The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1950, Page 2

PAGE TWO CHRISTMAN FINDS GOOD MARKET FOR SHRIMP CATCHES Harry Christman’s P pros pecting” is alreacy paying off | S| In his fishing boat, the Lawco. he has made twelve runs through storm-tossed water near Juneau and has caught as much as 200| pounds of shrimp on each trip. | And the shrimp have found a | ready market in Juneau. Each catch | has been sold within two hours| after he docked the Lawco. £ m-'l shrimp have gone to local Iwu(l“ stores, the rest have been sold| to Juneau people who came to the small boat harbor after (I:A‘i Lawco returned from its runs. Christman began “prospecting” the waters nears Juneau a mo; ago, aided by a small grant from | the Territorial Department of Fish- | | eries. So far, he has dragged in the south end of Gastineau Chan- nel and along the south side nr, Douglas Island. “I could have sold more shrimp if 'd had them,” he said today. “I've had to turn people away who came after I'd sold the last shrimp, and other people have call- ed the harbormaster and ed | when the shrimp boat would be in.” | When the weather is too bad to permit his prospecting new he fishes proved areas with small prospecting drag. And at s times he is fishing on his own. The Department cf Fisheries grants him $10 per day only when he is ex- ploring new areas and carefuly logging the results of his explora- tion for the Department of Fisher- ies. As a sideline to the shrimp drag- ging, Christman has brought in| sole. These have been given to Bill | Estrada on Douglas Island who has filleted them. The fillets are be-| ing offered on the menu at the Baranof Hotel. Tanner crabs are also sideline | to the shrimp catches. However, | these crabs, like small king crab, | have not been caught in market- ’ able quantitizs, Christman said. | He is looking forward to a break in the weather so he can continue exploratory work south to Port Snettisham and north into Lynn : Canal. At that time he will experi- ment with a newly-developed shrimp trap built to Department of Fisheries specifications. If the trap is successful, it will mean that local trollers and hali- but fishermen, now spending winter on shore will be able to use their boats during the winter to catch a payload. areas his GUIDED MISSTLE™ SHIP 10 60 ON SECRET MISSION SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17—®— The Navy's experimental guided missile s the Norton Sound, is | being fitted out here for a secret ! undertaking called “Project Reach.” | Capt. John Quinn, the Norton Sound’s skipper, said today he had been asked not to say anything| about the nature of the project. Comdr. H. H. L , executive offi- cer, said the assignment pmnably\ would be carried out somewhere in the Pacific. The Norton Sound returned re- cently from a northern assignment during which it fired two Aerobee | rockets—one 700 miles off the Ore- | gon-Washington coast and the other in the Gulf of Alaska. Pri- mary object was to get upper at- mospheric data on cosmic rays, Quinn said. This data is being evalu- ated at Johns Hopkins University. As a laboratory ship for scientists and weapon experts, the Norton Sound has fired more than 20 guided missiles and about 15 rockets, Quinn raid. The U.S. popcorn crop varied be- tween 102 and 428 million pounds between 1944 and 1949. ! s are working Towa plant scienti 'CATHOLIC BISHOP | the movement, w “READY FOR THE RUN —G waits for her co-pilot before starting 2 test run G ‘Walters, of Rome, N. ARRESTED, POLAND (By the Associated Press) The Beavy hand of the statesbe- hind the Iron Curtain moved again today to stifle opposition. In Po- land, Roman Catholic Bishop Kazi- mierz Kowalski was placed under house arrest rania. The Bishop was accused by the Communist-dominated state of nsing pressure and threats against “pa- triotic priests.” In Berlin, both Catholic and Prot- estant church heads spoke out against the East German Commun- ists’ “National Front” movement. They ordered their followers to shun a Communist de by playing on the German wistful desire for national uni NEW LINEUP GIVEN | AIRLINE SERVICE PETERSBURG, Alaska, Feb. 17 —IP—Clarence E. Walters' resigna- tion as general manager of Alaska Island Airlines, Inc.,, was announc- ed yesterday by James Nolan of Wrangell, the line's president. Nolan said Quentin L. Deboer and Karl J. Omdahl, both of Pet- ershurg, will serve as co-managers of the airline’s main office here. Deboer and Omdahl are both ] former pilot's of the I They have been operating a student) training service. i on popcorn that will expand 30 times. 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TIGHT SCHEDULE IS $135,000 BLAZE SET ON A-BOMBS; IN -36 WEATHER HO COMPETINGBIDS RUINS HIGHT SPOT The | tight . Siamese cats owned by Mr. and Charles rine-weeks old kittens pose for first portrait. a me | "Frigit‘iflrpasii WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 United States has se i time schedule” for the Casa Blanca | last night as fire- in vain for| build: atomic military power, including V. the hydrogen super bomb. | 36-degree-be- | This came ht today with the | 1 o weather, Loss was (\.&n-‘ elease of @ David E. Lilien- | mated at about $135,000. | The blaze started from an un-| ned cause about 10:45 p.m. ctators stood in the cold until| ht watching flames and into the ice-fogged | thal wrote Wedr the day he |ctepped out as Chairman of the | dete Atomic Ener Commission. | Senator Holland ( la) ced Lilienthal to explain why a $100,000,000-plus contract at Oak i , was awarded without | had | after midn b The Casa Blanca building Ridge, Te: tive b He said other con- | constructed four years ago. 1 tractors had ccmplained. 1 | Lilienthal replied that to have| CHICAGO-— (# —Strangers are| ; Chicagoans how to get| a street in one piece. Of the| let a competitive contract would ' sho have delayed a start on the pro- |acr ject—a new gaseous diffusion plant | 204 pedestrians killed in tramc; —for 18 months. Lilienthal added: |here in the first nine months of *“The rpose of the expansion |1949, only nine were from out of | fprogrz’ 1 is to further the common | town. Which caused Capt. 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