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Evening star., 1960-02-24
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

possible to hold a hurt while
listening to great music. such
as Beethoven and Mozart,
for instance. wrote.
Good books must include
the justly famous humorists,
such as Americas own Mark
Twain.
This earthly, hearty man
still is regarded as slightly
uncouth by many Americans.
though he long ago was taken
to the hearts and minds of
the world.
1t was Mark who said that
all life is changed for the
better when somebody tells
a good humorous story.
And it is true.
Even when they are not
nice stories. they do clear
the air for better things.
The fun in life is some
thing that is crowded out,
sometimes. by the problems
OF life-such as traffic, for
instance.
In or out of the streets, the
woes of modern traffic crowd
i'll upon us. We cannot get
away from them. 1t seems
that speed is too much with
US, late or soon it kills or
mains some one we know.
But the traffic officials talk
about everything except
speed. 1t is carelesSneSs, the
other fellow. anything and
everything except speed.
A change in thought, no
matter what it is, will take
your mind off traffic and
other hazards of the streets.
Listening to music, reading
books, and telling good
stories
These three ways, and
many more, can help calm
upset nerves, due to traffic,
world conditions, mans fate
in the missile era, and all
else. These methods are
easy to come by, pleasant to
use, and bear in themselves
seeds of great things. To
get away from daily worry.
try books, music and fun.
They are magic.
Evening star., 1960-02-24

@. Why do stars seem
brighter in winter than In
Summer?-K. Men.
A. The stars that we see
in winter are exceptionally
brilliant, partly because of
the clear cold atmosphere,
but chiefly because some of
the most brilliant constella-
tions come into view at this
period of the year.
Evening star., 1960-02-24
CHEVY CHASE. Md.

NI1GN NI1AOG, N1O'
Dear Sir:
Recently you told of ex-
perienceS at the seaShore,
and somehow they struck me
as particularly appropriate,
as I looked out at our gray
skies and hurrying traffic.
1T is the traffic, I think,
that spoils today. Past ages
have had other causes to ruin
or almost ruin life for sensi-
tive people.
Nov it is the traffic,
which not only kills and
mains, but affronts quiet
people. All my life I have
wondered about this, how
some people love to go. and
others like best to stay home.
"A sometimes disregarded
poet once said that home
loving hearts are happiest.
I think this is true.
ITO put the accent on the
shore, with its lack of traffic,
is just the right thing.
when I got done reading
your articles about the sea,
and the dunes, and the beach
cows, I felt a great peace fill
ing my mind and heart.
Thank you.
Sincerely, M. K. Y"
y
If traffic troubles worry US,
either as city officials or
ordinary citizens, one good
way to overcome such wor-
ries is to think about some
thing else.
It need not be the shore.
1t may just as well be
books. or music, or nice
people one has known.
How true it is that it is the
bad people one has known
about whom one thinks!
These have a way of bor-
ing in on the mind.
A few impolite words, and
the day is ruined, at least
for some.
One has a dull feeling of
hurt, suddenly caught at the
oldest times, without real
izing for a moment what is
the matter.
Then that small slight
looms, or those carele SIS
words, or sometimes those
mean words.
Here is a very practical
problem.
There is what used to be
called a sleight-of-hand
here.
1t overcomes the i'll
thoughts, and puts in their
place good thoughts.
+
This goodness, one must
insist, is mostly difference.
Books and music can be
two of the best instruments
of change.
We believe it almost i'm
Evening star., 1960-02-24
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
Army MAKING Detail Map of Moon
By THOMAS R. HENRY

The Army Map Service
now is making a fine detail
map of the moon.
Already well underway, it
will contain more detail than
available maps of many parts
of the earth. Not that the
Army expects to fight any
battles on the moon very
soon. but the engineers feel
there is a good possibility of
humans landing there in the
next few years. With this
map they need not just
wander around aimlessly and
perhaps get hopelessly lost
among the barren hills and
deep craters.
Several maps Of the sur
face of the moons visible
side have been attempted in
the past. Some have located
presumably quite accu-
rately-the noteworthy visible
features. The Army's map
goes far beyond this. It is
a so-called contour map"
depicting elevations and the
like with considerable pre-
ciSion
Despite the fact that this
map must be produced from
photographs made from a
distance of approximately
239,543 miles, according to
1t. Gen. E. C. Itschner, Chief
of Engineers, it will be con-
siderably superior to any
thing available to early New
World explorers. The map
will be on a 1:5,00O,000 scale
that 'is, one inch on the
map will equal five million
inches. or about 79 miles, on
the moon.
Visible Side Mapped
At present it will be pos
sible to map only the side of
the moon visible from the
earth. Eventually, however,
development of a moon sat-
elite will make possible ade-
quate mapping OF he other
side. To date several hundred
moon photographs have been
ACQUIRED from the Lick, Yer
kes, Mount Wilson. Mount
Palomar and United States
Naval Observatories. The en-
gineers expect in the course
of a few years to obtain
enough photographs with
stereoscopic effect and image
resolution to give adequate
coverage of the area to be
mapped.
Landing on the moon, says
Col. Frederick o. Diercks,
commanding the Army Map
Service" no longer is consid-
cred an idle vision" The
exploring astronaut must
have more information than
did Columbus as he set foot
on uncharted shores of un-
explored lands. He not only
will have better maps than
Columbus had. but also data
on the moon superior to
those available for many
parts of the earth.
AS new equipment and
techniques are developed,
Army mapmakers believe,
even larger scale mapping of
moon and nearby planets will
be possible. They say that
even a map of the moon on
a l:250,000 scale may be pos
sible by taking photographs
from aerial balloons. Greater
accuracy will be possible be-
cause high altitude will elm
mate the distortion due to
atmospheric effects.
y
The vast ice cap that COW
Evening star., 1960-02-24

ers Greenland now is reced-
ing-but perhaps only by
inches a year.
This is indicated by all
available evidence, according
to the report of Army En-
gineers who have been carry
ing out Investigations on the
great polar sub-continent for
the past decade.
1T is definitely known"
says the Army report, that
the mean annual Greenland
temperature has increased
about 5 degrees Fahrenheit
in the last so years, but
whether this is a cause or
effect Of ice cap repression
cannot be determined.
But the accumulation Of
new snow each year does not
quite compensate for the
melt losses and ice spillage
into the surrounding seas.
The gradual recession Of the
mass is clearly discernible in
the form of moraines left as
the ice has slowly receded
during the past few thousand
years"
The great ice cap, says
the report, completely covers
Greenland's central plain. 1t
has an average elevation
above sea level Of 10000 feet
and is more than two miles
thick at its crest.
Each year about three feet
of new snow is added to the
ice cap. This ever-increas-
ing load results in consolda-
ton of the underlying layers
of snow from previous years
and causes the ice cap to
flow as a plastic mass slowly
toward the outer edges to
spill into fjords and glacial
rivers.
Bleak, Barren Land
Altogether, say the Army
report, Greenland is a bleak
and barren land. Its severe
and unusual conditions of
climate and terrain present
military and engineering
problems that must be over
come if this hitherto worth
less piece of real estate is to
be converted into a mean
ingful military asset"
The total land area is ap-
proximately $4,000 square
miles, nine-tenths of which
is covered permanently with
ice. Temperatures encount-
cred in the center of the ice
cap went as low as 10
Fahrenheit in mid-winter
but rose as high as so in mid
summer. Winds of more than
100 miles an hour are fire.
quent in mid-winter.
The great central ice cap
was essentially unknown be-
fore the Army engineers
started their Investigations
which will culminate in the
building of a city" buried
completely in ice, on which
work now is we'll underway.
The Army'S work is mostly
in the field of pure science
and has been of major i'm
portance in the continuation
Of International Geophysical
Year polar programs, in
which the Corps of Engi-
neers has co-operated.
But it also has a very
practical military aspect. The
great ice cap might we'll be-
come one Of the great battle
fields of the future. 1t is
necessary to learn how to
stay alive there.
Evening star., 1960-02-24

easier that way and get them
organized for communism"
(ThiS was reported on the
floor of the House of Rep
resentatives March II, 1858,
by Representative Donald L.
jackson of California;
The Daily News of Los
Angeles. April 81, 1916, car
ried this article: Claude
Williams, a minister of the
Presbyterian Church, yester-
day cut loose with a few
startling statements not the
least Of which was that you
don't have to believe that
Christ was the Son of God.
He qualified that one though
by adding that you should at
least look upon Him as a
good social worker and an
excellent organizer for de-
mocracy."
If you would really like
more evidence I will be happy
to supply it. We are anxious
to do all that we can to
awaken our American church
laymen and clergy.
Arthur E. Steele,
Vice President and Treas
urer, Faith Theological
Seminary, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Regarding the Air Force
manual about Communist
inflltration of Christian
churches, if my m e mory
serves me correctly someone
testified before the House
Un-American Activities Com
mittee Hon. Francis Walter,
chairman that the clergy
had been infiltrated to a
greater extent than any other
profession.
The National Council Of
Churches. of which Bishop G.
Bromley Oman is one of the
higher-upS, is in favor of rec
ognizing Red China and nu-
merouS other questionable
recommendations. If the Com
munists can use the churches
OF the West to lead the
Christian public to abandon
its rigidity in its commitment
20 high moral principles, the
major fortress has been cap
tured in the struggle to win
the world for socialism. So
cialism is only one step re-
moved from communism.
They are also using the Com
munist technique of terror
and fear to get American
people to compromise and
"coexist." I understand they
also support the goddess
United Nations, which in my
opinion is Trojan horse in
our midst.
Before we ridicule and de-
nounce the Air Force manual
in regard to Communist in
flltration in our churches,
let's seek out the facts"
then Judge for yourself"
Harry L. Warren, jr.
Some people will gag at a
gnat and swallow a camel.
Some have flared up in the
air about the Air Force train
ing manual alleging Com
munist inf1ltration into our
churches. Now I despise COM
munlsim as much as the next
person, but is it any more un-
American. n-Christianlike or
wrong for the Communists
to assist in preparing the re-
vised standard version of the
Bible than to have the
NAACP, the vote-buying poll
ticians and the courts force
the people, by man-made laws
and not the law of God. to
associate with people against
their own God-given choice
and rights?
Nish Showers.
4
Your salient news item re-
porting thei situation involv-
ing the printing and distri-
button of Air Force Manual
NR-45-0050, Increment V,
Volume Z, and the repercus-
sionS it has had on the public
and some factions of congress
sional figures comes as no
surprise to a great many citi-
zens; the philosophy that the
people have little right to
know what the executive
branch of the Government is
doing. and that the Govern
ment trickles insignificant in
formation to the public about
its operations. have been a
Evening star., 1960-02-24
Answers to Questions
By THE HASKINS SERVI(

A reader can get an answer. by
mail, to any question of fact by
writing The Star Information Bu-
reau 635 street NV Washington
4. D c Please inclose return postage
or self-addressed stamped envelope
Navajo times. [volume] (Window Rock, Ariz.) 1960-1984, 1960-09-01
Tribal Enterprises
Fully Coordinated

presently in the final planning
stage to accommodate banque.s,
and private dinner ard luncheon
meetings. This shoul6 be comp ct
ed before the end OF the yecr.
The two Restaurants are carry
ing on training pro gram for Ma
vajo individuals interested in be-
coming cooks Or mattresses a. /
eventually one may be interes ed
in training to become a msra ger
of a similar set up either for HIM
self or for the Tribe.
The Navajo Indian Village sit.
uatcd nine miles east of Gallup,
New Mexico just off Highway c5
is low rental houcing pr jet
consisting of two-bedroom apart-
ments. and bachelor apartments.
There are approximately 10j un-
> its in the project = one chuNc.l,
and a recreation building: a
Trading Post nearby, and a Pub
lie school about one mile east to
enable the children to walk to
school.
All Enterprises are managed by
competent personnel under cen
tract with the Navajo Tribe and
responsible directly to tn Super
visor of the Tribal Enterprise
Department.
Another department within the
Enterprise Department is the Trad
ing Supervisors office. This de-
partment issues Leases to indivi-
duals who have submitted appli-
cations for Business Sites and
have had them approved by the
Advisory Committee. He also IN
vestigates complaints directed to
him by Navajos, Of Traders WHO
may be violating certain Traders
regulations on the reservation.
TIE Enterprise Department is stat
fed entirely by NavajoS.
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The Enterprise Department CO
ordinates the existing Tribal En-
terpriSes and constructs any new
facilities or expand present in
stallations after careful research,
planning and justification.
The oldest of the Enterprises is
the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild
located just south of Window Rock
at the Tribal Fairgrounds. Besides
doing big volume of business
on the wholesale and retail level
with all legitimate Jewelry Shops
and Curio Shops that wish to do
business with the Enterprise. the
Guild creates an outlet for indi-
vidual Silversmiths by selling
their finished products to the
Guild The Guild deals not only IN
the silverWOrk, but also buys and
sells rugs, artWork, and other ham,
dicraft Construction will soon
start on a new arts and crafts
building near the present junction
of Route and Route IL nearer to
Window Rock.
The WinGow Rock Lodge and
Restaurant, another Enterprise of
the Navajo Tribe, located at Win
dow Rock, Arizona has ten sleep
ing units for transients and eight
efficiency apartments rented to
Tribal Employees. The Restaur-
ants food is good, cooked by Ma
vajo cooks and served by Nava-
jo mattresses.
The Nataani Nez Lodge was
built in the early fifties with eight
efficiency apartments and eight
motel units to serve the travelling
public with overnight sleeping ac-
c0mmodations. In 1857, sixteen
modern units were added and a
Restaurant built to give patrons
facilities to eat. Since the building
of the Restaurant, it was soon dis
covered the facility was too small
at peak seasons. An expansion is
Navajo times. [volume] (Window Rock, Ariz.) 1960-1984, 1960-09-01

statements he made in the course
of Interpretation.
In 1924 he again left the employ
of the Federal government to &C.
cept Council membership, again
serving in this capacity for a
four-year term ending in 1916. To
supplement the meager income
then received by ouncil
members, Chic again took en-
ployment as a mail carrier and
interpreter for the Franciscan
mission.
In 1916 he was employed as a
District Supervisor, and in 1855
he left this position to become
the official interpreter at Navajo
Agency. In the latter capacity.
he filled a position left vacant by
Paul Jones when the latter was
elected to the Guardianship of
the Navajo Tribal Council.
During the years Chic not only
gained distinction as a pioneer
in the creation and development
of the Navajo Tribal Council, and
in the field of Interpretation, but
he was one of the pioneers in the
study of the Navajo language and
of Navajo culture. In S"s role, he
worked closely with Father Ber-
ard Halle, OFM., of St. Michaels
in the collection and translation
Of a large body of Navajo texts
relating to the ceremonials. Also,
he worked closely with the late
DR.. Edward Sapier, famous Amer
lean linguist formerly at Yale
University. Chic once had the ex-
perience of living for period of
months at New Haven where he
worked with DR.. Sapier on the an
alysis of She Navajo language.
Recognized widely as the dean
of Navajo interpreters and a real
expert on the language and cul-
ture of his people, Chic will no
doubt be called upon many times
by scholars and other persons in
terested in the Navajo to act as a
Navajo times. [volume] (Window Rock, Ariz.) 1960-1984, 1960-09-01
Road Projects
AreCompleted

During August, three construc-
ton projects have been completed
in the Navajo Agency Road Sys-
tenn. The first is II mile section
OF route from Teec Nos Pos west
to a point south of Red Mesa. The
second is a ten mile project on
Route from the Arizona.New
Mexico State Line west to the top
OF the mountain. The third in
cludes the construction of two
bridges on the route between Many
Farms and Round Rock.
Bids will be opened on August
"a for construction of a paved
road from the Chinle Wash Bridge
!. to Round Rock, thus completing
the paving of the link from Many
Farms to Round Rock. Bids will
also be opened on a - mile Sec
ton of Route l which will carry
the construction into Marsh Pass,
a distance of about II miles from
Kayenta. Paving is progressing
rapidly from Tuba City east and
it is now at a point beyond Cow
Springs. It is planned that the re-
naming projects to complete the
paving to Kayenta will be star
ted this fall.
Navajo times. [volume] (Window Rock, Ariz.) 1960-1984, 1960-09-01
Interesting Career Ended
AS Chic SandOval Retires

On July 81, 1860, Albert G. San
d0val, ST., better known as Chic
retired from the Bureau of In
dian Affairs and returned to his
home in Lukachukai.
Born in a hogan near Cabezon,
on December q, 1892, Chic San
doval had a long and interesting
career. Many of the things he did
were unusual, even including the
fact that he was one of the few
Navajo Indians who received an
education at that period. He had
the good fortune to attend the
Albuquerque Indian School dur
ing the period 19O3-19O9.
Quick to learn the English lang
uage at a time when very few
Navajos knew so much as sim
gle word of English, chic was
hired as the official interpreter
for the Franciscan Fathers Mis-
sion at Chinle, Ariz. He remained
there until 1914, at which time he
took employment with the Bur-
eau of Indian Affairs with the
title of Industrial Teacher at the
Chinle Boarding School. He re-
manned in this position for two
years, at the end of which time
he was prevailed upon to return
to his position as mission inter-
prefer and mail carrier. After
three years in this capacity, he
again accepted federal employ
ment, this time as a disciplinar-
ian We would call it teacher
advisor" nowadays.
Four years later, in 1924, Chic
left the Government service to
once more accept employment as
a mission interpreter and mail
carrier, but this time with the
added responsibility of member
ship on the Navajo Tribal Council
which had been created a few
years previously. He remained in
this position for ten years, during
which time he gained distinction
as one of the pioneers who laid
the foundation of the Navajo Tri-
bal government
In view of his long experts nee /
i'm the field of Interpretation be-
tween the Navajo and English Ian
gusges, he was employed by Nav
ajo Agency, in 1885, as an inter- /
prefer. He remained in his capac-
ity until 1912. It was stormy
period in Navajo history, involv-
ing many deep seated social and
economic changes. 1t was the era
of livestock reduction and the be-
ginning of wage employment, and
one during which the Navajo PEG
pie, confused and beWlldered,
were in sore need of an effective
interpreter capable of explaining
to them what was taking place.
Chic filled this role with distin-
ction and did not waiver even
though, many times, he was held ),
personally responsible for the u
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THE GREAT SPHINX at Czech
is 24O feet long, 6 feet high with
a facial width of IS feet and legs
are formed fro mstone blocks.
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guide, conSultant or interpreter.
We all join in wishing him long
and pleasant life in retirement.
Navajo times. [volume] (Window Rock, Ariz.) 1960-1984, 1960-09-01

Gas station attendant to car own
er: "Your oils o. K, but your en-
CINE needs changing"
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-08-12
Young Man From Michigan Gets
Exposed To Virginia History

to Natural Bridge. Wednesday
evening the two drove to Rich
nond and were dinner guests of
Miss Billie Morgan.
Between trips there were GRO
quet games at home to keep
things lively. but nobody yet,
from in or out of state, has been
able to wrest the championship
from Mrs. Morgan.
Friday, Bob Coleman return
ed to his home in Crosse Pointe
A steak can't be broiled bet
ter than Al Wilson can do it.,
says 0. J. Thompson, and he
should know forA each year
when his birthday rolls around,
he and Mrs. Thompson are in
vlted TO celebrate at a steak
dinner in the Wilson home. Sat
urday was the day and h e
Thompsons drove to Lynchburg
for the annual feast. They were
met at the Wilson's by Mr.. and
Mrs. Walden and their sons, Nat
and Aubrey.
Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
and their daughter, Jane, came
by for Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-08-12

and they went to Cumberland
for dinner with Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Davis.
Mrs. Earl Mann and Mrs.
Hatcher T mpsOn were
luncheon guests in the Thomp-
son home Tuesday.
Left To Woody
The past week end was a good
one for the Jack Anderson
family Mrs. Anderson had been
in Richmond two days and came
home Friday with an encourag-
ing report from her doctor. Juan
Anderson was at home for the
week end. Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Anderson and their son, Woody
were ready to move into their
house at Buckingham and share
in the life of the community
Saturday night, they we're to-
gether at a picnic supper at the
John Morgans, all of which was
comfortable and pleasant and
honey but not exciting. It took
young Woody to throw his fami-
ly into a fever of excitement
He did it Sunday morning by
cutting a tooth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Flood
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-08-12
pf'effers In Detroit
To Attend Ball Game

FORK OF WILLIS. Aug. II DIV
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pfieffer
and sons visited in the H. E.
Cooke home last Tuesday and
Wednesday. This week, James
and Edward are staying there
while their parents are in De-
troit attending a ball game.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Jones and
family, Of Newport News. were
week end guests of her mother.
Mrs. 0. w. Ball.
Mr.. and Mrs. Q. w. Ball. Jr.,
OF Flat Rock. visited the J. M.
Bankers Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. ard Mrs J. M. BACKYARD
and Patsy. Of Newport News,
are expected guests Of the P. L.
Duncans this week end.
Mrs. S. F. Scott and children.
Of Norfolk. arrived Monday to
spend this week with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. P. L. Duncan.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Duncan
and Terry visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Dick Barden in Powhatan Sun
day.
Mrs. Williams and her son
from Tennessee are visiting in
the Snallwood home this week.
Mr. and Mrs. l.. L. Flippen
and family attended the home
coming at Cedar Baptist Church
in Buckingham Sunday, and were
supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Acie Allen.