Show welfare commodities diverted for use of alaskan natives the grand and san juan counties department of public thel welfare received word from the food distribution division of the U S department of agriculture marketing service in san francisco that the december allotment of commodities originally scheduled for distribution in this area was being sent to alaska the department of agriculture received an emergency call from the alaskan native service for food in order to meet the situation caused by reason of a poor fishing season I 1 in n alaska the commodities which consist of canned beef and gravy were to be distributed this week I 1 it is expected that commodities will again be available for distribution trib ution in the two counties during january 1954 |