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EDITORIAL
Support Winter Carnival .
The time *o begin supporting the 1962 Fairbanks Win
ter Carnival is NOW.
Through the efforts of Fairbanks Unlimited, the Com
r- _r *y Recreatior League and ‘re Alaska Deg Moshers
Association plus many other civic minded groups and
individuals, THE GROUNDWORK FOR A HIGHLY ENJOY
ABLE AND SUCCESSFUL CARNIVAL HAS BEEN LAID.
The 'es* is up to us, the citizens of *he Fairbanks area.
The time has come for all ct us *o end our support to
a very worthy ca„se.
Only *hrough *he cooperation of a'1 can the W r*er
Carnival become *ue outstanding winter event it once was.
A few she nr .ears ago, EVERYONE participated n the Car
niva!
With +ne growing interest in Alaska winter travel,
the Fairbanks Winter Carnival could become a b g attrac
tion for visitors from the outside . St can serve as an exj
cellent starting po’nt from which the Fairbanks area cal
develop a winter tourist business.
But above and beyond the commercici aspects of the
Winter Carnival, it can serve as an excellent outlet for those
cf us who have braved the rigorous conditions of a Fair
banks winter. And that, of course, was why the Winter
Carnival was started in the first place.
In the words of the old Carnival theme song, "Come
cut and play, let's join the Carnival."
About Labor Lamenters . . .
Those who lament about Alaska being known as a
"labor" State are doing us a great disservice. A great dis
service because such lamenters are indulging in pure ra
tionalization.
While it is quite easy to get involved in the argument
about the chicken and the egg, it is safe to say that the
cost of living in A’aska was quite high many years before
any appreciable amount of "pro" labor legislation ever
reached the Alaska law books.
Rather than attempting to turn back the clock, let us
accept the fact that wage and hour laws, workmen's com
pensation, unemployment insurance, child labor laws and
similar legislative acts are HERE TO STAY!
If the working people of Alaska must give up their
hard fough+ advances over the years for the sake of fur
ther economic development, then such development can
serve no useful purpose.
To say that Alaskans must lower their standard of liv
ing to bring in new industry just doesn't make sense. That
is why the labor lamenters are doing Alaska a very grea*
injustice.
If the peoole of Alaska are not to benefit from in
dustrial development, THEN JUST WHO IS LEFT TO REAP
jTHE PROFITS?
it is about time that the labor lamenters began to re
alize that many of the factors that make the cost of doing
business in A'aska so high have no connection whatsoever
saAjh Alaska labor law!
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: The Sluicehox |
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r-.-s&e- to . trith :o they will
hene s©me ;■■■■,c,',r for next year s
••jtr Render re *«£ s \ Ihj# races.
See wher th- St. te Cf sraoer
of Con’rrtrre is wenjee udou*.
igh
132itjc; ole r rc-i i that famus
savin about ' people what lives
in £.255 houses shouldn't throw
stones.*'
Sho’-e it* r ’tire bcc!c in the
‘ good ole days" before they had
labor unions up here. Why pric
es used to he dim cheap . . .
providing you mired a httle
gold dust in truth the dirt, that
is.)
THE WINNER: Looks like the
presidunt of the Methodist col
lege in Anchfudge has won the
big fight with right-winger Mil
ton Lory what ?aid he had been
treated porely at the school.
The news reporters down there
held a little investigation an has
cleared the college an said they
was right neighborly to the
right-winger.
IT PASSED: Yep. the big ole
demacrat slush fund to help
out starvin people (so as to git
there rotes, of course) has wen:
an passed the Semite. Funny
part of it is. a couple of Re
publicans even voted 'O’- it
(Guess sov.e of the Republican
voters is in danger of starrin
too.;
DID YOU EVER WONDER?:
With all the fight in over open
end contracts at the city court
sul meets, if if is really the
City manager's "open end" con
tract at least :ne councilmem
ber is seekir. to terminate?
Speakm about then C.v
Council m4ets. the: uhtr:
purty pop'.’uT. In "'act. the fron\
row sects is ust abo- ' all cone
these days. There is st:'.'. room
in the bleachers et. i
THE LEGISLATURE: There
is so much more action go;n on
in the Semite this session of the
Legislature that you gits the
peculiar feeTln sometimes that
we has a unicarmerul legisla
ture an don't know it.
PASSIN PRADE: .Yorth Pole
resident Lew Dischner node a
whirlwind tour to Fairbanks
this past weekend an kept tclk
in about a big “radar" project
he is workin on .. . 1.000 school
teachers will "is;: Fairbanks
durin the Winter Camivul (for
there state convention) . . .
BUCKWHEAT SPECIUL:
This week we takes a brief
flight to the moon as we peers
into the future in honor of Cen
tury 21 . . . This is what we
sees . . . (written in news story
style) . . .
WASHINGTON. D C. — Sen
titer Slackbottom of Alabama
said today he is in faver of
Statehood for the Moon, but not
now. The Senuter would like
to hav the Moon men take an
uther referendum on whether
they is in faver of it or not.
ANCHRUDGE — Robert At
wood today editorially endorsed
moving the capitol of Alaska
from Juneau to the Moon. At
wood said the move would make
the capitol “more accessible to
the peepul of Western Alaska”.
NEW YORK — Professor
Tnsktower of Columbia today
lamented the fact that there is
no more neic frontiers, note that
the moon is being settl'd. Re
ferring to the moon as Ameri
ca's last frontier, he said the
Americun people would be git
fin soft "party soon”.
MOONVILLE — C. \V. Sned
don. publisher of the I
Moon-Miner, said the high
of labor is killirs economic
velopment of the Moon. He also
spoke agin the bill to ban bring
ing strikebreaker.^ to the moon
from, earth.
cu,e Washington
^ Merry-Go-Round
^ ly DREW PEARSON
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Glenn to get flight pay, but not by the mile; Rus
sians, Chinese battle over Cuba; Bob Kennedy commended
shoppers.
WASHINGTON — Gen. David*
Sm.jp. the Marine Corps command
e. has .epiied to Col. John Glenns
mischievous request for flight pay
for th:ee orbits round the earth
that he would approve a voucher
for the four and a half hours Glenn
spent in orbit but would not approve
any payment figured by the mile ...
JFK doesn't forget little things,
even at times of crisis. It was he
v.-ho instructed Vice President
Johnson, chairman of the space
agency, to fly to Grand Turk Is
land to greet Colonel Glenn . . .
Colonel Glenn hasn't formally r.p- j
plied, but has hinted he would like
to make a second trip into space;
James Webb, head of the space
energy, has made no final decision
but feels Glenn has done enough, !
will probably keep him down on
earth in the future . . . Webb, who
masterminded the great space
achievement, was trained under the
late great governor of North Caro
lina. O Max Gardner ... It took
spectators at Cape Canaveral long
er to dr:ve through the traffic jam
to Coca Beach than it took John
Glenn to travel all the way round
the earth . . . Two secret docu
ments on spac-= flights have disap
peared from the Armed Services
Technical Intelligence agency Se
curity men are frantically search
ing for them, but some agents be
lieve the documents were hidden
by a disgruntled employee to em
barrass his boss They pertained to
guidance problems.
Russian-Chinese Showdown
Some amazing developments are
taking place behind the sugar cane
curtain in Cuba U S intelligence re
ports that they are closely linked
to the ideological battle beSv.-eer.
China and Russia
Among other things. Fidel Cast:
has new abdicated much f h.> dic
tatorial power and has promised
the Russians to quit his psycho
pathic bombas? which has kept Cu
ba in a continual state of jitters.
Behind the internal struggle have
beer, two important figures. The
firs: is Ernesto “Che" Guevcra. Ar
gent.ne-trained Communist, who fa
vored the tough Chinese brand of
communism and imported hundreds
of Chinese technicians. Chinese
have been seen all over Havana and
probably outnumbered Russian ad
visors. Some even held office in
the Cuban government.
Opposing Guevera has been Bias
Roca. a Communist loyal to Mos
cow.
In the ideological in-fighting
which has taken place in the Span
ish-built fortresses and office build
ings of ancient Havana. Roca has
now won out. He has become back
stage boss of Cuba.
He has even replaced Castro as
head of agrarian reform with a
trusted henchman. Carlos Rodri
guez. Guevera has been eased out
of the limelight, and his Chinese
friends are being dropped
The Cuban government now ap
pears to be run from the Russian
embassy where Ambassador Sergei
Kudriavtsev quietly gives advice.
Bias Roca. according to intelli
gence reports, played two aces in
forcing Castro to relinquish h.s dic
tatorial powers:
1. Castro's mismanagement has
driven Cuba to the brink of eco
nomic disaster, and he desperately
needed aid. Only Russia could sup
ply that aid.
2. Castro had developed a para
noic fear of invasion from the USA
and assassination at the hands of
American agents. The Krimlm
promised to protect him. This was
Ihe reason Moscow issued its-recent
laming agSFsHjt another Cubit: in
jsion. The warning was more to
reassure Castro than to frighten the
USA
Result f this dramatic uchc^val
inside Cuba will be nv re stability
and . [-Americanism. The Rus
sians have always figured Cuba was
a good bargaining weapon with the
United States, but never have been
fond of Castro Khiuhchev deliber
ately snubbed Castro's repeated in
vitation to visit him in Havana
when Khrushchev cafne to the UN
for his prolonged New York visit
in the fall of 1960.
Parking—Not Working
On Washington’s birthday last
year, enthusiastic young Attorney
General Kennedy came down to the
Justice Department to work—de
spite the holiday.
In the courtyard of the Justice
Department he found about 20 cars,
Meticulously he jotted down the
numbers of the license plates, had
his secretary look up the owners,
and wrote each a note of thanks
for working on the holiday.
What the new attorney general
didn't know was that Washington's
birthday in the nation's capital is a
tremendous bargain day and many
of the stores are near the Justice
Department, The Justice Depart
ment's courtyard is an excellent
place to park.
Behind the Scenes
Sen Mike Mansfield, the Demo
cratic leader, is furious at his Demo
cratic colleague. John McClellan of
Arkansas, for blocking Kennedy's
urban affairs department. It was
McClellan’s parliamentary man
euver which defeated the netf
urban department to be headed by
Ret .'r5. ns
field was also Tfk&T at Bobby Ken
nedy f r b ing in Europe . ts d cf
Washington The attorney general
nee workc-d f- r'ifcttel'.an. .5 r.e
of i. ; clo.se friends or bably uld
have changed his mine . 5-::rtg
tary of the Interior Udall is equal!
ly peeved at his brother C tigress?
rr.an Udall :f Ancona, f r voting
against Kennedy n the n de
partment . . . Congressman ’A’ J B.
Dorn of South Carolina :s named
for a distinguished Democrat —
"William Jenings Brvar.“; bi t many
South Carolinans are wondering
whether he hasn't changed r.:s par
ty allegiance. Dorn shunned the big
Democratic rally at Columbia. S.C.,
but came to the state later with
Congressman Howard Smith of \ ir
ginia. chief blocker of Democratic
policies in the House . . - Jackie
Kennedy did such a charming job
in her televised guided tour of the
White House that both India and
Pakistan have asked for films to be
shown in advance of hei visit, i he
US. Information Agency is also
preparing 120 films for release to
American embassies throughout the
world—including Moscow. Warsaw,
Prague. Bucharest. Dudapest. and
other Communist countries . • -
Largest stockholder of Standard Oil
of California is R. G. Follis. chair
man of the board. Second largest
stockholder is John A. McCone, di
rector of Central Intelligence. The
Senate permitted him to keep his
stock even though his recommenda
tions to the White House regarding
the Near East must necessarily in
volve American oil where Standard
of California has heavy investments.