The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 6, 1947, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-—JUNEAU, ALASKA pllO]'S ]‘RA“_ |||mm||m|||m|||m|||m||muummmm||mumuu|mmuummlmmum e Witk WhiH . repopulate Aln\k'\ | D I N E I Fading Druslh NEAR BETHEL’ 'l raising business in general =2 Of the three Governors, two Rep- Captured in Greenland, 34 oxen | . | resentatives and scores of other Were shipped via Norway to New Numvak He‘(”o BeTa“Ied individuals who have asked about YOrk, transported to Seattle by! ANCHORAGE A““ka Aug. 6— v with which to start ex- rail, and released eventually on a 'P—Two veteran Alaska pilots re- b |Sh and Wlld“fe herds. l\r Fish and 4000-acre pasturage near Fair- ported yesterday a five-minute Servi(e Men vice, on banks, Alaska. aerial pursuit of “a disc-like ob- B \m\ HAUGHLAND PAGE EIGHT INVENTORY BEING MADE OF MUSK OX - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1947 1} I, SPEClAlS , \'hllm\ C. James, assistant Director raise musk oxen as a farm or] f the Fish and Wildlife Service, commercial enterprise, and any at- is making tempt to do so should be regard- Nunivak ed only as an expensive experi- utians— ment almost certain of hlluu\'\ musk ox Congress appropriated’ $40,000 m utcome, James :\mc‘n( does not once the home of thousands of the, r upon the musk ox clumsy beasts which combine the | characteristics of cattle and sheep.| r periment Wildlife own experience, has dispatched & form letter reply which says, flat- had dwindled to 31, it was re- ‘moved to Nunivak, 25 miles off the eran of 17 years flylng in the “It is entirely impracticable to mouth of the Yukon, out of the north, and co-pilot Vance Daly, he bas-s of its Six years later, when the herd ject” at 170 miles an hour. The pilots, Jack Peck, a vet- Wednesday - Thursday - Friday ly POpular Records ' Now Available at the Alaska Music Supply Bing Crosby and Lionel Hampton On the Sunny Side of the Street . 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In 1945, an aerial survey indi- cated that, unless too many ani- \mals were counted twice, the herd might have increased to 115. Last \'e'\r clouds, fog and rough water |interferred with boat and plane |ll'1\eI and only 30 oxen could be {found. I To date, the project has cost an |estimated $125,000. | James told a reporter that Doug- .]Z:-s Gray of Juneau, Frank Beals of Kodiak, flying biologist Charles |Gillham, and Alaska sourdough |Frank Glaser, flew to Nunivak in Ian amphibian plane in July, to start the first thorough survey |since before the war. The other ,an were to stay a month, but |Glaser will stay on indefinitely— (possibly until next spring His { companions—an Indian Service jagent, a few natives — and the {musk oxen. l The Fish and Wildlife Service |drafted its form letter about musk {oxen last year after explorer Vilh- ‘jalmur Stefannson stirred interest ln the project with a magazine (article recommending the animals to {New England farmers as a fine 'source (no barns necessary) of rich m 1k, [ood wool and tasty steaks. .- ROYAL BLUE CAB ‘COMPANY CHANGES - 'OWNERSHIP TODA 1 Royal Blue Cab Company hus | changed hands, and has come un- der the joint ownership of Marun l‘t"s( and Larry Baum as of this morning. Service was wnlmued \\llhuul interruption. { Feist is owner and skipper of | the boat Yakobi, while Baum is part owner oi Motor Rebuild qnd: (Machine Shop. Baum will handle | vnflnl(n&n(‘e and repair of the * Royal Blue cab fleet, while Feist 4‘\\'111 be in charge of operations. | Former owners of Royal Blue are |the G. W. Truebloods, who pur- | chased the company in a family ;parmelshxp in March of this year. = SHIEA A Tl i MRS. STRAND RETURNS ¢ Mrs. Ellen Strand and little son| (returned on the Baranof after a months’ trip in the states. While I\acauuning in. California she at- jtended .a dinner and the hit re- Vue at Earl Carroll's glamorous theatre-restaurant in H.ollywood ! - e | ! Indochina is 20 times as large| a hance l informed the Civil Aeronatics Ad- ministration that the incident oc- curred northwest of Bethel at about 500 feet altitude. "release on their report: “A disc-like object resembmu, |the rear view of a C-54 without motors or flying wing; wind negli- gible; ceiling and visability un- limited; true course northwest; no visible means of propulsion. After determining no reported traf- fic at Bethel, Peck followed the object in a DC-3 for five minwes at indicated air speed of 170 miles per hour belore it di:appeared KODIAK BEAR WAS T00 CLOSE, BUT 2 SHOTS GOT HIM SEATTLE, A\g 6 — (A—Hunter John Albrecht has this advice for hunters who are contemplating a trip to Alaska. When a Kodiak bear charges at you full steam, says Albrecht, don’t wait too long to squeeze the trigger. Just back from a trip to Alaska, Albrecht told of his own most recent encounter with one of the mammoth bruins. The hunter said the Kodiak charged and he had time to fire only two shots. Fortunately, the bear dropped after the second shot but he was only 12 feet away. Said Albrecht: “It seemed like he was about to climb into the muzzle of my rifle.” Albrecht, who is a zoologist and staff member of the Chicago Mu- seum, said the bear weighed 1200 pounds. 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