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I EDITORIAL I
Tourists Need Hotel Rooms . . .
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Soon another tourist season will be in full swing.;
With the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle, 1962 promises
to be a banner year for the Alaska tourist business.
The program for the Southeastern Alaska Ferry Sys
tem is well underway. The Ferry System between the'
Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak Island is just a few steps
away from realty.
Our State Division of Tourism is doing an excellent
job. The various travel agencies and airlines serving Alas
ka are producing tourist promotional material that is
better than ever.
There is just one problem . . . and that problem is
cjrowing more acute with each succeeding day.
The plata fact of the matter is that some of Al
aska's most vociferous agitators for an expanded tour
ism program have overlooked a mighty vital tourist
i industry essential. THAT ESSENTIAL IS HOUSING.
It is time for Alaskans to face up to this great need
for a greatly expanded program of tourist hotei construc
tion. It is axiomatic that when we lead tourists to Alaska's
doorstep, then there must be a door leading to a hotel
room behind that doorstep.
If we are to enter the big leagues of the tourist bus-!
iness, then we had better provide big league facilities or
we wlM be a one-time only participant. That means we
need plenty of first class accommodations . . . SOON.
Here in Fairbanks, it is time for our City govern
ment and our civic leaders to start the ball rolling.
This MUST be dbne, if our leaders are to fulfill their
responsibilities to this community.
Some of us will recall the Community Hotel Associa
tion of some years ago. Some of us may recall it as a
failure. We think not.
The work of this group, while not producing the ex
pected means to additional hotel accommodations, DID j
result in the desired goal, as far as the community was
concerned. It cafi be done again.
Fairbanks has grown tremendously since the days of
the Association. And as we have grown, our needs have
increased.
If wOare to participate in the coming boom in Alas
ka tourism, them'we had better get busy . . . and FAST. To
day, a tourist hotel would enjoy great tax incentive op
portunities that were not available in days gone by. The1
Industrial Incentive Act of 1957 provides SPECIAL advan
tages to those who construct and operate tourist hotels.
This newspaper believes that a united commu
nity can' generate both the means AND the end. A
| united Fairbanks is a tool that has been too seldom
used in the past.
We are entering a great new age of development
in Alaska. If Fairbanks is to enjoy its rightful share of that
age, then we should start now.
The age of the missile, the Rampart Dam and a great
ly expanded tourist industry will not wait for us. We must
climb aboard NOW, or we will be known chiefly as a .
Wide spot in the road in that day called TOMORROW. 11
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I The Sluicebox
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Boy, there is shore a power
ful lot of folks runnin for the
legislature. Ole buck has often
tried to figger out why it was
that folks runs for the counsul
or the legislature.
My uncle, Sigmund Buck
wheat, come up with yihat I
think is the best answer. He said
there is ackshully folks what
enjoys gittin stomped on and
trorhped on. These peepul jist
aint happy unless they is get
tin hurt real bad.
Anyways, that shore fit's the
description of being a membur
of the legislature or the city
counsul, so maVbe that is why
at least some folks runs.
Also there is some folks what
has ont an. extra dose of the
“will to fail” an when they aits
beat in an election year after
year, why then they is happy.
Boy, down in Ahchrudge there
is 71 folks running for the leg
islature. They likes to suffer in
a big wav down there.
Then too, there is probably
some sadists in the bunch. They
hat there fun bein on TV dur
ing the campaign an scnrin lit
tle kids with there halloween
dan smiles.
Meanwhile, tKo days jist keens
eittin longer. Why it won’t be
loner an it will be the 21st of
June already. The mousouitoes !
alius has fun that day, bitin all
the Deeoul what stays up to
watch the midnight sun. Also
there is usuallv a forrest fire
some place what keeps you from
seein it.
CAUGHT AGAIN: Yen, An- j
chrudpe jist won’t let uv. Novi
they is qittin there mail by I
truck, jist Hke ice hnv been nit- !
tin ours. They got there first !
load Inst week.
RIGHT AGAIN: Ole Buck !
oredickted +h^* neither iohn ra
der or wended kay would be in j
the governor's race when the !
starting chute ODened, an he j
was right . . . (Move over Drew '
pear«on).
RIG, RIG, BIG ; Rerp jff g prp~
dickshun you kin try on -for
size: Sooner then von exnects,
the boys bnek in Washington is
gonna start work on a railroad j
from hpyp to the rest of the
United States
THE REASON: It is all tied
in with sunnlyin thr> silos what
will be budt for them minute
men missiles.
While we is on the subjict of
missiles an stuff like that', we
wants to remind everybody that
armed forces day is comin. so
you shouldn’t make no other !
plans for May 19th. That is the !
day when we aits to visit the
bases an hav lots of fun and a i
good time seein what our in- 1
come taxes is going for.
In case anv of you has seen
ver lawyeb this week an won
dered why you never noticed he
had red eyes before/jist're'fnem
ber that they has all had there
big bar meet in Juneau this last
weekend.
wai, tms Sunday ?s Mother’§
Day. It is shore a aood day. (The
BUCKWHEAT PARTY was in
favor of mothers even before
Eisenhower thought of it.) So,
we has come up with a speshul
pome . . . called ...
MOTHER3 DO^S: When th«
day has gone real porely, and
you wished it had never was . . .
An you think nobody loves you
shorely, jist remember yer
mothers does.
PASSIN PRADE: Graduation
days will soon be popvin up all
over the place . . . Anchrudae
has beet us agin, this time for
the Miss Alaska title . . . Red
Boucher will soon be known as
every swimmer’s hero . -. .
Speakin about swimmin, v>hen
the Rampart dam is built, Alas
ka will hav the biggest swimmin
hole in the free world . . .
RAMPART PREDICKSHUN:
rhe Rampart Dam will go to
xmgriss an be okayed by 1964.
Pearson vacations aboard S.S. Delta Queen as it sails
the Mississippi; outlines seven pofnt program for elimioaf
inq Communism.
ABOARD THE SS DELTA4
QUEEN — Being out here on the
broad Mississippi River with no
telephones, no telegrams, and no
distractions is conducive to think
ing about the might and majesty of
what man has wrought.
This has set me to thinking about
the favorite topic of duscussion on
the part of a great many would-be
pilots of the nation recently—our
failure to combat Communism. They
have seen Communists behind every
bedpost, have predicted the USA
was on the way to becoming an arm
of the Kremlin, and some have
charged that because I listened to
and reported the views of Nikita
Khrushchev for two days last sum
mer, I am prO-Communist.
It so happens that I know some
thing about combating Communism,
having been the first newsman to
report the Soviet-Canadian spy ring,
having uncovered the theft of the
B-29 blueprints, helped put across
the Friendship Train and the
democracy letters to Italy that
turned the tide of the first Italian
elections, and having organized the
freedom balloons into Poland and
Czechoslovakia at a time when the
Iron Curtain was so rigid not even
a Fuller brush salesman could get
through.
And having listened carefully to
those who would combat Commu
nism by preaching hate and heaping
suspicion of their fellow Americans,
I would like to outline my own
seven points for preventing Com
munism. I'll be brief. Here they are:
1. THE ELIMINATION OF POV
ERTY — When I get letters from
mothers who are struggling to feed
their children and whose husbands
don't have jobs, I know they and
the children they are bringing up
could be converts to Communism.
Most people have forgotten that
the young Communists of the 1930s
were the product of the depression.
It was those harsh, cruel, heartless
years of no hope, of pitiful men
selling apples on street corners that
brought on Communism, just as it
was the harsh hopelessness of Czar
ist rule that brought Communism to
Russia.
2. HONESTY—Corruption in high
places and low places too, is another
way of inducing Communism. A
Democratic Republican form of gov
ernment must be honest. Once either
loses high ethical standards, then
is the time to begin worrying about
Communism.
When the Justice Department in
dicted the port manager of Galves
ton, E. H. Thornton Sr., for surrep
titiously mixing wheat unfit for
human consumption with good
wheat and labeling it A-l wheat,
justice was right. The Justice De
partment knew it must keep a high
standard of government honesty.
And when Gov. Allan Shivers flew
to Washington and persuaded Pres
ident Eisenhower to drop the in
dictment he was wrong.
The Soviet, in my opinion, carried
things too far when it recently
gave the death sentence to a Rus
sian grain official who likewise mis
branded wheat. But they also knew
that the first standard of good gov
ernment is honesty.
3. RESrECT OF GOVERNMENT
—This goes hand in hand with hon
esty. If we don’t respect our gov
ernment officials, we have the right,
by means of the ballot, to change
them. But if we lose respect for
too many of them, \\>e may want to
change our system. That’s why it’s
so important to keep government
fair and honest, so as to keep re
spect for and confidence in govern
ment.
4. RESPECT FOR RELIGION —
Some of those who are beating the
tomtoms loudest about the dangers
of Communism are the Bible-pound
ing fundamentalist preachers of the
extreme right, and one of their
stocks in trade is to smear their
fellow preachers as Communists.
The Rev. Billy James Hargis claims
that the National Council of Church
es “aids and abets Communism.” He
also managed to sell the Air Force
on inserting similar charges in its
troop indoctrination program,
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