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Show Pic Salt I . I ,) Page 16 - t Tf" y r-- ' y-- r y- a M'"r "IjU provement. ' This is part of the frightening picture described in The Tribune of Sunday, Aug. 8 by Staff Writer Jerome K. Full after interviewing Forest Service, public mind health and county officials.-This- , you, is 1965, not 10 or 20 years ago ' when "public consciousness was- only beaware of the become to many ginning and serious dangers of too many people spreading out irresponsibly over the land. EmigraThe Second Frankenstein, tion Canyon, outside of corporate Salt Lake City and mostly privately owned, - .The Explosion in L.A. f Like the riots in Eastern cities during 1964s Tong, hot summer, the violence in Los Angeles has no direct relationship to the civil rights movement though its racial origins are unmistakable. The population of Los Angeles is about 12 pei; cent Negro. But in the Watts area, where the rioting occurred, the figure is 98 per cent. Watts has been and called a black ghetto-run-doovercrowded, with a high proportion of unemployed. The danger of an explosion A few days of sultry Is heat with temperatures in themiddle 90s made matters worse. And a little incident the arrest of a Negro for drunken driving was the spark th?t blew the top off. Hoodlums ran wild, stores were looted, windows smashed, automobiles overturned, bottles and rocks hurled, shots fired. . The rioting began Wednesday, broke out again Thursday night and continued Friday morning. The Los Angeles police checked the violence twice but found the odds too great. In response to a plea from police, the governors office ordered the California National Guard Into the area. - Here is a time for responsible Negro leaders to use' their influence with their people. Negro comedian Dick Gregory, who has been In the forefront of the civil rights movement, toured the danger area urging rioters to go home, and got shoL for his pains by a bullet he believes was intended for the police. The Rev. Martin Luther King, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his civil rights campaign, apparently has more important problems on his mind. From Birmingham, Ala.,-Ki-ng announced he would appeal personto President Ho Chi Minh of North ally Viet Nam to take the Vietnamese war to the conference table. He would do better to leave diplomacy to the diplomats and turn his talents to promoting peace now among the .races in America. Meanwhile, a part of Los Angeles is -- like a city undei sieger-A- nd continued civil strife will rob hard-wo- n civil rights of meaning. wn ever-prese- nt The near drowning ofa year-old a shallow fish pond in the back yard of his home points a warning to parents of young children. The boy was found by his mother floating in the pond only minutes after he had gone out into the fenced yard. Apparent lyTifeless, he was revived!) the combined efforts of sheriffs deputies, ambu- lance crewmen and doctors. rAr , boy could : walk safely through water .18 inches deep. But if a young child stumbles, or1 in some other way gets his face under water, he doesnt know enough to hold his breath and struggle to his feet Frightened, uncer- -' tain, without air, he can drown even in a few inches of water as has happened to young children in a bathtub, or wading in the edge of a lake. ' Adults parents particularly need to watch young children constantly in or near water, whether It be a bathtub, a lake, an irrigation ditch or a pond. And the sooner they can be taught to hold their breath if their heads go under, and get back on their, feet, the better. -- boy in - -- L -- Other Viewpoints un- Trumans in Misplace souri and the voting rights bill in the rotunda of the Capitol, -- but - sometimes these the President would . probably take most of the cabinet and the Congress into orbit to sign a space bill. But even as Mr. Johnson moves to dramatize legislative accomplishment- ,- Itrbecomes' create-conditio- which require costly public penditures to abate. ex- increasingly evident that Only last winter a misguided effort was made in the Legislature by the Municipal League to reduce the authority of state health and water pollution control officials,. this at a time -- when greater efforts were needed for safeguarding public health. The increase in infectious hepatitis and other diseases related to contamination points to the urgency of planning, zoning, pollution and fire control, and other measures to keep abreast of rapid urbanization of once rural areas. It is hoped that it will not take a major disaster to spur public opinion and official action to protect Utah people from their own follies. " more laws, but making them work better. And the shift in emphasis opens a new test for the administration and a true opportunity for the Republicans. The most obvious reason for this shift in emphasis is that so much has already been ac- - -- Mature Social Security. The 30th anniversary of Social Security will be commemorated today as the nation anticipates the systems most innovation health insurance for the aged. Some organized doctors plan to boycott Medicare, which goes into effect for the most part in July, 1966 and some union leaders are talking of seeking higher benefits and wages because, they say, employers will be freed of costs they now must meet under private health infar-reachi- surance. Many employers and employes are concerned, however over the higher Social Security taxes they will have to pay for Medicare benefits. The tax rate, now 3.625 per cent for employers and employes, will go up in seven steps to 5.63 per cent on each by pass- ing laws is like the New York Yankees a sure winner once, but now on the way down. What counts is not passing Authority Is Undermined - Tots Drown Easily development tion problems. County governments customarily are slow to react to such problems and get programs under way to remedy them. Their authority and those of state and federal agencies concerned need to be tightened and broadened in many respects in order to adequately control and supervise developments which can threaten the health, aesthetics and welfare of established communiSes. Even moire important, public support needs to be mobilized to demand safeguards. Pressure develops readily behind quick profit V W' V ' WASHINGTON It is just as well that there is no big space program before the Congress this year. Having signed the medicare bill out at Harry der way near the summit of Parleys Canyon has added 70 per cent to the assessed valuation of Summit County, but it poses enormous fire and health protec- ' Frightening Picture A Residential W More Laws Worth Less Than Better Followup has received periqdic attention for at least 25 years without appreciable im- carved into subdivisions without planning, zoning or building inspection. homes are stacked surrounded on by thick, hillsides, up flammable brush, not unlike some canyons in the Los Angeles areas, which have been scenes of disastrous fires in recent years. Sewage from septic tanks drains through thin or porous layers of soil into mountain streams which serve communi-ties below. Fire hydrants are miles away. U1 Joseph Kraft Spreading Subdivisions Pose New Peril :j i yjfl nrin Saturday Morning, August 14, 1965 -- i y jir'iH .iir-- i rihtmf alvi! Private land in many canyons just beyond the Wasatch Front are being -- 4i i Hf" , 4 Look, you know it and I know it but lets not make a federal case of it The Public Forum Low Appraisals Editor Tribune: Having represented both the State Road Commission and private individuals in condemnation I must say that I have never seen a landowner fully compensated for taking of his property by condemnation. The urban renewal agency should and will hire conservative appraisers, and so cash offers made to landowners for their property will tend to be --tions, low. Alternatively, a condemnation lawsuit (will involve costs that a jury, by law, is not entitled to consider when it determines the amount of renewal, completely under the supervision of local officials, makes it possible to do just what it says renew urban areas." With local control under elected officials responsible to the voters, the programs can Forum Rules To bo published, letters must bo submitted exclusively to Tho Tribune And bear writer's full signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for compelling reasons on others. Preference Is given to letters printed with writers' names. Letters muyt be under 250 words and are subject to further condensation when space limits require It. be 'carried out for the public good, not for private gain or greed. - Vote yes on Aug. 17 for a Salt Lake City that once again can point with pride to its downtown blocks as the true center of scenic America. ESTHER R. LANDA By Our Readers One of them suggested to me: This is creeping socialism, and anyway, I dont think Salt Lake City Is ready for this urban renewal filing yet! How long, oh Utah, oh Where, Oh Where? E d i t o rf Tribune :" Three cheers for the readers who wrote in complaining about overcrowded campgrounds. We, like them, how long? weeks ago to camp in our faSalt Lake City and Ogden vorite spot, The Spruces, are the only two U.S. cities of only to be told by the attenmore than 60,000 population dant that the area had been still shackled by antique closed to overnight camping .on weekends and holidays, thinking from taking advanwhich is the only time most of of urthe civic benefits tage ban renewal can bring. The us have to go camping. I have nothing against picnickers as program has been around since 1949 and none of the 48 I used to be one myself until we bought our truck and camstates that have adopted legper, but Id like to know why islation providing for it have an area like The Spruces repealed it. which adapts itself so well to The Utah Legislature was overnight camping should be the 48th to do so, and it proclosed to us when there are at duced a law with all kinds of a dozen other places farleast safeguards for the sensitive to ther down the canyon for peolocal control insure further who are just seeking the ple and direction. cooler temperatures and restOne such safeguard is local ful environment which the approval by the local electorcanyon provides for an afterate to set up a program with noon or evening meal. more safeguards against any A recent survey shows 11 federal ogre. million mobile homes to be on It is imperative for our the highways this year all community that we all vote looking for a place to spend a few days away from the husyes for urban renewal on tle and bustle of the city and Aug. 17. if they all have as hard a time MARY BERMAN finding a place to park their rig as we do in Utah there will soon be a sharp decline in the sales of such vehicles. tried-sever- complished. In the past three years the Congress has rushed through a legislative backlog 'piled up over 25 .years of rela five inaction. As a result, almost every segment of the federal government has taken on new duties. For example, thanks to the civil rights bill of 1964, the Office of Education, once a pleasant backwater of tired bureaucracy, now has to act as referee for the desegregation plans of school systems in over 5,000 different counties. In the process of putting so many new laws on the books, moreover, one of the old guidelines of government action has been swept aside. Hardly anyone believes any more that the country will collapse if the federal budget is not in exact balance every year. Myth Ends But with the ending of that myth, new yardsticks must be devised to pick and choose among competing projects. Budget ceiling or no budget ceiling, the federal government has to decide whether it wants to spend billions on a race to the moon as it is now doing and on nothing re- search on sewage disposal as it is also now doing. As the new director Jbf the Bureau of the Budget, Charles Schultze, put it, in a remarkable 'statement last' month:' We have freed fiscal pojicy. from an arbitrary constraint But constraints on expenditures we must have . . . Our major need is a much wider application of improved methods, techniques and systems analysis to the definition of program objectives, the measurement of performance and the weighing of alternatives as the basis for decisions. Deeper Still On a deeper level still, it must now be clear to everyone but doctrinaires, that most of the countrys most serious wrongs cannot be rightdie-har- d ed by legislative action. Pro- ducts of technological change, they demand not new programs, -- but adjustments in money - the - property - owner outworn routines. shall be paid. These include The problem of the Negro in fees, engineers appraisers the North, for example, is 1987. fees, costs of trial exhibits, deeply rooted in the breakThe first tax increase will come in time lost from work during down of the family structure. January. the trial itself, and attorneys And the rebuilding of the famWhen President Roosevelt signed the fees. The owner does not recovSalt Lake Is Ready ily structure depends not on Social Security Act August 14, 1935, the er more than offered to settle new laws, but on sensitive adam Tribune: I Editor, goal was retirement income as a matter the case before trial. ministration of present welamazed at the naivete of of right. Only about 25 million workers Neither appraiser will be alfare programs. of the urban some opponents lowed to consider the intended 60 per cent of the U.S. work force, were Connected with the breakon which well use of the property, any senti- renewal issue down of the Negro family Initially covered. Today 75 million 17. vote Aug. mental value or special value structure 'is the heavy unemcovered and about 20 million are getting xbenef its up to $135.90 a month it has to you, loss of business ployment rate among Negro profits and of going business males. Despite an unparalfor a retired worker. Next year the maxivalue, loss of good will, and in leled rush of legislative activimum monthly payment goes to $149.90, to and MRS. NOEL NIELSEN many cases, damages ty, and amidst the greatest and In 1971 it will rise to $167.90. cost of removal of personal prosperity, the Negro Conceived during the depression, the property Lincoln Said More By Ham Parte happens to Editor, Tribune: My last system has expanded in three decades. In Eminent domain can be jusbe getting worse, not better. " ithe Notes on Cuff Department If it is the truth, what does to contribution Forum, 1939 benefits were extended to families of of tified by the public benefits Best .Month? published Aug. 3 under the To parents a miracle drug is retired workers and survivors of persons roads, reservoirs, etc., but it matter who says it? Anon. What Lincoln Said, kids the one can heading, done is get where the public good they any covered. Disability protection for workLast month, for instance, A Parable was completely distorted in to take without having a fight by urban renewal? For imwas probably the best month ers under 65 was provided in the middle on their hands. meaning when the editor cut in tlie nations economic histoOnce upon a time there was proving the landscape people 50s, and benefits have been increased and Jhe last paragraph. are moved out of the homes a to his who tried govern ry. White unemployment king Service With Civility and age requirements lowered since then. This kind of abuse of the and new homes which they dipped below four per cent who Social Security was considered highly Sign in a meat Courtesy. freedom of the press is uncannot afford to live in are subjects fairly.-AnyBut Negro male unemploy-a frills the mind Never market. , ordoes and a ethical, built in their places-- smalT had plan, revolutionary at the outset but the prinment actually rose. Once what are you asking for not represent the kind of integbusinesses are displaced and project, or a ciple is now generally accepted. Its again, the problem is not au lamb to do chops? the deal Christian and 25 rity, decency, per cent of them are never adoption, doubtless forestalled much more absence of legislative pro' good spirit that the boys in South radical proposals such as the Townsend reopened again. people A human being is not, in grams, but an inability to could are think Nam Viet fightFREDERICK S. PRINCE JR. get they Pjan and Huey Longs these programs efany proper sense, a human ing and dying for.:, TnThe words of C. J.r Seitz, Salt Lake being rnifiMie is educated. fectively. -re1 will had what some readers hd hope Service" Appreciated7 Horace Mann. district manager, Social Security has be- The Johnson Administration sounded good, member enough of my letter Editor.-Tribucome a maturing social -- Insurance sys- 1 want-t- o is certainly not unaware that as well thatwe to connect the following parawas he just-Its" given thank Salt Lake--Cit- y won't bearound "when our" graph which was deleted from it is entering a new phase: Re- high- - soundStreets Department and Rex cent personnel changes at the arrive What Lincoln my letter, ing title, a fat grea A sports jacket is advertised asMdeal for Moss, contractor, for the fine Budget Bureau, the Departwe the and and a about learn Said. things salary service they are performing in lot ment of Health, Education and of dough to I bid the laboring people to their accounts. wearing on the more dashing days at the ofcharged the United States Inputting curb and guttering and fice. But when we dress in the morning how Welfare, of the beware surrendering spend. And so it came to pass - Advice to housewives: Wear formation can we be sure its going tnhea dashing day? paved streets in our neighborAgency and the Dethat the land was overrun a thimble over your thumb power they possess which, if partments of the Army and hood. will surely be surrendered, How did the pioneers ever make it West Both the streets department with a horde of when grating vegetables. It used to shut the door of adthe Air Force all reflect conwhen they kept dropping off wagon wheels for and the contractors have been who didnt will protect your manicure as vancement for such as they, cern that volume of legislative the roadside eating places to wire up as courteous and thoughtful to well as what you keep your and will fix new disabilities accomplishment not be acThe good king was nonthe residents of the area. They chandeliers? husband under. burdens by the kind of conand them until companied upon His was treasury fusion that followed the first sprinkle the streets every day, plussed. all of liberty shall be lost. middle Youth The new for asks cars may produce a new and love, 8 any, little, good Sundays included, and they empty, few years of the New DeaL This quotation gives meanbreed of backseat. drivers. age for money, and old age listen to our troubles ahd give had been accomplished. What Linto What and ing purpose for peace. Never Easy advice on how to endure the was he to do? A Dallas weather man says those flying coln Said, which was written other In inconvenience. words, is it never easy for men About But an then the king got Vacations are great social saucers were just reflections of stars. Nonfor no other purpose than to fine people who are idea of his own. In a nearby are in to do things difthey come' back levelers. power long Lincoln show was union that How a could sense! a little green man ride on People doing all they can to minimize kingdom there was a guy who from them just as broke as man and actively supported ferently than they have been the reflection of a star? the discomforts of having was doing things. He was their doing them for years. In govneighbors who couldnt the labor movement which w streets abd driveways torn up. known as an efficiency expert. afford to take one. ernment especially, it is true was jqst emerging as a result MRS. F. L. PARKINSON that nothing fails like success. Hed hire him to come oyer of a seven-da- y a week, Shall I boil the missionaand find out what was wrong " By tradition, moreover, the child labor and sweatday, asked the cannibal cook. ry? with the works. are the party of 9 Have Republicans Times Changed shops. j Boil him? cried the chief. and of getting The DEVERS C. efficiency OWENS came, efficiency expert With all Are you crazy? Thats a Editor, Tribune: - Garland, Utah' things done. They have a true the hue and cry about urban saw and reported: friar! opportunity to show on the done Never have s6 to look a it time many isnt renewal, " I remember, said the cofThorns River state and city level whether Along so so little for he said. in the much, few facts Editor, Tribune: When the they can handle the problems destroy mankind and its errant ways, a chap face? The squarely who setwhen I fee shop cook, pioneers named Deucalion built himself a boat and of modern America. And that flunked my Sunday School test Jordan River is reclaimed as tled this valley did so with exnatural asset, maybe somefloated around with his wife on the flood until is one reason why serious atby not knowing who Naomi a cellent planning. Their plan thing really can be done to the' crafty grounded atop Mount Parnassus. tention must be paid to Rep. was. Small World was perfect for an agriculturkeep it from continuing as a John Lindsay as he runs for There are versions having him land at Mount al society. Today we live in an You sure mustve been Othrys and Mount Gerania, so maybe Mr. Libi Industrial society with evermayor of New York City, and, Cannot crests of the banks even said his assistant dumb, should check them out too. more," to Sen. Thomas growing urban sprawl Salt be lined with flowering thorns, She, was Babe Ruths wife. he inches toward a Ancient Babylon had its own Noah with the Lake Kuchel.as one of is now the n Valley prickly shrubs, race for governor of Calfor- jawbreaking name of Utanpishtim. He had the' major metropolitan areas in Disguise to brambles repel children nia. i foresight to take along a river pilot and some the country; but as our city who get too close to the watthe Tears ego, betray colleagues to help him off the mountain. The grows older many of its neigher? Sighs confess the fool Hindu Noah was named Prithu. The Chaldaic borhoods with large block inThe kids 5nd their elders sorrow So she sent her ! hero was called Xinthutros. (Its easy to see teriors are becoming rundown. could still fish over low thorny To an austere schooL why Noah became better known.) Poor housing conditions, shrubs. There are also deluge legends in Wales, There is a campaign on to What pleasant canoeing and blight, deterioration all cost Forever it shall cower Lithuania, Iceland, North and South America, the taxpayers money. These small boating could then be reduce the noise of the. TV Behind the bleak disguise Australia, China, Burma and Malay. commercials. But 8 - they dedowntown neighborhoods enjoyed on the River Jordan! Of all thats inarticulate . So if this trip doesnt turn up the Ark on didn't come on loudly enough A primrose on the rivers mand more police, fire, health In wide, dry eyes. a lot of people wouldnt wake bank Ararat, theres always hope elsewhere. Almost and otherservices than any ' else. DONALD E. JENKINS Louis W. Larsen other part of the city. Urban anywhere up in time to go to bed. -- -- per-sonsa- re Senator From Sandpit one share-the-wealt- a. h. -- ne -t fast-bac- r - k sun-ripen- i That Ark Must Be Around Somewhere Washington Star: News comes that a San Francisco man named John Libi is planning to climb Mount Ararat in Turkey in search of Noahs Ark. This is the fourth time Mr. Libi has scaled the 16,945-fopeak in search of the ship. I know now exactly where Noahs Ark is sit- -' he is saying, and that is why I will Mated, be able to climb straight to it this time. Well, we wish him luck. There is one minor item, however, that ought to be brought to Mr. Libis attention while hes packing. That flood story isnt confined to Noah. As a matter of fact, archeologists have ot ' - discovered the deluge 'legend all around the world. Some of the stories are so close to Noahs in detail that they look open to a plagi' arism charge. Take the Greek tale. When Zeus decided to tot-tra- deep-gree- i Soaper Says , - ' - ...! 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