Show zlit ig First Seel ion - amolooomobk0miiiftSCIWi40'0 AA116AkWm11 James J Kilpatrick fatit FiMbunt Monday Morning June 2-- 1968 Q Page I ci - l-- 7:------v- 'Bits and Straws' But Scant Progress Secretary of Defense Clark M Clifford sees some slight indications that the talks between the American and North Vietnamese delegations in Paris may be moving from a public propaganda forum into secret bargaining sessions Secretary of State Dean Rusk doesn't agree In fact he followed Clifford's press conference with one of his own the first in nearly six months in order to dampen down any undue optimism "I won't quarrel with 'bits and straws' in the wind" said Rusk "but we have not I think taken giant strides" Clifford's optimism if that's what it should be called was based on scant evidence Ile pointed out that informal discussions between the two delegations during recesses have grown longer and that both sides have withheld most of the details of what was said When private talks take place he added some progress may be hopefully expected There is nothing unusual about those remarks Many American leaders have expressed the hope that the Paris talks would fulfill their purpose and lead to genuine negotiations Therefore it is like - :: ' ' qiik ( s ?'? t 1 " : "1k tc'6' s i'1 iti ' I l'4- '414 - 9y I' 1 -- v : - K ' kik : '000 'it' io' ''' ' S'' f '')' Vilt'''i ' ''r !: ii tt V211 l01-- i I t too1(144IY-1- I '' 414' A ioilt'' lil' '''1 i 'tt I 1 ti ' ! ''' r ' I 71c i 1 i :''' : ' ' ' ' A 1 - ' - - '''" ''' I 114 f::oFjcf) V 0 11:1 N t- - h lif Ci Z ik ‘ A City Program quietly by awaiting its fate Instead it has been busy lining up an "emergency pool" of instructors from private industry in the area Several large companies have agreed to participate and Dr Gibbs reports he already has 24 men with PhD's and master's degrees in these companies who can fit into the program The university pays instruc$1 a year to those industry-base- d tors who "swim in the pool" If they are called upon to teach additional salary arrangements are made The new draft law has been called "the doomsday machine for physics" by Mrs Betty Vetter executive director of the Scientific Manpower Commission We suspect her prediction is 11nduly dark though we share her general concern We commend the university physics departinent for its imaginative response to a gloomy challenge and local industry for what appears to be a generous answer to a call for help With that kind of cooperation physics' doomsday will pass like all the others for Saving Landmarks Utah has a unique history and has kept much of its heritage very much alive Few other areas can match the interest Utahns take in their formative bygone days And yet very little is done to preserve the tangible links Famous landmarks survive But what of those scattered structures whose historical distinction is generally overlooked? Recent events include many last minute rescues of buildings menaced by the bulldozer Restoration transformed them into prize objects of local pride and tourist attention Salt Lake City's original Council House rebuilt on Capitol Hill is an outstanding example For every such relic saved many others are irretrievably lost How often is it regretted that the famous Salt Lake Theater was not spared demolitic it? Now a project is underway to infuse the subject with more foresight A proposed ordinance submitted to the City Commission would create a Historical Advisory Council empowered to classify significant landmarks within the city protecting them by restrictions covering future alterations or removal The council would be appointive unpaid and advisory to the commission It would review changes planned for structures considered of outstanding historic value and recommend action by the commission The council's principal job would be a preliminary citywide classification survey placing various buildings in at least three categories of historic importance Other cities around the country have benefitted from such a program We be lieve Salt Lake City could too Although the proposed ordinance is well drafted some strengthening additions are suggested For instance it provides that the survey and historic classifications would be made according to standards set by the Utah Heritage Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation To assure maximum support the standards should be subject to hearing and public comment beton) adoption Another section authorizes property tax abatement for certain historically certified structures This is a well intentioned attempt to encourage preservation and repair However if a structure could be used commercially tax abatement might provide an unfair advantage As a concept the project deserves public support We urge the commission to study the proposal carefully and implement it without unreasonable delay Bill Vaughns Orbiting Paragraphs People are losing confidence in the dollar economists report This °Lthusly is no time to have all your money tied up in cash Thanks to wonderful progress when rain delays the ball game you can watch the tarpaulin being unrolled in full living color Fortunately politics differs from baseball In that if a campaign speech is cancelled by rain It isn't scheduled later as a Another Viewpoint Party Delegates Should Keep Options Open Form the Los Angeles Times Every L'Irth spring major party politicos indulge in a fascinating numbers game called 1Counting the Delegates" This year is no exter !on Democrats saddened by the tragic eeath of New York's Sen Robert F Kennedy are ctinputing the relative strength of Vice President Hubert H Humphrey and his fellow Minnesotan Sen Eugene J 'McCarthy The cognoscenti figure that Humphrey has it made Republicans find their obvious eholee narrowed to two main contenders forme! Vice President Richard M Nixon and Gov Nelson A Rockefeller of New York with Coy Ronald Reagan bringing up the rear Here again the purported experts view the for Nixon preconvention race as a shoo-i-n Maybe both the Democratic and Republican soothsayers are right Maybe Wmphrey and Nixon do indeed have a lock on the delegates needed for nomination But it takes a lot of fun out of the game and tends to blur the intercandidate debate that ought to reach meaningful heights between now and August There may be a certain futility in the appeal yet we believe the best interests of the presidential political processes would be served if delegates keep their options open Naturally a good many are committed either through primaries or through COMM it)I1S But the favorite son delegates needn't jump immediately They can play it cool for another seven weeks Frankly we would like to hear more of what the hopefuls think about the major issues confronting our country — while they're still bona fide contenders 111 1' tr':' :4: l'irr ''4'1i3:4 ! 1 i (141 " kil s 4' CI 4A " I likt NS itft'' 3 t' t A - 1 i ' 'qP ‘ : ' ''' : 11 t:it - t - k '1'-- u tcJ Kli--'- 4- - - - ' 1 1 f (' :f f P ' (!' plvirtii1!'''' 1 je '1' Least of Considerations i- - tfrz t pt 1:? - 4':'d)4 Ill itt k yb4 (go f' - 4 : 'I ! ti t4 2 '''y lit : I N i K0111'064 "---- ' el'ri 1 fil do14' ' AiNoockl iii The Public Forum Editor Tribune: Dan Valentine's "Nothing Serious" column of June 18 raises an important point in connection with Utah's liquor laws that has not generally been discussed The entire column is devoted to a letter written by a former army major whose position is that the army method of handling the liquor problem is the best possible and therefore the one that Utah should adopt The major describes the military method as one dividing liquor consumers into two groups: the "officers" who being "of a higher class had earned the right to enjoy an alcoholic beverage" and the "enlisted men" who "because of their lower social background and lack of education and emotional restraint coula not handle alcoholic beverages" Unforttmately it appears that this is precisely the situation that Utah's present liquor laws have created for the residents of the state — a situation that is Indeed deplorable and one which as Mr Valentine obviously wishes to point out needs to be changed It is no problem for a minority of Utah's citizens to obtain liquor by the drink any time thy wish through means not available to the vast majority So long as liquor over the bar is available to the "officer class" there is no reason for them to seek change It is not suprising therefore that one finds included in the "officer" category some of the members of the organization currently opposing "The Alcoholic Beverages Control Act of 1968"These individuals have taken it upon themselves to prevent the act from reaching the ballot and if they are successful Utah citizens will continue to be subject to the same inequities that now exist DOUGLAS KIRK Calls Horse Race Cruel Editor Tribune: I have heard some news out of Blanding Utah that more appropriately belongs in the Dark Ages than in the Christian Era Commemorating the Fourth of July it has been announced that Blanding will feature an "Endurance Race" wherein horses will be raced over five miles of "rough" country ''Rough" country In these races usually Involves a course of tortuous terrain — up and down hills mountains gullies In some other "Endurance Races" horses have literally been ridden to death To cah this cruelty "Wild West" is to vilify a decent and heroic epic in American his"Wild West" tory Horses in the were used for immigration: the Pony Express and to break the virgin soil Nothing In the chaacter of the early West approxi:nated the deliberate and agonized punishment forced upon horseflesh in the "Endurance Race" Have the eiti7AMS of Blanding forgotten what the Fourth of July is all about? To feature this appalling business in commemoration of Amorica's birth as a nation is to fling an insult across the face of our natioral heritage With America stunned by the latest tragedy of violence is Blanding going to feature cruelty for amusement Other towns that have allowed this race still bear a stigma they would like to forget — loss of respect from the community of decency G L JOHNSON ed Let People Be Heard Editor Tribune: To those who oppose placing any question to the people including liquor by he drink on the ballot but especially tho52 of the LDS Faith the following quotation from the Book of Mormon could be apropos is not COMMOn that the voice of Now the people desireth anything contrary to that which is 1 ight but it is common for the less Yet budgetary considerations are the least of the considerations The matter involves questions of political principle and public philosophy that never have received sufficient thought It is high time lAtile the White House request is actively pending to give these questions a closer look 11 the armed services could expect some from research and develtruly useful fall-oopment on the SST perhaps the appropriation — and the prospective public nuisance — could be justified This is not the case The SST is a commerical proposition pure and s' nple It is an airliner intended for private use and private profit Why should the taxpayers be compelled to finance such a venture? Reps Bow of Ohio and MacGregor of Minnesota have asked the question repeatedly They have never received a sensible answer ut ":t2eefrit) ! t:'- - 1 t36 Sewing Circle A Real Class System i t'1:4 '1' r (1 14 ‘ ' 6' A - fc54r1Te 1 i The observation may : be applied emphatically i N to development of the ! SST — the supersonic this If transport airplane I'-- ': project represents prog- - ' ress in any sense it is 31r Kilpatrick progress to the rear it is a false progress purchased largely by tax dollars taken from persons who never will fly ill the aircraft ard will only be irritated by it It is a particularly arrogant manifestation of man's obsession with Within the next few weeks a decision will have to be made in Congress or an appropriation to- the SST in the coming fiscal year The administration has asked 223 million dollars At a time of massive federal deficits the budgetary crisis alone should demand that the item be deleted hurry-hurry-hur- IA ' '')ikl':1' 6' ' li( :3'''if'Ckilc11:1 ' 14! v r44Vol !! ii '46' - tA ( 4) 'AV r'' l'' 'f' 6 ? '' MA :iry l' '' eAr ) : : '' ! 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" t!- '' i':-(- mankind" '04 l - ' 1? : ' ' - 7 4 '' '"4L'-'4'"- - I L 04 sC ' - a seriLong before the draft ous threat to graduate schools the uld and Increasingly sophisticated science of physics was wanting for recruits Bright students who in other years might have become physicists chose other less demanding and more attractive fields In February when the National Security Council acting under authority of the new Military Selective Service Act ordered an end to deferments for most graduate students physics was dealt a body blow Unlike tiome other specialties also hit by the new draft order physics can count on but few women students to cushion the impact of widespread loss of graduate student instructors for undergrauate classes In most large universities such instructorE are a vital adjunct to the regular teaching staff At the University of Utah some 30 graduate students hold down teaching assistants jobs in the physics department and a goodly number of them are potential draftees But the department headed by Dr Peter Gibbs has not been sitting WASHINGTON — Winston Churchill once remarked upon the replacement of the horse by the internal combustion engine The event he said "marked a very gloomy milestone in N' t h e progress of AI 47i1V''' A N beca- -e Gloomy Milestone Cast by Superjet )) ! 1117H -- o ly that Rusk spoke out because of certain implications in what Clifford said The secretary of defense explained that President Johnson was "likely to continue" the announced restriction of American bombing of North Vietnam as long as the Paris talks indicated Hanoi might "come forward with an act of reciprocal restraint" And Hanoi could optimistically interpret this to mean that "talk about talks" could be prolonged indefinitely while the North Vietnamese military buildup continued in the south The secretary of state did not repudiate the secretary of defense nor is there any reason to believe that was his intention He simply stated the obvious: Five weeks after the Paris talks began there is no ign of a breakthrough Progread that has to be measured by "bits and straws" is no cause for optimism Since the Paris talks are an undertaking of diplomats it would be better to restrict comment by American officiais to those directly concerned with diplomacy namely the President and the State Department Perhaps that is Secretary Rusk's message for Secretary Clifford Imagination Can Stall Doomsday Machine a - By Our Readers er part of the people to desire that which is not right therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law — to do you business by the voice of the people "And if the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you yea this is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land" Mosiah 29:26-2The question it seems to us revolves around the voice of the people — the privilege and right to get the question on the 7 ballot Honorable people on both sides should then encourage urge and persuade the people to exercise their power via the secret voting booth I suspect that many of us may vote against liquor by the drink but it is our inalienable right to vote on any question that affects all the people of the state as this one does We should not be denied the privilege of doing so Rule by majority is the heart of Democracy We the people should be heard and our collective majority opinion trusted and put Into effect JOHN W FITZGERALD Article Has Meaning Editor Tribune: In answer to Mrs B Stincelli's letter (Forum Jim 19) I would like to suggest to her and to anyone else who thinks as she does that they take a close look at their own beliefs befcre they begin to defend the actions of their church The LDS people have their "Words of Wisdom" to advise them against the use of liquor consequently even if the state of Utah does adopt the current "Liquor by the Drink" proposal it can be assumed that their relationship to alcohol will not change noticeably I think the time has come for her and the LDS church to realize that their "Thirteenth Article of Faith" means something and e their attempts hopefully soon they will to deprive others of their right to do the things that they enjoy ce-s- C ROBER'r DECKER Bountiful Utah A More Serious Problem Editor Tribune: All of the ta'k and feeling being expressed about in Utah has heightened my concern over a far more serious but similar problem in our liquor-over-the-b- ar State Since I moved to Salt Lake six years ago I have been upset about the prevalence of ice cream parlors that deal in ice cream by the cone and by the dish This situation concerns me for health and economic reasons In terms of health too many people seem to be on dairy products causing overweight and dangerous cclesterol levels in the blood One never knows when such people will drop dead from a heart attack behind the wheel and cause an accident We should cholesterolcouna have law against high over-stuffin- g Private Capital Lacking Of the roughly 700 million dollars already plowed into the SST private capital has provided barely 50 million In theory — in very doubtful and speculative theory —the taxpayers may recover their investment some time in the next century out of royalties on sales of the SST The prospect is pie in the sky Through the the plump impassive face fog of hocus-pocu- s of state sucialism is clearly to be seen But it is said by proponents of the SST that the United States must plunge ahead or risk the loss of world aircraft markets to the Anglo-Frenc- h Concorde or to the Soviet Union 's TU-14- 4 The argument is getting weaker all the time Recent reports from London and Paris indicate that the Concorde is in deep trouble costs are skyrocketing orders are few and the Anglo-Frenc- h plane — a small one by today's standards — is far behind schedule The Soviet version offers no significant competition Philosophical Objections Philosophical objections are more compelling still The SST carry 280 passengers at a cru!sing speed of 1800 miles per hour Revenue projections are based upon a load factor oi 58 percent or about 162 passengers That is all we are talking about The object is to get these particular hurry-hurr-y travelers from say Chicago to London in three hours instead of seven Big deal The SST would fly at 64000 feet At that altitude it would create a sonic boom path 64 miles wide What is contemplated in brief is that perhaps ten million persons on earth would be subjected to the irritiation and property damage caused by sonic booms in order to serve the convenience of these few humans up above Fav Feeble Defeels Those who defend the SST make the feeble defenses that (1) sonic booms are really not so bad (2) some way may yet be devised to reduce fis thunderclap effect and (3) maybe the plane would be restricted to subsonic speeds over land Don't believe it The booms are in fact an irritating nuisance they are an aspect of supersonic flight and the sole advantage of the SST is its speed Take that away and the SST offers nothing that the jumbo jets of 1970 will not provide What price progress? How much time really would be saved? What value would it have? The House Appropriatons Committee pondering the whole picture might boil the issue down to the old wartime question: Is this trip necessary? The answer is plainly no Interlandi -1 6--- NO 61174- LAWS 11 t-driving Secondly it would be economically sound for the state to have a 10 percent amusernort or dairy tax on products sold in ice cream stores This tax would bring in countless revenues from tourists' families on hot summer who days It would also tax the over-eate- rs buy expensive double sundaes in ice cream parlors At the same time the more moderate man who bought his ice cream in the grocery store and consumed it in his own home would not rped to he taxed This would protect the poor V 110 could not afford the excesses and frills of the fancy ice cream parlor while the extravagant would be subject to the same sort Of tax as those who go into taverns and consume alcoholic beverages Really is my proposal more silly than the current warfare over BOB DEATON liquor-byithe-drin- 4ottlI it t 041 ' l $ PI A - ' 1 6 ' A '- 4 i 0 41 'a71120M4i) ma la tAmunPaer— "Look — on this siitie It sari: 'Support lour Imeal Police'" ti |