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Show rrfr $ ts ' it ij i.fit VI - if iyny wip y t(iiirtijTM yi'y f.-- V 4'; it riiiiiiiT,i(,i8igj-y- Soviet Spyships Get To Be A Real Nuisance - Ships on the high seas can do little about their shadowers except ask them to go away, a. the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal did a few years ago in staging a bombing display for Queen Mother Elizabeth. east-wes- Ark Royal told a sleuthing Soviet tug it was in danger, so the tug moved away just during the display and resumed close station immediately afterward. Maybe spy ships shadow so closely, even to collision point, because they need to get very near to tune in to ultra-higfrequency (UHF) radio. Very high frequency (VHF) is not so difficult to pick up at several miles distance. During any big exercise at sea, the other side is sure to carry out surveillance with airplanes and ships. British Admiral Sir John Bush, allied commander-in-chie- f eastern Atlantic and Channel, broke the usual silence on shadowing activities after the big exerd cise Silver Tower held in September. The Russians had turned out in force with three Kotlin class destroyers, five or six other vessels, two oilers tu refuel e aircraft. them and This trend of the Russians has been It growing all the time, said Bush. wasnt just during Silver Tower. It goes on all the time. The Russians have left their own territorial waters and they are out in the oceans. I think nuisance is the right word. I think they are just a nuisance. They dont stop us from doing anything we want to do but they are just a blasted nuisance. Short-terthey are a nuisance to espionage at sea navigation. Long-teris far more sinister. h Russian activity around Britains shores has risen considerably in the past five years with the general Soviet build-u- p of naval power and the sophistication of electronics. Apart from conventional warships, they use innocent looking trawlers, tugs and survey ships peeked with equipment for direction finding, interception of radio signals, detection of radar frequencies, and plotting surface and submarine code-name- movements. One of their main targets must be Britain's radar network. A new secret radar system went into operation this summer in addition to the missile early warning system that Britain shares with iong-rang- the United States. Flyingdales station on the bleak North England moors is part of the warning umbrella spread across Alaska and Soviet fishing trawler (arrow) makes its way between British tanker (foreground) and an American cruiser during NATO maneuvers in the Atlantic. Many such trawlers are spyships. Greenland. British officials naturally keep quiet about their methods of protection but these could include jamming equipment installed permanently alongside radar stations or carried in aircraft above visiting Russian spyships. The defense screen did slip once this year when skin divers fishing around Portreath on the Atlantic side of south- - YOUR HEALTH How To Upgrade School Board Elections . By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor School board elections need attention from almost everyone. First of all, they need attention from the voters. They also need from attention school board educamembers, tors and, especialthe states ly, legislators. . I f candidates for either the State Board of Educat- ion. or the local boards 1 of educat- ion are to receive the attention they deserve, Utah must make a major overhaui of school board election laws. I? After nearly two decades of reporting school board, elections and observing boards of education in action, Id like to suggest these possible changes; L Provide a primary election so that In the final voting there will be no more than two candidates for each position to be filled. SYDNEY J. HARRIS Talk to Me, You Old Bag THEY'RE YOUR SCHOOLS 2. Move school board elections to the odd numbered years and combine them with municipal elections. 3. Provide for school board candidates to be nominated from the precinct or ward which they will represent and to go through the primary election on a precinct or ward level, but be elected on a district-wid- e basis in the final voting. 4. Provide staggered terms so that a majority of a board of education cannot be elected at one time. 5. Reapportion precincts or wards often enough to keep them reasonably equal in population. 6. Reduce the number of board members in Salt Lake City from the present 12 to 5, or possibly 6. Here, numbered to correspond with the above suggestions, are arguments to support the proposals: 1. Under present statutes there is no limit to the number of candidates who may file and whose names will appear on the final ballot. As a result, board members often are elected on less than a majority vote. This year, for example, there were four candidates in Salt Lake City Ward I; four in Ward 111; and six in Ward IV. In Granite Districts Precinct IV there were four candidates and there were five in Murrays Ward V. In no case did the winner receive more than a 36 per cent vote. In almost any other election that would be a losing margin. School board candidates literally in the general elections. "lost Theres so much attention on the partisan races that school board candidates have little public exposure. Even worse, the ballots also are lost, whether theyre separate ballots or part of a large ballot. Voting results this year prove beyond a doubt that thousands of voters simply overlooked school ballots and failed to mark them. 2. are candidates literally represent the entire school district. All voters should have the opportunity to vote for or against them. Perhaps a more Important reason is that under the present method voters mark school ballots only every other election. If all voters could vote on school candidates each 3. School board election perhaps theyd pay mo;j attention to the process. 4. Currently, three members of a board are elected at one election and three at the next. In a system where continuity is as important as education this seems unwise. Schools deal with children in sequence. Students deserve stability. 5. If the U.S. Supreme Courts equal representation decree applies to school boards, Utah is in contempt of court. In Salt Lake City, for example, there apprently are more voters in Municipal Wards 1 and 6 than there are in Wards 2, 3, 4 and 5 combined. 6. Every local school board in Utah, except Salt Lake City, has five members. Small boards tend to do their business in a single meeting which the public can attend and the press can report. Large boards tend to do much of their business in committee meetings out of scrutiny of either the public or the press. Another change the Legislature might consider is specifying qualifications for board members. If the concept of lay control of education is sound, then educators ought not to serve on school boards. This is a long list, but it is only a beginning. There is much to be done. Jet Whoosh Of Spastic Chimpanzees MUSICAL WHIRL By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor SOUND EXPERIENCE lanching glaciers of glass, or the chamber music of spastic chimpanzees. The sonic squawks and howls, whiplash stat- - Last Orchestra and Satur- tion of music. And definitions range from An electronic company in California day the Utah Symphony the strict classical period compositions to last month displayed a new talking suitMaurice Abravanel included in their the John Cage definition that any sound case to the WorkU.S. airlines. conmajor Tabernacle is music. The word or even silence ing on the principle of radar echoes, the cert a performstill begs the definitive answer. music" system attaches a tag to each suitcase ance of Henri which shouts But for those who are thoroughly at Muta-zionits destination, and will Lazarofs not leave the home until in the evergreen classics, the ant conveyor-belairport It is pushed down the correct swer is that perhaps much of these anninth At the works is not music, at least for them. the tag hollers .Hey, cut it out, nual Deseret News when touched, But if they will consider it as a different Im bound Dallas, and Salute, to Youth youre trying to send me to Kansas listening experience and not try to the in Concert City!" Or words to that affect. equate it with the Three Bs, then, I toTabernacle think, they will find much of it Inter0, happy day! No longer will passennight, Joel Rosengers esting and valid. repeat sour jokes about lost berg will play luggage. The new talking suitcase may Henk Serious music listeners no longer Badlngs even be Sound Two and Viola for programmed to talk Its own way equate a live performance concert with "Capriccio right through customs, viz: Thats just Tracks. listening to phonograph (or tape) rean old family heirloom Im bringing back are two different listening In another week at the Contemporary cordings. They for my There is the excitement of ailing grandmother. experiences. Lukas Hall, in Festival Kingsbury Music But I see even more glorious uses for vibrant creativity, with a finger slip here Foss will conduct the Utah Symphony Hus radar or there, at a live performance. This is (or sonar, if you will) device. inwill that in a Orchestra program As a hideously familiar example of clude some avant garde works by Ives, something entirely. different from listenwhat happens nowadays, last week I left ing to a recording which does not have Xenakis, Foss, and Bernstein. roy car in the garage for a minor adjustthe flexibility of a live creativity, but it ment the accelerator pedal was stick-luAlready the question has reached this does have (because the artists and their You a little, and the engine was idling too technicians can make it so) dazzling perdepartment from several sources: fast. When I returned that afternoon, I call this musdc? fection on every note and in every meawas given a bill for $68: two bucks for sure. This is a natural and honest question unsticking the pedal, and $S6 for a in been have steeped long To the uninitiated ear (or one that by those who tune-up- , brake-pads- , spark plugs, and the classics. (Interestingly, it is seldom equates electronic music with the Three other "necessary work. asked by todays teenagers.) Bs), electronic music tends to sound like In the future, perhaps, we may be train-wrecava- Is being asked for is a defini- - a mixture of Surrealist able to send in the car with a What talking tag. hen the mechanic fixes the pedal, the tag says, Thats all, bub." The mechanic looks at the brake-pads- . Uh-ucries the tag. None of that stuff. Im just here for minor repairs, remember? Dont touch another part of me until my master gets back, or Ill scream the place down!" YoU DON'T Sending shirts to the laundry offers IT HAVe To 0eAT another vision of delight. My shirts Me 6TAlOHT. would arrive there chanting, No starch, ABOUND THE no CMl TAKE iTstarch," and Third button from the top missing sew it on, please. A shirt top missing sew it on, please. Une can conceive an infinite variety f uses for this magnificent device not merely in airports, but in restaurants, parking lots, even schools. What parent would not affix a talking tag to a kids venter, which would say "Dont forget to take me WbMniM ftw SyndlcM. In. home, as it lies in the ic, and celestial twitterings comprise a language as familiar to the average as spoken Sanskrit. er So accept Mr. Abravanels invitation-tattend the few concerts where electronic or simulated electronic sounds are included and consider it a different (repeat different) listening experience from that of hearing Bach, Beethoven, or Brahms. Then the work can have real interest as you hear what these master sound craftsmen have wrought. You might not like it even then, but it is todays and tomorrows sounds and you are going to continue to hear more and more of it For sure! The annual Scholarship Concert sponsored by the Salt Lake Alumnae Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon will be presented Sunday (17) in the Music Hall at 3 p.m. ($1.) The program will include: Sonata No. 2 in G by Platti; Charlotte Burgess, flutist; Helen Folland, An aria from Puccinis pianist Susanne Carlson, soManon Lescaut, Cherrill pianist . . . Walker, prano; Symphonic Dances by Rachmaninoff; Jerry Powell and Norene Emerson, LaBonne . . . Bernsteins Susanne Carlson, soprano; Guisine, Cherriil Walker, pianist . . . Sonata in E, Opus 82," by Elgar; Norma Lee Madsen, violinist; Gladys Gladstone, pianist SEE! HEAR! ... ts 1 G!& I To - Facts About Porphyria, A Difficult Ailment By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: I have just found out that I have porphyria. After several years of headaches and doctors telling me nothing was wrong, I went to a neurosurgeon who discovered my trouble. He says there is nothing much they can do for me. Can you explain it a bit to Mrs. R.B. me? Answer: Porphyria is a disorder involving pigments (coloring matter) in the tissues of the body. It is a rather uncommon condition but must be suspected when the cause of recurrent pain cannot be readily found. The pain may come in the abdomen, in the chest, or as in your case in the form of a headache. The cause of porphyria is not known. However, some things about it are. It is well established that barbiturates can touch off attacks. Since barbiturates are widely used as sleeping medicine and sedatives, it is worth inquiring whether you use any. Phenobarbital is a common example. Other drugs, however, can cause attacks, too. Exposure to the sun also tends to bother patients with this ailment. Drugs such as chlorpromazine are effective in allaying che pain of an attack; on the contrary, morphine aggravates an attack. With all of the above in mind, I think it might be helpful for you to discuss with the neurosurgeon whatever medicines you may be taking. One procedure for detecting porphyria, once it is suspected, is to find certain pigments In the urine. In many instances, urine will change to a port wine color after it has been standing. Dear Dr. Molner: I am troubled with cholesterol and have been advised not to eat meats, shellfish, other fish, poultry, butter, cheese, milk, eggs in fact any animal products, as they can cause cholesterol. Is this correct? E.F.P. Answer: You have been very badly advised, indeed, because leaving out all the items you mention would make it very difficult for you to obtain the protein you need. Diet to limit cholesterol involves limitation of some animal fats, not all animal products. Thus, use vegetable oils in salad dressing, avoid fried foods, avoid visible fats in meat. Notice in the paragraph above I mentioned limiting cholesterol, not trying to avoid it entirely, which is impossible. Cholesterol is necessary to animal and human life and will be created in suitable quantity from our food. 15, 1968 OUR MAN JOHES Odds, Ends From Here And There By HARRY JONES Thoughts for the weekend: Did you see where J. Willard Marriott has been placed in charge of the inaugural arrangements for Richard Nixon? The Tabernacle Choir went back last time. Mr. Marriott is a Weber County boy who went east with a great line .... Hot Shoppes. And (lie people back there ate it up! For the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, the trees have been sprayed to take care of the millions of Democratic starlings. The spray gives them a hotfoot if they land anywhere near. It keeps the President and those w a t c hing safe from assault from above. Arise, bird lovers ! Talking about parades, we have really come a long since the way Baby Jesus was born In a Bethlehem manger. The giant balloon paMr. Jones rade next week in the downtown area will usher in the Christmas Season for our beautiful City of Salt. It takes us longer these days to do our Christmas shopping than it did for Joseph and Mary to walk to Bethlehem. And they were going to pay their taxes. If you can see any connection between a giant balloon parade and the Christ Child, I wish you would drop me a note io explain 11. Until the lights go on in Tabernacle Square, I am going to sit back and enjoy Thanksgiving. The lights go on Dec. 13, by the way. One of the things I would like for Christmas is to have the crosswalk changed at Regent Street and 2nd South. If you walk from north to south across the walk you run right smack into a parking terrace. You have to walk about of a block west then make a turn back again if you want to walk a quarter U east. Or you can walk in the street and break the law! When I complained to the planning department of Mr. Lees city, they told me Thats the way the pedestrian bounces. Did you see where they are spending $26,000 to raise the floors of both the Senate and State House just three inches? And if they spend much more, the citizens will raise the roof! Wonder why they didnt announce the revamping of both houses, reception rooms, gallery seats, skylights and the rest before the elections? Oh, you know why! And did you see where the mayors of Utah cities are urging another cent a gallon tax on gasoline? What they really need is something like Platformate for tax money . . . make it go further! This year happens to be the 200th anniversary of the column. No, not this one . . . Howard Pearsons. Well, actually, the first newspaper column was called Journal of Occurrences, edited by Boston patriots for distribution throughout the colonies and in England. but They used old English type the jokes were the same. And Harry Anderson, who works for one of the larger paper mills, tells me that wrapping paper is one item that is When times get hard, depression-proof- . people buy cheaper gifts and wrap them in more expensive paper! Well, now we can all look forward to Sunday! ... Wit's End: Planned economy is where the government plans everything but the economy. amiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitmmniin'iiimiiiniiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiia BIG TALK Dear Dr. Molner: How long would you advise a person to wait before seeing a doctor, when one has discovered a lump on the lymph gland under the arm? Are Mrs. these lumps usually cancerous? by Brickman the small society Friday, November y n 9 DESERET NFWS, western England reporting hitting the fringe of an underwater area of sound signals which produced distressing symptoms. Portreath is the site of a secret experimental station and the sound barrier is presumably to discourage unwelcome visitors. By MARIS ROSS On a quiet SaturLONDON (UPI) day afternoon, messages flashed on to movie house screens ordering the crew of the British navy frigate Duncan to break off their leave and return to their warship immediately. Duncan set sail in a The 1,180-toinvestigate a fleet of two raging gale Soviet cruisers, several destroyers and a supply ship moving around the Orkneys, a group of islands north of Scotland. The order to the Duncan on a recent t cold weekend was part of the war business of spying on each other. Espionage goes on all the time at sea but gets public attention only with new pictures of close shadowing during exercises or such a dramatic event as the North Korean capture of the American spy ship Pueblo. iriiyi C.B. UOYl Answer: Id suggest tomorrow as a good time to see the doctor. They arent "usually cancerous, but they can be. They may also indicate presence of infection, leukemia, Hodgkins disease, etc. In any case the sooner you have the doctor search out the reason, the better. MCH POIOWE You? It-I- S What are ulcers? How should they be treated? What can you do to help rid yourself of ulcers and stay rid of them? For answers, read Dr. Moiner's Hcrw To Heal Peptic Ulcers end helpful booklet, For your copy wrha to Dr. Keep Them Healed. Molner In car of tha Deseret News, P.O. Box 1257, Salt Lake Cltv, Utah 4110, enclosing a iono, self addressed, stamped envelope and 3$ cents in coin to cover coot of printing and handling. 'a. "Is it true that Pat Paulsen just asked for a recount?" From pholoi teaen By Uunel V. McNeely for th Deseret News popular dally Bby Birthday ftalurt, A |
