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ALL RIGHT, LADIES, YOU CAN LAUGH NOW
.Exporting Mistakes
ASK A FEDERAL BUREAUCRAT if economy is
possible in his operation and he will answer you
in Samuel Goildwyn’s famous two words: Im Possible!
But dig around a little, and you’ll often find that
answer Un Satisfactory.
We taxpayers are often told that the foreign aid
program is sacred, and that not a greenback can be
spared from tlje $4 billion a year we’re shelling out.
It’s for peace, we’re told and as we’re all in favor of
peace we sigh and pay up, surrendering money that
would have bought a new set of tires for the old car.
Now, we find we’ve bought tires anyway—42 per
truck for one foreign motor pool.
This is one example of waste in the foreign aid
program turned up by a House subcommittee headed
by Rep. Thomas E. Morgan (D-Pa).
Other examples:
Using military aid funds to build private planes
for officials.
Using American military aid materials to build
apartment buildings for foreign civilians.
Records that show an inventory of so many cases
of “This Side Up” resulting from letting non-English
speaking hired hands keep the books.
Enough ammunition to last 185 years stocked at
a single American aided foreign base.
It’s hard to see how wasting our resources like
this can make peace any more likely. Waste doesn’t
arm our allies. And it decreases their confidence in
us. We can’t afford to export mistakes.
MAID RECEIVES LARGE
EMPLOYER INHERITANCE
NEW YORK, tP) — A Park Ave
nue maid gets $25,000 to purchase
a home, an income of at least
$7,000 a year for life and $5,000
in cash, jewelry and furniture
under the will of her late em
ployer.
The beneficiary is Ilona Berkey,
50, who was employed as combina
tion maid, companion and secre
tary for 21 years by Gertrude Cor
bitt who died recently. Mrs. Cor
bitt’s will sets up a $250,000 trust
fund for Miss Berkey whereby
she receives an annual income.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Scientific News Supressed
In U. S., Says Scientist
PASADENA, Calif., UP) — Dr.
Fritz Zwicky, noted astrophysicist
and jet propulsion expert, says
the United States is trailing in the
space race because scientific news
is suppressed.
He charged the government with
“police state tactics” in its hand
ling of scientific information.
“One scientist doesn’t know
what another is doing,” hje said.
“If we had free dissemination of
scientific knowledge five years
ago we wouldn’t be behind the
Russians now, we’d be ahead if
them.”
Opposition To Gas
Tax Measure From
Fed. Roads Bureau
JUNEAU, UPi — A Federal Bur
eau of Public Roads official Friday
voiced strong opposition to a bill
to change Alaska’s present meth
od of allocating gasoline tax funds
and require equal distribution
among the state’s four major dis
tricts.
After the hearing before the
Senate, in session as a committee
of the whole, the bill was retained
on the calendar but appeared in
line for amendment before final
action.
Strongest support for the meas
ure has come from Northwestern
Alaska senators who seek a road
connecting Nome with other parts
of the state. The measure, which
had been saved from defeat sev
eral times, appeared headed for
passage before Friday’s hearing.
E. H. Swick of Juneau, regional
engineer for the BPR, told sen
ators he felt it would be imprac
tical to split off available highway
funds in the method proposed un
der the bill. And he added the
federal agency would not be
agreeable to administering federal
matching funds on such a basis.
“It’s my personal opinion that
the Legislature would not be wise
to program a highway fund. For
the next few years at least, you
should permit the state Highway
Department to come up with a
program and then you can see
how it is doing,” he said.
“I can’t see how you can de
cide that any one area is going to
have so much money and still
come up with anything that makes
sense.”
Alaska now receives about 13^
million dollars a year in federal
highway aid, he said. Along with j
state matching funds, the total
amount available to Alaska for
road programs amounts to about
15 million dollars a year.
Air Line Fare Increases
Rejected By C.A.R.
WASHINGTON, — The Civil
Aeronautics Board last week ten
tatively rejected airline proposals
to raise first class fares across the
North and Central Pacific April 1.
The CAB at the same time ap
proved fare and cargo rate in
creases on the South Pacific
routes.
The board action left open the
issue of first class fares between
the U. S. West Coast and Japan,
the Philippines and southeast
Asia.
It undid agreements reached at
a meeting of the International Air
Transport Association in Cannes.
France, last fall.
Those agreements, planned to
take effect April 1, would have
increased first class fares $50 each
way on the North, Central and
South Pacific routes.
The CAB gave the airlines in
volved 15 days in which to file
statements on the issues.
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Cancer Fund Plane
Christened In Seattle
SEATTLE, UP — A light plane
in which two Seattle pilots hope'
to make a non-stop, 59-state flight
in support of the American Cancer
Society’s fund drive/ received a
downtown christening Friday.
The single-engine Cessna was
dubbed “ACS Crusader” by Na
tional Guard Maj. Gen. George
Haskett for Governor Albert D.
Rosellini.
Gene Tanner, 38, and Lew Beck
er, 46, plan to take off from An
chorage, April 1, and fly over each
state. Then, if the plane is still
running smoothly, they plan to
continue on in an attempt to shat
ter the endurance record for light
planes. ,
The plane will be refueled and
take on supplies while tethered
at the end of a cable it will lower
to the ground.
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Wilderness Should Be Left
For Benefit of Posterity,
Says Olympic Park Supt.
SAN FRANCISCO, UPl — Daniel
R. Beard, superintendent o f
Olympic National Park, said Fri
day “We can’t afford to tidy up
our wilderness areas like our
backyard, in utter disregard of
the scientific consequences.”
“If a man, 50 years ago, had
filed a patent on a uranium mine
instead of a nearby gold prospect,
he would have been considered out
of his mind,” Beard told the Sixth
Biennial Wilderness Conference.
“Similarly, we do not know
what may be in the untidy wilder
ness in the way of knowledge
which, unknown to us, may be
vital to the next generation of
man.”
The conference was studying the
meaning of wilderness to science.
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