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Navajo times. [volume] (Window Rock, Ariz.) 1960-1984, 1960-10-01
Livestock Sales

All the people in the Chinle
area will be interested to know
that they can sell their sheep,
cows, horses and goats at the
Chinle Rodeo Grounds from Octo-
bes IS through October q. The
prices are going to be compar-
able to Phoenix market and will
be all cash.
Navajo times. [volume] (Window Rock, Ariz.) 1960-1984, 1960-10-01
PHS Critical
Of No Report


are presently being determined"
the report said. USPHS and Acc
experts think that about 800 mi
crOcuries of Radium 226 were re-
leased in the San Juan river. A
microcurie is one millionth of -
curie. A curie is {. measure Of
radioactivity. The radioactivity Of
radium is a curie. In addition.
an unknown quantity Of Thorium
252 was released into the river.
The accidental relase may have
contaminated the water supply of
the helium plant just below the
mill, Mexican Hat, Utah, Indians
on the Navajo reservation living
along the river using water out
Of the San Juan at the time the
effluent from the mill was pass
ing by.
The report established for GER
tain that the fish kill and the
radioaction in the river we've not
due to rains, releases in irriga-
ton water or to reported dyna-
hitting. Both were caused because
Of the breaks in the tailingS pond
wall and the relase of the waste
into the river.
even though no serious hu-
man radiation exposure apparent
ly occurred, the amount that did
occur was undesirable. Other eff
fluents also contain more radium
226 at times. Should such releas-
es occur in the future, it seems
imperative. that the nuclear plant
should undertake OF promptly noti-
fly responsible Acc and public
health officials. Failing this, it is
not inconceivable that more SER
ious incidents may occur in the
future. 1t appears highly desir-
able that this be brought to the
attention of the nuclear industry
to assure their more prompt fu-
ture cooperation the USPHS re-
port stated.
'This particular type of Incl
dent is not completely uncom-
mon," it went on. 1t has occurred
elsewhere, for example, twice at
the old Naturita mill, not present.
1y operating. It occurs generally
because the tailings pond walls
art not cOmpacted or otherwise
protected from failure and usual
ly because too much liquor is
sent into the ponds. In view of
this it seems quite necessary that
the several (uranium) mills of the
Colorado river basin undertake to
quickly determine practical meth
DDS of preventing this type of in
cident and place these methods in
operation at their respective mills.
"Otherwlse," the report conclu-
ded, lit appears that such fail
ures of tailings pond walls can
be expected to occur in the flu
ture" The USPHS report suggest
de that USPPHS officials ask Of
ficials of the Division Of Licens-
ing and Regulation of Acc ito
assist in finding answers and SOL
utions'' Of these problems.
Navajo times. [volume] (Window Rock, Ariz.) 1960-1984, 1960-10-01

WASHINGTON - A report filed
with United States Public Health
Servict officials here this week
is highly critical of the failure
Of personnel at the ShiprOck urani-
UNI mill for failing to report the
break in two +ailings ponds on
Aug. %
The break resulted in the dis
charge of 10000 gallons of highly
organic raffinate being accident 9
ally Released into the San Juan
River, in the Upper Colorado
watershed. The toxicity, or poison,
In the raffinate kille d'large num-
,Ders of fish in the San Juan river
at least go miles or so down.
stream" from the Shiprock ura-
MUM mill following the release
Of the raffinate to the Kerr-Mc-
Kee mill" the USPHS report stat
ed. The amount Of radium in the
accidental discharge did not re-
suit in SERIOUS overexposure" to
human beings, although the max
innum permissible concentration
Of radium in the river was pro-
badly exceeded for a brief time,
according to the USPHS report.
The report was written by DR..
E. C. TsivoglOu of the USPHS
Taft Sanitary Engineering Center
spot survey Of the mill-pond break
in the Shiprock area early in
September and tests carried, on
at the Taft Center. He wrote the
report on Sept. q and then sub
mitted it to USPHS officials in
Washington. The report was made
available for press inspection on
Sept. 80.
AS a result of the failure Of
the Shiprock officials to report
the mill-pond breaks. the accident
will be taken up and fully dis
Cussed at the next interstate en-.
fOrcement conference on the Colo
RADIO river basin. This conference
will be held early neyt year at a
city not yet designated in a Colo
RADIO basin state.
The USPHS report stated: ut
has been verified both by this
(UHSPH office and by personnel
Of the division of compliance to
the Atomic Energy Commission
that the (Shiprock) mill manage
ment did not report the release"
Of waste from two tailings ponds
as a result of a break in a tail
ingS pond wall Ito any official or
unofficial agency. Neither Acc,
USPHS, the state of New Mexico
nor the San Juan County Health
Department were notified, nor
were any of the downstream water
plant operators. First reports OF
a fish kill appeared in the Far
snington Daily Times on Aug. q
and %, some five days following
the release. Individual observers
noted dead fish beginning on Aug.
%" the USPHS report stated.
It is estimated that about $780,
900 gallons of mill waste were
released. 'The waste was an Or
ganic refinate, highly acid, and
similar to that produced in theI
VCA plant at Durango y. Its
radioactivity and radium contents
Navajo times. [volume] (Window Rock, Ariz.) 1960-1984, 1960-10-01

2O,2s5 lbs. at s2a s. per cwt sold
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
Poqinq All Wives!

II there is even Semblance OF
justice in the world, very special place
will be reserved in the masculine Hall of
Fame for Britain's Dr. Kenneth C.
Hutchin, noble and learned man if
ever there was one.
DR.. Hutchin (the news dispatches do
not tell us whether there is a Mrs
Hutchin) has come forward with a
lecture to all wives which will warm the
hearts and lift the spirits of every cring-
ing husband who would never dare say
such things in his own right in his own
home. And this holds true, we think,
even though DR.. Hutchin, for reasons
best known to himself, chose to present
his lecture through the pages of mag
azine rather than in face-to-face and
eye-to-eye conformation with wives who
abuse their husbands.
The gist of the Hutchin message is
that husband returning home from a
hard days work should be greeted by a
cheerful, smiling wife. The middle-aged
male, according to DR.. Hutchin, is pecul-
iarly susceptible to heart trouble. There
fore the wife should not yack at him,
and, above all, she should not poster him
to wash dishes, take out the garbage or
do any other chores around the house.
Instead, wife should "see that the room
is warm and tidy and let him (the hus-
band) have drink or cup of tea before
you start in on him"
DR.. Hutchin went on to say, and in
this it seems even to us that he went
a bit too far, that wife should "humor
her husband at all times" For our part,
we will settle for the CHEEKY greeting,
the warm room, the drink (served of
course by the wife) and no household
chores. We trust that DR.. Hutchin, in
his next literary venture, will advise
husbands how to go about selling this
wonderful bill OF goods to their better
halves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
Exemplary Teamwork

The agreement between the Ma
tional Park Service and the District
Highway Department, under which in
ner loop traffic between the Southwest
and the Northwest will be carried under
the Lincoln Memorial plaza, via tunnel,
is good example of Federal-District
teamwork on local traffic problems. The
agreement was reached several years
ago, when cooperation between park
and traffic officials was more the rule
than the exception. Unfortunately, in
recent years the two groups have failed
to see eye to eye on numerous important
bridge and highway projects.
At one time District highway en-
gineers had planned to carry leg Of
the inner loop through Potomac Park
on surface roadways close to the Lincoln
Memorial. This brought justified pro-
tests from park conservationiStS, as
result of which the agreement on a
tunnel was reached. The National Park
Service, carrying out its end of the pact,
has just awarded contract for design
ing Of six-lane tunnel between the
memorial and the Potomac River. The
underground tube will facilitate the
passage Of freeway traffic through the
park area without conflicting in any
way with the memorial aspect of the
shrine and surrounding landscape.
There will be need for further CO.
ordination of Federal and District high
way projects in that vicinity. It is
important that the tunnel and APP
proaches be finished in time to tie in
with completion of the inner freeway
and with roads connecting with the new
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge. Otherwise
there will be traffic complications in the
area far worse than any which the
bridge and freeway projects were de-
signed to relieve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
T he Real CuIprit'

Regarding the controversy
over discrimination against
Negro workers on Govern
ment construction projects
and your editorial. The Real
Culprit." let me set you
straight.
There are no culpritS in
the matter involved because
there are hundreds of white
electricians from other cleo
trical workers unions who
cannot get admitted to Local
No. 26 because of its bylaws.
These give the local members
the right to decide if the
charter is to be closed or open
and it is now closed for
protection of its members.
The only electricians admit
ted as members are appren-
tices who serve five years
apprenticeship, are compelled
to go to night classes and
must pass an examination.
So if Local No. Is admits
Negro electricians it would be
discrimination against us
white electricians who have
belonged to other locals for
years and who have been
working in this area under a
permit system. Every local
operates under the same rul-
ings, and President George
Meany knows that.
Lewis r. Thompson
Member, Local No. 1919,
IBEW
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
Privileged Parker

With the limited space
available it seems reasonable
and absolutely necessary that
parking be restricted rigor-
ously at Union Station.
Representative Stratton dis
plays plenty of gall in park
ing his car alongside a meter
clearly marked to limit park
ing to 80 minutes and then
blandly and inconsiderately
taking himself off for three
days. Then he yowls because
he is being billed for his pre-
sumption, and while he is
using the power of his posi-
ton to pressure District Off
Gals he proclaims at the same
time that I'm not trying to
get special favors."
In Schenectady, where he
was presumably subject to
the will of the citizens, he
says he paid his fines. In
Washington he wastes the
time Of the District officials
to try to get himself privileges
he and nobody else deserves.
Arnold Simpson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26

conscience as to whether he
would put a similar burden
on his own constituents, who
can reject him in elections,
there is no doubt that the
Senate, too, will act affirma-
lively on this matter.
Mabel E. Morris.
At its February meeting,
the Randle Highlands Citi-
zens Associations secretary
read your editorial of Febru-
airy 10, containing a very
good exposition of the free
loading practices by which
many nonresident parents
are educating their children
at the expense of District
taxpayers. You quoted from
Mrs. Shelton's report. The
association commends The
Star for its editorial.
The association is very APP
preciative of the excellent
publicity you give to the mat
tiers decided by our association
at the meetings, and of the
work Of the reporters from
your newspaper.
Irene L. Jarvis,
Executive Secretary.
Randle Highlands Citizens
Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26

The chances are probably
at least 100 times greater
that we eventually will lose
our freedom as a result of
Communist internal subver-
sion than by attack from
without. The most recent
Comintern successes, such as
those in China, Wet Nam
and Cuba, illustrate that
point. All of Latin America,
Africa and the remainder of
Asia easily could go down the
Communist drain by this
method in the next 10 years
unless we do something to
prevent it. However, we can
do this more effectively if
we clean our own house first.
The Comintern uses the direct
invasion method only when
1t is reasonably assured of
success without sustaining
significant losses, as in Korea,
Hungary and Tibet. So, al
though it is necessary to
maintain a strong military
establishment to discourage
any such invasion attempts,
our greatest concern should
be with internal subverSion.
Internal subversion is
practiced by a small group
of hard-core Communists.
aided and abetted by a horde
of sympathizers, dupes and
fellow travellers. without
this latter group the Com
munists would never get any
where. They are the ones
largely responsible for such
present subversive trends as
that towards socialism and
the welfare state, anti-anti-
communism, appeasement Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
Hurting Their Cause

The spread of the "SitdoWn" demon
STATIONS by Southern Negroes in protest
against segregated eating facilities re-
fleets resentment that is quite under
standable. Nevertheless, there is both
right and wrong approach to the prob
lem. And these demonstrators are taking
the wrong approach. 1t is too bad that
they will not listen to the Negro minister
IN Chattanooga who, shaken after wit
Messing near race riot, said: This is
no way to settle our problems"
1t is sometimes claimed that these
demonstrators are merely demanding
their constitutional rights. AS far as we
know, however, no court has ever held,
IN the absence of some regulatory stat
ute, that anyone, white or colored, has
a legal right to demand service in a
private establishment if the private
QXner does not wish to serve him. And
1t is assumed that there is such legal
right, the proper way to test and enforce
1t is through court action. The wrong
way is to resort to mass action, which
may in itself be illegal and which GER
tainly will bring counter mass action in
many areas of the South. Riots will
never solve racial problems.
The timing of these demonstrations
also is most unfortunate. In the past year
significant progress not great progress
but still significant progress - has been
made toward school deSegregation, in
compliance with the Supreme Courts
decree, in some Southern States. And of
even greater Importance, some white
leaders in the South, knowing that their
communities must comply with lawful
desegregation requirements, have been
encouraged to come forward and openly
oppose the demagogueS who trade in
racial fear and hatred.
The effect of the "sitdown" demon
STATIONS, especially if they should lead
to serious violence, will be to cut the
ground from under these white Southern
moderateS. They will be pushed back and
overwhelmed by the ammunition which
these misguided demonstrators are put
ting into the hands of the demagogic
element.
Legalisms aside, these are the essen
tial reasons why we think the "Sitdown"
tactic is both wrong and potentially self
defeating. If continued and encouraged,
1t almost certainly will lead to serious
violence, and violence, in the long run,
will cripple rather than assist the cause
OF lawful and orderly desegregation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
Tuition-Free Pupils

That anyone can. without
tongue in cheek. take the
stand that District taxpayers
should offer tuition free
schooling to thousands of
children from outside the Dis
trict is beyond belief. yet a
member of the Board of Edu-
cation does so advocate. If
the current situation, where
in the District is providing
schooling for over $500 out
side children. is allowed to
60 unchecked, the numbers
may well increase at a fan
tastic rate.
Why should a mere las pu-
pills pay tuition, then, when
others do not? 1t took many
years of urging before our
overcrowded schools were re-
lieved by the tuition require
ment. Yet we are now sup
porting enough outsiders to
fill two good-sized schools at
a time when we need addi-
tional schools to relieve over
crowding. additional hard
to-f1nd teachers to reduce
class sizes, and a pay raise
for teachers to compete with
salaries in adjacent areas.
The House has passed an
appropriation bill for the Dis
trict over IS million below
needs estimated by the Com
missioners, with a Federal
payment Of $25 million in
stead Of the authorized $32
million. The Commissioners
are proposing seven increased
and new taxes against resi-
dents whose taxes have al
ready been increased some
$40 million over a short span
Of years.
If Congress believes that
the District should provide
school space for all corners,
then it should ascertain the
cost Of that schooling in
buildings, staff, supplies, free
lunches, ETC., and attendant
increases in costs for recrea-
ton, welfare, and the curbing
Of juvenile delinquency, and
make a separate. earmarked
appropriation for the pur-
pose, so that children of local
residents will not receive a
Substandard education be-
cause of substandard space
and staff provisions.
There is no reason that
District taxpayers should ed
ucate those for whom other
Jurisdictions are responsible.
Education of children within
their own boundaries is the
responsibility of all of the
States as we'll as of the Dis
trict; if the States renege,
then let the Federal Govern
ment, not the District, take
over.
The House is to be con-
graduated for it's action on
the Broyhill bill to strength
en- tuition requirements. If
each Senator searches his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
Tragedy Over Rio Bay

Rio de Janeiro'S justly famed Qua
nabara Bay, ringed by scenic mountains,
including the Sugar Loaf landmark,
once again has become a graveyard for
air disaster victims. There have been
several major aviation accidents over
the beautiful bay, but none more tragic
than the mid-air collision yesterday of
a United States Navy transport and a
Brazilian airliner, with the loss of 81
lives. Accentuating the tragedy for
Americans in general and particularly
for those who live in Washington was
the fact that 19 of the dead were mem
berS OF the Navy Band, an organization
which we have come to regard as our
own.
The exact cause of the disaster may
never be known, since the crews of both
aircraft were among the dead News
dispatches tell of overcast skies, of
Wreckage and bodies seen falling from
a fog bank over Sugar Loaf Mountain.
They tell, also, of landing instructions
under which the Navy plane, a DC-6
type, was to come in at 5000 feet to land
at Galeao Airport, on an island in the
bay The Brazilian airliner was to fly at
5000 feet before landing at Santos Du-
mont Airport, on the mainland a short
distance away Somehow the two air
planes collided while engaged in their
landing maneuverS.
Flyers familiar with the Rio airports
will attest that special hazards exist
there because of the rugged nature of
the surrounding terrain. The airportS
are nestled in what may roughly be
likened to cupped hand, neceSsitating
rather tight landing patterns and care
full plotting and traffic control. Strange
aircraft in the landing pattern are un-
der a disadvantage.
Inevitably, the disaster has cast a
pail over President Eisenhower'S other
wise triumphal visit to Brazil and other
South American countries. The only
consolation one can find in the accident
is that the common sorrow of the peo-
Piles of both continents will tend to bring
them even closer together as good
neighbors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26

communism and ridicule of
patriotism. They foster and
flourish on public ignorance
of and public apathy towards
the violations of constitu-
tional rights inherent in such
things as urban Renewal"
Metro" conf1scatory taxes,
unwise and wasteful foreign
aid. judicial tyranny, labor
union monopoly which denies
the right to work, etc. These
are some of the things which
are weakening our resistance
to communism. A better in
formed public would not fall
prey to them.
To my knowledge there is
at present no single govern
ment agency responsible for
furthering positive American
ism and counteracting Com
munist boring from within. I
propose that a new agency
be set up for that purpose.
1t might be called the Free
dom Service and located in
the Department of Justice.
1t should run schools to teach
selected personnel to antici-
pate and combat Communist
propaganda and subversion
tactics and see that our
schools, our press and other
news and information media
are kept we'll supplied with
material calculated to in
crease each citizens knoWl-
edge and appreciation of the
advantages of our freedom
system over the Communist
slave system. and how to
recognize Communist propa-
ganda as such.
Ethel M. Morse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
One Way to Beqin

On its face, the announcement by
the Castro government that it is ready
to enter into negotiations" concerning
Cuban-American problems offers some
promise of improved relations. For per-
hapS the most frustrating aspect of the
deterioration of these relations since the
revolutionary regime took over power
IN Havana last year has been the virtual
breakdown of normal diplomatic COM
munication between the two govern
mentS.
In its place, Havana has substituted
for the most part the technique of long
winded and emotional public oratory-
usually by Premier Castro himSelf-in
which the vested interests" the i'm
perialistic" foreign policy and the lying
press" of the United States have been
top priority targets. His own govern
ment-controlled press has echoed these
absurditieS. Our own efforts at discus
sion through our envoy in Havana have
been ignored or rebuffed to a point of
rudeneSS that resulted finally in our
recall of Ambassador Philip Bonsal last
month for consultation. Formal notes
from the State Department, carefully
correct and restrained in their wording,
have met similar reception.
Now, for reasons of it's own, the
Havana government apparently has
decided to alter its course In a note
delivered to our charge d'affaireS, it
proposes that examination .. of ques-
tons that have lately affected tradi-
tional relations" be undertaken through
appointment of commissions" to meet
in Washington at date convenient to
both countries. At the same time, in a
carry-over of past belligerence, the note
repeatedly indicates (or threatens) that
even these proposed discussions will be
withheld or broken off if our own Gov
eminent or Congress should take any
steps considered harmful to the Cuban
economy. Presumably, this threat is di-
rected at the possibility that changes
might be made in our Sugar Act of 1948,
which gives Cuban sugar a favored sta
tus in terms of volume and price in the
United States market.
BY this time, however, we have
become accustomed to threatful, imma-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
Proposes New u. S. Agency to Combat Com

Since the allegations con-
tanned in the Air Force train
ing manual concerning Com
munist infiltration of our
churches and educational in
situations are factual, surely
the actions of the Air Force
in destroying the manual and
also those of the National
Council of Churches in de-
manding its destruction war
rant a full hearing by the
House Un-American Activities
Committee.
You should be ashamed OF
your editorial, How Did 1t
Happen?" and apologize to
the brave Air Force patriots
who dared to say what needed
saying in their manual on Sc
curlty threats.
You made the fallacious
statement that persons like
those responsible for pre-
pairing the manual posed a
greater threat to the Air
Force than do fancied sub
versiveS. Those "fancied sub
versives" are real. and threat
en- all Of us. Public igno-
rance of that fact, result
in general complacency and
apathy to the insidious
growth of the Communist
movement here and abroad.
constitutes the greatest threat
to our continued freedom
since the inception of our
great Republic. The press
and other news media are
partly responsible for this
situation, and are in a posi-
ton to do the most toward
correcting it.