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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
READY TO FORECLOSE
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One - Room Schoolhouse Returns
pARENTS, TEACHERS, P-TA’s and school boards across the
-*■ nation are beginning to discover that relief from over-crowded
school rooms and half-time sessions need not wait on a painful,
slow-moving big-figure bond issue.
It’sdene by mobile auxiliary classrooms thai ait set up in the
school yard — without need of buying more real estate — con
nected with sewer and power lines and ready for lessons in a
marter of days. For quick delivery, these standardized 20 by 40
Add-a-Class rooms are moved in lengthwise helf-sections over the
roads on their own wheels from the nearest of 12 Divco-Wayne
plants. Set on jacks or masonry foundations or left on their wheels
(where a roving, nature-study classroom is wanted), they surround
, 35 pupils with ultra-modern facilities, furniture and equipment,
. including individual air conditioning and heating systems and
'‘ boys’ and girls’ washrooms.
Chicago tried out two of these new-fangled classrooms last
January. The kids loved them. So did the teachers. The school
authorities and the taxpayers were equally lyrical. Now they have
150 of them in operation and David Heffernan, assistant superin
tendent of schools, hails them as "an immediate answer to our
double-shift problem."
Report Shows Americans Spent
More for Pleasure Last Year
Smoking, drinking, travel and
entertainment all increased among
Americans last year, measured by
federal excise tax collections, ac
cording to Commerce Clearing
House.
The same figures, however,
showed, a distinct drop in revenues
from taxes on new cars, television
sets, air-conditioners and other
durable goods, the CCH report said.
The public is still going places
and doing things is shown by boosts
in revenues from federal taxes on
gasoline, passenger transportation,
luggage, club dues, admissions to
theaters, concerts and sporting
events, sporting goods, musical in
struments and playing cards, the
CCH report said.
Gov. Rosellini to Visit Alaska
OLYMPIA iff) — Gov. Rosellini
was scheduled to leave today for
the four-day Western Governors’
Conference in Anchorage.
Rosellini said he hoped to be in
Anchorage in time for ceremonies
to be held in conection with the
arrival of the first truckload of
mail from Seattle to Anchorage.
Friday Rosellini is to be chair
man of a discussion on western
lumber industry problems. The
governor is to return to Olympia
Saturday.
ALASKA'S
POWER POTENTIAL
(Sen. Bartlett’s WashingtonNev.
Letter.)
Alaska has a power potentii
from hydro-electric energy of 18
121.000 kilowatts or 158,740,00
kilowatt hours, according to th
most recent estimates of the Bu
reau of Reclamation.
The projections were sent t
Sen. Bartlett by the Bureau Reels
mation’s district manager in Alask;
Darly L. Roberts, and cover 14
sites of 4,900 kilowatts or more c
prime power capability. Include
are:
Yukon River basin — 9 site
7.343.000 kilowatts prime powe:
64.324.700.000 annual prime pre
duction kilowatt hours.
Kuskokwim River Basin —
sites, 1,690,000 kilowatts prim
power, 14,804,400,000 annual prim
production kilowatt hours.
Seward Peninsula — 6 sites, 88,
000 kilowatts prime power, 770,
900.000 annual prime productio:
kilowatt hours.
NOME SANITARY
U.S. Chamber Told
To Take Personal
Interest in Politics
WASHINGTON UP — Former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
budget director told the U S. Cham
ber of Commerce Tuesday that the
Kennedy administration’s policies,
“unless abruptly changed, are like
ly to produce four consecutive
deficits.”
Maurice Stans, now president of
Western Bancorporation, San Fran
cisco, said businessmen must take
an active personal interest in poli
tics if they are concerned over
“near-confiscatory taxes” and bud
get policies which “are an open in
vitation to a crisis for the dollar.”
Sen. Harry Byrd, (D-Va.), pre
dicted the fiscal 1963 budget, for
which President Kennedy forecast
a scant surplus, will show “another
deficit of $4 to $5 billion.
Both speeches were prepared for
the Chamber’s 50th annual meet
ing here.
Byrd told the 4,000 businessmen
delegates: “If such a deficit should
develop next year, the three-year
deficit would total $15 billion or
more. This would be reminiscent
of the huge deficits of 1958-59.”
Both Stans and Byrd called for
action to stem the loss of gold and
correct the U.S. deficit in inter
national payments. Of the $16.6
billion in remaining gold stocks,
Byrd said, nearly $12 billion are
required as a backing for the cur
rency but the drain is continuing.
“How much longer can we con
tinue to be Santa Claus for the
free world, banker for the free
world, and policeman for the free
world?” Byrd asked. “When will
judgment day come? Perhaps it is
approaching faster than we real
ize?”
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men should work harder for the
election of candidates “whose
views are closest to yours.”
Stans also declared: “Despite
new fancy Theories of balancing
the budget over the business
cycles, we have gone in the red
26 times in the last 32 years and
have paid our bills without borrow
ing only six times.
“The policies of the present ad
ministration, unless abruptly
changed, are likely to produce four
consecutive deficits.
“A large part of the increase in
federal spending and debt is the
result of a massive assumption of
responsibility by the government
for cradle-to-grave welfare.”
In an address Monday, Kennedy
told the Chamber delegates: “We
have many burdens in Washing
ton — we do not want the added
burden of determining individual
prices for individual products.”
It was the President’s first
5 speech to a business group since
he forced eight steel companies to
l back down in mid-April on an an
. nounced price increase of $6 a ton.
I
, If you are among the 14 out of
’ every 1,000 people who suffer
from peptic ulcers, it may be a
, sign you are too conscientious. The
. ailment strikes often among wor
ried persons who have a high
• sense of duty.
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COSMONAUT TITOV
IN US. FOR A VISIT
WASHINGTON UP — Soviet
cosmonaut Gherman Titov arrived
here today to cheers of about 300
persons waiting at Washington Na
tional Airport.
In a three day visit, Titov will
have a chat with President Ken
nedy, deliver a talk on space flight
to a scientific gathering, and look
the town over with U S. astronaut
John H. Glenn Jr. as his guide
to places of sight-seeing interest.
A Soviet plane flew Titov and
his wife, Tamara, here from New
York.
The blond, huskily-built Russian
had a prepared statement of re
gards and best wishes for the
people of Washington.
He said he had looked forward
to meeting Glenn.
Before his TJ.S. visa expires next
Wednesday, Titov will see a sizable
chunk of the United States, and
also attend a reception given by
Vice President Lyndon Johnson.
He is tentatively scheduled to
leave Washington Saturday for a
cross-country flight to Seattle, and
visit to the World’s Fair. He will
visit San Francisco Sunday and
Monday, then return to the East
Coast to leave the United States.
COMIN' . . .
From Fairbanks: H. J. Fried
man, Dick McCormick, Bill Erwin,
Emily Boucher, James Pappas,
David Grant, Clinton Gray Jr.,
Dudley Beck, Gail Mclver, Ann
Chambers, Jo Chambers, Dick
Bishop.
GOIN' . . .
To Fairbanks: George Sundborg,
Alex Miller, Lou Dischner, Joe
Weigert, Jerry Johnson, James
Gronmark, Lowell Wapelhorst, Mr.
Rosa, Mr. and Mrs. Owen, Mr. and
Mrs. Satterfield, Howard and Irene
Green, Mr. Richmond.
H Tp jKotzebue: Rosie Barr. Annie
and Robert Kimotoak, Frank Ok
pealuk.
HUOuCT
FAA Official Warns
Runways Are
Not Playgrounds
Bicycle riding, baseball games,
foot races, horseback riding, and
kite flying can be very wholesome
and healthy outdoor pastimes —
except when they take place on a
busy airport runway. And that’s
what’s been happening recently at
Merrill Field as well as other air
ports throughout Alaska much to
the concern of airport and Federal
Aviation Agency afficials.
In a request to the public, par
ticularly children and their parents,
to be careful where they eounduct
their outdoor activities, Robert K.
Mason, FAA tower chief at Merrill,
reported the following incidents
during a single day recently:
Five youngsters on bicycles
shooed from the runways and taxi
ways.
Three more on foot on the run
ways.
One baseball game on the east
end of the east runway broken up.
Several persons walking or play
ing on the runways.
And it was only a few days ago
that Mason enocuntered a kite
while flying along at 600 feet near
the airport.
However, the incident that tops
them all, according to the tower
chief, happened a year or two ago
on the Fourth of July. A station
wagon loaded with 11 youngsters
and one adult pulled onto Merrill
Field runway, stopped and the
group from a church organization
piled out and spread blankets, lunch
and even fire crackers and rockets
for a picnic lunch.
Joseph Loonam Takes New Job
OLYMPIA <JP> — Resignation of
Joseph P. Loonam, Tacoma, as an
Asst, jgtftt;a Atfnmwr rUttwal U ■<»
cept an appointment as Director of
Insurance for the State of Alaska
was announced Tuesday by Atty.
Gen. John O’Connell.
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