Thomas Dooley
Laos J iingle Doctor
Dies of Cancer
NEW YORK UP> — Thomas
Dooley, lion-hearted young doc
tor who battled disease in the
Laos jungle even when he him
self became ravaged by crippling
cancer, died in his sleep Wednes
day night1 at Memorial Hospital.
Death came just one day after
his 34th birthday.
Dooley, brought to the hospital
Dec. 27 wearing a brace from
shoulder to hips, insisted he was
going to continue his work if
his “Iron Maiden” enabled him
to get around—and characteristic
ally added:
“I am not going to quit. I will
, continue to guide and lead my
hospitals until my back, my brain,
my blood and my bones collapse.”
Dooley’s dedication to relieving
the plight of the underprivileged
and ailing began seven years ago
while he was a Navy doctor.
In 1954, at the end of the war
in Indochina, his ship aided in
evacuation of refugees from Com
munist North Viet Na_n.
Seeing — and feeling — the
plight of the hundreds of disease
wracked inhabitants of the area
made up Dooley’s mind.
He had no money. But he had
a fighting heart, boundless energy
and a burning zeal.
After leaving the Navy in 1956
Dooley wrote a best-selling book,
“Deliver Us from Evil.” He used
the book’s proceeds, and supplies
donated by pharmaceutical firms,
to return to Laos with three form
er Navy buddies and set up a
small hospital at Nam Tha. He
brought in his medical supplies
by train, plane, oxcart and dug
out canoe.
For his work with the refugees,
Dooley won the Legion of Merit,
and was the youngest officer in
the history of the Medical Corps
to receive it. He also was award
ed the National Order of Viet
Nam, that nation’s highest deco
ration.
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! Eisenhower Rejects Major
: Recommendations for
Trans-Pacific Air Service
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Eisenhower Thursday rejected
major recommendations of the
Civil Aeronautics Board for new
Trans-Pacific air service.
Eisenhower said his decision
not to approve the Board’s prin
cipal recommendations was predi
cated on considerations of foreign
policy. He said this responsibility
is his and that the board does not
share in it.
The principal recommendations
of the board which Eisenhower
disapproved:
1. That Pan American World
Airways be allowed to fly from
New York through Alaska to
Tokyo on the great circle route.
2. That Northwest Airlines be
allowed to fly from Los Angeles
and San Francisco by way of the
Great Circle Route to Tokyo.
3. That Pan American be al
lowed to fly from California points
to Tokyo by way of Honolulu.
4. That Northwest be allowed to
fly from New York by way of
Honolulu to Tokyo.
The President had the final
say because international routes
were involved.
COMMUNITY
METHODIST CHURCH
SUNDAY. JAN. 22
9:45 a.m. Sunday School for all ages
11:00 a.m. Morning Worship
Sermon by the Rev. Harold W. Diehl
of Anchorage: “What Women.”
Special music: Vocal duet by Mrs.
Robert Baldwin and Mrs. Don McKay,
“Known Only to Him”. Organist: Robert
Baldwin.
6:15 p.m. Youth Fellowship at the
Church
i 7:00 p.m. Evening Worship. Rev. Diehl
will preach on “Hands Without
Handles”
Following the worship a sound-film
strip sowing the work of the Methodist
Church in Alaska, "Challenge of the
49th State”, will be shown.
Rev. and Mrs. Diehl would take this
opportunity to express their apprecia
tion to all who have made their stay
in Nome a pleasant one. They will re
call your friendliness as long as they
have memory.
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John Q. Public
Opinions Ilis Views
On the Presidency
By Hal Boyle
NEW YORK UP) — The job has
a big salary, a nice pension, and
you get to live rent-free in a fine
old house plentifully staffed with
servants.
Your wife would hardly have
to lift her hand — let alone her
voice.
Doesn’t it sound like every
man’s dream?
Well, every American mother's
son has a born right to aspire to
this wonderful job — but most
of them say they wouldn’t take
it for love, patriotism or money.
To them it isn’t a dream job. It’s
a living nightmare.
That job is the one 43-year-old
John F. Kennedy takes over to
day — the Presidency of the
United States.
A handful of professional poli
ticians present at the inaugura
tion may sigh to themselves,
“why couldn’t it have happened
to me? Why shouldn’t I be the
one taking the oath?”
But the man in the street has
no envy at all of Kennedy, and
no desire for his new job. To
him it would be not a boon, but
an affliction. He’d rather be in
his own shoes than Kennedy’s.
Why doesn’t the average Ameri
can want his country’s top poli
tical job, often hailed as the
world’s most powerful post?
Here are typical answers from
a sample survey:
“Too much responsibility.”
“You have to make too many
important decisions. The way it
is now I can let my wife make the
decisions. She enjoys it. I don’t.”
“You have to try to please too
i many people. Even then half of
| them wind up hating you.”
“It makes you old too soon.
Ever notice how much older a
President looks after he’s been
in office a few years?”
“Being President just doesn’t
sound like it would be much fun.
You spend too much time holding
conferences or going to public
functions. Who wants that kind
of life? It would bore me.”
“You might have to decide to
send the country to war. If I had
a worry like that on my mind,
I’d never sleep at night.”
“A President isn’t really free.
He’s a kind of prisoner in a way.
He has to be guarded all the time
against crackpots. That would
give me the willies.”
The idea of living in the White
House also appalls many ordi
nary American men — appealing
as the propect might be to their
wives.
“It’s too big,” said one. “It’d be
like living in a railroad terminal.
It wouldn’t seem like home. It
wouldn’t be comfortable.
“And who’d want all those ser
vants standing around listening
when your wife bawled you out?
Me—I like a little more privacy.”
When it comes to guiding the
destiny of the nation, John Q.
Public is more than glad to “let
George do it.”
Or, in this case. John F.
Chief Executive’s Inaugural Address
Stresses "The New (^uest for Peace”
By Edmond L ebretnn
WASHINGTON W — John F.
Kennedy in his first moments as
President today invited the Com
munist world to join in a new
beginning of “the quest for
peace.”
After taking the oath as the
nation’s 35tlh Chief Executive,
Kennedy said in his inaugural
address:
“Let us begin anew — remem
bering on both sides that civility
is not a sign of weakness, and
sincerity is always subject to
proof. Let us never negotiate out
of fear. But let us never fear
to negotiate.”
He said, “let both sides explore
what problems unite us instead
of belaboring the problems that
divide us.
“Let both sides, for the first
time, formulate serious and pre
cise proposals for the inspection
and control of arms — and bring
the absolute power to destroy
other nations under the absolute
control of all nations.”
But repeatedly he put the Com
munist bloc on notice that he in
tends no softening of American
purpose.
“Let every nation know, wheth
er it wish us well or ill,” Ken
nedy said in the brief address
setting the tone of his adminis
tration, “that we shall pay any
price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend or
oppose any foe in order to as
sure the survival and success of
liberty.”
. Reaffirms Monroe Doctrine
Although Kennedy made no
'< direct reference to the situation
! in Cuba, he in effect reaffirmed
j the Monroe Doctrine when he
| said:
“Let all our neighbors know that
| we shall join with them to oppose
I aggression or subversion any
I where in the Americas. And let
j every other power know that this
hemisphere intends to remain the
master of its own house.”
He pledged to help under
developed nations to help them
selves “not because the Com
munists are doing it, but because
it is right.”
To his own fellow-citizens Ken
nedy said, “ask not what your
country will do for you — ask
what you can do for your coun
try.”
As for himself, he said “in the
long history of the world, only a
few generations have been grant
ed the role of defending freedom
in its hour of maximum danger.
“I do not shrink from this
responsibility — I welcome it. I
do not believe that any of us
would exchange places with any
other people or any other gen
eration.”
A Beach Head
Kennedy, at 43 the youngest man
ever elected President, said he
knows neither he nor anyone
else alive today may live to see
“the new world of law” he en
visages.
But “let us begin,” he said, by
trying to achieve “a beach-head
of cooperation ... in the jungles
of suspicion.”
The note he sounded during his
campaign, of young men setting
out again to push back a frontier,
echoed throughout a speech de
voted in almost every word to
the problems that haunt a peace
seeking world, rather than to
domestic issues.
“Let the word go forth,” he
proclaimed early in the address,
“that the torch has been passed
to a new generation of Ameri
cans — born in this century,
tempered by war, disciplined by
a cold and bitter peace, proud of
our ancient heritage, and unwill
ing to witness or permit the slow
undoing of those human rights
to which this nation has always
been committed.”
To the states emerging from
colonial status, “our word that
one form of colonial control shall
not have passed merely to be re
placed by a far more iron tyran
ny.”
To these same states assurance
that “we shall not always expect
to find them supporting our
every view,” but a bit of advice
too:
“In the past, those who fool
ishly sought to find power by
riding on the tiger’s back inevit
ably ended up inside.”
Kennedy added a particular
pledge to the United Nations,
“our last best hope in an age
where the instruments of war
have far outpaced the instru
ments of peace.”
Both Sides
At length Kennedy addressed
himself soberly to “those nations
who make themselves our ad
versary:”
“We offer not a pledge but a
request — that both sides begin
anew the quest for peace before
the dark powers of destruction
unleashead by science engulf all
humanity in planned or accidental
self-destruction. . . .
“Let both sides join to invoke
the wonders of science instead
of its terrors. Together let us ex
plore the stars, conquer the des
erts, eradicate disease, tap the
ocean depths and encourage the
arts and commerce.”
He compressed his message to
friends, adversaries and fellow
Americans into 1,348 words of pre
pared text, not much more than
half the average length of pre
vious inaugural addresses—2,499.
Kennedy told his fellow citi
zens: “In your hands . . . more
than in mine, wil rest the final
success or failure of our
course. . . .”
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