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Show alf Sribnnc Slit Section A Max Lfrnor Moinbv Morning, Drmnbe' 0, Slalc Mitikt Icnurl Call' for Daring 1 .. .. - . .. - I t Recent consolidation ie( onimemluliuns i old Cum diuatmg Utahs tw a CouiH.il on Natural Resources may genei-at- e but certainly not for being ambiguous. An apparent dctci ruination to led the council to meet matters head-oproposals that, if adopted, would bring dramatic changes in t!in state's executive In n branch. Ajiollo 8 Gives Life j(w Look Page !() l!)li-- SsT supjioit, ji.iiks d( 'i lupint'iit is only now gaming f ull inuinoiituin. Thus there is a qiu slum of piecedence. Could both programs i rally be augmented through combination, or would competition cause mutual mUrferoncc? Interestingly, agency personnel seem optimistic. They believe each progiam could ben- lit from lose r working relationship. Anel tiny see such things as boating needs, outdoor management, police work, property acquisition, general cemscrvation and overall planning strengthened through the allie d approach. Any statutory chaige must dearly segregate funds so both federal requirements and potential complaints of license buyers would be met. In fact, a hnt of alive details would need careful atte ht 1011. The council also recommended that: 1 Forestry and Fire Control and the Croat Salt Lake Authority be absorbed by Division of Talks and Ilcci cation; Division of Water and Resources Water Iand State be combined; Rights Hoard be concerned with state property council be trusteeeship exclusively; given more power to coordinate divisons within its scope. We see relatively little reason for disagreement. The natural resources grouping has received high marks for internal cooperation during the last two years. This may explain why the council can make such comprehensive proposals. We hope the governor and legislators will be as direct in their evaluation of the reports implications. : - 1 ' WLS h V&V ' TIip Apollo H flight, from start to f,nih, was the best New Years gift that America could give 'o history and the woild. I: dwarfs the pc y uigeiu'ies of the day, making most headlines seem trivial, and gives a r.evv jiersjiective to the wav we look at life. Il changes our conception of men in redation to iheir cosmos, their in and war ventures ibcir God and peace, . - x-- - - $ !? ( state coordmnt.ng Riogiess repoits councils created by the HK37 legislature are presently b ing issued, providing the governor and 3 069 Legislature a basis on which to advance further reorganization. The Comdmating Council on Natural Resources has evidently accepted the idea of full consolidation for compatible state agencies. Further, its recent report defines compatibility for divisions under council jurisdiction. While some might make distinctions in cases where similarities arc not altogether obvious, the council did not. Morco or, without qualification it recommended combining one of the most robust indeFish and Game pendent agencies with one struggling for status Parks and Recreation. The Utah Fish and Came Division is independent from the standpoint of revenue because of license fees and federal excise tax allowances. Although it nowr receives growing federal assistance, a state share of the stale gas tax for boating fac'litics, and pail of the 19G5 state capital improvement bond money, Parks and Recreation has had to compete for slate general fund allocations. While Fish and Game has a long history of public on long-tim- e thernselv os. The high moment of ihe flight for me was the point in one of the TV broadcasts when all three of the astronauts read from the Book of Genesis, This must have been true of everyone who watched and listened. Why did it move us so? Partly. I suppose, it was the piercing simplicity of ihe language in those first 10 paragraphs of Chapter 1 of Genesis, starting with "In the beginning God created ihe heaven and ihe eaith" and ending with Gods naming of Ihe land as Earih and of the gathering of the as the Seas, and how God saw thai it was st i vva-te- good. SMcial Poignancy But the words had a special poignancy in that setting, uttered by men who had seen what no men have seen before ihem: the Wvo The at i moon closer than anyone has seen it, pockmarked wilh craters, "a vat, lonely, forbidding sight; and the earth, tiny at an immense distance, yet a grand oasis in the big vastness of sjiace. There is a danger in the triumphs of mans ingenius mind, to which scientists and technologists have sometimes succumbed, along with the heads of empires. It is the mans arrogance in the danger of hubris face of mysteries he pretends to understand and riddles he pretends to have solved. I like to Ihink that these three men. who are of a new breed in terms of skills and turned to Genesis as their way of saying that the primal questions remain to be asked and the primal mysteries to be solved. It may also have been their way of flinging at the anxious of the little earth-me- n the affirmation that seems so alien to us today: "And God saw that it was good. Nr up here of the moon is It makes you realize just Mhat you have haek oil earth. lonelineNs awe-inpirin- g. James A. Lovell Jr. Red China Rooms" Despite .Mao Revolution The chaos caused by the Great Prole- tarian Cultural Revolution obviously has not disrupted Rd Chinas progress in developing nuclear weapons. Last week, the Chinese set off a device in the atmosphere, the eighth of their nuclear tests detected by the United States. It will be some time before air samples can be collected and analyzed, although there is already evidence this test was not a dud like the previous one just a year throe-megato- ago. Mao n do's not apply his doctrine that "Reds are better than experts Tse-tun- g to the field of nuclear research. Chinese scientists apparently are free of government or Communist Party interference and aren't compelled to use Chairman Mao's little red book of quotations in solving complex problems. The chairmans great goal is to make China the third strongest nuclear power in the world. However, China3 nuclear progress w ill depend in tiie long run on the recruitment of new blood. And where is that new blood coming from? Schools and colleges were shut down two years ago by the Maoist revolution, and the time loss is certain to affect luture scientific development. bomb was reportedly The latest and exploded an from airplane dropped as a conseearth the above and, high quence, the atmosphere was not greatly polluted with radioactive material. Rut we dont think this was done for the benefit of humanity. China, which started late and is in a hurry to catch up, tests in the atmosphere because it considers that the method. So does Most advantageous France, the other major nation that to sign the limited test-batreaty. e Moreover, a explosion provides fewer clues for the United States to evaluate. The test may have been intended as a gift for Mao on his 75th birthday. For the rest of the world, it is a warning of worse to come. China is on the way toward t.-s- t ic-fus- n high-altitud- The Public Forum building an atsenal of powerful nuclear weapons and the missiles lo deliver them. And while the possession of nuclear might may have a sobering effect on the Chinese it the "balance of terror effect must be remembered that the theory is of somewhat doubtful validity. Total Agreement jNamc? Orbiting Paragraphs is a problem for the Unemployment young. After a certain age we can quit worrying about it because it becomes compulsory. Editor, Tribune: According to what I read in your paper Dec. 21 and 22 in vorce and marriage, a personal due. Fair. Sec re I Inion Choice Should Stret Justice Mi-tak- en Another Viewpoint Prom the Wall Re Coal leudy an improvement to airhoi ir.oion iards? Thai's no time fiir or democratic than it would have been if N.xon suppoitc.s had travekd the onii :.y gening signatuies and then. they li al sinned up a muioriiv of the oh loi.to, Mr. Nixon lias hwn awarded the nay. Naturally, Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace like the employer would not iv allowed to sign up anyone. Even if employes always knew what the cards said - some of them have thought they were merely petitioning for an NLRB vote that sort of public voting is scarcely in the American tradition. It leaves the way open to all sirts (if pressuus, physical and otherwise. Employers aien't the only offendeis when it 0 r:s u int.mid.umg voikors. Whatever pi esse ie employ ois excii, m it's ha id to s1 Ivnv they nuke a fair clrv'ion imp issihle With the paver of i'li T.KR su.elv (ei i lo 'ho w ei he; iv w s , Irui' o' ni , ss !; n ( n i d li v ei 'a is are fu f o i.i.i.in at ; iv ()! ' ..'I 'll Ill d 1. s I (. II f'Mt ilum tail lein.siatenient wnh I, .a k pay. So i he NLRI, v seems to us. is overiy mod,,'t abou' i's ,.q. icily as a supervisor of t'ei'ions, When the aiieriunvp is to deny workers a fair and speret vo'e, the agency can and should try a little harder. fact lourmtl lie held, is ii sub-imi.- The Supreme Court h:.s agteed to d vii'.e whether a union can win b.u staining rights by jersuading a majority of a company's employes io sign authorization card' The question points up a conflict of principle in labor law administration. In most cases employes decide on a union lu a carefully supervised ekd ion. Nearly everyone agrees that is the bes' procedure, since the choice of a union is one of the more important that an employe will mike. Sometimes, however, tin National Labor Relations Board decides i hat the employer, by intimidation of employes or o her sieps, Ins made a fair eieciion irrpsiMc Th t's v.kat the bo;ud concluded in each of the fne ium s that the Supreme Court has . gieod io consider. In each case. too. die imi' it Ivd Me a si pu'h nz u ion cards (rom a me i"1 iy m wi.iiar. invohwi .i.ve the XL ill: ...s t vliurd il could not conduct a men in gn.i ii luled that t ht cards are sul'i.v.en: io inquire the companies to tMig.im with i he unions. There are, in our vtot, a couple of 'lie gs wrong with this pproaeh. In the first p'neo, ven assuming that no fair election could in ' c,i-dene- e 15 v Editor, Tribune: I certainly want to compliment you on your editorial in The Tribune, Dec. 15 titled a "Funny Way To Handle Public Affairs. I am certainly in agreement with you that the county attorneys office should withdraw from the suit. As this on the surface seems to be a question of elected officials' duties and authority, I am sure the pubWhats in a name? lic and citizens would be better represented if Plenty, say the young black militants both sides are represented by outside legal in East Palo Alto, Calif. And despite the counsel. three-to-on- e defeat in last November's Mr. Blomquist seems to forget that the election of their plan to rename the uninauditor is elected as he was by the vote of the people and that his job is to make audits corporated community Narobi, theyre of various transactions in county government. continuing the campaign. Audits can in no way be completed with a Of the 21,000 residents of East Palo fair opinion rendered unless the auditor has Alto, 20,000 are Negro. Palo Alto proper, available all the necessary information just across the Bayshore freeway, is the that he feels is right in order to render an home of Stanford University and is preopinion. In no case should an auditor be white. The dominantly hamstrung by one of the persons or parties young militants think an African name like Narobi would being audited. It is the responsibility of Mr. Palmer to obtain the necessary information resitown the Most of the give identity. that he feels is necessary to complete to his dents, as the election result showed, dont an audit and render a just opinsatisfaction want that kind of identification. ion on it. I am sure that if these facts and But if change is necessary, why not documents are made available to Mr. Palmer, t ha t the citizens of Salt choose a noted American Negro instead of County would have such an opinion. going to an African source? The name of The question that the public is concerned Frederick Douglass (1S17-1S95- ) comes is why does Mr. Blomquist refuse to aid aoout readily to mind. The son of a slave t He county auditor in completing his required and a leading abolitionist, be fought as duties as an auditor for the county? hard for Negro rights in his day as any of li was icported that Mr. Duncan told the commission that one of the sellers of the proptodays black militants. erty would just as soon give the money back to the county and forget the whole thing. I ain sure that the citizens of Salt Lake County are not interested in such a solution to this pn blem. I am sure that we can ail think of tiaf-fic many instances wheio thoie were men who Shiav manes i: own contribution lo would like to have given the money back and h the it for drunk tnler .safety by making to lird ins car keys when ho drops them. forgotten the whole tiling. I sincerely hope tiiat you continue your Hisioiy is so vague. We don't know comments on this question to the satisfaction w hei her the right brothers made their of all the citizens of Salt Lake Countv. flights at Kitty llawk first class or tourist. ROSS IIANCEY Whals in a -- o -- ( . . , 11 regard to statement di- is The gieat judges could help matters by not giving the women everything, leaving the men jtenniless. How wonderful it is for the women to have the opportunity of taking the men back into court for the purpose of iais-insuppoit payments. If the women bad to worry ataiut losing the children to the husband, theie would be a great lie.. I less divorce. Justice doesnt always flourish just because the women always win the ease. I am writing this in the hope that there is someone in this state in a responsible position who has the courage, honesty and integrity to do something abou1 it. I am not happy with the proposals as described in your articles concerning certain committee reports. GEORGE B. WALLIS JR. g FoiiiTinfi DUa-de- r Tribune: I applaud the technolo has gy propelled man to an almost certain teidezvous with the moon in tins decade. Our engbcering expertise has pmved to be the g cuv-- t in the world but mir exploitation ol it m no attempt in earn the admiration It is time i in k vv oi M !s d" bo able. of i ,n. f r Americans to icahze ih.it ihe tremendous-i- v expensive spate program is litile rnoie than a boondoggle. We are i browing away and submitting money on n only a pittance to the mote urgent, but less ; roblems. glamourous, earth-bounMankind Is reproducing himself Into obliv I Mi. w hit ii a- d Our Readers Would Have Liked ion, destroying his natural resources with no workable plan for replacing those whLh aie renewable, and he is perverting his own dignity with the cancer of social injustice and the perpetration of an illegal and immmoral war. While our environment is being polluted to the point of irreversibility by the irresponsible use of pesticides, automobile exhaust gasses, copious industrial wastes, and dangerous radioactive of nuclear testing we are paying a high price for an unnecessary Forum Rules ers. The man we remember as a genius in mathematics, physics and astronomy was equally concerned with Scripture and prophecy. and Manuel shows how he tried to make a unity of Scripture and science, of prophecy and history. Isaac Newton died, we are told, ffelir.g that his persistent questions had been left unanswered. (but very glamorous) space program, the promise of which lies so far in the future that it is negated by ignoring the more fundamental problems of population dynamics, conservation, and agronomy. The time lias very definitely come for a of our priorities and an espousal of programs aimed at bettering the existence of all men. After we have done that there will be time for man to explore space at his leisure and without having to worry about cinder after a misreturning to a burned-ou- t sion. Mankind is courting disaster if he follows his present direction. JAMES L. SUTTON Are We Closer Don't Tolerate SDS Editor, Tribune: I received a letter from Associated Students, U. of lT asking that I write our Utah legislators to urge increased public spending and support for ihe U. of U. I will not do that. Instead, I would strongly prcjio.se that all public money be withheld from the U. of U. until it polices itself and clean ils own house. Students for a Democratic Society (grossly misnamed as are most pinko organizations!, is to be allowed in the name of academic freedom. In the name of medical freedom, healthy persons could also inject themselves with malignant, cancerous cells, but it wouldnt be wise to do so. The actions of the new, young, far left at San Francisco State, Columbia, and U. of California at Berkeley should not have been tolerated by a society expecting to survive. SDS, in the forefront as destroyers of society and const notional freedom and of builders of socialism and communism, should not be allowed to exist. There are a few of us old fogies who proudly, and at risk, still belipve that universities are for gaining a higher education and not to be used as training camps for Marxist revolutions. CLYDE F. GILLETTE ISo Cros-So(tio- n Editor, Tribune: I have read with interest the letter from Richard Peay, Deputy State Director of Selective Service (Eonm, Dec. 24). I especially noted his comment that "Local draft boards are made up of a of our country . . This simply is not true, and the perpetuation of this myth by resjxmsible people like Mr. Peay is one major eausp of disrespect for ihe Seleciive Service Svstrm. 1 do not even knew who makes up ihe local booths, bul m confideiil they do not of lie rejnesenl a valid "cn.ss-snrton- " I'll giullv eat crow if I am wrong. If p'lijile under ihe age of .Ti, those with inivm'-- , of less ih.in S10, 1)00, oidinary cleiks, t 'i, ele., aie represented in reasonable IM'opnrtion to heir jiereenlile of the jiopula-tio- n census, I Hunk it would be a I'lisi. Until iliis is the ease, iheie is definitely no "cioss-sectiorepresented on draft boards! MKARL A. ROSE eross-sectio- It But then theie is New ion. When someone at the Houston Space Center radioed a question to the astronauts after the into the earths magnetic field, "Whos driving up there? he couldnt have expected the answer he got from Maj. Bill Anders: "I think Isaac Newton is doing most of the driving right now. Newton would have liked that, as he would have liked the reading of Genesis. As it happens, a bold ani elegant interpretive study by Frank E. Manuel "A Portrait of Isaac Newton has been published this year and strangely neglected by the review- Public Forum lottort must not bo mort than 250 words in length, must bo submitted exclusively to Tho Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for pood reasons on others. Writers are limited to ont teller every ten days. Preference will bo piven letters permitting use ef true name, and to those which aro typed (douDio spaced) and short. n 1 eom-nu..,ii- n 4 A is f When the man from Houston asked, "Who's driving up there? he may have had a level of meaning in his question deeper than he had intended. Not whos driving the Apollo, but whos in charge of the whole cosmic operation, including Earth and Moon and beyond both, ship and mariners, Newton and galaxies and all? Are we any closer today to resolving this question because of what space science has made possible and the designers and astronauts have carried out? In one sense perhaps, yes. Modern science undercut mans bland belief that he was the center of the universe, and modern philosophy reduced him to a trivial atom of matter in the larger cosmos. To be able to sail around at will in that vast cosmos may give man back again some of the confidence he or.ee had. i oi the arrogance of thinking that he understands the whole pattern, buL the quiet sense that he will not flinch from what he may yet iearn. II. G. Wells once thought that science would make men like gods. It hasnt, and it won t. That is why I liked the question thp astronauts asked as they looked down at the earth "Is It inhabited? and why I liked their exchange of trivia with the' Houston groundlings over the radio. We are not but perhaps we may grow up to become men. men-iike-go- |