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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Robert Walters
^EDITORIAL Jll Environment Endangered?
Isolated from the rest of the to a depth of 40 feet to serve shelf development elsewhere in
o__________________ world, the Eskimos And Indians In ocean-going oil tankers and the country.”
says Francis Thompson, a~resi- scores of Alaskan villages gather storage tanks to hold 2.5 million Ignoring Its own blunt warning,
their food through hunting, barrels of crude oil. the industry is pursuing explora-
flshing and trapping, as their An oil spill or well blowout in tion in every major body of water
Alaska’s coastal waters could surrounding Alaska. In the frigid
But the fish and game neces- pose even more danger to the fish waters of the Beaufort Sea, one
sary for their subsistence are and animal population which is consortium is spending an esti-
endangered by the intrusion of the one of the state’s most valuable mated $100 million on a single
equipment
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (NEA)
“The greatest fear we have ”
Federal Noose
Closes On 'Info'
dent of St. Marys on the banks of
the Yukon River, is that oil ex- fishing
ploration and development will forebearers did.
destroy centuries of native cul-
ture and tradition.
“The issue ... is survival,”
says Theresa Peoples, who lives people and
in >he coastal village of Stebbins. for large-scale oil exploration and
“We are begging you to try to production,
make you understand,” plain- In the Navarln Basin on the
tlvely adds Axel Johnson, from western edge of the Bering Sea, *
the nearby village of Emmonak. for example, the Interior Depart-
Those pleas from Alaska’s ment recently completed a land •*
natives living on the shores of exchange which strips St. Mat- (Last in a aeries)
Norton Sound have gone un- thew Island of its federally pro- The hazards of offshore oil eff°rt include all of the country’s
heeded however. A consortium of tected status and clears the way exploration were candidly as- major oil companies.
19 oil companies, including vir- for a massive oil exploration stag- sessed less than three years ago ~
tually all of the world’s major ing and support base,
petroleum producers, already has
exploratory well.
In the Bering Sea, exploration
stretches from the Aleutian
high Stakes on Islands to Norton Sound. In the
the last frontier Gulf of Alaska. more than $40
tne last frontier mUlion lg spent on a gingle
exploratory well.
Participants in that aggressive
necessary naturalresources.
The Reagan administration now requires that all its top
officials with access to high-level information sign con-
tracts.
These contracts require them to submit for governmen-
tal review anything they write and release to the public —
for the rest of their lives.
Signatures on these contracts are required from
thousands of persons on the White House staff and in the
State and Defense departments, from military leaders,
National Security Council officials and high-ranking
foreign service officers.
The requirement is dangerous in the extreme. It gives
. those in power control over criticism from the very per-
sons who are most aware of the facts and who are most
qualified to comment.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors warns this
is “peacetime censorship of a scope unparalleled in this
country since the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791.”
The stated purpose of the contract, of course, is to pre-
vent the unauthorized disclosure of classified material.
That’s commendable. The effect in the end, however, will
be government control of the distribution of information.
The government will release only what it wants released.
The contract requirement is the latest of several moves
by the Reagan administration which tend to whittle at the
' freedom-of-speech tenet of the First Amendment:
— It has sought to place limits on the Freedom Of In-
formation .AetwJtuch, .since 1961,.has Qpene4tede*rAJ.,tiles,
and has resulted in many revelations of government
‘ wrongdoing.
— It has rewritten the federal classification system to
ensure more rather than less information will be
classified.
— It has threatened the right of universities to publish
and discuss unclassified information. _ • v__
It’s high time the media and the public show concern. It
is not the role of government to decide what information
about its conduct should be released to the public.
If government somehow obtains the power of cen-
T - sorship, it will mark the end of freedom.
ALASKA:
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The activity of those firms
by a coalition of pro-development holds the potential for disrupting
A 1981 Interior Department organizations — including state if not destroying the very essence
initiated an aggressive explora- memo described St. Matthew and national oil industry trade ol native society In a state where
tion program not only in Norton Island as “certainly as close to associations — which acknowl- s®01® villages have been continu-
ously occupied for an estimated
Sound but throughout the adja- pure wilderness as can be found edged:
cent Bering Sea.
in the United States today” — but “It should be recognized that oil 10,000 years.
The search for crude oil its character is likely to soon be development in Arctic coastal
beneath the icy waters bordering irrevocably changed.
Alaska is not limited to the state’s
The truth of the matter is that
areas — including some of the the oil companies and the ex-
The proposed facilities there in- world’s richest fishery and ploiters aren’t worried about the
west coast. Similar operations elude a pair of 10,000-foot run- marine mammal habitat — poses peopleof Alaska,’’saysRep.Mor-
are underway in the Beaufort Sea ways to serve C-130 Hercules and environmental risks far exceed- ris K. Udall, D-Ariz., chairman of
and Arctic Ocean on the north and Boeing 737 jets, living quarters ing those associated with onshore the House interior committee,
the Gulf of Alaska on the south.
for 250 people, a harbor dredged development or outer continental "They’re worried about profits.
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this is the way it was 40 and 30 and
20 years ago:
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Lt. E.B. Travis is pictured on
the front page as he receives the
air medal and two oak leaf clus-
ters. He is awarded for out-
standing work on reconnaissance
flights over Europe. Lt. Travis is
the husband of Mazie Travis and
the son of Dr. and Mrs. W.T.
Travis, all of Goose Creek.
Lt. Col. Henry Dittman
becomes commanding officer of
the new air field at Herrington,
Kan.
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Secretary Of Interior
Jack Anderson ;
HUD Regional Administrator
Described As 'King Of Road'
President Reagan’s appointment of his national securi- L
ty adviser, William Clark, to be secretary of the interior ™
came as a surprise to many political observers.
It should be remembered, however, that Clark is a
Californian who has been Reagan’s4troubleshooter ever
since 1967, when he was appointed to head the staff in the
governor’s office.
Clark did a good job for Reagan then and throughout the
remaining years of Reagan’s governorship.
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Dr. S.S. Shaffer, president of
the Humble Employees Credit
Union, calls a special meeting of
stockholders.
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OCT. 28,1953
WASHINGTON — Bill J. Sloan, costs for 2,341 miles driven from supply, pesticide producers are Fire destroys a small bam
western regional administrator of Fresno to Los Angeles to Tuscon, lobbying strenuously against containing 400 bales of prairie
the Housing and Urban Develop- Ariz., to Mojave, Calif., and final- legislation that would tighten the hay, leaving Tony Zanakis, a „
ment Department, is the agency’s ly to San Francisco — an average testing requirements for deadly blind Linus man, almost without^
Reagan appointed him to the California Supreme Court, “king of the road,” according to distance of 468 mdi^s per day.
where Clark did a better job than many people expected documents in the agency inspec- The inspector general noted dri- people who use them. past 10 years, Zanakis operated a
him to do J K K . ■ tor general’s office',- ly that this ifraratnon exploit left Industry pressure is expected garden patch and kept milk cows
.. . • ‘ ,, , .... .. „. ., - Sloan “nearly always arranged only 1.5 days for official business, to kill a requirement, for exam- for his livelihood. He had only
It has peen tne same story in wasmngton. LiarK S hjS travei jn such a manner to and pointed out that the total pie, that older, never-tested recently stored the hay, most of
qualifications -to serve as assistant secretary Of state allow him to visit Fresno on distance Sloan claimed was 654 pesticides be checked. What con- which he had harvested himself,
under Alexander Haig and as national security adviser in weekends and holidays where he miles in excess of the standard sumers don’t know, it is presum- for the winter supply for his cows,
the White House have been questioned. But, in retrospect, has a home,” states an inspector mileage for the route he covered, ed, won’t hurt them. Tommy Talley, son of Mr. and
his nprfnrmanrp has hepn hard tn fault “ general’s report. During his first The peripatetic administrator The pesticide companies are Mrs. B.B. Talley of Highlands,
Ac soprotavu r>f tho interim- ho mill net he lit-o 18 months in office, Sloan spent collected $6,350 in questionable also protesting the bill’s proposal observes his fifth birthday today.
AS secreiaiy Ol tne interior, ne will not De like 131 days in Fresno, only 36 of travel reimbursements over the that “applicators" — the tar One of the finest football
v predecessor, James Watt, who attracted attention to them in midweek, according to 18-month period, the inspector dividuals who actually spread or players in th#Baytown area this
himself and diverted criticism from the president. Clark the travel records. general reported. A HUD spray the deadly poisons - must year is Richard Keene, Crosby’s
is Reagan’s alter ego and his policies will be seen as During that same period, Sloan spokesman told my associate show that they know how to use briliiant ^qparterback. Cedar
Reagan’s policies made eight trips to Las Vegas and Tony Capaccio that Sloan was and dispose of the chemicals Bayo^afeohasquite a quarter-
The chanee in nersonalities k a f»nnri one hut we hone spent 13 weekend days in the “verbally reprimanded” and had before they get the necessary cer- back in^hejt€3chrane.
1 ne cnange in personalities IS a gOOu one, DUl we nope gaming resort at government ex- agreed to repay the money. tificatiorr. OCT. 28,1963
there IS also a Change Of policy direction. ;* pense, according to the IG’s When Sloan was executive In some states, minors alleged- In a press conference covered
report. He also made several director and treasurer of the ly take the applicator tests for by Sun reporters in Houston, Billy
trips to Reno. California Republican Party in their illiterate parents. State of- Graham praises Richard Nixon,
“In our opinion, the magnitude 1979-80, he and other GOP of- ficials deny this can happen, but it saying his longtime friend could
and pattern of this practice ficials were charged with sloppy is legal for a wife or an 18-year- become an “American Chur-
demonstrates disregard for HUD record keeping by the California , old offspring to take the test for chill.”
policy and proper use'6f public Fair Political Practices Commit- an illiterate farmer — on the R C. Halter is the adviser of a
monies,” one report noted. Sloan tee. The charges included a assumption that they will then new Explorer Post organized for
regularly used his own car, the in- failure to document $65,000 in ex- supervise the use of the Boy Scouts at St. Mark’s Metho-
spector general noted, rather penses Sloan claimed to have pesticides. dist Church,
than flying, which would have spent himself. The party was fin- To their credit,, some reform- Nick Jones, Peggy Cowhig, Bill
been $2,017 cheaper. It also left ed $25,000. minded pesticide manufacturers Pohler and Chris Comeaux
“minimal time for ‘Official support the legislation. "We want winners in the Columbus Day ’
Business,”’ThqlG pointed out. SCANDAL OF THE WEEK: the sloppy operators, out of essay contest sponsored by
For one Homeric five-day With callous unconcern about the business, because they give us all Knights of Columbus, San Jacinto
period, Sloan claimed mileage poisons that seep into our food a bad name,” one explained.
agricultural chemicals and the means of support. Blind for the
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Friday, Oct. 28, the the Soviet Union had threatened
301st day of 1983. There are 64 to save the Egyptians. v
days left in the year. Five years ago: Israeli Prime
Today’s highlight in histpry: Minister Menachem Begin
On Oct. 28,1962, Soviet Premier telephoned his congratulations to
^ikita Khrushchev announced he his fellow Nobel Peace Prize win-
hkd ordered the withdrawal of ner, President Anwar Sadat of
Soviet missiles from Cuba. Egypt, saying, “the real prize is
On this date; peace itself,”
......Editor and Publifhef In 1492. Christopher Columbus One year ago: The Maryland
. . .Assistant to Publisher discovered Cuba. Court of Appeals disbarred
Editor dnd Publisher, 1950-1974 In 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a former Gov. Marvin Mandel
gift from the people of France for because of his federal conviction
Monogjng Editor the American centennial, was for mail fraud and racketeering.
News Edit'* “"veiled in New York Harbor.
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phone line 20 minutes ago. I mean REALLY —
talk about HARASSMENT, CLASSIC INEQUI-
TIES OF LIFE... honestly."
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Today’s birthdays: Medical
In 4919, Congress enacted na- researcher Jonas Salk is 69 years
tionaTprohibition over President 0ld. Baseball commissioner
Woodrow Wilson’s veto, ..'. ;
In 1945, shoe rationing in the
United States ended. Si
And in 1958^ the Roman Catholic
patriarch of Venice, Giuseppe
Roncalli, was elected pope, tak-
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