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I EDITORIAL -:- I
Support Governor's Program...
Alaska Governor William Egan last week asked the
Leg stature to submit three bond issues totaling $15,700,
C00 f©r voter action at this fall's election.
$5,000,000 is for school construction, with many of
the schools slated for the rural areas of the Central Dis
trict of which we are a part. $3,500,000 is for airport con
struction, with work slated on vital State operated trunk
£ rpofts such as the one at Barrow.
The largest share of the Governor's proposed
Capital Improvement Program is $7,200,000 for the
University of Alaska. It would go to construct vitally
needed facilities at our University.
This newspaper is wholeheartedly in favor of the
Governor's program. As Governor Egan himself states,
his proposals are "a modest approach when compared
v/ith the overall need".
While Legislators and politicians blindly critical of
the Epan Administration scream from the roof tops about;
"deficit spending" and "mortgaging our future", we'can-;
rot help but candidly wonder how many of the detractors
ere operating on a "cash and carry" basis themselves.
Just as the family buys its house with a mort
gage loan . . . just as a business amortizes its capi
tal improvements over a long term period ... SO
MUST THE STATE OF ALASKA FINANCE A BETTER
STATE FOR ALL OF US.
Io say that we Alaskans today should pay cash for
improvements that will be utilized by many future gen
erations is far more wrong than to say, as Governor Eaan
has said, that these improvements should be amortized
c/er the vears of their use.
If the Governor were proposing a frivolous spending
p-oaram it would be a different story. HE IS NOT. The
modect schedule of improvements he is prooosing barely
scratch the surface of the many things Alaska needs.
Our Governor isn't kidding when he says, "I
do not want to tell Alaska's children who are now
without adequate schools that they must wait for
manv years before a school is available. A child is a
child but once. He cannot wait. He has no second
chance."
Or when he says, "School population at the Univer
sity of Alaska will more than double before the end of
this decade. We cannot fail in our responsibility to our ■
youth to provide them an opportunity for higher levels
of education."
In order for these bond issues to appear on the
election ballot this fall, the Alaska Legislature must pass
legislation to submit them for voter approval or rejection.
We have the utmost confidence that our elected
representatives will give us an opportunity to vote
on these questions. In that way every voting citizen
of the State will have a chance to decide these mat
ters for himself.
We are confident that if the Governor's Capital Im
provement Program does reach the ballot box, it will be
overwhelmingly ratified by the progressive citizens of
this State.
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don't always turn out the way
they is sposed to.
Another way of tellin who i.s ;
really controlin the votes in the
House is when you tries to fig- ;
ger out what the House has done j
this session. That is a sure tip
off that the republicuns has took
over.
Wal, enough of that politics
stuff. We has got more import- j
ant things happinin right here.
Yes sir, the big Winter Carni
val is set to go into orbit this
week.
There will be plenty of laugh
in an scratchin goin on. There
will be a big queen contest an
champeenship dog races for the
men an wimmin both. Then
there there will be the big float
prade an the midway, and for
the usual annual climax, the
Carnival manager will climb to
the top of the Polaris buildin
and threatin to jump off. (The
photographers alwuz loves that
one.)
The grand finale comes when
the parints of the nine girls
what loses the queen contest
chases the sponsers of the con
test down second avenue with a
bucket of tar and feathers.
This year's carmvul will have
a extra added attraction. 1,000
school teachers (most of em
wimmin) wil hit town right in
the middle of the event to hold
their State convention. (The
BUCKWHEAT PARTY is in fa
ver of teacher’s pay raises.)
Better hide yer orange shirts
this week. The big St. Patrick
day dance in honer of Eva Mc
Gown is this Saturday nite,
sponsored by the Peace Officers.
(For some reason a lot of the
policemen is Irish.) There is
still a few tickets left, so drive
carefully this week.
An hav you noticed how all
the girls has bin practicin hold
in there tea cups with their lit
tle fingers stickin towards
where Col. Glenn jist was? That
is cu* the Pioneer, tea for the
king an queen regent is this
Saturday afternoon at the Ea
guls hall.
Some f rends of mine is comin
to town for the Carnival. 1 am
gonna show em some of Fair
banks' finest attractions.
First I will take them through
the Pioneer Park, then we will
take a dip in the Fairbanks
swimmin pool, then we will
skate for awhile in our indoor
rink. For a extra treat I will
drive them down Noble street
so they kin see what a paved
road looks like.
PREDICKSHUN: We ain't
figgered out yet when the Che
na Ice is goin out, but the City
of Fairbanks will go out at
3:13 p.m. on May i3th when
the flood hits.
ARIZONA WORLD FAIR:
With all the world’s fair talk
goin on. Senater Barry Goldwat
er is tryin to start one up for i
his home state of Arizona. They
is gonna call it Century 18.
PASSIN PRADE: Bob McNee
ly may be a candidate for Sec
retary of state agin Hugh Wade.
. . . Chuck Hoyt is a avid News
week reader. . . Has anybody
seen Genrul Henry or Colonel
Faulkner around lately? . . .
Bob Parson is a candidate for
king regent in 1999. . .
NEW DANCE: Yep, ole Buck
has come up with a new dance
to replace the Twist. It is called
the BUCKWHEAT FLIP. You
starts out with a somersault in
the air, gits a half-nelson on yer
pardner, yells as loud as you
kin, rolls around on the floor
for a spell, then you lays down
on a couch an calls up yer psy
chiatrist.
REWARD: Git yer name men
tioned free in this coluum in I
exchange for tellin Buck who \
the mystery donor is so I kin I
win the ten bucks. . . ,
ami.
c^e Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Ry DREW PEARSON
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Khrushchev and Kennedy know first hand about war;
mouse takes orbit with Glenn; congressman says all wives
at work.
WASHINGTON —Two men who'
personally, poignantly know the
tragedies of past war have been
dueling verbally for more than a
year over future war. One is John
F. Kennedy of the USA; the other
Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR,
and their dueling is not taking the
world any farther away from war.
Mr. K of the USA frequently
stands as he receives a member of
his cabinet, not because he is in a
hurry to finish the conference, but
because it rests his back to stand
up. Sometimes he will put his hand
on the lower vertebrae of his back
and push to relieve the pain.
That back injury came from war.
When Mr. K of the USSR talks
to friends, his memory goes back
to those dim. dark days on the Stal
ingrad front where he. as political
commander, cajoled and exhorted
the half-starved, half-equipped Rus
sian Army to keep fighting against
wave after wave of well-fed, well
equipped Nazis. Khrushchev's eldest
son was killed by the Nazis defend
ing the wind-swept ruins of Stalin
grad. Kennedy's eldest brother was
killed by the Nazis in an afr battle
over the Atlantic.
Yet each involuntarily seems to
creep closer to the awful chasm of
atomic war.
When John F. Kennedy struggled
all night in the warm, shark-infested
waters of the Pacific after a Jap
anese destroyer cut his PT boat in
two; and when he finally reached
an island from which he could sig
nal for help, he had no idea that
someday he would lead this nation
in an attempt to prevent future war.
And when Nikita Khrushchev sat
in a dugout in Stalingrad which had
been mined to explode 20 days later,
he had no idea that he would lead
his country in negotiations to pre
vent war. Stalin, who was then su
preme. had no great regard for
Khrushchev.
Political Worries
Today these two men, knowing
firsthand the tragedy of war, the
futility of war, are engaged in a
deadly cold debate as to which has
the greatest tactical A-weapons,
which the heaviest warheads,
whether the other has the anti
missile missile, which has the most
accurate information on the other,
which has the power to win in case
they slip over the awful abyss into
atomic war. They personally know
the tragedy of war, but seem inex
orably impotent to refrain from the
talk of war.
Both men are also politicians.
They understand the political cross
currents which influence the other.
Mr. K of the USSR knows that Mr.
K in the USA worries over his old
guard opposition, the preventive
war clique in the Pentagon, the John
Birchites, and the fringe facists.
Mr. K of the USA in turn knows
that Mr. K of the USSR has serious
problems with the old guard Stalin
ists, the Red Chinese, and one seg
ment of the Red Army. He knows
that the Red Chinese and the Sta
linists openly advocate war with
the United States, claim Khrush
chev’s ideas on coexistence are pop
pycock. Molotov, no later than last
►—
October, he knows, wrote the party
congress that “without war. ad
vance toward Communism is impos
sible.”
The Polish government, he knows,
! even confided in the American em
bassy in Warsaw that Mr. K in the
USSR needed a gesture from Mr. K
in the USA to prove to the right
wing that his policy of coexistence
j was working.
The two men are politicians. But
in the intricate, all-important bal
ance of international affairs, they
don't practice the science of politics.
They know war. they have personal
ly. poignantly experienced the suf
fering of war. but they drift slowly,
silently toward the awful chasm of
war.
And for a man elected on a cam
paign of “new fresh starts for
peace." and who on Jan. 20. 1961
' said “let us begin." it was especially
tragic irony that on March 2. 1962,
he had to announce: “Let us re
sume.”
Mouse in Orbit
Alan Shepard, the first U.S. astro
i naut to penetrate outer space, played
a joke on Col. John Glenn just be
fore he took his history making or
bits around the earth.
Down in Cape Canaveral, the as
tronauts had been listening to
Jose Jimenez tell about a fictitious
mouse which got loose inside a
space capsule and couldn't be
i caught.
So. just before Glenn took off,
the other astronauts bought a toy
mouse about three inches long and
put it inside a kit which is fastened
at the right hand of the space navi
gator.
During his flight, Glenn, intently
busy wmtching the world go by,
reached into the kit without look
ing at it and pulled out the mouse.
Startled, he dropped it. The mouse,
' weightless, floated around the cap
sule for the rest of the three orbits
around the earth.
Merry-Go-Round
Says Congressman Bill Ayres,
Ohio Republican: “On the morning
Drew Pearson's column came out
listing all those wives on Congres
sional payrolls, every wife was at j
work.'- . . . Jimmy Noe. ex-gover- j
nor of Louisiana, set a record for
giving away public service time on
his TV station in Monroe, La., last
year—S720.802.12 . . . Thanks to the
fact that Sen. Lister Hill has sided
with the Ku Klux Klan in opposing
the $1,000,000 UN Bond issue, every
other Alabama congressman is on
the spot. They are receiving letters
from home quoting Hill . . . Carrol
Kearns of Pennsylvania, the Con
: gressional music man, is sore as
blazes at the D.C. Commissioners for
I turning down “music week." “This
puts the capital of the United States
| behind Tiflis, USSR, in the art." the
! only congressman who is a doctor I
I of music. (The D.C. Commissioners 1
argue that the nation’s capital is f
deluged to set aside special weeks, |
all the way from sweet potato week, I
to hot tamale week, has to concen- 1
trate on other problems.) 1
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Temple, 809 First Ave. Dial 6L 2*2836
Tanana Lodge No, 162 F&AM
First Degree, Wednesday, March 21, 7 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