GEORGE WASHINGTON,
TOO, WAS WORRIED ,
ABOUT THE TEEN-AGER
NEW YORK iffi —- George i
Washington, too, worried about
the teen-ager.
His concern was expressed in
1770 about his stepson, John
Parke Custis, then 17.
Washington, in a letter to young
Custis’ tutor, the Rev. Jonathan ;
Boucher, an Anglican clergyman
in Annapolis, said in part:
“The time of life he is now
advancing into requires the most
friendly aid and council (especial
ly in such a place as Annapolis);
otherwise the warmth of his own ;
passions, assisted by the bad ex
ample of other youth may prompt
him to actions derogatory to
virtue and that innocence of man
ners which one could wish to pre
serve him in.”
Washington said he had the
youth’s well-being at heart and
would be sorry “to see him fall :
into any vice, or evil course,
which there is a possibility of re
straining him from.”
The letter was one of 42 letters
and documents of the Revolution
ary War period presented to
Columbia University by Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred C. Berold of New
York City.
Custis was Martha Washing- ;
ton's son by her first marriage, <
to Daniel Parke Custis. Washing- 1
ton reared the boy as if he were <
his own son.
“Keen him “as much as nossible
under your own eye,” Washing- l
ton told the tutor. <
Bills Introduced Today
JUNEAU Of) — A bill which <
would exempt persons hired on a •
straight commission basis from
the state minimum wage act was i
introduced today by Sens. How- :
ard Pollock and Lester Bronson.
The measure would also peg
Alaska’s minimum wage at a
straight 30 per cent above the
prevailing federal minimum
wage. Under the provisions of
present law, the state minimum ;
wage is set at 50 cents above the •
federal minimum.
Another piece of legislation in
troduced today would require all (
cigarette vending machines to be }
equipped with remote control de
vices. It was submitted in the '
Senate by Sen. Bronson.
Bronson said the intent of the
bill was to prevent minors from
obtaining cigarettes from untend
ed vending machines.
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A resolution asking the Army
and National Guard to construct
an armory at Barrow was intro
duced in the Senate by three
Democrats, Lester Bronson, Eben
Hopson and George McNabb.
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Air Force Displays
typical Man Being
Framed Today
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UP) — The
typical man being trained today
Eor Air Force service is a slender,
iroung high school graduate who
is a bachelor but is thinking
seriously of marriage.
Specifically, he’s Airman Basic
lames Maynard, 19, Flight 168
5f the 3706th Basic Military
Framing Squadron at Lackland
Air Force Base.
Officials at Military Training
headquarters at Lackland pinned
the designation on the William
son, W. Va., youth after survey
ng hundreds of thousands of
;rainee records.
The average Air Force trainee,
the survey showed, is IS years
Did, stands 5 feet 8Vfe inches tall,
tveighs 148 pounds, is a high
school graduate, has no depend
ents, wears a size 8t£ shoe, has a
10-inch waist and wears a 15
nch collar.
Maynard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Maynard of Williamson,
natches every facet of the de
scription.
The Air Force looked over
18,000 trainees at Lackland to find
Vlaynard, who enlisted Jan. 28
vith the understanding that he’ll
De trained as a mechanic when he
:ompletes basic training.
Maynard, a 1<961 graduate of
Williamson High School, is a
jlue-eyed, dark-haired, ruddy
jomplexioned youth whose hobby
s wood-working.
He worked at a machine and
ilectrical company in his home
sown before enlisting.
He is engaged to Miss Anna
Mae Napier of Williamson — a
fact expected to take him out of
:he “no dependents” category be
fore too long.
Maynard has no complaints
about the rigorous basic training
program, which apparently has
stimulated his appetite. He has
gained one pound per week, an
>ther area In which he matches
he average Air Force trainee.
Black widow spiders are so
ailed because the females often
nake a menu of their mates.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Moon at
North Star Dining Boon
Dm Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I
Order of Eastern Star
Pearl Bohrer
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
Carl Mlokelson, W, M.
Marvin W. Lewis, See.
First and Third Thursday
Of Beak Month
Nome Rotary Club
Herb Jenks
Marc Beauchamp
e-rtary
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Wrn. H. Caaaraa, Brea.
Chaa. *. Jonaa. Saefey.
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Nome Cadet Squadron
lat Lt Jana Jonaa.
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Army Patients Test
New Paper Products In
Alaska's Sub-Arctic Cold
There are hospital patients la
terally wrapped in paper at the
64th Field Hospital, set up a1
Tanacross for the Army's annual
•mid-winter field maneuver, Ex
ercise Great Bear.
These patients are helping tc
test the Army’s new paper ware
products. Sheets, pillow cases anc
blankets made of paper are beinf
tested here in the sub-Arctic tc
find out how they stand up tc
rough usage in the field hospital
and if they are as comfortable fox
the patient as cloth products.
One such patient is Pvt. James
Schilling a cook with Co. E, 2nd
Battle Group, 60th Infantry, from
Ft. Devens, Mass.
“I feel like I’m somebody’s
birthday gift, all wrapped up. AH
I need is a bright ribbon around
my bead,” he said.
Army nurse Lt. Col. Dorothy
Kraftachenk told Schilling,
“you’re all wrapped up and no
place to go.”
“Actually,” says Col. Kraft
achenk, “these paper bedclothes
are still in the experimental
stage." The sheets, pillow cases
and blankets are snow white and
soft to the touch. It is only after
close scrutiny that you can tell
they are made of a paper fiber.
The nurse continued, “so far
the pillow cases seem practical
and sturdy. They slip on the pillow
easily and are soft on the patient’s
head. But it will be some time
before the Army can reach a de
finite conclusion as to the use oi
paper clothes.”
Resolution Passes in House
Asking Work on Nome Harbor
JUNEAiU UR — A resolution
asking the Army Engineers to ex
tend jetties and deepen the chan
nel at Nome passed the Hous
unanimously today.
The measure was returned t
the Senate for concurrence ij
House amendments.
COMIN"
From Fairbanks: Dick McCor
mick, Jo Chambers, Art Bergeron,
Mr. (Linton, Eph Wheeler, Bill
Munz, J. Woodward.
GOUT
i To Fairbanks: Don Hoover.
To Kotzebue: Jean Burand, Ted
Anderson', E. J. jameyson.
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FIVE OIL COMPANIES
FILE ON 50 MILES OF
TIDELANDS OFF NOME
A phone call to Mike
Walsh from Gov. Egan to
today revealed that now a
total of five oil companies
have filed on 50 miles oi
tidelands off of Nome foi
the announced purpose of
prospecting for gold.
WOMEN BOWLERS RAISING
MONEY FOR FARES TO
STATE TOURNAMENT
The Aurora Woman’s BOwling
Assn, made $35.50 through the
scotch bowling tournament Iasi
week. They also made $35.35
from the sale of coffee and cook
ies, for a total of $70.85 to go
toward sending a team to the
state tournament.
The N.C. Co. and the U.S. Merc
donated the coffee and Alaska
Airlines donated sugar, Pream
and cups. The cookies were sup
plied by the women of the associ
ation. Appreciation is expressed
by the league to all who helped.
Members of the bowling team
going to Anchorage March 16-19
are: Pauline Eberle, team cap
tain, Pat St. Amour, Louella Oli
ver, Helen Ray, and Fay Lienard.
Barbara Martin will be the dele
gate to state convention; Louella
Oliver will be the director.
The women are still quite a
way from their goal of raising
their fares to Anchorage but with
what local merchants have don
ated and what they have raised
they feel they are making head
thought to other money raising
t projects.
Scotch Doubles Results
Mixed Division: 1st prize $17.1(
e Jim and Pat St. Amour, 589 ser
ies; 2nd $6.30, Keith Hedreen an<
3 Pauline Eberle, 551 series,
j Women’s Division: 1st $17.10
Pauline Eberle, Louella Oliver
492 series; 2nd $6.30, Sharon Bell,
Pauline Eberle, 470 series.
Men’s Division: 1st $17.10, Maj.
David Money, Johnny Worix, 609
series. There only enough entries
in this division for one prize
All women yearn to be beauti
ful, but beauty is no guarantee
of either happiness or a long life.
Marie Antoinette married at 14,
became Queen -of France at 18,
and lost her head to the guillo
tine at 37.
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St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is
the world’s largest church. It is
460 feet wide, 632 feet long and
I covers an area of nearly 6 acres.
Pay Raise for
Uncle Sam’s White
Collar Workers
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy urged Congress yester
day to provide a billion-dollar
pay raise over three years for
the government’s white collar
workers. The aim, he said, is to
put federal pay on a par with
that outside so that competent
people can afford to work for
Uncle Sam.
The President said in a special
message that he was proposing
“federal pay reform, not simply
a federal pay raise."
For the whole field of white
collar workers, the increase would
amount to 10 per cent of the pre
sent $10-billion annual payroll.
But for individuals, the raises
would range from 3.7 per cent
to about 33 per cent for the three
year period. The first increase
would come Jan. 1.
Kennedy said he is proposing
a wholly new, common sense ap
proach to the problem of putting
federal salaries on a basis com
parable to those in non-federal
service. This would be done for
all but the highest-level officials.
And for them, Kennedy said, the
most vital single element in the
proposal is pay adjustments for
top executive and professional
positions. Many of these top-rank
employes, he said, are being
drawn away by higher pay out
side. Low government wages
endanger national security.
The pay reform would apply to
1,640,000 employes spread through
out the world. It would not af
fect approximately 660,000 blue
collar workers in skilled trades
and crafts.
I Everybody in the white collar
. category would get some sort of
i raise. For the lowest grade, GS-1,
the entrance salary of $3,185
would go up to $3,225 next Jan.
1, to $3,265 a year later and to
$3,305 in the third step.
The biggest group in any one
class is the 108,000 workers in
GS-4. Those are mainly clerical
workers—file clerks, stenograph
ers or clerk typists. The top
salary in this grade would reach
$5,475 at the end of the three
year salary reform program com
pared with a present peak of
$4,985.
Men first tilled the land with
sharpened sticks before develop
ing wooden plows pulled by their
wives — or oxen. Many farmers
refused to use the cast iron plow,
invented in the T8th century, for
j fear it would poison the soil.