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Show m i,ji aMpr H. my nyfrtyn wntyn'ii ZSERET Little Gaflinburgs Big Lesson For Utahns - This peaceGATLINBURG, TENN. ful .mountain hamlet shoots holes in a major argument of persons attempting to bill in faraway pass a k Utah. The argument: That tourists wont spend more money in Utah until the state gets more accommodations, and the state has little chance of getting them until it assures potential investors of liquor profits. Things dont work that way in Gatlin-bur- g a community whose liquor dispensing laws are similar to those of Utah. Its the gateway town for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The population of this town, according to Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jim Walls, was recently pegged at that there seem to be queues Gatlinburg, Tenn. (without lined and for conventioneers tourists good food, products, service. everywhere, up Business is so good white-glove- d family-oriente- do. asked why I dont insist customers wearing coats and my said Jack Hill, operator of the ties restauOpen Hearth, an rant specializing in succulent steaks. If I did, Id be out of business. His place has been remodeled seven times in the 13 years since it was built 13 Somebody on d A cow years ago. before. in liquor-by-the-drin- pasture was there Hobert Trenthan, manager of another Gatlinburg restaurant, was asked if eating places such as his do well without selling We make a pretty good living, he . said. "Some people around here want some dont. The point is, Gatlinburg has not legaland all its tourist ized accommodations have been built without any promise of liquor promts to investors. And the growth is not stopping or k slowing. in My friend invested a been now and hes motel old an offered a million for it, said Mr. Walls. I cant nam all the million-dolla- r investments in tnis town. n parking lot here at the Chamber of Commerce that the city condemned and paid $350,000 for. Ive .We have a 250-ca- r been offered a million dollars for it by a man who wanted to put a hotel there. One group hopes to start soon on construction of a $7 million hotel. Local interests are building it. As is the case in Salt Lake City, only two of the big chains have ouilt motels in Gatlinburg. Gatlinburgs care less. businessmen couldnt of our accommodations are said Mr. Walls, he said mounits a reflection of the rock-hartain stock who developed Gatlinburg. Their names the Reagans, the Ogles, the Whaleys, the Huffs and the are seen on many of the moMaples tels, restaurants and gift shops of Gatlinburg. Although they stuff their tongues in their cheeks and sell novelty postcards Most home-grow- d caricatures of moonshiners, theres little evidence of mountain dew bearing W. E. King, Gatlinburgs city judge, tax assessor, telephone and radio operator at the police station, said he doesnt hear many cases involving white lightning." Another kind of lightning has struck the tourist boom. Gatlinburg Last weekend thousands of cars crept through Gatlinburg. A man complained to Mr. King there were so many cars on the road, he couldnt go any faster than 5 m.p.h. I should get you for speeding, the magistrate grinned. Next to the Gatlinburg police station is the towns only liquor store. Its only a lew months old. Visitors can buy liquor there, take it in bags and order to restaurants mixers like in Utah. The town has two private clubs. Som: eating places serve beer with meals. Did liquor build Gatlinburg? M. Fain, manager of the Al Robert nowadays. RUMOR : Ogden Mayor Bart Wolthuis has offered the state all the water they need for the capitol building and its THEY'RE YOUR SCHOOLS By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor Utah needs a better method of electing members to local boards of educa- the electorate choosing the board members. Its questionable whether combining them with the general elections is any better. Now more people vote, but it3 apparent many cast their ballots by chance. The best way to be elected to a board of education would be to change your name to Adams. Then youd be sure to be at the top of the ballot. The next best bet would be to change your name to Zyx. Then youd be at the bot- tion. The present system not only fails to assure election of majority 'candidates, it does not even provide a certain choice. The general under conditions tom of the ballot. sc hool which board elections Not knowing really for whom to vote, many voters mark the first name they held also tend to make them poor measures of public are know. , , preference. ' Many observers are convinced that school board elections literally are public lotteries. In other words, its quite possible that school board members are elected by chance, not by choice. In the pre-J- . Bracken Lee era, school elections were held separately from the general electons, in early December. Voting was very light, with a minority of , School board elections are Ordinarily school board candidates have no organized party backing. All the sound and fury is lavished on the partisan races and the school board candidates go largely unnoticed. This is ironical. In every county in the state the school board administers the expenditure of more public funds than YOUR HEALTH free! Theres one catch . . . the state has to move the building to Ogden . . . Black Bart! Sounds more like Bernie e Dia-mon- Tourists and conventioneers dump $25 to 30 million in the towns economy each year. The Gatlinburg experience has lessons for any group with ideas of luring tourists, and one of them is that some places have geographical advantages over others. Gatlinburg is only a day and a halfs of the nation's popdrive from said Mr. Walls. Thats a real ulation, advantage. He agreed with Mr. Fain on the reason for people traveling to the area. These mountains are the reason for their coming, he said, but Gatl'nburgs the reason for their staying. He said a vast number of Gatlinburg's toui'.ts come from the Yankees headed south for area Florida. But a check of license plates indicated Gatlinburg gets visitors from virtually every Eastern state. Ogden Evaluating By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor A Daily Diet The current meteoric return to poputhe larity of the recorder "wooden flutes," not the electronic tape is a machines development u n pai allclod in the history of any other musical 1 n s t r u ment. The special appeal that charmed the ears of King Henry VIII, Shakespeare, and Pepys Dear Dr. Molner: I would like your evaluation of the following daily diet: one bowl of wheat cereal, 2 eggs, 2 glasses skim milk, Vi pounds lean meat (or fish), half head lettuce or cabbage with oil and vinegar, about four servings of gelatine dessert, coffee with cream each meal, half grapefruit. is also charming to the ears of thou' ii in What might be the deficiency, any, "of diet?-A- - t . sands .S. Answer: You do not tell me your age, sir, nor give me any idea how strenuous a life you lead or what your weight and physical status are. Or whether you have any trouble with regularity. The diet is relatively low in carbohydrate (bread, potato, rice, starchy foods) but the amount needed would depend on how much energy you expend. It is also low in bulk, which might affect elimination. Addition of another vegetable, or more Mpt. would increase bulk and also augment vitamin C content, which in that diet you would get primarily only from the grapefruit. The protein content (which is tant) is adequate, and if you are conscious the caloric value is off-yea- attention to be paid these important con- tests. But the school election laws themselves need attention. There currently is no machinery to promote a choice on the ballot nor to prohibit shotgun races, in which there are so many candidates its unlikely any one will receive a majority of the votes cast. Provision for primary elections would clear this point. This year, voters in Salt Lake City will elect seven members to the board of education. The seven positions are being sought by 20 individuals. Thats almost three for each race. But the numbers are not that equally divided. In Municipal Ward II the incumbent is running unopposed. Thats not unusual imporweight- musical amateurs. When Arnold Dolmetsch produced his first recorders in 1919, he would, no doubt, have greeted with incredulity the information that the instrument was destined to become the most widely played of all serious instruments, ancient or modern. The manufacture, export, and distribution of recorders has become a major musical industry. Recorders ore produced by the hundred thousand yearly, and they find their way into every corner of the globe. In addition, the publishing and selling of recorder music is a branch of the trade few music publishers or retailers can afford to ignore. The recorders many practical virtues its relatively low cost, portability, and hardiness readily recommend it to music buffs of every age and in ail walks of life. On the one Land, the recorder MUSICAL WHIRL satisfies the amateur seeking to play simple folk tunes and the like; on the other hand, it offers a challenge to the virtuoso player who aspires to play recorder music by Bach, Handel, Purcell, Telemann, and their contemporaries. The total eclipse of the recorder during the 19th Century was happily to be no more than a temporary phase thanks to the combined efforts of musicologists, scholars, teachers, and other patrons, its restoration to favor is assured. The recorder, unfortunately, is often a much misundei stood and maligned instrument. There are still too many persons who criticize it by the limited technique of mediocre players. Before dismissing the recorder as a primitive instrument useful only as a step towards something better, they should know a little of its long and honorable history and the affection in which it was held by great composers of the past. The wheel has now turned full circle and modern composers are providing the recorder with a 20th Century repertoire, often demanding a degree of virtuosity comparable with that required to master any other solo instrument. For the past several years, an impressive recorder ensemble has been appearing in student and public recitals at Westminster College under the direction of Kenneth Kuchler, head of the music department and himself one of the most knowledgeable early instrument scholars o around. right at a here in Salt Lake City next May festival to be held in the new Salt Palace. 0 Popular recording artists will perform the musical numbers judged best by the judges, while actors and actresses will present the best literary selections. Entrance applications are available to all college students from Sounds of Music, Room i 8, Union Pacific Building Annex, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. ON RECORD Stravinsky: Rite of Fireworks. Chicago SymphoSpring, ny. Seiji Ozawa, conductor. (RCA Victor As the conductor, Ozawa adds the energetic sparks to the Rite of Spring that makes the second act light up with exciting fire. The first section is treated with equal vigor, capturing the sports and games of the tribe. Fireworks is a short abstract, painted by Ozawa . . . Handel: Solomon. Various artists, Vienna Volks-ope- r Orchestra. Stephen Simon, conduc) Here is a tor. (RCA Victor Solomon of vocal and orchestral timbre that is moving and also sharply as Solomon shaped. John Shirley-Quir- k gives his role an unceasing momentum that spurs Alexander Young, Saramae Endrich, and Patricia Brooks. Martin Isepps harpsichord hils the mark as does This is a Stephen Simons conducting. production. fast-pace- d ' ,, ' 'l Another street scene is Rollo Wilson or looking like a Wall Street tycoon is it State Street typhoon? He just got a bunch of new cars all with the word in chrome. But dont go Cadillac pressing for a ride . . . Rollo works as a ... d i mortician. Ive heard some good news about the economy of the state, but Ill have to wait until after the elections to tell you. Its better than one candidate for gover- nor claims, and not as good as 'the claims of the other governor candidate. too. CON . . . what a name for a politi- cian! Con for Conrad Harrison is the commissioner down among the Washing- ton Squares in charge of the citys hunk of the City and County Building. And hes got more partitions out than he had petitions out when he reeded signatures to run for office. Hes remodeling! An Explanation Of Space Effort f i , , , - ' 1 'JJ -- The city and county commissions should change the wording on the trash cans around the old and the new build- ings to trash or just help keep our city clean. Everyone of them say WASTE and know the reputation government has about that! Mr. Harrison, if he is in charge, should look at the decorative lamps out in front of the old building. Looks like the deer hunt started a day early. There isnt one bulb left in the things. And they look more shot out than snatched! But things seem to be hustling down there. There is no parking available . . . unless you dare park in one of the city or county commissioner spots! Wit's e, ... tiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimniiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiimpniiiiimiiiiiiin BIG TALK Wl's v&5 ' V Frank Macomber "Let's keep this in perspective. The Apollo 7 can go 17,500 miles an hour. Yes, but can from photos taken by Lionel Deseret (CN'S) News popular '. t - ' p , r i . A C, One of Harold Lundstroms music students Keeps referring to the Utah Sympa- I dont think they are that bad! thy ground-launche- missiles. ' End: al Perhaps as significant as any chapter in the raised volume is one by Alton-Fryrestarch staff member of the Rand Corp., dealing with Soviet space activities. Frac-- 1 Writing about Russias 1 o n a b i t Bombardment System d (FOBS), ijrye warns that a racket pulled out of orbit and headed towjrd earth could approach its target from) almost a.iy direction and conceivably vadc the conventional radar warning networks maintained by the United States Even if a FOBS launching were detected, it wWd be impossible to determine its intended target until the warhead was firtd out of orbit, perhaps three minutes and 500 miles from the target, he adds. On a more optimistic note Frye observes that though the FOBS could pose a troublesome threat to strategic air bases ana oilier vulnerable targets, the threat is less disturbing than it would have been some years ago, before the United States acquired a divetse and invulnerable second strike force of r n Outer Space is written in clear, language tailored to the tastes of the general reader who, as taxpayer and voter, must be increasingly aware of the impict the space age will continue to have upm him, upon his society and its institutions. t -- , OUTER SPACE PROSPECTS FOR It figures. Just when people learn MAN AND SOCIETY; revised edition where the offices are located, they are edited by Lincoln P. Bloomfield; Fredershuffled. ick A. Praeger; 260 pages, $6.50. And are the television and newspaper- The American Assembly of Columbia men who cover the building mad. They taxin the belief U.S. that the University, are being moved from a just barely ade- payer must understand the full implicapress room to one about the size of tions of the nations space program if he quate walk-ia refrigerator. is to support it, undertook early in the And are the news boys COOL toward first decade of the space age to explain Con ! what the space effort is all about. y Sounds of Youth LSC-6187- ... STREET SCENE: Theres a big city bus cruising around with a Wally Bennett sign on the front and a bigger Milton Weilenmann sign on the side. And shoot, if you must, yon redhead . . . Peggy Cor-ni- a from ZCMI. She pointed out that not only are Mr. Bennett and Mr. Weilen- mann running, but so is the bus. Gatlinburg also has a truly hospitable atmosphere for all those strangers. A shop that sells honey has a sign nailed to the door that says this: Come on in and git yore honey weuns aint aimin to sting youuns. They mean it. As the driver rolls through the main stem past shops that dogwood-lineadvertise not cocktail lounges, but beeswax candles end corncob jelly, sumptuous motels and eating places, a sign catches the eye. Yall come back! it says. The people of Gatlinburg mean that, d, LSC-302- fel- ... tions. In Ward III there now are three cidi-date- s (after one withdrew); in Waid I there are four candidates, and in lard IV there are six candidates. Its q)ite possible that in neither of these tifee wards will the winner get a majority of Published in 1962, the first edition of votes cast. This is particularly true in Outer Space attracted wide attention Ward IV where a candidate conceivaijy in the scientific community and drew could be elected with less than 17 ppr praise from many top space scientists cent of the total vote provided it wasia and engineers. Now it has been revised tight race and all candidates ran evenlk and updated. The difficulty is not confined to Sat A team of authors, each a recognized I Lake City. in his field, has contributed authority Voters will have to choose among fou fiom the prospect of peressays ranging candidates in Precinct IV in Granite Dis-- i manent manned space stations in the trict and among five candidates in Mu- -' next few to the Soviet Union's years nicipal Ward V in Murray. obvious determination to use satellites as School board elections are too imporispace spies in the cold war. tant to be left to chance. School election Put together by Lincoln P. Bloom-uelstatutes should be overhauled, and soon. professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aid the author of several books on for-e- n policy, the revised volumes nine abides also touch on such subjects as th4 problems of international law and poetics of outer space; prospects for arirp control and international cooperaSEARCH Sounds of Young Amerition in space research ; possible peaceful ca is looking for the nations top colleapplcations of the new space technology, and a nationwide and ace programs in the United States, giate composers, Russii, Western Europe and Red China. search will be climaxed by a three-dato the and promotion-typ- e I and really not much cause for alarm, assuming that the electorate is satisfied with the performance of the board member concerned. In Ward VI, four candidates are seektwo candidate for ing two positions each spot. There are two candidates in Ward V. Thats the way it ought lo be and the way it is in most voting situa- salute Councilman low. Hes always and if thinking they can move the London Bridge VIGNETTE: Our Commissioner George B. Catmull got a call the other day from a complainant. Now that isn't news. But this lady said there was a chuckhole in the middle of one of Georges streets . . . where else? This one, it seems, was full of water and the kids in the neighborhood were splashing around in the stuff. The caller was afraid the kids wmu!d wind up with the flu or some other disease. Then she hung up before George could determine whether she wanted the hole fixed, the water drained, or the kids given shots. If it was shots, lets hope the kids got them before any cars came along. It Demands A Degree Of Virtuosity By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. this county and city governments combined. It has been suggested that instead of combining the school board elections witn the state and national elections, they r should be held with the municipal elections. It might permit more public And for grounds. BOOKS Why Leave Something So Vital To Chance? i By HARRY JONES two-thir- sport-shirte- I AH Wet! snow. Automobile Association guide. The town also has 55 eating places, 50 gift shops, two wax museums, a skyride, a ski resort, convention center, a science exhibit, 80 swimming pools, child-styl- e attractions like giant slides and not one nickel of their profit comes from selling p Good Offer, But It's 600-sea- man-mad- i i Gadinburg. The towns foresight and cooperative spirit has plenty to do with its progress. convenGalhnburg built a 2, t tion hall, and conventioneers dont even have to go there to see what's happening at the meetings. Gatlinburg can pipe closed-circui- t TV programs from the hall to every motel room in town. Gatlinburg doesn't get enough snow for skiing, but the residents d Jnt let that stop them. Visitors ski on he corrected. I Make that 2,304, just mai ried a girl from Knoxville. Despite that handful of residents, accommoand does Gatlinburg can date more than 14,000 tourists a night. Heres how: The town has 150 motels. of They're good motels, too. Forty-eigh- t them were listed in the latest American liquor over bars. a Gatlinbuig has something else Europe-lik- e atmosphere of craft shop.,. d and Bermuda .Scores of shorted tourists stand rubbernecking as a glassblower fashions a delicate swan for somebodys mantelpiece. Price: $1.98. Others watch the sidewalk artists, w'ho smile pleasantly at the advice they receive. Carvers knife delicate owls features in walnut wood. The visitois even to watch s'and tnree-deecandymakers yank huge ropes of taffy in the window of a sweets store. A mountain matron weaves fancy fabrics in a craft shop, and a girl creates fancy candles downstairs. Were not a Miami Beach or Las Vegas, said Mr. Walls. Our entertainment here is So are their accommodations. Tourists are encouraged to dress casually, and OUR MAN JONES a 2,303. i Friday, October 18, 1968 pine Motel, when asked that question, replied: Liquor didnt build this community, those mountains did. Those mountains and the people's ingenuity. A man entered the motel and said: Got a room?" Sony. We're filled up, and as far as I know, everybody else is, too. And thats the a ay it'll probably be for the next tluee weekends, too. Next Saturday's the Tennessee-Alabamfootball game in Knoxville, and all those people from Alabama will be coming here to stay. Knoxville is an hour's drne fiom By STEVE HALE Deseret News Staff Writer 19 NEW3, it corner?" McNee'y for tht dally Baby Birthday feature. V. tllllll!ll!llllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllliilll'll!ll!!l!lllilll!!HIU r |