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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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GIVE A MAN ENOUGH ROPE
Home Demonstration Week .. .
BECAUSE 6,500 FAMILIES in Alaska were reach
ed last year by 604 women who served as local
leaders or extension committees for home demonstra
tion work, in addition to six area home demonstration
agents who have given professional guidance to the
extension programs, the Governor of Alaska William
Egan, has proclaimed the Week of April 30th as HOME
DEMONSTRATION WEEK IN ALASKA.
Nome has been fortunate in having a profession
al worker here part time and through her efforts
several educational programs were introduced to
make the homemakers of this area better citizens and
more efficient homemakers.
This area has benefited so much with part time
assistance of Jean Burand that there is a growing want
for full time guidance in this area. This could be made
possible through the U. S. Department of Agriculture
and the University of Alaska which is a Land Grant
College.
Senate Passes JFK's
Minimum Wage Bill
WASHINGTON UP) — The Sen
ate Thursday passed President
Kennedy’s bill raising the $1 an
hour minimum wage to $1.25 by
1963 and bringing 4.086 million
additional workers under the act.
The vote was 65-28.
Kennedy won a smashing vic
tory in the five-day fight as ad
ministration forces blocked any
major changes in his measure be
fore passing it.
The Senate outcome was in con
trast to House action last month.
The House defeated the adminis
tration measure and passed a bill
providing for a $1.15 floor with
1.2 million chain store workers
brought under the act.
A Senate-House Committee will
now try to compromise the dif
fering bills, with administration
hopes high that legislation accept
able to it will result.
Last August, the Senate ap
proved 62-34 a similar bill to the
one it passed yesterday. Kennedy,
then a senator, was floor mana
ger for the measure. The House
balked at accepting the Senate’s
views and in the end no legisla
tion was enacted.
Czechs Suspicious of U. S. .
In Conneciion wiih Airliner Crash
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (A*> —
Czechoslovakia’s official news
agency CTK, expressed suspicion
that the United States had some
thing to do with the crash of a
Czech airliner March 23 near
Nuernberg, West Germany, in
which all 52 persons aboard were
killed.
The Communist agency said the
crash occurred near, an American
military installation and that
“precisely at the time of the
crash, there was increased air
activity in the area, as was defi
nitely proved by Czechoslovakia
radio locators.”
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IFK Says U. S. Will Not Hesitate
T0 Act For It’s Own Security • • •
WASHINGTON i/P — President
Kennedy declared Thursday the
United States will not hesitate in
meeting its obligations to i*s own
security in the Cuban situation—
should that become necessary.
In an address prepared for the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors. Kennedy again said that
unilateral American intervention
in Cuba would have been con
trary to traditions and interna
tional obligations, “but let the
record show that our restraint is
not inexhaustable.”
“Should it ever appear,” Ken
nedy added, “that the inter
American doctrine of noninter
ference merely conceals or excuses
a policy of nonaction — if the
nations of this hemisphere should
fail to meet their commitments
against outside Communist pene
tration — then I want it clearly
understood that this government
will not hesitate in meeting its
primary obligations which are to
the security of our own nation.”
Kennedy said that the Cuban
guerrilla fighters, aligned against
the Fidel Castro regime are de
termined that Cuba must not be
abandoned to the Communists.
“And we do not intend to
abandon it either,” the President
said.
“The Cuban people have not
yet spoken their final piece —
and I have no doubt that they will
continue to speak up for a free
and independent Cuba.”
U. S. Will Not Accept Blame
Nor, Kennedy said, will this
country accept Castro’s attempts
to blame the United States for
the hatred his onetime support
ers now have for his repression.
Kennedy’s words were directed
not only at Cuba and Castro, but
over their shoulders at Russia
and Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
The President said that should
the time ever come when the
United States must protect itself
against outside Communist pene
tration of the Western Hemis
phere, “we do not intend to be
lectured on ‘intervention’ by those
whose character was stamped for
all time on the bloody streets of
Budapest.”
He said that Cuba is not an
island unto itself and “our con
cern is not ended by mere ex
pressions of nonintervention and
regret.”
This, he said, is not the first
time that Communist tanks have
rolled over gallant men and wom
en fighting to redeem the inde
pendence of their homeland.
“Nor,” the President said, “is it
by any means the final episode in
the eternal struggle of liberty
against tyranny, anywhere on the
face of the globe, including Cuba
itself.”
The President said that those
who staged automatic riots in the
streets of free nations over the
effort of Cubans to regain their
freedom should recall the roll of
refugees who cannot go back now
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to Hungary. North Korea. North
Viet Nam, Fast Germany, Poland,
I or <o other lands from which a
steady stream of refugees testi
fies “to the cruel oppression now
holding sway in their homelands.”
Double-Barrelled Thrust
This double-barrelled thrust at
, Russia and Communism and those
who have demonstrated before
U. S. Embassies overseas preced
ed a statement that “we dare not
fail to realize that it is this strug
gle which is taking place every
day.”
Eyes have been fixed too long
on traditional military needs,
Kennedy said — on armies pre
pared to cross borders or missiles
poised for flight.
“Now it should be clear,” he
said, “that this is no longer
enough — that our security may
be lost without the firing of a
single missile or the crossing of
a single border.
“We intend to profit from this
lesson. We intend to re-examine
and reorient our forces, our tac
tics and our instructions. We in
tend to intensify our efforts for
a struggle in many ways more
difficult than war.”
“Let me then make clear as
your President,” Kennedy said,
“that I am determined upon our
system’s survival and success, re
gardless of the cost and regard
less of the peril.”
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BIA Requests
$35,861,000 for
School Projects
The FI A had requested a total
, cons-ruction appropriation nation
ally of $35,861,000. As the appro
priations bill finally emerged
from the committee to the House,
$4,561,000 hat been cut from this
s m. What the exact effect of
i 'his reduction would be in the
bureau’s program in Alaska has
not yet been determined by bu
reau officials, but it was felt that
Alaska projects would be left sub
stantially unimpaired.
Projections for fiscal 1962 in
clude extensive school building
construction as follows:
Barrow: New school of 8 class
rooms, kitchen and dining room,
I warehouse building, service build
ing, employes’ quarters—$874,000.
Kotzebue: Four new classrooms,
new library, and employes’ quar
ters—$453,000.
President Kennedy’s supple
mentary budget, issued after the
above recommendations were
made, included additional BIA
school construction as follows:
Selawik: New two-classroom
school, with one two-bedroom
quarters—$262,000.
Mountain Village: New three
classroom school and one two
bedroom duplex—$276,000.
Gambell: Rehabilitation of ex
isting school to provide one class
room, build three new classrooms
and a two bedroom duplex for
employes—$237,000.
Point Hope: New three-class
room school and a two-bedroom
duplex—$249,000.
Wainwright: New three-class- '
room school and two-bedroom
employes’ duplex—$257,000.
Wales: New two-classroom with
diet kitchen and employes’ quar
ters—$173,000.
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