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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1843, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1878,
Welcome Mat Is Out Again
jyOME HAS THE WELCOME MAT out again this weekend for
I" another state convention. This time it is the women who form
the Alaska Federation of Women's Clubs, composed of dubs at
Anchorage, Bethel, College, Douglas, Fairbanks, Haines, Hamilton
Acres, Homer, Nome, Seward, Sitka, Skagway, Valdez and
Wrangell,
The Alaska Federation is more than a sodal group with teas,
musicals, fashion shows and the like. Those who have sat in on an
executive meeting have watched these women "snap through a stag
gering agenda, parlay a thousand dollar budget into an orderly
account of charities, scholarships, donations, classes for depart
mental study, keep a tidy sum ahead for future activities and at the
same time set aside a modest bit for future building.”
This is the first time Nome has been host city for the Federa
tion although it is one of the older members of the organization,
having had its start in 1934. The invitation was extended to the
Federation for the convention by Esther McCoy when she was a
delegate to the meeting in Anchorage two years ago. We are sure
the visitors will receive a warm welcome and a full program in
die convention city on the Bering Sea. We are equally certain
that these Alaskan women will return to their homes throughout
the state with a fuller knowledge of Northwestern Alaska and its
unique problems. The convention theme which is "Alaska Unity in
Diversity” will develop friendships which will result in a more
unified understanding of the organization’s programs for the good
of the state and the nation.
CANADIAN DOLLAR DROPS
OTTAWA UP) — Canada de
valued its dollar Wednesday night
and pegged it at 92Vfe U.S. cents to
give a boost to exports and ease
the nation’s chronic foreign trade
deficit.
The president of the Canadian
Manufacturing Assn, said he was
delighted with the export boost
but expressed surprise at the new
rate, the lowest since Canada
adopted a free, floating exchange
rate in September 1950.
The Canadian dollar had sold
for 95V4 cents on the exchanges for
the past two months.
Finance Minister Donald Flem
ing said In a statement announcing
„ the new rate the government had
taken progressive steps to bring
the exchange rate down. The Cana
dian dollar in August 1957 was
worth $1.06Vi in U.S. currency.
The drop in the rate is expected
to give a strong boost to export
earnings and to discourage import
buying by raising import prices in
terms of Canadian dollars.
It will mean, among other things,
costlier vacation trips in the Unit
ed States for Canadians and cheap
er ones in Canada for American
tourists.
REPORT 21 mi.T.TO
BERLIN UP) — Since the Com
munists built the wall through
Berlin, at least 21 people have been
killed trying to escape across it,
the West Berlin government re
ported Wednesday.
Eight have been seriously in
jured.
The figure covers the period
since Last Aug. 13, the day the
Communists closed the border in
side the city.
NATIONS RAILROADS
DELAY DECISION ON !
PAY BOOST PROPOSAL
CHICAGO UP) — The nation’s
railroads today delayed a decision
in whether or not to accept a Presi
dential fact-finding board’s recom
mendation for pay boosts of 10.2
cents an hour for 450,000 non
operating workers.
James Wolfe, chief spokesman
for the carrier, declared:
“In our opinion there is abso
lutely no justification in the record
for any wage increase whatso
ever.”
He said the fact-finding board
used mathematical “hocus pokus”
to indicate that the raise recom
mendation is within the area of
productivity increases and not in
flationary.
“This is not a fact,” he said.
Wolfe said the recommended
pay boost would add to the ex
pense burden of many railroads
which are not now in a position
to pay existing wages. But, he
said, the representatives of the
railroads will consider the board’s
report, and he added:
“After the recommendations are
analyzed in the light of the dis
tressed financial situation of the
railroads a decision will be made
as to what the railroads propose
to do about them.”
He estimated a decision will not
be forthcoming for at least a week.
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KENNEDY . . .
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“For what we are moving toward
is an open partnership among all
free nations, a gradual leveling of
trade barriers that will draw the
whole non-Communist world to
gether with the strings of econ
omic self-interest. And that part
nership will be specifically and in
itially expressed in terms of a
genuine Atlantic partnership — be
tween the Common Market of Eu
rope and the Common Market of
50 United States,” he said.
“That partnership will be based
on what already comes close to a
trillion dollar economy. It will
produce nearly 90 per cent of the
free world’s industrial power; the
lion’s share of its technical skills;
two of its greatest markets for raw
materials, and a very large por
tion of the capital available for in
vestment and development.
The United States, Kennedy said,
must be willing to buy as well as
sell. It must be willing to allow
European producers easier access
to our market in return for opening
the doors in their common tariff
wall.
This is what Kennedy seeks from
Congress — the power to reduce
and in some cases wipe out tariffs
on a reciprocal basis.
A few people and industries may
be hurt, he conceded. But safe
guards have been built into the
projected trade law for them.
“No one,” he said, “is going to
be sacrificed to the national in
terest with a medal and an empty j
grocery bag.”
The trade law, he said, will im
Drove U.S. security by building
i sufficient surplus of exports over
m ports to halt the outflow of
?old, thus financing with overseas
namings the $3 billion a year it
x>sts to maintain U.S. troops
ibroad.
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GOVERNORS . . .
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Williams said the WGMAC rec
ommended incentive or subsidy
payments for gold to bring the
total amount paid for the mineral,
including both the established price
of $35 an ounce and the incentive
or subsidy payment, to at least
$100 an ounce.
“It is our feeling,” Williams
said, “that any combined price
subsidy payment of less than $100
an ounce would have no lasting
effect on the gold mining industry.”
The conference, in acting on re
solutions following Williams’ pre
sentation, adopted a resolution call
ing for incentive payments on new
ly mined gold which will “assure
to domestic producers a fair econ
omic return.”
The governors also okehed five
other resolutions dealing with west
ern mining problems, including the
need for automatic import controls
on foreign metals when the price
falls below a “prescribed peril
point.”
Other minerals resolutions urged
revision of the wilderness area bill
now before Congress to provide
for the multiple-use principle out
lined by Congress in 1960 and
asked repeal of the portion of the
internal revenue code dealing with
the tax on silver transactions.
The Western Governors Confer
ence got under way Thursday and
was to have continued through to
morrow noon, but because several
of the governors present said busi
ness reasons would compel them to
leave early, the conference was
packed into two days instead of
three.
On hand for the metings were
1962-63 term and Gov. Edmund G.
Gov. Paul Fannin of Arizona, Gov.
Albert D. Rosellini of Washington,
Gov. Bill Daniel of Guam, Gov.
Steve McNichols of Colorado and
Gov. William Egan of Alaska. Gov.
Fannin left before today’s business
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IKE WONDERS IF
WE HAVE ADVANCED
.ABILENE, Kan. (M — Dwight D.
Eisenhower compared American
scientific and material gains in
this century with “the vulgarity,
the sensuality, indeed the down
right filth," and said, “I wonder if
we have advanced.”
Speaking yesterday at the dedi
cation of the $3-million Eisenhower
library here, the former President
asked, “What has happened to our
concepts of beauty, decency and
morality?”
Eisenhower was disdainful of
some trends in modern art and
entertainment. He referred to the
new dance craze, the twist, saying
he did not personally dislike it but
“it does represent some change in
our standards.”
The former President called for
a return to the standards and values
of pioneer America.
He said the only danger to the
United States “is in forgetting our
glory, our traditions, our history,
our ideals and aspirations so that
we allow our fiber to weaken.”
A crowd of several thousand
persons stood in a hot sun to hear
Eisenhower speak.
"WELCOME ROCKY"
KENNEDY, N.Y. M — This
southeastern New York community
greeted a touring Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller yesterday with a ban
ner that read: “Kennedy Welcomes
You, Rocky.”
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