Litter Termed as
“Expensive Luxury”
The cost of carelessness is high.
Litter thrown from vehicles or
deliberately dumped along the
highway right-of-way, cost ap
proximately $54,000 yearly, Sam
Johnson, State Highway Mainte
nance Engineer and former Dis
trict Engineer here said. This
amounts to nearly one dollar for
each passenger car and station
wagon registered in the State of
Alaska.
"Litter is an expensive luxury,”
Johnson said.
In each of the state maintenance
camps, two men work one-half day
each week with a truck just col
lecting the trash scattered along the
highways. The bulk of the litter
consists of bottles, cans and boxes,
he said, but in areas where gar
bage dumps are scarce or non
existant there are whole piles of
garbage left for the maintenance
crews to dispose of of.
Trash barrels at turnoff areas
are provided by the Dept, of High
ways for individuals to dispose of
the refuse that collects while
traveling, in an effort to discourage
littering. There is also a state law
which prohibits littering, and calls
for a fine of not less than $10
for persons convicted.
Between 750 and 1,000 persons
are killed in accidents throughout
the nation yearly as a result of
hitting or swerving to avoid hitting
litter, Johnson said. Besides the
traffic hazard, it is a menace to
health, and can cause excessive
erosion when the litter clogs
drainage pipes.
Move to the Kuzatrin
The James Savok family are
moving up to the Kuzatrin for a
few weeks where Mr. Savok will
be employed taking up the ties and
rails of the old Kougarok railroad
which is being shipped to Cali
fornia and reconstructed as a
tourist attraction.
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LESSONS IN RELIGION
Many people are confused when
asked what is religion. Twenty
people asked this question will
give 20 different answers or none
at all. This is to be expected
since there are quite a number of
different religious faiths each one
divided up into different groups,
each believing something more or
less different than the rest. Taking
Christianity alone, think of all the
hundreds of different churches
founded on the few simple beauti
ful words of one man to be found
in four chapters of the New Testa
ment.
In this series of articles, some
of the teachings of the Baha’i
World Faith will appear with the
hope that they may help us to
better understand this important
subiect.
Knowledge of God, his prophets
and the universe we live in is
true religion. From time immem
orial the divine teachings have
been successively revealed through
the divine prophets.
The teachings which are the
very spirit of- this day and age
are in conformity with the pre
cepts and commands of all the
former heavenly messengers.
Independent investigation of the
truth is the first requirement. The
disagreements and dissensions
which afflict humanity primarily
proceed from imitations of ances
tral beliefs and adherences to her
editary forms of worship. They are
the outcome of human interpreta
tions and teachings which have
arisen, gradually obscuring the
real light of divine meaning and
causing men to differ and dissent.
Discord, bigotry, warfare and
strife are contrary to the will and
good pleasure of God; whereas
unity, fellowship and love are the
basis of the world of humanity
and the cause of an ever advanc
ing civilization.
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Demontrations
| Will Not Hurry
Passage of New
Civil Rights Bill
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON — Would a
massive negro demonstration in
Washington this summer persuade
Congress — if it showed signs of
balking—to pass President Ken
ned’s civil rights program?
Not in a hurry and not this
I year, if history is an example.
Three times in the past 70 years,
demonstrators have come to Wash
ington to press for their ideas.
Coxey’s Army, suffragettes, and
the bonus army all tried it. Each
time it took Congress years to do
what the demonstrators wanted.
Recently Kennedy met with
negro and white civil rights lead
ers. He warned them against un
due pressure on Congress. So did
1 Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy.
But the Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr. and others said that if
: there is a filibuster by southern
, Democrats against a civil rights
bill negroes will have a “non
violent demonstration in Washing
j ton.” If so, many thousands may J
be involved.
It took Congress about 40 years
to come around to the idea pro
posed in the 1894 depression by
Jacob S. Coxey, a successful busi
nessman of Massillon, Ohio.
He wanted Congress to do some
thing about unemployment and
suggested a big road-building pro
gram to create jobs. He rallied
about 2,000 jobless men from
around the country and led this
“Coxey’s Army” into Washington.
! When he marched up to the capi
tal on May 1. 1894, he was arrested
for holding a meeting without a
permit and damaging the grass.
It wasn't until the next great
depression — in the 1930s — that 1
Congress got around to creating J
the kind of make-jobs program
Coxey had plugged for.
Next came the suffragettes.
As early as the 17th Century a
few women in this country had
| called for equal treatment. But it.
I wasn’t until the 20th Century
that the Constitution gave them
a national guarantee of the right
to vote.
On June 4, 1919, Congress ap
proved a constitutional amend
ment—the 19th—which then went
to the states for approval and j
was adopted Aug. 26, 1920.
The next try — by the bonus
army — ended in disaster. The
army of jobless World War I vet
erans was run out of Washington
in the summer of 1932.
About 18,000 to 20,000 of them
came here from all over the coun
try, some with their famlies. They
lived in empty government build
ings or built shacks on the out
skirts of the city.
These men wanted Congress to
vote them a cash bonus. They
stayed around for about two
months and Congress quit without
heeding them.
Later, under President Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Congress voted the
veterans a bonus.
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College Lions Club
Undertakes New Project
In Sight Conservation
The College Lions Club, long
active in sight conservation proj
ects has recently voted to under
take a new project in sight conser
vation education. The club will
offer 50 scholarships to teachers
and qualified nurses throughout,
the state to be used for enrollment
in a special course to be offered
at the University of Alaska during
the 1964 summer session.
The course is designed to better
equip teachers to recognize sight
problems in the classroom, and to
work with these problems. It will
emphasize the importance of proper
use of the eyes; importance of
educational facilities for the par
tially seeing child; the adapta
tion of teaching materials; so
ciological and psychological prob
lems of the partially seeing child
and the resources available to the
visually handicapped.
The scholarships will be avail
able to teachers throughout Alaska.
If there are sufficient nurses in
terested, a special section will he
designed for them. This would
apply particularly to school and
public health nurses.
Lion Glenn Whittaker is chair
man of the project, and Everett
Wilde is president of the College
Lions Club. Information may be
obtained by writing to either of
the above at the College Postoffice,
or by writing to Dr. Arthur Bus
well, Dean, Division of Statewide
Services, University of Alaska,
College, Alaska.
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Scientists Will Search for
Pogonophores in Arctic
Pogonophores arc small, shell
building worms with no apparent
digestive system, but with a well
developed vascular system. They
have fascinated scientists, but un
fortunately no one has ever seen
one alive.
Until two years ago the only
specimens available were those
dredged out of very deep portions
of the f>cean — and these were
only a few milimeters long.
About two years ago Canadians
discovered some fragments of sev
eral larger pogonophores at a depth
of about 30 meters off the Her
schall Islands.
In hopes of finding some of
these larger pogonophores and cap
turing them for detailed study, the
Office of Naval Research awarded
the University of Alaska a $6,000
grant to bring over two well
known British marine scientists,
Dr. Allan and Dr. Southward, to
search for the pogonophores along
the Arctic Coast.
The National Science Foundation
grant is to allow Mr. Goner, who
is from the Marine Science Insti
tute’s Douglas station, to accom
pany the pair.
The group plans to work out of
Barrow westward along the coast.
Don't Know “Weather”
To Keep Forecaster
CLEETHROPES. England f/P —
The town council rehired weather
man Raymond Comray today after
firing him because he made too
many correct forecasts.
“He was always forecasting
rain,” said a council spokesman
“and the trouble was — he was
nearly always correct.”
Cleethropes is a seaside resort.
Business is good only when the
weather is good.
For the last three days the fore
cast from London said rain for
Cleethropes. Instead there was
sunshine.
“Mr. Comray feels we’re in for
a spell of sunshine,” said the
spokesman. "But whether we are
or not, we’ve decided his fore
casts arc better than the other
ones and the customers insist on
forecasts."
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