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NEW GUY ON THE BLOCK
Barrow Charter Flight
TfISIORY IS BEING MADE this week when the Chamber of
Commerce of Point Barrow makes its first charter flight to
Nome to get acquainted with the people in the southern part of
the district and to return the trip made to Barrow by the people
of Nome early this spring.
The people of Barrow make up an outstanding community
that is headed toward success in its efforts to advance its economic
development.
They have demonstrated that when they are in the right they
are not afraid to stand up for their rights just like the founding
fathers of America.
The people of Barrow are to be commended and supported
for their stubborn demand to use the natural gas which is piped
into their village, but has not been available to them. They are
to be congratulated for their courageous stand on shooting of
waterfosvl. They are to he admired for their integrity and wisdom
by their action attempted against outside influence, by letting
everyone knoyv they yvould handle their own affairs through their
own council.
W e hope the weather is favorable and the group may be in
Nome today and if not that they will keep trying until the trip
can he made.
Cosmonauts . . .
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“The scientific and technical
tasks of the unprecedented flight .
were solved completely,” a broad
cast announcement said. It added ;
that the space men demonstrated
both extreme courage and “the
high moral qualities of Soviet
man.”
Both brilliantly fulfilled their
task, said the Soviet news agency,
and “for the next few days will
remain under observation of doc
tors to study the influences of pro
longed space flight on the human
organism.”
Tass said Nikolayev landed his
Vostok III at 9:55 a.m. Moscow
time and Popovich landed in Vos
tok IV at 10:01 a.m.
The area is that from which
past space shots have been launch
ed.
It is in an area that was no
torious in the 1930’s as the land
to which Communist officials ban
ished hundreds of thousands of
peasants who refused to surrender
their farms to the collectives.
Secrecy still veiled the exact
mode of landing.
U.S. space craft, braked by
rockets for descent, have all made
water landings.
U-2 Pilot Gary Powers
Files Suit for Divorce
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. Uf) —
Six months after a dramatic re
lease from a Soviet prison, former
U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers
sued his wife, Barbara, for divorce
on grounds of cruetly and intoxi
cation.
The petition was filed Tuesday
at this middle Georgia city, home
town of the 28-year-old brunette
Powers married in 1955. The couple
has no children.
Powers said in the petition he
had been separated from his dark
eyed wife since May 27. He charged
she was “guilty of habitual intoxi
cation” and that she cursed and
abused him without cause.
The petition also alleged her
“acts of cruelty were wilfully in
flicted” and caused Powers to be
come highly nervous and en
dangered his health.
Mrs. Powers had no comment
when she was served with a writ,
Sheriff Buford Lingold said.
Her mother, Monteen Allen, said
she wjas surprised to learn a di
vorce petition had been filed.
“I love Barbara and I love
Gary,” she said. “I’m so sorry
about this. Barbara hasn’t been
herself since Gary was shot down.”
A Report at Midterm:
The Forthcoming
Editor’s Note: Three months
from now the entire House of
Representatives and more than
one-third of the Senate will bo
up for re-election. At that time
the American people will have
their opportunity to express
.judgment on the administration’s
record to date. The outlook is
examined by AP reporter Rei
man Morin in this fifth and con
cluding article on Kennedy at
mid-term.
By Reiman Morin
WASHINGTON i/P> — President
Kennedy already is sniffing the
heady scent of the campaign trail,
three months before the off-year
elections.
It's not only because he enjoys
campaigning.
This year he has some special
interests. He wants to try to elect
Democrats who will support him
in Congress, to give him what he
would consider a true working ma
jority. And he wants to discuss,
from the public platform, those
issues on which he says “the
American people are rather evenly
divided.”
In November, the entire House
of Representatives and 39 senators
• five filling unexpired terms) stand
for re-election. Along with his
judgment of the individual Candi
da) .. the American voter will have
the opportunity to express his
opinion of the President’s program,
especially the controversial por
tions of it.
These include health assistance
for the aged, the farm bill, the
proposal for a Department of Ur
ban Affairs, and the general edu
cation bill.
Conservative Democrats joined
with the Republicans in blocking
this legislation.
Kennedy recently was asked if
he will take “reprisals” against
such Democrats. He answered “no”
and said most of them come from
“one-party areas.” He went on to
say:
Help Elect Democrats
“I’m going to help elect Demo
crats who support this program.
The areas I’ll be campaigning in
are . . . where there will be a
very clear choice between Republi
cans who oppose these actions and
Democrats who support them.”
At present, there are 263 Demo
crats and 174 Republicans in the
House of Representatives. The line
up in the Senate is 64 to 36.
That looks like a working ma
jority for the President. Rut he
frequently points out that the tally
on some key measures has been
very close and that a switch of
only two or three votes would have
changed defeat to victory.
The Republicans, meanwhile,
gleefully remind him that when the
Senate killed “medicare,” 21 De
mocrats, including a number of
the committee chairmen, voted
against the bill. They hoot at his
description of this total as “a
handful.”
Kennedy says that if the Demo
crats lose five seats in the House
in November, his working majority,
“such as it is,” will be gone.
He would like to gain five seats,
and to pick up 10 would be
“wonderful.”
His advisors, who demonstrated
considerable political acumen dur
ing his own campaign of 1960,
say it will be a victory if Demo
cratic majorities hold at the pre
sent levels — in short, if they can
break even.
Four principal imponderables
bear on the outlook for November.
"Kennedy Crash"
One is economy. A recession,
whatever the dimensions, would
give the Republicans added am
munition. They already are call
ing the break in stock market
prices the “Kennedy Crash.”
A second is the perennial ques
tion: Can a popular President in
Elections . . .
; vest the candidates in his party
with some of his popularity? Polls
indicate that Kennedy’s stock is
high now. Rut not even former
President Eisenhower's immense
popularity was enough to give him
a Republican Congress.
The third imponderable pivots
on the ability of Kennedy and
other Democrats to explain compli
cated legislation, and to fire the
voters to indignation over what ;
Congress did to specific measures.
The proposal for a Department of
Urban Affairs, for example. How
many people understand what its
functions would be and why the
administration says such an agency
is needed?
Health assistance for the aged is ■
another case in point. The pros j
and cons of the various proposals j
on it are not easy to understand.
And finally, there is the factor
I of political history.
In all the mid-term elections of
t this century, the party holding the
White House made relative gains in
Congress only in 1934, during
| Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term. 1
This year, however, the Demo- i
crats hopefully advance a proposi- !
tion that can be termed the “fat
| theory.”
It is based on the proposition
that when a President is elected
by an overwhelming majority, he
pulls in with him numbers of Con
gressmen who would not have
made it on their own. They con
stitute that “fat,” and are most
likely to be defeated in the mid
term election.
| Razor-Thin Margin
Kennedy came to the Presidency
with a razor-thin margin, not a
great majority. Therefore, the rea- i
soning goes, there is no “fat” :
j among the Democrats in Congress ;
now, and therefore history may ’
not run true to the form next fall.
! Q. E. D.
Charles Halleck, of Indiana, the
House minority leader, expresses !
| cautious optimism about the out
look this year for the GOP.
“We're making inroads,” he says.
! “But the south is solid and it may !
I be tough in the big cities. A lot
; will depend on the economic situa- j
j tion, business failures, unemplov- !
; ment and so on.”
He scoffs at the idea that “medi- i
i care” will be a great issue. “It ;
! will be far down on the list,” he
I said.
Sen. Barry Goldwater, of Ari- 1
' zona, chairman of the GOP Senate
j Campaign Committee, says, “I i
think we have a good chance to
i take the House. It looks better ;
j every day. Kennedy’s stumping
i won’t help his party.”
Kennedy summed up the position
i in these words:
; “If the American people are
against these programs, they’ll vote
Republican and we will have a
state of where the President be
, lieves one thing and the Congress
I another for two years and we’ll
! have inaction . . . they will choose
j either to put anchor down or to
I sail. So we’ll see in November.”
r
E!«vli<::ss . . .
• Continued from Page D
during f!io Eisenhower administra
lion, had a firm grasp on the IP. -
publican nomination to the Senate
with t),27(! votes.
His only opponent for the GOP
nomination, Frank Cook, could
scare up only 3,51!) votes.
In the legislative races, whei\
candidates for 50 of the 60 seats in
Senate and House were to be nomi
nated, things were generally favor
able for the incumbents, although
there were some notable excep
tions.
In Senate District F, on Kenai
Peninsula, veteran Sen. Irvin L.
Metcalf was trailing Yule Kilcher
for the Democratic nomination.
In the Third House District, cut
from two representatives to one by
reapportaionment. Rep. Andrew
Hope was running behind former
House mate Rep. Frank Cashel in
the Democratic race.
In the Fourth District, Demo
cratic incumbents Dora Sweeney
and Mark Jensen were being beat
out by Dr. William Whitehead and
Bill Ray, chairman of the State
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board,
although Mrs. Sweeney was hang
ing in close.
In the 11th District, where the
representation was cut to one by
reapportionment. Rep. Gilbert A.
Jnrvella was running ahead of
Rep. Peter DeVeau, House Major
ity Leader, on the Democratic side
of the ballot.
Americans to Be Freed
By Pathet Lao Forces
VIENTIANE. Laos (JPi — Prince
Souphanouvong said today Ameri
cans held captive by his Pathet Lao
forces for more than a year will
be freed Friday and flown immedi
ately to Vientiane.
The pro-Communist Deputy Pre
mier announced before that the
prisoners were on their way to a
liberation point but this was the
first time he fixed a definite date
for their release.
Souphanouvong told newsmen
“I can not tell you their number,”
but a U.S. Embassy snokesman
said five Americans are known to
be prisoners.
The embassy listed th< ;n as in
cluding NBC cameraman Grant
Wolfkill, Shelton, Wn.
COMIN' . . .
From Kotzebue: John Carver,
R. Jensen. Wayne Cherry. Florence
Swan, Lester Starbuek, Robert Du
van, Jack Kristiansen.
COIN' . . .
To Fairbanks: S. Mathur, Pete
Reader, Ralph Norton. Mr. Me
Lend. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Senunge
tuk, P. Brooks, John Hale. Don
and Morva Hoover, Alvin Mazon
na, Bill MaComber, Harold Kauf
man, C. Siegel, Mrs. Jennie Poi
son, Maxine Martinson, Oliver
Everett, May Bale.
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