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Show DESERET The Blue Plate Special's still here (at bone china prices) B Kevin G. Graunke Christian Science Monitor News Service BOSTON, is obsolete? MASS. Who says the luncheon It is alive and well, costing from $1.10 to $3 in many Boston restaurants. In one Los Angeles restaurant, the special now costs $1.35. reports Monitor correspondent Curtis J. Sitomer. And it is one of few restaurants that still advertises the special. Only the big hamburger chains can still offer a lunch for under a dollar, he says. In Chicago, the average businessman's lunch costs $1.50 to $1.75, and Monitor correspondent Monty Hoyt reports a good, hot noontime meal can be had in the Denver area for $1.50. In New York City, the special is definitely a thing of the past. In one 47th Street restaurant, the cheapest special is $1 25 (potato pancake and apple sauce). At a cafeteria in Lincoln Center frequented by there for same time welfare recipients and the elderly, the special ranges from SI 96 to $2 00 and includes soup or juice, mam course, roll and butter, dessert, and beverage. David Zide, manager of the Bulkie Restaurant on Boylston Street, said he has had to raise his sandwich prices by 15 cents. Were trying to hold the line, he insists, but what are you going to do when the price of smoked salmon jumps a dollar in one week? Zide affixed tags on his menus explaining the higher price to customers. The notices have been oil the menus for five weeks, and he expects they will stay to come. mflfi OUR READERS' ACTION LINE U m i Walter Hickel, the Nixon T4ir I ). C L y. t 1972 in our kitchen. In It slipped their mind Over a month ago you contacted a company for me a refund of $29. They said they were send ing it soon. Hell, Im still waiting. Is it too soon to gel back to you? I.D., Santaquin. No it isnt. Their excuse tins lime was that it imt'i have slipped their nund. He gave them a little reminder and you should have the $29 in your hands by now. who owed me "If we performed this miracle ith an industrial capacity much less than what we possess nowr, we can surely build a modern rail transport system for 300 million Americans by the year 2000. MIN! DO ITS Mrs. F.H., Santaquin has received a refund check for from Spring Hill Nurseries of Tipp City, Ohio for a credit voucher she returned to them in April Alter Du-l- i Man sent two letters of inquiry to National Snapshot Labs Cleveland, Ohio, S.E.P.. ltexburg, finally received the processed film she sent to them at the beginning of March Mrs. N.A.T., Salt Lake City will be getting $14 19 from RCA Factory Service, New- Jersey for a TV repan service contract they requested be cancelled m March. $19 49 - Highly successful Lindenwold Line links Philadelphia, downtown Camden. attempted to answer them. The issues and answers sketch what appears to be a fairly accurate picture of mass transit and its potential. Transit foes, for example, claim .most cities are too small for commuter rail service. Yet, m 1954, Toronto, Canada, launched its rapid transit system when the citys less than was population 700.000. The following year Cleveland started its system with a population of less than it costs make struction impractical, the foes contend. e The advocates answer: construction costs of $21) to $25 million are high because rail transit goes over or under the most expensive real estate in the big cities and their suburbs. New highway? in the same areas, however, have been known 10 cost from $69 to $sG million a mile. Experts indicate that the carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides which automobile exhaust leaves in the air are trapped m Salt Lake Valley, forming a potentially serious health hazard. And the environmental scars left by freeway and highway construction reminders of the autos predominance to many Utahns. The need for improved mass transit systems has received renewed interest in the light cf recent air quality proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA proposal to limit downtown parking added impetus to Deseret News efforts to improve public transit systems as part of the Goals for 1973 program. Vehicular traffic in Salt Lake 81 4 percent during the 1960s accompanied by a rise in air pollution and environmental problems. The second of County-increase- a two-par- series t Rail transit is declining and soon will fade away, claim its enemies. Yet, since World War II, reply the advocates. 40 cities around the world have elected to build new rail transit systems, a dozen in the last decade. People wont leave their autos at home to ride train, the transit toes argue. Yet Cleveland, Chicago and Philadelphia already have made believers out of erstwhile mowith rail torists systems which get them to and from on mass transit deals with the environmental impact of highways vs. transit work quickly. highway, with its clover leaves and turnouts, for example Graceful lines and noise control make the newsy steins easy on the eyes and ears. eight-lan- e What about the landscape created by transit blight lines? New-typconstruction, the advocates reply, is the opposite of blight. The lines take up far less space than the e But transits sky-hig- h con- - Rail transit is cheap at the price, they add, because it moves up to 40,000 people an hour, compared to 2.500 per hour lor each lane of highway. Moreover, rail transit cuts the area of downtown land that must b diverted to parking, reduces the number of policemen needed tor trai-fiduties and eases congestion for those who remain on the streets and highways. e new profile Copley News Service Cambodias former chief of state, Norodom Sihanouk, is the wild card WASHINGTON in the Southeast Asia power game. The United States has maae it known that it is ready to talk with the exiled prince as a participan m peace negotiations on Cambo- dia. State Department officials concede that Sihanouk, who has considerable clout m Peking and Hanoi, must be given a chair at the peace table. imposed (Today is the congressionallv deadline for cutoff of bombing by the United States in Cambodia.) It is still not dear if the feisty Sihanouk will talk with the United States. Up to now, Sihanouk has said: (I) He would refuse to meet with any American adviser emissaries, including presidential Henry Kissinger and (2) He would reject any solution proposed by the Unhed States to end the fighting in Cambodia. Speaking m Pyongyang, capital of North Korea, the other day, Sihanouk denounced alleged U.S. plans to set up a coalition government m Cambodia or, if that did not work, to and slice the cease-fir- e impose an country m half. Tilts or that solution of th Cambodian question, which the U S.A. and certain West and East European powers want to offer the Khmer (Cambodian) people like a poisoned But Sihanouk has changed his mmd before. In fact, desenptives like mercurial. impulsive and tightrope walker assigned to hun by journalists were earned by his fancy diplomatic footwork. The elements in the present Cambodian situation are Sihanouk with the backing of Peking and Hanoi, the Cambodian government of Lon Nol, ostensibly backed by the United States, and the Cambodian insurgents known as the Khmer Rouge (Reds) or the Cambodian People's National Liberation Armed Forces. Kissinger makes a scheduled trip to Peking soon, the Cambodia question is expected to be at the top of his working agenda. No one is sure how strong the Lon Nol regime really is. It could stand on its own feet after the bombing ends or, with implied U.S. support withdrawn, it could collapse like a house of cards. When Sihanouk is no Communist. nouk. i Ive had the opportunity to heal one of the White House controversial tapes. Its true tha it is tilled with secret moves, deception and tricks. It is a plan to nuke people think orm tlum w hile doing another It involves the president directly and 11 men. net Mr. Nixon cant deny it. He thought up j lumbers business. It was his plan all the way. The man Mr Nixon was talking to on the Oval Otfiee phone didn't v unt to get inv olv ed. At least he did not pul the Nixon plan to work. He was identified as George Allan, football coach ol the Washington Redskins Okay, Im sorry WYOMING II VS A BUCKING IIOKSE and cowboy cm their license plates. Colorado has mountains on theirs Bam led his friends on Wednesday. It was a lot more dangerous. It was eight and half solid hours of Ape mcvies. While there was no danger from wild animals, there was the danger of the uncomfortable sitz marks. With Bruce watching the swinging movies were David Boede. Steve Wav man. Lba Gardner and Diane Boede. all 13. When I asked if Diane was a tvvm, Bruce replied that she was, and so was David. as ac- - They cut expenses by popping their own popcorn at home. (Im not sure that is according to the rules.) Sihanouk in Paris on March 18, 1970, the day he was overthrown. curate as it is colorful, for Sihanouks moods will have a lot to do with the way the power game is played out. to shipments went to the Viet Cong, us. At that rate one sells oneself. So that was my end. There is the truth. Throughout the 960s, Sihanouk vehemently-deniethat he was allowing the Viet Cong to make use of Cambodian territory the Cambodian sanctuary as a supply base for the Vietnam war. Sihanouk also said that Lon Nol and others close to the pJace had enriched themselves by collecting payment for the delivery of the supplies. The prince said iettists m his cabinet pressured him to refuse further American aid. In the end, many of Sihanouks friends turned against him to the extent that the prince says he never wants to live in Phnom Penh again. But recently, m an interview in Eastern Europe, Sihanouk let it all hang out. He admitted accusations made by the Un.t-eStates while he was in power and always denied by him (and ridiculed by the antiwar movement throughout the world). Sihanouk admitted that the Cambodian army provided the transport, on a road built by the U.S. aid program, from the port of Sihanoukville to Communist sanctuaries. d rather be known as a Cambodian patriot. He knows that his temporary friends m Peking and Hanoi could dump him after a short while and he has so stated. For the time being, however, there is no prospect for a settlement in Cambodia without the presence and the participation of SihaHe would wild card Harry Jones Deseret News stall writer They are reasonable and can be picked up at tile Stars office in the Salt Palace and at the chicken colonels places. The best part is that the proceeds will be given to the Muscular Dystrophy Associations Labor Day telethon' So let's have another winner. IT H SNT EX 4CTLY an African safari that bnice the prince plate, is absolutely unacceptable, was quoted by the North Korean Central News Agency. Describing him as a jones Now we can have green mountains on our plates Actually they are brackets that fit around the plaie. but they are attractive. The bracket also boosts the Stars out basketball team He's the 'wild card' By Edward Neilan OUR MAN per-nnl- 900.000. i b 't through. w e protagonists have Lb Bit m miles of rail trackage, more than existed in all of Europe; by 1900 we had more than five times that amount. Some aerospace firms already have turned to producing equipment for bus and rail The G ,f leaving you, unjustifiably, m the middle of your cracked tile. He ignored the letter we wrote to hun When you appealed to us again we called him. His mam excuse u,-I'too busy, and then shifted the blame on the distributor and the manufacturer. He stubbornly retusod to tell he would repair the job He told him we would his answer. He replied: If you do you can tel Mrs. C. Ill never do it at all. Since threats strengthm our determination to put such people m their place, wt contacted the distributor who visited your home His vei did was a batchy, clumsy and messy job. He said tin job should be redone and he called the firm involved am, reported back to us that he had promised to replace and repair within 30 days. We expressed doubt he would keen that promise, but the distributor said he would follow "At the end of the Civil War in 1865, the United States had 35,000 The environmentalists want dear the air of autocreated pollutants. They believe mass transit is the best answer. The aerspace people, in the wake of a decline m the space program and plane production contracts, are looking for ways to convert thur know-hoand equipment to other fields. Mass transit is one. r ad- elevate where possible and make the iron wheel turn faster. As for financing, we built a magnificent railroad system once before. to beIn the tween congressional lobbies for the advocates and enemies of more government spending on mass transit, the antagonists have raised significant questions about the future of public transportation systems. A lust when we begin to feel a twinge ot sympathy tot merchants, manufacturers and pro.iders ot service we get involved with a defensive and negative businos-ma- n. Turns out he made several mistakes: promising bu: never keeping a promis-- ; procrastinating many tunes and "The solution is to electrify, Today, however, the environmental lobby is working with the aerospace industry in a drive to channel up to a billion dollars a year more m federal money to plan and build public transit systems. in- V U.1 t we paid a tile installer $250.20 for some December It began to crack around an electrical outlet. He called the firm many times and my husband went to see them personally. They finally sent a repair man but he was unable to fix it without replacing the entire counterpieee. Then two men from the distributor came out. Then the installer said they would give him $10 credit on doing Hie jeb and that wasnt enough. lie told us to contact the factory representative. But he's always out of town. He are tired, discouraged, and disappointed in these Salt Lake businessmen. Please Mrs. M.D.C., Hest Jordan. help us. cates in his book "Who Owns America , when he writes: n trucking and construction dustries and oil companies. w In June of ministration's first Interior secretary, speaks for the transit advo- Only two years ago, environmentalists clashed in a bitconfrontation with ter head-othe aerospace industry over construction of a supersonice transport. The environemntal-ist- s won and the SST stayed on the ground. The major foes of an increased flow of federal dollars to support new mass transit systems, of course, are the U' mo: only-wa- transit car contracts. i counter tile Copley News Service systems in and around cities. of Chula Rohr Industries, Vista, Calif., whose business was about 90 percent aerospace in 1967, is building cars for the Washington, D.C., and San Francisco transit systems. Boeing is bidding on San Francisco and Boston .r but customer wins Frank Macumber Like most Ainencan enterprises, mass transit is controversial. And like most controversial undertakings, it has drawn a strange, even ironical lineup of support as the to lick the nations chief the transportation problem traffic strangled big city. t1 Tile firm threatens; Transit foes speak, advocates answer By Ai AUGUST 15, 1973 DO-I- T However, even with the sandwiches costing proportionately more, Zide feels his customers are still getting their money's worth. The help has a pretty heavy hand on the sandwiches," he explains. "Sometimes theyll put on an extra slice of ham or smoked salmon Ill cail them on it though, because an extra slice of salmon can mean as much as art cents to me The Newbury Steak House has been forced to raise prices too, but declines the idea of putting less food on the customers plates, says Gerald Ranun, owner and manager. For 20 years, the Newbury Steak House was famous for its steak supper, Ramin remembers. It now costs $1.75. So far. the bulk of our trade young local people hasnt complained much. But something has got to change soon." he adds. It has. A sign ;t one restaurant announced the days luncheon special as costing only $1 40 meal. Not bad for w hat Used to be a The price hikes are battle sounds in the continuing skirmish between restaurant owners and their rising costs. Many have been forced to raise their menu pnees across the board, as little as a few pennies or as much as 20 percent. Restaurateurs questioned here this week say they have raised pnees with great reiuctance. It is not good for business, they admit. NEWS, WEDNESDAY, Sihanouk told the interviewer, s the Viet Cong's coolies. Two-third- We became of all the one-thir- d Give me a villa at Anskor Hat and I will be a nominal head of state like Queen Elizabeth, he said recently On March IS. 1970, Sihanouk, now 50, was overthrown as chief of state of the country to whose throne he had come as king m 1941 at the age of 19. He later renounced the throne to be more active among the people. The reason they sat through the five We are ape on these kinds of shows. movies? Bruce. h said They entered the theater shortly befoie noon and emerged at 8.39 p.in. They averaged three pit stops apiece. Bruce said they were so tired when they got home, all they could do was sit around and watch television' THE SIPERMARKLT MENTIONING yesterday brought a coMple of responses. Om- lady said she spent an entire weeks grocery money yesterday and still could Ust the express checkout stand. Her name was Mary and she had a little lamb. She would have liked beef, but she couldn't afford it - We spoke about the energy crisis, and a woman ealke to ask if we remembered when the only energy crisis was the kid' playing in the house on a rainy day. The answer is v up! WIT'S END: In the game ot life, we are now a, playing for higher steaks' |