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Show DESERET A quiet By Dexter C. Ellis Deseret News Political Editor It was one of those exquisitely rare days in Utah when it s a profound pleasure just to be alive and able to see, smell and feel. The air was sparkling clear the temperature perfect and the Wasatch Front like an oriental tapestry stretching from the towering eastern mountains to the shimmering blue lake on the west. time to cruise slowly along a country road, admiring the burnished gold of th: scrub oak, the brilliant yellow of the quaken aspen, the browns, reds and even the delicate pink of the lowly tumbleweed. A But, for Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, there was precious little time for such idle pursuits. His convov carried him too swiftly across the Box Elder County countryside to allow a of the proper appreciation p flora. The schedule did not permit a pause along the way to watch the breathtaking show on the western horizon where the sinking sun tinted the underbellies of fleecy clouds a constantly-changin- g hue from garish orange to blood red. tree-line- Y wasn't like Neighbors craned for a glimpse of the new vice president; newsmen poked microphones in his face or strained, with pen and pad poised, for fragments of small talk to out them flesh somehow stories. ELLIS been transformed into a YIP pniuction. Rather than deplaning at a public airport and jostling eas- ily with the plain vanilla brand of American, Ford flew Hill Air into heavily-guardeForce Base to be saluted by Air Police and bemedalled Air Force officers. d been planned as a visit to his warm James Browns of and his son, had d But it probably old times. DEXTER For Ford was no longer just one of the boys in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was now the vice president-designat- e of the most powerful nation in the world. What had quiet social friends, the Tremonton, scended upon their comfortable brick home on a quiet street in Tremonton. Politics His hosts handled with aplomb the circus" that de OCTOBER 18, 1973 A3 Not quite! in the country? day NEWS, THURSDAY, But, undoubtedly, the mos pervasive influence of all was that of the omnipresent Secret Service men. Grimly businesslike, 'hey restlessly scan building tops, bushes, distant fields, approaching vehicles. Periodically, their eyes bore into yours as though attempting to divine the workings of your mind where a dastardly deed might be hatching. the same easv camaraderie as during the past nine Christmases and be able to thoroughly unwind and forget their cares. The vice presidential nominee will need whatever relaxation he can get, at least for the next three years, for he is now bearing the heavy burden It to seems ludicrous that harm suppose might come to anyone, let alone a in vice president, folksy, friendly Tremonton. But in the light of the terrible happenings in contemporary America, no president, vice president or even a seeker after those positions can safely be left unguarded. that American society places upon its highest elected officials. for what its Incidentally, worth. Ford appears to be much more popular with the national press" reporters who accompany him than was Spiro T Agnew. One veteran of the political circuit said the difference in affability between the two is as broad as that between a 500 mm lens and a 25 mm one, w inch is probably an eloquent expression to photo buffs. For, it's impossible to predict where a twisted mind may lurk, capable of using a Saturday Night Special in a crowd or a telescoped rifle on a ski slope. The Browns and Ford found enough relative peace and quiet during dinner to plan their usual Christmas vacation together thjs December. Its hoped they can enjoy 3 Dial OUR READERS' ACTION LINE or write to 364-862- Do-I- Man, P.O. Box 1257, Salt Lake City, Utah As income increases, pension check cut I understood from the Veterans Administration that if I made so much money over my pension they we'ild reduce the amount. A friend wanted to buy part of my lot so I asked the VA how much they would cut my pension if I sold it. Without a word to me they cut my pension by $6.51 a month. I have written and told them that I didnt sell the property, but they dont answer. Can yon help me? G.W.P., Lehl. The reduction in your pension amount was not because Good Samaritan in the Bronx which receives regular craft supplies from Silberberg. We never know what is coming, says Wally Voge, art director of the club. If we end up with a lot of material, maybe well nvike rag dolls. Sometimes it takes a while before we know what to do with what we get. His hobby He described the time boxes of leather inserts used in the heels of shoes arrived and remained in their boxes. Finally, a creative staff member suggested turning them with into little sleds runners! And we dont just get boxes, added is pipe-clean- helping others By Jo Ann Levine The Chrisfion Science News Service v ! .- s , Monitor - past years, George I. Silberberg, with only the help of volunteers, has disbursed some $25 million of hobby and craft materials to schools, hospitals, and prisons throughout the world. 2 Right now, from a vast apartment house basement, Silberberg regularly ships out thousands of neatly packed boxes to 3,390 local and 3,500 international nonprofit organizations. The material ranges from postage stamps to cowhides and is donated by individuals as well as by some of the largest corporations in the country. Our whole program is based on giving giving everyone the opportunity to provide for his creative ability, says Silberberg. His organization is The Hobby Craft Division of the Grand Street Boys Association in the Bronx. My profession is engineering, explains Silberberg. Thats a challenge. This is a greater challenge because you are dealing with people. Engineering is creating; here you are not creating, you are helping. Silberbergs efforts began during the years of 1942 to 1945, when he was in the hospital recovering from a serious accident which left in doubt whether he would ever walk again. During those years, he pledged to himself that if he recovered, he would help others. He started in 1945 by bringing stamps (his own hobby) into Veterans Administration Hospitals in New York City. When he found there was a shortage of other craft materials, he began to make appeals to large manufacturers. Over a five-yeperiod, he sent out 100,000 individual letters, and got a 20 percent response. We received so much merchandise that the average organization requested we stop he recalled. Then, in shipping so much, order to utilize materials from these big companies, we began to open doors to all non(Many of the original profit organizations. companies are still contributing, and most pick up the shipping tab.) Silberberg thinks big. These volunteers are supplemented by others sent down by organizations such as the Salvation Army and the Bowery Mission. Our are schoolteachers, volunteers said Silberberg. They lawyers, financiers, come heie aim work like labuieiS. Milton Jampole, one volunteer, coached the 1928 U.S. Olympic team in boxing and fencing. Now he teaches deaf and mute children to box. He once traveled with Helen Keller as an interpreter, and also taught John F. Kennedy swimming when the former President was a little boy. (He used to be afraid to dive into deep WASHINGTON Following are votes of area members of Congress on major issues during the week ending Oct. 11, 1973. 75-2- 49-- Five months ago we canceled several Insurance policies. Within a lew days our interest was refunded, but before we could prevent it, two premium payments were made automatically from a payroll deduction. Sn far we have been unable to get tiie insurance company to give this money back. We've contacted them but no word. Will Mrs. W.M., Kaysvllle. you give them a nudge? 1 water.) Right now, Silberberg says, his quota of nonprofit organizations receiving craft materials is filled. As soon as possible, we will he said. One admit additional organizations, way he can admit new ones is to drop old ones when they v date the principles of our organization. This means, primarily, that they do not acknowledge receipt of merchandise. The Internal Revenue Service requires this proof. bought a used car. I was told it was dependable. One water and overheating. I day lavr added water and let it go because I thought it was minor. Two weeks later I was in New Mexico on business and it wouldnt start. I ended up ruining the starter. 1 paid for the repair. But I discovered there is a cracked cylinder. This will cost $250 to fix. I paid $2,200 for the car. Id apS.R., Salt Lake City. preciate some action. You have now told ,Us that the dealer came out and took care of the situation quite well and I think I am going to be satisfied. You may be satisfied, but were not. Since you asked our help and got it, we think you could have been more explicit as to what they did to please you. You see, they didnt bother to give us the courtesy of an answer, which leaves us wondering. I noticed it was losing String (left) provides o good chance to use your hands while a shaggy plastic dog (above) is fun to play with. , & ' 'Va&V- - - wT Editor's Note: We re sorry the volume of colls ond moil moke it inv possible to answer every Question. Please, no medcol or legal Questions. Answers can only be given in this column. Give vour name, oddress and telephone number (not for publication) to help OoltMon help you. f loading, packing, boxing, and acknowledging goods received. Compiled by Congressional Quarterly y Governmental difficulties Were left wondering OUR MAN JOflES By Harry Jones Deseret News staff writer George Silberberg's office is lined with citations, portraits. Silberberg and his brother originally owned the apartment building in which the Hobby Craft Division is located. When they sold it, they did so on condition their organization could lease it for $1 a year. When the building changed hands, the new owners were so pleased to have them, they renewed the lease. We pay no electricity or anything, said Silberberg, who notes this factor is absolutely essential to the organizations success. Id like to find more people who would start programs of this type, he said, noting that in some places, institutions get very little help from people in their own states. Our policy, he said, is that we never say no. We never criticize. We even give to the Shrin-er- s one of the wealthiest fraternal organizations in the world. The interview over, Silberberg went back to work shipping out 400 cartons, an estimated $20,000 worth of merchandise. For further information about this organization write: Hobby Craft Division, Grand Street Boys Association, 2122 Wallace Avenue, Bronx, N.Y. 10462. (c) 1973. Christian Science Publishing Society P ' VfV Pretty Janet SteggeH probably gets as much maH as any SaI in town. Would you believe 12,000 letters since II w w- , Jfct September? - most are addressed, However, Dear Utah Travel Council. Janet is the receptionist. The reason for the avalanche, says Janet, is the opening of school and the ski season being just a few feet away. Some letters are funny: Do you live in homes made out of breads? a young student in Hawaii wanted to know. I A Minnesota grammar school student wrote, give me all the junck like pamplits folders maps all you have for a history report. The more stuff the better the grade. The kid adoed, If none send letter saying so. A Washington buttered up the council first and then added an urgent plea: Our class is styding the U.S. and we each had to pick a state. I chose Utah because I knew it was a good state. Would you send me : some information or Ill never get my report done. fifth-grad- The VIPs? 54 pet. don't trust 'em the statement that most men go into elected office to help others has dropped sharply, from 80 percent down to 38 percent. By Louis Harris Confidence in those who hold high public office in America has slipped drastically, so that a majority, 54 percent, testify today that they have less trust in their representatives than they did 10 years ago. Two years ago, no more than 30 percent of the public felt negatively about the trend of official behavior in positions of govern- ment responsibility. HARRIS V SURVEY Regarding the probity of those in high public office and in politics, the corruption groups most disenchanted can be found among rural residents, older persons, skilled labor, those with incomes under $10,Ct!0, union members, and those whose religion is One key to this disillusionment is the view expressed by an even 50 percent of the peomore ple that politics is corrupt than it was 10 years ago. Since 1971, the number of Americans who agree with Here's how area solons voted on recent issues - proportionately. We understand you have received the refund. The delay was caused, they say, because of difficulty where governmental payroll deductions are involved. Silberberg is proud of his volunteers, many are old friends, like office manager Sidney Duboff, who can say they have known him for 40 to 45 years. Hi hows little sweetheart, my schoolteacher? Silberberg called out to a retired schoolteacher who had come into the basement out of the rain. It was Wednesday, and on Wednesdays from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. three shifts of volunteers come in and work The Madison Square Boys Club in New York City is one of the nonprofit organizations (1.) APPROVES LIMITATIONS ON PRESIDENTIAL WAR POWERS (HJ Res 542) limit on the Resolution establishing a Presidents power to commit U.S. troops abroad unless specifically authorized by Congress or in the event of an armed attack upon the United States when Congress is not in sesD Oct. 10. A R sion. Adopted ' of whom .... ZJ Cw JO t r:a Silberbergs basement offices are filled with citations (We just received our 167th), and there are many portraits of him hanging on the walls. The portraits, he said, are displayed not because he has such a big ego, but because they were done by inmates in various prisons to express appreciation. To every hundred pounds, there are one There is enough paste in million stamps the basement to supDly 1,000 institutions, should they ask for paste today. . . .1 just had to turn down 100,000 best sellers from a publisher because I couldn't take them all at one time. Senate .y' 0 -i Vogel. When a store is relocating, or liquidating, Silberberg calls us up and we go down there. We recently got a really tremendous supply of illustration board and paper. We parceled it out to all of our clubs and I figure it was over $7,000 worth of paper. This has happened about eight times with various items. NEW YORK, N.Y. Buttons from Mr. Silberberg. Books from Mr. Silberberg. Recall from Mr. ords, yarn, magazines, leather Silberberg. In the c '5' because received by all pension recipients. This is done primarily by an annual income questionnaire which the recipient completes. In your case, your Social Security payments increased last year which accounts for the decrease of $6.51 per month in your veterans benefits during 1973. In other words, as your income increases, VA pension payments decrease of a potential sale of your property. But, rather the end of each year, a review is made of income nay was a vote supporting the Presidents position. (If House approval is also voted, the measure is expected to face a presidential veto.) Church, D Idaho; Yea: Moss, McClure, Did not vote, announce a position or give a pair: Bennett, (2.) VOTES CURBS ON STRIP MINING (S 425) Amendment prohibiting surface coal mining on lands where the federal government owns the mineral rights but does not R own the surface rights. Adopted Oct. 8. D 53-3- 40-- Nay: Moss, McClure, Did not vote, announce a position or give a Church, pair: Bennett, House (1.) GRANTS HOME RULE TO D.C. -(9682) Bill providing for the nonpartisan election of a city council and a mayor by the residents of the District of CoR D lumbia. Passed Oct. 10. (The bill now goes to conference committee to compromise between House and Senate versions.) HR 343-7- Yea: McKay, Hansen, Nay: Symms, 138-4- 205-2- Owens, Catholic. By and large, faith in politics and the caliber of public servants is lowest among those sometimes described as Middle America, or those President Nixon liked to describe in 1972 as his new majority. Over the past six years, refor has spect politicians dropped considerably, despite the fact that in 1969 criticism of the Johnson administration over the war issue was not hard to find. The portrait of politics and politicians that emerges in the minds of voters is highly unflattering to the elective process. A public image of powho are litical figures corrupt, in it for the money they can make out of politics, men who make easy promises which are not kept, lacking in dedication once in office, appears to be on the rise. Particularly damning is the percent majority who feel that most politicians wiil use any means, even illegal, to get elected. There are some positive attributes accorded public figures: by 78 to 17 percent, a sizable majority sympathizes with those who hold high office because they feel they have little personal privacy and are often unfairly criticized. (c) 1973, Ths Chicago Tribune Janet said an order from Iowa would be hard to fill. to go to Utah for a long time. Im studying Utah in school. Please send me some of your industries. (Thats a harder sell than Ramptons Raiders!) A young girl from Pennsylvania added a P.S. Tell Donny Osmond (if you see him) I said hello and smile cause God loves you and him and everyone. A Texan was less enamored with Utah. I was a hippy traveler and while in Utah had trouble with some people who dont like long hair . . . He added that Utahs nickname should be The Jeremiah Johnson State. It was another matter with a Milwaukee youngster. Thenk you for the folder you gave me of Utah. I never seen such wonderful things in my life. Id love to go to Utah some day. My teacher gave me a grade on it and it was an A. I love the state bird thats one ol the prettiest birds Ive seen. Thank you. Your friend. Ive wanted A young student from Maine is going to be disappointed with his Utah packet. He wrote, Please send me all your information about Georgia. (They could have sent him all their information on Janet!) A Pennsylvanian wrote an unsolicited testimonial. If our newspaper wont hire him. Im going to speak to Fred Ball down at the Chamber. They could use him. Im writing this letter to express my wonderful feelings of the most wonderful city and most beautiful state. We stayed for two week and it was so great. That was a year ago, and Im so depressed that I want to come again. I want to say the most beautiful site (sight) of all is a nighttime on the foothills of the mountains and seeing everything lit up so beautifully and the city with its lights are all you can see forever. That kid could lead us all in a chorus of Utah, We Love Thee! WITS END: Howard Pearson, our favorite man in the movies, has written to the postal people suggesting that instead of raising postage rates, they cut down the size of the stamp! |
