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Discriminating News . . .
WE HEAR A LOT about discrimination in the news
these days and yesterday’s news carried a notice
that a bigger and better ship is being asked for by the
Interior Department to the tune of $375,000 to replace
the North Star which has been in operation since 1945.
While private enterprise is struggling to get
enough cargo to efficiently operate along the coast
of Alaska to serve ALL THE PEOPLE the Bureau of
Indian Affairs wants more tax money to serve much
of this area in a discriminatory manner, to only the
ESKIMO people.
Considering that this it the time to build rather
than destroy normal privately owned transportation
systems now in operation rather than further hinder
development of Northern Alaska, the Bureau of In
dian Affairs should cooperate with such companies
as the Alaska Steamship Co., B & R Tug & Barge
and other companies now in business by contracting
out to them ports they now serve or which they would
be willing to put on their routes if the business were
offered them.
We firmly believe this would benefit the taxpayer
substantially as such companies can operate ships
more economically than government operated vessels.
At a time when the tax load is heavier than it
ever has been in the history of the nation, it is neces
sary more than ever to study the economic viewpoint
carefully.
There was a time in history of the Interior De
partment that the health needs of the natives was
serviced entirely by boat. Now most of this medical
and dental work is by airplane. There was a time
when the people of King Island depended on the boat
to take them home each year. Now only a few people
winter on the island which may soon be abandoned.
The handling of Nunivak deer from that island
should be considered a commercial enterprise rather
than a government monopoly and handled as such.
We do not imply that the Bureau does not need
any ship, because it does, but a big Liberty ship can
not service the small villages efficiently which are
confronted by shallow waters in this part of the
country.
If Northwestern Alaska is to develop, it must do
so by the cooperation of, all business and all govern
ment agencies. We recommend a delay in authorizing
this appropriation until the matter has been more
carefully studied.
Egan Renews
Requests on
Waterfowl Laws
JUNEAU W — Gov. Egan said
Thursday a three-nation treaty
covering migratory waterfowl of
North America was written to
“prevent wanton slaughter of the
birds, not to overlook a necessary
W'av of life for an entire people.”
Egan made the comment at his
regular Thursday morning news
conference while discussing the
recent arrest of two Barrow Es
kimos, by U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service agents, for shooting mi
gratory waterfowl out of season.
Following the arrest, 138 Bar
row natives brought illegal ducks
to a mass meeting and signed
statements saying they had taken
the waterfowl out of season.
The migratory waterfowl sea
son is based in part on a 1916
treaty signed by the United States,
Mexico and Great Britain, acting
for Canada.
Egan had asked the Interior
Department, prior to the Barrow
incident, to relax its regulations
covering the taking of migratory
waterfowl to permit northern
Alaskan natives to kill the birds
for food at any time of the year.
The natives claim the hunting
date restrictions of the treaty
forbid them to take migratory
waterfow’l, legally, while the birds
are in the Arctic areas.
After the Barrow arrests, Egan
renewed the request to the In
terior Department, he said yes
terday, and conferred with mem
bers of the state’s congressional
delegation.
Egan said he believed the FWS
should have tried to create an
atmosphere of education prior to
the time the Barrow Eskimos
were arrested, and “then, per
haps, this sort of thing could have
been avoided.”
“The natives approach the
problem from the standpoint that
someone has eliminated their
planned food supply,” the gov
ernor said. “If this is done, what
are they to do to keep food on
their tables?”
The governor said “we prob
ably would find that Eskimos in
the northern regions of Canada
are probably doing the same
thing, to sustain life in a hard
land.”
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Kennedy Briefs Top Congressional
Leaders on Vienna Meet With Nikita
Editor’s Note— What in
formation. in addition to that
included in his televised ad
dress to the nation, has Pres
ident Kennedy given Con
gressional leaders about his
conference with t Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev? Jack Bell,
veteran chief of the AP’s Sen
ate Staff, discusses the report
Kennedy gave influential
members of both parties.
By Jack Bell
WASHINGTON M — President
Kennedy has informed Congres
sional leaders that Premier
Khrushchev raised his voice when
he told him in Vienna that West
Berlin is a bone that must come
out of the Soviet throat.
The President also reported
Khrushchev indicated he regards
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Cas
tro as unstable — and not a Com
munist.
Kennedy briefed influential
members of both parties at a 90
minute White House conference
Tuesday before he told the nation
in a television-radio broadcast a
few hours later that the West is
ready to maintain its rights in
Berlin “at any risk.”
The briefing, during which the
President read from his transla
tor’s transcript of some of the
conversations, was said to have
disclosed that Khrushchev was
vitally interested in only two sub
jects at this time — Berlin and
a change in the secretariat direc
tion of the United Nations.
So reported by responsible
sources, these were some of the
major topics discussed and the
positions taken in the 12 hours of
conversations between the two
leaders:
Berlin — Khrushchev has not
changed his position of more than
two years’ standing that he in
tends to sign a separate peace
treaty with East Germany. He
fixed no date for this action. He
told Kennedy that nobody but
the United States still believes
East and West Germany can be
reunited.
The only time Khrushchev
raised his voice in the whole
period of discussion was when he
talked about Berlin and used the
bone in the throat phrase he has
employed before. Kennedy said
in his broadcast to, the nation
“there was no discourtesy, no
loss of tempers, no threats or ul
timatums by either side” during
the Vienna conferences.
United Nations — Krushchev
contended the U. N. actions in the
Congo, under the direction of
Secretary-General Dag Hammar
skjold, were not neutral but were
pointed against Soviet interests.
Never again, he said, would the
Soviet Union be placed in a posi
tion where its national security
policies could be interferred with
by the international organization.
This was the beginning, he in
dicated of the “Troika” policy
under which the Soviets would
insist that the unanimous vote of
a three-man board — on which
the East, West and a neutral
would be represented — direct
the actions of international com
missions, including the United
Nations.
Cuba — Khrushchev does not
regard Castro as a Communist. He
told Kennedy “you are well on
the way to making him a good
one.” The Soviet leader indicated
he regards Castro as unstable.
Laos — Khrushchev said he
wasn’t interested in trying to
make the Laotian government
Communist. He would be glad to
settle for a neutral regime. Ken
nedy asked if the Soviet leader
would help get the Geneva con
ference on Laos off the ground
and he promised to do so.
Wars — Khrushchev predicted
that there will never be a nuclear
war. He drew a rough map of the
Soviet Union’s land mass, fringed
with satellites. If it is a conven
tional war, he said, “we will put
five divisions where you put one.’'
Nuclear Testing — Khrushchev
stuck firmly by his demand for
“Troika” control. Kennedy got
the definite impression the So
viet leader is not interested in
having any test ban and shows
no alarm about the possible pro
liferation of weapons to other na
tions, including Communist China.
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