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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.
TWISIORIANS TELL US things might have been drastically
different if it weren't for the influence of a fewr determined
mothers.
VHien the Revolutionary War ended, George Washington’s
first thoughts were of his mother. He sent a courier to her im
mediately with the news. And when he was elected President,
he delayed the inauguration ceremonies in order that he might
stop off at Ferry Farm, the family home to see his mother. As
it turned out, it was the last time he saw his mother alive.
After becoming president, Abraham Lincoln said of his
mother: "All I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel
mother.” At the age of nine he had stood by her deathbed as
she voiced her last request: "Be something, Abe.”
The genius of Thomas Alva Edison must have been nurtured
by his mother. Edison was once quoted as saying: "My mother
was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me. I felt
that I had someone to live for—someone I must not disappoint.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote:
"Even He who died upon the Cross in the last hour,
in the utterable agony of death, was mindful of his
Mother, as if to teach us that this holy line should
be our last wordly thoughts—the last point of earth
from which the soul should take its flight from Heaven.”
Thoughts such as this one penned by Sir Edwin Arnold, a
19th century British poet, have been echoed and re - echoed
throughout the poetry and prose of the ages.
"God could not be everywhere and therefore
He made Mothers.”
Joaquin Miller paid a well deserved compliment to all
mothers in his poem, "The Bravest Battle.”
The bravest battle that ever was fought
Shall I tell you where and when
On the maps of the world you will find it not;
It was fought by the mothers of men.
Earlier Emerson noted that "Men are what their Mothers
made them, and William Ross Wallace had declared: "The hand
that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”
Kate Douglas Wiggin wrote: "Most of the beautiful things
in life come by twos, and threes and dozens and hundreds. Plenty
of roses, stars, picnics, sonnets, brothers, sisters, aunts and
cousins, but only one mother in all the wide world.”
However it’s said and whatever is done, it simmers down to
*T love you, Mom.”
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Legislature Will
Have Big Headache
In Store for ’64
By Ward Sims
.Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU (iW — “The legislature
is going to have to do some painful
soul-searching next year.”
That was the comment of one
state official Thursday in the wake
of an oil and gas lease sale on
tide and submerged lands in Cook
Inlet which brought in $4,137,027
in bonus money.
The state had predicted that the
sale would net $10 million in bonus
money.
It should be pointed out, how
ever, that the estimate was based
on the sale of oil and gas leases
on some 346,000 acres of lands in
Cook Inlet.
Prior to the sale, the state,
at the insistence of the Bureau of
Land Management, withdrew some
180.000 acres of choice lands claim
ed both by Alaska and the federal
government.
While state officials were re
luctant to be quoted by name in
the absence of Gov. Wm. Egan,
who is on a speaking trip to De
troit, it was obvious Wednesday’s
bonus total came as a distinct dis
appointment.
Insofar as state finances are con
cerned, what does the sale mean?
It means that the state will
wind up fiscal 1964, starting next
July 1, with only a few dollars
showing as a balance in the basic
general fund, rather than $6,077,201
under revenue estimates prepared
in February.
It means that the 1964 legisla
ture, in budgeting for fiscal 1965,
is going to have to reduce state
expenditures sharply or raise
taxes—in an election year.
After adjustments for revised
federal lease receipts income, the
estimated general fund balance
was pegged at $25,733,559 as of
June 30 of this year, the end of
fiscal 1963.
Supplemental appropriation bills
passed by the legislature cut this
estimated balance to $21,820,016.
although some of the supplementals
are not effective until fiscal 1964.
With an estimated balance of
$21,820,016 and estimated revenues
of only $763,353,915 during fiscal
1964, the legislature passed, and
Egan approved, a fiscal 1964 ap
propriations ' bill calling for a
general fund expenditure of
$79,096,730.
Based on estimated revenues for
the year, it amounted to a $79,096,
730 diet on a $63,353,915 income.
This still left an estimated $6,
176,201 balance in the general fund 1
for use during fiscal 1965, barring
ihe passage of any supplementals
ay the 1964 legislature and based ;
>n current revenue estimates, in
cluding general fund income of
554,587,140 during fiscal 1965. <
Then came Wednesday’s sale, ]
The $6,077,201, based on current \
revenue estimates, suddenly melted
away to a mere $214,228. ]
Based on current revenue esti- \
mates, including that for fiscal j
1965, it means that the fiscal 1965 \
budget, to balance general fund t
expenditures with predicted in
come, is going to have to be cut
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Sen. Gruening Concerned
To Solve Problems
Of Gold Mining Industry
WASHINGTON UR— “If we can
put a man in orbit and send a
man to the moon as we hope to
do soon, we certainly should be
able to solve the problems of the
gold mining industry,” Sen. Ernest
Gruening said yesterday.
A government - fixed price and
rising production costs soon will
lead to extinction of the industry,
he added.
His remarks were made while
presiding at a Senate Interior sub
committee hearing reviewing the
state of the domestic mining in
dustry.
Gruening said he is writing
bankers in this country and abroad
to obtain information and recom
mendations for approaching prob
lems of the shrinking gold mining
industry.
He urged John M. Kelly, Assist
ant Secretary of the Interior for
Mineral Resources, to get together
with Treasury Department repre
sentatives to “explore industrial
and other aspects” of the gold
mining industry.
Kelly told the committee the
mining industry followed the pat
ern of general industrial produc
tion, climbing from a low in Jan
uary last year to a high plateau in
the fall, but declining slightly at
the close of the year.
He said that in the next 10
years the United States should not
suffer any serious minerals short
ages unless war or other overseas
developments curtail imports of
critical commodities.
The long - term output, he said,
points to the need for and import
ance of a continuous dynamic re
search program at all levels of
technology, including programs of
the Geological Survey and the Bu
reau of Mines.
“One may predict that our ex
panding science will find a use for
every mineral of the earth’s crust,”
Kelly said.
Perdie Swanson Graduates
From Heavy Equipment School
WEISER, Idaho — Ferdie Swan
son of Nome graduated May 3,
with his class of 20 operating en
gineers, from Western School of
Heavy Equipment operation at
Weiser. His instructor is Wayne
Jones.
The school is largely owned by
members of the Oregon and Idaho
chapters of Associated General
Contractors of America, and lead
ing heavy equipment distributors.
Dennis Sheehy is manager.
Students are trained by operat
ng the machines, with guidance
5f instructors, on actual construc
;ion jobs.
524,295,372 from the figure appro
5riated for fiscal 1964.
It is true, however, that the
state’s revenue estimates have
>een on the conservative side, for
he most part.
When the 1962 legislature went
lome, its Joint Finance Commit
ee prepared figures, based on state
evenue projections, showing that
he general fund balance as of this
oming June 30 would be $3,964,781.
Based on revised estimates hand
ed to the legislature this year,
vhich took into consideration in
creased tax and oil and gas lease
ncome during the first six months
>f the fiscal year, that figure bal
ooned to $25,733,559.
That could be the blueprint for
964.
If it isn’t, the next legislature is
[oing to have a long, hard spring.
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U.S. Surveillance of
Cuba Has Been Curtailed
MIAMI, Fla. CD — U.S. sur
veillance of Soviet military acti
vity in Cuba has been curtailed
and an intelligence gap is develop
ing, the Miami Herald said yes
terday.
In a dispatch from Washington,
the Herald cited three instances
of decreased intelligence-gather
ing:
1. Low-level r e c o n n a issance
flights have been suspended since
Feb. 9.
2. High-level U-2 reconnaissance
flights are being kept at a mini
mum.
3. Anti-Castro guerrilla reports
are being stifled by the U.S.
crack down on American-based
raids against Cuba.
Military leaders in Washington
were described as upset over three
developments in Cuba about which
they feel they have insufficient
information:
1. The appearance of a large
number of Russian tents, some of
them big enough to enclose a mis
sile and its launcher.
2. Heavy transport traffic to and
from areas where large caves are
known. Cuba exiles have long
maintained that the Russians are
hiding missiles in Cuba’s numerous
caves.
3. Construction of a rail line
line to a major Soviet camp area.
The newspaper said the slow
down in intelligence gathering is
the result of what it called Presi
dent Kennedy’s determination that
nothing be done to rock the boat
in Cuba.
Six F-100 Super Sabre
Jets Arrive In Alaska
ANCHORAGE it) — Six F-100
Super Sabre jet fighters landed at
Elmendorf Air Force Base here
Wednesday after an 8-hour flight
from the Myrtle Beach Air Force
Base headquarters in South Caro
lina.
The aircraft and their pilots
vyere the first of an 18-plane con
tingent coming here for the Alas
kan Command exercise dubbed
“Red Oak.” The six craft are as
signed to the Tactical Air Com
mand’s 352nd Tactical Fighter
Squadron.
The flight from South Carolina
was made non-stop.
The training exercise here will
include air operations in the An
chorage area and concentrated.
bombing maneuvers at the Big'
Delta bombing and gunnery range,
52 miles from Eielson Air Force
Base near Fairbanks.
PVT. ANGELO BUFFAS TAKES
PART IN GRAND SLAM II
U.S. FORCES, Germany — Army
Pvt. Angelo Buffas Jr., whose
father lives in Nome, took part in
Exercise Grand Slamll May 2 thru
May 7 with other members of the
32nd Signal Battalion in Germany.
Elements of Canadian, French
and German armed forces also
participated in the exercise which
was designed to test plans and
procedures of NATO forces assign
ed to Central Europe.
Buffas, a driver in the battalion’s
Co. A in Germany, entered the
Army in September 1960, com
pleted basic training at Fort Ord,
Calif., and arrived overseas in
February 1961.
The '20-year-old soldier attend
ed Nome High School.
Veterinarian Wins Jaycee Award
Capt. Erich Hemphill, Eielson
AFB veterinarian, was awarded
the Jaycee Award for Outstanding
Service recently during the State
Jaycee convention.
Capt. Hemphill has been inocu
lating dogs all over northern Al
aska, including Nome and St.
Lawrence Island in the past couple
of years.
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