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88th Congress Will
Be Clean Shaven
WASHINGTON UP> — If pictures
in a newly issued pocket directory
accurately represent the facial de
coration situation, the 88th Con
gress is a mighty clean-shaven
bunch of legislators.
Of the 533 members of the Sen
ate and House, only 22 are pic
tured with mustaches — and some
of those are of so modest a variety
that they are barely visible in the
small pictures.
Democrats hold a mustache ma
jority wider than thefr young
voting margins in both branches.
Fourteen House Democrats can
boast at least minimal whiskers
but only five of their Republican
colleagues are so decorated.
Sen. Hugh Scott from Penn
sylvannia barely saves the Repub
licans from a shutout in the Sen
ate where Sens. Wayne Morse of
Oregon and John Pastore of Rhode
Island give the Democrats a 2-1
edge. But none of these senatorial
mustaches is of a luxuriance that
would have made grandfather
proud.
For what ever geographical sig
nificance it may have, the whisker
wearers come predominantly from
the east and west coastal states
which can count 17 of the 22 sets
of mustaches. New York and Cali
fornia tie for the state lead at four
each.
There’s not a proper beard in
the lot. Only Rep. Daniel Flood,
a veteran Democrat from Penn
sylvania, displays a mustache suf
ficiently lengthy and neatly waxed
so that he might have escaped de
cision in an earlier era when
whiskers were supposed to be
abundant or elegant, or both.
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Sta*e Engineers Convene
Tn Juneau This Week
JUNEAU UP> — Engineers from
j all sections of the state are ex
j pected to converge here next week
‘ for the annual meeting of the Alas
1 ka section of the American Society
1 of Civil Engineers,
j Registration is scheduled to start
j Friday and the first day’s acti
vities include a discussion of pro
fessional practices.
Saturday’s agenda includes dis
cussions of the engineers’ role in
the development of Alaska and a
luncheon address by Leland Walk
re of Great Falls, Mont., District
Director of the Society.
Field trips to inspect recent en
gineering and construction projects
completed or started in the Ju
neau area are set for Sunday,
Jan. 13.
John Argetsinger of Juneau is
president of the Alaska section.
U.S. Will Continue to
Use Azores Air Base
> LISBON, Portugal UP) — U.S.
personnel in the Azores will con
tinue to use Lajens Air Base tem
porarily, under a provisional agree
ment announced Friday.
Foreign Minister Franco Nogu
eria told a news conference U.S.
planes will use the facilities until
the United States and Portugal
have reached a new agreement on
the base.
The old agreement expired with
the New Year.
Negotiations for a new pact have
been complicated by Portugal’s de
mand for U.S. support colonial
policies. U.S. votes in the United
Nations in support of attacks on
Portugal’s policies in Angola
1 angered Lisbon.
Army Outlines
TMans to Revamp
Giwrd Divisions
WASHINGTON (*> — The Army !
announced Saturday a plan to re
omamze National Guard divisions
and brigades in the same way the
regular Armv is being revamped,
as s"on as the state and the Pen
tagon reach agreement on a gen
eral revamp'ng of tue Guard.
The Army made its announce
ment as a committee of governors
met to negotiate on concessions
from the Army in its plan to cut
back a^d re-shape the National
Guard structure.
O^e of the objections raised by
the states to the Pentagon’s Guard
reorganization program has been
that the'r Guard units might
have to go through two revamping
procedures: First the proposed eli
mination of four Guard divisions
and formation of eight brigades;
then at some future time, re-shape
the structure of the divisions to
conform with the regular Army’s
reorganization objective Army di
vision program.
The Army’s move thus appeared
designed to offer the states the
onporunity to re-form the divisions
concurrently with the general
Guard reorganization program.
The new structural organization
will be applied not only to the
regular Army, but to the Reserves
and the National Guard as well.
The purpose of the new division
al structure is to provide more
battlefield flexibility in meeting
combat conditions imposed by
varying situations — nuclear war,
conventional war or limited war.
Under the program there will
be four instead of three types of
divisions — infantry, armored, air
borne and mechanized. The pre
sent organization does not include
I mechanized.
The program also re-forms a di
vision into three brigades instead
of the present system of five bat
tle groups. Each brigade will have
available mixed battalions armed
and trained for specific tactics in
specific situations.
Of the Guard-Reserve portion of
the program, the statement said:
“In order to make the Army
National Guard and United States
Army Reserve capable of com
patible employment with the ac
tive Army, the reorganization will
also be extended to those Reserve
component combat division sched
uled for retention under the recent
ly announced realignment plan.
“The conversion of Army Na
tional Guard divisions to the new
structure will be initiated as soon
as agreement is reached between
governors of the affected states
and the National Guard Bureau on
Troop List and Stationing Plans.”
Ten-Fooi Wall of Snow
VOLENDAM, Netherlands —
The villagers of Volendam Satur
day began digging out their homes
—almost completely buried by a
ten-foot wall of snow. The vil
lagers mainly fishermen, were
evacuated last Thursday when
heavy drifts buried a number of
houses right to the roof.
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n,r»em*vKe* In Juneau
JUNEAU (£> — An early morn
in * fire which raged uncontrolled
for almost three hours completely
destroyed the Foodland Supermar
ket here Saturday. Only the walls
were left standing.
Bill Cope, operator of the mar
ket and a member of the Juneau
Volunteer Fire Department, esti
mated damage at some $250,000.
He said the loss was covered by
The blaze apparently started in
a garbage disposal unit in a storage
shed behind t'e market and
smouldered for some time before it
was discovered.
Despite efforts to contain the
blaze to the storage area, it broke
past a fire wall and spread to
the market proper.
For a time the fire threatened
to jump to an adjacent machine
shop, but firement were able to
hold the blaze within the concrete
walls of the market buliding.
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New Soviet Dele^r^te
U.N. Arrives In New York
NEW YORK (An — Nicolai
Fedorenko, the new Soviet chief
delegate to the United Nations, has
arrived by plane from Moscow
with warm praise for the U.N.’s
great progress, which he attributed
mainly to the part played by the
Soviet Union.
Fedorenko replaces Valerian A.
Zorin, Soviet Deputy Foreign Min
ister, who left Friday for Moscow
charging that the United States is
pursuing a domineering course in
the world.
Fedorenko was welcomed to the
United States a few hours later
by about 30 members of the So
viet delegation. He spoke to re
porters through an interpreter, al
though he said he speaks English.
A CAT'S LIFE . . .
EUREKA. Calif. UP) — Superior
Court Judge Wm. Watson ruled j
that a will that left $140,000 for
the care of two pet cats was not j
valid.
His ruling Friday turned over
the estate of the late Amelia E.
Carson — about $980,000 — to
two nieces, Mrs. Marjorie Ohman
Avery and Mrs. Louis Ohman
Quintrell, both of Eureka.
Mrs. Carson had provided for
care of the two cats through a
trust fund consisting of stocks.
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BRANCHES IN KOTZEBUE and BARROW
en. Dirksen Will
TIold Line Against
TFK’s Spending
WASHINGTON lift — Senate Re
publican leader Everett Dirksen of
Illinois has signaled a GOP drive
in the new Congress to hold the
economy line against President
Kennedy’s domestic and foreign
spending programs.
Such Presidential proposals as
federal aid to education and the
financing of health care for the
elderly through an increase in So
cial Security taxes probably will
be turned down again, Dirksen
told reporters Friday.
On Kennedy’s plans for a tax
reduction, Dirksen indicated most
Republicans would take the po
sition he and House Republican
leader Charles Halleck hold: There
should be no cut unless spending
is slashed.
On the foreign aid front, Dirk
sen foresaw deep trouble ahead
for the aid program. These diffi
culties, he said, will be compound
ed bv the expected submission by
Kennedy of a $99-billion budget.
“I think the temper of the coun
try is turning against foreign aid,”
Dirksen said. “The people don’t
see any real results from it. They
are getting tired of pouring money
into a program they don’t think
is effective.”
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Paris has one bar for every 45
men.
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