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Show M Joseph Kraft 1 , irst Section Salt Lake City. Utah Saturday Morning October 7, 1972 Growth Slowup Tried on Coast lY.gi-2- 2 Against Gun Control Arguments O Make Sense to Utahs Inmates Utah is apparently less interested in gun control than anyone previously imagined. For, lo, the Salt Lake County Attorney advises there is no statute against state prison inmates manufacturing firearms Seems odd, but then arent there many familiar reasons to explain it? It says right there in the Second Amendment to the I'.S. Constitution that, A militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be In times of extreme national infringed. emergency, convicts have been enlisted directly by the armed forces. Few militia than prison could be nice ranks. So why shouldnt the inmates be allowed to make their own guns for that night when a galloping rider sounds the alarm? Then theres the need for You never know these days when an intruder will violate premises or person. Having a gun nearby guarantees- safety from marauders. And, for heavens sake, the state prison is just full of criminals. Shouldnt the residents there be entitled to the protection guns afford against plundering and assault? If the county-attorneis right, former state lawmakers sensed the logic in such arguments. "well-regulate- d self-defens- A at the state prise shake-dow- l turned dernn-ger-typ- e up a nearly completed, shera in cell. a However, pistol iffs detective quoted the county attorney as concluding there is no Utah law against pris-f- . 'oners making guns. Well, guns and gun pos-- f session are integral to life in the West, arent f they? Maybe the inmate is merely a collector. r, Could that be the foresight that prevented former Utah legislators from interfering with convict gun collections? Or perhaps they realized, sure, you can disarm prisoners, but what about all those honest, people who will go right on making and using pistols and rifles? Is it reasonable to believe, the lawmakers might have asked, that guns could be kept from those who occasionally leave firearms within a child's reach, or the few who use traffic .signs for target practice, or the many who in momentary rage need a gun to shoot at a neighbor, stranger, husband, wife, father, mother, brother or sistei ? If you cant expect these people to give up guns, the legislators probably decided, why worry about convicts, usually under much closer supervision. g Too many men have been killed and injured working in open pits, trenches and holes around the Salt Lake Valley. Mostly this is explained by the gravelly, unstable nature of the soil. But also it is traceable to sloppy digging methods which ignore proper or shoring. Inspectors as well as excavators have been lax. At least this week, the question of too much Jdirt piled too close to the walls of a dig M. Von the architect. forced by projects Jjvvas JjVYhite. the Civil Defense building's architect, wrote the county surveyor complaining about hazardous conditions caused by dirt piles glooming above the workmen. Surveyor office (inspectors agreed and recommended the Situation be remedied or the construction 4 discontinued. I No Sale Here is taking industrial From Norfolk (Va.) Ledger-Sta- r t The need for international monetary reform Ijhas been apparent for a long time. And if the U S. J (proposal to vastly overhaul the system actually launches such an effort among the nations of the world, then it will have accomplished a great deal. ;l For the US. the monetary exchange arrange-Nnient- s reached at the end of World War II have una ceptable: no longer an I 'become increasingly embarrassment only, the; nave confronted the with serious emergencies. The reasons are Mr.ot difficult to find the cumulative effects of .spreading American resources too thinly over the 'globe: an inability to cope with a persistent and 'worsening balance of payments deficit; inattention at home. and. too, the war in Southeast Asia on our re- sources.- n e But some major projects in Los Angeles County m doubt. One is an Occidental Petroleum plant for drilling off the coast of Pacific Palisades. Another is ?n Alcoa program for selling land along the Pacific Coast. A third is a community in project for an the San Gabriel Valley. In the same area the Law-n- n Group has postponed plans for building a housing project of 900 units. Due east of Los Angeles, the University of California at Riverside has experienced, for the first time, a drop in enrollment. The campus, which had close to 6,000 students registered last year, has around 5,000 this year. remain Tnlcrlatul' i inclusion of a greater flexibility in the exchange rate of a given currency. But these moves came in the atmosphere of crisis, in this instance the crisis of the United States. And indeed the system that has been in use has been a system of crisis. a quarter-centurEarlier, the focus fell on other nations, as in 195S. for one example, when France devalued the franc and De Gaulle imposed hasty measures at home. Or, for another, the recurring troubles that have confronted the British pound. So perhaps the most significant promise in the new U S. proposal is its goal of removing the crisis atmosphere in international monetary affairs. This would be sought through increased flexibility for currencies to fluctuate from their fixed values: through elimination of gold as an international reserve asset, and through specific efforts to more s figures. generally neutralize y These proposals do not necessarily represent new thinking. The U S. government was giving serious consideration to similar ideas four years ago. and the reasons then were similar to those which have prompted the new proposals. But certainly today the case is all the more persuasive for that comprehensive level of reform that would tailor monetary policy to the demands of the seventies Ultimately, however, a new monetary system, basic though this would be to fiscal order, is really just a vehicle. It can offer a smoother ride for the U S. only if this nation vigorously addresses itself lo its other basic economic problems as well. Bill Vaughan's Orbiting Paragraphs Professional athletics make wonderful contributions in many fields Consider, for example, what they have done to the price of the hot dog Now the government is banning hexavhlor-ophenFurther evidence that once you become a household word you're in trouble. I'm not giving up.' Im looking ahead!" Nixon has recommended that Medicare hospital benefits be sharply reduced. Nixon twice vetoed bills to increase federal funding of our schools, including lens of millions to aid disadvantaged children. Nixon has withheld $12 billion of federal money already appropt idled by Congress for social programs. Nixon's 1973 budget earmarks more than $5 billion for highways and a scant S390 million for mass transportation. Nixon ordered an expansion of (he functions of the Subversive Activities Control Board ble standard in judging the campaign tactics of the two parties. Whenever Republicans accuse the of Democrats themselves with aligning " miliand "potheads." tants," as they did in the congressional elections of 1970, it is mudslinging. Whenever the Democrats accuse the Republicans of aligning themselves with "big business, "privileged interests," "segregationists" and as they are doing this election year, they are being honest, sincere, pragmatic, realistic and somehow humane. In a word, bunk! 1 dont buy it and, obviously, neither does the majority of the American people. GARY W, JACKSON Running for office is much like being married. You have the assurance that, no matter what you say. there will be somebody to disagree with you. but Tilly isns sure what a Watergate caper is thinks she enjoyed some in a salad one time. Ogden A Clarification McGovern biography mentioned The televised letter Friday from I.orna ('. Martinez in a Forum was originally scheduled to be broadcast nationally at 7 p.m. Sunday. Oct. I. When McGovern campaign officials found it would conflict with B("s presentation of Love Story" they arranged with CBS to broadcast it at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. The local CBS affiliate, KSI.-, Channel 5. instead of it simultaneously with the national broadcasting showing, taped the show and will broadcast it today (Saturday) at p.m. ;raiii.'l Nixon .Mark Editor. Tnbunc Sen McGovern has nol been a president, consequently we do not know what he would or would not do Personally. I trusl him That is more than can say for President Nixon President Nixon has had fom years and his record is on he negative side. 1 elected President after promising to end the U.S in Vietnam with a "se- involvement cret plan." But where is that plan Some '.ll (Kill more Vmencans and hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese have died in Indochina The war has been expanded Cambodia into Laos and Millions of tons of bombs have been rained on Indochina moc' than were dropped on three continents during all of World War 11 and the Korean War combined Two million more Indochinese civilians have become refugees fleeing 'he battlefields Vietnamiation" American death tolls- has meant lower weeklv but continued Asian ones. Nix in s health plan seeks only to regulate the health insurance industry and not meet the crisis in health care delivery. .Ji. are frantically building up a major public relations, campaign to try to beat the proposal. One of Nixon's obsessions is that he has the right to conduct government behind the backs of Operations The merest glance at all these signs of resistance to a headlong drive into the future shows one thing in common. They are all one-shoperations. They are aimed at preserving a particular area or curbing a special commercial practice They are not comprehensive measures that are part of an overall strategy. One-Sh- the American people." L. R. JOHNSON Not Further in IVI! Editor, Tribune: In the meeting of the Salt Lake City School Board on Oct. 4. we granted requests for extra teachers at 11 of the 32 grade schools in the district. We recognized 'hat these schools were faced with serious problems in attempting to juggle students and teachers to meet a mathematical quota. A newspaper article reporting these changes stated that the district had gone into further debt for such changes. Such, is not the case. The board wisely insisted upon maintaining a contingency reserve as authorized by the Legislature in spite of heavy pressure from teachers and parents at the budget hearings. If the decline in enrollment does not continue to accelerate. it is believed that this reserve and anticipated additional federal impact funds will be sufficient to pay for the extra costs of allowing additional teachers. The classroom load or the student-teache- r ratio is lower this year than it has been for a number of years, However, this enrollment decline creates serious financial problems since income decreases without a corresponding decrease in expenses. $300,000 The same observation applies to the various groups that have taken the lead m promoting the least criticizing the consequences of unrestricted growth. Ralph Nader and his Raiders, for example, are doing important original work in pointing out inequities and imbalances in development on the Pacific Coast. But they seem to have no no schedule that dictate's system of priorities what to study and what not, no sense of what is important and what isnt important. The Same Boat The various ecological groups are in the same boat. What all this suggests to me is that this area, and in due time the whole country, is in the pres-- ' ence of a problem we don't understand very well-W- e can all see particularly unsightly and noisome examples of unrestricted growth. We know that it makes sense to slow down. But we dont know how to do it in a comprehensive, way. So for the time being we are condemned to throwing sand in the gear box d Special consideration is needed for the problems facing the Salt Lake City School District and it is hoped that the interested parents, teachers and administrators will join with the board m requesting the Legislature lo make provisions for these problems DAN S BLSHNELL Member, Salt Lake City School Board Board Tlie Grant Cartoon Model lor All Editor, Tribune: Here's some good news to balance the bad you had to print today. I recently attended a meeting in Salt Lake City along with delegates from 11 western states and Washington, D C. It was a meeting of librarians for the blind and physically handicapped, the people who run the famous talking bonk" program for people who can't see or hold books. Our hosts were Russell Davis. Gerry Buttars and the staff of the Utah State Library Commission The dedication and enthusiasm these ppople toward I heir work must not go unno'ieed Their library which serves the needs of all the residents of Utah is a model the rest of us tty to follow Such warmth and obvious efficiency reflects well on the library and your state It was a wonderful experience for us all and we hope to return io vour oeauliful city some day soon OSCAR W FORD Carson City, Nev. show . t . Still further north, in Sacramento, controversy swirls around ir. initiative on the ballot that woilld put a freeze on ail further developments along the California coast. A state judge has thrown out a ; suit that would block the initiative, and opponents-- ' Nixon opposed the landmark water pollution bill passed by the Senate in favor of a far weaker House bill. I Nixon was North of Los Angeles two other communities have tried to arrest growth by freezing development of their basic infrastructure. Santa Barbara and San Mateo both turned down bond issues for new waterworks and sewage in an etfort to slop further additions to the population. Nixon opposed the creation of an independent consumer protection agency to act in behalf of the consumer. "left-win- e Smog Blamed The main reason for the drop appears to be increased smog in the area, and for once it is not only the local press that is talking about it. Local officials have at last given up the pursuit of more industry to acknowledge that on one day out of three in the Riverside area the air is hard to breathe. Nixon vetoed the landmark comprehensive child development bill. Nixons demagogic call for law to limit the court's pow'er to enforce the 14th Amendment is an unconstitutional attack on civil rights. - n balanee-of-payment- The monetary system has already undergone some chance that accompanying last Decem-i-ber'- s devaluation nl the American dollar and the i; Editor, Tribune: I question columnist Warren Rogers assumption that George McGoverns style is "too professional, too evangelical" to go for the "jugular vein assult. In fact, McGovern has used precisely that approach. McGovern has referred to some newspaper columnists as despicable proper authority problems seriously. Last year, there were reports of five men Foruin Rules injured when earth fell into excavations where Public Forum letters must be submitted they worked at locations around the Salt Lake to The Tribune and bear writers exclusively in 20 were one Three accident area. trapped full name, signature and address. Names must of a the on at Jan. 20, minutes, job University be prinled on political tellers but may be withUtah campus. That pit was also 12 feet deep. held for good reasons on others. Writers are Another man had his leg broken. June 20, 1971, limited to one letter every 10 days. Preference when asphalt surfacing collapsed above him. will be given to short, typewritten (double acciThese and others are preventable-typspaced) letters permitting use of the writer's dents. true name. All letters are subject to condensa-tion. Cave-iis with associated usually danger of loose in but terrain mining, underground characters. The pollsters are "kooky. Young dirt and gravel an old lake bed such as the people and laborers who vote for President Nixon Salt Lake Valley digging in the open can be are "confused and don't know which end is up " every bit as perilous if standard precautions He has scalded Spiro Agnew for questioning" his are not followed. And chances are they wont patriotism, yet he has equated President be if those responsible for safety programs Nixons actions in Vietnam with the Nazis. dont insist on compliance. Jt is clear that the mass media are using a doueave-i- Monetary System Needed Conveyance problems Slowed Trans-Ameri- draft-dodgers- l! Jto inflationary 'drain of the. Projects Sargc, someone oiled the track instead of the wheels. Cave-in- s VieXint New7 The total suspension of permits, which usually a rate of about a thousand a day, was put into effect to allow county engineers to interpret the coal's ruling. After a day's study, ways were found to restore the issuance of building permits to about 60 percent of the norm. Now it is back to 90 percent. are granted at The Public Forum I! jjKiiotlior Evidence Strong The marks of the instinct for slowing down are particularly strong here in Los Angeles, The suspension of building permits arose from a complicated ruling by the state supreme court on a motion by an environmentalist group that all new buildings, private as well as public, had first to be approved for environmental effects. Hut try lo put it that way to guards or other prison authorities who might face an inmate's homemade pistol before a shake-dow- n discovers it. Would any intelligent discussion seriously contend there be no penalties for fashioning deadly weapons in prison cells? Do the stock arguments opposing gun control apply to such circumstances? More . than that, do the stock arguments against gun control apply, period? The contractor contended all safety measures were followed. Ultimate conclusions on that are for him and various officials involved to thrash out. The significant point is that oc- roughly off the flow of milk and 8,000-acr- Because it happened on a public project site, the criticism of excavating methods around the new Civil Defense center in Salt Lake City drew special notoriety. But its the sort of publicity safer working conditions need. there equivalent to turning 24 honey in heaven. For hours the County of Los issuing stopped Angeles building permits. That startling unaction a dramatic symbolizes the in message change which this area, for so long the front part of the United States, has been transmitting to the rest of the country. No longer does it offer the prospect of growth unrelenting; no longer does it proclaim the case for go. go. go. On the contrary, throughout California there is evident a marked inclination to ease the pace. Only the American ethic, so fertile in giving scope to individual initiative, offers no good way for putting on the brakes. So the West Coast is now experiencing, and the country is probably due to experience, a severe ease of slowing pains. After all. there was no trigger or firing pin in the weapon. Start confiscating a man's hobby and where will it end? You'll have the government in control of all the stamps, coins, figurines, old bottles, model airplanes, whiskey labels, vacation snapshots, camoaign buttons and stolen hotel towels in the country. You'll have a disaccumulated. demoralized populace, ripe for enemy take-ovethats what youll have. Insuring Against sloping One day last month LOS ANGELES in Tomorrowland something curred here i i |