HS 50 years ago 14.9.1972 | A recreation area is being built in Kuraine’s Keravanjoki

Keravanjoki the floodplain on the borders of Sipo, Vantaa and Kerava is going to be turned into a beautiful recreation area.

Today, the riverbed between Mestarinkoski and Kerava youth prison is a dry marsh in the summer and a flood pool in the spring. The landscape will be repaired with bottom dams, embankments and plantings, the water flow will be smoothed and a 10 km long park strip will be created along the riverbed.

Plans have been made and the terrain studied since 1968. Now the plans are ready and a delivery engineer has been appointed for the arrangements, who will start the inspections.

The flood zone is harmful to the construction of the Lahti motorway. With works costing two million FIM, a saving of FIM 530,000 is calculated in the construction of an accessible highway: fewer bridges and embankments are needed.

After the arrangement, permanent walkways can be built on the banks of the river. Footbridges are planned in connection with the two planned control dams.

After widening the river and thinning the banks, the renovated area can be used as a recreation area, a beach park.

Rotten trees are filled with plastic

the city of Helsinki the garden department is experimenting with polyurethane plastic to support old rotten trees.

This autumn, a dozen trees will be filled with fast-hardening, light plastic mass.

No one can say anything for sure about the results at this stage, but the garden department hopes that the rotting of the trees will slow down thanks to the plastic.

The stuffed trees are mainly located in the park of the Old Church.

Some trees have had rotten wood removed before filling with plastic. In the past, attempts have been made to support trees, e.g. with metal rings.

Attempts have been made to prevent rotting with sawdust concrete mix and pitch, but the fillings have usually flowed out.

In the trial phase, filling the trees with plastic will cost 350-450 FIM per cube.

The alternate parking presentation will be completed in October

in Helsinki a presentation on the shift parking to be implemented may be submitted to the city planning board during October.

At least that’s what engineer Erkki Ryynänen, the chairman of the working group preparing the matter, hopes for. Ryynänen thinks shift parking is worth a try.

Helsinki’s sanitation department, which takes care of the snow work, has defended the arrangement most enthusiastically.

Shift parking, which became a hot potato last winter, was thrown to a working group, which includes the Helsinki traffic planning office, the transport department, the construction department and the police department.

The city government has already given its approval for shift parking. The county government of Uusimaa, on the other hand, confirmed the traffic sign required for the arrangement.

Helsinki’s winter sanitation problems have been reported as the main reason for the implementation of shift parking.

On dry days, sandblasting and plowing are too difficult to deliver without shift parking, according to the three boards that supported the issue.

Viren has talents as a mobile policeman

Chief of Police Fjalar Jarva handed over a rose bush and a gold watch as a gift to the Finnish police athletes.

Jarva said that they are currently thinking about how to improve Viren’s conditions. It is said that Myrskylä has difficult working hours in terms of training.

Jarva was of the opinion that Viren could transfer to the Mobile Police if he wanted to.

The cancellation of the Polish visa is being negotiated

Discussions on lifting the visa requirement have started between Finland and Poland.

The purpose of the agreement is to completely stop the use of visas in traffic between the countries in question.

Similar agreements are already in force with Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.

Diplomatic sources said that Finland’s negotiations are in line with other Nordic countries. Their purpose is to allow entry to Eastern European countries without a visa and vice versa.

A direct ferry connection between Finland and Poland will be opened next summer. The ship will run between Helsinki and Gdansk.

Black September does Fatah’s dirty work

Washington (New York Times)

United States and Israeli intelligence researchers now agree in principle that the violent Palestinian group known as Black September is the dirty work arm of the guerrilla organization al-Fatah.

Last week, “Black September’s Hand” staged a preview of the Munich Olympic Village massacre, which resulted in the death of a total of 17 people.

In the past, the group has carried out high-profile attacks, the first being the assassination of Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tel almost a year ago in Cairo.

Intelligence sources admit that information about such an underground organization is incomplete.

But despite that, Americans and Israelis view Black September as the “dirty hand” of al-Fatah, which organizes assassinations and other activities — operations for which the parent organization cannot claim responsibility.

Objection to Franco from the university

Madrid (Reuters)

of Madrid the chancellor of the largest university and most of the members of the university’s governing body have resigned in protest of the government’s ever-increasing interference in the university’s affairs.

It is assumed in university circles that the government intends to use tough measures to suppress student unrest in the coming academic year.

In July, the Spanish head of state, General Francisco Franco, signed a declaration that revoked the regulations governing the operation of both universities in Madrid for one year.

They were replaced by regulations that increased the power of the Ministry of Education in universities.

Heath and Palme clothed Europe’s security

London (Reuters)

Swedish On Wednesday, Prime Minister Olof Palme and British Prime Minister Edward Heath discussed European economic, trade and security issues, East-West relations and other important international policy issues.

The prime ministers began their talks over lunch at Heath’s country home in Chequers, near London.

The negotiations continued after dinner on Wednesday evening, the English authorities said.

Palme arrived in London on Tuesday evening and will return to Stockholm on Thursday.

The Pope condemned the freedom of sex

Castel Gandolfo (AP)

Pope Paul attacked sexual freedom on Wednesday, saying that contraception, abortions, adultery and divorce make modern man coarse, vicious and sad.

“We live in a time when the animal side of man often leads to an irresponsibly bad life.”

“We die in the mud,” said the Pope in his weekly address to 3,000 listeners.

The Pope connected psychoanalysis and sex education with porn magazines and sex shows in that they all spread the pollution of environmental immorality.

He also warned against allowing narcotics.

Smallpox claimed more than 700 victims

Dhaka, Bangladesh (Reuters)

More than 700 one person has died of smallpox since January in Khulna district, southwest of Dhaka, Bangladesh, the government-controlled newspaper Dainik Bangla reported on Wednesday.

Compiled by Jarkko Rahkonen

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