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Reindeer Grazing . . .
THE BUREAU of Land Management has invited
comment on the new rules which are proposed to
take effect after the middle of this month on reindeer
grazing.
If these regulations are adopted, the Alaska na
tive herders would pay $10 for application fees for a
period of ten years and there would oe no grazing fees.
Each herder will be told how much range he can have
according to the size of his herd.
The permits do not prevent public entry within
the range for purposes other than grazing, but serve
only to settle territorial disputes among herders them
selves.
Herders of this area should contact the Nome
office as soon as possible if they have any questions
or objections to the plan.
Rat Colony Is Growing . . .
IT’S TIME TO START talking about rats again. We
have had an alert State Sanitarian here the past
two years and through his efforts the rat colony has
been kept under control and few rats have been seen
in town. Harry Carter now reports many hundreds
of rats are now at the city dump, and unless a control
program is instituted before cold weather sets in the
rats will start moving into town again.
Carter has prepared quantities of bait for bait
stations in the infected area. These stations must be
visited every other day if the program is to be ef
fective and help is needed to do this work.
One pair of rats produces nine litters a year and
each litter has about 10 rats, so the population in
creases rapidly.
This is a project a service organization could as
sist with by actual work or supervisory work. This
could be done by consulting the sanitarian.
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— BRANCH OFFICE IN KOTZEBUE —
Nikita Unwraps
New Communist
Party Buie Book
MOSCOW GP — Premier
Khrushchev Saturday unwrapped
a new Soviet Communist party
rule book forbidding members to
gain power through a “cult of
personality" like Stalin developed
and limiting the tenure of party
leaders.
The new rules, however, ap
peared to provide Khrushchev
with an escape clause enabling
him to remain in office for an
unlimited period.
The rules were foreshadowed
last Sunday with the publication
of the new Soviet Communist
party program, which denounced
the cult of the personality and
called for rotation in party office.
The party program, however,
was concerned mainlv with broad
policy, including an economic
program designed to overhaul the
United States in industrial and
agricultural production.
"The cult of personality and
all violations of inner-party
democracy connected with it can
not be tolerated,” the new rules
said.
They called for new faces of
one-fourth of the Central Com
mittee and presidium members
every four years. The general
rule is that members of the rul
ing presidium may serve no more
than three terms or about 12
years.
But the out for Khrushchev
was provided by a clause saying
“those party leaders who, be
cause of their acknowledged au
thority on high political organi
zation and other qualities, may
stay on.”
Observers here viewed the
rules as the unmistakeable pro
duct of Khrushchev’s thinking
and experience since he ultimate
ly emerged as Stalin’s successor.
It was expected the rules will
face strong opposition from the
Old Guard in the party’s Central
Committee — possibly when the
rules come up for adoption at the
22nd Party Congress Oct. 17.
Chief threat to the Old Guards’
position was seen in the rule
calling for periodic rejuvenation
in the leadership ranks.
The rules proclaimed the prin
ciple of collectivity as the su
preme law of party activity.
A selection of duties of party
members was filled with admoni
tions to struggle, actively parti
cipate, unflinchingly direct, and
freely discuss party policies.
It warned members that criti
cism of comrades, “regardless of
the post they occupy,” was ex
pected with severe penalties in
store for leaders who suppressed
critics.”
i RED CHINA FIREWATER . . .
TOKYO OP) — Red China is
producing more of its traditional
firewater. Peiping radio said the
output of Hsifeng, made from a
sorghum grain with a yeast made
of barley and peas, in the first
half of 1961 reached 400 tons, or
about 10 times the total of 1949.
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John Birch Society
Declares War on
Chief Justice Earl Warren
TULSA, Okla. UP — The found
er of the ultra-conservative John
Birch Society Friday declared
war on U. S. Chief Justice Earl
Warren, then pointed to U. S.
foreign aid as a tool of Com
munism.
Robert Welch, of Belmont,
Mass., said in a panel discussion
at the Tulsa Press Club that the
society will sponsor this fall a
country-wide essay contest for
college undergraduates on the
topic “why Chief Justice Earl
Warren should be impeached.”
He said a top prize of $1,000
will be offered for the best essay.
Later Welch spoke before the
opening session of the annual na
tional convention of the Christian
Crusade, at which he told about
1,000 persons that the “whole
foreign aid program is an ex
cellent example” of steps by
which the United States has been
led toward Communism through
the years.
The comment was used to il
lustrate what he called a “prin
ciple of reversal” by which Com
munists seek to change wea^*
ness to strengths.
The principle can be seen at
work, he said, in the infiltration
of the Protestant ministry, ul
most the last place an ordinar/1
citizen would expect to find a
Communist.
He said about 3 per cent of
Protestant ministers are Com
munist sympathizers, and “the
other 97 per cent cannot be
blamed for anything but the same
gullibility with which Americans
as a whole are afflicted.”
AIRDROP "SANDALS" . . ,
LONDON UP — The Air Min
istry announced Friday one of
the strangest airdrops in the his
tory of the Royal Air Force —
200 pairs of sandals.
A ministry statement said the
sandals had been dropped to the
barefooted soldiers of the Quaiti
government in the Eastern Aden
Protectorate “so they can run
faster and less painfully in pur
suit of local tribesmen who have
been killing and plundering in
the area.”
Cost of Living
Is High in Alaska
WASHINGTON UP — The first
report from the Consumer Price
Index program started this year
in Alaska confirms what state
residents well know — their cost
of living is high.
The cost of equivalent consu
mer goods and services in Fair
banks is 36 per cent higher and,
in Anchorage 27 per cent higher,
than in Seattle, the Bureau of
Labor Statistics informed the
Alaska congressional delegation
yesterday.
The report is based on condi
tions in October, 1960.
The Price Index survey was
started this year in Anchorage and
Fairbanks. It is being expanded
and studies may include Juneau
and Ketchikan in reports next
spring.
AMERICAN STYLE BOWLING
COMES TO GERMANY
The avid fraternity of bowlers
won’t have to give up their fa
vorite sport when traveling in
Germany, for a chain of deluxe,
American -style establishments
with facilities for the whole fam
ily is opening soon. First is in
Mannheim, on top of a city park
ing garage, and offers a nursery,
restaurant and bar as well as
ample parking space. Others will
be in Nurenberg, Munich, Frank
furt, Hamburg and the cities of
the Ruhr area.
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