Ron-Resldemt Licenses
Ruled Unconstitutional
Alaska’s $50 non-resident
fishermen’s license fee has
been ruled unconstitutional by
the ninth circuit court of ap
peals in San Francisco.
The two to one decision said
the $50 fee for non-residents
as compared to the $5 fee for
residents was discriminatory
and discouraged and burdened
interstate commerce.
By the Associated Press
The National League beat
the American in the annual
all-star game. The win was
the sixth for the National
League in 18 years of play.
Several homeruns were hit
and the final score was 8 to 3.
/
Henry Benson, territorial ]
commissioner of labor, arrived j
in town early this week to
confer with members of the
fishermen’s union and to
make arrangements for aid to
commercially licensed fisher
men who are hurt or incur an
occupational disease.
“Fishermen in Alaskan
waters, who have their 1951
fishing licenses, are eligible
for medical care and hospitali
zation under an act passed by
the 1951 iegislature, ” Benson
said.
The act created a fund,
designated as the “Fisher
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men’sFund”, which is ad
ministered by the commis
sioner of labor under the
direction of a Board of Care
of Sick and Disabled Fisher
men.
Each fishermen is entitled
to receive benefits if he sus
tains any injury or disability
arising out of any accident
directly connected with his
operations as a commercial
fisherman either ashore in A
laska or in the territorial
waters of Alaska, or suffers a
disease which is occupational
with respect to his work as a
fisherman.
He is entitled to transporta
tion to the nearest place where
approved medical facilities are
available, medical care and
hospitalization and to such
assistance after discharged
during his period of con
valescense as the Board may
allow, provided he is not
1 covered by workman’s com
pensation or if he is not
eligible for and able to obtain
benefits under any Federal act
applicable in his case.
Miss Sue Kennedy has been
appointed executive secretary
of the Board. Benson was
scheduled to leave Kodiak
Tuesday.
Alaskan Writes
Book Of Poetry
A collection of poetry in the
tradition of Edna St. Vincent
Millay and Ella Wheeler has
i just been published by the
Exposition Press of New
York.
Entitled I Reached for a
Star, the book is written by
Lenore Dawes, former soloist
and choir director of the
Northern Light Presbyterian
Church of Juneau.
Dr. I. J. Montgomery,
supervisor, Alaska Merit
System, says of Mrs. Dawes’
poetry:... “it reaches for
the stars with a longing that
vibrates the heart-strings of
the reader.”
The only daughter of a
prominent Missouri family,
Lenore Dawes graduated from
Christian College in Columbia,
Mo. She studied voice and
piano at the Cincinnati Con
servatory, then singing with
the Italian master Arturo
Marescalchi and later studied
abroad.
After a short career as a
concert singer, the author
married Dr. L. P. Dawes of
Chicago, then went to Juneau,
Alaska to make her home.
She is an active member of
the Creative Writers’ Club of
Juneau.
Two Alaska Steamphip
Company vessels were in port
this week. The Coastal Mon
arch discharged freight at the
city dock and at Donnelley
and Acheson over the week
end and moved to the base on
Monday.
The Lucidor also unloaded
at the base on Monday.
Musical Director
At Naval Base
Ross P. Bowman, Chicago
Company stage manager for
the musical comedy South
Pacific, arrived at Kodiak
Naval Station this week to
direct the first all military
group in the production.
The first rights ever granted
to a military group for the|
famous production was re
ceived by Chief C. J. Poboje
ski, USN, Headquarters 17th
Naval District, Kodiak.
In addition to granting
rights to produce the show,
its writers, Rodgers and Ham
merstein, sent Bowman to
Kodiak as technical advisor.
He will work with the military
company until they are ready
to open the show in August.
The musical comedy will be
produced by military person
nel and government employes
on duty in the Alaskan
theatre, and will be presented
at the U. 3. Naval Station, -u.,
Kodiak,- theU. -S. , Station,
Aclak; Elmendorf Air Force
Base and Lidd Air Force
Base.
Nelsons Return Home
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nelson
and children Simmy, Isabel
and Marie returned home Wed
nesday on the Denali after
a vacation along the West
Coast states.
It was the first trip outside
for Mrs. Nelson and the child
ren. Alma, another daughter,
remained outside to attend
school.
While in Seattle the Nelsons
were interviewed by a Seattle
Times reporter and their pic
ture appeared in the paper.
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