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4— And Reindeer Unsurpassed!’
THREE COMPANIES on three different Aleutian
islands are raising sheep. Last year they
marketed 100,000 pounds of wool of high quality, as
it received the highest price for the product.
Kodiak Island beef is marketed at Kodiak Naval
Station and in Anchorage. Some has even come to
Nome. 30,000 pounds were delivered to Anchorage
alone.
There are 4,500 head of cattle and 13,000 sheep
on 1,654,259 acres under lease for grazing and plenty
of room for expansion, the Bureau of Land Manage
ment states. There is room for 150,000 animals, and
22,000,000 acres for grazing.
Kodiak is now the King Crab center of the world
— with a growing industry.
Northwestern Alaska also has vast grazing areas
for reindeer, but the only marketing is done by the
government with their own ship, and government
owned herds on Nunivak Island.
We have an industry right under our very noses
which needs only an experienced person to lay out
the freezing plant and to interest the right source for
financing for the project. Our local herds of Kakarak
and Sigfried have the finest deer on the market, and
the marketing could be done in the wintertime, utiliz
ing labor now on the welfare rolls.
We have an industry at our doorstep which can
be developed, after a little red tape is cut, that could
grow and grow.
Headlines could read: “Top Quality Beef, Top
Value Wool, Biggest Crab, and Reindeer Unsurpassed”
— All in the State of Alaska!
GRASSROOTS OPINION
From the Milford, Del., Chronicle: “The United States
government spent more money in the fifties . . .
than it did in the 1940’s, which included all of
World War II.
“Every American, therefore, should impress upon
his elected representatives in the Senate and House of
Representatives the seriousness with which he views
our extravagance and waste. Unless Americans, act
jointly to restrain government, the country’s security
and financial stability is endangered in the sixties by
the continuation of fiscal policies of the fifties.”
Nixon Tells GOP It
Faces 4The Fight
Of Our Lives’
(By The Associated Press)
Vice President Richard Nixon
intends to be a hard-hitting cam
paigner and a responsible states
man this political year. Monday
night and yesterday, he displayed
his skill at both.
In his most aggressive political
speech of 1960, he told a Repub
lican Party rally in Lincoln, Neb.,
Monday that, if nominated for
the Presidency, “I intend to carry
this campaign into every state,
city and town that limitations of
time, space and physical endur
ance will permit.”
The candidates for the Demo
cratic nomination, Sen. Hubert
Humphrey of Minnesota and Sen.
John Kennedy of Massachusetts,
campaign in Wisconsin, where
they clash in the April 5 Presi
dential 'Primary.
Kennedy started another round
yesterday of barnstorming in the
western part of Wisconsin.
The Vice President bluntly
made it clear why a hard cam
paign was needed. I
“With Republican strength in
the Congress at its lowest level
since 1936,” he said, “anyone who
does not recognize that we are in
for the fight of our lives must be
smoking opium.”
In his campaign, Nixon said, he
would not stand only on the rec
ord of. the Eisenhower Adminis
tration.
“A record is something to build
on, not to stand pat on,” he told
the rally. “Stand-pat, hold-the
line thinking is not enough to meet
the great challenge confronting
the American people at home and
abroad.”
Describing the farm problem as
one of the GOPs most difficult
issues, Nixon challenged the Dem
ocrats “to fish or cut bait” on the
President’s request for Congress
to come up with a farm bill.
Electricians Strike at
Calif. Missile Base
Halts All Construction
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif., UP)
— A labor dispute has halted all
construction work at this big mis
sile base.
The International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers set up picket
lines Monday. Work stopped on
scores of construction jobs, includ
ing Atlas and Titan ladnrhing fa
cilities.
IBEW representatives said one
contractor, Philco Corp., was
bringing in tradesmen to work
for less than the prevailing jour
neyman electrician’s wage, $4.35.
P h i 1 c o spokesmen declined
comment.
NOTICE OF
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
Notice Is Hereby Given that the
Annual Municipal and School
Board Election will be held Tues
day, April 5, 1960, at the City
Hall, Nome, Alaska, for the pur
pose of electing the following of
ficers to-wit:
MAYOR
THREE MEMBERS OF NOME
COMMON COUNCIL FOR 2
YEAR TERM
CITY CLERK
ONE MEMBER OF SCHOOL
BOARD FOR 5-YEAR TERM.
ONE MEMBER OF UTILITY
BOARD FOR 2 YEAR TERM.
ONE MEMBER OF UTILITY
BOARD FOR 5 YEAR TERM.
A qualified voter must be at
least nineteen (19) years of age;
a citizen of the United States; a
resident of Alaska for one year
and of the City of Nome for thirty
(30) days prior to date of election.
Polls will be open at 8:00
o'clock a.m. and close at 6:00
o'clock p.m.
Robert F. Scott.
(SEAL) City Clerk
Publ. March 21, 23, 25, 28, 30,
April 1, 4, 1960.
Senate Passes Two Alaska
Coastal Water Measures
WASHINGTON, — The Sen
ate Monday passed two water
transport bills concerning Alaska,
one going to the White House.
The House-passed bill sent to
the White House extends a waiver
allowing Canadian vessels to pro
vide service to Southeastern
Alaska until June 30, 1961.
Similar legislation, passed an
nually since 1947, permits Cana
dian vessels to serve certain ports
which have no United States ship
service available.
The other measure passed by
the Senate would exempt some
Southeastern Alaska small boat
operators from Coast Guard reg
ulations until 1964. A similar bill
is before the House Commerce
Committee.
Heavy French Losses
Counted in Algeria
PARIS, Wi — Defense Minister
Pierre Messmer reported yester
day that 13,000 French troops were
killed in the first five years of
the Algerian rebellion. President
Charles De Gaulle said previously
that 145,000 Nationalist rebels
were killed between Oct. 31, 1954,
starting date of the revolt, and
Nov. 1, 1959.
GOOD RETURN . . .
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Wl —
Pvt. Louis Dyer donated a pint of
blood to the U. S. Army a few
weeks ago. Today he got it back.
Doctors said the Bakersfield,
Calif, soldier received a transfu
sion a the 130th station hospital
here after an accident.
“Dyer’s blood was the next
scheduled to be used by the bank
— and Dyer turned out to be
the next patient,” said Maj. L. P.
Chield, chief of the hospitals’ lab
oratory service. “I suspect the
odds on this are about a million
to one.”
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to produce $1,050,000 a year in
new income.
Although not in the category of
a general tax increase, the cost of
Alaska’s employment security
program will go up substantially
this year for both employers and
employes.
The Legislature approved an
Administration program to boost
the jobless benefit levies and to
apply taxes to each $7,200 of in
come earned during the year —
$3,000 above the present taxable
ceiling.
Beginning in October, the tax
rate will go on a variable system
— with a maximum levy of four
per cent against high cost, season
al industries, and a top of 1.5 per
cent for employes who draw the
most in jobless benefits.
But all those major items
passed before the Legislature
moved into an unscheduled five
day extra work period extending
through last night.
In its waning hours, the Legisla
ture approved a new system un
der which teachers or adminis
trators who do not receive new
contracts may appeal to the State
Board of Education.
Capitol Site Measure Dies
In the Senate, a House resolu
tion, calling for a November gen
eral election vote on an initiative
petition for moving the State Cap
itol from Juneau to the westward,
died without final action. The vote
will come at the August primary.
The Senate also refused to act
on a House-approved resolution
calling for legislative repeal of
a dozen regulations adopted last
fall by the State Alcoholic Bever
age Control Board.
WASHINGTON, M>l — Defense
contractors’ profit rates have
gone down sharply in recent
years, Congress has been told.
Asst. Secretary of Defense Per
kins McGuire told a House Appro
priations Subcommittee the rate,
before taxes and renegotiation
proceedings with the government
was 5.7 per cent in 1957, but only
4 per cent in 1959. McGuire’s tes
timony was made public yester
day.
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