Parks Will Attract 50,000,000; McKay Tells Improvement Plans
Editor's not: Earti Tear. Am-riran
tourists by the millions ftork to the
28 national parks. The Vnited Press
asked Secretary of Interior Douglas
McKay to write about this vast migra
tion to the great outdoors and to tell
what Is heinc done to make the na
tional parks an even greater attraction.
McKay, who has jurisdiction over such
parks, tells bis story In the following
dispatch.
By DOUGLAS McKAY
Secretary of Interior
Written for The United Pretf
Washington 01.R) The Na
tional Park Service is braced to
welcome 50,000,000 visitors this
year to the areas of scenic beauty
and historic importance which
comprise our national parks.
This record outpouring of
tourists 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 American people, in in
creasing numbers, avail them
selves of vacation opportunities
to see the wonders of their own
great country.
Nowhere else in the world are
people blessed so abundantly
with the freedom to travel un
challenged; the facilities to take
them where they want to go,
and the resources to finance
their vacation trips as they are
in America.
And nowhere else in the world
will they . find the unspoiled
wonders of-nature more magnifi
cently displayed than in the vir
gin wilderness of our great na
tional parks and monuments.
We have 28 national parks, in
cluding one each in Alaska and
Hawaii, and some 150 national
monuments.
Glad Hand of Welcome
At all of them, the traditional
glad hand of welcome will be
extended by the justly famous
park rangers. They will ask only
that the visitors try hard to pre
serve the wilderness undamaged
for their own enjoyment and for
the enjoyment of their children
and their children's children.
Preservation of the natural won
ders of our parklands has been
a responsibility close to my heart
since I came to the Interior De
partment in January, 1953.
The record multitude of visit
ors this year will find that the
national park system is larger,
more adequately staffed and
more efficiently administered
than it ever has been.
There are bound to be times
this summer when visitors will
have cause to complain about
the congestion in some areas of
our parks. It could not be other
wise with 50.000.000 visitors.
But, with the full support of the
administration and the Con
gress, programs have been au
thorized to remedy many of these
conditions.
While much more remains to
be done, here are some examples
which will show the direction in
which we are moving to make
our national parks even better
than they already are:
Budget Increase
The national parks budget for
the fiscal year which started
July 1 totals more than S45.000,
000 an increase of some 36 per
cent over the funds available to
the National Park Service in the
1953 budget.
This means that the ranger
force will be expanded to the
largest number in park history.
More and better trails and roads
will be built to make the parks
more accessible to more people.
More campgrounds and utilities
designed to promote enjoyable
stays in the parks will be built.
Old buildings will be replaced.
And, above al, the nation's price
less natural and historical re
sources will be better protected.
The government, of course,
does not operate the hotels, res-
4-H Club News
Ruch 4-H Club
The Ruch 4-H club met July
11 at the home of Shirley and
Noel Dunlap. We practiced lead
ing both beef and dairy cows.
A new member, Marilyn Wells,
Joined our club with a grade
guernsey junior heifer calf.
After the meeting refresh
ments were served by Mrs. Dun
lap and then we went swimming.
It was decided during the meet
ing to attend the Central Point
4-H community fair. At the fair,
Gary Fossen placed fourth in
beginners dairy showmanship;
Shirley Dunlap placed second
in advance dairy showmanship,
and also second in advanced beef
showmanship; Noel Dunlap
placed first in beginners dairy
showmanship.
Shirley Dunlap,
Reporter
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MORE $$$ FOR STRIPS In Hollywood these shapely
strippers formed the League of Exotic Dancers, served an
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wage scale of $85 a week they get when they take 'em off.
From left, "Champagne," Laurene Dare, Jenny Lee, Rusty
Lane and Novita.
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Hollywood (U.R) Imogene
Coca, a year after her break-up
with ex-partner Sid Caesar,
thinks the split
was a mistake
because both
learned they
couldn't work
as singles after
all.
Imogene,
wearing a gay
quilted cotton
dress and bus-
Aline Mosby ily b r u s hing
her short brown hair, curled up
on the sofa of her rented vaca
tion home here to look back on
a TV season that was a new try
for her.
She and Sid split because he
thought they should work alone,
an incident that the currently
feuding Dean Martin and Jerry
Lewis might think over.
Wound Up With Partners
By the end of the 1954-5o sea
son both Coca and Caesar wound
up with partners on their in
dividual shows and settled into
husband-wife comedy serials.
Imogene admits her show "was
not what I wanted to do" and
she's through with domestic
serials. . '
I wanted to make guest ap
pearances until 1 found some
thing I had faith in. But I guess
it was my own fault," she said
with a sad shrug.
Show Not Right
"I am so easily persuaded. The
show was just not right.
"Peculiarly enough," she adc
ed, "the rating for the show was
good. People were beginning to
like it. My two aunts who handle
my fan mail say I was getting
letters from an entirely new
audience, the young married."
Imogene's old fans will be re
lieved to hear she returns to TV
next fall doing the comedy rou
tines that brought her fame on
"The Show of Shows.".' She'll
make six guest appearances on
NBC's 'Spectaculars" but still
without Caesar.
Found New Partners
"Oh, that would be impos
sible," she said in her usual mod
est, quiet way. "Now "he's a team
with Nanette Frabray. He prob
ably wouldn't want to work with
anyone else.
"It's funny," she reflected.
"Both of us at the beginning of
the season carefully avoided
working with someone. If we
had started the season each with
a partner we would have been
torn apart.
"But Sid saw he had to work
with someone, so he got Nanette.
And I got Hal March. In the
theater you don't have to work
with anybody. It's just in TV it
seems you have to have a part
ner." Besides the disappointment of
her show, Imogene also suffered
the loss of her husband and her
mother recently.
"Yes, it was a rough year,"
she agreed, and began vigorously
brushing her hair.
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Lorain, O. (U.R) Joseph
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Senators Put On Debate
For Visiting Women
Boston (U.R) Massachusetts
legislators have proved that chiv
alry isn't dead yet.
Wellesley's League of Women
Voters arrived breathlessly at
the State House here and ex
plained they had come to hear a
debate.
The lawmakers weren't in a
debating mood what with a lot
of routine business but they put
on one anyway. For a short
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argued over a minor state mat
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taurants, motels and other con
sumer services which are main
tained in the parks by private
enterprises. Such facilities are
being greatly expanded and im
proved, however, by private
capital under encouragement re
ceived from the administration.
While beneficial programs
have been encouraged, the ad
ministration has resisted de
velopments which would unjust
ifiably intrude upon the natural
beauty of park areas.
Plans Rejected
Among such proposals which I
have rejected were those to build
a dam at Glacier View which
would have flooded 20,000 acres
of Glacier National Park; build
tramways in Mount Rainier,
Rocky Mountain, Crater Lake
and Grand Canyon National
Parks; modify the boundaries of
Olympic National Park, and
open Joshua Tree National Mon
ument to mining.
The natural beauty of our
parklands must be maintained
in all of its grandeur.
To those visitors who find that
some areas of our parks are
congested, remember only a
short few hundred 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,
indeed, is America the beautiful.
Adopted Japanese
'Bundles of Fire'
Chippewa Falls, Wis. U.R)
Kitagawa Tsuneo and Nishimura
Masatomo seem to like being
Peter and Bobby Johnson.
The eight - year - old Japanese
boys were started on their way
to this west-central Wisconsin
city although they didn't know
it about a year ago when Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin Johnson read
a dispatch in a Catholic news
paper. It described how Americans
could adopt Japanese children
of wartime marriages. The child
less Johnsons made arrange
ments with the National Cath
olic Committee of Japan to
adopt two youngsters.
The boys were flown from
their native Yokohama to Minne
apolis, Minn., where the John
sons picked them up. That was
last January.
Since then, the only big prob
lem the Johnsons have had has
been in language. The family
television set has helped with
the boys' English. The boys'
adult-sized appetites for any food
placed before them has been a
cinch. Johnson is a grocer.
Furniture Movers
Each boy has his own bed
in their attic bedroom. Above
each is a name plate they print
ed at Notre Dame school. Peter
and Bobby are proud of their
furniture, so much so that they
like to move it about usually
late at night. The Johnsons have
gotten used to that.
Polite? Mrs. Johnson said she)
has never heard so many
"pleases" and "thank yous" be
fore. And always at the right
time.
The Johnsons' five acres give
the boys plenty of room for rec
reation and character - building
chores. Among the latter is feed
ing the "chickies."
"Those boys are just bundles
of fire and energy,' Mrs. John
son said.
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