The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 15, 1951, Page 2

PAGE TWO Brig. Gen. John H. Michaelis, home from the Korean fighting, ‘casics his year and a half old daughter Maurene in his arms upon arriving at Natiopal Airpyt in Woot )1 for a happy reunion with Maurene and Mrs. Michaelis (left). The 38-year-old general, who adv:icod [rom a lieutenant colonel, to his one- starsrank while in Korea, is bound for Europe to jo'n Ccu. Dw.ght Eisenhower's command. () Wire- b LARORATORY IS School of Mines of the niversity under . Dean Earl H.[ Those persons who have present time there are no ies for the testing of coals in, and millions of dol- : he Territory ; i e o i 3 for coal analysis should OPENED AI u OE A jilis are gHhny SRERT S LY ¢ 3 ununicate with the Department | flian and military consumers wit} out any checking of fuel value W% 5. | sions to the Bureau of Mines Lab- T | ore t for analysi It i§ announced Ly the Territor- however this sumes so much ial Department of Mines that atime that it rarely takes place, . % coal Maboratory Saarela said. JPIQIE,OLME“ ADDED g SREE [ was opened May 1 at the University of Alaska, Osce 18 During coal production in| of the Department of Mines for! Alaska declined slightly to 400,000 = £ § ) the anglysis of the operators active tons from the alltie high of 440,-| t in thejcoal industry') @nd will in-| 000 tons in 1949. The decréass was | clude @sh analysis, melsture, com-| causeg by one of the Army base ; plete §nalysis and appraisals of; converting to oil. However during| Two new highway patrolmen coal produced in the Territory. | the last ears there has been| have been added to the foree' worke Com of Mines Leo H.|a Steady increase in coal consumip:|ing out of Fairbanks, it was an- Saarell there nounced today, by Frank Metealf, increaging importance of the coal 0re numerous steam plants bullding | Territorial Highway Engineer. They nissioner i i stated that in view of the|ten and production, and as industty and the substantial|in the area of the rail bell indica- are §. L. Edwards, who started amounts of coal produced yearly,'tions are that the rise wWill ("”"“'v'.m : May 1 and James H. Wood- there has been a crying need for | Unue. ruff, who began May 5. a coaffiboratory in the Territory! The coal analysis leboratory at| Metealf also announced the. pro- ever since the Alaska Railroad the U y will be operated by | motion of W. W. Trafton, of the closed {down its Anchorage coal the Territorial Department of | Fairbanks , from patrolman Mines Assay Office in cooperation'to sergea laboratory in 1946 Beautifully correct O * without exaggeration b i) EMooe Now you can have the becutiful, full rounded curves that foshion demonds, so comfortably, so naturally no one will ever suspect! =d to flatter This ingenious bra . .. desig the less-than-perfect bustline. .. has hidden | inner pockets fitted with featherlite removable porofoam bust normalizers. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA T Arthur as they leave their hotel for the Polo Groun ds in New York to watch the Giants-Philies game. The five-star general was in civilian clothes for a public appearance for the first time since 1940. ) Wirephoto. ¥ in a grey suit and a grey fedora, is accompanied by Mrs. Mac- jall we (Continued from Page One’ U.S.ISNOT READY FOR SHOWDOWN sirong military value so far as the Korean campaign is concerned. But he added: Risk Not Necessary “The Joint Chiefs of Staff believe that thesé isame measures do in- crease the risk of global war and that’such a risk should not be taken unnecessarily. “Korea, in spite’ of the import- of the engagement, must be ‘Jooked upon with proper perspective. | It is just one engagement — just one phase of this battle that we are having wi 1in the world h the other power center which opposes us and tand for.” ma s been used by Russia for | Bradley was the third witness the fiv senators have heard in 11 days of hearings. The others were MacAr- thur and Secretary of Defense Mar- shall. Bradley was questioned for & little over three hours, then the hearings were recessed for the day “But each time we have used A milthoas shiort of total WaP He will return to the witness chair # | tomorrow. “As costly as Berim and Greece | and Korea may be, they are less i AN B T expensive than the vast destruction | SEl‘l I NG { | which would be inflicted upon all | les if a total war were to be pre- eipitated.” Wradley said a field commander Jiké_MacArthur “very properly esti- s his needs frein the viewpoint NEW YORK, May 15 — (# —A short but severe selling wave swept through the stock market today anc left it down by as much as $5 & share. Brokers“were at a loss 5 single eratibns in his ewn theater or sphere of action? out any one cause for the sudden rush to sell. g But he added those responsible for The volume came {o an estimated higher diiection “must necessarily 2,000,000 shares witiz more than half “In each of the actions in which | we have participated to oppose this gangster conduct, we have risked | 1 War IIL” he said. w Wor rospective, of several theaters.” Gen Bradley sald the adminis- tration policy of fighting a limited war in Korea may cause the Com- | ists to sue for peace “if we can plmish the Chinese severely enough,” and runs the least risk of touching off a world conflict. 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The railroad, was only mentioned i in the nery, of which Alaska has a great many and some of which change ownership with great frequency. The reason the sale of the Yaku- tat and Southern didn’t make more headlines is, of course, that it isn't much of a railroad. It is standard juaze in width but it is hardly of isn’t much longer than the name road and s one of the ghortest standard guage railroads n the world, with a total length »f nine miles or thereabout. The Yakutat and Southern has seen handicapped by the fact that it doesn’t have much of a place to start from or much of any place problem of a seasonal and a one-way haul. Practicelly its entire pay load s fish, which it hauls from the | 3ituk Riverifo the cgnnery at Yak- atat. . Yakutat is a lonesome little place on the ocean coast about midway Jetween Southeast Alaska and Prince William Sound. It has an airfield buiit by the Army during the war and now operated by the CAA, a cannery that hasn't oper- ated for two seasons, lots of mag- | aificent mountain and glacier scen- ory, and the Yakutat and Southern | Railroad. | There has been an Indian yillage | at Yakutat for nobody knows how | long, and the Russians tried to es- industry 150 years ago. The local residents did not encourage that . project. They killed all the colonists. After that the place was left pretty much alone for three-quar- ers of a century until a prospector aamed James Hollywood found gold in the beach sands there in 1880. The Indians killed two of Holly- iwood’s partners, but other miners and prospectors swarmed in and kept the place lively until the gold olayed out. In 1888 two Swedes, Adolph Ly~ dell and Karl Henrikson, were sent to Alaska by the Swedish Mission; Covenance of America and they picked Yakutat as the place to start a mission. They seem to have zotten along with the'Indians. bet- ter than had either the Russians or the miners and when the mis- sion burned to the ground on Jan- uary 8, 1892, the Indians pitched in and helped to rebuild it. Yakutat got a postoffice on Sep- tember 14, 1897, and about 1902 the ficaing industry discovered the possibilities of the place. Several salteries were first established and packed both salmon and herring. Then, in 1904, the Yakutat & Sou- thern Railway Co. was organized with a man named F. S. Stimson as president. The company built a cannery and put it in charge of Ah Seung, a Chinaman; built a sawmill with a daily capacity of 30,000 board. feet, from Yakutat to the Situk. Then length. Actually, the track | 0 go to. Then, too, it has had the | tablish a colony there more than,| and laid track | TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1951 |it got hold of a little steam loco- motive that had been discarded when the New York Elevated Rail- road was electrified, and it was in the railroad business. The railroad, of course, depended |en the salmon cannery, and the cannery, to a certain extent, de- pended on the railroad. It had been the intention to extend the | railroad some forty miles to Dry | Bay, but for one ieason and an- other the extension was never built, | The cannery itself was success- | ful from the start. The first year’s | pack was 24349 cases and this in- iue..,sed in subsequent years to an | average of around 50,000 cases. The Lig year was 1918 when the can- (nery put up 77,073 cases, but as | recently as 1941 the pack was 65,- | 896 casc: | since then the pack has declined | drastically, partly because the sal- | mon runs have decreased and part- |ly because buyers from cther can- neries and processing plants have | invaded the grounds and taken }away part of the catch. | The main {ishing grounds near Yakutat are in a number of short glacier-fed streams — the Situk, Ahrnklin, Dangerous, Italio and Ustay Rivers—which rush down from the mountains, then meander |across the coastal plain to the ocean. At the mouth of each of the streams is a shallow bar that is at best an impediment and at worst |an impassable barrier to naviga- | tion. In addition there is the larger tAlsek River which rises in Canada |and tumbles through a steep moun- i tain canyon before it reaches the ocean at Dry Bay. The fishing in early days was done with both gillnets and drag seines, but nowdays it is mostly gillnetting. There isn't a fish trap within a hundred or mcre miles of Yakutat in any direction. The Yakutat & Southern. Rai}- way Co. operated the Yakutat cannery for several years, then sold it to. Gorman & Company, one of the larger salmon ‘firms of earlier., years. Gorman sold the outfit, in- cluding the railroad, to Libby, Mc- Neill and Libby in 1918 and for many years the late Captain C. E. Ahuyes was in charge. ' s e cannety operated x"irlyrgva ery season except the past two, and it will run again this summer, ac- cording to Mrs. Jeanice Welsh, whose Bellingham Canning ~ Cb. purchased it from Libby early this month. Bellingham Canning Co. ‘also has . a cannery at Hoonah, where it employs ‘mostly local labor anqd’ secures ‘most of its fish from resident fishermen. The same 'pol- icy will no doubt be followed" at*: Yakutat, so that the local cannery workers will be assured of jobsand the fishermen will have an assured market for their catches. It will be, as are all salmon can- | neries, a seasonal lndustry. but for | Yakutat it will . be much better than no industry at all. BID OPENING Bids for regrading a five and,; | one-half 'portion of Sterling high- | way will be opened in the office of H. A. Stoddart, division engin- | eer, Thursday morning at 9 o’clock. | The section involved is from the junction with the Seward-Anchor- age highway _approximately .b?z, Cooper’s Landing, ¢ JE R DEMONS "RATION McCULLOCH MODEL 15M PORTABLE PUMP Weighs only 57 bs. Pumps 15,000 g.ph. North of Small Boat Harbor Phone 867 Juneau, Alaska Home Office Colman Bldg., Seattle -~