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Show Page i. HERALD, Provo, Utah Sunday. April 1S-T- HE 1980 Chief Inflation Fighter Also Battles Gobbledygook "I espoused the heresy that regulations should be written to be understood," he recalled. While serving as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, he compiled a list of horrible examples of tederalese. When published under the title of "The Sayings of Chairman Kahn," the work won him a proposal of marriage from a matron in Boston and a nomination for a Nobel Prize by a newspaper in By DICK WEST WASHINGTON The (L'PIt room was full of federal regulation - writers, the quintessential bureaucrats, who were finalizing grilled half chickens for lunch On the podium was Alfred Kahn author of the administration's wage price guidelines. The topic of the meeting was "Plain English." Before he became President Carter's chief inflation fighter, Kahn was a noted gobbledygook fighter, and he still has the scars to prove it. 40 Pale ACROSS 4 House plant 4 Unused 8 Skin problem 12 Motoring 1 1 0 TlT 42 Attraction 44 Wildebeest 46 Mexican party item 50 Made weak Black bird 54 Tax agency Canopy (abbr) Wire measure 55 Horse Farthest-flun- (Pi) review 37 Exchange for money 38 Military expedition to Holy Land I 13 4 T2 n 15 Ti Ti rr JO A GlAlT D LXiii. U 8 N J F EQ0 Jp JM J A "" O ) David C. I!:bscn D.D.SM difference out of his own salary when Neve leaves his post as deputy city manager in Gainesville to come to Salt Lake. But Shearer said, "i uon t snow 11 uus is within the mayor's executive authority. It had been may understanding that when someone is placed within a particular slot, they must stay within the salary range." Shearer said she wants the mayor to "correct" the salary figure, lowering the amount offered $1,130 Neve. 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Our Bassett three-draw- er dresser in hardwood. pine-fini- sh dresser four-draw- er pine-fini- in hardwood. sh 43 46 47 53 I 48 I It's National Baby Week 49 54 55" 56 57 58 59 60 - When critics complain they are losing money because of inflation, "I remind them that the dollar isn't worth much anyhow." 47 Wing (Fr.) 48 Prune Epic Before this Smells Birthmark Genus of I .1 Thomas 37 Visual 39 Most wise Slopes 17 H ample: L OjN ? 36 Patriot 19 Flag flower Dog house To love (Fr Friable S j C 9 Cote sound 10 Our (Fr ) 1 1 Triton 17 N .i U j t0TA IT V 36 - I N C 33" 151 u n d beasts," but he felt he had done better against gobbledygook. !n either case he has utilized humor to temper criticism. Ex- 20 32 50 t 1 XL 30 38 T 5 tiJLX XfT s e LL s J 11 .1 at whipping inflation. Both, he replied, were "hydra-heade- u 129 35 SALT LAKE CITY UPI City Councilwoman Alice Shearer says Mayor Ted Wilson made a mistake when he offered the new budget director more than the city can legally pay. Wilson hired Rodger Neve of Gainesville. Fla., to fill the post as City Office of Budget and Management director, effective May 1, at an annual salary of $45,000. But the highest figure on Salt Lake City's salary schedule is 143,870. The mayor said last week he made a mistake in the salary figure, adding he would make up the A NT AW A TC T Tl f wTlS T 11 V 6 8 P.X ONE TjW pUT I G E R JA "wl T IS JW E "oT A Q.M.. T E E 16 15 2l 128 A N H TT" 27 W 22 24 Metric foot 25 Let sink 26 Korean border 27 river 28 Idol-lik- e 29 Medicines 31 Fortune Ram's mates 33 Underarm 34 Might 35 Month (abbr.) 36 Gives bad 12 mo M S 1i f n d GlM directives Dye 56 One (Ger) 20 Tree fluid of 21 Take a chance 57 Organ speech in Florida 23 City 58 Short for 27 Concerning gentleman sound 59 Communists 30 Removed 60 Printer's contents measure (pi.) 32 Roman date 33 African animal DOWN 1 1 t MjMi HO O long-tim- bledygook with regard to bis success "significant." Above all, said Kahn. whose lecture was titled "How Writing like a Person Can Convert a Bureaucrat into a Person " bureaucrats should keep ia mind that reUstsons art "read by human beings." "You can't fool people by drowning them in words " he admonished. When the clinic ended, Kahn was asked by a reporter to compare his success at overcoming gob Mistake Charged to S.L. Mayor - Answer to Previous Puzzle Composition Other no-non Kahp's roster of terminology included such e bureaucratic favorites as "implement," "finalize," "utilize" and "with regard to." He also attacked "pronoun-phobia- " "false gentility," "pomposities," redundancies" and excessive use of quotation marks. One of the latest writing sins, he said, is the overworking of the word taboo tongue. He told the group that "addressing should be confined to envelopes, audiences and golf balls." Singapore. He was, in short an ideal choice to address a government regulation writing clinic sponsored last week bluish-gree- association 13 14 15 16 18 by three agencies striving to implement the president's directive on language simplification. "Address," by the way, in the sense of addressing a problem, is one of the words Kahn would like to see banished from the federal Celebrate and save 20 5 , off 20 yinlDInlS) at no extra charge when you buy custom draperies. all The look, the style that's only yours. Create it today with beautiful custom draperies and let JCPenney give you a present: the lining. We've a wide range of decorator fabrics in hundreds of colors. Your JCPenney decorator can help with all the details. Call today. n diaper bags. T I jj i ( yi I 20 off selected items for baby. J JSi y off 20 all t jC- x i m 1 F? Call P.i 224-131- ictnm rternratinn Dfirartment. 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