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MS Bids Invited

The 17th Naval District Public Works Officer has released invi- tationS to bid on two informal construction contracts involving the U. S. Naval Communication Station here.
 Informal Contract No. GOA de- scribeS the work as furnishing all labor, material and equipment necessary to install approximately 300 linear feet of electrical ground conductors in three CCL towers.
 Informal Contract No. GOA de- sists of furnishing all labor, ma terial and equipment necessary to install approximately 280 lineal feet of walkway over existing gravel surfaced built up roofing.
 Contractors may obtain construc- tion and bidding data upon appli- cation to the 17th Naval District Public Works Officer, Box 38, U. s. Naval Station, Kodiak, Alaska.
 Sealed bids in triplicate on forms furnished by that officer will be opened at 3 pm, (AST) on 19 May 1860.
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Museum Is Open On Saturday Night

In conjunction with the King Crab Festival, the Kodiak museum will be open Friday and Saturday evenings from 7:30 to g p.m., as we'll as Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4 pm, according to an an. nouncement by Don Clark, Presi- dent of the Kodiak and Aleutian Historical Society.
 Opening the extra hours is to allow visitors expected during the Festival more time to visit the museum.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-05-07
9 9Candidates File In Senate, House Race

filed for Senate seat Two ohers seats in the State Legislature and Emil Knudsen the coming primary elections seeking seats the House be held August g. of RepresentatVeS Trent S d ie-
 Two ncumbens Sen Al employee the Naval Sta again on and is opening an ee
 filed Both are Democrats business in town Emil have filed cand businessman m o Weir pilot with diak many years standing
Kodiak mirror., 1960-05-07
Seeks Study Of
 Russian, Japanese Fishing Activities

WASHINGTON R - Sen. Bart lett has asked Pres. Eisenhower to bring up the subject of the North Pacific fisheries at the sum- init meeting in Paris.
 Citing the increased Russian and Japanese fishing activities, he told the President in letter he hopes it as well as the walrus and polar bear can be placed on the agenda. He called particular at- tention to the increasing competi- tion to exploit Alaska king crab and founder resources.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-05-07
1860 KODIAK KING CRAB FESTIVAL UNDERWAY

The Small Boat Harbor will be the hub of activity in Kodiak today (Friday), Saturday and Sun day, as residents and visitors alike celebrate the 1860 King Crab Festival.
 The Festival officially opened today (Friday). at 12 noon. and appropriately enough, with skin diving. Many of the concessions on the midway, too, opened to lure the passerby with offerings of prizes easily won. Streets, too, are decorated, and banners welcome all to the big festival.
 All is in readiness, according to Roy Hickey, general chairman for the event. The committees have functioned we'll, and the organiza- tional work is complete. With a plane-load of visitors aboard a turbo jet arriving Saturday, and many more expected from points around the island, and the local residents expected out in full force, the Festival this year should top anything seen here in previous years. All that is needed is little cooperation from the weather.
 The Festival is expected to draw huge crowds of children, with two events especially planned for them. An event that had great appeal for the youngsters last year, will again be run. This is the Rotary sponsored train" a series of dollys, pulled by iitney, which will make trips at regular inter vals through town. The children will board the "train" at the Small Boat Harbor for the free ride.
 Another event of special interest to children will be the children's parade at 10:30 am. Saturday. The high school band will furnish the marching music.
 The remaining events for today (Friday) will be mainly airplane and boat rides, crab pot bowling at the Elks Bowling Lanes, and all events eliminating with big dance at the Elks Club. A style show sponsored by O. Kraft x Son and the Wardrobe is feature at traction.
 The midway will again open Saturday morning, following the children's parade. Boat cruises to the crab grounds will be available from Ii ann. to pm.
 The Jaycees sponsored deep sea diving events will be run off Sat urday, beginning at 12 noon. See elsewhere for more details of this highlighted event of the Festival.
 The crab judging contest will follow immediately. There have been several entries this year, with prizes of $50 each being offered for the largest and heaviest crab. Immediately following, crab auc- tion of the big crab will be staged. Auctioneer Pye Watson will call for bids, and the proceeds will go to aid the Griffin Memorial Hospital Fund. .=t
 Crab cannery workers will match their skill in crab shaking contest which is scheduled to fol low at pm.
 A king crab dinner, sponsored by the mothers of the Little Lea guers, will be served at the Elks Club from 4 pm. to B pm. This monstrous morSel of the deep will be served in great quantities and
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PORTLAND R - Ten business men have signed for the 11th an- nual Chamber of Commerce tour of Alaska, May 15-24. There may be more.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-05-07

WASHINGTON R-EyewitneSs accounts of huge Russian fishing fleets in the Boring Sea were given by two Alaskans.
 Herb Hilscher, Anchorage, told of the visit last month of we'll equipped fleet of 58 Russian boats midway between the Pribilof Islands and the mainland. Ralph s. Jones, vice-president of Wake field Fisheries, Kodiak, told of U. S. ships having withdrawn from the area 30 miles off of the Alaska Peninsula because of Russian oper- ationS.
 The two men discussed the prob lem with Sen. Bartlett, and gov ernment officials. Jones said the boats were forced to withdraw be- cause the Russians used tangle nets which spread over about 10 to 20 miles" on ocean floor.
 Sen. MagnuSon, D, Wash, said the incident could have been most serious" He said he asked Secre- tary of State Herter for early talks with both Russia and Japan.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-05-07

Harvey's Flying Service; Fred Brechan, businessman and mem Der of the City Council; Eudora Preston, schoolteacher and house. wife; and Gil Jarvella, pilot for the Kodiak Airways. All are run hing for House seats except Bre- chan. who filed for the Senate.
 Three have filed on Republican tickets. A. Holmes Johnson is seek
Kodiak mirror., 1960-05-07
LEGION COMMANDER
 ON TOUR OF FIVE CITIES

JUNEAU R-Martin McKneally, National Commander of the Amerl- can Legion, will visit five Alaska cities during his May 1921 tour, beginning at Ketchikan.
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in the fields. eating after
men of the household have
finished. A bus company re-
Gently gave up The idea Of
girl conductors. They were
pinched black and blue by
male passengers.
They Share the Burden
In Thailand, village women
share the burden of farm
work. But by law women
can vote, run a business or
hold all but the highest mu-
nicipal or civil service Offices.
Men ale legally limited to
one wife apiece but the
concubine system thrives.
France has sought a bal
ance of equal rights for
women within a framework
that recognizes their leading
role as homemakers.
French women may envy
the appliances and gadgets
which ease housekeeping in
America. But they criticize
American wives for ruling
their husbands--in French
eyes the cause of the nigh
United States divorce rate.
AS many countries do,
France makes generous fam
lily allowances to encourage
births. Government nurseries
are provided for working
mothers in big cities.
However, the present trend
is for French mothers to re-
main at home.
The double moral standard
still prevails in France, but is
disappearing among young
couples as economics make
support Of a mistress more
difficult for husbands.
Looks Are Deceiving
In Japan, women may look
docile but actually they are
among the worlds most de-
termined and strong-willed.
Since l945 they have &C
quired voting rights, protec-
ton against divorce, a legal
Evening star., 1960-05-08
It's a Changing World
Millions of Mothers Finding New Status

say in matters of inheritance
and almost limitless oppor-
tunities in education and
jobs.
This is a radical change
from prewar times. Visitors
to Japan see only the gentle
obedience expected of women
socially. But in most SAL
aried homes husbands give
their monthly paychecks to
their wives, who handle the
family accounts and provide
their husbands with spend
ing money.
Illustrating the change
wrought by Western democ-
racy is Mrs. Fujiko Yama-
mota, AZ, who separated from
her husband because 'he did
nothing but loaf around"
She took over their confec-
tionery business and explains,
II believe women are in a
better bargaining position
than men in the business
world"
In the Soviet Union, wom-
en- get the same pay as men,
not only by law but in prac-
tice. They hold many top
jobs, including posts as fac
tory foremen and labor brig
ade leaders; many Russian
doctors are women.
Almost all wives work, with
children cared for in state
run day nurseries or - the
most common practice - by
a grandmother or elderly
woman relative who is no
longer employable otherwise.
Other working mothers, es-
pecially those with we'll paid
jobs, hire maids.
In Sweden and Denmark,
women feel they are the
worlds most emanicipated
both in sex and suffrage.
Sweden has a national asso-
citation for sexual advice
which sells and encourages
the use of contraceptives by
both married and unmarried
persons.
In both nations the gov
ernment gives free maternity
care and cash allowances for
children to mothers, married
or not. In Sweden it has been
said the government dis
courages matrimony by i'm
posing a higher rate of in
come tax on married couples
than single persons. Statis-
tically, every sixth marriage
ends in divorce.
In Poland, behind the Iron
Curtain, housewives get few
convenienceS or luxuries. In
their eyes, American women
enjoy a dream life of ease.
For them, everything is per-
feet" sayO Wanda Szewczyk.
who lives with her husband
and two children in a two
room apartment.
1t is hard to find a Polish
woman who does not believe
she would fare better in
America, where many have
relatives. Polish women raise
the biggest families in Eu-
rope and also hold down full
time jobs in industry, busi-
ness or the Communist ad-
ministration.
There is a government
birth control program but
with little effect thus far in
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tically no legal rights. She
must even have her nus
bands written permission to
open a banking account.
But, says Mrs. Nola Gold
of Johannesburg. Women
are respected by South Afri-
can men,"
There are other excep-
tons to the feminine surge
to power. In Turkey no
harem-like restraints are i'm
posed in big cities. But in
farms and villages, custom
still DEGREES a mans world.
In rural Turkey, if you see
a woman at all she is mind
ing children or working the
fields.
Two Extremes
Egypt also illustrates two
extremes. Last summer
Cairo University Coed Lila
Nadia, machine gun tucked
under her arm, made her
first plane jump as one of the
first traineeS of an Egyptian
woman paratroop division.
Another young Egyptian
woman, Melissa Zeinab, can
neither read nor write. She
was married at Is to her first
cousin, the husband her
parents selected. When he
took a second wife last fall.
Melissa quietly moved her
straw mat to another room Of
their mud house and slept
near the COW.
Legally. Egyptian women
have equal rights. Daugh-
ters whose mothers are still
confined in harems may COM
pete with men in almost ali
fields.
But practice may be quite
different. Nearly all mar
riages are family arranged.
Egyptian women of the
upper class probably have
it easier than any other
women in the world; few
would want any different life.
Says Suzy Badawi: "Can you
imagine me working all day
like the Americans, then
coming home to cook and
clean house? It's too funny
for words"
But women of the lower
class live like slaves, working
Evening star., 1960-05-08

laws and permits only sepa-
rations which forbid remar-
riage.
In Britain, women are
comparable in emancipation
to their American sisters.
American women have the
edge in business but British
women progress better in
medicine, politics and civil
service.
British women have about
the same legal, political,
property and social rights as
the menfolk-with an edge in
some legal matters. But
British men on the whole
believe in keeping woman in
Evening star., 1960-05-08

sit stolidly in bus or subway
seats while women stand.
The male attitude is likely
to be: They want equal
rights and equal pay, jolly
good luck to them. But that
also means equal rights to
stand in the rush hour"
Evening star., 1960-05-08

her place and are aghast at
reports of domineering
American women.
As in other countries where
women have won the fight
for equal rights, British
women have lost out in the
decline Of gallantry. Men
Evening star., 1960-05-08

the predominantly Catholic
nation. The population of 80
million is growing at the rate
Of $4,000 persons a year.
In Argentina women enjoy
a freedom only slightly less
than men in business and
politics. But by social
custom a married woman
never goes out with a male
escort other than her hus-
band. And only recently
have schools been co-educa-
tional.
The woman rules the home
and Mothers Day is a gala
holiday. Prevailing Catholic
influence opposes all divorce
Evening star., 1960-05-08

, population explosion testify.
. But mothers and women the
. world around are less con-
, fined by traditional restric-
; tions than ever before.
; The relentless march of
. emancipation has put moth
. ers into Parliament in Japan,
b In urban professional Jobs in
Turkey, made them doctors
and scientists in Soviet Rus
sia, lawyers in France and
Office workers in Thailand.
A survey on women's
changing lives abroad, by key
foreign bureaus of the Associ-
ated Press, shows more and
more mothers are working
outside the home.
Children may be left at
governme en- t-run day
nurseries, as in Russia. or
at home with nurse sitters, as
In South Africa.
In most of the Western
world women have won-and
exercise-equal rights in law.
politics, property and edu-
cation. In Britain, a men,
ber of Parliament recently
argued that emancipation
has gone so far, action should
be taken to raise the status
of men to that of women.
Even in the Far East, long
a feudal stronghold for sub
.jugation of the weaker sex,
women are welding new
found powers. But by custom
they do not share the full So
,cial freedom of American
wives and mothers-who. in
cidentally, might be surprised
at the unenviable reputation
they have as henpeckers.
Just About Equal
In Thailand. the ladies'
traditional in sarongs or
, modern in slackS-feel they
are just about equal to
American women.
South American Senoras
are teaching in universities;
Norway has women taxi
drivers and police patrols.
Sweden has admitted
women as priests in the Lu-
theran state church; Egypt
: is training women para
troopers; in Denmark women
smoking cigars are a COM
mon sight.
Even staunch supporters
of equal rights for women
find some disturbing elements
in such achievements. In the
Soviet Union, where women
legally are fully emanci-
pated, they lay bricks, pave
streets and operate earth
moving Neutrality-suspicious. as
backbreaking as when peas
ant women titled the fields
in the days of the Cars.
In South Africa, on the
other hand, a wife has prac-
Evening star., 1960-05-08
By NORMA GAUHN

Associated Press Nevsfesturs Writer
On this day. dedicated to
her honor. Nom can look
at the wide world around her
and heaye a sigh of content
ment.
Not only are there more
mothers than ever-as ex-
perts fretting about the global
Editer's note-Motherhood hos
long been the prineipeI oceupotion
Of most women Ground the world.
But os the stotus Of women hos
changed, 50 hos the concept Of
motherhood. Here's q report, bossd
on o worldwide survey BY the As
soeioted Press, and whot this meons
for millions Of mothers around the
globe.
Evening star., 1960-07-22
AVID LAWRENCE -
A Close View of Blessed u. S.

at San Francisco-which is
still the financial center Of
the Pacific coast-one is i'm
pressed by their feeling Of
nearness to points hitherto
far distant. They think
nothing of flying by jet to
the East Coast for meetings
and conferences and getting
back home the same day.
One man told me of a
luncheon held in Honolulu
recently when a whole party
flew from Los Angeles to
Hawaii and back the same
day.
The feeling Of closeneSs to
the East will have its impact
on business and finance to
an increasing extent in the
next few years. The air.
plane, especially the jet. has
brought the East, the Mid
die West and the West with
in a few hours of each other.
Even some railroad execu-
tiveS told me they fly East
regularly to attend board
meetings. They foresee a
dark future for rail pas
senger business, but, of
course, they are doing well
with freight.
For rest and relaxation
and a chance to see these
United States, however, one
has to ride the comfortable
transcontinental trains.
Back in 1919 they used to
have the slogan "See Amer
lea First" When this cor
respondent came back from
the Paris peace conference
that year he wrote an article
for the Saturday Evening
Post entitled Seeing Amer
lea Afterward." A thrill of
pride was expressed then in
seeing America after Europe.
There is an even bigger
thrill today in travelling
across the United States to
see how the country has
grown and the people have
proSpered-despite the crazy
political conventions and the
disparaging speeches of the
politicians, who don't seem
to be willing to "accentuate
the positive" One wonders
what feelings of envy Nikita
Khrushchev really had last
year as he traversed these
blessed United States!
(copyright, 1860
Evening star., 1960-07-22
Nixon Runs the Show, and Rockefeller
Is Viewed as Aiming at 1864 Bid

CHICAGO.-The prospects
for surprise at the Republican
convention next week are ex-
tremely meager. Vice PreSi-
dent Richard Nixon is run
ming the show, and Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller is an off,
stage noise which most Or
ganization Republicans prefer
not to hear in the hope that
he will go away.
He won't. 1t seems ap-
parent that he does not eX-
pect his party to win the
election this fall and is plan
ming for 1864.
He probably won't have a
clear field then. Democrats in
California and some Re-
publicans anticipate that if
Mr.. Nixon should be defeated
in November, the next day he
will open his campaign for
governor of California as his
best launching pad for an
other presidential try.
Gov. Edmund G. (Pat)
Brown, for whom the geegeeS
just won't run lately, already
is warning his party about
that prospect and suggesting
that the time and place to
stop Mr.. Nixon is here and
now if California Democrats
are to enjoy any long tenure
of control.
Even the Vice Presidency
on the Nixon ticket is a story
made tedious by repetition.
The foremost contenders-
Evening star., 1960-07-22
Nixon's Problem of No. 2 SPOT

Republican effort to cry
"spenders" at the Democrats.
Here again. however, the
thing cuts both ways. For to
choose Mr.. Anderson Mr.,
Nixon would have to tie him
self rather irrevocably and
totally to the Eisenhower fis-
cal policies. In Mr.. Anderson
he would also be picking an
ex-Democrat.
Mr.. Seaton would be i'm
portant, both in the Farm
Belt and in the Far West
which, with its national parks
and water and power prob
lens, always tends to look
more to the Secretary of the
Interior than to any other
Cabinet officer.
If this correspondent had
to be pinned down at this
moment he would timidly
guess that in the end it will
lie between Mr.. Lodge and
Mr.. Anderson, with Mr.. An
derson having the slightest of
edges.
Evening star., 1960-07-22
Kennedy and a New 100 Days

venes. He almost certainly
will stampede both the House
and Senate into quick pas
sage Of a farm bill which will
greatly enhance the cam
paign prospects of Jack Ken
nedy. If the Senators and
Representatives refuse, they
will be of even greater as
siStance as vote getterS for
him by dramatizing the fact
he has a new farm bill which
farmers will like.
Indeed, he already has
scored a tactical victory over
Vice President Richard Nix
on, who must wait until nom
mated to produce his own.
Senator Kennedy. by an
nouncing details of his bill
Immediately after the NOM
ination, has revealed again
the expertness of his prep
aration and his timing.
His legislation would re-
wise the present soil bank
program. which has helped
larger farmers and corpor-
alton owned agricultural
ventures. but has driven the
small producer out of busi-
ness. The soil bank law pays
farmers to retire land as a
means toward reducing sur
pluses. But by banking" the
poorest acres and by heavily
fertilizing the best and using
new hybrid seeds, surpluses
have increased at Govern
ment expense. 1t provides
fixed payments for all land,
regardless of productivity or
use.
The Kennedy law will set
different prices on land re-
tired from crop production
according to productivity and
later use. Retirement Of
whole farms, now permitted,
with consequent increase in
unemployed tenants and
croppers, would be pro-
hibited.
Evening star., 1960-07-22

United Nations Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge and Sem
ator Thruston Morton Of
Kentucky, chairman Of the
Republican National Commit
tee-occupy that status be-
cause they are the best
known names.
The Lodge bid suffers from
the fact Democratic nominee
John Kennedy almost GER
tainly will carry the native
New England Of both; Mr..
Lodge was, in fact, beaten
for the Senate by Senator
Kennedy in the first Eisen-
hover landslide. His matur-
ity and international back
ground are, however, helpful.
Senator Morton, in a re-
latively few months as chair
man, has made a solid i'm
preston everywhere he goes.
He has brought dignity and
good sense to an Office too
often demeaned in both par
ties by shrillnesS and narrow
partisanShip.
His is the achievement of
character, and the result is
that he commands not an
easy popularity but respect
in all factions of his party.
He appears on his record to
lean to the conservative side,
but he has given no cause
for offenSe to the big-State
liberals who cannot survive
in a strictly Old Guard at
mosphere. He has had inter-