The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1947, Page 8

SE ALASKA FISH PACK OVER 1946 First Divisibn Canned Sal- mon Pack Passes that (¢ of Last Season canned 1 5 last this year's Southeast ir ahead of last year's same e. This tea- had been lagging far| until the report by S. Fish wildlife Ser- vic: was issued today for the week ending August 16 Last week the pack for Southeast Alaska was about 29,000 cases be-| hind 1946, but this week it is out| in front by approximately 83,000 s. The Central Alaska area is the only &rea behind the reports of last t this sal time. he complete report for the canned salmon pack to date, by districts, is as follows SOUTHEAST ALASKA Ketchikan: 6,614 reds; CH] 83,603 pinks; 23003 chum: 7464 cohoes; 120,879 total this year; 132.806 last year at this time. West Coast: 2,325 reds; 10,706 pinks; 4950 chums, 1832 cohoes; 19,813 total; 15,051 last year Wrangell - Petersburg 5,299 reds; 2,303': kings; 29,166': pinks 9976 chums; 54 cohoes; 49,799 total; 27,838 last year. Eastern: 4,697 reds; 12,168 pinks; 9,122 chums, 3 cohoes; 29,303 total 18,538 last year. Western 16,2; is; 616 kings; 45,038 pinks chums 8,317 cohoes; 70,67 last year Icy Strait 8 reds; 107 Kin, 26,510 pinks; 13,368 chums; 254 cohoes; 48807 total; 29,699 last year, Yakutat; 5580 reds; 158': kings; 35 pinks; 33 chums; 26 cohoes total; 4,576 last year. 1] for Southeast Al 3,863 k 26070 co- 299,187 last chums CENTRAL Copper River ALASKA 30,468 r kings; 24,169 total; 52,307 last y Reswrection B 75 reds; pinks; 108 chums; 65 cohoes; total; 1,240 last year. Prince William 5 reds; 942 total; Cook Inlet: 10 reds; 612 pinks; 19,005 ;212225 total; K(ulak. 85425 reds; 36, kings; 407,569 pink 18,490 chum 1,586 cohoes; 513,096 total; 649,537 last year. Chignik: 145,530 reds; &6 kings; 23,052 pinks; 5,110 chums; 92 co- hoes; 173,800 total; 132,102 last year. Alaska rinsula: 78,601 reds; 417 kings; 96,058 pinks; 55485 chums; 2,648 cohoes; 233209 total; 220,329 last year. Total for Central Alaska: 453,440 rads; 36496 kings: 934394 pink: 162,140 chums; 43,351 cohoes; 629,821 total; 1,699,386 last year. WESTERN ALASKA Port Moller: 22,427 reds; 71 kings; 1 pinks; 3345 chums; 7 cchoes; 25851 total; 47,139 last year. Yukon: 9,704 kings total; none last year. Bristol Bay: 1354542 reds; 4,- 005% kings; 34917': chums; 792 cohoes; 1372257 total; 647,325 last year. Total for Western Alaska i 354969 red 13,780': kings; 1 pinks; 38,2624 chums; 799 cohoes; 1,407,812 total; (94464 lest year. ALASKA TOTAL The total for the entire Terri- tory up to the week of August 16 Al for. Kewduchys Smosthest Rourbon WATERHLLMfRATlER KENTUCKY STRAIGHT - BOURBON WHISKEY [J75 Botlled in Bond 100 PROOF follows: 1,855,455'c reds s; 1,142,6: 70,220 cot 593,037 last -+ JUNEAU FLOWERS, VEGETABLES ON SHOW TOMORROW Amateur gardeners of Gastineau C)‘mn(‘l are urged to enter their inest flowers and V ables in |the Juneau Garden Club show to- morrow in the Shrine Auditorium Entries must not later than 10 a. m st 27. In the ar- rangement section for flowers there is one s which is free style for men only Awards will be by ribbons: first place, blue ribbon; second place, red ribbor third place, yelilow ribkon; best in class, white bon Awards will be witht if exhibits are judged unworthy The show is free to the public and t e will be a handsome door prize awarded - e — (C MEMBERS URGED TO ATTEND COCKTAIL PARTY TOMORROW Members of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce are urged to attend the cocktail party tomorrow after- noon at 5 o'clock in the Gold Room .of the Baranof Hotel, honoring the visiting members of the Out- door Writers Association. - STEAMER ALASKA I BOUND SOUTH = Steamer ka, of the N land Transportation Company, ed South night at 10 o'clock carrying a full load of passeng- ers, including manj nery work- ers, as well as tourist Only three persons boarded the ship in Juneau. Mrs. Walter Dag- gett and Mrs. Reinhart are boun for Seattle, and Mrs. E. Linden- meier I.UCKY STRIKE presents THE MAN WHO KNOWS-— PAY HEAVY FINES FOR VIOLATIONS OF FISH REGULATIONS Libby, McNeill Aud Libby, Clem- ence Krueger and Laurence Twid- well entered pleas of guilty yester- day afternoon before U. S. Com- missioner Felix Gray on charges of illegal fishing. They were accused of operating a fish trap at East Point, Chatham Strait, during a midweek closed period £ The company was directed to pay a $1,000 fine and each of the two men were fined $200. The group was represented by Attorney R. E. Rob- ertson .- FOUR BURGlARS ARE ARRAIGNED IN COURT Four men appearea in U. S. Dis- trict Court here this morning to waive Grand Jury indictments and to be arraigned on charges for which they had recently been arrested and bound over to the Grand Jury. Navy deserter Richard Rufus Harshmann, 19, appeared to face (wo unmxml counts for which he has {confessed to the U. S. District At- torns He is charged with burglary at Keku Island and larceny from a boat at Juneau. The court appointed Joseph A. McLean as his attorney. Frank James Kourt, who confessed to stealing $1,100 from the Booth Fisheries Co. at Pelican on July 22 entered a plea of guilty to the charge of burglary pany. He was represented by M. E. Monagle. Sentence will be pro- nounced at 2 p. m. tomorrow. James Peters pleaded guilty to the burglary of the Odom Warehouse on the Alaska Dock in Juneau, May He was caught with his arm in !hv window in a second attempt on July 2, after which he confessed to the earlier crime, Sentence will be pronounced at 2 p. m. tomorrow. He was also represented by M. E. Monagle. Meredith Lotze pleaded guilty to the June 19 burglary of the Ameri- can Legion Club at Sitka. His sen- tence will also be pronounced by Federal Juage George W. Folta at 2 p. m. tomorrow. He is also rep- resented by Attorney Monagle. THE TOBACCO AUCTIONEER! pounds of auction I’ve attended, I've seen the makers of Lucky Strike buy fine quality tobacco. .. that fine, ripe-smokin’ leaf that makes a smooth, mild smoke.” L. H. PURDOM, INDEPENDENT TOBACCO AUCTIONEER of Springfield, Kentucky (22 YEARS A LUCKY STRIKE SMOKER) ot | So remember... 'VE SOLD more than 240 million LUCIAN PURDOM IS RIGHT!... And like him, scores of other experts . . .who really know tobacco . . . have seen the makers of Lucky Strike buy ““fine quality tobacco.” After all, that’s what you want in a cigarette . . . the honest, deep-down en- Jjoyment of fine tobacco. fi/éucxv Sflm(s. Means Fine 7oBacco So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed —So Free and Easy on the Draw — tobacco, and at every | come f and made full| restitution of the money to the com- THE DAILY ALASKA FMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ANS School Closing s First WARNE RE(EPTION t Step Toward Federal Govt, IS WELL ATTENDED Withdrawal, States Warne Many Juneauites attended the| (Continued from Page One) reception at the Governor's House, R = - | which was given in honor of Will-| point a fact-finding commission 0 iy W, warne, Assistant Secretary act in the current longshore strike ot of the Interior; Joseph Flakne, and| He added that he found in Alaska |y . H. Burrows. : ! no unanimity of appraisal of the | pouring during the shipping difficulties. |hours were Mesdames Ralph R.| 2—Though a self-elected 2overnor | givers, B. D. Stewart, Mildred R. has been granted Puerto Rico, the | germann, John McCormick, C. question of Alaska statehood must gar] Alkrecht, Ike Taylor, James be definitely decided for or against |gyan, Don Foster, Will Godding before any intermediate steps to-!unq Earl McGinty. ward self government are likely to i s Rt be taken by Congress for Alaska. | LAVENIK’S FATHER ILL The same position applies in the | wartin Lavenik, Superintendent matter of liberalization of taxation ot Mails at the Juneau Post Office, restrictions. was called out of the city yesterday | 3—Transfer of Pribilof Islands fur que to the sudden illness of his! seal profits to the Terrtiory for father at Klamath Falls, Ore. The school or other purposes would not ' elder Lavenik is past 90 and is re- ! be an adequate solution. Creation ported to be seriously ill. | of Territorial dependence on those - H revenues could be harmful as sudden bEVE\‘ DAYS IN JAIL i termination or suspension of them | ponald Bereskin was sentenced to | might result disastrously seven days in jail today by U. S. Highways Too Few Commissioner Felix Gray. He was Highways are a foremost Alaska | charged with driving an automobile problem, with the Territory’s roads | without the consent of the owner.' far fewer than its needs. How the | gonsideration was given for time problem should be approached, | gaiready served. He was accused of whether settlement or roads should | {aking a Glacier Cab and wrecking , is difficult to decide, |it o few weeks ago. Warne said. Flakne answered for | DRSS S T . the Assistant Secretary that mainte- | o Do | DAVIS FAMILY RETURNS nance of the Haines Cutoff and the | 1 0" & o 0o T h e four | Canad i Alaska i 4 anadian portion of the Alaska g, opiers sylvia, Bonnie, Nancy Sporiswriters, Spors poriswriiers, Jporismen, [N} df ut-of-Town Visitors Highway is still on a year-to-year | i1 basis, with Canada promising to at- and Alice returned on the Akunqn from a pleasant summer spent in Ry o i the States. Mrs. Davis reports that ) her daughters had a wonderful sum- mer as this was the first trip Out- side for all four of them. They . spent most of the time in Seattle, | with a short trip to Surrey, British to Juneau, and to the Salmon Countr reception from Vancouver 9 p. m. Wednes- day. Baranof scheduled to sail Seattle 10 a. m. Saturday. Prin, Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 9 p. m. Saturday.| Alaska heduled to sail from Seattle September 2 Aleutian, from west southbound Sunday. - -, BROADCAST TONIGHT Assistant Secretary of the Inter- jor William B. Warne and Joseph T. Flakne, Director of the Alaska Branch, Di on of Territories, will | be heard on KINY in a special | broadcast at 6:15 tonight. from KENYA SAILING H.M.S. Kenya sails for Portland, Oregon, this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. scheduled The ship will make a sort stop in Vancouver to pick up some of their | midshipmen who joined the U. S. submarines for a short training cruise. The British cruiser has been in port four d W e CORDOVA MAN HERE J. A. Cranson of Cordova is 'xengcd at the Baranof Hotel. 3 ’Vhles North of Juneau on Glacier nghwny Alaska and Juneau. We'’re glad ypouw’ve come .o o and hope mm’u come again and again. T0 LOCAL RESIDENTS MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW! For Sporiswriters’ and Spnflsen's Banquet of Wednesday Evening, August 27th at 8:00 oclock fo be held at the SALMON (REEK COUNTRY CLUB CALL or PHONE Alaska Travel Bureau Baranof Hotel . Phone 646 Turkey Dinner — $2.50 ENTERTAINMENT of Course! Always Something New Your visit means much to 5 " TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1947 S 1