6-(iec- 2)-UpUal Journal, Salem, Ore., 'lliurs., July 21, 1955
fAcKay Tells of Plans to
Improve National Parks
v EDITOR'g NOTE: Each yr.i. While much more remains to be
Amerlcaa tourists by the millions Kione, here are some examples
flock to the 28 national parks. The 1 which will show the direction in
ONE NAMED MISS USA
United Press askeri Secretary of
Interior Douglas McKay to write
I IhU rait migration to the ureal
Outdoors and to tell what li being
alone to make the national parks
an even greater attraction. Mc
Ky. who hat Jurisdiction aver
auch parks, tells his story In the
following dispatch.
1 By DOUGLAS MCKAY
Secretary of Interior
: Written For The United Press
' WASHINGTON (UP) The Na
tional Park Service is braced to
Welcome fifty million visitors this
year to the areas of scenic beajiy
and ' historic importance which
Comprise our national parks.
This record outpouring of tour
ists is part of the greatest mass
migration of peoples to the open
spaces in the history of the world.
It occurs each year as the Ameri
can people, in increasing numbers,
avail themselves of vacation op
portunities to see the wonders of
their own great country.
Nowhere else in the world ire
people blessed so abundantly witn
' the freedom to travel unchal
lenged; the facilities to take them
where they want to go, and lire
resources to finance thiir vacation
trips as they are in America.
And nowhere else In the world
will they find the unspoiled wond
ers of nature more magnificiently
displayed than in the virgin wild
erness of our great national parks
and monuments. We have 28 na
tional parks, including one each
in Alaska and Hawaii, and some
ISO national monuments.
. At all of them, the traditional
clad hand of welcome will be ex
tended by the justly famous park
rangers. They will ask only thut
the visitors try hard to preserve
the wilderness undamaged for their
own enjoyment and for the enjoy.
bicnt of their children and their
children's children. Preservation
of the natural wonders of our park-
lands has been a responsibility
close to my heart since I came to
the Interior Department in Janu
ary, 1903.
The record multitude of visitors
this year will find that the nation
al park system is larger, more
adequately stalled and more em
ciently administered than it ever
Jjas been.
Thero arc bound to be times
this summer when visitors will
have cause to complain about the
cingestion in some areas of our
parks. It could not be otherwise
with SO million visitors. But, with
the full support of the administra
tion and the Congress, programs
which we are moving to make our
national parks even better than
they already are:
The national parks 4t 3t for
the fiscal year wflich i -A July
I totals more than $45 million an
increase of some 36 per cent over
the funds available to the Nation
al Park Service in the 1933 budget.
This means that the ranger
force will be expanded to the larg
es'. number In park history. More
and better trails and roads will
be built to make the parks more
accessible fb more people. More
campgrounds and utilities designeJ
to promote enjoyable stays in the
parks will be built. Old buildings
wii: be replaced. And, abovi! all,
the nation's priceless natural and
historical resources will he better
protected.
The government, of course, does
not operate the hotels, -estaurants,
motels and other consumer ser
vices which are maintained in the
parks by private enterprize. Such
facilities are being greatly expand
ed and improved, however, by pri
vate capital under encouragement
received fr'jm the administration.
While beneficial programs have
been encouraged, the administra
tion has resisted developments
which would unjuslifiably intrude
upon the natural beauty of park
areas
Among such proposals which I
have rejected were those to build
a dam at Glacier View which
would have flooded 20,000 acres ol
Glacier Notional Park: build tram
ways in Mount Rainier, Rocky
Mountain. Crater Lake and Grand
Canyon National Parks; mofity the
boundaries of Olympic National
Park, and open Joshua Tree Na
tional Monument to mining.
The natural beauty of our park
lands must be maintained in all of
its grandeur.
To those visitors who find that
some areas of our parks are con
gestcd, remember only a short
few hundreds yards beyond any
crowded road or campground is
the unspoiled wilderness just as It
was when our pioneering ancestors
first opened up this great land.
Beauty and serenity are there,
preserved intact for the Ameri
can people to behold. For this, in
deed, is America the beautiful.
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MT. ETNA SLOWS DOWN
CATANIA, Sicily Wl Volcano
experts said Thursday the lava
flow from Mt. Etna is slowing
down. Lava, 60 feet wide and three
feet deep, crept down Mt. Etna
Thursday but experts said it ap
peared to be stopping. Europe's
tallest volcano began spilling the
have been authorized to remedy I lava stream down its northeast
many of these conditions. 'slope Tuesday.
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liminary contest in the judging of Miss Universe later this
week They were picked from a group ol 43 representing
that many stales. L-R: Front Row; Miss Arkansas, Margaret
Haywood; Miss California, Donna Schurr; Miss Colorado,
Dorothy Bewley; Miss Florida, Marlics Gesslcr; Miss Georgia,
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Miss Nebraska, Dona Strevcr; Miss New Mexico, Joan
Schwartz; Miss New York City, aPtricia O'Kane; Miss New York
State, Janet Kadlccik. Back Row: L.R: Miss So. Carolina, Sara
Stone; Miss Texas, Mary .Miles Daughters; Miss Vermont,
Carlcne Johnson; Miss Washington, Shirley Givins and Miss
Wisconsin, Jeanne Boulay. (AP Wirephoto)
Several Injured in
Ecuador Earthquake
QUITO, Ecuador UR Humor
ous persons were reported injured
Wednesday in a sharp earthquake
in north central Ecuador.
Interior Minister Cesar Plaza Gi
ron reported the towns of Cota
cachi and Atuntaqui were dam
aged heavily. He said there were
"numerous" injuries but had no
estimate of the number hurt.
Cotacachi. a town of 4,200 per
sons 46 miles north of Quito, was
described as the epicenter of the
quake.
It takes 65 to 100 mink skins
to make a coat
WEISFIELD'S.
Miss Vermont
Now Miss USA
LONG BEACH. Calif. IP -Miss
Vermont, the prettiest Republican
you ever saw, is Miss U. S. A.1
Thursday. i
Carlene King Johnson of Rut
land won the crown Wednesday
night over 14 other prcttv finalists.
The runnersup were the Misses
Arkansas, Nebraska, California
and Georgia.
Miss Johnson, a 22-year-old blue
eyed blonde who looked 16, is also!
the. prettiest businesswoman you
ever saw. &ne runs tier own jew
elry business in Rutland.
Two years ago she was Miss
Vermont in the Miss America
pageant at Atlantic City but only
placed 13th. She enters the Miss
Universe semifinals here Thursday
night.
Asked if she were a traditional
Vermont Republican, she replied:
"Is there any other kind?"
She admits to being a real con
servative down-easter but there is
nothing conservative about her
face and figure. Doll-like, she
stands 5 fect-8 in her high heels
with the perfect Miss Universe
measurements bust and hips Ihe
same at 35 inches and the waist
11 inches smaller at 24.
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AU.MUKI, Japan m It was
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The second floor of the Kikuya
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Shoaling Cause of
Grounding Freighter
ASTORIA. Ore. m Shoaling,
perhaps from mud brought down in
the June freshet, was studied
Thursday by state Board of Pilot
Commissioners as a probable
cause of the grounding of the
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The freighter grounded at the
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that point, a hearing was told, a
May 3 sounding by the Army En
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Capt. Karl Parker, pilot on the
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The average passenger on rtie
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Jap Doctors Strike
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TOKYO m Japan's doctors
Thursday took their turn at stag
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law designed to separate the medi
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ing sweltering heat, packed a Tok
yo auditorium and angrily de
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