Senate Ponders
Ways To Reduce
Dogfish Shark
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Bur
eau of Commercial Fisheries re
iterated its opposition to a bounty
program aimed at eradication of
dog-fish shark in Pacific North
M^gst and Alaska waters.
U. W. Anderson, assistant direc
tor, told a Senate Commerce sub
committee it would be preferable
to permit the bureau to charter
vessels for a control program in
selected areas.
This, he said, would allow a
more efficient operation by per
mitting followup inspections to
evaluate results.
Under a simple bounty program,
he said, fishermen would catch
dog-fish shark only when they
could catch nothing else.
Anderson’s testimony, while re
laxing somewhat the bureau’s in
sistence of last year for a strictly
research program, left the federal
agency in at least partial conflict
with Northwest and Alaska mem
bers of Congress and with Milo
E. Moore, director of the Washing
ton State Department of Fish
eries.
“All fishermen of long exper
ience in the industry, and state
management agencies,” Moore
said, “have expressed the opinion
incentive payments made on the
basis of their catch, in addition
to the low market returns would
be the most equitable way to exe
cute a program of dogfish control.”
The committee is considering a
bill by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson
<D-Wash> which would pay fish
ermen $15 a ton for dogfish car
casses and 15 cents a pound for
dogfish livers in addition to what
they might get for their catch on
the market.
Magnuson said the increasing
abundance of dogfish shark has
resulted in an annual loss to fish
ermen in Puget Sound alone of
$2,200,000 in damage to nets and
other gear.
" Senator Bartlett read into the
record a letter from James G.
Pinkerton, manager of the Ketchi
kan Cold Storage Co., saying there
is a tremendous market for dog
fish in Europe, where it is used
for human food.
Taken to the Cleaners . . .
NEWARK, N. J., m — Seven
teen girl baton twirlers, whose
uniforms shrank to Bikini dimen
sions, have been advised what to
do during the Meiporial Day pa
rade — stay home.
The suggestion came Friday
from Dr. Edward F. Kennelly,
superintendent of schools.
The majorettes, pupils at West
Side High School, had complained
their 8-year-old uniforms had
grown scantier and scantier due
to repeated dry cleanings.
“Improper,” said one of the
girls.
“Immodest,” said another.
“They have been altered beyond
the possibility of alteration,” said
a third.
If march they must, the girls said
they would do so in street clothes.
Kennelly was sympathetic, but
told the girls it is all right with
him if they don’t march at all.
“After all, this isn’t Pasadena,”
he said.
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Civil Service Chief Will
Visit Alaska to Help Solve
Transition Problems
WASHINGTON, UP)—William A.
Foley, chief of t*he Civil Service
Commission’s field operations,
will travel to Alaska in early
June to confer with state officials
on problems involving federal
employes.
The problems have come about
as a result of Alaska’s transition
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Senator Bob Bartlett said Foley
will confer in Anchorage with
officials of the commission’s
Alaska office.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., UP> — The
Florida House has approved the
“Confederate pantie bill,” and
passed it along to the Senate for
consideration.
This measure would prohibit
misuse of the Rebel banner. It
was introduced after tennis player
Laura Lou Kunnen of Clearwater
showed up at a tournament in
shorts with a Confederate Tag on
the seat.
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LOS ANGELES, l/PI — The Dis
trict Attorney’s office says it
won’t prosecute a man who was
arrested for attempting home sur
gery on his daughter’s thumb
with a razor blade.
Milton P. Butler, 39, told inves
tigators he decided to lance the
infected thumb of his 15-year-old
daughter, Arlene, “because I was
tired of paying doctor bills.”
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