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BONE OF CONTENTION
JFK Is Still Pushing
PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS ST1I.L PUSHING for a 1963 tax
cut, he told his press conference, despite the well-aired views
of Chairman Wilbur Mills of the House Ways and Means Com
mittee that there's no need to hurry. He and Rep. Mills, he indi
cated, might not be "so far apart.” But there has been no report
on a meeting of the two afterward.
If the President wants action, and tax reform, too—as he
says he does, and if Chairsan Mills would take it easy, there's an
out for both of them in the bipartisan, step-at-a-time five year pro
ressive tax cutting and tax reform Herlong-Baker bill.
It’s conservative. It’s constructive. It would stimulate busi
ness. ease capital, soothe the hip-pocket pains of the average tax
payer. And—it's ready to go !
Note - Bottle
(Christian Science Monitor)
THE SECOND great Cuban crisis had its comic moments which
the public may now safety attend to.
One of these was the summoning of Rep. Hale Boggs of
Louisiana to the urgent meeting of congressional leaders at the
White House Oct. 22. Mr. Boggs was on a boat 30 miles off the
Louisiana coast when an Air Force plane caught up with him.
The plane s pilot circled, finally dropped the vital summons to
Mr. Boggs in the form of a note in a bottle.
No one has checked on other methods used to inform presi
dential confidants, but we d like to believe that for future crises
presidential aides will have one hand:
• A carrier pigeon for reaching General MacArthur in the
Waldorf Towers when his phone is busy.
• A message tied to an arrow shaft for contacting Secretary
Udall in Yellowstone National Park.
• A note wrapped around a stone for throwing through the
window of the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square when
Ambassador Bruce is besieged by Aldermaston marchers.
And Mr. Boggs might return that bottle. Mr. Kennedy may
someday need it to reach the Attorney General in mid-swimming
pool.
REINSTATED TO DUTY
JUNEAU — R. D. Stevenson,
acting Commissioner of Revenue,
said today Deputy Commissioner
Marvin Kennedy, suspended with
out pay Nov. 19, has been rein
stated.
Stevenson suspended Kennedy
after Kennedy was involved in an
auto accident and charged with
driving while under the influence
of alcohol. He pleaded innocent,
but subsequently he pleaded
guilty to a reduced charge of
negligent driving and was fined
$50.
Stevenson said Kennedy return
ed to duty Dec. 4.
Jack Scavenius Resigns as
Director of Air Commerce
JUNEAU W) — The resignation
of Jack Scavenius as Director of
Air Commerce for the State Public
Service Commission, effective last
Friday, was announced today by
Commerce Commissioner A. H.
Romick.
Romick said Scavenius gave no
reason for resigning from the job
he has held since July, 1961.
Scavenius, an Anchorage attor
ney and a former probate master
for Third District Superior Court,
was appointed to the Air Com
merce position succeeding Neal
Foster, Nome area gold miner and
state senator-elect from Dist. N.
GOPs Serve Notice
They Want TV Time
To Answer Kennedy
WASHINGTON M — The Re
publican National Committee serv
ed notice Tuesday it will ask all
three television networks for a
forum comparable to that accord
ed President Kennedy in his tele
vised interview Monday night.
The committee said this would
be only fair since Monday night's
showed “resulted in substantial
benefit to the Democrats and their
probable 19fi4 candidate.”
Federal communications law pro
vides that equal time must be
granted political candidates. Of
ficially. the President was speak
ing as Chief Executive, though of
course any President’s words can
have effect on his political future.
Aside from this provision of
law, a policy of the Federal Com
munications Commission calls on
TV-radio stations to give well
rounded presentation of controver- !
w nai son oi program 10 pin on
is something of a problem for the
Republicans.
About the only single individual
the Republicans could produce for
such a program would be former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
There is reluctance in party quar
ters to call again on the former
President for such a task at this
time.
Unless Republicans agreed on
Eisenhower to reply to Kennedy’s
statements they would face the
necessity of producing a panel of
leaders representing all aspects
of the party's divided position on
many issues.
A GOP headquarters spokesman,
who asked to remain anonymous,
said he had no doubt the networks
would provide free time for the
Republicans "if we can produce
a good show for them."
Miniature Horses for Xmas
NEW YORK UP — Live, 30
inch-high horses for Christmas are
in store for the children of Attv.
Gen. and Mrs. Robert Kennedy
Mrs. Kennedy’s brother, George
Skakel of Grennwich, Conn.
Three of the minature steeds,
each weighing about 100 pounds,
arrived by plane at Idlewild Air
port Monday from Argentina.
After undergoing routine blood
tests at the U.S. Agricultural
Quarantine Station, they will be
shipped to their owners.
nr.Am baby uies
SEATTLE W") — A three-month
old baby died at the University of
Washington Hospital Monday while
undergoing an operation to correct
congenital heart defects.
The infant, Clyde Abruska, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Abruska of
Bethel, Alaska, was brought to
the hospital Dec. 7.
A hospital spokesman said the
baby suffered a number of con
genital heart defects and the
operation was an attempt to cor
rect some of them.
A very loud noise can make
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!i Wasn't tin* Spies hut the Lies In S his
I Dealing, Double-Dealing W orld of 1962
By James Marlow
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON UP> — Language
gets tormented, lying gets ignored,
spies get swapped, and enemies
want to keep in touch.
This is part of the dealing, and
double-dealing, in the world of the
1960s.
The U.S. government lied in 1960
when it first tided to deny the
American pilot shot down in a
U-2 plane over Russia was a spy.
When Premier Khrushchev a
few weeks later broke up a summit
conference with President Eisen
hower it wasn't because of the lie
but the spy.
Khrushchev got over his hurt
feelings. This year the Russians
glibly and blandly lied that the
weapons they sent to Cuba were |
for defense only.
When President Kennedy an- i
nounced the Cuban crisis Oct. 22
he said Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko, sitting with him
in the White House five days be
fore, was still cheerfully lying
about the missiles Fidel Castro :
hail.
Rut when Kennedy and Khrush- !
chev then tried to solve the crisis i
their letters, although a little stiff
and starchy, weren't unpleasant at
all and at one point Khrushchev 1
said what amounted to this: “Just
between us fellows, sure they were |
missiles.”
Last week when Khrushchev ex- !
plained i:is Cuban mess to the
Soviet Parliament, he couldn’t
avoid a little brag. He admitted the
missiles were not only missiles but
were ready for firing, which is
more than Kennedy seemed to
know.
Relationship Remains Pleasant
Yet, the Kennedy - Khrushchev
relationship has remained very
pleasant — even last week when i
the Soviets arrested one of their
own people as an American-British
spy, just one day before Khrush
chev told Parliament how much
he wants to get along with the
United States.
Earlier this year Khrushchev
swapped Francis Gary Powers, the
American U-2 pilot who got 10
years in a Soviet prison but serv
ed less than two, for the Russian
spy, Col. Rudolf Abel, who got 30
years in this country but served
only five.
Meanwhile, it seems with great
regularity, Americans are being
thrown out of Russia for getting
too nosey and Russians get the
bounce in this country for the
same reason.
But it’s those old friends and
helpmates, Russia and Red China
who are providing the greatest
dialogue in double-talk in modern
times.
They are busy denouncing each
other with such savagery and scorn
world Communism mav split in
half.
Talk At—Not To Each Other
Yrt, neither has said one un
pleasant word directly to each
other. I hey talk at each other.
The Chinese for a long time
have been denouncing the Rus
sians for being too soft on the
West with their “peaceful co
existence' slogan. They got worse
when Khrushchev meekly backed
his missiles out of Cuba.
Thc> Chinese in all this have
never mentioned Khrushchev or
the Russians by name. The Rus
sians have returned the favor.
This week Khrushchev depicted
them as a bunch of loud-mouthed
“hooligans" and betrayers of Karl
Marx. He didn’t say the Chinese
were. He said the Albanians were,
meaning the Chinese were.
Communist Albania, about as
big as a pimple on the face of
Europe is allied to China, which
is half a world away and couldn’t
help her in trouble, and is against
Russia which some day soon may
do her in.
Last week those diplomats used
to dashing over oceans with a big
message in their briefcase must
have felt as foresaken as if some
one had swiped their homburgs.
At his news conference Ken
nedy, answering a question about
having a direct line between him
and Khrushchev, said he thought it
would be a good idea in this
speedy nuclear age to have instant
communication.
If Khrushchev accepts the idea,
and he probably will, in time the
two men may have a private tele
vision hook-up so they can make
speeches to each other or even
have a summit conference on a
minute’s notice.
400 years ago, Italian noble
man Giambattista della Porta
refined the “camera obscura"
— a dark chamber which admit
ted light through a lens fixed
in the wall. The “photogra
pher" stood inside the "cam
era". .. viewed the image on
the opposite wall.
Forerunner of today's recording M
camera was invented by 17th IS
Century Frenchman, Louis
Daguerre. A crude, wooden box,
it had a lens at one end and a
sensitized plate at the other.
Today, shutter bugs take enough snapshots
and slides to circle the earth three times! And
for a simple, efficent slide viewer, many pre
f*^ Bausch & Lomb's new Balmite 50, a low
priced, portable projector that weighs only
two pounds!