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Show Page 20—THE HERALD,Provo, Utsh Friday, October 30, 1970 ‘Head Start’ Cut in Offing africa WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Nixon administration has advised local Head Start administrators that budget reductions will force them to cut projects and turn children away from the popular preschool educational program. The key to how drastic the cuts will be lies with Congress, which will decide on a final budget for the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) when lawmakers return Nov, 15 from an election recess. What One Emerging Nation Is Doing thatched huts house 5,000 Ivorians. The plans call for modern housing to replace the huts, with land-clearing projects giving farmers six times the land the y now have: The African Riviera would also include a city of 120,000, grab you: Air conditie: “..g, ice skating rinks, swimming a sirip of luxury hotels, airports and heliports, an island pools, hig s partments. ) clothes on. for wild animal-watching, an area for industry, radio and television stations, a conven- tion center and a city of ba with merchandise 1 over the world rt of the project under construction represents barely 1/16th of the entire dream, but even at an Riviera, Ivorians call it. the Eventually (and more about what “‘eventually” means later) they plan to cover 10,000 acres with transplanted European American civilization ee now those 10,000 ed with jun- stiall slice is budgeted upwards of $30 million Whenthe first cornerstone was ‘.d amid Mission: Impossible, Graustarkian pomp, the audience was full of international bankers, big money men from the United States, Germany, England, Israel, Italy and points west. Nobody wili say just where the financing is coming from, but the guiding genius behind the project is a small, enthusiasticIsraeli, an international wheeler-dealer named Moshe Mayer Mayer’s friends say his creed is, “A good businessman uses enue else's money, not his own.” It was Mayer who put up Abidjan’s Hotel Ivoire, a luxury hotel in the Miami Beacu-Honolulu style. The Ivoire encompasses a gambling casino, a theater, a bowling alley and—sensation of sensations—an ice skating rink It is thefirst rink in black Afr’ the vast bulk of the continent between brown (northern) Africa and white (southern) Africa The Ivory Coast's effec- tive president, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, liked Mayer's style. Mayer, in turn, liked his reception in the Ivory Coast. With the help of Los Angeles architect-planner William Pereira, Houphouet- Boigny and Mayer forged the Africz nn Riviera la The Ivorians are enthusiastic about theproject. They see their country becoming an international hub with fi nancial institutions to rival Switzerland, tourist attractions to rival Hawaii, Acapuico and the European Riv iera. But the reality may prove to be something less. proved oopular with parents, three of the last four years. Even if Congress approves the full $339 million budget requested by the Nixor, administratien for the currentfiscal year, OEO says the program wiii be $11.6 million short of the amount needed to maintainjust the presentlevel of services, The Senate already has approved the full administration request. But the House Head Start is providing passed an OEO budget that educational, social and medical would force an addit‘=nal $17.7 services to 263,000 children in million reduction. Gulf of Guineo gle and five villages whose (First of Two Parts.) By DICK KLEINER ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, (NE A)—The name up exotic pictures lions, white hunters, natives with no clothes on Well, howdothese pictures the $to6 age bracket. ™ has politicians and most educators, but its budget has been cut cocopy BINGERVI GERVILLE EBRIE LAGOON = ABIDJAN While chances are good that some housing, a com mercial center and two more hotels will be built, after that the future is anybody's guess That’s where the “eventu ally” comes in, If every thing works out, the project should be completed by the 1990s. But everything work ing out depends on a lot of unpredictable factors: The international economy, Houphouet-Boigny’s health and the Ivory Coast’s dubious prospects of becoming a tourist magnet Ivory Coast Builds Its =" OwnRivier a (NEXT: Problems.) Claims Space Phannee Results of Space Program Will Somedaybe asPracticalasTelephone CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)— Dr. Kurt H. Debus pointed to the telephone and said &0 years ago most Pee considered it a oe gadget. And,he said,so it is with the ee program. ah problem is that we cannot make it understood yet to the point where you and I want to put 10 bucks every month in a piggy bank that notre the space ean, come,it Debus speaks with Caviction, He launched America’s first satellite nearly 12 years ago and, as director of the Kennedy Space Center, sent men to the moonlast year. Stations Next men to the moon and preparing for the nation’s entry into the space station business in late 1972. But, at 61, he also is “] think in the next few years looking to the future and he’s we will really get our eyes concerned, opened to the usefulness of “I don’t znderstand why so space. We already have a very many people say, ‘Let's kill the handsome list of so-called space program and do some- by-products of space. I don’t thing better.’ There’s really think these will be the main nothing much better you can achievement. “Of what space will be good do,” Debus said during an interview in this office over- for is not yet even fully looking the Apollo launch identified,” he said. “It is only shaping up in the minds of complex. some of the most forward But then he sat back, thought thinking people who worry for a momentand said, “You about the yeas 2000, or the year have to bring an innovation to 990.” the point where society will Debus, too, is a man of make use ofit. It's almost a vision, He talks of using space naturai law.” to solve the down-to-earth problems of an exploding Debus, bearing the facial scars of collegiate saber population and a burgeoning dueling in Germany, is con- technology. He sees the explorfident the space program will ation of plants as a way to gain an into the intricate be able to proveitself if giver ola relationship between planetary the chance. and the sun which in turn might lead to ways to manage weather here on earth. “And probably the greatest return will be something that many people may even take issue with and say we shouldn’t have it. That is the transnational development of commerce, of communications and eventually of politics. Survival Problem “T believe the survival of the earth will just simply depend on us learning to manage together our problems,” Debus said. “And ‘us’ means all nations, the whole population of the world. “That is the point that is obviously driven home to the astronauts. Every time they’re out there and they look back and say ‘here’s earth and what are we really doing there, killing off each other and competing with each other.’ “Once we have a hotel up there and everybodycan go up, people will understand it better.” Debus was born in Frankfurt, Germany, received degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering at Darmstadt Univer- sity and joined Wernher von Braun’s rocket development team at Peenemundein 1939. Army Work He lef. the missile base with, Von Braun and other German engineers at the end of World two years and the future is clouded by White House and congressional reluctance to commit hard-pressed finances to costly new spaceprojects. Despite the uncertainties, Debus is confident manned spaceflight is here to stay. He Allies and went to work for the expects the cape to develop into US. ArmyatF't. Bliss, Texas in a major international terminal 1945. Five years later the Von aeoe and outgoing Braun group moved to the Redstone arsenal at Huntsville, natie may be others, but 1 Alz., and developed the Red- don’t think they will be as stone rocket that put America major as we will because we are in just about an ideal in the space age. he said. Debus came to what was then situation.” Debus also said there is a Cane Canaveral in 1952 and chance the shuttle could devesupervised construction of Red- lop into a globe girdling earth stone launch pads. THe cape transport. He said it could be then was an isolated scrubland more economical than or with a virtually unlimited jets for long distance flights. potential. The cape now is a multibillion dollar base, but it is fighting for survival as the country’s spaceport for the decades to come. Two out of every five jobs have been wiped out by cutbacks during the past War Il, surrendered to Youth's 9”’ and Boy's 10” WARMLINED OVER THE FOOT the Come see America’s most unique candles being made 753 COLUMBIA :ANE - PROVO WHO DO YOU WANT TO REPRESENT UTAH COUNTY CITIZENS? UTAH CODE ANNOTATED SPECIFIES: SENATOR Emest H. DEAN Cedi fos Re econ in this state shall pay, contri- i WELLINGTON BOOT $799 Grand Opening SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 - 9 AMTO9 PM PRIZES * SPECIAL PRICES * FACTORY TOURS ‘any money, property,free services of iything of value, to any pol 5 mil for the purpose of promoting or toate cab of any person for nomination, election or appointment to any political office. The litter bag, pictured above, has been widely distributed throughout Utah tho ndw Comodiom im towm Goea by the name ofNGiML {Note and ii --gotam ee leuve met County. Although, according to the Secretary of States Office, the Petroleum Association is not a corporation, the intent is still clearly to use their influence to help Senator Dean in the electionin return forhis influence in the Sena! other organizations seek his favor? | have refused such offers during campaign Women’s 12/8 HeelStrap & BUCKLE SIDE ZIPPER BOOT and have no obligations otherthan to theindividual voiers of Utah County, my platform and myparty platform. ib adioma budsMavenoneiisHs es i DOUGLASE. JOHNSON for Women’s 7”Pile Lined FL AT HEEL WATERPROOF BOOT 99 WOMEN’S 14” Fleece lined WATERPROOF BOOT Child's 9” $999 % 599 j ; Girl's 12” .. Telephone Companyis able to provide toll-free service throughout the County with- ‘out an increase in subscriber costs above the present Orem-Provorates.Bell phone Company estimates show the cost would be $5,345,400, or an average monthly increase of $3.70 per subscriber. These estimates | have verified with the Public Service Commission. This has been made a politicalissue by my opponent, not me, and must be resolved by you citizens at a Puu'ic Hearing, not by elecMostimportant is that citizens bein formed of all facts to support their decisions, 1S THIS THE MAN YOU WANTTO REPRESENT YOU? Myopponentis supposed to be leading a fight to curb the competition of Japanese Steel with the Geneva Steel Market. Any thinking An.erican knows that, constitutionally, Tariff Laws are the business of Congressmen, not Utah State Senators.Is ke running for the wrong office? IS THIS THE MAN YOU WANT TO REPRESENT YOU IN UTAH? My opponent says he was able to exclude from all Sunday closing legislation Orem’sFruit and Vegetable stands. Yet he votedin favor of the recent Sunday Closing Law (Common Day of Rest) which has been declared unconstitutional becauseofits discrimination. IS THIS AN EXAMPLE OF GOOD LAW-MAKING? MY QUESTIONIS: Whathas been done ahoutthe reaiissues of major concernto ourcitizens such us reducing the crime rate and protecting the law-abiding citizen by making crime unprofitable, demanding efficiencyin government, promote highwaysafety, reduce air and ‘water pollution andcleaning up Utah Lake, providing job opportunities in Utah County so that every citizen can be productive and self-supporting, and implementing laws to control and punish drug p''shers as well as those who makefortunes peddling pornography and obscenity. A SENATOR CANNOTBE everything to everyone. He must take a stand. There are no vest- OPEN FRIDAY ‘TIL9 newK ARL’S STATE SENATOR ‘My opponent hasrecently misinformed Utah County citizens in claiming that the Bell 163 W. Center Provo ed interest groups to which | must return favors. My allegianceis to the voters of Utah and myplatform. FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT VOTE REPUBLICAN It is Time For a Change! (Pd, Pol, Adv. by Dougles €. Johnion) |