The Evening News from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan • Page 4

THE EVENING NEWS, SAULT STE. MARIE, TUES. FEB. 10, 1970 VIEWS OF THE EVENING NEWS The Only Victor Failure Of Violence In College Reform A Lesson From Bangor Those v.to contend that the future of nearby Kincheioe Air Force Base may appear somewhat dismal, can find a bright ray of hope in developments of another surplus Strategic Air Command Base at Bangor, Maine. Dow Air Force Base, near Bangor, was exactly in the same position as Kincheioe when Sec.

McXamara decided to close these and 93 other military installation. The people of Bangor. like the residents of Chippewa County, have gone through similar pains of agony in trying to determine what should be done. Here's what happened, according to the current issue of Newsweek, a nationally circulated news magazine. A New York real estate developer named Norman Kaye.

signed a 35-year lease for the airfield, two months ago started to interest the numerous airlines using New York and Boston airports in using the giant military installation as a supplemental airport. It was on the Great Circle mute, 55 minutes from New York, and a handy place for a giant aircraft to land in the event it would be ''stacked up" for hours over New York, Boston or other eastern terminals. The airlines were interested and their chief needs were a Customs office, a bonded fuelling station and food serv- ice. This provided and last year more than 1500 flights landed at Bangor. The new service has provided an estimated 2,000 new jobs and the airfield with 11,440 foot runway is big enough to handle the new supersets, the 747 Boeings.

Kincheioe could offer similar services to Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, and other points where traffic is a problem. Kincheioe as modern as Dow and has even a longer runway, 12,000 feet long with a 2.000-foot overrun, giving it 14,000 feet of useable space. The local FAA office reports that numerous circle route flights pass over the Sault each day, so we have the traffic. The people in Maine had to apply for a new U.S. Customs office and the Sault already has one, and getting fuel is no problem as the base has a pipeline from a marine terminal in St.

Ignace. As for food facilities, Kincheioe has that plus a lot more, including housing, schools and a a matter of fact a complete town is available. We realize that the Kincheioe Closure Committee has already considered such a move as what the promoters of Bangor have found. It may be worth another look, because the Bangor effort is now a living, working thing. To Tlie Victor Don Brown of Traverse City and his backup crew of drivers and pit mechanics are to be congratulated for the splendid effort in Saturday's International-500 snowmobile race.

Brown and associates not only set a new track record but gave the thousands of racing fans a real thrill in the way they handled their machine to outwit and outdistance 49 other equally sportsmanlike competitors. It is racing of this quality which gives the Soo 1-500 its good name and reputation and makes it the big race in snowmobile circles. Rapport With China Is High Nixon Goal WASHINGTON (NEA) It can be said assurance that the talks with Communist China now begun in Warsaw occupy a very Important place indeed in President Nixon's new foreign strategy. In simple fact, as the Nixon men put it, Mao Tse-rung's China is so large, so vigorous and so strategically situated that, regardless of- what the. United States does, Peking's ac- -will have a very powerful effect on the future of all Asia from Japan to India and on critical areas in America and the Middle East.

We have already seen the very large effects that China's actions are having on the Soviet Union and the world Communist bloc. What Red China does can have a very strong influence on U.S. defenses and arms spending. A principal reason for building the Safeguard antiballistic missile system is to protect American cities against Mao's future nuclear missiles. Therefore, as Nixon, and his advisers see it, the United States must do what it can (however futile the attempt) to influence the actions of Mao and his successors.

What results there are will surely be very slow in coming. There may be no results at all. Because of the importance that Nixon attaches to this matter, it is worth recording here in detail the thoughts of one White House source. First of all, he says, the Chinese are obviously a great.people. They have longest unbroken record of government in one area of any of the existing civilizations; end secondly, 800 million people representing 25 per cent of the human race is a factor that cannot be ignored.

They will influence international affairs whatever we do. They are a reality. And their policy, for good or ill, will determine the possibilities for peace or progress whatever we do. RAY CROMLEY A country of this size and weight is going to affect all surrounding countries, again. irrespective of what we do.

Therefore, if it is true that the big problem of the next 20 years is to build more permanent peace, then it seems to us impossible to build a peace, which we would define as something other than just the avoidance of crisis, by simply ignoring these 800 million people. Whether they are aggressive or relatively peaceful or something in between is bound to affect the whole structure of Asia and of many other parts (of the world). Nor do we overestimate what we can do by unilateral action toward them. They will make their decisions on the basis of their conception of their needs and of their ideology. But to the degree that their actions can be influenced by ours, we are prepared to engage in a dialogue with them.

The more a reporter goes into this matter, the clearer it becomes that no one expects talking with Peking will be easy, including the men who recommended the approach. "One special problem of dealing with China communism apart," says a foreign affairs specialist with years in the business, "is that it has no experience in conducting foreign policy with equals. China has been either dominant or subjected." (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) Hal Answers Mail Call NEW YORK (AP) Things a columnist might never know if he didn't open his mail: Enjoying your job may help you add years to your life. A study of men 60 and over found that the degree of satisfaction they found in their work was the best single predictor of greater longevity. We certainly do eat high on the hog.

If the world's entire food output was distributed at the American dietary level, it would feed only one third of the people on earth. If you don't get at least two or three valentines, you're not getting your share cf the half billion that will be sent this month. Back in 1667, the noted English diarist, Samuel Pepys, wrote testily that he had paid five pounds for a valentine to his wife but "I am glad of it, for it is fit the wretch should have something to content herself with." The Irish firmly believe that St. Patrick drove snakes from the Emerald Isle in the fifth century, but alas for legend. Scientists have no evidence that snakes ever existed on Ireland, notes the National Geographic Society.

Tip to parents: Having trouble losing your kids in crowded shopping areas? One safeguard is to write down the names and addresses of your little squirm- ers, put them in envelopes, and pin them to their backs. Quotable notables: "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become Bergman. In ferment: Africa has had more revolutionary upheavals in recent decades than any other continent. Half a century ago it had only three free nations- Liberia. Egypt and Ethiopia.

Africa has 43 of the globe's 142 sovereign nations. Ever wonder exactly why the camel can go so long without food and water. The hump which builds up on its back when the living is easy is made no largely of fat. In times of shortage, the camel's efficient metabolism breaks down the fat into both nutrients and fluids. Water is produced by the union of the oxygen it breathes with hydrogen atoms in its body at.

Women have more acute hearing than men, science has found, and are particularly better able to hear high notes. As many a henpecked husband has found oiit for himself, women are better able to produce high notes, too. Know your language: Are you supercilious? Freely translated from the Latin, it means "lifted eyelid." When you raise your BAL BOYLE eyebrows, you are supercilious picture "of haughty disdain. Worth remembering: "Even if you're on the right track you'll get run.over if-you just sit there." Do you have white specks in your fingernails? Sometimes called "good luck spots," they represent the imperfect fossilization of living cells into nonliving keratin, or nail substance. They are sometimes caused by improper manicuring or the habit of biting your nails.

It was Mark Twain who observed, "Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." PRO JIM WIECHEftS makes sure his amateur partnerj "William Worthing, draws a proper bead oa this putt due- ing a Pro-Am Tournament. come to you en the Whits House closed circuit TV, to tell you why I have vetoed your request an increased allowance, Tricia Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness (Matthew 6:33) PRAYER: Our Father, wo thank Thee for the pilgrims of the past and of this new clay who have put Thee first in their lives. We pray that we may so live as (o be numbered among those who journey in fellowship with Thee. Amen.

Quick Quiz was the youngest signer of U.S. Constitution? Dayton at Hie age of 26: Dayton, Ohio, is named lor him. Know Your Lawmakers You serve your country when you write to your Congressman or Senator, or to your state legislators. They can't know your feelings on unless you feeep them advised. appreciate your interest in the job they're trying to do at Washington or at Lansing.

It's for you and your country they are working. U.S SENATOR: Sen. Philip A. Hart, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515. U.S.

SENATOR: Sen, Robert P. Griffin, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515, CONGRESSMAN (I1TH DISTRICT): Rep. Philip E. Ruppe. Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515.

STATE SENATOR (37TH DISTRICT): Sen. Thomas F. Schweigert, State Capitol, Lansing, 48902; 920 E. Mitchell, Petoskey. 49770.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE (107 DISTRICT): Rep. Charles Varnum, State Capitol, Lansing, 48902, Lansing; 531 Oak Street, Manis. lique, 48954. STATE REPRESENTATIVE (106 DISTRICT): Rep. Robert W.

Davis, State Capitol, Lansing, 48902; 150 Fitch Street, St Ignace. 19781. DON OAKLEY Advocates of violence to achieve social reforms and those who would "crack down on the dissenters" might both profit from a study of what has happened in Japan. Despite the fact that Uw word "violent" Is used so often to describe American society, students in Japan are much more violent than Americans, says a visiting professor from that country and far less successful in achieving their aims. Like Americans, Japanese students are interested in changing their educational system, says Shigeharu Matsurra, a doctoral candidate in education at Boston University, on leave from Shikoku College.

But they have won fewer victories than their American counterparts. He thinks this is due in large measure to their use of violence for its own sake. Tactics such as the throwing of Molotov cocktails and the involvement of civilian bystanders in demonstrations have helped perpetuate the rigidity of the Japanese educational system. "The Conservative party has become more powerful than ever," says Matsurra, "partly as a reaction to students and their university take-overs, and now has the solid backing of the average citizen. As a result, many of the educational ills remain." Chief among them are the extraordinarily demanding college entrance examinations and the complete dominance of faculty and administration in imiversity matters.

Most young Japanese spend so much energy preparing for the examinations that once they get into college, they become indifferent students, Matsurra says. American students, he finds, are most enthusiastic about learning. An important reason may be that they have not been exposed to the same demanding and rigid discipline as Japanese students, including a heavy burden of homework from primary grades on up. There is much food for thought in Mat- surra's observations, for all Americans. The Partisan Snow Hundreds of trip mines laid by East Germany along its border with West Germany have reportedly been detonated this winter by unusually heavy snows.

"Lo, sifted through the winds that blow, down comes the soft and silent snow," a poet once wrote. Of course, he had never heard of the German Democratic Republic and all its "blessings, nor the East-West cold war in which, even the snow, it seems, cannot be neutral. (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) DAYS OF YORE 10 Years Ago FEBRUARY 10, 1960 An old Sault residential landmark on E. Portage known generally as the Chipley house, was heavily damaged in a four hour fira early this morning Confirmed rabies cases in skunks soared to an all-time high of 19 in Michigan during 1959. 25 Years Ago FEBRUARY 10, 1945 Recent days of moderate coupled with winds that piled water into the upper river and over the ice have brought hazards to herring fishermen at Round Island, 50 Years Ago FEBRUARY 10, 1920 Two horses which were sighted on the South Shore track near the tannery when the 5:15 passenger train was pulling out of the local railroad yards last night stuck to the track ahead of the train in a race to Brimley.

One horsa successfully succeeded in crossing the trestle at Brimley, a feat which has never been known before, but the other went through the space between the ties and it required considerable time and hard work to extricate the animal. A further delay was caused when the train later smashed into a deer on the track down tha line The proprietor of the transfer company which operates the city bus line to and from the Union depot has issued an invitation to members of the city commission, the city manager and all other city officials to ride free to and from the Union depot and Ashmun street "until further notice." The purpose of the free bus show city officials what he terms as the "worst place for traffic in the downtown district" where the city has made no effort to remove snow and it is piled several feet high right in the center of the road. The Evening News SAULT NEWS PRINTING PUBLISHERS GEORGE A. and Publisher GEORGE 0. Publisher HERB Editor 109 Arlington Street Sault Ste.

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