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SWORN ON A STACK OF OLD PARTY PLATFORMS
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\W V'cm! Foreign Aid
By Ellen Mulvihill
I NO I I W ITH 1NT1RIST an article in "Time Magazine."
Aug. 31. 1962, page 1 i. an article on Vice President I.vdon
Johnson and his trip to Lebanon. As he inspected a highway con- \
struction project fi\e miles north of Beirut he remarked to
Lebanon's Public Works Minister Pierre Gemavel, "You’re going
to realize great benefits from work like this. In inv country, one
of the most important steps in our development was getting the
farmers out of the mud. In tn\ own state of Texas, no farmer i
has to time more than a mile to get to paced roads." <
I wonder if the \ ice President is aw are that there are places
in his own country that are desperately trying to get out of the
mud so that it can develop. Northwestern Alaska has no farming
but we do have important and valuable mineral deposits that lie
dormant only because we are still "in the mud."
A recent editorial in the Nugget told of the interest being
shown by Japan in the mineral wealth of Northwestern Alaska
and the encouragement being given this nation to take out the raw'
material which is needed there, which is located geographically
so conveniently near by.
A recent visit here by a group Japanese told of the progress
made in the development of pulp in Southeast Alaska by Japanese
capital.
The warm-hearted and generous people of America (in
cluding Alaska) have always been more than willing to help others
to help themselves. Our money is in Beirut hauling 5 yards of
gravel per truck load to cover the mud. In the meantime in areas
like great and rich Northwestern Alaska, these public spirited
citizens are hard pressed to raise funds to build necessary roads for
development that might come from a new kind of "Foreign Aid.”
It has been said that if the bureaucrats in Washington are
permitted to keep on handing out the billions we work so hard to
earn, the day may come when the people of the United States will
no longer be giving foreign aid; ti e will be receiving it. This new
day has arrived. The dawn is on the horizon. The "Midnight Sun”
is changing to the "Rising Sun.”
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: JFK Urges That
U.S, Meet Goal of
Racial Equality
WASHINGTON I.T* — Abraham
t Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclama
tion set a seal of racial equality
the United States has not yet
reached. President Kennedy said
Saturday.
United Nation s Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson echoed the same
note as the 100th anniversary of
the proclamation was observed in
ceremonies on the steps of the
Lincoln Memorial.
New York Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller and U.S. Circuit Judge Thur
good Marshall also participated.
Kennedy was not present, but
a tape recording carried his words
to a nation-wide radio and tele
vision audience and to 3.000 per
sons sitting and standing in the
sunlight at the foot of the white
marble monument.
The President said the century
ion;; struggle of the Negroes to
“convert freedom from rhetoric to
reality . . has been in many re
spects a somber story."
The proclamation, he said, "must
he v aided net as an end but a
b inning . . much remains to
don< t er icate the vi stig<•.
a di-criminali ■** and segregation.
e; mad ■ eqn.J r: pits a reality [or
all of our iK'
Stt \ n e im i-.,;p i individual fro. -
p "tiic g’-eat unfinished business
tile world to-.lay." He said the
maneipati n Pi .-elamation is "a
ill to a new battle, a battle which
■ ges around us in every part of
r world in this new time of test
ing.
Marshall, a Negro attorney re
cently confirmed as a member of
the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
said the purpose of the proclama
tion was not only to free slaves
but to give them all the rights en
joyed by others.
As a result, he said, the 13th,
14th and 15th Amendments were
added to the Constitution.
Marshall described the procla
mation as basic to the protection
of human rights. He asked his
fellow citizens to rededicate them
selves to a determination to recog
nize every American on his merits
without regard to his color.
The ceremonies marked the re
turn to Washington of the original
draft of the proclamation which
Abraham Lincoln first made pub
lic 100 years ago.
Rockefeller presented the docu
ment to Allan Nevins, chairman
of the National Civil War Cen
tennial Commission.
The draft of the proclamation
was sent to Albany, N.Y., in 1864
where it was raffled off at a ba
zaar for wounded Union soldiers.
The State of New York purchased
it and has possessed it since.
8th Millionth Visitor
SEATTLE UP — Roberta Em
lund, 21, Lansing, 111., clicked
through the Seattle World's Fair
gates shortly after noon Saturday,
and was showered with gifts as
the eighth millionth paid visitor
since the Fair opened April 21.
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I Senate Passes Bill Calling
i For Construction of
National Fisheries Center
WASHINGTON i.T — The Sen
ate has passed a bill calling for
construction here of a national
fisheries center and aquarium.
The measure, approved Friday
by the Senate and returned to the
House, specifies that the cost
should not exceed $10 million. The
House had authorized expenditure
of $20 million.
The Senate also adopted an
amendment by Sen. Jack Miller,
(R-Iowa), to require fees be
charged to pay the cost of the
project over a 30-year period and
to meet operating expenses.
Opponents denounced the proj
ect as an unnecessary extrava
gance. Sen. Frank Dausche, <D
Ohio>, said it was an insult to
taxpayers. Sen. Wm. Proxmire,
(D-Wisd, said the project would
be “the most extravagant gold
plated fish bowl in world history.”
The bill’s supporters said it
would aid fisheries research and
underscore the value of sea food
and other water products.
The House now will have to act
'in changes in the bill made bv the
Senate.
'tucly to Be Made of
! urnagam Ann Crossing'
ANCHORAGE .-? The con
'i1 It inti firms of Porter, O'Brien
<<n i Armstrong 01 Sacramento, Cal.,
and Tryck, Nyman and Associate ;
Anchorage have been selected
to make an engineering study of
the Turna.gain Arm crossing proj
ect south of here, it wu.- announced
by State Highw..ys Commissioner
D. A. McKinnon yesterday.
The cost of the study is being
financed from an appropriation
recommended by Gov. Wm. Egan
to the last session of the state leg
islature, McKinnon said.
The study is to be performed in
several stages including the analy
sis of all existing data to select
a crossing site which will receive
intensive study of soils and other
engineering factors, economic and
engineering feasibility, and preli
minary design of the project.
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West Germany Will
Fay $1.2 Billion for U.S.
! Arms & Military Services
WASHINGTON (,T> — West Ger
I many has agreed to pay $1.2 bil
: lion during tlie next two years for
| U.S. arms and military services,
i and negotiations art under way
1 for similar agreements with France
and Italy.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Rosewell Gilpatric, reporting this
Friday, said the agreements are
aimed at curbing an unfavorable
U.S. balance of military payments
and providing more modern arms
and a standardized logistics sys
tem for the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
Gilpatric returned last weekend
from a trip to Bonn. Paris and
Rome. Iiis tour was part of the
Pentagon's drive to get allies to
buy more military equipment in
the United States and to take
over some military support jobs
now handled by U.S. personnel in
Europe.
The agreement with West Ger
many renews a two-year n.iet tea;
will expire soon. Under it. W- -
Germany will spend SG«)D mihio:
a year for U.S. weapon- u • o
A :;ci ic,.n supply facilitit -• a .
homing of Gw: .an soldiers in tin
use of U.S. arms.
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I S. Warned Missiles
Will “Start Flying" If
Attack Is Made on Cuba
KEY WEST. Fla. T -- BIa.>
Roca, one of Cuba's ton Cnmn
nisi leads, rs, was quoted Sa' .ir
day by Havana radio as warning
the United States that the mo
ment they step into Cuba the
“missiles will start functioning.”
Roca, a high official of the
Cuban Integrated Revolutionary
Organization <IRO> and editor of
the Communist newspaper Hoy,
spoke Friday to tobbaco workers
at a factory in Havana.
“An indirect aggression,” Roca
was quoted as saying, “will be
liquidated by the Cuban people
in a very short time and at the
moment the imperialists step in the
missiles will start functioning.”
He said the imperialists now
“will not only have to face the
Cuban people but the might of
the Soviet Union and other so
cialist countries. This would mean
the end of imperialism.”
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