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The frontiersman., 1952-06-12
SENATE APPROVAL OF APPROPRIATION FOR EKLUTNA EXPECTED

Up until noon today no report has been received at local Eklut- na Project headquarters regard Ing anticipated Senate approval Of the SIS million appropriation under the original $20 million Congressional authorization for the project.
 Rumors stemming from an ur- gent wire from Clyde Ellis of the National Rural Electric Co-opera- tlves Assn. had many people in the Anchorage-Matanuska Val ley area fearful that close-down order for the Eklutna project was Imminent. It was believed that such an order would follow an unfavorable Senate vote on the appropriation. The House already has approved the appropriation, and local Bureau authorities are confident of Senate approval also.
 Although both Ellis and Dele gate E. L. Bartlett thought the situation serious enough to war rant wires of protest against con- templated disapproval of the ap- propriation, Bartlett later issued a statement asking Alaskans to stop sending wires, since they were not necessary.
 
 In the House Interior sub-com- mitee, the Bureau is having a harder time explaining the diff ference between the Eklutna Project cost figures on which the original S20 million project was authorized, as against figures rep resented in the requested boost of the authorization to $35 mill lion. Although the power plant construction contract has not yet been awarded, contracts awarded already exceed the $20 million authorized so far. This irregular ity is receiving the indignant at tention of the House Interior sub- committee this week.
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PuImer's Luck
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 more than three months of work in 1852. Freeze-up in November would halt most construction op- erations until late next spring.
 Even more disappointing than the delay would be a reduction of the distribution system in case new bid opening reveals bids comparable to all except bid in the June 4 opening. With only S405,900 available for the project construction, unpleasant adjust ments in current plans would be necessary if a bid for $l50,000 more were accepted.
The frontiersman., 1952-06-12
HERE FROM JAPAN

George T. Hagen, brother of Al Hagen, arrived in Palmer last night after a trip from Tokio, via Seattle. As special assistant to the S.C.AP. legal section in Japan and chairman of the parole board, Hagen has spent the last six years in that country. During five of these years his family was with him there. With the signing of the Japanese peace treaty, Hagen's tour of duty was com pleted. After a few days visit with brother Al, whom he had not seen for IT years, George Hagen will return to his former
 home in Minnesota.
The frontiersman., 1952-06-12
Youth Dies

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 driving too fast for conditions as he approached the west end of the bridge going toward Anch- orage. The wooden floor of the bridge was wet, and evidence pointed to the fact that the truck skidded, careened over into the opposite lane and ripped off 136 feet of the guard rail on that side before making a pancake landing 15 feet below the bridge. The impact of the landing ripped the hood off the truck. The con- dition of the front wheels after the accident suggested strongly that faulty steering apparatus might have been one of the causes of the accident.
 Al King rushed the injured man to the hospital after an An chorage man had removed him from the truck cab.
 Young Davis was driving the truck for Rogers Construction and Babler Brothers, a construc- ton company located north or Palmer on the Glenn Highway.
The frontiersman., 1952-06-12
$22,41o Deficit Looms

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 receipts from local sources was a big question mark for the amount the school district might receive from Palmer city sales tax income. Unless the estimated deficit can be erased by an allo- cation from the sales tax source and Tor a raise over the estimated income from the property tax source, the School Board may be faced with the grim necessity of pairing down the budget or going into debt for such items as gym nasium and school site purchases. Last year as the tax roll was be- ing prepared the school tax asses sor opined that S80,000 might be collected from the 10 mil prop erty tax in the school district this years estimate allows for the collection of S67, 400. Total taxes assessed for 1851 actually amounted to S58,420, but the To- cation of hitherto untaxed prop critics might conceivably bring the 1852 tax roll total close to the tax assessors optimistic es- innate of last year.
 The increases in the school budget this year, exclusive of the amount for outlays, represent
The frontiersman., 1952-06-12
Crop Improvement
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 an official of your organization my heart and soul will continue to be with you. You are vital part of the Alaska Certified Seeo Growers Association and as re- sponsible members of this organ ization, I hope you will continue to strive towards an effective seed program within the Terri tory.
 We are very fortunate in hav- ing the Alaska Agricultural Ex- pertinent Stations and their cap able staff of technicians who are behind us one hundred percent. Please continue to give them your support. They are vital to the or ganization and your organization is needed to make their work more effective in helping the people of the Territory.
 "As to my reason for leaving, 1t is only fair to tell you that my superior, MT. Lynn o. Hollist, Director of Extension Service, in- formed me that my work with the Extension Service is consider ed non-essential in his move to scut down the budget of the Ex- tension Service.
 Thanking you for your splen- did cooperation, and looking for ward to visiting you at some fut- lure date. l remain
 Sincerely Yours,
 Irving w. Abbott,
 Executive Sec'y
 Alaska Certified
 Seed Growers ASS'n"
The frontiersman., 1952-06-12

largely the added expense of op- erating a new school building, the addition of four new teachers to the staff, and salary increases which partially approach but by no means meet the increases of- fered to school teachers next year in other comparable school districts
 City Councilmen Allan Mick, Lloyd Severns and Chet Sandvik were appointed to study the bud
The frontiersman., 1952-06-12
LIBRARY ASSN. GRATEFUL FOR FREE PAINT JOB

The Palmer Library Associa- ton extends it's appreciation to Bertram Curry, local painting contractor, for contributing his time to the painting of the library building, and to the MVFCA for furnishing the paint.
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 each year of service up to eight. $100 is added. A teacher who has a Masters degree gets $120 extra. Increases in salary above the Territorial scale must be borne entirely by the school district.
The frontiersman., 1952-06-12
TO ATTEND LEGION AND AUXILIARY CONVENTIONS

Dr. and Mrs. F. R. Sims leave next Wednesday to attend the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary Department conven-' tions to be held in Ketchikan June 1921.
The frontiersman., 1952-06-12

get and make recommendations regarding Council approval of the regular meeting next week.
Evening star., 1952-06-22
The Second Year

It was too pat for mere coinci-
dence that Jacob Malik should agree
to go before a United Nations mi
crophone on the Saturday night
before the first anniversary of the
war. The series of broadcasts, in
which Mr.. Malik had agreed to take
part, was called "The Price of
Peace" It was not a top-Hooper
rating program, and those who
tuned to it that Saturday evening
expected to hear either pious
mouthings or Communist gobble-
dygook. The price of Peace"
quoted in rubles, was too high,
most people felt.
But Mr.. Malik, that night, put
bargain-basement price tag on the
universally desired commodity,
peace. After uttering the usual
calumnies and citing as "well-
known" truths the usual lies, Rus
sia's U. N. delegate came to the
point.
"The Soviet peoples further
believe that the most acute prob
lem Of the present day-t11e prob
lem of armed conflict in Korea
could also be settled.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

Senting vote. created the Commits
sion. Working under the former
President Herbert Hoover. the group
found shocking examples of waste
and inefhciency.
Two Big Items
Some 800 specific recommendations
were made for revamping the Gov
ernment. The object was to spend
less Of the taxpayers money and to
get q dollars worth of service for
every dollar spent.
The Hoover report itself did not
put price tag on the savings and
eficiencies which could result. Indi-
vidual commission members and
groups set up to support the Hoover
Commission, however, were quick to
supply figures. The estimates since
1948 have ranged from So billion to
$40 billion.
President Hoover started the ball
rolling when he said that If the whole
Of the Commissions program could
be carried through there should be
a saving of about So billion a year
without any reduction in Govern
ment services.
DR.. Robert L. johnson, chairman
Of the Citizens Committee for the
Hoover Report. private organiza-
ton set up to press for action on the
Hoover reforms, estimated in May
1949 that upward of 81 billion would
be saved annually.
Estimotes Soor
BY November, the top limit on
saving went to SIS billion in a speech
by an official of the Citizens Com
mittee. The biggest jump in esti-
mates came in 1850 when the Fed
eral budget was almost doubled to
pay for the Korean war. The swollen
budget made savings up to SO bill
lion possible, Q Citizens Committee
Evening star., 1952-06-22

More than three years ago the
Hoover Commission completed its
study Of ineficiency and waste in
the vast, sprawling Federal Govern
ment and recommended streamlin-
ing designed to save an estimated So
billion year.
Action on these recommendations
Is approaching its end. Some go per
cent Of the streamlining has been
accomplished. How may billions of
dollars have they saved in all?
At least 50 billion, former Presi-
dent Hoover says.
A mere $34 million for sure, Senator
Mcclellan, Democrat. of Arkansas
asserts.
The Arkansan is chairman of the
Committee on Government Opera
tions which handled the reorganiza-
ton plans based on the Hoover re-
port. His word on reorganization
matters carries much weight in the
Senate. He said Wednesday, during
Senate debate on three reorganiza-
ton plans. that his low estimate Of
Hoover Commission savings should
dismiss with finality :. the exag-
gerations, Misrepresentation, and,
in my opinion. deliberate distortions
relative to potential economies which
may be expected to come from re-
organizations such as those pending
in this body today"
He urged that the three plans be
defeated. They were, by wide mar
gins.
Advantages Or None?
Who is right? Did the Hoover
Commission labor nightly for two
years and bring forth mouse? Or
did 1t really put billions of dollars
worth Of efficiency into the Federal
Government?
A search for the answer goes back
TO 1947 when Congress without Q dis
Evening star., 1952-06-22
A Third Year?

Before trying to sort out the pos
sibilities, let us face up to a couple
of important questions: /. What are
we doing in Korea? 2. How has our
purpose been affected by the battle
lull in the past year?
We went into Korea to show the
Reds that the free world could not
be taken over piecemeal by armed
aggression. We have shown them
that. Communism's armies started
marching two years ago at the 38th
Parallel. Today they are back where
they started. We are still in Korea
because, having thrown the enemy
back across his borders, we have
not yet been able to negotiate
way of keeping them there. Our
finger Is in the dixie, and we do not
know when we can take it out.
The fact that we are having a
hard time finding a way out of the
Korean war does not, of course,
mean that we made a mistake in
getting into it. The merit of our
original Korean decision cannot be
judged by the results alone. 1t must
also be judged against the alter
native results which might have
been expected if the Communists
had been allowed to get away with
this first blatant aggression. So
judged, even today, it looks like a
decision which had to be made.
BuiIdup and Letdown
The answer to our second ques-
tion is somewhat more complex.
In the year since the truce talks
began, the Reds have had more
than a chance to rest. They have
had a chance to build their power.
They now are estimated to have
about million combat-ready troops
in Korea, or waiting in reserve on
the Manchurian border. They have
tanks and heavy guns they did not
have. They have new air strength
something like 1900 planes, of
which perhaps 1000 are jets.
The U. N. forces meanwhile have
put fresh (Which means green)
troops in the line. But the number
of our troops committed has re-
NAMED fairly constant. We had
about 350,000 in Korea year ago.
We have about that number now.
And the year of hopeful waiting
has had other, subtler effects. Un-
doubtedly, it has somewhat cooled
our blood. With each passing month
Evening star., 1952-06-22
The First Year

It was the dawn of a Sunday just
two years ago. Korea was-at that
instant-still the Land of the
Morning Calm," which had been its
rather fanciful name for thousands
of strife-torn years.
As the sun came up over the
mountains Of Korea, few American
thoughts were on that far penin-
sula. The Secretary Of Defense,
Louis Johnson, and Gen. Omar
Bradley-just back from a trip to
the Far East-seemed convinced
that continued peace in Asia was a
good bet.
Then the traffic signal that is
controlled in Moscow switched from
red to green. Like a rush-hour
crowd in a New York subway, the
armies of the puppet North Korean
government surged forward against
the ineffectively manned border
posts of the South Korean Army.
The war was on.
Picture in Focus
BY y-D-day plus 3-June 2S-the
picture was in focus. Unchecked by
outside forces, the North Koreans
would easily overrun the entire
peninsula. The United Nations gave
clearance for police action against
the aggressorS. But there was no
real police force under the U. N.
Boldly, President Truman stepped
in.
At first, the United States sought
to give only air support. After
three more days, ground troops-a
single battalion-moved in. It was
like trying to stop tank with a
barricade of eggshellS. The Reds
raced south, seemingly invincible.
ReinforcementS came in; at first
a regiment, then a division, then
more substantial formations. Final
ly, the United Nations had enough
power in the field to start fighting.
The mushrooming war effort in
Korea posed a difficult problem for
the United States. Gen. Douglas
Macarthur, commanding the U. N.
forces, also had the job Of occu-
pying Japan. He took a gamble.
He stripped Japan Of occupational
forces and sent them to the front.
AZ the summer wore on, 1t be-
Evening star., 1952-06-22

gan to look as though Gen. Mac
Arthur might get his troops back
from Korea-or at least the rem
nants of them. The battlefront
no longer was a line drawn ever
farther southwark across the pc
ninsula. The advancing Reds
turned the corner in Southwest
Korea. What had been a line be-
came the boundary of a pocket,
centered on the vital port of Pusan.
1t. Gen. Walton H. Walker, the
ground commander in Korea, told
his men to stand or die. He had
said it before, and always the Reds
had pushed on. But this time the
troops responded. Some died, but
more stood. The Reds were stopped
only about 30 miles from the U. MS
last toehold.
That turned the tide. In ILL
kept secrecy, on the west coast of
the peninsula, new forces waded
ashore to cut the North Korean
supply lines. 1t was a risky thing
-riskier, even than emasculating
the occupation of Japan. But like
the first gamble, the second one
worked. Now it was the Reds turn
to run.
Perhaps, in a sense, the success
at 1nchon and later was too great.
The inertia of the initial push took
the Allied troops. all the way to
the Manchurian border.
There had been rumbles from
inside China meanwhile-rumbles
that no one in authority paid much
attention to. Three times the Chi
neSe warned that If North Korea
were invaded, China would retail
late. Dean Acl1eson, Secretary of
State, seemed to think it was a
bluff. At Wake Island in October
Gen. Macarthur seemed to support
Mr.. Acheson's view. In sending
troops far to the north, Gen. Mac
Arthur was taking his third CAL
culated risk.
The Humon Wove
This time the gamble did not pay
of. TWO hundred thousand Chi
nese-glibly styled volunteers" in
true Communist black-is-white Ian
guage-swept down on the United
Nations forces. The allies had seen
some dreadful fighting when only
Koreans were opposing them. But
when the Chinese came in, they got
their first real taste OF the human
wave-an earnest Of the absolute
disregard Communists hold for
human life.
It was winter of suffering and
strife, not only because of the type
Of war being fought, but because of
the weather as well.
As the impetus of the Allied drive
the summer before had carried the
U. N. far to the north, so their win
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Hoover recommendations had been
enacted.
Lowton's Lower Guess
Then, on Wednesday. Senator Nc
Clellan produced report from F. j.
Lawton, Director of the Bureau of
the Budget, which seemed to knock
those high estimates into cooked
hat. It was on this report that Sen
ator Mcclellan based his $34 million
figure and his charge of exaggeration
and Misrepresentation.
A close study of the report. how
ever, produces a different picture.
The Budget Bureau did list examples
Of evident and tangible economies"
which have come from action on the
Hoover Report and which totaled
about $34 million. But these were
only examples.
The Budget Bureau explained-at
length-that it simply isn't practical
to put a dollar sign on all Of the
improvements resulting from the
Hoover study. There have been saw
ings through increased efficiency
which cannot be valued in money.
There have been money savings
which cannot be divided into those
resulting from the Hoover recon-
mendations and others resulting
from routine administrative changes.
One Budget official put it bluntly:
mo one is ever going to produce a
definitive figure on the Hoover saw
ings. It can't be done-and we aren't
going to try it."
The Citizens Committee may still
make final estimate when it winds
up its affairs next month. But it is
beginning to look as If the public may
never really know what was &C
complished in this public service of
Americas only living former Presi-
dent-the service he said would be
his last.
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"This would require the readiness
of parties to enter on the path of
a peaceful settlement of the Ko-
rean question. The Soviet peoples
believe that as a first step, discus
Sions should be started between the
helligerents for a cease-fire and an
armistice providing for the mutual
withdrawal of forces from the 38th
Parallel.
"Can such a step be taken? I
think it can, provided there is a
sincere desire to put an end to the
bloody fighting in Korea"
Negotiations Stort
The Western world mulled this
offer over. Six days later, Gen.
Ridgway offered the Reds an op-
portunity. for meetings aboard
Danish hospital ship. They turned
this down, suggesting the ancient,
battered town of Kaesong instead.
KaeSong had significance for the
Communists. It was just inside
North Korean-held territory, and
just south of the 38th Parallel.
Gen. Ridgway acceded.
Almost at the moment Mr.. Malik
spoke, the fighting died down. And
except for relatively minor jockey
ing here and there along the line,
the battlefront has been in a stale
mate ever since.
At the Kaesong conference table,
the two sides were like a large cat
and small dog, watching each
other warily, now one giving way
an inch, now the other, neither
quite ready to make either peace
or war. That was the way the
situation stayed for two months.
There was i'll will aplenty. But
on each side there also was a dis
inclination to call a halt to what
amounted to truce.
Ponmunjom
The atmosphere at Kaesong
eventually proved intolerable. There
were charges and countercharges
of violations of the neutral zone.
Finally, when the talks seemed on
the verge Of collapse, they were
moved to crossroads not far away
"a spot so little known that few
Koreans, even, had heard of it. It's
name, Panmunjom, is known today
to people everywhere.
The issues on which the peace
conference worked brought troubles,
one by one. The negotiators could
not agree on buffer zone. When
they did, cease-fire line gave
them trouble. When this stun
bling-block was overcome, the mat
ter of prisoners became an issue.
In December, the Communists
yielded to insistent Allied demands
and produced a list of prisoners of
war held by them. According to
United Nations calculations, 1t
Evening star., 1952-06-22

TT WAS hard to realize, this calm
Il summer week end, that the
Korean war this coming Wednesday
would enter its third year.
There were, Of course, nearly
10000 U. s. grave markers to testify
to the fact. There were almost
$4,000 missing American troops
most Of them, it Is presumed, in
the hands Of the Communists.
There were $4,000 Americans wear
ing Purple Hearts in witness to the
hazards Of war.
Yet-even two years after-it was
not officially war. The Supreme
Court had made this clear in the
epoch-making steel decision earlier
this month.
And 1t did not feel like war
except to the men who were fighting
it. True, there was the draft, and
there were economic controls of
sort at home. The normal amount
of grouSing about both was heard
in the land. But the general feel
ing was one of business as usual.
Not Even Politics
Even politicians, with their eye
on the main chance in even-num-
bered years, were not making the
indicated amount of capital over
the war. The Republicans were
vociferouS in their criticism Of the
way Korea had been handled. The
Democrats generally hailed Korea
as the only thing possible under
the circumstances. But there was
little convincing talk about don't
change horses" in one camp, or
about 1--WE can run it better" in
the other.
In that sense, at least, 1t was
probably the only war since the
Black Hawk Rebellion that the
public so successfully managed to
overlook. Unlike the Black Hawk
Rebellion, it was no little war. Al
ready it had lasted longer than
World War I; already 1t had cost
more in life and blood than the
Revolutionary, 1912, Mexican and
Spanish-American Wars put to-
gether.
As the dawn of the third year of
war approached, the end still was
not even In sight.