The Daily Reporter from Dover, Ohio • Page 12

Paste if, The Daily Reporter, Saturday. July 8. Editor! PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE pledge allegiance to the Flat ot the United States of America and to the Republic tot which, it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice lor all" 'Wreckreation' Season WHY DO neat housekeepers create widespread messes at camping sites? How can anyone leave a picnic table littered with melon rinds if he claims to have any regard for his fellow man? These are questions recreation officials throughout the country are asking as they ponder something else: Will the season now getting under way for motoring, camping, picnicking, boating and fishing be another "wreckreational" season? Park and recreational officials cannot help thinking of the additional facilities that would be possible if much of available funds were not drained cleanup and repair after the visitors. Each year the crowds seem to grow larger, more untidy and more destructive. It is understandable that with Summer many outdoors- lovers take to the parks and other areas with many of their inhibitions down.

But the damage -they can cause by thoughtless conduct not only is unfair to those who follow is something that can affect them if they return again to enjoy the facilities they damage. Forecasts of crowds expected in national parks and other federal recreational areas this year tend to make one wonder what will be the needless clean-up repair bill in 1958. Two years ago the National Park Service, in a 10-year improvement study, estimated it would have to be prepared to entertain close to 60 million people this year. Now, with the start of the 1958 season, the service has had to revise that estimate to 63.5 million visitors. What litter and what damage will be left by those three to four million additional visitors? Recreation officials label this 'It ought to be stopped.

A woman's figure in a chemise is like an income tax form. The question is what to deduct. News Of Yesteryear 10 YEARS AGO Karl Dilger of Dover was appointed clerk of the Board of Education and four new teachers were Ann Davis, Helen Lieser and Mrs. Donna Gintz of Dover and Laura Moreland of New Philadelphia. The deadline for razing the abandoned New Philadelphia city hall to make way for a new municipal building was extended to Sept.

1 because "labor was hard to get and expensive." 20 YEARS AGO Plans for a proposed $75,000 municipal waterworks for Midvale and Barnhill were made during a citizens meeting in Midvale. Many Doverites were traveling to Cleveland to see Cole Porter's "The Gay Divorcee" at the Aquastage on the Cleveland lakefront. Eddie Foy Kathryn Crawford and Ada May were included in the cast of 200. Bob Snydcr of Dover and Bill Gowins of New Philadelphia were in Detroit participating in the llth national championship model airplane meeting. 30 YEARS AGO The new Brightwood Country Club on the New Philadelphia-Uhrichsville Road was formally opened with a dinner dance attended by 80 members.

Mrs. M. W. Everhart was vice president of the new club. The Dover Library Board met and re-elected the Rev.

J. -E. Weinland president. It also approved a budget of $3,600 for the fiscal year. Drew Pearson Ex-Governor Father' Of 49th State lot of Johnny- come latelles such as dov.

Mike Stepovich are now claiming credit for making Alaska the 9th state in the Union. But the man who unobtrusively, but consistently, maneuvered in the smoke- filled rooms to bring statehood to Alaska is an ex newspaperman named Ernest Gruening. He more than anyone else is the father of the 49th state. Fruening first came to Washington in 1933 as chief of Insular Affairs Division of the Interior Department organized under the late great Harold Ickes. As such, he guided the destinies of such American stepchildren as the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska.

Gruening had taken a degree at Harvard Medical School, but spent much, of his time as a newspaperman, and was editing the Portland, Evening Express when he came to Washington to nurse American territories. After battling their causes before Congress, he was made governor of Alaska in 1939, and as such did a revolutionary thing. He went all over that far-flung territory, visiting every Eskimo village, every island in the Aleutians, every backwoods settlement, getting to know the people and their problems. By a rickety plane, and even by canoe, he toured the northwest territory. Back in Washington when Congress was in session, he called on Congressmen to plead for Alaskan problems.

For 14 years, longer than any man in history, he remained governor of Alaska. Then when Eisenhower failed to reappoint him in 1953, the people of Alaska elected him unofficial senator and he moved to Washington to undertake a 24-hour-a-day lobbying campaign for the territory's statehood. Shortly before this, however, a great tragedy struck Ernest Gruen- Ing's family which, though it brought grief to him, probably hastened the day when Alaska came the 49th state. His son, Peter, a correspondent for the United Press, was killed in Australia, and his grief-stricken father more than ever threw all His heart and soul into the battle for Alaskan statehood. In effect he made Alaska his child.

That is-the real-stery pf the-No. 1 lobbyist for Alaska and how statehood was achieved. In some respects the state of Texas probably had most to lose by admission of Alaska as the 49th state. But Sen. Lyndon Johnson put national interest ahead of state interest and worked quietly behind the scenes for Alaska.

Without his potent support the bill would have been delayed. Alaska, with 587,000 square miles against Texas' 267,000, now becomes the biggest state in the Union. California can no longer boast the highest peak in the U. S. for Mount McKlnley in Alaska is 6,000 feet higher than Mount Hood in California.

And Yellowstone is no longer the biggest national park. McKinley National Park is the biggest. Finally, a new crop of Texas jokes will have to be told. Ex-Cong. Victor Wickersham of Oklahoma, who parlayed his Congressional salary into hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of real estate around Washington, has used another piece of real estate to try to stage a comeback in Oklahoma.

This particular real estate is the additional land the Army wants to add to the Fort Sill firing range in Oklahoma in order to be able to complete ground-to-ground missile testing in these days of pushbutton warfare when missiles are replacing the artillery for which Fort Sill was first founded. Seizing this issue, Victor it trying to make the farmers of Oklahoma believe their land around Fort sill is as valuable as the land he acquired around Washington all in order to reelect himself to Congress. Wickersham was defeated for Congress when folks back home came to realize that he was spend- more time estate deals than on problems. He used one of secretaries, paid by the taxpayers, the handle part of his real estate operations. And he had an uncanny eye for buying up property in Virginia and Maryland which he figured would skyrocket in price with the expansion of the bulging nation's Capital.

He also bet his money on such far distant real estate operations as the Everglades Swamp area in southern Florida. Most of his ventures paid off. But they did not pay off with Oklahoma votes. Judge Toby Morris, a down-to- earth, conscientious Congressman, was elected in his place. Understandably, the farmers of Oklahoma don't like to give up their land.

It's not Exactly the best land in the world. Its low rainfall makes it marginal, subject to scorching droughts, and some of the have moved to California 4n the bad years. However, the tug of the home heartstrings is always powerful, and Victor had got himself a potent campaign issjie by campaigning against the Army's acquisition of more land. He ignored the fact that it will be difficult for the Army to continue at Fort Sill unless it can acquire more land and that Fort Sill is one of Oklahoma's big economic assets. Using this issue, Wickersham rolled up a primary total within 824 votes of Cong.

Morris this week, forcing him into a runoff in three weeks. Dorothy Kilgallen U. S. Attorney General's Adieu Forecast NITED STATES Attorney General Paul Williams is set to resign within the next two weeks, top sources say. They believe he's giving up the job as a prelude to moving into a more important office Richard Avedon is photographing Ezra Pound today in an atmosphere of the greatest secrecy.

Members of the family of the ancient and ailing poet are taking the photographer to an undisclosed destination in New Jersey, where he will shoot the pictures of his forthcoming boo "Observations." After Pound was released from St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C., it required a deluge of letters from some of the major literary figures in the nation to convince the relatives that they should permit Avedon to record the poet, as he looks today, for posterity. It will rate as big news when Brigitte Bardot trains her sights on a She's currently crazy about her leading man, Raf Vallone, who is described by his friends as "very happily married" The moon may be used as a reflector for intercontinental telephone calls within a few years. Tin Pan Alley is talking about a new song Perry Como's recorded, "Beats There A Heart So True." Some of the experts think it's the prettiest thing he's done since "Prisoner Of Love." They'll soon be shooting Westerns in New York, which is about as fur East as you can git. The first hoss opera goes before the cameras in the Bronx, yet Steve Allen and his two older children leave for Europe on the S.S.

United States on July 10. Mrs. Allen (Jayne Meadows) won't be sailing with them because she has a TV commitment that will keep her here another week; she'll fly over to Paris to join them The most sophisticated Brond- wayites are doing triple takes outside of Lindy's when the Main Stem's newest character makes his appearance. He's Mitch Sandier, a New Jersey disc jockey, whose face is half clean-shaven, half bearded. (The left side has.

whiskers running all the way from the sideburn area to under his chin.) U.S. chess wizard Bobby Fischer, just 15, is expected to make headlines out of Russia in the Van Cliburn fashion Music Beats Pills For Sick Children By DOROTHY ROE Associated Press Editor "Here come the music ladies!" The little girl in the wheelchair turned eagerly toward the door of the children's ward at Bird S. Coler Hospital on Welfare Island, New York, as two smiling women entered, carrying marimbas and bongo drums. "Ready for a music lerson, children?" asked small, cheerful Gladys Douglas-Longmore, in charge of the musical therapy program at this and many other hospitals throughout the country. With her was musical therapist Dorothy L.

Birchard, who visits the children every week and knows the favorite tunes of each one. Accent on Rhythm These children were cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy patients, most of them mentally alert but handicapped in muscular coordination. Wheelchairs were pushed around the small p'-no, the small bongo drums were handed out, and the children hesitantly beat out the rhythm as Miss Birchard played "March of the Wooden Soldiers" on the piano. "The rhythm help in muscular coordination," explained Miss Douglas Longmore later. "The children have to be encouraged U) Children at Bird 8.

Colcr Hospital on Welfare Island, New York City, beat out rhythm on bonfo drums and marimbas, under guidance of Gladys Doufflas-Longmore (second from left) and Dorothy L. Birchard (at piano). Children are cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy patients, who need to develop muscular coordination. use their muscles, and the music ofter does the trick when everything else fails." She supervises the 97 musical therapists who work for the Hospitalized Veterans Service of the Musicians Emergency Fund, teaching music to patients in city, state and veterans' hospitals in eight York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Maryland. "Musical therapy is a specialized field," says Gladys.

"The people who do it best have to be dedicated, like ministers and social workers. They must be able to teach music as well as play and they must have a real interest in the patients and their problems." Musical therapy first came into wide use after World War II, when it was found that in some cases, particularly those of mentallj disturbed patients, music was the only means to reach them. "The music cannot effect cure," explains Gladys, "but it can be the major step in opening the way for other therapy." She enjoys her work with the children most. "The last time I was at this hospital," she said, "three boys started composing a song about satellites and flying saucers. After our lesson, one of them said want to be sure nobody infringes our The musical therapy programs take various forms.

Group singing is popular in all hospitals, as are the rhythm lessons. In addition in- dividua' musical instruction is available to patients in member hospitals in the New York area. "The Banjo is the most popular instiament," says Gladys. easy to handle in a wheelchair, and it's wonderful for the mo ile of convalescent them busy, interested and happy." Gladys herself started out to be a ballet dancer, came to Tew Yorfc, and discovered musical ther- rpj offered a more satisfying field. Outside the New York area, she says, there is a real need for trained musicians who can teach, to take part in the ho-" :) al ero- grams.

"All musicians seem to come to New York," says she, "so we seldom have a shortage I in other parts of the country, musical therapists are needed and this might be a good career for young musicians to consider.".