Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1. Harbor
5. Piece g£
news
9. Tree
12. Declare
13. You: archaic
14. Number
15. Desert beast
17. Give
weapons
13. Greek letter
i9. Component
21. Foundation
23. Medicine
amount
24. Damp
?5. State: abbr.
26 Awakens
28. Deface
29. Enthusiast
30. Dregs
31. Marah
32. Whale
33. Finish
34. Church seat
35. Carried
36. Suffix: past
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37. Suit 45. Field
38. Confined 47. Ethical
39. Foot-lever 48. Building
41. Bits
44. Anger
Answer to Puzzle
11. Thought out
16. Fewer
20. Neon: chem.
22. In
24. Shake
26. Drowsier
27. Gently
28. Cut grass
29. Chained
wing
49. Formerly
51. Russian
river
52. Cereal
53. Cry
54. Whirlpool 31. Wager
32. Comfort
DOWN 34 Cushion
1. Step 35. School
2. Egg-shaped period
3. Cured 37. Musical note
4. Trembling 38. Italian river
fits 40. Omit: print.
5. That thing 41. Spice
6. Which 42. Ground
7. Ever: poet. 43. Kill
8. Part or limb 46. Compass
9. Enemies point
10. Familiar 50. Prefix: on
Goldwater's Appearance of Simplicity
Appeal? to Wing Public
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated P*ess News Analyst
WASH IN G T ON IP — Sen. Barry
Goldwater is unique among Pres
idential possibilities of recent
times. He gives an impression of
simple directnpss without theatrics.
This, in audition to whatever
appeal his ideas may have, prob
ably accounts to a great degree for
his popularity in the public opin
ion polls.
Singly or together the hall
marks of most candidates since
President Frrnkiin D. Roosevelt
have been a ..ense of drama and
often of almost fierce conviction,
a permanent smile and camera
consciousnesi
So far Goldwater, deliberately or
not, has managed to keep those
natural trait> of a politician in
conspicuous. He may not be able
to do it permanently as he steps
up his effort.' cor the Republican
Presidential nomination.
Roosevelt, a master campaign
er, was a far ‘>etter phrase-maker
than any of the candidates or like
ly possibilities since, including
Goldwater whose literary qualities
are ordinary.
Roosevelt had an enormous sense
of drama. Goldwater doesn’t seem
to have much dramatic sense.
Roosevelt spoke like a father
sure of his family. Former Vice
President Richard Nixon and New
York’s Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
give an impression of seeking ap
proval.
Kennedy, on the other hand,
while he can manage to look re
laxed when he wants to, uses such
self-conscious and manufactured
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phrasing in his prepared talks that
it often gets between him and his
listeners.
Until now this clean-cut, gray
haired, determined-jawed Repub
lican from Arizona has had the
advantage of not having to talk j
under pressure in his quest for the
nomination.
He has been running hard —
without formally admitting it —
but just because this is so he has
been able to pick his spots and
pace himself: a dinner here, a
rally there.
For Goldwater this kind of poli
tical luxury is coming to an end.
He’ll be under pressure, mental
and physical, when he goes into
the state primaries: handshaking
by the thousands, speech after
speech to scrutinizing crowds, and
always having to be concerned
about his opponent.
Maybe then Goldwater will be
.;in to acquire the same stridency
that infects . American politicians
like a plague.
And something else will certain
ly have to change for him once
he formally gets into the race: His
solutions for national problems
will have to be a lot more spe
cific, if he wants to be convincing.
The overall cost of living has
increased by 25.3 per cent in the
last decade — but medical care
costs are up more than 50 per cent.
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UNALAKLEET. ALASKA
Anchorage Solon
Demands Egan
Fire Dept. Chief
ANCHORAGE W — ReP- Keith
Miller, R-Anchorage, contending
tho state’s youth and adult authori
ty program is in “serious jeopar
dy,” has called on Gov. William
Egan to fire Health and Welfare
Commissioner Levy Browning and
two of his subordinates.
Miller made his recommenda
tions in a letter to Egan dated
Nov. 2. Copies of which he made
public here.
“Within the past two weeks the
former police chief of Juneau, Mr.
P. L. Severson, has been hired
by the Department of Health and
Welfare as chief of correctional
services,” he wrote the Governor.
“Yet as far as I know, Mr. Se
verson has had no institutional
experience whatsoever. How can
we expect to develop a coordinated
program of youth and adult reha
bilitation without qualified men
in the upper echelon.
“I respectfully submit to you
that unless Dr. Browning, Mr.
Charles Pfeiffer (YAA director',
and Mr. Severson are relieved of
their responsibilities and replaced
with men who are qualified and
who will make decisions, the en
tre YAA program of ths state will
be in serious jeopardy,” Miller
wrote.
MARITIME SIDELIGHTS . . .
There were 921 vessels of 1,000
gross tons and over in the active
ocean-going U.S. merchant fleet
on June 1, 1963, according to the
Maritime Administration.
There were 19 government
owned and 902 privately owned
ships in active service. These fig
ures did not include privately
owned vessels temporarily inac
tive, or government-owned ves
sels employed in loading storage
grain. They also exclude 23 ves
sels in the custody of the Depart
ments of Defense, State, and In
terior, and the Panama Cane.l
Company.
The Maritime Administration’s
active fleet remained the same
while the inactive fleet decreased
by 12. Seven freighters were sold
for scrap, 3 freighters were turned
back to the Navy, and three gov
ernment ships were exchanged to
the private fleet, with two ships
received from the private fleet.
This made a net decrease of 11 in
the total government fleet to 1,857.
The total U.S. merchant fleet
dropped by 12 ships to a total of
2,836.
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about half are sent at Christmas,
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Requiem for The Bear
(From U.S. Coast Guard Files)
PART I
The famous old Coast Guard cut
ter BEAR, veteran of nearly 90
years’ service in the far Nort i
and participant in some of the most
thrilling sea rescues of our time,
have come to the end of her last
voyage in the turbulent waters of
ti e North Atlantic. On Tuesday,
March 19, 1963, the gallant old
ship went down off the coast of
Nova Scotia during an Atlantic
storm. Time and the elements have
finally done what northern ice and
snow failed to do.
If the BEAR could have chosen
her final resting place, and who
are we to say that she didn’t, it
would probably have been these
northern waters where she had
sailed so often. It was here that
she came, shortly after her launch
ing in 1873 at the old Scottish ship
yard of Dundee and Son. She spent
the first ten years of her life
getting her sea legs with a sailing
fleet operating off Newfoundland.
World-wide fame came to the
BEAR in the early 1880’s short'y
after the historic Greely Expedi
tion to the Arctic came to a dis
astrous end. The Expedition, un
der the command of the then Lieu
tenant Adolphus Washington Gree
ly, was one of two groups dis
patched to the Arctic to set up a
series of observation stations. De
spite elaborately made plans, a
series of misfortunes left Greely
and his party stranded in the pit
iless Arctic winter without ade
quate food and clothing.
To assist the Greely party, the
United States organized a rescue
fleet of three ships, consisting of
the BEAR. THETIS and .ALERT.
On June 22, 1884, less than two
months after her departure, the
BEAR sighted the pitiful rem
nants of the expedition. For months
they had been surviving on rock
moss, leather sledding equipment,
and whatever small game they
could find. Many of the group had
either died or gone mad from pri
vation. Those who had survived re
sembled skeletons. The surgeon
accompanying the expedition had I
committed suicide.
For a while it looked as though
the BEAR’s career was over. Not
long after her return from the j
Greely rescue, she was declared
unfit for further service by the
Navy. Then in 1885, she was trans
ferred to the Treasury Department
for use in Alaskan waters and the
Arctic Ocean. That was the begin
ning of a 41-year career on the
Alaskan Patrol which is unequalled
in maritime history.
Her first skipper on Patrol, was
colorful “Hell Roarin’ ” Mike Hea
ly, a dynamo of a man with an
unpredictable temper. Healy was
a good skipper, and he commanded
I the BEAR for more than nine
' years, longer than any other. In
| time, Healy and his ship becat te
legend in the lusty, brawling Ter
ritory of Alaska.
The Bear’s duties on the Alas
kan Patrol were many. She car
ried mail which had accumulated
at Seattle during the winter, as
well as Government agents an 1
! supplies. On her trip south from
Alaska, she transported Federal
prisoners and others whose pres
ence in Alaska was undesirable.
The deck of the BEAR often
served as a court where justice was
dispensed swiftly but fairly. The
BEAR also conducted investiga
tions, and undertook crime pre
vention and law enforcement. She
and other cutters like her were
often the only law in that turbu
lent part of the world. The BEAR
also conducted soundings to im
prove charts of Alaskan waters,
and her surgeon furnished medi
cal attention to natives, prospec
tors, missionaries, and whalers.
(These duties are still part of to
day’s Bering Sea Patrol.)
Not the least of Healy’s accom
plishments was the importation of
reindeer from Siberia to provide
food for the natives who were nev
er free from the threat of famine.
The initial transaction consisted of
purchasing twelve deer at Scnin
vine Strait, Siberia in 1891 and
transporting them to Unalaska. As
Healy reasoned it, the reindeer
would also be an excellent source
of clothing and transportation. The
wisdom of this measure was dra
matically proved a few years later
during the famous overland trek
to save marooned whalers near
Point Barrow.
Of all the BEAR’s exploits, none
has captured the public imagina
tion more than her Overland Res
cue of 1897. It was in the fall of
that year that Captain Tuttle, the
BEAR’s new commander, learned
that eight whaling vessels and
their crews, totaling about 275
men, were trapped in the ice pack
off remote Point Barrow. Alaska.
The BEAR had only recently re
turned from her Patrol duties, but
at the order of the Secretary of
the Treasury she went to the res
cue. This was the first time that
an Arctic voyage was attempted
during the winter season.
(To be continued)
A, British psychologist claims
that happy people swear more than
unhappy ones.
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