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Show Comm alt DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH THURSDAY,.NOVEMBER 6, 1975 ,MMIMMMMI Paws - t,' MMUS A5 lh 4" r?...,5,-.- S.L.'s new Main Street: A,.',...;.; '1 L' .1''''"-'-.---- deep-seate- d newly-complet- ribbon-cuttin- g 51 orCevi, j:- ' pace seems to have left Main Street. People don't seem to be walking with that head down determination that labeled Main Street simply a route to get from one place to another. They're slowing down They're looking around. They're actually smiling. And if you haven't seen Main Street by night, try it. The new lights are so high you're hardly conscious of them. All you feel is the warm glow that seems to bathe the entire street. Though the new Main Street project adds a dimension of beauty to Salt Lake City that cannot he missed by tourist and citizen alike in coming years, it is only the latest addition to a broad program of rehabilitation and new construction in the downtown area which has put new life into the community. Construction of the Salt Palace a decade ago was one of the initial projects that began reclaiming slum areas in the city's core area. Since then new hotels, office buildings, and the bright new ZCMI. Mall have breathed a new spirit of progress into the downtown area. Cities, like individuals, need a steady refurbishing to remain healthy and active. Though Salt Lake City still has its problems declining school enrollments, yearly budget cliffhangers, and g others the bright new confidence the future. for gives business-lik- face-liftin- go-ahe- The beer ban is enough family-oriente- d barricades. Police aren't so sure its a good idea. The city commission already has approved a plan for permanent barricades that can be slid into or out of place. They could be withdrawn for easier access and exit from the park during periods of lighter use. And they would be available for quick use on days of heavy use. But White is convinced the beer ban has also eliminated much of the aroundthe-park cruising, and that the barricades aren't needed at all. Certainly it won't cost anything to try out White's plan for a limited period. If it doesn't work, the permanent barricades be promptly and should then can installed for use as needed. Bonds aren't dominos - federal government must come to New York City's rescue or there wt11 be dire consequences all over the country, will there? : That notion was given impetus the other day with a congressional which insists that unless New York City is .bailed out, "many soundly managed communities may have difficulty marketing their securities at reasonable and affordable interest rates." .Unfortunately, more and more Americans seem to be swallowing that theory, judging from opinion polls showing that many who resisted support for New York are now beginning to favor : So the sail help. :We say unfortunately because the idea that as New York City's finances I' Afterthought.. Speaking of education. adults are inconsistent in teaching that "loyalty" is a ardinal virtue (without explaining its ramifications). and then being surprised or affronted when children refuse to tattle on one another, Sydney Harris 6 rest of the nation is a theory that simply doesn't square with go, so goes the the facts. As Governor Rampton noted this week, Utah's excellent credit rating should hell) this state avoid suffering any major repercussions from New York City's plight. That goes for other states and communities, too. One area's bad credit rating ,simply shouldn't rub off on areas with a record of financial responsibility. As a case in point. take what happened in Maryland only a few days before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress started insisting that New York's plight would make it hard for other governments to sell bonds at reasonable rates. When Maryland put 885.8 million in bonds on the market, not only were they snapped up but they went at 5.28 percent interest. 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Let's hope this same optimistic. and South Jordan vote to join the transit attitude carries over when Salt authority as other Salt Lake County Lake County residents return to the polls communities have done. December 16 to vote on a bond for Even more impressive was the way cultural facilities near the Salt Palace. Davis County reversed its previous Like the bond issues that passed decision and voted to impose a quarter-cen- t sales tax, as Salt Lake and Weber Tuesday, the one next month should be counties had already done, to finance considered not just another burden to be borne stoically but an investment in the expanded bus service. of life in this community and quality constiof issues outcome these The in to its conventions. attract ability tutes a solid vote of confidence in the Meanwhile. well done. UTA. And well UTA's ability to keep providing more done. Utah voters. new buses, additional routes, and im p ".1111t v, While k : ' '1:70104 - NO -- The big winner: bus service When Salt Lake City's Liberty Park was hit particularly hard last summer by crime and litter problems. the city commission promptly acted to ban beer. The commission also had barricades erected to reduce around-the-par"dragging" by automobiles. And it urged stepped-upolice patroling to prevent littering and enforce the beer ban. Those measures worked so well the park is once again a pleasant place for picnics and activities. But the traffic barricades are presenting a problem to those who enter either at 9th or 13th South and want to leave from the same place. Accordingly, Parks Superintendent Warren White wants to remove the - .',,1 IS , 'CVO,. ,V,,,;, I6C:YI ,1,';, , "Decay and stagnation," warned Housing Consultant Miles Coleman some years ago, "are the evidences of maladjustments in urban organization arid developmeirt. "They are not the maladjustments themselves. The first step toward a dependable solution is to get at the root of the trouble." There are few signs of decay or stagnation in downtown Salt Lake City these days. The latest manifestation of Main Street that is the Beautification Project, due for its grand opening ceremony Friday at 9 a.m. at the intersection of Broadway and Main. While it's sponsored by the Downtown Retail Merchants Association, the event is one of which all Utahns can be proud. And while there'll be plenty of hoopla a parade and a by Mayor Conrad B. Harrison, among other events it is the quiet pride of a revitalized downtown that will be noticed by most citizens. The best thing about it is that it works. Planners told us the wider sidewalks, the pavement designs, the trees and benches and fountains, all would make Main Street a pleasant place to be, a place for leisurely strolling, for conversation, a place simply to enjoy. Wonder of wonders, that's just what has happened. You see it every day. The ,, , i C V t , ,,, ' .: bright , ,i' ,J We stand for the Constitution of the United States with its three departments of each field. in its government, own fully independent face-liftin- f A -' -- a '), pr, t"KkgiwP -' ' , , ' ', ' ' ' . ' , - .',' ,,,;;, , , -- ' , I ,, , "Has anybody seen Rocky?" Ford 'out of joint' in dismissing pair SYMEY HARRIS diet' A'well-balance- d 0 One ot the great persistent fictions prolession is the mv th ()l the The modern medicine men insist theoretical way. it's true that a is all that the average person needs nutrition. limitation talks (SALT I. deSchlesinger children. and fense spending and the U ,S.g r it t ed their teeth when they USSR inilitar balance in the By vere absolutely required to era of detente. attend social events. Nick Ilis ability to sit. listen. putt Schlesinger never in Thimmesch his pipe and then articulate anyone. particularly the incisive, direct an a lytic a I press. In the tall when the comment in discussions, delate President Lyndon B. facts and figures. tailing The otten devastated the arguWASHINGTON Johnson figured it was time Ford Administration seems tor a change at the Pentagon. ments of others in the highest out of joint here the way it he called in Defense Secretlevels of government, includfired. dismissed, parted comary Robert McNamara and ing those engagingly prepick your own sent ed by told him that he sensed a pany with Kissinger. verb two of its most trusted Schlesinger was trouble to gradual but videning differend dedicated officials, DeKissinger. And Kissinger has ence in their views on Viefense Secretary James a history of threatening to tnam. M eN am ar a agreed Schlesinger and CIA Director that was the situation. and if he doesn't get his resign William Colby. Their sackthe two men worked out a a history that dates to way ings were ahout as rude as. his days as paid adviser to resignation procedure. coin say. those that the run of then Gov. Nelson A. Rockg letters plete with professional football quarterand a sensible phase out. efeller. backs suffer any Sunday atThe dumping of SchlesingMoreover. Schlesinger. ternoon. while respected on Capitol er and (Nell Colby are crude How the public. numb from acts. Colby. guilty ot trying to Ilill, could irritate congressall the trouble Washington tell the tivth to congressional men with what they somehas inflicted on the nation in times regarded as pedantic committees, knew he was recent years, reacts to the manner. But this destined for the ax, but not on political Administration's obvious shortcoming seemed to have this particular Sunday. There lack of control including been diminished, at least to is strong evidence that Mr. the bow-oby Vice President Ford was stampeded into the President Fords is to Nelson A. Rockefeller quick firings by the Newsbe pondered dutifully. espeweek article. When Mr. Ford was Vice daily with an election year So now what? Well, Donald President he told a newsman upon us. Rumsfeld should be a good he if ever were President that No question that Schlesinghe might let Schlesinger go secretary of defense, and er, a rare and lonely man because capable of handling any sniphe thought him unindeed in this nesting place of ing from Kissinger. George in dealing with Conskillful Bush. our man in Peking and power players, was vulneraBut when Ford Gerald ble to discharge by that gress. with bored became President, Melvin should be a his job there. fresh and even almighty President, Mr. Laird ':that probe explained Ford. welcome presence at the CIA. minority lem was smoothed and out, leader of that collegial gang And Lt. Gen. Brent Scow-crofthat President Ford says Jim in the House of Representaostensibly "taking Schlesinger is doing a good over" tives. Kissinger's job as head as of defense. job secretary of the National Security Schlesinger had spoken to There's no reason he won't Council. will continue to be a Mr. Ford. just as he had to in that job." stay polite. obedient and powerformer President Richard less figure. Kissinger will still Nixon. and anyone else he Finally, Schlesinger never be the heavy voice of security in to worked to in build his a six constituenyears reported government. Schlesinger cy in the power centers ot matters. though stripped of title. in the press. in made it clear to Mr. Ford, Vashington But President Fords bad and Secretary of State Henry Congress, among the influenKissinger as well, that he had tial people here. He and his weekend has to also be bad deep concerns about U.S. wile preferred spending their politics for his positions on strategic arms. evenings at home with eight "well-balance- - 1 of the medical diet" d and in in a diet the way ot rut the tact ot the matter is that the diet. average person .doesn't have a and probably hasn't had one since childhood. Our national eating habits are deplorable, based partly on ignorance. partly on haste, and partly on seduction by the food manufacturers, processors, and sellers. 0 0 It is I rue that many food freaks and diet quacks conspire to extract millions from the public, but this is only because of our ignorance, which is connived in ny such presumably respectable outfits as the AMA and the FDA. I am convinced that the average doctor in America gets less of an education in nutrition than the average person gets of a diet. Only a handful of medical schools teach it more than cursorily. and even those few have a supercilious attitude toward the subject. Nutrition, after all, is a form of preventive medicine; and under our present system. there is little money to be made in preventive medicine. well-balanc- face-savin- Aly own doctor, as straight and shrewd a bird as they come, when I asked him once, "Does vitamin B do any good?" retorted swiftly, "Yes to the makers." I'm glad he knows more about everything else in medicine than he does about nutrition, ut Indeed. I wouldn't be surprised if my OWn children know more: they have studied the subject seriously. know the available literature (both pro and cow. and have ingested vitamins, minerals and suppleInCiltS for years. The empirical results are a glowing testimony to their health, strength. and endurance. It is odd that a nation spending billions of dollars a year on drugs of all sorts is so reluctant to learn about dietary deficiencies and to rectify them by regular dosages of supplementary vitamins and minerals. But then, they get absolutely no encouragement from the medical profession, which is happily writing out millions of prescriptions a month, many tor conditions that would not have existed if proper nutrition had been attended to in the first place. In ancient China, as I have mentioned before., patients paid their doctors weekly when they were well, and stopped paying while they were ill, to resume only when the doctor had made them better. That's the fastest way I know to make American doctors delve a little more deeply into the vitamin bottle. from A to Z. and back again. one-tim- t, f Sackings: A 'disaster' for Ford with this plan: On day, Rockefeller would announce his unavailability for vice presia headline event placating dent the Republican Party's dominant right wing. At midweek, Mr. Ford a seconwould fire Schlesinger dary event that would demonstrate the President's decisive control of foreign affairs. declint; Uk 54,7 By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak WASHINGTON sacking of Defense James Schlesinger At the While Secretary and retirement of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller were intended to reinvigorate politically a failing President Ford, incompetent execution of an project has further undermined his prospects for thP Pniihlin nominntion. Congenital bungling at the Ford White House botched up plans to announce Rockefeller's exit from the 1976 ticket several days before Schlesinger was handed his head. Even so. the White House grossly overestimated political benefits from Rockefeller's exit and underesti- mated Schlesinger's esteem among conservative Republicans. Moreover. the events of Sun-ill:Ind NIonday glve tho nation a picture of Byzantine intrigue and ruthless personal treatment supposedly alien to the friendly, decent presidency of Jerry Ford. Only Richard M. Nixon's Saturday night massacre of 1973 has so dismayed high administration officials.- senior bureaucrats and Republican politicians. Their a reading is nearly unanimousdisaster for ND-- Ford The White House intended to stop the President's accelerating y - politics, the White House undervalued Schlestinger's standing with conservatives in and out of Congress, who consider him the ;., ... '' ..,...: 1:....:,:!i',...i.::i .. 1 e ;'. :'''' ",,,,,.: - 4 one hard-linvoice inside the administration. Although Schlesinger may have pressed too hard in recent attempts to restore defense cuts in Congress, he is highly regarded -- i.:: ,;::. ' ....!!:::i:7:..:11r1.-ii!:.:..- .. among congressional Republicans far more highly than either schiesinger's request. the Secretary of Defense met with the President Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to I p.m. in a cordial discussion of defense matters. Although Mr. Ford days before had decided to fire him. he did not want to tip his hand before Rockefeller bowed out. So, contrary to his image of openness and candor. Mr. Ford gave Schlesinger no clue to his fate. Unfortunately for the President 6 plans. however, Nem, sweek's reporters found out. With Schlesinger alerted by them, he was summoned to see the President at 8:30 a.m. Sunday (encountering William Colby leaving Mr. For(ls office alter having been tired as CIA director). The President added insult to injury by offering to name Schlesinger head of the Export-ImpoBank or ambassador to London. Dr. Schlesinger declined. Fven at This late hour, the White House hoped to hold back the news until Rockefeller's letter to the President was made public. But Pentagon sources leaked out news of the Sunday morning massacre. What was worse for Mr. Ford. the impression was not decisive presidential leadership but supremacy for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in his long. bitter loud with Schlesinger. It was belieed throughout Washington Kissinger Kissinger - .."'rM'Z'!i.. 11...:.....,,...:;:!....::i..;;I:....p:::. 1 ......:.... ...11;,,;;;;;;;4:,;:::,,. , I 1.,.-..,.- ..:::::::;'.;.;i:;:::.:.:::1e, :.....,,,::::::!i,....!: '....,:,.....:7 , :i.: ,. VN:: ..:,..::...:'-....1 .....;,,., er".:. :.:1 LI- - , or Rumsfeld. :.4:.:, :;,,,4':' " It ,::ti ) , '' .4. '..:::;:ti I:.';:::1:!'illi'l ..1;. ":44,, r FArd !lever has cared for Schlesinger's professional style, and their lack of personal rapport was aggravated recently by a budget dispute: Schlesinger's adamant refusal to cut back Pentagon spending in conformity w nil the President's election year tax cut. Rumsfeld at the Pentagon will offer no such opposition, which deeply worries conservative congressmen. To such congressmen. at the Pentagon eclipses Rockefeller's withdrawal. The day when Nelson 4 á 1 4 4 Rumsluld-for-Sc- hlesinger Secy. Schlesinger had solidified his mastery over foreign policy by forcing out his one effective rival while only nominally surrendering his national security adviser's role to a trusted protege. Lt. Gen. Brent rt S cow crof t . On Monday morning, Dr. Kissinger heatedly protested to a colleague that he was being misjudged. Believe me," said Kissinger, whose word is not always believed, "this was done over my dead body." Kissinger and others in the administration point to a ditferent manipulator of these events:White House chief of stall y Donald Rumsfeld. of R ockefeller who will succced Schlesinger at the Pentagon. Apart trom Byzantine palace arch-enem- t Rockefeller constituted Mr. Ford's only problem with thc Republican right ended weeks ago. "I'm more concerned about Ford than Rocky'," one conservative leader told us. "and getting rid of Schlesinger makes me all the more concerned." President Ford and his closest advisers. including Rumsfeld, have thereby continued miscalculations which began with their belief Ronald Reagan would never run. In attempting to eliminate two troublesome members of the administration to demonstrate presidential leadership, they have succeeded only in presenting an administration in utter disarray and making the Reagan challenge more viable than ever. ;( |
