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The frontiersman., 1953-06-04
PREMIUM AWARDS RAISED 25% FOR
 1853 VALLEY FAIR

A general increase of approxl- mately.25 percent in prize money was approved by members of the Matanuska Valley Fair Associa- ton board of directors at a meet ing held June 1.
 Special emphasis will be made in the children's departments where some exhibit prizes have been raised 50 percent. Increases will be based on amount of time and effort necessary to complete articles on display, it was pointed out.
 Another attractive increase will be in the Farm Display depart ment where all entrants will re- ceive a $10 entry prize and be eligible to compete for other large prizes.
 Livestock Pick Up
 Arrangements for picking up and delivering livestock for dis play and prize competition are be- ing made for those who have no other means of transporting thelr stock to the fair grounds. Those desiring this service are asked to contact the superintendent of that department Co be named) or a board member. All livestock to be displayed must have been tested and vaccinated in accord ance with Territorial regulations. I -------a Special Features Several special features for the
 1853 Fair are still in the planning stage but Alba Brooks, associa- tion president, said this week that carnival company in the States has been contacted and that the board feels very hopeful that they will be able to furnish the
 Fairgoers with old favorites such
 as the Ferris wheel, merry-go-
 round and other special rides.
 There will be horse racing,
 Brooks said, in children and adult classes. There are some young sters in the Valley who can real 1y ride, he added, and this vii be an opportunity for them to dis play their talents. Ball games and other sport events are on the program as well as an expected
 fireworks display.
 = Concessions { The kitchen concession in the } present administration building is up for bid, Brooks said. Any ! group or individual interested ir operating this concession is asked } to enter a bid as soon as possible to the fair board. The bid amount will be due and payable 10 days after notification of the bic award.
 Other fairway concessions arc expected to be operated by var ious local groups.
 {f Another meeting of board mem { bers will be held next Monda, night, June at the Coop clul
 room, when work on the fai
 budget and completion of tn
 1853 Premium book will be con
 ducted. All members are urge, ;- to attend.
The frontiersman., 1953-06-04
NEW COAL DISCOVERY REPORTED IN
 MOOSE GREEK AREA

Warren Rice of Palmer plans to start operations June 8, on a new coal mine at Moose Creek, located near the site of the earll- est coal mine in this district.
 To be known as the Pioneer Coal and Coke Company, it is expected he will be able to fur nish a limited amount of domestic coal for local consumption. Other plans include the crushing of . coal to recommended standard size for stoker use. All coal will be dry processed to assure maxi mum heat value and to assure easy handling during the coldest of weather.
 Underground mining work III the new mine has been advanced sufficiently to show coal of good quality and the installation of the loading tipple and other machinery will be completed shortly.
 Unioue feature of the Pioneer coal is it's coking property. Be sides it's long burning character in home use, it is excellent com mercial fuel and blacksmith coal, according to tests.
 The new mine is in the Pioneer No. 2 seam lying under Pioneer No. 1 which was originally mined around World War I. The old mine shipped some 26 thousand tons of coal to Anchorage area in the earlier days but the de- cline in demand and poor trans portation facilities made it inn practable during the postwar de- pression. During recent years the original discovery has looked less attractive than some other local fields, until the discovery of the new seam by Rice.
 The mine can now be reached by turning off Glenn Highway at the East approach to the Moose Creek bridge for a distance ot only 800 feet and is located but six miles from Palmer, on an all- weather road.
 Truckers vii find the mine easily accessible throughout the year with easy loading and am- pie parking and turning room, with the loading tipple located directly across Moose Creek from the public camp grounds.
 Rice expects it will require several months to get into suffi- cient production to supply the local demand. He does not anti cipate producing for military con- sumption, he said, but may at g later date, furnish specially grad, ed coal for foundry and black smith use.
 Earl Biestlne, Dean of Mines al the University of Alaska; Dr. w R. Mukherjee, department o1 chemistry and metallurgy anc John Hiskins University mining instructor were in the area the past three days. One of thei1 samples of this coking coal witt activities was the collection O their object the investigation O coking properties, quality, etc This program will be undertaken this summer at the University la bratory.
 Although the coking propertie are we'll known from local tests it is not yet known whether tn coke product would be of suffi cient metallurgical grade for iro and steel manufacture. Sample have also been sent to the Burea of Mines coal labratory in Pitts burg, Pennsylvania for testing.
 All reserve extent of this typ coal will have to be determine by subsequent development Robert May, mining engineer wit the Bureau of Mines said tn week. He added that the Burea is always interested in obtainin accurate analysis of all newly di! covered coal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13
DESTROYING Rock Greek Park

Automobile traffic has made inevitable the
decision, by the National Capital Parks Office,
to extend Rock Creek-Potomac Parkway to
Colorado avenue. This will mean abandonment
of the picturesque ford through Rock Creek near
the Calvert street bridge, and its replacement
by four-lane bridge. It will mean a long
vehicular tunnel under a section of the Zoo.
It will mean that four lanes of concrete will
be cut through foreSted hillSideS along the
eastern edge of Rock Creek, permanently
changing the face of one of the most familiar
sections Of old Rock Greek Park.
AS all Of this is being done by the Interior
Department, which is official custodian of the
park, however, there are no protests about
destroying" Rock Greek Park, or failing to
protect it against the designs of the road
builders. The National Capital Planning Com
mission, which is heatedly opposing plans of the
Maryland Roads Commission to use sections of
Maryland'S part of Rock Greek Park for Route
240, is making no protest. 1t has already ap-
proved the Colorado avenue plan, which uses
part of Rock Greek Park for right of way.
What all this boilS down to is simply this:
The planners and the park people know as well
as anybody else that properly lanscaped high
ways or parkwayS do not destroy" park areas.
If they serve genuine public need, the amount
of damage they cause to the parks is more than
offset by the convenience they bring to the
increasingly large element of the public de-
pending on private automobiles to get to and
from work. The argument about destroying"
the parks is not based on facts If the park is
not destroyed by a highway planned and con-
structed by the Interior Department, the park
is not destroyed when the highway is planned
and built by the roads commission or the
highway department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13
Case of the Commissioners

I rejoice with letter-writer Helen
M. Harris and other war widows in
their recent victory in having their
commissary permits restored as Of Au-
gust l, 1858.
When Congress granted this authori-
cation, however, it must have known
that the 1854 Defense Department APP
preparations Act contains a rider the
effect of which will close scores OF
commissaries throughout the United
States, particularly those located within
the large metropolitan areas.
Since there is no opportunity for the
President to eliminate this rider from
the Appropriations Act, purchases at
the commissaries will, for many Of us,
cease after December 81, 1858, the clos
ing date specified in the above-men-
toned rider. $3.50.
War widows, probably more than any
other class of benef1ciaries, need the
small savings afforded by commissary
purchases of necessary foodstuffs.
I, therefore, deeply regret calling this
latest congressional action to close the
commissaries to their attention and
to remind them that their so-called VIC
tory will turn out to be short-nVed
one Service Wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13
An AppeoI From the Heart

Mrs. Ruth Shields, Bloomington, Indiana,
housewife and the mother of a small baby, has
written a letter to drivers of motor vehicles
which pedestrians also should read She tells
how her husband and two brothers were killed
in three automobile wrecks in % days. Then
she says: II don't know whose fault the &C
cidents were But I feel this way: There are
too many accidents, too many people being
killed and injured To the millions who drive,
I wish they would be more careful. Obeying
traffic laws, using common sense and being
courteous to other motorists is important in
reducing the highway death toll. While grieve
over the deaths of my loved ones hope no
other wife or sister or mother has to go through
what have"
OF course, Mrs. Shields is not professional
author, and there are few technical errors in
her message. But her purpose is perfect She
is trying to save other Americans from such
suffering as she has endured, such bitter educa-
ton as she has experienced. It is from the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13

The old white haired man stood on
the steps of Templeton Jones building.
He looked rather inquisitively at
Jones, as the latter entered, so point
edly, in fact, that Temp was slightly
discounted.
Perhaps many persons resent the
quick, inquiSitive stare.
Not that they fear the police, or
foreign agents.
There is just something about the
open regard of stranger that rankleS.
When Jones passed again, some time
later, the man was still there.
This time he spoke.
How long," he asked, without pre-
amble, "have you worked here?"
This was something Templeton Jones
understood.
Forty years." he replied. with a
smile.
The white haired man glowed all
over his rudy face.
II used to work next door," he said,
simply.
Then Jones understood.
Here was retired man, back to stand
for few minutes next door to the place
he had worked.
Like the pigeon returning to his home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13
Our Indians Hope for q Veto

The Dill to permit hVe states TO assume
complete civil and criminal jurisdiction over
: the Indians within their borders has run into
understandable opposition from the tribes and
their friends. Rushed through in the closing
hours of the congressional session, the measure
is now in Denver awaiting action by the Presi-
dent. The weight of justice would seem to be-
heavily on the side of Veto
Under the bills terms, California, Mime
sofa, Nebraska, oregon and Wisconsin would be
given legal control of the reservations with the
exception of those at Red Lake (Minnesota),
Warm Springs (Oregon) and Menominee wis
conSin). Federal protection of Indian rights,
by no means always perfect but still superior
to a number of conflicting State jurisdictions,
would be seriously weakened; and the Indians
would be left to fend for themselves against &C
lions which might we'll be arbitrary and
capricious.
The end result, the Indians say would be
to upset the tribal laws and customs OF CEN
turtles. They point out that their communities,
many in existence long before the white man
came to North America, have maintained a
peaceful internal life for generations. In
stable society held together by its own regula-
tons and sufficient to it's own needs they have
lived and died in relative peace. If the bill
H. R. 1868 becomes law, they argue, Sheriffs and
OGIer local OIc1alS COuIQ enCer Gne TeSerVdGlOIlS
and upset all this, contrary to historic treaties
through which the United States long ago
granted the Indians the right to their own
kind of society.
Furthermore, from the practical stand
point, the tribes persuasively maintain that
great numbers of their people simply would not
understand what it was all about because they
are unable to speak, read or write the English
language The NavajoS of New Mexico and
Arizona, a typical example report that nearly
IS per cent of their more than $4,000 trbesmen
are illiterate in terms of the English language
They would be completely bewildered if the
customs they live by were subjected to pos
sible overturn by the States.
The effort of the Eisenhower administra-
ton to disengage the Federal Government from
State matters is sound in principle, but in this
instance its wisdom seems decidedly dubious
At any rate, observers thoroughly familiar with
the problems of the tribes believe that the
Indian BILL if approved by the President, would
be a serious injustice to race which has suf-
fered far too many injusticeS in the past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13
This and That

or the cop to his corner. the retired
man comes back to roost. But there
is nothing for him to do, in most cases.
Somebody else has his desk, and he
plainly is in the way.
In this case, the very business had
been changed.
Where once it had been famous
jewelry store, now it was a drug
emporium.
Countless persons bought suntan
creams and lotions there, and soap, and
home permanent preparations. and
lunches.
The white haired man didn't go in.
Probably he couldn't have stood it.
He was content to stand on the steps
next to the old place and dream.
when worked there" he said, sit
was meeting place for the 400. You
know, the socially elite.
They would come down here in their
carriages, and get out. and the coach
man would drive away.
Then they would come in, and just
walk around.
Pretty soon. another horse and car
rage would drive up, and somebody
else get out.
They would greet each other, and
talk while they walked around the store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13
By Charles E. Trocewen

'It was q meeting place for them.
They were not bothered by the hoi
polloi, either, for just plain people sell
dom came, the place had such repu-
tation for high prices.
1.-The time came at last when changes
had to be made. Prices went down, and
at last ordinary people managed to
come in for watches and the like"
* x
Templeton Jones smiled.
81 remember" he said" because
was one of the plain people.
II bought watch, and wondered
why I had always been afraid to go
in. Everybody seemed so nice and
friendly"
ut is all gone now," said the white
haired man.
There was one clerk I liked, in
particular, fat fellow" said Jones.
What became of him?"
HE dropped dead one day at home,
when he reached over to pick up the
phone"
"Well, am glad to see you," replied
Templeton Jones, and he went on down
the steps.
When he looked back, the old man
was still standing there RELYING the
past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13
Our Growing City

In your August l edition, William
F. Mcdonnell, an attorney, states that
for many years in his trips between his
Office and the courthouse he has had a
dream of the block bounded by Seventh
and Ninth and F and G being converted
into beautiful park with fountain in
the middle. He is now disappointed to
learn that Representative Oakman has
introduced bill to turn this fine square
over to private interests for parking
purposes. Mr.. Mcdonnell states that
this would be just another eyesore in,
the chase after the almighty dollar
Mr.. Mcdonnell knows that all bills in
troduced do not bear fruit and that all
parking garages do not have to be eye
sores. He must not realize that parking
garages, which are quite necessary, can
save our business districts from becom-
ing blighted areas or eyeSoreS, to which
he is opposed. -.
Mr.. Mcdonnell also states that it is
beyond his comprehension why the
Federal Government does not take the
400 acres in the Southwest for Office
purposes rather than dwellings for low
income groups and it is his prediction
that the same will become another slum
area within five years. Again Mr.. Nc
Donnell apparently does not realize
that concentration of too many Federal
Offices in given location is unwise be-
cause of the possibility of enemy attack
and the additional traffic burden on
an already overloaded system in that
area. Dwellings in that area would
make it possible for many to walk to
work, saving much time and transporta-
ton expense. These dwellings are not
to be the slum type built by the Gov
erment, but respectable brick dwellings
to be built by private industry.
Mr.. Mcdonnell laments that no more
parks are being laid out. This is not
true. Since 1882, about SIS million has
been spent for such land acquisition,
exclusive of such projects as Suitland
Parkway. Nor does this include &C
QUESTIONS by the D. c. Recreation
Board, Board of Education and National
Capital Parks. Added to this figure
have been many millions for develop
ment and maintenance.
He concludes by stating that he
realizes that we have Planning Com
mission and Fine Arts Commission, but
as far as he is concerned, they are
nonresident. must disagree as these
commissions have done much to make
Washington one Of the most beautiful
cities in the world. Briar Cliff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13
Striped Trousers or Cloak and Doqqer?


BY DonoId Michael R0uh
THERE IS A POEM by Joyce Kilmer
i Rouge Bouquet" that begins:
I'm mood they call the Rouge
Bouquet
There is a neD-nlGde Craze today,
Built By 1eUer spade or pick,
Yet coDered NTH earth 10 meters
AZ thick-"
Sergt. Kilmer had written Rouge
Bouquet" q few days before German
guns killed him when his battalion was
crossing the Ourcq River in France on
July 80, 1918. A member Of the tabled
42d Rainbow" Divisions 165th Infan-
try Regiment, the young soldier-poet
had been inspired by the heroiSm Of
his regimental commander, Col. wild
Bill" Donovan, who had earlier rescued
from suffocation a squad of American
soldiers trapped in a dugout by shell
explosion.
william j. Donovan, now 10, is on
new mission 35 years later. And, typi-
cally, the assignment Of this modern
Haroun-a l-Raschid as Ambassador to
Communist-coveted Thailand in the
Southeast Asia finder box has all the
.
ner of E. Phillips Oppenheim or Eric
Amber. Gen. Donovan still wears the
toga of the slightly occult soldier Of
destiny with remarkable septuagena-
rian grace.
Throughout his career, Gen. Donovan
has played the part of kind Of Ameri-
can Lawrence Of Arabia, a benighted,
sometimes Hemingwayesque. adven-
turer seeking the companionShip Of
danger. Wars have been especially al
Turing. And always he has emerged
from human conflict in the dimensions
of a hero.
Father Duffy, chaplain Of New York
City's Fighting Goth" Regiment in
World War I, told of Col. Donovan on
the battlefield. latter day Capt. Ahab
irresistibly fated to do battle with evil:
Gas soon as the advance began to
slow up under heavy losses, he passed
to the front line Of the leading ele-
ments. The motto of the Donovan clan
must be, Come on It was Come on,
fellows, it's better ahead than it is here,
or Come on, we'll have them on the run
before long He would stand out in
front of the men lying in shell holes into
which he had ordered them and read
his map unconcernedly with the ma
chine gun bullets kicking up spurts Of
dust around his feet. It was more like
a Civil War picture than anything we
have seen in this fighting to watch the
line of troops running forward, led by
their commander"
When the war was over, wild Bill"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13
Had Toft Been Elected

In deep grief at the funeral OF Sen
ator Taft, Jay Henry pledges a political
vendetta against Dewey, Brownel'
Sprague and Hagerty. He will never
forget their alleged SANDER against Mr.:
Republican in the preconvention Dom
nybrook of 1852.
believe Mr.. Henry has tailed 10
understand the political moral OF Sen
ator Taft's tragic death. First. let us
assume Senator Taft had defeated
Gen. Eisenhower and won the presi-
Dental election. Do you think God
would have changed Senator Taft's re-
call to the dust from whence he came?
In a most critical period of our history
we would have had repetition OF the
near tragedy of 1910. Had my IDOL,
Willkie, thwarted Roosevelts successful
bid for third term. death would
have robbed our Nation of both Presi-
dent and Vice-President (McNary)
within a year Of their inaugural. In
His divine Providence, God always has
blessed our Nation with the continuity
of the mandate of the ballot box. For
the rest of the moral, I would like to
plagiarize the thinking of Roscoe Drum
mond of the Christian Science Moni-
tor. He is a wise observer and kindly
commentator of our political scene. To
him, Senator Taft's death means that
the mantle of Mr.. Republican has
passed to President Eisenhower.
For the first time in two decades,
there is opportunity to unite the con-
servative and liberal wings Of the Re-
publican Party. Since 1892, the Re-
publican Party has been divided into
the conservatives, who WELD party
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-13

Donovan, who had been thrice wounded,
held seven war decorations: Congress
sional Medal of Honor, Distinguished
Service Cross, Distinguished Service
Medal, Legion of Honor, Croix de
Guerre with Star, Croix de Guerre with
Palm and Italian War Cross.
For the next is years, "Wild Bill" was
a man of peace. The democracies were
playing mah-jong in the twenties as
the totalitarians were plotting their de-
struction, but there was peace. And
then in 1884, II Duce's Fascists marched
on Ethiopia. BY this time prosperous
lawyer and an earnest, if unsuccessful,
politician, Col. Donovan DOTTED his
multi and went off to Africa as an
American military observer. His tent
was pitched close to that Of 1taly's
Marshal Badoglio.
Then the Spanish Civil War erupted
and wild Bill" again was of to war,
this time as an observer with Gen.
Frances rebels and their German and
Italian allies. In the Spanish insur-
rection he saw the end of the 18th CEN
fury concepts of tactical warfare and