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ItB -Oct. 31, 1976 Sunday Clwrltsfon, Vlrjlnlt U.S. Accused of Breaking Pledges NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Vietnam accused the United States again Saturday of breaking pledges to help repair war damage. It declared readiness for broad technical, scientific and cultural cooperation with all countries. Ngo Ngo Dien, Vietnamese delegation chief, appealed at the general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for swift assisjltance in rebuilding his country's schools, restoring historic monuments and obtaining new equipment.

He said more than 3,000 schools, 12 universities, 420 temples and pagodas and 475 churches were destroyed by bombing in northern Vietnam, which came under U.S. air attack during the war. Southern Vietnam, he said, was left with a "legacy of neocolonialism" that includes four million illiterates, 500,000 prostitutes and 150,000 disabled persons, including many young people under 16. The Uniteftates and Vietnam have agreed that officials ofthe two countries will meet soon in Paris. VOTE CARL W.

WITHROW DEMOCRAT MAGISTRATE 5 Kanawha County Pad by C. Pe CnmMlet Elect Treasurer Pearson 1976. JoHtf. PoHenborger, TO TENNESSEE AND ROANE Stunts i i i Stuntpeople Ms. Jadis David and rlichard Farnsworth Jr.

are seen bailing out of a rollercoaster at Ocean View Amusement Park in Norfolk, Va. Both were injured in the filming of the motion picture film "Rollercoaster" when the staged crash of the vehicle became a little too real. (APWirephoto) PARENTS and GRAND PARENTS JOIN OUR Conservation Shifts to Protection of Alaska CHRISTMAS CLUB and haveapaid-for Christmas in 1977! (c) N. Y. Timei Service NEW YORK-With the trans-Alaska 12.2 million acres, pipeline virtually complete, major conservation groups are shifting their attention to what they see as a more fundamental concern--how best to protect the hundreds of millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness unaffected by the pipeline.

The state's vast mineral, oil and timber wealth is attracting eager commercial interests, and conservationists fear the temporary federal protection of the land, scheduled to lapse at the end of 1978, will open the door to developers before Congress designates a permanent system of national parks, refuges and forrests. In the balance rests the fate of the nation's last large virgin wilderness, whos spectacular mountains, dense forests, lush valleys and teeming bogs harbor large number of caribou, grizzly bears, wolves, moose, musk oxen, wild sheep, millions of waterfowl and many other species. ALASKA, the conservationists say, offers this country its last opportunity to "do it right," to set aside large national parks that are entire, viable ecosystems and not gerrymandered districts that gradually degrade because, for example, they cut off the migratory caribou's breeding grounds frorn its calving grounds hundreds of miles away. Because it normally takes years for national park proposals Urwork their way through Congress, and because the commercial interests are expected to lobby heavily against large-scale protection plans, the conservation groups say that Congress must begin work on the proposals as soon as the next Congress convenes in January. The groups leading the drive to establish the parks are the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, the National Audubon Society and Friends of the Earth.

Each has declared Alaskan conservation to be a top priority issue. The four national groups, along with several smaller one, have formed an "Alaska coalition" to draft legislation and press for its passage. Until Alaska received statehood in 1959, its 375 million acres was virtually all federal government land. The State of Alaska was allowed to select 3 million acres. In 1973, the Department of the Interior recommended that 83.3 million acres be pt-manently protected--32 million as national parks 32 million more as national wildlife refugee just under 19 million as national forests and less than a million as "national wild and scenic rivers." The proposal has languished in Congress for three years.

THE COALITION of conservation groups, feeling that the fmillion-acre proposal is inadequate, drew up a rival bill that would protect 106 million acres. This bill, which has also been largely ignored by Congress, recognizes most of the same ecological zones as worthy of protection, but enlarges the boundaries of several that, the conservationists felt, had been gerrymandered. For example, in the proposed Gates of the Arctic National Park, which would include a substantial portion of the Brooks Range of mountains with its bears, wolves, moose and caribou, the Department of the Interior proposed 8.36 million acres. The conservationists say that the propose boundaries exclude an important part of the Brooks Range ecosystem that is also thought to be rich in mineral deposits, particularly copper ore. The conservation group want this area protected from minim; and wwJd increase the park's area to Also, the conservationists' bill has no national forests.

These are lands administered by the Agriculture Departent as multiple-use areas in which are permitted grazing, logging and mining as well as wildlife and recreation. THE CONSERVATIONISTS want the entire area made a national park. That would make this region of 18 million acres by far the largest national park in the country. It would be seven times the size of Yellowstone, now the biggest. PoMMMulAdv.

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Come in and open your Christmas Club account. OUR id Political Arfv. WILLIAM A. MORTON REPUBLICAN 1-OR HOUSE OF DELEGATES NO. 11 ON BALLOT Paid by Candidate 1951 25th 1W HJEEHESEH BANKOF WEST VIRGINIA TENNESSEE AT ROANE CHARLESTON'S MOST CONVENIENT BANK MEMBER FDIC CIRCUIT JUDGE, THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Wm.

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Palumbo MAGISTRATES A. Andrew Thomas E. MacQueen McHugh COUNTY DEMOCRATS Phyllis J. Nancy StarkT Jack Kinder Denver D. Gatson to CarlW.

Withrow COUNTY COMMISSION SURVEYOR Arthur "Art" Barthelmess PROSECUTING ATTORNEY Joe L. Shelton Charles Bryan Herbert Howard Pauley Burl Holbrook ASSESSOR I SHERIFF OF KANAWHA COUNTY Ralph (Miami) Larry A. Adkins Winter J. Dempsey Gibson G. Kemp Mellon HOUSE OF DELEGATES John "Si" lyleSattes E.M."Pete" Walton (Tony) DarrellE.

Boettner Johnson Shepherd Holmes JackCanfield William L. "Bill" John T. Slack LeonT. Copeland HOUSE OF DELEGATES, CONTINUED tarry Sonis Mrs. Russell S.

Helaine (Mrs. (Martha) Wehrle Charles) Rotgin Roger W. Tompkini (Paid by Kanawha County Democratic Campaign Committee, W. Gaston Caperton III, chairman) Besuretovoi.