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JESSEIl’S
"The All-Alaska Weekly'
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I EDITORIAL I
Advice To 1962 Graduates . . .
Graduation time is here. Soon a whole new flock
young men and women will be taking their places in
-adult society.
While many will deny it, there is a certain sense of
security in "going to school." Now that feeling of security
will be evaporating, almost overnight.
I Fortunately, our young people are endowed with an
a.lmost foolhardy optimism. They are idealists, full of con
fidence for the future.
Let us hope these qualities will remain with
them for a long time. They are admirable attributes.
What the world needs today is more men and women
‘willing to face the future without fear. The new frontiers
^of the 1960's not only NEED such citizens . . . they DE
!,MAND them.
And so, rather than fill these columns with stern
admonitions about what terrible shape the world is in; . . .
or how our young graduates must face up to the weighty
responsibilities before them; ... or how they must suc
ceed where we are floundering . . .
. . . Let us instead keep our big mouths shut!
To the graduates of today, we give our sinceTe^com"
gratulations and best wishes. May you retain yourlcfeaT
ism, your confidence and your courage for the rest of
The world needs you . , . just the*way you are today.
Salute To Our Armed Forces...
Saturday is Armed Forces Day. Once again the gates
of Fort Wainwright will open to welcome the civilian pop
ulation of the Fairbanks area to a combined Eielson-Wain
wright open house.
To say that we in Fairbanks are happy to have Eielson
A.F.B. and Fort Wainwright in our immediate proximity
would be putting it mildly! Let us all pay our respects to
them by attending the Armed Forces Day celebration.
i And on the eve of that day, we at Jessen's would
: like to pay special tribute to a man who will be leaving
this area soon after that day is over. We refer to Major
| "Bob" Falkner.
Major Falkner has been a tremendous asset to the
Fairbanks area. He has served far beyond the call of
: duty.
We wish him well on his new assignment. We hope
| he will return to Alaska at the earliest opportunity.
i
[Clean-Up Time Is Underway...
, Clean-up time is now at hand in the Fairbanks area.
| Let's all take real pride in our community this spring.
It's time to start removing the accumulated debris of
j another "rough" winter. And while we're at it ... it
» might not be a bad idea to clean up some that has been
i "left-over" from previous years.
When our summertime visitors arrive, let's show them
a "green" Fairbanks.
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men wouldn't hav to leave home
quite so soon. Now they has got
a South viet Nam crisees . . .
Which reminds me, what ev
er became of Laos? They usta
hav some good ones in that
place. Ackshully, them asian cri- j
sees ain’t near as good tho, as j
the other ones . . .
Like Berlin . . .that is alwuz
the best rip-snortin crisees of
all. Course, we got an under
standing on that one with the
Russians. We all takes an inter
mission each summer so’s the
Russians kin redo it agin jist be
fore there big fall meetins and
celebrations.
IT’S OFFICIUL: The first
robin wuz seen on Sunday, the
13 th of May. He wuz a week
late.
In fact, everything is late. Ev
en clean-up week has been de
layed, but I figger the City
crews will be out soon on there
annual clean-up campaign. In
fact, some of em has been prac
ticin cleanin up . . . like on the
Nenana Ice Pool.
Seen Ed Martin the other day
(after the ice went out). He had
i a grin on his face that wuz orac
I ticully slicin his ears off. Guess
morale over at the City garage
is purty high these days . . .
See where the fish an aame
hoys is all that’s left to hold up
the Rampart Dam. They has al
so been crackin down on local
goose hunters . . .
That brings ud a big prob
lem . . . The people of Fairbanks
is ruinin some good moose
range, what with all there
houses and fences an stuff. Sun
day evening there was a big bull
moose in Jessin’s back yard, an
he was really mad.
Purty soon there won’t he no
place left in Alaska’s 586,400
square miles for a pore critter
to chomp grass in no more. Back
in the good ole days, we dint
hav prohlums like that. (Course
we dint hav electric lights eith
er. )
But then, if folks go on like
they has bin, the moose’s prob
lum will be solved. First, them
speedboaters going upstream a
mongst the ice jams will solve
part of it: . . . folks celebratin !
IWHHlim* j
car ^ engines will solye
some more of it; ... an finull^,
there is always . . . THE BOMB.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
Who was the first composer of
beatnik music? (Anser at end of
collum).
Meanwhile, here at Jessin’s
things has really been hummin.
In fact, the delivery truck was
makin so many deliveries the
other day it caught on fire. Our
driver saved tne pnntm job an
let the truck burn. (Oh, we is
loyal to our customers . . .)
PREDICKSHUN: Jessin’s ed
iter will git married on tK)z
9th of June. (We scooped the
News-Miner agin!)
Seen that concert Sunday that
the Monroe high school kids put
on an it shore was good. Only
got to see part of it tho, cuz one
of the buttons what popped off
of Tom Downe’s vest hit me
right right in the eye. (It hap
pined while his daughter was
singin a solo.)
Boy, those kids shore worked
hard to do so good. There dir
ector did too. I heard she lost
30 pounds the last few months,
fist whippin em in shape.
PASSIN PRADE: Abe Ro
mick is in town, workin on the
merger what will join Alaska
state bank an City National of
anchrudge . . . Hugh Wade will
be here next week to set up the
election office ... Ed Merdes
is a new director for Alaska Air
lines, an he will soon be knowed
as “Travelin Ed” . . . Teddy
Bear Stevens has been writin
purty letters to all the college
students askin for there help. . .
ANSER TO QUESTION: Cho
pin.
JESSEN'S WEEKLY
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Kennedy woos Farley as candidate for Governor of
New York; passage of Farm Bill poses problems; steel
industry benefits from price roll-back.
WAbmnuiuiN—i-,asi weeK, jrres
ident Kennedy telephoned Big Jim
Farley, famous for signing letters
in green ink and promoting FDR’s
first election. He suggested that
Big Jim consider running for gov
ernor of New York against GOP
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.
Jim Farley, now 74 but just as
active as when he carried a suit
case all over the USA in 1932 woo
ing delegates for Roosevelt, was not
at all unhappy about Kennedy’s
call. Over the telephone he was ap
, preciative, but noncommital.
The President was quite aware of
I the fact that it was not up to him
to pick the standard bearer for the
Democratic party in New York, but
he told Farley that he ought serious
ly to consider the matter and keep
himself in readiness for a draft.
Big Jim didn’t say so, but he is
not averse to being wooed. Ever
! since he broke with Roosevelt over
j his ambition to be FDR’s vice-presi
I dential running mate, Jim has been
I politically restless. He has worked
! at selling Coca-Cola abroad and has
done a terrific job. However, the
smell of the political ring brings all
the nostalgic yearnings that the
smell of sawdust does to an old cir
cus performer.
Mrs. Roosevelt Mellows
Meanwhile, the New York liber
; als, once down on Farley, have
changed their tune. Age has mel
lowed both sides.
Mrs. Roosevelt, a power behind
the liberals, once threw her weight
to Henry Wallace against Farley at
the crucial 1940 Democratic conven
tion in Chicago. Today she and Far
ley are friendly.
Kennedy, who plans a long way
in advance, began considering a can
didate to run against Governor
Rockefeller even before inaugura
tion day. To this end, he wanted
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., made
Secretary of the Navy, as a buildup
for the governor’s race. Secretary of
Defense McNamara, a Republican,
spiked this, though not for political
reasons. He didn't feel happy about
FDR Jr., as part of his defense
setup.
Today, Rockefeller, despite his
divorce, is running fairly strong.
Some New York Democrats don’t
believe he can be beaten. But they
agree that Farley, a man with a
reputation upstate as well as in
New York City, might be able to
do it.
NOTE — After Vice President
Johnson agreed to fly out to Seattle
to dedicate the opening of the Fair’s
glamorous space exhibit today, he
found that this was New York Day
; at the fair and that Gov. Nelson
' Rockefeller was to be there also,
i LBJ is just as anxious to defeat
Rocky for governor as JFK is; so
was not happy about the simul
taneous appearances.
Backstage With Farm Bill
Getting a vote on the farm bill
in the House is about as delicate an
operation as balancing on a tight
wire . . . The House agriculture
committee was all set to vote when
it was found that Congressman Har
lan Hagen of California was in New
York and had forgotten to give his
proxy to Chairman Cooley . . . Al
so Took Gathings of Arkansas said
he'd given his proxy to Bob Poage
of Texas, but Poage couldn't find it
. . . This made the Democrats shy
two votes. For Congressman Grant
•of Alabama has now lined up with
the Republicans. He sent his proxy
to Chairman Cooley of North Caro
lina with instructions to vote him
with the Republicans. This came
after the Post Office Department in
Washington had played into Con
gressman Frank Boykin's hands by
announcing plans for a new post
office in Mobile just at a time when
it would help Boykin’s re-election.
Boykin and Grant have been run
ning about neck-and-neck in the
statewide race for Congress . . .
Sen. Milt Young of North Dakota, a
member of the Senate agriculture
committee, has been taking Senate
agriculture chairman Allen Ellender
to the fairway and whispering in his
ear between strokes against the
Kennedy farm program. Though he
doesn’t look like a manipulator.
Young has replaced the late Sen.
Styles Bridges. New Hampshire Re
publican. as the Senate's most
stealthy backstage operator . . . Such
are the problems that the public
doesn’t know about which go into
passing the laws to govern the farms
of the nation.
Aftermath of Steel Crackdown
Kennedy's crackdown on U.S.
Steel has begun to pay dividends
—for the steel industry itself.
It didn’t make headlines, but the
steelworkers recently sided with
Jones and Laughlin Steel against
one of its own locals to prevent
another crisis in the steel industry.
This time. President Kennedy would
have taken action against labo!\
The trouble started over the ab
sence of a senior worker at Jones
Laughlin’s largest stainless steel
plant in Detroit. Under union rules,
his work was supposed to be han
dled by the next in seniority.
But the No. 2 man refused totaJ<e
the job in order that the third in
seniority could claim it. He had the
day off and could demand double
time pay.
The company refused to play
along with this game, and local
president Mickey Yow called a
wildcat strike last week. Over 800
workers walked off the job.
Jones and Laughlin promptly fired
the local president, vice president,
and four shop stewards. Appealing
to his superiors in the uniot* for
help in putting the company in its
place, Yow received instead a sharp
letter from Charles Younglove. the
United Steel Workers’ district di
rector.
He informed Yow that the walk
out was illegal, that disciplinary
action was justifiable, and that both
the international and local unions
were subject to legal action.
In short, Younglove acknowledged
that the walkout was a breach of
contract and disclaimed any re
sponsibility by the international
union.
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Temple, 809 First Ave. Dial GL 2-2836
Tanana Lodge No. 162 F&AM
1st Degree Wednesdaty, May 16, 7:00 P.M.
3rd Degree, Wednesday, May 23rd, 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
Wednesday, May 16, 1962