USDA ANNOUNCES COUNTY PRICE
SUPPORT RATES FOR 1963-CROP OATS
The U. S. Department o:
Agriculture this week announc
ed 1963-crop oats county sup
port rates, according to Darrel
L. Baird, Chairman, Stat<
Agricultural Stabilization anc
Conservation Committee
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County price support rates for
1963 are $75 per ton, the same
as those in 1962.
Oats, to be eligible for sup
port, must be Grade No. 3 or
better, or No. 4 on the factor of
test weight only. County sup
port rates have been establish
ed on the basis of Grade No. 3
oats.
Premiums and discounts
rvhich are applied for grade and
quality to determine individual
producer support rates are
changed from the 1962 pro
gram. The discount for Grade
No. 4 oats on the factor of test
weight only has been increased
from one cent to three cents per
bushel to more accurately re
flect market price and dis
counts for this grade of oats.
Premiums are one cent per
bushel for Grade No. 2 or bet
ter, one cent for heavy test
weight and two cents for extra
heavy test weight. The discount
for garlicky oats is three cents
per bushel.
Price support will be carried
out as in previous years,
through farm warehouse-stor
ed loans and purchase agree
ments. Support will be avail
able from harvest time through
Jan. 31, 1964.
Copies of county rates are
being sent to County Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conser
vation Service (ASCS) Offices.
Copies are available in the
State ASCS Office, 954 Cowles
Street, Room 145, Fairbanks,
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Dear Editor:
Your editorial of June 8
sounding the clarion call of
liberty included an admirably
forthright stand on one con
cept of the local organized
borough; it was also provoca
tive enough to draw out this
reply in defense of a second
point of view. When the time
comes that we fear to disagree,
then we should indeed worry
about our liberties.
First of all, even in earlier
days of this country conceived
in liberty, I believe I’m correct
in saying that almost no people
immediately affected had an
opportunity to decide and vote
on original county boundaries.
Members of the Alaska State
Legislature could have estab
lished borough boundaries
themselves. They could have
delegated the responsibility for
proposing them to the Local
Boundary Commission; the
commission’s extensive bor
ough hearings throughout the
state in 1959 suggested that this
method would be adopted. The
idea of voluntary incorporation
came later—after the legisla
ture was faced with a situation
comparable in miniature to a
major problem in our country
today: Is self-determination of
a small group more important
than the welfare of the larger
whole?
Self-determination can be
carried to a ridiculous extreme,
as the noble phrase itself im
plies upon examination. Pro
posals made during the history
of the Wasilla borough study
group ran the gamut. Too often
the phrase is used as tinsel cov
ering for motives that are not
so noble. In the Fairbanks area
a man actually sent in a bor
ough petition including only
acreage owned by him. Some
times self-interest is a more
apt phrase.
Until the Local Boundary
Commission makes its decision
relating to the borough peti
tions under consideration, it is
premature to review here the
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many reasons set forth by the
local group interested in com
bining the petitions of the 7th
and 8th election districts. I do
want to assure you that the
process of drafting these rea
sons was entirely a 7th district
product with absolutely no
help or prompting by non-resi
dents. You say that the number
of Big Boroughites in the 7th
is nebulous, and if you mean
unknown, it is. All I can say
is that I know personally of
more of them than I have ever
seen at a borough meeting in
this area. Until just a few
months ago I thought I was vir
tually alone in my big borough
convictions here in the 7th. The
spotlight on boroughs has
changed that. Each newly iden
tified BB led to several others.
Soon they learned that they
were not alone in Palmer, Sut
ton, Wasilla, Knik-way, Big
Lake, Houston, Willow and Tal
keetna. All they lacked was
leadership—and time.
Now getting back to liberty,
the liberty to sign a petition—
600 signatures in one week. No
body poked a gun in anyboy’s
ribs to sign, but we all know
that there are psychological
pressures equally effective.
Knowing this, I signed it my
self and encouraged other BBs
to do the same on the basis of
one voluntary borough stand
ard—that we were willing to
assume the responsibilities of
borough government. Natural
ly, a number of us wrote to the
commission indicating that we
would have preferred a peti
tion encompassing the larger
area within borough boundar
ies.
And why shouldn't this ques
tion be decided by vote? There
is almost no choice offered by
the Matanuska-Susitna bor
ough. We’d get virtually the
same results merely by waiting
for the mandatory borough act
to take effect. The same for the
Captain Cook Borough. The
Big Boroughites are interested
in liberty also—in the freedom
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of choice by an informed elec
torate. There would be time
with preliminary work already
accomplished, to assemble fact*
and figures to give people an
intelligent basis for decision
We shall not have an oppor
tunity to choese rationally un
less this opportunity of choos
ing is given us. Some Big Bor
oughites have compromised
now with the idea of consoli
dation later. But experience ir
the South 48 in trying to com
bine inefficient and unecon
omic county units indicates
that this is a long and bittei
struggle. Aren’t we leaving oui
children enough problems
without this?
You’re absolutely right, Mr
Editor, in your argument that
the wishes of District 7 could
be drowned by the greater
number of voters in the 8th.
Even if the 7th voted unani
mously for the Big Borough,
we could be stymied in our
wishes by less than two-thirds
of the 8th district voters who
wanted nothing to do with us.
And when you get right down
to it from the individual con
sumer-taxpayer-voter’s imme
diate standpoint, why should
they? They’re interested in
taxes just the same as we are.
Whoever started the myth
that Anchorage people gener
ally are eager to add our rich
lands and assessment rolls was
deluded. For the lands, they
can just move in or invest as
they have in the past. We gain
nothing by a comparison of
our assessment rolls and popu
lation. The only pertinent tax
comparison is between the
school districts supported by 11
mills in Anchorage and 14 here.
And our school district is rela
tively compact when compared
with the vast unorganized re
mainder of the 7th. Talk about
Anchorage school district in
debtedness will, I believe, be
shown up as bogeyman also
when we compare facilities,
present desired standards, as
sesment roll figures and annual
increase rates of same. We
have problems now, but if pre
dictions of growth are correct
our future problems and needs
for government services and
school facilities will be much
greater. Will the people who
shouldered the problems of
mushrooming growth and in
debtedness for 10 years after
the war be more apt to want to
join with us when we’re faced
with similar problems? We are
one natural and interrelated
area. Why shouldn’t we share
our problems and opportunities
from the outset? I believe that
we should have an opportunity
to make this choice.
Our liberties aren’t threat
ened. There are provisions for
court review within specified
time limitations. The borough
act itself provides for other
courses of action following in
corporation. For those who
want more local local govern
ment, our statutes provide for
four varieties of city incorpor
ations plus service areas.
Sincerely yours,
Lucy Mick
Dear Editor:
What prompts a person to
sacrifice independence for sub
jection?
Such action must require
deep consideration to accept,
in preference to self-determin
ation and responsibility, the
ideals, ambitions, and means
of others.
The cause may lie in two
areas; within or without our
selves. Since we are best ac
quainted with our own person,
examine it first.
Do we find vision, ambition,
hope, ability, means, charity,
responsibility, confidence, or
the opposite? How do we judge
whether the attributes are
there or not? How do we know
the attributes will prevail if we
must use them? Do we adjudge
by pointing to accomplishments
of the past, by hopes of the
future, or what we are doing
now? Which shall have prefer
ence as to its position on the
balance?
The negative thinker will
distrust any glimmer as a false
light. The positive thinker will
see light where none exists.
Somewhere between, you and I
will see a little of both. We can
see projects that came to
naught, projects that are a
point of pride, hopes which stir
the soul, and gloom to cause
despair. We are examining life
itself, it seems.
Science is the study of cause
and effect, regardless of the
field. Therefore, if we are judg
ing the effect of ourselves we
must examine the cause of our
selves, and admit that events
occur as according to the forces
applied. Like cutting a tree;
ontinue to cut and it will fall.
Stop halfway, and it may fall.
Cut not at all, and nothing
happens.
If we say this can’t be done,
then it is not.
If we say this is all I can do,
then it is left unfinished.
If we say, it shall be done,
then it is done.
We cannot accept more than
■ve are capable of doing; but at
the same time, we must be
fully aware of our capabilities
ana not blame laziness for lack
of ability. In the light of truth,
f we know we cannot do a
thing, we must avoid that
which we cannot do, less we
cause undue hardship on
ourselves and others. But,
that which we can do a
little; or better, that which we
know can be done, we must
exert our energy to its fullest
for the benefit of ourselves and
others.
Each of us excels in one thing
or another, and from this we
form societies so that we may
benefit as a unit from all the
best things that can be done to
wards one another. Society
prospers or wanes according to
the collective effort. Societies
tan be stirred to great events
by leadership; it can be des
troyed by the lack of it. Socie
ties collect towards security,
and finding it not in themsel
ves, will look elsewhere.
So it is with individuals.
From childhood to adulthood,
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only one effort ever made the
real difference—that effort
caused you and me to be self
sufficient, individually respon
sible, and an attribute to the so
ciety. It took courage, fore
sight, hope, confidence, ambi
tion, charity towards others,
and means. We may have lack
ed a portion of the require
ments; after all, we are hu
man; but, we did place our des
tinies in our own hands. Per
haps we wish at times for the
security of our childhoods, but
do we linger on the subject
long? If we do, then we are but
children, and known security is
all we will ever desire. Thus,
we shall abandon ourselves to
others for all ends to accom
plish this. Giving ourselves to
others must be complete to
make us happy and secure; lest
we frighten ourselves with mo
ments of self-reliance. With
this complete surrender, for
certain must go the privilege of
determining our destinies, and
not to determine is to avoid
responsibility. Thus, the child
is secure, the adult is frustrat
ed, and the society will become
as children; obedient and do
cile, fed and clothed in return
for its independence.
Empires, nations, estates
have gone this way and were
lost forever.
Let me repeat. What causes
a person to sacrifice independ
ence for subjection?
Robert Vroman
Dear Editor:
We are fifth grade girls and
we have started a club. We
would like to learn about other
places in Alaska.
We would like to correspond
with children around our age
(10). Perhaps through your
newspaper you could locate
someone who would be willing
to write.
My address is Box 760, Col
lege, Alaska.
Sincerely yours,
Barbara Pisaro, Secretary
Dear Editor:
NEVER HAVE SO MANY
BEEN SOLD OUT SO THOR
OUGHLY BY SO FEW!! Ac
cording to the Anchorage
Times article by the Boundary
Commission the wishes, desires
and will of the majority of the
people in this district mean ab
solutely nothing. We are to be
forced into a borough with An
chorage regardless.
It was quite obvious from the
start of the hearing on the
Captain Cook Borough that this
district had been sold out, and
that regardless of what the
people here want or how much
testimony or facts they pre
sented to the contrary, the
decision had already been
made. Even our own repre
sentative is pulling for this,
and this is beyond understand
ing.
For this district to be shoved
into the same borough with
Anchorage is a direct violation
if constitutional rights. We can
be certain that we will not
lave representation, only
taxes. There is no way whatso
ever for us to be heard. Our
>ne or two assemblymen would
ae so out voted that they
might as well stay home,
rhings have come to a sorry
state when the rights of the
individual and the wishes of
:he majority mean nothing.
Sincerely,
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