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Show DESERET NEWS, MONDAY, MAY Saturday night special' on wheels " 'ef , V'V Vv Edgar Prina WASHINGTON night special drunken driver. s ' man " V-'XC- Q America's most murderous Satur-anot the cheap handgun, but the y Ls Trans-poratio- Dann believes that drunken driving remains the most permissible crime in America. He and national AAA officials, along with the federal government, are trying to do something about it. Alarmed by what he reported (from preliminary data) has been a 125 percent increase in accidents in Michigan drivers since a 1972 state law made it invoking legal for youth of that age to drink, Dann is calling for the creation of a special state police force whose primary re- sponsibility would be the apprehension of the drinking driv-e- r and the inspection of bars in the more populated counties. He also recommends an expansion of the alcohol rehabilitation programs as rapidly as possible and more refer alcohol-highwa- We contacted tire carpet cleaner not once, not twice, but at least once every week for three and one-hamonths. Each time we received a cordial response that the money would come within a week, as soon as the head office in San Diego issued a check. We finally became disgusted with the local office's inability to get the head office to respond. We fired off a very firm letter to San Diego which yielded a long distance phone call from the manager there followed by a letter. He was extremely apologetic, saying there was no reasonable way to explain away such a case of inconsideration and neglectful treatment, and he was not sure where the ball was dropped. Along with his statement that their disgust must nearly equal yours, they issued a check for $24, which you say youve now received. lf $LT i ,;,T err' vl -- Another traffic death, the o frequent of wheel. drunk result the a at grim all-to- y By Louis Harris One measure of the poten- Mini do its Nielsen Clearing House of Clinton, Iowa has replaced orders for Value Package requested by M.F., Salt Lake City and H.F.L., Salina. A robe temporarily out of stock is now on its way to J.A.G., Minersville from House of Fashion of Burlington, N.C. Record Club of America has finally acknowledged R.M., Kansas and will send him the tapes he ordered in February as soon as he reminds them of the V 48-3- 5 off-ye- Guzzlers vs. compacts The Christian Science Monitor News Service He compares two cars, each driven miles a per year economy car, using regular gas, and a luxury vehicle consuming a gallon of premium fuei every - 10,000 miles. The owner of the small car pays $175.01 yearly for gasoline, according to Mr. Vaniks figures. The owner of the large auto shells out $550 for fuel. The difference will widen, notes the Ohio Democrat, as the price of gasoline climbs. 8 Anyone who has lived in France or West Germany, as this reporter has, and plunked down the equivalent of $1 for a gallon of gas, knows the answer. A Amencan car, taxed on the basis of weight according to the European system, simply costs too much to fuel and drive. full-size- d The automobile, adds Vanik, gasoline consumption. Each car, before being marketed, would be tested for fuel for almost sponsible new-mod- sumption by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). On the basis of EPA findings, The U.S. Treasury would levy the proposed excise tax. The schedule of the tax, says Vanik, would be graduated so that cars which guzzle more gas, pay more tax. Cars getting more than 20 miles to the gallon would pay no tax. car getting 10 miles to the gallon, luxby contrast, would pay a $96 tax. A whose vehicle appointments power ury 7 dragged its efficiency down to miles tax. a $256 would carry per gallon Quite apart from the proposed tax, Vanik points out to car owners how much more in gasoline alone a large A one-ha- lf KNOWLEDGE OF COVERUP Maybe this week street from us has dug a hole in water line connection. Weil the hole has been there for two weeks and no one will come fill it up. My husband and I are both old and we have to walk so far to get to a car because of the hole. Please see what you can do to help us. Mrs. R.J., Salt Lake City. Hole wont be filled up until jobs finished. Two people are involved here, the contractor who digs and fills up the hole and the city water people, who do the work on the water line itself. Completion is scheduled this week. If the hole remains past then, get, back to us and well prod them a bit. A company across the of our house for a front 53-4- 7 Editor's Note: We're sorry the volume of colls ond mall moke it impossible to answer every auestion. Please, no medical or legal auestions. Answers can only be given in this column. Give your name, address ond telephone number (not for publication) to help help you. can happen between now and then. Recently, a cross section of the country was asked: Suppose the 1974 election for Congress were being held today and you had to decide right now, in this Congressional district, would you vote for the or Democratic Republican candidate for Congress? Preference for Congress Describing the automobile as an imMr. portant American institution, Vanik notes that direct gasoline consumption by cars represents 13 percent of our total energy budget." Autos are the major cause of urban pollution, as every pedestrain engulfed by the exhaust of accelerating buses, trucks, and cars, is well aware. Gas prices are on their way up in the United States, and Rep. Charles A. Vanik (D) of Ohio has introduced a consumer protection bill, designed to prod Americans toward demanding and buying smaller cars. Beginning July I, 1976, under Vaniks bill, a fuel economy excise tax would be imposed on new cars, based on their SURVEY percent margin. Thus, as the Watergate disclosures continue, the Democrats are threatening to double the popular vote margin by which they carried Congressional elections last year. If this lead were to hold up 1974, the through November Democrats could dominate the next Congress by majorities of seats they have not held since the 1930s. Obviously, are however, the elections still 18 months off, and much automobile costs. WASHINGTON, D.C. Why do Europeans buy small cars, while most Americans prefer the fancy monsters of Detroit? NIXON won control of Democrats Congress, but by a much smaller titles. J.C. Whitney Co., Chicago will issue a refund of $60 for a crank shaft ordered and never received to K.H., Vernal as soon as he sends copies of his cancelled check and order papers. Greenland Studio, Miami, is issuing a refund to L.J.H., Murray for a needlework kit she never received. Columbia House, Terre Haute, Ind., has straightened out the account of D.B., Midvale, and removed an erroneous charge and sent a record due her. HARRIS tial political impact of the Watergate affair can be found in the percent lead the Democrats now hold nationwide in the 1974 Congressional elections. In 1972, the cars would pay higher tax under proposed bill. OUR MAN jones By Harry Jones Deseret News staff writer Percent Percent of the 53 47 48 emissions by weight that pollute our air. And the use of cars by Americans shows every sign of growing. Democratic Republican Not sure His bill is not intended to hammer-loc- k the industry, but to provide an essential incentive to manufacture a for the more efficient automobile benefit of the American consumer. Like the dinosaur, predicts Vanik, automobile is the large becoming extinct in its own time." The real sufferer from a gasoline shortage, he stresses, is the consumer. His proposal, Vanik hopes, will help each American to become aware of the vast costs involved to himself, to his of neighbors, to the entire nation buying an oversized, inefficient Perhaps the best test on is the question Watergate asked in the same survey about President Nixons possible involvement in the cover-u-p following the arrest of 5 Republican spies caught bugnational Democratic ging headquarters, last June. The President public was asked: Nixon said that until March of this year he did not know of any effort on the part of his own staff members or his administration to cover up White House involvement in the Watergate affair. Do you think the President did not know 35 17 about the attempts to cover up. White House involvement in the Watergate affair before this past March, or do you think he knew it before then? (Answers in chart above.) These results show clearly that Watergate has taken its greatest toll on precisely those groups which in 1972 most were independent-minde- d in splitting their tickets between President Nixon and Democratic Congressional candidates. Those most ready to doubt tire President at this include voters on the East and West coasts, big city time and suburban voters, young people, those with some college education, union members, those not affiliated with either political party, and Catholics. Here is how each of these groups indicate they would vote for Congress, if the elections were held in May 1973, instead of Novemoff-ye- ber 1974: In the East, the Demohold a percent lead, up sharply from the narrow percent margin they won by in 1972. crats 51-3- 3 51-4- 9 Jack Anderson Vesco finagling affected 2 presidents W ASHINGTON cial finagler, Robert way to a politicians In both the tried to has he Rica, graces of Presidents Figueres themselves. The international finanVesco, believes that the heart is through his United States and Costa buy his way into the gooa Richard Nixon and Jose the ald the the the k. g ruary dent. Just as Vesco sought out Donald Nixon, the financier also zeroed in on President Jose Figures family, Preluding his son Marti. A secret CIA report, made available to us, quotes the President's nephew, Fernando Figueres, as say- ing the family business enterprises were 16, 1972. To gather the facts and gain access to the Presidents brother, my associate George Clifford posed as a businessman. He found Donald Nixon an irrepressible operator who talked incessantly about business deals and winked of knowingly to emphasize the significance what he was saying. A typical remark: Dont overlook the posAnd with Russia, sibility of trade with China. he said, winking. There is opportunity there. Someone has to do business with them. Nixon also confided tnat John Ehrlichman,- deposed White House aide, talked to Jr. about his job with Vesco. Apparently, boy was something of a disappointment to family. Ho had been in the mountains, said father, associating with hippies. Don- That dumb Don Nixon said of his son. John Ehrlichman talked to him for a couple of hours and told him he had to behave himself over there (with Vesco). You know, he told him he was the Presidents nephew and couldnt do anything to embarrass the Presi- The approach was through their families. In the United States, Vesco cozied up to the brother, Donald Presidents wheeling-dealinNixon, whose son has been sharing the good life with the financier as his personal aide. We have been reporting on the strange relationsince Febship between Vesco and the Nixons doing poorly. Fernando Figueres, who manages some of the Presidents businesses, said that he personally has asked to be allowed to resign because of these financial difficulties, notes the CIA. "He commented that all the members of the Presidents family are deepiy concerned with family financial matters and the fact that the - i We can blame it on Monday. How else can we explain the paint job out in Murray along State Street? A couple of accidents and a lot of near accidents just past 5400 South on Suite Street involving school kids prodded the people in charge to build an 1972 1974 is re- ( President does not seem to be able to administer his business enterprises profitably. Still another source close to The respected Costa Rican President quoted him as saying that his financial situation was very bad. (The source) indicated that Figueres seemed obsessed with his financial problems. The situation was made to order for Vesco, who has been accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of looting $224 million investment complex from his foreign-baseand moving the money to Costa Rica and the d Bahamas. The finagler ingratiated himself with Figueres by helping to solve some of his financial problems. The grateful Figueres wrote to President NLxon last July about the SEC investigation of Vesco, expressing concern that it might jeopardize Costa Ricas development. Now that Vesco is under indictment in the United States, it has been hinted he may give up his U.S. citizenship and make Costa Rica his new home. Figueres has made it clear this would be fine with him. The CIA has made it clear this would also be fine for him. (c) Inc. 1973, United Man, P.O. box 1257, Salt Lake City, Utah Magna. of Watergate affair ng t I wrote to voii in January about a couple of carpet shelf off my cleaner employees who knocked a what-no- t wall in December, 1972 while cleaning my carpet. They broke my collection of figurines. You contacted the company and said I should be getting a check from the workmen Mrs. C.B.H.. shortly. Welt it's never come. What now? The political impact Gas-guzzli- Do-I- Coast firm disgusted with own neglect The program grew oui of the new approach Phoenix, Ariz., adopted in 1966. Core of the plan was to have local judges refer convicted DWI drivers to a special school set up with the help of Arizona State University and the Phoenix Police Department. AAA headquarters and affiliated clubs began to promote the establishment of alcohol rehabilitation and reeducation programs throughout the country There are now at least 390 DWI schools in operation. AAA then developed a promotional kit, which included a club guide to establishing a practical community action program against driving while intoxicated; fact sheets on DW I and sample local- - newspaper stories and letters to judges, mayors and business officials. Also, special DWI counterattack materials were made available to local AAA clubs. These included an instructors manual developed by Malfetti; a syllabus on the rehabilitation of the drunken driver; a pair of demonstration eyeglasses designed to simulate blurred vision; special pamphlets describing the effects of alcohol; television spots, entitled Sure, Mac, Sure, emphasizing a false rationalization or misconception about booze and driving, information on deand a newsletter containing in safety. velopments in 1972. OUR READERS' ACTION LINE Dial 564 8626 or write to Sam Yaksich Jr., director of the AAA's traffic engineering and safety department, is not so sure stricter punishment is the answer, but he is sold on the reeducation and rehabilitation approach. AAA has come up with what it calls a DWI (driving while intoxicated) counterattack program, with emphasis on reeducation and rehabilitation. This is the view of officials of the American Automobile Association (AAA) who n quote Department of highway safety statistics to the effect that nearly 30,000 traffic deaths annually involve persons who drive while under the influence of alcohol. More than twice as many Americans were killed by drunk drivers last year than were murdered by all the robbers, rapists, arsonsits and muggers in the country, said Richard R.. Dann, executive vice president of the Auto Club of Michigan, an AAA affiliate. Drunk drivers destroyed six times as much property value as was stolen in all the robberies and burglaries committed DO-I- T nils by the courts to these programs for the problem drinkers. Copley News Service A3 ''' One more for the road and the cemetery, too? By L. 21, 1973 Feoture Syndicate, In the suburbs, the Democrats hold a narrow percent edge. But that is a vast improvement for them 6 from the percent loss they incurred in the House races last November. Among union members, the Democrats now lead by a massive percent for Con1974. This is substanin gress pertially ahead of the cent margin by which the Democrats won the House vote among union members in 43-4- 2 V To encourage the youngsters to use it, Murray officers erased, as best they could, the old painted crosswalk. So what happens? The state crew repainting the center lines down State, took the time to repaint the erased crosswalks! I refuse to vouch for this, but the businessman who told me Ls not only noted for his truthfulness, but honest dealings. He said at their annual meeting the other day, it became not only warm (the air conditioner had not yet been turned on for the summer), but very boring. Some of the older members of the board were nodding. In the middle of the proceedings, a secretary tiptoed into the room and handed the chairman a note. One of the board members had parked his car blocking the alley at the rear of the building. The chairman made the announcement and asked that it be moved. 44-5- 56-2- 8 59-4- 1 1972. Among Catholics, the Democrats hold a percent lead, which is well above the 0 percent margin they 56-2- 5 60-4- won among this key religious group last November. Both among the growing affluent segments of the electorate and among those America" Middle groups, such as union members, Watergate is reducing confidence in Mr. Nixon and is hurting the Republican chances at the polls at the next election. (C 1973, Chipogo Tribune One of the sleepier members said, I move the car in the alley. it! Said the guy next to him. The president banged his gavel. The car has been moved and seconded. The next order of business is . . A pretty California woman who has just moved to Kanab with her family is high on the place. Shes a one person chamber of commerce boosting the area. Well, not exactly a chamber of commerce. She only tells the people she meets in Kanab about it. I just dont want to tell everyone and spoil it all," she I second if U f said. Lavor Chaffin driving down Highway S9 saw a sign in Orderville that gave him a chuckle. The bill board said: Remember mother on Mother's Day. Paint, $5.93 a gallon. Lavor said he hoped that anyone who bought their mom a gallon of paint also spent a little more and got her a brush! i i Clann Ashby, who writes a neat column out in the Uintah Basin for the Standard says that "time is a great healer, but it is no beauty specialist. And one more Monday has gone by the board: WITS END: The reason some of the rock groups can afford such expensive guitars is that they never had to put out any money for lessons! U I) Inf |