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Show 5' 50 percent By Lents Harris By 53 to 36 percent, Americans would favor holding a specif election for President in 1S74, if the U.S. Supreme Court found it was constitutional. By 53 to 37 percent, a majority agrees with the statement that because public confidence has been so shaken in the White House, a special election for president would clear the air and give the country a new start. It has been suggested that such a special election might be ui order if a vice president not elected by the entire country such as Gerald Ford were to succeed to the presidency. This possibility could ! ecome a reality if President Nixon were to resign or were impeached. In that case, Gerald Ford would become president and could ask Congress to call a special election if there were judged to be no constitutional obstacles. It is by no means a foregone conclusion that a Democrat would be elected President in favor of a HARRIS SURYGY in such an election. In recent Harris Sumy trial runs for the 1976 election, Vice President Ford ran slightly ahead of both Sen. Edward Kennedy and Sen. Henry Jackson, two of the most frequently mentioned Democratic presidential prospects. At the same time, these identical, likely lead voters gave the Democrats a 1 on contests for percent, nationwide Congress in 1974. 53-3- The American people have often expressed reluctance to turn over both the legislative and executive branches of the federal government to the same political party. So a call for By Laurie Becklung Copley News Service At 27, Pat Helfman considers herself over the hump. When a touch of arthritis in one finger bothers her, she thinks about getting old. age n Mrs. Helfman said she thinks more research money should be earmarked for gerontology. gerontology. Mrs. Helfman has just completed two experiments on aging with Dr. Paul Price at the University of Califohiia at San Diego. Old age is the No. 1 fatal disease. It is 100 percent she stressed. If the fatal, causes of cancer were solved, it would only expand the average life expectancy by 2.5 years. If cardiovascidar problems were solved, it, would only expand the life expectan-- ' cy by 10 years. But when you consider aging is the most fatal disease, it deserves more Price, an assistant professor of biology at UCSD, persuaded Pat to do the research when she arrived at the university last year with a masters degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago- Her background of working with people helps a great deal in this research, in being able to see the total person, not attention. Everybody has a vested interest in aging and everybody dreads being a senile vegetable. Its surprising the study just molecular structure, Price said, explaining that most research of this type is done by people with biology or even chemistry backgrounds. Hes just being polite, Mrs. Helfman said. For her, the switch in fields has meant many hours of study toward a 'doctorate in biology. aging hasn't generated more interest, Price added. of As a biologist, Price said he first became interested in gerontology from a human, rather than a scientific angle. st One of the two experiments Mrs. Helfman has completed to be evidence appears foremost a theory on against aging usually associated with Leslie Orgel of Salk Institute, La Jolla, Calif. theory, termed the catastrophe theory, hypothesized that as cells age, the new protein they produce becomes less and less effec-- , tive, ultimately unbalancing and the cell and causing it in the end the entire body The error , to die. results are very Our encouraging because if there is any hope at all for finding a way to slow down the aging process, then error catastrophe would be very bad news, Mrs. Helfman said, explaining that science cannot conceive dont personally care so much about trying to make people live longer, Mrs. Helf-masaid. Who wants people to hang on in their senile years? I just think you should halp make them more productive for longer. I , is No. Old-ag- e now a cure for production of bad protein. John another Holland, biology professor at UCSD, also has conducted an experiment which tends to disprove the theory. did her Helfman Mrs. research using saliva samples from Id and young patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital. She feels that using live human protein from an enzyme in the saliva makes her research more valid than other such studies done cn animals or with tissue cultures. She found the protein in cells from old people could sustain heat as easily as that 1 welder in Lorain, Ohio, added, The only clean up Watergate is to have another to way election and let the people decide what direction the country ought to go in. Opposition to such a special presidential election clustered around the reasoning expressed by a businessman in Williamsport, Pa., who said, It is our tradition to hold elections for president every four years. We should strictly follow the Constitution on such matters. A Republican office manager in SI. Paul, Nixon was elected for four Minn., added, years and shoud finish his term, even if he is having terrible trouble getting people to trust him." To determine national feeling on questions surrounding a possible presidential election this year, the cross section was asked: Let me read you some statements on calling a special election for President in 1974. For each, tell me if you tend to agree or disagree. A I think about aging ail the time. My husband has had a dreadful backache for a week and I just tell him hes getting Mrs. Helfman said older, laughing after an hour's wortn of heady scientific explanations about her research in fatal disease.' I started thinking that in no animal is aging so evident as in man. Man gets gray hair, grows senile, contracts a number of diseases associated with old ilge. The second thing that inter 'sts me is that aging doesnt seem to be constant for humans, Price said. from young people, contradicting the idea that old people have more unstable protein which is easily damaged by heat. She also found the older cells arent producing any more protein in an attempt to make up for the theoretical bad protein than younger cells. was' It such wondenngs which led Price to apply some of Mrs. Helfman also conduct- r, a 3190,000 NaMon-a- l Institute of Health grant five-yea- toward Mrs. Helfmans ed a second experiment with what she termed inconclusive results. The second experiment was designed to affirm or disprove an older theory which states that aging could be caused by cellular muta- research. What impresses me most about the very old people I have met and read about is their attitude. Theyre happy, the sort of people who say every year of their lives is the happiest ever, she said. tions. The next experiment may 7, 1974 A 3-- - special election DOIT involve chimotherapy, Mrs. Helfman said. She said chimotherapy in this instance rould mean using drugs to retard the onset of age. Mrs. Pot Helfman: DESERET NEWS, MONDAY, JANUARY a special presidential election by a Republican president at a time when a Democratic Congress was also up for reelection would not necessarily prove fatal to his partys chances to maintain control of the White House. Recently, the Harris Survey asked a cross section of 1,496 households across the country: Significantly, voters in every region of the it has been suggested that it might betoprop- country expressed support for the idea of a call er under the Constitution for Congress special election for President in 1974, although an election for president in 1974. The person .sentiment was strongest on the East and West elected would serve until the regular election coasts and weakest in the South. As might be in 1976. Ii the U.S. Supreme Court found it expected. Republicans oppose such a step, but was constitutional to have a special election Independent voters, who now hold the balance for president in 1974, would you favor or of political power in the country, favor it by a oppose such a step? clear 5o 34 percent margin. Much of the publics thinking in support of the special election centers on the uncertainty over whether or not President Nixon will survive the remainder of his term. As a systems If engineer in Framingham, Mass., said, Nixon goes cut of office, well have a man as president who was elected by the Congress, not the people. Its better to have another election and rlear it all up once and for all. Finding the cure for old anthroplogist-biologiThe combination has worked well. j' Not Agree Disagree Sure Such an election for President would let the people decide what direction they think the country ought to go in and who should lead America. 25 12 tf a special election were held, the country could then have a new president elected by the people as he should be. 62 Because public confidence has been so shaken in the White House, a 1,1 " 8626or writetoDo-l- t Man, P.O. Bo 1257, Salt Utah LaKeCity, i , 1 . J i Editor s Note Were sorry the volume of calls and moil moKe it im possible to answer every Question. Please, no medical or lepol questions Arswers con only be Given m this column. Give your nome, oddress-onhelp you telephone number (not for publication to help J $ $ Bad communication ; ft admitted by bank I bought a car during the summer of 1672 in Arizona and financed U through a bank in Phoenix. I made regular payments for five months and then sent them $356 and asked how much more I owed to pay it off. Since then I have heard nothing from them. According to my records t have paid off the loan and 1 would like my ownership pa- pers. Can you help me get an answer? B.C.G., Salt Lake j ; . . ; ) ; ! : City. J j J ' The bank pleaded guilty to a lack of communication. They say you still owe $20.38 and upon its receipt, theyll send your papers and ben release. , I . Machine now available : Mv wife took her sewing machine into a shop to have it fixed. She was under the Impression it would be fixed right away but it has been almost three months. Everytime she calls they give her a different story. We just want to get the machine. Can you help? C.W., Murray. . We cant explain the discrepancies in what you have been told from time to time, Kut they claim they had to send away for parts because yours is an old model not manufactured in the United States. In any case, they told us the machine is now finished and theyll deliver the ma- chine to their store and you can pick it up. ; ! ' j J . J jj J Encouragejpther relationships Our little girl who is only six has the dirtiest mouth ever heard. Isnt that ridiculous. It is until yon hear the words she uses. She picks them up from a friend. I am afraid if I forbid our daughter to see her ttiat will only increase her desire to do so. What do yra suggest? Mrs. P. G., Salt Lake City Encourage her relationships with other children of whom you approve more, but its not wise to run down Build up others as a buffer against her, the and try to occupy her time with the acceptable playmates so that it gradually becomes too filled up to include the friend. All this can be done without saying on word agairst her. And it's important to ignore as much as you possibly can the words she uses. If you make too much of them they will become unduly important. Besides, at her age, she probably doesnt know what most of them mean, anyway. DO-IT- 1 ? J ' ) ; i i 3 j v ! S Wen Products Inc., Chicago, has located the order sent-t- o them by L.J.G., Fairview in August and is now shipping a part for a saber saw via air mail. Mrs. D.S Brigham City has received a refund of $15.35 for an order she sent,, to Lee Wards, Elgin, 111. in October anu has never received. Greenland Studios, Miami, has Issued a refund' oT $6 to R.W., Salt Lake City for a light fountain ordered in October and not delivered. new 53 Anti-Electi- on Our tradition is to have a president serve for ' four years and that should not be changed. It is not right to have . ' . OUR MAN a candidate go through JOHES a whole presidential campaign and then serve only two more years. By Harry Jones Deseret News staff writer The Republicans won the office of president iu 1972 and a Republican . , . There are a few summer cabins m the hills of our beautiful state that do not have electricity, but Im not sure should be president until 35 1976. - - 11 Dial 364 MINI special election would clear the air and give the country a start. OUR READERS' ACTION LINE you Pro (Election 63 fflRfl These results make it apparent that the tradipublic feels strongly about the four-yetion for a presidential term. People do not relcontest for the ish the thought of an off-ye- White House, although the idea is not beyond the realm of public acceptance. Confidence has been so shaken in the present incumbent of the White House that, despite its reluctance, the public is prepared to see such a reaffirmation of popular control. c) 1974, The Chicago Tribune about farms. - - It would be an isolated farm indeed if it didnt have electricity. Electricity J lights the house, bam. runs the dishwasher, washing ma;' chine, vacuum, refrigerator, pumps for water and many other chores once done by hand. J In fact, it is an isolated cow that isnt milked by Reddy Kilowa I or a competitor. It was Reddy Kilowatt and his rural compatriots putf- ing the ropes when the death knell sounded for the windmill. As power poles sprouted up around the country- side, the windmills came down, or were left to stand until 1 they collapsed from the lack of exercise. jj 1 Jack Anderson KRLA sings Thanks for the WASHINGTON Choosing new owners for radio station KRLA in Pasadena, Calif., was a problem that perplexed the Federal Communications Commission for over a decade. Last month the FCC. dominated now by President Nixons appointees, solved the problem by awai ding the 815 million plum to a group of the Presidents friends. The majority stockholder and corporate chairman is the famed comedian and presidential pal. Bob Hope. The KRLA license is worth a fortune to the Hope consortium whose selection was fraught with peculiarities. The struggle for the station began in 1902 when the FCC refused to relicense the former owners because of management " neglect and efforts to mislead the commission. station was turned over to a The powerful. 50.000-watt nonprofit corporation while the FCC decided who should run it. A score of applications were filed. It took more than a decade of hearings before the FCC on December 5 awarded the golden pie to Bob Hope and his partners. All lour Nixon appointees voted in Hopes favor. j The official dev. .m was prepared by Chairman Dean Burch. The case, lie wrote, was extremely close and The legal, (actual, technical and policy troublesome. The FCC was were irequently conflicting. questions forced to choose, said Buich, "ameng applicants with a variety of shortcomings. Hopes group was picked on technical and engineering grounds. Yet we interviewed nearly a dozen lawyers and engineers familiar with the case. To a man. thev fdi that awarding the station o Hope, et al, on engineenng grounds was absurd. Said one expert: It looks like an excuse to give them the license. review board denied Hopes on technical engineering grounds. Yet cited as the engineenng proposal v Indeed, the FCCs pplication in 1371 recisely thsame own . . . basis for awarding the license to the Hope syndicate in The official FCC press release, announcing the decinowhere mentioned Bob Hope. The announcement stated simply that the license has been awarded to the Western Broadcasting Corporation. It took a thorough search of the voluminous file to find out who was behind Western Broadcasting. The principal stockholder is Hope who, incidentally, contributed $50,000 to Nixons 1972 campaign. Fuel crisis is reaching many U.N. diplomats - UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. The United Nations diplomatic feeling the energy pinch like else, and a few ambassadors plaining about it. (AP) -corps is everyone are com- There are more than 142 U.N. Missions and scores of consulates in New York City and many of the diplomats daily commute into Manhattan by either car or train, or a combination of both. As a result some of them have joined the. hundreds of Americans waiting in line at gasoline stations. Senegals ambassador, Medoune Fall, complained recently that a New York policeman prevented him from getting gas and told him African countries ahould go to the Arab countries to get Most African countries have sided with the Arabs in the Middle East conflict. Spams U.N. ambassador, Don Jaime TK Ti 4Kn4 nnoolinrt Knu LC t uuto, iiuo citrrnAriol ouqvoivu mat gaouuiic in be installed U.N. the pumps garage to fuel to diplomats and serve U.N. civil servants. tax-fre- e Such a provision would ensure that diplomats dont have to stand in endless long lines waiting for gas, De Pinies relatold the committee on U.N.-U.tions. gas. An Iraqui diplomat, Wissam Zahawie, said Falls experience illustrated that New York is not the most suitable place to serve as U.N. headquarters. Some countries have for years urged moving the headquarters elsewhere. Although his chauffeur later was able to get gasoline at the station, Fall said: People should understand we are not here because we love the United States or New York City. But a diplomat from the Netherlands, better off in New York than in his homeland, told a reporter he saw little reason for diplomats to be treated any different than anyone else. 1C Arab-targete- d ; ing- - d sion, " license" The second biggest stockholder, until he came to the White House in 1971, was Richard A. Moore, whom the public may remember best as the gentle, absent-mindeWatergate wilness. Moore divested his chare of Western Broadcasting when he moved to the White House a year later. Another major stockholder, with a interest, is Ed Pauley, president of Pauley Petroleum, Inc. Another entertainer-entrepreneu- r , Art Linkletter, owns five percent of the company. 1973. I The energy crisis however might just be breathing new life into the once picturesque windmill. a Sioux City. Iowa, used windmills this past holiday season to generate the electricity for their Yuletide light-- . I In a more senous vein, universities are studying ways of developing wind power. Part of the successful research', is the capability of storing the energy generated while the" wind is blowing. Windmills have been around for thousands of years, Holland, or a goodly portion, would be under water but fob the windmill. The old Holland windmills were the ones with large canvas sails. It was about the time that Butch Cassidy was riding high that the newer type windmill sprang up on the plains 7 and on the mountain slopes of America. 7;- The new type windmill stood like a high metal oii ng tail kept a many bladed wheel faced into the A wind. d The creaking of the windmill as it moved into the the squeaking of the hladps as they turned and the jangling of the shaft turning broke the silence of the night a midnight lullaby of rural America. wind - The wind turned the blades that ran the pump that pul the water into the pipes that flowed into the house that grandpa built. Like I mentioned, the windmill has practically disappeared from the modem scene. Now comes the energy crisis Dr. Joseph Savtno, a director m NASAs energy program thinks the wind can be tapped to furnish all of the energy we need. He means immediately. Now dont get me wrong. I think old Reddy Kilowatt is one of the greatest guys this side of the mountain. But 1 think I will wear my beanie with the propeller on top when he goes before the Utah Public Service Commission asking for a per cent increase in power rates. I would hope my propeller would remind Reddy Kilo watt that we could all go to windmills! WITS END: Theres a gal down our street jvho is a married the rich old Doctor' practical nurse. i |