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I will not say that Fouke did not earn the money, but it looked like 

 they were doing better than we were. 



Mr. Potter. Obviously, the fibres you have do not tie in with the 

 figures we have. 



The reference that I had is a letter from John Townsend to Mr. 

 Sharood dated February 23 or February 28, 1971, 1 am having trouble 

 making the date out, and you might want to run down your own files 

 and figure out how these relate to each other. 



It just occurred to me this does appear to be a large sum of money 

 and since we are all concerned about improving the economy of the 

 Pribilof Islands, we are running perilously close to what the United 

 States used to be accused of doing with the underprivileged countries, 

 going in and taking resources and taking most of the most of the money 

 for the United States. 



Mr. Pollock. I understand they have quite a complicated contract 

 in figuring out the price. 



Mr. Potter. I can assure you that it is. I spent 2 days working 

 through the contract formula procedures. 



Mr. Pollock. Do you wish us to respond to this in writing? We will 

 have to check the letter. 



Mr. Potter. It would be most helpful if you will, to see if we can 

 integrate these figures with the figures you have got which I would like 

 to have also. 



Mr. DiNGELL. I think it would be helpful. You might want to submit 

 the figures you have with you, Mr. Pollock, so we can try to round 

 them off with what we have, those that have been submitted to the 

 committee. 



Mr. Pollock. Yes, 



(The information follows :) 



1960 .. : $4,743,350.54 $1,587,948.73 $3,155,401.81 



1961 4,089,016.12 1,514,082.69 2,574,933.43 



1962 4,386,633.99 1,477,694.87 2,908,939.12 



1963... 6,003,959.44 1,956,088.60 4,047,870.84 



1964.. 4,601,365.26 1,722,044.23 2,879,321.03 



1965..-. 3,153,011.96 1,053,641.21 2,099,370.75 



1966 . - 4,469,614.38 615,452,56 1,400,183.48 



1967 3,372,012.17 527,059.66 1,156,293.18 



1968 4,426,299.98 613,999.08 1,440,733.05 



1969... - 3,782,989.58 539,077.38 1,087,562.02 



1970 2,906,118.28 607,643.35 670,982.69 



Mr. Potter. It has been alleged by the opponents of the fur seal 

 program that the Fouke Co. advertising budget is very substantial — 

 on the order of $750,000 for 3 years. I think that was the figure used. 



Can you tell me, one, is that true ; and two, does that come out of 

 Fouke's share of the proceeds or the Government's share of the pro- 

 ceeds ? 



Mr. Kirkness. The figure has been bandied about as the amount for 

 advertising for 1 year and it is considerably off. 



Some years ago when the U.S. Government negotiated the contract, 

 the Government decided that advertising was in the best interest of 

 the Government getting more money for the sealskins. 



