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“For the cause that lacks assistance; for the Wrong that needs resistance
for the future in the distance, and the good that ute caft do.
Home Owned, Controlled, and Edittu. Jessen s Weekly was established Jan. 22 ,19 .
Published every week at Fairbanks. Alaska; Post Office Box 970. Entered at the Post
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Welcome To Woolworth's . . .
Woolworth's new Fairbanks store marks another
accomplishment for the Downtown Urban Renewal Proj
ect. While the delays have been many, and while some;
of the decisions have been painful, the net effect of the
Project has been good.
We at Jessen's welcome the new Woolworth store
to our community. It is another milestone on the road to
a modern, progressive city.
Attend Festival Of Arts . . .
We in the Fairbanks area are indeed fortunate to be
located so close to the University of Alaska and the cul
tural advantages resultant therefrom.
A good example is the Festival of Arts, which begins
this Friday at the University and runs through April 15.
Everyone in the Fairbanks area should make it a point to
visit the many events slated for this year's Festival of Arts.
City Should Own Airport . . .
Much has been said about the omission of a "finger"
from the expansion plans at Fairbanks International Air
port. There is a feeling lhat our neighbor city, Anchorage,
is once more coming out on top.
There is only one way for the Fairbanks Airport to
ever surpass the one at Anchorage. That way is to utilize
tfhe government of the City of Fairbanks.
If Fairbanks is to come out on top in the Alaska Jet
Age struggle, then our International Airport must be
owned and operated by the City of Fairbanks. Only then
will we have the opportunity to "catch up" to and over
take the Anchorage airport.
As it stands now, the money for expansion is secured
by the State through the sale of REVENUE BONDS. These
bonds are sold on the basis of present patterns of usage . . .
NOT ON SPECULATION of what COULD happen IF the
Fairbanks Airport were greatly expanded.
As long as the two airports are owned by the State,
the status cmo will ccntinupe. THAT STATUS QUO SPELLS
DOOM AS FAR AS THE ASPIRATIONS OF FAIRBANKS AIR
PORT PROPONENTS.
Instead of t'aihnq our tonnues in the air in the time
honored aame of hocus pocus about how Anchoraoe oet«
all the breaks and we qet the hindmost, we had better
start to fare farts and assume recnonsibilities. That meanc
an airport owned and operated by the City of Fairbanks.
Those CAB Recommendations....
Many people have asked us what our feelings are
on the recent CAB report that recommends thumbing Pan
American out of the Alaska air service picture, curtailing
Northwest, and merging PNA and Alaska Airlines.
To the CAB officials back in the ivory towers in Wash
ington D.C. it probably looks logical. To us it looks like
overzealousness.
It is true that the CAB sometimes moves in strange
and mysterious ways. The point of the recommending may
have escaped all of us, and may be connected with things
abstract and far removed from the Alaska scene.
But on the surface, it doesn't seem right to be de
prived of ANY of the fine air service now being rendered
to Alaska. We know of no one in this part of Alaska who
is complaining about things as they are, unless it be for
MORE service instead of LESS.
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The Sluicebox i
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the demacrat ticket (he ain t
filed yet) is Steve McCutcheon
of anchrudge. He is a member
of the First Demacratic Family
of Alaska.
Boy, tilings shore got excitin
down in Juneau for a while. The
Army went an brought in one
'' of there big cannons. Everybody
thought they was gonna shoot
it off at a big chunk of snow
on the side of a mountain,
but. . .
THE REAL REASON was be
cuz there was a rumer the oust
ed highway chieftains was im
porting a boatload of Secrut Ar
my troops from Algeria to fight
for a commission to head there
departmint so they could all
git there jobs back.
These men is all such good
men incidently that they kin
git jobs anyplace they wants
them. (That is why they is all
hangin around Juneau since
they spilt the milk.)
LOOKOUT ANCHRUDGE:
We knew it would happin some
day an it has. Somebody from
Fairbanks has went an moved
into the Big City. Nerlunds has
went an bought up a furniture
store down there.
Meanwhile, here in Fairbanks
the big Woolworth store opins
up tomorrow. 1 is sure glad to
see it. It wuz jist 83 years ago
that my great grandpappy,
Charlie Buckwheat bought the
first spool of thread in the ver.y
first Woolivorth store. (Him an
Frank wuz good frends.)
That ole urban renewul area
is really startin to take shape
now. The last of the buildins
what is left is gittin tore down.
The good ole days will never
be the same no more. (They is
all wrapped up in what USTA
be in the urbun renewul area.)
See where the CAB is tryin
to git Pan American to git out
of Alaska an also tryin to git
PNA an Alaska airlines to
merge. Note that is a good ex
ample of American free enter
prise, it really is.
Speakin about airlines, see
where they has all gpt together
here to point there finger at the
one that is missin frum the air
port plans. Seems we needs all
the fingers we kin git if we is
to land more planes.
Guess they figgers if a pilut
uses ten fingers to land a plane,
Fairbanks should have at least
one.
SOLUTION TO PROBLUM:
Hav the City of Fairbanks buy
the airport frum the State, so as
! we kin do all our complainin
: (an spendin) locally. (Maybe
! we kin even put the utilities
systum log house in the finger
an have the only one jn the
world with a log cabin in it.)
COMING SOON: The big Fes
tival of Arts is coming to the
University an it is really gonna
be BIG, BIG, BIG. I has got my
! dark glasses an trench coat all
set for it. (It starts Friday.)
PASSIN PRADE: The airlines
might not git there fingers, but
they is shore good at pickin the
winnin queen candidates, they
i has been doin it for years . . .
| Them arctic bear hunters has
I bin gittin too close to the wrong
kind . . . Next time they has a
dog race in New Hampshire, I
is gonna enter it, I will be a
I cinch to win. . . .
COMING ATTRACTION:
Next week, that’s right, next
week, ole Duck will haul out his
crystal ball for his annual pre
dickshuns of who is gonna win
the baseball pennints an world
series. There will be other pre
dickshuns too. In spite of all this
! inside dope, the price of Jessins
i will remain the same.
SAMPLE PREDICKSHUN:
The starting pitcher for Wash
1 ington on opening day will be a
j righthander facjin the sopho
more jinx. . . Jack (I still likes
j Cuban ballplayers) Kennedy.
ctj,e Washington
Jackie's trip winning friends and influencing people,
GOP grooms brae! ambassador for Governor of New York;
Uplift beina fcuaht behind scenes.
WASHINGTON — Inside fact*
about the current glamor trip of '
Jacqueline Kennedy is that it got !
started by accident and was almost
| killed by her husband. He preferred
j that she stay at home.
What happened was that Prime
I Minister Nehru of India, sitting be- j
side Mrs. Kennedy at a White House j
J dinner last November, remarked: |
“You must come to India."
She replied: “Pd love to.”
Mrs. K. thought no more about
j it, but Nehru did. He went home,
began confering with the U.S. am
I bassador. Ken Galbraith, shortly
! sent a long and detailed itinerary
: for the First Lady. It took the Pres
; idem by surprise and he got on the
! telephone to Galbraith to discourage
j the lap.
Galbraith, however, is not a man
J easily discouraged. He was not dis
couraged when he first plumped for
Kennedy for President, a year be
fore the convention and when most
observers didn’t think JFK had a
chance. And not being one who
| surrenders easily, Galbraith hopped
' on a plane and came to Washing
ton to sell Kennedy on the Indian
trip for Jackie. He succeeded.
Then President Ayub of Pakistan
got into the act and invited Jackie
to come to his countiy. The impli
cation was that if she went to India
without visiting its bitter rival, Pak
i istan. that candlelit dinner on the
| lawn at Mount Vernon would count
! for nothing.
The Indiin attack on Goa also
complicated things and delayed the
trip. Finally, the President looked
aver Jackie’s itinerary and decided
it was too arduous. He trumoed no
the idea that she had sinus trouble,
which she didn't have, and cut out
several side trips.
All reports are, however, that
Jackie is having a wonderful time
and winning a lot of friends for
USA. in an area where we need
! friends and where Khrushchev and
Bulganin once spent two weeks on
i a ..Vorv successful barnstorming trio
Mayffe"Mrs. Kennedy should travel
more.
Tel Aviv to Albany?
The Republicans have ouipt.lv
j started grooming an eventual candi
date for governor of New York in
a manner that confirms the suspi
cion of Sen. Bill Fullbright of Ar
kansas.
Two years ago when Ogden Reid
! of the famous New York Heraki
Tribune family was up for confir
mation as ambassador to Israel. Sen
ator Fullbright opposed him on the
grounds that he was using the Isra
eli ambassadorship as a stepping
stone to Albanv. The diplomatic Dost
i in Israel would help him win the
big Jewish vote in running for gov
ernor of New York, Fullbright sus
pected.
Rod. however, denied this. He
said he had no noHHoal ambiMons
and no foreseeable nlans to run for
governor of New York or mayor
of New York or, he implied, any
other New York political post.
But up in Westchester Counts’ the
other day, Edwin Michaelian. Re
publican boss of the county, quietly
served notice on GOP Congressman
Edwin B. Dooley that he should
“move over” and let Ogden Reid
run instead. He said Dooley could
become chairman of the New York
state fitness program under Rocke
feller at $18,000 a year.
Dooley is an unspectacular, con
scientious Republican who was an
All-America footballer at Dart
j mouth, wrote sports for the old
New York Sun, even wrote a foot
ball novel, “Under the Goal Posts.”
He has served faithfully in Congress
for six years, but now .the party
bosses say he should move over in
favor of young Reid. So far Dooley
has declined.
It looks as if Senator Fullbright
was right after all.
B-70 Lobbying
Both Secretary of Defense Rob
ert McNamara and Congressman
Carl Vinson of Georgia have been
wooing supporters behind the scenes
in their battle as to whether Con
gress should or should not vote
money for the B-70 which the Ken
nedy administration says it doesn't
need.
McNamara, age 45, went around
to see crusty Congressman Clarence
Cannon of Missouri, chairman cf the
appropriations committee, to try to
get him to block the money. The 33
year-old Cannon was inclined to
stick with his 79-year-old colleague
from Georgia.
Vinson meanwhile went around
to see southern friends on his own
Armed Services committee, and at
a two-hour closed door argument
over the B-70 it appeared that he
had won some support from Ed
Hebert of Louisiana and Mendel
Rivers of South Carolina.
So many Democrats cross-exam
ined McNamara, however, that GOP
Congressman Leon Gavin of Penns
ylvania demanded to know if Vin
son planned to confine the question
ing to Democrats and “cut off Re
publicans." He asked McNamara:
“Do you really have any plans to
make use of this additional money?”
“Quite frankly, we do not antici
pate any need for the additional
amount.” said McNamara.
“In that case, the House appropri
ations committee might not appro
priate the money, even if we au
thorize it,” suggested Gavin. "It's
happened before. What makes you
think they won't do it to us again.
Mr. Chairman?”
“I’m not overlooking that possi
bility,” replied the wily Vinson who
did not let on that appropriations
chairman Cannon was on his side.
“However, thats their responsibility.
We’re doing our job here. Regardless
of what the secretary says. I’m still
convinced that missiles aren't the
whole answer to our future defense.
The manned bomber will continue
to play a vital role.”
Is Hitlerism Coming Back?
For the first time since the war,
a meeting is being held on Ameri
can soil where the revision of Ger
man borders along Hitler lines is
j due for discussion. The meeting be
ing held in Chicago this week has
i already raised alarms in Poland
j and Czechoslovakia partly because
one of the leading West German re
visionists. Bundestag member Weu
fel Jaksch, will be one of the speak
ers.
Jaksch is one of the most active
German leaders in demanding that
the Sudetenland be taken away
from Czechoslovakia and given to
Germany, also that Upper Silesia
. be taken from Poland and returned
| to Germany.
It was the seizure of the Sudeten
land by Hitler in 1938 that raised
; the first signal that World War II
was imminent, and it was the sei
i zure of Poland by Hitler that pre
1 cipitated World War II.
The Chicago meeting is held un
der the auspices of the Foundation
for foreign affairs and the Herder
Institute of Marburg, West Ger
many. for the purnoss of discussing
i East European affairs.
This is what makes East Europ
eans jittery about U.S. support for
West Germany and makes them ad
i amant against any nuclear arms in
I West German hands.
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