Barrow, Top of World City,
Gets State Police Post Today
Captain John P. Monagle, Sr.,
Alaska State Police Northern Dist
rict Commander, and Trooper
Thomas R. Anderson went to Point
Barrow on June 16th to expedite
the opening on July 1, 1963 of the
newest Alaska State Police post.
Under a contract which requires
the trooper to patrol the streets a
reasonable number of hours each
Dot Lake Has
All Men Working
Well, 1 guess today, June 21. is
the longest day of the year and
tomorrow we will start down the
hill again. Sure hate to see it.
Headlines in Dot Lake: All the
tnen are working, some for con
struction and some for Alaska State
Highway Department. We sure are
proud of these men.
There is a new girl in Dot Lake,
too. Sure is a pretty one. No won
der. The most bashful guy in town
got his eye on her. So does another
man — we don'.t know who's
going to win though.
That is the latest news from Dot
Lake.
week and to be available at any
time to answer complaints or re
quests for police service, the vil
lage of Barrow will provide the
Alaska State Police with:
1. a suitable land vehicle, which
the minieipality will maintain in
good operating condition, and for
which the municipality will pro
vide adequate gas, oil, maintenance
and repair, all at no cost to the
State;
2. suitable housing for the troop
er's residence and office space at a
rental cost to the State not in ex
cess of $1800.00 per annum; and
heat for same at a cost to the State
not in excess of $1200.00 per an
num;
3. communications at a cost to the
municipality not to exceed $36000
per annum. -v-l
This contract differs from the
complete and partial contracts pre
sently in effect in that the legisla
ture appropriated a flat $18,000 and
requires Point Barrow to provide
the remainder of the cost of opera
ting ft post.
It takes a lot of things to prove
you are smart, but only one thing
to prove you are ignorant. — Don
Herold
Benson Stumps for Goldwater, Conservatism;
Blasts Cuban Handling, Kennedy Policies
By Thomas Snapp
Times Staff Writer
Ezra Taft Benson, former Secre
tary of Agriculture in the Eisen
hower administration and one of
the twelve apostles of the Mor
mon Church, gave rousing speeches
to audiences in Anchorage and
Fairbanks last week prophesying
Senator Barry Goldwater would be
come the next President of the
United States.
Blasting creeping socialism in the
U. S., and warning that this country
was threatened by "weakness from
within,” Benson said only a switch
to conservatism would save this
country.
He then went on to warn the
press had never carried the truth
about the Cuba situation, charged
the United Nations was a failure
being used as a tool by the Com
munists, praised the John Birch
Society, said there was no such
thing as peaceful coexistence with
Communists, and said Goldwater
was gaining nationwide support
and could win the Republican pre
sidential nomination in 1964.
He said Goldwater could win
from support in three areas, the
South, Midwest, and Inter-Moun
tain, but he also indicated he felt
Burglar proof
TTncle Sam (who knows which side
his bread is buttered on) has taken
some pretty thorough steps to guar
antee the safety of your U.S. Sav
ings Eonds.
For example, suppose you have a
Bond 'stolen before you have a
chance to put it in the bank or some
other safe place. You haven’t a
■worry. It’s registered in your name
and you’re not out a cent.
The government gives you another
Bond—no charge. Even if you’ve
, forgotten the serial number and
the date and place you bought it
(though having this information
•speeds up the process).
This theft protection is just one
more of the many reasons why your
fellow Americans have over $46 bil
lion invested in Savings Bonds—a
powerful answer to the people who
threaten to bury us economically.
So buy Savings Bonds. And see if
you don’t feel pretty good about it.
Quick facts about
TJ.S. Savings Bonds
• You get $4 for every $3 at ma
turity • You can get your money
any time • You can buy Bonds on
the Payroll Savings Plan,
Keep freedom In ye; • future with
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the staunch conservatist would get
support from the East.
Though Benson admitted Gov
ernor Nelson Rockefeller was "per
sonable," he said he believed “his
stock is going down,” "his divorce
hurt him materially,” and “most
important I know he is a liberal.”
The former Agriculture Secretary
went over in detail many instances
during his tenure where he with
stood pressures in fighting govern
ment control and price supports on
farm products and livestock.
He said the American system is
based on three great principles,
freedom of enterprise with the right
to failure and the right to choose,
the right to own private proper
ty, and the right to a free market,
the right to exchange.
“Freedom has to be continually
won to be enjoyed,” Benson said.
“You can’t sit back and say its
safe for eternity."
Benson said agricultural policies
had been subjected to too much
politics instead of simple economics.
I “Where price has been able to
play its normal function, we have
agriculture in pretty good balance.
It is only in the areas where the
government has tinkered where we
are in trouble," he said.
When prices are fixed above com
petitive levels, he said surpluses
piled up in government warehouses.
When he came into office, Benson
said he had to deal with 5 million
pounds of surplus products, a bil
lion pounds of dairy products alone
on which the government paid
a million dollars a day for storage.
“If you don't think that's a lot
of butter, you ought to try to move
it at a price above the market.
When prices are free, the former
agriculture secretary said, they re
gulate production automatically. If
prices are low, production goes
down. If prices are high, produc
tion goes up.
Benson said he took controls off
butter and the situation changed.
The Kennedy administra'tion, he
said, put controls back on dairy
products and the country now has
a million and a half pounds of
surplus butter back in storage.
The Kennedy administration,
Benson said, put controls on corn,
then the farmers simply pulled
their rows closer together and pour
ed in lots of fertilizer and the
government had a “billion-dollar
fiasco" on its hands.
When he was in office, Benson
said surpluses of cattle were build
ing up with controls on livestock,
prices were declining and the black
market was flourishing. Most so
ciologists in government said if
controls. Some prices went up a
would skyrocket and there would
be a revolt on the part of Con
gress, he said.
“The President finally took off
controls. Somep rices went up a
little and some went down, the
black market cleared up overnight,
and people started eating beef
again.”
“We nave traveled a long way
toward socialism in this country,
and encouraged Communism," Ben
son said. “I don’t care how it is
whitewashed, I am confident many
of the polices adopted in this coun
try are socialistic and are not good
for America.”
“If we would only realize it, gov
ernment has nothing except what
it takes from the people. This is
the time when people need to stand
up and be counted lest we are going
to be counted out.”
“Silence during this time is not
golden; it’s yellow,” he warned.
He then cited the last freedom of
Czechoslovakia where he said he
visited after World War II and ob
served that the country was be
coming socialized. He said he stay
ed in the home of a man who had a
small business and he warned the
man of the dangers to his country.
The man told him that Czecho
slovakia loved freedom, that his
country would never turn Commu
nist. The man pointed out that
pictures of Woodrow Wilson, who
helped carve out the country, were
displayed along with the country's
leaders.
Two years later, Benson pointed
out, Czechoslovakia was taken over
by the Communists, the man was
arrested and put to work in a slave
labor camp, his business was taken
over, and his family had to move
from their nice apartment to a
shack.
That’s Communism!” Benson em
phasized, “And there is no such
thing as peaceful coexistence with
Communists!”
Peaceful coexistence seems to be
the philosophy of our government
today and it will lead to nothing
but loss of our freedom, he warned.
“The Communists have no morals;
you can’t deal with them; we find
they have made 502 agreements
with us and theyve broken 500 of
them.”
When we try to play along with
them instead of standing firm when
we know we are right, the Com
munists win everytime,” he said.
“Why in the world we let
Khrushchev, a despot, dictator, and
athiest, push us around the way we
do is beyond me!”
“Everytime we have stood up
against them, they have backed
down. It would have been true in
Hungary if we had had the courage
to go in and land a few marines.”
Benson said he felt deeply about
Cuba where “90 miles from our
shores there is a Communist base”
and said the press had never car
ried the true situation on Cuba,
that it was worse then reported.
He said the State Department
tried to save face by saying the mis
siles were all gone from Cuba, but
he said he had been told by Sena
tor James Eastland that “We didn't
see a single missile.”
“We saw something that looked
like missiles, covered up. but we
never got aboard a ship."
“It appeared that Khrushchev
took one step backward, but in
stead he took two steps forward,”
Benson charged.
“He got the assurance we would
not invade Cuba, that he could es
tablish a Communist base there to
infiltrate all of South and Central
America.
Benson said ne nad been in ail
of those countries, that he had din
ner with Battista before Castro
came in.
“It’s true Battista was a dictator,
but he was our friend. He had the
greatest library on Abraham Lin
coln in Latin America."
He said the U. S. State Depart
ment “shot throughout with social
ists.” let Communism engulf Cuba.
At the time he said Earl Smith,
the ambassador to Cuba, was plead
ing with the state department not
to withdraw arms to Battista, that
a special intelligence officer of the
Agriculture Department was re
porting that he “would stake his
reputation on the fact that Castro
was a hard core Communist.”
But he said the State Depart
ment disagreed and called Castro
the “Great Liberator of Cuba.” At
the same time he said the NEW
YORK TIMES in an editorial called
Castro the “George Washington of
Cuba.”
Finally, he said “Smith, stood it
it as long as he could, then retired.”
He said the country never had
such issues as it had now and would
have in 19(54 and he said Cuba
would be one of the most import
ant. He also cited medi-care, fed
eral aid to education, and the farm
issue.
“There has never been a better
time in my memory to run for po
litical office on the basis of. sound
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