l\S. House Passes
Kennedy s Emergeney
Public Works Measure
WASHINGTON -- Hy voice
veto, the Housi passed today a key
part of President Kennedy's econ
omic propram, a $900-million emer
gency public works bill.
The members shouted approval
of the bill after beating back 221
to 192 a Republican attempt to
scuttle the bill by sending it back
to committee. This was a sur
prisingly large margin and proved
to be the critical vote.
Administration leaders early to
day had been counting on victory
by only five votes.
Democrats made a major conces
sion to keep wavering votes in line
by eliminating a provision to set
up a new federal agency to co
01 .mate all pu.wii . , rks. Republi
cans had called the administration
of that proposed agency a "pork
barrel czar."
But the bill still had heavy op
position from Republicans and
conservative Democrats, who de
nounced it as an unneeded boon
doggle.
The bill is aimed at giving the
sluggish economy a quick shot in
the arm and cutting down high em
ployment by means of an immedi
ate program of public works such
as streets, sewers, public buildings
and the like. Schools are excluded.
Most states and localities would
have to provide matching funds of
at least 50 per cent. But an amend
ment by Rep. Wm. Scranton, <R
Pa'. calls for 75 per cent federal
financing for critically distressed
areas if they have reached legal
limits of bonded debt.
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Kennedy Urges Young
Americans to Consider
Government Careers
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy urged nearly 5,000 young
Americans Tuesday to consider
careers in government service dur
iv" a time when he said "the
burdens will be placed completely
upon our country for the preserva
tion, of freedom."
A centur\ ago. Kennedy said, ex
tern rdinarily gifted men. such
towering figures as Calhoun, Clay
and Douglas, dealt with less gi
gantic problems than confront the
country today, yet failed to head
off the long and bloody Civil War.
"Now, perhaps, our political
leaders may not be so gifted." the
President said, "and yet they deal
with questions which are far more
complex than the questions which
came across the desks of our people
a century ago."
So, he said, he was urging young
men and women who have held
summer jobs in the government, to
think of coming back to what he
called "the most challenging career
that could possibly be before any
American.”
Kennedy spoke on the south
lawn of the White House to the
summer "interns" now closing out
temporary jobs with the govern
ment.
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iGOPs in Governor
Race by 5,2(),>
JUNEAU UP — Final, unofficial
figures from the Aug. 14 primary
election showed Tuesday that the
four Democrats who sought their
party’s gubernatorial nomination
out polled their five Republican
counterparts by 5,295 votes.
The final, combined tally for the
Democrats in the gubernatorial
race was 21.987, with Gov. Wm.
Egan, the victor, receiving 13,717
of the total Democratic votes cast.
On the Republican side, former
territorial governor Mike Stepo
vich of Fairbanks pulled in 6,297
votes to lead the five GOP candi
dates, who picked up a total of
16,629 votes.
The final, unofficial totals in
cluded all absentee ballots and re
turns from all of the 339 precincts
established for the 1962 primary
election.
Secretary of State Hugh Wade
said he would certify the results
of the primary by today, the dead
line for certification.
Candidates who want a recount
will have five days after Wade
certifies the votes in which to ask
for a retabulation of ballots.
Wade, unopposed on the Demo
cratic side as a candidate to suc
ceed himself, and U.S. Rep. Ralph
J. Rivers, also a Democrat and un
opposed in the primary, were the
two top vote-getters.
Oddly, the final, unofficial tabu
lation as compiled by the Asso
ciated Press gave each man the
same number of votes, 19,858.
Wade received 5,490 votes in
Southeast Alaska, 8,382 in South
central Alaska, 4,369 in Central
Alaska and 1,617 in Northwest
Alaska.
Rivers received 5,328 votes in
Southeast Alaska, 8,366 in South
central Alaska, 4.532 in Central
Alaska and 1,632 in Northwest
Alaska.
Wade will face Robert Ross of
Anchorage in the Nov. 6 general
election. Ross’ final, unofficial total
was 8,801.
Rivers’ November opponent will
be Lowell Thomas Jr. of Anchor
age, who received 13.530 votes in
the final, unofficial tally.
The opponents in the Nov. 6
race for the U.S. Senate wall be
the incumbent Democrat, Ernest
Gruening, 18,507 votes, and Ted
Stevens of Anchorage, 10,991.
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. . We Are Debating”
FAIRBANKS .? — Former ter
ritorial govcrr.w Mikt Stepovich
Tuesday answered Gov. Win,
E.van’s challenge for a d'bate which
was issued recently.
Stepovich said in a telegram to
Egan sent to Juneau:
"I like your idea of a debate.
If I was in your shoes I would
want a debate. This proposal is
more than intrigueing but whom
do you think you are kidding?
It is a fact that I was unable to
get you to release the financial
report for the State of Alaska for
1961. You did not release it then
because you did not want the
people of Alaska to know our
financial condition before the pri
mary election, and you still have
not released it.
‘T think the debate bas been
going on for weeks; on the ques
tion of your competency to be
governor of Alaska. I intend to
keep this debate going and on that
subject.”
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Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day, August 29, 30, 31. 1962. be
tween the hours of 8 to 9 p.m. in
the City Hall.
104 Robert F. Scott.
City Clerk
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Chamber Told
Of Forest of Claim
Stakes at Lost River
At the Monday noon luncheon
of the Chamber of Commerce. Bill
Burand of the State Department
of Mines reported that placer tin
is being mined this season at Lost
River Mine and that the owners
had also been among the bis
stakers in the new beryllium field.
Lester Bronson reported having
visited the beryllium area where
the many stakers have not onlv
marked their claims with rock
piles and posts but in some cases
outlined their claims by bulldozer
and others have done their work
with the use of weasels. From
mountain to mountain the area is
criss-crossed with markers.
Frank Couch, acting president,
announced the appointment of
Ellen Mulvihill, Jean Burand and
Hubert Gilbert as nominating com
mittee for new directors of the
Chamber.
Pearl Johnson, Senior Girl Scout
who attended the Girl Scout
Roundup at Button Bay, Vt., gave
a report on her interesting trip.
Charles Clasby. former district
attorney here, was welcomed to
the meeting.
Plans for the entertainment of
Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Wood of the
University of Alaska were an
nounced by Jean Burand and mem
bers of the Chamber were remind
ed to be at the special luncheon
planned for them on Thursday.
Karl Wombacher, now of Proc
tor, Minn., and formerly a teacher
here, visited the office of Sen.
Ernest Gruening in Washington,
D.C., recently.
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