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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 54 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1959 Per Copy—15*
Interior Dept.
Spells Out Alaska
Game Regulations
WASHINGTON, UP) — The 1959
Alaska game regulations an
nounced today by the Interior De
partment reduce mandatory fed
eral licenses to $1 each, effective
July 1.
The fee for a non-resident gen
eral license, which covers hunt
ing, trapping of big game and
sport fishing now is $50. The li
cense for hunting small game costs
$10 and a sport fishing license
costs $2.50.
The Department said by cutting
the various federal fees to $1
each Secretary Seaton tacitly ap
proved the recent action of the
Alaska Game Commission abolish
ing federal licensing for resident
hunting, sport fishing and trap
ping.
“These combined actions cur
tail as much as legally possible a
double system of licensing in
Alaska,” the department said,
“and will permit the new state to
establish realistic fish and wildlife
license fees for these activities, to
- increase its receipts, and to pre
pare for its coming responsibilities
on wildlife management.”
The 1959 regulations prohibit
hunting on Kalgin Island in Cook
Inlet and at Berners Bay in South
eastern Alaska, to protect moose
herds which have been established
in those areas. Hunting also will
be prohibited on Adak Island,
where caribou have recently been
established.
Hunting will be allowed on the
Rainbow reserve near Anchorage
where the moose population now
warrants it.
The special quarter-mile clos
ure along highways on the Kenai
Peninsula will be reduced to the
standard 100-foot highway reserve
effective elsewhere in Alaska.
The director of the Bureau of
Sport Fisheries and Wildlife is
given new authority to adjust open
seasons' by extending them or re
opening them to permit more
hunting when heavy snows create
conditions which portend a heavy
winter kill of the game animals.
Protection of cub bear and fe
male bears accompanied by cub,
except black bear, will extend to
all of Alaska instead of being lim
ited to Kodiak Island.
Normal adjustments in open
season and bag limits on hunting
and fishing are also included.
Complimentary Rides Will
Feature DC-6 Arrival For
New Terminal Dedication
Alaska Airlines’ Golden Nugget
DC-6 will arrive in Nome on Fri
day, May 22, it has been an
nounced by local manager Del
Kampmann. The plane will re
main over Saturday to give com
plimentary rides to residents.
The regular Saturday flight to
Anchorage will be postponed on
that date until Sunday, at which
time the Golden Nugget will re
turn to Anchorage, making all
regular stops on the way.
The official opening of the air
port terminal will be held at that
time, and an appropriate cere
mony is planned for the occasion.
Western Hotels Joins Two
Anchorage Units To Form
Largest Alaska Hotel
SEATTLE, UP) — Two Anchorage
hotels, the Anchorage and the
Westward, have been added to the
Western Hotels, Inc., organization,
S. W. Thurston, president, an
nounced yesterday.
He also announced the begin
ning of construction of the new
Anchorage-Westward Hotel, which
will join the two existing struc
tures and result in the largest
hotel in Alaska.
The first section of the new
hotel will cost three million dol
lars and will have 400 rooms. It
will be completed within a year.
Eventually the new hotel will have
a total of 600 rooms and will be
16 stories high.
Tanana Ice Holds;
Winner of Classic
Will Get $93,000
By DAN KETZLER
NENANA — The ice on the
Tanana River here at Nenana
looks as if it will hold for another
couple of days. The Nenana River,
which usually cuts out the ice
about d" quarter of a mile below
the tripod, has not done so this
year, due to a channel change. The
Nenana River has cut a 100-foot
wide swath in the ice on the south
side of the Tanana River, and
rumor has it that the ice has gone
out four miles below Nenana.
After figuring the cost of sort
ing, compiling, and making a list
of all guesses and also Uncle
Sam’s share, the winner or win
ners of this year’s Classic will get
$93,000.
First Official 49-Star Flag
Will Go to State Delegation
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower signed a bill yester
day authorizing presentation to
the Alaska Congressional Delega
tion of the first 49-star flag to be
flown over the west front of the
capitol July 4.
The flag then will be presented
to the state.
‘Great Things from Earth Satellites’
Predicted By Lodge at U. N. Session
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UPl —
The United States told a Soviet
boycotted U. N. committee today
that the world can expect great
things from earth satellites in the
fairly near future if every nation
cooperates in exploring space.
“In no field of endeavor is co
operation among nations more ap
propriate or more necessary,” U. S.
Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge said
in the organization meeting of the
U. N. Committee on Peaceful Uses
of Outer Space.
“The job is far too big for any
one nation, no matter how big or
how advanced in technology that
nation may be. Every nation has
a part to play and all peoples
stand to gain from the results.”
Lodge did not mention the boy
cott of the 18-member committee
by the Soviet Union.
Delegates of four other mem
bers also stayed away. These were
Communist Czechoslovakia and
Poland, which backed a Soviet
charge that there are too many
Westerners on the committee, and
India and the United Arab Re
public, which said that to meet
now serves no useful purpose.
Representatives of all the other 13
were on hand.
Lodge said that, with full inter
national cooperation, earth satel
lites in the fairly near future
could:
1. Scan the whole earth for
weather data and make forecasts
possibly weeks in advance;
2. Become reflectors and re
peating stations for radio messages
and perhaps be used for intercon
tinental TV;
3. Gain geographic details for
mapping unexplored lands, and
4. Possibly enable ships, by
tracking satellite radio signals, to
calculate their positions within
less than a mile in any weather.
Nome Voters 0-K
3 Percent Sales Tax
Three hundred and eighty five
votes were cast yesterday in the
special election to authorize the
Common Council of the City of
Nome to enact an ordinance to
change the sales tax from two to
three percent.
One hundred ninety eight
voters favored the measure and
one hundred eighty-five were op
posed so the measure passed with
a margin of three votes. Two bal
lots were invalid.
The original 2 per cent sales
tax enacted in October 1949, for
the revolving fund for the sea
wall, was passed with a margin
of 12 votes.
The new sales tax rate will not
go into effect until July 1.
Steel Industry Firms Plan
Mutual Strike Assistance
NEW YORK, (£> — The chief
negotiator for the steel industry
said today the industry is consid
ering a mutual assistance plan to
share profits if one or more com
panies are shut down by a strike,
instead of the entire industry being
struck.
Conrad Cooper, chief negotia
tor for U. S. Steel Corp. and the
steel industry, told newsmen steel
producers are considering a mu
tual aid strike plan similar to one
adapted last fall by major air
lines when faced with a rash of
separate strikes.
Cooper emphasized that the in
dustry right now is concentrating
on reaching a new contract agree
ment before present pacts expire
June 30.
David J. McDonald, union pres
ident, also stressed in a joint news
conference with Cooper that the
union too is not considering any
strike at the moment, either piece
meal or industrywide.
“We’re not a strike-happy
union,,” McDonald said. “We want
to reach an amicable agreement
before June 30.”
Congressman Doubts Alaska Statehood
Holds If Egan Presses Fisheries Control
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Rivers Calls On
Congress to Define
Alaska Bill Terms
By FRANK W. VAILLE
' WASHINGTON, [ff) — Repre
sentative Ralph Rivers said today
he will ask Congress to resolve a
problem on what it meant by the
language it used in withholding
control of fisheries and wildlife
from the new state.
The difficulty grows from lan
guage in the Alaska statehood bill,
it withheld jurisdiction from the
new state until the January 1 fol
lowing 90 legislative days after
Secretary of the Interior Seaton
certified to Congress that the Alas
ka Legislature had provided ade
quately for such administration in
the broad national interest.
Rivers said there is a wide di
versity over the meaning of the
term “legislative days.” Normally
it is interpreted to mean a day
on which the House or the Senate
meets and adjourns. But the bill
did not specify whether the 90
legislative days should be deter
mined by proceedings of the House
or the Senate, which differ.
To resolve the conflict, Rivers
said he plans to offer an- amend-1
ment to the Alaska omnibus bill I
now before Congress to amend
the statehood act to define 90 le
gislative days as that number of
“consecutive calendar days while
the Congress is in session.”
Related to Seaton’s April 28
certification of Alaska’s manage
ment capability, Rivers’ proposed
amendment would permit Alaska
to take over jurisdiction next Jan
uary 1 if Congress remained irt
session until July 27.
Under any other definition, thg.
90-day period would extend be
yond the probable Congressional
adjournment date, thereby making
it impossible for Alaska to take
over management functions be
fore January 1, 1961.
Rivers said that the House Ap
propriations Committee pared the
Administration budge for fish and
wildlife operation in Alaska to
provide only enough money to
carry the federal program through
the first of the year. It said Alas
ka should be capable of taking
Qver at that time. "
He said that should administra
tion be withheld from the new
state next year, while at the same
time money is denied to the re
sponsible federal agencies, the
result would be chaos.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
(By The Associated Press)
American League
Cleveland 9, Baltimore 1.
Detroit 8, Boston 3.
New York 3, Kansas City 2.
Washington 8, Chicago 3.
National League
Milwaukee 3, Los Angeles 2.
Cincinnati 5, San Francisco 2.
Chicago 6, Pittsburgh 3.
Philadelphia 8, St. Louis 7.
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 5, Seattle 3.
Vancouver 8, Salt Lake City 5.
Spokane 5, San Diego 0.
WASHINGTON, — Represen
tative Thomas Pelly (R-Wash) said
yesterday “There can be serious
question as to whether or not Alas
ka is a state” if contentions are
correct it was unconstitutional to
withhold Alaska’s jurisdiction over
its fisheries.
He said he based his statement
on his understanding that if a
provision of the law is unconsti
tutional and “if a court finds that
the law apparently would not have
been passed without that provi
sion, the whole act must toe
thrown out.”
Pelly said that Alaska’s Gov
ernor William A. Egan and the
state were “in a most peculiar po
sition” as the result of a recent
statement by Egan.
Egan said Alaska would not
agree to let any fish traps oper
ate, and that the state might chal
lenge constitutionality of the pro
vision of the statehood act with
holding its fisheries jurisdiction.
“The act authorized statehood
only on the basis that the people
of Alaska voted to approve the
conditions that are in the act,”
Pelley said. “Among these was one
that there should be a period of
transition as to control of fish and
game, and that during such per
iod, the federal laws should con
tinue in effect and fish and game
remain under federal manage
ment. *
“The 'important law, and the
one in question to which Con
gress referred, is the White Act,
under which fishing with traps
is permissible, subject to general
conservation limitations, the same
as any other fishing gear.”
Award Ruled Excessive In
Suit Against Fulton Lewis
WASHINGTON, Wl — U. S. Dis
trict Judge George L. Hart Jr. set
aside today as excessive a $145,000
libel judgment won by Mrs. Pearl
A. Wanamaker as a result of a
broadcast by Fulton Lewis Jr.
Judge Hart said that even by
constructing the evidence most
favorable to Mrs. Wanamaker, it
was his opinion that the verdict
was so excessive “as to shock the
conscience and lead to the con
clusion that the jury was influ
enced by passion or prejudice.”
Mrs. Wanamaker is a former
superintendent of public instruc
tion in Washington State and long
has been prominent nationally in
educational circles.
The Lewis broadcast on which
the suit Was based occurred Jan
uary 6, 1956. Lewis said then that
Mrs. Wanamaker had a brother
who had been in the State De
partment and who fled behind the
Iron Curtain, renouncing his
American citizenship for Com
munism.
In his next broadcast January
9, Lewis admitted he had made
a “horrifying mistake,” and ex
plained he had meant to use the
name of another Washington state
educator.
As a result of the judge’s ruling
today, the case must be re-tried
unless opposing lawyers should
reach a compromise settlement of
the suit.
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