Bristol Bay Fishing Boats Expected at
Cook Inlet, To Fish Red Salmon Season
ANCHORAGE, UP> — John Sker
ry, supervisor of the Cook Inlet
District of Commercial Fisheries,
said Wednesday that “at least 40
boats from Bristol Bay will be
coming here to fish during the red
salmon season.” It would be the
first time, he said, that Bristol
Bay boats had fished here.
Most of the boats are expected
to come over the Kvichak River
Lake Iliamna waterway. They
would be trucked several miles
from Pile Bay on the lake to
Cook Inlet.
Skerry said he also expected a
number of boats from Cordova.
He estimated that between 450
and 500 boats — more than ever
^ before — would fish in the inlet
during the red salmon season this
year.
Interior Secretary Fred Seaton
last month signed an order closing
Bristol Bay and Prince William
Sound to fishing. A limited fish
ery would be permitted at Bristol
Bay, however, according to Roy
Lindslev, supervisor of the Bay
district for the Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries.
Fishing would be permitted in
two of the bay’s five districts dur
ing the red salmon season, he
said. Fishermen in the remaining
three districts would be allowed
to fish prior to June 22 and after
July 18 (the red salmon season',
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he said.
Inlet fishermen were allowed
to fish two days a week last sea
son. It is expected a like fishing
period will be allowed this year,
although it is too soon to say
with certainty.
The number of* days a week a
fisherman may fish for red sal
mon is determined by the total
amount of fishing gear that will
be used in an area. Fishermen
have until June 1 to register for
the red salmon season. At that
time the Jength of the fishing wejk
will be made known.
Skerry said some 85 boats and
390 seinetters, half the usual num
ber, had registered to fish during
the king salmon season, which
opens here Monday. A light run
of kings is predicted. Most will be
caught in the upper inlet and
processed locally.
Rail, Highway
Commission Given
More Ti»ve, Money
WASHINGTON, UP» — A House
Interior subcommittee yesterday
approved a bill to extend the life
of the Alaska International Rail
and Highway Commission until
June 30~ 1961.
The commission, now scheduled
to go out'of business March 1,
1960, needs added time to com
plete a study and report on high
way and rail needs to and within
the new state.
The bill, which had been passed
by the Senate, would continue
membership on the commission of
Senator Bartlett. He served on the
commission as a delegate when
Alaska was a territory.
A $200,000 appropriation to fi
nance continued operation of the
commission is included in a sup
plemental appropriation bill
signed by President Eisenhower.
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Bartlett Opposes
Alaska Preserve
As Costly to State
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Bob Bartlett said yesterday a pro
posed nine million acres wildlife
area in Northeast Alaska would
increase highway costs in the new
state by $600,000 a year.
“To put it another way,” he
said in a letter to Alaska Governor
Egan, “Alaska taxpayers will have
to ante up $600,000 additionally
for a wildlife restoration which
has not been requested, to the
best of my knowledge, by anyone
in Alaska.”
Bartlett’s letter was in response
to a communication from the Gov
ernor raising the question of the
effect which the reservation’s cre
ation would have on Alaska’s par
ticipation in the federal aid high
way program.
The $600,000 boost in Alaska’s
highway costs by creation of the
reservation, Bartlett said, would
'■ result from the increased matching
j funds which would be required of j
j Alaska as the result of losing nine
million acres from its public land
area.
If Alaska is included in the
highway aid bill under terms of
the omnibus bill now before Con- j
gress, Bartlett said, its present 1
public land area would require j
that it match 13.24 per cent of its
federal allocation. This would be
$5,600,000.
Should the nine million acre j
reservation be created, however, j
this would reduce the total of un- !
commited public lands in the state
by that amount, thereby increas- j
ing its matching requirement to;
15.44 per cent or $6,200,000 a year. ■
.Bartlett said that while certain j
individuals and organizations in!
Alaska have endorsed the pro- j
posed refuge “I am not sure that
in doing so they took into account I
the fact that the state’s taxpayers j
will have their tax bill upped by
$600,000 a year.”
“So I agree with you,” he added,
“that the need for the refuge must
be very carefully balanced against
the state’s fiscal situation.”
Egan has questioned whether a !
formal withdrawal of the lands j
] from the public domain would be
necessary in view of the area’s re- i
moteness and inaccessibility.
“Therefore,” he said, “1 would |
oppose in knowledge that with- j
drawals once made (are) extreme- i
ly difficult of restoration.”
Egan also suggested that if the !
withdrawal is inevitable it be;
given a time limit of five years, I
after which it could be reviewed, j
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West Scorns Russ .
‘Federation" Plan
As Partition Plot
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, UP!—The West blasted
Russia’s proposal for a confedera
tion of West Germany and Commu
nist East Germany with a decla
ration it is impossible to “con
federate a system of freedom with
a system of bondage.” * *
Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe of
West Germany, carrying forward
the Allied assault on the Soviet
plan for a peace settlement with
each side of divided Germany, told
the Big Four conference the con
federation project was designed
to impose political paralysis on
West Germany.
“The proposal of a German con
federation does not contribute to
the reunification of Germany,”
Grewe also asserted, “but to its
postponement, its prevention and,
over and above all this, to the poli
tical paralysis of the (West) Fed
eral Republic.”
Grewe said explanations of the
over-all peace plan offered by So
viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro
myko in the conference Thursday
were in some respects welcomed
by West Germany.
He welcomed Gromyko’s assur
ances that Russia would not in
sist on immediate withdrawal by
West Germany from its political,
military and economic ties with
the West.
But assurances on such points
could lead to a new misunder
standing, he said, if they caused
Gromyko to believe that his whole
plan was more acceptable. It can
never be accepted by Western
powers, he added, so long as it
provides for partition rather than
unification of Germany.
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§367,000 Asked for
Planning Research
Bldg, at Anchorage
WASHINGTON, W — A Senate
Appropriations subcommittee has
been asked to recommend $367,
OCfi for planning a new building
at the Arctic Health Research
Center in Anchorage. Estimated
cost of the building is $5,942,000.
Senator Bob Bartlett, urging
that the planning money be pro
vided this year, told the commit
tee it was eliminated from Presi
dent Eisenhower’s budget before
the linal draft of the budget was
sent to Congress.
Bartlett’s plea for inclusion of
Ihe planning funds came in ap
pearances by himself and Senator
Ernest Gruening before the com
mittee.
Both senators urged committee
approval of $175,000 for extending
tr Alaska the consumer price in
dex program of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. This item like
wise was not recommended by the
Administration.
This amount would finance
cost-of-living studies at Anchorage,
Fairbanks, Ketchikan and Juneau
for use in such fields as wage ne
gotiations and industrial location
studies.
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