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ROUND PEG IN A SQUARE HOLE
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Could Be A Sticky Mess!
COLORADO’S SENATOR Gordon Allott has asked
for a four-year extension of the sugar act, even
though he realizes Castro is not nice to us and his
country is being run mostly by Communists. We
suspect the senator is thinking more about his con
stituent beet sugar farmers who, oddly enough, don’t
want a bigger market. For one thing, they’re getting
a government subsidy, and for another, they don’t
want anybody to “rock the boat” — in other words,
to sharply increase U S. demand for sugar beets now,
only to cut it back when and if Cuba achieves
responsibility.
Irrespective of the best problem, however, we
think Senator Allott’s proposal should be based on the
proviso that we pay no more for our Cuban sugar than
the USSR has contracted to pay.
For us to pay a higher price would, in effect,
constitute a subsidy to the Soviet as well as to our own
beet farmers.
GRASSROOTS OPINION
From the Beverly, Mass., Times: “Since President
Eisenhower announced the probability of a surplus of
\ $4 billion, the line has formed on the left by socialistic
legislators who have dreams of new ways of pouring
money down a rat hole.”
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Civilian Use of
Ladd Will be
‘Held to Minimum’
JUNEAU, Wl — Any increase in
the “general civil use” of the Ladd
Air Force Base near Fairbanks
will be held to a minimum, House
Speaker Warren Taylor was noti
fied Monday night by Brig. Gen.
Joseph Kinsley Jr.
General Kinsley, deputy direc
tor for legislative liaison in the
office of the Secretary of the Air
Force at Washington, wired the
Fairbanks legislator.
After the Air Force recently
permitted Pan American World
Airways to use Ladd Field to in
augurate jet passenger service to
Alaska, the Federal Aviation
Agency froze funds for extension
of the runway at the Fairbanks
International Airport. It said a
study of the feasibility of using
Ladd for both civil and military
use would be needed before more
federal money would be spent at
the International Airport.
The Pan Am permit was
granted, General Kinsley wired,
“on a temporary basis until mod
ernization of the Fairbanks air
port is completed ... in order
that the State of Alaska might
have the benefit of the most mod
ern air transportation.”
He added:
“While our desire is to benefit
your state and the American air
line industry, we must . . . safe
guard Air Force operations.”
Mt. Edgecumbe Invites
Applications to Nurses’
School to Begin in May
MT. EDGECUMBE — The Mt.
Edgecumbe School of Practical
Nursing is now accepting appli
cations for the class beginning
May 23.
The School of Practical Nursing
for Alaskan Natives is a nationally
accredited school, and the only
training of this kind in Alaska.
The course is of 12 months’ dura
tion, with classwork and experi
ence in the Mt. Edgecumbe Hos
pital, with affiliation in Anchor
age.
The students are given: training
in the classroom and clinical ex
perience in the hospitals, $30 a
month for expenses, plus uni
forms, books, meals, and room.
As a graduate practical nurse,
they may be licensed in Alaska
and may choose to help meet the
village needs on health problems,
or work in a government or com
munity hospital at a good salary,
or work in other health programs
in Alaska, as well as in other
states.
Requirements for entrance are:
Good health; completion of high
school or tenth grade on special
recommendation; interest in
nursing; ability to use English,
age 17 to 45, and one-quarter or
more Alaskan Native blood.
Both boys and girls are ac
cepted, and anyone interested is
invited to write to the Director,
Mt. Edgecumbe School of Prac
tical Nursing, Mt. Edgecumbe,
Alaska, for more information.
Senate Clears Alaska’s
First Public Employes
Retirement Plan
JUNEAU, l/P — One key legis
lative package cleared the Alaska
Senate late Monday and was
headed for the House as end-of
the-session pressure began to
mount among Alaska’s lawmakers.
The legislation would set up
Alaska’s first public employes’ re
tirement system. The three-bill
program includes a planned 335
thousand dollar appropriation to
pay state-employer contributions
for the first six months, and an
other for 14-thousand dollars to
handle initial administrative costs.
Before the session’s 50th day
ended Monday night, the Senate
also assed a House resolution to
waive a joint rule in order to
allow the transmission of bills
between the two branches yes
terday.
The House approved the reso
lution last Saurday to provide a
five-day extension of the trans
mission deadline. The Senate
amended it to allow only one
day, which would still permit ad
journment of the session by the
60th day.
The Senate bogged down Mon
day on routine business, reconsid
eration of previous votes and
other matters, and did not reach
any major measure until late af
ternoon. Debate on a controversial
bill to amend Alaska’s liquor
control act also slowed down ac
tion in the House.
Under the public employes re
tirement system bill, the state’s
thousand employes and elected
offcials would be covered starting
next Jan. 1. In general, retirement
would be mandatory at age 65.
Police and firemen covered would
be eligible to retire five years
earlier.
Provision would also be made
for municipalities to bring their
employes under the act’s coverage
by their own local action.
The $14,000 to finance initial
administrative costs would be in
the nature of a loan from the state
general fund. It would be paid
back out of the retirement fund
when the program got under way.
The cost to the state for the
program is figured at $677,220,
with the initial appropriation cov
ering the last six months of the
fiscal year beginning in July.
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i Hoffa Storms At
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j Union’s Enemies
In N. Y. Rally
NEW YORK, UP) — Teamsters
Union president James R. Hoffa
hurled criticism at most of his
I adversaries Monday night at a
Madison Square Garden rally.
! An estimated 8,000 cheering
teamsters and members of their
families half-filled the Garden.
Hofa called it “a wonderul
turnout,” considering that most
teamsters “worked all day.”
The Teamsters president had
angry words for recent labor legis
lation, Senator John Kennedy CD
Mass), his brother “little Bobby
Kennedy,” AFL-CIO president
George Meany, Auto Workers
president Walter Reuther, the
press, radio and television.
Sen. Kennedy, who helped write
the new labor law, was a member
of the Senate committee which in
vestigated union and management
rackets. His brother, Robert Ken
nedy, was chief counsel of the
committee.
His audience enthusiastically
whistled and cheered as Hoffa
turned to reporters covering the
rally and said: “There is no use
talking to reporters. Distortion is
what you can expect from the
press. Editors are controlled by
big business.”
Hoffa gave a point-by-point
analysis of the new Landrum
Griffin labor reform law, seek
I ing to convince his audience that
j it was designed to destroy the
Teamsters and turn them into
strikebreakers.
He said he plans to build a web
of union alliances covering mil
lions of workers as an answer to
the law. He would have all unions
arrange common expiration dates
for their contracts. Thus, he said,
unions could circumvent the law’s
ban on secondary boycotts.
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