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Show Letters to Editor Appeals for Cleanup Of Dangerous Street Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Thursday, April I, 1976, THE HERALD, Provo, .. Utah-P- Editor Herald. Flower garden crushed by rocks and pipes! Lawn covered with two to three inch rocks! Driveway obstructed by piles of rocks and rubble! Lawns covered with heavy dust The foregoing is part of the problems and hazards being inflicted by Prov o City upon the residents w ho live along F.ighth North between Second and Sixth Fast since the installation of a storm drain along Eighth north. One house has been 39 age I, End Job Insurance Fraud back to former employers or arc hired by a new firm, the temptation to draw an Some Utahns who apply for unemployment insurance benefits apparently cannot resist the temptation to cheat. The director of the Utah Job Service's Unemployment Insurance Division said this week efforts will be additional benefit check or two after going on a payroll affects some workers. spurred to detect and unemployment The more than Utahns receiving insurance and anyone else who may participate in the are urged to program take great care in filing effort has our support. The employment insurance program was set up to help people in a time of need. Benefactors ought to be grateful for the help as we are sure most of them are. Trying to "beat the system" is a practice that main being contractor. Various techniques are being used to detect potential fraud cases. Employers and others in a position to help are urged to cooperate. With united Most claimants are honest, the director declares. The small effort "Listen carefully and you'll hear the roar of inactivity." and voluntary cooperation of all those percentage who misrepresent are committing a fraud which carries some severe penalties. Paul Harvey receiving jobless insurance benefits, this type of fraud can and must be stamped During the first two months of 1976 the Utah Job Service's Benefit Payment Control unit investigated and sent 477 cases of They Say "I feel a I hearing. The most common type oi fraud concerns the failure of claimants 15 report earnings am very independence.. But I would not be too complacent if I were ... sitting in the high and thus the individual receives benefits while actually working, according councils, because things are moving in a way we Bad better take account of, or that party will go the way of a lot of others that have not changed with the time." California Gov. Jerry Brown, on the future of the to the unemployment insurance division director. "We are coming into the season when the incidence of this type of dishonest claim filing is the greatest," he said. Apparently as seasonal workers are called the University of the Pacific. Stockton. Calif., a student in pharmacy has devised a device which allow s a cerebral palsy patient to communicate by using his forehead muscles to activate a At think the independent. Democratic Party has been the party of change and I Democratic Party. typewriter. The If) magnifying and utilizing electrical activity in forehead muscles. There is electrical activity in all muscles. biofeedback the student Interestingly, developer in this case is Laurence t'pjohn, grandson of the founder of lliarmaccutical. Where preceding generations have been preoccupied with young "body chemistry." - . " strange upsets," Miduhic woiks untie to Valeiy mind as the nation plods toward the remaining to iIum-i- i piiiuaiies leading uj to the political conventions in New Wk and Kansas City this Although the nation's political process Is nut as devoid of value as Valcry would have us believe, still it is true that, by a "trick of inverted lights." voters, if they are not carelul. might well ser strange upsets before the year is out that they will come to regret Although the rampaign scavm is still relatively young, some clear trends have emerge! that could have summer. consequences lor g Whether those conAmerica sequences will be good or bad. however, depends upon the ability of individual citi?cns to separate chaff from wheat in 1976 Filitical our cili?cns historically have demonstrated an uncanny ability to do Just that. The trend most clearly visible on the political horizon is one away from "liberalism" as it is defined today, and toward an acceptance of limited and, this wnlei IVtwun. nore resjionsible role of government Evidences of this trend abound (tomion surveys find that a plurality of our citizens want the counlry to turn in a more rorserative ditct tim leading liberal lights such as Rireh Itayh. Fred Harris and Sat pent Shriver quickly found their presidential fvpes extinguished in the early primaries This leave only Idaho wU ha yet to Sen Flank Church and Arizona be tested in a primary Hep Morris Idall as active to carry liberalisms torch toward the White House. And t dall. reing the conservative wnimp cm nne - - s the wall, recently deciared in Wisconsin th! he !" lonper i rvm A going to rcler to himself as 'liberal '' Such iMg ing and weaving has left generation is a new of "body electricity." You are electric! The most rapidly developing and most exciting new medical specialty is "electromedicine" or "elect rophysiology " As just one for instance, understanding liberalism' WASHINGTON politics!" said Paul Valery. "at that word 1 arn overcome with silence .. I regard the political necessity of exploiting all that is lowest in man s psyche as the greatest danger of the present time ... There (in politics), vibrant and buaing. are the meddlers, the bores, the buffoons... Some roar, others whisper in your ear. Some know every thing and are silent. Those who talk know nothing By a trick of inverted lights, friends see each other as enemies, fools look impressive to the intelligent ... I could lose myself at this fantastic in fact fair, where even arithmetic arithmetic especially is subject to Upjohn pioneering Trend of Retreat From employs system Larry's Lee Roderick other liberal members of Congress aghast Speaking at a recent dinner in Western Pennsylvania of the Americans for Democratic Action, for example. Rep. John Conyers I warned ADA members that they had better "confront the new faddish conservatism of the three A.s Austerity, Arrogance, and Apathy before it completely Innundates the Democratic Party.' Political conservatives are both delighted over the liberals' predicament and nervous lest the latter steal what they see as their thunder by right and by record. "The Democrats this year are trying to pull off the greatest act of piracv since the infamous tllackbcard," iumes House u Republican Leader John Rhodes I in the March issue of the House lOi' newsletter "Suddenly," he continues, "they are trying to appear as devoted disciples of reduced federal spending and decentralized government To hear some of their candidates talk, one would be led to believe that if they continue in power, one of their first acts would be to make profligate spending walk the plank after four decades of deficit spending and agency building, now claim they actually are dead set against that kind of government " The choice faring American voters this year drs not have to be a retreat frm valuable social programs in order to bring about a leaner, more Mich I broken bones, which might require six months in a cast, with properly applied electrical stimulation may heal completely in six weeks! We've known that "you arc electric. " We check for malfunctions of brain vour with an We've electroencephalograph. 60 for experimented years with electricity as an anesthetic. But only now are responsible researchers considering electricity for treatment as well as for diagnosis. A tiny radio like electronic device the size of a silver dollar, implanted under the skin below the rib cage, within months will straighten a curved spine! And hear this: Two major of complications lung surgery are and bowel At Methodist with Minneapolis, collapse paralysis. Hospital. electrical st'mulation applied close to the incision, they have reduced the former by three fourths and have virtually eliminated that latter complication altogether. Eleelroanesthesia relieving pain without any side effects, pioneered in France and now promoted by our U S. passes current from a Army headband through the brain of the patient On 500 patients, "totally effective, totally harmless." A sort of "pacemaker" dcvidc has been adapted to the treatment of epilepsy Kpilepsy may result from nothing more complicated than a "short amut" in electrical brain waves. At prists all drugs, has responded to an implant in the One man, 26. cerebellum. who'd sulfered uncontrollable seizures every day. has had none since implantation of this device. even atrophy, circulatory problems in their immobile extremities; sometimes fatal clots. At the University of Southern California the hip and leg muscles of stroke victims are being "artificially exercised" by electrical stimulation. Northwestern University has produced the beginnings of a $6 million man Tom Rutkowski s entirely artificial hand is operated by myoelectric electronic muscle signals from his brain. These are just the crude beginnings of a fledgling medical science which is already being used to alleviate chronic pain, hasten healing we With eleclrophysiology may remedy a wide spectrum of mental illnesses We know the foods which fuel your body are converted chemically into the electricity which makes you function re going to leam to Now we regulate any event, epilepsy, which ici it 1976. ! los Angeles Times William F.Buckley Jr. fJj Nixon: Last Picture Show ill-Ar- and more responsible legible ederal -f- burcaucarcy, Rather, constructive conservatives have little difficulty in aligning themselves with a should philosophy ferocity expressed by Professor Irvng Krislol of New York I niversity one which, in his woids. ' approves of those social reforms that, while providing needed security and comfort to the Individual in our dynamic, uibanicd society, do so wiih a minimum of bureaucratic intrusion m the individuals affairs Such reforms would include, of course, orial security, unemploy-Mrfinsurance, some form of national heallh insurance, some kind it of plan, etc In contra!, it ibis philosophy) is skeptical of Ibos social programs that create vjsl and rnergrtic bureaucracies to 'solve social family-assistanc- e " problems W hile perhaps not agreeing with all of KrutwS picfram choice, the point to m:t citizens should be clear eolith social progress for America does not have tj stop at the water I edge of mxalk-- a "liberalism " making it impossible to keep clean. officials City contacted have repeatedly been in regards to this problem; and some halfhearted cleanup efforts have been made. But at no time has a concerted effort been made to ameliorate this unpleasant and hazardous situation. This letter is a public plea to the city fathers and the superintendent of streets to take care of please please this serious problem. J.S. Bonnett I don't know when perspective is going to set in. but until it drs. read me. pray, out of that fraternity of self adulators who surround Wudward and tVmstein as the exemplars of a new journalism fin-by ethical nmrrrn I haven't seen the movie, but it is an ironic masterstroke that it should siar Robert Hcdford Tlr last time out on the boards, luiflord was a CIA agent who w.is finally revolted by his Now he is born pntfcvMon again. unburdened of doubts Aitcmjil. for a moment, to rvraptunr pcrvjidivr A gang of over zealous Republic an puis decide they should find out what is g ing on in Umocraiir headquarters, and to that end organize a tram to Ixirglarizc offices and bring out Information that might be politically urlul The end d W result that f attempted of the professional privacy of Lawrence o linen was a dozen people in jail, and imaMitn the resignation f a President of the I mled Slalrs, the first time in history The reputation, meanwhile, of tlr ortiv prominent surviving Cabinet member of that has Urn under Oflanf attack hrrauv he had a hand hw dirrxt. we do not ks-in down triqfatfie tas that sought (o elale the smunrs of leaks of rvttiifwl miity itdnrmalion H is cales'-l- v poinled oui by the crrlrs one or two of the .'Vfenimslraiinn cxpr-ditin- pr!e who telephones were Upprd wete in rw visible way with national security matters, giving nw to pirvsihility that a Republican Administration had a prurient interest in the private alf airs of Ih-ymen Notwithstanding thcHC events, atsiut which the contention continues, one fad a des stand out It is that wtu;!e jn rson.il ddail about the Inrs of the tappers has ever n public print Mr Morion in an ILilp-ris engaged extensive civil lawsuit ag.i.nst Henry Kissinger. Hie absirart riiTits of which are here ajneclc-- e nt rxtrarMMiis It remains a fact th.it the public knows not a single thing alsmt Morton his sex life, Halpcrin's habits, his alcoholic muike. or even whether, a' tUhht. he is given to faniasi;mg cinvrrstinifis with Thomas Jcffervin It is with this background that one jmlgns tlve activities of uV (Jciioca! bur.;h nf $?r? identified with thai the brought investigation down a President featuring their invasions of privacy The difference U'twecn Richard Nixon and Mrs Graham is that he was an unsuccessful with a finite curiosity sirn human weaknesses. almtit w1nlr she. asempl'iyrr and riw as puneir. is sponsor of whose successful snwps, runcjsrty is entirely unlimited lYthaps their imagination is as unlimited as their prurience We cannot know how much of tlr current garbage about Hichard Nixon has been fahncaterl It har.liy matters Editor Herald: After attending two public nxvtings of the Nebo School District's bonding issue and reading about Provo School Distrid's leeway tax proposal. I have come to the following namely in the way of cutting down on less essential media, conclusions eliminating a lot of high priced busing, which is also very aggravating to most parents. Fourth, we should take a look into using some of our older buildings, which are costing millions to replace. Many of them, according to the state for some should be made to come up w ith a substantial payment for each building lot sold, to go toward school facilities for new residents. We who have been paying taxes for twenty, thirty years or more, have been footing more than our share of the new comer's bill. Second, the educational system is going to have to do some "belt tightening" also. teaching aids, experimental courses, etc. Third, we've got to go back to the neighborhood concept of schools, elementary thus are yet and can be remodeled for a fraction of the fire marshal, serviceable cost of new buildings. W.Robert Phelps RFDl.Box622 Payson Stroke victims, bedridden, frequently suffer muscular - - lllra-liberal- the alternatives to the above. First of all, the subdivides You Are Electric out. So by her house for fear that she will be hit by a vehicle - flipped rock. Her porches and walkways are covered with heavy dust and dust infiltrates into her house, Educational System Faces Alternatives Employment Security Act. can only be held in broken My mother, Mrs. S F. Bonnet t. who resides at Eighth North and Second East, is their claims in order to avoid violating the Utah contempt. suspected fraud to furnished culinary water through a rubber water hose from a neighbor's house for four months due to a water benefits proesecute violators. The 18,000 to walk outside afraid very much that has In sV;l otit ihf rest Nix i4 his life in San Clemenle. while tboM' who receive the hiliter Prizes and the Woman of uV Cent ury Awards take out advertising space telling you how. by merely buying their raitters It product, you learn can everything about the private lives of Richard and Patricia Nivm alleged that, on that final iMiuiig aller In- had reported te the American people that on the very m xt day, at noon, he wnuld resign the Presidency of the Umtiff States. Richard It is Nixon saw a broken is s.nd It is not clear what else he might haw Uvn expected to And (hat Richard Nixon x turned to Kissinger and expressed himself as an uiofiv, tT.rr4.un. everi as Kissinger was an imperfetl Jew. and suggested that thev kiHTS. go dmn on their and pray for help it mm fad Editor Herald: May I as a retired individual whose retirement income has not increased one cent in the past several years, as I am sure is true of many hundreds of others, urge the defeat of the proposed leeway lax for the lYovx) School dist rid The reassessment of our (ionics is of itself going to raise our taxes substantially and if the same rates are maintained. isn't the school distrid going to also get substantially more revenues? If it has been possible to hold expenditures for materials and sujiplies the same for several years as reported in the Daily Sunday, then may I urge the same cost saving procedures be adopted for all expmditures even if it means using fewer teachers with masters degtee winch Dr. Wing said might be necessary if the bond doesn't pass Would there fx' anything wrong in these inflationary limes with cutting back on community school programs and field trips and transportation services which he also mentioned'' lr Wing also commented that if the bond issue does not pass it might be necessary to mlucv class sie May I quittc from a report in a Salt li may Like ncwsp.ioer come as a surprise to many parents and taxpayers to thai discover every conceivable test on I he notion of rlass size and its effect on has learning proven unequivocally that class size 4-rH make a significant s difference" The report omuniM s. a class size of li or a class sie of 2a. according to education reseaich, drsnl make enough dilferenec to be cost worth the tremendous involved in keeping classes small " Maybe the Provo District is spending too much on capital expenditures as figures from the Utah Stale Board of school Education for the IS74-7year show Provo spend $330 per pupil against $183forSa!( Lake. $39 for Ogikm. $300 for Logan. $71 in Murray and $119 in the Granite district Let's not increase our Vote present high taxes against the leeway! Another Retired Citizen Thoughts To Inspire Rut he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, bring do hearer thai forgrts but a dorr that acts, be shall be blessed in his doing. James 1:2a. "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything " Samuel - Johnson.' English lexi- cographer. Once upon a lime people listened to fairy stories. Today, they lune lo the weather station. Some parent don t have enough gumption to ride herd on the kids, but they'd rather you'd just call them "per- missive." you didn't wake we had lo get up lo antwrr the phone anyway, stupid. Of course us ' There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and thai s your own self So i u have to be gin there, not outside, not on other people That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner " Aldous Huxley, English biologist - called Ibury K'ssinger to the White House Kissinger (Hie Retired Provo Citizen Opposes Leeway Tax gathers that this is the from ennwragiil which one to deduce is that Nivi was really fs. inkers having' tin imr kmvs I mean it tct what the British call Pl.t' People Like Use The rohtocrs ol this last " around against Nixim had U iter get down on their knee xy pray that the l,ord is mlimtely merciful, htxause if Ik' is anything less than lhat.j th7 art in! rouble Today In History The Mtnanac Its United Press International Tiriav is Thursday. April I the 92nd day of IW w ith 274 to Mlon It is Apni Fo"i sD.ty The moon is ticlwecii Us new pfwsf and f list quarter Tbctootiiing star is Venus. The Mcmrv. are morning si ;tr Mars, Jupiter and Solum Tlse itfi'V fmni on this dale are rtiicMgnof Vie Ruva.m cotnniMT Srgei R;tim,)nirtoff was b"fn April I. 187,1 1his is actress lVWnc t Ith birthday On this day inhistorv. In Cincinnati. tbio. (Mving us liic ik part- us nt a tegular salary C'rdi nary firemen diew $M)aycar In 1918. the Rova' A;r I t ree and two months later liritam hegan bombing industrial targets in Germany from French bases in World w,is founded W I In 19.11, " iSycaMdd Virne Mitchell btvamr the first woman to sign wiih an all malr base ball team She puned the Chattanoiiga.TeWl .club In 1975. Communist ttooi s from the north srpt into South Vietnam towns on the Central Coast and it wat feared an atlack on Saigon was immiiKtit "Jaikic A thought for the day: Urman philosopher Phcdnch Wilhtlm NirU'che said, !!(V"H are the forgeitol they get the better cjf thrif bk'k es " fr |