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Show iC: t g- y-p JJ yr JJ M y)' ' Hjf j jT'fJ" m H nr,TfniQl'D'f'frtfylyri"ryry Mnn A 15 NPVS, 1972 December 20, Wednesday, DESERET I Our POWs Will Enter Strange New World By TRUDY MORRISON Copley News Service Have you ever thought what it would to be cut off from all sources of news to the extent that you didnt even know if your family was still alive or if they remembered you perhaps for as long as eight years? And if you suddenly returned home, would you feel? What could your how family and mends sav to you9 What would you say to them? be like These are just a few of the basic proolems that face men who are prisoners of war or missing in action in Indo- even South Vietnam may not have heard that cigarette smoking is harmful to their health. That was discovered in Mrs. Capling has herself tried to get information bv writing to Hanoi and Sweden, but her efforts have been ignored She feels that conditions for known prisoners have improved in the last few ears because of the pressure put on by the public She s hoping people win continue to send letters to the President, to their They may not know that Soviet Pie-nnNikita Khrushchev is no longer in power or that China has exploded atomic and hydrogen bombs They may not know chat Winston Churchill. Dwigh' 1) Fisenhower and Charles de Gaulle have died or that men have walked on the moon. Road 'Bounce7 They might not know about the assassinations of Martin Luther King dr. or Robert Kennedy Finally Stops letter-writin- People who are working on their behalf in the United States with groups sych as VIVA, the National League of Families and Unite. Inc . hav learned that the men who are known prisonvis hae been getting somewhat better treatment in the last three years Some news is getting through to them if they're in prisons near Hanoi But for the more than 500 known prisoners, there are also nearly three times that many, including about 50 civilians, for whom there has been no accounting They are not receiving mail They aie not even acknowledged And there are discrepancies.'' men who are known to be alive on the ground in North Vietnar. yet who-names have never appeared on the comlist of prisoners provided by the plete North Vietnamese. .One such man is Maj Rex Capling His plane was shot dow n in Quang Bnih, North Vietnam, on Sept 19. 1968. He was observed by other pilots parachuting successfully to the ground Then he radioed for help, reporting that his leg was broken. That was the last he was heard from The North ietnamese forces were so heavily concentrated in his area that rescue was impossible. His wife has heard no word from or about him since V.rgmia Capling is particularly led that an accurate accounting will con-ve- , congressmen and other neutral countries seeking satisfactory answers to what has happened to all these unaccounted-fo- r men She admits it's hard to know just to be considered satisfacto- whats going ry Particularly frightening is the knowledge that theie were 3x9 known Ameii-caPOWs left in Korea. It also has been learned mat the North Vietnamese still hold at least 300 French prisoners from the War n are getting a ntw tape deck or stereo or cassette for Christmas? And one of the reasons for this usually sigm- Meant cash outlay is that you would like So you introduce the classics to your chil- dren and have t become a part of their to lives Every generation conies to the clas sics in its own way, of course. And having the classics available is fundamental. to get them to play them is Ire- - How the difficult challenge Although some of the classics have been around for several hundred years, unless young people find them relevant, the music of Beethoven and his friends will not become a part of their lives. , ( , Today, nothing short of a major revo lution is bringing the classics to young people on a scale undreamed of a few 1 years ago. And you should consider. i think, having some or all of these rd-. easily available. reco- pictures, such as Stanley Kubncks 2.001, and his more recent "A Clockwork Orange" (even if you dont appreciate the album cover) which have already achieved the status of classics among people, brought the music ol Richard Strauss, Beethoven, Rossini. Elgar, Purcell, Johann Strauss. I.egeti. and others to millions of young people ixsiple who had never before liearu of tne composers or their music Motion ' , We can go to the moon, but .ve cant deal with other people. Well need to keep a very dose watch Their record isn't very good. I want to know what's happened, she said She believes that the known POWs will be released without too much of a hassle. But then what happens to them7 Even the men m prisons near Hanoi will be entering a strange new world Men captured m Laos, Cambodia and film. Hill's brilliant based on the Five, "Slaughter-HousKurt Vonnegut Jr best seller, has Glenn Gould performing Bach music to set the hero mood for its , e 2 I g I f Perhaps the current trend of using classical music to underline and set the mood for dramatic films was started by love Elvua Madigan. the bitter-swee- t walk-'- i tigh'-ropa and a ot soldier story or. set to the haunting strains of the Andante" from Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 21 in C. (K e '1 1 I " II O - 487) Now we And the Bend continues have a Visconti liiin. "Ludwig II." based on the lilt of King Ludwig of Havana who was Hit hard vAagners angel motion pictures have been a classignificant factoi in spreading the the been means no sics, they have by imk ol Many avenue exposure only cLisViva groups llave (iipped into the futute storv (and another hut that s While column i - are they going someone mentions the death Vegas, to react The picture shows guard watching over captured U.S. pilot. Vietnam-release- d gon, is that prisoners often tend to feel guilty and ashamed after they are freed, and a familiar uniform helps to reassure them. when hotpants, the penalty, For one thing, all brandies ut the service are cooperating in Operation Egress Recap, a program to help the prisoners and their families to deal with the future shock as well as the culture shock. For each known prisoner, a tailored uniform has been provided, complete with medals and insignia or rank, to which in some eases the men were promoted while in prison The icason lor this, says the Penta WASHINGTON Six months V The uniforms have alieady been flown to the returnees' primary processing center in tne hospital at Clark Air Force Base, near Manila There, too, a personal brochure will be waiting for each man. listing such welcome informaand savings tion as pay records accounts, plus personal messages from relatives and their recent photographs. Each prisoner will get a medical checkup to find out if he is suffering from disease or serious malnutrition. Then there will be a quick debriefing for information about othei captives. One previously released prisoner MERRY-GO-ROUN- eaucrats and private citizens did heroic tims service. Then Carlucci blew in trom Washington and quickly rounded up 10 government press agents. He dnected a puhlic relations operation which Moses port raved him as a modern-daw ho had come to part the red tape He had carte blanche authority to resolve all problems, whether it be the amount the government would loan to business firms or plumb mg repairs on an .ndividual trailer One minute. Carlucci would be dictating policy to government officials, The next, he would meet with Hood vic lord d y d g D to dispense favors like a feudal For months. Carlucci would spend a few hours each day in the government's model mobile home in Scanlon Field, listening to citizen complaints. The cases lie heard became known thereafter as Carlucci Specials and were handled by special assistants with authority over all gov So I eminent departments. For those fortunate enough to gain an audience with him. Carlucci issued orders that otten produced more waste than results He arranged for a crane, for example, to lilt a supplicant s mobile home into a back yard He also dia-mati- c After that debriefing, released prisonwho are able to travel will spend longer periods in military hospitals closer to home Each returnee will be accompanied by a military escort whose job it will be to help him make necessary decisions. Studies have shown that men conditioned to the authoritarian life of a prisoner of war camp have difficulty starting to think for themselves again. On the other side, the Defense Department has prepared a booklet and sent it to all POW families Included m it are questions and answers to serve as a guide for the fathers, mothers, wives and other relatives who will greet the liberated war captives ers Area kept a crack team of maintenance men ready to be dispatched instantly to take care of individual complaints. Often, the men waited around for maintenance hours for an assignment, while unfavored trailers went without heat or plumbing because no workmen were available Those who dispensed these royal favors for Carlucci told us his mam obiec-tie w as to get a good press stations Newspapers and radio-Twere bombarded with press notices, carefully prepared to cover up mistakes and minimize problems Carluccis administration of the flood relief program, meanwhile, was often hectic. Many residents complained about abrupt changes in government policy, arbitrary deadlines for Hood relief applications and monumental mismanagement e FOOTNOTE: Carlucci assured us he made his decisions about the specials purely on merit. I said No a number of times. he insisted. He denied the crane incident, and said he blocked as areas for a time sistance for because he was not sure whether or not it was the most effective use of the He handled the flood recovery money program, he said, at the same time that he was working in the White House on the budget He contended he did the bed. he could under the circumstances. Hurricane Agnes, winch battel ed last June 23. has now Valiev Wyoming gone down as the gieatest natural disaster in U S history The damage is estimated at 84 billion non-urba- n . Federal disaster teams rushed in svuitly to aid the flood victims. In the lost few hectic weeks, thousands of bur THEY'RE YOUR SCHOOLS By LAAOK K CHAFFIN' Deseret News Education Editor It's our Christina tors particularly those in Sal' Lake Citv that the, relax, reioice that they live where life is so pleasant and make plans for a New Year in which they will put more emphasis on care and concern lor cluldien wish to all ediiea- t II we didn't .ate about duldien and genuinelv want to give them ail possible opportunity, we wouldn't worn about schools at all Schools are not for board moinbeis or adinmNiators or even for teat hers thev lelm duldien loo otten. tudging Horn the actions at a S.L. size so I was the store. It wrong valley returned it the following day. They gave me a receipt and said they wouldn't return cash but I could exchange it. I selected some items but they didnt total 87.45 so I decided to pay eash and return another day. They said that was tine. A month later I returned and now hey say I had to exchange the eredit on the day I was in before. I asked how they could justify the fact I had no blouse or money either. They just said it was store policy. What can you do? Mrs. R.AL. Salt Lake City. I bought a blouse for $7 45 The assistant store manager said that was their policy and he had no authority to change it. But we found the authority, the owner of th store who said he was not aware of such a policy, and that more often than not tney did make cash refunds because it w as less trouble for them than to have people return with a credit slip. He said the assistant manager was wrong and for us to talk to the manager and that he (the owner) would back us up if there was any static. There wasnt because the owner had conferred with lum first. All you have to do now is call the manager, or go in and you can have your money back, or purchase whatever you wish for the credit. He'll also, we think, do a better job ot explaining than his assistant. Order Again In Spring Blessings Of The School System for the holidavs Finally, after nearly a week of effort, we understand things are shaping up. But it took the combined efforts of ourselves and the Davis County Board of Health to precipitate the action. The trailer people, who promised to check back and let us know the situation haven't. But, the Board of Health did. Just some electrical work remains to be done, they said Owner Declines Policy v e possible malfeasance. The FBI. which also got wind that something was wrong, has been investigating, too dosed Things Shaping Up The S.L. firm where we bought our trailer home will not fix it. We have been here six weeks and they keep saying thev will, but dont. The toilet wont work: the rug is rotting beeause it is wet from leaking sewage, and the wiring is haywire. I have three small one coming. and another children Airs. L.T.. Please. I need some help. n Ken Fisher. Jim Dawson and Jack Cloh-ert- v to Wilkes-Barr- e to investigate flood relief. They brought back e idence of mismanagement, miscalculations and In a few days schools will be tween the state highway department and the countv Highway department for thiee days beloie the state finally conceded it was supposed to take care of the road. Normally, completed frontage roads belong to the county. But since yours is not yet fin. shed and will not be the around so until is done a year from now. the state will take care of clearing it. Concerning that first snow fall, all roads were cleared on a priority basis and yours was near the end of the list W'e have given you the number of the stale maintenance station that you can call if your road is not plowed in a reasonable time after any future snowstorms. Layton. For example. Carlucci opposed urban commurenewal funds for the nities across the river from Wilkes-Barruntil most of the home owners, believing there was no emergency federal funds available to them, arranged their own loans to rehabilitate their homes Then he did an about-fac- three reporters dispatched brought out with him the names of 3)0 POWs lie had memorized. In Flood Their concern about my visit made me cunous what Carlucci didn't want ire to discover As Pi evident Nixon's personal representative, he directed the federal flood relief operation Roy George , PA obvious is the bureaucratic havoc wrought by Frank Carlucci. a human w mdstorm out of ashington. I was taken recentlv oil a quick tour of the devastMr. Anderson ated urea. Tiuiling I were two ol later car. learned, my Carluecfs agents They were M lael C.U771 and Larry Marion who had been assigned to find out where I went, what I said and whether I lelt any reporters behind. generation ( How We were bounced back and forth be- More Publicity Than Work John Schlesingers pnze-- inning film. ''Sunday. Bloody Sunday," exposed I lie charming Act I "Trio" from Mozart's opera, Cosi fan Tuttc, to whole new ,. How are they going to be able to participate in conversation, read a magazine or even watch television and know what's going on when issues such a bus-uiwomens lib. levy ding, communes, inflation, skyjackings and the like didn't even exist when they left mini-skirt- Mrs. Mildred Pilkington, whose son has been missing since 1900, is the Chicago area coordinator for the National League of Families. buildings. Less LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor quently a WILKES-BARRE- , By HAROLD ' That s really not too much of a probBut what do you do about the children who may not have even been born yet and are in school already7 How can those yeais be .eplaced7 after Hurricane Agnes ripped through Wyoming Valiev, her wake is still littered with broken To Classics We i e on a frontage road that anof the gles olf the Bluffdale road south I lab State Prison and west of State street. We were snowed hi for two days dining our lirst big snow ''all. and I couldn't get to work, nor the kids to school. Who is responsible for clearing O.B.. Salt l.ake City. the road? lem By JACK ANDERSON 'On' Salt Lake City. Utah 84 MO similar lia"s'os and their husbands color, same weigh! and 'hat smt "t thing to Hanoi and to Sweden To Turn Youth You may write to Do It Man, Box 1257 Wives are being told it would be helpful if they could look as much as possible like they did when they last saw mother of son missing in Vietnam. MUSICAL WHIRL How g with other people, ' says French-Indochin- IV3AN 19M 'We can go to the moon, but we can't deal china. But some men me known in have been prisoners for eight years IXMT be made once the war is over. She doesnt want men left behind simply because the North Vietnamese wont acknowledge them. they pursue, the schools aie run lor the benefit of those who opeiate them t 'hi 1st mas wish Let's of I tail excellence the general rejoice from schools and school pci sound and let's college through kindergarten resolve to make the happy situation even bettei ill 1'I73 So. this double m A couple of notes Irom the midwest may help you rejoice with honest conviction Both notes are taken tram Education U S A published by the Nation, d School Public Relations Assoc Kit inn The ( tueago putihe schools lind themselves in an evr tightening use. one which is crushing the school sWem School Supt lames from all sides has proposed a tentative 1971 budget, cutting buck 2.122 obs and 17 7 a days of school n oidei to p'ev-".- ' legallv required balanced budget to oil set a Sli3 7 million ddiut Redmond has suggested putting all staff on a schedule, cutting up to 1,200 teaching positions (almost as manv teacheis as are employed in Ltah's 40 local districts), reducing funds for materials by 40 to 70 percent and cutting back funds lor substitutes by 40 percent Fcdmoncl hopes the state legislature will provide funds to rescue the schools Salt Lake City school superintendent Arthur C. AAiseombe walks a financially rocky road, but it doesn t compare with Chicago's Dr not the only city with school munev probli ms. Tnere are many mote than there have been in a quartet centm v One of these is Detioit (hitagn is I he Detioit school board has cancelled a plan that would have kept schools dosed lot two months, starting Dec 21 Some observers say the action simply is postponing the inevitable Like p Chicago. Detroit hopes that its stale legislature will solve the issue. Since the district does not have enough money to keep the schools open until normal closing time in June, classrooms will have to be closed March 17 if the additional funds are not found Previously both the Michigan governor and legislative leaders said they would not make up the scncHs' SsO million deficit And Detroit voter, three times have i ejected proposed increases m property taxes to finance the schools At least 70 other Michigan school diss tricts are in financial trouble, school otli-cial- sav By any reasonable reading of the rec- ords, Italins have paid particular On April 24 1 ordered six violet plants at 51' cents each plus postage from Norvell Greenhouses. Mash. The cheek was cashed bv them but no violets. I sent them a follow-uletter but got no M.W.. answer, (an you help me? Garden City. atten- tion to education , At this time of assessment and all should be thankful for such financial support and even more gratelul for the qindity ot the human resources involved And m the spirit of the New Year, all should resolve to make 1973 an improvement over 1972. unpie-ciation- They have no knowledge of either your order or your second letter even though they did cash your check. But they regret their error w hatever it w as. and say if you will order again in March of 1973, when the weather is warm, they will give you special attention. Also they say, please add two more violet plants of your choice to your order. You should be getting a new catalog soon. Refund Processed sent an order to House of Demurest, Inc., New Aork City in June for a dress for 816.73. The check was cashed on June 29. A month later I got a notice they could not fill my order but would Issue a credit refund which I got August 27. I returned this and asked for a ret u ml. I've heard nothing. L.S., MurI ray . Tney thanked us for writing to them and .aid, refund is now being A |