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STILL THEIR HOPE
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ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE YEARS
JULY 4, 1955
By HAROLD SALISBURY
“Oh, say, can you see”,- through confusion’s grim mists,
- That today blind our sgiht with frustration,
The noble ideals that burned in the hearts
Of the patriots who founded our Nation ?
One hundred long years and seventy-nine more
Have passed since,- our freedom to save,
They attended the birth of our God-given “Land
Of the free and the home of the brave !”
“The rockets’ red glare and bombs bursting in air”
Lit the way for our Nation’s beginning
"When our Flag fluttered free o’er the foe’s despotry
And stayed,- to accomplish its winning!
Now invisible dangers threaten our Land
For our lamps flicker low with distraction,
May the rockets and bombs of wisdom and truth
Illumine the paths of right action !
“Broad stripes and bright stars” o’er the Nation have waved
Through many a perilous fight,
May their sight still inspire us to hold to great truths
And give proof through the clouds of the night,
Give proof that the tenets our forefathers held,
Which we’ve lived for,- were never in vain
And that we must rally in force to their cause
And our faith in them utter again,
“Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave”
O’er the ramparts of Freedom’s domain
Where gallant hearts planned a nation for man
With justice and liberty’s gain ?
Oh, patriots all,- re-echo the call,
The bonds of confusion to sever,
“Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just”
And “In God is our trust”,- and forever !
A DEMAND
It’s always refreshing when a top man in govern
ment champions a principle that is strictly in accord
with American traditions.
Director of the Budget Hughes did that when he
said: “We remain convinced that the best interests of
the nation as a whole do demand the termination of
unwarranted government competition with business.”
In plain languarge, government in business is
socialism—and socialism, carried far enough, always
ends in tyranny and the death of liberty and human
dignity.
Ask Congress For j
Special Martime
Mediation Service
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WASHINGTON, (*> — Commo
dore Robert C. Lee, vice chair
man of the Moore - McCormack
Lines, asked Congress yesterday
for a special maritime mediation
service.
He told the House Merchant
Marine Committee he’d be willing
to try anything designed to pre
vent frequent interruptions of ser
vice with inconvenience to pas
sengers and shippers and result
ing loss of cargo to foreign ships.
Lee said he favored a draft bill
prepared by the commitee staff to
provide a separate federal media
tion service for the maritime in
dustry.
Lee agreed with Rep. Dorn
(R-NY) and other committee
members that management abuses
of sailors in years past are largely
responsible for rigid demands
from labor unions today.
“Conditions lor sailors were de
plorable in the 20’s,” Lee said,
“but I fear now it could go too
far the other way.”
Lee said he felt that working
conditions have been improved
to the point that “life at sea is
very attractive to most seamen
now.’’ j
WIEN AIRLINES
From Fairbanks: John Shaeffer,
Ralph Savory, Lorena Murray, M.
Porter, Robert Campbell, Frank
Simmons, Harry and Charles
Lewis, B. Neilly, Mike Sullivan,
Alvira Wooton, James Hill, K.
Houston, T.D. Montgomery, Tom
Shaw, Pete Brandt, Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Anderson.
From Kotzebue: George Wilson,
Louise Voughlander, Robert Oli
ver, Sam Jackson, H. Missano,
Don Draper, Irving Reed, W. For
rest.
To Fairbanks: Major Campbell,
John Shaeffer, Capt. Savory, Wm.
Lennon, L. Savaaria, D. Oyloe,
R.C. Johnson, Irving Reed, Ralph
Hall, Terry and Barbara Savaaria,
L. Wood, T. Croy, R. Ridga, Leo
Domzalski, John Wey.
To Rainbow: James Hill.
A chestnut tree reproduces it
self in 20 years by sprouting from
the stump.
Hoover Reorganization Commission
Wraps Up Two-Year Job But Report
On Public Power Brings Sharp Dissent
Surgeon General
Promises Medical
Care of Indians
WASHINGTON, iff — Surgeon
General Leonard A. Scheele pro
mises an expanded medical pro
gram for Indians as the Public
Health Service takes over their
health service.
The Indian health and hospital
program has been operated by the
Department of the Interior. Con
gress last year authorized the
Public Health to take over the
program today. It affects 350,000
Indians living on reservations.
Scheele said “Preventable ill
nesses are accounting for half the
deaths among Indians who live
on reservations.” He said “in 1950
the average age at the time of
death among these people was
only 36. In contrast it was 61
among the white population.”
The program Scheele proposes
calls for increased Public Health
and preventatives services.
A division of Indian Health,
the service said, has been created
to administer the program. It will
be headed by Dr. James A. Shaw
who has been handling the pro
gram for the past two years in
the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Territorial Warrants
Issued Before 1, 1953
No Longer Payable
JUNEAU — The Treasurer of
Alaska, Hugh J. Wade, has noti
fied all banks in Alaska that the
Attorney General has ruled, at the
request of the Treasurer, that
Territorial warrants issued prior
to April 1, 1953, are no longer
payable.
The 1951 Legislature added a
section to a deficiency appropria
tion bill, which provides that
Territorial warrants must be pre
sented for payment within two
years after the biennium in which
they were issued.
The decision makes it possible
for the Treasurer’s Office to con
sider paid approximately 2,000 of
oustanding warrants — some of
them dating back as far as 1917.
The amounts of the warrants
range from 5 cents to $346—the
total of all of the warrants is
approximately $20,000.
The decision makes for better
bookkeeping, according to Treas
urer Wade, but he warns persons
holding Territorial warrants to
cash them promptly because they
are now considered paid, through
opera lion of law, if they are not
presented for payment before two
years after the end of the bi
ennium in which they were
issued.
WASHINGTON, OP — The
Hoover Commission wrapped up
its two-year job today embroiled
in controversy, but claiming its
re-organization plans, if adopted,
would balance the budget and
permit tax cuts.
Former President Herbert Hoo
ver, its chairman, issued a 19th
and “final” report—it isn’t quite
final because another will be
along in mid-July—and prepared
to withdraw from public life at
age 80.
The group—its formal name is
the CommissiQn on Organization
of the Executive Branch of the
Government—is due to go out of
existence at midnight Thursday.
The public power issue caused
the commission to expire in a
blaze of conflict. A Hooker re
port on “water resources and
power” issued Wednesday urged
a drastic curtailment of federal
power development and larger
scope for private utilities.
It drew sharp dissents from 4
of the 12 members, including both
Atty. Gen. Brownell and Defense
Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming.
James A. Farley, former post
master general in the Roosevelt
administration, charged the re
port came “dangerously close” to
inviting the government to “abdi
cate” its responsibilities in devel
opment of the nation’s resources.
Rep. Holifield (D-Calif) wrote
84 pages of stinging dissent and
promised to press his attack on
the floor of the House.
Holifield charged an 1,800
page report of the commission’s
task force on power — which he
said cost the taxpayers $430,000
— was withheld “deliberately”
from public distribution at this
time, but is destined, he said to
become a handbook for “private
power company propaganda.”
A commission spokesman said
the task force report was delayed
in printing, but might appear
next week.
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Steelworkers Accept
15-Cent Wage Boost After
Shortest Strike in Industry
PITTSBURGH, lto — U.S. Steel
Corp. and the CIO United Steel
workers today agreed on a 15
cent-plus average hourly wage
boost to end the shortest nation
wide strike in the steel industry’s
labor history.
The industry’s average hourly
wage rate previously had been
$2.33 per hour. This pact Would
bring the new average rate to
$2.48 per hour.
The pact, while half again
more than U.S. Steel Corp. had
originally offered, was hailed by
both corporation and union.
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