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The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17
UdaU Sets Moratorium On Pub. Lands

The 18-month moratorium closing filing for non mineral land from the Bureau of Land Management does not affect homestead or trade and manu- featuring sites or claims that were on file with the office be fore Feb. IA.
 Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Urall ordered the moratorium te allow for time for the Department of the In terior to review the entire land management picture, eliminate work backlogs. and develop long-term management policies and program.
 Scrip rights and applications by states and local governments are not affected, he said.
 In recent years, the secretary said, unethieal land loeators and promoters have abused the privilege of filing nonmineral applications and petitions for public lands at cost of millions of dollars to the public. The land offices have been deluged with thousands of nonmineral public land applications.
 In addition, many earnest cit izens have manifested the great American ambition to own piece of land by filing types of applications which the govern ment could not efficiently han dle.
 The moratorium will permit development of legislative and administrative remedies to pre- vent land spectators and pro motors from seriously impeding protection of the public's inter est in the ATT million acres of public lands.
 Also, ELM will undertake large-scale land inventory pro- gram and will classify, open and make appropriate lands avail able for transfer to states, local governments, individuals and business firms. Most land trans fers to private individuals will be on a competitive-bid basis, while few will be handled on an equal-value exchange basis.
 During the moratorium the department will proceed to pro- cess over 60,000 applications and petitions now on file for nonmineral public lands. Each pending application will re- ceive full and fair considera- ton on it's own merits.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17
Peterson Named For our Group

Former State Representative Allan l.. Peterson, Kenai, has been named for a two-year term on the newly created state Tour ism Advisory Board.
 The Senate and House of Representatives confirmed the appointments last week of Peterson and A other members
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The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17

first board meeting will be held March 18 at Parker's in Soldot- na, with two pro tenn members from each chamber on the pc ninsula in attendance.
 After lengthy consideration on the borough bill and a sug- gestion by a member of the b o In d ry commission, the League voted a motion to send night letters to their local repre- sentatives directing them to proceed on the original propos als.
 Dr. Joseph B, Diecher, Sew ard, was directed by the par ticipants to send letters to Rhode, Irwin and Metcalf. ask ing them to refer the letter, sent previously by the League with suggestions for the proposed borough bill, to the chairman of the appropriate Senate commit tee.
 Paul Choquette, Homer. chairman of the state boundary commission, told the group that the letter sent before was used. and was the best method of ob= taining cooperation Several Of the suggestions were included in the newly drafted House Bill IT.
 Also included on the agenda of the meeting was a proposal to meet jointly with the g members of the Kenai Penin= sula Development Assn to con sider consolidating into one or ganization It was not decided when the meeting will be held
 It was pointed out that this is the third attempt to organize such group for mutual bene- fits and those present were ex- uberiantly opposed to letting this group collapse as have the past efforts.
 Considerable time was allow ed for discussion of membership requirements in the League. It was tentatively decided to al- low anyone who desired to come into the group to join, de spite the fact that they may not belong to another organized chamber of commerce.
 Attending the open meeting were Howard Myhill, Leroy C. Wythe, Paul D. and Gay Cho- quette, and James A. McDowell, all of Homer; Frank Mullen, Ralph Soberg, C. E. and Frances
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17

Goodrich, and s'Red" Olsen, all of Soldotna; Jo and Jack Ran
 dall and William Pege. of Coop CT Landing: Mildred KirKpat= rick, Vange Allen. Beverly Dun han, and Dorothy and Ralph Rider, of Seward; Allan L. Petersen. Kenai; and Virginia Dugan, Anchorage.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17
Kenai Peninsula C of C Meets With Choquette

The Peninsula League of Chambers Commerce took first definite organization Saturday meeting held a Henon's Lodge in Cooper Landing
 The voted to make the league orgn with bylaws committees directors
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-17

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Evening star., 1961-12-12
Ray Through Traffic Clouds

The announcement that the first
section of the new Capital Beltway will
be opened about the middle of this
month, with completion of the Wood
row Wilson bridge at Alexandria due
to follow within two more weeks, brings
nearer the days when the beltway'S ef-
feet on traffic congestion in downtown
Washington can be given a good test
If the highway planners predictions
come true, the relief will be noticeable
and most welcome
Virginia is well ahead of Maryland
IN carrying out it's share of the beltway
project. The initial section of the ex-
preSSway to be opened to traffic will be
the eight-mile stretch between Airing
ton Boulevard (Route SOY and the Shir-
ley Highway, at Springfield. There will
be delay, due to ground settlement, in
completion of the segment from Shirley
to the new Alexandria bridge at Jones
Point. But the bridge itself, with ade-
quate connections to Route /, will be
ready b. ore the end of the year-prob-
ably about December %. The bridge will
carry traffic between Virginia and Prince
Georges County and the District.
Highway officials say that the en-
tire Virginia section of the beltway will
Evening star., 1961-12-12
A Plan for Better Schools

Virginia'S far-sighted Spong Com
mission has presented to Governor Al
mond and the General Assembly a
program of public education which, if
followed in its general outline, would
assure the State of elementary and
secondary school systems Of greatly
improved quality and prestige The
commission, ignoring past suggestions
that public schools be abandoned in
Virginia, made it plain that the States
welfare, like that of the Nations, re-
quireS strong public education syS-
tenn, with better-trained and better
paid teachers, with properly stressed
basic studies and with adequate facili-
ties. The report should help the State,
the counties and the cities to collaborate
in moving toward these important
goals.
Special emphasis was given in the
report to the serious shortage of quail
ified teachers in most areas of the
State. This shortage, it was pointed
out, has resulted in lower quality of
education than should be the lot of
children in an enlightened school sys-
IeLl. 1O HlccI GIle SIlOTIdSe pTODlenl,
State Senator Spong of Portsmouth
and his group recommended larger
scholarships to college students agree
ing to enter the teaching profession
and to teach in the State; increased
salaries to attract new teachers and to
retain present ones, and a plan for
merit raises to reward teachers show
ing exceptional competence and dill
gence.
Other proposals to be debated at
the next session of the legislature, in
cluded lengthening of the school year
from 180 to 100 days, encouragement
of wide use of educational televiSion,
establishment of minimum standards
for education in the elementary schools
and many. other changes. The whole
report represents two years of study
of Virginia'S public schools in relation
to standards prevailing in many other
States. Substantial additional funds
will be needed to bring about the i'm
provementS suggested. The State can
help, but the major responsibility will
fall on the local school districts and
the taxpayers. A careful reading of the
Spong report should aid in rallying
public support to the better-Schools
movement.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Little Light on Sit-Ins

The country will have to wait a
while before learning whether the
"Slt-1n," as practiced by CORE and the
NAACP, is a conStitutionally valid
technique.
Ihree Louisiana cases, in which
Negro students challenged segregation
IN restaurants, were decided by the
supreme Court yesterday Although the
convictions for breach of the peace were
overturned, the court based its ruling
(the cases had been consolidated) on
the narrow ground that the guilty ver-
diets were not supported by evidence.
The holding was unanimous, but Justices
Harlan, Frankfurter and Douglas noted
certain diSagreementS with Chief JUS
tlce WarrenS majority opinion. Only
Justice Douglas, however, would have
reached a significant constitutional
question. He expressed the view that
a restaurant and presumably any other
public establishment, even though pri-
vately owned and operated cannot
Segregate its customers if it IS licensed
by State or municipality There was
nothing in the other opinions from
which agreement with this view could
be inferred.
The essential result is to leave in
doubt the legality of the sit-ins The
anti-trespasS laws, enacted by some
States to cope with sit-ins, remain
untouched by yesterdays ruling. And
there is no certainty that a conviction
for breach of the peace, if supported
by evidence and covered by a properly
drafted statute, cannot be sustained.
Nothing of this sort, however, should
be read into the language of the
majority opinion. The real attitude of
the court will be ascertained only as
other cases come along for decision.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
View of Pearl Horbor

Admiral Sides, speaking at
Pearl Harbor. says: mo
longer are large concentra-
tions of ships seen in this
harbor-ships are in and out,
a few at a time, on their
way to and from their for
ward positions" (The Star,
December y.
The idea that ships should
not be concentrated in the
harbor is not new. It will be
recalled that Admiral Rich
ardson wanted to base the
fleet on the West Coast be-
fore Pearl Harbor, but was
overruled and relieved Of his
command by Presiden n t
Roosevelt, and the ships were
left in the harbor like sitting
ducks.
Japanese Admiral Fuku-
dome in an interview pub
liShed in the U. S. News and
World Report December ID
declares that no attack on
Pearl Harbor would have
been contemplated or carried
out if the Pacific Fleet had
been based on the West
Coast of the United States.
Alfred 8. Trask.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
FBI Home Canvass

It is ridiculous that the
FBI is investigating the sale
of Wesley Heights property.
Builders and developers
set up limitations on race.
coming, type of construction,
etc, because they know peo-
pie will pay a premium to live
in an exclusive neighborhood
where they can choose their
own associates and surround
ing. However. this isn't done
only by builders. 1t is also
done by individual home
owners to create a certain
type of neighborhood and
keep it that way.
This is a very discrimi-
natory action against the Mil
Ter company. What would
happen if a Negro attempted
to move into the Mclean
neighborhood of Attorney
General Kennedy or Secre-
tary Udall? What would
happen if a Negro attempted
to move into the exclusive
section of Hyannis Port? Some
Of our most righteous" poll
ticians are going far out of
their way to cast the first
stone" T, E, Reed.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Door Still Closed

The AFL-CIO has taken a COM
mendable position in support of it's own
ethical standards. After noisy debate.
but with no recorded votes in the
negative, its Florida convention has
approved a resolution that no union
expelled for corruption may be re-
admitted without passing the organi-
zation's test for clean unionism.
II this seems so logical as to raise the
question OF why such a resolution was
brought to the floor at ALL the answer
is that it was tailored to fit the case
of James R. Hoffa and his big Team
Sters Union-tossed out of the fedora
ton four years ago on grounds of cor
rupt practices. Federation President
George Meany, principal drafter of the
resolution, does not think that the
TeamSterS have reformed enough, or
are likely to as long as Mr.. Hoffa is
the Number One driver. Mr.. Hoffa,
incidentally, either has been under
estimating Mr.. Meany's influence or
estimating his own, since he has
been making confident predictions in
recent weeks and days that the Team
SterS were on their way back into the
So-called House of Labor
When the test came, however, Mr.
Hoffa had only a few outspoken friends
and fewer votes. Mr.. Meany said the
TeamSterS would be welcomed back,
if and when they cleared themselves
of corrupt domination" If the Team
Sters themselves want back, perhaps
they had better read the rules again.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Book Bonninq

Congratulations to Rabbi
Edwin H. Friedman of Tenn
pie Shalom Suburban Re-
form Congregation for his
fortnight letter to The Star
condemning the morally and
politically unhealthy action
of Montgomery County auth
critics in banning "Tropic
of Cancer"
1 have not read "Tropic
of Cancer" but for the sake
of argument l will acknowl-
edge that it is a completely
contemplate book. I think
it probably is. Nevertheless
1 refuse to acknowledge that
any policeman or any judge
has the right or the comp
etency to make such a de-
cision for me or for any
citizen over 81 years of age
outside a correctional insti-
tuition. To do so would be
to surrender a principle of
individual liberty. If the
clergymen and church work.
ers who are backing the ban
were performing their proper
function properly among
their flocks they would not
have to worry about such a
book.
CIarkSOn ]. Beall.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Costro's True CoIors

IT cannot be amusing to
now hear Mr.. White of the
State Department tell us that
CaStro's declaration of his
communism is nothing new;
the State Department was
aware of it from the begin
ming. says Mr.. White.
OF course, everybody in
Latin America who knew any
thing about anything was
aware that the Castro broth
ers were agents of the present
Communist Internationale
but not the State Depart
ment, until a week ago. Even
President Kennedy stated
over TV that no one had made
a mistake of intention in re-
gard to Castro; it was a mis-
take of judgment, said Mr..
Kennedy. But with the help
of prominent men in the de-
partment, Castro came into
power while. as Mr.. White
now says, they all knew that
Castro was a Communist. The
same mistake of judgment is
being made about other fell
lows in Latin America who
claim to be democrats and
liberty verS. In the
case Of Castro, we cannot
blame Castro; we must blame
those who flagrantly deceived
the American people. Castro
has made it necessary for the
President to reappraise Amer
lean foreign policy in Latin
America, unfortunately. by
making it more of the same.
I am sure nobody in Cuba
was deceived about Castro.
Communist education has
been going on in Cuba since
1880 and even before. Cuban
families knew all about it;
they knew the Communists
were educating talented
youths for their own pur-
poses. Some Of these youths
were sent to New York to
get their Communist educa-
ton. The people who are
now telling us they were be-
trayed by Castro are not
very bright inasmuch as the
facts were before them. New
ertheless, I heard Castro say
sometime back that 10 Cas-
tros would have been unable
to bring about a social revo-
luton in Cuba unless the
ground was propitious to it;
and we must admit that not
only in Cuba but through
out most of Latin America
the ground is propitious for
a social revolution. a revolu-
ton which the Presidents
visit and his euphoric plans
can hardly put off. Mr..
Whites statement is a con-
fession of some sort, which
we cannot blame on Castro.
Joseph I. Puente.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Renewal Flaw

I have lived in the Adams
Morgan area and have rent
ed an apartment from the
same landlord for the last Is
years. There is a lot of talk
about urban renewal up this
way. I never paid much at
tention to it because I
thought it would affect the
property owner and not the
tenant. I changed my mind
the other day after a long
talk with my landlord.
Urban renewal d e m a n d S
will cost the property owner
a great deal of money which
would have to be borrowed
at a high rate of interest.
even if he borrowed from the
Government. Rents would
have to be increased accord
ingly. Therefore, all tenants
will be affected, too. My
apartment could stand some
improvement, but 1 could not
afford an increased rent to
pay for these improvements
or my limited income.
My landlord spoke of some
legislation, now under con-
sideration in Congress. From
what I understand landlords
are penalized for property
improvements by paying a
higher tax, and rewarded if
property is allowed to run
down by claiming a depreci-
alton for each tax year.
Any school child could add
that one up and come up
with the correct answer,
without any trouble at all.
By allowing property i'm
provement tax deduction, the
landlord would be encouraged
to make improvements and,
as my landlord says, with
out borrowing money at a
high rate of interest with
an additional bonus" The
tenant-w whose welfare seems
to be forgotten in this mad
rush for urban renewal -
would be protected.
Property owners, my land
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Cave Man Skeptics

If the AP story, "Caveman
Upgraded in Social Stature"
were not so tragic it would
be hilarious. British Scien-
lists proved several years ago
that the Neanderthal man
was a hoax "a fraud, to bols-
ter the morale of Darwinian
evolutionists.
If the evolutionists' prem
Use is true that an aStron-
omical number of beings over
a period of hundreds of
thousands Of years were re-
quired for the evolutionary
process, then why are the
relics so scarce? And why are
there not now beings of an
indeterminate nature just at
the point of changing from
something into something
else?
The truth is that the pop
ulation increase of the hu-
man race has been in the
form of a geometric pro-
gresSion, which, by the most
liberal estimate, would indi-
cate the beginnings of hu-
manity to be less than TO-
900 years ago. so God Gre
ated man in his own i'm
age" Genesis 1927.
Dale Crowley, Jr.
Editors Note: 1t was the
Piltdown Man who was lab
eled a fraud.)
So the Neanderthal man
has been promoted!
He does look better than
In his last picture. This one
is more believable.
Archeologists. anthropolo-
gists. keep digging! Maybe
you will finally discover that
there was no cave man at
all-just the remains of a
past civilization which used
fallout shelters. And they
wouldn't leave their pets out
would they?
r. Campbell.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
VSTAS IN SCIENCE
South Pole Reached so Years Aoo
By THOMAS r. HENRY

This is the half century
anniversary of mans attain
ment of the ultimate end Of
the earth.
On December IL, 1911, the
Norwegian explorer, Roald
A dsen reached the
South Pole, the mathemati-
cal bottom of the earth, after
a 75-day trek over the great
southern ice cap attended by
nearly incredible danger and
hardship. A little more than
a month later the same goal
was attained by the English
man, Sir Robert Falcon Scott,
after a considerably easier
journey.
The polar weather cleared
for the Norwegian. Amundsen
returned to his base by easy
stages with relatively little
difficulty. Scott on his way
back encountered the worst
sort Of weather. He and his
four companions perished. 1t
was probably the most dra-
matte episode in the history
OF exploration. 1t is all so
different now. The South Pole
is within a few days reach
of anybody without any diff
ficulty.
Extraordinary Men
The joint exploit was ap-
propriately observed at the
pole itself a few days ago
when Admiral Tyree, naval
commander of United States
logistic operations in the
Antarctic, and representatives
of Great Britain and Norway
presented to the chief Scien-
tist in command of the In
ternational Geophysical Year
polar station a marble plaque
with the names of the two
commanders and the four
companions of each.
Any rivalry between the
two great commanders long
since has been forgotten in
death. Both were extraor-
dinary men, with both strik-
ing differences and striking
similarities.
The Englishman was a
bundle of contradictions. He
was so abSent-minded that
he once got up at midnight
to attend a dinner for which
he had dressed earlier in the
evening and then gone to
bed, having completely for
gotten his important engage
ment. He was a hard disciple
marian and a strict taSkmaS-
ter, liable to temper tantrums
and a bad judge Of human
nature. He was a sentiment
taliSt who would burst into
tears az virtually any sad
story or strain of a gospel
hymn.
He had weak lungs and
tired easily. He could not en-
dure the sight of blood nor
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Albania and the MonoIith

The severance of diplomatic rela-
tions between the Kremlin and Albania
has been described, too breathleSSly,
as the biggest crack in the So-called
monoiithic Communist world since the
1948 split between Josef Stain and
Marshal Tito'S YugoSlavia. This time,
however, the underdog is not going
1T alone; on the contrary, it has the
pport-implied if not explicit-of the
ruthless Red tyranny in control of
mainland China, the most populouS
part of the Sino-Soviet bloc.
Thus, unlike the maverick Yugo-
Slav regime which incidentally de-
SpiSeS Albania'S Reds and is forever
being aSsailed by Peiping in language
much more venomous than Moscow's-
the Sleazy little Albanian dictatorship
(headed by the equally Sleazy Enver
Hoxha) has been openly and fulsomely
praised by the Chinese Communists
And this praise has been voiced, with
evident deliberateneSS and relish, as
a sort of rebuttal to the harsh words
spoken against the Hoxha regime by
Nikita KhruShchev and other rela-
lively august members of the Soviet
hierarchy.
Outsiders can only guess at the
actual meaning of all this. The IA
miliar Interpretation runs as follows:
Q The Kremlin under Mr.. Khru-
Shchev believes that war with the free
West is not inevitable and that peace
full co-exiStence is both desirable and
possible (2) On the other hand, the
Chinese Communists under Mao TIE
tung completely disagree with Mr. K
and are in favor of extreme toughness,
even to the point of unleaShing all
out armed conflict against the capital
iStlc 1mperialistS." And (3) the Hoxha
regime, which tyrannizes a primitive
Adriatic land with a population Of
only is million, fully indorses Pei
pings view, and Peiping must there
fore support it against the USSR.
Well, although these are points
that seem to make somewhat pleasant
reading for free men who would like
to see international communism fall
apart with either a bang or a dull,
Sickening thud (the sound effects really
AOll AldIGCI IlUUOuy dGIdCH
excessive Importance to the break be-
tween the gigantic SovietS and the
pipSqueak, tinhorn Albanian dictator
ship. True, especially as it bears upon
relationships between Premier Khru-
Shchev and GeneraliSsimo Mao, the
news has considerable significance,
doctrinally and otherwise, within the
dark and furtive world of Red totali-
tarianiSm, but let's not be too wishful
about it,
BY way Of example, let's not as
sumo that the spectacle of Red China
and Albania joining theological hands
against the Soviet Union actually means
that the Communists are engaged in
a kind of intra-party civil war. Ger
tainly, strained as relations may be
in the Red totalltarian bloc, none of
its members is likely to stray too far
from the fold. In that respect, wish
full thinkers should keep in mind how
YugoSlavia despite massive aid from
us and massive insult and attack from
Moscow and Peiping, continues to vote
against the free world on all the great
issues that really count.