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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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MAKE THEM RIGHT—THIS TIME!
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By Hid Boyle
GEORGE WASHINGTON seems remote today to many of us,
lost behind the lattice of legend that fences him from us
even as we bring him our tribute of latterday awe.
As a teenager there were no visible signs to stamp him for
future greatness.
His formal education ceased at 17. He was tall, raw-boned
and subject to sieges of sickness.
His face was pock-marked, strong-featured rather than hand
some. He was not clever or quick-witted, and some found him stuffy.
He had a quick temper, but worked hard to control it—as he
did other faults he found in himself.
He was in turn a frontier surveyor, a farmer, a soldier more
formidable for his determination than his tactical or strategic skill.
But at 57 this unlikely figure had become the greatest revo
lutionary leader of his century. He had freed his country from
foreign domination, won worldwide stature, and been unanimously
chosen its first President.
Although he owned vast acreage, he was "land poor” and had
to borrow money—500 pounds—to finance the trip to his own
inauguration.
"Any security you may best like I can give, and you may be
assured, that it is no more my inclination that it can be yours,
to let it remain long unpaid,” George Washington wrote to a
friend, Richard Conway of Alexandria, Va., early in 1789.
George Washington seems remote today to many of us, lost
behind the lattice of legend that fences him from us even as we
bring him our tribute of latterday awe.
He was a giant in a time of giants. Few lands in so short a
period have produced such a cluster of gifted men as John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin,
Thomas Paine, and many others.
Why did Washington, who lacked their diverse talents, tower
above them all? The realization of the true greatness of Abraham
Lincoln came after he met a martyr’s death.
But the superiority of Washington as the only leader who
could lead them to victory in war and unity in peace was recog
nized by most of the great men of his time.
What qualities did they see in him that made him indispen
sable? They were the same qualities that, as a teen-age boy, Wash
ington painfully and self-consciously tried to develop—self
discipline, integrity, and a character steadfast and unshaken in
die face of any trial.
George Washington learned to command himself before he
was summoned to command others. He molded himself before he
molded a nation. And no man in history was perhaps less corrupted
by that strongest of wines—power.
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Northern Pioneer Home
PETITIONS HAVE BEEN SENT to Nome to get local signers
* urging the legislature to set up a Northern Pioneer Home
in Fairbanks.
More than one Pioneer Home is needed for the aged of the
state we all agree, but we do not think that the people of Nome
should support the Fairbanks branch any more than the Anchorage
branch, which is also sought.
The legislation should be inclusive, providing care for the
aged, whether dependents of the state or able to pay their way in
ALL FOUR DIVISIONS of the state where hospital facilities are
available to people of all kinds.
The local hopsital could expand to care for people of this
area just as the Fairbanks hospital is planning to care for the aged
there. The closer to home people are the happier they will be
when confined with infirmities of age.
Let us urge our legislators to take this factor into considera
tion so that we can look forward to proper care, here in Nome,
when we reach thos^ years of dependency.
Former Air Force Secty.
Questions United States’
Dependence on Missiles
HOUSTON —A former secre
tary of the Air Force believes the
United States is relying too heav
ily on missiles for its defense.
“This is a very dangerous thing,”
Dudley C. Sharp said last night.
“Personally, I don’t believe our
missiles are all that reliable.”
Sharp, a Houston manufacturer,
spoke before the Reserve Officers
Association.
“I worry about this concentra
tion of missiles,” he said. “It may
be 10 years before missiles are a
really reliable thing.”
Sharp was Secretary of the Air
Force during the last part of the
administration of former President
Dwight Eisenhower.
Sharp said the concentration on
missiles is part of the present ad
ministration’s change in defense
strategy. He said the U. S. has
changed from a strategy of atomic
deterrent to one of atomic stale
mate.
“This is not wise,” he said. “I
think we’re phasing bombers out
too fast.”
Sharp said bombers can be used
“as a show of force.”
“People can see bombers but you
can only send them pictures of
missiles,” he said.
Excellent Work . . .
BERGEN, Norway UPl — A 35
year-old clerk was caught making
Bank of Norway notes in Bergen,
but was released because he did
it for a lark.
The chief of police inspector said
the man put two of the homemade
kroner ($14) into circulation.
The police said they were amazed
at the excellence of the amateur
counterfeiter’s work.
Switch in White House Policy
WASHINGTON — Reporters
were permitted to mingle among
the guests at the diplomatic recep
tion Thursday night at the White
House.
The dozen women reporters had
been told earlier in the day that
the custom would no longer be
followed.
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, and Pamela Turn
ure, press secretary to Mrs. John
F. Kennedy, gave no explanation
for the reversal.
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KENNEDY LAYS
DOWN LAW ON CUBA
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West Naval Air Station, 90 miles
across the Florida Straits from
Cuba’s north coast. At Homestead
Air Force Base south of Miami,
Air Force F-104 jets also are on
alert.
The Navy operates combat air
patrols in the sensitive area be
tween the Florida Keys and Cuba.
Jet fighters fly with weapons
cocked. Powerful radar scans the
Cuban coast constantly.
Asked at his news conference if
any assault similar to the one on
the shrimp boat might have been
responsible for the disappearance
earlier this month of the U.S.
tanker Sulphur Queen, Kennedy
said he had no information indi
cating this.
There is much the United States
is not sure of—and may never
know—about the attack on the
shrimp boat.
“I don’t think we know the full
reasons behind this attack on this
vessel, whether it was a deliberate
decision by the Cuban government
or a decision by the pilots in
volved,” Kennedy said.
He noted that the 67-foot boat
was lying in the water without
flying any flag.
It is not known whether the
four Migs involved in Wednes
day’s incidents were piloted by
Soviets or Cubans, but Kennedy
said “these planes came from Cuba
and flew under a Cuban flag.”
Therefore, the President said
wryly, “unless the Soviet Union
should claim they were flying
them, we would hold the Cubans
responsible.”
In line with this, the U.S. gov
ernment sent a sharply-worded
diplomatic note to Castro’s govern
ment Thursday night demanding a
prompt and unequivocal explana
tion of what was denounced an
“unprovoked and willfol attack”
on the shrimp boat.
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: Parliamentary
| Procedure Gets
Sticky At Times
JUNEAU (J’* — Parliamentary
procedure can get pretty sticky at
times.
The Senate sent the House a
message Thursday asking that it
have a change of heart on Senate
Joint Resolution 5, which asks
the federal government for a $200
million subsidy to construct and
operate modern fishing vessels to
compete with the Russians and
Japanese in the North Pacific
fishery.
The lower chamber had voted
down the measure last Monday by
a resounding 13-19 count.
Technically, the Senate message
asked the House “to recede from
its action on Senate Joint Resolu
tion 5.” But the House shouted its
refusal.
Just before adjournment for the
day, Rep. John Rader, moved that
the House “rescind its action in re
fusing to recede.”
“The question is,” said Speaker
Bruce Kendall, “shall the House
recede its action in refusing to
rescind?”
And he added, parenthetically,
“is that right?”
“No,” said Rep. C. M. Binkley,
Rules Committee chairman.
House majority leader Rep. Wm.
Boardman, in an effort to put a
merciful end to the confusion,
moved to table Rader’s motion.
A motion to table is not debate
able, so Rep. Robert Blodgett came
up with the one motion which
supercedes the motion to table,
the motion to adjourn.
But even Blodgett, a pretty wiley
parliamentarian, fluffed his lines.
“I move we adjourn until 2 this
afternoon,” said Blodgett.
“You can’t do that,” someone
pointed out, “you recess until a
later time during the same day—
or adjourn until the following
day.”
“Then I move we recess until
tomorrow at 10,” said Blodgett—
still wrong.
With the waters getting muddier
by the minute, lawmakers called
for a roll call vote on Boardman’s
tabling motion, which carried
25-14.
“Mr. Rader is tabled,” said
Speaker Kendall.
“Just so the record shows how
I got there,” said Rader.
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