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Legislature On The Spot. . .
Next Monday signals the start of the Second Session
of the Second State Legislature. It is a Session that could
weil "make or break" Alaska. , a*
The opportunities facing the Legislatture are tremen
dous. The tedious task of accomplishing the difficult tran
sition from territorial status has just about been completed.
Frankly, this newspaper believes that this Ses
sion of the Legislature is really on the spot. They must
produce as no previous Session has ever done be
fore. AND THEY MUST DO IT IN A POLITICAL EN
VIRONMENT THAT CLOSELY RESEMBLES A POWDER
KEG ATTACHED TO A LIT FUSE.
If ever there was a time when statesmanship was
needed, THIS IS IT. The people of Alaska are far more in
terested in reaping the promised rewards of Statehood
than in who can deliver the cleverest play of words or
give the best political campaign speech.
If the various Legislators will think with their heads
rather than with their political ambitions, there is much
that can be done. Alaska's economic future looks bright.
In Portland, Oregon last week the firm charged
with determining the economic feasibility of the
Rampart Dam project reported that their studies indi
cate THAT A MARKET CAN BE FOUND for the pow
er which would be generated by the proposed dam.
This means that it is a virtual certainty the project
will go before Congress for approval in the foresee
able future.
All around us, startling new developments in the Al
aska oil industry hold tremendous portents for the future.
In addition, the space age is giving new impetus to de
fense construction activities.
Several years ago, Alaska pointed to its pulp mills in
Southeastern Alaska as about the only significant new in
dustry in the State. In just a few years, these great mills
are already becoming dwarfs in the overall economic pic
ture.
THE 1962 LEGISLATURE MUST DEVOTE ITS ENER
, GY TOWARD THE ACCELERATED ECONOMIC DE
VELOPMENT OF ALL OF ALASKA. THE PROVINCIAL
ATTITUDE OF AREA AGAINST AREA MUST COME TO
AN END.
Alaska can have no "status quo". We have committed
ourselves to progress. That progress must come with ever
increasing acceleration.
In future weeks this newspaper will make its opinions
known on the actions of our Legislature. Whether those ac
tions are good or bad, we will say so.
This newspaper believes very strongly that the
people of Alaska are more interested in what the leg
islature can do for Alaska than they are in what the
Legislature can do to further the political ambitions
of any individual. And it goes without saying that
the people of Alaska are a lot more intelliaent than
some political leaders think. Abraham Lincoln said it i
best, many years ago.
If this Legislature can expeditiously do its vital work
and avoid the many obvious pitfalls along the way, it can
rank as one of Alaska's best Sessions.
If this Legislature yields to the temptations that stand
in its path, it could very easily rank as one of the worst.
Caught In !
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tin in the bull pen jist waitin for
his chance to pitch a couple of
balls over the plate.
The feller we all feels sorry
for is pore bill Stump. After
twenty two years on the dema
crat centrul committee, his
coaches down in Ketchikan has
throwed him out of the game.
Secrut governer candidate Bob
Ellis went an took his place.
(Jist proves, keepin secrets is
smarter’n tellin em.)
The BUCKWHEAT PARTY
will never git in all the trouble
the other parties gits into. We
is gonna git ourselves a digital
computer like the University has
jist got. Anytime any of our
candidates gits into a fight, we
will feed em into the computer
an the one that comes out with
the fewest holes punched in him
will be the winner.
Oh, them computers is won
derful things. Besides, they is
very scientific. Purty soon our
little school kids will be learnin
readin, ritin and how to run
digital computers. The good ole
davs is eittin hit in the head
agin.
THE REAL REASON: Every
budy thinks Vaughan Monroe
(no relation to Marilyn) come
to Fairbanks to plug phonograph
recerds. Really, he come up here
to do some work for NASA on
there big, BIG project. He is
gonna sing his hit song “Racin
with the Moon” to make em all
work faster.
SECRUT SECRUT: Every
body knows there is gonna be a
ail well dug this year at Nenana.
but how many folks knows a
bout the one up in the Kandick?
Our ole frend Hugh Wade was
in town. (He is a good frend
of the editer’s too.) He told us
he has bin hidin down in Juneau
an never was lost at all, like we
hinted he wuz a few times. He
dint say whether he was gonna
fun agin for secrutary of state,
>ut he did look kind of funny
vearin tennis shoes in Fairbanks
n the middle of winter.
CITY HALL FLASHES: That
;ecrut meet the counsul had last
veek din’t amount to much. All
;hey did was talk about a new
:rainin program for the police
lepartment . . . Meanwhile . . .
See where the ax has fell on
City Comptroller Whitfield. He
sez there is intrigue an confu
sion an hysteria an panic in the
City governmint. (Would hav
made a good editorial for the City
newspaper.) Speakin about the
city paper, guess they is down
to one editer now. (The city
manager).
sears noe
buck is expanding there store
in the Northward . . . Boss Mil
ler has flown to Washington to
giv Jack some advice . . . Jack
is worried cuz Barry goldwater
sez the outlook is “bleak” . . .
The wimmin’s recreation league
has took over the queen contest
an has a lot of sponsers, all they
needs now is queen candidates.
. .. Birch hill is open for sleddin,
but watch yer step . . . After
the Rampart meet in Portland,
the dam is in the bag . . .
PREDICKTION: Once Jack
Coghill starts gittin his name in
the paper down in Juneau, the
republicans will start a bigger
fight then the democrats. (May
be Jack kin figger out that the
oil bonus money has bin lost
this time . . . )
Wal, I got to quit now an git
to work on my big three act
play I am writing which is
called, “This is the Congo” . . .
[ am linin up some good acters
too. Wendil Kay is gonna be
Lumumba, Bob MacFarland will
»tar as Tshombe, John Rader is
gonna play Gizenga, Warrin
Fayler is General Mobutu, Bill
Egun is premier Adoula ... an
ive is linin up the democrat par
ty to play the part of Dag Ham
merskjold. . .
iPriw Washington
^Merry-Go-Round
I ty PWW PBARSON
Kennedy adopts F.D.R. policy of scratching Congress
on back; President irked at Time magazine cover picture;
Close advisors worried about Chief Executive's risky
flinkk
WASHINGTON—As the second*
session of the 87th Congress opens.
President Kennedy has made the
same decision Harry Truman and
Franklin Roosevelt made—but later
changed — to scratch congress on
the back.
Truman, once a senator from Mis
I souri, figured he could get along
: with Congress. His predecessor.
FDR. had secured the cooperation
[ of Congress during his first four
years, but after that clobbered Con
gress over the head.
Truman thought he could do bet
j ter. He knew and understood his
1 colleagues on Capitol Hill, tried to
win their favor. At the end of his
first term, however, he found Con
gress impossible, reversed his tac
tics, ran for re-election by harpoon
ing and belaboring the evils of the
80th Congress. He won—just as the
President can almost always win by
going over the head of Congress to
I the American people.
jus., aiso an ex-senaior, nas xriea
the same let's-work-together-boys
tactics. All during his first year in
office he went out of his way to
defer to Congress. He figured he
knew how to get the cooperation of
his old colleagues. He still thinks
this way.
Congress gave him a certain
amount of cooperation on his pro
gram last year but clobbered him on
some of the most important mea
sures. He had to make concessions
and pull potent wires to get foreign
aid OK’d.
He will have a tougher time this
i year, but still figures that back
scratching will be more effective
than pants-kicking.
Sooner or later, however, he’s cer
tain to do what every President in
this century has done—kick Con
gress in the teeth. His predecessors
found that the public likes the spec
tacle of one lone man in the White
House doing battle with 500 solons
on Capitol Hill. Their sporting in
stinct sides with the lone battler.
Time and JFK
Behind the scenes. Time magazine
caused quite a stir in the White
House last week.
President Kennedy, who is more
philosophical than his staff about
press criticism, got a bit irked
when Time magazine came out with
its cover story on: “Man of the
Year.”
What happened was that the Ital
ian painter, Pietro Annigoni, was
given parts of three days in the
White House inner sanctum to do
the Time cover portrait of the Pres
ident and then turned up with a
dissipated likeness of Kennedy that
showed him with droopy eyes and
a necktie askew.
First word on the unflattering
portrait came when a friendly Time
reported tipped off Kenneth O’Don
nell, appointment secretary of the
President. O’Donnell called Kenne
dy in Palm Beach a few days be
fore the magazine appeared on the
newsstands, and later the first
available copy was rushed to the
President.
He had already read the original
piece about him, written by Time
reporter Hugh Sidney, which was
favorable. The final version as it
appeared in print had been pepped
up in New York with some barbs
and thistles. JFK dropped a remark
about Time’s political bias, and let
it go at that.
Risky Flights
Those close to President Kennedy
are not too happy about his quick
helicopter and plane flights he has
taken in borderline weather. They
believe the President of the United
States should exercise a little more
caution in getting around the coun
try.
So far there have been no acci
dents, but there have been some
close calls.
One of the worst occurred in
Venezuela during a series of four
helicopter hops between Caracas
and agrarian-housing projects which
JFK helped dedicate.
Real fact was that although the
headlines featured the possibility of
an attack from hostile crowds, simi
lar to that against Nixon, the Presi
dent was in much greater danger
during one leg of his travel.
The incident occurred after lunch
eon at the beautiful hotel Maracay
on the trip back to Caracas. Lunch
eon had been delayed, and the presi
dential party did not get off until
mid-afternoon.
Meanwhile a rainstorm had come
up, clouds were low, and the Presi
dent’s helicopter had to make an
emergency landing on a highway.
Other helicopters accompanying him
also landed on the highway and auto
traffic was immediately stopped.
The President stepped out of his
copter for a minute or two, while
the pilot communicated with the
weather tower. After about six min
utes word came that the weather
around Caracas was passable. The
President proceeded.
It was just barely passable, how
ever, and the 'copter just managed
to make it between clouds and rain
storms. It was not a trip that a pilot
likes to take with a man upon whose
life the free world depends.
Postscript
Attention, Postmaster General
Day: Check on the Christmas cards
sent out by Congressman John Rous
selot of San Gabriel. Calif.
Rousselot is the right-wing con
gressman who belongs to the secret
John Birch society and is always
clamoring for government economy.
However, you will find that Rous
selot let the taxpayers pay for his
Christmas friendship by mailing
out his Christmas greetings under
the franking privilege at the tax
payers' expense.
According to post office regula
tions, this is against the law.
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