European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes Friday. October 14,19b8 expert says Peary did t reach pole knew it Baltimore a newly uncovered notes kept by Robert e. Peary show the explorer claimed to be the first person to reach the North pole even though he knew he had t come closer than 121 Miles an astronomer and historian says. The new evidence indicates Peary knew a Sally How far away he was and turned Back when supplies ran Low and warming weather threatened to make the floating ice Loo dangerous Dennis Rawlins said in an interview thursday. Peary had been under pressure to publicly declare his 1909 expedition Success said Rawlins who uncovered a previously sealed file in the Johns hop Kins University Library. My reeling it his reaction was he had to make the claim because he had published a Book in 1907 saying he got dose and it did t Seo at All Rawlin said. He had the ask of coaxing the world while under the harshest spot Light All the while accusing his archrival explorer Frederick a. Cook of Fak ing the very same attainment. The amazing thing is he had the guts and the intelligence to pull it off Rawlins findings published wednesday in he Washington Post Are the latest Salvo in an go year Geo graphical dispute Over whether Peary was tic first to reach the North pole and if not whether he knew How far off the Mark he had been. The Peary controversy erupted Al most immediately after the explorer lodged his claim because he did not provide evidence such As the records of his Sextant readings to show he had been at the North pole. A slip of paper Wilh Peary s Sextant readings and other navigational calculations apparently written while he Wasat his northernmost Point during he expedition was suppressed by Peary and then was sealed and placed in the National archives along with his other papers Many Yean after his death in 1920. In 1984, Peary s descendants unscaled the papers containing mostly numbers that remained  until Rawlins obtained them. Peary s scrawled calculations Are understandable Only to someone familiar Wilh navigation by the stars according to Rawlins. Rawlins says that despite the apparent cover up Peary still discovered the northernmost Point of land in the world Cape Jesup in Northern Green land and ranks As the greatest . Polar explorer. In addition Peary should be credited with completing difficult 400-mile crossing Over land through an obstacle course of Drifting ice floes. In 1973, Rawlins published a Book Peary at the North pole fact or fic Tion?1 that offered evidence against the claim made by Peary. In the september Issue of National geographic Magazine a British Arctic expert wrote that new knowledge a Arctic weather currents and ice Drift and analysis of Peary s documents Indi Cate he missed the Mark by 30 to 60 nautical Miles. Controllers at 3 airports to get 20% pay raise Washington up the of Cdr ices who have left. Feet very  collisions Over Chicago this year com Al aviation administration agreed Jimon who has been working  at the same time the Senlac approved pared with 1i1m i98t and a than recon up the of Cdcil thursday to provide 20 percent More pay to its air traffic controllers at inter National airports in Chicago new York and los Angeles than elsewhere Accord ing to sen. Paul Simon d-i11. A spokesman for Simon said the in creased pay is designed to keep air traffic controllers now working Al the three air ports and to bring Back qualified control ice. Simon has Wilh a officials to Case the crisis at o Hare Airport in Chicago said the Faa and the office of personnel management worked 9ut an agreement to launch a pay differential project at the three International airports. A spokesman for Simon said that working out such a program with of would normally Lake Iso Days but that the demonstration project would Lake of Fec Al Senate a non binding Resolution offered by Simon that Calls on the Faa to provide by oct. 25 a timetable for action it will take immediate and King term to Bee up controllers at o Hare and to resolve the present emergency and to ensure adequacy of air traffic control operations in the Chicago airspace in the  Simon said there have been 30 near collisions r this com pared with 12 in 1987 an a then record of 22 in 19b6 and that the Faa in response has Cut the number of flights in and out of the Busy Airport. This has meant More than 100 flight delays Day after Day not Only for Pas sengers at o Harc but for passengers in route to o Harc and for passengers involved Wilh connecting flights to or from o Harc,1 Simon said. Ugh just take a Gander at All the fowl problems caused by pretty9 geese Boston and the Graceful sight of Canada geese slicing through the skin their a formation has become a foreboding sight in the Northeast. They re very or cloy to look Al unfortunately icy leave problems behind says Elaine Moore a selectman in the town of Stoneham where police on horseback conducted daily Goose round  this Spring. In Slon Cham As in Many other towns acro she Region the Birds were welcomed when they started fluttering in about six years ago. They would Cross main Street and you would Sec the Mother and the Hlll goslings behind her. The traffic would Slop and let these Sweet Little things go across the Street Moore said. The Welcome soon wore out As the Birds chewed up Golf courses lawns and landscaped office Parks leaving behind Liberal smattering of heir pungent calf ing cards. Over inc past six years More and More a desc have appeared in the Northeast Wilh More Birds slopping Short in their southward journey. Home grown flocks have also increased. A Canadian expert on the wild geese said one reason for the upsurge in local goggles is the creation of Ideal Breeding grounds in Parks and on Golf courses areas of Short fertilised grass surround ing a body of water. If you wanted to make a place for Gecse. You could not do better than  said Harry Lumsden. Who worked for 40 years for Canada s ministry of natural resources in Ontario and now is a Pri vate consultant. We make the mistake of allowing the geese to gel inc idea that this Park or this Golf course is a Nice Safe place with Good food he said. In Stoneham a Lown of 23,000 Aboul 10 Miles North of Boston residents complained of being kept awake by the honk ing and had to shoo Birds from their lawns Wilh brooms. The Lown Reservoir was clogged Wilh droppings and police resorted to horseback roundups in May to canal the Birds at a downtown inner Section Moore said. George Haas a migratory Bird specialist a i the . Fish and wildlife service s Boston office said geese can be found along he coast from Maine to Florida but the highest concentrations arc from Maryland northward. Winter population inventories from last year showed 76,900 in new York 90,200 in new Jersey 6,900 in connect Cut and 13,600 in Massachusetts Haas said. Federal officials Aren t Able to de Termine exactly which geese Are migrating and which have settled in a slate he said. The federally protected Birds face few predators and arc smart enough to out wit Many Hunt cars during the limited sea son he said. Several states have implemented Hunt ing seasons Haas said. In Massachusetts about 3,000 Birds were bagged in an experimental season last year. One of the More innovative Goose control methods is the is bytes a radio controlled miniature boat. The boat has been in action since last Spring buzzing around a Pond at by tax corp. In South Borough to scare off geese said owner and self styled Goose Buster Norman Sci Fulz. Lumsden said Farmers in Ontario can apply for permits to kill nuisance Birds but scaring the Birds away from prime grazing grounds with constant noisemakers is usually the most effective method. Get after those Birds in mid May and Don t give Ihm a moment s peace he advised. At ski hearing air Force la. Gen. George l. Monu Huntjr. Appears before inc Senate armed services committee at wednesday confirmation hearing held on his re . Monohan has been named to Lale Over is director of the strategic defense initial project which is popularly known As Star wars