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Show Marqui Childs Nixons ABM Win Possible U.S. Loss Good Neighbors Meet Since there aie no major issues plaguing the United States and Mexico, President Nixon s trip south ot the border to visit President Diaz Ordaz was basically a good will expedition. But thcie were a few minor issues which a personal exchange of views by the two Piesidents could easily help resolve. the Agreement on one of these Rio the created wandering by problem was quickly achieved. The Grande river frequently shifts its course and every time that happens, the border changes, too, causing arguments over the ownership of land. Methods for handling this problem will now be submitted to the U.S. Senate and the Mexican Congress in the form of a treaty requiring ratifica- tion. An even more important problem, on which both nations were already in agreement, arises from the fact that Mexico is the largest single source of marijuana smuggled into the U.S. aR well as an important way station for heroin and cocaine produced flsewhere. A year age, the U.S. instituted tight controls along the harder, slowing down travel and distress- - WASHINGTON The Nixon victory in putting over the new phase of the Safeguard ing Mexicans who feared a loss of tourist trade. Since then, "operation cooperation" has gone into effect, with the U.S. supplying Mexico with $1 million worth of helicopters and light planes equipped with sensor devices for improved surveillance and weed killers for destroying marijuana crops. The U.S. is now urging Mexico to take stronger action to arrest and prosecute large operators. The meeting between President Nixon and President Diaz Ordaz at Puerto was a gala affair, complete with mariachi bands, cheering school children, streamers and confetti. And since it took place in a fairly small town, it was also a sort of counterpart to Mr. Nixons travels out into the country at Home. That is an excellent way of promoting good will. Whenever an American president goes abroad, some great diplomatic triumph is often expected to or That certainly didnt happen at Puerto Vallarta. A good neighbor simply called on a good friend. Yet the longrun effects could be significant. Successful diplomacy involves more than striped pants and protocol. Val-lar- ta Dealing Willi Fear Society does itself a disservice if it stigmatizes all felons. One reason many men lead a life of crime is that few communities forgive earlier transgressions, and such rigid attitudes make it difficult for the Utah Corrections Division to establish an intermediate treatment center convicts and parolees. for short-tim- e called a halfway house, Generally such a center is usually a supervised, temporary residence for state prison inmates with less than four months remaining on their sentences. The Utah plan would also include services for parolees having personal problems. The idea it has been used elsewhere livoutside Utah is to provide non-jaing conditions in which convicts ready for Release can slowly adjust tc life outside il the walls. i amibailistic missile may prove in the long run more costly than a defeat. A victory for mote billions for arms is tn diamano contrast with the Presidents veio of money bills for education and housing. If wringing out the federal budget could have any effect on the spiral of rising prices, it would Mr. Child be another matter. But there is little reason to believe that the size of the federal deficit for the current fiscal year is in any sense a controlling factor in the fight on inflation. Too many other elements are involved and, above all, one critical decision of a thrust so it can hardly he exaggerated. Tax Decision Meaning terested in rees' ablishing contact with means of families and developing than in molesting or interfering with others. The project is too important for corrections officials to think of sending incorrigibles there. Efforts of this kind succeed only when the community cooperates. What incenhave to go tive does an if he is continually rejected? straight Fear dies hard and the only way fear of a halfway house can be overcome is for the state to set one up and work for the best. To help pave the path, however, it would be worthwhile to contact authorities where such facilities have already been operated. Information, especially on the effects on adjacent neighboroods, should make the Board of Examiners decision easier. self-suppo- Son of Superman - : The Public Forum Smeared rt The Corrections Division, with a federal grant of funds, wants to run such a facility for at least a year at & motel on Salt Lake City's west side. Residents of the neighborhood are objecting, most Getting out a newspaper at a military recently during a hearing before the State base must be one of the most risky asOard of Examiners, which has the final signments in the service. say. The city commission joined the chorhas Sen. William Proxmire, us, contending the center would be too made service-me- ,i 15 where instance an public dlose to a park. spent an entire day clipping a picProtests seem based on the premise ture of the commanding general of Lack-lan- d tjsat once a felon, always a felon. Fears Air Force Base from 10,000 copies of are expressed that families wont be safe the base newspaper. The deletion was orand property values will fall. And little dered by a sergeant who objected to the heed is paid the Correction Divisions asmanner in which the picture was cropped. surance that occupants of the center will It did not show enough of the general. be selected on the basis of the interest We have to agree with the sergeant Ojey show in obtaining gainful employ-Bjethat the picture was poorlv cropped.. and becoming a responsible citizen. But it wasnt any worse than hundreds of The center is part of a larger rehabilnewspapers have done to thousands of itation program. It is a concluding phase, other people from president on down to a following prison confinement, that can incharity banquet chairman. Thats one of clude therapy, counseling, schooling and the risks of being in the limelight, and exvocational training. Halfway house occuperienced public figures learn to live with pants are supposed to have jobs waiting it. Only in the service press and a few fir them. They will be permitted liberal-lie- d other tightly held enterprises would 15 leave time on a regulated basis. And men go to that much trouble to pamper a the expectation is the men will be more in big shot. ! Price of Fame D.-Wi- j nt Editor, Tribune: Regarding your Aug. 16 editorial, Postponing the Inevitable, Atty. Gen. Mitchell is wasting his time in thinking he can get important information from new- smens notes. This can be proven by reading what your editorial entitled Teachers Shun Realities, says as compared to the true reasons for the present impasse between teachers and their administrators. Your comments were so distorted that they must have made the superintendents of Granite and Salt Lake City School Districts dance with glee. There is more to this situation than a salary dispute. Salaries dominate only for two reasons. One, the superintendents refuse to discuss any other issues, and two, amount of salary i3 an accurate gauge as to what these men consider teachers to be worth. Being constantly underrated is what upsets classroom teachers. They bear the brunt of the tremendous responsibility of educating all members of society. Yet, they are denied a adminisvoice in educational policy-makintrative techniques, curriculum determination, pupil-teachratios, and discipline of malcong, er tents. Teacher grievances have always been indicators of social pressures which needed to be accommodated. Campus riots and student anarchy are direct results of administration's failure to wisely consider and to benevolently act upon such tensions. I am dismayed that such a respectable paper as The Salt Lake Tribune would deliberately smear one of the most worthy and respectable segments of society, the classroom teachers. WILBUR L. PEARSON JR. West Jordan '' Another Viewpoint cUrban Transit Should Share in Road Fund From Christian Science Monitor j There is a connection between the summer smog over East Coast cities, New Yorks temporary weekend banning of autos on prestigious Fifth Ave.. the perennial threat to terminate Boston's commuter lail service, the in public patronage of urban mass transit systems, and the congreional hearings under way cn the arinunivtratinn-propocextension of the Highway Turn Fund for four more years The connection is that the nauon's highways are systematically getting the lions sljare of federal money, while iit uansit receives a pittance. Yn i hr comieliing need. Evidenced by city congestion. mog, and dilapidated rommuict abusing transport systems, calls for just the reverse , What can be done" The Highway Trust Hind is a handsome dev nr, and it lias produced handsomely. It will have laid down 4LOOO miles of interstate highways by 1972, snd every vacationing highway user will grateful, as will thousands of truck operators. The fund is fed mainly by the federal four-ren- ts a gallon tax on gasoline, now prosome $5 billion a year $50 billion ducing 6yer the past dozen years. Both national growth and the massive highway lobby advance potent reasons why the Highway Trust Fund should be extended. But by contrast only $156 million was spent in federal r.d for subvv; and bus lines ever the past year. Yet the urgent need now is to get better urban raoid transit to Uhclog city streets, fight smog, and move the inner-cit- y workers to distant often suburasban) jobs. And for coirpeient long-tersistance- to the ailing railroads, A Nixon-backe- d urban mass transportation assistance let wou! provide a $10 billion financing over I de-clj- d 12 years, but no appropriations have been voted there's no trust fund. Surely it would be well, as some members of Congress have proposed, to broaden the highway fund Into a single Transportation Trust Fund covering urban transit, railroad passenger service, airports, all the nation's transport urgencies. Governors and mayors already are asking Congress to make tne fund sufficiently flexible so they can use part of the revenue on mass transit. g of The whole future shape and tomorrow's cities will be greatly influenced by what is done about transportation. It is time for the highways to share the trust fund. It is time for Transportation Secret an' Vol pc to give a stronger lead in this direction. well-bein- BUI Vaugnn if 1 i Orbiting Paragraphs The professors little boy, when complimented on his imaginative use of sand in building a castle on the beach, asks whether he should apply for a federal granl. Some cities are worse in particulate pollution, while others specialize in sulfur oxides. This gives people a chance to choose their poisons. To attune the phraseology of football more closely to the principal concern of its players, it might be said that the oifensive line opened up a loophole big enough to drive a capital gain through. I Story Changed Editor, Tribune: As I grew up In Utah, graduated from high school, and on to college, I heard continuously from my teachers, national and local politicans, plus many other public figures, that industry chose Utah because management found the people were industrious, thrifty and enjoyed working for a living. Many government statistics were quotecLln Utah defense plant production was higher than average because the people did coffee breaks, etc. not take half-hoNow all of a sudden my children hear that industry refuses to come to Utah because liquor isnt running in the streets like water; huge hotel chains refuse to build their bedisnt lucrative rooms because the mini-bottl- e enough in Utah, What has happened to the ' story? , g industrious, J. THERON SMITH Provo hard-workin- Roads Hold the Answer Editor, Tribune' I visited Utah during the Aug. 8-- 9 weekend. The Tribune carried a lengthy article blaming Utahs liquor laws for tourists not visiting more in your state. About a year ago I was in Utah and the pa- pers then were full of discussion about proposed changes In the liquor laws. If I didnt know better I might think Utah's chief problem was liquor. I am a martini enthusiast, but your article Aug. 9 is pure bunk about why tourism lags in Utah. The reason tourism lags is because Utahns have not capitalized on Utah's assets, its physiography. Utah has a few gorgeous mountain spots, but they are measured in acres where Colorado can measure hers in square miles. There is no use trying to compete with the Colorado Rockies. But in southeastern Utah you have an area that is unique. I refe to the Canyon-land- s section of the Colorado Plateau. Even Utahns do not know that area because your highways there were laid out purely on the basis of highway economics, with no consideration for scenery. As result, a tourist crossing that magnificent part of your state is glad to oe through that dull, dry derert and is oblivious to what he has missed. Consider the road from Green River to Hanksville and Bullfrog Basin. From Green River to Hsnksville it is in the flat desert midway between the spectacular reef of the San Rafael Swell and the canyons alorg Green River. From Hanksville south it continues in the flat and misses the canyons along the Dirty Devil, Glen Canyon, the Henry Mountains, and Waterpocket Fold. Not only do your roads miss most of the exciting areas, Utah even has tolerated the National Parks Service closing one of the most spectacular drives in that part of your state, the road that was used for half a century down Capitol Gorge. Southeast Utah could be one of the worlds favorite areas, a 50,000 square mile outdoor museum with d tours providing liberal education in such varied subjects as geologic history, earth structure, badlands that are badder than anything at Badlands National Monument, desert sands, plant and animal geography, evolution of the desert landscape including the history of the canyons, how changes in climate have affected the water supply and landscape, and how changes in water silpply have affected prehistoric and historic land use. Southeastern Utah will remain undeveloped and Utah will continue to do without large number of visitors as long as Utahns generally remain uninformed about their resource. As long as your roads are simply to get across the country rather than to help see it, you will do without your share of visitors. Liquor has nothing to do with il. CHARLES B. HUNT Baltimore, Md. self-guide- Shocked and Appalled Editor, Tribune: I am shocked at the torial in the Aug. 16 Salt Lake Tribune. In Granite School District, a edi- was appointed. Prison Bonds Defeated The chief justice was appealing to states and municipalities to provide the funds. In locality after locality, however, bond issues to providp such institutions have been voted down. With the hodgepodge of state and loci! ta-e- s prevailing almost everywhere and with rising levies on property to pay school costs, the taxpayer is in no mood to add new' burdens at the city and state level. That is particularly true when he sees in the federal tax .structure glaring inequities that enable many in the top brackets to pay far less than their sharp or even escape federal taxation entirely. Mayor John V. Lindsay told the ABA that the Nixor. administration has asked lor less money for safe streets, juvenile delinquency and narcotic treatment than Congress had au- thorized. He appealed to the lawyers to fight for money to expand the courts and enlarge and train police forces everywhere. Only by recognizing the vast difference between anticrime rhetoric and the tedious, systematic worx essential to crime control will it be possible to check the anarchy of crime and violence. California not long ago reject M a n bond issue for three new medical schools and the complex of hospitals and clinics that go with them. The number of available doctors in the state is steadily declining, as the population rapidly' increases and medi- cal costs ' shoot skyward. Medical care for those who have been barely able to pay their own way and for the poor is steadily rle- - . $246-millio- fact-findi- committee The President let it be known that he will ask for no new taxes in the foreseeable future. Taxes are a sure way to dry up excessive spending and thereby contribute to bringing down prices. In anuthei Cuiiitrxi, Lowt'Vtri, iiie tax decision is of even greater meaning. Without a substantial increase in federal revenue no real attack is possible on the ills that plague the nation pollution of air and water, ihe fantastic rise in crimes of violence, the lag in education. The reporter after traveling in ihe Midwest and the West for two weeks returns convinced that only through massive federal help and stern leadership by the Presiden is there hope for salvation. Rhetoric serves only to paper over the cracks that gape ever wider. Each time it wears thin, the rhetoric must be renewed in more inflammatory language. Crime and the invocation to law and order offer a striking example of the contrast good intentions and grim realities. Chief Justice Warren Burger, speaking to the American Bar Assn, in St. Louis, made an earnest plea for new correctional institutions. With few exceptions todays dangerously overcrowded prisons are schools for every form of vice and crime. The committee Forum Rules Public Fsrum letters must net be mete then 35b oret tn length, must be submitted exclusively te The Tribune end bear writer's full name signature end address. Names must be printed n eolitical letter but may b reason tn itn;e fer ethers. Writers ere limited te en letter every ten deys. Preference will be tiven letter permlttjri use ef true name end te these which are typed (double-spaced- ) and short. spent five days studying Granite School District finances and arrived at three separate recommendations (a 3.3 percent, a 5 percent, and a 7.1 percent increase). Yet you fed qualified to make the flat statement that the salary increases teachers are asking, . . . are substantially higher than can be met by available funds. And, The boards are offering reasonable salary increases, Indeed the maximum possible, in view of available school district income." I am appalled by your assumption that you are more qualified to judge Granite District finances than two of the three factfinders who, after five' days intensive study, had much more concrete knowledge on which to base their conclusions. To quote the salary for a masters degree with maximum experience is like giving the salary of the editor of a paper and saying that because he is well paid, all personnel employed on the paper are also well paid. I am shocked that the editor of The Tribune would use figures to mislead tne public. While discussing the lack of money for cost of living increases, why doesn't thp Granite Board of Education tell the public what percentage of salary increase the administrators are getting? Are the administrators getting only the 3.63 percent offered the teachers, or are the teachers the only people expected to sacrifice as dedicated public ser- vants? MRS. LOUIS D. RANNEY Dangers Ahead Editor, Tribune: Abortion on demand is U.S. Question : Does the passage of an abortion on demand law threaten our other laws and social structures? Answer: Yes. Shortly after the passage of the abortion law in Colorado, a bill was introduced in the legislature to legalize euthanasia. Even now forces are mobilizing all over the U.S. to legalize mercy killing. With the legalizing of destroying the unborn and the legalization of euthanasia, the next short step is the legalization of removing the aged. The law applies to everyone, It is everybodys fight. The guilt will lie with the community as well as individuals for any laws passed in this free land. RICHARD R KIMBALL fast growing in the 1 teriorating. . ; Pollution Proposals Inadequate The lesson in every field is plain. As critics have pointed out, what the Nixon administration proposed for the fight on pollution is pitifully inadequate. The rhetoric of the Nixon message on ecology envisioning a disaster if swift action is not taken, but the deed falls far short of the words. The most recent Gallup Poll showing the Nixon approval rating up six points was taken within the administration as a happy herald of the prospect for November and far beyond. The biggest rise since the President took office, it created a kind of euphoria in the inn- -r circle. It can be read as evidence that generous promises and solemn warnings are enough. The signs, tentative though they still are,, indicate an upturn in the economy ending the years downward slide. But at best it ran be only a partial recovery with unemployment at 4 or 5 percent and of the nation will mnain at the poverty level. one-four- th Howpver he rates otherwise, wed guess that Dick Nixon has given mote movie reviews than any othr president. Il j ' us be thankful for all the small crises that take our minds off the big ones. ' |