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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-08-25
PHS SCOPE BROADENED
IN 1913 AND 1856

Under the 1913 act and it's 1856
amendments, the PHS must carry on
technical research and provide as
sistance to states, municipalities and
area agencies to help prevent water
pollution. 1t can take steps to stop
pollution after holding hearings, is
suing orders and bringing suit, as it
did in the only such case on record
the case of St. Joseph, Missouri
after three years of delay.
ST. Joseph and it's industries have
been pouring raw sewage into the
Missouri River for more than 100
years. A PHS engineer who inspected
the river reported it unsafe to come
into contact with the water south of
the city.
The river divides Kansas from Mis-
souri,. just "a miles south of ST.
Joseph. the city of Atchison, Kansas,
takes it's water supply from the pol
luted river. Atchison has taken ex-
pains to clean UP the
water, but with limited success. An
Atchison resident told PHS at a
hearing: Sat times !. !. the chlorine
content was such as to cause serious
odor and some sickness among the
people in Atchison.''
PHS brought Kansas and Missouri
health officers together in June 1857
for conference with ST. Joseph and
18 of it's companies. Little was &C.
Continued On Page Seven)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-08-25

cals?" he asked the 1,145 conferees
"What happens. if the concentration
increases, either suddenly or gradual
ly? We cannot say we know the
answers
DR.. Burney, however, did know
the answer to those who love the
status quo. He said emphatically:
There is no cause for complacen-
cy. The condition of our waters is
a national disgrace. 1t is tragic for
the worlds richest, most powerful
and most technologically advanced
nation to foul its own nest, limit
it's own growth and threaten the
health of its people"
Conference delegates from all over
the nation sketched this outline of
the problems of water pollution in
the 1905:
NEED TO DOUBLE BY 1880
Fifty million pounds of waste are
being poured into U. S. watercourses
daily. New subdivisions are building,
new plants and processes come into
use, more water is needed all the
time 800 billion gallons day
in 1861, an estimated 600 billion gal
lans per day by 1880.
New chemical processes pour pol
lutants daily into the source of our
drinking water-insecticides, herbi-
cides, detergents, solvents, cleaners,
dyes, synthetic compounds, corrosive
germs and viruses. They
mix with human wastes and wastes
from slaughterhouses hospitals, can
1eries and radioactive processes.
Clouds of foam,. blown from sew
age treatment plants on windy days, |
point the way to new sources of |
rouble. Treatment plants are not |
adequate to the task and the wastes
rom 25 million Americans get no
ewage treatment at all-they pour
into our rivers.
The first explorers and missionar-
es to the New World wrote home
bout the most extraordinary ex-
'erience in all their travels
sweetness and purity of
he limpid waters. Today these waters
re described as ga vast floating
'arbage can"
How did so vast a change occur
in the short history of SO young
nation?
The germ theory of disease, demon
trated in the 187Os by Lister, Koch
nd Pasteur, was unknown to Amer
sa's founding fathers. People in
Vashington's day believed epidemics
f typhoid fever and cholera were
aused by odors, vapors and night
lists. The English translation of the :
1alian word malaria" is bad air.
In the early 1905, London author
les shut off a public water supply
n a hunch it's waters might be con- I
'ibuting to an epidemic of cholera. '
heir bunch was proved correct 1
Uses of cholera soon decreased in |
lmber. BY 1879, the Massachusetts, {
GARD of Health had enough facts {
justify a report on the connection I
etween polluted water and disease.
AS the nation grew and cities null b
piled, residents of such communities t
Pittsburgh and Chicago, states like /
innesota and Massachusetts,, learned
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-08-25
BY EUGENE KELLY, Asst. Editor,
AFL-CIO NEWS.

by EONEINE NELLY, ASST, Editor
AFL-CIO NEWS,
In AMERICAN FEDERATIONIST
America is a nation which
buries its gold in guarded
vaults below Fort Knox, Ken
lucky, and allows almost any
citizen to help himself at a
bargain-basement price to it's
most valuable possession, the
one precious resource it can
not live without-fresh water.
Today's fastidious city dwell
er wrinkles his nose and shud-
ders at the thought of medieval
man, who threw his garbage
out a window and let his sew
age run down ditch alongside
an unpaved street.
But Homus Americans 1861
has grown so dependent on water
and so reckless in it's use that many
Oh MS streams nave Dcen turned
into sluggish flowing sewers, his
cisterns run dry as the water table |
sinks every year and his beaches
become so contaminated that signs
warn swimmers to enter the water
at their own peril.
Water pollution has proved strong
reactions from those familiar with
it's odorous extent. A United States
senator has described our streams
and river as "a vast floating garbage
can." A st. Louis POST-DISPATCH
editorial has characterized Americans
as ''the worlds cleanest people,"
bathing in scented fats and "drink- |
ing a factory's slime"-treated with
chemicals and put back into circula-
ton, not cleaned but "re-enriched.
Former U. S. Surgeon General Leroy
E. Burney has called the condition
of our waters "tragic-a national
disgrace"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-08-25

We, too, born to freedom and be-
lieving in freedom, are willing to
fight to maintain freedom. We, and
all others who believe as deeply as
we do, would rather die on our feet
than live on our knees.-FDR.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-08-25
WATER TREATMENT
RELATIVELY NEW

A>GA-<A " NEW
Louisville, Kentucky and Lawrence
Massachusetts, were among the first
American cities to try out water fill
tration and chemical treatment. A
few of the states were experimenting
with water treatment systems about
the time of the Spanish-Amel.ican
War.
Then the job of protecting drinking
water on trains and ships was handed
over to the u. S. Public Health Serv-
ice. Increasing complaints about
water pollution led the Congress, be-
tween 1897 and 1909, to consider
various bills authorizing the health
service to control pollution of water.
But it was 1912 before Congress
passed the first national water pol
luton control bill of any conse-
quence. That bill authorized the
PHS to investigate the effects of
sewage pollution in major rivers
and lakes. Six sanitary engineers
were assigned to start an Ohio
River Investigating Station at Gin
cinnati and that station today pro-
vides basic research data on stream
pollution.
A modern Water Pollution Control
Act was passed by Congress in 1913.
1t was amended in 1856 but further
were stalled off in 1860
when President Eisenhower vetoed
a bill which would have added $90l
million year for 10 years to the
$50 million year authorized in 1856
20 assist municipalities in building
ewage treatment plants.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-08-25
Water--Precious and Polluted

to identify the cause of typhoid fever
epidemics. as raw sewage, dumped
into the handiest river.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
Covenant High School Graduates Married At Unalakleet May 19

The Unalakleet Cove n n t Church was the scene of lovely candle-light wedding when Anna Walter, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Waskey Walter of Mountain Vil- lake, and Dana Kopanuk, son of MT. and Mrs. Pete Kopanuk of Hooper Bay, were united in mar riage on May 19. Rev. Maynard Londborg officiated at the double ring ceremony.
 The bride wore a floor length white satin gown with a v-neck and cape sleeves. She carried a bouquet of white gladiolas and lilies-of-the-valley. The matron of honor was Mrs. Carl AhWinona and the bridesmaid was Miss Betsy Etageak, both of Unala- kleet Their dresses were street length, fashioned after that of the bride.
 Flower girl Beth Ella Londborg, dressed in pastel green, dropped red rose petals as she preceded the bride down the aisle. The candles were lit by Rose Anagick of Unalakleet, and Carole Carlson of Nome.
 Attendants for the groom were Alfred White and Carl Ahwinona of Unalakleet. Ring bearer was Gary Haugen. Ushers were Ray mond Kotongan, Al Milligrock, Paul Brown, and Melvin White.
 The altar was decorated with two pussywilloW bouquets with white gladiolas and red roses. Or gan music was by Miss Anna Marie Kylander. Clarence Tow aruk sang '"Together with Jesus" before the ceremony. The prayer song, 70 Perfect Love-" was sung by Miss Kylander.
 A reception was 200 guests was held in the church auditorium fol- lowing the ceremony.
 Both the bride and groom are 1861 graduates of Unalakleet Covenant High School The couple will make their home in Unala- kleet where they are attending the Covenant Bible Seminary.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
Lily Walker to Represent Mothers Club at
 U of As Short Course

Mrs. Lily Walker will leave for the University of Alaska on Saturday to represent the Moth CTS Club at the annual Home makers Short Course.
 Miss Eunice Haywood, Director of the Division of Home Econo- mics Programs in Federal Ex- tension Service will be tn e featured guest speaker at the 12th Annual Short Course for Alaskan homemakers, being held from June to June g. Her sub iect will be "New Directions for Homemakers in the Sixties.
 Immediately after the Short Course is over, she will visit in Nome where she will meet with more homemakers giving them many kinds of help they will need for the coming year. Accompany ing her to Nome will be Agnes Sunnell, State Home Economics leader.
 MT. and Mrs. Virgil Severns will meet Mrs. Walker on her ar rival in Fairbanks and give her a tour of the town before she en- rolls at College where she will be housed on the campus.
 Weather permitting the Mothers Club is planning picnic for the visiting Home Economies leaders when they arrive here June 12.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
MONDAY TO BE FESTIVAL DAY AT C OF C MEETING

Monday will be Festival Day at the Chamber meeting with the members dusting off their stam- pede days costumes and prepar- ing for the Midnight Sun Festival. Several costumes have already been worn at the meetings by Virginia Brown and Johnnie Stephanson as well as some color ful new vests by the men.
 Bob Harwood, chairman for the festival announced that the Festi- val Parade would concentrate on children this year leaving the big parade for the 4th of July, causing no duplication of activities in that way.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
Arrivals & Departures

Arrivals in town over the week. end by way of Fairbanks and Wien Airlines included Louise Bockman, district director of the State Welfare Department, who has been in Juneau for a special meeting. Other were: John Cid dings, Charles Jones, Bernice Coates, Chuck Fagerstrom, Bob B h n ke, T. Fujihira, Clifford Charles, J. Evens, Charles Moore head, Milford Murray, Ray Sen for, Charles Snyder, Martin Kar- man, and John Zenlener.
 Departing for Fairbanks were: Barbara Stark, John, Lilly and Margaret Kunayak, and Leda Denka.
 Departing for Kotzebue were: Harry Lewis, Mir. and Mrs. Brick son, Martha Weyanna, John Gid dings, Charles H. Jones and John Osborne.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
US. Dept. of Mines to Search Berylium in This Area

Richard Berryhill of the U. s. Bureau of Mines is working in this area with an instrument sensitized to locate berylium. The instrument is known as Bery- lometer, it is one of ten which have been made and will be used with the aid of a helicopter which is being based here this summer.
 It is reported that U. s. Bureau of Mines will also drill for iron at Sinuk this summer at the well known deposit in that area.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
GIRL SCOUTS TO OPEN INFORMATION CENTER

Tomorrow, June l the Senior Girl Scouts will officially open their Information Center on Front Street for tourists and other vis- itors in the community.
 The site of the Information Center will be the small cabin on the corner of Lanes Way and Front Street, unofficially known as the Rex Beach cabin which is being used through the courtesy of MT. and Mrs. Willis Brown.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
WIEN AIRLINES PURCHASE
 BERG HOTEL IN KOTZEBUE

The Chris Berg Hotel in Kot- zebue has been purchased by Wien Airlines to replace the Wien Hotel which is now too small to care efficiently for the growing tourist trade.
 The new building which is also on the waterfront will house a total of 70 people and provide much needed space for equip ment and storage. Frank Whaley is now in Kotzebue taking inven- tory.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
To Discuss Vocational School

M iss Hildegarde Thompson, BIA Education Supervisor from Washington, D. C., is scheduled to arrive in Juneau on Monday for a conference with Dr. Theo Norby, Commissioner of Educa- ton. According to information received here today by Sen. Pearse Walsh, they will discuss the participation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in connection with the building of the Vocational School at Nome.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
LIONS MEET TONIGHT

The Lions Club meets tonight at at the Seaview Room. Block captains and final plans will be announced for the forthcoming broom sale in conjunction with the city's Clean-Up Week. The brooms are made by the blind and proceeds from the sale are used in the Lions international pro- gram of sight conservation.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
PEN PALS WANTED

Karen Bittermann, aged 13, of 1917 Chesterfield Drive, Washing ton P, DC, would like a have a native Alaskan girl for pen pal.
 Michael Phillips, aged IA, of 321 Hancock St., Findlay, Ohio, s interested in printing and would also like an Alaskan pen Dal.
The Nome nugget., 1961-05-31
ICE MOVES OUT

The ice moved out of the Boring Sea during the night with much of the grounded shore ice disappearing with the aid of a strong wind. Easterly winds this morning has kept the ice on the move.
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Milford chronicle., 1961-03-24
Zwaanendael Museum
Open Good Friday

The Zwaanendael Museum will
be open to visitors for holiday
hours. 1890 to $3.50 pm, on Good
Friday, March 81; but will be
closed on Easter Sunday, April q
Special exhibits and arrange
ment of glass and china are being
planned in anticipation of the
many summer visitors. Civil War
relics pertaining to Sussex County
are also being solicited to be fea-
tured later during the Civil War
Centennial Celebration.
Activities at the museum will
soon include the tours of many
school groups from all parts of
Delaware in connection with the
study of Delaware history in the
curricula of the third and fourth
grades. The staff is always pleased
to receive groups, but because the
museum is small. 1t is preferred
that the museum be notified of
the planned visits to prevent con-
flict with other groups.
The Zwaanendael Museum visi-
ting hours are weekdays, Tuesdays
through Saturdays. 1890 am. to
$3.50 pm. Sundays and holidays.
1890 to $3.50 pm, and closed on
Mondays and Easter Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-24
John Wilkins
HOnOred At
Calvary Church
Veteran Sunday School
Superintendent Is Hon.
Ored For AZ Years Ser
vice With A Supper.

AT Covered Dish Supper We'd
nesday evening, Calvary Church
honored Mr.. John wilkins for his
faithful service of AZ years as
Sunday School Superintendent.
Following program of several
musical numbers by the Children
and Youth of Calvary Sunday
School. and the reading of a poem
by Mr.. vibbert. Mr. Roy Pettyjohn
presented gifts TO Mr.. wilkins; !;
a Bible with a beautiful bronze
cover. and a gold watch.
Mr.. Wilkins was the fifth Sup
erintendent of Calvary Sunday
School. being preceded by Mr.. Will
liam Richardson. Capt William
Murphy, Mr.. John Hudson, and
Mr.. George III. Wilson. In his AZ
years as superintendent, Mr.. Will
kins has seen many changes come
to Calvary Church. The fire ten
years ago was the most devasta-
ting experience Calvary Church
has had, but out of it, under Mr..
wilkins guidance, the present pro-
gressive Sunday School of Calvary
developed.
continued on page nvel
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-24
Ben-Hur Opens At
New Milford Mar. 30

"BEN-HUR''. tale of the
Christ, winner of eleven Academy
Awards. opens at Schine's Milford
Theatre Friday, March 30th. for
two full weeks. This will give the
people of Milford and nearby COM
munities an opportunity to see a
really great masterpiece.
1t took a great amount of work,
time, expense. etc. to make this
great picture. Ben-Hur was five
years in preparation and ten
months before the cameras. There
are 452 speaking parts and 25,-
900 extras and bit players. Several
crew of Italian craftsmen toiled
for more than a year to build the
arena for the chariot race alone.
There are rs highly trained chari-
OF horses as well as hundreds of
other horses, sheep and native
live stock. Fifty ships were con-
structed for the sea battle.
Charleton Heston, winner of
best actor of the year, has the title
role as Ben-Hur. Stephen Boyd APP
pears as Messiah. Ben Hur's life
time enemy. Jack Hawkins plays
CONTINUED on page sixl
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-24
Odessa Girl Wins
Essay Contest

Emily NJ. Weber, of Odessa, a
18th grade pupil at Padua Academy
is the winner of the 1960-61 essay
contest, sponsored by the Cover
nor's Committee of Employment of
the Handicapped.
The contest closed February 10
and Miss Weber's essay will now
be entered in the national COM
petition.
Betty Ann Genevicz, of 317 Bev-
erly Place. a 18th grade student
at Mt. Pleasant School, was Sec
ond; Rebecca H. Knox. of S14
Woodsdale Road, also a 18th grade
student at Mt Pleasant Hi & h
School was third; Sybil Cole, of
1925 Greenleaf Road, 18th grade
student at Padua Academy. W a S
fourth in the competition. while
Kathleen A. Ambrose, of Alvil
Road, Elsmere. a 18th grade pupil
at Corpus Christi School, was
fifth.
Americans as individuals and
as members of community usu-
ally do not flee from a challenge.
One OF the greatest challenges
continued on page sixl
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-24
Grangers Win Carvel
Support For Cleanup

Paris {. Kirby of Milford, Mas
ter of Delaware State Grange, has
received the following communica-
tion from His Excellency, Cover
nor Elbert N. Carvel:
1t is pleasure to endorse the
Beautify Rural America" program
advocated nationally by The Gran
ge and sponsored here in 1.-THE
First State" by the Delaware State
Grange.
Ours is beautiful state offer
ing many historic buildings and
sites: unexcelled recreational fac
ilities; great scenic beauty: and
good highways and roads leading
to all of these many attractions.
II is-and rightfully should be-
the desire of all good citizens to
maintain all these things In a man
ner that is neat. orderly, and eye
pleasing.
II is particularly appropriate at
this time. when we are inviting
peoples from other states, areas
(continued on page ED
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-24
Il Teachers Attend
Poultry Seminar

Wilmington: Twelve instruct
ors" from 9 different states travel
cd total OF 10000 miles last week
to bring Delmarva's top poultry
industry executives an up-to-the-
minute picture of the current US.
economic situation as well as re-
ports on new technology in the
production, processing and market
ing of broilers.
The occasion was a special SEM
inar for broiler industry top mana
cement held at Wilmington's Hot
ell DUPONT March 1916. The meet
ing was sponsored by the area
broiler industry's trade and pro-
motional organization. Delmarva
Poultry Industry. Inc. in coopera-
tion with the University of Della
ware and the University of Mary
land.
The industry leaders listened to
lectures and took part in group
discussions about current prob
lens facing their business. Econo-
mic outlook, marketing trends, per-
sonnel development and soun d
business management programs
were among the topics on the pro-
gram. More than two dozen execu-
tives took part, representing hatch
cries, feed manufacturers, equip
ment companies. vaccinating SER
vices. broiler growers professors
(continued on page sikh
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-24
BudHarriington
Retires From
Paper Company
Milford Resident Has
Only Worked For Two
Organizations In His
Entire Life; Was With
Chronicle 80 Years.

Bud Harrington, of Milford, due
TO his health, has been retired by
the Nudge Paper Company of Bal
timore, Md. as a salesman for the
Eastern Shore of Delaware, Mary
land and Virginia.
Bud. who has been with the
Nudge Company for fifteen years.
will be associated with that COM
pany as a sales manager in an ad-
visory and human relations capa-
city, for the Eastern Shore terri
tory. His new duties start April
1st.
Bud, in his life time. has held
only two jobs. He was associated
with the Milford Chronicle for
thirty-eight years and was the
plant manager and general super
intendent for twenty years.
Bud started with the Milford
Chronicle when he was sixteen.
That was before type setting ma
chimes were in use at the Chron-
icle. The entire paper had TO be
set by hand In those days one
started as a printers devil. doing
all the things a janitor does now.
in addition to learning the print
ing trade. The pay was short and
tcontinued on page sevenp
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-24
E. John Dyer, OF Christ
Episcopal, And Rev.
Paul L. Buehrle, Of
Reformation Lutheran,
Plan For Good Friday.

The Rev. f. John Dyer. rector
of Christ. Episcopal Church, and
the Rev. Paul l.. Buehrle. pastor
of Reformation Lutheran Church.
have announced that they will lead
their congregations in united Good
Friday deyotions Friday. March
81. between II noon and ; p. m.
at Christ Episcopal Church. 200
Church Avenue. in Milford. The
public is invited to join with the
and Lutheran congrega-
tions in their traditional. liturgi-
cal Good Friday service.
The Three Hours Devotion will
center around The Seven Last
Words from the Cross with the
appropriate. accompanying Pas
sion prayers. Scriptures. hymns.
and congregational responses. The
Rev. Mr.. Dyer will offer an ad-
dress on the First. Third. Fifth,
and Seventh Words; the Rev. Mr..
Buehrle will speak of the Second.
Fourth. and Sixth Words.
There will be an opportunity
for those who wish to worship to
enter or leave the sanctuary at
their convenience between the
presentations of each of The Sew
ell Last Words.
(continued on page nvsl