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Rehabilitation . . . ; r
PROBLEM of rehabilitation brings to Nome a
group of distinguished medical men from various
parts of the nation and from otnfer parts of Alaska.
It is one thing to cure a person of a disease and
quite another to fit him back into a self sufficient, self
supporting person, especially after a long term illness.
Nome, its hospital! and its doctor were selected
several xnosths ago as the location for susch a rehabili
tation program to itake care of the people of northern
Alaska. The program has barely had time to get estab
lished and this meeting is the first evaluation for the
project Which wiais made ,possible by funds from the
Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and the
Women’s Division of Christian Service. Further evalu
ation and recommendations from these medical special
ists will no doubt result from this meeting of outstand
ing men and women with wide experiences in this
field of work.
No group of people in any part of the 50 states
needs this consideration more than the Eskimo people
who are emerging from primitive status as well as
adjustment after prolonged illness.
Many people in this area are just becoming
aware of the therapist at the hospital and taking ad
vantage of this service made possible by this program.
Whalt is can do will not show immediately arid Will
take time. We are fortunate that Nome was chosen
Castro Says He Is
Leading Cuba
Down the Road
To Communism
HAVANA m — Fidel Castro,
proclaiming, “I believe absolutely
in Marxism,” admitted publicly
Saturday he was leading Cuba
down the road to Communism.
“I am a Marxist-Leninist and
will be one until the day I die,”
the Cuban Prime Minister de
clared in a midnight television
speech.
“We must all study the ex
periences in building up the
world’s first Communist Society,”
he said. “Socialism is a world
reality today as the force of de
feating imperialism.’*’
“The world is on the road
I toward Communism,” he added.
Castro jokingly added that if
there was any anti-Communists
listening to him “he does need
worry because there will be no
Communism in Cuba before 30
years.”
Castro’s statements were in
sharp contrast to declarations that
“ours is not a Communist re
volution” made six months after
he seized power from Dictator
Fulgencia Batista Jan. 1, 1959.
Apparetnly in reference to his
anti-Oommunist statements, Cas
tro said Friday that until a few
years ago he was “biased against
Communism because of imperial
ist propaganda.” He said the
change in his political thinking
begem after he seized power.
Castro praised Lenin for “de
veloping Marx’ and Engel’s
theories and putting them into
practice. Marxism or scientific
socialism 1ms became the revolu-.
denary movement of the work
ing class,” he said.
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STREET of BAD BOYS
PARTS UH — (Residents of the
Street of Bad Boys — Rue Des
Mauve is Garcons —- would like
to have the name changed to
Street of Good Boys. But the
city government Won’t hear of it.1
“The picturesque names of.
streets established in the Middle'
Ages remain in the old quarters
of the capital and constitute a
and old land marks,” the govern
ment responded Friday to a'peti
tion of the residents.
California GOPs Stirred
By Second Charge of a
Political Beal Offer
SANTA MARilE, Calif. (0 —
The California Republican As
sembly was stirred Saturday by
the second charge of a political
deal to get someone out of the
party’s 1962 primary.
GOP harmony was threatened,
too, by an incipient clash between
party liberals and conservatives.
Sen. John McCarthy, (R-San
Rafael), charged that four un
named high Republicans offered
him a deal to quit the race for
Lt. Governor.
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McCarthy said he was ap
proached with die promise of
“plenty of campaign money” if
he would run instead for State
Comptroller. He specified no
amount but it takes anywhere
from $200,000 to $500,000 for a
statewide campaign in California.
He declined to say who made
the offer.
Ex-Gov. Goodwin Knight has
charged, and former Vice Presi
dent Richard Nixon hotly denied,
toat a Nixon emissary offered
Knight any state job to drop out
of the GOP gubernatorial pri
mary.
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Alaska Births Show
Increase Over 1960
Alaska births repeated during
the first eight months of >1961 out
numbered by 72 those for the same
period last year. There were 4,615
births reported from January
through August in 1061 and 4,543
through August 1960. Total i960
Alaska births was 7,518.
There were 09 more marriages
reported during the first eight
months of 1961 than during the
same period last year. Alaska
marriages from January through
August I860 numbered 1,118 as
compared with 1,218 reported for
that period this year.
There were 742 Alaska deaths
reported during the first eight
"months of .1061 and 767 for those
months in 1960.
Chief cause of deaths are acci
dents which have taken 171 lives
so fer in 1061. Heart diseases are
in second place, with a toll of
142 lives. Data for the 1961
months are continuing to be re
ported to the Bureau of Vital
Statistics office and .the present
figures are considered still pro
visional.
Ter in! nal' Pki mu^I
For Ketchikan
SEATTLE (A — A $1.5 milUon
barge terminal and distribution
center is -planned for Ketchikan
to facilitate Alaskan shipments
from the east and midwest through
Canada.
The Canadian National Rail
road, with the Chicago & North
western Railroad, is backing the
terminal as a step to build up
Alaska rail shipments across
Canada to Prince Rupert.
Ketchikan & Northern Termi
nals Inc., has bought a 10-acre
site for the terminal just south of
Ketchikan, and Joseph Ward,
whose Seattle consulting firm is
handling plans, will leave for the
east -to work on details of the pro
gram.
Ward emphasized Friday that
the barge terminal will be avail
able for barge cargo out of Seat
tle as well as Prince Rupert.
Basically the plan calls for con
solidation of carload lots of pro
visions and other southeast Alas
ka cargo in the midwest and trans
portation via the C & NW and
Canadian National Railroad to
Prince Rupert.
From Prince Rupert the cars
would be barged by the Straits
Towing Co., to the Ketchikan
terminal. Cargo would be broken
up there and held in a bonded
warehouse for distribution to other
ports in southeast Alaska. It is
proposed, that much of this dis
tribution be made via the new
Alaska state ferry system.
HOLLYWOOD UP) — Dinah
Shore and George Montgomery
announced Saturday they will be
divorced thus ending one of
Hollywood’s so-called dream
marriages.
The announcement which stun
ned even their closest friends
came on the eve of their 16th
wedding anniversary. They mar
ried Dec. S, 1946.
A terse statement announcing
a separation and plans for di
vorce was issued jointly by the
singer and her adtor husband.
The couple hove two children,
•Melissa, 14, and John, 7.
CHRISTMAS TREES
AT NOME HARDWARE