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THE DARK SIDE
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Alaska’s Place in the Washington Spire
MR. H. THOMPSON of the National Capital Park
Service, and Congressman Ralph Rivers, are
interested in seeing that Alaska has its place in the
Washington Monument, where memorial stones have
been placed from all the other states, including Hawaii.
What would be more suitable than Alaska native
jade for this purpose? A piece about two feet by four
could be used, it is estimated.
Now this is a real project, worthy of considera
tion by a local civic group or in cooperation with a
civic group of Kotzebue.
At Nome
Where Bering's billows come to rest
Against Alaska's frozen breast
The Williwaws blow iciest —
Yet cozy homes are there.
For news, man has a hungry heart.
And so, for years, the printer's art
Has blest the fireside and the mart —
The printing press is there.
In spite of fickle perma-frost.
In spite of ever-mounting cost.
The love of learning is not lost —
The public school is there.
The plane is bringing day by day
The precious goods from far away.
The merchant has them on display —
The trading post is there.
As man is more than flesh and bone.
For ages mortal man has known
^ He cannot live by bread alone —
The meeting house is there.
Across the mountain and the sea
The winds are bugling wild and free
The calls of Opportunity —
America is there.
— CLIFFORD H. NOWLIN,
Visitor in Nome, July 18, 1959.
21 Alaskan Cities . . .
(Continued from Page One)
Fededal programs of the Com
munity Facilities Administration
will be discussed at a luncheon
meeting by Miss Annabelle Heath,
Regional Administrator of the
Housing and Home Finance
Agency, and by Paul Emmert,
Regional Administrator of CFA,
both of San Francisco. They hope
that their program will be able
to bridge the gap created for Al
, askan communities last June 30
with the expiration of the Alaska
Public Works Act.
How to go about drafting a mu
nicipal home rule charter is the
practical and timely subject mat
ter of the informal charter work
shop scheduled for Saturday mor
ning, Nov. 7. Chairman will .be
Mayor Larry Parker of Juneau,
one of the four cities where elect
ed charter commissions will be
drafting home rule charters dur
ing the coming year. Representa
tives of the council-manager
Charter City of Anchorage and
the mayor-council City of Sitka,
whose charter is in the final
drafting stage, will answer ques
tions based on the experiences of
charter commissions in those
cities.
Following the annual business
meeting of the cities, with the
formal adoption of the 1959-60
League policy statement and state
and federal legislative programs
and the election of new League of
ficers, the convention will wind
up with the annual banquet at
the North Star Seaview Room. A
nationally recognized authority
and author of several works on
American state and local govern
ment will be the banquet speaker.
Dr. W. Brooke Graves, Carnegie
Foundation visiting professor on
loan to the University of Alaska
for the 1959 fall semester, will
speak on “The Challenge to Alas
kan Cities.”
Entertainment provided by the
host city of Nome will offer oc
casional breaks from the heavy
program schedule for convention
delegates and guests. They will
be greeted at a convention - eve
reception following arrival of a
convention charter flight from
Anchorage; the NWA Chamber of
Commerce is planning a program
for a no - host dinner Thursday
night; and Sam Mogg and his
Eskimo Dancers will perform on
Friday night, including in their
repertoire the Wolf Dance which
made them famous on nation
wide TV.
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Returned Senator
Says Soviet Dams
Will Surpass U.S.
SEATTLE, — Senator Frank
Moss said this week if the Soviet
Union and the United States main
tain their present race in hydro
electric development it will be
“only a matter of time until we
are surpassed.”
The chairman of a subcommit
tee of the Senate Interior Com
mittee stopped here briefly after
arriving from Anchorage, before
flying on to Salt Lake City. His
party flew to Alaska from Si
beria last week after a month in
the Soviet Union.
Russian engineers are concen
trating on hydroelectric power
and also are building large ther
mal power plants, at about the
same proportion as the U. S.,
Moss said.
“The difference,” he continued,
“seems to be that the Soviet
Union is willing to devote a great
deal of capital and energy to
pushing its program forward,
whereas we have not been show
ing the same concentration or
determination in recent years.”
He said the total output of
kilowatts in Russia now is well
behind the U. S. and it will take
a number of years before “they
equal our capacity.”
“However, if the present pace
there continues and our pace
stays as it is, it is only a matter
of time until we are surpassed.”
In Alaska, Moss, Senator Ernest
Gruening and their staff, includ
ing former U. S. Commissioner of
Reclamation Michael W. Strauss,
flew over the Rampart Canyon of
the Yukon River, proposed site
of a big power project.
Their trip covered some 12,000
miles in the Soviet Union and
they visited 10 dams, one of them
the Bratsk Plant in Siberia which
is designed to produce 4V£ million
kilowatts, more than any two
American dams combined.
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American Legion’s 40 and
8 Society May be Forced
To Admit Non-Whites
SAN FRANCISCO, UR — Amer
ican Legion Commander Martin
B. McNeally says he will press
for a legal showdown within 30
days on whether the 40 and 8
should admit Negroes.
40 and 8 is the Legion’s fun
making auxiliary.
“The use of the word ‘white’ in
the 40 and 8’s eligibility require
ments is offensive and illegal,”
the New York lawyer told inter
viewers Sunday.
The 40 and 8 voted at the St.
Paul National Convention last
August to leave its constitu
tional membership requirements
unaltered.
WOMEN CANCER PATIENTS
OUTLIVE MEN VICTIMS
NEW YORK, UR—An American
Cancer Society survey of 8,079 pa
tients treated at eight Westchester
County, N. Y., hospitals during the
past 10 years shows 37 per cent
of the women survived five years
or more from the time of diag
nosis. Only 20 per cent of men
cancer patients lived that length
of time.
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