Calls for Extension
JUNEAU UP — The extension
to Alaska of new rates on certain
long distance calls now in effect
in the contiguous 48 states was
urged by Gov. Wm. Egan today.
The reduced rates apply to calls
made between the hours of 9 p.m.
and 4:30 a m.
Such calls to an out of state
point more than 220 miles away
but within the Continental United
States can be made for a maxi
mum charge of $1 for three min
utes, plus tax.
Egan, in a letter to chairman E.
William Henry of the Federal
Communications Commission, said
“Alaskans are entitled to enjoy
to the fullest possible degree all
benefits accuring to residents of
other states.”
Stan Bartlett Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Bartlett of Pan
American Airways and formerly
of Nome, will return to th£ U of
Washington this year for his
sophomore year after spending the
summer in Liberia.
Bartlett Sr. is station manager
for Pan American at the airport
of Harbel in Liberia.
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Sudden Flooding of
Engine Room Blamed
For Thresher’s Disaster
WASHINGTON UPl — A sudden
flooding of the engine room was
the “most probable” cause for the
sinking of the atomic submarine
Thresher with 129 men aboard,
a report by a Navy investigating
board said Thursday.
Secretary of the Navy Fred
Korth issued a summary of find
ings by a court of inquiry, based
on testimony from 120 witnesses
and 1,700 pages of testimony —
most of it classified as secret.
The statement issued yesterday
I said:
“The Navy believes it most like- j
ly that a piping system failure
had occurred in one of the
Thresher’s salt water systems,
probably in the engine room. The
enormous pressure of sea water
surrounding the submarine sub
jected her interior to a violent
spray of water and progressive
flooding. In all probability, water
affected electrical circuits and
caused loss of power. Thresher
slowed and began to sink. Within
moments she had exceeded her
collapse depth and totally flooded.
She came to rest on the ocean
floor, 8,400 feet beneath the sur
face.”
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CAB Rejects Proposed
Merger of American
And Eastern Airlines
WASHINGTON W — The Civil
Aeronautics Board rejected yester
day a proposed merger of Ameri
can and Eastern Airlines, the na
tion’s second and fourth largest
air carriers. The vote against ap
proval was 3-2.
The board announced what it
called a tentative determination to
disapprove the domestic phase of
the planned merger. Although it
said the announcement does not
constitute a final decision in the
proceeding, it said the final de
cision will be entered formally
at a later date.
No announcement was made
with respect to the overseas and
foreign aspects of the case, which
are subject to Presidential ap
proval.
CASSIUS HAS A CHANCE
LOS ANGELES UP — Ol’ Archie
Moore, who was knocked out by
young Cassius Clay, thinks the :
human gas bag has a chance
against Sonny Liston, with his
fists.
“I happen to think Cassius is a
very good fighter,” Moore told a
interviewer Wednesday. “He is an
amazing fighter who is playing
down his true ability by his way of
boasting. He creates a false opinion
that he is nothing but a blowhard.
“Actually, Clay has the potential
to rival Joe Louis as a fighter.”
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Comment from the Capital
$10 BILLION FIASCO
by Vant Neff
How much do you know
about Latin America? If
you’re like most of us, the
answer is not a great deal.
Yet, we ought to. A lot of
our tax money is going south
of the border for the Alianza
para el Progreso — the Alli
ance for Progress.
The Alliance is a big, ambi
tious, foreign aid program for
Latin America, advocated by
President Kennedy well over
a year ago. It’s a ten year
project with a minimum cost
earmarked at $100 billion.
Cuba has caused the Admin
istration great concern since
1961 when the President took
office. Castro heads the first
Communist government in the
World not helped to power by
the Red Army.
How can we keep the rest
of Latin America from joining
this parade to the Kremlin?
The designers of the Alli
ance feel that money can do
it. Money for new jobs, new
plants and factories, mecha
nized farms, modern schools,
low cost housing, super-high
ways and the like. Advocates
of the Alliance are sure that
when these projects take hold,
Latin American republics will
emerge as strong, aggressive
democracies, well able to resist
Red subversion.
Some of the more enthusi
astic backers of the Alliance,
call it a Marshall Plan for
Latin America. However, when
you compare Europe after
World War II with the banana
and coffee republics south of
us, there’s a world of dif
ference.
Europe had a good balance
of industry and agriculture
before the war. When the
fighting was over, Marshall
Plan money and tools planted
new crops, rebuilt the bombed
out plants and factories. The
Europeans plowed their profits
into new industries and mar
kets. Today, in little more than
ten years, ’ Europe is more
prosperous than in pre-World
War II days.
Will pouring money into
Latin America win the same
results in ten years? Let’s
look at what we have to
work with.
Most Latin Americans are
farmers with little or no mod
ern equipment to make money
at it. Plants and factories are
scarce; most of them devel
oped and operated by foreign
capital. Only 4% of the land
is being farmed. Half of the
people can’t read or write.
Much of the climate is trop
ical. This leaves Latin Ameri
cans with little ambition to
get up and go.
Only one man in four thou
sand is a trained technician or
a professional engineer. In our
country, we have a skilled pro
fessional for every 180 people.
Latin American countries
are one crop countries for the
most part. They sell coffee or
sugar or bananas abroad.
Prices of these crops have
been falling in world markets.
But the prices of the tools and
machinery that Latin Ameri
cans need to modernize have
been rising.
Farmers and laborers make
about ten cents an hour. The
annual income is only $270 a
year. With the population ris
ing faster than anywhere else
in the world, annual income
shrinks day by day.
We have pledged $10 billion
to pull Latin Americans up by
their bootstraps. Private in
vestors, here and abroad, are
slated to furnish an additional
$10 billion. Latin Americans,
themselves, supposedly will
put up the rest — $80 billion.
Where is this $80 billion
coming from? We can’t expect
the farmers and laborers of
Latin America to put much
aside for investment. Not with
an annual income of $270.
How about rich Latin Amer
icans? No help from this quar
ter. They have been investing
their billions abroad for years.
Investments at home are too
uncertain. Governments are
too unstable. Currencies fluc
tuate too much. *
* What about the private in
vestors? Are they backing the
Alliance? Not so you can
notice. Only $236 million out
of a needed $600 million* has
been invested by private capi
tal in Latin America in the
last two years.
We seem to be the only ones
that the Latin Americans can
count on. In the past year, we
have furnished Latin Ameri
can countries with $1,116,000,
000 — $116,000,000 over our
annual pledge.
Has there been any prog
ress? Not according to
Teodoro Moscoso, director of
the Alliance. In % fact, there’s
been so little accomplished
that Moscoso ordered his
office staff not to celebrate
the first anniversary of the
Alliance.
At present the Alliance for
Progress is turning into a $10
billion fiasco. We are provid
ing practically all the funds to
make the plan work, but there
has been no progress.
What’s the solution? Frank
ly, your reporter doesn’t know.
We want to help the Latin
Americans as much as we can,
and we certainly don’t want to
see any more Latin American
republics turn to Communism.
But before we spend an
other billion to get no prog
ress, the Administration had
better come up with a better
plan for Latin Americans than
the Alliance. *
Court Sets Aside
Termination of Pan Am
Flights to Alaska
WASHINGTON UP — The US.
Court of Appeal set aside yes
terday a Federal District Court
order blocking possible termina
tion by the Civil Aeronautics
Board of Pan American World
Airways’ flights into Alaska.
“Here there is no ‘order on (its)
face plainly invalid’, but merely
the possibility of an invalid order,”
said the three-judge Appelate
Court for the District of Columbia.
The decision said that there was
no certainty that any order taking |
away Pan American’s flights
would be handed down by the
CAB, or that any such action would
be approved by the President.
Therefore, the court said, it was
too soon for Pan American to go
to court in the case.
A preliminary CAB study had
shown that there might be too
many airlines flying into. Alaska
and on March 19, 1962, the CAB
ordered a full scale investigation
of the subject.
Four airlines presently have
scheduled flights to Alaska. Pan
American, Alaska Airlines, Pacific
Northern Airlines and Northwest
Airlines.
Pan American obtained a Dis
trict Court order preventing the
CAB from terminating its sched
uled flights to Alaska, but per
mitting the investigation to con
tinue with this restriction.
Alaska Airlines appealed the
lower court decision, charging the
court action was premature. The
Appellate Court agreed, explain
ing:
“We have no way of knowing
whether the board will make one
of five concededly valid orders of
the six possible alternatives . . .
thus we do not have a situation
in which any order of the board
would be invalid.”
It was Benjamin Franklin who
observed, “There are three faith
ful friends—an old wife, an old
dog, and ready money.”
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Judge Is Mum on
Murphy Divorce Case
SHOSHONE, Idaho (iff — Judge
Charles Soggin says only a court
j petition showing reasonable
grounds could get him to unseal
records in the Margaretta Murphy
divorce case.
Judge Soggin heard the divorce
case on April 1 at Fairfield, Iaho.
I Mrs. Murphy subsequently married
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New
York.
Records pertaining to child cus
tody and personal property have
been sealed at the judge's order.
He says this was done for the pro
tection of the children.
The former Mrs. Murphy, 37,
and her first husband, Dr. James
Slater of New York, had four chil
dren, James, 12; Wendy, 10; Carol,
7; and Malinda, 3.
Judge Soggin said he had been
besieged by calls from all over
the country asking about what
custody arrangements were made
for the children. But he has said:
“I’m not going to be a reporter
for anyone.”
There apparently is no legal way
the judge can be compelled to
make the records public. Legal
sources at Boise, the state capital,
said they know of no Idaho law
that would prohibit the judge’s
action.
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