JFK Administration Will
Do “Everything Possible”
To Get Aid for Schools
WASHINGTON W —The Ken
nedy administration “will do ev
erything (possible” to help federal
aid to public schools pass through
Congress, declares Secretary of'
Welfare Abraham Ribicoff.
“I urge on the members of both
houses of, Congress that they press
vigorously for action on the Pre
sident’s total program for federal
aid to education,” he said in a
statement.
. A White House official also the
President stood on his state of the
union message in which he urged
Congress to act on a program of
aid to education.
This official described as un
true a report the administration
will not put its shoulder behind
the general school aid bill, pre
ferring to press for action on less
controversial education measures.
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Carpenters & Contractors
Open Negotiations
ANCHORAGE US—Preliminary
negotiations for a new labor pact
between the Carpenters Union and
the Associated General Contrac
tors have Bbgun here the Anchor
age Times learned Saturday.
The negotiations are for a con
tract to replace a three-year
agreement which expires March
15.
Neither the Carpenters nor the
AGC would comment on the talks
“at this time," a spokesman for
.both said. He did confirm that
talks have begun and that more
talks are scheduled.
Unlike previous contract talks,
the bargaining will be on a re
gional rather than a statewide
basis and no outside negotiators
will be involved, according to an
unofficial source.
The talks here will be for a
contract to cover southcentral and
southeastern locals while negotia
tions will be held in ^Fairbanks
to cover workers in the northern
part of the state.
No details concerning progress
of the talks have been made pub
lic but they reportedly began on .
an optimistic note. •
The last working agreement was
reached only after a long arul
costly strike that began June 27,
1959 and lasted until Sept. 14, or
more than 11 weeks.
Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt Tops
List of Admired Women
By Th« Associated Press
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has
been named the most admired
woman in the world in 1961 in a
Gallup poll released recently.
It was the 13th time in the 14
years that the poll has been con
ducted -that Mrs. Roosevelt was
awarded first place. Sister Kenny
was cited as the most admired
woman on one occasion.
President Kennedy’s Wife, Jac
queline, was named second in this
year’s poll of some 1,600 persons,
and Queen Elizabeth 11 of England
was third.
Both men and women were
among those selected from a cross
section of the American public to
answer the question:
“What woman that you’ve heard
or read about living today in any
part of the world do you admire
the most?”
The top ten selected:
1. Mrs. Franklin Lelano Roose
velt.
2. Mrs. John F. Kennedy
3- Queen Elizabeth II.
4. Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
5. Clare Boothe Luce.
6. Helen Keller.
7. Mme Chiang Kai-shek.
6. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith
(R) of Maine.
9. Pauline Frederick, NBC cor
respondent for United Nations.
10. Mrs. Richard M. Nixon.
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Pencil Lead Shows
Promise for Space Age
WASHINGTON — The lead
found most cammoly in the every
day pencil shows promise of be
coming a giant in the space age.
Aerospace, official publication
of the Aerospace Industries As
sociation, says that graphite, the
dull gray substance once viewed
as “soft,” is now being used for
rocket nozzles to withstand the
extreme heat generated in flights
to the stratosphere.
The publication notes that gra
phite gets stronger with increases
in temperature. While most other
metals begin to melt short of
4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, gra
phite doesn’t even reach its peak
strength until 4,700 degrees. One
aerospace company has already
subjected it to 5,200 degrees.
JFK LET IN ON A SECRET
WASHINGTON Ut) — Heavy
weight champion Floyd Patterson
knows who he is going to fight
next. So does President Kennedy,
but neither is talking.
Patterson said he let the Pre
sident in on the secret during a
White House visit Friday in con
! nection with Big Brother Week.
“I told him, but it’s not for
the press,” Patterson said.
He said he would defend his
title in June in some large city
and mentioned New York, Chi
cago and California? without
specifying what he had in mind.
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Resolution Seeking
Kay’s Resignation
Is Sidetracked
By Ward Sims
JUNEAU Uft — An explosive
resolution seeking the resignation
of state Democratic Chairman
Wendell Kay was sidetracked at
the Southeast District Democratic
Convention Friday night.
The author of the resolution,
Mrs. Wini Silko of Mountain
Point, told the Associated Press
she had cleared the resolution
with Gov. Egan and he gave it
his advance approval.
Egan said he had not approved
introduction of the ' resolution,
but the governor said he had
talked with Mrs. Silko in his
office late Friday morning, some
eight hours before she attempted
to submit the measure.
Mrs. Silko* said Egan even sug
gested at which point in the early
proceedings of the convention she
should take the floor to get the
resolution on record, as the No. 1
resolution before the convention.
This Egan also denied.
The Kay resolution stunned the
convention, which opened quite
peacefully enough with a long
keynote address by Egan, outlin
ing the progress and programs
of the present state administra
tion.
When Mrs. Silko asked for the
floor to “read a paper,” her re
quest was granted and she im
mediately began reading the Kay
resolution.
She got through the third para
graph before Wilfred Stump of
Ketchikan, a member of the State
Democratic Central Committee,
stopped her with an objection.
State Sen. W. O. Smith of
Ketchikan, convention parliamen
tarian and staunch Egan support
er, ruled that Mrs. Silko should
be permitted to continue.
Six voice votes later, the issue
was tabled at the direction of
chairman Jack Asher of Juneau.
Though! for Today . . .
Never go gloomily, man with a
mind! Hope is a better companion
th*n fear. '
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