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Monday-Friday, 8:30 o.m..2:30 p.m. Saturday Subscribers who foil to leceive their papers by 6 p.m. are requested to dial 456-6661 before 7 p.m. Good News for Summer While the years go by pending a decision in Ottawa on a pact with the U.S. for paving the Alaska Highway, here is a small piece of good news.

Paving of heavy traffic areas near settlements along the Alaska Highway may be part of next summer's dust control program. Maintenance of some sections of the Alaska Highway through Canada left something to be desired in 1967, particularly near the State of Alaska as winter arrived. The paving near settlements would help. This word was received last week by the Whitehorse Star from Arthur Laing, minister of Northern Development. Mr.

Laing said black-topping would be extended at the south end of the highway, and that attention would also.be given stretches in such heavy traffic centers as Haines Junction, Whitehorse and Watson Lake. Alaskans and Alaska visitors will appreciate this attention, assuming it leads to action. Taxing Limit Reached? Faced with the necessity of raising taxes to meet essential services, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of.

New York, widely regarded as the potential liberal Republican candidate for President, warned that the nation might have reached a point where the people's expectations for more government services were outrunning their ability to pay for them. "Unless government at every level exercises restraint, there could be disastrous results created, with far more human suffering than we are trying to; eliminate in the programs we are carrying out at home and abroad," Rockefeller said. His thesis was that we have reached a limit to taxing without affecting the strength and growth of our economy arid the increase in job opportunities. Noting that Britain has been forced to devalue the pound, Rockefeller said that the dollar was under pressure, that the United States was overspending abroad, that it was losing gold, that it suffered from inflation and that the Federal budget deficit could be as high as $30 billion. He said that every state in the country faced a budgetary gap and that local governments suffered from the same problem.

It was time that someone of the governor's stature spoke for the taxpayers. In a sense, Rockefeller pointed out, it's time to balance our hopes and our aspirations with the realities of life. We must face the fact that government, just like a family, can't spend way beyond its income for very long without weakening its credit and without undermining its strength. We hope the budget makers on all levels will have that very much on their minds these days as they go about preparing their 1968 expenditures. Even though Rockefeller's warning smells of clever politics for a presidential election year, it still is good advice.

Growing Survivor Guilt "1 survived. They perished. Therefore, I killed them." In the fewest words possible, that is the way the survivor syndrome works. It is the guilt feeling of thousands who survive auto accidents, fires, floods and the other disasters. Dr.

William G. Niederland, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, labeled "the survivor syndrome" as a specific entity. He had studied 2,000 survivors of Nazi concentration camps, where he first identified the same massive trauma of guilt and lifelong patterns of anxiety and depression he found in sole survivors or almost sole survivors of natural disasters here. The symptoms are insomnia, nightmares, personality changes, chronic depressive states, disturbances of memory, anxiety and psychosomatic ailments. Treatment attempts to get the patient to re-experience his trauma, thus releasing grief and guilt, so they can be dealt with openly.

However, most patients do not get that far, and have to settle fer alleviating self-destructive symptoms. With an average of a thousand fatalities a week in auto accidents, the problem of survival guilt has been a big one in this country. The quicker we recognize and deal with it, the quicker will we relieve the trauma that results for the thousands of survivors. Gift Beginning Jan. 1, you may send by air mail, packages weighing up to 30 pounds to American military personnel anywhere in the world for regular postage plus a $1 fee.

The overseas personnel may use the same service in return. It is one of the nicest privileges the postal service has created for tfie military and richly deserved. Koneoe Itrummond; McCarthy's Bid Can Only Hurt Dems, Help GOP (Koscoe Drummond is on a brief holiday vacation. Today's column is by Philip Potter, the Washington bureau chief of the Baltimore Sun.) Democratic political pros who will be active in President Johnson's campaign for re-election see nothing but a "minus" for the president and his party in the challenge posed by the Presidential candidacy of Sen. Eugene J.

McCarthy and one of their major concerns is that he is going to drain off what normally would be Democratic money. These experts feel that much of the Republican money which came Johnson's way in 1964when Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona was the GOP candidate will be flowing next year back into the candidacy of whoever is the Republican nominee. Thus the Democrats will have to rely on traditional Democratic sources. The pros have no fear that organized labor will fail to come through handsomely, as it has in the past, the AFL-CIO having demonstrated at its last annual convention that its leadership still has an abiding affection for the White House incumbent.

But in the past many of the big contributions to the Democratic war chest have come from wealthy Jews of the Eastern seaboard, and support among these for McCarthy's candidacy, attri- butable almost wholly to his intense opposition to Administration policy in Vietnam, is a cause of concern to Democratic fund- raisers. THE EDITOR (Readers of the Daily News-Miner are welcome to write to the editor. However, because of space limitation letters exceeding 300 words cannot be accepted. Writers will be limited to publication of two letters within a 30-day period. Unsigned letters will not be published but the name of writer will be withheld from publication if requested.

The News-Miner reserves the right to edit or reject letters to comply with these limitations.) Jan. 4, 1968 Dear Editor: We would like to commend the Daily News-Miner on its fine coverage of the dispute between the Alaskan Railroad and the striking Teamsters out here at Clear. It gave the morale of these Teamsters quite a boost to be able to read an unbiased account of current happenings concerning this strike. Hopefully you will continue to follow your policy and print this letter giving the views of at least one Teamster's wife. We, and I believe I speak for the Teamsters as a whole, be.

What Others Say Attorney General Boyko and the Dragons lieve we have a legitimate griev- iance with RCA Service Company, and we are trying to settle this in a lawful and peaceful manner. Supposedly it is the right of a union to strike, and be allowed to carry out the standard procedures involved in any strike. This includes the right to set up and maintain a peaceful picket line. We have been harassed by the Air Force, not one time, but daily, over just about everything imaginable. We are not allowed on base for religious services, We are grateful to Atty.

Gen. Edgar Paul Boyko for excluding us up to press time at least Ms list of conspirators against the new state union Autonomy Act. According to the attorney entertainment or base exchange general the Daily News has permitted itself to be used by the con- riv ile es et I 161 6 are spiracy, which is not quite as serious as being considered part available to le that no of it A powerful and devilishly clever conspiracy this is. Boyko exposed all participants Wednesday for the first time. Here is the list of conspirators, according to the attorney gereral: 1.

The U.S. government. 2. The state Highway Department 3. The Alaska State Employes Association.

4. Local 302 of the Operating Engineers Union. They have combined forces, the attorney general says, to thwart the state's enforcement of the new union autonomy act, a law designed to cut the Seattle base from operating engineers who work in Alaska and require them to form an Alaska-chartered local. The motivation for the Seattle union's part in this conspiracy is plain. It is fighting to retain a very important segment of its Alaska membership.

The highway department, a heavy user of heavy equipment is involved, according to the Boyko version, because it is riddled with operating engineers sympathetic to the Seattle based union including, some of the top officials in the department The motivation of the state employes association is equally clear to the attorney general. Composed of a collection of hard core supporters of former Governor Egan (a Democrat), the association has seized this opportunity to embarrass Governor Hickel (a Republican), by casting stones at Hickel's attorney general (a Democrat). Why the U.S. government got into the act Is a trifle obscure unless it's because the U.S. government doesn't like Alaska or Alaskans, or b.

because the President is a Democrat Boyko calls it "raw politics," which seems a sufficient explanation. The conspiracy is using two weapons to fight Boyko. Most important, the U.S. government has not yet agreed to put up money for construction contracts that include the union autonomy clause. Despite this obstruction, the state could go ahead and build the new The state requires such a clause.

Despite this obstruction, the state could go ahead and build the new Anchorage Internationak Airport runway and other major public works projects withotit the federal government's approval. But there's a question of money; the state would have to proceed without the federal government's financial support. Sometimes, we're sure the attorney general would agree, principle is more important than money. So while the federal decision is critical it is not an absolute veto. Not so long as the state can either raise an additional $50 or $60 million in construction money this year from other sources or is willing to defer the projects until the problem is ironed out While he is fully engaged on the federal front, the conspiracy has cleverly jabbed the Orval Bray case into Boyko's ribs to distract and weaken him, thus opening the second front of this war.

Orval Bray is an operating engineer who led the fight for the union autonomy act Boyko ordered the Highway Department to hire him and the employes association has taken offense. We don't pretend to know the motives for the association's action. It could be a defense of the state personnel system against what the association views as an act of political pressure. Or It could be, as Boyko sees it, a political maneuver by his political enemies calculated to weaken his cause and the governor's prestige. Wednesday we published a story that said the employes association intended to pursue Its protest over the manner In which Bray was hired.

The incident that prompted the association charges was confirmed by Boyko, who was quoted extensively in the story. Following distribution of our paper Wednesday morning, Boyko made a number of radio and television appearances. He described the man who wrote the piece, Edlsenson, as a reporter and columnist widely known for his anti-administration bias. He described some of his enemies as parasites, then thought better of it and withdrew the word without saying precisely who the parasites are. He spoke well of the paper in one respect though, saying the story turned out much more balanced and objective than he thought it would.

Boyko pictured himself standing in the field of battle, slashing and cutting at the dragons breathing fire and moving in from all directions. Who would be so petty as to raise a nit-picking argument over personnel relations when the battleground is crawling with dragons? Only another dragon, obviously. In this manner, then, he revealed publicly, and for the first time, the details of the conspiracy. The revelation was prompted by our original story which, the attorney general says, was slyly and with monstrous intent, planted in our news columns by the conspirators. We can extract some quiet satisfaction from the fact that our innocence may hava served a useful purpose.

Anchorage Daily News way connected with the Clear Air Force Base in any way. We are allowed to pick up our mail and use banking facilities only with an armed guard as an escort. It is a bit difficult to explain to a 3-year-old child why an Air Police has to take Mommy in a truck with a flashing red light just to pick up mail, it is difficult to tell a five year old he can't attend the Saturday kid- die show any more. In short, it is difficult to be treated as though we are criminals, or are a threat to the security of our country because we want to be able to make a fair living wage. Warehousemen and bus drivers are being put through exact- Jan.

2, 196S Alaska State Police 1616 Cushman Street Fairbanks, Alaska Gentlemen: Highly exaggerated reports to the contrary notwithstanding, I am still healthy and vigorous while no part of me, not even so much as a hair, is among the missing. My thanks to you for the effort you put forth and the risk you- took in my behalf. It Is regrettable, tnougn, that public servants must jump when an irresponsible person speaks. However, your visit made me very unhappy. Perhaps you noted that my screen door was well fortified with barbedwire, the purpose being to discourage the entry of wolverine, bear and the other varmints.

At the time of your visit, it was keeping three lively, house-unbroken pups and their mother from entering. The main door does not have a lock and the bitch is adept at opening it. Hence the closed screen door. When entering a cabin in the absence of the owner, good manners dictate that scrupulous care be taken to leave everything as is. This is especially important in the case of a door.

Leaving a door open That money will be the least of McCarthy's concerns as he embarks against the President in the Democratic primaries is attested to by many of his supporters. As one knowledgeable Democratic pro, active in past Kennedy and Johnson Presidential campaigns, explains it, McCarthy's dependence on wealthy liberal Jews for substantial contributions to his cause was responsible for his quickie decision to go into the Democratic primary in Massachusetts without waiting to clear it with Democratic Sen. Edward F. Kennedy, whose bailiwick it is. It is said to have happened at the recent Chicago Conference of Concerned Democrats, when McCarthy was informed thatagroup of liberal Jews from Massachusetts had grown restlessoverhis hemming and hawing ontheques- tion of going into that state, and made an appearance before them to state unequivocally that his hat would be in that ring.

The Minnesota senator is said to have later apologized to Sen. Kennedy for not having told him of the decision first. Incidentally, McCarthy's failure to observe protocal in this instance with one of the Kennedy brothers is regarded by some of Johnson's key political advisers as refutation of the President's suggestion at a recent news conference that there is a "movetient" by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and McCarthy, working jointly, toun- seat him.

While other Democrats besides Johnson, according to this source, incline to the view that there is a clandestine operation going on in which McCarthy is only a "stalking horse" for Bobby there is stronger reason to doubt it. As Johnson's lieutenant puts it, there never has been any love lost between Bobby and Gene. In fact it was said, their interests always have been and still are inimical. In 1960, when Bobby was serving as campaign manager for his brother, thelate John F. Kennedy, then seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination, McCarthy tried hard to block it, eloquently presenting at the convention in Los Angeles the case for giving a third nomination to the late Adlai E.

Stevenson. As tor McCarthy's bid for the 1968 nomination, this source holds, it could only be regarded by Bobby as an attempt by the Minnesota senator to usurp leadership of a liberal block in the Democratic party which hitherto has looked to the senator from New york as its champion. But collusion or not between the Kennedys and McCarthy, the latter's challenge to Johnson cannot, in the eyes of most Democratic pros, be other than a minus for the party as a whole in the 1968 campaign, moneywise and for other reasons. "It can only help the GOP and its candidate," is the verdict. are not even on strike.

They and would like to take this opportunity to give them a big Thank You! It seems odd that demonstrators, not even organized or peaceful are allowed to stage demonstrations, sit downs, walk outs, in the White House and even at the Pentagon, yet we are denied, or rather I should say, are trying to be denied, the right to have a peaceful picket at Clear, Alaska. If the Air Force is not out to harass God, too, we are holding a non-denominational religious service at the picket line, entrance to the base, Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m. You are all invited to attend. Sincerely, Mrs. Don Stuart RCAS Box 39 Clear, Alaska Jan.

2, 1968 Dear Editor; The following is a clipping from the February 1967 issue of the Reader's Digest who, in turn, gave credit to the New York Daily News: For Our Listening Pleasure Since its fall television-season kick-off last September, the Bel'l "Telephone by the American Telephone Telegraph has been doing something novel. Rather than interrupt these musical programs with frequent commercials, the company has held all advertising remarks until the end, trusting listeners to stay tuned. Response has been overwhelmingly favorable, and goodwill toward the telephone company is increasing fast. We'd be simply charmed if various other TV and radio advertisers would follow lead and soon. To which a fervent AMEN.

Yours truly, August Lohi P.O. Box 2131 Fairbanks, Alaska. to is not to reason why, but to do" (as the poet says) when you find a screen door closed during the season when bugs, bees, and beetles are not busily buzzing about. I was sickened by the obscene mess in my cabinwhenlreturned four days later. Yours truly, August Lohi P.

0, Box 2131 Fairbanks, Alaska Jail'Residents' SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) There are no more inmates at the New Mexico State Penitentiary. Warden J. E. Baker ordered that prisoners be referred to in the future as residents rather than inmates, the prison magazine reported.

ALASKA'S HIGHEST RATED TELEVISION KFAR-TV Channel 2 MONDAY 4.30—The Doting Game Good Company (ABC) Peyton Place Thirty Highlights Reporter 7:00 Man From U.N.C.t.E. (NBC! of Cuiter (ABC) FBI (ABO Martin snow 1 00 Brinkley Report (NBC) News Final The Tonight Show TUESDAY Hollywood Honeymoon Raw (ABC(Color 1 Family Game (ABC) Tolkino (ABC) 1 Donna Reed Show (ABC) Fuaitive (ABC) Newlywed Game (ABC)Color Girl '67 (ABC) Hospital (ABC) Shadows INSIDE MORE UFOs SPOTTED flying objects of a bright orange color have been spotted by our Decring correspondent, Gilbert Karman, over Kotzebue Sound, and near Grey Mountain near Whitehorse, Y.T., by two Whitehorse boys on a snow machine, who say they saw one about 4 p.m. Jan. 2. They described it as bright orange and yellow, and pulsating.

They told the RCMP that for several seconds while it was overhead their snow machine wouldn't work and they felt heat PICKET BENMETT? The natives are apparently getting restless in Anchorage, Restless enough, so we hear, to picket Bob Bennett, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, when he arrives from Washington, D.C. next week. INCREASED POSTAL RATES REQUIRE NEW ISSUES collectors were caught unaware by the announcement that the six-cent Roosevelt stamp was issued in coil and booklet form on Dec. 28, the same design tvhich was originally issued on Jan. 29, 1966 at Hyde Park, N.Y.

The booklets will consist of four panes of eight S-cent Roosevelt stamps and one pane of eight one-cent Jefferson stamps, and will sell for $2. However, the booklets will not be available until after the one-cent Jefferson stamp is issued on Jan. 12. CHECKING Wilfred the Turnip Writes Quick Tales ByL.M.Boyd CLOSE SCRUTINY of insurance statistics shows age 28 to be when most young men stop denting up their cars IF SOME HANDSOME INTERNE says you've got cheilitis, nurse, don't fret. That means not lips ANCIENT RECORDS kept by Roman legionnaires described the fair-haired German men up north as "curiously faithful to their wives." NOW THAT HE IS OUT of jail, Wilfred the Turnip, whose bag was checks, writes quick tales about confidence men who never get caught.

He is 63, if you count as most men do that broken string of 30 years in suspended animation. "I wrote my first hot one for fun, my fifth for cash, and my tenth for a stretch of five," he tells. He drinks with honor, Wilfred does, not waiting for his pardners to get their Federal pension checks before inviting them to bottle, and in that he is much a man, although cynics will call it loneliness and laugh. "I went to jail on purpose once," he says, "under the delusion I'd get time to write." But he never wrote a line in the joints, not one. Still he claims "Don Quixote," "Pilgrim's Progress" and Luther's translation of The Bible are the only three books in the world worthwhile, certainly because each was written in a prison.

After his hunger strike about a generation with every prison meal was his objection and he was not a brilliant strategist- turnips were all he got for a month. Credit that for the rest of Wilfred's nomenclature. "THE PANTS are tine," said the suit salesman, tugging at my belt with his forefinger, "but I do believe you need to be taken up a little in the waist." Twirp. Q. "IF BERT PARKS at age 18 was not the youngest network announcer of all time, who was?" A.

Am checking up Q. "WHO HAS THE SHARPEST sense of man i woman or a child?" A. A woman between the i. es of 13 and about 48, say the men of science THAT SONG "Seems Like Old Lornbardo wrote it, right?" A. Believe his brother Carmen did.

"ALWAYS ON THE RIGHT SIDE of the wagon tongue," says a onetime Wells Fargo driver," stood the tallest horse, sometimes called the high horse, also known as the off horse. Directly behind, on the wagon seat's right side, sat the driver. So it's odd that the horse farthest from the driver to the left of the tongue was called the near horse, but such was the case." A DOWNED PILOT'S eyewitness account, this. High along the Amazon, where that vicious tapeworm of a river uncoils out of Peru's upper tract to writhe off through the ungodly green innards of Brazil, stands a crumbling hut, wherein two natives, out of it entirely, roll their eyes and clap their hands and tap their feet on the dirt floor in hysteria compelled of the relentless rhythm, which issues forth from a small transistor radio, playing Sonny and Cher's "The Beat Goes On." AIRY CONVERSATIONALISTS who can't tell a Titian from an Irish setter have laughed lightly for 50 years in knickknack shops at unaffected folk who say, "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." Why? What's funny? I don't get it. RAPID REPLY (l) SEALS don't sweat, sir.

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