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Air Force Will Give
More Business to Alaska’s
Commercial Air Carriers
WASHINGTON UP> — The Air
"Force is going to make an effort
to give more cargo and passenger
business to commercial air carriers
in Alaska, the state’s congression
al delegation was told Friday.
The assurance was given at a
meeting of representatives of the
Defense Department, the Civil
Aeronautics Board and the delega
tion.
Alaska members of Congress
have been concerned about multi
million dollar federal subsidies for
Alaska air carriers — estimated at
about $9 million in the year start
ing July 1.
They requested at the meeting
to map plans for the use of Alaska
commercial carriers for military
passengers and cargo instead of
federal aircraft where possible.
Spokesmen for the Air Force
said it is now putting into opera
tion a program of using regular
air lines in Alaska for passenger
and cargo where it can be reason
ably done. This is expected to re
sult in a substantial increase in
commercial business, an aide to
Sen. E. L. Bartlett said.
Secondly, he said, the Air Force
and Civil Aeronautics Board will
cooperate in giving contracts to
Alaska carriers, who submit rea
sonable prices, for shipments of
large amounts of cargo on a regu
lar basis.
This program, designed mainly
for remote areas not served regu
larly by commercial carriers, is
to go into effect July 1.
The Air Force denied it was
planning to use the so-called
“Logair” program in Alaska, the
aide said. Under this system, the
Air Force charters cargo aircraft
which use Air Force fuel, air strips
and other facilities.
U.S. families with life insur
ance have an average protection of
$14,300—but this isn’t enough to
send two kids through college
comfortably.
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U.S. Armed Forces Will
Accept Cuban Enlistments
WASHINGTON UP) — The De
fense Department announced Sat
urday it will accept enlistments ir
the U.S. armed forces from Cubar
veterans of the Bay of Pigs inva
sion—some of them for trainini
as officers.
But a spokesman emphatically
denied that the invasion veterans
would be used as a special unit.
The new program will be gen
erally similar to one already start
ed for other refugees from Cuba
who are now permitted to volun
teer for military training and then
choose whether to remain in serv
ice or join the inactive reserves.
Saturday’s announcement ap
plied to former members of the
Cuban brigade, which conducted
the Bay of Pigs invasion attempt.
Never Too Old . . .
DORSET, Vt. m — Mrs. Rose
L. Kent foresees one difficulty in
her bid for the Mrs. America
crown at Miami Beach April 22-26.
“At 90,” she asks, “How will
I look in a bathing suit?”
However, she confidently listed
her other qualifications Friday.
She has cooked her own bread
for 83 years, was happily married
for 50 years, raised two sons who
today are 62 and 59, concocted a
cookie recipe used for more than
80 years, run for the state legis
lature and has written many arti
cles and poems for newspapers and
periodicals.
Contest director Bert Nevins ac
cepted Mrs. Kent’s application, say
ing: “This is not a beauty affair
Its purpose is to honor American
homemakers. Mrs. Kent qualifies.”
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Bunion Derby
In Washington
By Hal Boyle
NEW YORK Ufi — The poor
man’s philosopher says:
In public life today it is no
longer enough to have a bleeding
heart. Your feet have to bleed, too.
The corn plaster has become the
new status symbol for political in
tegrity in the nation’s capital.
A man used to say he’d walk
a mile for his favorite cigarette.
Now he has to walk 50 miles to
prove he’s physically fit to serve
his country.
Pavement patriotism seems to be
sweeping Washington, D.C., like
wildfire. Every bureaucrat who
hasn’t made plans to complete a
50-mile loyalty health hike has to
publicly admit he has flat feet or
be put down as a coward.
They say the area around Foggy
Bottom is thronged with so many
limping casualties the place looks
like Gettysburg on the second day
of the battle.
Is this what President Kennedy
meant when he said we’d have to
get this country moving in the
1960s? Somehow we’d hoped it
would be done on wheels.
This whole problem of whether
you can measure the efficiency of
a government by the number of
bunions on the feet of elected and
appointed officials raises a number
of interesting questions such as:
Will it result in a pedestrian ad
ministration?
How fast of foot will lobbyists
have to be to keep up with legis
lation on the hoof?
Isn’t it enough to ask a politi
cian to run for public office? Is it
fair, after he wins, to expect him
to go on a long walk to hold his
job?
Instead of arranging to meet a
congressman in his office, will you
1 have to get a copy of his hike
' route from his secretary and hope
! to catch up with him at an inter
section?
Politics has always had its ob
stacle courses, but already some of
the sore-footed faithful have been
rumbling about using the 50-mile
hike as the sole test of fitness.
Some have suggested swimming
the Potomac River both ways.
Other have expressed the view it
is more important for a member
of the Supreme Court to be able
to pole vault over any obstruction
than to walk 50 miles.
Be that as it may, the New
Frontier is building a stronger,
hardier breed of public servant.
The government is on the march.
Hup, two, three, four! Hup, two,
three, four! Keep going, men—the
next foot powder station is only
300 yards ahead.
3% Mining Tax Rate
JUNEAU \S) — A bill which
would place a mining tax rate of
3 per cent on net income over
$100,000 was introduced Saturday
in the State Senate.
Mining income under $100,000
would not be taxed as at present,
under provisions of the bill, intro
duced by Sens. Pearse Walsh, Les
ter Bronson, Neal Foster, Eben
Hopson and John Coghill.
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Measure Would Boost
Salaries of Teachers
And Administrators
JUNEAU UP) — Legislation boost
ing the salaries of teachers and
school administrators was intro
duced in the Senate Saturday at
the request of Gov. Wm. Egan.
Under provisions of the bill,
teachers with a bachelor’s degree
would receive a basic salary of
$5,600 when they started work in
Alaska. The basic is now $5,150.
After eight years of public school
experience in the state, teachers
with a bachelor’s degree would
receive a basic of $7,200. The basic
now is $6,550.
For teachers with master’s de
grees just starting in Alaska, the
basic would run from $6,100 to
$9,100 after 12 years. The basic
now, respectively, is $5,500 and
$7,900.
The basic salary applies to those
teachers employed in the south
east section of the state.
Teachers in southcentral Alaska
would receive $400 more a year
and those employed in the central
and northwest sections and that
portion of the southcentral section
west of 152 degrees west longitude
would receive $700 more a year.
Teachers in charge would re
ceive 4 per cent additional, head
teachers 7 per cent, teaching prin
cipals 20 per cent, principals 15
per cent and superintendents 20
per cent.
Planned Parenthood Information
JUNEAU —The Commissioner
of Health and Welfare would be
required to prepare planned par
enthood information and make it
available to the public unedr terms
of a bill introduced in the House
Friday by Rep. Warren A. Taylor.
House Nixes Bill Which
Would Require ‘Fictitious’
Names to be Registered
JUNEAU (Jt — The House turn
ed thumbs down on a bill which
would require businesses using fic
titious names to register in their
recording districts the names of all
persons or partners having an in
terest in the business.
The vote was 17-17 on the meas
ure which was introduced by Rep.
Warren Taylor.
Taylor told the House that there
was no derogatory intent in the
use of the word “fictitious,” but
that it would simply apply to those
firms whose business titles do not
reflect the name or names of the
persons who have a financial in
terest in the business.
“It is just a matter of establish
ing responsbility, such as is re
quired in the filing of articles of
incorporation,” Taylor said, “so
that in cases of fraud and the like,
you’d know who to sue.”
Lawmakers generally objected,
however, that such registration
might place an undue burden on
the small businessman.
“This might help the lawyer
business, but it wouldn’t help any
other business,” said Rep. John
Rader.
“It would be a great nuisance
to the small businessman, who has
enough problems already,” added
Rep. John Holm.
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