‘Realistic’ Capital
Improvement Plan
Is Recommended
JUNEAU, (Jt—The House Fin
ance Committee Friday came up
with its recommendation on the
State Planning Commission re
port, calling for “a realistic and
yet aggressive program of capi
tal improvements with economic
development.”
The committee labeled it “Op
eration Bootstrap” and outlined a
course of action to meet the
gloomy outlook forecast by the
Planning Commission.
The three - pronged program
called for a balanced operating
budget this year, a program of
only the most desperately needed
capital improvements and econ
omic development which will
bring the quickest revenue re
turns to the state.
The committee said the goal
will not come easy. It added:
“Whatever we undertake must
be initiated because it possesses
primarily the promise of immedi
ate return, or a real savings, or
an absolute, essential need.”
Civil Rights Issue Will
Be Up for Debate Before
U. S. House in March
WASHINGTON, UP»—1The House
Rules Committee formally agreed
yesterday to House consideration
of a civil rights bill next month.
The committee action by a 7-4
vote broke a deadlock that has
bottled up the controversial meas
ure since it was approved last
August by the House Judiciary
Committee.
The rules group provided spe
cifically that an Administration
backed proposal for federal court
appointments of referees may be
considered as an amendment to
the House bill.
The committee recommended
that the House debate the bill 15
hours before considering amend
ments. This could mean weeks of ]
debate.
Bartlett to Speak at
Ceremonies Honoring
Sheldon Jackson
SCHENECTADY, N. Y. — On
Feb. 25, Sen. Bob Bartlett will
deliver the principal address and
receive an honorary degree from
Union College in Schenectady, at
the school’s annual Founder’s
Day ceremony.
The senator was invited to par
ticipate in the events of the day,
which will honor Sheldon Jack
son, an early Alaska missionary
who was an alumnus of the New
York school.
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NOTE: This is the ninth in a1
series of articles developed to aid
the public in understanding the
objectives and abilities of the Civil
Air Patrol, both nationally and
locally.
CAP Mission: Youth Education —
Cadet Formal Curriculum
Ours is a pioneering country.
Today, in this mid-20th Century
we are fast coming to recognize
the truth that “Nothing is as con
stant as change,” and that the
challenges of the future are more
to be respected than the attain
ments of the past.
In the last two dozen years, the
complexion of our civilization has
changed drastically. We have
lifted into the air age, exploded
into the atomic age, and now —
within the space of a single year
— propelled into the fringe of
the space age.
Through these challenging
times, CAP has adopted and
maintained a long-range objec
tive which has been — for an
organization of its tender years
— remarkably flexible, surpris
ingly mature, and realistically
effective.
That objective is simply to pre
pare America’s coming genera
tions to recognize and accept
their responsibilities in our rap
idly developing aerospace age.
Let us examine that objective
and what CAP is doing to shape
the future.
Anyone who has had the good
fortune to witness a mighty Air
Force Atlas rise from the Florida
sands into the sky must be im
pressed with the enormous impli
cations involved in the launching
of that gigantic rocket. Getting
100 tons of fuel and metal high
into the upper limits of our earth’s
atmosphere requires tremendous
amounts of brainpower, man
power and firepower. The launch
ing of an Atlas is a dynamic illus
tration of the fulfillment of some
of the demands that lie before us
— in a future which is exciting,
provocative and promising.
The course ahead is exciting
because it deals with the fancy
and fascination of missiles; it is
provocative because it stimulates
imagination to the Nth degree; it
is promising because it begins at
the threshold of our last frontier.
Like the Atlas, CAP’S program
for this future is three-pronged.
It consists of:
(1) The first stage — the exist
ence of a need, and the determi
nation to satisfy that need.
(2 The second stage — progres
sive thinking and creative plan
ning.
(3> And finally, the payload —
the CAP youth education course.
The CAP has spent years in
building the first stage of this
program. Our organization was
founded in response to a need —
the urgent need to protect our
eastern shores against submarine
attack in the early days of WWII.
When that situation had been suc
cessfully met, at the cost of nu
merous lives. CAP turned to the
business of meeting other needs,
bred by the demands of war.
But when conflict was ended,
GAP sought a peaceful outlet for
its capabilities. It found that out
let in a training program for the
young people, growing up in an
environment suddenly alive to the
influences of aviation.
CAP’s determination to satisfy
the needs of our young people af
fected by the mushrooming de
velopments of an air-dominated
world led to the construction of
the second stage of the CAP youth
program — the thinking and plan
ning that has resulted in the crea
tion of CAP’s accredited youth
aviation education courses, the
formal portion of the Cadet
program.
Perhaps there are those who do
not know that CAP offers the
teenage cadets a comprehensive
one- to three-year course in basic
aviation fundamentals. In numer
ous places around the nation, this
course is included as an elective
subject in high school; nation
wide it is conducted by CAP
senior members in classroom man
ner at Squadron level. Here in
Alaska, the State Education Cur
ricula Board has authorized the
course as an accredited elective
subject, permitting one, two or
three years of instruction, accord
ing to the demands, facilities and
desires of each individual high
school and its supervising officials.
The fundamental tools of this
course are seven illustrated texts
and accompanying color film
strips which explore, in terms
teenagers can understand, such
subjects as “Aviation and You;”
“Aircraft in Flight” — aerodyna
mics. “'Power for Flight”—theory
and construction of engines and
power plants; “Airports, Airways
and Electronics”—organization of
airports, development and opera
tion of electronic “roadways in the
sky;” “Navigation and Weather;”
“The Problems of Airpower”—an
examination of the international
aspects and impacts of air power;
and “The Dawning Space Age.”
These books take the fledgling
student of aviation to the limits
of conventional airpower. The in
troduction and proven success of
this second stage of the CAP pro
gram has paved the way for the
most ambitious effort yet — the
extension of the fundamental
course which will be the payload
of CAP’s academic rocket.
Resting confidently on the
launching pad, Civil Air Patrol
has today taken a bold step for
ward and entered the world of
missiles, rockets and astronautics.
The latest book in CAP’s series
“The Dawning Space Age,”
tackles this modern subject with
vigor. It is a complex book for
it deals with complex topics. Yet
it is not beyond the understand
ing of our teen-agers today, for
this is their heritage. They are
growing rapidly in an academic
climate of space technology, and
the use they make of the knowl
edge and skills available to them
Will determine the future of our
country, our civilization and our
personal security.
Let’s look at some pertinent
facts from history.
For many years, peace in the
world was assured, not by gentle
manly agreements or round table
conferences, but through a show
of force by a nation which was
then the undisputed power of the
world. The strength of the Ro
man legions led any peoples con
templating conquest to think
twice. By virtue of this deterrent
force, the Roman empire — for
a time — commanded peace in
the world. This period is appro
priately known as “pax romana.”
In later centuries the water
ways of the globe became popu
lar channels for the waging of
war. And Britain, rising to domi
nance as the world power, be
came the keeper of the peace
through the influence of her sea
strength. This era of history has
been called “pax brittania.”
Now, as time and distance have
been telescoped, the remaining
medium—aerospace—has come to
the fore as the element dictating
the direction which civilization
will take. The use which the na
tions today make of air and space
will determine whether these
later years in our bustling Twen
tieth Century will earn the tag,
“pax aeronautica.”
We in Civl Air Patrol intend
to do everything possible to see
that the tremendous potentials of
this aerospace age are channeled
toward world peace. If it must
be done by the maintenance of a
dynamic show of force, then let
us employ our three-stage CAP
program to that end. At the same
time we must not lose sight of
the contributions we can make
toward personal and national wel
fare by giving our teenage citi
zens the benefits of our knowl
edge, experience and counsel.
Civil Air Patrol’s self-imposed
responsibilities in this, the dawn
of the space age, are sobering to
contemplate. Within the span of
18 short years, we have attempted
to instill into the hearts of young
Americans a realization of the op
portunities of our time and of our
obligations to fulfill the demands
imposed by those opportunities.
The success of the Civil Air
Patrol program is directly pro
portionate to the degree that
adults, especially parents of teen
agers, affiliate with and contrib
ute their time, abilities, and sub
stance toward the fulfillment and
attainments of the Civil Air Pat
| rol program.
i In the course of this century we
have gone from the Jenny to the
jet — from Kitty Hawk to Cana
veral — and still the end is not
in sight. For Civil Air Patrol
members, and all thinking Amer
icans, the way is wide open for
exploration. We are still pioneers!
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Mrs. Reeve of Anchorage
Named Chairman of 8th
GOP Women’s Conference
Mrs. Robert C. Reeve of An
chorage has been named Alaska
State Chairman for the Eighth
Annual Republican Women’s Con
ference, to be held in Washington
April 2-5, under the direction of
Mrs. Clare B. Williams, Assistant
Chairman of the Republican Na
tional Committee and director of
all women’s activities. The Con
ference has been called annually
since 1953, to rally the extensive
organizational effort of GOP
women.
Mrs. Reeve will head a delega
tion of Republican workers and
leaders from all parts of the state
to a four-day series of political
work sessions in the nation’s
capitol.
In Washington, Assistant Chair
man Williams said, “Our trained
womanpower will provide the
backbone of a campaign to re
turn a Republican to the White
House and to shift the Congres
sional balance of power by elect
ing a Republican House of Rep
resentatives and making gains in
the Senate. Each year party work
ers and leaders travel to Wash
ton at their own expense for
this conference.”
President Eisenhower, Vice
President Nixon, members of the
Cabinet, and Congress tradition
ally participate in this Confer
ence. The meetings keep women
in the field posted, instruct them
in new campaign techniques, and
inspire the over-all party effort.
GOP Says Demos.
Went 4Too Far’ In
Impugning Ike
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, — Sen. Ev
erett M. Dirksen (R-Illl said yes
terday Democrats have gone too
far with what President Eisen
hower called “despicable” criti
cism of the Administration’s de
fense program.
Dirksen, the Senate Republican
Leader, said he thinks the critics
Eisenhower denounced without
naming at Wednesday’s news con
ference “have been hearing from
the people.” He added they are
likely to hear more when Eisen
hower appears on a national tele
vision broadcast Sunday night.
Sen. Mike Mansfield, the assist
ant Democratic Leader, said in a
separate interview he welcomes
what he called “Eisenhower’s de
cision to explain the confused de
fense picture.”
Eisenhower was asked at his
news conference whether he
thinks the Administration has
misled the American people in
any way or whether any money
has been withheld from any
needed weapon. He replied:
“If anybody — anybody — be
lieves that I have deliberately
misled the American people, I’d
like to tell him to his face what
I think about him. This is a
charge that I think is despicable.”
In Richmond, Va., Sen. Stuart
Symington, one of the most out
spoken critics of Administration
defense policy, said “I don’t
know anybody who said the Pres
ident has misled the people."
But he said he would speak out
in the Senate again next week “to
give more facts” about defense.
“I believe the American people
should have all the facts that
won’t help our enemies,” he
added. ✓
ALASKA AIRLINES ELECT
FOUR NEW DIRECTORS
SEATTLE, Wl —Alaska Airlines
stockholders elected four new di
rectors at a special meeting here
yesterday, company president
Charles F. Willis Jr., announced.
The new directors are Leroy H.
Peterson of Seattle, company vice
president; and three New York
investment men Armand Erpf,
Kenrick C. Gillespie and Richard
Maass.
This brings the number of di
rectors to 13 all of whom will
serve until the next annual meet
ing.
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