Daily News of Port Angeles, The (Newspaper) - November 28, 1973, Port Angeles, Washington World Low horvost Alaska AP The Department of Fish and Game reported Tuesday that projected salmon harvests in Alaska waters next year will be the lowest in 75 The fall meeting of the Board of Fish and Game was told that slim runs would produce a catch of million compared to 22 million fish caught in Alaska this Melvin Seibel of the Division of Commercial Fisheries blamed the poor projected runs on severe winters in 1970 and with colder than normal temperatures that killed many young He also said high seas fishing fleets had decimated some stocks in western Alaska The forecast predicts a harvest of about million salmon in southeastern million in central and about million in the western Seibel said it would be the lowest catch since when million salmon of all species were BIA approved WASHINGTON AP The Senate confirmed today President Nixons nomination of Morris Thompson of Alaska as the new commissioner of Indian has been Alaska area director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the last two with offices in He is a 34yearold Athabascan Indian from give up See earlier story Page 9 DUBAI AP Three Palestinian in command of a Dutch jumbo jet since Sunday released their exhausted hostages and gave themselves up today after getting a safe passage guarantee from the airline KLM A KLM spokesman in said the hijackers and the hostages 10 crewmen and KLM vice president were taken to the airport VIP lounge in this Persian Gulf then to a hospital for a There was no immediate indication where the hijackers wanted to go or the conditions of their agreement with the Dubai The crew members were reported in good condition after their during which the hijackers forced the jet to roam around the eastern Mediterranean and Middle Officials also said the million jet apparently suffered no Trade surplus high Washington ap The United States scored another big surplus in foreign trade in moving the country closer to its first yearly surplus in three the Commerce Department reported The department said there was a surplus of million in based on exports of million and imports No known erasure Related story Page 12 WASHINGTON AP President Nixons personal secretary testified today that she never knowingly erased any conversation from one of the subpoenaed White House Asked by her Charles whether she intended to testify that you erased any words from any part of the Rose Mary Woods replied No I have never used the word erase because I didnt know there was anything there to Whats inside Comics Dear Port Townsend Sequim Sports Todays TV Weather and Western wind warnings Wednesday for southwesterly winds 3050 miles per hour decreasing Wednesday night and Showers with partial clearings Highs 40s and upper Lows OF PORT ANGELES November 1973 200th Issue of 58th Year 24 Pages 10 Cents CG in danger By LVN WATTS With their water supply line and access road in danger of washing Coast Guard officials at Port Angeles Air Station have requested emergency funds from the Coast Guard office to temporarily repair a rapidly eroding section of The hook has been pounded in the last several weeks by large breakers combined with strong winds and high causing serious erosion of the hook in the Lions Park Part of the Lions Club parking lot is being broken up by wave and Coast Guard officials fear the line supplying water to the base may soon be We are calling for help to our said air station public works officer Thomas Were asking for emergency funding to repair the erosion before it gets any According to Port Angeles Manager Hal the Coast Guard is responsible for maintenance of the hook east of the sheet piling Puddy said the city will dump today or Thursday several truckloads of riprap in the eroding section of the hook to hopefully prevent further erosion until the Coast Guard receives its emergency He estimated the cost of the work at City workmen are continuing to remove rocks and driftwood off the and the city has also moved walls and fire stands at the Lions Club Park to keep them from being washed The Bert Thomas Memorial which Beard said Tuesday was being undercut and tilting towards the water has been moved near the parks Thomas was the first person to swim the Puddy said the damage is being caused by high tides and wave and said that last night damage was He further said that strong wind gusts expected this afternoon could accelerate the rate of further endangering the waterline and According to the water level at high tide has eroded the bulkhead and parking lot to within approximately six feet of the water which runs below the northern border of the The pipeline is not in immediate he wed like to begin repairs as soon as Beard said that officially no word has yet come down from the Coast Guard office on his request for High tides and gusting winds have seriously eroded Hook near Lions as seen A waterline running under the roadway less than six feet from the broken pavements north edge could be threatened by In photo at the water fountain in the and the log windbreak slipping toward the beach are all that remain in this part of the Workmen have removed benches and the Bert Thomas Memorial to safer Daily News photos by Paul Richmond Woman returning Seattle with news the hospital there so crowded her husband is recovering from surgery in the Sun shining on huge puddles m the alleys Christmas carolers entertaining customers in the Firemen coll for mediator By MARLYS Contract negotiations between the City of Port Angeles and Firefighters Local 656 have arrived at a stalemate and application has been made for a state according to Mack one of the representatives in the contract As stipulated in the new state Compulsory Arbitration the firemen were able to apply to the state De of Labor and Industries in Olympia for a The department has to approve the application for a If the application is a mediator is assigned to assist in the Campbell Before the compulsory arbitration act the firemen could not call in a third party to mediate in contract Campbell This is the first time the local has had a chance to test the State law prohibits public employes such as firemen to strike or fail to perform their official Campbell before the compulsory arbitration they had no way to bring pressure to bear in he Plane sighting unproductive A reported sighting of an aircraft wing in the Kingston Kitsap County area Tuesday didnt turn up any new clues into the whereabouts of the missing plane en route from Port Angeles to Hal assistant director of the State Emergency Services said Missing are pilot Steven and one Daniel Alderwood The two men left Port Angeles Foss said his department was contacted Tuesday by the families undertaking a private search They were interested in the feasibility of undertaking a search in the area of Jefferson County Ludlow but no plans have been made to commit any the assistant director Foss said his department has no immediate plans for reopening the search but will continue to check out any leads into the whereabouts of the missing If we can get concrete the search will be he A final ground search was made in an area east of Quilcene and in the Walker area Sunday by members of the Clallam County Search and Rescue The search proved Ray chairman of the advisory board for the said the search was conducted after receiving a report from a man who said he heard a plane motor in the vicinity of the Little Quilcene According to an Associated Press Mary Tax of the Civil Air said the search covered about square miles with more than 402 flying hours Tax said the CAP used 18 planes and nine helicopters in the National parks could double Alaska AP The Interior Department has disclosed plans to nearly double acreage in the national park system by carving out 10 new parks in Laurence undersecretary for interior and insular told state officials Tuesday the administration also would ask Congress by 18 to create million acres in additional wildlife The land is part of million acres in Alaska under study by interior for possible in the national systems of wildlife refuges and wild and scenic The area is roughly half the size of Two of the each over eight million acres in would be about four times larger than Yellowstone National the They include massive tracts in the Brooks Range and in the Wrangell and EUas Mountain on the Canadian All of the proposed parks cover million The national park system now encompasses about 30 million The EUas area the National Park in The region is marked by mountains over 000 feet high and two glaciers larger than Rhode The Brooks Range dubbed the Gates of the Arctic National sits barely 100 miles west of the corridor of the Lynn also said an additional million acres in national forest land would be Congress authorized interior to study the land when it approved the acre Alaska Native Und Claims Set in emergency but unofficially I have it well get our money Beard made his request for funds through the 13th Coast Guard District in According to Byron supervising civil engineer for the 13th his office hopes to start letting bids on the project by this This will simply be a hold the line he and money for this operation will be no indicating that money for the project could come from the Seattle office if the Washington office turns down the According to a in committee in the Senate will hopefully provide the Army Corps of Engineers authorization to undertake a com prehensive beach erosion control project at the estimated to cost ap proximately The measure would only be an au and would not provide any of the beach erosion projects but Puddy said the measure would establish approximately a emergency he could be used to control erosion until the Congress earmarked money for the renovation and erosion control project is Puddy said that Tuesday he talked to Norm Dicks in Warren who said the au would possibly be going to a joint committee and might be adopted by Congress by the end of the Clark said the Coast Guard will still undertake the hold the line project near Lions We expect the project to begin by the middle of he He said the cost of the project is not yet but said the Coast Guard plans to have a substantial breakwater of large Clark was perturbed that the Coast Guard has had to spend what he said was more than the last several years for maintenance of the I think thats far in excess of what we should have to spend to maintain the Coast Guard base he Maintenance of the hook is something the Army Corps of Engineers should have been he Were not in that business of providing a breakwater for the City of Port Man spends stormy night in West End Mike a Crown Zellerbach forester reported missing in an area southeast of Neah Bay late Tuesday was found this morning in apparent good condition by rescue workers after spending the night in an area hit by high winds and heavy Dukes was spotted by a Coast Guard helicopter from Port Angeles in the River Valley at The helicopter hovered above him and directed the rescue party to the The forester was working with a timber marking crew in the Neah Bay The all in land met around noon for lunch but Dukes didnt meet the crew at the end of the who is described as a good was wearing a yellow rain slicker and woolen Jim first coordinator of the Neah Bay Search and Rescue said this morning before Dukes was found that he would probably suffer some exposure and be wet from the heavy rainfall and high winds reported in the area Tuesday The Bureau of Indian Neah reported winds of 50 knots and heavy rainfall in the Jarrett said 35 rescue workers from the Neah Bay unit and Crown Zellerbach personnel participated in the search that started around 5 There were men in the woods until around Jarrett High winds were blowing trees across One tree top fell on the top of a rescue vehicle but no one was he He said the search was concentrated in the area on the eastern side of River Valley and from the Makah Air Force Station towards Neah James a spokesman for the said the work of the Coast Guard greatly assisted in the rescue of the missing They furnished a helicopter from Port and other members walked the area with rescue McGimpsey Residents in the Lower Hoh River area were without power Tuesday night for two hours when high winds knocked out transformers and falling trees took out power Clallam County Public Utility District Superintendent Carl said crews were working until 4 today repairing the There were scattered outages throughout the county but no major damage was he
