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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943. at the
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THE HARD SELL !
Jungle Bungle
TIJOST AMERICANS, we think, are saddened at the thought
of Janding U.S. Marines in Thailand (Borneo, they used to
call it) when none have yet landed in Cuba. It is even harder to
take if we stop to think that they are not there to protect <h«a
country or its nationals or their property, but to force on Laos
a coalition with the Communists — which, in any land, is a defeat
for the pnsuplcs for which s braver gnrcfasou of Americans
pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.
"The Leathernecks were quiet with little to say,” says an AP
report on the Bangkok landing. Why not? What is there to say?
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House Kills,
215-205, JFK’s
Farm Bill
WASHINGTON UP> — President
Kennedy was reported today to be
planning to propose new farm leg
islation to replace the omnibus bill
which the House killed Thursday.
A White House visitor, Rep. Vic
tor Wickersham, (D-Okla.), said
Kennedy told him the administra
tion would try to work out some
kind of program later on.
A 215-205 House vote Thursday
night killed the bill by which Ken
nedy had hoped to impose rigid
controls on wheat and feed grains
production and cut down continu
ing surpluses in those crops. The
Senate had passed a similar bill.
Unless some new law is passed,
crop controls will again be deter
mined under the 1958 law spon
sored by former Secretary of Agri
culture Ezra Taft Benson.
The Kennedy administration won
enactment last year of a temporary
program for limiting feed grains
production, but opposed extension
of that program for another year
with the contention it was too ex
pensive.
The sudden death came at 8:47
p.m. in the tension-filled House;
48 Democrats, not all southern con
servatives by any means, helped
167 Republicans do it in. Only one
Republican — Rep. Phil Weaver
of Nebraska — voted with 204
Democrats against scuttling the bill
by sending it back to committee.
The White House immediately
issued a statement saying the de
feat “will cost the taxpayers of
the United States at least an addi
tional $1 billion next year and re
turn the country to the ruinous de
ficit farm programs with accom
panying growth in our already
staggering $9 billion surplus.
“It is regrettable that the Re
publican members of the House,
with only one exception, chose to
make a party issue of this matter
instead of voting in the national
interest -They will sow have to
bear the responsibility for the con
tinuing chaos in our agricultural
surplus situation.”
The statement made no refer
ence to the Democrats who voted
against the bill.
The powerful American Farm
Bureau Federation, which led the
fight against the bill, called the
House action a “victory for farm
ers, consumers and taxpayers,”
adding “the only losers were the
political empire J^pers in Wash*,
ington.” r ' _ ' ' "
The bill would have placed
mandatary acreage reductions and
national marketing quotas for the
first time on feed grains and
wheat. These crops have contri
buted most to the massive surplus
stocks now held by the govern
ment.
In Magistrate's Court
Jacob Titus pleaded guilty to
a drunk charge and was fined
$50; Arnold Teayoumeak and Mor
ris Kugzruk fined $50 for being
intoxicated while being minors.
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Something
To Shout About
vA- 1. % - . MTltiSh
JUNEAU W» — "This is really
something to shout about.”
That was the comment of State
Planning Director George Nichols
yesterday in disclosing that the
State received an overall effective
interest rate of 3.38 per cent in
the sale of $6,929,000 in General
Obligation Bonds Wednesday.
Nichols, who leaves state service
for private business today, noted
that the overall effective interest
rate compares with the June 18
Dow Jones municipal bond yield
index of 3.3? per cent.
"It is a real credit to the State
to approach the Dow Jones index
this close,” Nichols said. “The
results of the sale are largely at
tributable to an ever-increasing
faith by the underwriters in the
stability and financial responsi
bility of the State of Alaska.”
Nichols said California veterans
bonds marketed last week drew an
effective interest rate of 3.21 per
cent.
“Those were top-grade-bonds,”
Nichols said, “and Alaska’s bonds
received an effective interest rate
which compared very favorably
with the California issue.”
PEPSI-COLA and TEEM
AT CAVOTA'S
VEHICLE FERRY MAKES
LAST TRIP TO SKAGWAY
JUNEAU M — The last vehicle
ferry trip to Skagway until the
Southeast Marine Highway system
starts operating early this fall has
been scheduled for June 26 by
the Department of Public Works*
Public Works Commissioner
Richard Downing said the ferry
Chilkat will leave Juneau at noon
on the 26th and arrive at Skag
way that evening, after a stop at
Port Chilkoot.
The Catamaran Blue Star will
continue to provide passenger
service only between Port Chilkoot
and Skagway.
The dock in Skagway used by
the Chilkat is to be dismantled
next month to make way for fa
cilities of the new Southeast Alaska
Ferry System.
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