The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-01-01
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When the 77th Congress ad- journed sine die last week. the pro- posal to amend the Alaska game laws to permit soldiers stationed in Alaska to hunt died with it, having failed to get out of the files of the Senate Territories committee. Mea- sure would have permitted service men with one years residence in the Territory to hunt under cer- tain restrictions. Delegate Dimond. who opposed the legislation as did the Alaska Game Commission be- cause of the danger of wiping out Alaska's big game by oyer-hunting, said he would re-introduce a bill in the next session converting in January to permit members of theI armed forces to become eligible for S3 hunting and fishing licenses af-I ter years residence.
 Biggest danger to Alaska wild life, the Territory's No 3 industry prior t0 the war, is too many hunt CTS. Crop is only so big and can stand only so much shooting be- fore it starts to anish. Game offic-I ials figure that if 50,000 additional hunters were turned loose on Alas ka game no means of conservation would save it. That's why they have been opposing the proposed legislation to allow service men to hunt. They vision Alaska's game going the way of the old west. If soldier permit legislation finally gets through Congress what you may see is a general closing of all hunting seasons in Alaska in an ef- fort to preserve some of the Terri tory's big game for future genera tions.
 The tough year of rubber ration ing will be 1943, according to Rubber Director Jeffers, ex-rail- roader drafted by the President to see that rubber stoekpile lasts un- til synthetic rubber production gets into full swing, probably in 1914.
 Tn 1943, there will only be 30. million tires. including recaps, a. vailable for automobiles, compared with the normal demand of 48 mil liOn," said the rubber czar. If all goes well, we should be able to all locate important quantities of rub Der for manufacture of civilian tires in the early months of 1914. Thus, if there is no hitch in the program, we should be able in 1944 to replace in a large measure the 1 automobile tires now in use on the 27 million passenger cars and five million trucks operating in the United States
 The statement is the first defin- ite indication that synthetic rubber production is making substantial l progress, and at the same time it reveals auto-loving Americans are 1 going to do more walking in 1943 than they did during the year just ending.
 Christmas is over, but Junior bet ter make the toys last. Office of War Information says there just won't be any more toys or games l containing certain metals and other critical materials" and this WPB order already is in effect.
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 Re-shaping of the Unemployment Compensation Commission of Alas ka, political pickering over which wound up the last Legislature in blaze of hot words, is underway and E. F. lessen, editor and pub fisher of Jessen's Weekly in Fair banks, has been named as the Re- publican member. There'l be a couple of Democrats, but no an- nouncement is yet forthcoming. | |
 Agriculture Secretary Wickard in. Sunday night broadcast point ed out that ratiOning is not popu- | T.