The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1940, Page 16

—_— SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1940. THEDAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY; MARCH'31, 1940. 3 PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT EDITION PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT EDITION iR (9%) Alaska’s Canfied Salmon Industry Helps to Build Greater Territory Money brought here by canned salmon helps keep government offices, schools and Alaska business running | THANKS CAP'N- AGAIN THIS YEAR YOU'RE ALASKA'S BIGGEST CUSTOMER! YES SIR-AND | AIM TO KEEP ON SPENDING ALL | CAN RIGHT HERE WITH HOME FOLKS! SKA'S BIGGEST PAYMASTER, the Canned Salmon helping other industries AS " dustry gives employment to more than 11,000 i woket Dicing tos Rablag et T T any other industry Alsias pelgilfteectery and T R summer will be Canned Salmon’s 62nd season in waters has grown from a few thousand cases a year to an ‘As Alaska's biggest local customer, the Industry spends over $10,000,000 annually—purchasing coal, lamber, wire rehant, cannery worker or doctor, ki o average of more than six million cases. ska. ime, the pacl sanned salmon from Alaska’s o . 5 . : i i that time, the pack of canned salm: Since Canned Salmon’s first season in 1878, millions of dollars have been brought here to Alaska by the salmon | SURE, WE'RE HELPING EVERY ALASKA YOUNGSTER GET A 600D START IN LIFE! Advertising Campaign wins more customers for Alaska’s Salmon Alaska’s salmon canning industry brings money to Alaska industry. In wages, payments for raw fish, payments for such | Alaska supplies as lumber, wire, coal, and other products, { in taxes paid, in purchases from Alaska merchants, and in countless other ways — this Industry has brought money when U. S. housewives buy canned salmon. CanNED '7' here. This money is the life-blood of Alaska commerce. q JarmoN KA in one average year by the Canned industries. .. big part goes to pay taxes. InouSTRY € 2 Saimon Indtustsy, And that creates more It i money whiok it Alsaka's pro- ¢ The Canned Salmon Industry has helped to pioneer | brings this money here. ) bosines forall Alsska. Tossional people and merehanis i the - Of the money which the Canned Salmon form of trade for services and goods. b Alaska. | Industry brings to Alaska part goes di- The continued prosperity of such a good Itis proud and glad to help build a greater Alaska. .. It is the SALE of salmon, not the packing alone, that OVER RO T PN AL b e § \ ey o more thin 11,000 workers for castomer means Sotinued prosprity 1o U. S. home makers are buying more canned salmon to- e L e e day than they used to. They areserving it to their families AREN'T THINGS )/ WELL 1R _NOBODY’S YET FOUND OUY PRETTY QUIET HOW T0 KEEP SALMON RUNNIN' THE FORNOU MOST YEAR ‘ROUND... BUT EVEN DURIN' THE OFF SEASON WE GIVE JOBS 10 HUNDREDS OF ALASKA FOLKS ! mére frequently. vertising campaign for Alaska’s greatest sea food is stab- They are buying more canned salmon because they are ilizing the market for Canned Salmon. learning more about how good it is — and how good it i The Canned S i . 2 ) & good itis for The Canned Salmon Industry advertising program, by thewr families. building a better ol S . . . . e which help incorporated . l & a better market for Canned Salmon, is working i%fi?‘fi{‘gff;’,‘?%‘gj,‘ffl%g; :Fr?"c’.;“'?fi“i.'“:n‘ ',‘:‘E.;}:‘;"%E o The Canned Salmon I stry erlising ci ion — S PN K e s i sl snd: the Cansed Simen iy, 1ot i Cannec ndustry advertising campaign to protect your security - and the security of every other . i Aok Dies et S T L T Sl el asmnin e o anel Ba . . P ‘More than 709 of all taxes collected by buted by Alaska’s biggest taxpayer helps now in its fifth year — is telling them the story. This ad- Alaska family. the Toreiorial Treasury... plus daiional_ Alaka give i hidren e ofucaion —Butin off seasons there are jobs for hundreds making o Canned Salmon Industry provids i are jo “greatest employment during the fshing Yes, Salmon fishing and canning is a. ‘seasonal business coal and providing otker supplies for the Industry. b 2 CANNED SALMO]_\ Teady for the next fishing season. Even in winter men he fishir re bept at work modernis ing canneries, n—these additional Industry-created jobs give Topairing boats and other floating equipment. Others find s thousands of days work during off-seasons. employment cutting pil fumber for construction ‘means greater year-round security for Alaska and box shook—manufacturing wire netting—mining REPRESENTING APPROXIMATELY 0% OF THE AMERICAN SALN [P PACK