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THAT AKWARD POSITION AGAIN
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PORK FROM RED POLAND
The goal of expanded world trade is a splendid
one. But it would seem only sensible that we should
lay the emphasis on trade with our friends, not with
our enemies, and that we should also keep in mind the
“two-way-street” principle.
The American Meat Institute tells of a rather
startling development in the foreign trade field. Last
year, Communist Poland shipped 13 percent more
canned pork products, especially hams, into the United
States than in 1954. These imports totaled some 22
million pounds, with a value of almost $18 million.
By contrast, shipments of canned pork by such
friendly nations as Holland, West Germany and Canada
all declined by 5 to 21 percent. Only from Denmark did
imports increase—by about 5 percent.
To top it off, the friendly countries which shipped
canned pork to the United- States were heavy purchas
ers of our own meat and other agricultural products,
including tallow and hides. But in the case of Red
Poland, the value of her purchases of agricultural
products of every description from the U.S. was well
below $1 million—or less than 1/18 of the value of
canned pork she shipped to us.
WATCH THAT FALL-OUT!
We learn from the erudite and unimpeachable
Whaley-Eaton Service that the Soviet Union’s 1956-60
Five Year Plan contemplates the construction of an
atomic icebreaker. Reports give its displacement as
25,000 tons, speed 45 kilometers per hour (nearly 30
mph.), and state it will be powered by a 200,000 kilo
watt reactor. It is expected to burn up about 172 pounds I
of uranium a year in making steam for the turbo-!
electric power plant and for squirting out ahead to
mfrlt the ice.
This reminds us of that other Soviet icebreaker!
now in operation, the denunciation of the great god
Stalin and of the “cult of the individual” which is to
break through the frigid barrers of the free world, and
with its jet of steam to warm up the world’s socialists
to acceptance of the idea that after all they and the
Commies are ideological brothers.
Wonderful—if they don’t blow up.
British Columbia Editor Bargains
For Life of Guard Held Hostage
Bv Trio of Convicted Murderers!
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP — The
city editor of the Vancouver Pro
vince bargained for five solid
hours Monday before a trio of
convicts at nearby Oakalla Prison
Farm took a razor from the throat
of a handcuffed guard and re
leased him.
The hours-long ordeal of argu
ments by 29-year-old Bruce Lar
sen of the Province resulted in
the paper’s first night extra edi
tion since the second World War.
The exti'as were snapped up
hungrily by Vancouverites. Some
11,000 were sold within the first
hour or so after they hit the
streets.
Larsen talked steadily through
the afternoon before the prison
ers released Earnest Loveless, a
38-year-old father of two chil
dren.
For more than six hours Love
less was held hostage in the prison
barbershop by Robert Tremblay,
34; Marcel Frenette, 28; and
Charles Talbot, 36. all of whom
are serving 20-vear terms for at
j tempted murder in the same case.
! All during the time Loveless
j was held hostage the three con
Herman Melville, author of
‘‘Moby Dick” and a dozen other
books, stopped writing before he
was 40 years old and passed the
last years of his life as a customs
inspector in New York City.
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that the Civil
Aeronautics Administration has filed re
quest (Fairbanks 0130671, for the con
veyance to the Territory of Alaska for
the Alaska Aeronautics and Communica
tion Commission, the following de
scribed tract of public lands, pursuant
to the provisions of Section- 16 of the
Federal Airport Act of May 13, 1946 (60
Stat. 179; 49 U.S.C. 1115i, for the con
struction, operation and maintenance of
a public airport at Mekoryuk, Alaska:
"Commencing at a monument title USC
and GC ‘Mekoryuk.’ thence N 8“ 40' W,
a distance of 1050 feet to a point on the
centerline of a proposed road, with a
150 foot right of way from this point to
the beginning of the airfield property
limits described as N 22” 20' E a distance
of 420 feet, thence N 63 50' W a distance
of 420 feet, thence N 88° 55’ W a dis
tance of 840 feet, thence N 72° 55' W a
distance of 630 feet, thence S 59 30' W
a distance of 126 feet, thence N 55” 40'
W a distance of 462 feet, thence S 80 56'
VV a distance of 437 feet, thence S 89”
40' VV a distance of 415 feet, thence S 71“
31' W a distance of 1585 feet, thence S
0° 17' VV a distance of 666 feet, thence
S 16 07' VV a distance of 1237 feet, thence
I S 30 26' W a distance of 2888 feet, thence
S 73 56 VV a distance of 1404 feet, thence
N 42 37 W a distance of 488 feet, thence
N 74” 12' W a distance of 1146 feet,
thence N 85° 22' W a distance of 1040
feet to the point of beginning of air
field property limits, thence S 23 25' E
a distance of 277 feet, thence S 66 35 W
a distance of 9200 feet, thence N 23’ 25'
VV a distance of 2500 feet, thence N 60
35' E a distance of 9200 feet, thence S
23' 25 E a distance of 2223 feet to the
point of beginning. The above described
land contains 574.6 acres more or less."
The purpose of this notice is to give
persons claiming, an interest in the lands
or having bona fide objection to the
conveyance, an opportunity to file with
the Manager, F lirbanks Land Office, j
Bureau of Land Management. P.O. Box
110. Fairbanks. Alaska, within 30 days i
after the first publication a protest to- |
get her with evidence that a copy of the
protest has been served on the applicant.
Robert L. Jenks, Acting Manager j
Publish May 9. 16. 23. 30, 1956.
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on the Nenana Ice
—But you're taking
NO CHANCES
when you use
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victs kept a straignt razor at nis
throat and a pair of barber shears
pressed to his back.
“Stay back!” the prisoners
warned rifle-armed guards before
Larsen arrived on the scene. “We
have nothing to lose through cut
ting his throat. We’ve got 20 years
and another charge waiting.”
Tremblay met Larsen shortly
before he, Frenette, Talbot and
two others were to go on trial for
attempted murder.
At d preliminary hearing, Trem
blay smashed a camera belonging
to a Province photographer. He
later called the paper and ex
plained to Larsen he was sorry
and wanted to pay for the damage.
Larsen went to Tremblay’s home
and collected the $97.50 Tremblay
agreed to pay for loss of the
Province camera.
As ten guards and prison offi
cials waited in a corridor, trying
to think of some way to save the
life of the guard held captive,
Tremblay demanded Larsen be
called.
When Larsen arrived he imme
diately started his arguments for
the release of Loveless.
Tremblay, acting as spokesman
| for the three convicts, agreed to
| release Loveless only on the con
j dition Larsen tell the story of
their talk through the columns of
the Province. He demanded the
story be published in an extra
edition.
Alaska’s Assessed
Wealth Increases
10-Fold In 20 Years
JUNEAU — During the past
twenty years the total assessed
valuation of Alaska’s cities has
increased more than 10-fold, ac
cording to information released
by A1 Anderson, executive direc
tor of the Alaska Resources De
velopment Board.
In 1935 there were 17 incorpor
ated towns and cities in Alaska
with a tbtal assessed valuation of
about $24 million. Today there are
30 incorporated towns and cities
in Alaska with a total assessed
valuation of more than $250 mil
lion.
Anchorage still leads the terri
tory with 39 percent of the total
j valuation of the four principal
j cities. Its total valuation came to
about $99 million.
Fairbanks’ valuation was second
with $42 million; Juneau was
third with $36 million; and Ketch
ikan was fourth with $21 million.
The Third Division, with a third
of the incorporated cities in Alas
ka, had 51.4 percent of the total
valuation. The Fourth Division
had 16.5 percent; the First had
30.5 percent: and the Second Di
vision had 1.6 percent.
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