A Practical Approach . . .
WHAT THIS COUNTRY needa^ is^more citizens
S^tention as far away as Dallas, Tex., justifies the
hope that their example may be contagious.
“The MolaiRa River in Oregon,” says the Dallas
Star Post, is like many peaceful streams that under
storm conditions goon a rampage. At a horseshoe turn
in its course it has been eating away valuable farm
land on its periodic sprees, so the farmers affected
organized the Molalla River District Improvement
Co., Inc. Following the current practices, aid was
sought from Great White Father. This led to the U.S.
Corps of Army Engineers. Then the fun started.
“Disssatisfied with the engineers’ estimate of
$188,000 for a flood control improvement in addition
to erosion elimination, to be carried out at some un
certain future date, the farmers decided to start a
• ‘do it yourself’ project. They borrowed a tractor last
fall and in some two weeks cut a new 500-foot-long
channel for the river to bypass the 1,800-foot horse
shoe. It has comtroMed (the erosion. The cost was some
$1,500, compared with an estimated $188,000 for the
' more extensive government project.
“Commenting cm this self-help, the Feather River,
Calif., Bulletin said: Tt costs the federal taxpayers
nothing, lit makes one wonder how mudh of the federal
tax bill could be at the same time increas
tag the efficiency of operations now financed by the
taxpayers^# a little common sense were applied to
Ifcalso makes us wonder^bow many co^imities
Death Takes
Sam Kayburn
F ip
Douglas Cornell
BONHAM, Tex. — Sam Ray.
bum, who served longer as House
Speaker than any man, died yes
terday in the home town he loved.
Cancer and its complications
caused his death. He would have
been 80 on Jan. 6.
The White House was notified
immediately. So was Rep. John
W. McCormack of Massachusetts,
the Democratic Leader of the
House.
McCormack was the man Ray
bum chose to serve temporarily
as Speaker when "Mr. Sam" had
to leave Congress before it closed
because of what he called lumba
go.
But even then, his doctor be
lieves, he knew he had cancer.
The physcian, Dr. Joe Risser,
and members of the Speaker’s
family and staff stood by the
bedside in Risser Hospital as Ray
bum faded away.
“It was a very easy death for
a very great man,” Dr. Risser
told reporters.
Asked about the immediate
cause of death, Risser said simply
that: “He just quit breathing.”
Then, in more formal language,
he put it this way:
"At 6:20 this morning Mr. Sam
passed away. He died quietly. He
showed no evidence of pain lines
in the face. He seemed to be as
one in sleep.”
Rayburn had been unconscious
for about 36 hours before his
death. The doctor and family had
spent two near-sleepless nights at
the hospital.
Authorities here said the fu
neral will be at 1:30 pm. Satur
day at the First Baptist Church,
in Bonham.
The burial will be in the family
plot perhaps three-quarters of a
mile from the center of this north
ern Texas town of 7,000 where
Rayburn was the outstanding
citizen.
President Kennedy is expected
generally to attend the services.
The first telephone call from
the little yellow brick hospital
after Rayburn died went from
Dr. Risser to Kennedy's physi
cian in Washington, Dr. Janet
Travell.
The sergeant-at-anns of the
House, Zeake Johnson, was told
promptly that the man who
wielded the gavel there more than
twice as long as any other was
dead, and it was for him that
the first word of Rayburn’s death
came out.
Rayburn was elected Speaker
Sept. 16, 1940, after the death of
Speaker William Bankhead.
He had served as Speaker ever
since, except for the congression
al sessions of 1947-48 and 1853-54,
when the Republicans controlled
die House.
At Rayburn’s bedside here
when he yielded to cancer were
members of his family, doctors on
the hospital staff and aevaral
members of his family, doctors on
the hospital staff and several
nurees. ’; v- . ’ ‘
IS Persons are Injured^
BOSTON UH — Two airliners
collided Wednesday night at a
runway crossing on Logan Inter
national Airport.
Fifteen persons were injured,
none seriously.
The collision wrecked one of
the planes, a Northeast Airlines
jet-prop Viscount The entire after
end of the plane was tom off, in
cluding the lounge and part of
the passenger cabin.
The other plane, a four-engine
DC-6, owned by National Airlines,
came to a halt after the crash
with its nose on the ground, the
landing gear was broken, the bot
tom of the nose chewed, and the
fuselage cracked open just back
of the pilot’s compartment.
The Northeast jet-prop had just
landed after a flight from Wash
ington and New York. The Na
tional plane was preparing to
take off for New York.
The Northeast plane had a crew
of 4 and 40 passengers, and the
National liner carried 25 pas
sengers and a crew of 5.
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Rev. Bob Leight
pi Missionary Pastor
if tifOW MUCH MONEY
DID THEY SPEND ?
The other night there was
a room full of Nome citizens
who waited in vain for the City
Council to approve all their
recent spending. We wonder
why they didn't bring up all the
billsf You might wonder too!
Of course you would hesitate
to bring up a certain bill, too,
if that bill was for a trip to
Anchorage involving six men
that cost as much as taking the
33 members of the Nome School
Band throe years ago to the
same city. The Band came homo
with honors.
JSS-J* *****
bock? How much did they
spend and what was it spent -
for? You have a right to know.
Just go down and ask the City
Clerk to zee the lush expense
account of the six men who
came back with nothing mere
than a stereotyped report of
the happenings at the League
of Alaska Cities that could have
boon mailed for 44.
Wo as citizens of Nome would
like to know if we got our
money's worth, especially since
this same Council continues to
wrangle about a small expendi
ture to make our fire warning
system adequate. The fact that
our fire whistle blew one night
and nearly woke file entire
town didn't stir our Council to
action for they had weightier
(and costlier) matters to spend
mix mom, for.
If it was worth $1,800.00 to
send our elected representa
tives to Anchorage we would
like to hoar soma details about
it! Attend the next Council
meeting.
TAxSSrmG^VOT^S
— Paid Aivt.
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(V Now yon can finally say (
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■k»4| to all washing cares 1
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J "^NOME U-WASH I
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