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I EDITORIAL I
Ilf's 'Silly Season' In Juneau. . .
Lately they've been celebrating the "Silly Season"
down in Juneau. The Second Session of the Second State
Legislature should give Alaskans cause for sober reflection.
The framers of the Constitution envisioned the Sec
ond Session of each Legislature as primarily a "Budget
Session". But this Legislature has gone far off the track.
Even the First Session of the First Legislature, which
accomplished the massive task of transition from territor
ial to State status, worked only 80 days with pay. There
is no excuse for this current Session equalling that mark on
(its second trip around the course.
While waiting on the budget, our legislators
seem to have been scraping the bottom of the barrel
in search of idiotic actions. In one case, the House
recently appropriated badly needed money to clear
I snow from the runways of Arctic airports but made
the money available the middle of next summer!
The other day a resolution was passed asking the
- United States to establish a 40 miie limit for territorial
waters instead of the present 3 mile limit. While osten
sibly a move to aid the Alaskan fishing industry, the reso
lution will make us the laughing stock of the Nation when
viewed on the overall picture.
This Session of the Legislature has been the most
resolution happy in Alaskan history. It is a known fact
that 99 per cent of all resolutions passed by a Legislature
aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
The crowning glory to the idle hands of our law
makers came with the passage by both Houses of Senator
W. O. Smith's bill to take political parties out of politics.
In addition to beinq an unnecessary bill, the new law has
a number of harmful effects.
I Under the terms of the bill, complete control of
both political parties is neatly packaged and handed
to the greater Anchorage area, complete with a fancy
ribbon. We wonder how Senator Smith can face his
1 constituents back in Ketchikan and explain his actions!
As an example, the name of Wilfred Stump, promi
nent Ketchikan attorney, has been frequently mentioned
for election to the post of State Party Chairman at the Dem
ocratic Convention in Nome this month. Under the terms
of the Smith Act he doesn't have a chance! ALL party
posts will go to Anchorage because geographic factors are
completely ignored.
In States that have tried it, the "Smith Act" has
usually resulted in TWO party organizations for EACH
political party, with resultant chaos. In Alaska it
means that future candidates for political office will
have to rely on direct financial assistance from liquor,
labor, salmon, pulp andoil groups . . . there will be
no party organization to foot the bills.
These are just a few examples of the "Silly Season"
down in Juneau. They point up the fact that DRASTIC
REFORM is needed in our annual Session system. The Sec
ond Session of each Legislature must become a short
"Budget Session" with the superfluous resolutions and bot
tom-of-the-barrel bills relegated to the ash can, rather than
being placed on the law books.
Caught In
The Sluicebox
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ring for Ernie Greening’s seat.
Filin deadline is Mag 1 at 5 p.m.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Raloh
Rivers surprised everybody by
filin for reelection to his con
griss seat. (Ole Buck predicted
that one six months ago, while
he had his eves shut,)
HOTTEST CANDIDATE: The
BUCKWHEAT POLL shows
that Eagle Bill Egan an Axe the
Tax Kay is the leadin Democrat
contenders for govemer, while
Mike Stepovich and Wally (the
Door I* Open) Hickel is the
leadin R'epublicun challingers.
RUMEftS OF THE WEEK:
There is rumers all over that
John Rader is gonna * withdraw
as a governer candidate. While
John hisself is denyin these ru
mers, ole Buck figgered he bet
ter put it in before we git
scooped with another news-min
er AIN’T story.
Meanwhile, Ed Orbeck has
went and got hisself elected
president ... of the Lathrop
high school PTA.
The word is out, while we is
on politics, that after there good
deeds on takin political parties
out of politics, both Senuter Ro
Smith and Senuter Paul Grie
mann is gonna seek election
from the Anchrudge district
next time thev runs.
Wal, the old ball seasin has
started o\f good. Behind the
pitchin of Jack Kennedy, the
Washington Sennters won there
first game. Jack w>as in good
shape too ... he started off by
throwin a curve ball. (That is
a pitch he learnt from watchin
Nick Krushchev of the Moscoiv
Bears in action.)
Now that the ice pools has
closed we kin giv£ you the right
times. We has held off til now
so that all the guesses wouldn’t
be on the same day.
NENANA ICE POOL: The
Nenana Ice will go out on May
13, at 3:13 in the afternoon.
(That's the same time Fairbanks
goes out from the flood, if you
will feraern&er*}; **
CHENA ICE POOL: The ice
on the Chena will go slippin out
April 25 at 11:11 in the morn
ing. (Which means Jessen’s will
have to make up there front
pace twice that day.)
WINNERS: (Yep, we ci>en
predicts who will win the Ice
Pools.) This is a cinch predirk
shun, cuz the winner of th e Ne
nana an Chena Ice pools will
! be . . . hold yer breaths . .
the INTERNAL REVENU SER
j VICE.
Speakin about them fellers, it
| is about that time, ain’t it? For
| the next week, all the hanks
will be pretty low along with all
the taxpayers. The Buckwheat
Party has a solution for the in
come tax. We is in favor of re
pealin it.
Now we realize we is cuttin
pretty deep into Wendil kay’s
territory, but we has a solution
to go along with repealin the in
come tax. The big question, nat
cherully, is how kin you pay
for the government without in
come taxes?
BUCKWHEAT PARTY SO
LUTION: Abolish governmint
too. Now we is cuttin into Bar
ry Goldwater's territory, but we
has come up with a solution for
that too . . . Abolish Barry
Goldwater.
Serinshj, goiiernmint IS git
tin a little old fashioned. And
as long as us taxpayers is al
wuz complainin so much about
how ice could do a better job,
the REAL Buckwheat Party so
lution is to turn the country ov
er to the taxpayers an let them
run it for awhile.
Then the taxpayers kin tax
the governmint (which is the
biggest of the two) an we will
have more money to spend then
we has now . . .
Oh, that warm spring air is
shore viscious, ain’t it?
President does efficient job filling in as Secretary of
State; Warren salutes TOO year old judge; GOP nixes aid
to oldsters.
WASHINGTON—Dean Rusk has^
now become Secretary of State
again. While he was in Geneva at- j
tending the disarmament conference,
the real Secretary of State was
none other than John F. Kennedy. I
There was almost no detail JFK
did not handle.* He personally j
checked on State Department staff
work, conferred with State Depart
ment subordinates, made decisions
on individual countries. He even got
involved in State Department per
sonnel problems.
Kennedy was also on the trans-J
Atlantic telephone to President de
Gaulle in Paris and Prime Minister
Macmillan in London—which, how
i ever, is not unusual. He phones the !
heads of states in NATO countries,
including Chancellor Adenauer,
more than any other American Pres
! ident. In this case, he conferred
with De Gaulle about the Algerian
crisis.
j In addition, Kennedy was on the
telephone to Rusk in Geneva on
every important move and ordered
him to wait in Geneva for the new
Berlin proposal being readied by
. Foreign Minister Gromyko. It
turned out to be a rehash of past
proposals.
The public didn't know it, but !
i Kennedy also handled personally
. the demand of Chiang Kai-Shek that i
i he be allowed to invade the Chinese
mainland. With Chinese unrest in
1 creased by the food shortage, Chiang
claimed the time was ripe. Kennedy
, considered this carefully, finally de- (
cided the risk of precipitating
j World War III was too great. In
i stead he ordered a close watch on
Chiang to make sure he doesn't at
tempt an invasion without U.S. help,
i It was also the President who
made the decision to call Ambassa
j dor Everett Drumright hastily home
, from Formosa before the State De- |
partment papers were published on
! past U.S.-Chinese relations. They
, are somewhat embarrassing.
Kennedy also studied economic
and political reports on every Latin- i
; American country and even got into
j the act as to whether President
; Goulart of Brazil should address a ;
| joint session of congress. He also ;
read the latest intelligence reports ;
j on the growing crisis in Iran and \
decided to bring the Shah to Wash
ington for a hurry-up visit to bolster
j the Shah's sagging rule.
All in all it was a busy three 1
weeks for JFK. Now that Secretary
Rusk is back, Kennedy is turning a
j little of the detail back to him.
One Judge Salutes Another
The highest judge of the land.
Chief Justice Earl Warren, flew
3,000 miles across the United States
last week to pay tribute to another j
judge. In this case a retired Califor
nia Superior Judge — Peter J.
Shields.
Judge Shields is 100 years old. He
was born April 5, 1862, just one year
after the Civil War started. He has
lived through the Civil War, the
Spanish American War, and two
World Wars. But he continues to
be a man who hopes for peace.
He also continues to have his
faculties, his sense of humor, and,
most important of all, his liberal
outlook on life. On every birthday.
Judge Shields walks into the Del
Prado restaurant in Sacramento to
lunch with George E. Johnson,
another California liberal, to dis
cuss politics and the state of the
union.
So Chief Justice Warren, a Re
publican, flew across the continent
to help pay tribute to Judge Shields,
Democrat, as the University of Cali
fornia named a park in the judge’s
honor in commemoration of his
founding of the agricultural college
of the university.
Nix on Aid for Oldsters
House Republican leaders are so
bitter over President Kennedy’s
medical ca;e lor the aged program
that they have ordered GOP mem
bers of the Education and Labor
Committee to boycott hearings on
legislation dealing with other help
for aged people.
An Education and Labor subcom
mittee headed by Rep. Cleveland
Bailey of West Virginia, was all set
to open hearings in Maimi recently
on a bill that would establish a com
mission to coordinate all aids for
the aged now divided between the
Labor Department, the HEW De
partment and other federal agen
cies.
However, the Miami hearings had
to be called off because GOP Con
gressman Peter Garland of Maine
refused to attend, causing the ab
sence of a subcommittee quorum.
Two other Republican members
of the same subcommittee. Peter
Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and
Albert Quie, also are threatening to
boycott hearings on the bill planned
for Wheeling W. Va„ South Bend,
Ind., Detroit, New Brunswick, N.J.,
and three California cities—Sacra
mento, Berkeley and San Diego.
Nonetheless. Democratic Congress
men say the hearings will be held,
with or without Republicans pres
ent, and despite the undercover
sniping of two-Cadillac Charlie Hal
leck and John Byrnes, the two GOP
leaders who have given orders to
sabotage them.
Under the Dome
Dynamic John Dingell of Detroit
is the only congressman who has
spoken out against the new natural
gas advisory committee appointed
by the Federal Power Commission.
Dingell has been an alert consumer
watchdog in the past . . . Congress
man Dan Flood of Pennsylvania,
author of the depressed areas bill,
has been quietly needling the ad
ministration for more action to help
the depressed areas. Dan thinks
things have gone fairly well, but not
fast enough . . . Congressman
Wayne Hays of Ohio continues to be
the No. 1 needier of the administra
tion on foreign policy. He's friendly
but at times also ferocious. He gets
results . . . Three live-wire con
gressmen are running for the Sen
ate this year: Dan Inouye, the Ha
waiian hero who lost an arm in the
famous “go-for-broke” charge of the
442nd Division in Italy; Sir Yates of
Chicago, one of the most determined
battlers for small business (running
for the Senate in Illinois): David
King of Utah, son of a famous Utah
senator. He will run for the Senate
against GOP Senator Bennett . . .
Wisconsin Congressman Robert Kas
tenmeier has put the controversial
speech of Dr. Hans Bethe of Cornell
University in the Congressional Rec
ord. Dr. Bethe, one of the top atomic
scientists in the USA, lays it on the
line regarding U.S.-Soviet atomic
competition . . .
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
TV THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF At.A^KA
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
In the Matter o* the Estate >
of )
PAUL E. TOVEY, )
Deceased. )
No. 2310
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that,
pursuant to an order issued out of the
above entitled Court on the 4th day of
April, 1962, I will sell the following
described real property. for cash., to the
highest and best bidder, at the front
door of the office of Eugene V. Miller,
attorney, at 531 Fourth Avenue, Fair
banks. Alaska, at the hour of 10 o’clock
in the forenoon of Thursday, the 3rd
day of May, 1962:
Decedent’s one-half interest in and
to Lot 30 of Section 7. T1S. R1W,
Fairbanks Meridian in the Fairbanks
Recording District, State of Alaska.
DATED at Fairbanks, Alaska, this 5th
day of April, 1962.
/s/ BETTY K. SARGENT
Administratrix with Will
Annexed of the Estate of
Paul E. Tovey. deceased
First Pub.: April 11, 1062
Last Pub.: May 2, 1962