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New Policy of
Interior Dept.
To Save Wildlife
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WASHINGTON, WV-The Inter- j
ior Department yesterday an- !
nounced a proposed new policy
on restricting oil and gas leases
I on federal wildlife lands.
I The proposed new regulations
would forbid leasing on wildlife
refuge lands which are under
complete jurisdiction of the Fish
; and Wildlife Service, except
! where the government has deter
j minpd the lands are being drained
| of oil and gas by nearby wells.
The proposals would apply in
j the U.S. and Alaska to wildlife
j refuges, game ranges, Alaska
j wildlife areas, and federal-state
cooperative lands.
The proposals are the result of
months of study in the wake of
criticism by conservationists that
wildlife refuges were being ruined
or endangered by oil and gas op
erations and leasing proposals.
! The regulations were last
amended in December 1955, by
* former Secretary McKay. Those
regulations created a storm 'of
j
criticism altho Interior officials
contended that the 1955 rules
gave the Fish and Wilddlife Ser
vice, for the first time, veto power
over any federal leases.
ASTRONOMY NOTES |
By OLAF HALVOR$ON j
Our natural satellite, the moon,,
has a diameter of 2,163 miles or I
approximately one-fourth that of
the earth. If the earth and moon
could be seen from Venus or Mars
they would look like two close
stars. >
Both Jupiter and Saturn have
moons larger than ours, but Jupi- I
ter is 1,600 times larger than the,
earth and Saturn ranks next to
Jupiter. The mocns of Mars are
exceedingly small, and Mercury
and Venus have none at all.
The moon of the earth travels
around at a distance of only 24&,
020 miles. The moon is so close
to us that at favorable times it
passes through the earth’s shad- j
ow. The earth’s gravitational at
traction of the moon has been so
great that it has stopped the axial
rotation of the moon, while in re
turn our satellite pulls to hard on
the earth that it moves the great
body of the ocean in its tidal ac
tion.
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45, Crew Saved
From Freighter
On Pacific Reef
HONOLULU, UF>—All 45 crew
men of the stricken Seattle-bound
tanker Mission San Miguel were
safely rescued by a Navy LST,
the 14th Naval District reported
yesterday.
The tanker went aground Tues
day night on Maro Reef, a wave
swept area of rock and shoals
some 12 miles long and five miles
wide. The reef is 745 miles north
west of Honolulu.
The San Miguel’s last hours
were best chronicled in terse mes
sages sent by her radio operator
before he went over the side with
the rest of the crew.
4:43 p.m. Conditions critical.
Sea water entering engine room.
Pumps running under water and
have 12 degree list to port. LST
664 standing by.
5:14 Must secure power plant.
Crew will remain aboard to await
salvage tug.
6:22 Skipper says prefers to
take all men off before nightfall.
Conditions becoming more criti
cal, not better. Captain says en
gine room becoming flooded.
6:45 Abandoning ship.
The San Miguel, a 5,700-ton
vessel under charter to the U.S.
Navy, was enroute from Guam to
Seattle in water ballast.
The LST, after taking the men
aboard, stood by to await a sal
vage vessel.
Orscn Welles and
Russian Satellite
Scare Radio Listeners
KELOWNA, B. C., —Orson
Welles and the Russian satellite
proved too much for some radio
listeners Wednesday night.
Radio station CKOV here de
voted a brief newscast to the
day’s reports on Russia’s Sputnik,
now spinning around the earth.
Then, without an introduction
or advance warning, the station
put on a recording of Welles’ fa
mous “War of the Worlds'*
broadcast in 1938.
Twenty years ago thousands of
radio listeners were frightened by
the make-believe report that men
from Mars had invaded the earth.
Wednesday night 60 phone calls
came in within a few minutes
from anxious folk who thought
Sputnik had landed hostile Rus
sians in North America.
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