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The frontiersman., 1962-10-18

Washington 25, D. (.
 DEAR NR CLAPP
 The decision by your office withhold loan funds for extension of power lines this puzzles the local oopulace nasmuch the loan originally given approval your department When the Maanuska Electric Association received the final okay from your department the project have been worthy and feasible one and in line with the thinking of your agency.
 Now that the general funds of cooperative have been expended in the amount of $2oOO0O. is hard for 10 believe the reasoning behind the withholding of approved funds
 Overall, the effect the economy of the MatanUska Valley will be felt not only the immediate future, but also the long hard battle for stable and growing economy
 A cut back in work forces will have 10 be undertaken in the matter of weeks to this area, that has been designated depressed by the Area Redevelopment committee this additional unemployment which, sir, DO NOT NEED.
 reluctance release these funds continues, the payroll the Matanuska Valley will fall by $20O 900 year To such that making every effort 10 upgrade and improve its economy problems such this to be the ridiculous side
 belief that your agencys intent is 10 help out lying their problems and not 10 hinder them. extremely hard for understand your position.
 We urgently urge you 10 release the funds approved for cooperative that go forward in the that the Rural Identification Administration would want 10 go.
 Sincerely yours,
The frontiersman., 1962-10-18
EMPLOYEE ESCAPES SERIOUS INJURY

Richard B. Hill, Division. of Highways employee, suffered minor bruises in an automo- bile accident on Wasilla Road early Wednesday.
 The car he was driving hit a slick spot on the France curve, skidded across the road and rolled down the embank- ment, landing upside down.
The frontiersman., 1962-10-18
RepoTfers- No1eAook

MT. and Mrs. Lloyd Watts and family, Donna, Brenda, and An thony, ten-year residents of the Valley, plan to leave soon for Shelbyville, Tennessee, where Watts and Ivan (Tennessee) Cook have purchased bowling alley, the Eagle Bowl. The Watts business here, Palmer Skateland, has been sold to Curly Sutton. Lloyd will return to Tennessee by air, and Mrs. Watts and the children, accom- panied by Donna's finance Don Odom, will drive out. The young couple plan their we'd ding in Shelbyville shortly.
 MT. and Mrs. L. M. DePriest have returned from Seattle, where MT. DePriest underwent surgery at Virginia Mason Hos pital. Recuperating at home, he says he is glad to be back. Heinie Snider and Dr. Foster Sims visited him at Virginia Mason, as did Ed Christianson, former Palmer resident now living in California.
 MT. and Mrs. Joseph (Joe and Tommy Reid and son Frankie of Willow met with sudden cal amity Sunday, Oct. IA, on the first leg of a vacation trip to Louisville, Kentucky, when the exhaust of their car backfired and set the vehicle afire. The accident occurred just as they pulled into Mentaska Lodge at Mile 78 on the Tok cutoff. The car, not covered by insurance, was total loss. The family also lost part of their clothing. Friends at Glennallen, Ted and Midget Richey, formerly of Willow, picked them up and brought them back to Anchor age, where the Reids took a plane for Louisville on Oct. 16.
 
 The sixth grade class of Du- ane Jacoby at Central School visited the Frontiersman of- flee Monday afternoon to get first-hand information for a journalism unit the class is now studying. They plan to climax the unit by putting out their own newspaper.
The frontiersman., 1962-10-18
AN OPEN LETTER TO
 Norman Clapp

MR. NORMAN M. ClAPP Administrator
 Rural Identification Administration u. s. Department of Agriculture Washington 25, D. (.
The frontiersman., 1962-10-18

THE PEOPLE OF THE
 MATANUSKA VALLEY
Evening star., 1962-04-21

electric power, is a more
mysterious miracle than any
of the Scriptures. Hospitals,
even now, report miracles Of
those dead for brief periods
Of time, being brought back
to life.
The great Christian teach
er and doer, Albert SchweitZ-
er, insists the Gospel must
not be preached as a religion
which explains everything.
When confronted with the
inexplicable, such teaching
collapse. He continues, say
ing:
Nov, which is the more
vital knowledge of God? The
knowledge derived from my
experience of Him as ethical
will. The knowledge con-
cerning God which is derived
from nature is always i'm
perfect and inadequate, be-
cause we perceive the things
in the world from without
only. I see the tree grow. and
I see it covers itself with
leaves and blossoms; but I
do not understand the forces
Evening star., 1962-04-21
BROWN
An Uneasy Peace Indefinitely

intrust to that organization
even the settlement of certain
inter-racial problems, besides
a u. N. force to replace ma
tional armies.
In Europe the u. N. receives
at best lip service. Sometimes
it is described as a possibly
useful forum. But on the
whole it is regarded as not
even as effective as the de-
funct League of Nations
which was more compact
and "uni-minded." An ex-
ample to sustain this theory:
The Algerian problem was
settled with satisfaction by
bilateral arrangements be-
tween the French and the
FIN. Had this matter been
intrusted to the U. NJ, say
spokesmen for the French
government the Algerian
war would never have been
satisfactorily liquidated. Al
geria would have become
another Congo.
The world, say the Euro
peans, has not yet reached
that high degree of "one-
ness" when it can intrust its
problems to one organiza-
ton speaking for all. It has
not yet reached that political
maturity and the interests
between the contending
halves are still too far apart.
We Americans alone
among the civilized half are
plugging for the U. N. as a
cure-all for the ailments the
world is suffering. The Will
Sonian theology which was
proved utterly ineffective is
still strongly alive in the minds
of our political leaders. The
difference of views between us
and Western Europe is either
diSregarded or misunderstood
and swept under the rug of
the high offices in Wash
ington. But from talks this
reporter has had with re-
Sponsible and knowledgeable
perSonages it is one of the
most important dissenSions
which exist today between
us and our allies.
President de Gaulle of
France alone has been OPEN
ly Scornful of the New York
organization. Many others
feel the same way but don't
want to offend America by
saying so out loud.
Evening star., 1962-04-21
Findings at the Empty Tomb Called
Central Point of Faith of Christians
RALPH McGILL

On that first day of the
risen Christ. dawn, as always,
broke swiftly through the
softly bright Mediterranean
air of the Roman-occupied
colony of Palestine. Smoke
from the outside cooking
ovens Of the city of Jerusalem
rose thinly against the richer
blue Of the sky.
1t was not a great city,
being little more than a vii
lage. struggling unevenly
across its four hills.
The first light flung up
beyond the horizon by the
rising, but not yet visible sun,
would have touched the gray,
yellow, blue and golden colors
of the flat and Small-domed
adobe-ike houses.
The early morning air of
Jerusalem always is cool.
The noises of the early
waking city would have been
already loud-not as a mod
ern city is, but vibrant with
the cries of drivers of camel
and donkey caravans, of
groups and individuals NOV
ing in and out of the city.
There would have been, too,
the marching Of arrogant
Roman patrols, going on and
coming from duty. The bark
ing of dogs, the shouts and
laughter of children begin
ming play; the bleating of
goats and sheep being herded
in and out of the gate-all
these would have given the
city its noisy dawn.
But, that morning, a group
Of women hurried out one of
the gates, deeply intent,
noting not at all the familiar
sights.
They were Mary Magda-
lene, Mary the mother of
James and Salome," and
without doubt two or three
others.
They were hurrying to a
tomb.
What they there discovered
has become a central point of
history. More, for millions of
Christians. it is the central
point of their faith.
The tomb, filled on Fri
day before with the crucified
body Of Jesus of Nazareth,
was empty. The great drama
Of the Resurrection had oc-
Cured.
Much Of any religion is,
and of necessity must be, a
mystery. Anything which can
be explained" or proved"
as by a mathematical formu-
la, has no content of spiritu-
ality or faith.
Much of life is a mystery.
The creation of the world
the slow unraveling of some
OF its secrets, old as creation
itself, are inexplicable mys-
teries. The separation of the
atom, so that a piece of metal
the size of an apple will drive
a great ship, destroy a city,
provide energy to generate
Evening star., 1962-04-21
Kennedy to Talk
At Food Forum
BY the Associated Press

President Kennedy will de-
liver an address on agriculture
here May Is to the World Food
Forum.
The forum, May 15-17, OBJ
serves the centennial of the
Agriculture Department. Presi-
dent Abraham Lincoln signed
May IS, 1862, the act creating
the Agriculture Department.
The Agriculture Department
said President Kennedy will
speak on American Agriculture
in a Changing World" to an
8 pm. banquet.
Senator Ellender, Democrat
of Louisiana, and Representa-
tive Colley, respective chairmen
of the Senate and House Agri-
culture Committees, also will
speak.
Other speakers during the
forum include, Chairman Full
bright of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, Secretary
Of Agriculture Freeman, former
Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace and OriS v. Wells, assistant
director general of the United
Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization.
Evening star., 1962-04-21
RALPH McGILL
The Mystery of Resurrection

which effect this; their gen.
erative power remains a
mystery to me. In myself, on
the other hand, I know things
from within. The creative
force which produces and
sustainS all that is, reveals
itself in me in a way in
which I do not get to know
it elsewhere, namely, as
ethical will, as something
which desires to be creative
within me. This mystery,
which I have experienced, is
the decisive factor in my
thinking, my willing and my
understanding. All the mys-
teries of the world and of my
existence in the world may
ultimately be left on one
side unSolved and insoluble.
My life is completely and
unmistakably determined by
the mysterious experience of
God revealing Himself within
me as ethical will and de-
string to take hold of my
life"
So it is with the mystery
and the faith of what the
women found who hurried
from Jerusalem's gate more
than l9 centuries ago.
Evening star., 1962-04-21
Reston Urges Change
In EvoIuotion of News

Wolff of the Greensboro IN. c.
Daily News, second vice presi-
dent; Robert Notson of the
Portland Oregonian, treasurer,
and Vermont Royster of the
Wall Street Journal. secretary.
The 16 members of the
board of directors included the
officers and the following:
Wallace Lomoe, executive
editor. Milwaukee Journal; !;
Milburn P. Akers, editor of
Chicago Sun-Times; Barry
Bingham, editor in chief,
Louisville Courier Journal and
Times; Kenneth Conn, editor
of San Jose (CalifO Mercury
and News; Alfred Friendly
managing editor of the Wash
ington Post; j. @. Mahaffey
editor of Texarkana Gazette;
Michael J. Ogden, managing
editor Of Providence (R. ~
Journal and Bulletin: Louis
Seltzer, editor of Cleveland
Press; William P. Stevens. edi-
tor Of Houston (Tex0 Chron-
icle; Vincent Jones, Rochester,
N. Y, editorial director of
Gannett newspapers; Felix
Mcknight, executive editor,
Dallas (Tex0 Times Herald.
Mr.. Jones is the only new
director elected here; the
others were reelected. Mr..
Mcknight became ex-officio
director for one year as retir-
ing ASNE president.
Evening star., 1962-04-21

NEW ORLEANS, April 81
(AP).-James ReSton, Wash
ington bureau chief for the New
York Times and twice winner of
the Pulitzer Prize. has urged
American newsmen to make a
re-evaluation of news values.
He told the closing session of
the American Society of News
paper Editors annual con-
vention yesterday: "I feel that
our reporting, like our economy,
has developed a limp, coming
down too heavily on the violent
happenings abroad and too
lightly on the development and
achievements within our own
country and the rest Of the
free world.
I'VE have to think more. We
have to reduce the increasing
diversity and complexity Of our
time to identify-So the reader
can see not only the waves on
the surface of the news, but
the deeper tides running un-
derneath.
I'VE have done a brilliant
police-blotter report on the
world, and this indisputably is
part of our job. But it is not
the whole job"
Mr.. Reston said Astronaut
John Glenn's orbital flight
lifted us into the universe. He
helped us get some meaning
into a lot of material and he
boosted our confidence in
America. 1t is high time some
body did"
The association elected Lee
Hills of Detroit, executive edi-
tor Of the Knight newspapers,
its new president to succeed
Felix Mcknight of Dallas, ex-
ecutive editor of the Dallas
Times Herald.
Others elected included Her.
bert Brucker, editor of the
Hartford (Conn.) Courant,
first vice president; Miles H.
Evening star., 1962-04-21

Air Force: South Wet Nam
has no jet aircraft and no
bombers heavier than the
World War II vintage, two
engine B-26s. Its fleet Of about
80 T-28 fighter trainers carry
the brunt of the air war against
the Wet Cong, along with a
number Of AD-6 fighter bomb
erS.
About 500 United States Air
Force personnel are believed to
be in Wet Nam, teaching the
Vietnamese to man and service
their planes, and flying support
missions of their own. A
squadron of specially modified
United States Air Force C-123
transport planes is being used
in spraying experiments aimed
killing foliage along roads.
Activities Under Wraps
United States Air Force
activities are kept under tight
wraps, presumably because
American pilots often serve in
combat roles while instructing
Vietnamese pilots. Americans
are often at the controls in air
strikes over Wet Congo strong
holds.
United States pilots also fly
transport and leaflet-dropping
missions.
Marine Corps: The largest
force Of United States Marines,
which arrived here last week,
is the helicopter company
stationed at Soc Trang in the
Mekong river delta. The COM
pany has about 400 men and
"a H-34 troop-carrying hell
copters.
Marine infantry officers and
enlisted men are working with
Vietnamese marines through
out the country. Probably fewer
than 100 United States Marine
advisers are in the field.
Navy Also Aided
Navy: Wet Mans navy serves
not only as a coast guard
against Communist infiltration
by sea but as the protecting
force of many inland water
ways.
United States Navy advisers,
several hundred altogether, are
assisting in VietnameSe coastal
defenses all the way from Phuc
Quoc Island near the Cam
bodian frontier in the west to
the 18th parallel in the north.
Wet Mans largest naval YES
sci is the Ism landing ship.
Most of its force consists of
light patrol boats, river gun
boats and armed junks. The
primary role of United States
advisers is training Vietnamese
sailors in navigation, naval op-
Grafton and maintenance.
Neighboring Cambodia, a
neutral country, has some
United States military advisers
but there is no noticeable
buildup there. United States
forces there share a military
assistance program with the
French.
Evening star., 1962-04-21

in which Premier Caramanlis
chalked up a landslide. /
Police let about 800 followers
of the Center Union into the
square where Mr.. Papandreou
was speaking, then sealed it off.
Those who could not get to
the meeting started to taunt
police and the clashes followed.
When the crowd showered
police with stones, authorities
broke out tear gas grenades
and scattered the rioters.
The rioting did not reach the
square where the meeting was
held and Mr.. Panandreou spoke
without interference.
Coercion Victory Charged
The Center Union leader
charged anew that Mr.. Cara
manllS won last October'S elec-
tions by using coercion, and de-
manded that the Premier re-
sign.
In a statement issued last
night, Premier Caramanlis de-
nounced Mr.. Panandreou's de-
fiance of the ban on public
meetings as "a miserable
adventure"
The Premier has brushed
aside Mr.. Panandreou's charges
of election coercion, saying the
73-year-old opposition leader
is a sore loser.
An electoral court investi-
eating the October election has
found irregularities involving
some 1000 voters, but this does
not affect Mr.. Caramanlis' ma
Ijority in Parliament.
Evening star., 1962-04-21

ROME.-The following is a
summing UP of conversations
with various personalities in
the political and economic
world who are either living
here or tranSientS of inter-
national gatherings.
The present uneasy peace
will continue for an indefi-
mite time because the Com
munist bloc can only gather
advantages from it and the
Western world is satisfied
with the talkathons. All the
crises which have erupted
since the end of World War
II have borne the Made in
USSR" hallmark. They have
served, besides increasing the
Soviet empire, to advance
considerably the Soviet's mil
itary chronological skill and
to compel the free world to
engage in costly and increaS-
ingly burdensome armament
programs.
So long as the peoples Of
the West have felt an immi-
nent danger that the Kremlin
might pass from words to
deeds, they have accepted the
financial burdens. But even
tually, it is feared in Europe,
they will become hardened to
this threat and there will be,
especially in America which
has carried the main load, a
revulsion against spending
tens of billions in preparation
for a war unlikely to come.
Some of the luminaries this
reporter has talked to re-
marked that it would be i'm
possible to continue to en-
phasize the need of heavy
military expenditures while
at the same time Washing
ton and London endeaver to
appease the Soviet Union.
Europe'S military expendi-
lures are confined to their
actual national requirements
within the NATO program.
Ours are intended not only
for our own defense, but for
that of Europe and the Far
East.
This brought about a more
pertinent question about the
status of the NATO and its
usefulness. The essence of
several answers is as follows:
Evening star., 1962-04-21
Greek Premier BIomes
Niqht Riots on Leftists

ATHENS, Greece, April 81
(AP).-Strict security meas
ureS were enforced throughout
Athens today after a night of
antigovernment riots in which
78 policemen and II demon
Strators were injured.
The pro-Western government
Of Premier Constantine Cara
manlis blamed the violence on
leftiSt extremists.
Police supported by 1000
army troops and using tear
gas and armored vehicles bat
tied thousands of demon
stratorS for more than five
hours. About 20 rioters and
10 policemen were reported
seriously injured.
More than 240 persons were
taken into custody during the
street clashes but all but Al
were released this morning.
Nearby military units were
taken off an all-night alert
but reinforced police squads
patrolled the city.
Protest Rally Opposed
The rioting erupted when
police tried to prevent an over
flow crowd from attending a
protest rally called by Center
Union leader George Papan-
dreou in defiance of a govern
ment ban on mass gatherings
Mr.. Papandreou, whose anti
government campaign has sup.
port from the left, called thu
rally to denounce results O.
last October's national election
Evening star., 1962-04-21
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Republicans charge Kennedy with police state" methods
In the steel fight Not only awakened the
hours but since Kennedy Republicans haven't
had wink of sleep.
At last has been found for people who profess to
understand modern abstract ar-nterpretng photographs
of earth sent back by satellites.
The Army suspends Maj. Arch Roberts, former Gen.
Walker aide for talk to the OAR At Pentagon OAR
means Dump Arch Roberts"
The U. S. spends SO million to fix up yacht for EN-
peror Halle SelaSSe Well now when the Emperor
to borrow little money, don't him coming in
some old, rundown Scow do we?
Castronaut Cuban who thanks to Communist ration
ing experiences wegheSsness without leaving ground
Evening star., 1962-04-21
ChurehiII's Daughter
Tukinq Maiden Name

LONDON, April 81 (AP)-Sir
Winston Churchill's eldest
daughter, Diana, has decided to
revert to her maiden name, an
official notice in the Govern
ment Gazette, said today.
She was previously married
to Commonwealth Secretary
Duncan Sandys. Mr.. Sandys
married Marie Claire, Wis
countess Hudson, in London on
Thursday.
Evening star., 1962-04-21
European Observers See West Satisfied,
With Only Reds Gaining From 1t

The NATO was indeed an
important coalition aimed at
offSetting any aggressive in
tentiOns of the Soviets in
Western Europe. This threat
is regarded now as remote.
The coalition has become the
cornerstone for Europe's po-
litical and economic confed-
Grafton. The first phase, the
economic federation, is an
accomplished fact. The sec
ond phase, that of uniting
nations which for centuries
have been at drawn daggers,
is in process and could be
accomplished within the next
five years.
The American-spouSored
coalition has become inde-
pendent and capable of de-
Tending itself without any
outside economic and mill
tary assistance. "And quite
frankly, " a German political
leader said, I'VE are in a haze
as to which way America will
go in the future. We don't
know when, In your quest for
peace in our time you will
make political arrangements
with the Soviet Union at
our expense"
This leitmotif of doubt of
our actual future policies
has been found in talks with
French and Dutch PERSONAL
tiles. Not that they blame
us. They emphasize, how
ever, that in international
politics the enemies of yes
terday can become the allies
of tomorrow. And Europe,
with its newly found strength
and unity, must become in
dependent of the American
British dominated coalition.
1t must be something strict
ly European, for our political
PHILOSOPHERS differ greatly
from those of our European
allies. For instance, we be-
Ieve firmly in the efficiency
of the United Nations as an
instrument to m aintain
world peace. We tend to
hand over to the interna-
tional organization, whose
majority is composed of
half-baked nations, the set
tlement of the major world
problems. We would like to
Evening star., 1962-04-21
japanese Admiral
To See U. S. Bases
By the Associated Press

Vice Admiral SadayoShi Max
ayama, chief of the Japanese
Maritime Staff, will tour United
States Naval installations for
two weeks.
The Defense Department an
nounced yesterday that Ad-
miral Nakayama will arrive in
San Francisco next Tuesday
and will reach Washington
Wednesday. He will return
home May 7.