The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1951, Page 2

MONDAY, JULY 23, 1951 amper on Founlain I Youth THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Overcasi Shrouds Gulf; ‘Hope Dwindles (Continued from Page One’ PAGE TWO - January, 1950 flying the samc | course, it is believed that the miss- | ing CPA plane may have had a crash mountain landing s subsequent message was rece the plane had gone down at sea, I:L is thought that the pilot wowd . | "‘;;e"";"s"“vt:;:h:“’:‘ 8 mesait| gjgka newspapers as well n;! forkciatie éxpectedr S L newspapers throughout the States g Bra'duv - have been hit by the newsprint provement of yesterday's soupy shortage. At least one Alaskan weather ‘90“‘““0"5- He said slowly. paper has suspended because of the lifting cloud ceilings would permit shortage, and others have had to | closeup studies of deev finric curtail their sales. | towering mountain peaks dotting This situation particularly la- the Panhandle. | mentable in Alaska, which has the | However, reports late this morn- | ber to supply a large percent- ing were that weather conditions age of the annual newsprint re- were not improving as expected but |quirements of the United States. planes basing at Yakutat were slow- | Newspapers in the States and ly getting off the ground lccordinz}l'.'m.l(wl. in the interests of inter- to information received at Coast|nal 1 good will, recently relin- Guard headquarters, Two Air Force 0 tons of new int to and one Coast Guard planes based |! in Greece, India, at Junesu ‘were stil grounded. stan, the Philippinecs Arrival of law in person of motorcycie policeman washes up fun of these youngsters in London’s su- burban Hampstead. Public fountain and horse trough became their private “swimming hole” until the law laid bare the facts about nudism in public places. (P Wirephoto. Passengers Aboard | is sufficient newsprint to | Passengers ilsted by military jkeep all Alaska newspapers well iz 1o have Rainier Beer on hand! Smooth, authorities as aboard the missir pplied for several years. It would pale, it is a beer that exactly meets . dealer everywhere carries Rainier Asl for it by nume. When you buy Rainier aircraft included three civiliar Audley Stephan, Trenton, N. J Jess than a week’s production Vernon E. Hersey, Mitchell, S. D., wska were turning out news- and Glenn R. Clauson, Seattle. No it at full potential capacity. further identification was available | o from military authorities, but the| The U. S. government is perhap: Trenton Sephan’s wife reported her|¢he largest single user of paper husband was on his way to help the jand pa products in this country. Army with finamce problems in Ok- { American paper manufacturers must inawa. now reserve a part of their produc- At Seattle, Clauson’s wife said|tion for government use. he was a Navy lieutenant during the| The percentage of their paper last war as a Japanese specialist in out; that must ke reserved for Navy Intelligence. the government varies for different | The civilians were attached to the |grades. It runs from five percent army and reportedly were on a Un- of total production of newsprint, | ited Nations mission. nitary tissue and absorbent pa- Other passengers included 26 Am-pers up to 25 percent of the total erican servicemen, two from thejoutput of crepe wadding for pack- Royal Canadian Navy, and a crew ing. i | The big demand for crepe wad- better methods of handling gov- | ernment lands is suggested by Rep. Mack Another commission seems un- | ikely to solve the problem. Spocml; land study commissions and agen- cies have been created in the past. | Many of them haye since been ab- | olished, but far too many are still on the active list. As the homesteaders and would- be homesteaders 3 learned to their sorrow, throuzh the jungle of land re; tions in order to get title to a piec of ground is often a longer and harder job than clearing the land | itself. | One more land agency, however to the present difficulties. A more practical approach to land distribution would be to ab- olish at ledst a ccuple of dozen of the presently existing land agen- oles and sub-agencies and to streamline the procedures of the others. (ops See Snakes; ‘Boy Sells 'em o "Day for Trips' JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 21— »— Fourteen-year-old Gene Ber- . {represent, on the other hand, some- | _______ SR AR AL g S35 TR e Drexel Hill, Pa., and home today. Police picked him up yesterday thinking he was a runaway. They found he was car box a four-foot, sever constrictor, 21 baby constrictors, and a three-foot everglades rat snake. Gene told horrified policemen at the juvenile department of head- quarters he was a dealer in snakes, | that “it pays expenses for trips.” VISITOR FROM ANCHOKAGE G fett of Anchorage, is reg- AT MIKE Red r and his Hammond Electric Organ now featured at of seven Canadians, including two! stewardesses. ding in government is unexplained. |good its intentions, could only add | man and his 25 snakes were nearer Mike's The army officers aboard were Lt. |t T be that new OPS regula- B Col. Jerome G. Sacks, Washington, | tions are packed in it to cut down | D. C., Lt. Col. Eugene G. Hite, Ris- |breakage ing Sun, Md., and Capt. John S Government efforts to conserve Gayle, Rehoboth Beach, Del. are well illustrated by an or- ued not long ago by Oscar . Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission Under previous regulations it had en necessary to submit five cop- ies of each cf certain applica _ |for investigations by the | Commission. Chairman Ryder’s 'der of June 20, 1951, makes it man- datory that 15 copies of each such i cation be submitted in the fu- 867-1t Marvin Irvin from the Edmond- son Blind School at Portl , Ore. is stopping at the Gastineau Ho-, tel. The statehood bill now pending before Ci i a serious question to the future control g o @ of Alaska’s tidelands, according to the minor report on the mea- | sure. 3 ~ & 3 1 %Y ] | S. 50, the dissenting Senators as- | Uryan is REALLY HERE - |bcundary for the new State other il not he d'_fi_sappoinled Ithan whatever language is contain- ed in the old tre of annexation® e ¢« o o “Certain amendatory language,” ATTRACTION AT the minority report says, “has been | inserted ‘in section 4 which states DOUGLAS & Tine IHI@H:;_HI“\!H;[] that the Federal Ciovernment shall | 2 e Iretain the right of ingress and e [”H;,\\’”E ress from its lands across adjoin- | ing lands which are subject to Lhc‘ ebb and flow of daily tides. | “This language, when considered in the light of the firm policy of the Interior Department to con-| trol Alaska, its lands and its re-| sources, leaves no choice but to as- sume that the Department will con- strue the bill as retaining con i of the tidelands in the Federal Government. “The amendment is cleverly wor- ded and the Department’s position would probably be sustained by the | courts. Thus the proposed new State and its people would be stripped of their greatest potential asset.| Already there are growing indica- tions of bright oil prospects along the southern coast of Alaska. The“ tidelands question might well be-| come a matter of the most vital| HIXMHOND onGA“ concern to the new State and its | inhabitants. | “This is one of the many instan- | ® ces where the Congress cannot e o o (o o o (o o (o (o (= @y LASKA NEEDS more, diversified industries. New enterprises n in the Territory would mean more population, year-round employment, a stabilized economy. The Alaska salmon indu{try—/:istoriml[y the Territory's largest and its heaviest taxpayer—has a personal stake in the future of Alaska. For that reason, the industry would very much like to see these new industries come to Alaska. Because of extremely short periods when the runs of salmon occur, the salmon industry is seasonal. Right now, for example, the industry is preparing for the Southeastern season that opens fail in its obligation to the Terri- tory. If the tidelands do mot pass to the State but are retained in the control of the Federal Government, | what happens to all the Alaskans who have developed homes, busines- ses, etc., on the tidelands under the | previously existing policy enunciated by the Congress (in sec. 2 of the act of May 14, 1898, 30 Stat. 409)? If the trust policy established by that act is to be repudiated by the | pill of admission, then the occu- pants of the tidelands in Alaska | - r‘h'qo - - l V -1 : ir occupancy after car this Original, Versatile o Lo | h“l T A I N E R terior Department.” on August 6. Only with new, diversified industry and its impetus on migration scan Alaska really prosper. This is a real challenge that demands action and encouragement from all of us. ' HEAR SAM HAYES, noted radio commentator . . « every Sunday over your favorite Alaska station Federal Lands are now admi ArLaska R A v s ALMON WRI :'EY :op 'A: ' copy elcome to timber lands, according to Rep. | Alaska," a colorful 12-page bookls Russell V. Mack of Washington. crammed with information INSTITUTE Rep. Mack, who is publisher of | Alaska. Or drop us a card and we'll SEATTLE ~ KETCHIKAN ~ JUNEAU Tuin ) agn e njoy Mike's Tradifional Hospitality and ] the Hoquiam Washingtonian, told the House that the United States send this bookiet to friehds or rela~ can become “land poor” hy: failing fives ouiside. Address inquiries to to put government lands “into the Box 893, Ketchikan, hands of private citizens who, by their labors and ingenuity, can con- vert it to its most productive use.” 1 A special commission to study B ous Steak Dinners