"The All-Alaska Weekly"
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I EDITORIAL I
What's RIGHT With Alaska ...
As the primary election campaign begins to warm
up, we become aware, more than ever, of ail the things
that are wrong with Alaska. By the second Tuesday in
November, we will probably all be in the mood to pack
our bags and leave.
This newspaper believes that it is about time for
people to start talking about what is RIGHT with Alaska.
As the masthead of a midwestern newspaper proclaims—
"The past is gone, we face today."
It is far easier for merchants, politicians . . . and even
newspapers ... to be critical of Alaska. It is human
nature for people to enjoy complaining. It is a good,
normal trait.
BUT . . .
As with any human characteristic, there is such a
thing as overdoing it. When this happens in an individu
al, he is sent to a psychiatrist to determine the cause of
his imbalance.
The Alaskan prophets of gloom might well weigh
this fact as they send Alaska rolling down the cavern of
despair. And they might well ask themselves the ques
tion: "Is Alaska as sick as we proclaim it to be?"
We think not. We think Alaska is a healthy new
State with a great future in front of it. Above that,
we think Alaska has plenty to offer, right here and
now!
It would be redundant to here recount all the GOOD
things about Alaska. Space does not permit it. Suffice
to say that what is RIGHT with Alaska far outweighs what
is WRONG with Alaska.
The same goes for the future.
And that is what the merchants, the politicians and
the newspapers should be lending at least a little thought
to. Our collective state of mind"' is the real path to prog
ress.
Let's begin to talk up what is RIGHT with Alaska.
Let's talk about today and tomorrow. Let's be optimists
. . . and leave pessimism to those without sufficient
mental capabilities to grasp the great portents of the
future.
Good Work On Dust Control...
Our municipal public works department deserves a
pat on the back for the excellent manner in which they
have proceeded with the street oiling program.
This year is seeing the job done more expeditiously'
than ever before.
It seems just a few short years ago, when the end
of May saw swirling clouds of dust covering Fairbanks.
And while we have not completely escaped the dust this
spring, it has been greatly alleviated.
Our congratulations to the City of Fairbanks for a dust
control project well underway! (And now, if we can just
get some of those streets PAVED.)
Support The Trade Show . ..
The Tanana Valley Fair Association is sponsoring a
Fairbanks Trade Show on June 8, 9 and 10. This worthy
project deserves the support of the entire Fairbanks area, t
| Caught In
I The Sluicebox
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for the pioneer's is . . . incor
porate a new City, right along
side of Fairbanks . . . that's the
only way we kin elect a whole
new City Council all at one
lime.
NEWS BRIEF: Alex Miller,
viember of the board of direct
ers of the chambur of commerce,
was a recent visitor to Juneau.
Speak in about politics, we is
really gittin our share of the
governer candidates up here
these days. George Byer has
shook my hand six times al
ready . . . Howard Polluck has
bin on TV, which is his special
ty ... an Verne Martin has bin
givin some speeches attackin all
the other republicans.
This is the thing most folks
don’t understand about primary
elections. They hears the can
1 didate's choppin up all the guys
i from their own party instead oj
] the OTHER party and it gits
confusin . . . but ackshully, they
is runnin again each other for
the honor of choppin up the
candidate of the OTHER party
jin the genrul election.
Oh. it is so dramatic. After
•the primary, all the guys what
lost, suddenly changes their
minds and realizes the man
what beat ’em is a grate guy
; an they is supportin him in the
I genrul election.
Then, if there man wins, they
all git jobs in the State govern
mint, while the fellers what sup
ported the winner in the pri
mary gits left out in the cold.
This is knowed as Xhe fine
ole politicul custom of “reward
in yer enimies, and punishin yer
trends".” Sam Gompers had it
the other way aroun, but he is
gittin ole fashioned in this mod
' ern day an age.
Speakin about the good ole
days, you got to hand the folks
in Fairbanks credit. Hardly none
of em fell for all that publicity
about Clean-Up Week. Them
young upstarts got a lot of nerve
tryin to clean up this here
Camp.
Even seen one of them old
fashioned river boats eruisin
down the river the other day.
Feller in it even had on his
straw hat . . . didn't seem to
mind that it was rainin. neither*.
One thing bothers me about
them boat racers. With all the
high water, how does they git
under the Cushman bridge with
out knockin there heads off?
Speakin about high water, the
News-Miner flood is now in its
28th day. Ever since me pal Joe
Smith, who lives down on Wen
dell Avenue, flushed his toilet
an caused the Chena Ice tripod
to go out, we has been read in
about the coming FLOOD.
All the kids is so excited
about it, they is gonna stone the
News-Miner if it don’t happin.
Meanwhile, I has got my rub
ber raft ready, jist in case.
You know, that feller in the
straw hat reminds of the time
Robert Ryan wuz up here film
in “Ice Palace.” You never could
have told he was a movie star.
I seen him one day, walkin down
second avenue, wearin his
trench coat an sun glasses, an
lookin real inconspicuous. (It
was rainin that day too.)
Me ole pal, Hugh Wade wuz
in town the other day. settin
up the election office what will
hav Bob Caffey in charge of it.
Hugh was all smiles. (Wonder
if the fact he is about the only
unopposed candidate in the pri
mary has anything to do with
it?)
Wal, plantin seasin is upon
us, so I has really bin diggin
up the dirt this past week.
(When I has some room, I will
put some of it in the collum.)
Oh, soon it will be June, an
ole Buck ivill have his special
annual June pome for all you
avid readers. Guess I’ll go lay
down on what’s left of the river
ank, an think on it for a spell.
c^e Washington
Merry-Go-Round
•y DREW PEARSON
Sol Estes probers find link with ex-Ike bureaucrats;
Lyndon Johnson father of Educational TV; Rains seen as
top candidate in Alabama.
WASHINGTON—It's a lot more’
complicated than the $250 suits Bil
lie Sol Estes bought for agricultural
officials at Neiman-Marcus, but one
of the most important leads in the
Texas-Agriculture Department scan
dal goes to the doorstep of a very
respectable New York chemical
firm—Commercial Solvents.
Republican senators aren’t too
happy about this trend in the Billie
Sol Estes investigation, because two
Commercial Solvents directors arc
former bureaucrats in the Eisen
hower administration — Walter C.
Berger and James A. McConnell.
They were in charge of the Com
modity Credit Corporation under
Eisenhower, and Berger was chiefly
in charge when most of the govern
ment grain on which Estes made his
money was sent to Estes’ grain ele
vators. Estes stored a total of 33,
000.000 bushels of grain, of which
21.000.000 bushels was awarded him
under Ike.
Then the company, one of whose
directors. Walter Berger, had giv
en Estes profitable grain storage
contracts, turned round and took
Estes’ government grain rental
checks. These checks totaled more
than $7,000,000 in three year. In re
turn for these checks, Commercial
Solvents shipped Estes liquid fer
tilizes which he sold at such low
prices that he put 75 small fertilizer
companies out of business.
Berger’s Background
During the period that Berger
vvr<- executive vice chairman of the
Commodity Credit Corporation un
der Ike. 1956-60. and director of the
Commodity Stabilization Service,
this column reported that he might
be guilty of a conflict of interest.
vor Berger owned stock in the Shea
Chemical Corp. of Baltimore which
sold fertilizer to the Agriculture De
partment.
Other officials under Eisenhower
—notably. Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson—disposed of stock
in their companies when they en
tered government. But Berger, at
the time, admitted to my associate
Jack Anderson that he had kept his
stock. He also admitted that Shea
Chemical had done business with
the Agriculture Department. “I have
done nothing wrong.” he said.
Berger was also reported as fa
voring a huge windfall for the big
soap and margarine manufacturers
whereby 4,000.000 pounds of surplus
vegetable oils, held by Commodity
Credit Corporation, would be sold
at three cents a pound under mar
ket prices, thereby giving the soap
and margarine manufacturers a tre
mendous saving while depressing
the price of butter paid to farmers.
NOTE—Commercial Solvents, the 1
company which is so heavily in- i
volved withjgrilie Sol Estes, has a
gilt-edged list of directors, including j
Jeremiah Milbank Jr„ director of i
the Chase Manhattan Bank: Austin j
Igleheart, director of both Chase !
Manhattan and General Foods: and
Monroe C. Gutman, chairman of the I
Lehman Corporation executive com- j
mittee. These are big Wall Street
Republicans who apparently didn’t i
know any more about the meteoric
finagler from Texas than did Sec
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Temple, 809 First Ave. Dial GL 2-2836
Tanana Lodge No. 162 F&AM
Second Degree Wednesday, May 30. 7:00 P.M.
Second Degree, Saturday, June 2, 10:00 A.M.
Third Degree, Wednesday, June 6, 7:00 P.M.
Elmer A. Lanstra Worshipful Master
Forbes L. Baker, Secretary
Midnight Sun Chapter No. 6, O.E.S.
Second Friday of Each Month
Pearl Scherer, Worthy Matron
Mary Helen Chaddon, Secretary
retary of Agriculture Orville Free
man.
Daddy of Educational TV
When President Kennedy signed
the law providing for federal subsi
dies for educational television re
cently. Sen. Warren Magnuson (D.
Wash.), author of the bill, remarked:
"Mr. President, you voted for this
bill twice when you were in the
Senate. Now you’re making it law.
“There’s one guy who isn't here
who really deserves credit for this
bill,” Magnuson added, "and that's
Lyndon Johnson.”
Magnuson referred to the fact
that six years ago, Leonard Marks,
an attorney formerly with the Fed
eral Communications Commission,
had come to Johnson, then a sena
tor, and urged him to help provide
the nation with educational TV.
Working with Magnuson. Senator
Johnson then put a TV bill through
the Senate—only to have it blocked
in the House.
This year Magnuson pushed it
again. It passed the House, became
law, and was signed by the Presi
dent. After the signature. Kennedy
handed the pen to Magnuson. who.
however, handed it to private At
torney Marks.
“You're the real father of educa
tional TV.” he said.
Headlines
The congressman who will prob
ably run high man in Alabama’s
free-for-all, statewide congressional
race is Albert Rains, author of the
Kennedy housing bill. Rains out
maneuvered the Republican-Dixie
crat coalition so successfully in pass
ing last year's housing bill that Rep.
Howard Smith, the Virginia Dixie
crat congratulated him. “Albert,
he said. “I’ll have to admit that you
outgunned me. I didn't think you
could do it." . . . Earle Cocke Jr.,
former commander of the American
Legion, is the man who master
minded Senate support for the S100.
000,000 UN bond issue . . . Ambassa
dor Jerry Wadsworth. Eisenhowers
expert envoy to the United Nations,
has sent a copy of his new important
book, “The Price of Peace,” to Pre
mier Khrushchev with this inscrip
tion: “To Chairman Nikita Khrush
chev, in the hope that some day the
situation of true understanding ma>
obtain.” Wadsworth, a 6-ft.. 6-in
diplomat, is the man whom Khrus *
chev playfully hugged during U1
talks in New York.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS^
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That by
order of the Superior Court f0'..
Fourth Judicial District. State of a •
ka. the undersigned has been apr'\i,“,ith
Administratrix of the Estate of
A. Johnston. Deceased, with the will a
nexed. Ail persons having claims aSal‘l.
said estate should present them. ''
proper vouchers, within six months fro
the date hereof to the undersigned. *
the office of COLLINS and CLASP'
Attorneys for said estate, at 110 Cushrna
Street. Fairbanks, Alaska, which on'c
is hereby designated as the place 'v
the principal business of said estate v>
be conducted.
DATED this, the 29th day of May. I®62
/s/ Oren J. Hay don
OREA J. HAYDON.
Administratrix
First Pub.: May 30, 1962
Last Pub.: June 20. 19G2