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Page-2 THE CUERO RECORD Thurs. Nov. 19, 1970
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Ancient Husavik
Icelandic Town Observes 1,100th Birthday
View of Husavik's harbor. Thii photograph wot actually takon at 9 p.m.
By SAN DO BOLOGNA
Central Press Association
Correspondent
HUSAVIK, Iceland—this pic-
turesque fishing village of
about 2,000 inhabitants in
northern Iceland, some 36 miles
south of the Arctic Circle, is
celebrating the 1,100th anniver-
sary of the first settlement here
by Vikings .from Sweden.
- The townsfolk recently
staged parades .and music pro-
grams to mark the establish-
ment here df a trading post in
this “Land of the Midnight
Bun." “HusavlK” means "inlet
with houses” in Icelandic, the
oldest unchanged language still
being spoken, according to Ice-
landers.
Husavlk families are approv-
ing the improvements in their
village and in their province
which has an overall population
of 4,500 within an area about
the size of Israel—consisting
of lava desert, mountainous
grazing farmlands, fast streams
with plentiful fish, sulphur and
hot. water springs.
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- LAST SPRING the villagers
reaffirmed- the leadership of
-their 30-year-old mayor, Bjorn
Fridfinas*ofl, by re-electing him
to a secoftFfour-year term. He
was the youngest mayor in Ice-
land, a' North Atlantic nation
of the size of Kentucky with
nearly 200,000 people.
A former fisherman, Lawyer
Fridfinnsson recently outlined
to ^verkt -American newspa-
permen’ hew Husavlk is advanc-
ing in its co-operative way of
life.
A referendum on a $750,000
bond isSUe approved the instal-
lation of. a pipeline from a hot
spring, 12 miles away, which
will provide hot water for heat-
ing Husavlk’s 400 homes, fish
canneries, and business shops.
Mayer fridfinnsson
The villagers expect to pay off
the bond issue within 10 years.
Meanwhile, they will cancel the
purchase of Russian fuel oil
which cost them $112,000 a
HUSAVIK has a new 67-bed
hospital, inaugurated “just be-
fore the election,” Mayor Frid-
finnsson smiled. A new exten-
sion is being added to the large
fishermen’s dock. A small hotel
is being opened. Alto being in-
augurated is a junior-senior
high school with a dormitory
for out-of-town students. The
school will be used, for conven-
tions during the summer
months.
A new community hall with
dining and meeting rooms is a
block away from the 64-year-
old wood frame Lutheran
Church.
The fishermen’s co-operative
facilities process about 50,000
cases of fish, mostly cod and
halibut, every year. Thirty per
cent of the village’s income is
from dairying and a slaughter-
house for sheep.
The wide harbor in Skjal-
fandi Bay was the shipping
point of sulphur from a district
sulphur mine until 1850 when
Mexico became a principal sul-
phur-produeing country.
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HUSAVIK is also trying to
develop tourism during the sum-
mer when there is 23 hours or
more of daylight, the remaining
time is dusk. "We have no
night life in the summer," said
the mayor.
Besides the excellent fishing
in the bay and at Lake Myvatn,
there are, within a few hours’
drive, such scenic attractions
as Dummugobrit, a lava area
with craters resembling those
on the Moon; s hot spring area
with geysers at Hveravelllr,
and Dettifoss, one of the great-
est waterfalls of Europe.
Biggest attraction in Husa-
vlk is a huge polar bear, weigh-
ing 822 pounds, now stuffed for
display in the village’s Museum
of Natural History to be dedi-
cated next year. The bear was
shot on the Island of Grimsey
in 1969.
Husavlk has no Eskimos and
Icelanders remind visitors that
there never were Eakimoe in
their country. The village has
virtually no crime. The only
serious crime wss committed by
a young pyromaniac six years
ago, according to Mayor Frid-
finnsson.
Icelander serves Husavlk
with a daily flight from Reyk-
javik, the capital, which takes
less than an hour. Gravel roads
also lead to Husavlk.
A LITTLE LATE, BUT . . .
PITTSBURGH, Pa. UPI -
Walter R. Schultise at subur-
ban Mount Lebanon mailed an
order for 12 monthly shipments
Of fruit on Nev, 1956.
Last week, his order and his
ORGANIZATIONS
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4th Thursday.
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check for $86 arrived at the
Harry and David Creek Or-
chards of Medford, Ore.
The firm, extremely apologe-
tic, got in touch with Schul-
tise and asked if he still want-
ed the fruit He replied “Sure.”
In the intervening 14 years,
the price has gone up to $132,
but the orchard is accepting the
original check as payment in
full.
The
drawing of a
free spirited
new fragrance
by
Max Factor
AQUARIUS
8PBAY COLOGNE MOT • BOOT OLEAMEB
BOOT SPLASH •
FLASH: More elegant Creme Perfume
Compacts by Max Factor
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PHARMACY
SENSING THE NEWS
THE ICH0RD REPORT
By ANTHONY HARRIGAH
The House Committee on In-
ternal Security has performed
an important service by issuing
a report on fees paid radicals
who address campus audiences.
This report gives insight into
the way in which the New Left
finances it# activities.
U. S. Rep. Richard H. Ic-
hord (D-Mo.), Chairman of the
Committee, stated in the report
that “the people of the United
States have a right to conclude
that the campus-speaking cir-
cuit is certainly the source of
significant financing for the
promoters of disorderly and re-
volutionary activity among stu-
dents.” He also disclosed that
student activity funds are pri-
marily responsible for giving
radical orators a campus plat-
form.
The Ichord Report covered
only a small sample — 3^4 per
cent — of U.S. colleges and
universities. The questionaire
the Committee sent to educa-
tional institutions was volunta-
ry sad the subpoena power was
not utilised. Nevertheless, the
Committee learned that $108,967
had been raised for radical
causes at this small sample of
colleges and universities. It it
only reasonable to conclude that
the total radical fund-raising
by campus speeches must run
into millions of dollars. New
Leftists and Communist Party
speakers on campuses hqve re-
ceived as much as $2,500.00 per
appearance.
The Committee reported that
it "found a select group at peo-
ple repeatedly involved, parti-
cularly those convicted in the
Chicago ’conspiracy’ trial; Jer-
ry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Dave
Dellinger and Rennie Davis
cropped up frequently.”
The Internal Security Com-
mittee report makes fascinating
reading, though it will shock
concerned parents and taxpay-
ers. A wide range of education-
al institutions in the country
have allowed extremists end
revolutionaries to speak on their
campuses.
For example, Eldridge Clea-
ver, the Black Panther leader
now living in Algeria, spoke at
the University of Alabama, Oc-
tober, 1988. On April 28, 1969
Kent State University — scene
of a bloody riot by radical stu-
dents — gave s platform to
Bemadtne Dohrn, who is want-
ed on federal charges. Mark
Rudd, who led the first major
riot at Cbiumbia University,
waa a guest speaker at Rice
University March 21, 1969.
The Committee ha* broken
down the list of speakers ac-
cording to radical groups. List-
ed under the Communist Party.
USA, are Herbert Aptheker,
Marlst theoretician hired by
Bryn Mawr College as a black
studies lecturer; Angels Davit,
charged with murder in con-
nection with the death of a Ca-
lifornia Superior Court judge;
and Linus Pauling, the radical
scientist who received the So-
viet Union's highest award, the
Lenin Prize, this year.
Also listed under the various
radical groups were Dick Gre-
gory, leftwing “comedian’’ and
political activist; Nat Hentoff,
a writer for the New York Re-
view of Books; David Dellinger,
organizer of anti-Vietnam mar-
ches on Weshington; Wm. Kun-
stler, one of me principal *i>ok-
esmen for New Left revolution-
aries; Dr. Benjamin Spock, ba-
by doctor turned radical protes-
ter; StaugHton Lynd, former
Yale University professor and
frequent visitor to Hanoi; Reies
Tijerina, heaa of the Alliance
de Mercedes, an insurrectionary
movement in New Mexico; and
C. T. Vivian and Wyatt Tee Wal-
ker, long identiried with protest
movements in the South.
Ironically, all this valuable
Information, which is needed if
legislative action is to be tak-
en to block use of campuses as
funding centers for revolution-
aries, would be denied the pub-
lic if U. S. District Judge Ger-
hard A. Gesell ha* his way.
Judge Gesell, an ultra-liberal
member of the federal court in
the District of Columbia, has
granted a court order barring
Committee distribution of the
report. The order was sought
by the radical American Civil
Liberties Union.
As a practical matter the or-
der is meaningless, for indivi-
dual members of Congress al-
ready have distributed copies
of the report, as individuals,
and are free to continue to do
so — even under the terms of
the court order. Nevertheless,
Congress certainly should re-
ject this unprecedented judicial
interference with congressional
authority. This is the first time
a federal judge ha* sought to
prohibit a congressional Com-
mittee from having a report is-
sued by the public printer.
If the Gesell order is allowed
to stand, Congress — the auth-
entic voire of the American peo-
ple — will be in danger of be-
ing muzzled by every judge who
opposes a particular congres-
sional inquiry. The separation
of powers doctrine inherent in
the U. S. Constitution plainly
indicates that a federal court
has no authority to interfere
with the normal operations of
the Legislative Branch.'
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