JFK PROPOSES
$500 Millit
Handout to Traffic
Strangled Cities
WASHINGTON W) — President
Kennedy proposed a $500 million
handout to traffic-strangled cities
yesterday and dangled hopes of
eventual bargain rates before the
nation’s air-rail and bus travelers.
Kennedy bundled up his ideas in
a 10,000-word transportation mes
sage and sent it off to Congress.
He ignored former President Ei
senhower’s recommendation for
creation of a government Depart
ment of Transportation.
The $500 million would be only
a first installment, spread over
three years, to be given to public
agencies. They would put up some
partially matching funds and use
the combined federal-local money
for “the revitalization and needed
expansion of public mass trans
portation.”
For Traveling Public
For the traveling public and for
bulk freight — grain, coal, ore —
and farm and fishery products,
Kennedy recommended that Con
gress end minimum rates pre
scribed under federal regulation.
Just what passengers on what lines
might get lower rates in time was
not spelled out. But federal offi
cials said they hoped for some
“bargain rates to attract people
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congressional action to prevent
price wars.
The rate and mass transit rec
ommendations, and a string of
others, were parts of a vast, long
range attack on complicated, con
troversial problems Kennedy said
“are burdening our national trans
portation system, jeopardizing the
progress and security on which we
In general, Kennedy spoke for
continued reliance on private trans
port and for what he termed
fundamental, far-reaching reforms
in federal policies — reforms de
signed to downgrade regulating and
subsidizing and make carriers “fit,
lean and progressive by vigorous
competition and innovation.”
Canceled last year, delayed this
year, the transportation message
was the last of a series Kennedy
planned to offer to the present Con
gress in amplification of his pro
gram for the country.
Facets of it may stir up storms
of discord in Congress and outside.
But Kennedy nevertheless urged
Congress to get started as soon as
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RUSK SAYS SOVIET; UMIJSN
AND RED CHINA HAVE
• DEEP DIFFERENCES"
WASHINGTON UPi — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk told Congress
Thursday that there is “consider
able evidence of deep differences”^
between the Soviet Union and1*
Communist China.
He offered that view under ques
tioning as he called on Congress to
pass President Kennedy’s $4.9 bil
lion fbreign aid bill in the name
of “the security of the free world
today and the shape of the world
tomorrow.”
The Secretary of State was the
lead off witness in Senate Foreign
Relation^ Committee hearings on
the program.
Under questioning from chairman
J. William Fulbright and Sen. Alex
ander Wiley, the ranking GOP
member, Rusk said the Soviets and
the Red Chinese have di%rences
both in direct relations between
themselves and in rivalry for lead
ership of the Communist bloc. ^
He said there is also some evi
dence that »
are rivals fey_
sistance to Other nations.
NOME SANITAi
SERVICE
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P.O. Box 480
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BY VERNE O. MARTIN
Republican for Governor
This is first of a series of
columns I will write for publi
cation in the Nome Nugget during
the present political campaign.
Recently I had the privilege
of visiting Nome and Kotzebue
at the invitation of the Young
Republican Club in Nome, and
on March 22 spoke at their
banquet. It was inspiring to view
the interest in state govern
ment displayed by these high
school age Young Republicans.
It is youngsters like those I met
in Nome who inevitably will be
the leaders of tomorrow, in whose
hands lies the future of our 49th
State. They worked hard to make
fheir banquet a success, and
Nome should be extremely proud
of every one of ,them.
I deeply enjoyed, too, the many
visits I had with residents of
both Nome anH Kntzphiip. anri
the talks which gave me a better
understanding of the problems
besetting this part, of our state.
It is surely obvious that the
Egan - Carpetbagger government
has virtually forgotten the North
west section.
There is a woeful lack of roads
and maintenance on what roads
do exist, lack of school facilities,
a complete failure on the part of
Gov. Egan and his cohorts to aid
the area in developing a basic
wage economy. A prime need
in Kotzebue is a high school.
Nome needs, and should have, a
road to Fairbanks. As you know
I can’t promise these things, but
as the new Republican governor
of Alaska, these problems will:
receive my immediate consider
ation, and with your help and
ideas, I will exert every effort to
develop a lasting, year round
wage economy in the far northern |
part of our state.
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by Verne O. Martin.) _
CASTRO TAKES SWIPE
AT ECUADOR'S PRESIDENT
HAVANA m — Fidel Castro
called Ecuador's President (Sarlos
Arosemena a drunken coward Wed
nesday night and predicted he
might meet a worse fate than Ar
gentine President Arturo Frondizi.
The Cubiftr Prime Minister said
that Arosemena was on his way to
becoming “a prisoner of the mili
tary” who, Castro said, forced
Arosemena to break diplomatic re-j
lations with Cuba Tuesday.
“Any day they’ll grab him and
take him to an embassy,” Castro
said in a televised speech to the
First National Congress of Young
Communists.
Castro said Arosemena spent
long days “completely inebriated” j
and that he had been known to
remain intoxicated for a week.
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THE CHURCH OF
JESUS CHRIST OF
LATTER DAY SAINTS
(Mormop)
Sunday Services 14 Noon
Book of Mormon Class
SUNDAY AT 4:0ft P.*t.
Robert Johnson Residence
Across From Nome School
Telephone — 2402
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Alaska Steam
Trainship Will
Carry 56 Cars
SEATTLE UP* — A new type of
ocean-going vessel is going to be
seen on the Seattle waterfront un
der plans announced by the Alaska
Steamship Co.
The vessel is a trainship, design
ed to carry 56 railroad cars for
handling all types of rail freight,
including piggyback and containers.
The ship, the City of New Or
leans, will Open a new kind of
service to Alaska. She will carry
railroad cars from here to Whittier,
where they will be transferred to
the Alaska railroad.
D. E. Skinner, president of Alas
ka Steam, making the announce
ment Wednesday, said:
“For the first time, the Alaska
Rail Belt, served by the Alaska
Railroad, will be connected with
all areas of the 48 contiguous states
by fast schedule through rail serv
ice in conjunction with Seattle’s
four transcontinental railroads, the
Great Northern, Northern Pacific,
Union Pacific and Milwaukee,
whose active cooperation, together
with that of Alaska Railroad, has
facilitated development of plans
for this new service.
“Significant service benefits and
savings in costs should result for
Alaska consumers and shippers and
give new impetus to Alaska’s
economic growth.”
The trainship service will be in
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services of Alaska Steam, Skinner
said.
The City of New Orleans, which
formerly ran between Atlantic and
Gulf ports and Cuba, is now under
Liberian registry.
Congressional action will be
necessary to permit her transfer to
the American flag.
Bills to accomplish this were in
troduced in the Senate Wednesday
by Sen. E. L. Bartlett and in the
fHouse by Rep. Thomas Pelly of
Washington.
Pelly said he recently told a
Seattle labor-management group
that the city “would have to offer
Alaska something better than mon
opoly or it could not expect to
retain its past relationship as ter
minal for Alaskan ports.”
“The plan may well be Seattle’s
answer io Alaska’s probleni,”
Pelly added.
The City of New Orleans is 520
feet long with a beam of 70 feet,
a deadweight of 6,128 tons and a
speed of 18 knots.
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MjypLWO DEADLINE
MIDNIGHT MONDAY* APRIL 16
R- D. Stevenson, acting Commis
sioner of Revenue. State of Alaska,
said that because of the normal
filing deadline of April 15 is a Sun
day this year, the deadline mil be
extended until midnight Monday;
April 16, 1962, for filing of State
income tax returns.
By law, returns must be received
by the Dept, of Revenue before the
deadline. In practice, the depart
ment recognizes as timely filed any
return postmarked by midnight of
the final day.
OUR SAVIOR'S
LUTHERAN CHURCH
John L. Maakestad, Pastor
SUNDAY
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 ajn.
Luther League Committee
2:30 p.m.
Church Council 4:00 p.m.
Evening Service 7:30 p.m.
' MONDAY
Women ot Church Joint
Meeting 7:30 p.m.
I TUESDAY
Continuation Classes 7:00 pan.
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WEDNESDAY
Mid-Wa^k Meeting 7:30 pun.
Choir Practice 8:30 pan.
T H U R S D AY
Kindergarten 10:00 a^n.
Luther League 7:30 pan.
REPORT RABIES FLARE-UP
IN NORTHERN AND
WESTERN ALASKA
JUNEAU — A flare-up of rabies
in northern and western Alaska
this winter has resulted in the
death of many dogs and increased
activity in anti-rabies vaccinations.
The Fort Yukon Senior Dog
Mushers compiled with the request
of the local sanitation aide to stop
racing their dogs during a period
when red foxes were know to have
bitten dogs, according to Warren
Griffin, director of the sanitation
aide program for the Division of
Public Health.
Several sick dogs died or were
shot and red foxes attacking them
were killed, according to the Fort
Yukon sanitation aide’s report.
Other areas reporting cases of
rabies in dogs and foxes since Jan
uary are Buckland, Candle, Kot
zebue, Nome, Selawik, Kivalina,
Shungnak and Teller. The State
Division of Agriculture cooperates
in the anti-rabies campaign by fur
nishing vaccine for a nominal
charge. Alaska Command personnel
assisted in giving vaccinations to
the dogs and the State Division of
Fish and Game as well as federal
Fish and Wildlife Service are work
ing on elimination of foxes and
wolves within 10 miles of the com
munities.
Several dog and fox heads which
were sent to State Health and Wel
fare Dept, or Federal Arctic Health
Research Center laboratories from
the above areas, Mr. Griffith said,
have proven positive for rabies and
some six others are still suspect.
Fine Job Printing At The Nuggex
BIBLE BAPTIST
CHURCH
• SUNDAY
Sunday School—10:00 a.m.
Morning Service—11:00 a.m.
Evening Service—7:00 p.m,
9 WEDNESDAY
Bible Study and Prayer
Meeting—7:00 p.m. -
• FRIDAY
Boys and Girls Good News
Club 10 a m. & 3:00 pm.
Youth Fellowship—7:00 p.m.
Rev. Bob Leight
Missionary Pastor
RED STAR SAYS U.S. ARMY
FULL OF MENTAL CASES
MOSCOW UP) — The United
States was pictured by Krasnaya
Zvezda (Red Star) Thursday as a
country full of mental cases whose
soldiers were capable of touching
off nuclear war in a fit of nerves.
It suggested that Gen. Thomas
S. Power, Chief of the U.S. Stra
: tcgic Air Force (SAC), should be
sent “to see the doctors.”
Red Star, the Defense Ministry
newspaper, was the second news
| media here to comment in similar
I fashion on the alert last fall which
i sent SAC’s nuclear bombers scurry
ing to take-off positions around the
world because of a false signal on
its communications network. The
trouble was traced and the alert
called off minutes later. A Moscow
radio commentator Wednesday
night said the alert was the act of
“an atomic maniac.”
Red Star’s article was under the
title “Yellow House Rockets and
Gen. Lemay.”
“Yellow House’” is a Soviet ex
pression meaning insane asylum.
And Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, former
SAC commander, is now Air Force
Chief of Staff.
The article said 43 per cent of
the men rejected by the U.S. armed
services for health reasons are
mental cases but doubtless many
slip through.
“At rocket bases,” it added,
“mental patients can start false
alarms or even worse, push the
wrong button.”
PREDICTS EARLY SPRING
Bill Munz, veteran bush pilot,
predicts an early spring, as he has
seen brown bear earlier than ever
before. He stated that he saw the
first bear on the 31st of March in
the Bendeleben Mountains and an
other three between here and
Teller. He states that moose are
also in evidence and he has seen
a group of eight together recently.
MONDAY and FRIDAY
Flight 309/310
Lv. Fairbanks 8:00 aon. Ar. Kotzebue 8:50
fife. -- .Ar.
Lt. Nome
Lv. Kotzebue
Lt. Nome
3:50 pan.
Ar. Fair!
WEDNESDAY
Flight 309/31Q
Lt. Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:20 aon.
10:00 aon.
Ar. Nome
3:50 pan.
Ar. Fairbanks
11:00 aja.
7:35 pan.
TUESDAY, THURSDAY
and SATURDAY
Flight 311/312
Lv. Fairbanks 8:00 aan. Ar. Nome
Lv. Nome
9;W W.
10:00 aan.
Ar. Kotzebue 10:50 zum.
Ly. Kotzebue 11:20 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks 2:30 pjn.
’First In Alaska