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Bf 7 . 7 S' ' V ,yi i f . - ; li The Public Formn 1 ribuiie Readers' M ready Listen Your editorial of Dee. !h. -- Transit Agency to Public's Communications made several good suggestions ulxtut huvv the t TA t an better deal w uh our public s a natter of faet. most of them have already Uvn part of our operating policy fur quite some time Vu't Rf-ixi- nd Complaints are received bv our Customer Service Department, lodged and a resivnse is sent by phone or mail within two weeks Only id jiereent of those complaints request us to respond to them We rescind to so percent ot those complaints received We receive hundreds of complaints, suggestions and petitions which concern service such a as request to alter a bus route changes, i ur Planning Department esponds to all those requests, even though a lack of funding prevents us from implementing anv suggestion which requires additional service I nfortunately. from time to time a complaint or a request docs get lost in the process Ev en me is hxi many, and we are trying to insure that it does not happen. But. vour inference that our employees are "routinely ignoring too man complaints, suggestions and petitions" is unfair to them and to their good record ot scrv ice to our public JOHN C. PINGREE General Manager I 'tali Transit .Authority Po ililc Moaning Like many others, I feel saddened at John Iwnaun's death. It is a piece of my youth that is now gone. And I feel embarrassed before the world that our country xrmits handguns. I feel a wish not to believe in this additional evidence of the v iolcnce in our society. Perhaps the reaction to this murder will include' the enaction of effective gun control. If it does, his death will be given the meaning he would have wished. KATHY VAN DAME Straightens Record In the Dec. 8 article. "Studies Cast Doubt on School Practice of Holding Children Back." by Education Editor Diane Cole. I was misquoted as say ing "All the research for the last 50 y ears sliuw s retention doesn't help the child academ- ically" My exact words were "Most of the research '' not all. When I talked with Ms. Colo on the phone. I pointed out that some studies show children who were retained due to reasons of immaturity did benefit from the vxienenee Sev era! other studies hav c found retention docs improve a chi'd's academic at hievement and a event stu.lv tound children who were ret a lind do not have a poorer self image than, children who were promoted Admittedly these studies are not as numerous as those studies hut report ii negat.ve ir.tlueiue However they cannot lx1 discounted Furthermore, my comment taken out of context, would seem to indicate the research evidence I' conclusive Th.it is not the ease I indicated to Ms Cole that caution should ic used in mt e rpre! mg the studio conducted over the last .Vo vtar infinite conclusions cannot be made concerning the relative value ot retention and promotion many of the studies had serious methodological flaw There is a roblem tn making gross generalizations of any kind Tins issue of retention i' not black and white It i' more complicated than that and depends oil the particular situation Many factors, such as the realities of the school, the teacher child mtrraition. the emld's abilities, aptitude', self-- oncopt. and maturity must be considered in a retention decision. One must remember dial conclusions from research arc often applicable only to the population studied Given a du'lcreiit setting with different teaelurs and children, research results might lx' dittcrcnt I wanted to -- set the record straight" regarding my comment about grade retention in particular and the xiliey of grade retention in general. Because the issue has such a great impact on the lives of children, it can he an emotional issue We nnist remember that the welfare of the individual child is the most imKrtant issue SYLVIA J WORKMAN College of Education It all Slate Cniv ersity Starting Place ! j i ! December 21, 1930 For the second time since the organization of the Ltoh County Dairy' Herd Improvement Association, a cow belonging to Merrill Warnick of Manila has produced su pounds of buttorfat during a month, according to Howard Roberts, official tester of the organization, who released his monthly report Saturday. East year Rock," a Holstein cow of the Wumiek herd, produced this amount of hutterfat. which is the largest amount ever produced by a cow of the local association. PROVO Knight Hi Mm New sp.,'.c w ho ' LdS ANGELES - To tn.-.totp..ip'e c Ron, i.in.i Reagan nat has , !,.,...t .mi-ot saying simply AAhnl von sec .. wh.it von get " e - ' T.iking them at their words tin- s'mih ot Hon., Id Reagans administration i' Uvimm.g clear as Iv pu's the last Cehmot pieci s m place .us! turns toward matters ot domo'tu ami tun ign jnl.cy El 'I ami net surprising the men and tew "omen- who will run the White House and the Cubtm t ivpa rtments arc unmistakably i on si r alive Si on, and somewhat su"prising, the pre'i dent elect and his tup advisors deter num d to cvpi the last ghost' of atergate still hauntin.'. the Republican presidency and the Republican Party by boldly rehabilitating Richard Nixon and other Watergate figures l! Ilic most profound political scandal in the I A In a recent article iTribune. Dec. 1, an unfortunate error was made in reporting alout the Intermountain Regional Poison Control Center. In the article. Joseph C. Voltri. Pbarm. D . was said to have been "director of the center since its incept ion in 1971 " This is simply not true. In fact, the center had its initial development under Alan K Done, M.D. In late 1971 Dr. Done left ami Anthony R Temple. M D Ixoume the centers director, at which time Dr. Veltri was still a student in the College of Pharmacy. Dr. Veltri did. however, subsequently be come an associate director Dr. Temple ran the center until 1979 He then moved to Pennsylvania and curcntly is president ot the American Association ot Poison Control Centers KEITH TEMPLE also Holstein, year duplicated the feat During the past month an average of 053 pounds of nulk and 27 pounds of hutterfat were produced by cows of the association Profit ter cow above feed costs was $0 II for the month, the report states December a 21, 1955 Ky. Daytons fearsome Flyers, operating on Uith backlxiards with all the finesse of a hayrake moved down I'tah's second-rankedub. despite a whirlwind finish. in the opener of the Kentucky Invitational Ians here Tuesday night liefore 10. LEXINGTON. 77-7- N Jimmy Paxton, at the controls ol the rough and ready Dayton Farm Wagon, shuttered the show and I KIT scoring mark with a 35 Mints Tile old mark was held by Kentuckys Cliff Hagan, and was set at 28 in 1953 against LaSalle. Gary Bergen topped the Etc scoring with 21 points, and also turned in a magnificent floor threat to game as well as being a Day toils domination of the glass. one-ma- n one-ma- n Dei mher Jl I'lso pen' 'ost.n u ere -.' a c't ig..d nvmo-- v The two t ends a"c not Urtel.itca I el's.-i-j a- - well a s Kcp'.d'hcars sopor,.,! w bet hc result ot at erg a' i he v i was a I'll'! s ii.c ol P.eri tend to icvv Rone.!!' s cloclton i .. ii aPoM lor both, const rv .nmm .aid tn i .i s ,,n oid to as in atergate pcc.i", Asked About Nixon Rule i. v o- v - v 1 v v a- i , of coi, ".si the president elect h.,s NiXo'l ,1' .1 valuable adv iscl wl.usc cl v m ,n h ,i 'j'Vci latcd Nixon Air a.lviic Is u , has hi ml m-- on "t.n r pnispeit.vc .idle liilstr.lt Ion othiials. m.mv ol vv hum si led under lum Eormci Nixon aides evolved ill Walcigati. 'in h as Mcphen But Ilic i ust, up. m oi the AAlutc II nisi1 tapes .iii' uiukitig hn the Reagan t aiisg i, m toam And Nixon apparent ly has had some s.o in tin mui.it mg thi toi ci. n pon ics ' a Pin , m.ih. s i i, , i i : i.s Peos tion ituviior Edwin Vlcese III w'w wi. he in's most mllucc.tia' AAhiti House .ode we- - neither embarrassed nor cov when he .a idii Repuh' ic.c'.s h. iv e been was , iskcil Ihursdav alumt Nixon s role m a Iv isiieg iii a. an on appointment s and hi!u y sou. .hi Nixon s . ouisel Indore he lie.i White House chief ot i hose Nixon s lormci x.iml' r ll.n.'.. who was deeply in slat; volved - Water... lie as the IleXt secretary ot I': :r state Meosi "os not t said that while the former president on lie, u. ill's m,.s( imvrt.int sourn1 atloC Attempt In Regain liifliti'iice ,11 I o m ,il iv i , oluiimi st lain S ,1 i ,il m' dinnci with Nixon recoui. ted the torn-cpresident's role m huildin.' lica pin s pirsi deucy, and S.ifirc called it pari ol the Nixmi rch.ihil0.0iou " Nixon - like has successor. lobbied hard lor 11. in: s ci aid lord PI nntn lent. S.,l uv said, as pail ol an ctfoi t hv Nixon to regain influence m .I'hm 'ton M.inwlulc another columnist Gongi AVill. who is closi to Reagan dclcndcd Hun, ' uteri'.. itc addicts' appointment against "ho he s.od would t to rekindle Ihc i old s 11 . AV v A ' embers Will Reagan Be Able to Close Stragetie Weaponry Gap? Continued from Page 18 S.OOn square miles of gov eminent owned land m Nevada and Ltah. building 8. into miles of roads for the missile, invading sparsely settled western towns with thousands of construction workers and their families, overwhelming schools, water supplies and inflicting extra crime and hell rinsing on generally peaceful i. (immunities uf the valleys Critics hoot at this missile age version uf the French Muginot Line which was flanked hy German troops in World War 11 Give up on missiles, some ,uc urging, and admit that pickle barrel acciirnley requires putting more of tiie nuclear elteiise at sea in submarines or on surface stops Retired Navv Capt Jnlm E Draim, fur one. contends there is no reason the MX or any otliei missile could not lie dumped off a submarine, barge or airplane and lie launched oil command from big lakes or the ocean on command. The Navy proved out the idea back in the 1900s, lie said, by equipping missiles with flouts and launching them out ol the water under Project Hydra laml-husc- d It is time to give Hydra another chance, Draim contends. Mov ing nuclear missiles from land to sea would be like taking the cannon out of the village square, assert missiletosea udv oeutes, thus keeping civilians out of the line of nuclear fire if war should come Carter's Pentagon respondsth.it giving up on the part of the C S nuclear offense would be a gilt to Sov iet targeteers. They could then concentrate on finding and destroying C S missile submarines along with attacking Iximbers Indore they could take oil Besides that, even vulnerable land based missiles like the Minutcmcn provide a hedge it the Lulled States suddenly should find itsclt with sub marine missiles and Ixmilicr that do not work land-base- Psychological Disadv milage Psychologically, adds Ilic Pentagon's Perry "abandoning our ICBM force would concede an imimrtant perceptual advantage in the Sov ids. a dangerously misleading signal " What Reagan's defense advisers are looking for right now is a quick fix for the missile gap a way to close the vulnerability Udore 19.X0. if the new president decides that Hie MX to U Iunie available then is the licst longterm solution to land missile vulnerability after all "We're giv ing serious consideration to Minute-maIII redeployment." William Van Cleave, a principal military adviser to Reagan, told the Post - . I'llniiic. suiidav A Nut Founder "Belle." I ' BARBARA ANDERSON this akc Reagan Will Follow Usual Pattern In regards to the article in the recent editton of The Tribune entitled "Can We Do Anything For Poles" how about dropping the Polish jukes (or starters'1 whib I 1 The Way It Was Here are the briefs of The Salt Lake Tribune from lot), 50 and 25 years ago: December 21, 1880 Among the freight passing East today was a full car load of the bones of a whale. This skeleton was directed to Prof. E.D Caixc Permanent Exposition. Philadelphia, Pa. Two large bones eighteen or twenty feet long were simply wrapped in canvas, and thus showed something of the dimensions of the monster. while the rest was enclosed in huge boxes licS.ul Saul ;ric Im an Opinions Forum Rules Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer's true name. .All letters are subject to condensation. Mail to the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune, Box 807, Salt Lake City. L tah. 84110. I There already are 550 of these most modern missiles deployed, each with three highly accurate warheads Van Cleave said lie is studying the possibility of taking another inn Mimiteman III missiles out of the vvarcliou-- o and deploy mg them of E S land The resulting force of 050 Mmuteman III missiles would lie moved around a new field of silos, like the MX shell game. Van Cleave said he is thinking alxiut digging 10 new holes for each of the 050 Minutcmcn He also is taking a fresh look "at the technical feasibility" of protecting land missiles with anti ballistic missiles. The Pentagon has already studied those ; v utercute II. a s uxpcitod continuation hv tin- Senate alter a light will serve tticrchuv not only to dispel what's I, dt ot the AVatcrgatc blahs hut to r.itity the beginning ol a more conservative The predictable hard line, lorcicn licy ant Sov let ant i mil mun 1st attitudes that hav e been a hallmark ul nmsei'valive tureign policies m the Cold War past are only a port ol w hat seems to lie m store Envoy to lie Iknwngrudcd Alccsc. in a meeting with rcirtcr Thins day, indieatisl that the role of the I' N ambassador, who has had Cabinet status, will U downgraded In tile Carter administration, the E N ambassador lias had great influence in formulating i s uy toward developing ua t ions, especially in Alnca Similarly. Alccsc made 0 clear that the Carter administration's policy ol supporting human rights a broad as a means ol combat ling political repression Is at an end lulc Alccsc insisted that hum. m iglit ' as a concept Is nol dead." lie.ig.m aides hav e told Stale Department ollieels that there lias been And "undue" emphasis on human lights Alccsc ,.tid the lie. ican admmisti atiou would to invoke human rights policies wuii pn-lcquid diplomacy rather Ilian sanctions, which lie said could disturb the " tahihty " in ti icndly nations Moose, a staunch Chamber of Commerce, law licm'.ith Ills and order conservative pragmatism, hinted at a similarly conscrx a live direction in domestic affair hat Conscrx ativ es AA ill Do The "national economic emergency" that Reagan may declare alter In inauguration. Alccsc said probably will include vv hat isoltcn I'clciTcd to as the "old time religion" ol eoiisct alive Republic. inisiu budget slash mg especially for social progi mils taxhicak' loi business a ticcc mi icdcral Im me ami cv cm a lid mi ledcl al borrow lug Alccsc alsi, mdicatcd tll.il the Rcag.ill id n tratimi is backing away Irmn Reagans position dining the campaign ol lavormg ledd al Imm guarantees lor Cliry slei Re.n in' Cabinet su lar is almost entirely bum the corporate world Indeed ol the 10 Cal oi let level posts hr w Im nmmiiat imis hav e i lii'i'M amimmced su mdv two ol Reagan's i lum es Michigan Rep I i.uv id Sim kman as budget direc tor and Sen Richard Si liw mker ol Viiiisv Iv ama as sei rclarv ol health anil hum. in services me not businessmen or corporate law vets Reagan transition te.ims diveloping policy for Cabinet departments and federal agencies hav e made It dear almost dally that regulators in agencies designed to protect the ciivimn ment, consumer rights and oeeiipation.il health ami safely are in for hard limes Ignored tin Ear Right o A . I alternatives m uh.it Perry termed "exquisite detail" and found them w anting Getting prime land away from farmers who own it. the Pentagon contends, would lie tougher and take longer than getting the MX dcplovod on the land the I S government already owns in Nevada and Ctoli The new generation of anti ballistic missiles looks promising, Pen logon specialists say, hut too risky to gamble on for protecting existing hind missiles, to say nothing of the diplomatic ami imlitioal uproar which would he generated if Reagan tried to tear up the 1972 I S Soviet treaty banning eXteiisiv e ABM deploy ment Although Reagan has not endorsed the idea ease call he made tor giv mg up on land based missiles and settling for only missile sub marines and bomber - a "dy ad" of strategic mu le.ir fern , rathe' than today's triad But here again .tile stakes are too high to gamble that the Sov lets vv ill not find a way to detect our submarines in the next 20 year of the strategic arms race a Mafia Arms Specialist After hearing the argument from Tonopah, New, which is slated to got the MX in its backyard under the Carter plan, to the and reading those excruciatingly the matin of arms specialists w rite over again. I see two attractive Reagan liefore lie commits himscll to a full blown MX program, or adopt the even more perilous course ol announcing that American missiles will he launched il enemy warheads arc seen on the way A human m computi r error could then start an uicioci atmg Pentagon, dull article over and options for AAorld War III t lull Is Ini' Reagan to tell Sov let leader' Inc he will forego building the MX if they will reduce the number ol ICBM w arheads aimed at mm existing missile force If the Ended Stales could "he reasonably sure" ol tin numbers. Perry said 3. non land based Soviet warheads targeted on our Minutcmcn and Titans would Im- a "tolerable" ri'k This would lie dow n Iruin today's threat ot about 0.000 Soviet land based I warheads The Ended States has a little over warheads atop its land missiles aimed at Russia hut has the edge ill the warheads earned oil bombers and submarines Perry Flan The second option is what I u ill call the Perry dan for making surprise nuclear attack less tempting Perry said lie cm isioncd the scheme for a SALT III arms control agreement There is no reason Reagan could not pursue the plan as a replacement for SALT II however. Perry added "AVhut I would push for is maintaining the snrv iv ability inherent in three dilferent forces bombers, laud based ICBMs. Trident submarines" perry said He would "harden" bombers against the effects of u nuclear explosion, start building the MX land missile and put the long range Trident II missiles in submarines "Having done that, we're in position to greatly reduce numbers The more surv iv aide forces we hav e, the fewer warheads we have to have The thing we're trymg to hold constant is the iiumlier of surviving war heads 2.000 Copyright i A v I I Dm im'. Ills eampa gu and tile lor mat ion o his ti ansilimi teams. Reagan generally Ignored the Ear Right And some observers, hU'ials and moderates, wishfully thought that Reagan might be moderating Ills conservatism and a lot tovvaid the center as he moving approached the piesidmicy But Kcag.ni aides pmul out that the presi limit dot t has been running, speaking and crusading as the conservative hope Im more And they see no reason to Ilian a dozen ymii believe that Ills politics lum changed And what they sec is uh.it the public is likely In git b opy right After Bizarre Incident, Lennons Death No Longer Seems Abstracl By Larry Cole about gun control, whether a indice state is inevitable and other vague but vehement generalities Uy the time coffee came we had succeeded m converting the horror we ah felt into safe sociological abstractions about violence, the underlying sickness of our society and the failure of government leadership. Once we temporarily purged our fears by giving them roots and reasons, the conversation lightened 'if to cc a gun Instead, he lulled out a Bible and began reading from the Book of expected Special to the Los Angeles Times Eleven of us sat around the dinner table one night last week, talking about how deeply affected we were by John Lennon's murder. We shared a numbness along with frustration and fear that crazies are everywhere. We argued up. Then Mark came into the dining room I'd never seen hin before, but as a frequent guest in this household with two teen-aggirls I was used to seeing new faces appear without Revelation' "I think youre the wrong house " 'aid one of the guests ' "No," said Mark Tills is the right house. ( ( I sjx ike to me and told me to come here and marry her " He pointed t.) the elder of the two lecn-aggiris sitting across Irom him at the table in C.ot Away "Satan told me to come here and find Valerie Bcrtmelli. the artress He told me to meet her in front of the Chinese Theater. But when I got there she got away. I was looking for her when God told me to come here. Tiie women in the room got up slowly and left while we five men eased into xisitions on either side of the intruder. My wife telephoned the e r police from another room, hot the utbeer who answered said that they had more urg nt call' and would he delayed A 'ccoild call to the Foothill Patrol, a nrivatc protection service m th( Hollywood Hills, brought a nuue on mediate promise of help In the meantime, we tried to calm Mark while we eontained him in the dining room and listened to his psyehotie tale "The Insist shot me in the head three times, sai') Mark, pointing to three non existent wound' 'in his forehead He tried to put me in a psychiatric facility but I uot away I was given these two keys arid told that l! I drop them into Mount St Helens it will kill the I least I asked him how long lie had Uwii in town. where he was st.iyinu, whether he'd had diiim i .my t Inn'..1 to keep him calm I Dunk I've been here for about three dav But m kind ol eonhi'i'd Atavhc it was net tod. iv I don't know IIlooted at me I don t want to hurt jnolxidy ." lie '.jid hut the bra-- i' ev cry w here " Du we hav e the mark1" I asked him No. you don't," he sanl "Thai why I know Vulj're safe " Tinpatrol arrived but stayed oijl'ide to a' on provoking Mark We com nn ed lorn that lie was in the wrong house, that the young girl he pointed to WU' already married and that mav Ije it would !c a good idea for him to leave before the "women folk" were seared AAe walked him out the front door whine the l uothiil Patrol quietly and proh'ssionallv look him into cii'tody 'carched him and radioed loi b.a k Irian the Ln- - Angcle' Police Depart I 1 Tell Police Story rnmuo la'cr the black and-- lute pulled i told the two officers what had u,j happen'd how he had said he had left the p vi nod ne ward at Port Bragg Army id rcl.o.ed as mudi alxaat the Maces and ions a - w c could remember ' introduction. So. apparently, was everyone else, including the hostess and her two daughters, who assumed that Mark was a friend of one of us AA ba-n-- i After a few minutes. interrupted the conversation to introduce myself. And Mark quietly rescinded "My name is Mark," he said, "and I've jU't ionic from a nuclear holocaust in North Carolina I've been seeing visions and trying to cot away from everyone on the East Coast Tin v ail have the mark of the beast " And wuh that he reached into his jacket MM hu-tf- . ' I -- A nu t Get Any Help' ect any help lie'll pj ,t ! held hr- it it proci "i d and then he'll la' turned t he other ii Ii I'lll.i Now w hat do you w ant U' to do" w I don't vv ant him to f aid hi bni k lieri ' - dead and my aid the My da i 'liter' and at e here alone We II tai-him down In the t.ition and turn a id t he He wi a t am li.a k loo e t th in at "So what do you want us to do''" 'aid one i m m "It's no crime to be crov AA'e .'iji'cc'teii that they contact the military police, inec Mark had buwn military idcntifi labon tnal had two years to go Ulorc expiration AAi (l.ciked for want' aid there arm't " aid tile o'fn er .,1 v lai if he let; port Bragg or anypl.ne el-- e poli' We MB, t l 11 - l la-- i -- i i i"'i,in mi A t Birtaii.Mi tlefn ..i"ieo,ni' i"l I' ' ' I.'I'.V VI dot oo'll l)n Ui.lt! i' Ii.ivr Iii w.nl uh ii ,i.g to hi a l'Ptaled due-- ' asked ibV li'' I Ye- - a i I $ -- AAI. P Angeles t tlieie woiildnt In a w.ui.int oil the uineone el f pointed mil a'l.plltet Vet " .link one polo email said to the it vnu want to make a i ilizea - arrest lor t r p.i.ung well take him in Bui In'll he uni tthm Ihi hull! and von'll how to go to eoill't Pa all Ilic lic.ii mg' II glad!', do tti.it," said Hie ho'icss. if that tanc kind ol help before lie w ill mean lie II get hurls .umeoiii tod. iv .eta Editor's Note: Larry Cole, 'tie auttvor o Street Kiri;" and "Our Children's Keepers. lives in Los li -- angry arid elantig at the collected was in' m the hack scat of the jilii c ar It di'.iiH't cd down tjtc street that it would The t noil, ill Patrol r a inrre'1-- e wirM'dlancr on the house for the rest c 'Opposed that Mark would of the night a,, rea-- e In- - surveiilahoe. too in search of the mark of the la ano '"tiger "ai-'leemod Join Alai - dinner now eui-- ts i i -- i i J A -t er all t r a mhrJlL!. |
