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Meed tor More Rexreation Area rows
As Resources ConftiniiLoe To PomDnisBi
(Editor! note:0 This U the first
of two dispatches reporting on
tho nation's need for more recrea
tion area as the wide open spaces
dwindle. Recreation facilities are
not keeping pace with population
growth. And in a. nation where
leisure time Is en the rise, this
hard fact spells trouble ahead.)
Br FRED DANZIG
. UPI Correspondent
New York-EH-A new road
replaces a-baseball field in
Tallahassee, Fla.
A housing subdivision goes
up on what used to be a golf
course near New York City.
, Planning authorities report
that more than one million
acres of rural land get turn
ed into suburban settlements
each -year.
Yet, as the wide open
traces dwindle, the exploding
population finds itself need
in more recreation area.
"It is apparent that we are
beinz caueht in a squeeze be
tween our recreation needs
on one hand and our diminish-
in resources on the other,.
says Eivind T. Scoyen, asso
ciate director of the National
Park Service.
- "ProDosals to divert land
from park use undoubtedly
will increase as our open
space shrinks," he adds in a
pessimistic appraisal.
Many Facets
Arguments about these pro-
nosals rage clear across the
nation and have many facets
to them.
Example: New York State
wants to create a public park
on 1,000 acres formerly oc
cupied by the Sampson Air
Force Base at ' Seneca Lake.
Various communities in the
state demand that the land
be turned over to private in
dustry because the income is
needed more than the parks.
Example: Land once used
for. hunting in Washington
State now is occupied by the
Hanfbrd Atomic Works and
the Yakima Firing Range.
Port districts in the state are
- claiming land, used by water
fowl hunters. New hydroelec
" trie projects ,are eliminating
some popular fishing areas.
Interstate highways are eat
ing up hunting'' acreage.
School Plan Loses
Example: In California, the
Monterey, county-school dis
trict last year sought to build
a school in Big' Sur State
Park. A judge ruled, after a
bitter dispute, that "there is
no. greater public use than
park use." A similar school
setback occurred in Bridge
port,' Conn. - ..
Example: Points- Mouille, a
vast state game area south of
Detroit, is threatened by in
dustrial expansion resulting
from the St. Lawrence Sea
way project.
Example: In Michigan's Up
per Peninsula, a mining, com
pany has kicked-up a fuss
by seeking to lease 933 acres
of the 58,000-acre Porcupine
Mountain State Park in or
der to dig for copper. Here
again, the "we-need-the-in-
come" forces are aligned
against the "we-need-our-parks"
side. ! ..
An example of another sort
is seen in the South. The Sea
shore State Park in Virginia
has been closed since 1955
because Negroes successfully
sued for admission on a non
segregated basis.
As unused land gets taken
away from public recreation
bit by bit, cries of ' outrage
are heard but seldom are they
effective.
The problem is complicated
by such factors as public
apathy; the high cost of land
around metropolitan areas,
where recreation space is most
needed, and the fact that
town fathers, by tradition, are
reluctant to remove land from
the tax rolls.
; The National Recreation As
sociation has termed facilities
"very, very inadequate" in
communities having a popula
tion of 50,000 or more.
Have Not' Zones
More than 100,000,000 Am
ericans now live in 174 metro
politan areas, described as
cities with 50,000 or more
residents, so. it is clear that
most of us are in "have not"
zones where adequate recrea
tion facilities are concerned.
The Regional Planning,As
sociation has suggested that
no more park land be taken
away, except for essential
highway construction.
The irony: where the need
for more recreation space is
greatest, competition for more
available land becomes more
intense.
New York's metropolitan
area (15,000,000 persons in a
7,000-square mile area) now
has about 400 square miles for
recreation space. The experts
say at least 80 square miles
more must be added to the
total within 25 years.
- And this additional land
must 'come from only 4,000-
square miles of still-undeveloped
land. Will one square
mile out of every 50 be set
aside for recreation? The
planners and recreationists
hnno so. But thev know they'll
have to fight for whatever
they get.
Every state and some 3,000
cities and towns now have
recreation commissions of one
sort or another. Some com
munities and states have more
than one agency interested in
leisure time facilities.
Facilities , Inadequate
But the fact remains that,
in general, facilities are in
adequate when viewed along
side either the growing popu
lation or the present popula
tion. Take state parks as an ex
ample. In 1950, the nation's popu
lation of 150,697,361 could
make use of 1,725 state parks
that covered 4,657,155 acres.
Today, there are 491 more
state parks covering a total
Cholesterol Blood Level Rule
Shattered by Yemenite Jews
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York-flJPD-In one tribe
of human beings the choles
terol blood levels of the males
do not increase
with age ac
cording to
new and im
pressive evi
dence. That's
e x c iting be
cause it is con
trary to prev
ious scientific
findings con
c e r n ing hu-
man, maies.
Increasing blood levels of
that fatty blood, substance,
cholesterol, has been repeat-
i. Delos Smith -
Oregon Delegation
No Exceptions When
Trios Abroad Taken
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Washington
Correspondent
Washington (Special)-Most
members of Congress feel
they must be internationally-
minded these
days, and
most members
of the Oregon
delegation are
no exceptions,
even to taking
trips to num
erous : foreign
countries. But
some of them
a. Boot, smith don't alwa y s
want it nosed around. ;
Take the case of the re
cently held Atlantic Congress
in London, to which Rep..
Edith Green a n d ..Maurine
Neuberger, wife of. Oregon's
junior senator, were promi
nently listed in advance -hs
delegates. ;. ,
Shortly after they returned,
Mrs. Neuberger was attend
ing a hearing on the nomina
tion of Judge John F. Kil
kenny. When Rej). Walter
Norblad came in, she exclaim
ed: "Didn't I see the back of
your head in London?"
The GOP congressman ac
knowledged that it was, in
deed, his head she had seen
in the Atlantic Congress meet
ings. Norblad said he hadn't
Viese Transferred
To Medford Office
... i
i Ralph , A. WieseJ district
ranger, Rogue River National
forest at Butte Falls, has been
promoted and transferred to
the Medford office effective
June 22, according to C. E.
Brown, forest supervisor.
Wiese will handle the recre
ation, lands, watershed and
soil activities formerly han
dled by Wallace R., Robinson,
who will be responsible for
the outdoor recreation, re
source review. , .
Wiese is a native of New
York state. He received his
early : education in Portland,
Ore., and was graduated in
1948 from Oregon State college-school
of forestry.
He joined the Rogue Rivfr
National forest in October,
1957, as ' district ranger at
Butte Falls. y ;
While on the Mt. Baker and
Mt. Hood forests, Wiese was
responsible for winter sports
i activities. He has specialized
in avalanche control includ
ing instructor of this activity
at Stevens. Pass, ' Wash!, and
Mt. Hood, Ore. He also has
participated id mountain res
cue work. He is well qualified
to handle the increased load
in recreation and lands activ
ities, Brown added. '
Wiese spent 4Vi years from
1941 to 1945 in the North
Atlantic Wing of ' the Air
Transport Command. He
served in Labrador, Baffin Is
land and Hudson Bay area at
tending weather stations and
rescuing pilots from disabled
aircraft.
of 5,247,682 acres.
Population is past the 175,-000,000-mark,
however, and
the added . park acreage of
590,527 dwindles in impor
tance when 25,000,000 more
persons become potential
users.
The treadmill that leads to
inadequacy can be seen in
many states. Massachusetts is
aware of this problem, for it
managed to add 10 state parks
to the 30 it had in 1949. At
tendance in 1949 was 500,000
visitors to 30 state parks. To
day, attendance is 1,500,000
at 40 parks.
South Carolina listed 1,500,
000 visitors to 17 state parks
edly indicted as a prime cause
of "hardening" of the arteries
which, in turn, leads to heart
attacks, the number one kill
er of males in ther prime.
In science a single excep
tion shatters any rule. If in
creasing years do not make a
rise in masculine cholesterol
levels inevitable, then the
tendency of the levels to rise
in most males as they get old
er, has to be due to their cir
cumstances rather than to
their masculinity.
No Heart Attacks
The new evidence indicates
that the males of the tribe of
Yemenite Jews are the excep
tion. These males had already
attracted much scientific
mentioned his trip because
it 'came up at the last minute,
and he didn't mention it upon
his return possibly because
he missed a flock of roll call
votes in the House.
Criticism Possibly Recalled
. All of which suggested, that
Norblad recalled with some
trembling the Democratic
criticism he once received
for having gone off on a tour
of European capitals with his
wife before Congress quit
one summer.
This week Rep. Charles O.
Porter is going to London for
a world law conference. And
Sen. Wayne Morse, who was
in Mexico two weeks ago, is
going to Canada this week
for a parliamentary 'confer
ence. Douglas McKay, looking fit
after a stay in Walter Reed
Army hospital where he was
under treatment for high
blood pressure, is due to go
to Montreal this week where
the St. Lawrence Seaway will
be formally dedicated during
the visit of Queen Elizabeth.
Congressman Porter has
had hopes, of going to China,
but the State Department re-
rrfitlTlw Via tn4?9f a1 it nrmil4
not approve needed creden
tials for such a trip for mem
bers of Congress. Porter
would like to get a . trade
mission going and has re
ceived some indications of sup
port from Oregon business
men. But until such time as
there is a change in adminis
tration policy on trade with
China, there seems little like
lihood of this mission mate
rializing. Book in Great Demand
' Postmaster General Arthur
Summerfield has banned from
the mails the novel, "Lady
Chatterley's Lover," but this
doesn't mean the book isn't
on the shelves of the Library
of Congress.
As a matter of fact, the
book isn't literally - on the
shelves right now. Librarians
report that all 10 copies are
in circulation with members
of Congress. The demand is
so great that waiting congress
men are advised to be patient
at least a month before their
turn can be expected.
It's Reassuring to observe
our government's system of
checks and balances working
so well.
Hatfield Names
Marion Judge
Salem - (UPD - George A.
Jones, 40, Salem attorney, has
been appointed circuit judge
of Marion county by Gov.
Mark Hatfield. . .
. The new judge will fill a
new circuit -judgeship treated
by the 1959 legislature.
Jones was born in Kentuc
ky. He served five years in the
Army, and came to Salem at
the end of World War II. He
has been engaged in law prac
tice with Richard S. Allen. He
is a past president of the Ore
gon Federation of Young Re
publicans , and was one of
three, attorneys recommended
for the post by the Marion
County Bar. '
covering 35,144 acres in 1948.
Now the state has 22 parks
covering 46,138 acres. With
only 10,944 more acres avail
able, attendance has soared
to 3,000,000.
Even Utah feels the squeeze,
Some 74 per cent of the state's
700,000 . population lives on
less than 5 per cent of the
land area and recreation facil
ities m the populated . areas
are overcrowded.
Recreation facilities are not
keeping pace with population
growth. And in a nation where
leisure time is constantly on
the rise, this hard fact can
spell trouble ahead.
(Next: Solving the dilemma.)
wonderment because they
seem all but immune to heart
attacks.
Drs. Daniel Brunner, Gideon
Manolis, and K. Loebl, re
search scientists in the govern
ment hospital, Jaffa, Israel,
made exhaustive measure
ments of the fatty substances
in the blood of 76 of these
males, 41 of them between
18 and 20 years old and 35
between 30 and 50. There
were no significant differences
in cholesteral levels between
the young group and the older
one. f
They made the same meas
urements in 160 Jews of East
ern and Western European
origin, the Ashkenazi Jews.
Forty-five of these were 18 to
20 years old and the remaind
er were between 30 and 52.
Here the difference be
tween cholesterol blood levels
between young and not-so-
ybung were found to be ao-
proxiamtely the difference
found in males of other races
and climes in . the previous
investigations which in then-
aggregate had caused many
scientists to think that aging
inevitably increased the blood
cholesterol levels of males..
These ' previous investigst
tions had been of such diverse
males as groups in Minnesota.
New York City, Italy, Sweden J
and the Bantus of South Afri
ca. The' incidence of male
heart attacks is high in the
United States and Northern
Europe, but low in Italy and
among the Bantus.
Very Special Tribe.
The Yemenite Jews are a
very special tribe which lived
a segregated life for 2.000
years in Central Arabia before
it immigrated to Israel 10
years ago. Since then they
have been living with the Ash
kenazi Jews whose blood cho
lesterol patterns were shown
to be of the general pattern
of the Europe from which
they originated.
In reporting to the Interna
tional Technical Journal, "The
Lancet," the scientists said
their studies showed that a
rise with age in cholesterol
blood levels was "not an in
evitable physiological pheno
menon." They suggested that
differences in the modes of
living of the Yeminite and the
Ashkenazi Jews must account
for their differences in blood
chemistry. Those living dif
ferences remain to be inves
tigated. IRAN DENOUNCES REDS
Teheran -4UPD- The Shah of
Iran announced Tuesday that
his government may seek
United Nations action against
Soviet propaganda aimed at
Iran. Parliamentary leaders in
Iran have long urged such ac
tion. The Soviet Union has re
jected Iranian demands that
its press-radio campaign be
stopped.
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HE'S STILL NO. 1 Clarke Priebe of Der Moines, Iowa,
enjoys all the comforts of home in Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., where his wife, Margaret, was named Mrs. America.
Mrs. Priebe was to be served breakfast in bed but be
cause of Father's Day she served him. Here, Mr. Priebe.
enjoys cigar while wearing her crown. .
Most Nations to Keep
Exhibits at Trade Fair
Portland -Anthony Brand
enthaler, chairman of the
Oregon Centennial Commis
sion, has announced that in
addition to the six nations of
Europe which intend to ex
hibit at the Exposition
through Sept. 17, the follow
ing nations will also remain
for the full 100 days: Austria,
Bulgaria, Republic of China,
Finland, Ghana, Hong Kong',
India, Israel, Korea, Morocco,
Norway, The Philippines,
Sweden and Yugoslavia.
On Saturday the six Euro
pean nations of Belgium,
France, Germany, Great Brit
ain, Italy, and the Nether
lands announced plans to con
tinue their exhibit for the
entire 100 days ending Sept.
17.
Marge Alexander, director
of the International Trade
Fair, advised Brandenthaler
Sunday that 16 to 18 of the
private companies featuring
products from other lands
will also stay until the close
of the Exposition;
Genzo Maezawa, executive
director who is in charge of
Japan's exhibit at the Inter
national Trade Fair said Sun
day he was expecting favor
able reply momentarily to his
cable to Tokyo requesting
that Japan, also remain at
the Exposition through Sept.
17.
The Centennial Commission
also reported that Okinawa
will open an exhibit June 25
for the balance of the Exposi
tion in the International
Trade Fair. r v
Brandenthaler said Gov.
Oregon Telephone
Manager To Retire
Portland - (UPD - Frank A.
Dresslar, vice president and
general manager of Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph
company for the Oregon area
will retire Aug. 31. Dresslar
will have completed over 40
years of service with the com
pany. F. M. Mitchell, presently as
sistant vice president for. the
Oregon' area, is expected to
succeed Dresslar on Sept. 1.
Food, liquor and tobacco
take one-third of the average
U. Sofamily income. '
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Mark Hatfield and the Cen
tennial Commission were ex
tremely gratified at the in
terest that has developed in
the Centennial and in Oregon,
reflected in the decisions by
the 4reign nations to remain
at tHe Exposition until Sept.
17.
The International Trade
Fair was established not only
for the sale of . merchandise
to professional buyers, but to
develop a greater feeling of
friendship between the Pa
cific Northwest , and the Unit
ed States with foreign ra
tions. Effective June 25 the In
ternational Trade Fair will
be open from noon until 10
p.m.
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long trips this summer have
been reminded by Police
Chief Charles P. - Champlin
that a trip takes special plan
ning if it is to be safe as well
as pleasant.
The chief said the first rule
for drivers to remember is
that "too long behind the
wheel can spell danger no
matter how good a driver
might be."
He suggested that ' drivers j
stop frequently on long trips,
especially in hot weather, and
that .they. lower their speed
whenever, they drive at night.
If the trip takes you
through mountains, Chief
Champlin said, drivers should
be sure to check the steering
mechanism, foot and hand
brakes, and brake fluid both
before and during the trip.
These mechanisms can "burn
out" on long, steep, downhill
grades, he said.
Another good vacation prac
tice, he said, is a morning
check of tires. If one shows
more wear than others, it may
be a sign of improper wheel
alignment..
REVOLVING ROBBER
' New York -(UPD-Miss Mon
serate Roman, 27, told police
a man jumped into a revolv
ing door' subway turnstile
with her Tuesday night, and
took $6 from her purse, kissed
her, and escaped by train.
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