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Show I Editorial Page Feature smr v Wednesday, TWy? j jJP MjjJiJs Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah November THE HERALD, Provo, 4, 1970' 25 Utah-P- age Alaska Oil: Detour to Market Some disappointing news for romantics. All those glowing hopes for the imminent realization of an age-ol- d the opening of the fabled dream Northwest Passage to commerce are going back on the shelf, at least for awhile. The oil company, Humble, which financed the trailblazing voyage of the combination Manhattan last fall, now says it is tanker-icebreak- er to suspending further efforts develop the sea route across the top of the continent as a means of moving Alaskan oil to market. While the decision to put the. Northwest Passage back on ice may dash great expectations in some quarters, it at least has the advantage of also taking the heat off several potentially sticky questions raised by prospects of ships in any considerable number playing the frigid channels off Canada's northern coasts, primarily the question of jurisdiction. Ottawa has already laid claim by extending its territorial water limit to 12 miles, effectively taking in the passage but drawing a demurrer from Washington which, for good reasons of national economics in this case, declines to go along with national encroachments on the high seas beyond the traditional three-mil- e limit. Not the least part of Ottawa's News (Good) On Airjackings Along with the metal in female undergarments and other oddities g that have been providing kickers for the news summtjies, new airport security devices and procedures have beer turning up suspicious persons and chuckle-provokin- weapons. The apprehended aren't confessing evil intent, but odds are heavy that some at least had unscheduled flight detours in mind. "We don't know how many airjackings we've been able to avert," says retired Gen. Benjamin Davis, who is running the air security program, "but we do know we've made a number of flights safer." Which is certainly good news, and also says something about why, as some complain, there isn't enough reporting of good news. Often it is what didn't happen, and can't be known. Cyclotron May Be WVVV concern has been the protection of the Arctic environment Tanker traffic would mean pollution, possibly oil leaks which could have disastrous effects. Development of the Northwest Passage was thus shaping up as a conflict between economic and ecological interests. Ironically, however, as it turns out, it is economics rather than ecology which is now blocking the passage. To build the huge tankers and up) envisaged in (250,000-ton- s U.S. shipyards, as required by federal Jaw for ships engaged in domestic trade, would be so costly estimates run up to $30 million per tanker that the economic advantage of moving Alaskan oil by water vanishes. The result is increased emphasis on the projected pipeline that would cut 800 miles across Alaska from Prudhoe Bay in the heart of the e Port North Slope oil fields to Valdez east of Anchorage, from where oil would be moved to market by conventional tankers. Plans for the pipeline are with pipe already stockpiled along the surveyed route. But again there are fears for the en- Science Today By ROBERT D. LURATI DAVIS, Calif. (UPI) -- The nighty 'cyclotron may become key weapon in the war against air pollution, a team of University of California researchers reports. The team was performing experiments this summer with the school's medium-energ- y cyclotron when, by accident, it discovered the atomic accelerator could be used to identify elements in the air and er wide-rangi- on is said publicly about suppression of dissent.' Spanish newspapers are not now censored in advance. Reporters, individually, and the newspapers themselves can be fined for slandering the state, however, and publications can be suspended with all of the economic penalties which such a suspension embraces. Occasional editions of foreign newspapers, which including the Paris Herald-Tribuncirculates widely in Europe, simply do not here when they contain reach the news-stan- d reports which are considered objectionable by Spanish authorities. In iie department, however, the authorities are very tough indeed, as two American newsmen discovered last week when they were detained briefly, in a case of mistaken identity, until the real fugitive was discovered hiding on the airliner from which they had just disembarked. There have been very few unpleasant incidents Involving U.S. military men, who maintain a very low profile here, and U.S. commanders boast that relations between our military men and the Spanish 'locals" are better than those which exist anywhere else outside the United States. e, circulating here that Franco may be preparing to appoint a Premier and thus y share some of the responsibilities of government. Franco would, of course, retain most of his power as head of state. Designation of a president of the Council of Ministers would, however, let Franco take a firm and direct hand in his own succession. So far, most of the speculation with respect to such an appointment has centered on Adm. Luis Carrer Blanco, a conservative who has long been one of the Generalissimo's top aides. Some observers think, however, that if Franco defers the appointment for a while longer it could ultimately go to Gregorio Lopez Bravo, the much younger foreign minister v hc is a charismatic comer in the current regime. day-toda- Vh is worth (NEA) at least considering to what extent some of crime research. Or take housing and medical care, major factors in skyrocketing inflation. Hospital construction and operation is a industry while new residential construction accounts for $30 billion. Yet the federal government puts less than $10 million in research funds into hospitals and less than $24 million into housing. The pattern is much the same in education a item, public and private, in 1970. Federal research and development expenditures are less than $250 million a year. In crime, housing and hospital operation research figures out at less than of 1 per cent of total yearly costs. For education, it is not much better at one-haof 1 per cent. A first-rat- e private enterprise in a rapidly developing field, such as chemicals, will spend from 3 to 5 per cent of its sales doliar each year on research and development. No one who has sent a son or daughter to college recently needs to be reminded of college expenses. Rising education costs are also pushing up property and sales taxes nationally. Yet we are constantly being reminded that the quality of education at all levels leaves much to be desired. We don't seem to be getting our money's worth. Is the fact that a major drug concern may spend 10 times as much proportionately on research and development than does the public, through its various levels of government, on basic education studies perhaps part of the reason? These days there is a great dea' of criticism of the workings of the "system" in its details. The question is whether it works out as equitably as intended, starting with the Constitution. For a nation to remain free and to remove the inequities inherent in any human system in practice, a great deal of knowledge is needed. Yet federal investment in basic political science research now probably runs between $2 and $3 million a year. In all economic matters, including the increasingly heavy and unmanageable welfare burden, it probably totals no more than $20 million to $30 million. By contrast, we spend $7.6 billion for research and development in the Department of Defense, $1.3 billion in the Atomic Energy Commission and $3.3 billion in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This is not an argument for over-al- l greater federal spending. But a wide range of p'udies indicates that dolors spent on research pay off at a higher rate than dollars sPmt in almost any other way. . Government could profit from private enterprise's experience in this area. one-tent- h lf '"W j T. in , f V . ' 1 I '' ' By United Press International SAN JOSE, Calif.-S- an Jose Incident Shows Need For Better Police Cooperation Editor Herald: I am herewith detailing events regarding a missing 1966 Pon-tia- c allegedly stolen from us, and the cooperation received from the Provo City Police Department in attempting to recover it. The missing Pontiac was rented Oct. 19 to three Negro people, for one day only, when their car was towed into our place of business with the motor was not returned as specified we began our own search for it and on Get. 24 filed a complete theft report with the Provo City Police giving them several addresses on the people allegedly involved. On Monday, Oct. 26 at 5 pjn. we received a long distance call from a person, still driving our 1966 Pontiac we were informed, requesting information on the motor for the old car. This call we had traced after the man said he was in Ogden and the QUICK QUIZ Q Which European country has provided the United States with the most immi- grants? A Germany Italy second. ranks first; Quotes In The News Provo Police found in fact that he was calling from Nephi. Both Harmon's and the police now knew specifically where the missing car vas. We fully expected the Pontiac to be im- mediately rxovered by a simple call from the Provo Police Department to the Highway Patrol who could easily radio the information to Nephi and recover the vehicle. Several phone calls later, to the various Police Departments, we find this was never done and no real attempt was made to recover the car. The Highway Patrol Dispatcher, on duty at the time, specifically stated that he never received the information from the Provo Police Department. Further, no cooperation seems to exist between the Provo Police Department and the Sheriff's Department. Our taxes and various donations to the police during each year should get us Letter police effort and certainly some cooperation between the three forces. How would you like to have $1200 stolen, help get the suspects located exactly with the goods, and then get no help from the police to recover them? Very truly yours, Police Chief Ray Blackmore saying last Thursday's attack on President Nixon's limousine was "exaggerated:" "I did not have any concern that the demonstration would get physical. The barrage on the President was verbal, not physical." EOSTON-M- rs. Aristotle QOn what day will the 21st century officially begin? A Jan. 1, 2001. The year 2000 is a zero year ending the 20th century. Q Which is Canada's newest province? A Newfoundland, which became a province in 1949. Kennedy, expressing her grief at the death of Cardinal Richard Cushing: "Cardinal Cushing's suffering has ended and the world has lost one of the greatest men who ever lived." London Daily LONDON Sketch writer Anthea Disney explaining why the paper picked New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay to head its list of the world's 10 sexiest men: "He has the sort of features made for the back of coins: Boyishly handsome, with faint creases of care around the a neon smile and eyes, normally a lock, of hair falling over his forehead." Changes Coat The ermine or stoat, a weasel that lives in cold climates, changes its summer coat of brown to white in winter. The animal usually is C. J. Harmon called an ermine only when President, Harmon's Inc. its fur is white. EEBBIS BID "II III II BARBS The first automatic watch in the neighborhood was the neighbor who snoops from behind her front room curtain. From the way the back yard looked this morning, I Bill ( the kids must have had a pignic. llf 1 By PHIL PASTORET When the boss says someone's priceless, we don't know whether he's on the way up or the way out. On-ass- is, the former Jacqueline er TOWARDS TRANSITION --Against thb background, some observers see the Generalissimo as taking a series of steps, rather consciously, to prepare the Spanish government for existence after Franco. The return of the royal family has already been arranged, of course. Now reports are i Si $74-billi- So They Say mgmm correctly identified the elements in the prepared samples. our major social problems are being compounded by our failure to invest sufficient funds in their study and development of remedies. Take as one example crime, which has increased with such startling rapidity and which this year will cost us an estimated $50 billion. Yet we'll spend less than $39 million landscape and wildlife. So again it comes down to a question of ecology vs. economics. And if experience is any guide, economics is likely to win again. V chemists. In each case, the researchers said, the results WASHINGTON possibly irreparable damage to the Alaskan Commercial television's product today is derivative, not distinctive. The result is by and large bland where it should be bold, poor where it should have power. Michael H. Dann, former CBS-Tprograming chief. We would suggest that the mayor spend less time promoting himself and more time trying to solve the problems of New York City. Rogers Morton, Republican national chairman. argon are "boiled" off, and what is left is then bombarded The by the alpha beams. remaining elements are identi- - It and M. Blount. The new technique has been Samples of air are liquefied tec ted on both collected samat minus i degrees centi- ples of air and on samples' grade. Nitrogen, oxygen and prepared by Davis campus On Basic Study northern tundra to lay the pipe, conservationists say, could cause Freedom of speech will not protect the man who ialsely shouts"fire" in a crowded theater and it cannot protect the man who wantonly shouts "burn" in a college auditorium. Postmaster General Winton Bed by atomic weight The chlorine compounds, it was believed, enter the atmosphere as a result of burning waste materials which include plastic products. U.S. Is Foolish vironment. Slicing through the far-reachi- They said that by bombardment of air samples with alpha particles they could identify elements down to a range of about one part per billion on the light - weight chemicals which form most of the smog. Ray Cromley well-advance- d, Spain Is Peaceful Haven For Retired Americans cost-of-livi- ham-rfulne- ice-fre- Inside Washington MADRID For those of us who lived through the tumultuous prelude to World War II in the 1930s, there is a sad bit of irony in the steady stream of elderly Americans who are now seeking a calm retirement haven in Generalissimo Franco's Spain. There is apparently no disputing the facts, however. Knowledgeable sources here say Americans of retirement age are coming to Spain by the thousands to take up a more or less permanent residence for their declining years. Americans in Spain rre not required to register with the ITS. embassy, so there is no accurate total in this regard. One estimate, reliable if unofficial, is that between 30,000 and 50,000 Americans are no living here, in addition to those on government assignment and the 10,000 Navy and Air Force men who man U.S. military bases. Observers here mention two factors by way of explaining this immigration. The first, of course, is economic. As tourists from all over the world have discovered, Spain is one of the cheapest countries in Europe. The American dollar buys a lot of creature comforts for Americans who are trying to minimize the impace of inflation on their retirement incomes. The other important factor, according to in just the these reports, is sense that the expression has created so much concern in Ike United States. Spain has not experienced the rioting and other disruptive outbreaks which have occurred in cities in the United States and elsewhere in the free world. Large security forces army and police have long been the hallmark of authoritarian government. To many Americans they seem to mean more importantly, that it is still safe to walk the Spanish streets at night WAR OVER Spanish authorities claim that, for most Americans and the residents of much of Europe, the image of Franco Spain is still that of the civil war of the 1930s. They cmplain that it is a false image. Certainly (and, again, as an annual flood of tourists have discovered), there are no outward signs of repressive government, though the police and uniformed military are much in evidence. Amerksns here agree that little 4 stant physics professor. Regarding the discovery, he The researchers then began said, "We now possess an using the cyclotron in a inexpensive but sensitive methto detect new types of od to experiment pinpoint air pollutants and came up with pollution hopefully before they can ci.use damage to our a cheap, quick method. A coordinated use of strategi- environment." cally located cyclotrons could result in the regional atmosHis team was made of UC phere maps "showing areas of graduate student Robert Floc-chin- i, concentrations of pollutants and Alameda, Calif., Douglas allowing for identification of G. Hagens, Sacramento, Calif., major ssurces of pollution," and Miss Lynn A. Garren, Rio said Thomas A. Cahill, assi Linda, Calif. determine their potential Weapon on How Does Your Garden Grow? ruined. When the Pontiac By Robert S. Allen and John A. Goldsmith Anti-Polluti- 1?70 k, NEA, "One thing about tonight, with no more political campaign commercials, we won't be able to leave the room as often" Lighter Side Finance Dilemma Hits Magazines Some television program-proba- bly a championship footcurnational magazines rently are in the process of ball game will attract such a trying to improve their finan- large audience that nobody can cial situations by reducing their afford to sponsor it. WASHINGTON (UPI) -Se- veral circulations. Which is what the late Saturday Evening Post did before it went broke. Having always been bewildered by economic paradoxes, I couldn't understand how a magazine could make more money by selling fewer copies. Luckily, however, I have a few knowledgable friends, including one who works for the Agriculture Department as a price support consultant. So I called him up and asked for an explanation. "Well, it's like this," he said. rates advertising "Magazine generally are pegged to circulation Igures. If a magazine is popular and picks up a lot of new readers, its advertising rates will rise accordingly." "That's Good" "That's good," I said. "No, that's bad," he said. "If the circulation keeps rising, it "The championship football game originally scheduled for this time will not be seen because of technical difficulties beyond our control. Too many people wanted to watch it. Instead, we will bring you a old of rerun campaign speeches." Eventually, as you can see, the only programs left on the air will be those with the lowest ratings. THOUGHTS WEDNESDAY For the scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain," and, "The laborer Timdeserves his wages." 5:18. othy You can't help the poor by attempting to destroy the rich. You can't raise up the eventually pushes up advertisearner by pulling down ing rates to the point where wage some of its advertisers no the wage payer. Abraham Lincoln. longer can afford to buy space. a that happens, "When THURSDAY magazine has to reduce its "You shall rise up before circulation, which causes hdver-tisin- g rates to drop. Thus it the hoary head, and honor loses both readers and revenue the face of an old man, and per page." "That's bad," I said. "No, that's good," he said. "In theory, the lower rate attracts mere advertisers, making the magazine more profitable. Got it?" "Got it," I said. But I almost wish I didn't. Because now it's got me worried. May Happen to TV sort of thing you shall fear your God: 1 am the Lord." Leviticus 19:32. The Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone hut never hustled. Henry Brooks Adams, American historical writer. is to mass circulation Passions unguided are for magazines, then it is logical to the most part mere madness. Thomas Hobbes, English assume that before long it will start happening to television. philosopher. If that happening |