THE NOME NUGGET
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WE DON’T LIKE TO BE PESSIMISTS, BUT
What The Press Is Saying About JFK’s Spending
Portland Oregonian: "What he (Kennedy) seems to be
saying this year is that deliberate deficit financing can bring
about what he said last year a surplus would bring.”
Los Angeles Times: "He (Uncle Sam) is throwing his money
around like a drunken sailor and inviting everybody to have
drinks on him.”
Washington (D.C.) Star: "Kennedy offers a budget $10
billion in the red. The idea is to get this country moving again
— one step ahead of the sheriff.”
Richmond (Va.) News-Leader: "Mrs. Kennedy’s budget is
'crammed with proposals that are not 'essentials’ at all.
Christian Science Monitor: "President Kennedy’s $98 billion
budget has received a chilly reception in Congress. Criticism from
Republicans . . . has been witheringly sharp, and sentiment
among many Democrats has ranged from lack of enthusiasm to
direct opposition.”
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "Added to the deficits in his
first two years, we find that by July 1964, the Kennedy Adminis
tration will have saddled the United States with more than
$27 billion in debts.”
Knoxville News-Sentinel: "The vast Federal deficits which
are planned for next year, and the next, directly invite another
cycle of boom and bust such as the one which reached a climax
in the '30’s.”
Omaha World-Herald: "The American people are asked to
believe that the trouble which past deficits caused was due to
the fact that they were not planned and were not big enough
to do the job that planned deficits supposedly can do.”
Chicago Tribune: "President Kennedy’s budget message an
nounces the dreary news that his administration will spend more
money in the fiscal year starting next July 1 than has ever been
spent in any year in the history of the United States. Yet, from
his raft in a sea of red ink, JFK talks about 'the strength of the
dollar’ and says there need be no fear of inflation.”
Geo. Bayer Sends Word of
Nomeiles In Pioneer Home
George Bayer, U.S. Marshal at
Anchorage, visited in Sitka recent
Jy, and sent back the word that
Mrs. Fred Rohn is now able to
walk around and is looking for
ward to getting out in the sunshine
when the weather improves. He
also visited with Eddie Gross and
Peter X. Peterson.
Simulate 20-Day Space Flight
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (^—Four
Air Force jet pilots will climb into
a small tank-like cabin at Brooks
Air Force Base Tuesday to start a
simulated 20-day space flight.
When the test ends they will
iiave spent more than enough time
in the simulated space cabin to go
to the moon and back.
To Show Slides of Trip To
Europe and Greenland
Miss Bertha Stedje from Teller
and Teller Mission, will lecture
and show slides of a recent trip to
Europe and Greenland, at Our
Savior’s Lutheran Church on Tues
day evening at 7:30. A social hour
will follow so that all who know
Miss Stedje may have an oppor
tunity to visit with her. Everyone
is cordially invited to attend.
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Major Strikes May
Bring National
Compulsory
Arbitration Laws
CHICAGO UP — Secretary of
Labor Willard Wirtz has warned
labor and management that one
more major strike would bring
the likelihood of national com
pulsory arbitration laws.
Wirtz said in a speech to the
National Academy of Arbitrators
Friday he would regret such leg
islation.
But, he said, labor, management
and public representatives “seri
ously underestimate the strength
of public feeling about national
emergency strikes, and brinkman
ship we have been playing in this
field.”
Labor-management relations are
experiencing a period of crisis
comparable to the wave of walk
outs after World War I, the sit
down strikes of the 1930s, and the
strikes in the coal, rail and steel
industries in the 1940s, Wirtz said.
He said aroused public opinion
over recent strike crises has
brought labor-management rela
tions to a fork in the road.
'Wirtz said the federal govern
ment’s “unusual participation re
cently in a number of the major
disputes” occurred because labor
and management were undergoing
a last clear chance.
“Neither the traditional collec
tive bargaining procedures, nor the
present labor dispute laws are
working to the public’s satisfac
tion,” Wirtz said.
“It doesn’t matter any more,
really, how much the hurt has been
real, or has been exaggerated,” he
added. “A decision has been made.
And that decision is that if col
lective bargaining can’t produce
peaceable settlements of these con
troversies, the public will.”
S Wirtz pointed to a recent sug
gestion by financier Bernard Ba
ruch for a labor court to resolve
major labor disputes by compul
sory arbitration.
He said he is against such solu
tions.
“It is easy to agree,” Wirtz said,
“that the public interest will be
most fully served in a particular
case by prohibiting a strike and
requiring the parties to submit
their disputes to a third party.
“But there is also the public in
terest in leaving as many de
cisions as possible to private pro
cesses.”
Another trouble with compul
sory arbitration, Wirtz said, is
“the record is that if arbitration
is assured, the collective bargain
ing processes are never really used
at all.”
MEASURE WOULD AID
ALASKA FAA EMPLOYES
WASHINGTON UP) — A bill to
aid Alaska employes of the Fed
eral Aviation Agency was intro
duced yesterday by Sen. Warren
Magnuson, (D-Wn.).
The FAA would be authorized
to provide, where necessary and
not otherwise available, emergency
medical services and supplies, to
construct and furnish living and
working quarters, establish and
operate mess facilities, and to pro
vide for recreation and training.
Employes would be paid for
necessities supplied by them in
emergencies for the temporary re
lief of distressed persons.
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Seven-Member Board
Would Administer
State-Operated Schools
JUNEAU — Legislation pro
viding for creation of a seven-man
bpard of directors to manage Alas
ka’s state-operated schools was in
troduced in the Senate Saturday
by Sen. Nicholas Begich, (D-Spen.).
The members of the board would
be appointed by the governor, sub
ject to confirmation by the legis
lature, for four-year terms.
Four of the members of the
board would be from unorganized
areas served by state-operated
schools and three would be from
areas served by on-base schools.
The board would have exclusive
control over all state-operated
school matters “associated with the
state’s program of education at the
elementary and secondary levels,
including correspondence courses.”
Begich said the intent of the bill
was to enable the Department of
Education “to concentrate exclu
sively on educational objectives of
general applicability to the entire
state public school system, includ
ing leadership, research, certifica
tion, planning, coordination and
resources, and to relieve the de
partment of the responsibility of
the administration of state-operated
schools.” ,
Members of the board of direc
tors would receive only per diem
and travel expenses. They would
receive no salary.
They would be authorized to hire
a director as executive officer, an
assistant director, supervisors and
a professional and non-professional
staff.
The bill specifies that the prin
cipal offices for the administra
tion of state-operated schools would
be in Anchorage.
ALASKANS IN TOP SHAPE
Alaskans must really be in top
shape!
According to the Statistical Ab
stract of 1962, Alaska had the high
est percentage of persons who qual
ified for the Selective Service by
passing medical and other tests.
Out of about 400 persons tested,
300 qualified, for an average of
just under 74 per cent.
According to the percentages,
Alaska ranked top among the 50
states, while South Carolina rank
ed lowest with 32.8 percent qauli
fying.
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Knew It All The Time!
QUARRYVILLE, Pa. UP) — The
groundhog showed his shadow
Saturday and that, his devotees
declare, means six more weeks of
winter.
For generations Pennsylvania
has had a monopoly on this kind
of weather prophecy, and two
strongholds in particular vie for
the honor of getting in first with
the news.
The Quarryville boys in eastern
Pennsylvania scored this time, re
porting that in this Lancaster
County area the traditional seer
emerged before dawn, beheld his
shadow—in the moonlight, mind
you—and then withdrew for an
other spell of hibernation.
In western Pennsylvania, the
clan that swears by the ground
hog is known as Punxsutawkey
Pete and vows all others are false
prophets related that Pete saw his
shadow at 7:41 a.m. and quietly
went back to the peace and dark
ness of his burrow.
Thus it seems clear that hopes
for an early spring are well and
truly dashed.
Commanding General
Praises Eskimo Scouts
For Training Tactics
FORT RICHARDSON—“This is
probably one of the finest training
areas in the world,” said Major
General William Yarborough Jr.,
last week of the Kotzebue Penin
sula area.
Gen. Yarborough is command
ing general of. the U.S. Army Spe
cial Warfare Center at Fort Bragg,
N.C. The general was visiting Spe
cial Forces teams training Eskimo
Scouts in the Selawik, Noatak, Pt.
Hope and Kotzebue areas. The
Scouts and Special Forces men will
join forces to take part in the
Alaskan Command winter maneu
ver, Exercise Timber Line in mid
February.
The Special Forces - Eskimo
Scouts training program is not a
one-sided arrangement. Gen. Yar
borough said, “There are lots of
skills the Eskimo Scouts have we
want to learn. And on our side,
we can pass some of our special
skills to them. It’s highly bene
ficial to both.”
Capt. George Buck, officer in
charge of the six - man Special
Forces team in Kotzebue, said,
“Our reception has been fantastic.
These National Guardsmen are
ready to train all the time.”
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