'Quiet Crisis' by Udoll
Tells Conservation Story
By Terry Brady
Times Staff Writer
A dominant, prominent force in
man’s battle with man to more
wisely use the natural resources on
which we depend for growth and
survival has emerged, with the pub
lishing of Secretary of the Interior
Stewart L. Udall's new book, "The
Quiet Crisis.”
"Ours is a land of diminishing
beauty and increasing ugliness,"
Udall tells his readers. "While our
economic standards of living have
become the envy of the world, our
environmental standards have stead
ily declined.”
He blarney this decline of environ
mental quantity and quality on the
attitude of early European pioneers
and their followers, which mistook
abundance for super-abundance.
This book will probably be re
membered as the re-awakening on
the part of federal officials to our
conservation woes. Other important
federal figures in the past have
given us messages similar to Udall's,
but these voices have been little
heard since the beginning of World
War II.
Udall gives credit where credit
is due, in relating the activities of
such men as former Secretary of
the Interior Carl Shurz, Gifford
Pinchot, the Presidents Roosevelt,
John Muir and others who have
complained and acted against the
ruination of our national land, wa
ter and air heritage.
Outlines Program
Udall is not the type of man to
complain without offering a solu
tion. An ardent outdoorsman who
truly realizes and appreciates the
values of Nature, Udall outlines
four steps to help our nation move
into line with the available, re
newable and non-renewable natural
resources.
The first is a call to the federal
government for a program that
would check the growdh of popula
tion, that running unchecked could
eventually destroy itself.
The second is a sound conserva
tion program to check the waste of
irreplaceable resources.
Third he calls for federal action 1
to control urban sprawl. This is the
indiscriminate building of homes,
shopping centers, freeways and
manufacturing plants. This sprawl,
fostered by government actions
and incentives, is eating away the
heartland of our nation.
The fourth step is a sound con
servation program for the protec
tion and extension of the nation's
national parks.
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STEWART L. XJDALL hiking in
Alaska's McKinley National l*ark.
Burrow P.O. Bid
Postmaster General John Gro
nouski has notified the Tundra
Times that a bid from the Barrets
Corp. has been accepted to provide !
a new postal facility at Barrow.
The successful bidder, a Barrow
corporation, will provide a build- 1
ing according to government speci
fications which call for 2542 square
feet of interior floor space, a 216
square foot platform, and an out
side area of 7284 square feet.
The basic lease term will be
ten years.
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Pt. Hope Visitor
PT. HOPE (Special) —Dr. Brenda
M. Brush, assistant to the Commis
sioner of the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs, Washington, D.C., was in Point
Hope November 21-22 in response to
a letter from the village requesting
that a National Service Corpsman
be assigned here.
She attended a meeting with the
Village Council on the evening of
the 21st, at which time she was in
formed of the problems facing the
village and of how a National Serv
ice Corpsman might help the vil
lage.
She made it known that she is
on an information-gathering tour
of the villages which have already
requested a National Service Corps
man and that she cannot promise
anything. The bill has not passed
the House yet, and may not be
passed. If it is passed, the Corps
men may be assigned only to the
most needy villages or to villages
in certain areas. Therefore, Point
Hope is not overly optimistic about
the possibility of actually receiving
such a worker.
The problems which such a person
might help with are the usual ones
you might expect: water supply,
sanitation, housing, electrical power,
and so forth.
She went to Kotzebue from here
and then to Nome. She will be go
ing to Fairbanks and Arctic Village.
Kotzebue Cab Owner Visits;
Without Benefit of Roads
Editor's note: Noorvik is an Es
kimo community upstream from
the mouth of the Kobuk River.
It is east of Kotzebue.
By Adult Education Class
NOORVIK (Special) — Homer
Russell, the Kotzebue Cab owner,
and his taxi driver took a trip here
from Kotzebue on the 24th of No
vember. Homer drove his cab here
to visit his dad and friends.
Noorvik was his home before he
went into business in Kotzebue. j
The rather amazing part of this
story is the fact that the entire
trip was made without the benefit
of any roads. The entire trip was
on bay and river ice.
Centennial Motto
The Alaska Centennial Commis
sion's contest to find a suitable cen
tennial emblem and motto, which
closed November 30. drew over
1200 responses from across Alaska.
According to Bob Arnold, execu
tive director of the Commission.
490 entries were received in the
emblem division, and 761 entries
were received in the motto division.
All of the military bases and 46 ;
communities were represented by |
the entries.
It is the first time that an auto
mobile has been in the village.
Some of the people said it was the
first time they had ever seen a car.
Kennedy Death
The people of our village were
shocked at the news of President
Kennedy’s death, they did not ex
pect such a tragic thing to happen.
We had a funeral service in me
mory of the President the follow
ing Monday. He will always linger
in the hearts and minds of the na
tives.
Boy Scouts
The men in the village are work
ing very hard to bring the advan
tages of a Boy Scout Troop to the
boys eleven to seventeen years.
The Adult Committee has been
formed under the chairmanship of
Alfred Wells. Robert Newlin has
been selected as Scoutmaster with
the assistance of Walter Pungalik.
Billy Sheldon and Thomas Pungalik
as Assistant Scoutmasters.
The boys have been working very
hard to pass their Tenderfoot re
quirements so that a charter appli
cation may be submitted. The en
thusiasm shown by the boys for the
first four meetings is a good sign
that scouting has come to village to
stay.
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