European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 laces n i aces the stars and stripes March Trio reads Walden Pond being group says when Henry David Thoreau built a Cabin on the Shore of Walden Pond in his goal was to live simply and confront nature the result was his thousands of people follow his path to the Sand bottomed Pond in especially on summer when they live much less simply and experience nature filtered through radios and Tan Ning the according to a Thoreau enthusiast who wants to close the Pond to is erosion of the Steep wooded hillsides and pollution of the naturally Clear state officials Are opposed to the swimming its not designed by nature to be a recreation Mary a former Concord testified before a legislative you get a mob in and they mostly trample whatever is growing there the 417acre site was far from mobbed when Thoreau lived there for two years in the mid19th Century on land owned by Ralph Waldo in a summer having taken my accustomed i sat in my sunny doorway from Sun Rise till rapt in a amidst the Pines and hic Kories and in undisturbed Solitude and still while the Birds Sang around or flitted noiseless through the until by the Sun falling in at my West or the noise of some travellers Wagon on the its Adderly ridiculous one senator called it Adderly prompting a reply that that was a moot it was House Bill which declares milk to be the state beverage of the Senate approved the House passed Bill in Lett be Rock and sent it to Bill sponsored by Bobby the measure said Arkansas has enjoyed the benefits of fresh wholesome milk for that Dairy farming is that Dairy Farmers Supply natures most nearly perfect and that the citizens of Arkansas should be encouraged to drink milk every this legislature also has designated a state musical instrument the Good demons ration a fire extinguisher Salesman got a rare Chance to demonstrate his wares by putting out a fire on an Pittsburgh Airport shuttle bus stranded on a state police Joseph Keffer was driving an airlines transportation bus from the City to greater Pittsburgh International Airport last week when a fire started in the shuttles rear engine Keffer pulled the bus off of interstate 79 near an off ramp right outside Pittsburgh and escorted the 20 Pas sengers off the a passing who happened to be a fire extinguisher stopped and extinguished the a state police spokesman the shuttles 20 passengers had left the scene by the time police no one was injured in the police said they did not have the Salesman in the Middle Sean ton Booth John Unnone ouf Between hit Yoke and on unidentified ipod stator at the Virginia slim Tennit Champl Mohip at Newyork Madison Square a Don Toff Distant i was reminded of the lapse of Thoreau Sherwood has submitted a Bill that would create a state run Sanctuary at Walden to restore its natural one Section of the Bill would require a phaseout of swimming Over three state officials who manage the area Are opposed to the swimming the committee Carol said there was no support for the committee will propose studying the Issue but will not recommend keeping the estimated annual Visi tors out of the who now lives in Connecticut and Heads the group Walden forever was Adamant about the need to protect the Pond from its own it was one thing when Emerson and the Alcott Sisters used the Pond for the crush of Cit dwellers fouls the Spring fed Waters and human waste can be seen in the water at the height of she the change might startle who of All the characters i have perhaps Walden wears and Best preserves its James director of the state division of environmental told the committee that new and indians before have been swimming at Walden for centuries without ill it is an area that dem manages of International we take that he Guten Sohn said it was one of the few Freshwater swimming places open to the 3 million residents of greater to say it should be a swimming place for mobs from the City because the indians swam there is Sher Wood arguing that it was unsafe to allow swim Ming at Walden because the Pond has no natural flush ing from a philosophical Point of it really is a desecration of an american she adding that the area has become a Coney she objected to throngs of acc nagors she play loud music and drink alcohol where the great sep tic observed the changing of seasons and tended his bean formed by a Glacier thousands of years has been used for swimming and contemplation for about 15 Miles West of bos it lies alongside a state Highway and a Branch of the Boston Maine Railroad has skirted the Ponds Western Edge since in Edith Emerson Forbes donated the Pond and land to the and the area was managed for More than 50 years by Middlesex the donation of the land specified bathing As a Gutensohn it is one of the Best swimming areas that we Snow Birds a photo pedestrians on their afternoon strolls observed the punctual return of the swans to the Palace gardens in downtown while the swans returned right on Spring weather was nowhere to be Winter digs Road builders into a Hole Robins once signalled the arrival of now its a transportation research group said that win ters Wrath dug nearly 56 million of the creators throughout the we have spent million in Snow removal so far this year and we expect a bumper crop of laments Renae Pickens of the Tennessee department of trans the Washington based Road information program estimates that Winter pockmarked the United states with potholes an average of 29 craters for each mile of american potholes signal the arrival of offering graphic proof that our roads Are in said Donald executive director of the Road information the organization save the average pothole is 16 inches wide and 5 inches an average of 110 pounds of Patch filler is needed to repair each Hole at for labor and million tons of the filler will combat the crisis this costing an estimated a pothole occurs when water seeps into cracks in a Road freezes and expands the when the ice the pavement is shattered by pounding traffic Reading gaping holes for state Highway departments face a constant funding Battle trying to keep up with growing Knight potholes just highlight the funding Ohio led All states with nearly million followed by Pennsylvania with South Carolina with 3 and Tennessee and each with about Over the the jarring problem has caused head aches coast to