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Show Editorial Page Feature Winds of Change in Spain Are Not Gentle Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1968 Please Give Your Fair Share With time running out, the 1068-G!- ) drive by United Fund of County goes into its last Utah days with volunteer campaigners but at more than 90 percent Ptill short of the goal. So there is no better time than today to remind our fellow citizens of what our United Fund is all about and to urge those, who have not contributed, to push the drive over the top. United Fund of Utah County is it a corporation, wholly owned and directed by the givers, the citizens of Utah Valley, who have united in this way better to fhd the health, welfare and youth guidances needs of our county. These add up to 18 agencies. This means that our United Fund here is not a chapter or division of some larger organization or national program. Instead, it is a grass roots "do it yourself" "ndeavor by local citizens themselves to fund local needs and non-prof- agencies vital to local people and communities. It also means that the goal of the 1969 drive, $214,000, m Jst be raised if necessary responsibilities, right here at home, are not to suffer next year for lack of adequate support. No one stands by to take over this obligation if local citizens fail. Finally, because our United Fund is wholly owned and operated by us, the ideal of service to community for the businesses, professions and others here, starts with United Fund of Utah County. We must achieve our goal this month for 19G9 because we cannot afford to fail. Mr. Citizen of Utah County: This is your United Fund. Flease give your "Fair Share." the cars on the streets. In New York, for example, junked cars are collected at the rate of 30,000 a year. It's 20,000 in Philadelphia and 16,000 in Detroit. Apparently, it is easier and less expensive for authorities to haul a car away, impound it and auction it off than to try to trace its owner and bring him to book for littering. Put it down as another public service we all have to pay for in this mechanized society. United States has set about trying to convince President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Viet-nathat he would have his full say at the Paris talks under the seating plan America favors, according to U.S. sources. American diplomats are less than satisfied with Theiu's latest proposal that South Vietnam would attend the Paris talks if his government headed the allied side and Hanoi led the other side. But U.S. officials are gratified Thieu has evidenced some developments in his thinking since his initial refusal to attend the talks under the format called for in President Johnson's bombing halt announcement. That plan was premised on representatives of the Viet Cong's political arm, the National Liberation Front, joining Hanoi at the bargaining table while Saigon's representatives sat with the U.S. delegation. U.S. officials are trying to brush aside procedural questions in an effort to get the warring parties to the Paris conference table. You'll Recover!' preaches the devil and sin instead of attacking somebody's reputation. They tell me California has more reckless automobile drivers, but it has more freeways. According to our population I think we can hold our own in the percentage of accidents. California has an ocean which we do not, but its need for fresh water is as great as ours. In height and snowfall our mountains can compete with even the mighty Sierra Nevadas. Our mountains have more deer, but California has more deer hunters. This was evident to Dr. Nightingale and me on our way down here by the endless stream of California hunters going to U.aii. These California hunters appear to say, "You raise 'em; we'll kill 'em." The squawks about so many people being on welfare are about as loud in one state as the other. Wages are higher down here, but so is the cost of living. Workmen tore down my son's fence to get a big tractor into his back yard, but they returned the next day lay-of- Sen. Russell Long May Quit Second Demo Spot to toss out a proposed on welfare assistance to families with dependent child- By ROY MCGHEE (UPD-M- ike WASHINGTON Mansfield and Everett M. Dirksen are certain to remain the party leaders in the new Senate convening Jan. 3, but Russell B. Long of Louisiana may relinquish his post as assistant Democratic leader. Long, the mercurial Democratic whip, has told political intimates he would like to quit the leadership post if he can do oo s gracefully and if his successor is a conservative. He cited a desire to devote more time to his chairmanship of the Senate Mm IU lilt. W N.Y., freeze ren. So They Say I feel a little like Lazarus. When he came back, people didn't quite know what to do with him. Sen. Eugene McCarthy, returning to his home state of Minnesota for the first time since his Democratic presidential nomination bid. and repaired it. In Utah they probably wouldn't have come back to fix the fence, but then my daughter-in-ladoesn't live in Utah. The main difference, I think, is that California is growing faster than Utah. It gets more tourists, but it also sends more tourists into other states. California's in agriculture is being eroded as its fertile fields and orchards are giving away to endless acres of concrete. Green is a more Interesting color than gray, but Utah seems to feel that anything California can do Utah can try to do. Agriculturally, probably the three most productive counties in the United States are here in the San Joaquin valley. They are Kern, Kings, and Tulare. Tulare, the county in which I ana now staying, lies between the other two. The central valley is much larger than Utah's, but these three counties are 8 miniature Wasatch Front, strung out along the foot of the Sierras. If we could raise citrus fruits, cotton and grapes our front might well equal theirs. I still think the country I like best is the Nevada desert. Las Vegas is strategically located between the two states, and robs both of them impartially. While I was playing the slot machines there I couldn't tell a California sucker from a Utah one. People, rather than buildings are what makes a state, and the only way lo find out where a person is from is to ask him. Appearances tell w you nothing. It is impossible to imagine the stuin dent riots at Berkeley happening Provo, but there are a lot of universities and collrges in California where they don't have riots. The warmer climate of California gives it more hippies, and that would seem to be the chief difference between the two states. One is larger and has a hotter climate but i' that is a measure of greatness quite an argument could be made in behalf of hell. 4 II KCXXm,rr' lK-.ii;-?f- v 9 I'W.'.W.'."M W.M Today in Bag The Almanac By United Press International Today is Sunday, Nov. 10, ihe 315th day of 1968 with 51 to follow. Cleveland Fluoridation Report Provokes Comment The moon is between its full ally eliminated from the but remain within the system and build up on the bone structure and other organs thus which are causing sys-ter- n, the end? Your Oct. 28 issue carried an "Cleveland article entitled: Fluoridation Report," in which the beneficial effects of the of the public's fluoridation drinking water on the teeth of 800,000 children in that city was reported. We have no quarrel with the statistics shown in the article regardless of how they were obtained. It is the means used of forced compliance of all the which any city's population American should resist with all the might he can muster. There is nothing in our Conwhich permits one stitution of people (whether they group be doctors, dentists, chamber of commerce, public officials, etc., to impose, by compulsion, on the parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or whatever, who oppose the taking of a drug, into poisonous or otherwise, their systems which medical statistics have shown irrefutably causes many difficult and In some cases, ill many years after the intake of fluorides which are not norm- side-effect- s. Reader Defends Singer Cited side-effec- ts difficult to diagnose, these effects become troublesome to the patient. The means, stated in the article referred to above, ie., the violation of the use of the public drinking water to save the children's teeth, does not justify the end, the violation of one's individual constitutional rights and the consequent result of endangering the health g and of the oldsters. Even if there were not other legitimate "means" of handling the problem of children's teeth (tooth pastes, tablets, coating, bottled fluoridated water for drinking, etc.), the medication of all of our already water, would never polluted justify the end. The article indicated above, reports but one side of the coin, and entirely overlooks the detrimental aspects on the reverse side. The means do not. justify the end! well-bein- phase and last quarter. The morning stars are Mars and Jupiter. The evening stars are Venus and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1871 Henry Stanley found David Livingstone in Africa. In 1953 Ramon Magsaysay was elected president of the Philippines. In 1957 the U.S. Office of Education reported the Russians were ahead of the United States in technical and scientific teachings. In 1965 the aluminum industry bowed to administration pressure and recinded price hikes. A thought for the day: Carl Shurtz, said, "Our country right or wrong when right, to be kept right, when wrong, to put it right.' Oil needs of the United States are expected to grow from the current 12.3 million barrels a day to 17.9 million by 1980. The opinions and state- ments expressed by Herald columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of this news paper. Fred W. Morrison, chairman Utah Citizens Opposed to Fluoridation, P.O. Box 1182, Salt Lake by james o. berry berry's world In Forum Letter Interested. The home of tomorrow will be unrecognizable by today's builders. Development of new materials and know-hois such that there will be as many innovations in housing in the next 10 years as in the past 40. None can deny or fail to w measurable the progress since the 1920s. Electronic gadgets and construction materials have soundbeen made color-fas- t, proof and lifetime durable. Inside, applications of electricity have stabilized temperaor have afd tures forded light of variable color and intensity in such fantastic gadgetry as TV. automated doors and heated floors. Yet all the home improvements since your boyhood will be eclipsed in the home in which you may live just 10 years from today. Coastal cities will expand over water. Whole communities of upwards of 30,000 people will "float" on water. Sheltered, towns will be as appreciate provable year-aroun- as roofed shopcommonplace ping malls are now. By the time today's teen-agbuys a home, most of the building materials which he will use will have names which are not even in the dictionary yet. They will derive from research. They will include er run-dow- South Side is being replaced by a prepackaged community. An Indiana manufacturer of factory-built houses is installing a whole community of m town houses complete with patios, street lights, parking and play areas. homes can to sell thus be for $14,500. Only $400 down, with monthly payments coverFour-bedroo- mass-produc- "it's just like pro football NEA, Inc. on any given Jay, any ghen team can beat tiw top team place in their leadership ranks for Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, their defeated candidate for vice president and the whip post would be the best they could offer. Mansfield and Dirksen, the GOP leader, face no visible and opposition to none was considered likely to develop. In the Republican ranks, a fight was believed brewing over a successor to GOP whip Thomas H. Kuchel of California, who was defeated in the primaries. Sens. Hugh Scott, the liberal Pennsylvanian, and Roman Hruska, the Nebraska conservative, are the chief contenders. At Home of Future nt 1I br But there is a possibility Byrd might not make it as Long's successor. Byrd made enemies when he supported Long in the welfare incident. Also, Democrats may want to make a Scribe Takes Look presently experimental adaptations of styrofoam, transluc-ceplastic panels, fiberglas and polyester resins. One Indiana firm will pioneer In "spray-o- n houses." Experimental plastic foam walls art proving to have a higher compressive and tensile strength than concrete. Plastic pipe, already proved practicable in homes, promises whole prefabricated lightweight plastic rooms for houses and multistory apartments. n A area of Chicago's (T) campaign. Paul Harvey petro-chemi-c- al Editor Herald: In response to Mrs. Valenta'i letter of Nov. 6, I feel that Mr. Seeger has the right to be defended. From the tone of her letter I received the impression that all of Mr. Seeger's sons I tend are communist-inspired- . to disagree. I refer to one song specifically. It is titled, "Turn, Turn, Turn" or more commonly "To known as, everything there is a season." Mr. Seeger feels that this is one of his better songs, and he is frequently heard singing it. What is interestnig is that the words to this song come from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. Mrs. Valenta may now (Law her own conclusion. My name is not undersigned because of past experiences like this one. I sing and play the guitar, and was once the target of barrage of phone calls because I sang Blow in' in the Wind (Dylan) in public. venes. Has Embarrassed Others Long's unpredictable behavior as No. 2 Senate Democrat has embarrassed, if not angered, some of his colleagues, raising doubts in some quarters that he actually would be retained in the post. Last year, for example, Long stubbornly argued on the Senate floor the with Mansfield, Democratic leader, over Long's plan for federal financing of presidential election campaigns. And made Senate Long liberals furious when he caught them off guard with a quick and parliamentary thwarted their effort, led by the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D- - shuffle History Favors Byrd Long would look favorably on a Sen. Robert C. Byrd, close political associate, as his successor as w hip. If Long were to step down and Byrd were promoted, Byrd's present position as secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference would be up for grabs. Likely contenders would include Sens. Fred Harris of Walter F. and Oklahoma both Mondale of Minnesota, active in Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's presidential third-rankin- g Finance Committee. But Long wants to make certain his departure cannot be as a stategic interpreted withdrawal made out of fear he could not be as whip when Democrats caucus just before the 91st Congress con- Wife Editor Herald: Do the means justify I By FRANK C. ROBERTSON often asked what I think is the main difference between California and Utah. The answer requires some thought because the similarities are greater than the differences. California is larger and has more people, but the people are much alike. Utah is dominated by the Mormon church, but there may soon be as many Mormons in California as there are in Utah and some contend better ones. lists services The local Times-Delt- a In the Church of Jesus Christ xi Latter-da- y Saints along with other denominations. This is as it should be and gives me a choice, which is to stay away from all of them as I did in Utah. The Mormons have better public relations and advertising. Any normal person had rather listen to the Tabernacle choir than the bombast of the radio preachprs who run )eople down. It is refreshing to turn on some fire and preacher 12 Have His Say S I am against And they move among the Beginning in 1961, its gross national product leaped forward at a rate of nearly 10 per cent per year. But by the end of 1967 it economic appeared the Spanish least at temporarily miracle, had run Its course, and added Franco's difficulties. Inflation for the year came to cent. 12 per more than and Bankruptcies young priests and worksrs. As Spain has sought to widen its contacts with the outside world, it has at home adopted a new constitution which in theory at least granted new freedoms to Spaniards, abolished direct press censorship a,.d given new recognition to religions other than Roman Catholic. Through most of the years of gradual liberalizaiion, it also fared well economically. like-mind- nmnnnenneIt) Will Jiffinilf IWMIl who tive hierarchy. Thieu Will The Chopping Block brimstone million members of the government-controlled labor union who demand freedom to organize their own unions and the right to strike. transformation has Spanish been going on since 1959, slowly and cautiously under the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco who seeks the way to a peaceful transition of power upon his ultimate departure, too slowly for impatient students, 'It's Just a Slight Case of Campaign Hangover m American affluence would seem to have reached some sort of limit. The problem of litter is now not just one of people dumping rubbish out of cars but of dumping the cars themselves. According to the Automobile Manufacturers Association, Americans junked six million cars and 856,000 trucks in 1966. The vast majority wind up back In the blast furnace by way of the scrap dealer, but for increasing vehicles, numbers of the worn-ou- t the police are being called upon to act as middleman. Because of new steelmaking processes that require less scrap metal, prices for scrap have fallen from about $42 a ton to $10 a ton in the past 10 years. Since it can cost more to tow a car to the junkyard than the junk dealer will pay for it, some people are simply removing their plates and leaving i They whip through the Basque in the north where nationalists are de. Basque manding an independent state of Spain's Basque composed provinces anj the three adjoining predominantly Basque provinces in France. stir among They young Catholic priests in rebellion against the church's conserva- country The Junk Yards In City Streets 5 By PHIL NEWSOM Foreign Newnsn Analyst The brief news dispatch said that hundreds of Spanish police, backed by water cannon, had the of University occupied Madrid campus to prevent renewed outbreaks of violence. Thirty policemen entered the school of law o tear down signs denouncing "repression." The winds of change in Spain are not gentle ones. ITI ing principal and interest ing only $98. total- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says the house is placed on a site and made ready for occupancy in three days! Tools necessary to apply many new construction materials are themselves revolutionary. But eventually, inevitably, unions will remove tool restrict- ions. Then, among other things, we will have single-sla- b spray-o- n seamless flooring. Necessity mothered most of these inventions. At today's wages we cannot afford to build houses one brick, one nail at a time. Without mechanization and modernization, building today's house with the hand tools of yesterday would cost two to three times as much. If progress temporarily displaces some building tradesmen, it nonetheless is bringing comfortable, safe, permanent housing within the reach of all Americans. Quotes In The News By United Press International Army Spec. 4 John Mancini of Warren, Ohio, saying what he thinks will be the Vietnam move of president-elec- t Richard M. Nixon: "He will bring a slowdown in the war in time but it will take at least a year for any big SAIGON improvement." - The Helsinki HELSINKI newspaper New Finland, commenting on the United States presidential election: "The fact that Spiro Agnew is the next vice president gives us reason to hope that Nixon will be in good health." TOKYO-- Lt. Gen. Lewis W. Walt, assistant commandant of liie U.S. Marine Corps, discuss, ing the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers fighting in South Vietnam: "The enemy there is an entirely different breed of cat. He is not properly trained. He is not disciplined. He is not equipped to go on the battlefield. I am confident that we are winning the war." |