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Measure of Need
CAMERON THOMPSON, of the Committee for
Economic Development suggests six pragmatic
tests to apply to every demand for new or increased
federal expenditures. Here they are:
1. Does the request fill a real need?
2. Is it a need which only government can supply?
3. Must the need 'be met by the federal
government?
4. Will spending by the federal government meet
the need to a degree to make it worthwhile ;
5. If it is an extension of an existing program,
has the spending on this program been efficient?
6. Must the spending be done now?
If these tests were applied, and the honest answers
firmly acted upon, we’d see a startling drop in the
federal budget.
The same tests could be applied to spending bills
now in the Alaska*Legislature.
Tired Old Dollars
FRENCHMEN MUST TURN IN lOO tired, old francs
for one of the new, “hard” francs that again,
after 40 years, is up to par — 20 cents. We are at
the halfway paint in our inflation, and would have
to give two present dollars for one 100-cent dollar
of 20 years ago. Where will we be in 1980? The
thought should jolt us!
Three Die In Airport
Ferrying Plane Crash
BERKELEY, Calif., UR— An
airplane, ferrying passengers
from Travis Air Force Base to
San Francisco, crashed here in a
grove of trees on a rain-swept
hill Monday night, killing two
men and a 12-year-old girl.
Two women aboard were in
jured, one critically.
The twin-engine Piper Apache
was carrying passengers who left
Tokyo Monday morning via a
Military Air Transport Service
craft.
Travis is 60 miles from San
Francisco’s International Airport,
and Berkeley is across the bay
from San Francisco.
Legislative Workers Held
Over from Last Session
JUNEAU, Wl — The Legislature
settled down to work yesterday
with a staff of 46 employes, most
of them holdovers from last
year’s session.
First major post to go to a
new employe was that of the
House of Representatives’ Ser
geant at Arms. Doug Wahto of
Douglas was named to that po
sition.
Mrs. Katherine Alexander, Ju
neau, continues as Secretary of
the Senate. Mrs. Esther Reed, An
chorage, as Chief Clerlj of the
House, Mrs. Lucille Mahoney of
Juneau, as Fiscal Procurement
Officer.
.Committee Demos
Rake President’s
Economic Policies
By JOE WALL
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Dem
ocratic majority on the Senate
House Economic Committee
charged yesterday that Eisen
howed Administration policies
had stunted the nation’s economic
growth since 1953.
Describing them as inadequate
to meet the nation’s needs, the
Democrats said the policies also
had led to unnecessary unemploy
ment and price increases.
Republicans on the committee
fired back that the majority re
port was “unbalanced and evas
ive, and marred by partisanship.”
The majority said it would not
support removal of the interest
ceiling on long-term bonds — one
of the President’s major requests
of the session — unless the Ad
ministration made “major reforms
in fiscal, monetary and debt man
agement policies.”
This the minority report de
scribed as “nothing but political
blackmail.”
The majority report was pep
pered with numerous recommen
dations for alternative policies to
those followed by the Adminis
tration in the last seven years.
The report summed up the com
mittee members’ views on a year
long $200,000 study of the prob
lems of inflation, unemployment
and economic growth. '
Kotzebue, Fairbanks
Youths Nominated for
U, S. Military Academy
WASHINGTON, M — Senator
Bob Bartlett said yesterday he
had designated William Lynn
Hensley of Kotzebue and Charles
Albert Leap of Fairbanks, as his
principal appointments to the
West Point Military Academy for
the class starting in July.
Schools, Roads Are
Borough Problems
Says Judge Gilbert
“Freedom 'begins with local
government,” emphasized Judge
Hubert Gilbert, speaking at the
P-TA meeting held last night in
the School Multipurpose Room.
Speaking to a packed roomful of
75 members and guests, the 45
year-old, newly-appointed State
Superior Court Judge told how
the State government is now
overburdened with local prob
lems and local projects that have
no place in the handling of strict
ly Alaska afairs. Foremost is the
proper apportioning of tax money
for local schools and local roads,
which, he pointed out, could be
handled more effectively on a
local basis.
Briefly outlining the history of
free local government, the former
Alaska Senator spoke, in a mild
and easy manner, of how diffi
cult it was, in ancient times, in
England, France and Germany,
for tire monarchs of Europe to
allow a free and unrestricted gov
ernment on a local level, because
these shires, or boroughs, would
overburden themselves, exceed
local authority, isolate themselves
from their neighboring districts,
and want to handle all matters of
government. With the passage of
time, Judge Gilbert shotoed, it
was _ necessary for the national
governments to restrict the free
dom and maintain “departments,”
which would oversee local affairs,
but still be tightly bound to the
one central ruler.
In our own country, the Judge
related, the township form of local
government took shape early in
heavily settled areas such as New
England, while the “county” type
was formed to handle local affairs
on a broader scale in less popu
Two Babies Born Monday
Two babies were born at the
hospital on Monday—a son to Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Sherman of Kot-.
zebue, and a daughter to Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil Warneke.
lated sections, such as in the
South, wherh large plantations
kept the population more spread
out.
Pointing out that in the last 100
years, very little change has been
made in the size or shape of the
thousands of counties, in America,
Gilbert said most legislators and
Alaska officials feel that an “un
organized borough” type of con
trol would better suit the present,
needs, because of the inflexiblity
of the county system, and the
lack of population.
Of course, the Judge said, form
ing an “unorganized borough”
would be the same as appointing
the State as a local “guardian,”
but committees could later be
formed, naming the area repre
sentatives from villages, which
could gradually determine the
functions, duties and responsibili
ties in regional control, and even
tually levy borough taxes.
In pointing up the need for
prompt action, the Judge told how
suburban roads are being furn
ished, schools are being main
tained, and other benefits are
being financed by the State in
heavily populated areas, rich
areas, which could well afford to
handle those functions, while in
less populated districts, there is
little local development. With local
matters in the hands of borough
officials, he pointed out, the State
could provide for inter-city roads,
along with other strictly State
government functions.
He explained how a borough
can later be defined, and boun
daries determined, tying together
areas economically dependent on
each other in mining, farming,
school districts and similar
interests.
Marching Mothers to Collect Facts, Funds
“If you can answer no to
the questions inside, be
thankful! If you must an
swer yes, take hope!”
American mothers will carry
this message to over 30 mil
lion homes ' this month. The
mothers, volunteers in the an
nual Mothers’ March for the
New March of Dimes, will be
seeking information and sup
port for The National Founda
tion’s fight against birth de
fects, arthritis and polio. These
cripplers, initial targets in The
National Foundation’s cam
paign to prevent crippling dis
ease, affect the lives of one of
every four American families.
Two Million in March
An estimated two million
women will join the nation
wide mothers’ appeal for facts
and funds. In most communi
ties the mothers will march
Thursday evening, Jan. 28,
bringing to a climax the New
March of Dimes January cam
paign.
The mothers will present
each household with a copy of
“Door Count,” a concise fact
finding folder in which a fam
ily may indicate if any of its
members has a birth defect,
arthritis or polio and how
many have had three or more
Salk vaccine shots. Each fam
ily record will be confidential.
Salk Shot Reminder
The Mothers’ March door
count will focus family and
community attention on the
majority of Americans still
without Salk shot protection
against paralytic polio. It will
remind the unvaccinated to
start shots in time for summer
polio protection and it will
help communities plan local
programs to further encourage
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1. Dots any person in this household have arthritis?
2. Was any parson in this household horn with a detoct?
3. Has any parson in this household had polio?
4. How many parsons live in this household altoyethor? _ _
5. How many parsons in this housshold have had 3 or moro Salk polio shots? __
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This questionnaire will go to more than 30 million homes in every
part of the country to provide information about three crippling
, diseases that affect one of every four American families.
the widespread use of Salk
vaccine.
Although the house-to-house
poll is in no way planned as a
statistically valid survey, the
sum of information taken in
the door count will provide a
working estimate of the num
ber of persons suffering from
arthritis; the number born
with birth defects and the
number who have been vic
tims of paralytic polio. This
tabulation will help guide Na
tional Foundation county chap
ters in formulating local pro
grams to aid the disabled.
Mothers making the house
to-house door count will also
seek contributions to the New
March of Dimes for its attack
on birth defects, arthritis and
polio. The New March of
Dimes is combating these dis
abling disorders with the same
effective weapons used to con
quer paralytic polio: medical
scientific research to find
causes, cures, preventives; pa
tient aid for medical care; and
training for medical workers
needed to treat the sick and
disabled.
Two million mother* like this one
will conduct a house-to-house
door count this month seeking
information and support for the
New March of Dimes campaign
against birth defect*, arthritis
and polio.