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"YOU
WIEN AIRLINES ASKS
FOR ROUTE BETWEEN
FAIRBANKS AND JUNEAU
WASHINGTON W — Wien
Alaska Airlines asked the Civil
Aeronautics Board Saturday for
a route between Fairbanks and
Juneau.
Wien said that part of Alasks
which it serves has access to Ju
neau primarily through a twice
a-week connecting service witl
Pan American Airways at Fair
banks. It said this is less thar
the amount of service required
Wien added that service be
tween Fairbanks and Juneau by
way of Anchorage usually in
volves an overnight stay in An
chorage and costs almost 50 per
cent more—an additional $25—
than direct service one way.
Wien said its proposal would
have little effect on Pan Ameri
can Airlines, which currently is
authorized to operate between
Fairbanks, Whitehorse and Ju
neau.
MIKOYAN GETS SILENT
TREATMENT IN BERLIN
BERLIN UB — The people of
East Berlin received Soviet De
puty Premier Anastas Mikoyan
in silence Saturday — silence sc
deep it had the appearance of a
planned snub.
The Communists drummed up
thousands of spectators. But there
were far from enough to fill the
streets as iMikoyan drove through
the city after arriving at the air
port from Moscow.
Mikoyan, who also is foreigr
trade minister, came for the Leip
zig Fair. He was accompanied ir
a closed car by East German Com
munist chief Walter Ulbricht. Po
lish Premier Jozef Cyrankiewics
and Czech Deputy Premier Otakai
Simunek followed in anothei
closed car.
There was hardly a sound as the
cars drove past. The absence ol
enthusiasm was so conspicuous
it looked almost like a spontane
ous anti-Communist demonstra
tion although many in the crowd
wore Communist party buttons.
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AIR FORCE IN ALASKA
GETS MORE AND FASTER
TELEPHONE SERVICE
“The need for more and faster
telephone service for the Air Force
in Alaska has now been met.”
Thus voiced Maj. Gen. Wendell
Bowman, Alaskan Air Command
L \ commander, following the com
. pletion of a long distance tele
. phone call to the commander ol
t Fort Yukon Air Force Station
north of the Arctic Circle, from
his headquarters at Elmendorf
Air Force Base near Anchorage,
some 400 miles distant.
Gen. Bowman, one of the Air
Force’s top communications ex
perts, had made the call in a mat
ter of seconds using the new
Alaskan Switching System — di
rect distance dialing telephone
network.
Long familiar to many tele
phone subscribers in the United
States, the direct dialing system
is a first for the military in
Alaska. It was placed in opera
tion yesterday, shortly after mid
night. Previously, Air Force units
in Alaska had been connected
by long distance private lines and
manual switchboards, with White
Alice the core of the network.
It is Col. Harold Hughes’ unit,
the Alaskan Communications Re
gion <AFCS) headquartered at El
mendorf, that will have the re
sponsibility for the operation and
maintenance of the system.
Under contract to USAF for
the past several months, the
Western Electric Co. has had 30
teams of specialists busily install
ing switching centers, automatic
switchboards and other equip
ment at some 65 locations through
out Alaska.
It was Ken Hubbard who ob
served, “A rich grandmother
never gets in the way.”
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MIAMI, Fla. IIf) — Cuban gro
cery shelves have practically
nothing but insecticides and sugar,
a British journalist said Satur
day, arriving here from a week’s
stay in Havana.
Richard Beeston, correspondent
for the London Daily Telegraph,
said, “Cuban government offi
cials are not honoring ration cards.
There is no meat and no eggs.
An English chap, a friend of
mine, told me the last egg he ate
was on Jan. 24.”
Beeston said food could be ob
tained in restaurants, “but the
| quality is bad and it is terribly
expensive.”
A shortage of automobile re
pair parts also is plaguing the
Cuban government, Beeston re
ported. He said “cars are break
ing down all over.”
The Englishman said Cubans
are still being told Americans are
going to invade their island. “It
is quite likely this is being used
to keep the people in a state of
crisis so they will forget food
and other shortages,” Beeston
commented.
He said the militia personnel
were in quantity throughout Ha
vana, but that military defenses
were not so evident.
“Another noticeable factor is
the fact that there is little men
tion of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro. You just see him around.
But he and his brother Raul de
finitely appear to be in the back
ground,” Beeston said.
FLYING PRESBYTERIAN
I MINISTER r>IJE IN BARROW
NEW YORK — The Rev. John
Chambers, flying Presbyterian
minister of Barrow will return to
his post at this northermost Unit
ed Presbyterian Church in earlj
March. He will make his returr
trip in a new 6-seater Cessna 18f
purchased for him by the denomi
nation’s Board of National Mis
sions.
According to plans reported tc
the headquarters of the Board o:
National Mission in New York
City, he expects to leave Minne
apolis in the single-engine Arcti<
Messenger IV March 6, arriving
in Fairbanks by sundown.
His family, which includes hi!
wife, Barbara, and three small
children, will fly to Fairoank!
from Seattle on a commercial air
liner. Missionary Chambers ha:
been speaking in Presbyterian
churches in Seattle for the pas1
two weeks.
Election Year Verse
JUNEAU MB — Sen. Lestei
Bronson brought down the Senate
Saturday with this poem on the
scrambling of an election year:
“Now is the time when ambi
tions climb,
"To sit in the governor’s chair
“Where the light burns bright
“And you spend each night,
“In turbulence beyong compare
“Where the pressures are great
“But sad to relate,
“Only one can sit in the chair.’
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pass the Senate on
JUNEAU at — The Senate Sat
urday gave its approval to com
panion bills appropriating $700,
000 for the state’s rural develop
ment, depressed area and disaster
program.
The first measure, appropriat
ing $200,000 for the balance of
the current fiscal year, went thru
by a 15-5 vote, with Sens. Cog
hill, Greimann, Brad Phillips,
Vance Phillips and Howard Pol
lock, all Republicans, voting ag
ainst passage.
The second measure appropri
ates $500,000 for the program for
the 1963 fiscal year, starting next
July 1. The final vote was 14-6,
with Sen. James Nolan, Wrangell
Democrat, joining the five mem
bers who had voted against the
first measure.
The Senate debated the $200,000
appropriation bill for more than
an hour. Not a word was uttered
when the second measure came
up for final vote. The outcome
was certain.
Sen. Brad Phillips opened the
debate by telling the Senate that
the director of the Rural Devel
opment Agency had told him he
had never requested the funds
and didn’t know in advance the
two bills were to be introduced.
Phillips said everyone know the
funds were to be used for politi
cal purposes, “but I am sure that
the opposition vote to these bills
will be used in the coming cam
paign.”
Sen. John McNees said the bills
were designed to help the people
of Alaska’s villages, “who do not
have the funds to have a paid
lobbyist down here. Someone has
to take the leadership for them.”
Sen. Vance Phillips told the
Senate that Gov. Egan, in his bud
COMIN'
From Fairbanks: Mrs. Howard
1 Farley and family, Edward Naka
rak, ’Delbert Obruk, Alex Oyou
mick, Andrew Kunayak, Louise
Bockman, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jen
| kins, James Stone, Ernest Parr,
W. L. Duckworth, Mr. Knight,
Dick Able.
From Kotzezue: Jackie Corn
mack, Virgil Naylor, Carl Foster,
Walter Cook, Matthew Melton,
Gunnar Langhus, Emily Monroe,
Dr. L. Heavren.
GO IN'
To Kotzebue: Eddie Touksjhea,
Mack Hilton, ByTan McDonough,
Fred Hall, Richard Schenkler,
Rodney Lincoln Jr., Emil Kowal
czyk, Harry Ballot, Gene Joiner,
Joe Brantley.
To Fairbanks: Jim St. Amour,
Jim Wellington, Roy Olson, Har
old Ahmasuk Jr., Frank Long Jr.,
David Kaganaluk, Virgil Vochos
ka, T. J. O’Brien.
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get message, had said that the
budget he was submitting wouxd
meet the requirements of the
state, consistent with anticipated
income.
“Why don’t you Democrats fol
low the wishes of your party
leader?” Phillips asked. “He only
asked for $200,000 for this pro
gram next year.”
“This is an unprecedented and
flagrant misuse of the taxpayers’
money,” Sen. Howard Pollock
said. “Why should every tax
payer be required to contribute
to the Democrat war chest?”
Sens. Pearse Walsh and Lester
Bronson said the Rural Develop
ment and Depressed Area pro
gram was one of the best things
which has ever happened for the
state’s small villages.
“The projects aided by this
program are necessary. These
two bills mean bread, milk and
ru to many people,” Walsh
s„
S John Coghill told the Sen
ate Lv felt the depressed area
funds Mould be used in connec
tion with the federal Area Rede
velopment program.
“The development of industry is
the thing which is important to
Alaska,” Coghill said, “not a
handout program, a welfare pro
gram.”
Closing the argument before
the Senate vote, Sen. Howard
Bradshaw, one of the prime au
thors of the two bills, said:
“Welfare is not the answer to
our unemployment and underem
ployment problems. These bills
will give Alaskans the opportun
ity to work on necessary public
work projects and earn money.
“Dollar for dollar, this program
accomplishes more for Alaska
than any other program we
have.”
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