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Salute To Century 21
From firsthand reports, the Century 21 Exposition
in Seattle is a tremendous success. Those who initiated
the idea of the World's Fair are to be commended for
their vision and industriousness.
Century 21 is a concrete example of what a group
cf dedicated citizens can do. Seattle is far richer from
the experience.
From those to whom we have talked, the Alaska ex
hibit is outstanding for its class. We should be rightly
proud of our State's contribution to the Fair.
It should be remembered, when considering our
exhibit, that it was put together on a handful of dol
lars . . . compared to many of the costly exhibits at the
Fair. And if it had not been for the foresight of our State
Administration there might not have been any exhibit
at all! ’
Everyone in Alaska that can, should take some time
out during the next few months to visit . . . Century 21
Our Growing University^.,...
Next Monday, a record number of University of Al
aska seniors will graduate. We wish them well- in their
future endeavors.
We venture to predict that the graduation record
will be broken again next year, and for many years to
come. Our University has been growing by leaps and
bounds.
If Fairbanks and the rest of Alaska could match onl^
a portion of the great progress being made at the Uni
versity, things would be booming all over! The regents
and officers of the University, both past and present,
have been people who have known how to get things
done.
When one recalls the University of just a short decade
ago, it just doesn't seem possible that such advances
could have been made. And ten years from now, the
University of today will be diminutive in comparison.
The growth of the University, and its rising schol
astic standards, speak well for the future of Alaska. Let
us hope that many of the graduates of 1962, along with
those of succeeding years, will remain in Alaska.
Their youthful vigor and enthusiasm can do much to
break the invisible barriers to progress that still exist in
many areas of our State.
Good Work On Recreation . .
Summertime in Alaska is fast approaching. Here in
Fairbanks, a fine summer recreation program will soon
be in full swing.
While we may often criticize our City government,
we can also extend a pat on the back . . . (on occasion.)
Our City is to be commended for bringing to Fair
banks the finest recreation program in the history of our
community. May it be just the beginning of even better
programs in the future!
Regardless of what the "hard-nosed" diehards may
say, the, people of this community are starving for a com
prehensive program. parks and recreation. We cannot
rest back ort the laurels o£ the present.
T Plans should be underway now, for more parks
• and playgrounds for tomorrow.
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newspaper flood stories wasn’t [
so pood, an most of the villages j
in Alaska din’t realize thev was
havin floods. But the teletype
wire to the Outside has changed
all that. j
Them, folks Outside jist eats s
up papers what has flood stories i
in ’em. The press services is jist i
beggin there corrispondints in j
Alaska to send ’em all the flood j
stories they kin scare up.
There is jist one thing wrong I
. . all the corrjspondints up
lere is also reporters for there
ocal newspapers . . ^ so when
hey writes up there big Out
iide flood -story, they also hands
t in.to there local editer.
SOLUTION: The BUCK
WHEAT INSTITUTE has %n
jentid a “Flood- Story Translat
n Digital ComputerA report
er simply feeds hts Outside flood
story into the Computer, an it
lchomps out a story for the lo
cal paper (where the flood is:
realli/ happinin.) For example:
OUTSIDE STORY: “Fair- j
banks (AUP)—The rampaging
waters of the mighty Yukon
swept down on the city of Smith's
Cabin today, wreaking havoc a
long the way. All homes along
the river were covered by five ,
feet of water. The entire com- ,
munity is to be evacuated. It is
the worst flood in the history of
Smith’s Cabin.” (Now you feeds
this into the digital translater
an you gits . . .) ...
TRANSLATED STORY: I
“Water from the Yukon River
came within fifteen feet of Os
car Smith’s cabin three days
ago. The water has since reced
ed: Ten years ago, the water teas
higher and came within ten feet
of Oscar’s cabin. When the hel
icopters came to rescue Oscar,
he offered the boys a cup of
coffee and they said they woidd
be back during fishing season.”
Wal, I hates to change the
subjict, but hay fever seasin is
comin soon. That is when ole
buck gits to sneeze once each
hour.thaTt-'tRe sun is shinin. Ex
lasayer Haggland has the- aMPe
trouble . . . we both
of birch trees when they polli
nates. <•
See where George hayes is
the new attorney general. (You
read about it in Jessun’s BE
FORE it happined.) He has got
a great future, he kin either
toind up as a judge, a governer
candidate what decides not to,
or he kin promise to push a pea
nut from Big Delta to Tok with
his nose.
Which reminds me, ole J.
Gerald Williams has shore bin
quiet lately. (An that shore
ain’t like him, either.)
While we is on politics, one
of the governer candidates has
writ to Jack for some help. Yep,
that david newton boyer feller
has whipped up a letter to Jack
Kennedy askin for his support.
(Wonder what Jack’s anser will
RUMOR OF THE WEEK:
They say a roof of a cabin with
two smoke stacks or it floated
down the Chena the other day.
(Wonder if there was any smoke
comln out of the chimneys?)
PASSIN PRADE Now that
milt donner has quit, the avia
tion department is down to one
head . . . Anybody what wants
a inexpensive Alaskan meal kin
take advantage of Senater er
nie greening's hunert dollar a
plate special in Anchrudge on
June 2 . . . Notice how the San
Francisco giants has stopped
complainin about there ball
park this seasin? ... After Char
ley Willis got that $5,400,000
for Alaska Airline's bank ac
count, it is rumered Howard
Hughes tried to git in touch with
him. . .
Wal, I has got to git back to
my big stock issue I is. workin
on . . . I am gonna sell it-to
them 30 employees of the Fair
banks City garage.
C'tW Washington
f Merry-Go-Round
I »y DREW PEARSON
Kennedy faces agonizing decision on Laos; only U.S.
intervention can save country from communism; neutral
ist leader finally agrees to help.
.WASHINGTON—John F. Kennedy
faces one of the most agonizing de
cisions of his short but hectic Presi
dential career. The question is j
whether to rescue the tiny kingdom
of Laos by risking war with Red
China.
The joint chiefs of staff, after ,
long and careful study.^ have told
the President that the only real
way to save Laos is by bombing the
Red Chinese mainland. What Ken
nedy faces, therefore, is an alterna
tive similar to that which Truman
faced in Korea—namely, to bomb ■
the Chinese north of the Yalu River
and thereby risk world war.
The agonizing alternatives were
placed before the President follow
ing the last meeting of the joint
chiefs of staff. At this meeting they
discussed three alternatives:
1. Send Thai and South Vietna
mese troops into Laos to bolster the ;
badly demoralized Royal Laotian !
a1 my. This, while possible, would j
only run the risk of bringing a far
greater number of Chinese troops
into the beleaguered country. The
Chinese have the manpower and. the
joint chiefs believed, would be glad
to use it.
2. Pull out altogether and admit j
an American defeat.
3. Bomb the supply centers of the
pro-Communist Pathet Lao. These
are located just across the border
in Red China.
The last alternative was put for
ward by Adm. Harry Felt in talks j
with Secretary of Defense McNa
mara during the latter’s visit to
Southeast Asia. Felt was careful to j
say he was not recommending it.
only advising of the possibility.
The joint chiefs also suggested this
alternative to President Kennedy.
They made it clear this was a po
litical decision, incurring the risks j
of world war, which he and he alone
would have to make.
: Uo» I& Gone
During last - week** meeting of
the jbint chief*, -several other cold
and sober faiffcs were discussed.
Fact One was that as of this mo
ment Laos is gone, the Pathet Lao
defeat of the Royalist field forces
is complete except for the mopping
up. The Royalist field army has 1
been routed and nothing stands be- ■
tween the Pathet Lao and the capi- j
tal exceot a small security force, i
Only U.S. intervention can prevent |
the Pathet Lao from taking over!
the capital and the entire country 1
if they wish.
Fact Two was that American mili
tary advisers had urged the right
wing Royalists not to concentrate
their troops around Nam Tha in the
north. We had repeated the warn
, ings over and over. They were ig
I nored. And exactly what we feared
! happened, the Pathet Lao over
whelmed right-wing forces at Nam
Tha. even though they had only
2.200 men against around 5,000 right
wing loyalists.
Fact Three — U.S. troops would
be lost in any limited warfare in
tervention by the United States.
The joint chiefs were especially
emphatic on this point. They warned
against frittering away our strength
on halfway measures. There is one
US. Army combat team of about
1.000 men already in Thailand, plus
1.800 Marines. But they would be
a drop in the bucket if it came to a
military showdown. And the joint
chiefs fear any use of American
troops would bring a mass of Red
Chinese swarming down from the
north.
The United States, they warned,
cannot fight this kind of war with
out striking the source of supply—
namely. Red China; which means
the risk of world war.
P ho uni Irks JFK
President Kennedy has made no
secret, in talks with State depart
ment and defense leaders, that he
is burned up with Gen. Phoumi
Nosavan, the right-wing deputy
premier who is real boss of the
Royalist government. The general
has repeatedly ignored American
attempts to form a coalition gov
ernment between the right wing,
the neutralists, and the Pathet Lao.
Phoumi has argued that this
would only lead to a gradual Com
munist take-over. Kennedy advisers,
on the other hand, point out that
right-wing refusal to cooperate has
led to far worse than a gradual
Communist take-over. It is leading
to a complete pro-Communist take
over by force. If a coalition had
been formed, the UN supervisory
commission would have had some
control; but with the military rout
of the Royalists, the supervisory
commission has no influence.
Kennedy was so down on Gen.
Phouma Nosavan that last Febru
ary he cut off the $3.000.000-a-month
payroll to his loyalist army. The
general has been scurrying around
other parts of Southeast Asia look
ing for aid and was not around to
lead his troops when they were
put to rout last week.
Only hopes on the otherwise bieaK
Laotian horizon are: first, the Rus
sians; second, neutralist leader Sou
vanna Phouma.
The State Department has ap
pealed to Soviet Ambassador Dobry
nin in vigorous language to call
off the Communists’ violation of
the ceasefire agreement, and the
Russians have seemed anxious to
prevent war. Averell Harriman.
former ambassador to Moscow, now
assistant secretary of State for the
Far East, has reported that the
Russians have been consistently co
operative in regard to Laos.
They have previously persuaded
their side to cooperate in a coali
tion government. We have not been
able to persuade our side. But how
much influence Moscow has with
the Red Chinese is now a question.
State department reports have in
dicated that the rift between the
two is wide.
Meanwhile, American diplomats
have 'been begging Prince Sou
vanna Phouma, the neutralist now
living in Paris, to fly back to his
country and try to resurrect the
coalition. There was a time when
our central intelligence was under
cutting Souvanna Phouma, but he
has finally agreed to fly back and
help us out.
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Jtivtpl*, 809 First Avc, Dial Gi 2-2836
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Tanana Lodge No. 162 F&AM
3rd Degree Wednesday, May 23, 7:00 PM
2nd Degree Wednesday, May 30, 7:00 P.M.
Elmer A. Lanstra Worshipful Master
Forbes L. Baker, Secretary
Midnight, Sun Chapter No. frt,O.E.S.
Second Friday of Each Month
Pearl Scherer, Worthy Matron
Mary Helen Chaddon, Secretary