LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Thursday will be the birthday
of the most universally known
and admired American, Abraham
Lincoln.
He said:
“God must love the common
■people — he made so many of
them.”
He came from the type of peo
ple of which he spoke and knew
of the hardness and harshness of
their lives, which, instead of
arousing contempt and hatred for
the more successful citizens,
seemed to have given him a broad
and comprehensive understanding
and a charity of judgment that
was his distinguishing and out
standing characteristic through
out his life.
The February Readers Digest
contains a collection of anecdotes
ascribed to him. To me this is a
very illuminating one, as to the
depth of his character:
He was taking a walk at night
with a friend and looking at the
heavens full of stars, and he told
the young lad with him the names
of the various stars, their distance
from the earth and the swiftness
of their moving through space.
He then made this statement:
“I never behold them that I do
not but feel that I am looking
in the face of God. I can see that
one looking down on the earth
from the skies could be an athiest,
but I cannot see how anyone look
ing up into the heavens can say
there is no God.”
As to the workings of his mind,
there is the story of a rich man
in Springfield vindictive in pur
suing a man for a debt of $2.50.
When the man denied the debt,
the rich man came to Lincoln and
wanted him to enter suit. Lincoln
at first was reluctant to take the
case, but he then consented and
stated that his fee would be ten
dollars cash. The client paid him
the ten. Whereupon Lincoln went
to the debtor and gave him five
dollars with the understanding he
would immediately go and pay
the $2.50, which he did. The
debtor had paid his debt and was
$2.50 richer, the client was sat
isfied, and Lincoln made five dol
lars on the deal, and make a vin
dictive man pay the whole bill.
Few men of Lincoln’s caliber
have held the office of president
and the searchlight of history has
shown that the charges of politi
cal skulduggery hurled at him
were fabricated out of nothing but
the vaguest of unfounded rumors,
while the number of- kindly,
thoughtful and considerate acts
he did unostentatiously have mul
tiplied as they came to light.
As long as people live, his
Gettysberg Address will serve as
an inspiration, as a masterpiece
of sincere reverence and appre
ciation for the sacrifice which was
made that our nation might exist.
The world is better for his
having lived and his life will
serve as an inspiration for every
child who is growing up to the
years of understanding.
With Alaska starting into state
hood his thinking and example
should be a governing factor in
all of the measures brought be
fore the legislature. We who have
benefitted from his wisdom should
feel deeply grateful for his having
lived.
—Chas. D. Jones
Enrolled in the Boy Scouts of
America are more than 4,780,000
boys and leaders.
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Standard Altimeters Will
Be Installed In Electras
By F.A.A. Order
NEW YORK, UPt — New Electra
turboprop airliners with old,
standard altimeters were able to
land in bad weather today without
special restrictions.
The Federal Aviation Agency
lifted the restrictions Tuesday on
condition that a new type of alti
meter used in the Electra model
be replaced with the old type.
The FAA imposed more strin
gent restrictions on bad weather
landings by the Lockheed planes
on Monday, six days after an
Electra operated by American
Airlines, crashed into the East
River with the loss of 65 lives.
American and Eastern Air
Lines, the only other carrier fly
ing Electras, said they would
equip the planes immediately with
standard altimeters.
An American Airlines spokes
man said: “This in no way repre
sents a conclusion as to whether
the present altimeter was involved
in the recent accident.”
ALEC GUINNESS IS KNIGHTED
LONDON, t/P) — Queen Eliza
beth II knighted Alec Guinness
yesterday.
Touching him with her sword,
first on his right shoulder and
then on his left, the Queen made
him a Knight Bachelor.
The Oscar-winning actor be
came Sir Alec, and his wife, Lady
Guinness.
The ceremony took place in the
great gilded ballroom of Bucking
ham Palace.
Congress granted a federal char
ter to the Boy Scouts of America
in 1916.
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at The Nugget
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Appropriations Measures
Offered for Separate
Legislature Consideration
JUNEAU, UPi — Both houses of
the Legislature met long enough
Monday to hear numerous bills
introduced, most of them dealt
with money.
In compliance with the Attorney
General’s ruling last week that
appropriation bill should not spell
out what the money is to cover,
a flock of bills previously intro
duced were brought back Monday
with the appropriation provisions
separate from proposed statutory
acts setting out the purpose of the
expenditure.
Chief among the new money
bills was one that would set the
Governor’s salary at $24,000 a
year and that of the Secretary of
State at $17,500.
Both figures are higher than
the salaries received by those offi
cials under territorial status, but
are less than recommended by the
Public Administration Service,
which had recommended $30,000
for the Governor and $24,000 for
the Secretary of State.
ORDINANCE NO. 388
(Published by Title Only)
AN ORDINANCE of the City qi
Nome, Alaska, to add a new sec
tion to the Code of Ordinances of
Nome, Alaska, pertaining to the
defrauding of restaurant, coffee
shop, lunch counter, hotel or
lodging place owners or pro
prietors, defining such as a mis
demeanor, prescribing a penally,
providing for exceptions, and set
ting an effective date.
Passed at a regular meeting of
the Nome Common Council, held
the 9th day of February, 1959.
s/ Steffen Andersen, Mayor
Attest:
s/ Robert F. Scott, Clerk
Publish Feb. 11, 13, 16, 1959
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Equality for All...
44/^ OODS DECA'f, friends die, we ourselves alsov
die, but an honored name never dies for him
that won it.” This is written in the Elder Edda, a
book written in Iceland a thousand years or more ago,
and it fits the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln,
who lived humbly and kindly, “with malice toward
none.”
He lived during a period in our history when
state fought state, brothr fought brother, and families
were bitterly torn apart in conflict.
We have come a long way toward ironing out
much of the strife during the “four score and seven
years” since his time, but we have a long way to go
to attain a peaceful world.
We need a battalion of Lincolns today, within the
nations held in bondage by the Communists, as well as
in some of the nations which are supposedly ruled by
“government of the people, by the people, and for the
people.”
“The world will little note, nor long remember
what we say here,” said our famous President, in his
Gettysburg Address in 1863; yet his name, his leader
ship, live on as a reminder of what can be done.
As Alaskans, we should highly resolve that this
new State shopld have equality for all its people, with
four courts, not three, to give justice in all parts of the
State equally and impartially.
To take away an existing court at a time in the
history of the new State which is growing in popula
tion every year, is forcing a hardship and an expense
on those areas requiring judicial assistance.
To take away an existing court at a time when
completely new problems are arising under statehood
appears to be a selfish move by those state representa
tives who support such action, and will impose a bur
den on the Fairbanks and Anchorage courts, which
are already carrying a backlog of too many cases.
If “a government of the people, by the people, and
for the people” is to be maintained in Alaska, then
Northwestern Alaska must have its court. We think
Lincoln would be on our side !
Alaska Highways Major
Issue In Transition,
Says Senator Bartlett
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could use the money for any
purpose.
One proposal, he said, was that
four million dollars of the initial
" three years of the federal phasing
out program in Alaska should go
for highway purposes.
The senator said he regarded
Alaska’s highway problem as one
of the major points to be solved
in the federal-state transition pro
gram.
Alaska’s normal share of high
way funds, under present land
grant formulas, would amout to
about 13Vfe million dollars a year,
Bartlett said.
However, if Alaska’s entire land
area were figured in fixing federal
participation in road planning, the
amount w»uld jump to 36 million
dollars a year. At the same time,
Alaska’s matching contributions
would have to increase 13 per cent
— instead of the present 10 per
cent — and the sate would have
to perform all maintenance.
'Under the present act, by which
Alaska gets some 18 million dol
lars a year, the federal funds ’can
be used for maintenance.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Commissioner Proposes
Immediate Action to Save
Columbia River Fishing
PORTLAND, UP) — Immediate
action is needed to stop the de
struction of fishing on the Colum
bia River, the director of the Ore
gon Fish Commission said Tues
day.
Albert Day proposed that the
federal government appropriate
vast sums to save both sports and
commercial fishing on the river.
An immediate appropriation of
$700,000 is needed, Day told the
commission.
In addition, he said, one million
dollars a year also is needed until
the problems of fish versus dams
are solved.
Both Chinook and silver salmon
runs in the diver are declining,
Day said.
NEW WAY OF SAYING
'DOWN, BOY !'
PORTLAND, Ore., UPi — Some
150 million dollars is being spent
! annually for tranquilizers for ex
I cited or disturbed animals, the
Oregon Veterinary Medical Asso
; ciation was told last week.
Dr. E. C. Stone, dean of veter
inary medicine at Washington
State College, said the tranquiliz
ers have been helpful in treating
I dogs that bite, bark too much or
| get car sick.