” during all but !
5.1 per cent of that week’s ses
sions.
Young said Nixon was not to
be condemned on the basis of
such statistics, but that the Con- |
stitution states clearly “the Vice
President shall preside” over Sen- I
ate meetings.
His speech drew swift Repub
lican retorts that the figures
merely show that Nixon, the Re
publican presidential nominee, in
stead of taking the “easy way” of
serving out his term by sitting in
an arm chair through Senate ses
sions, has played an active role
in foreign and domestic policy
making.
The Republicans also brought
up the number of Senate roll call
votes missed by Sen. John Ken
nedy, the Democratic standard
bearer, in this Congress session.
Neither Nixon nor Kennedy
was in the chamber to hear the
debate. Sen. Gale McGee (D-Wyo)
sat silently in the presiding of
ficer's chair.
Sen. Kenneth Keating (R-NYi
told the Senate has was “aston
ished” the Ohio senator would
make such point of Nixon’s work
ing hours.
Keating said there had been
149 roll call votes thus far in
the 1960 Congress session and
Kennedy answered only 29.
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Pribilof Seal Harvest Is
Only 34,909 Pelts
SEATTLE, W*—America’s har
vest of fur seals in the Pribilof
Islands has taken another major
setback, the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service reported.
This year’s harvest totaled only
34,909 pelts, according to Samuel
J. Hutchinson, regional director
of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s [
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries.
This is little more than one j
fourth of the record 123,000 skins
taken in 1956. Fish and Wildlife j
Service crews took 90,000 skins 1
in 1958 and 58,250 last year.
With seal pelts retailing at
about $100 apiece, the decline in
the Pribilof seal herds represents
a financial loss for Alaska as well
as a scientific problem for the
American government. Scientists
are not yet positive what has
caused the decline, but they tend
now to a theory that infestations
of hookworms are weakening the
seal pups so that the pups die
when they leave their rookeries
for the sea.
Under the international treaty
that helped rebuild the seal herds
and protects them from being
killed at sea, 15 per cent of the
proceeds will go to Canada, and
15 per cent will go to Japan. The
remainer previously was held by
the U.S. With statehood for Al
aska, it now gets this share.
Utter Quiet Is Worst of All
Says Reporter of 72-Hour
Test of Bomb Shelter
WICHITA FALLS, Tex., UP —
“The utter quiet was the worst
of all” said Linda Johnston, 21,
who emerged from an under
ground bomb shelter Monday
after a 72-hour stay.
Miss Johnston, a reporter for
the Wichita Falls Times and Rec
ord News, volunteered to spend
three days in the shelter to see
how she would fare in refuge and
subsisting on canned food.
She had a flashlight and a can
dle in the 10-foot-square shelter.
After leaving the shelter she
had a cup of coffee, a steak dinner
and a hot bath.
FISHING STUDY FINDS
NO GREAT POTENTIAL
IN VICINITY OF NOME
The Alaska Department of Fish
and Game exploratory fishing
study conducted near Nome by
C. L. Jensen during the past two
weeks did not reveal any com
mercial concentrations of fish in
the vicinity of Nome but did dis
cover some oceanographic infor
mation that may explain their
absence this time of year.
The study was hampered con
siderably by rough water but the
research group was able to com
plete a number of otter trawl
drags within 20 miles of Nome
all of which produced only star
fish and a few shrimp.
Bathythermograph readings in
dicated that the Norton Sound
in the Nome area was quite warm
with surface temperatures of over
60 degrees and bottom tempera
urcs of over 50 degrees. Since the
normal bottom temperatures
would be less than 40 degrees the
unusually warm water may have
caused the bottom fish to move
out of the shallow seas into deep
er and colder water.
Jensen emphasized that because
of limitation in time and equip
ment this study was a preliminary
reconnaissance and only indicated
that for this year in August there
probably were not any commer
cial concentrations of bottom fish
within 20 miles of Nome.
It is known that fish and crab
are taken by local fishermen dur
ing the winter and a complete
study covering the Norton Sound
conducted during all of the sea
sons should be made before any
conclusions on the availability of
commercial fish, Jensen stated.
Numerous plankton hauls taken
during the recent study did show
the local waters to be very rich
in these tiny organisms which
form the basic food supply for all
fishes.
This country is long overdue on
basic fisheries and oceanographic
information particularly in the
Bering Sea coastal area and the
need for studies in the Norton
Sound is part of the general need
for basic information.
Mr. Jensen is in charge of Ex
ploratory fishing and fish tech
nology studies for the Alaska
Dept, of Fish and Game, and was
assisted by Dr. Wm. A. Smoker,
chief of the Biological Research
Division. The tugboat “Helen W,”
from Teller was chartered for the
study. Her captain, Teddy Reed,
and the crew. Gil Ozenna and
Lloyd J. Elasanga, gave very val
uable assistance to the study. The
research was conducted with part
of the special funds appropriated
by the recent state legislature for
exploratory fishing.
Sen. Les Bronson, who 'was re
sponsible in a large part for se
curing this study, said if he is
returned to Juneau this fall he
will work for a more compre
hensive study of the fish poten
tial in Norton Sound and the
Bering Sea.
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Two Air Force Men To
Simulate Moon Flight
For 17 Days
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., UV-Two
veteran Air Force pilots are on
the first phase of a simulated
moon flight at Brooks Air Force
Base here.
Technicians at the School of
Aviation Medicine sealed Capt.
William D. Hubluetzel and Lt.
John W. Hargreaves in the cabin
at 1 p.m. Monday.
The schedule calls for them to
stay at least 17 days—the length
of time scientists say it will take
a space ship to go to the moon
and back using fuels and equip
ment now available or expected
to be in use soon.
Price of King Salmon
Reaches 70 Cents Pound
SEATTLE, tP — The price of
large king salmon reached 70
cents a pound for fishermen in
southeast Alaska Monday. A Fish
and Wildlife Service official said
it was the highest he could re
call.
The price, up 5 cents from last
Saturday, is for drawn fish, with
heads on. At the same time the
price for silver salmon went up
from 40 to 42 cents.
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Portland Man Dies After
Spending Night In Cooler
PORTLAND, 1*1—A man whose
body was chilled by some 12
hours spent locked in a cooler at
his cafe, died Tuesday.
Good Samaritan Hospital said
whether the chill or refrigerant
gases he inhaled contributed ,
most to his death was not im
mediately clear.
The man, Martin Becker, 51,
was found unconscious in the
walk-in cooler at 5 p.m. Tuesday
when a waitress reported for
work. He had apparently been
there since closing time at 5 p.m.
Monday. How he got locked in
was uncertain.
The cooler’s temperature was
thought to have been about 38
degrees. At the hospital his body
temperature could not be accu
rately determined. It was down
at least to 93 degrees, the lowest
marking on the thermoment,
aides said.
American Fisherman
Reports Russ Trawler
Off Carolina Coast
MANTEO, S. C., i*i—A fishing
boat captain reported Tuesday
that he encountered a Soviet
trawler off the North Carolina
coast Monday.
Capt. Dan Lewark said he
sailed within 20 feet of the
trawler a few miles off Oregon
inlet. He said the trawler was
equipped with fishing equipment
that looked as if it never had
been wet.
Lewark said he saw Navy
planes flying over the trawler.
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