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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.
HOPE FOR THE WORLD
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HE IS RISEN . . .
l^ASTER IS THE DAY that marks Christ’s triumph over the
grave—the proof that He was more than a mere man and
that He truly was the Son of God.
"Happy Easter,” spoken in many tongues is the expression
of rejoicing that on this day above all others, a prophecy was ful
filled and the grave was conquered.
"Happy Easter means to Christians everywhere not to lose
hope for in this world that is plagued by violence, evil, deceit
between nations, misunderstanding between men, there is the as
surance that God will triumph and there will be peace among
nations and among men of all races, colors and creeds.
And although Nome does not have the flowering of spring
in the air, its residents join together in fellowship, song and
prayer to observe a happy Easter, in the church of their choice.
INDEX OF FITNESS
HONOLULU UP) — C. Carson
Conrad, special advisor to Presi
dent Kennedy’s Council on Physi
cal Fitness, says Hawaii is the
fittest state in the nation.
“You don’t have the fitness
problems we have on the main
land: you’re more active because
of climate, natural resources, and
your philosophy of outdoor recrea
tion,” he said in a talk here.
Otherwise, Conrad added, Amer
icans have the strongest index
fingers in the world—they push a
button to start their car; push an
other and the window goes up; an
other to engage gears, and so on.
PILOT WHALES RUN
OFFSHORE IN FLORIDA
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. UP
— Twenty or more pilot whales
came onto the beach and into riv
ers and inlets in the vicinity o:
New Smyrna Beach yesterday.
A state conservation agent saic
four of the whales stranded on th<
beach.
Two of the whales were takei
alive by crews from Marinelan<
and they said those seemed to b<
in good condition. Each is abou
10 feet long.
Pilot whales occasionally rur
ashore in groups, seemingly ben
on suicide.
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Dr. and Mrs. Lathrop
Of Kotzebue Receive
Oveta Culp Hobby Award
WASHINGTON UP> — Dr. and
Mrs. Robert L. Lathrop, a dental
team at the Public Health Service
| Alaska Native Hospital at Kotze
bue, received the Welfare Depart
ment’s Oveta Culp Hobby Award
yesterday.
The Lathrops were cited for
“their dedication to improving the
health and well-being of Alaska
natives, exemplified by their con
duct of field dental clinics thru
out the state despite hardships in
travel and working conditions.”
The award was established by
the department’s first secretary,
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby of Hous
1 ton. It consists of an engraved
i certificate and $200.
Dr. Lathrop is a dental officer
and Mrs. Lathrop is a dental assist
ant. They also received the de
1 partment’s Superior Service Award
- at the annual honor awards cere
mony.
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House Gives JFK
Easter Present of
$450 Million for
Public Works Jobs
WASHINGTON Itf—1The House
packed up Thursday for a 10-day
vacation after voting President
Kennedy a handsome Easter pre
sent in the form of a $450-million
public works appropriation.
The 228-184 vote approving the
President’s plea for more money
to make jobs in a hurry probably
was Kennedy’s biggest congres
sional triumph of the year.
It could be a shallow one, how
ever, for there were signs that the
Senate might not go along with
the House action.
The public works money was
part of a $1.4-billion catch-all ap
propriation bill sent to the Senate
by voice vote after two days of
debate in which Republicans op
posed the works program as a
“political boondoggle” and Demo
crats defended it as an economic
“must.”
The money was earmarked to
continue matching grants to hard
pressed communities to construct
projects that would provide jobs
quickly. The program was author
ized last year with a $900-million
ceiling, of which $400 million was
provided last year and allocated
since.
The President wanted the addi
tional $500 million now but the
House Appropriations Committee
turned him down flatly. The
House reversed the committee ac
tion, voting $450 million in new
funds. Supporting the program
and the President were 208 Demo
crats and 20 Republicans. Voting
against were 33 Democrats and 151
Republicans.
Unseen Sniper Fires
But Misses Window
Shot at Ex-Gen. Walker
DALLAS, Tex. UP) — An unseen
rifleman fired through a back win
dow and missed controversial ex
Gen. Edwin Walker by a scant
inch in his home Wednesday night.
Police said a slight movement
by Walker, at a desk working on
his income tax report, apparently
saved him.
“Somebody had a perfect bead
on him,” city detective Ira Van
Cleave said. “Whoever it was cer
tainly wanted to kill him.”
The bullet, from a 30.06 rifle,
was fired from an alley behind
the Walker home in a fashionable
north Dallas district, police re
ported.
Walker, a Texas native, has
made his home here since resign
ing from the Army in 1961. He
took that step after being relieved
of his command in Germany,
where he was accused of trying
to teach extreme right political
views to his troops.
During a riot over admission of
a Negro student at the University
of Mississippi last fall, Walker
was arrested and charged with
seditious conspiracy and insur
rection. A federal grand jury fail
ed to indict him and the charges
were dropped.
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X-15 Rocket Ship
Takes on New Job as
Aerial Mapping Plane
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. IM — An X-15 rocket ship
with a camera sunk in the under
side of its nose streaked an esti
mated 2,500 miles an hour yester
day in its first test as an aerial
mapping plane.
The flight was the record
smashing X-15’s first in its new
role of fringe-of-space workhorse,
hauling scientific einstruments to
heights unreachable by most air
craft.
Eventually the X-15 will be used
to perfect cameras more powerful
than those in U-2 spy planes. It
also will carry telescopes designed
to photograph stars from a vantage
point high above the earth’s
dirty blanket of atmosphere.
The camera carried aloft yester
day is a standard KC-1 used in
aerial surveys and will be replaced
later by equipment with stronger
lenses.
Primary purpose of the flight
was to measure how much distor
tion is caused (1> by the faster
than-sound shock waves generated
by the speeding plane and (2)
by the friction-heated air flow
ing past the fuselage.
St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church
HOLY WEEK DEVOTIONS
Good Friday
Passion — Communion Service
ai 5 pan.
Station of the Cross at 7:30 p.m.
Holy Saturday
Easter Vigil at 11:00 p.m.
Easter Sunday
Masses al 8, 10 and 11:30 a.m.
No Evening Mass
Confessions
Friday 4-4:45 p.m.
Saturday 3-5. 7-9 p.m.
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Kennedy Calls on
Steel Industry to
Avoid Price Hike
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy called upon the steel in
dustry and the Steelworkers Union
yesterday to “avoid any action
which would lead to a general
across-the-board increase” in steel
prices.
“I uge this in their own en
lightened self-interest and in the
public interest as well,” Kennedy
said in a statement.
He said price adjustments up or
down, as prompted by changes in
supply and demand, “are not in
compatible with a framework of
general stability and steel price
stability and are characteristic of
any healthy economy.”
The presidential statement fol
lowed a day and a half of inten
sive White House scrutiny of a se
lective price increase averaging $6
a ton on some items announced
Wednesday by Wheeling Steel
Corp. No other company has an
nounced a similar boost.
Kennedy added:
“I opposed such an increase
last year — I oppose such an in
crease now. This administration is
not interested in determining the
appropriate price or profit levels
of any particular industry. We are
interested in protecting the Amer
ican public — and it is the Amer
ican public which would suffer
most from a general increase in
steel prices.”
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