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Show si.lb Urdjr Oiloii 0Jurt(n,nt WESTERN AMERICANA UnivorBlty of Utah Salt Loko City, Utah 64112 lUcorh i, VOLUME 16, NUMBER 5 In TOKYO (ACCN) - The city of Hachioji (population: 260,000), one ofTokyos satellite cities, recently observed a No Car .Day as a means of coping with environmental disruption caused by automobiles. The no car movement stemmed from the municipal authorities appeal to city residents not to drive their cars on specified days except for unavoidable, pressing needs. The campaign represents the first kind ever to be undertaken in Japan. On Sunday, October 3, the first such day, most of the citys drivers responded nthmriaHpfliiy to the no car appeal, and the number of automobiles running on main roads of the city declined by about 20 per cent as compared with ordinary Sundays. On the back streets of the shopping and residential quarters, a sharp drop of 60 to 70 per cent was registered. On the whole, vehicular diminished by traffic in the day-tim- e 40 per cent to about 60,000 cars compared with the level (hi ordinary Sundays. As a result, the carbon monoxide level recorded in the air at the citys Yokkaichi Intersection (junction of Koshu two national highways and Tokyo Loop Highway) Highway stood at 6.6 units per hour on a daytime average or far lower than the 10.9 units registered on the previous Sunday. In addition, this was only about enof the State-fixe- d vironmental standard of 20 units, while the vehicular traffic also averaged only 763 cars per hour or about 100 less than the units counted the previous Sunday. Encouraged by the favorable reactions, the municpal authorities have designed one Sunday each month as No Car Day. one-thir- d The movement has produced repercussions in various quarters. The Tokyo Association of Mayors (formed by mayors of 23 cities in suburban Tokyo) has established a to No Car Movement Council to all sinead Hachiojis campaign other Tokyo satellite cities. On Hachiojis No Car Day, the vehicular traffic in the city certainly showed a decline, but cars entering the city from outside areas continued without letup. And to reduce the number of these visiting cars, the no car drive will have to be spread to surrounding areas. Some civic organizations have proposed the movement be instituted in all parts of the country and it may assume nationwide proportions. Welfare Check California Uses Computer In SACRAMENTO (ACCN) - In- auguration of a computerized system for checking the earnings reported by Californias welfare recipients has been announced by Stale Social Welfare Director Robert B. Carleson. Called the Earnings Clearance System, the program has as its prime objective the validation of earnings reported by recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). The amount of a recipients income not only affects eligibility, but also the amount of the welfare payment. Credit Managers Group Optimistic In 72 Forecast Federal Hall at the intersection of Wall and Nassau Streets in the heart of Manhattans financial district was built as a Customs House in 1845 on the site of New York's old colonial city hall and where Washington took the oath of office as President of the Lniled States in 1789. (ACCN) Japan City A SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Noted Site 'No Car Day' Seen Success , Chiropractors May Branch Out, Coast AG Rules SACRAMENTO (ACCN) professional chiropractic poration unrelated - A cor- may engage in lawful business activity, California Atty. Gen. Evelle J. Younger has stated. Business activities unrelated to the chiropractic practice are permissible, Younger ruled as long as they do not require another license, certification, or registration under the business and professions code and are not prohibited by the Chiropractic Act. The opinion was rendered in response to a request by Earl E. Pope, executive secretary of the board of chiropractic examiners, who asked: May a chiropractic corporation, organized under the Professional Corporation Act and registered with the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, engage in business activities unrelated to chiropractic services? In an analysis, the state attorney general noted that there were no decisions on the point and referred in part to the report of the special committee of the board of governors of the State Bar. The committee observed, Younger noted, that while the Model Professional Corporation Act limits a professional corporation to the practice of a single profession, it does not prevent such a corporation from engaging in any other business permitted by law. The attorney general indicated other writers on the law considering this question have reached the same conclusion. The theoretical advanced is justification usually that there is no basis for imposing any greater restrictions on a professional corporation than those upon an individual professional or professional partimposed Reagan Vetoes California Reapportionment - LOS ANGELES (ACCN) Gov. Ronald Reagan, as expected, has vetoed reapportionment legislation which would have given Democrats an edge in the California Senate and Assembly and in the California Congressional delegation. The governor held a news conference here to announce his veto which Democrats said could throw the June primary election into chaos. Reagan interrupted a "working vacation at his Suburban Pacific Palisades home to announce his opposition to the so-call- ed measure. Reagan accused the legislature of deteriorating into blatant partisanship. Reagan said be hopes a reapor-tionme- nt commission will draft a fair redistricting plan something California has not. had for many years. juAgJio, 1972 ElaiStalls Civil Rights' But Grit Issues Remain - By Donald E. Mullen NEWYORK (ACCN) The economy will respond to the ad"The real NEW YORK (UPI) ministrations program and conassume the white is people sumers will boost their spending in problem and success of the civil rights drama 1972, the National Association of movement of the sixties was such Credit Management reports. that the 1970s meant the issue would However, the policies recom- be over. mended by the administartion and The fact is we took care only of Congress would not solve the basic the peripheral issues. Its like problems of inflation, unem- ' now the down the walls ployment and an unstable dollar, tearing is problem trying to get through the according to Dr. Ernest W. Walker, debris. Its hard and its dusty and NACM consulting economist. it's cloudy and its smoky. . He stated that if these problems The phone rang and Vernon E. are to be solved, a different apJordan Jr. answered it. At 36 he is proach will have to be initiated. one of the countrys fastest rising Dr. Walkers comments appear in who for the the December issue of The Credit black leaders, a man most of his and Financial Newsletter, which is past 10 years has spent time fighting civil rights legal sent monthly to the more than 36,000 firms which are members of the battles. On January 1 he assumed the professional credit organigatinq. toughest job of his career: successor to the late Whitney Young as executive director of the Urban Los Angeles' 72 Goals Include Court Reforms LOS ANGELES (ACCN) - Court consolidation, increased municipal and superior court filing fees and state aid for the costs of lengthy trials are among the proposals Los Angeles County wants enacted into law this year. rundown of In an legislation that didnt make it into law in 1971, County Chief Administrative Officer Arthur Will recommended legislation the County should seek for 1972. Included in the program for the first time are proposals for federal legislation. High on the list of priorities sought by the County is federal takeover of welfare presently included in the highly-toute- d HR 1 in Washington, but presently stalled in the U.S. end-of-the-y- Senate. The Board also is seeking property tax relief, increased federal and state financing for alcoholic rehabilitation and methadone treatments, and aid for air pollution control and rapid transit. In the areas of court reform, Will has recommended that the Board continue to support reform proposals coming from the Superior Court and expansion of methods for handling public drunkenness and automobile personal injury cases. Will also is asking that the county support court consolidation Including the possible transfer of court operation and financing from counties to the state. Other court-relate-d proposals seek state assistance for the cost of lengthy trials considered of statewide and national interest. Although the Governor recently signed SB 1633, which aids counties for trials if the cost rises above a d certain percentage, the measure would not benefit Los non-judic- nership. mojSay; Ah ial tax-base- Angeles County, Will reported. The Board also will seek legislation to increase state aid for probation services and increase court fees. FiLng fees have not been raised since 1967. Another Board proposal seeks amendments to increase penalties for holding or threatening to hold hostages. The Board also is requesting amendments extending criminal trespass laws to persons who remain in designated areas of public buildings, during hours the areas are closed to the public. - League. Jordan is a huge man, about of linebacker proportions who first gained national attention in 1961 when, as a recent law school graduate, he led Charlayne Hunter into the University of Georgia through a mob of white protesters. In the course of an interview he summed up where Mack Americans stand in the early 1970s, a position he believes faces growing white resistance around the country. His voice betrayed no bitterness, but it was obvious that he was struggling to speak calmly. I think Lester Maddox was right, he said. In 1960 when he ran for mayor of Atlanta he said integration was for poor blacks and poor whites, and that as soon as people in the north found that out and understood it they would feel just as he did about racial integration and black people. Now that the issue is really being put to all people all over this country, the (white) people are backing up. Some of them are saying we didnt mean it. That as long as it was billy clubs and fire hoses and marches from Selma to Montfor gomery that it was all right down yonder. But now its all over the country and it sort of takes on a different character. Asked what he thought of the ur We wouldnt even have to deal with a busing proMem if people would integrate the suburbs and integrate neighborhoods and deal with quality education. Busing is not a new phenomenon in this country. It is only a phenomenon because it involves black kids going to school with white kids. And the problem with black kids in this country is that they havent had much of a choice about anything. . . Jordan was particularly critical of Phase II of the administrations economic game plan, claiming that the various boards are "elitist. "There are no black people, with the exception of one man serving on the Pay Board, he said. "The interests of not only black people but . poor people and unorganized workers have not been protected. Organized labor takes care of its own constituency. But a vast number of voters in this country are not organized. The question is, who speaks for them? Who represents their interest? There isnt any freeze on their needs. "Jobs? I would call the biggest issue in 1972 economic em- because if you create powerment the jobs question becomes black accessibility to those jobs. If there are really going to be fair employment practices there has got to be cooperation atalllevels. You know. . . I think in the 1970s were almost back to where I was in 1961 when I was working for the NAACP in Georgia. . . It was a brand new beginning for me, with this basic approach: This is a black man and his history is that he was brought over in slavery against his will and the whole system is geared against him. He has dignity and he has intelligence. He wants what everybody else does in this country a little white house with green shutters and a white picket fence and a car in the garage and a chicken in the pot. He wants to educate his child. He wants two weeks vacation, a Sunday ballgame and to retire and put his grandchild on his knee. After that, his three score and ten are up and thats what its really all about, and I think that this country doesnt really understand that. Nobody's talking about taking government stance on black problems, Jordan answered with a over; theyre talking about sharing, broadside against the politics of talking about equity and parity as to white resistance. rights, privileges and responnot been a sibilities. Black people have That's what were talking about major priority of this adfolks eating and sleeping. Folks ministration, he said. But I think thats reflective of the attitude of the having a fair shake from jobs and that black needs and not dying from hunger. The issue in country Mack aspirations have been put on the 1960s was the right to sit where the back burner. Its reflected in the you want to sit on the bus. Today the attitude of northern mayors issue is the bus fare and where the responding to the popular will of the bus is going. people. cnampions of civil voted for the antibusing rights amendment in Congress. Do their safe seats in Congress mean more to them than the dignity and equality of black children? And whenever Long-tim- e theres that choice, American politics are pretty clear. People choose on the side of enlightened self interest, and I think thats what the Congress has done. I think that the 1972 elections will be geared to not rocking the boat on issues of race. I think the candidates will be walking a tightrope on the issue of busing and that if public sentiment is as high as it is in some areas were going to have an attitude in this country. an-tibdsi-ng . One Joke Too Many Television QUITO (UPI) Channel Eight was closed and its news director jailed January 3 for transmission of a false news item, December 28, "April Fools Day in Ecuador. The news item had "announced suspension of the elections scheduled for June, and said President Jose M. Velasco Ibarra would remain in power two more years. Channel 8 announced within four minutes after the "news flash that it was a joke, but rival television Channel 6 had picked up the item. 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