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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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50 Mile Dash
fpHE KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION appears to agree with
Mark Twain’s dictum that golf is a good walk spoiled. So the
back-yard putting made fashionable by the last tenant of the
White House now has been forsaken for walking. And something
new is afoot in the nation.
The only trouble is that the kind of walking Mr. Kennedy is
espousing is itself a good walk spoiled.
Naturally Teddy Roosevelt’s formula of 50 miles in 20 hours
must have sounded like a fine challenge to an exercise-minded
President. (After all, look at TR’s footwork when it came to Cuba.
The two might be connected.) Indeed, the test is a good orie for
modern Athenians who fear they have beaten their Spartan ad
versary to the paunch.
But that is all it is—a test. Perish the thought that it might
be confused with the pleasant art of walking.
How unfortunate it would be to find the spring countryside
filled with flabby Americans—heads bent, heels digging in,
elbows thrusting—gritting their way across country determined to
get in shape quickly so they can go home and enjoy themselves
again; puffing obliviously by fields of asters, panting past a play
ful group of chipmunks, staring fixedly at the tarmac 12 feet ahead
and missing the graceful arc of an indigo bunting’s flight.
There are times when a crash program of exercise is necessary.
Calisthenics is the deprived man’s exercise.
There are also times when the human spirit needs to test en
durance; when obstacles must be tackled, records challenged.
For these times we admire TR’s vigor, and Bobby Kennedy’s
vigah.
But life can hardly be said to be rich in pushups. And knee
bends should remain only the shorthand of exercise. Normal fit
ness is still a perfectly natural result of consistent—and pleasant
—walking or swimming, Dean Rusk bowling, Stewart Udall moun
tain climbing, or even touch football.
If Pierre Salinger must find a type of White House walking,
let Harry Truman be his guide.
—Christian Science Monitor
——— II Timothy 2:15 —<
Emmaus Bible School Courses
At Nome Gospel Home
A brief description of the morning sessions:
THE TABERNACLE. The Lord gave Moses the pattern for unusual
structure and it is very wonderful the way every detail in
pictures The Saviour, Who was to come as the Lamb of God
die for us.
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. A verse by verse study of this Gospel
which was written by John the Beloved, with the outline center
ing around the great "I AM" verses.
Registration begins Monday, March 4th, 10 a.m.
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Gov. Egan's Capital
Improvement
Program Will
Total $.187,495,295
JUNEAU UP — Gov. Wm. Egan
Tuesday handed the legislature a
proposed six-year capital improve
ment program outlining projects
totaling $387,495,295.
The long-range program was
prepared by the Dept, of Economic
Development and Planning.
The report said the inclusion of
projects “indicates their need in
the state system of public works
. . . but does not represent ability,
intent or commitment by the state
to proceed with the projects.”
The program calls for the ex
penditure in fiscal 1964 of $8,589,
800 from the general fund, and
$1,991,800 from special funds, for
a total of $10,581,600.
In addition, $915,000 would be
required from bush airfields and
hospital bonds previously author
ized, and $6,485,900 from bond
money appropriated by the 1962
legislature.
In a letter to Egan accompany
ing the report, Commissioner
Henry Rolloff said the program did
not include any projects scheduled
for previous years except for bush
airfields.
Specific improvements to be fi
nanced from general obligation
bonds not included in the report
for which construction of planning
is scheduled to begin before next
July 1 include: Nome Vocational
School (phase 1), $1,500,000; Uni
versity of Alaska, engineering and
physical sciences building addition,
$1,700,000; Kodiak vocational
school (planning), $100,000; trunk
airports, $439,000; and elementary
and secondary schools, $2,554,000.
Specific improvements financed
from revenue bonds to be started
before the end of this fiscal year
include University of Alaska hous
ing and dining facilities, $1,700,000.
Rolloff added:
“The program is not to be con
strued as an inflexible list of im
provements. A continuing review
of projects must be made to assure
that the program is meeting chang
ing needs within the state’s finan
cial capability.”
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Boeing Awarded $400
Million Contract to Build
Boosters for Saturn V
WASHINGTON UP) — The Boe
ing Co. was awarded a $418,820,967
contract Tuesday for the design,
development and manufacture of 11
first-stage boosters for the giant
Saturn V space rocket.
Boeing won the Saturn first
stage assignment in December,
1961, and has been working under
an interim contract with payments
to date totaling about $50 million.
The Saturn V is the largest
rocket under development in the
United States and will be used to
hurl the Apollo space vehicle on
a landing mission to the moon be
fore 1970.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration let the con
tract for the 11 boosters.
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Japan Accepts Treaty
TOKYO (iP> — Japan accepted
the International North Pacific
Fisheries Commission’s r e c o m
mendations permitting Japan to
fish for halibut in the east Bering
Sea and for herring off the Queen
Charlotte Islands, Canada.
The recommendation was adopt
ed by the commission representing
Japan, Canada, and the United
States at its annual meeting held
in Seattle last November.
The Japanese government also
accepted another recommendation
adopted at a commission meeting
in Tokyo early this month, on joint
steps to protect halibut resources
in the east Bering Sea.
Sources said the decision to ac
cept these recommendations will
be translated shortly to the United
States and Canadian governments.
Substitute Version Would 1
Loosen Requirements for
25(4 Subsistence License
JUNEAU W — The House Re
sources Committee came up today
with a substitute version of a bill
loosening requirements for those
who may hunt, fish and trap on
25 cent subsistence licenses.
The committee bill would per
mit the head of a family or a
dependent member of his family
to qualify for the subsistence li
cense if he is obtaining or has ob
tained state or federal welfare as
sistance during the preceding six
months, or has an annual family
gross income of less than $3,600.
The new measure also eliminates
those “who have historically been
dependent upon fish and game for
subsistence,” which is in the pre
sent law.
When the measure was originally
introduced by Rep. Raymond
Christiansen, it would simply have
increased the maximum permis
sible under the subsistence license
to $1,800 a year. The present law
places limit of $800 a year.
The bill was reported out of
committee today with a “do pass”
recommendation and sent along to
the Rules Committee.
Mickey Manlle Signs For $100,000
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. UB—
Mickey Mantle signed his New
York Yankees’ contract today for
$100,000, joining Willie Mays in
the hundred grand class. His team
mate, Roger Maris, signed for
$72,000, the same as last year.
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Plans to Name Officers
Of Communications
Satellite Corp.
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy plans to nominate Leo D.
Welch and Joseph V. Charyk to the
board of directors of the U. S.
Commercial Communication Satel
late Corp.—an action which will
open the way for their selection as
top officials of the firm.
The White House confirmed to
day that Welch, chairman of the
board of Standard Oil Co. of New
Jersey, is slated to become chair
man and chief executive officer of
the satellite firm, and that Charyk,
Undersecretary of the Air Force,
will get the No. 2 position of
president.
Kennedy does not select the
chairman and president of the cor
poration. That is up to the board
of directors.
Welch, 42, has been with Stan
dard Oil since 1944.
Charyk, 42, was born in Canada,
the son of a railroad worker. He
has been a naturalized U.S. citizen
since 1948.
Possible Clue . . .
MOSCOW UP — Soviet weather
men offered a possible clue Sat
urday to the snow and cold that
belted Europe this winter
They said the traditional icebox
of the Soviet Union — known as
the Pole of Cold” in northeastern
Siberia — shifted westward and
southward this year into the Eu
ropean part of the Soviet Union.
They did not guess why this
happened, but Siberia was the
warmest it has been in recent years
while Moldavia and the Ukraine
in the south shivered to the worst
frosts in 50 years.
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