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Show V ii - And for Sheer Comfort -it Bruce Biossat '- n Costa Rica bives Beyond Its Means SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1966 JOSE, OOSTA RICA -(Na small SAN EA)-Costaka, Today's Editorials . but very bright showpiece of democracy and social progress in Latin America, is living beyond its means. And up to now its political leaders have not grappled with hard fiscal realities. Americans, weary of hearing so many areas of (he world set down as trouble spots for which they must bear some responsibility, can be pleased to know that Costa . Rica is a place of real promise. Tiny though it is (Vermont and New Hapshire combined), it seems to suggest Soaring Auto Insurance Rates Have you been wondering why the cost of automobile insurance " keeps moving upwards ? r' Figures ' released recently by an insurance company gives some hints on the subject: Last year auto accidents cost $8.3 billion. Nearly every major mtrt - insurer suffered an under- writing loss andthenaffftryecorded a $306 million loss. American motorists rolled up a record number of miles and in Jthepi8s3jilledmorej)eople (1.700.000) than ever before in the history of auto travel - 'Jury awards for injury and deathare up. A recent study re-. award has risen from $9478 in a 26 1954 to $12,068 in 1963 cent increase. per Awards for property damage are up, having risen 49 per cent in the last 10 years. Repair costs are up, too, with a 43 per cent Increase over the 1954 level cost $57.53. Today it costs $110.50. Medical costs are rising. Hospital room rates are' wo 67 per cent over the 1954 level. Doctors' fees are up 34 per .cent and other medical expenses are up 87 per cent- Inflation. Is- - a.1 villain. Insur-- Read This-Th- - ance companies must pay more for salaries, off ice supplies, equipment, transportation,-etc- . Auto thefts are on the increase. Last year theyjtotaled more than 400,000. The trend in recent yean is a 10 per cent increase in auto thefts each year. wnat are tne cn&nces oi auto After four years of what could n We're All I n Pressu re Cooker U pressure group, and the wise man will stay away rather than suffer abuse, or engage, in the customary shouting match. In the old west law and order frequently broke down, and outraged citizens met secretly to Because everyone in Utah, except for a few of us, are so pros V many have noperoua, I dot ticed the official figures showing mat the cost of living is running away, but it is, and with business corporations and George Meany and other labor union fidali clamoring for even great profits and wages it will go A . up stiU more. By this time we should be aware that everything in this country Is controlled by presBy United Press International sure. I hope that there are not FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. many like me who do not belong An unidentified collegian to any, pressure group. Me, I up spring vacation in summing have always resisted pressure Florida: of any kind, and I wont even "Heaven is acres of babes join any group that would press m out as flat as a daisy m a and a beer truck." book, and send me to heaven Mass -NORTHAMPTON, forthwith, so how can I hope to The girls of Smith and Mount escape the poverty which capithe tal and Mr. Meany and his co- Hohoke colleges, describing Princeton man in 7 special horts are determined to force booklet on dating? upon us. "Princeton is the only place President Johnson is striving, in the world where when a boy I think valiantly, to hold prices and girl walk past a mirror, down, but the pressure from the it's the boy who stops to comb "get it while the getting is good" his bair. Your date, will spend boys on both sides of the ecothe' whole weekend worrying nomic fence will ultimately de-. - s whether you might possibly ! Z Vv hotter ftn h I had one bit of pleasure last -w- Quotes In The Nows r n. i IW NEW YORK -A- merican Orlando, who was held in Jail by "mistake" taere writer for having hounded ; (or sixth months by Italian and spied upon him because of ' authorities and men told never a book he had written advocat- - to return to Italy: It mast be e wooderful thing te be blessed with a sense of bnnwr. I be fcave one. Take the case of Gnat Haiuea he has a sense of saner. . ' but loaethekss, kamar. Like last Friday he was cobbW hg a Joint meetisg held by the Rotary, Kiwaais aad Exchange dubs of Prove. Jut before he adjourned the meeting the hut thing be said was, "Rather than love year .enemies . . treat year friosds a Ittle bettor." Subtle Gee, I with Td said that! For your information did you know Yaunff University rammil th ' Rriehnm " r . TV. . covers over m acres 7 in addition tbere are toe Abbe Campus in Provo Canyon, nmiltrv farm a Silt. and a 23 acre a JaWw farm acre sgrlcultur farm notion picture studio. KllsT-?- - y. Jensen Modera day reading and viewing seems te fees toward spies, secret agents aad espionage. There's N7, Bat Man, Bhnlight, RedligBt, Secret Sqtdrrel aad whet have yoa. Not oabjr de we find all this 'Junk hi our reading aad viewing, we bow can bey k cosmetics, deodorants, hair dreuhig, lotions, clothing, and practically everything else. R's getting so bed, a person has a toagh time locating a "17. weakUsf Instead, they're all be-karate expert." owning a "I7-- . B. Te illustrate how all this stuff affects our young people, Just last week I took my boys to s restaurant for dinner. While waiting to be served the house telephone started to ring. Because the employees were quite busy, the phone continued to ring unanswered. My oldest boy Chris, couldn't stand it any longer so he reached under the table, slipped :his shoe off , put the beel to hhi ear and said, "hello!" Course this only proves one thing. He has s warped sense of humor like his dad-a- nd he's been watching too many spy stories on that "idiot box," 'citizen-Charl- es ing more safety in automobiles "Don't be killed by a false to the detriment of the profits of ense of security in your U.S. G.M. and other automobile mancitizenship as a protective cloak ufacturers. I haven't read Mr. against injustice. It can happen Nadar's book, but I applaud him to you. It happened to me." for his courage. People are so used to thinking that a writer MOSCOW --An editorial in should crawl on his belly that, China's Peoples' Peking Dally, they are shocked when one rises charging that the Soviets are as far as his knees. practicing only "nominal" sociaPeople are squally willing te lism leading to the enrichment pressure for something they of the "privileged stratum" of want, or against something they managers and technicians: don't like. Tbe old New England "Tbe industrial and mining town meeting may have served and collective enterprises its purpose in colonial days, but farms have been turned into few things are less useful than instruments whereby they (the the mass meetings of privileged class) make profits today. They are called by some and get rich." BY JAMES O. BERRY BERPVS WORLD organize vigilante committees which went out armed with guns and a rope and hanged the culprit It was a form of lawlessness which sometimes served a useful purpose. It was necessary in at least two well known places: San Francisco, Calif., and VlrginfcuCity, Mont., but in many other places imitators who saw an opportunity to satisfy their grudges went out and hanged innnocent men. The modern . day pressure group is often a form of vigilante organization, though their methods are not so violent as in the , old days. They content themselves with making it dis agreeable for anyone who does not agree with mem. They brand you as a traitor, or an atheist and if they run out of bard names they can always call you a bum or a moron. We have to accept pressure, for H is a way of life, but I shudder to think of what would have happened to the history of I & will rise further as the boom in young people continues. cornerstone" Health outlays,-in the Costa Rican welfare state, consume another 11 per cent of the burget. These and other services are regarded by outsiders as an admirable model for those many Latin lands which have not yet achieved really signifi--. . r -- J 1U :1 mi v nines im rain, suuioi general population. Yet they weight the government down. It is Kept going by. the foreign commercial banks and otherwise assisted by an -amazing volume of foreign in- - aV vestment, public ana private. , this assistance for Last war il Costa Rica totaled $50 million. with ..... million .......... nennl r i , got proportionate help, it would; Tl Rram1 ftfl w (May 8) government seems willing to attack this problem with new taxes. Many . . economic-- , indicators suggest, deceptively, that things were never better for the 1.5 million Costa Ricans. Dazzled by these surface . impressions, some Costa Rican officials do not see the peril in the lengths ening trail of deficits. Says 1965. Actually, that is more than was put into all Latin America. These various money aids, plus iavorable foreign market conditions, account in large part for the bright impressions in "This must be only a sort of bookkeeping problem, isn't it?" The answer is no. Costa Rica is $30 million to $40 million in the hole on short loans from American and a few West German banks. Some day soon these banks may entertain second thoughts. Right now they help keep the government in daily operating funds. Tbe basic source of tbe trouble is Costa Rica's incredible dodu- ktion growth, and its conse- -. quences in education, health, and other expenditures, wim a current annual increase of some 4.1 per cent (some officials like to play it down to 3.8), this nation has the world's fastest growing population. Today, 50 per cent of the people are under U years of age. Soundly bent on educating its young, the government spends 33 per cent of Ks budget on schooling. This proportion likely market for bananas, another big item hefe, is good. Costa Rica's trade with the Central American Common Mar--' ket is up 20 per cent. Industry, lured by tax and customs con--" cessions, is beginning to coma in from the United States, Eur- -' ope and Japan. y ' wvaM. ifci.a. -- I v cajah La, irau uic kvuutotal in are trade, outgo try's up to designated quota now after wain suueruig irwn a iwu-yeof "black snow" from ar f pair the But, though foreign special- ists see a growth prospect of perhaps . 10 per cent a year. actual economic advances bare- ty keeps up with the vaulting population increase. Needed versity and expansion in food ouiput comes slowly. Uke politicians the ' world over; Costa Rica's leaders, incoming President Jose J. Trejos Femandex, do not kke to face tbe financial music. Yet if (hey do not offer good growth and policies, their country's bright promise may be badly tarnished before many years have passed. s. . Upswing for Mental Health V Editor Herald: Everyday Life is now ready tor be presented beginning April 11 The Psychiatric Aide Award Banquet plans are well forrno-btte- The signs of winter are fast disappearing from our mountainsides, the grass is awakening, and new life is bursting forth from the earth. Thousands of people interested in a common goal have met and discussed their future, honor has this nation if mere had not always been a few who insisted on doing their own thinking, and -- were on the 'come toaWetesriorecsic"sa" waves of mass hysteria. Unordents and scholars from our thodox, and even treasonable, as local educational institutions. K may sound I think there could Students, professional leaders, be nothing so dangerous, and social services and hospital certainly dull as complete unworkers, educators and juvenile ity. court staffs have listened and Even the Communists can studied with such distinguished never achieve it completely, men as Dr. Hobart Mowrer and and that is their avowed aim. Dr. William Giassar. They wouldn't kill or enslave Citizens are sharing with each us as so many fear. They would other through chambers of com. us let enjoy the same blessings merce, bids for tbe winter Olymthey have, including the dullest conferences, pics, Workshops, of all possible Hves, for under their system al pressure groups institutes, the United Fund. In are rolled into one so big it retrospect, we say it is good to be a part of such conanunity wouid be impossible to resist it. endeavor. To those friends who have As we approach the time for called concerning my wife's another declaration of Mental health, may I say that Winnie Health Week, your Utah County came home weighing s whopAssociation for Mental Health ping 84 pounds and is feeling looks back proudly in retrospect and evfine, gaining strength and forward with keen anticiery day, and we all thank these to new opportunities for pation friends for their solicitude. our citizens. I also appreciate the three The past few months have lovely, intelligent young girts found s dedicated group of men from SL Francis: Paula Ranand women working bringing and Fay dolph, Karen Mote, educational opportunities PerdvaL who drove over here on suicide through workshops after school to cheer up s and the emotional aspects of old writer, and they rearing children; 'County-wid-e certainly accomplished their use of a film on suicide; partiPurpose. cipation with state and local authorities in reactivating the health and mental health advisboards; studied legislation RULES ory as it may affect mental health; Letters from readers are inparticipated in the Aide of the vited. They should be as conYear Award at the State Traincise as possible, with a limit ing School; participated in the of 150 words. Letters longer Christmas project at the State thin this must be cut Type Hospital, training school, a n d write If possible, double spaced. nursing homes in the county; Letters -- must carry ' writer's teamed with our local university true name and address. Psev-in a family life institute, and donyms are not permitted. Tbe attended state board meetings. Herald assumes no responsiYour local board has metreg--ularl- y bility for statements In tbe at 7 a.m. the first Tues-da-y Uailbag column. Tbe Herald of every month at morning reserves tbe right to reject or offices provided us at our local edit letters which are too long, State Hospital Now ready for not in good taste or potentially the press is a social services libelous. Letters which deal that wiM bring to our directory with church doctrinal subjects fecal people the resources availor contain statements derogaable to us. tory to any religion or creed A workshop, conducted by pro- will be rejected. d. Alpine House has beea granted an extended time front the NLMH grant to continue a Jnewo!tuntll Jqcal hek eaei be made available. Utah County . .,, . . hi in a goou posraon oe con- SMereu as me first area to get a comprehensive Mental Health Center. never-swept-aw- The future is bright! In retrospect we can be proud of our citizenship in Utah County. --Mrs. Edna A. Hill . 2nd Vice President Utah County MenUri ' Health Assn. P.O. Box 78, Prove The meats expressed by Herald columnists are their ewft aad de aot necessarily reflect the views of this . down-at-tbe-he- FORUM Bat sot only de we watch and reed these espionage plots, hot people are krotved hi them for far-fetch-ed "ml." For instance, a Now York District Ceart recently convicted seven would-b- e iMhutrial espionage artists for coaspirtng to steal American "wonder drag" formulas and culture and sell then to Italian firms. Bat the plot thickens becatst apparently they were doing Just that. It turns oat that the Italian manu facturer! (drag) subsequently sold these prodacts It the UA Govcra-kMot at a price far below that of aa Americas drng manafactarer. So tbere yoa are another plot for Bat Maa or A.ILN.TJ.E. (Or k that UJiXXJE.?) lonefWLthOestiiftnliniL - South America. moA tfuui Un 11VII CfCVUf WIVU THE CHOPPING BLOCK By FRANK C. ROBERTSON per cent (66) would have died regardless of belts, in most cases because the passenger compartment was greatly collapsed. Dr. Huelke answers with cold statistics the occasional "story of someone who survived an accident which would have killed him if he had been belted in, "We have had only one case of a survivor who owes his life to not wearing a seat belt We have had at least 71 who owe their deaths to not wearing one. Anybody who doesn't wear a seat belt is stupid." Another statistic speaks eloquently to those who stake, their lives on their own skill and cautiontheir ability to avoid "the other guy": Of the 93 victims in multiple-ca- r accidents, S3 more Thirty-seve- by - line ; - one: tea Course, there are ways to preserve those excess eggs I only wish I knew how. I've enjoyed pickled eggs-w-ish I had a recipe. As I understand it, the Vmritr vmi lrMn niktv rt tt hHr the flavor. Yes sir, that sounds like the answer. - havaV in friend- cheerful mis report that iv wuiiu v u awut tu iuii uy when on TV news some high officials of General .Motors publidy apologize The only thing I don't enjoy about follow It After aS, you can only fix hard boiled eggs se many ways. The more children yoa have, the more days you eat hard boiled eggs. That's how it is at our bouse. Thank goodness we don't' plan on any more children because I just couldn't face another egg at Easter time. 1 I . going nor the incoming eek Easter are the days that t-- rl Mr. Robertsoi - And a Happy Easter te you all! Did the Easter bunny find your house? Be sure found ours. Yes sir, 'oi 'Harvey' (and I don't mean King Jr.,) stopped by our place sometime Saturday night and left a whole' bunch of colored eggs lor the kids. Fun! Fun! Fun! 51 V M 5 tin its tetjghijnnuri-budge- t worse and worse. The only people who can reverse the trend are the drivers themselves. not have, been the most pleasant job anyone ever had studies of auto deathstwo scientists have issued what has been called "the most intensive firsthand study of traffic deaths since the car was born," Dr. Donald F. Heulke, an anatomist, and Dr. Paul W. Gikas, a pathologist, both of the University of Michigan, reconstructed each of the ,139 fatal accidents that took place in the Ann Arbor area over a four-yeperiod. The was commissioned by the Snoject Health Service. Its chief findings need little elaboration: Forty per cent (71) of the 177 persons who died in the acci-- s dents would have lived if they had " been wearing a simple lap belt (Of these, 88 were killed by being than a third perished in the car thrown from the car; S3 by "secjudged not to be at fault ondary collision" with some part of the interior of the car.) . The hurrier I go, the behinder .Twenty per cent more (85) would have been saved by a shoulIfet over the desk of J. I. der harness and belt. (Of these, ign Rodale, author, playwright and 82 were killed in the "secondary ' collision.") publisherr ar H ' tistics at a higher than average ' rate. ' Can you do anything to "hold the line" on auto insurance rates ? Yes, Eyeryone,can help reduce the hiorhwav slaughter and acci dent rate by practicing defensive driving. Always assume the other drivers are going to make tne worst uossible moves at any given moment. Don't drive at excessive speeds, If you drink, don't drive. Be courteous on the highways. When you serve on juries judging accident cases, be fair as possible but not extravagant. Rising insurance rates constitute a problem which could get Uso That Seat Belt on if 1 iiox gooa, saia me insurance company. The "wax babies" of World War II are now at driving age. These young driv-- ing aown i IV "Okay, then-he- fc ads, sumom we go ea aad fs patroMails, kite loafoar we ase oar lestuonal (ha people from BYU on finoakoal Problems el Builder's rites, such as turning the first shovelful of earth, laying cornerstones or placing documents ' in containers, go back te antiquity. As late as the 15th century-th- e sacrifice, of living human bslnp to ensure stability In religions structures was practiced, The wall of Holiworthy church in England was built over a living human being. The practice was eventually outlawed aad images of human beings were Substituted. |