Hope Troupe Trips to
Turkey, but Bob Delays
To Rest Roving Eye
LOS ANGELES W — Bob Hope
is delaying, on his doctor’s advice,
departure on his annual Christmas
tour of military bases.
His troupe of entertainers left
Thursday to give a performance as
scheduled in Istanbul.
Hope will leave Sunday to join
them in Turkey.
A spokesman said Hope was
packed and ready when his doc
tor advised him last night to take
two more days of rest, due to his
general physical reaction to treat
ments for an eye disorder.
Hope spent last week in a San
Francisco hospital receiving treat
ment aimed at stopping hemor
rhages in his left eye. He has been
resting this week at his Palm
Springs home.
The tour of bases in Turkey,
Crete and Lybia extends through
December 30. Troupe members in
clude Tuesday Weld, Anita Bry
ant and band leader Les Brown.
In Denmark an interesting cus
tom prevails. Broken crockery is
accumulated through the year and
on New Year, this crockery is
tossed against the door of fav
orite friends.
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Altruism Need Not be Soeialism
Py DR. GEORGE S. BENSON
Pres. National Education Program.
Problems of poverty and depri
vation do exist in this richest na
tion. in the midst of ample oppor
tunity to attain living standards
the highest any people ever en
joyed To wha extent should the
federal government propose rem
edies for distress and poverty, for
the one-sixth of our population
which, according to the President,
“lives below minimal levels of
health, housing, food and educa
tion"?
But when, for reasons some
times difficult to determine, there
exists need among migrant work
ers, Indians, the elderly, the dis
abled, and the mentally ill, what
then? Some of our national lead
ers have thought this situation
justifies a “National Service
Corps.” set up along the lines of
the overseas Peace Corps. The
proposal, vague as it is in the bill
which passed the Senate, evidently
does not intend to provide ma
terial assistance, as so many other
national programs are now doing.
But it would add 5,000 corpsmen
to some 116,000 professional so
cial workers.
This new government effort
would be only a “drop in the
bucket.” Whether such a corps
could stimulate greater interest
in social problems, dramatize
them, and recruit other wmrkers
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evidently would depend upon the
extent to which this help is re
quested in local communities. Sen- j
ator Spessard of Florida has ridi- :
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highly centralized beaurocracy
send out a corps to inculcate in
local citizens an interest in their
local affairs. The whole concept
is wrong at this point, he insisted, \
despite the idealism of those sup
porting it.
The basic disagreement in the
debate over the National Service
Corps seems to involve the bigger
concept of the fundamental role of
the federal government, and whe
ther it actually can solve social
and welfare problems. On the
one hand, the argument runs that
the answer to the needs of the dis
tressed is a new bureau costing
several million dollars. But, on the
other, experience does not neces
sarily prove that success is
achieved this way.
Some 12,000 federal employes,
for example, are already concern
ing themselves with Indian affairs,
about one worker for every 33Vs
Indians on reservations. During
the past year the Bureau added
1,500 workers. But even now as in
the past, the Indians charge the
Great White Father with every
kind of mismanagement and lack
of leadership, and apparently most
of the charges have been backed
with facts. If the Bureau of In
dain Affairs has not met the needs
of the Indians, will another fed
eral agency solve its failures?
Despite the idealism of the j
planners of the National Service
Corps, and the good intent of its
personnel, it is bound to the ills
of the usual bureau: high admin
istrative costs, a tendency to ex
pand, and possible political uses.
Of the first two, one can be fair
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presently at a ratio of one admin
istrator to 10 field personnel, de
spite costs that have risen from
$30 million to $58 million to a pro
jected $108 million in three years.
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the Red Cross, which spent about
$100 million last year with an ad
ministrative cost of 13.1 per cent
compared with projected costs of
30 per cent for the National Ser
vice Corps.
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NOME RATE 31.2 UNEMPLOYED
JUNEAU UP — The State De
partment of Labor reported today
that Alaska’s insured unemploy
ment rate for the week ending
Dec. 14 was 13.5 per cent, down
slight y from the 13.6 rate of the
previous week.
The department estimated in
sured unemployment during the
week at 46,000, with initial claims
filed for benefits under the state
jobless insurance program, totaling
606.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage, 12.7
per cent; Fairbanks, 12.2; Juneau,
10.1; Ketchikan, 16.7; Nome, 31.2;
Petersburg, 33.0, and Sitka, 8.5.
BOY SCOUT TROOP 66 will hold
a Bake Sale at the N. C. Co. on
Saturday morning. The sale will
start at 10 sum. All donations of
baked goods will be gratefully
accepted.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ozenna, of
Teller, are the parents of a baby
boy born on December 19 at 2 a.m.
at the M-M-M Hospital. The baby
weighed in at 5 pounds, 8 ounces.
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Alaska Reduces Fire Loss
Firefighting activities by De
partment of the Interior agencies
were spectacularly successful in
Alaska this year, according to a
summary released by the depart
ment this week. Only 194 fires
were recorded (about half of them
lightning-caused). Damage was
held to 16.158 acres. Fire protec
tion officials credited a buildup
of their forces in Alaska for the
excellent showing. They noted
that chemical bombing planes,
smoke jumpers and other aerial
equipment seem to be the only
feasible approach to fire control in
a region known for its inaccessi
bility.
During 1963 in Alaska, 578 par
achute jumps were made by
smokejumpers without a single
accident resulting in loss of time.
Chemical bombing planes dropped
188,000 gallons of fire-retardent
substances.
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