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our enemies, have been rebuilt by
the United States in one of the most
generous gestures ever made by the
victor to the vanquished. They are
now starting to repay the United
States for part of this cost.
Egypt, a nation which five years
ago was receiving all sorts of arms
and Aswan dam money from the
Kremlin, is now so aloof from the
Kremlin that the Moscow press
excoriates it.
Israel, a country which President
Truman was the first to recognize
and which American citizens have
encouraged and helped to build up,
is an oasis of democracy in the Mid
dle East.
iran, which has been troubled by
the great chasm between the weal
thy few and the many poor, has just
witnessed a revolutionary redistri
bution of land move by the Shah.
He has redistributed approximately
3.000,000 acres of his land and forced
other big landowners to do the same
—a social reform to stave off com
munism.
In Africa, every new independent
republic lined up with the USA
against the Soviet when it came to
opposing Moscow’s Troika plan for
stifling the United Nations. And
though we’re having trouble in
Ghana and Morocco, we have firm
friends in most of the other coun
tries. In Guinea, where 1,200 Com
munist advisers have been working.
President Sekou Toure has recently
turned vigorously toward the West.
We Still Lead
In Asia the picture is mixed. We
will have trouble in Laos, Cambodia
and Viet Nam for a long time to
come. You cannot undo the effects
of French colonialism overnight.
But the Philippines have just
proved themselves a bastion of de
mocracy by undergoing a national
election, and in other areas we are
holding our own.
In Latin America, the picture is
also mixed. There are pockets of
communism and anti-Americanism.
But 14 nations have broken rela
tions with Castro, and on the whole,
things are taking a turn for the
better.
In brief, we are by no means
losing the cold war. In the competi
tion between capitalism and com
munism, we are ahead. We are not
ahead by a decisive margin, but we
are ahead. The competition in the
days to come is not going to be
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the drive to put on a ballot a propo
sition to move the state capital, has
called on its volunteer members to
step up their efforts to obtain peti
tion signatures in a final drive.
BIG BUDGET
JUNEAU—The State department
of education has budgeted $9,886,
810 for distribution to the state’s 29
school districts for the 1961-1962
school year. Fairbanks would re
ceive $1,656,111.21.
BIGGER BUDGET
ANCHORAGE — The Anchorage
Independent School district board
has tentatively approved a budget
of $12,356,540 for operation the dis
trict for the 1962-63 fiscal year.
The budget will be sent to State
Commissioner of Education Thee
Norby in Juneau for approval.
State’s portion of the budget
amounts to $4,861,767.
DOOR OPEN
JUNEAU—The Republican Party’s
national committeeman for Alaska,
Wally Hickel, says he has no plans
at the present to run for governor
this year, “but I would never close
the door on any public duty.”
CRASH TO GAS
ANCHORAGE — City council
voted last week to speed up the
conversion of the electrical utility’s
generating plant from oil to natural
gas to save on fuel costs.
Council approved a crash program
for the conversion after being told
the utility could' save $7-8,000 a
month by using gas to generate elec
tricity.
ASKS PROBE
JUNEAU—Gov. William A. Egan
has asked the Post Office depart
ment to investigate activities of an
eastern company whose advertise
ments in national publications con
tinue to misrepresent Alaska em
ployment opportunities.
HIGH MOOSE KILL
ANCHORAGE—The Alaska Rail
road reports an abnormally high
moose kill in December by trains
running between Anchorage and
Fairbanks.
easy. But neither was the road fol
lowed by those who landed in this
country 300 years ago easy; nor the
road of those who dared pit the
future of 13 struggling colonies
against the biggest empire in the
world; nor those who dared push
west to build up the nation.
None of it was easy. There were
no easy solutions then and there is
none today. Frustrated nonbelievers
in the future of America will have
to look elsewhere for easy solutions.
But to anyone who has traveled
through part of Russia, part of Eur
ope, and part of Latin America in
the past six months, as I have, I
suggest to the sixth column cohorts
that they also travel and then come
back and be glad they have this
country to live in.
CAMPERS PLAN
JUNEAU—A reservation for five
campers for the first trip of the
southeastern Alaska ferry system,
tentatively expected to be Sept. 3,
1962, on the Malaspina now under
construction, was made in Juneau
last week by Hugh H. Logan, in
dustrialist of Glendale, Calif., on
behalf of the Alaskan Camper Club.
GIBBONS NAMED
ANCHORAGE—John A. Gibbons.^
director of resources development
for Alaska Airlines, has been named
co-ordinator for the 1962 Fur Ren
dezvous.
APPOINTS WIDOW
JUNEAU—Mrs. Arthur D. John
son of Nome was appointed by Gov.
William A. Egan last week to fill
the House of Representatives seat
left vacant by the death of her hus
band last month.
MAYOR DEAD
SEATTLE—J. Earl Shennctt, may
or of Sitka. Alaska, died here last
Wednesday following, a second heart
attack.
MUTINY IN TAVERN
ANCHORAGE—Three fishermen
from Sand Point in the Aleutian
chain were jailed briefly in Anchor
age last week on charges arising
from an incident in which they al
legedly took over a Sand Point
tavern by force.
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WINTER SCHEDULE
KOTZEBUE-NOME Daily except Sun.
‘"(White Mountain-Golovin-Elim-Moses Pnint
Kovuk-Shaktoolik-lJnalkleet) Mon., Fri.
* (Northeast Cape) '‘(Noatak-Kivalina
Point Hope-Cape Lisburne) Mon., Wed., Fri.
* (Teller-Port Clearence-Tin City-Wales
Shishmaref) * (Granite Mtn.-Candle
Deering) Tues., Sat.
*(Noorvik-Kiana-Selawik-Shungnak
Kobuk-Ambier) . Tues.
s (Gambcll) . Wed.
4 (Solomon-Council-White Mountain
Golovin-Elim-Moses Point-Koyuk) Wed.
* (Teller-Port Clearence-Lost River-Tin
City-Wales) *(Noorvik-Kiana-Selawik
Buckland) .~.Thurs.
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FORT YUKON .Mon., Tues., Fri., Sat.
♦(Beaver-Stevens Village) *(Venetie) Mon., Fri.
♦(Arctic Village) Tues.
* (Stevens Village-Beaver-Fort Yukon) out of Fairbanks Wed.
*(Chalkytsik) 1st & 3rd Fri.
* (Barter Island) *(OId Crow—3rd Sat.) .Sat.
POINT BARROW Tues., Thurs., Sat.
* (Meade River) .Tues.
♦(Point Lay) . Wed.
♦(Umiat) . Thurs.
♦(Wainwright) Mon., Wed., Fri.
TANANA-HUGHES-BETTLES Mon., Fri.
BETTLES-HUGHES-TANANA Wed.
♦(Utopia) Mon., Wed., Fri.
♦(Allakaket) . Mon., Wed., Fri.
* (Chandalar) *(Big Lake) 1st & 3rd Thur. * (Wiseman)
♦(Porcupine Cr.) once per mo.Thurs.
♦(Huslia) . Wed. |
♦(Anaktuvik) Tues.
TANANA-GALENA Tues., Thurs., Sat.
♦(Koyukuk-Nulato-Kaltag-Kalkaket) *<Ruby) .Tues., Sat.
♦(Huslia) . Sat.
♦ (Kovukuk-Nulato-Kalkaket) Thurs.
CIRCLE HOT SPRINGS-CIRCLE Mon., Thurs: j
RAMPART . Thurs., Fri.
♦(Livengnodt Pr*
WOODCHOPPER-EAGLE-BOUNDARY-CHICKEN 1st & 3rd Tues. \
WOODCIIOPPER-EAGLE Exc. 1st & 3rd Tues. Tues. & F.ir
♦ (Kokrines) Tues.
MINTO-MANLEY HOT SPRINGS Tues., Fri.
CHENA HAT SPRINGS 1st & 3rd Tliurs.
CTGPIA-HUGHES-KOBUK-KIANA-KOTZEBUE Sat.
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in parenthesis.
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