State Supreme Court rules trap ban on salmon and whites in Alaska
The Alaska Supreme Court unanimously upholds a ban on fish traps. Chief Justice Buell Nesbitt writes a 76 page decision stressing conservation and equitable harvests for future generations. The case, stemming from Kake Metlakatla Ringoon villages, moves from US Supreme Court back to state court.
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Juneau
State Supreme Court
Buell Nesbitt
Supreme Court
U. S. Supreme Court
Attornees
Kake
Metlakatla
Ringoon
Federal Supreme Court
Stikine District to Close for Commercial Salmon Fishing
Norman Johnston of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced a one week closure from June 4 to 10 for the Stikine District including Point Alexander to Babbler Points due to sharp declines in gillnet catches and gear activity. Some areas in Taku, Snettisham, Stephens Passage, Saginaw and Favorite Channel will reopen noon June 5 and close again noon June 7.
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Alexander
Low “Point
Round’ Point
Nemo_Point
Babbler
Taku
Snettisham
Stephens Passage
Stephens*Passage
Saginaw
Petersburg Softball League Opens With Four Teams
Four-team league debut in Petersburg with Memorial Day doubleheader. Firemen beat Cold Storage 3 2 4 1 8 score and High School won 7 1 against Rustic Inn. Firemen lead after 12 5 win over Rustic Inn on Wednesday. Public invited to Sunday doubleheader at ball park near School with Firemen vs High School at 4 pm and Cold Storage vs Rustic Inn at 7 pm.
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Petersburg
Rustic Inn
Ford
Fourth Program Starts Next Tuesday In Petersburg
Fourth of July fund drive kicks off with special Coliseum Theatre program next Tuesday. Top prize is a two person trip valued at 1300 dollars with many smaller prizes including outboard motors and gift certificates. Parade entries urged to notify chair Norman Heimdahl by July 1 with float details and participants.
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Coliseum Theatre
Seattle
Florida
California
Mexico
Hawaii
Norman Heimdahl
Fhynies Michl to Wed Tomorrow at Evangelical Church
Miss Marie Ellen Thynes daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl Thynes Sr Petersburg will wed Mr Walter Michl of Mount Lake Terrace Washington. Michl is employed by Berg Construction Co and the couple plans to live in the capital.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church
Marie Ellen F Thynes
Mr. Walter
Carl Thynes
Petersburg
Michl
Mount
Lake
Terrace
Wash
Frank
Michl, Sr
Junéaby
Berg: Construction’ Co
Ely
Governor Roselliat Responds to Bartlett Protest
In Olympia Governor Roselliat prepared a statement replying to Sen Bartlett's protest about mail routing to Alaska. In Juneau Gov Egan asked USPS to explain coastal mail trucking to interior Alaska and to schedule hearings in Petersburg Wrangell. Mrs B T Smith left for Ketichikan Seattle Long Beach and Boston for summer study while her son Jim attends music instruction after Oberlin College. A river survey on the Stikine river road was delayed when the Totem struck a snag and sank. the Judith Ann was sent upriver to assist and refloat efforts continue.
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Olympia
Roselliat
Bartlett
Washington
Alaska
Juneau
Egan
Post
Office Department
Petersburg
Wrangell
B. T Smith
Ketchikan
Seattle
Long Beach
Boston
Jim
Oberlin College
Ohio
Stikine River
Totem
Ritchie Transportation Co
Judith Ann
Pacific American Fisheries to become Pacific American Corp
Pacific American Fisheries stockholders voted to change the company name to Pacific American Corporation due to expansion while retaining the old name for the fisheries division. The firm has acquired several Washington state plants for processing. AID directors were retained and a retirement plan for salaried year round employees approved retroactive to March 1. Nat S. Rogers and S. G. Tarrant were re elected as chairman and president respectively.
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Bellingham
Pacific American Fisheries Stockholders
Pacific American Corporation
PAF
Washington State
Nat S. Rogers
Seattle
S. G. Tarrant
Tarrant
Alaska
Charity Box Opens June 5 Sponsored by Petersburg Guild
The Charity Box project by the Petersburg Hospital Guild opens Monday June 5 from 1 to 5 PM and will run each Monday all summer. Volunteers invite Petersburg homemakers to donate usable clothing and household furnishings, with all proceeds benefiting the local hospital. Call the committee to arrange pickup of donated items.
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Charity Box
Petersburg Hospital Guild
Petersburg
Kvernvik and Reid Plan June 24 Wedding in Petersburg
The forthcoming marriage of Miss Janet Kvernvik and Leslie Reid, both of Petersburg, was announced this week. The ceremony will take place at Petersburg First Presbyterian Church on Saturday, June 24. The bride is the daughter of Mrs and Mrs Marvin Kvernvik, a Petersburg High School graduate, with recent studies at a business college in Portland. The groom is employed by Reid Bros Logging Co, a Petersburg High School alumnus who served three years in the U S Army. His mother, Mrs Vina McCullough of Petersburg, will be in town for the occasion.
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Janet Kvernvik
Leslie Reid
Petersburg
Presbyterian
Marvin Kvernvik
Petersburg High School
Scen
College Portland
Reid
Reid: Bros.: Logging Company
U.ssr
Vina. McCullouch
Halibut landings and season notes from waterfront page
Waterfront notes report halibut landings since last Friday with figures for vessels Mars Nohusit Roosevelt and others, plus 700 king crab put up by K D. Gillnet and trolling activity in the Stikine district. The season is described as poor and near closing with a Memorial Day tribute to skipper John FR Otness back problems. The Pavoa children flew flowers over Cape Fanshaw waters for their drowned father.
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Mars
Roceevelt
Gillnet
Avid
Stikixel
St. John
Langvog
Nancy
Seattle
Neice
Leonard Martens
Petersburg
RAF
Harbormaster
Eskimos Arrested In Barrow For Out Of Season Waterfowl
Governor Egan said welfare costs could rise about 160000 annually if northwestern Alaska natives are barred from taking migratory waterfowl for food out of season. Two Pt Barrow Eskimos were arrested for killing ducks and geese out of season.
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Juneau
Alaska
Egan
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Barrow Eskimos
Satuday
Barrow
Eskimos
Udall
U.S. Atty
Jerry Shortell
Fairbanks
U.S
Mexico
Canada
Motor Vehicle Division Moves to Anchorage
Alaska Revenue Department will transfer its motor vehicle division from Juneau to Anchorage around August 31. Of 81,924 registered vehicles in 1960, about 70,000 were in the west and northwest, with a transient population near the rail belt boosting transfers and division work. Twelve employees will move with the division. other department offices remain in Juneau.
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Juneau
Peter Gatz
Department of Revenue
Anchorage
Gatz
Alaska
Westwalfs
Department of ‘Revenue
Department
Fires Claim Two Lives in Alaska Homes
Fire in Wrangell killed Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gross and left their three year old granddaughter unaccompanied. A separate Sitka blaze killed Mrs. Ruby Carlson, grandmother of five children who perished in a Sitka fire two months earlier. Fire chief cited a faulty chimney flue as the Wrangell cause while Sitka officials reported a misplaced cigarette started that fire.
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Adaska
Wm. Gross
Wrangell
Sitka
Ruby Carlson
W. Grant
Mr. Gross
Port Beauclerc
Willa
Bessie Ashland
Gordon Buness
Harvey
Daniel
Douglas
Amd
Romaine
Jacqueline
Margo Gross
Ketchikan
Petersburg VFW Wins Three State Awards
Petersburg post returns from the Juneau state VFW convention with three trophies. Mr and Mrs Than Lewis cited as attendees and outstanding member honors for Lewises. Dr R C Smith awarded for community service and veterans work. All awards displayed at People's Drug. Next department convention set for Sitka.
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Petersburg
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Juneau
Than Lewis
Petersburg Post
Lewis
R. C. Smith
Lewises
People's Drug
VFW
Sitka
Department
Eugene Durgee
Vic Pattison
Fairbanks
Ivan Rezek
Louis Fiorella
Ketchikan
Robert M. Potter
Frank Hughes
William Reuter
Anchorage
Petersburg Toastmistress Meet Monday at Pastime Café
Petersburg Toastmistress club schedules a 6:30 PM gathering at Pastime Cafe with three speakers presenting on Pointed Toed Shoes No More Than The Seat Can Endure and Character As Precious Jewel. Topics tie to a prior April Council 13 Northwestern Regional ITC meeting in Ketchikan.
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Petersburg
Council 13
Northwestern
ITC
Ketchikan
Mildred Elkins
Mary
Alaska Schedules Major Micro Wave Link To Alaska Telephone
A $9.6 million Morro Wave 6 link announced to connect Alaska Telephone and British Columbia Telecom. The Tropospheric Scatter system will start this month, linking Annetta Island to the BMEWS network and meet the Vancouver to Port Hardy line to the south. Initial capacity is 120 circuits, expandable to 240, with completion planned for early next year.
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Seattle
Alaska
U. S
Coaimuka Telephone Corporation
Compebia Telephone Company
Annette Island
Vancouver
Port Hardy
C. J. McLean
Alaska Telephone
B. C
SE Conference Board to Meet in June
The Southeastern Conference executive board will meet in June to map the program for submission to the International Development Committee in Washington on June 20 and 21. Petersburg delegates include Ernie Haugen and L. M. Williams Jr. Norma Elizabeth Tate, Beth Tate, received the Elks and Emblem Club scholarship at Petersburg High School graduation.
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Fie
Felix Toner
International Development Committee
Petersburg
Ernie Haugen
L. M. Williams, Jr
Elks and Emblem Club
Petersburg High School
Norma Elizabeth
Beth) Tate
Norman Tate
Galena Freighter Run Aground Near Wrangell Narrows
The Alaska Steamship Co freighter Galena ran aground at Green Rocks in Wrangell Narrows last Sunday. It floated free with the incoming tide and reached Ketchikan under its own power. Officials say Galena suffered no apparent damage and continued to Seattle.
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Alaska Steamship .Co
Galena
Green
Efforts Underway To Obtain Petersburg Dentist
Mrs. W. W. Bailey told the Press today that efforts are being made to secure a dentist for Petersburg. She asked people seeking dental work not to call her at home and that an announcement will be published in the Press when a dentist becomes available.
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Petersburg
W.W. Bailey
Weekend weather unsettled with rain squalls and gusty winds
The forecast calls for unsettled conditions this weekend with squalls of rain and southerly winds reaching 15 to 25 knots. Skies will be partly to mostly cloudy with scattered showers and patches of night and morning fog. Temperatures range from 40 to 60 degrees, with a high of 62 and a low of 39 recorded on the 28th. May rainfall and days without rain show notable year to year variations.
Alaska Loggers Set Petersburg Meeting on Legislation
The Alaska Loggers Association plans its spring meeting in Petersburg June 3 and 4 to press for changes in basic industry laws. Secretary manager R W Pickrell cites SB22 driven cost hikes, unemployment costs, and taxes as harming logging. State Rep John Longworth and regional forester P D Hanson will address the banquet. operators from Southeast Alaska will attend.
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Wil
Alaska Loggers Association
Petersburg
R. W Pickrell
ALA
John Longworth
P. D. Hanson
Juneau
Alaska
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Kodiak
James Leckley
New York
Lloyd, Bennett
Emil Knudsen
Knudsen
Leckley
DR. Meyer
Optometry Board
Wm.a. ‘Egan
C. J. Meyer
Alaska Board ‘of ‘Examiners
DE ‘Meyer
Alaska Optometric Association
Boix
Petersburg-Wrangell
Chamber of Commerce
Bob Fitzhugh
S.pam
Pacific American Corp
Kvernvik-Reid
Waterfront News
Wrangell Fire
Jack Savage
Carlson
Berg Cote
E Aon
Burg San Easok
Petatdhany
Cole
Paddock
Jensen
Berg
ADFG
Seldon
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Harry Merriam
Merriam
Alacud
Pickrell
The
Forest Service
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