“Jake (he Barber”
Becomes U.S. Citizen
LOS ANGELES — Describing
himself as the “luckiest man
alive,’’ John F. (Jake the Barber*
Factor became a United States
citizen before the same judge who
once tried him on an income tax
charge.
Factor, 70, was among 10 persons
who took the oath Monday before
U.S. Dist. Judge Leon Yankwich.
Like some of the others, Factor’s
right hand trembled as the ex
convict-turned philantropist raised
it to swear his allegiance.
The group was split into five
units for the oath-taking but Fac
tor was treated individually.
Judge Yankwich, noting that the
English-born Factor once appeared
before him as a defendant in an
income tax evasion case, said it
gave him “great joy” that he now
qualified for citizenship.
Although Factor lost the tax case
some years ago. Judge Yankwich
said he became convinced at that
time the man had rehabilitated
himself from what he called the
“delinquency of his youth.”
As late as last December, the
Immigration Service attempted to
start deportation proceedings
against Factor because of a six
year term he served on a 1943
conviction of mail fraud. Officials
dropped the action when Presi
dent Kennedy gave Factor a full
pardon.
Factor first made headlines in
1933 as the victim in a sensational
Chicago kidnaping case. Roger (The
Terrible) Touhy, convicted as the
abductor, served a long prison
term and then met death in a
gangland-type slaying soon after
his release.
Factor, who moved to Califor
nia in 1949, has since amassed a
fortune in the real estate and in
surance fields after starting on
borrowed capital of $5,000. A close
friend estimates that he has given
nearly S4 million to various chari
ties.
ALASKA SCHOOL
NEEDS CATALOGUED
(Taken from Sen. Ernest
Gruening’s Newsletter.)
The US. Office of Education
reported that Alaska’s school popu
lation consists of 40.511 from kin
dergarten through 8th grade and
9,771 in grades 9 through 12 in
public schools, plus 2,063 in pri
vate schools and 3,878 in college.
Alaska’s enrollment growth of 7.1
per cent from the fall of 1961 to
the fall of 1952 was the highest
in the nation except for Nevada.
Classrooms needed, according to
this same study, were 317 in the
fall of 1962, while 93 were pro
vided in 1962-63.
School Management Magazines,
Inc., reported that $6,322,000 was
spent in 1962 to provide 101 class
rooms to accommodate 3.070 pupils
in Alaska in 16 structures.
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Father Hubbard Museum
Opens at Taku Harbor
The Father Bernard Hubbard '
Museum opened July 13 at Taku
Harbor about 18 miles southeast
of Juneau, according to an an
nouncement by Georgia and Sam
Plice who plan to be be in resi
dence there during July and Au
gust.
On display are pictures taken
bv Mr. Hubbard in his years in
Alaska, as well as books and arti
facts written by him.
For the interest and pleasure of
museum guests, some of Father
Hubbard’s movies will be shown
on weekends.
It was the dream of Father Hub
bard to have at Taku Harbor,
which was his summer home for
so many years, a museum open to
the public and featuring Alaska,
its people, its wildlife, and its
magnificent scenery.
Some of the pictures he wished
people to see will be displayed,
and more have been promised
from the University of Santa Clara.
GOLDWATER DECLINES TO
DEBATE ROCKEFELLER
WASHINGTON (J>i—Sen. Barry
Goldwater rejected today an in
vitation to a televised debate with
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New
York, another possible contender
for the 1864 Republican presi
dential nomination.
Goldwater sent word to Richard
S. Salant, president of CBS-News
who suggested the debate, that he
does not intend to engage in tele
vised programs or other activities
“which would have the effect of
contributing to disunity in the
Republican party.”
A spokesman for Rockefeller in
New York City had declined im
mediate comment on the invita
tion, extended in telegrams Salant
addressed to Rockefeller and Gold
water.
Neither Rockefeller nor Gold
water has announced for the GOP
presidential nomination.
RE-DISCOUNT RATE
WASHINGTON W — The Fed
eral Reserve Board approved Tues
day an increase from 3 to 3 Vi
per cent in the re-discount rate
for seven of the 12 Federal Re
serve Banks.
The action has the effect of
promoting an increase in commer
cial interest rates.
The re-discount rate is the
charge made when member banks
borrow from the reserve system.
The commercial banks can be
expected to pass the higher rate
on to their borrowers.
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LESSONS IN RELIGION
In this day and age in which
we live it is now possible for us ,
to understand fully the basic re- i
lation between man, the divine
prophets, and the creator. One
God would make you believe there
should be one religion. How come
so many different ones?
Baha ’U Llah, who is Baha’is
believe is the prophet for this age
sheds some light on this question:
"To every discerning and il
luminated heart it is evident
that God, the unknowable Es
sence, the Devine Being, is im
measurably exalted beyond every
human attribute such as cor
poral existence, ascent and
descent ... He is, and hath
ever been, veiled in the ancient
eternity of His Essence, and
will remain in His reality ever
lastingly hidd-. _~g... He sight
of men. . ."
"The door of the knowledge of
the Ancient of Days being closed
in the face of all beings. He, the
source of infinite grace . . . hath
caused those luminous Gems of
Holiness to appear out cf the
realm of Ihe spirit, in the noble
form of Ihe human temple, and
be made manifest unlo all men,
that they may impart unto the
world the mysteries of ihe Un
changeable being and tell of the
subtleties of His Imperishable
Essence. . . All the Prophets of
God, His well-Favored, His Holy
and Chosen Messengers are,
without except.on, Ihe Bearers
of His names and embodiments
of His attributes. . . These
Tabernacles of Holiness, ihe.se
primal Mirrors which reflect the
light of unfading glory, are but
expressions of Him who is the
Invisible of the Invisibles."
The different religions, Chris
tian, Moslem, Jewish, Hindu, Bud
dist, each following the divine
messenger and message they be
lieve in.
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Too Early to Tell . . .
SEATTLE IjT — Clinton Atkin
son, Director of the Seattle Bio
logical Laboratory of the Bureau
of Commercial Fisheries, said
Tuesday it is too early to tell
what effect Japanese fishing had on
the Bristol Bay salmon catch this
year.
The Bristol Bay season was de
scribed bv the Alaska Division of
Commercial Fisheries Monday as
the poorest ever, with an estimated
catch of only 2.5 million fish, the
lowest catch on record in previous
years was 2.9 million fish in 1958.
Atkinson, back home after spend
ing six weeks on a Japanese ship
as an observer, said the best fish
ing was found “well to the west,”
in the area south of Russia’s Ko
mandorski Islands.
"The bulk of the fish were
Asian fish," he said.
32,689 Tons of Salmon
KETCHIKAN (/?> — The Mit
subishi International Corp. office
n Seattle Monday informed James
Pinkerton of Ketchikan that the
Japanese high seas salmon take
through July 10 was 32.689 tons.
Included were 16,386 tons of
reds. Allowing 40 cases to the ton.
this would be 655,440 cases of
reds alone. .
The chum take was given as 7,858
tons; pinks 8,255; silvers 59 tons
Five Additional Years
WASHINGTON (*>—Alaska will
be given five additional years to
select federal mineral land under
legislation sponsored Tuesday by
Sens. E. L. Bartlett and Ernest
Gruening, Alaska Democrats.
The Alaska Statehood Act al
lowed Alaska to select 103 million
acres of federal land, but set a
five-year deadline — until Jan.
3. 1964 — for the state to choose
areas already leased under the
Federal Mineral Leasing Act or
the Alaska Coal Leasing Act.
Introducing the bill, Bartlett
told the Senate the first five years
has been insufficient because of
problems over withdrawal policies
and cadastral surveys.
To meet the deadline now, he
said, would require "an irrespon
sible and confusing rush which
would result in poor land manage
ment. checker board jurisdictions,
increased cost, red tape and dis
pute for all concerned.’’
As of mid-June. Bartlett said,
Alaska had selected 12,947,300
acres of the 103 million allowed,
had received tentative approval of
3,463,100 acres and final patent
to only 753,500 acres.
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