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4 a i a Daily News-Miner, Friday, April 17, 7964 "Independent in Att Thingt. Neutral in None" Daily News A I A PubllsMd Dilly Exnpt SunUiy by Filrtinki PutltMitng Inc. C. W. SNEODEN DAVID B.

GALLOWAY Preildtnl ana Putllstier Executive Editor Specific Missions Get Results An outstanding example of the way service clubs are chipping in to help Alaska in a time of need is the Lions Club project to establish a new village for the displaced residents of Afognak. As in the case of Fairbanks and Ft, Wainwright assisting Valdez, this is an example of the value of picking one project and seeing it through, rather than galloping off in all directions with the best of intentions. Why Afognak? Due to the nature of the losses, such villages as Kayugak, Old Harbor and Chenega qualify for relocation and rebuilding by government agencies; whereas, according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the 170 Afognak villagers qualify for only partial assistance. However, they lost their village store, post office, community hall and 15 homes. This Is where the 49th District of Lions International comes into the picture, Because of the danger of future flooding on the southern shore of Afognak Island, just north of Kodiak Island, the villagers have agreed to relocate to Settler Cove in Kizhuyak Bay on the northern shore of Kodiak Island.

They have also decided to name their new home Port Lions. This project is certainly in keeping with the "We Serve" theme of Lions International. "That's why we are here," is the way the Lions District Governor Ross Wood put it. "We can cut a lot of corners that the government agencies can't. We can throw the rule book away," Darkness at High Noon Boyle's View of the INSIDE 40 YEARS AGO TODAY April 17, 1924 NEW ORLEANS, La.

(AP)- Ben Eielson left this morning Eventually there comes a time'for Seward to see the globe when the children are who arrived in Seward (sidered old and strong enough on Sunday. He will join Harold stand a trip to the places where T. Lewis in Nenana. and Mr. their parents once lived Lewis will accompany him to went to school.

My announcement of the 1963 vacation in remembrance of things past was not greeted with enthusiasm. One person's nostalgia is another's trauma. Denis, 15, wanted to the coast. 30 YEARS AGO TODAY April 17, 1934 Expressions of appreciation of the public services of incum- go to bent and retiring officials were Mexico City and see, among expressed at the meeting of the things, the mosaic Council last night on the I at the University of Mexico conclusion of the terms of May- library. Melissa, 13, wanted to or Arnold M.

Nordale and Coun- visit cousins in St. Louis, Mo. Tommy, 8, wanted to go to New York and ride, ride, ride on the oilman Virgil Bailey, who not candidates for re-election at the recent election and who subways again. My wife, have been succeeded by Mayor Gladys, had just as soon stay at JE.B. Collins and Councilman nome I Arthur Leslie Nerland.

Father's plan was approved by a vote of 1-4 with father cast- 10 YEARS AGO TODAY ing the only affirmative, but de-1 April 17, 1954 I tiding, ballot. statement was forthcom- So the car rolled northward tojj toc i a rom Northern Com- El Dorado, where Gladys me rcia! Company officials on once lived. The car wheeled the status of the strike which through stopped. the city Was this and the then right street? And if so where was the old house? It was the right street but the house and the neighbors' houses had disap- took all clerks out of the store Thursday and put them on thej first picket line in NC's history. Recalls Chilean A Theory That Failed The theory behind communism--which had had 45 years now to prove itself--is that the wealth should be shared by all.

This was to be done by an all-powerful government which would own and direct anything of any consequence and make all the decisions. The result has been the creation of the greatest poorhouse in history. To quote from Time magazine, "The eight-nation group created by the Communists in frank imitation of the Common Market not only has failed to relieve the economic chaos in Eastern Europe, but in many ways has actually worsened it. So nightmarish is their job that the satellite economists have begun to grumble openly." The moral is plain enough: Economic progress, with all it involves in the way of living standards, has Allen-Scott Report: Political Earthquake Over Alaska Relief WASHINGTON explosive political Fishing Skipper peared to become the site of I big motel. i Mother's high school was just few blocks away.

Looks jus Quake Experience like a high school, the children SEATTLE A 70-year- said with unanimity rare for Seattle fishing boat skipper them, said Monday he saw "a whole Next, to Hot Springs, mountain" go straight up into I now a motel metropolis. Fa- the air during the disastrous (doubt he is prepared to redouble I house was sti11 there but Alaska earthquake March 27. his efforts against the S3 4 billion it brought forth no expression of Lars Wicks, skipper of the sought by President Johnson. 1 awue we went crab boat E1 Dorado, school. Again, it looked just like said he was headed for Kodiak, i Bitterly Gruening referred a high school.

I off Cape Barnabee, about an I the "double standard" being ap- so far, no runs, no hits, some hour after the first and biggest! I plied to foreign countries and (errors. shocks, when: I disaster-ravaged U.S. citizens. I The University of Illinois was! "Suddenly a whole mountain A If the U.S. can spend billions! "Why such a double stand-i' next stop.

But once on the heaved straight up! I don't know; earthquakejaiding foreign countries a should to seeT I cUl under it. Then it down." A yUllLlucU tal UIIJUCXIVC CUUlilg 1JI Clgll I I 1 I I 1 I that could have stinging election (stricken by disaster, he told Shave to fight for every once important to you repercussions is rumbling omi-i Anderson, why shouldn't a U.S.(that goes for our folks at whe TMs bee torn down? nously under the Alaska Recon-l state in dire need get the same every case, domestic sxpen-! scnbe tne hu tree wn lcn 'ditures have to go through lineti tlle Broadwalk when they" GEOLOGISTS EVERYWHERE--Within 24 hours after the disastrous earthquake, 15 U.S. Geological Survey geologists were in the field in Alaska looking at the upheaval. Some o.f these people were already in Alaska, Bob Chapman told an earthquake symposium Wednesday night, but many of them were rushed here from Menlo Park, and Denver. Some even came from Washington, B.C.

Chapman is geologist in charge of the Alaska Geology Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey. Other geologists who work for the Corps of Engineers and the State of Alaska have been working side by side with the USGS men (and women). What happens to some of the rebuilding plans in some of the hard-hit communities will depend a great deal on what these geologists will recommend. We don't know if it will be heeded, but Chapman said, for instance, that Valdez probably would be much better off if it were relocated to a more stable location--say the old townsite.

He emphasized the word "probably." Other factors will enter into the final decision on Valdez. SANTA GETS Claus our North Pelt way received a letter from a Chicago man this week in which a check for $25 wai enclOMd. The check, wrote the donor, should go "to wherever it will do the moit good the quickeit" for the earthquake victims in Alaska. Santa couldn't spread the $25 around too far among the Valdez folks so he gave the check to the Earthquake Disaster Fund, Box 1271, Fairbanks. The man from the windy city making the donation named Arthur E.

Wind of 3952 Shakespeare Ave. He written to Santa many times before. He writes a few Santa Claus letters himself around Christmas time and sends them to Santa in North Pole to postmark so the kiddies will get a real North Pole letter. CLEARING HOUSE FOR INFO-University of Alaska experts have ben called into the earthquake aftermath in many ways. Geologists, engineers, economists and many others are offering their assistance whenever called upon.

As a matter of streamlining and assisting, an agency to channel earthquake information has been set up at the of A. It's called "Earthquake Information." Its address is simply the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. PLANT IT FIRMLY--Sood old (olid earth and good old bed rock we thought the other day when repeated an old saying (how old, we don't know): "Foolish man who built his house on sand and great was the fall of it." News-Miner Clnssifieds Bring Results struction Commission created I kind of treatment. by President Johnson to aid In fact, Gruening deliberate established authoriza- have be replaced by younger, disaster-shattered state. lit might be a good idea to useltion and appropriation proce- and nea tn i but much Top Alaska officials and busi- some of the unspent foreign aidldure, and properly so.

But trees? Identify a building which ness leaders are irately charg- funds (estimated by him at $10 the case of foreign aid, the ex-! wasi i there ears a but nown ling the commission with pussy-i billion) for this purpose. and penny-pinching; withj To dramatize this point, he levincing more concern about i stressed the tremendous losses university Horary tortu- ecutive bureaucracy has a blank 1 check to ladle out now well overi ji $100 billion as it sees fit There i natel was in its accustomed is almost nothing that Ia bu jt the! technicalities and formalities I suffered by Alaska's fishing fleet ul 6 i than the restoration of the land the millions the U.S. had haven't done in public and pr i-1 stauieci ho were state's devasted cities, homes! ladled out to foreign countries to j'vate sectors for people in more as acce taDie to Uems a i Rehabilitate and develop 100 foreign nations. 1 mosaic murals. inHncfripQ i I I stl Want to S66 MeXlCO tnese! fishing industries "To me, it is unthinkable cif nts is i "One of Alaska's greatest! as jji which all human freedom rests.

The whole history of (Senator Clinton Anderson, D-ilosses was to its canneries as its primary requirement--economic freedom. Then, I 3 on y- beyond the material, economic freedom is the basis on ane 1 Alaska's greatest LTf 0 II LTM tm I City," said Denis. "When are we going to communism refutes the efficiency of the superstate. I commission chairman fishing fleet," pointed out Gruen-1 what" I TMifu to New' It is being indignantly pomtrd; ing. "This is a major industry I sjm anH ohvin is it tar from here to New Others Say out that the veteran New Mexico land vital to Alaska's total ecorf- politico has little or no directiomy.

Without its reconstruction 1 i. nH to TM nh in knowledge of Alaskan conditions (there will be high economic loss- Skeleton in the Cupboard Judge A. H. J. Swencisky let a skeleton out of the cupboard with his decision that B.C.

Indians must be permitted to hunt game animals for food on Crown lands, despite what our game laws may be. Most British Columbians don't want to meet this native Indian skeleton. For one thing, it reminds them that they invaded this land, little more than a century ago, and took it from the Indian. For another, they are baffled, because they don't know how to help the Indian, even with the best intentions. His individualism, his quiet humors, his peculiar lack of a sense of time and his strange prides and prejudices are puzzling and embarrassing.

It would be so much more convenient to the white if the Indian would disappear from this area, preferably by becoming like all the rest of us, thereby proving the essential propriety of our way of life. Ally these i.hings, the Indian declines to do. He remains, for the most part, poor and proudly Indian, a reproach to the affluent society. Whether or not the Swencisky decision is upheld on appeal, British Columbian and other Canadian Indians should not delude themselves that here is a road back to what are called the good old days. In almost all of Canada, the hunters' economy is as dead as the Saskatchewan buffalo herds.

Neither white nor Indian will see it return. If Indians take advantage of the Nanaimo County Court decision to slaughter game indiscriminately, there will very soon be no more game and no more hunting, only Indians living poorly on the white man's conscience money. Judge Swencisky's decision reminds white British Columbians, now the great majority, that these people do have special rights. There have been other reminders in recent months, from the Northwest Territories, from Manitoba and more recently from Washington State. There be more.

Whether or not the Canadian treatment of the Indian has been fair--and it may certainly be argued that in the last century it was far more fair than the near-genocidal policy on the American western plains--it has obviously been ineffective and unsatisfactory to both parties. Judge Swencisky wisely suggests that his decision be appealed to a higher court, and the attorney-general's department sensibly agreed. A matter of this importance, affecting as it does Indian rights as well as game conservation, deserves deep study. But the common attitude of indifference about Indian claims to aboriginal rights in Canada has been thoroughly shaken by the Swencisky decision. So it should be.

Any B.C. Indians who believe that hunting and fishing rights can guarantee prosperity or who suggest that their reserves can indefinitely accommodate the native Indian population are eating wind. Together with people all over this planet, they have been catapulted into a new, technological age, demanding high education and new skills. As with any other- people, the Canadian Indian has no retreat to the past, only an avenue to the new age. This is well known to the new generation of B.C.

Indians. If Indian leaders suggest that the right to shoot a deer is any Teal solution, they do a cruel disservice to this generation of their people, --Vancouver (B.C.) Sun. itude in coping with them. Resentful Outburst 3 (and needs, and is displaying a and high unemployment. tight fisted and legalistic atti- We've been more than generous i in developing the fishing re- I sources and industries of a mul- The one-time agriculture sec-jtitude of countries." retarv in the Truman cabinet! For Anderson's information i and CQntinue to give suggested that hard-hit Alaskans i foreign aid in recent years, as: our (jollars as soon i jgo into bankruptcy.

Anderson follows: Us any a i i snawned Fnalish Hike oc. iiot i new nallon is spawned, i i i niivc may be unprecendented in friend who had lived in Hoti domestic field but has been (Springs when I did. practiced for 17 years for foreign -i sometimes wonder," he i That legislation mused, "if our children are im: should provide precisely the res sed by the place where 1 i same treatment we have long.Vaddv crew up." New York The new GEICO representative for the FAIRBANKS area- TUt IKICI ID A Cllvl A THE WEST INSURANCE-FINANCE SERVICE MR. DAVID L. WEST has been appointed EXCLUSIVE local representative far Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) of Washington, D.C.

and affiliated companies: Government Employee! Life Insurance Company (GELICO), GEICO Finance Company and CRITERION Insurance Company. (characterized this as a "normal process" and cited examples, notably the long bankruptcy of a even i- i Nationalist China $848,0 0 its first grant in 1955 closely paralleled Mayor Peveau's re-! "That legislation should, for Already Steep the now-prospering Missouri- quest in amount, namely (Alaska, be a complete restor- Tnkrirro 1 I nnn I 1 1 jl i of Jnrt i nn (Pacific Railroad. The proposal drew caustic re- Itort from Elmer Rasmuson, i Anchorage banker, whose home 000: Indonesia, headed by thatjat'on charming Sukarno, who has just said: 'To hell with your Cambodia, which like- jwise has told us to get the hell rehabilitation program, adding the nation's re- INSURANCE AND FINANCING SERVICES available- LONDON (AP)-The govern-) sources to the brave self-help- me.it Tuesday hiked the already ing efforts of our fellow-Ameri- stee taxes on tobacco and cans in Alaska. If this is not cohol by about 10 per cent to a 'J df larger for i W3S Q6StrOy6Q. i i a ncia LUIU uo LU KCL LUC ncn iu nwf, "Surely, you aren't Viet Nam, where done, if it is made impossibleJf' 'P 'Rasmuson.

"Such (we have recently, on Secretary I for the Alaskans to restore what "TMg et 'bankruptcy would break every jMcNamara's return, stepped up i was and rebuild the strong ne 'bank in Alaska. What kind of a military aid already over 1 Northern and Northwestern bul-i, 01 fl rent bud 8 et Is 13 'solution is that? What we need $1 billion, by S50 million-near-1wark our continent chancellor of the Exchequer GEICO Auto Insurance Boatowners Insurance Personal Liability GELICO Life Insurance: Family Plan Life Mortgage Protection Endowments FINANCING Auto Financing (Domestic and Overseas) Mobile Home Boat is a helping hand, and not legal $2 million in fishery aid a in me making, and they eimmicks a stratagems. 908,000 to be exact). 'save and return to the 'South has lost his home, his business or his plant? How he going to get started again by going I into bankruptcy?" Reginald Maudling told the I House of Commons the tax in-j What's a man going to do who "India, Pakistan, our national security will CI eases were to he)p meet the $1,355,670 (apparently when truly jeopardized." nations are at swords' point we've got to help them both, as further illustrated by warring Despite President "to hell with your aid" pro- Indrson'gol a similar bitter Ethiopia "and" Somalia, bottTof jnouncement, the U.S. has, in response when he advised a Ko-i i get fishery grants from! vetl nlm ml I "'n in diakcanner to borrow money i also Korea, to the tune of! nce slnce Januar y.

a nd put his badly damaged plant to date; Laos, Liberia, sup a into operation. spending and to curb "Where would I obtain such a loan?" demanded Peter Deveau, mayor of Kodiak and manager of the cannery, the only one remaining there. "We were already in debt from expanding $12 million in cotton. and modernizing our plant CO ntrast is shocking; indeed, fore the disaster wrecked us. (nauseating." Where and how would we get Extreme Unhappy the government.

"But if the government will lend us $200,000, the cannery can be put into shape in time for the (fishing season, and that will mean employment for at least 300 people now out of work. That would be a tremendous boon to helned bv! i letlKr lnaliEh ed rieipea oy tQ Anderson that ar( Kodiak and Alaska's economy in general." Dead silence followed veau's request. Charity Begins at Home "extremely unhappy" about his attitude and apparent "niggling" plans. "This is perhaps an understatement," declared Gruening. "Some are deeply discouraged, others are bitter.

They feel that you have not appreciated the This threatening political storm is bluntly summarized in a blistering letter Senator Ernest Gruening, D-Alaska, has sent Senator Anderson. Gruening minced no words and pulled no punches in his magnitude of the disaster and (resulting problems; that the i remedies you propose are wholly and inadequate; and that by excluding direct help to I backstage blast. the private sector and indicating your opposition to any federal grant, you have, in effect, foreclosed Alaska's recovery." Gruening, one of the leaders in last year's stormy battle that slashed some $2 billion from (the foreign aid budget, left Turkey, Ghana, Ivory million in vegetable oil and Coast, Nigeria, Iceland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Chile, El Salvador. Peru and British Guiana. "None of these countries has suffered damage to their fisheries as has Alaska.

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