Reports from Our Visitors . . .
By Emily Boucher * :J
CMrs. Boucher relates her views from Florida where at
present she 1$ attending a Convention of the Order of
Eastern Star In -aiiami Beacb,?
. ROVING EDITOR listened to some travelers
who visited Nome last summer. They were en
thusiastic about the warm hospitality of our com
munity. When asked about some of their other im
pressions she also learned what these people had to
say in the way of criticism. Working men complained
that the stores weren’t interested enough in their re
spective businesses to keep open one night a week so
they might, shop leisurely. Others felt that Nome’s
residents lacked civic pride in so much that the streets
In Miami Beach, which lives on tourist business
with its 360 hotels — one is conscious of cleanliness
and you wouldn't dare drop a gum wrapper on the
street
something to think about now
houses one evening
We can start straining our
allowing no nfbbidh on the floors of
our public buildings this winter. _ .....
Kennedy Makes
Solemn Pledge
For Peace
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy honored the nation’s
dead of all wars Saturday with a
solemn pledge to seek peace but
to keep America prepared “in
the final extreme” if necessary to
resist ag||Tession.
“The only way to avoid war is
to be willing to face it—and to
mean it.” he said.
Speaking at Veterans Day cere
monies in Arlington National
Cemetery, Kennedy said peace
can be achieved only with “pa
tience, perserverance and cour
age." Then he warned any who
might doubt America’s resolution
to fight:
“iLet no nation confuse our dis
like of war . . . we can convince
friend and foe alike we are in
earnest in the defense of free
dom . . . and I can assure the
world we are.”
The President’s address, de
livered in clear 50-degree weath
er, was made moments after he
had laid a wreath at the Tomb of
the Unknowns.
About 4,000 persons jammed
into the amphitheater, which has
a seating capacity of 3,085. Others
lined walkways in the vicinity.
There was no applause during
the speech which Kennedy de
livered in the serious calm. Re
calling the many who have fallen
since Veterans Day was first com
memorated, he urged that no one
feel that such a ceremony as to
day’s is in vain.
“Don’t forget that Nov. 11, 1918
was a beginning as well as an
end,” he said. “World War I pro
duced the first great effort to
solve the world’s problems short
of war.”
He apparently referred to the
post-war establishment of the
League at Nations, which con
tinued its efforts for peace until
World War II broke out.
Kennedy called for prayers for
the fallen dead and also prayers
“that there be no veterans of any
further wars — not because all
shall have perished but because
all have learned to live in peace.”
“We celebrate this Veterans Day
for a very few minutes,” Kennedy
stated, “then a few minutes of
silence. Then life goes on. I think
it is appropriate we think also of
the contribution and sacrifice so
many men have made for the free
dom we now enjoy."
The President referred to cost
ly battles in the Civil War and
to the new and deadly weapons
developed since, and added:
“This cemetery and others like
it all around the world remind us
with pride of cur obligation and
our opportunity ... on this Vet
erans Day of >1961, or. this day of
rememberance, let us pray in the
name of those who have fallen
in this country’s wars, . . . that
there shall be no further war . . .
to the deed in this cemetery we
say they are the race im
mortal. . .”
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Gift Circulars and Trade
Information Available at
U.S. Dept, of Commerce
William Flood, manager of the
Seattle Field Office, U.S. Dept,
of Commerce, advised everyone
palnning to send Christmas gifts
abroad to make certain that they
have complied with the regula
tions of the foreign country, as
well as the export licensing re
quirements of the United States,
before sending their packages.
This will facilitate clearance at
the post office and avoid delay in
delivery in the foreign country.
Up-to-date information on send
ing gift packages to more than
88 foreign countries is contained
in a series of Department of Com
merce circulars available on re
quest. The circulars include in
formation on size or weight limita
tions, marking instructions, pro
hibited articles, duty rates on
many of the usual gift items, and
other information of value to
those sending gifts abroad.
Contrary to popular belief,
foreign countries generally do not
make any provisions for the duty
free entry of gift packages. Al
though a few countries do grant
limited duty exemptions on gift
packages, gifts usually are duti
able at the same rates as com
mercial shipments with the duty
being paid by the recipient in the
foreign couctay.^
Gift circulars and other world
trade information may be obtain
ed from the Seattle Field Office,
US. Dept, of Commerce, 809 Fed
eral Office Bldg.
WARS CAN BE AVOIDED
■MOSCOW UFi — Defense Min
ister Rodion Malinovsky said in
an artiele published Saturday
that wars can be avoided.
“Events in recent years have
confirmed that correctness of the
conclusion drawn for the first
time by the 20th Congress in
1956 of the Communist party of
the Soviet Union that it is nowa
days possible to .prevent wars,”
Malinovsky wrote in the news
paper Red Star.
I Tito Charged Wit
j Anti-Western
WASHINGTON UF> — A Senate
subcommittee published Saturday
night a charge that Yugoslavia’s
Marshal Tito is using U.S. foreign
aid to finance an anti-Western
campaign among neutral nations.
“If the past is any indication,”
Sen. James Eastland, (D-Miss.),
the Internal Security Subcom
mittee chairman, said, “we have
no assurance that the 130 Sabre
i jet airplanes sold by the United
States to Yugoslavia will not be
passed on to some-non-aligned
nation to the advantage of inter
national Communism.”
‘Much of the money and ma
terials we give Tito,” Eastland
continued, “winds up in so-called
‘neutral’ countries. He is doing
his part in a world-wide Red
campaign toward these countries,
and recent events at the United
Nations and the Belgrade con
ference show how that campaign
has paid off for the Communist
movement.”
Eastland’s statement accom
panied release of a 387-page study
prepared for the subcommittee by
Dr. Charles Zalar, identified by
the subcommittee as a Yugoslav
diplomat now associated with the
Library of Congress.
Zalar rejects the theory that
Yugoslavia can be won to the
West, asserting that in case of
war, it is only reasonable to ex
pect Tito would fight on the side
of international Communism.
“Tito is a prisoner of Com
munist ideology and has no chance
of escaping from it,” the author
of the study says. “He knows that
his Communism can never sur
vive if world Communism is
brought to an end.”
Paul Revere’s neighbors knew
him as someone who did other
things besides warning them that
the British were coming. He was
also a dentist, a silversmith and
a printer.
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