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4--Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Thursday, May 18, 1967 "Independent in Things Neutral in None" Daily News Miner 200 North Cushmon, Fairbanks, Alosfeo 99701 A I I A Published Doily Except Sundoy by Foirbonks Publishing Inc. C. W. SNEDDEN DAVID B. GAUOWAr President and Publisher Executive Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) Per Month by Carrier Per Month by Motor Route 'Gentlemen, choose your defensive weapons.

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SaturoV Call Me 'Dixie' "Just call me Dixie," the slight gentleman with the southern drawl told his friends when he came north to Alaska back in 1915. The name stuck and John B. Hall was "Dixie" the rest of a long and productive life in Alaska. He was preparing to return from a winter vacation down south when death struck early on the morning of May 15. "Dixie" Hall retired from his position of clerk of the federal district court in 1960.

Though he had lived in Circle in summers and was in Juneau four winters serving in the Alaska State Senate, his light and jaunty step was still as familiar and refreshing as it ever was for the 30 years he lived here, year around. We remember the quick wave he'd give friends or even slight acquaintances. He always had an easy smile and a friendly greeting for anyone he met on the street. He was an able man in his work. He was just as able and dedicated in his early work with the Elks Lodge or the American Legion or the Pioneers or many other organizations.

He wasn't just a joiner. He was a do'er. "Dixie" Hall had served his country during World War I and was a charter member of the Fairbanks Chapter of 40 and 8, the Honorary Society of the Legion. He was a past commander of the American Legion Post here. And he served his community and state.

Elected to the State Senate in 1963, the pioneer Alaskan served four years. He served his community in many civic projects over the years, but some of the lighter moments --moments that were lighter because "Dixie" made them lighter are some of the things his close friends like to remember first. Light moments like the turkey shoots the Elks Lodge had and the witty "Dixie" Hall conducted for fund raising. Or when he acted as master of ceremonies during many, many serious occasions. "His sense of humor buoyed up so many people on so many occasions," a close associate recalls, adding, "He had an inborn wit that was so good, clean and wholesome He was a genuine American gentleman and very true to his name of "Dixie." CM TO THE EDITOR (Readers the Daily News-Miner are welcome to write to the editor.

However because of space limitations tetters exceeding 300 words cannot be accepted. Writers will be limited to publication two letters within a 30-tfau period. Unsigned letters will not be published but the name of writer will be withheld from vublication if requested. The News-Miner reserves the right to edit or reject letters to comply with these limitations.) The Hon. Walter JJ.

Hickel Governor of Alaska Juneau, Alaska 99801 World War III Threat Secretary General Thant of the United Nations has brought into the open the great, overriding question about the Vietnamese war. His opinion was given in response to inquiry as to where the fighting in Vietnam might lead. "In my view," he said, "if the present trend continues I am afraid direct confrontation first of all between Washington and Peking is inevitable. I hope I am wrong. I am afraid we are witnessing today the initial phase of World War HI." Some are inclined to discount the threat of world war as a result of the rising conflict in Vietnam.

They may take comfort from Ambassador Goldberg's prompt rejoinder that the United States government does not share Thant's "current assessment of the situation." But Thant's warning must be regarded as a serious pronouncement by one who is in a unique position to judge what is happening and what may happen. He was not boasting, but stating an important truth, when he said that he knew "the intention, not only of the principal parties primarily concerned, but also of some of the parties not directly involved at present." It is these other parties, notably China and the Soviet Union, that complicate the situation. It is the chance of their direct involvement that raises the spectre of a third world war. Hotheads tend to shrug off that threat, as though undue concern about it were a mark of cowardice and irresolution. The sober truth, as most thoughtful men acknowledge, is that global war in the nuclear age is a catastrophe to be averted at almost any cost.

It is folly to rationalize along the lines that we can safely proceed because Peking and Moscow would balk at direct confrontation. Something else Thant said is instructive in this connection. "If you recall the series of events leading to World War I and World War II," he said, "you will realize that prologues were quite long. What I mean is the psychological climate, the creation of political attitudes, took some time and when conditions were ripe for some plausible excuse, then the global wars were triggered." We are not immune from repetition of this pattern. The deterrent effect of nuclear arsenals has served us well, but it may not serve us forever.

Something else is needed a willingness to assess the developing situation with a realistic eye to the danger of which Thant has warned, and to alter our course as realism demands. This is not at all equivalent to saying that we should simply pull out of Vietnam. But reassessment should not exclude the idea of following every possible avenue toward settlement. May 15, 1967 whose recreation would be affected by sale or lease of the proposed subdivision. The United States Forest Service for some time has had an established policy of maintaining SUBJECT: Disposal of Alaska small cabins or shelters specifi- Lands cally for public recreation on their Planning Hearings lands.

The'Bureau of Land Management has recently completed Dear Governor Hickel: plans for hiking trails and shel- Parceling out Alaska's public ters for areas north of Alaska's lands at auction for homesites, Highway. In the mountains wilderness estates, seems of the eastern United States the right, especially in a land so Appalachian Trail runs for more sparsely settled as Alaska. than a thousand miles with pver- Hotvever, experience shows def- night shelters at regular inter- initely that those areas best suit- vals, and is an excellent example ed for public recreation on streams of free public recreation facilities or lakes, are the very areas for managed by a private non-profit which individuals looking for sum- association. mer homesites demand and are Alaska is ready for the exten- willing to pay the highest rice, sion of such policies to canoe At the present rate of disposal trails with camp sites and shel- of lands at Harding and Birch ters along its many scenic rivers Lakes, the Salcha River, Rich- as well as land trails skirting ardson Clear Creek, and of late wild rivers, lakes, mountains and the subdivision plans for Quartz glaciers. The sight of Alaskan Lake and the Goodpaster River, game or fur animals is a never- it seems likely that before 25 to-be forgotten experience, visi- the plan, will open up an account years are up, most of the large tor or resident alike.

The policy for the Creamer's Field Park river and lake recreation areas of developing our recreation po- will be so infiltrated with pri- tential not only provides whole- vate estates that one of Alaska's some outdoor pleasures for the great drawing cards will be only whole family, but also provides a memory. an important and growing source Alaska's- greatest attractions of income for those are its vast expanses of forest, tourists, mountains and tundra interlaced 1 The attached resolution offici- with beautiful streams and dotted ally expresses the views of the with lakes, most of which are Tanana Valley Sportsmen's Asso- most totally without signs of man's I elation. which they hopefully will soon be joined by the whole community until the goal is reached There will never be another opportunity like this one for the people of -Fairbanks and environs! Besides, the financingplan this committee has come up with makes the purchase of the land surely realizable and I suggest to start with the campaign for raising the needed funds as soon as possible. It no doubt needs little persuasion to make the people of this area realize what a great asset this nature park will be for themselves, their children and children's children, the whole community in short, now and forever after. And if everybody pitches in, nobody's pocketbook will get hurt In rare cases can there so much be had for little, from the standpoint of the individual contributor.

If the enlightened Chamber of Commerce, which has endorsed One of the most stimulating experiences for the outdoorsman is to enter an area where there is no taint of man's activities, where the game, fish and lands are about the way we imagine theywereathousandyears RESOLUTION The finest primitive recreation WHEREAS, Alaska's Constitution, ARTICLE VIH, provides: are reserved to the people for common use. and, area to be found near Fairbanks is across the Tanana River to the south in the military reservation where the land is not crisscrossed with roads and trails, where no cabins remain, where wildlife continues much as it has from time WHEREAS, our state government immemorial except for recrea- has established a policy of sub- tional pursuits at times allowed dividing and selling recreational in a portion thereof during hunt- areas along our public lakes ing season. and streams, and By allowing the most attractive WHEREAS, no over-all plans for recreation areas to go into pri- future development of the riv- vate hands so that each of us can ers and lakes have been sub- own a "little bit of heaven" we mitted to the public for corn- defeat the very purpose for which ment prior to such public sales, we strive, for such areas remain and a "heaven" only so long as they WHEREAS, many outdoorsmen are completely free--free of man's have become alarmed at this "sell as you go" policy, and fear that the interests of the public, both present and future, are being thereby neglected, and that the "common use" principle for waters "occurring in their natural state" is being curtailed by questionable developments along the shorelines of such waters, nowthere- purehase, I pledge to pay in the first $50, which of course is not meant as a standard size contribution. Any amount, even the smallest, should be welcome, catering to But no upper limit either, naturally! There is also a good chance that many tourists will gladly contribute to the fund il properly and instructively informed about the purpose (aer- ial They will not be Walter H. Peirce, chairman the last to enjoy this park.

Recreation and Land Use This community project is no Committee doubt One which every inhabi- Tanana Valley Sportsmen's tant of the area can and should Association wholeheartedly support without any ifs and buts. The preservation of this large area in its natural state amounts to a preventive mass therapy, Very truly yours, SECTION 3. Wherever oc- to keep body and soul of the pub- curring in their natural state, lie in good health, fish, wildlife and waters Franz Maier College Experiment Station College, Alaska Italy Draws More Americans on Tour New York's Paris-American Club is the hard-core center of Franco-American relations in the United States. Recently its members heard an earful on the subject: "Have the French lost their touch?" The dismayed speaker was in- ternationallly famous restaurateur Antoine Gilly, who on one hand was cheered to the rafters by the audience while the official representatives of the French government walked out. The officials' walkout itself typifies the de Gaulle government's stupid failure to recognize how far.

its policies have strained our goodwill. And what could be more dumb (and unjust) than to stimulate attitudes inside France that kill off our needed hearts and dollars alike? Today, for the first time, more Americans visit Italy than France, and each visitor's stay in Italy averages nearly twice as long as in France. France's loss is also Spain's gain, Scandinavia's gain, a marvelous gain nearly every place else in Europe. The French themselves estimate their loss of American visitors to the Riviera alone at 30 to 35 percent last year. Meanwhile, American capital investment is being repelled from France, fed up with being treated like a bulldog treats a tramp.

Monsieur Gilly recalled the largely lost French touch, the feeling of savoir faire the French created so well that made people feel at home in their lovely land instead to being made to feel like unwanted tourists, and even as enemies. He repeated what this column has repeated many times; namely, that President de Gaulle's systematic anti-Americanism does not please the French majority, and is, in fact, one reason for de Gaulle's decline in popularity. Millions of ordinary French men and women see in his anti- American program the seeds of France's self-destruction, not France's salvation. And the further that mystic de Gaulle goes in this campaign the wider the gap grows between de Gaulle and these mystified millions. They remember 1917 and the catastrophe of 1940.

They know that each time the United States did not fcil. America went to help France expel her invaders, liberate her sons from prisons, help France recover her and her liberties and GVEA MEMBERS Lemeta, Aurora, Johnston and Farmers Loop As a candidate for director from this orea, I would like to explain my views on electrical building codes. I em not opposed to a carefully controlled electrical code, however, when you give any person or body the power to withhold electrical energy you are giving a tremendous club to this person. I do not favor giving anyone such a club without plenty of control or checks against misuse. We have seen GVEA put their inspection program in the hands of the president of the Local Electricians Union, hire another inspector who owned an electrical supply shop, and GVEA, itself, sells wiring supplies and appliances white it holds this inspection club over customers, ft is hard to imagine how GVEA could more flagrantly abuse these powers even if it set out to deliberately abuse them.

We already have a state government and a borough government who are in the business of protecting citizens, 1 believe that if we wont protection from possible hazardous wiring one of these bodies should be used, not GVEA. I also believe that if we wish to odopt an electric building code we must be very careful that safety is the only consideration in passing installations not who did the wiring or who you bought your supplies from. COME TO THE GVEA MEETING May 21 st and if you share these views VOTE FOR JOE FOLZ Director District No. 1 entourage of change and destruction. When an ideal recreation area is opened to entry for private summer homes, that area is doomed so far as primitiveness is concerned.

It is argued that strict control can overcome the negative aspects, but experience shows beyond a doubt that if one man can legally obtain a homesite fore in such area, others will follow; BE IT RESOLVED, by the Tanana that where homesites are permitted there eventually will be a number of run-down shacks and boat docks, outhouses or cesspools, garbage pits or garbage piles, water pollution, "No Trespassing" or "No Hunting" signs, and often depleted fishing streams. In short, the sportsmen are alarmed at the rapid inroads being made upon recreation lands, and do not like the looks of future prospects, They believe CO that long-range policies should be established to adequately protect those areas suitable for public recreation; (2) that all subdivisions of recreational lands or water front areas, for either sale or lease, should be preceded by submission of plans for the entire river system or lake area of which the proposed subdivision is a part, and that such plans show provisions for pubic recreation; and (3) that hearings be scheduled in or near the populations Valley Sportsmen's Association at their regular members' meeting, May 9, 1967, Fairbanks, Alaska, that the Honorable Walter J. Htckel, Governor of Alaska, and me members of theAlas- ka Legislature, be petitioned to require that over all development plans be made and submitted, prior to public hearings which shall be scheduled in or near the areas concerned, before any rivers or lakes, considered to of public recreational -value, are subdivided or placed on sale. May 14, 1967 Dear Editor: With great pleasure have I read about the forming of a citizen's committee for the purpose of working out a way to preserve Creamer's Field as a nature center and recreational area. A hurray for these men who are spearheading this drive, in IS EVERYBODY HAPPY? Of over 4,000 GVEA members, only 2 are dissatisfied with the present management, GYEA management has stated in court.

PLEASE STAY AWAY, YOU DISSIDENT TWO! All other members are welcome to join in telling management what a fine job they are doing at the GVEA ANNUAL MEETING Sunday, May 21 at 1:00 p.m. Tanana Valley Fairgrounds FREE RIDES) REFRESHMENTS PRIZES FOR ALL! DON'T MISS THIS ANNUAL EVENT! Committee of the Dissident Two, Box 490, College INSIDE the right to regain a place among civilized powers. Millions in France ask, as Monsieur Gilly asked, what the Americans have done to deserve such treatment as de Gaulle and a howling minority dish out today. Is it America's fault that the French have not yet achieved our standard of living? Our taxpayers' colossal postwar economic aid to France, all gratis, exceeded our aid to any other country in the world. Is it America's fault that NATO is France has received about twice as much postwar military aid from us as any US.

ally. Inside France our NATO investment loss when de Gaulle threw us out exceeded $2.5 billion. De Gaulle has flattered himself to have gained independence from the United States, To butter up the Russians he wanted American forces out of France. But, although this vastly weakens his protection of us, he does not want to abandon America's protection of him. De Gaulle has taken mighty good care that we must still come to the aid of France.

We are still obligated to do so under the Brussels Treaty of March 17, 1948, which formed the Western European Alliance, NATO's predecessor. In creating a de facto Moscow-Peking-Paris Axis, can de Gaulle trust his acquired friends? They have sworn the destruction of exactly the liberties that made France the only large democracy ever to survive in continental Europe. Is the Soviet Union to be trusted when only the other day two of its top spies were revealed as penetrating the Elysee Palace and Italy uncovered another ring composed of parachutists that had photographed secret installations all over Europe for the Soviet Embassy in Paris? Dismayed Monsieur Gilly attributed much of the French minority antagonism against the United States to the way the de Gaulle government's desire to see the Americans go home is posted on France's walls and constantly pounded at Americans on television, radio and in newspapers. Millions in France know the score in this tragedy even if de Gaulle and his arrogant yes-men who represent him here do not. SUPER RUNWAY-- The proposed new $20 million runway at Anchorage International Airport is supposed to be operational by the summer of 1970, according to present plans.

It is planned for a length of 10.500 feet and a width of 200 feet Location is west of the existing runway toward Cook Inlet. The state would pay per cer.t of the cost, the federal government the rest PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION--The Insider learns upon the authority of Everett W. Patton, presidentof Alaska Overland, that public transportation during A-67 will be ample. Present plans call for buses to leave downtown pickup points for the site every hour on the hour. If this proves inadequate, schedules will be changed to every half hour.

SECRET MISSION-- Some of the old guard of Al Fothergill's Alaska State Community Action Program (ASCAP) were in Fairbanks yesterday and then on to Anchorage. Their mission was undisclosed but some quarters report dissatisfaction with the present program right down to its (Grass) Roots. Wiretapping Needed WASHINGTON (AP) A presidential crime commission report says wiretapping is needed to battle organized crime, which is so rich it needs business experts to run it. Organized crime is so sophisticated in its operation that there will be no place at the top for the uneducated, the report said. The crime panel, formally called the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, released Sunday night the report on organized crime.

It is the third of nine reports to be released following a sweeping study of all types of crime in the United States. G. Robert Blakey, a law professor at Notre Dame University and a consultant to the commission, recommended federal legislation to permit carefully controlled, court-ordered wiretapping and electronic bugging to help combat organized crime. Blakey's views, like those of other consultants, were not necessarily endorsed by the full commission. However, the commission has recommended legislation on wiretapping and bugging.

President Johnson has asked Congress to outlaw all such surveillance except in cases where national security is involved. Another report scrutinized how criminals corrupted officials at all levels in a city given the fictitious name of Wincanton. Reports are the city in question is Reading, which has had serious corruption problems. REAL ESTATE NOW OPEN Licensed Real Estate Broker Phone 456-5705 from 9 to 9 Radio-Television Logs KFAR-TV Channel 2 THURSDAY Game Buz: II ABC 30 Hi Lites Reporter Boons NBC Spr NBC Zero Hour Cot NBC 1 Hunttey Srinkfey News NBC I Show FRIDAY I 1 Hollywood 1 Sweep in a Million Talking 1 Reed Show Game Girl '67 Hospital Shadows ABC the Action li ABC THURSDAY of Night CtS Alaskan Gardener Health Safety CBS Security Sports, Weaiher CBS Occasional Wife NBC Night CBS FRIDAY of Life CBS for Tomorrow CBS 1 Guiding Light CBS at Random the World Turns CBS CBS Presents Tell the Truth CBS Presents Storm CBS of Night CBS Radio 6-6-0 KFAR RADIO ON THE GO! KFRB 900 On Your Radio MONDAY FRIDAY 6.0 -Wee W.llie Wolley 7:10 ABC News 7.30 School Bus Report No. 1 7:30 Maury Smith 8:10 ABC News 8:20 School Bui Report No, 2 9-M -Mel luck 9:20 Thought Lne No.

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