MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
SUNDAY. AUGUST II. 1963
Assateague Island Ds Submerged in Controversy
By JOHN PIERSON
Unhid Pre.. Inttrnationtl
Assateague Island, Md.-WPD
-Assateague Island off the
Maryland - Virginia coast is
submerged again - this time
in controversy.
On Ash Wednesday in 1962
a storm swept over the low
sand reef, carrying away all
but a dozen of its houses.
Now Interior Secretary Ste
wart L. Udall wants to do
away with the remainder and
make Assateague a national
seashore.
But the owners - at least
some of them - don't want to
go. And they're holding onto
their land almost as stubborn
ly as the waves are trying to
eat it up.
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Last spring when Udall
dropped onto the beach in a
helicopter, one of the owners
walked up to the secretary,
shook his finger at him, and
said, "You, sir, are on our
land, and you're trying to use
our money to take it away
from us."
Wants Rett of Reef
As a matter of fact, the in
terior department already has
appropriated the southern
third of Assateague - the Vir
ginia portion - for a wildlife
refuge. What Udall wants is
the rest of a barrier reef typi
cal of many along the Mid
dle Atlantic Coast.
Assateague is long, narrow
and low. From the air it re
sembles a worse for - wear
! dragon clinging close to the
mainland for protection.
A broad sandy beach con
fronts the ocean. Behind the
beach dunes rise up gently
where grass has gotten a toe
hold. Still farther inland,
i vegetation increases and dunes
fall away into salt swamps.
I Here and there are patches
of higher ground, forested
j with pine and oak and carpet
j ed with myrtle, bayberry, su
mac, rose and catbriar.
I Ponds and Potholes
Scattered about in the
marshes are ponds and pot
holes bordered with bull
rushes and other food larders
good for ducks and geese. Hie
wildlife preserve is a major
wintering spot for waterfowl
of the Atlantic flyway.
In 1923 Boy Scouts put a
pair of tiny Japanese Sika
deer on Assateague. Now
more than 1,000 of them roam
the island.
The most famous residents
are some 200 wild ponies
whose ancestors are believed
to have come ashore hundreds
of years ago from a Spanish
wreck. Children have read
about them in Marguerite
Henry's "Misty of Chinco
teague." The ocean waters abound
with blues, stripped bass and
weakfish; the bays with
clams, oysters and crabs.
Explains Reasons
Little wonder then, with all
this beauty and abundance,
the owners shook their fingers
at Secretary Udall. But un-
DEI.
ASSATEAGUE
ISLAND
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WALLOPS ISLANDS
SHOWS ISLAND This United Press International newsmap
shows Assateague Island, center, which Interior Secretary
Stewart Udall hopes to acquire for development as a national
seashore. (UP1)
like a Kansas farmer a year
ago, they did not order Udall
off their land. He stayed long
enough to explain why he
wants Assateague for a fed
eral reserve.
Assateague, he said, is the
largest undeveloped seashore
between Cape Hatteras, N.C.,
and Cape Cod, Mass. It offers
splendid swimming, fishing,
boating and other water
sports as well as a chance to
watch birds and other wild
life in their natural habitat.
The island is within easy
reach of the major population
centers of the middle Atlantic
states. One can drive there
from Baltimore in three
hours, from Washington in
four. Philadelphia is 200
miles away. New York 290.
Would Build Bridges
Udall said the federal gov
ernment would build bridges
to the island and sand dunes
along its 35-mile ocean front
to protect it from storms like
the one last year.
Thus a fine stretch of sea
shore would be preserved for
the enjoyment of millions of
persons.
Left in private hands,
Udall said, Assateague's fu
ture is dim. Private develop
ers would probably not be
willing to build dunes at the
rate of $1 million a mile or
install the expensive water
and sewage systems required
because so much of the island
is at sea level.
But the owners say Udall
exaggerates the cost of dril
ling wells and getting rid of
sewage. They claim the dunes
can be built for much less.
Pride of Ownership
And, like most, Americans,
they have pride of owner
ship. "This is our land. We
want to keep it," one of them
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told Udall. "This Isn't Czecho
slovakia."
Local officials on the main
land have sided with the is
landers. They don't want to
see the property taken off
their tax rolls. Maryland state
officials take the federal view
that national parks, always
produce prosperity next door.
A spokesman for the land
owners accused Udall of want
ing to keep the whole country
"a wilderness." The secretary
shot back that if this attitude
prevailed "there would be no
national park system."
Meanwhile, waves pound in
from the Atlantic, winds
whispers in the topmost
branches of a loblolly pine, a
great blue heron has begun
Ticket Sale Slated
For Annual Event
Medford city firemen will
begin sale of tickets Tuesday,
Aug. 13, for their annual har
vest ball.
The dance will be Sept. 14
at the Medford armory with
music by Baldy Evans orches
tra of Klamath Falls.
Firemen in uniform will
start calling at Medford busi
ness establishments Tuesday.
Proceeds will go toward the
department's annual Christ
mas toy project. Firemen re
pair toys and they are dis
tributed as presents for needy
youngsters of the area. A to
tal of 888 children of 251
families benefitted from the
project last year. The Salva
tion Army distributed the
toys.
ms aesceni 10 me edge or a
salt pond, and a deer observes
it all with a liquid eye.
Shrine Club Plans
Canned Food Drive
The Jackson county Shrine
club will hold its second an
nual canned food drive for
the crippled children's hos
pital the evening of Aug. 12,
President Earnest Kennedy
has announced.
The food will be taken to
Portland by a caravan start
ing at Ashland and will be
joined by trucks from each
town through which they
pass. The Southern Oregon
group will be met at Eugene
by a similar caravan from
the coast which will start it
Brookings.
The two caravans will meet
Aug. 16 and continue to Port
land the same day. The fol
lowing day, the caravan per
sonnel will attend the Shrine
All-Star football game and
will be Introduced at cere
monies during the game.
The local Sh-rincrs will be
assisted by De Molay boys and
Scouts. Several pick-up trucks
will be assigned to a particu
lar area with the boys pick
ing up the canned food.
Last year's caravan was
able to collect about 33,000
cans of food for the hospital.
The Shriner clubs now are
planning to make this an an
nual event In southern Ore
gon for the Portland unit of
the Shrine hospital organization.
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