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Rep. Halleck Claims
Kennedy's Budget Could
Be Cut Up to S10 Billion
WASHINGTON (An — Rep. Chas.!
Halleck said Thursday President
Kennedy's new budget could be cut
upwards of $10 billion without en
dangering national security or the
economy.
Halleck, House Republican lead
re, made this assertion at a tele
vised and radio broadcast news
conference.
He issued a statement in which
the Senate-House Republican lead
er described Kennedy as “the
greatest spender of public monies
in the history of the world at
peace or war.”
At the same session Sen. Everett
Dirksen, Senate Republican leader,
read a statement asserting it is
high time for the administration
to “call at halt to concessions” to
the Soviets in an effort to get a
nuclear test-ban treaty.
It was this congressional session’s
first airing of what has become
popularly known as the “Ev and
Charlie Show.”
Halleck, in the leadership-ap
proved statement, called on Ameri
cans to speak up on whether they
“favor or oppose cutting taxes with
out cutting spending.”
He made it clear he was taming
of cuts in new obligational author
ity totaling $96.5 billion sought by
Kennedy, rather than the spend
ing budget, which totals $98.8 bil
lion.
In his separate statement, Dirk
sen said the two years of Kennedy
administration negotiations in an
effort to win a test ban treaty have
been “marked by a parade of con
cessions to the Soviet Union to the
point that we think American pres
tige is at stake.”
Dirksen said the administration
bowed to Soviet demands to merge
nuclear test ban negotiations with
general disarmament discussions,
and dropped its demands for an
nual on-site inspections to police a
test ban from an original 20 to 8.
“Now there are reports from
Geneva the Kennedy administra
tion is considering lowering the
number of on-site inspections to
seven or even five,” he continued.
“This has become an exercises not
in negotiations but in give-away.”
Dirksen, ill with the flu, left a
sickbed to appear before the
cameras and microphones.
“I didn’t want this first occa
sion to be marked by my absence,”
he observed.
Halleck said “it isn’t a show and
it isn’t a TV program.”
“It is nothing more or less than
a press conference held from time
to time,” he added, to put over the
Republican view. He said the TV
networks use whatever they want
to.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Turner of
Tacoma announce the arrival of
a son, Wien Allen, on Feb. 24. The
baby is the 11th grandchild for the
John L. Osts and the 13th great
grandchild for the Rev. E. L. Oost.
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JFK Outlines
Specific Civil
Rights Program
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy appealed to a divided
Congress Thursday to reinforce the
Negro’s right to vote and to at
tend desegregated schools in a na
tion where he said “the cruel dis
ease of discrimination’’ still exists
nearly everywhere.
For the first time, in a special
message, Kennedy outlined a speci
fic civil rights program to Con
gress. In addition to legislation
directed at the ballot and the school
house, he asked for an extension
of the life of the Civil Rights Com
mission, with expanded duties.
“The program outlined in this
message,” Kennedy said, “should
not provide the occasion for sec
tional bitterness.”
Yet White House officials told
reporters they recognize the built
in possibilities of a filibuster by
southerners in a Senate which has
just rejected a bid to clamp down
on filibustering. They said, though,
that the program was tailored in
realistic style, that it ought to be
passed, and there is a good chance
it will.
Kennedy credited his adminis
tration with a sparkling two-year
record on civil rights. But he said
a broad national effort still is
needed, an effort embracing state
and local governments, private
citizens and organizations, and the
congressional machinery.
His requests for legislation are
expected to be submitted within
10 days or so as three separate
bills.
They fall into these classifica
tions:
1. Education.
The main request here was that
Congress authorize a program to
provide federal know-how and
money to push desegregation in
public schools in communities
which need and seek financial
help.
2. Civil Rights Commission.
First set up in 1957, the com
mission goes out of business next
November unless Congress acts.
Kennedy asked that its life be
extended at least four years.
3. Voting Rights.
Kennedy mentioned this first
and gave it more attention than
any other of his bids for legisla
tion.
He recommended that priority
treatment be granted voting suits
in federal courts.
Kennedy had two requests ap
plicable in federal elections.
One was for a specific ban on
the application of different tests
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Legislature Completes
Action on Discrimination
In Employment On
Basis of Age
JUNEAU IP — The House com
pleted legislative action today on
a bill dealing with discrimination
in employment on the basis of age
and sent the measure to Gov. Wm,
Egan for his consideration.
The bill would permit political
subdivisions of the state to make
their own decisions in regard to
the age of their employes, as long
as they do not discriminate.
“This bill not only avoids dis
crimination in employment because
of age in political subdivisions, but
it also lets the local government
units determine who they may
hire or retire, regardless of age,”
Rep. Wm. Sanders said.
“Under the present law, the
state may, through its personnel
department, tell a city or borough
that it can’t hire a teacher over
50 or a janitor over 40, for ex
ample:
“This bill would let the cities
or boroughs decide for themselves
as long as they do not discriminate
as to age.”
“Elk Hunter” Changes
His Plea to Innocent
KETCHIKAN UP) — Robert G.
Holden, who Wednesday pleaded
guilty to game law violations, yes
terday changed his plea to inno
cent. I
He was arrested after he alleged
ly told authorities he had killed
eight young elk at his homestead
on nearby Gravina Island.
No trial date has been set.
Holden, 38, said he decided to
change his plea after seeing an
attorney. He had not had legal
advice before his guilty plea, ne
said.
Holden is held under three
charges. He was booked for shoot
ing without a hunting license, out
of season and in a closed area.
The elk had been “planted” near
his homestead as an experiment
last Summer. Holden complained
that they ruined his garden and
did other damage to his property.
and standards to different people.
The other was for a declaration
that anyone with a sixth grade edu
cation is presumed to be literate.
While he was at it, Kennedy
urged every remaining state legis
lature to join the 13 which have
ratified the proposed 24th Amend
ment to the Constitution which
would outlaw the payment of poll
taxes as a requirement for voting.
Kennedy had no legislation to
recommend in the realm of racial
discrimination in employment. But
he held a sort of club over labor
unions accused of discrimination,
saying he hoped administrative
and legal action would make leg
islation unnecessary.
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Rev. Benjamin Laird
Will Preach At the
Methodist Church
Rev. Benjamin Laird arrived to
day for a preaching mission that
begins Sunday at the Community
Methodist Church. Mr. Laird is the
pastor of the largest parish in
Alaska Methodism and serves five
congregations spanning a distance
of almost 100 miles. He has the
distinction of being pastor of the
newest Methodist Church in the
state as well as the largest number
of individual congregations.
Weekly he travels across the
mountain highway from Beloved
Disciple Church in Anchorage to
Girdwood, Cooper Landing, Hope,
and Moose Pass.
Rev. Howard DeVore states that
he acquired a new respect for
pastor Laird’s work when he drove
this same mountain route in a
blinding snowstorm recently re
turning from a similar preaching
mission at Homer.
In addition to his pastoral re
sponsibilities, Rev. Laird is chair
man of World Service and Finance
of the Alaska Methodist Church
and chairman of camping for
western Alaska. Mr. Laird is a
graduate of the College of the Pa
cific and Boston University, School
of Theology.
Before coming to Alaska in 1958,
he was a pastor in southern Cali
fornia at Shell Beach.
The theme of the preaching mis
sion is “Stewardship of Life” and
will be held Sunday thru Thursday
nights next week at 7:30. Mr.
Laird speaks on the need of Chris
tians to make their religion impor
tant in all areas of their lives. The
meetings are not limited to mem
bers of the local church and Rev.
DeVore extends a welcome to
Nome citizens. Residence of Nome
and members of the church are
also invited to “Fellowship Meet
ings” four mornings of next week,
Monday thru Thursday 10 to 11:15,
when questions and discussion cen
tering on the theme of the week
will be discussed. The meetings
will be held in the Fellowship Hall
of the Methodist Church. Take your
coffee break at the church this
week and discover a new inspira
tion of Christ centered conversa
tion. Business and working people
who cannot stay the whole time
are urged to come for a brief period
and coffee at 10 a.m.
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House Demo Committee
Will Study “Areas of
Criticism” With the
Dept, of Fish & Game
JUNF.AU liP — House Democrats
appointed an eight-man commit
tee Wednesday to study “possible
areas of criticism” with the State
Department of Fish and Game.
Plans for the Democratic probe
were announced by Rep. John
Rader, chairman of the House De
mocratic caucus, after a caucus
which ran on some three hours,
with Gov. Wm. Egan in attendance.
Rader said the committee would
be headed by Rep. Robert Ditman
of Valdez. Ditman estimated the
committee would probably be
ready to submit its report to the
House Democratic caucus by the
first of the week.
Rader, reporting on the House
Democrats’ plans, said:
“The Democratic caucus review
ed generally the activities of the
Department of Fish and Game
throughout the state, insofar as its
activities were known to Demo
cratic legislators.
“The feeling was that in many,
if not most, areas there was com
plete satisfaction with the depart
ment, but that in some areas con
siderable criticism was expressed.
In order to satisfy the caucus,
a committee was appointed to con
tact the department and to discuss
with the department the possible
areas of criticism.”
Rader said the members of the
committee, in addition to Ditman,
would be himself and Reps. Frank
Cashel, Gilbert Jarvela, Robert
Blodgett, Raymond Christiansen,
Joseph Josephson and Warren Tay
lor.
Rader said the committee was
“composed of people who are both
critics and supporters of the State
Department of Fish and Game.”
Kendall Highly Critical
Of Demo Study Proposal
JUNEAU OW — Speaker Bruce
Kendall, of the House of Repre
sentatives, was highly critical of
a move by House Democrats to
study, on their own, “possible
areas of criticism” with the State
Department of Fish and Game.
Pointing out that the Democrats’
committee was a party committee
and not a legislative committee,
Kendall said:
“This type of committee has
only two possible purposes: To
politically assassinate one of the
members of its own party or to
whitewash a grievous or embarras
sing situation.”
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