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Show Letters to Editor Thursday. March 3. 1977, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah-P- Sees Political Motivation in 39 age Hospital Revamp Forward Step for Orem Oreu voters - some them -The recreation complex made decision of a Tuesday to proceed with a $4 million bond issue for a recreation complex. The decision apparently is a good and farsighted one. Certainly Orem must rapidly-growin- g provide new recreational facilities to keep pace. The disconcerting thing is the low percentage of the citizens who trekked to the polls only 12 per cent of the registered voters. A total of 1524 citizens 64 per cent of those voting favored the There 846 negative were proposal. - votes. A light vote wasn't a complete surprise since special elections have a history of poor turnouts. Chances are the snowy, wet weather discouraged a lot of voters. include an Olympic-size- Editor Herald: This letter is in reference to the impending administrative reorganization of the Utah State Hospital. It is beyond me how a group of politicians and their appointed officials could be so presumptuous as to believe they know what is best for the state of Utah in terms of a mental institution. I sincerely doubt any of these politicians and appointees involved, have sufficient medical backgrounds to make these determinations. The Utah State Hospital has been cited nationally and internationally as a shining example of an institution that is extremely successful in treating people with mental illnesses. In the current issue of Newsweek is another article commending the hospital for its progressive mental health program. The present administration and organization of doctors are to be applauded for their foresight, humanitarianism, and dedication to their patients. is to d swimming pool, among other facilities. Orem City officials indicate the recreational complex plan is still flexible. Apparently there's still room for suggestions in and developing the final plan this is good because a number of citizens have urged modification, Another good thing is that Orem City plans no increase in taxes to build the recreation complex, with revenues from the center expected to pay the operating expense. The city council will proceed at once to complete the design of the complex, whose construction will represent a forward stride in Orem's progress and growth. "Like You Can't Lincoln said. But as Jimmy Carter is discovering, not only can't you please all of the people all of the time but there are some people a president can't please even part of the time. Mr. Carter has come in for as much criticism as praise for certain measures he has taken to curb governmental and presidential extravagance limiting the use of limousines by officials, for instance, or foregoing the fanfares every time he enters a room. You can't fool us, say some people. We know it's all symbol and no substance. You can't please us, say others. We don't want a "just folks" president who sends his daughter to public school or who appears on nationwide television in a sweater. The president is supposed to be someone special and different from ordinary people. Well, it really doesn't matter what some people say. There are times when the symbol can be as meaningful as the substance, esas we pecially if it symbolizes believe it does a genuine desire by Mr. Carter to approach closer to Lincoln's idea of a government of the people, by the people and for the people. He may never get past the sym- Switzerland's chief weatherman committed suicide. He left a note saying he just could not keep up with the changes. All oceans, of course, are immense creators of the weather. And melting of the Arctic icecap is occuring The oceans average 12,000 feet deep. Water levels are rising throughout the world's oceans. Solar radiation penetrates their surfaces. When it 11 degrees. penetrates to the extent ot only cubic mile, sun the creates, per Centigrade, the heat energy equal to burning six million tons of coal. Waves, in turn, spread the surlace heat further downward The Indian Ocean bothers weathermen a violent squall, a watching for a Sumatra sudden flareup of tuibulent weather that reaches out from the Indian Ocean There our Earth is traveling nearly 1,000 mibs an crushers hour. The waves can be giant-sizethat come from opposite directions and collide m fantastic crashes - course, create weather changes the Alps arc in combat The and Sahara The Storms, of hot Sahara winds rush across the Mediterranean to Europe. The colder air co,lldp sweeps from Poland's steppes Thoy in the Alps. The collision produces much of weather. Europe's mysteriously chaotic weather. Even earthquakes effect the unleashed Ouakes in Italy and Yugoslavia of energy. This more than 200.000 megatons ot V.,c biggest the power 000 times is about 2 ever detonated and 400 times the nuclear energy exploded in the total atmosphere of rash of The world is now the victim a like come avalanches Some Alpine men terror "The snow creeps." say snow It may wet snow, Th,s is cW. titled cubic meter The ;TlKh 1BM0 pounds can strike in magnificent slow-motio- rr avalanches Dehumanizing Burden' VA successful? It seems rather foolish to say the least to rearrange an institution that is already bureaucracy, custom and protocol. But even if he does nothing more than eliminate some of the pomp and circumstance and monarchial trappings that have come to surround the presidency, he will have earned a special place in history. Even flerald Ford, who had no exaggerated notions about his own importance, found it all too easy to get accustomed to the adulation and privileges we shower on our presidents. If Richard Nixon was not belabored by the press for dressing White House guards in chocolate soldier uniforms, Jimmy Carter should not be faulted for feeling that the playing of "Hail to the Chief" has been a wee bit overdone. So keep it up, Jimmy, and keep in mind something else Lincoln didn't say but would certainly agree on: The one thing you can't fool any of the time, or at least not for long, is history. Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell says he is tired of answering questions about busing so he is preparing a ll "position paper" on the subject. From what he has already said, it is obvious what that position paper will say. Bell considers the Supreme Court's last word on the subject legal and binding and incontrovertible. But he still does not like it. And almost nobody does. An interesting case has developed in Mobile, Ala., where black parents are suing the school district because they object to having their 185 black children bused to school each day. Some are enduring a round trip of as much as a hundred miles. Their civil rights lawyer in District Court demanding $15 million damages says that "busing children from their familiar environment is a dehumanizing burden." Though many blacks are as altogetner opposed as whites to the busing concept, this is the first time that blacks have taken legal steps to overturn a desegregation ruling. "Civil rights have become civil wrongs," says their civil rights attorney Orzell Billingsley Jr. Nonetheless, our nation's the athighest legal officer remains torney general bound by the law to perpetuate busing and to expand it wherever the "intent of segregation" is established. Complicating the legal considerations relating to this political hot potato is the fact that "racial imbalance, of itself, is not unconstitutional" It is only when that racial imblance results from somebody's racial "bias" that it is legally intolerable. However, a 1973 Supreme Court ruling in a Denver case stated that when a judge discovers official bias in one part of a school system, he may presume such bias is causing imbalance in other parts of the system. The judge may then issue citywide busing orders accordingly. Subsequent rulings of the high court, however, seem to contradict that 1973 ruling. An Austin, Texas, busing case was sent by the Supreme Court back to a lower court working successfully extremely successfully when compared with the last December. The Supreme Court appears to wish that there were some graceful way to back away from national averages. this unfortunate exercise in futility. And the attorney general's displeasure is conspicuous in such utterances as, "We are requiring our youngsters to do what we adults most certainly would not do." President Ford was the first President actually to suggest that the Supreme Court reconsider its 1954 decision but he, too, conceded that he was bound to support the law whether he agreed with it or not. Former Atty. Gen. Edward Levi actually undeitook to prepare another test .'ase for Supreme Court decision, but time ran out on him. The last considered Congress overruling high court with the a con- stitutional amendment. A shortcut to all that would require only that the Supreme Court concede that it has worsened the inequity it and sought to remedy bravelv reverse itself. Washington Window The Shuttle on Capitol Hill World Weather Becoming Trighteningly Different' Weathermen everywhere are puzzled. It was not reported in our newspapers but meet the you Paul Harvey bolic reforms, so entrenched are Henry J. Taylor The weather is changing. The terrible snows in Buffalo, Boston, Chicago, the are abeven in Miami Midwest, etc., So the are droughts solutely unprecedented. in California, Oregon, the Rocky Mountain states and elsewhere. - most interesting people!" Fool History You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, Abraham ifVU always say about a bus I STEVE GERSTEL WASHINGTON (LTD-- weather. The sun is the avalanch breeder. It keeps working on the mountains' anjient, crackled body during long, hot spells. Dry-sno- avalanches can strike at incredible speeds they've been clocked at more than 200 miles an hour. One cubic neter of the lightest snow weighs less than 20 pounds. And avalanches can strike in a strange mist like the Pacific's chill drizzle The along the South American coast. below-zero- . temperature? It can drop to 50 Because the mixture of snow and air is heavier than the air that surrounds it, the snow cloud pushes columns of air ahead of it. These smash everything before the suck it back avalanche itself strikes, and below. Then the avalanch slithers away, like a lizard leaving n cold rock. Veteran mountaineers drag behind them a red rope to help rescuers find them, deep. sometimes under snow 30 foot 20-fo- a still-ai- r Weathermen call the "white-out- " in strong not does occur It phenomenon. winds The condition of one's mind changes by the second, like a kaleidoscope One begins seeing buildings, huts, etc., where there are none. The mind becomes a maze of twisted thoughts, eyelids leel like heavy steel shutters waiting to clang down Finally, one goes into a confused, disturbed, jumpy kind of shallow sleep. Weathermen also note an increase in If one is snowblinded, alone, desperate and seeking a way to somewhere, one always circles to the left. Yes. Always to the left No one knows why. well-shake- n snow-blindne- Weather is mankind's favorite topic It is watched internationally and reported by some 8,000 land stations, 3,000 aircraft and 4,0''0 merchant ships Men and women everywhere in the world huddle in offices and give'meteorological judgments. Hie findings are coupled by an international teletype network newspaper editor or TV station operator will tell you that he can omit other news but not the weather or a listing of temperatures The weather is a news must throughout the world Any At recent breakfast in the White House, President a Carter expressed his concern that members of the Cabinet and other top administration officials have to spend too much time on Capitol Hill. Carter received sym- pathetic understanding from the congressional leaders who were meeting with him, but no promise that the shuttle up the Hill will be any less crowded than in the past In fact, Carter and his Cabinet have yet to witness the peak period w hen congressional committees summon officials to admiiiistiatioii testify. A good example as any of what bothers Carter occurred Thursday, Feb 24. On that day. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Defense Brown, Secretary Harold Andrew-YounU.N. Ambassador and Budget Director Bert Lance all had to troop up to Capitol Hill for vary r., PvIIiaJ.n lu testify. Vance testified before a gressional committees consider legislation, authorizations and appropriations when the number of executive branch officials testifying will be even larger. The one Cabinet member certain to spend a good deal of his time on Capitol Hill is top-lev- Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal. His predecessor, William Simon, complained that his many sessions before congressional committees was a major burden that left him struggling to find time for his own duties Committees always insist on calling the top man in the department and Simon said many times a subordinate could have carried out the assignment just as well The root cause of the problem is Congress Not only is there a prolifera-on of committees and subcommittees but there is a nearabsolute Jest Your subcommittee on foreign aid programs in the next fiscal year. Brown appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to explain defense in the current year I.ance appeared before the Joint Economic Committee on Carter's revised budget And Young talked to a House international relations subcommittee on the United Nations' participation act In addition, a number of of- l government ficials also were testifying in committee rooms spread among the Senate and House office buildings There will he davs - as con lower-leve- refusal for House and Senate panels to sit Senate appropriations reductions W. Knowledge BY WORLD ALMANAC Match up the U S state with its correct nickname New Mexico 1 Utah 3 Kansas 4 Washington 5 Idaho 1 i Sunflower state hi Evergreen state ci Gem state of Enchantment d ri Beehive State a J? q together and listen to As a result. Brown not only explained Carter's cut in the Pentagon budget to the Senate Armed Services Committee, but he will have to repeat the reasonirg to the House Armed the Committee, armed services appropriations subcommittee and ihe House armed services appropriations subcommittee. The possibility that these four panels could meet as one body to hear Brown and spare Hi ii three extra visits and many hours repeating what he has already said is totally foieign to the thinking of the Services Senate Senate and House The Senate tins year at least took a stab at consolidating jiuisuliction so that all mailers dealing with energy are shunted to the Energy and Interior Committee. Last year, there were 17 committees and subcommittees dealing with some asect of energy. In the House, responsibility for enerpv matters is still widespread As Assistant Democratic Leader Alan Cranston related the breakfast meeting. Carter was not only concerned about the tune spent testifying but also about "often having to repeat the same testimony in different forums." The best Carter could get was an assurance from Senate Democratic Leader Robert liyrd that the situation would be considered by the Policy Committee and Caucus Byrd indicated that it might be possible to alleviate too problem to some degree but even if it is, the fewer trips a Cabinet members has to make small reduction. B'E a witness. to Capitol Hill will he such a ANSW F.HS: Z PI The people in Utah who have had to have a loved one institutionalized for psychiatric reasons know that their family member is not being sentenced to a life term in a human warehouse. They know that their husbands, wives, daughters, and sons are getting the best possible care available in the United States. So what do these bureaucrats want to do ... reorganize a nationally renowned institution? Certainly they can't justify this reorganization by saying it is better for the patients. I was under the impression that the politicians are elected to serve the people. The patients and their families are part of that group. Any family in Utah may be touched by the mental problems of a loved one. Don't these people deserve the best? What motive can possible justify the alteration of a successful system? Could a few bureaucrats be operating under the mistaken impression that getting in and changing something anything will make a name for themselves. Why not change a few of the programs and institutions that aren't Carter hardlv hkelv to notice is Janet Anderson Endow Route 3 Box 2H Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401 Mom's Career: Not Glamorous, But Rewarding Editor Herald: I just read the letter by Mrs. G.J. Miller, and since I feel as she does I am compelled to also write a letter in favor of women playing the woman's role. We all know that most women who have to support families would rather work outside the home to earn money than to go through the humiliation of welfare, not to mention embarrassment and inconvenience of it all, but there are some women acting like men and taking men's type of occupations. There are too many men needing to support families not being able to find his choice of a job because women are taking them. A large percentage of working people in America are women where does this put the family? The LDS Church and many other churches continually stress that the "mother's place is in the home." My own children are grown, but the first thing they ask when they come if I'm not in plain sight is "where is Mom." I have enjoyed all the aspects of motherhood, and a lot of work and anxieties go with it. Who doesn't need more money? Where can you draw the line of need for money? In an average income bracket we do not have colored TV, fancy clothes nor vacations. I drive a car, but I found pleasure in being together with our children. They have had the pleasure of knowing and a seeing something that is getting extinct mother around the house cooking, baking, cleaning and helping whenever the children, young or old, need mother or mother needing them. My paycheck has been the good remarks bv their teachers that my children were did not disrupt class, had led the list of best dressed, and now I s.ill have those sounds of music. Thev put themselves out to wave and say "hello'1 to the elderly friends as well as their young friends It's not a glamorous career to do housework and yard work, but it takes planning, patience and intelligence to accomplish all the demands. When I get up in the morning I don't feel cheated have put in 27 years of hard work, accomplished what I intended to do in my line of work. I don't get lot of a pension or retirement, but gratification I did the best I could 1 M R B Springville Barbs First ski lesson we ever learned is (hat don't belong on the th.ngs. e - it's always in Our TV set is an addict need of a fix The smallest particle of some substance it's the piece ol pork in a can isn't (he atom of pork and beans. is one who recalls when the An New only Pacemaker around was the crack York Central passenger express (rain., Keeping (he home fires burning is frowned the arson squad -Making nioncv so farther is no problem s keeping it in reach that's rausing most on b U of us trouble. thev could harness the energy of a tour year old. who'd need nuclear power"1 ilh mir I'm proudtnt. oure close a miser. he's money, If |