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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
PSST, WALLY, THINGS HAVE CHANGED!
? WATER and SEWAGE ?
/"kNCE AGAIN THE PEOPLE of Nome await the decision of
^ those officials who have the final say on whether or not Nome
should have, or has a right to have, or needs water and sewage.
Several organizations and many individuals have worked on
this most urgently needed project over the years only to see Nome
bypassed again and again by communities whose applications
•were placed later than Nome’s; whose need was no greater, and
by communities who were not in existence when Nome was
founded.
Alaska’s share of the $500,000,000 Accelerated Public Works
funds were divided among the other three divisions with the
Second Division receiving not one penny for needed improve
ments, other than small amounts allocated to the BIA and ex
clusively for Eskimos and not for the general public which was
"discriminated against” so speaking.
The final say is now up to Washington and once again we
appeal to our Washington delegation, knowing that our applica
tion is in order and even minor technicalities and "misunder
standings” by some of the agencies involved have been solved.
We sincerely hope that Alaska’s best known city may soon have
modem health facilities which it richly and rightly deserves.
U.S. Silver Certificate
Will Go Up in Smoke
WASHINGTON U?> — The silver
certificate — the latest piece of
U.S. currency which is fully back
ed by a dollar’s worth of metal—
will be burned, but don’t look for
any big bonfire right away.
President Kennedy signed a bill
Wednesday providing for retire
ment of silver certificates to free
1.3 billion ounces of the metal for
use in coins. All dollar bills are
silver certificates. There is also
a relatively small amount of this
type of currency in $2, $5 and $10
denominations.
The dollar bill will become a
federal reserve note, the type of
currency which makes up the bulk
of U.S. money. A federal reserve
note is backed by gold at the rate
of 25 cents in gold for each dollar
of face value.
Treasury officials said Thursday
the first of the new bills probably
will be issued in October, 1964.
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U.S. and Soviets
Agree on “Hot Line”
GENEVA UP — U.S. and Soviet
negotiators have agreed on all
technical details of a hot line tele
typewriter circuit between Wash
ington and Moscow, disarmament
conference sources said Thursday.
The agreement was reached after
18 private meetings of American
and Soviet telecommunication ex
perts between May 6 and June 4.
Conference sources said the U.S.
government has approved the
agreement, but formal approval
from the Soviet government still
is awaited.
The agreement provides for a
permanent teletype writer cable
linking the American and Soviet
governments. It will be used for
emergency contacts to prevent a
possible outbreak of war by ac
cident or miscalculation.
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Eskimo Arts & Crafts
• MUKLUKS
• FUR SLIPPERS
• AFTER-SKI BOOTS
• IVORY CARVINGS
• ESKIMO DOLLS
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Kennedy Plugs
Hard for His
Aid to Education
SAN DIEGO, Calif. W — Presi
dent Kennedy, plugging hard
Thursday for his aid to education
program, linked educational back
wardness with the mounting civil
rights problem.
Citing an array of statistics,
Kennedy argued that the quality
of American education is inade
quate, that the educational system
cannot cope with tomorrow’s de
mand—and that Negroes suffer
most from shortcomings in the
system.
In a major address prepared for
commencement exercises at San
Diego State College, Kennedy said:
“The time has come for the
American people of every part and
section to realize the immensity
and necessity of this challenge—
to realize that no solution will
please everyone—and to mobilize
their aroused support behind a
program such as the one I have
sent to the Congress.”
Kennedy said he was aware of
objections “raised for more than
50 years to any kind of federal
effort in education.”
He said these involve state’s
rights and civil rights, race and
religion.
But, he said it is time to put
such factors aside and deal directly
with the problem.
Speaking directly to the San
Diego graduates, Kennedy said, “I
hope that those of you have re
ceived blessings of education will
be in the forefront of that fight.
Kennedy flew to San Diego
from El Paso, Tex., and visited
the state college before flying to
a Navy aircraft carrier offshore
to spend the night and witness
Navy manuevers in the Pacific.
This was the second day of his
five-day, five-state tour which will
take him as far west as Hawaii
before he returns to Washington
early Monday morning.
In his talk the chief executive
said the nation’s education goal
must be “a system in which every
child, whether bom a banker’s
son in a Long Island mansion, or a
Negro sharecropper’s son in an
Alabama cotton field, has every op
portunity for an education that his
abilities and character deserve.”
Examiner Rejects
Higher Freight Rates
Sought by Alaska Steam
JUNEAU UF) — Atty. Gen. Geo.
Hayes said yesterday he has been
advised that Federal Maritime
Commission examiner has rejected
higher freight rates sought by the
Alaska Steamship Co. and North
ern Commercial River Lines.
Alaska Steam had sought a 10
per cent rate increase on freight
shipped to Western Alaska points,
a 10 per cent rate increase on
canned salmon shipments from
Alaska to Puget Sound ports and
a 20 per cent rate increase on ship
ments of cannery supplies to Alas
ka.
Hayes said hearing examiner
A. L. Jordan found that the rate
increases sought by Alaska Steam
“are unjust and unreasonable to
the extent they produce a rate
of return in excess of 12 per cent.”
Hayes said the examiner found
that Alaska Steam’s profit for its
Western Alaska service last year
was 19.40 per cent, after taxes.
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Officials Say Catholic
Schools Save Taxpayers
$25 Billion a Year
WASHINGTON OP — Roman
Catholic Church officials said yes
terday elementary and secondary
Catholic schools are saving the na
tion’s taxpayers more than $2.5
billion a year.
In Pennsylvania alone, the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, “Catholic parents — saved
their fellow taxpayers almost $2
billion between 1951 and 1961 by
footing the bills for the education
of a half million pupils in Cath
olic schools.”
The NCWC speaks for the Roman
hierarchy of the United States.
A breakdown provided by the
NCWC shows estimated savings to
the states through operation of
Catholic elementary and second
ary schools.
For Alaska the breakdown says
the annual cost per pupil in average
daily attendance in public schools
is $544.32. The report says the
total enrollment in Catholic ele
mentary and secondary schools is
1,432. The estimated savings to
the state’s Protestant taxpayers,
the report says, amounts to
$779,466.
Driving Miss . . .
MIAMI, Fla. Iff!—Lilian Tenney,
who is 92 and a motorist, plans to
talk with traffic officials about
her lack of a driver’s license.
She has been driving horses and
cars for 70 years and says all this
fuss over her driving status is a
lot of folderol. She has a collection
of nine unpaid citations and court
officials aren’t sure what to do.
You simply can’t go out and ar
rest a 92-year-old woman and you
can’t have her breaking the law
either, said Richard Brinker, Court
Clerk.
“Why, I am an expert, unusually
fine driver,” said Mrs. Tenney.
“People simply keep running into
to me.”
Her 1954 model auto has dents
in the fenders but is clean as a
pin.
The former teacher said when
she saved a tidy bundle of tickets
she mails them to the West Miami
police with a polite little note and
a $5 bill. Baffled police forward
them to court.
“Once I sent them $34,” she said.
“They seem to be such nice gentle
men.”
No Indication of Bomb
KETCHIKAN W\ — There is no
indication that a bomb figured in
the crash of a Northwestern Air
lines plane which killed 101 per
sons off the British Columbia coast
Monday, an FBI agent said today.
The agent, who had been called
in by the Civil Aeronautics Board,
said after examining the debris
which was landed at nearby An
nette Island that the investigators
had drawn a blank.
He said he believed the bomb
story had originated in a Canadian
newspaper.
The agent said he understood a
CAB statement would not be forth
coming for sometime.
Some eight government people
examined the debris.
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Florida Law Rules
Cigarette Makers
Libel for 111 Effects
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (10 _
Under Florida law, cigarette manu
facturers are responsible for any
harmful effects of their products
on the human body, the State Su
preme Court ruled Wednesday.
The court said manufacturers
were liable for damages whether
or not by human skill and foresight
they were able to determine the
long-range effect of use of their
products.
The opinion answered a request
of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of
Appeals at New Orleans, La., for
interpretation of the provision of
Florida law regarding the implied
warranty of manufacturers and
distributors.
The Appeals Court granted a re
hearing of a suit by the late Edwin
Green of Miami against the Ameri
can Tobacco Co., charging he con
tracted lung cancer by smoking
Lucky Strike cigarettes.
The U.S. District Court in Miami
cleared the American Tobacco Co.
of responsibility and the Appeals
Court upheld the decision.
Green’s widow, Mary, sought a
rehearing.
Tobacco Stock Prices Tumble
Tobacco company stock prices
tumbled in response to the Florida
Supreme Court decision.
Trading in tobacco stocks was
heavy on the New York Stock Ex
change with losses ranging from
fractions of a dollar to more than
two dollars a share.
American Tobacco stock fell 25
cents a share at $30 on a big open
ing block of 13,000 shares.
GOP Senators Promise
Support of Civil Rights
WASHINGTON (10 — Republican
senators have promised to support
additional civil rights legislation.
But they remained mute on wheth
er they would try to crush a south
ern filibuster.
The Republican position was
hammered out Wednesday at the
second of two conferences pro
moted by Sen. Jacob Javits of
New York, an ardent supporter of
civil rights legislation.
No agreement was reached at
the initial two-hour meeting. Then,
at the end of a three hour session
in late afternoon, the Republicans
approved a statement saying they
will “support further appropriate
legislation required to help solve
the problems of our nation in the
field of civil rights.”
Not all 33 Republican senators
attended the closed meetings.
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