Kodiak mirror. [volume], January 10, 1959, Page 2, Image 2

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Special Meeting
Of Outdoorsmen
A very important special meet
ing of the Kodiak Outdoorsmen
will be held Monday. January 19,
®t the downtown school.
A board of directors of the club
will meet Monday, January 12 at
the home of the club’s president,
A1 Borton, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Two movies were shown at the
meeting of the club held Wednes
day evening. One was on the
Jamprey scourge of the Great
Lakes and the methods used to
combat them. The other concern
ed methods used by ranchers in
combatting mountain lions in
other states.
A discussion was held on cele
brating the first birthday of the
dub, which will be on March 11.
Changes Made in
excise Tax Laws
January 1 was an important date
Tor Federal excise taxes as well
■as for income taxes.
The recently enacted Excise Tax
Ttechnical Changes Act of 1958,
«*>btains important provisions
covering excise taxes on jewelry,
luggage, clocks and watches, life
f umibership club dues, admissions,
a ud; cabarets.
The new law lists in full specific
articles taxable as 'luggage and
kirnmmmmmmmmmmmmMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
jewelry in place of partial listings
in the old law,- with the rate re
maining at \jo percent.
As of January 1, life members
of social, athletic, sporting clubs
or other organizations will have a
choice of paying a one-time 20 per
cent dues tax on the full hmount
paid for the membership, or of
paying an annual tax equal to the
tax paid by members having
privileges equal to those of life
members, with the exception of
honorary memberships, on which
there is no tax.
The tax rate on general admis
sions continues to be one cent for
each 10 cents, or major fraction of
the amount paid for admissions.
After January 1„ the first $1 charg
ed will be exempt from tax. Pre
sent limit is 90 cents or less. •• •
The so-called “milk bars” which
sell light refreshments and pro
viding space for dancing, usually
to jukebox music, will not be liable
for the 20 percent cabaret>tax
starting January 1.
Police Report
Issuing of traffic tickets account
ed for the most activity on the part
of the police department for the
year 1958, ccording to the depart
ment’s annual report. A total of
1330 were issued. But this wasn’t
all by any means.
915 of these were for meter in
fractions. Illegal parking came
next with 173. The balance was for
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disregarding stop signs; speeding,
3: total of 85.; no license plates, no
tail light, no drivers license, etc.
There were a total of 53 vehicle
accidents, but only three injuries
sustained. Damage to vehicles was
estimated at $4,869.
189 dogs wrere picked up in the
course of. the year, and 164 of these
were destroyed. The department
answered 30 fire calls; they found
13 missing persons; 3 persons
drowned recorded; ambulance
calls,, 74. 25 juveniles were picked
:up after curfew’.
79. drunks were arrested for the
year, and 20 booked as drunk and
disorderly. There were 8 liquor
law violations; 8 arrested for
drinking in public. There were 5
cases of speeding, resulting in
court cases. 5 vehicles were stolen,
5 recovered.
Days in the pokey by prisoners
add up to 1042 days, and prisoner’s
\ meals served totaled 3,126.
r 21,865 miles were patrolled by
the police vehicle.
FISHERMEN OPPOSE
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bound by the White act,” he stat
ed. “Seaton abolished fish traps
for obvious political reasons,”
Cichoski replied. “Why can’t he
change that, too?” Baltzo then
stated: “If we had imposed the
‘grandfather clause’ in the regula
tions four years ago, we would be
in better shape today.” ’
Beaver and sea lions were seen
as a preditors on fish, making
serious inroads on the population.
DeWitt Fields and Alf Anderson ‘
thought they should be controlled,
especially in certain stream areas.
Tommy Clampferr stated the Sea
lions are getting plentiful, and are •
destroying'~fish. '• '‘There are mil
lions of them around Kodiak,” he
said-. Baltzo admitted the sea lions
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were fish preditors. “But how. to.
control them ; is the -problem.
Studies :are now being made to
utilize ...the meat and oil froin
them,’V he said, v - : ' ‘ *
Chuck Connelley,,- FWS .agent
here, in his report, .stated that
there was much mom gear in. the
water than Kodiak appears able to
stand. “By pimple mathematics, it
can be shown that, this year’s
average catch per*-., seine boat
aiAbtmted to flfihtly over 900Q
salmon, or roughly $i,000. This
Kind^of ■ competition to nfake a
;Jiying is ^ good neither for the
fishery fior- the .fisherman,” he
stated. He said removal of all coni*
peting types of gear wouldn’t, help
greatly* since the seine catch'runs
nearly 75% of the total.- nder
such pressure, maintaining our
salmon calls for less and less fish
ing time td instore even a mini
mum escapement of what might be
expected for a sustained yield.”
Karluk and Alitak areas were
1 the biggest producers last year,
with 25% and 23% of the season’s
catch in these areas, according to
the report. A million pinks, and
200.000 chums were taken from the
former, and over a million pinks
from the latter. The general disr
trict came next, with 15%, or
600.000 pinks, andv100,000 chums.
Concerning escapement in the
Kodiak area, generally the show
ing is poor, he said. Red River
held up fairly well in red escape
ment, but 'low in pinks. Karluk
came out-: reasonably well for
escapement of pinks.
Because of the relatively poor
escapement in 1957, the outlook
for strength in the pink salmon
runs of 1959 is not encouraging,
according to the Departments
estimates. Two determing factors
that may save the run, however,
is the earlier spawning of the
brood stock, followed by an excep
tionally mild winter. This could
possibly result in a lower egg and
fry mortality of this light seeding,
according to the research report.
Connelley stated that the 1956
pack totaled 240,000 cases. In 1957
it was near 345,000. This year the
pack was around 322,000 cases.
The red salmon pack was up
3000 cases from last year’s 15,000,
he said. Karluk this year had a
total run of abut 464,000 reds. He
attributed this increase as due in
part to the Department’s regula
tions, which are based on a princi
pal of obtaining an even flow of
escapements.
The fisheries management agent
here summed up his conclusions
by stating: “Elsewhere in the
Kodiak area there were no real
bright spots for escapement for
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any of the three sustaining species,
reds, pinks and chums. The
general district got an unexpected
spurt of pinks and this shows up
somewhat in the possibilities for
1960, but for the most part, I
would say that Kodiak is definitely
not “well” for seeding stock.
Under good survival conditions,
though, I feel this area can pro
duce a run equally as good as this
year and perhaps somewhat better
in the 1960 show.”
Chuck Conkle, fisheries biolo
gist stationed at Karluk, reported
on research developments there.
Karl Brunstad, in a written re
port to the Bureau, lashed out at
“conservation” as an end in itself.
“Is it not just as ‘empty’,” he
stated, “to conserve Alaska’s pre-.
cious salmon resource for the (al
most sole) benefit of some foreign
nation?” Referring to the import
of Japanese salmon into the U.S.,
Brunstad stated: “It makes a
pathetic picture: Our nation is the
greatest consumer of the finished
product, which is being processed
from material that was grown on
our own soil-We grow the crop,
others reap the harvest and sell il
back to us. This must be rectified.
If more research is needed, let m
have it.”
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