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The Seaforth News, 1962-10-18, Page 7Failing Il n Lome With A Wilderness You dont jeer heel off and go to Alaska -- pal cicular y with • winter coining on We simmered down front our fleet '1:.'ge to pack up and get. going eve sat on the hunkhotete .si .ps and aegau to lay astute pl;rlr;.;, Floyd reealicd that he had guano or lees promised to go back for the winter to -;is father's farm in the Willamette Valley, to help with winter and spring planting. "1'11 stay _:ere," I de- cided. "Maybe I ren save my nickels aoi cli'nes.' We made a pact to meet in exactly six months, on the fiest 9.1 May, at the Hamilton Hetet in Portland. In the bunkhouse lrat winter I pored over all tee maps of • Alaska and the alien I could get !.old of. I geeiai I talked about nothing but Alaska, I be- gan to be called "Admiral Peary," I didn't mind a bit. On the morning of May let, 1925, I walked into t_re lobby of the Hamilton Hole_ and there, relaxed in a leathe.' chair, was Floyd, cardboard s4' -:case at his feet. , We stocked up wit.-: bread and bologna, picked up our suitcases and headed out along the fire- weed -lined railroad Track, The country we began to hike through had a strange look to it, and I finally figured out what it was, There Were aosolutely no farms, no houses, :so signs of humanity, And the trees were different from any rd seen be- fore, They were mostly cotton- wood, which I knew, and spruce, but these trees not only grew wide apart and a scant thirty to 'forty feet high: The spruce branches were' short and stubby, making every tree :sok as if it had been trimmed with a hedge shears. , , . (I fount out later it was the weight of snow, not hedge shears, that kept the tree branches short, Longer branches would simply be snapped off, This i9 the way mos; evergreens look north of the Alaska Pan- handle.) We hiked the rail.oad ties six- teen hours a day, and after three days a couple of log cabins loom- ed up alongside the tracks to tell us we had arrived a; Chitina, , . After I'd got myself settled, bed roll spread nee and other equipment stashed on a box that served as a bureau. I sat on my bunk to read the sheet Harry Karstens had given me. "A Na- tional Park," it began solemnly, "is an area with ce_tain scenic, biological or other natural fea- tures, to be kept in as natural a condition as possible for this and all future generations. I began to get a glimmering of 1 ARRESTED Mrs. Ivo Kroe- ger, 44 was turned over to San Francisco police by the FBI in San Diego, Calif., on a fugitive warrant. She dis- claimed knowledge as to how the bodies of a man and his wife came to be buried inside her basement garage, r.1 illy job was to be. I was one of the custodians of the plriee; it was up to me, not to civilize this wlldernese; but ac.' tually to defend it against the encroachments of civilization. This was a new idea, The more I thought about it, the more It seemed like a good one. , Ninety miles long; I hadn't realized I was going to be tak- ing care of so huge an area, -From "My Life of High Ad- venture," by Grant H. Pearson with Philip Newall, Tougher Tests For British Drivers Tougher times are coming for the British motorist -at least if minister of Transport Ernest Marples has his way, Ile wants to adopt the system employed in some American states, and in other countries, in which autos -- even late models -undergo regular tests for road- worthiness, But many a British motorist these days loves his ear only a little_ bit less than his castle. And the Marples suggestion of things to come, made this week during his visit to the official testing station at Hendon to get his own car tested, has roused a storm of controversy, In terms of the Marples plan, after a deadline all cars would be called up for testing at an average of one age group every seven months until only new cars would be able to get a road fund license without a current test certificate. Mr, Marples has given a hint he may even bring new cars into the testing scheme. The age at which cars are test- ed for safety and road -worthi- ness at present Is six years old, Mr. Marples hopes to reduce this to five years by early 1963. "One-year tests would bring Britain into line with many other countries," an official of the So- ciety of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said, Any move to- ward greater safety was welcom- ed by his association, The Motorist Protection So- ciety, on the other hand, called the measure "bureaucracy gone mad" and said it would congest the garages. Leading motor manufacturers were critical of the move, feel- ing it cast aspersions on their skill to make reliable cars, A colleague who knows both British and American forms of car testing says the British test is more searching than the American, but American cars in some states must be tested twice yearly. Mr. Marples claims a success for compulsory testing. Two years ago when it began on cars 10 years old he says more than 40 per cent failed. Now, with six- year-old cars being tested, fail- ures were down to 30 per cent. Lombardo Makes A Second Big Move For 33 years, bandleader Guy Lombardo and New York's Hotel Roosevelt were linked as insepa- rably as Lombardo and his theme song -"Auld Lang Syne," which he ladled out an estimated 6,600 times for the hotel's Grill Room patrons. It was at the Roosevelt that Lombardo and his orchestra annually played out the old year and played in the new over the nation's networks, and it was there that they introduced such songs as 'Boo -Hoo," "You're Driving Me Crazy," "I'm Con- fesem' (That I Love You)," "Dancin : in the Dark," and "Seems Like Old Times," Last, week, boat -lover Lombardo an- nounced that he is leaving the old stand to hold forth at a Florida "yachtel" - in Tierra Verde near St, Petersburg in which he owns stock, The Cana- dian -born maestro, now 60, said of the move: "It's our second big decision. The first was when we left Londen, Ont., with a little high-school band in 1924." CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 59 Wrrul DOWN 1. Macaws 2. Thick t 9. Hrsle1e 4. 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Belief ,us deao,al..aunn 97. t'rre9'4ipa: nights 42. inn Ir ,nine 1 13 16 -5- 32 5 31 36 21 32. 23 33 29 zz 38 7 a 19 9 10 If 20 17 45 42. 6 34 43 30 ?VSs 39 23 35 51 Answer else 62 53 40 98 56 9lx ere on this page Nes- SPUD NOSE - Gory Foster, 8, inspects a potato which bears a striking resemblance to famed comedian Jimmy Durante. Spud was dug from his parents' garden. TIF FARM FRONT Could large-scale participation in the Freedom From Hunger campaign forestall the necessity for sharp cutbacks in American wheat production? This is the question raised in a report by Murray R. Benedict, which has just been released by the National Planning Associa- tion, 4, In this report, "The Wheat Problem: Which Road Shall We Take?" Professor Benedict, who is professor of agricultural eco- nomics at the University of Cali- fornia and the author of several scholarly books on agriculture, cautions Americans: "If national and international food aid programs develop, as now seems possible, there will apparently be need and use for most, if not all, of the supplies available, or likely to become available, over the next five years." a e „ At a time when the Kennedy administration is urging tighter controls on production of grains, Professor Benedict declares that a positive and large-scale pro- gram of joint aid in co-operation with other countries, designed to raise living standards in many of the less - developed countries, would be "little, if at all, more expensive" than paying farmers for extensive curtailment of their wheat production. The roads open to Americans offer three approaches, says this report: (1) a full-scale effort to cut back production drastically, possibly to as low a point as an 800,000,000 or 900,000,000 bushel level; (2) continuance of approx- imately the current program; and (3) sizable contributions to an international and national Freedom From Hunger program. * 4 * Favoring the third approach, the NPA report states: "It would seem unwarranted and short- sighted to move strongly at this time to reduce United States wheat production to what the commercial markets will absorb." The United States already is committed to participating with other nations in the Freedom From Hunger program launched by the Food and Agriculture Or- ganization of the United Na- tions. And American wheat ex- ports, under Public Law 480. al- ready move overseas to many needy area-. If expansion of such exports, as gifts, "can be done practically, with only modest additional out- lay." declares the NPA report "the arguments in favor of a constructive and positive ap- proach rather than a negative one, are very compelling." Such a program would prop - ably not entirely solve the prob- lem of American surpluses, the report conceded, and some tem- porary cutbacks might be requir- ed -- preferably in the hard red winter wheat area of the south- ern Great Plains which has pro- duced much of the surplus wheat, write; Hagen Henlee ill the Chredian Selene? Mt niter, 4 1 e. Californians are to vole this November on an issue that is conflictingly described as: (1) fruit trees and open space versus urban sprawl, or 12) the poor suburbanite taxpayers ver- sus the wealthy farm speculators. What the voters at the Gulden State are asked to decide is whether California should permit local communities to reduce tax assessments on suburban faun land in certain instances. * * Currently such, land must be taxed at full market value. This usually means it is assessed not for its relatively low commercial value as a farm, but for its po- tential value as subdivision 101s or Industrial sites. The 1 sus 1. lar mare complex The profiteering argument has brought about t section in the pr6por=eft California law which would require back payment for seven chart (plug (1 per tent i11 - levee)) on the differences ea btatweeln- 1 a low farm aseeeentent and come inertial valuation whenever a profitable 011(1' 12 0111014'. 4 4 a In Calitr»:ma as in outer rap- idly urbanizing areas citizens would be wise to support the .111114 of the pro -conservation fora. -- but only when suffl- cleat seleguardt have been writ- ten into new laws to prevent profiteering and deter leapfrog - /ling, 'ride le a complex business, but it is worth unusual attention 11 the gre cte1 ildreu of today's cut .r, are to escape the dangers ai anti -hill city living. than the mere question of hun- dred -acre ranches versus quar- ter -acre ranch -house develop- ments, Like most matters affect- ing the future shape of our urban civilization it has no clear, simple answer. The primary reasons fur grant- ing land tax concessions to city- threatened farmers are these: 1, Aesthetic - sardine -packed city dwellers need the relief of "green belt" parks and rural scenery. 2, Financial -fanners engulfed in the city should not be taxed on profits that assessors say they might make by using the land for some other purpose, but on the basis of what they actually are using it for. Furthermore, the extra tax revenue gained from assessing farms as subdivi- sion land (which inevitably turns them into subdivisions) is often more than eaten up by the cost of new schools, roads, sew- ers, and public services. 3. Agricultural - some 65,000 acres of prime farm land are reportedly being gobbled up each year by city growth in Califor- nia alone. About a million farm acres are lost annually through- out the United States to airports, tract houses, highways, and in- dustrial growth. The primary counterarguments are these: 1. Saving farm land in the sub- urbs will only cause developers to leapfrog into deeper country where unzoned towns are less prepared for the problems of mushroom growth. 2, Wealthy farmers and specu- lators would profit from the tax shield while waiting for enor- mous capital gains, while small home owners would be over- taxed, 3. There is plenty of good farm land left in the country, and improved yields make less land necessary. • On the whole, the pro -tax -con- cession arguments are the more impressive. Cities will have a hard time ever buying back green space it is built on, and if hold-out farms preserve some future park land until towns are aware of the need they will have perform- ed a real service. Ue.le:wt"a 0 10 Prevent Peek ,reg S d V 5 3 A a 0 H 1 1 ®m® AIMEE DODO -ME '; ©© mullf i€i 3N v4 EIFI,. ?i3aN NO W 3 b ME 5 3SOa Sia Ili 30 d 0 1' S ►�Q P1 0 -i •I � �JL d0.1„3,;aRad A Ab' .'tr99Wj 21b� 5 S 5 We Have Stations Like This Too: The Federal Communications Commis,ion has done what it's been threatening, to do ._ refuse to renew a radio station's license because it wasn't doing a good job. Actually, there was something a little more specific involved in the failure of station WDKD of Kingstree, S.C„ to stay on the air. A disc jockey was getting too much double-entendre into his jokes. But the FCC hacked up its hearing examiner who also found the station was generally deficient in programming - too little meat in the way of news and information and too much "Grits and Gravy" (the name 01 the slightly -blue disc jockey's program of records and spot com- mercials). Surely the FCC's ruling must be hailed as progress. Without some enforcement of standards, licensing becomes meaningless. We consider in this nation that the public owns the airways, and permission to broadcast over them is not merely a license to make money, but carries with it a responsibility to operate in the Public interest. It is interesting to note that the FCC examiner, while casti- gating WDKD for its low quality of programming, also said the station served its community "little better or little worse than most other standard broadcast- ing stations operating under like conditions." This should make other broad- casters take a hard look at their operations, For it appears that the FCC is going to make good on its declared intention to re- quire higher standards of public service. -Evening Eagle and Beacon (Wichita, Kansas) :INKY q LESSON Ily hey. it. 11, Warren, B.A., B.D. What is God Like? Psalm 140: 8-20; John 1; 1-18; Acts 11: 22-29; Acts 10: 1-35 Memory Scripture: Of a truth I perceive that God is 00 re- specter of persons. Acts 10; 34. A crippled boy sold papers and oranges on the street corner. Ona day a bulky deliberately ran his bicycle into the box of oranges, scattering them along the side- walk and into tate muddy street. The crippled boy began to cry. Just then a well - dressed man came along and saw the boy's plight, He stepped out into the mud, picked up the oranges and cleaning them off with a clean. handkerchief, placed them again in order. The boy watched in silence, his eyes big with won- der. Then, looking into the face of the kind man, he asked, "Be you Jesus?" The man in his kindness had reflected something of the nature of Jesus, Mrs, C. H. Morris asks in one of her beautiful songs: "Can the world see Jesus in you? Does your love to Him ring true, And your life and service, too? Can the world see Jesus in you?" Jesus, Himself, is the revela- tion of God. He said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Fa- ther." Father, Son and Holy Ghost are three persons in one God. God is eternal. The Son took flesh and dwelt among men. Because he was a man, we are better able to understand His ma- ture, and thus the nature of God. For He was as much man as though He were not God at all, and as much God as though He were not man at all. In today's lesson we see that God is almighty, righteous and holy, the Great Provider, gra- cious and loving, He upholdeth all who fall and preserveth those who love Him. He will destroy the wicked. He is near to those who call upon Him. The revela- tion of God's nature reaches its climax at Calvary. He loved us; - enough to die for us, At the very centre of man's life you will discover his god. Happy is that man whose God is the Lord. Sonne people are like owls. The more light you shine in their eyes, the blinder they get. ISSUE 40 - 1962 RAIL TALE - "Straddle Buggy" played an important role in building new 39 -mile line from Abra to Skull Volley, Ariz. Because no rail line existed to carry the 1,440 -foot lengths of welded roil to their exact destination, engineers developed the machine to pull the long roil sections from flat cars at end of track directly into their place in the waiting ties without disturbing them. MUD BATH -- "Tudpole" in life jacket takes an grotesque appearance as he floats in ce big puddle of mud while taking training at underwater demolition school. It's part of the "hell week" men must undergo to become one of the "frogmen."