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Show by No Normal Day At OurOffice Ry ‘Dedicated tothe Progress And Growth of Central Utah THE HERALD,Provo, Utali—Page 37 Sunday, October 10, 1971 Nearly everyone who reads a newspaper thinks at another he would like to be the publisher, or at Sane Romain Brandtof the Piattesville ( Wis.) Journal wrote that here is whatce eaenena 60 01K § Soria any: Explain to Mrs. Smyth why Aunt Sara's 65th birthday party not on the frort page. j r ag oe to an advertiser whyit is impossible to get his ad on page Europa CanalNearingReality A construction project 2,175 miles Jong and 2,000 yearsold is finally within 10 years and 104 miles of completion. first century to permit limited eastCharlemagne mobilized legions of workersfor the first canal projectin This is the Europa Canal, which will connect the Rhine and Danube Rivers, and thus the North and Black Seas, and turn landlocked towns in the heart of Europe into seaports. The idea of a pan-European 793, but the dream of a waterway waterway and money and determination. Com- the pletion of the Europa Canai by 1981 is nowvirtually a certainty. has tantalized frustrated engineers for centuries. Those great roadbuilders, Romans, hacked a‘ Rhine-Danube link through the wilderness in the Living Up To Doc Welby There’s such thing as too good an image. It’s sported that somedoctors are annoyed by the popularity of the nation’s most familiar family doctor, Marcus Welby, M.D., who first gained fame as a movie actor named Robert Young. It seems that having watched Doc Welby’s bedside manner on television, his intense cupally with his patients — yea, his willingness to make house calls even — a lot of people are beginning to expect the same sort of impractical behavior from their own doctors. They didn’t get away with that stuff when surly Ben Casey was around. In the meantime, as the 23rd annual convention of the American Academy of General Practice got under way in Miami Beach, one of the first orders of business was to vote on a proposed amendment to change the name to The American Academy of Family Physicians. And guess whosepicture is on the coverofthe official AAGP program, hands professionally draped in the pockets of his white coat, stethoscope around his neck? Marcus Welby, of course. spanning the Holy Roman Empire died with its ruler. In this century, work on a canal majority of the Senate makes its decisious in Truly an international un- dertaking, the canal involves the cooperation of 13 governmeats, German planning and Americandesigned WABCO Haulpack trucks built by Belgians. Whenfinished, the Europa will join together 13 countries, either directly or through feeder rivers and canals. A systemof locks in the 471-mile stretc between the Rhine and Danube will raise vessels 1,066 feet, 13 feet higher than the Eiffel Tower. Yearlytraffic over the waterwayis expected to reach 20 million tons soon after opening — a figure equal to the entire British or U.S. merchantfleets. So They Say For the first time in history a great poweris deliberately throwing away its inescapable obligations of leadership to adopt deliberate weakness as a nationalpolicy. —Vice Adm. Hyman G, Rickover, on naval power. declining U.S. Whatdo you do when you reach a supposed population limit? Stand at the county line with a sledge hammer? —Suffolk County executive H. Lee Dennison, on estimates that the suburban New York City county will go from 1.2 million Pomulaion today to 3.06 million yy the year 2020 unless controls are instituted. favor of America’s defense capability. Meantime, President Nixon’s cordial exchange with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko noted steady progress in negotiation for a curb on nuclear weapons and indicat hopes for further progress when the talks resume in November. Havingvoted for the militarymoneybill, the Senate finally approved the favorite amendmentof Senator Mike Mansfield, D-Montana, calling for withdrawalof all Arericaa forces from Vietnam within six months, provided North Vietnam released all American prisoners of war. The vote was 57-38. The amendemnt is not binding on the President and its approval after previous rejection might be interpreted merely as a courtesyto the majority leader. Senator Hugh Scott R-Pennsylvania,said its approval was “a waste of time,” as it would be removedin the Senate-House conference before final action on the bill. America Losing Edge As World Competitor Judgmentis widein the tradefield that the President botched it by not making clear at the outset what, specifically, he wantedto use the surcharge to bargain for with our trading partners abroad, In the absence of such indications, the tax obviously has become simply an irritant inviting seriousretaliation from others. ‘The worst ofit is, the longer the surcharge stands, the moreit is seen for what it is: a jerry-built wall which speaks louder of our trading weaknesses than of the “unfair” practices of our competitors, ‘The embarrassing truthis that the United States is steadily losing its trading advantage, and a good part of our decline has nothing to do with our rising prices. The real problem is that we don’t work very hard any more, aren't terribly inventive and innovative, and don’t use resources too efficiently A lot of learned stuff is being turned out these days about the ‘work ethic.” Stripped of philosophic gloss,theissue is whether the notion of hard work may not be antiquate? and square, whether it might not be more sensible for us to lie downin the park andjust let the affluence flowover us. On top of this, a good many American business managers apparently havefallen in love withtheir press noticestelling them how great they are and they haven't been doing much lately to earn them. Well, all this has its price. In 1970, for the Explain to a customerarriving late with copy that if you get his stuff in, you'll haveto teave somebodyelse out andthen explain to the one youleft out. logize for spelling the nameof a fellow wrong. (Of course it doesn't help whenyou graduated fror: high school with the guy and he hasn't been ableto spel your namerighteither, and besides he has called you Charleyfor 20 years while everyone else calls you by dozen years has picked up speed, Bruce Biossat WASHINGTON (NEA) — With every passing day, it will get harder for President Nixonto removehis controversial 10 per cent surcharge on imports. And there is no sign, anyway,that it can help much to checkthis country’s worsening compeutive position in world trade, sweetly while he tells you whatan idict you are. has clanked ahead on anoff-and-on basis since the 1920s, but in the past When the Chips Are Down... The Senate has given resounding support to Presiaent Nixon and the Pentagon in two crucialvotes in recognition of the need for maintaining a strong posture during Arms Limitation Talks with Soviet Russia. Beating back all majorefforts to slash the $21 billion Military ProcurementBill, the Senate in effect gave President Nixon a vote of confidence. Senator Harold Hughes, DTowa, made an effort to scuttle the Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile system but lost 64-21. with former opponents joing in support of the money for the ABM. Rejection, they felt, might needlessly complicate the Arms Limitation Talks which resumein November, The Navy’sfighter plane,the F-14 won by a similar margin, despiethe protests of Senator William Proxmire D-Wisconsin,that it andits reer missile were too costly to afford. Thus, when the chips are down, the Explain to an ex-subscriber why you had to cut off unpaid subscription after you had sent hole notices. Soothe a lady who called her party in too late. Explain why some weeks you've got news running outof your ears and other weeks the paper reads like a report on Amalgamated Steel. Apologize to an advertiser for an error in his ad and smile west commerce. first time in this modern era, we yielded the title of world’s foremust exporter of manufactured goods — to West Germany. li 20 years, our share of worid exports of manufactures has dropped from28 per centto less than 20. Economists and trading experts find many reasons,Foronething, we aren't spending as much, proportionately, for private research and development as we should. In 1368 our outlaysfor this were 1.6 per centof our gross national product, while West Germany was spending 2.7 per cent and Japan2.2 per cent. The years 1969 and 1970 were similar. It can't be said we haven't been investing a great dealof capital in industry. In real terms (correctedfor inflation), our capital spending in the 1960s shot up nearly 80 per cent, But productivity (efficiency), which usually advances with such spending, did not rise much, In the period 1950 to 1965, our productivity growth rate (improvement) trailed Western Europe'sby35 per cent and Japan’s by60 per cent. The problem is notjust our competitors’ speedup, but our slowdown. Over the 1950-65 span, our preductivity advanced 2.6 percent, butin the 1965-69 years it went up just 1.7 per cent, Moreover, in the current recession period our capital outlays have tailed off badly, while they arerising proportionately abroad. ‘Thenet of these changes is that the United Statesis losing not onlyits “efficiency edge” overits energetic competitors,butits hold on the quality market of high-technology goods as well, This used to be nearly our private preserve in world trade, but the Japanese, Germans andothers are cutting deepinto our still-dominantposition. Andit is the only part of the trading picture where we sustain any partof our old imageas the great competitor. your correct name.) Paul Harvey Prize That Precious Water: Recycling Appears Inevitable You andI are advised today io prepare ourselves psychologically to go to the sewers for our drinking water. Max Edwards of the DepartmentofInterior, first assistant secretary for Water Pollution Control, says we're going to have to drink what somebody else hasflushed down the drain. We havethetechnology to clean it up first, but we'll pay a high price for it. I guess we'd better prepare for that shock,too. Working as fast as we can with all the knowhow we have, we can’t rescue the Great Lakes in time. That water will be too polluted for human use before remedial measures can become effective. Similarly, our niajor rivers are so far gone that recycling drinking water is imperative. Twenty years ago Southern California got all the fresh water Off The Beat The Story of a $5 Bill, It’s Loser, and ‘Finder’ By THERON H. LUKE A friend of mine called the other daytotell me she had lost a $5 bill. But this wasn’t really what wes bothering her. It was the mannerin which shelostit. “Tt just might help someone notto do it again,” she said, “if you wereto write something and tell them howI feel ... that I’m more worried about them than I am the $5.” My friend is Mrs. Ray (Elayne) Schwartz, who knows whatmisfortune is — which may be why she is quick to be concerned aboutit in others. Elaynefor some time now has been tied to an oxygen ta..k, so to speak, although she has a portable one which enables her to leave the house for a certain period of time. Recently she was sitting alone in her father’s car while the latter was shopping. She becamethirsty, and asked a passing boyif he would order her a drink from a nearby drivein. She gave him a $5 bill, the smallest she had, to pay for it and asked him if he'd bring it back to her. Forthe first time he noticed her predicament. He seemed a niceyoung boy, maybe fifth to seventh grade. He courteously took the $5 bill — and disappeared. “Tell him,”shesaid, ‘that no onelikes to lose $5, but that’s not what worries me. Tell him to think it over, and makethis the last time he does something like that. Tell him I’ve been shaken up ever since it happened. Not for me, but for him....” Washington Window Colleagues Chafe Under Byrd’s Rigid Regulations By STEVE GERSTEL That’s not Byrd’s world. WASHINGTON (UPI) —First Rather, the issues are whefrom theleft and then from the ther a senator will get three right, the buffeting of Bobby minutes for a speech and Byrd has begun. The natives whether a Senate aide can or are restless. cannot stay in the chamber A numberof colleagues from when the boss is away. In this both parties are chafing under area, Byrd reigns supreme. the rigid, almost autocratic And the complaints, when waythat Sen. Robert C. Byrd they come, are enveloped in runs the Senate as assistant words of praise and even love democratic leader. for the West Virginian. The issues are minor, if not Last week, the compainant was Sen, Hubert H. Humphrey, petty They are not peace, war, D-Minn., the former vice inflation or unemployment. president, well-known for his ability to talk at length. It was no surprise, therefore, that he was caught openmouthed when his facile tongue was stilled by Byrd’s operatiions. He stopped virtually in midBy United Press International Tedayis Sunday, Oct. 10, the sentence by the end of the socalled morning hovr, a period 283rd dayof 1971. The moon is betweenits full of 15 minutes devoted to threephase and last quarter, minute speeches. The morning star is Saturn. Humphrey, contended, corThe evening stars are Mercu- rectly that 11 of the 15 minutes ry, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. were used trying to find Those born on this day are senators to make three-minute under the signof Libra. speeches leaving only four American actress Helen minutes for expounding. Hayes was born Oct. 10, 1900. Because Byrd was not Onthis day in history; present to hear Humphrey’s In 1845 the U.S. Naval protests in the morning, he Academy was formally opened continued them atnight. Could, at Fort Severen, Annapolis, Md. HHH asked, the time needed to In 1911 Chinese revolutiona- search for speakers be charged ries overthrew the Manchu to some other period than the dynasty. 15 minutes. Absolutely unworkIn 1963 about 3,000 persons able, Byrd replied. were drowned when a dam But in an attempt to soothe the tempers, Byrd said anytime burst in northern Italy. In 1970 Quebec labor leader he was on the scene (he amost Pierre LaPorte was kidnaped always is) he would seek to when Canada refused to release extend the 15-minute period by political prisoners in exchange three minutes if a senator for British diplomat James needed the time. As a result, GOP leaders will Cross. The body of LaPorte was foundlater in the trunk of now ask every day that aides of a car. all the Republican senators can stay on the floor. Byrd A thought for today: strangely will not, according to German philosopher Frie- GOP policy chairman Gordon drich Wilhelm Nietasche said, Alloitt—object to this backdoor “Tn revenge and in love woman approach of getting the helpers is more barbarous than man,” into the chamber. TodayIn History it needed from its local watershed. Then it had to start importing water from the Colorado River 150 miles away. Nowit’s contemplating drawing water from’ sources in Northern California 450 miles away. The new supply will cost 30 vents per 1,000 gallons. That’s two or three times more than they’re paying now. At Lake Tahoe they “manufacture water"for 2 cents per 1,000 gallons less than that, This resort community on the Nevada-California border processes sewer water. After primary and secondary processing the water is treated with lime to remove the remaining solids and most phosphates. Then it’s sprayed down a 50foot tower where the ammonia gas escapes, ‘The water then passes through a filter of coal, sand and garnet. Finally, to remove the last unpleasantodor,the water flows through eight separate columns filled with granulated activated carbon, Then — after chlorine has beer added — the water is “gate,” In Palmdale, Fla., they are experimenting with atomic radiation to purify waste. Denver, Colo., is building a sewage treatment plant intended to produce 10 million gallons of drinking water per day. That’s not enough. Americans use 355 billion gallons of water per day and that will double within eight years. You drink only a little, but each of us uses more than 200 gallons per day just to flush wastes through sewers. Already in some cities watermensell water as milkmen sell milk. Bottled water is already a $60 million business. LosAngelesstoressell it for 29 to 39 cents per half gallon, 10 cents if you bring your own container. Canada has more pure water than any nation in our hemisphere but moving it from Hudson Bay to the American Southwest would be prohibitively costly. It is more likely as our supplies are depleted and our prices for recycled water increase Canada will be “discovered”as the place to live by those who seek whatlittle clean air and pure wateris left. \ Heck,I can tell they're not very busy in Plattesville if that’s all they do in one day. We, (The Herald) take care of matters like that in an hour almost every day. Bye’s Sermons: The major menaceson the highway today are drunken driving, hones for rides and one-armed driving, Briefly -~ hic, hike and Whena womait saysshe tipped thescales at 116, she probably didn't tip them atall, just bribed them. Manya successful man is one who works hard to get rich and then spends the restof his life sitting on the porch of a sanitarium watching the healthy poor go by. I guess you'veall heard of the new gamethat’s being played back east. It’s called “Bourbon Roulette." It's a game where three men sit at a table and drink a quartof bourbon, then one leaves the room andthe other two take turnsin guessing which one left. Eversince I've been in this newspaper business we've always had a National yee Week. Darned if I know whybut today — this ae a oewantto call it that, in keeping thespirit program,let me do my and quote Thomas Jefferson’s famous tribute to aan which he said: “The basis of our governmentbeingte opinion of the ¥ Magid Aislinshoapekatir 5, Waeat la and were it to me to decide whether we have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a momentto prefer the latter.” That Tom — he’s my kind of guy. Have a nice day! : PERSONAL FINANCE Know the Food d A DangerSignals ‘Do you know hewto recognize “springers” and “flippers” when you encounter these danger signals? Clue: You meet them on your gro- ceryshelves. They're signs of spoilage in canned food. Knowing how to spot the symptoms of spoiled or contaminated canned foods can do a lot more than save you the cost of the food, when you find you have to dumpit. It can stand between you andseriousillness . . . even death. You can’t rely on your sense of smell and taste, no matter how keen, to detect tainted food. Botulism, the deadly poison that touched off the recent nationwide hunt for contaminated vichysoisse, can be present without affecting odor or taste. When inspectors of the Food and Drug Administration launched their massive search for toxic cans, here's what they looked for to ferret out the potentially dan- BERRY'S WORLD gerous from among the thousands on the shelves: The first danger signal you're likely to recognize— the most obvious—is something wrong with the shape of the can. It bulges. A “soft swell,” to the FDA inne is a bulge that will give under pressure of the fingers. A “hard swell” won't give, even when considerable force is applied. These are two of the symptoms that indicate the possibility of gas being generated inside the can, by fermentation—or something more deadly. Another is the “springer.” Press on the top of the can (or the bottom) and it goes in with a pop. Let up, and it popsout. Similar to the springer is the “flipper.” The difference is that when you press on the top, it povs in and the bottom pops out—or vive versa Any of these are indications of abnormal pressures within the can, and a warning that the contents may be spoiled or infected. Don't just put such a can back on the shelf; a less alert chopper may come to grief with it. Take it to the manager. A “leaker” is a can that leaks, and not many shoppers would wittingly add it to the shopping basket, but the FDA adds it to the list of danger signals to look for. What about dented cai A small dent in an otherwise healthy looking can probably is no cause for alarm, says an FDA expert. But a sizable det may have frae- tured the lining inside the can, bringing the food into contact with bare metal. And if the affected area involves a dent in the seam, either around the top or down the side, the seam may have opened A rust spot on a can? It may ther be harmless—but also the possibility that it was caused by a leak. Or, even more seriously, that unhealihful contents have turned highlyacid, eating through the metal. The dented and bedraggied-looking cans you frey see in stores on a “It’s really a pity, but i suppose, since my people sent you Russian spies back home—your people will send our group back to Great Britain!” ' special iable, marked down because of their appearance’? All right to go bargain hunting here if there’ only water damage or a shal- low dent. , |