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Only a fraction of the vote is eligible for Tuesday's election turned out to decide if the community should go dry. Over the 14 years since Bethel voters banned the sales but not the importation of alcohol, the community has been on the constant fire by nearby dry villages to also ban its possession. However yesterday the city's vote has turned out that option by a two to one margin. They chose instead to keep things the way they are at least until the next election which is less than two weeks away. It took only 418 no votes to reject a proposal. Here's how the voting went in each of the three precincts. In precinct number one located at the KVNA building 48 people voted yes and 105 voted no there were six question ballots. At precinct number two at the KVNA area 121 people voted yes and 202 voted no there were no question ballots.

At the last precinct at Bethel senior center 49 people voted yes and 111 people voted no and there were 15 question ballots. There was a total of 42 question and absentee ballots yesterday. City clerk Adam McGowan said the additional ballots would be counted before Thursday's city council meeting which is when the election results will become official. In all Bethel residents will vote on three more options in the next few weeks all of which will allow some sales. Perhaps the most surprising thing about yesterday's vote was that in the town of some 4,400 people only 218 voted for the community to go dry. That despite almost constant meetings about the alcohol problem and repeated calls by some community leaders for the town to ban the booze. However only about one third of the voters eligible to vote in yesterday's election actually went to the polls although there appears to be more voters who want alcohol than those who don't voters in the past have also rejected any attempts to allow even limited sales.

For that reason it's almost impossible to determine the outcome of the next three votes. According to the state division of elections the last question to win approval by the voters will be the one Bethel residents have to live with until another petition is approved. In Bethel I'm Rich Trotto. Cladis what do you think about the voting facilities here? As you can see I'm all bundled up it's not very warm here. It's pretty chilly you know it's a cold day out anyway and no heat in the building and the boys had the back door open here where they were unloading a bunch of lumber in and supplies for to fix this building up. So it's not very adequate facilities for and this has been going on for some time you know this isn't the first time this is that we've been here as how many years several years and you're now and it's not very comfortable there's no toilet facilities for us and there's no water dripping there's dripping.

So you'd like to see a change that may move some definitely definitely we'd sure like just have it changed to move to somewhere so we can be more comfortable and and today is a kind of a slow day anyway so we're not moving around very much we have to get up and walk around to warm ourselves up. What are you doing to keep the time going and to stay warm? Well I tried sewing but my hands got so cold I've got my hands and my pockets and I do warm them up and we're reading and gossiping and all that. You think the next election will have it at a different place like where the Joe Lomack building? We're hoping that they'll move us to some other place because this just isn't it isn't a good place to be for you know for all day we've been we're here from 8 o'clock this morning till 8 this evening and that's a long day to be where it's cold you know or your children. We're dressed warm we went home at noon and we put on extra clothes I've got down jacket under here down vest and my this and then my coat over it and long johns and boots and

it's like the middle of the winter then yeah yeah really yeah well we hope it does get changed and we hope that they'll move us to some other place. It started out it's a slow turnout this morning picked up over the noon hour however indications are still that the vote will turn out to be below average by mid afternoon almost 250 Bethel residents cast their vote on the measure which would ban the possession of alcohol in the city of 4500 people a yes vote would make Bethel the biggest city in the state to ban liquor so far the biggest turnout has been in precinct to with the library where 167 people cast their votes by mid afternoon by that time 82 people had voted in precinct 1 in the KVNA building and 74 had cast their votes at the senior center

1648 voters are eligible the vote in today's election the light turnout so far is surprising since the battle over whether or not Bethel should go dry has been a hotly debated issue over the past year we spoke with some people just after they voted to ask them what influenced them the most in considering today's question I think people some people should just have a choice whatever they like to do that they can do it you know can take people as choices away you know all the accidents and trauma and everything else it's connected with alcohol problems the number of PC cases all that kind of stuff seems to be a lot better off without it seeing what alcohol is doing to all the people in the doctor on the the rapes the murders the seems that if you didn't have booze around here a lot of your problems wouldn't exist this is the first the four local option elections facing Bethel vote is in the coming weeks the other three would allow some sales with one option

calling for the city to go totally wet k y k radio and TV will broadcast election results tonight at 10 11 and 12 o'clock midnight in English and in Yupik join us then and find out the results of today's election in Bethel I'm rich throttle it was a project that was first talked about six years ago and finally after a roller coaster ride of planning sporadic building and a lot of delays Bethel has a new dog pound to house its homeless and stray animal population Bethel public works director Ray stocks says the fifteen thousand dollar project has been a hotly debated issue in town for some time for I'm glad to get this out of my hair it's been a problem basically ever since I've been here and I guess before I come from listen to people talk it's been on the list for since 1982's stock says the new building is a big improvement over the old one he believes the new dog pound

which used to be the building for the old public workshop could house more than thirty animals and possibly more well we got all of our material in this big thing and getting the building jacked up out of the first the frost when we first started was another big item we had to thaw that out and keep going and then naturally building the building inside of another building is quite slow but it's a nice building I think that at least the dogs ought to be happy in there after a series of delays including no nails for construction the Bethel dog pound is finally completed stock says the facility will be operational in the next couple of weeks practically we've got to have the power run up here yet and then it's where you go they're in there doing the final painting and stuff on it now what do you think it's going to be fully operational I think within the either the end of this week or the first the next week they can move into it now the set for it's set up for the you know where they put their kennels and stuff in and operate it now the public

works director said one of the final steps and completing the project which is located on the dump road was to put a special covering on the floor to make the pound more sanitary there is no word on what the old dog pound will be used for I understand right now that they're they're ready to move into it now as all they're just getting their cells together down there moving what stuff they have down here and I don't know how busy they are on that or not because I know that the police department is really tied on help right now and so I think that's what their schedule is I don't know so let's the corporation started out with eighty million dollars in capital over the years the losses have been staggering and now the company has only twenty percent of that left the regional corporation has invested in hotels real estate development construction fisheries and consulting services poor

management combined with the boom and bus nature of Alaska's economy contributed to chalistas sixty four million dollars in losses in nineteen eighty six chalista had a total of twenty subsidiaries now the list is down to seven and the company's chief operating officer Terry Reimer says they're taking another look at the ventures they have left at this point we are restructuring we're looking at every operation that chalista is involved with if it's not profitable and has no potential for making profit then we will seek a way to exit ourselves from that. Reimer says a north slope oil rig a seremie firm and a business investment company are making money and he says these give chalista solid financial base three other firms are being reevaluated chalista executives say the corporation has bottomed out and it's on its way up twenty eight people have been trimmed from the staff as various unprofitable ventures have been closed or sold chalista has instituted a better planning system and is focusing on one thing profits an incentive program is

now in place to encourage managers to produce and corporation president and chief executive officer Johnny Hawke says his management team is lean and mean and has the experience to do the job. Chalistas relying on insiders to turn the company around Hawke was installed as president in february after spending many years on the chalista board. Chalista's top three managers have all held key posts for at least four years. Reimer says chalista's new team is showing results and most importantly it's rebuilding credibility with the banks credibility at lost when the company stopped making loan payments on the shared in hotel forcing the bank to press foreclosure. He says chalista came close to filing for protection from its creditors under chapter eleven of federal bankruptcy laws and even though the company is managing to pay back its debts without chapter eleven protection Reimer says he won't rule it out now. As a business tool you never rule it out and I would be stupid to say that I totally rule it out in the near future or even in the longer term future. It is a planning tool it is a business tool and as such

it's never ruled out. Chalista has caught in a difficult financial position one of the most lucrative handholds to help trouble the last negative corporations out of the hole is disappearing. The US House of Representatives passed a bill taking away native corporation rights to sell their net operating losses. These NOLs as they're called can be sold to corporations that are making a profit and need a tax right off. Chalista has sold fifty-four more than twenty Bethel residents attended last night's NASA reception which officially welcomed the scientific group to town. Bethel Mayor Diane Carpenter gave the opening remarks for the NASA reception which lasted more than two and a half hours at the Kuskakwim College Friday night. The NASA contingent special guests and the public received the red carpet treatment and assortment of foods and

beverages were available during the festivities. Heading up the NASA group was Chief Spokesperson Dr. Robert McNeil. He told the audience why NASA picked Bethel as a site to conduct experiments on how methane gases travel in atmosphere and where they go. We're interested in the tundra out there which is a major source of methane gas and other things in the atmosphere so it's this is a prime source region for one of the most important greenhouse gases. Bethel is was selected as a logistical base because it's close to the region and we could locate the experiment here supported logistically and still not have the impact of a lot of pollution. Part of the NASA project which is called GTE able is located about 20 miles northeast of Bethel. The lake where the ground crew said its experimental tower at was renamed the lake able. McNeil says there is growing concern about the hole in the ozone layer of the South Pole that concern prompted the experiments to take place in Bethel. He also believes

the greenhouse effect where temperatures are rising to drought conditions all over the world is an issue everyone should be concerned with. What we're interested in is is what's going on here in these in these prime ecological regions in Alaska. What the impact that ecosystem is what kind of material is putting into the atmosphere we want to understand the contribution that this important environment is making to the chemical composition of the low atmosphere and therefore to the greenhouse gas effect. McNeil says his team's expedition is costing nearly three million dollars he estimates that one million of that will go into Bethel's economy to feed in house the scientists. The group recently conducted some similar experiments in barrel in addition to the ground team the NASA contingent will be flying in a special high-tech plane to measure the gases from the air. If we've been a burden of any kind now I'm afraid it's going to get worse because when the

airplane gets here there's going to be about 20 more people show up. Takes it there that many experimenters plus the people that we take to fly and care for the airplane. The airplane is a an a Lockheed Electra a four-engine turbo prop which is really equipped to be a flying laboratory. The plane is supposed to arrive in Bethel either Sunday or Monday so far the NASA experiments have gone well one scientist says nothing Earth shattering has been discovered but the data recovered has been valuable and informational. The NASA experiments will continue until mid-August and then they'll wrap things up. The group of scientists will head back to the respective homes to formulate their information and give a report back on their findings sometime in 1989. McNeil said a return trip to Bethel is a possibility for more experiments in five years. In bankruptcy court Monday Ryan agreed to make a $93,000 payment to its insurance company out of a checking account that only holds $100,000.

Ryan can't touch its cash reserve account of Rainier Bank until it's flying again and it can't do that to the FAA finishes its inspection. Ryan also agreed to pay the rest of its insurance debt incurred when it rationally promised to be in the air last April on the 1st of August. That payment of $39,000 will be combined with another installment then due of $43,000 a total of $82,000 due to the USAIG insurance company by August 1st. Now Ryan's budget calls for it to be generating about $32,000 in its first week of flying, assuming it flies Monday which is by no means certain according to the FAA it'll still of generated far less than it needs just to cover its insurance. The balance will have to come from its cash reserve now totaling about $270,000 and that money has to carry Ryan till its meeting its expenses and that has to happen in a deregulated climate that saw mark air step into many of Ryan's roots within hours of its ceasing operations. Marker officials would not comment on Ryan's

efforts but the airline did make several filings in opposition to Ryan's application at the Transportation Department. Still the exemption issue by the Transportation Department is a major hurdle now behind Ryan. It not only allows it to fly and generate revenue again but it says on the record that it's financially fit to keep itself flying. This carries significant weight with bankruptcy judge Herbert Ross who some months from now may be called upon to approve a reorganization plan that will allow it to fly out of the protection of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Act. For APR and an Anchorage, I'm Steve Heimel. Does it need for more information and for the dollars to gather it? That was the consensus at the end of the Donut Hole Symposium here in Sitka where for three days scientists from all over the world meant to talk Pollock. Their purpose was to determine the impact of heavier fishing on Pollock and international waters both on the stock itself and on the domestic fisheries in Alaska and the Soviet Union. Significant gaps still exist according to a

press release session at the Symposium's conclusion in our understanding of such important characteristics as biomass, stock identification and yield. To gather that information will be expensive. Speaking mid-week Senator Frank Murkowski called for innovative research to offset low funding. Additional research will certainly be needed by how and by whom is conducted and finance. It's going to take a lot of your thought and time. There is no way that you can expect to get adequate funding and that's just a harsh reality of the times. Senator Frank Murkowski. Symposium participants mean while called for a coordinated research effort in part to defray cost. That effort would include a look at Pollock genetics, tagging and hydroacoustic surveys to get a clear picture of stock levels. Not mentioned in the list of suggestions is a concept advocated by the American industry observers on board the vessel fishing in the Donut Hole. In Sitka I'm Brian Mann.

Approximately 34 people have been the main beneficiaries of this summer's jobs bill work money. Bethel has had several projects completed with the summer workers who have been employed by the jobs bill money earmarked for the city by the state legislature. The workers who started in early June have been involved in several projects around town including building and clearing out the city's culverts, painting the police and P.A.T.C. buildings and making improvements on P.G.'s park. Probably the most visible the jobs bill projects has been the new sidewalks installed around town. The jobs bill force has built sidewalks along the cemetery near the teen center and is currently working on a walkway down Main Street from 7th to 3rd Avenue. Patrick Heiluk is one of the jobs bill workers and he believes the sidewalk project is moving along and a pretty quick pace. We're going to fast since we started to have. How long have you been building the sidewalks? This one about two weeks

plus two weeks. Some of the employees have been working on street and road repairs while others have been involved in building and parks maintenance. Three of the jobs bill workforce has been giving clerical positions at the city's offices. Kailuk says there are other projects still on the agenda for the jobs bill crew. Well I'm pretty sure we're going to have to build a small basketball court across the sleuth. Tim Hoosterman who is coordinating the jobs bill force says the workers will be employed until the end of July and others will probably work part of August. Kailuk hopes the jobs bill money is available again next year to promote local development. What about this jobs bill money everything has it worked out pretty well for you in the summer? Oh yeah came in handy so they needed. The state's airports aren't paying for themselves and the legislature told the Department of Transportation to do something about it. The

DOT told it statewide losing coordinator to make the legislature happy. I grew up and get some more money so that we can use it to rock that the cost of operating the airport system. Basically what's it up to the Department to try to determine what's a reasonable amount of money to try and get in the way of increases at one time or overtime. Steve Pavis and the DOT suggested increases in the cost of leasing airport property and the fees for using the field. If the increases are approved the revenue received by the Department of Transportation will be more than tripled. And that's the year 86 revenue generated by the airport system 2.2 million and the year 87 of 2.1 the final thing is radiator available right here. But it will increase airport revenue from about the neighborhood of 2.9 to neighborhood of 7 million in the first year. But before these increases go into effect DOT will have to conduct public hearings in 17 locations.

The first is on August 4th and the final one happens on the 2nd of September. Now we're in a situation where both the airport users in the state are faced with a need to generate revenue to run the airports and we're sort of in the same part together. Our objective in holding the hearings is not only to verify and explain what we propose but here is Madison land users and so forth have other alternatives they'd like us to explore to generate the revenue. Steve Pavis has already heard from some airport users. He says most want information but a few of proposed other options. He says copies of the proposals have been sent to all the airport users the DOT knows about. Still studying the proposals is Alaska Airlines so spokesman Lukan Selmi was not a commit one asked for a reaction. We understand the need that the state has. On the other hand it's almost axiomatic that any increase in our operating costs eventually get passed on

either to the passenger or ship or so. While there is a need there's also and that translates into an asset there's also a liability there that people have to be aware. The owner of an air taxi service base in Rangle had a stronger reaction. He hadn't seen the proposals yet but Dan Baldwin said they sounded outrageous and he joked he'll just double the fare of the state representative the next time he flies Rangle there. In Rangle I'm Charles Compton. We're doing 14 H1 sites these are selections that were made under the Inks under Inkson and their historic and cemetery places and the idea of the program is to select these lands so they'll be preserved in the future. Slaughter says in this survey the Inks of Village Lands Elections Committee recommends sites or cemeteries that they feel are historically important. Then

the regional corporation submits 14 H1 applications for these sites which then go through the Bureau of Land Management for review. Slaughter explains further. Then the BLM would send us the applications and then we would basically we go out and document the site and describe it and we'll map the sites and in this area in particular one of the real important things is to conduct oral history because there's a very lively very vivid oral history in this area. Before going out to document the sites the archaeologists meet with the villagers and decide which elders know which sites best. And then if that person's available we will work with them. Sometimes we need elders to find sites some of the sites but time we get them are mislocated on the map and sometimes of course there's like particularly graves are difficult. A single

grave out in the brush is really hard to find so we rely very heavily on elders to actually locate the site and then we make a real effort to incorporate as much oral history into the site as we can. Slaughter says when the project is over all of Alaska will have been covered except for the north slope area which shows not to have their sites documented. Our activities this summer will be going a little bit upstream from Aniak and then all the way to the coast. We have about a hundred and nineteen sites. We do it two ways. We collect information in the village about sites and in some cases we also take people out to the sites which is really interesting. Some of these sites you'll find people that can tell you who lived and who lived in the abandoned houses and of course burials through people. People know the names of many of the people that are in the burials that we find. Slaughter estimates that the project will be

finished by the end of August or early September whether permitting. He adds that the information they gather is submitted to a claims examiner who decides if a site is eligible under Anxa. If the site is eligible the copy of the report is sent to the corporation as well as the villages to be kept on file. Reporting for KYK news I'm Lilian Michael. The five mile walk begins at 12 noon at the ME school and continues along the Tundra Ridge Road to H Marka Lake and back. I would fake a stream of Alaska Airlines is organizing to walk for the March of Dimes. We're having a March of Dimes sponsored Team Walk is what they call it and we'll have as many people as possible show up with pledge forms that they've recruited people to donate money on a per mile basis and be a little bit of a competition between the teams to see who can raise the most money and how many people they can bring

in on their team. We're going to have prizes to give away to the team that brings in the most money and the team that brings the most people to the walk. We'll have individual prizes for the person who raises the most money through pledges also. We're going to start at the ME school area walk out towards Tundra Ridge to H Marka Lake where they've got a couple of airplanes parked there. We'll have a refreshment stand out there kind of the halfway checkpoint. Then walk back through Tundra Ridge. We have a little bit of a route through Tundra Ridge to make up our five miles. We'll end up back at ME school and it will be a total of five miles. Vegas from said the Walk America fundraiser is a national event which is usually held in the spring. We are a little later in the year than most of the functions generally because breakup comes so later around here that it's still pretty cold when most of the other

other states are having their walks and part of the problem too is a little miscommunication between the March of Dimes folks and folks in Bethel is to who was going to head this up and I was I was volunteered to kind of spearhead it so this was about the only time I was going to be able to to work on it. Now what should people do if they want to have a team or if they want to participate in the walk? We have several team captains that can contact any of the team captains or they can contact myself at 5 4 3 3 9 6 4 in the evenings or 5 4 3 3 9 0 5 during the day. I can steer you to a team. Team captain if you want to start your own team we can arrange that also. A number of local businesses have contributed prizes to the fundraiser. Those prizes include everything from cassette players to free meals and gift certificates and includes about $500 worth of free gravel. After the walk they'll be

enjoying for any prizes which are left over. Once again that walk begins at noon at the ME school on Saturday and K why you can't encourage everyone to participate by donating or walking. After all 5 miles is just a good stretch of the legs. Reporting from Bethel this is team captain Ritz Trado. I would think Docs ports that sort of thing adequate Docs and ports. Capital available for processing facilities. Even bigger boats. There's no reason why the only people can afford boats or poles or Soviets. I mean the last guns have got a lot of money too. If we were able to put that to those purposes I personally am a very strong believer in developing a surface transportation system and Alaska to bring the parts together so that you don't have to rely on the open sea although the sea is

always going to remain a very important avenue of transport but we should have a surface transport system linking the major parts of Alaska. I think we should spend money on that rail and road. Also of course our airport system is pretty good but that can stand some improvement too. Terminal facilities, fueling facilities, lengthening runways, making the surface is better. There's just an endless list of things we can do and people people I've talked to in Bethel they know what they need. I mean yourself and other people I've talked to have this idea and that idea and another idea. Those ideas ought to be gathered prioritized and go to work on it. Now would this money necessarily have to come out of just a dividends over the permanent fund? To answer your question, where does the money come from? I think that would be through the sale of bonds basically and then the money the debt service if it's a hydroelectric facility for instance or

thermal facility, the sale of electricity would basically pay that off over a long period of time. Then the purpose of the permanent funds earnings would just be to guarantee each of the buyers that if for some reason that failed, they'd have a backup through the permanent fund earnings and therefore their bonds could be sold at a low interest rate because they're safe. But some would have to come out of their earnings wouldn't it? The earnings are certainly a great stream of income it's not being used to any effective purpose except to inflation proof the fund as they say and to pass out these dividends. But my idea is that an Alaska would rather have a $30,000, $40,000 a year job or more or less but anyway a good year-round job than to get 800 bucks a year as the dividend. What was the purpose of coming to Alaska? Well we came to Alaska to try to

build bridges through the native population primarily. We were here in the big cities back in February this time we came to the native villages on the bush. We wanted to show them that the libertarian party is the only party that is really in favor of individual liberty for all citizens and that's why our Russell and I came up here. Okay Russell what do you feel the libertarian party holds for a native of Alaskans? Well I have read the entire platform that's what convinced me of the libertarian party it doesn't change from election year to election year like the Democratic Republicans. Well importantly though the entire thought and philosophy of libertarianism dovetails with the culture of Native Americans. Dovetails we're on the same path. In fact you know the libertarians are staunch constitutionalists they support the United States constantly most of it and they would like to see some of it improved. The point is the Constitution comes from us the Iroquois Confederacy our culture our culture has the same foundation no

matter what native we are throughout the hemisphere. So because we we have found full-time allies and no longer do we have to be among those with the herd instinct that are following the demo publicans through down to disaster in education which the country our children are now ranked 17th in the world our standard of living have fallen from first to seventh yeah there's six countries ahead of us with better standard of living in the country what what more do you need what more do natives need to realize over a half a century and the and the Democrats haven't worked you know for in fact they are the most insidious negative going for Indian people and native people in this country the Republicans they're vicious they don't work for for our sovereign rights

Andre what what have you been hearing from the people you've been visiting in rural Alaska? They're far they're they're greatly concerned about 14 much government in their lives when we were in Tenonaw for example I mentioned that the people who live there should have the control of their resources in their area it shouldn't be under the control of fish and game or some other bureaucracy in Juneau or Anchorage it should be under direct local control this really struck a responsive card in these people because they've been doing things for generations in fact probably for centuries that suddenly fish and game tells them they can't do but it's traditional with them it's historic with them they should be allowed to have the control of the resources in their area this is something that was of great interest to them and to people in other areas such as constitute the libertarian parties based upon individual liberty individual liberty as opposed to governmental power they indeed or opposed to each other as you build up governmental power you thereby

decrease individual liberty the Democrats and Republicans have been doing this for well over 75 years they have been doubling the overall tax burden on Americans every 30 years in the 1920s there was around 10 percent and the 50s are around 20 percent and now in 1988 to about 44 percent of the average income goes to all manner of taxes in fact it's so bad that the 1928 socialist party platform has been enacted by the Democrats and Republicans this means more government control more governmental power with a corresponding decrease in individual liberty now since we want to increase individual liberty that means we must decrease governmental power we must cut the bureaucracy cut the taxes cut regulation cut all of this governmental power in Alaska and I imagine the lower 48 a lot of native people here do receive a lot of things from the government health care the nonprofit organizations receive money from the government now wouldn't that kind of go against the libertarian philosophy no it wouldn't because with government money comes government control

of all you mentioned about the government trying to tell villagers how to live their life they can do this they can do that they can't fish now they can't hunt now once they catch their fish they can't do it they want to with it they must use it for this or they must use it for that plus the fact that you've got to understand that the money does not come magically from the government the money is taken away from somebody else by force in order to give it to this person over here wherever the money comes from it is taken away from that person by force in order to distribute it or redistribute it to somebody else let me say this as a native I know natives do not like the health care they receive from the government and here Kennedy wants everyone in America Kennedy and dukakis to receive the same kind of health care we receive now Indians and veterans cannot sue the government health care we cannot sue from our practice that's one thing we can't get a second opinion the health care is shoddy they experiment on us

so you do not want you do not want health care you don't want a comprehensive health care plan governed by government we need doctors they were like in Dillingham there was a private doctor there but he could not compete against the shoddy health care of the five physicians in the public health hospital who are not going to live in the community they put in their year in a remote native community and then they take off they're gone after they've experienced got to experience on us misdiagnosing etc so no we want the opportunity to give a second opinion and to be able to sue from our practice when something goes wrong we're gonna come to pay for the medical care which is getting to be more and more expensive if we had competition doctors coming out here because believe it or not there is a surplus of doctors we need more nurses but there is a surplus of doctors

and without government regulation we could increase the doctors there are many doctors from other nations that come to here that can't get into the American Medical Association because of government regulation not importantly our native healing method it's with runs again rush to the Bob Clark is the Deputy Director of Economic Affairs at the Soviet Desk at the US State Department he says groups on both sides of the border who wish to get together to organize a visit there or here for that matter can begin by making arrangements with each other this can be conducted at the you know the person-to-person level the the organization can be in touch with the Soviet counterpart and can work out mutually acceptable dates then the Soviets will apply to our embassy in Moscow for visas and we have a whole process which whereby we in the State Department get in touch with the American sponsors and and make sure that the visit in fact does have

sponsors and that there's a reason for the Soviet to be coming here and so forth that's the mechanical parts of it so just the exchanges themselves are generally relatively routine we've been doing this for a long time where you run into problem is illustrated by the the flight to providentia it's where you have individuals who want to say take a boat over to someplace in Siberia or they want to apply their own private airplane that's when you run into difficulties if you're talking about scheduled airlines if you're talking about Siberians coming to to anchorage it's relatively easy for them to fly from Moscow to Frankfurt and then on to anchorage but it's where you have these you know the smaller groups the individuals who have non-standard ideas let's say ideas that the Soviets are not used to having that as you know they have a pretty tightly sealed closed border system of their own and they're very very very uncomfortable with the idea of private aircraft or individual ships just showing up

at the harbor there it takes generally a lot of pre-planning and that is where the State Department oftentimes ends up getting involved clocks at any request would have to go through his desk in Washington from there it would be forwarded to the American embassy in Moscow who would in turn forward it to the Russian embassy in Moscow they in turn would give the request to their government for approval if it is approved it would go back through the embassies and back to Bob Clark who would take the request at the State Department after that if everything is approved the group can then begin to make plans for their trip to Russia in battle i'm rich troto more than $7,000 was raised Saturday and Bethel's version of the annual March of Dimes Walk America fundraiser 70 people showed up noon Saturday at the ME school parking lot for the event to raise money for

the fight against childhood afflictions and birth defects the money raised goes to children's health programs at the YKHC the 70 walkers a few runners traveled to the five mile course that started at the ME school and went through tender raise to a turnaround point at H. Marker Lake and back to the starting point Bethel's Walk America coordinator and spokesperson Arlen Fagerstrom said the event was a huge success he said the walkathon wasn't held last year but in 1986 Bethel only had 25 entries who raised about $3,200 this year's money raised doubled in 1986 efforts and tripled the number of people who participated Bethel's Marcy Shearer raised the most money in the walkathon she got pledges worth $530 for getting the most pledges shear won the top prize of $500 worth of gravel which was donated by connect construction she also finished the race first by jogging the five mile route five other people also raised between $300 and $400 in the walkathon the group included Irma Desmit Jill Elliott Janet Hoffman Gloria Rhodes and Sue

Brockner the winning team to get the most walkers was Jane Barker's 14-member hospital crew. Fagerstrom wanted to thank all the sponsors and donors for their time and health all the walkers qualified for various door prizes after the event also several Bethel businesses and organizations donated to the cause. He also wanted to thank especially the Lions Club for Eddie's bakery and D&G Express for their efforts with the refreshments and checkpoints. According to Bethel's Senator John Binkley the whole thing started when the federal aviation administration told the state they would have to pick up more of the cost of running rural airports. Binkley said the legislature did put in tent language in the fiscal 1988 budget directing the Department of Transportation to implement a new fee schedule. The DOT then came back to the legislature would request for $220,000 to put the fee schedule in effect.

However, Binkley said a budget conference committee throughout that appropriation at his request. Binkley said he felt the intent was clear that the legislature did not want the rate schedule implemented. They instead wanted to wait until the upcoming session to look at the matter once again. Binkley said he was in the process of drafting a letter to DOT Commission and Mark Hickey reminded him of the legislature's action. Steve Pavish is the statewide leasing coordinator for the Department. He said he's not sure where the money will come from to implement the new schedule but the Department felt it was time to go ahead with the lease plan and the public hearings. The Department has the legal authority as well as the legislative intent to proceed with the adopting of the fees and so forth. Alternative means are being looked into at this point of course where these fees are proposed. We have to go through the public hearing process

and consider the results and then the Department will make it. Final decisions and part of that final decision will be win well the left two parts what will the final rates be and second win will they be implemented and of course those two will be the latter one would be affected by the funding that's available. John Watts is the manager of Chamai Air in Bethel. He got together some of the local carriers this past weekend in order to discuss the situation and come up with some kind of unified response. The group decided to request a legislature to look at the problem again before any new fees are implemented. Watts says the fair increases amounts to attacks on the Air Pass and just particularly in the bush. This has caught area carrier every person who leases land from the state by

surprise. What we're trying to do is to effectively pull together some support try to get the word out to the to the rural people that hey this is this is biased. This is placing a financial burden on the back of the people who can't afford the burden. The village unemployment is 90 percent. Hey most of the most of the travel is absolutely necessary. The only thing we're trying to do is to get this thing blocked or get these hearings delayed until November. Watts also complained that there isn't enough time between when the lease fee schedule was released late last month and the beginning of the public meetings appoint disputed by Pavish. We sent notices and the copies of the rate proposal report to all airport tenants and all certificate of air carriers in the state and we mailed them on 22nd of July and according to the people I've talked to most of them

received them by the 26th and the deadline for submitting written comments is the 6th of September so they have by the 6th of September they will have had over 40 days to look at the proposals and and assess what impact it might have in addition particularly for baffle. The hearing is scheduled for August the 24th so from the time they receive the proposals until the hearing they have a welcome man. The next step is up to commission a hickey who will decide whether to take Senator Bankley's letter in the consideration or to go ahead with setting up the new schedule. In Bethel I'm Rich Trotto. Two arson suspected fires on consecutive mornings this week have Bethel Fire Chief Mark Barker worried that the incidents could be the start of a

string of blazes. Barker fears that if the arsonist isn't caught his fire department could be facing some more calls some that could be worse than the previous two. The Bethel Fire Department responded to a boat engulfed in flames on Monday morning the boat was a total estimated loss of $10,000. Then Tuesday morning at about 3.30 am the fire department responded to a call about an abandoned vehicle on fire. Luckily both blazes were put out but Barker would like to see the problem stopped before any further incidents occur. We had a abandoned boat that was set on fire and then an abandoned car that was set on fire. One of them happened yesterday early in the morning the other one the day before and both of them on second road housing up in Asha housing. There was just no reason for the fires to start in either one of these vehicles the boat and the truck. There was no electrical on in them no battery nobody was working on them. They were just vehicles parked next to people's houses and there was no reason for them to start. We're really

concerned here that hopefully we're not entering into a pattern of something that there's somebody not out there playing games with us. The Bethel Police Department is also asking the public for help in having the arsonist or any persons involved in the two incidents. Barker says new information is needed to help arrest any suspects in the case. What I'd like to do is ask the community especially people up in the housing area to keep their eyes open maybe talk to their kids find out if you know what's going on see if the kids have seen anything it's the type of situation that's really difficult for us to patrol or difficult for us to find somebody that's doing this. It's obvious that both fires were set there's just no reason for a fire to start in those vehicles. Do you have any suspects in the case so you think they're both arson related then? Well I could pretty much guarantee that they're both set fires. We don't have any suspects in the case right now we're following up some leads that we have. I'm thinking that

those leads are probably going to pretty much wash out. We really don't have much to go on right now so if we could get some community help if people seen anything both the fires have happened early in the morning one at six in the morning and one about three in the morning so most people aren't up and around at that time so it's going to even be difficult for those people but we do need all the help we can get. Now the breakup has officially reached Bethel in some of the other neighboring villages. The Cuscoquam River will be busting with activity with the summer fishing season on its way. In preparation for the heavy river use the Alaska State troopers in the Bethel Police Department will be running joint river patrols this summer beginning in early June and lasting until late August. One of the big problems that results from increased river traffic is bootlegging Bethel Police Lieutenant Chris Lu

hopes the patrol will help curb the problem. I believe that there are problems on the river regarding alcohol and trucks. However we only have two personnel on the river this summer so I don't see great and significant impact on to the crime. According to Lu the River Patrol will have two officers working 40 hours a week the unit will use the Alaska State troopers boat and keep the Bethel Police craft on standby for emergency situations. Lu sees the patrol being more effective than last year's one which was contracted out to a private organization. Although there's only one police boat and two officers on the river there will be some impact to the crime that's been happening in the city and around the villages but we only have one boat on the river and there are a lot of boats out there so we're seeking

community support and by reporting to us what's going on on the river. The patrol will cover an estimated 50 river miles from Aciac to Johnson River. Lu said the patrol will be able to give out tickets on the river for infractions and can arrest boaters who are driving under the influence of alcohol. The police lieutenant is hoping the river patrol is a success this summer. The main purpose for that is that we can provide some services to the nearby villages at the same time we can prevent the crime being committed in the city if we can handle it right there at the scene instead of later the community crime in the city of Bethel. For the first time in Jalista Corporation's history the required quorum was not met in spite of the last minute effort made by the

corporation staff. When the registration began on the 26th the corporation was short approximately 150 ballots. By the time the decision was made to postpone the meeting to a later date there were still short 35 proxies. Jalista Corporation president Johnny T. Hogs said shareholders always had at least 30 days to mail in their proxies in the past. This year the shareholders had in the initial time to give their proxies to Jalista in a 20-day period and that has heard the proxy solicitation effort. Aside from that this is the first time in the history of Jalista that Jalista Corporation did not offer a cash prize for those people that submit their proxies or be in person at the annual shareholders meeting. So I feel that those two things are working against us in terms of getting a quorum at

this time. Hogs states that when he was assigned as the Corporation president last February one of the priorities was to cut the number of employees from 43 to 20 and move to one office area. Hogs explains the situation with the Sheraton hotel. At this point we now have a deal in hand that would allow Jalista to sell the hotel to a buyer and we are looking at June 28th as a closing date for that transaction. The buyer have no option but to go ahead with the purchase of the sale. Otherwise they will be liable and Jalista will have no other recourse but to sue the buyer. The Jalista Corporation is made up of 56 villages within the Yukon Cascouquim Delta. Of the 56 villages about 10 villages were represented in Gangitunak.

shareholder Gladys Young of Bethel said a lot of the shareholders are disappointed with a situation Jalista is in right now. Young said the executive board should have put more effort in trying to reach the required quorum. Again the annual meeting was postponed until June 12th 1 p.m. Adolph Lewis reporting for KYUK. The Smithsonian had a policy to be announced through which they would not sell ivory products in there. He had been writing to them in probably four importantly. They would sell it to the catalog. We were able to persuade them for that. This was a legitimate business to these handicrafts for support around Canadians. If they reconsider their decision

and they will begin to sell ivory handicrafts and buy it to them. We think that'll be a big help for particularly from catalog to be able to help around Canadians in particular. According to the co-owner John Kruger who is presently working at LKSD in Bethel, the idea for the museum in Good News based started after he found somebody in the village with the same interest Kruger and Dan Skeleton are the owners of the museum. They began to display the artifacts in the village about a year ago. Well I've been collecting for quite a long time and as it happened there was another guy in Good News who also collected artifacts and rocks and minerals and whatnot and we pulled our collections together and opened it for viewing. Kruger who has been collecting since he was seven years old had about 250 items when he met Skeleton. Some of the artifacts were found in Good News Bay and the elders there

explained they were items such as men's or women's knives, arrowheads and the like. The museum not only has a collection from the UPY culture but has a variety of cultural background. I've got artifacts from from the lower 48 from Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, Illinois. We have some pottery from Arizona in New Mexico. We have some arrowheads from back west Idaho, Washington State. I have a small collection of German artifacts which I purchased from a collector down in Montana and I have a small frame of Libyan arrowheads from the Libyan desert which I also bought from the same individual. Kruger says their goal is to try and help native sell their handcraft such as baskets and carvings to businesses in the lower 48. Kruger is inviting anyone who travels to Good News Bay to come by and visit the museum for KYUK News Adolf Lewis. Hello, I'm Frank Duckle, Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

This year's severe drought is the worst jet in a series of bad years for waterfall. This videotape summarizes the information now available on the status of waterfall populations and the habitat. I wanted to share this information with you as early as possible because I believe we face hard decisions in setting this fall's waterfall hunting regulations. Dr. Raleigh Sparrow, Chief of the Service's migratory bird management office, has the first hand information from the breeding grounds. Well this is an example of a permanent wetland that has been affected by a series of years of drought. In the history of running this air ground transect, this pond has never been dry before this year. The decade of the 1980s has not been good for ducks and their habitat across large areas of North America.

In 1985, record low breeding populations, continued widespread drought, a high rate of agricultural impacts on wetlands in Canada and the US, and the lowest fall flight forecast on record, led to more restrictive duck hunting regulations. These restrictions and the continued depressed status of many duck species contributed to achieving a 25% reduction in total duck harvest, adopted as a strategy in 1985 and employed through 1987. In the spring and summer of 1988, ducks are finding few places to nest because millions of marshes are dry. Ducks returning to traditional prairie breeding grounds found even large permanent marshes like this one almost empty. Surveys are flown in May in the United States and Canadian prairies

to estimate numbers of breeding ducks and in July to estimate production.