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Entered am second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
Winter Roof Garden
FOR OVER half a century the Pioneers of Alaska
have presented a winter Roof Garden for the en
joyment and pleasure of the people of Alaska.
The Roof Garden got its name in those early days
when there was neither parcel post or regular mail
during the winter and the community, being isolated
had to depend on its own talents for entertainment.
To brighten things up the Pioneer women vied
with each other in making the most attractive artifi
cial paper flowers to decorate their booths and wore
summer dresses while the men wore straw hats,
making it a gala summer party inside the party head
quarters, although a blizzard might be blowing out
side.
The straw hats and the paper flowers are no
longer in vogue for the Roof Garden, but the same
spirit of good fellowship and good entertainment pre
vails when the doors open at the Alaska National
Guard Armory tomorrow evening.
Girls Can Wear Slacks
CUERO, Tex. UF> — The Cuero
School Board has decided it’s all
right for girls in the fourth, fifth
and sixth grades to wear slacks
to school in cold weather.
An unusual January freeze set
off a month-long dispute between
parents and the board. It ended
yesterday when Supt. John Barnes
announced a change in rules.
Previously the schools allowed
girls in the first three grades to
wear slacks whenever they chose.
Girls in the next three grades,
however, had to wear a dress over
slacks and remove the slack upon
reaching the school.
Board members had said letting
older girls attend school in slacks
conflicted with a responsibility
for teaching pupils to be ladies
and gentlemen.
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rruck Run to Alaska
Will Include Anchorage
SEATTLE UP) — A new mail
truck delivery run to Alaska, ex
tended to include Anchorage as
well as Fairbanks, is expected to!
start about April 14, James Sym
bol, regional director of the U.S.
Post Office Department, said yes
terday.
An experimental run to Fair
banks began last Sept. 11. But
because of the urging of Anchor
age groups and residents that will
be cancelled and the new service
substituted, he said.
Bids on a contract to carry sec
ond, third and fourth-class mail
north, on a 96-hour run, six days
a week, must be submitted here
Feb. 19 and will be opened later
that day.
Symbol said the run still is con
sidered an experiment, and must
be evaluated at the end of the
year, but it has increased mail
service to Alaska.
Anchorage Revenue
Office Manager Suspended
JUNEAU UP) — Commissioner of
Revenue Peter Gatz said yester
day he had suspended the man
ager of the Anchorage Revenue
Office podding an investigation
of charges of misuse of a state
vehicle.
Gatz said he verbally suspend
ed the manager, Jefferson Barry,
last Monday.
He said Assistant Commissioner
of Revenue Marvin Kennedy
would go to Anchorage and that
he and a state police officer would
work on the case.
Verne O. Martin, Republican
candidate for governor, sent a
telegram to Gov. Wm. Egan in
which he said he had made an
investigation of the alleged misuse
of the state vehicle by Barry.
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Kennedy Will
Battle Congress
For Aid to Schools
WASHINGTON UP> — President
Kennedy is set to throw all his
energy into battle for federal aid
to public schools—but not pa
rochial schools.
The President told a news con
ference Wednesday he thinks his
three-year, $2.1 billion program
for public school construction and
teachers’ salaries is so urgent “I
will do everything I can to have
the Congress take favorable action
on this subject this year.”
On other issues, the President
said:
He would not hestitate to re
sume nuclear tests in the atmo
sphere if he finds them essential.
He feels the United States must
keep on working toward a general
disarmament treaty backed by ef
fective controls.
He stands squarely behind Sec
retary of Defense Robert McNa
mara’s refusal before Senate in
vestigators to link individual
Pentagon censors with specific
changes made in speeches by uni
formed officers.
The question of school aid came
up when a reporter noted that
Francis Cardinal Spellman of New
York had said the administration
proposal would doom the parochial
school system. Kennedy, a Roman
Catholic, asserted there had been
no change in his position—that
across-the-board aid to church
schools is unconstitutional. And
it won’t change unless the Su
preme Court rules otherwise, on
the issue, he added.
A crowd of 385 newsmen and
observers listened in the State
Department Auditorium as Ken
nedy, in answering questions, took
a jocular poke at New York Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller. In view of
Rockefeller’s attack on his move
to create a new Urban Affairs
Department, Kennedy said “now
I am not so sure” a radio com
mentator was correct in saying
nobody could get to the political
right of Sen. Barry Goldwater,
GR-Ariz.), another potential GOP
nominee in 1864.
Space — Recent setbacks, in
cluding a Moon shot miss and de
lay in the attempt to orbit as
tronaut John H. Glenn Jr. in
space, have not altered the time
table to land a man on the Moon
in this decade.
UJV. Bonds — Regarding his
proposal to buy $100 million of
U.N. bonds, if United States does
not accept burdens greater than
those of other free countries “the
cause of freedom would collapse
in a whole variety of ways.”
Sieolworkors Will Press
For Shorter Hours
PITTSBURGH UFi — The wage
policy committee of the United
Steelworkers gave unanimous ap
proval today to shorter work per
iods, greater job security, higher
wages and improved benefits for
union workers in forthcoming ne
gotiations for a new steel in
dustry contract.
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Resolution Protests BIA’s
Decision on Nome School
JUNEAU UP) —- A strongly word
ed resolution protesting the
Bureau of Indian Affairs’ decision
not to participate in the operation
of a proposed vocational school at
Nome was introduced in the
House Thursday.
Reps. Warren Taylor, Peter
Deveau, and Bob Blodgett spon
sored the measure.
“The legislature expresses here
by to the President of the United
States and the Secretary of the
Interior its amazement and charg
ing that such dishonest, unwar
rented and impolitic accusations
and insults should be directed to
the people of Alaska in their
efforts to realize a dream of long
standing to bring a practical
education to the youth of North
western Alaska in cooperation
with the Department of the In
terior, charged with that primary
responsibility,” the resolution
said.
It also requested the Secretary
of the Interior to take “immedi
ate and firm action in directing
| his subordinate in the Bureau of
Indian Affairs to re-examine his
manners as well as the facts of
the case.”
House Refuses to Rescind
JUNEAU UP) — The House
Thursday refused to rescind its
approval of a measure which
would make the State Board of
Education the administrative and
fiscal head of the Department of
Education.
The vote was 11-29 against re
scinding passage of the measure,
HB321.
The measure now goes to the
Senate.
The vote yesterday closely fol
lowed Wednesday’s balloting, with
the exception of two lawmakers
who changed their votes in the
original roll call for parliamentary
purposes.
Eleven Democrats joined the
solid 18-man Republican bloc in
beating back the motion to re
scind.
The measure is the first of two
so-called Section 26 bills intro
duced this session to appear be
fore the House for action.
The second bill, HB78, which
would place the State Board of
Fish and Game at the head of the
State Department of Fish and
Game, is now in the hands of the
Judiciary Committee.
Bobby Describes Japanese
People as “More Friendly”
TOKYO UF> — U.S. Attorney
General Robert F. Kennedy de
scribed the Japanese people as
more friendly than any other
people he knows, despite a half
dozen leftist demonstrations
against him.
“Generally speaking,” Kennedy
told newsmen after returning
from a trip to western Japan, “the
Japanese people are very politic
ally curious. They well know the
political situations both at home
and abroad.”
He said he was deeply impress
ed by Japan’s industrial prosperity
and potentiality.
Accompanied by his wife, Ethel,
Kennedy had taken his meet-the
people campaign to the Japanese
countryside. He waved and smiled
in good humor both at the thou
sands who cheered him and the
few hundred mustered by the
Communists to jeer him.
Judge Hodge Rules
Tlingit Indians Have No
Claim to Tideland Tract
ANCHORAGE (At — U.S. Dis
trict Judge Walter Hodge has
ruled there is insufficient evi
dence to substantiate a claim by
a group of Tlingit Indians to a
tideland tract on the Juneau
waterfront on which a developer
plans to erect a 36-unit apartment
house.
The federal government brought
suit against the State, the City
of Juneau and developer Walter
*D. Field on behalf of the Indians.
Trial of the case was held in
Juneau last month but earlier
hearings on motions of the plain
tiff Indians for injunctive relief,
dismissal of the suit, and for
summary judgment were argued
here.
The judge rendered his de
scion in a nine-page opinion made
available here Wednesday.
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