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“TIME FOR A CHANGE” — AT LAST
The big news in President Eisenhower’s Okla
homa City speech—during which he drew more ap
plause than he has for a long, long time—lies in his
public recognition of some neglected economic facts
of-life.
Referring to basic research, in which he has been
urging drastic expansion, Mr. Eisenhower said: “Here
again money cannot do everything. You cannot say to
a research worker, ‘Your salary is tripled; now pro
duce three times as many basic discoveries’.”
In warning that new costs must be added to cur
rent security expenditures with no prospect that the
latter can be further reduced, he said: “Consequently,
the first thing is to search for other places to cut ex
penditures.”
And again: “In the federal government’s civilian
activities, we shall have to make some tough choices.
Some programs, while desirable, are not absolutely
essential. In this I have reached a clear conclusion.
While some savings may still be squeezed out through
the wringer method, savings of the kind we need can
come about only through cutting out or deferring en
tire categories of activity.” (The emphasis here, is
ours). “This will be one of the hardest and most dis
tasteful tasks that the coming session of Congress
must face.”
No American Is setting his face against adequate
defense. But few Americans are convinced that overall
national expenditures must be increased to attain that
security. It would now seem to be up to Congress—
under the leadership of the President—to light into
their “distasteful” job and cut away the Federal boon
doggling and the superfluous bureaus and activities
—notably our global do-gooding.
Can We Afford To
Continue As Territory
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the most important of which is
that we can afford it. He esti
mates that running the state will
cost the people of Alaska about
$3Vfc million more than it does
now. This is offset by revenues
we now are not eligible for, such
as 70 percent of the fur seal rev
enue, none of which we now get,
and 90 percent of the oil leases,
which runs into millions, as well
as a share in the revenue from
public domain.
He prophesied that in four
years Alaska would be able to
lower its taxes and summed up
the remarks with, “Can we afford
to continue to be a territory?”
Gruening explained the Jones
Act as direct “discrimination
against the territory from which
statehood would automatically
bring immediate relief.”
He called attention to the high
cos£ of transportation caused in
great measure by a railroad tax
which costs Alaskans 140 percent
more than shippers to Hawaii or
the Orient. With voting senators
and a representative, he stated, it
wouldn’t take long to straighten
out this injustice in practice for
over 20 years.
Gruening had the highest praise \
for all of Alaska’s delegates, from I
Wickersham to Bartlett, and stat
ed all of them had done an amaz- |
ing amount of work to have ac
complished all the things without
a single vote.
In discussing money for roads,
he again pointed out how Alaska
has been by-passed in its share of
road money, and how that, too,
will be straightened out with
statehood.
Sen. Gruening welcomed ques
tions from the floor and had all
answers available without notes
or references of any kind. One
very interesting question on com
monwealth brought the answer:
“Commonwealth is a myth.
There is no way'to have that sta
tus. Alaska must either stay a
territory or become a state.”
Gruening was a guest of the
Democrats at a breakfast Satur
day morning before leaving for
Fairbanks via Kotzebue.
The Danzig merchant Fahren
heit, who invented the thermo
meter, was a business failure.
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Six Dead in Prince Rupert as
Wind and Rains Isolate City
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. LV>—One
child was found dead, another
was rescued and five adults are
presumed dead after a 300-J‘oot
wide landslide swept three homes
into a creek at the edge of the
city limits about noon Friday.
The slide, preceded by 24 hours
of heavy rainfall and stormy
weather, tore a 1,000-foot-long
swathe out of Mount Hays and
buried the homes in the rain
swollen creek beneath hundreds
of tons of mud, rock and trees.
A fiO-mile-an-hour wind com
bined with 3.9 inches of rain
which fell in 18 hours to knock
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out plane, boat, train, telephone
and radio communications.
Emergency lighting was strung
up in the area and rescue workers
started an all-night search of the
debris.
At about the same time as the
landslides occurred, high winds
and torrential rains brought down
telephone and telegraph lines out
of the city, cut the Canadian Na
! tional Railways line, and washed
| out its only highway link.
The disaster came just over a
year after a similar deluge caused
Mayor Norman Beilis to declare a
state of emergency.
The city has a hjgher -annual
precipitation than any other in
the province. It nestles in a plain
below the coast mountains and is
the center of the worlds largest
fresh halibut industry as well as
an important seaport and agri
cultural and lumber community.
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