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Show DFSERET NCWS We stand SAT i am f t: v nuu THURSDAY, MAY 3, !9?d A 5 hr the Constitution of the United States with its three deportments of government , eocK hfiy independent m its own field Tighten S.L. Valley laws for better flood control Several property owners and de- - insurance from private firms, in the elopers currently are protesting past, such insurance has been unavailproposed flood control ordinances in able or prohibitively expensive. Sait Lake City and County, One Vet property owners along the wonders whether these persons will be Jordan have complained that any the first to blame local goeraimnt for development limitations amount to failing to protect them if flooding public confiscation of private land. actually occurs. The proposed city ordinance focuses The opposition Cullies t a curious uu bench aicuo. which ait especially time heavy snowpacka at lov, Tiioui;-tai- subject to flash flooding htfCause sb'OO elevations have created the slopes speed water travel and because highest flood danger to the Salt Lake development often removes vegeta-- . area since 1052, lion that once absorbed storm waters. Perhaps the protesting owners and Flooding experiences in Mt. Olympus developers have forgotten what hap- Cove, where homes were built before pened in May, 1952 More than 100 city flood control was fully considered, are blocks were flooded. Streets became a grim reminder of the problem. The sandbag rivers. Officials considered city ordinance would require subdiv developers in areas where steep declaring martial law in areas where excuv aliens or land tills were contemdozens of homes had to be abandoned. Final damage estimates for the state plated to submit information on exceeded $2 million. ground contours, drainage patterns soil characteristics to city planThe area should be better prepared and and engineers, and in some ners this year. Salt Lake County has spent commission. more than $22 million lor flood control cases, the city planning Before a development permit w as ut njetls. notably (ui stm in severs oil a builder would have to prove issued, w and for major streets creating ater retention ponds as pail of the park storm water from his project would to system. Salt Lake City has completed flow without producing erosion, storm nearest the practical street, other storm drain projects. drain or natural water course, rather The county ordinance being propthan to private property below. osed would supplement previous flood Developers, however, have obcontrol efforts. The ordinance would jected such a measure would unnecese allow certain particularly increase home lot costs and lands along the Jordan River and its sarily would open the door to land use tiibutaries to be placed in one of two somethin; tne same planning flood zones. developers have said they favor when In the areas most susceptible to it is kept on a local level. flooding, all new building would be These recent proposals do suggest Tn the prohibited secondary flood more restrictions than previous flood zones, building proposals would be control programs have on private considered individually and approved individuals and property. But they are only if adequate r flood protection no less vital than the earlier measprocedures were followed in site ures. development and construction. Viewed realistically, the ordiThe ordinance also would help the nances propose neither confiscation of county meet requirements of the private iand nor removal of individual federal Flex'd Disaster and Protection rights, but are means of protection Act. This act can make it possible lor property from destruction and preall home owners in a qualifying city or venting staggering economic losses county to purchase low cost flood for individuals. n flood-pron- How not to win Latin friends Secretary of State Kissinger must have expected a cool reception when he walked into the General Assembly ot the Organization of American States today. Three times Kissinger has scheduled a trip to Latin America and three times he ha cancelled out at the last moment. Even though live cancellations were understandable because the fall of Vietnam and other more pressing matters .arose. Kissingers performance still grates on Latin American sensitivites and feeds charges the U.S. places a low priority on that part of the world. , It the damage this can do to U S. interests is to be minimized. Kissinger had better schedule another visit io and then make sure Latin America he keeps the appointment. These countries still have energy resources the U.S. wants and needs. They also have complaints not shared by all OAS members. Latin America is aiviut as diverse as Europe and cant be treated as a bloc. Besides, more and more Latin American nations themselves are tending to bypass the OAS in dealing with the U.S. Venezuela and Ecuador are displeased over being excluded from preferential trade treatment by the U.S because of their membership in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. At the same time it might pay the U.S. for Kissinger to question the wisdom of some Latin nations establishing cartels to control the volume and prices of exports to the Stalemate on energy points up U. S. crisis m sigh, there is httto likelihood of legislation to force i educed oil consumption. Confronting a rambunctious Stars wun the Association title Basketball American in 1971, Salt Lake City promptly one could say rashly named First South from West Temple to Main Street Stars Avenue, That may have been the ktis of death, because the Stars haven't won the title since. Now that the Salt Lake Golden Wnen the Utah t Afterthoughts . . . People who complain that public debates never get anywhere" would do well to ponder Joubert's, keen reminder. It is better to stir up a question without deciding a., man io decide it without stirring it up, If you dig a little beneath the surface of the man who is inordinately proud of his common seuse, you will customarily find that ho uses it ay a tor knowledge, not as a Sydney Hards supplement to it. & Evans and Robert Novak WASHINGTON A parti- san game played within the Bouse Ways and Means Committee points to permanent stalemate on energy and no major action against a serious menace to this country. What Ways and Mean'1 is doing in its languorous handling of energy tax legislation in polities. Bo is dieni-herninant Democrats are maneuvering for. Rcpubhcan endorsement of a bill unlinely to dear the House itself. The emhafltri! Republican minority, in turn, resists such an embrace, preferring a wholly Democratic stamp on a bill condemned to oblivion and perhaps carrying political obloquy for its sponsors. Thus, despite periodic bleats from the White House about an er.ergy compromise Eagles have won the central llocLey league, lets not hex them as well. Lets simply forget that City Commissioners Glen Greener and Stephen Ilarmsen suggested renaming Stars Avenue as Eagles Avenue. The Eagles spectacular season and their cliff hangers that marked the final for the Adams Cup are play-off- s memorable enough on their own. As for support. Eagle fans have show plenty of that this season. The Eagles averaged 6,134 spectators for their 45 home games, and 9,684 for n their six Thais sam better than any other minor league team in the US.S, and those figures rank well with at least a third of the post-seaso- ZCagUv ar t. Vi v parent California Seals club. But lets not tamper with the Eagles future iueic by renaming a street alter them. In fact, lets change the street back to its original name and sec if me swrs peiiuftiiaivO doesnt improve question, But the Presidents granting another months grace has brought the leisurely and Means pace to paralysis. Sooner or later, then, Mr. Ford probably will impose the second dollar (hut not the third dollar) of his import tax Whats more, it is doubtful the Democrats can muster s vote to block the that $2 tariff. But the tariff was originally intended to prod Congress into passing the rest of the Ford energy program: a $2 domestic oil tax, price decontrol, windfall profits tax, natural gas deregulation Standing alone, a $2 tariff would be a hollow victory, confirming the Presidents political manhood but hardly solving the energy problem. Ways two-third- fence-mendin- And, not wanting to appear , I accepted the bribe." secret dove if d Illman had trouble e!!ir.g this to libera! Democratic committee members who .... . ... mo ivc(zuum.uu the gasoline tax as Ocu vviuiyi UJ, minority. Beyond doubt, the 'egressive. but Zarb had energy stalemate documents even more trouble with comthe crisis m government here mittee Republicans, Hep Barber Conable of New York, today. chairman of the House ReEvents last week underlined relationships between publican Policy Committee the three actors m the politics and a senior Ways and Means of energy the President, member, had been instruanti-ga- s congressional Democrats mental in Mr Ford's rax statements during the and congressional Republi1974 campaign. Conable and cans. other Republican Congressdilier-ences The philosophical men promised constituents arc dear. Republicans last fall to oppose any gas tax want to reduce oil consumpand have informed Zarb they tion through the price are not about to renege raisovwhaoisin, that K by ing prices, Democrats want That led to last week's the reduction through some decision, forced on the Presimeans of government dent simultaneously with the control. fall of Saigon. Should he A compromise has been impose by executive order the second dollar of his propsought in weeks of negotiaoil import osed tions by two sincere, industrious newcomers to their jobs: tax - popularly called Federal Energy Adminis"playing hardball? Or trator Frank Zarb and Rep. should he wait another month A1 Uliman. Ways and Means to see whether the Ullman-Zar- b chairman. They agreed to negotiations succombine an oil import quota ceeded? (controls) with a gasoline tax Zarb urged Mr. Ford to gn e the Democrats cue more month. DOUG SflEYD Secretary Kissinger clearly has g to do in Latin Secretary Kissingers attendance America. Its the kind of job thats at the OAS session is no substitute for best done individually and at first the trip he had scheduled to Argenti- hand, rather than collectively and from q (H$t3?!CQt na, Brazil, and enezuela. Make if plain First South price mechanism), the relate e emphasis on each remaining a big. unanswered i T By Howland The 1$ Nelson Rockefeller keeps it up, WASHINGTON he could become our greatest vice president sinee Spin tu the Malmnal Agnew. Just tne outer day in; expianit-Urban Coalition that the reason he did not eriticwe Democratic majority no structured leadership, President Ford cannot U.S. plenty of r ART 5UCHUJALD American involvement in Vietnam in the ltWOs w as because be feared he would harm New York states chances of obtaining federal aid. I was elected governor of New York and my responsibility was to ihc pimple of New York, he was emoted as say mg. You don't kick people in Washington m the shins if you expect them to do something tor you. He added 1 think 1 did a pretty good job if I do say so myself. Ones sympathies can go out to Roiketelier ho a.-governor of New York had to keep quiet oil the war to get Ins state as much money as he could There must have been some terrible during those dilficult years ot the it k g Goy cnior, the students are up m arms aiiout the T war, there are demonstrations in every city, and we just Z keep pouring in more men to no avail. Dont you think von ought to come out with a statement against U.S. involvement in Vietnam? i Xi By James J. co-o- Kilpatrick SCRABBLE, Va. - rite last of the juncos packed up and left about April 15. Billy the Kid, the punch-drungrosbeak, arrived or the 29th. The two events made it oifioially spring in Rappahannock Countv. but believe me, thus far it has been one blah spring We have few of these in Virginia. Ordinarily, here in tne Blue hinge, the Id weeks from to mid May-arabout cv c!o? to heaven as one gets on earth. Ordinarily !icj earth warms, laid the sm smiles down, and we have a breeze or. c.flt as a woman's hair. Ormrmniy toe lavs of spring are quite k mid-Marc- h 1 e 10-d- n two-third- s one-wa- y f o I wish I could Rut I have to think of the state first. We need some more money for our highways and Im not going to kick those guys in Washington m the skins I'Riit now. Couldnt you say it ir. such a way that they wouidn t get angry? Ive thought and thought about it. but you dont knov how sensitive the While House is. One word from me about the w ar and well lose the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Ive got a good relationship with President Johnson and lie just gave me five more veterans hospitals. Im not about to blow it with some stupid statement that could only get him sore at me. a ul" Youre a good governor, sir. The easy thing would be to speak out against the war. The tough thing is to I remain quiet and get ail the federal money you can. "Someday those same students who are demonstrat- - . ins- - in the streets are going to say, Thank the Lord Rocky I kept his mouth shut about the war. Otherwise we never I would have had a new post office m Albany! The war wont go on forever. Governor, but you've given New York monuments for the future. Why dont those kids understand when you ran for political office you have to piease those who are in charge of the purse strings? I could say the war is a waste of money and lives. I could say we ought to get out of there-righ- t away. P.ul if I did, where would I get the money to fix up Jones Beach? They'd mit you off without a dime, Governor. If the world only knew you were a secret Dove. Someday I'll be able to tell them how I really felt about the war. Someday theyll realize that I know in my heart it w as w rung and stupid and immoral. But I cant do it now not while the Long Eland Railroad is in trouble. Sir, President Johnson i en the phone. Mr. President, Rocky here. Your people really did a great job on that Tet oti'ensive. I couldnt have been more thrilled . . Youll have that coonskin on the wall before , Whaff You want tn you know it , give me a new dam for Niagara Falls. Aw, Mr. PrcsidontTyou houldnt. , -- Blah spring? Virginia's had one, too simply sublime. Only South the first time in the memory Carolina approaches Virginia of man. it never climbed above 80 degrees. We are still in April burning tirewood, and the This year, for no reason p fulls from the electric that can be imagined for Virginia has not offended are staggering. it hasnt - Virginia is a lady, but this anyone lately been that way at ail St. spring Virginia has been bePatrick's Day came and w ent having like a well, you in flumes of snow and crusts know how Virginia has been of Lost. April arrived with a behaving. In the damp intergale We have never vals between long spans of known such wind. It was segginess. local farmers worse than the U.S House of managed to get their j 'owing Representatives. It was done, but everyone is laie worse even than the U.S. wih his garden. Half cf Senate, where at least the air peas rotted in the is hot, ground, and the rabbits ate of what was left. It ' The wind toppled TV antennot been has what you would nae. gtripned opr tin roofs, and felled some enormous call a sctlilluious avaauo. trees. Tne trees fell across Aod yet, and vet . . . Ynere .Is no such thing, ivally , as an fences, creating gates, tha the cattle ubiigingly marched unbearably blah spring in through. Then we had luriei.-tia- l Virginia. The dogwood finally rains that flooded the have blossomed. The perils "ountry roads and washed are milliner's scraps of ivorv out some bridges. In silk, pmk tinged. Both apples the whcie month of April, icr and peaches are in full jp" j ; bioom; to look from a hilltop at the orchards is like looking from a balcony at a debutante ball. The mountains themselves have cast off their winter clothes; even the highest elevations are a fuzzy, leathery green The wildflowers, tired of waiting on the spring have taken matters into their own 'TV, Low J r.Qi.u violets iiiJVJS nuu bird and mayapples. The tnllium, loveliest of them all, kneels as modestly as a spring bride, all in white, beside the attar of an old oak stump. If youre net familiar with the f nlliii the flower that would come from a flute it a flute could make a flower. That is the tnllium. basket of gold, the heather that had seemed to he dead beyond resurrection. In our millponds the bass and bream are biting. We seem to have fewer rabbits this spring, and fewer groundhogs also, but the quail are windowshopping in the fence rows as busily as dowagers at a DAR convention. So th? dys r's$:s, ?oft 2? ".topers. and evory day tht? leaves uncurl a little more. Tne swallows are back in the bam; the purple martins have reoccupied their old apartments, and a pair of wrens am rattling around in ijiuiuu u moiiatMi. u, aa Ui y nenu ueegnegan. suggests, we could figure a way to make a Lriuae oui of dandelIn the rock garden, all the ions and wild onions, the two sleeping tmv tilings are wak- of as would harvest a million-dol'a- r crop this afternoon and ing up. Columbine, rue (34V iru tiitf pOi'Cu dvi anemone, primrose, baby summer blue phlox, iris, candy-tuft, t t 4 s |