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Show i jiim iM All DESERET NEWS, Rebellion Against- 'Frisco Skyscrapers Tuesday, January 12, 1971 - Buildings Would Blot Out View By ROBERT TRAND SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - In the city where they saved the Bay and stopped the freeways, a rebellion has broken cut gainst skyscrapers. It challenges the conviction, practically an article of national faith, that a city must grow and grow in order to survive economically. And the battle hiay end up with an limit on new structures. The forces argue that the, city doesnt need tall buildings if they would blot out views of the lovely, bustling bay or cut up the skyline of the citys many hills. On the other side the argument reads 7 H. , hat with its population of 710,000 X nemmed in by water and suburbs, San t Francisco must grow taller if it is to keep increasing its capacity as a Pacific Coast commercial center. San Franciscans have won some notae ble victories against To build or in the past. They became so out1959 in that ever since raged by freeways they have turned down a couple hundred west of Chicago. Another 23 are million dollars in federal money for a ing planned. cross-cit- y super route, preferring instead to endure twice daily traffic jams. Opposition also is shooting up. Anty In the late '60s a revolt iskyscraper forces won a victory in Deand temporarily defeated cember opposed to landfill schemes in San Franwhen they perMayor Joseph Alioto cisco Bay had the added result of forcing a reluctant legislature to grant tough suaded the Bay Conservation and Development Commission to turn down the powers to the Bay Conservation and Dehotel-offiwhich velopment Commission, remains ferry port project a $110 million on a complex active today. platform over the bay. But the skyscrapers have been intrudNow the target is the $200 million U.S. ing onto the landscape virtually unopposed until lately. A decade ago San Steel Co. project sought by a financially Francisco had few buildings as high as troubled Port authority which, as part of 25 stories. Since, 21 high rise buildirgs the deal, would get a needed $6 million have shot up, including the pyra- i passenger terminal. mid and tower of TransAmerica Corp., The passenger terminal, a under construction, and the 52 stories of hotel and a high office building the Bank of America, the biggest build- - would rise from a public plaza on a plat w v progress-at-any-pric- save-the-ba- 840-fo- 550-fo- YOUR HEALTH List Amphetamine Usage Can Be Detrimental By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: My sister is 47 and has been on amphetamines regularly for the last four years. I am convinced that these pills are killing her. She said, if I could prove to her by a doctors statement that thy will kill her, then she would stop. She takes 30 or more in lese than a W'eek. Is this considered a heavy dose? She told me she counted her pulse, 178 beats a minute and It stayed that way for an hour before it would slow down. Her eyes are sunk way back in her head and I believe the pills are de'Irs. E.J. stroying her mental health. I cant say that her pills will kill her, hut I can state positively that they might and have killed others. The amphetamines, known as bennies, speed, pep pills, and so on, loom pretty large in the current drug problem. It would be interesting to know how and why your sister started taking them, and what her present source of Supply is. The effect of these drugs is essentially on the nervous system, and habitual users are irritable, restless, cant sleep, may have the shakes. Physically, other effects of this stimulation are dilated pupils, sweating, increased blood pressure, rapid breathing, rapid and irregular heartbeat. Your sister apparently was concerned about her pulse of 178. It should scare her. This can lead to a collapse of circulation and death. Mental changes can include hostility, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, confusion, disorganized thought, faulty judgment one veiy good reason why amphetamines should not be used to stay awake while driving. Bad judgment from this cause hag been responsible for some hideous accidents. There have also been a number of disastrous occurrences not involving cars, but due to amphetamine mind-blurrin- the other hand, there are sound treatmedical uses for amphetamines ing narcolepsy and treating certain behavior problems in children. In both cases dosage is controlled by the physiOn cian. They are used alsit to depress the appetite to help people reduce weight; the good results are usually short-liveand if the drugs are continued, there is real risk of the users becoming hooked. J I' They do not cause a physical asjdic-tion, as narcotics do, but the habit can I be hard to break. Many amphetamine I users have psychological problems 5 they may be using the drug to mask a . depressive state which becomes apparent I when the drug is stopped. I Your sister, I suspect, needs psychiatric care. She can be weaned of the amphetamines in a matter of 10 days or so and this is best under a doctors care done in a hospital where her behavior pattern can be watched as the dosage is ' decreased. Yes, the 30 or more pills a week are a heavy dose regardless of the size of the pills, and I think you are right iA Seing concerned about her use of the in's. Classes Available For Slow Readers V p ' V t- i. x, not to build more skyscrapers is the problem confronting the San Francisco city fathers. A faction of the board of supervisors sought to enact an ordinance setting an limit, except permitting structures where the lower stories consisted mainly of open space. e civic ReaOn the other side, ders, business interests and the Chamber of Commerce backed U.S. Steel, with the solid support of organized labor which turned out 3.000 stiong, mostly in construction hard hats, to picket city hall. Some oldtimers rubbed their ejes at the sight of Harry Bridges, president of and the International Longshoremen Warehousemens Union, lining up in favor of the U.S. Steel project with the mercantile forces he once fought tooth and nail. Bridges, now a registered Republican 175-fo- 84-fo- ot old-lin- 550-fo- 185-fo- 4-- The Festival will be held at the River Mississippi festival site on the Edwardsville campus of Southern Illinois University in August. Audition tapes from vocalists, vocal groups and instrumental groups will be judged to select finalists for regional competitions held on college campuses in the East, South, Midwest, Southwest, Mountain States, on the West Coast. The regionals, held in March and April, will narrow the field to 12 national finalists. Collegiate performers may secure festival information and entry forms from: International Music Festival, P.O. Box 1275, Leesburg, Florida 32748. THE SOLID BEAT The 10th annual Reno Jazz Ensemble Festival; held at and sponsored by the University of Nevada, Reno, (in which many Utah ensembles have won in previous years) phony, has instituted a bold and unique dimension into the Dallas Symphony concerts. He has added a jazz rhythm section and created The Dallas Sound. MUSICAL WHIRL Deadline for will be held March enrollment is Friday . . . The Fifth annual Intermountain College Jazz Festival will be held in the Salt with Dr. William Palace, April Fowler as director. The festival will accept 20 stage bands, combos, and vocalists on the college level. The festival will include clinicians, trophies, summer jazz clinic scholarships, and the winning ensembles will be invited to compete in the National College Jazz Festival. Write: Dr. William Fowler, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 94112 . . . The Third annual Famous Arrangers Clinic is set for two weeks, beginning June 20, at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Guest faculty members will again include such arrangers as Henry Mancini, Mel Torme, Quincy Jones, and Dee Barton. Marty Paich is director and can supply details by writing to him at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Dr. William Fowler will conduct a jazz guitar clinic, and Ladd Mclntosch and his new Jazz Lab Band at the University of Utah will play for the West Coast Music Educators National Conference in San Diego April 6 . . . Anshel Brusilow, the great former the Philadelphia concertmaster - of Orchestra who has made many re- -' cordings with the Tabernacle Choir and who is now conductor of the Dallas Sym 19-2- The repertoire consists of pop, rock, and jazz selections, scored especially for the full Dallas Symphony Orchestra but structured to retain the original identity. The scoring' is done by Wilford Holcombe of Trenton, N.J. Personnel of the rhythm section are Jack Petersen, guitar; A1 Wesar, Fender bass; and Paul Guerrero, drums . . . (1-1- 23-2- Copley News Service JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Catch Air Djiboutis weekly flight from French Somaliland to Addis Ababa and the odds are that your fellow passengers will include 4 group of Japanese businessmen. Trek across the central Sahara to the Niger Republic and you are likely to find teams of inscrutable mining engineers from Tokyo. Or join South Africas crack Blue Train between Cape Town and J hannesburg and you will mingle with salesmen from the Toyota and Isuzu factories. Japan has discovered Africa. All of it. The tact is that Japanese entrepreneurs now have well trade relations with every one of the nations, enclaves and islands which make up the African continent. As one sun has set over the colonial empires of Western Europe, another, that of the Rising Sun, has astutely infiltrated every comer of the dark continent. The figures speak for themselves: Japan now has more than $200 million invested in Africa while her total exports to the continent last year exceeded $1 billion. This remarkable success story has been a quiet one. Understandably so, because the businessmen from Tokyo hare managed to avoid the political booby traps which abound in Africas complex netwoik of tribal, racial and ideological divisions. South Africa, the hated exponent of the apartheid system and white minority rule, is Japans largest single trading of that partner, swallowing massive Export figure. established one-quart- tr The influx of the Japanese gave Pretorias racial officials a few headaches but the Japanese were quite happy with the classification honorary whites. In'return, South Africa has become Japans main supplier of anthracite, pig iron and minerals while the honorary whites have Just won a contract to build one of the worlds largest steel plants. At the same time on the other side of Africas riverine racial divide, the the Japanese mainmighty Zambezi tain an equally hapoy relationship with the Republic of Zambia. Zamba, in fact, is Africas to Japan. The states vast cop- largest-exporte- RECORD My Favorite Encores, Van Cliburn, pianist. (Victor In the 12 years since Van into international Cliburn skyrocketed prominence, he has given several thousand concerts and recitals. Very few, if any, were not completely sold out within hours of their initial announcement. He has shown his appreciation by performing encores of short works from the standard literature, and through the years his collection has grown rather lengthy to which he has become sentimentally attached. The recording includes eight of his favorites are by Scriabin, Syzmanowski, Schumann-Liszt- , and three by Chopin. Scheizo in Minor, Only the Opus 31, does not fall into the category of encoure, because of its length. But Cliburn includes it because he has played it on several occasions at the conclusion of his regular program . . . ese have concentrated on joint ventures with African The J 3 p a n governments , thereby avoiding the danger of nationalization . per resources are of vital importance to the Japanese, so much so that negotiations are under way for active participation in mineral prospecting by Japanese concerns. These are hut a few examples of the Japanese invasion. Throughout the continent. many thousands of industrialists, salesmen, technicians, prospectors, agronomists and engineers from Japan can be found in action. They are advising, planning, bargaining, buying and selling. They are building factories and auto plants, sinking mineaiafts and money, establishing fish The port supplies jobs and I am in favor of jobs. The people of San Francisco should know that there are people opposing the U.S. Steel building who would close down the port of San Fran cisco rather than give up their view. At a noisy meeting of the board of the visors in November, Steel faction won a delay on the limit, just when it proposed seemed close to adoption. Mayor Alioto has taker, no position in the U.S. Steel controversy. Generally he favors high rise buildings on the waterfront if they leave open spare so people much of it can walk to the water blocked off by miles of warehouse piers. su-p- pro-U.- y White House Trims Heart Of Poor Fund . - While President WASHINGTON Nixon on TV was piomising higher priorities for the poor, his budget trimmers have severely slashed y programs and Debussy, ing fleets and selling platoons of motorcycles. Envious trading nations, attempting to analyze the Japanese success, Jiave come up with the simple explanation that the Tokyo approach is pragmatic and realis- tic. per- sonnel. A con fidential draft, summing up the proposed budget for the Office of Economic Opportusubstantiates nity, S the dire predictions iP of its supporters. Mr. Anderson The agencys total funds would be squeezed from $354 million in fiscal 1971 to $778 million in fiscal 1972. Some programs would disappear entirely. The budget summary, dated January 3 and still in galley form, hasnt yet received final White House approval. It was smuggled out by Poverty Corps officials determined to block the crippling and dismantling of projects. y VISTA, the domestic Peace Corps which send volunteers into impoverished ghetto neighborhoods and rural districts, at first was phased out entirely in the backrooms. It will not be renewed, declared a December 30 draft. Volunteers have not proven effective in raising the incomes of the poor, and generally have left little visible lasting impact on poor communities. In the final struggle, however, $33 million was allotted to keep VISTA alive down $3 million. l.OGO-mil- trans-Africa- n This project w ould cost some $800 million and involve six African nations. But again the Japanese motive is not so much a quest for prestige as a pragmatic assessment of trade arid investment potential The highway would open Up almost limitless opportunities to develop the vast natural resources of Central Africa, so far untapped. trans-Africa- n programs are available at the reading center of the Granite School District, 2870 So. Connor Street (2140 East). Classes are held 3 days per week from 5 p.m. Ccst is $2.50 per lesson. Classes are limited to 8 children and each child is handled on individual basis. Program, lasts 10 weeks. Get m touch with tnem to find out when the next series begins. Loan Program, project to help dirt-pofarmers, would be wiped out. effort is The heart of the the community action programs whose enemies at first slashed them by $40 million. In the January 3 diaft, however, the programs have actually been increased by $1 million to a $368 million level. The proposed budget would turn over more control to regional and local administrators, which has resulted in the programs of past of robbing their vitality. anti-povert- y In health and nutrition, the proposed budget would burglarize the poverty corps of Some $30 million. Administration officials explained that most of the cuts would be taken out of the emergency food program, but that food stamps would make up for losses to the hungry. Special impact funds aL--o will be cut from $36 million in fiscal 1971 to $25.5 million in fiscal 1972. These funds are used to meet sudden and special economic problems in ghetto areas. The controversial which provide eager help the poor with have been cut back $61 million. legal aid services young attorneys to their legal battles from $55 million to e officials say the plan has the approval of the OEOs new acting director, Frank Carlucci, who however will put up a perfunctory fight for more funds. Acfminstration sources, aghast at the leak of the galleys, insisted the proposals are still tentative. Piesident Nixon will present his formal budget to Congress later this month or eaDy in February. Old-tim- y ' it 4-- i , i i Blame The Snow 1 it Corjiruction worker are parking on both sides of the road near my driveway making it hazardous lor me to get in and out. It's on 4800 South near 10th East. I cant find ont whos responsible. A. A., Salt Lake City. Can you? , . . T This is another case where the snows to blame. We talked to the construction, foreman who said the parking lot where the workers not m ally park is so packed with snow they cant get in. He also said hes issued instructions so employes wont park too close to your driveway. He assured us he would call you personally to let you know what action he is taking. Hawaii Isn't Forgotten ii i iii 1 , Baek in September I sent a money to Longines Syniphonette Society N.Y., for a set of Hawaiian Melodies records. Two letters later I still have no records. Maybe one from T. B., Salt Lake City.' you would help. Mdybe it did. We got a letter from the firm, as did you, indicating their concern for your problem. You were instructed to return a card noting whether the records were to be in stereo or monaural and they would have them on their way. Hope, they arrive soon. t , m Ive been collecting and fixing up used furniture for years. But now Ive run up against a problem thats too much for me. I hve a chair with oak dowel legs about one inch thick. Two of the legs are broken. They are the type that are curved or bent. Ive tried to bend oak dowel before with no success. I know it G. P Salt can be done but how? Lake City. ; , . n ' ... Dont you get bent out of shape cause1 its a hard thing to do. A workman at Royal Furniture Company told us one way requires cutting a new curved leg with special equipment. If you dont have the equipment you can try to do it this way: Soak the oak dowel in hot water for about a day. This will cause the wood tq warp and you can bend it a little bit. Put it in a clamp of some sort to hold it in this position until It dries. You probably wont get it bent enough the first time, so try again. By doing it a little bit at a, time, you should be able to get it where ' , A Little Bit At A Time , . ii 4 " n i . in i !! . . , !i ! you want it. Good luck! ii Mystery Is Solved The Rural Economic a y Their policy is completely flexible. Thus, when several African nations placed restrictions on Japanese goods fearing a flood of imports, the Japanese doubled them own imports from Africa in a single year. In 1967, they went so far as to turn their balance of trade in black Africas favor to cancel criticism that they W'ere Vsing the continent as a dumping ground for cheap products. In their investment program in Africa, the Japanese have concentrated on joint vet tures with governments, thereby avoiding the dangers of nationalization measures which are now popular throughout black Africa. Up to now, the Japanese have preferred to avoid the type of ambitious projects with which the Western and Communist powers have tried to impress the Africans. This policy now looks as if it has changed. Japan is considering the cone struction of a highway which will stretch from Mombasa on the Kenyan coast to Lagos in Nigeria. Funny your son's school didn't tell you where to go. Several different ord r By JACK ANDERSON LSC-3185- ). r put it succinct- poi i commissioner, ON Japan Discovers Africa By CHRIS ROBERTS and a ly: MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Pops, Folk Festivals Grows Longer Pop, rock, and folk acts from colleges and universities throughout the United States are invited to compete for national campionships in the 1971 Intercollegiate Music Festival. nil jpii nii form reaching 1,000 feet out over the bay, according to the plans. When completed, it would replace five obsolete piers and furnish the city with $4 to $6 million annually in property taxes. structure would thrust But the above the towers of the San Francisco Bay Bridge and dwarf a famous landtall ferry building. mark, the U.S. Steel said its project was proposed at tire request of the port authority and the company certainly wasnt presuming to tell the people of San Francisco what to do. When the planning commission voted 2 last September to endorse the U.S. Steel project, over the protest of its own staff, negative public reaction tmst all around. Of Spring Collegiate Jazz By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor I have a 4th Grade boy who is a slow t reader. His teacher feels hes not quite bad enough to qualify for a remedial reading class but he could use help. It here can I take him to get help? Im . willing to pay a reasonable amount for K. tutoring or whatever is necessary. P., Magna. 5 v i Several of ns in the Granger area would like to know what is being built on Redwood Road at about 15th South. Its' some kind of arch-lik- e thing. Were curious as to what it is supposed to be. J,. F. K., Granger. ( Its weird, isnt it? Well, ' i , rrr , were not in n its supposed to be either. But know its a plastic test structure. sure what we do A company that expects to manufacture buildings and other usable objects is testing this material for durability, flexibility and other qualities to see how it holds up under all conditions. They bought a permit to build the structure at this loca-- , tion. "rir , . Our Prodding Help In November of 1968 our church had an agreement with a photography firm to take some pirlu.es of parishioners and also publish a free directory for each menfber whose picture was taken. The directories were promised in early 1969. We still havent got them. Can jou help?, -- , B.L., Salt Lake City. Our prodding got the directories. Perhaps not entirely because of us but we did have a role. He blamed delay, on a change in ministers: the losing of some pictuies, and the firms Involvement with other churches for whom it was doing the same job. 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