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NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1962
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Teamsters Urge
35 - Hr. Work Week
SEATTLE (#> — The Teamsters
Union, calling chronic unemploy
ment “one of the most serious di
lemmas facing this nation,” today
urged a 35-hour week for all work
ers to provide more jobs.
The giant union’s international
executive board, ending a four-day
meeting here yesterday, voted to
ask Congress to put the 35-hour
week into effect by amending the
Fair Labor Standards Act.
The board said the cut from the
present 40-hour- week should not
be accompanied by any reduction
in pay.
The resolution for the shorter
work-week said it should apply to
all workers, union and non-union
alike.
“Otherwise, any shares the work
program negotiated by organized
labor with its employers only
serves to put these fair employers
at a disadvantage with their non
union competitors,” the union said.
The resolution specified that
overtime penalties should be in
cluded for work in excess of 35
hours in order to discourage
“moonlighting.” It said moonlight
ing, the term given to taking on
a second job, would defeat the
purpose of the shorter week.
The board said the unemploy
ment problem is compounded by
the increase in the nation’s total
work force and displacements
caused by automation.
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^STREET FIGHTS 5AGE IN
ROME S JEWISH QUARTERS
ROME iff) — Extra police pa
trolled Rome’s Jewish quarter after
two nights of street fighting be
tween Jews and Fascists.
Six civilians and several police
men were hurt in the skirmishes
Monday night. Two more youths
and five policemen wore injured
last night when authorities used
tear gas to break up the scuffles.
The fighting broke out as Rome
was in the heat of a municipal
election campaign prior to voting
Sunday.
On Monday night two cars of
campaigners of the Italian Social
Movement, Italy’s postwar Fascist
party, drove through the streets
of Rome’s former Ghetto between
the ruins of the Roman Forum
and the Tiber River. The area still
has many Jewish residents.
Both cars were decorated with
party symbols. Several pedestrians
halted the cars. Fighting with
sticks and stones broke out.
Party officials later said the cars
had strayed into the narrow twist
ing streets of the former Ghetto
by mistake when the drivers lost
their way. Leftists claimed the cars
had gone into the quarters to pro
voke trouble.
FOOD SHORTAGES
BERLIN UP) — The Communists
publicly admitted today there are
serious food shortages in East Ger
many.
The party newspaper called for
multiplication of efforts to produce
more milk and meat to overcome
deficits in many districts on the
state-planned goals.
The front-page admission 'of
widespread failure to achieve tar
gets, which are modest by Western
standards, came as Communist bloc
leaders met in Moscow for a sum
mit conference on economic prob
D-DAY 18 YEARS AGO
GETTYSBURG, Pa. UR — The
man who commanded the Allied
invasion of Europe 18 years ago
marked its anniversary today with
quiet hours of work.
Former President Dwight D. Ei
senhower on D-Day — came to his
tree-shaded office on the Gettys
burg College campus at 7:50 a.m.
It was a bright, brisk morning
at Gettysburg, a far cry from the
cloud-shrouded skies of the Nor
mandy beaches.
The general’s office staff report
ed he spent the morning working
on a book he is writing. At 11 a.m.
a delegation from the Military
Order of Foreign Wars of the
United States gave him an honor
ary certificate of membership in
the Pennsylvania branch.
De Gaulle May
Spare Jouhaud
PARIS UR — President Charles
De Gaulle hinted today he might
have decided to spare the life of
ex-Gen. Edmond Jouhaud in the
“higher interests of the nation.”
A government spokesman said
Jouhaud’s appeal for an end to
terrorism im Algeria had been dis
cussed at today’s cabinet session.
The spokesman quoted De
Gaulle as saying that “on this sub
ject as on others,” men and events
had to be judged from. the view
point of the nation’s higher in
terest.
He referred to Jouhaud’s plea
to ex-Gen. Raoul Salan, chief of
the Secret Army Organization, to
“face facts” and come to terms
with Algerian nationalism.
Condemned to death and his
legal recourse exhausted, Jouhaud
has only the hope of executive
clemency between him and execu
tion.
The spokesman’s statement ap
peared to mean that De Gaulle
might commute the sentence if he
thought this would serve national
interest — for example, by help
ing a peaceful settlement in Al
geria.
PLAN FESTIVAL DINNER
A Midnight Sun Festival Pro
gressive Dinner has been planned 1
for Friday, June 22, by the Festi- i
val Committee at $4.00 per person.
From 5 to 7:30 hors d’oeuvres
will be served at the Polar Bar—
or cocktails at the Board of Trade.
The main course of the dinner
will be served at the Seaview
Room from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
And from 6 to 8:30 desert or
after-dinner drink will be served
at the Bering Sea Club.
HOUSE OKEHS BILL TO
CUT TAX ON TICKET FARES
WASHINGTON M — The House
passed today a bill to abolish the
10 per cent tax on railroad and
bus tickets and cut the tax on air
fares from 10 to 5 per cent ef
fective Jan. 1.
There was little debate on the
bill, which also would continue
other taxes yielding about $4.2
billion a year.
The bill was passed by voice
vote and sent to the Senate.
The measure would extend for
a year from July 1 the present
rates of the corporate income tax
and the excise taxes on liquor,
cigarettes, automobiles and sev
eral other items. These are known
as ^Korean Taxes” because many,
though not all, the rates, were set
during the Korea* War emer
gency and have been extended
from year to year since.
Kennedy Briefs
601 Graduating
West Point Cadets
WEST POINT, N.Y. (JB — Presi
dent Kennedy told West Point’s
newly commissioned officers today
they must be qualified not only to
fight and win wars but also to
deter conflict.
Kennedy said at the U.S. Mili
tary Academy commencement that
“basic problems facing the world
are not susceptible of a military
solution.”
In remarks prepared for the
graduation of 601 cadets, the Presi
dent said U.S. forces must perform
more than military roles in their
future assignments. He described
these “as a complement to our
diplomacy—as a deterrent to our
adversaries — as a symbol to our
allies—as ambassadors of good will
and good works around the globe.”
The chief executive offered this
counsel to the cadets:
“You will need to understand
the importance of military power
and also the limits of military
power—to decide when arms
should be used to fight and when
they should be used to prevent a
fight—to determine what repre
sents our vital interests and what
is only marginal. Above all, you
will have responsibility to deter
wars as well as to fight and win
them.”;:: ~ awpaal
Kennedy said the wide range of
military responsibilities how re
quired capacity for a wholly dif
ferent kind of force, leadership and
training. It is misleading, he de
clared, to call this “the nuclear
age" or to contend that national
security rests only on a capacity
for “massive retaliation.”
Since World War II, Kennedy
recalled, men have fought and died
in Korea, Malaya, Greece, the
Philippines, Algeria, Cuba, Cyprus,
and the Indo-Chinese peninsula.
In,all those places, he said, they
have waged war without massive
weapons — war in which major
forces were guerrillas, subversives,
insurgents and assassins.
These have been battles in which
victory was bought by “eroding
and exhausting the enemy instead
of engaging him,” the President
3aid. I
SECTY. OF NAVY KORTH
ADDRESSES MIDDIES
ANAPOLIS, Md. W — Secretary
of the Navy Fred Korth described
today’s military man as one with
unlimited knowledge, imagination,
courage and patriotism.
Korth, in a commencement ad
dress to 778 Midshipmen graduat
ing from the U.S. Naval Academy
today, added that the ingredients
for success, regardless of the ad
vances in techniques and skills,
have not changed,
j He said they were: “Honor and
integrity; idealism and self-sacri
fice; self-discipline and self-reli
ance; loyalty and devotion; humility
and faith.”
The Secretary was principal
speaker for the Naval Academy’s
112th graduation exercise.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy today. Partly cloudy to
night and Thursday with patches
of fog. Little change in temper
ature. In the last 24 hours: High
of 35, low of 25. Max. wind 21
mph from the north. Sunrise at
1:35 am., sunset at 10:28 p.m.
Temps, a year ago today: High of ;
62, low of 40. Extremes on this
date since 1907: High of 77 in
1057, low of 28 in 1916.
22 RESIDENTS EVACUATED
FROM STEVENS VILLAGE
FAIRBANKS UP> — U.S. Army
rescue helicopters evacuated 22 in
habitants from flooded Stevens
Village on the Yukon at 7:15 ajm.
today and about 60 more around
11 a.m. after being alerted late
last night of fast - rising flood
waters.
Bill Parham, Red Cross official
here, said he was alerted when an
emergency call for assistance came
from the village to bring out an
unidentified youth who had been
injured in a fire. He said the vil
lage was completely under water
when he arrived at midnight in a
Ft. Wainwright helicopter.
On seeing the conditions, despite
the apparent unconcern of the vil
lagers, he contacted Don Lowell,
State Civil Defense Director, who
ordered the evacuation.
Parham said the villagers had
fashioned rafts out of 55-gallon oil
drums, lashing the drums together
and piling their household goods
and other valuable on them. He
said the villagers had planned to
attempt to float down the Yukon
to higher ground.
Stevens Village is about 90 air
miles northwest of Fairbanks.
It was thought that warm wea
ther, heavy rainfall and fast run
off of melting areas were contrib
uting factors to the flooding.
150TH ANNIVERSARY
BUFFALO, rsf.Y. urs—- The 150 th
i anniversary of the start of the wai
\ of 1812 was observed yesterday
by civic leaders from both sides1
of the U.S.-Canadian border.
Mayor Chester Kowa of Buf
falo described relations between thi
two countries as “that rare gif
of compatibility . . . based on the
dignity and brotherhood of man
under the fatherhood of God.”
Toronto’s Mayor Nathan Phillips
said the countries “should empha
size those things we have in com
mon,” and warned against those
he called “busybodies in both
countries who are trying to make
trouble.”
C2J’s Girlie Show
fVeeds More Action
SEATTLE m — What the Seat
tle World’s Fair girlie shows need
is more nudity and action, a Fair
official said today in labeling most
of the exposition’s Show Street
as disappointing.
“There isn’t a show worthwhile
unless it is keeping the censors
busy,” said Harold Shaw, perform
ing arts director from New York
who has just inherited responsi
bility for Show Street. “The censors
would have to be on roller skates
to keep up with me.
“Fortunately, .people no longer
are shocked about sex.”
Shaw took over the Show Street
supervision after George Whitney
of San Francisco resigned late
last month as concessions manager.
“It’s a little like being asked to
do something after the house bums
down,” he said in an interview.
“These people have their leases
and have paid their money. I don’t
know what can be done.”
Only Grade Hansen’s Paradise
International and Les Poupees De
Paris, a .puppet show, escaped
| criticism.
“You don’t go to a show anymore
just to see nude girls stand around,”
he remarked. “You go to see some
thing happen — to see talent.
There has to be action.”
Most keepers twist or turn tfom
20 to 40 times during the night.
Nixon and Brown
Triumphant In
Race for Governor
SAN FRANCISCO W — Repub
lican Richard Nixon and Demo
ederatic Gov. Edmund Brown
emerged today as triumphant
choices of their parties to face each
other in California’s 1962 race for
governor;
The count of nearly 4V£ mil
lion ballots in yesterday’s primary
election carried both nominees
toward the one million mark as the
foundation for their November
campaign.
Nixon, in his first political out
ing since losing the Presidency in
1960, defeated conservative as
semblyman Joseph Shell of Los
Angeles by a never-challenged 2
to 1 margin.
There never was any doubt that
Brown, with only nominal oppo
sition, would be tapped by the
state’s preponderant Democrats to
head their ticket.
But the size of his vote — almost
equalling the combined Nixon
\ Shell total — uncovered solid party
I support for the 57-year-oid gov
ernor.
Nixon immediately made peace
overtures to Shell, who denounced
his rival during the campaign as
a “Me-Tooer” and a “Loser” intent
on running for President again.
I Nixon pledged to serve his full
\ four-year term if elected gover
r \ nor.
Shell left a sizable doubt as to
whether he’ll swing his support to
Nixon.
2 Brown, radiating confidence, de~
t dared “you can expect the greatest
f fight you’ve ever seen.”
Republican Sen. Thomas H.
Kjuchel drew a lopsided party vote
in withstanding a highly vocal
right-wing challenge for his can
didacy for another six years in
Washington. The results, he said,
showed the voters “want a Repub
lican party in the Lincoln tradi
tion.”
Two Republican congressmen
who belong to the John Birch So
ciety won re-nomination, however.
Voters selected party candidates
from 38 congressional districts in
ah.
All 16 Democratic and 14 Re
publican congressmen appeared
assured of renomination. In addi
tion, the voters picked party can
didates for eight additional House
seats which the state gained in
the 1960 census.
Sip
SEATTLE iS) — Attendance at
the Seattle World’s Fair:
Tuesday — 50,998.
Forty-five day total —1,766,966.
PUBLIC NOTICE
To: All boys and girls owning or
operating bicycles on the public
streets the City Police and State
Police officers will give short talks
on safety and the rules of the road
for bicycles on the public streets.
We will answer questions on when
and where to ride your bicycles.
Bicycling is great fun when you
drive like an expert. An expert on
a bicycle obeys all the traffic rules
and laws. Come and learn what you
must do to become an expert.
The first meeting will be to
morrow morning at 10 at the Na
tional Guard Armory for those
children under 12.
For those children 12 years of
age and older we will meet at 11:00
ajn. tomorrow at the National
Guard Armory.
R. W. OLIVER.
Chief of Police