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Challenge for Another Clean-Up Project
THE JAYCEES have undertaken the task of clean
ing up the beach at the east end of town for the
second year. This should be a challenge for another
group to undertake the clean-up job on the Center
Creek Road which is in a deplorable condition for
quite an area in vicinity of the city dump. It appears
that whoever heads this clcan-up job will need to co
operate with the volunteer firemen and burn out the
area which is littered with paper and rubbish which
should have been in the city dump. Some criticism has
been made of the two sanitary services, blaming them
for the litter but close observation and investigation
will show that the worst part of the mess is caused by
individuals too lazy to take their refuse all the way
out to the dumping pit.
These persons are reminded that there are severe
penalties for persons caught dumping along public
roads in the state.
Once the roadside is cleaned up a strict vigilance
should be kept and the persons responsible for the un
sightly mess should be justly penalized.
It is imperative that this project be taken up
as this is the road to the Vocational School site and
many visitors will be using it this summer for the pur
pose of seeing where the new school will be.
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Navy Officer
“Sick** of Blame
For Cuban Fiasco
'Editor’s Note—What role,
if any, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff played in planning the
ill-starred Cuban invasion of
capital speculation and closed
sessions by a Senate subcom
mittee. While the full story
has not been aired publicly,
a Navy officer told Bern
Price, an Associated Press
military affairs writer, that
he was “sick” of efforts
to pin the blame on the mili
tary. This angry, unidenti
fied Navy officer presents a
defense of the military in the
following article.)
By Bern Price
WASHINGTON I/O — A Navy
officer, angered by efforts to
blame top military men for the
Cuban debacle, said Saturday, “no
military man in his right mind
would have approved the plans
that were carried out.”
The officer, who cannot be
identified, is well acquainted with
the Navy’s member of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Arleigh
Burke.
In general, the officer’s opinion
coincided with that reportedly
expressed recently by former
President Eisenhower.
What angered the Navy officer
into speaking was the statement
by Sen. Albert Gore, (D-Tenn.),
that “we directly need a new
chairman and members” of the
Joint Chiefs.
Gore’s comment came after
Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs, testified
Friday in closed session before
the Senate Latin American Af
fairs subcommittee.
The officer said he was “sick”
of efforts to pin the blame for
the Cuban fiasco on the military
and the full story should be tolq.
Secretary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara has forbidden mem
bers of the Joint Chiefs to defend
themselves in public or even to
explain publicly the role of the
military in the Cuban operation.
Eisenhower, at a meeting with
Republican leaders at his Gettys
burg, Pa., farm on May 1, re
portedly wondered aloud if the
Joint Chiefs had been consulted
in any detail about the invasion.
He is said to observed that some
of the details of the invasion were
inconceivable to him as a military
man.
In any case, the Navy officer
said, “the Joint Chiefs did not
fully staff the Cuban invasion,”
that is, they did not take part in
the detailed planning.
Further, he added, “the Joint
Chiefs gave their approval con
tingent upon the complete ac
curacy of the information sup
plied by the Central Intelligence
Agency.”
This CIA information, he said,
i “predicted a mass uprising in sup
; port of the invasion forces.”
“If this information was incor
rect,” he continued, “the Joint
Chiefs said clearly that the Unit
ed States would have to support
the invasion with sea and air
power.”
In the end, he reported, “the
plans for the invasion were
changed and the Joint Chiefs were
not advised of the changes. No
military man in his right mind
would have approved the plans
that were carried out.”
Here’s another illusion shat
tered: A 10-gallon Texas hat
actually holds only three fourths
of a gallon.
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(Survives 500-Foot Fall,
Anchorage Man Is
Back on the Job
ANCHORAGE UP) — W. A.
(Bill) Watson — the man who
came back — is back at work
atop 4,320-foot Mt. Susitna Sat
urday.
Watson, an electronics techni
cian for the Communications En
gineering and Service Co. of An
chorage, survived a fall of at
least 500 feet and a roaring ava
lanche ride for another 3,000 feet
down the mountain Thursday.
He was trying to clamber back
to the telephone relay station on
the mountain top when a heli
copter picked him up and brought
him to Providence Hospital here.
Apparently suffering only a
stiff back and right heel, Watson
was released after a 24-hour stay
in the hospital.
Born in Glen Ellyn, 111., Watson
and his wife have been stationed
on the peak since December. He
has been in Alaska for six years.
Prior to coming to the 49th State,
he resided in California.
Watson fell while emptying
garbage from an overhanging ice
cornice. The ice gave way touch
ing off the avalanche which car
ried Watson on its surface.
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Fish and Game
Employe Staves
Off Bruin Attack
JUNEAU (ff) — A young Fish
and Game Department employe
was attacked toy a brown bear on
the lower Taku River Friday, but
a life preserver saved him from
serious injury.
A cool companion shot the
bruin.
David L. Norton, 21, of nearby
Auke Bay, suffered two punctured
wounds in his thigh and bruises
on his back when the brownie
smashed him to the ground on a
remote trail above the Fish and
Game Department’s Canyon Is
land research station.
Norton and a companion, Ron
ald Gross, 19, were traveling up
the trail to Twin Glacier Lake,
with the unarmed Norton in the
lead.
Norton, wearing a life pre
server, walked over a small rise
in the trail and was out of Gross’
view momentarily.
“I heard a twig snap and I
turned my head,” Norton said.
“All I had time to do was holler,
‘bear,’ and he was on me.”
The brownie bit Norton on the
thigh and knocked him to the
ground. Norton rolled on his
stomach and stayed as flat as
possible, calling for help.
Gross came running into view
of the struggling bear and his
victim. He fired one shot with
a heavy caliber rifle. The im
pact of the bullet knocked the
bear off Norton. The bruin got
up, wheeled and charged Gross.
Gross fired three more times
and killed the enraged beast.
Norton was flown to Juneau for
emergency treatment of the teeth
wounds in his thigh and then was
released from the hospital.
Dr. Howard Tait, chief of bio
logical research for the Fish and
Game Department, said the life
preserver, which the deportment
insists its employes wear while
working around the water, prob
ably saved Norton’s life.
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