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NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER ...». Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered aa second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING? —HA!
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I was absolutely opposed to the
raise in postal rates which was
introduced, but defeated in the
last Congress which was pleasing
to me and aroused all of my re
sentment. A similar bill has been
introduced in Congress with in
timations it might pass. God for
bid.
Our prosperity is and always
has been based upon our ability
to advertise and sell our mer
chandise. Through our mail serv
ice we sell by magazines and
newspaper advertising. This new
bill will raise rates to these users
by $53 million. How many more
magazines and newspapers will
have to give up the ghost? How
many jobs will be lost from edi
tors right down the line in the
advertising agencies, printers,
salesmen, stenographers, etc.
The summation—-now is the
time to stop it. Write to your
senator and congressman and pro
test NOW.
In the general taxes levied, we
the citizens pay for the opera
tions of the department. Now
they want us to pay, additional
rates to cover the entire opera
tions of the department —unjusti
fied any more than those who
use the courts should have to pay
fees for the cost of the opera
tions of the judicial system, or
the various agencies to collect
fees to meet the cost of their
operation — steamboat inspection
service, Customs inspection, Civil
Service Commission, and the vari
ous agencies for unemployment
in the Labor Department.
If I can 'be just a bit more than
a voice crying in the wilderness
to awaken the citizenry to the in
justice which is being forced upon
us, to voice the complaint and to
such ill-thought-out legislation
I will fee that I have in some
small way paid for the privilege
of being a citizen of the 'United
States in keeping the ideal of
our government of the people, by
the people and for the people.
As such we still have that
right and to keep it we must
fight for it and when Congress
gets too much of Washingtonitis
#ve must make our congressmen
realize that they were sent there
\o represent the citizens of the
state — let us see that they do.
protest by letter will awaken
;hem.
Respectfully,
Chas. D. Jones
Dldesl Catholic Priest Dies
TRINIDAD, Colo. Utt — The
ilev. Joseph Samuel Garcia, be
lieved to be the oldest living Ro
nan Catholic priest in this coun
try, died Thursday at 102.
He was born Oct. 30, 1859.
IVhen he was baptized at Tais,
^.M., his godfather was Kit Car
son, the famed frontier scout and
Indian fighter.
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Postal Rate Hike — A Big Battle
THERE WERE hundreds of pages of the congres
sional testimony on postal hikes — for our readers
who like their magazines we select the following
excerpts:
The Curtis Publishing Co. is a good beginning point, be
cause it publishes some magazines that have freen known for
decades from coast to coast including Saturday Evening Post
and the Ladies’ Home Journal.
Vice President Robert K. Eerrand testified that his firm
paid out in I960 more than $800,000 in second class postage
$5,786,000 for third class, $1,125,000 for first class, and $190,
000 for fourth class. Under the proposed new schedule these
costs would go up by 54 per cent which would impose un
warranted increases in these postage fees is a matter of grave
concern to Curtis, and its nearly 12,000 empliyes.”
The publisher of Harper’s Magazine, John J. Hughes,
bluntly told the committee:
“The proposed second and third class postal rate increases
which are before you will cost Harper’s Magazine annually a
sum of money which exceeds our net profits for the year
1960—exceeds our net loss for the year 1959—and exceeds
our combined net profits for the years 1956,1957, and 1958.”
Speaking for the smaller newspapers, Guy Easterly, pres
ident of the National Editorial Assn., gave the House members
something to think about. He offered charts which disclosed
that the department rate schedule in H.R. 6918 would double
and quadruple the mail costs for member newspapers. And
he foretold the consequences:
“This will place a heavy burden on many hometown
newspapers but the amount of revenue realized will be in
significant to the amount of harm done.”
Nome is known as a well read community and
to keep a good assortment of magazines coming into
our community should voice its opinion individually
or collectively to our congressional delegation. This
has already been done by one active woman’s group.
Glenn . . .
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In introducing Glenn, the Pres
ident called the astronaut’s wife
and children to stand beside the
| space hero, then he pointed at
Glenn’s monther and introduced
her as “Mrs. Glenn, who launch
ed Col. Glenn originally.”
Kennedy came here from Palm
Beach where he, Mrs. Kennedy
and their children are staying
for the weekend at the home of
friends and visiting the President’s
ailing father.
When Glenn arrived at the Cape
he and Kennedy set off together
on their tour of the place where
Glenn’s high adventure began last
Tuesday.
Crowd of 100.000
To greet the President, Glenn
had driven 18 miles from Patrick
Air Force Base to this space cen
ter past the greatest crowd in the
history of nearby Cocoa Beach,
a cheering applauding crowd esti
mated by police at 100,000.
Glenn, accompanied by Vice
President Lyndon Johnson, ar
rived back in his homeland at
8:40 a.m. from Grand Turk Island
in the Bahamas where he had
been undergoing a briefing since
he landed back on earth Tuesday.
On the tour of the Cape area
the President and Glenn first
stopped at Project Mercury Con
trol Center.
This was the President’s first
visit to this space and missile
center.
For Glenn this huge reception
by his admiring countrymen was
only a foretaste of things to come.
He is to be given a mammoth
welcome in Washington Monday,
followed by another in New York
on Thursday.
U.S. Destroyer Noa
Is a “Marked Ship”
'MAYPORT, Fla. UPl — The U.S.
Navy Destroyer Noa came home
a marked ship.
On the deck in white paint was
a large circle outlining a “7”,
marking the spot where astro
naut John Glenn Jr.’s Friendship
7 space capsule was set down
after his orbital flight Tuesday.
Also marked in white paint
were the five footsteps Glenn
took on the deck.
A large crowd greeted the re
covery ship when it pulled into
Mayport Naval Station Thursday
night.
The skipper, Cmdr. John Exum
of Jacksonville Beach, was pre
sented with a gold plated base
ball glove mounted on a plaque
symbolizing the Noa as the ship
that “fielded” the capsule.
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Ouch! Nome Has a Toothache
F>R OVER A YEAR Rev. John Maakestad, chair
man of the Civic Affairs Committee of the Chamber
of Commerce, has been* seeking ways and means of
getting a permanent dentist for Nome. He was re
elected to that position for 1963 and continues to search
by letter, interviews and in everyway possible, but to
date has (been unsuccessful.
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The hospital has made available adequate office
space; financing for the needed equipment to be se
lected by the dentist, has been assured; yet a qualified
dentist has not not been found.
Strangely enough the Eskimo people of the com
munity have no worry, as a full time dentist is kept
here for them exclusively whose services are denied i
those who are not of Eskimo extraction.
'In these times of acute feeling of segregation and
race, Nome is in the unique position* of paying its
share of federal and state taxes but being denied the '•
services of a public health dentist provided through
tax monies. There should be same way of providing
dental health care temporarily, at least through the
Public Health Department, especially for the children
of Northwestern Alaska, who do not have Eskimo i
blood. White Alaskan residents get toothaches too!
It shouldn’t take legislation, but just some prac
tical study of the health situation, to alleviate the con
dition immediately, if not sooner.
Individual appeals to the legislators and congress
men would assist materially in achieving temporary
relief.
Not Looking for a Job . . .
46TTEAR THERE might be some job openings in the
state administration, ' ’ we suggested to the
toad, who is always reading the help wanted column
but never seems ito find! anything suitable.
“Not interested,” said he. “I’m looking for se
curity. I got along with Sen. George NcNabb who pro
poses raising the unemployment compensation. I'm
raising the compensation to a liveable wage and make
It payable 52 weeks a year with a Christmas bonus.”
Should have thought of that sooner when they
still had the $15 million.
—Petersburg Press
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