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Show J?'S- i - fUMH? M V-'- 'A n The Public Forum ..fJ-- V fV'A y 1 ' The Salt Lake Trlhene, Saturday, April rv'f 1, 1978 A I7 ' Tribune Readers Opinions Mump Miod Edjtnr, Tribune: I read The Tribune review of the March 18 Utah Symphony concernt or, rather, of Alicia de La Rocha's performance I thought the review was very poor aud wondered whethr the reviewer heard the same performance I did What really astonishes me, however, is that the reviewer made no mention at all of the rest of the program by the symphony the Egmont Forum Rules on-sit- e 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 shoii, 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 867, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84110. Overture and Beethovens 5th Symphony. Where was your reviewer when this was going on, out to lunch? Did he have to get to bed early or relieve the babysitter? Perhaps you can find other duties that he is capable of performing and find a reviewer who keeps his ears open and his seat occupied. The March 18 concert was one of the very best Ive ever experienced. The Beethoven 5th was given an inspirational performance by the Utah Symphony. Too bad those of your readers not at the concert will never know how good it was. The Utah Symphony deserves better, your readers deserve better. SUSAN megawatts of power would cause a tremendous and an .. visible environmental impact tnreat to both land, water and air ua jty. This would be in addition to the no,r 'us drain of electricity in order to run ihe p.dits themselves. If one nuclear unit failed and i adiation were released into the air, the entire area might have to be shut down Utility users would suffer a dramatic cutback in power. This would be in addition to its great target" appeal to saboteurs. Because high level radioactive waste must be contained in storage pools until they are safe enough to remove to a permanent repository (if one existed), the site would become a waste respository for at least the operating lifetime of the plants, plus 10 years. And the site would need to be maintained in protective storage for about 100 yeais according to an ERDA report until the reactors could be safety dismantled. The area would become an immense magnet for the transport of radioactive fuels. Such cargos and the risk of highway accidents would aftect not only Utah, but all the surrounding states and states along the transportation corridor. In addition, there would be an increase in social problems. According to government figures: For every 8,000 workers, there would be a need for an estimated 55,000 service people and families. And a study by the Colorado West Regional Mental Health Center which reported the boom impact from an increase population upon the city of Craig, Colorado (where the population increased 50 percent from about 7.000 to 103001 revealed: Crime against persons increased 900 percent, juvenile delinquency and other child behavior problems rose 1.000 percent, alcohol and drug abuse was up 623 percent, family disturbances increased 325 percent and frimes against property rose 222 percent. For these and a myriad of other reasons, this very preliminary study should be dated and put back in the DOE files under the title Another Waste of the Taxpayers' Money." J. SHAW Too Much Wilderness? Editor, Tribune: I believe Karl Kappe understands more about the wilderness concept than Dick Carter (Forum, March 17) gives him credit for. Essentially, Mr. Kappe is saying that while wilderness is recognized as one of the multiple uses, it is the most restrictive of all the uses. This is certainly true, as Karl points out in his Forum letter (March 12) very well. Dick states in his letter that wilderness is in short supply, occupying less than one percent of this countrys land, so protection of wilderness will have little negative impact. I feel this statement deserves closer examination. At present, 14.7 million acres of federal land have been designated by Congress for wilderness preservation. Of this amount, 12.6 million acres are in the national forests, with the remainder in national parks and wildlife refuges. As Dick pointed out, this is less than one percent of this countrys land area. However, this is not the end of the story. An additional 3.1 million acres of primitive area need only be acted on by Congress to become wilderness. Also, 66.4 million acres of national forest land in roadless areas are being considered for wilderness. This represents 35 percent of our national forests. The commercial timber areas of these lands could support an annual timber harvest of 2.6 billion board feet. Enough wood to build 153,000 houses every year and new single-famil- y provide permanent employment for approximately 35,000 people. I would hardly call this a minimum impact. The real question is, How much wilderness Of these 66.4 million acres of is enough? roadless areas, how much should become wilderness and how much should be managed under the multiple use concept for resource development? JIM GERBER West Jordan : MS. ALEXIS PARKS Boulder, Colo Saturday Night Liked Editor, Tribune Every three to six months, like clockwork, you can count on it, Harold Schindler takes an uncalled-fo- r blast at NBCs Saturday Night Live. The latest one was March 23, when he warned us to avoid the greatest horror of them all, Christopher Lee hosting Saturday Night. All those who took his advice missed one of the most cohesive and creative shows the folks : at Rockefeller Plaza have been able to put together in a while. Saturday Night is one of the best shows around. Just because it is uneven at times (90 minutes of comedy three out of four weeks is hard to sustain), there is no reason to castigate it before it is shown. Mr. Schindler should take a chance and live a little. Try it, he might like it. LOUIS BORGENICHT Editor, Tribune: Concerning Paul Van Dams vendetta against all illegal gambling, I must raise this highly provocative question. What about the draft lottery? Considering the stakes of the federal lottery (i.e., human rights), I would insist that Mr. Van Dam make immediate and compelling statements to both state and federal representatives to enact any legislation necessary to exclude Utahns from participating in this obviously illegal program. If gambling with an object as transitory as money is worth all the furor that has been created, I suggest the disposition of American youth in a pure gaming practice instituted by the federal government is more than significant. Assuming Mr. Van Dam is acting with integrity in his pursuit of justice, and not g publicimerely using this issue for ty, he would be obligated to seek more clearly defined legislation on this matter. Gambling covers too vast an area of activities to be monitored by even the most efficient law enforcement agency, and Mr. Van Dam by himself, be he mounted on a white horse or not. Is wholly incapable of dealing with this issue as long as existing laws are ambiguous. Whether it be with lives or money, either gambling is totally illegal or it is not illegal at all. DAN J. BAKER Never Nuclear Editor, Tribune: The Department of Enerdollar western gy's proposal for a nuclear complex to be built in Utah should be model size for suggested for construction the National Museum of Science and Technology, not for the desert sands near Moab. The fact that nine of the 12 western states selected rejected DOE's offer of the complex is quite revealing as is the ironic fact that while the National Academy of Sciences, is discussing mining and land reclamation in Utah can say mining locatings in Utah should be considered national sacrifice areas due to lack of sufficient water, the Department of Energy now informs the general public that Utah has been selected (over Arizona and New Mexico) hecause it was the only one of the remaining three that has sufficient water." Besides the prooscd industrial monopoly of Green River water, there are a number of other serious reasons why such a complex should not be built of 10 nuclear units with 1,000 The multi-billio- : $ 1 r V n Jimmy Bretlin Shedding Some Light on the Sun Belt New York News All along the highway, of builders waved in the ORLANDO, Fla. flags bearing the name breeze in a salute to the place they call the Sun Belt. Between the sets of flags, billboards said, 4 bedrooms for under $36,500? Camelot says yes." and Lovely Life in the Sun Turn Right on Red Bug Road. The parking lots by model homes were crowded. Flat, uninteresting central Florida grows while the life drips out of the cities of the North. This is the place that produced James Earl Carter Jr. In the 1976 primaries, he cut the heart out of George Wallace in this area and a Northern win in New had put it together before Hampshire, and the entire South anybody understood what was happening. And, as Carter has demonstrated, he carries with him always tl e philosophy of the area that gave him his prize. In Carters urban plan, he offered New York a glass of dust in a drought. His answer seems to be that New York would do a lot better if it started to live like central Florida. Drives Dirt Road The sound of heavy construction equipment caused us to turn onto a dirt road which ended at a site where condominiums were being put up. A man who gave his name as Willie Walker loader and had a leaned against a front-en- d cigarette. He said he was 40 and has been in construction work since he was 15. he was asked. usually get $5 an hour, but here they go you on a straight salary, so I get me $225. For how many hours? he was asked. Work an day, and then 'bout every other Saturday we come in for half a day. What does bout every other Saturday mean?" he was asked. Well, somethin comes up, you got to pitch in. Some regular days on the job you work longer. Come evening and I got something to do to set up for the morning. I take a half hour and get it done. How much do you get for the extra work? How do you do? I Straight Salary straight salary here. Sometimes during the year it rains here and we go home and they pay us for that. So I figure, we can do a little extra some nights to make up for that. "Do you ever figure out if you work more extra time than you get time off because of rain?" he was asked. He shook his head, I got a steady job, he said. Do the unions let you work like this? he was asked. Dont know much about unions, he said. Got no unions around here. We just do our jobs, get paid and go home. I dont know Like I say, we on William Safire The Arabization of Washington, D.C. Continues New York Times Service Night and reads: Clint Murchison Jr. and Thomas D. Webb Jr. cordially invite you to their annual Wild Game Fiesta in honor of the Honorable Bert Lance, p' the Genial Giant from Georgia, a guy you have j The food to be served: Wild Buffalo from Star Valley Ranch, Wyo. Elk Norwegian ReinWild Boar deer y oilmen know that Bert can make this administration hop. On March 12, two days after Arab ally Marshal Tito left Washington with President Carters, Hes a man who believes in human rights," ringing in his ears, Bert met with Yugoslav finance ministry officials in Belgrade. The meeting was set up in Yugoslavia by the U.S. ambassador at the cabled request of the State Department (taxpayers paid for the cable). Deal-hungr- Dick Goose Moose Quail and Seabood Bar. Informa Stag, Monday April 3. Tom Webb is Texas oil millionaire Clint Murchisons man in Washington, and this years shindig honoring the Presidents Best at his estate in Potomac, man who has long been playing the Washington contact game, and his use of 01 Bert as guest of honor is similar to Tongsun Parks use of Tip ONeill in the same role: to make the friends who can help make a deal. Murchison and Webb run a group of companies (Burbank International, Korlan Electronics Services) that pick up sales commissions brokering oil to and from the Middle East. Their partners in these ventures include Jimmy Hoffas old pal, PR man Irving Davidson, and Chenff Guellal, Algeria's Friend will be held Md. Webb is an to the U S. The best deal they have going now is in Libya, but Berts the man who can get them into Saudi Arabia. A Carter Connection Lance is the man who invented the way to turn a Carter connection into personal wealth. Not only was Chicago banker Bob Abbouds substandard loan to Lance of $3.5 million paid off by Arabs who want a link to the White House, but Im told another Arab has arranged to buy Butterfly Manna at a price nearly five times what Bert paid for it a couple of years ago: this is a shrewd way of getting income treated as a capital gain, and follows the pattern of the purchase" of his bank stock for above market value. former ambassador Dear Bill, a friend WASHINGTON scrawls across an invitation he has received, I cant make this. Would you please go in my place? The invitation is to Bite a Bison to like. Avoid the Draft His Easter Egg ex-F- But voters should not be surprised at the of the Carter men in mixing oil money and iolitics : even in the 1976 campaign, the Carter polls were subsidized openly by pollster Pat Caddells Saudi Arabian contact. When candidate Carter stonewalled on that, in the face of harangues in this space, and liberals shyly lowered their eyes it was open season for the Arabs to buy their way into Washington. The latest example was reported by Robert Kaiser of the Washington Post: The public moral obtuseness The Way It Was Here are briefs of news in The Salt Lake Tribune 25, 50 and 100 years ago today: April 1, 1878 The new dollar is finding its way into the hands of the people, and is naturally regarded as an object of curiosity. It is a handsome coin, and but for its short weight quality, would be a creditable coin. The head of the Godess of Liberty is well executed and the face is a handsome one. The legend which surrounds it, E Pluribus Unum, is marred with periods, whicha are simply absurd as used, because there are no abreviations to require them. The eagle on the obverse side is open to criticism. The wings rise perpendicularly over the head, giving one the idea that the pom- - bird is in terror at the thought that somebody is coming to rob her nest." We understand that a designer from the English mint was brought over to execute the engraving for the new dollar. Perhaps this is a Britons idea of our national bird. April 1, 1828 Mary Tortey, 40, arrested in the Rio Grande Western yards attired in a mans hat and shoes, said to be a prefessional hobo," is being held in the city jail for investigation by the detective department. She was picked up early Saturday morning by Railroad Officers W. H Arnold and W. W. Thibadeau. t My home is nowhere; my husband has been dead fourteen years, and I have no relatives, she told the officers when found walking about the yards, looking for a chance to hop" a freight train bound for the Pacific coast. This woman's earthly possessions consist of only $2, which she carried in a handkerchief. She admitted walking the yards all the night previously, hoping to catch a ride. Officers say the woman shows signs of being unbalanced in her mind. April 1, 1953 The United States Tuesday announced a major forward step in the atomic race with Russia the first actual operation of an atomic power plant designed for submarines. The atomic sub is expected to revolutionize undersea warfare, and a congressman predicted in time of war it may run surface vessels completely off the seas. Navy men say the atomic sub will UC (IvJIV lO cruise thousands of miles without refueling They say it will move faster, dive deeper and be far more stealthy in military maneuvers than any conventional sub now afloat The big advantage of atomic submarines over conventionaal types is that uranium fuel does not require air for combustion. WASHINGTON relations firm hired by the Saudis to lobby for 5 warplane purchase is headed by the former campaign manager of John C. West, the South Carolina politician who is now Carters ambassador to Saudi Arabia. their F-1- Right Lobbyist Ambassador West invited his campaign aide to Saudi Arabia, sat him down with the Saudi officials who wanted to know who was the right" lobbyist, and now our ambassadors is taking down at least $30,000 a month from the Arabs to seil U.S. congressmen Carters bomber package. is grossly Our ambassadors business-fixin- g unethical. But if Secretary Vance is so pusillanimous as to permit Bert Lance the use of U.S. embassies to arrange business contacts and press conferences, is he likely to demand the dismissal of an ambassador who steers a political buddy a little simple graft? Dont hold your breath. Ah, but what of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, watchdog of rectitude in our foreign service? Will not Sen. Frank Church insist on Wests appearance under oath, and will not the staff of that committee be charged with a study of Arab influencebuying? Exhale on that, too: a key Saudi lobbyist and agent is former Chairman J. William Fulbright, who was Frank Churchs mentor, and who appointed most of the staff of that committee. If anyone is getting satisfaction out of the Arabization of Washington, it is Kamal Adham, blue-eye- d Saudi of Turkish a white-hairedescent, whose sister married King Faisal. He is the former chief of Saudi intelligence and security, and calls the shots for one nephew, Prince Saud, who is foreign minister, and another nephew, Prince Turki, his successor as chief spy. Uncle Kamal is now Bert Lance's principal business partner: he knows that controlling the Presidents Best Friend is far more important than compromising a mere ambassador or buying a few votes. (Copyright) ex-ai- full-sca- whether unions make it better or make it worse. I never seen them around here, you know." few miles farther down the highway, a crane boom rose out of a large field that was shrnudpd with red dust kicked up by earth movers. A wiry man in a dungaree suit sat in the cab, a greasy baseball cap covered thinning light hair. His name was Ted Stevens and he appeared much older than the age he gave, 39. A Lot vf Guys Want Job get about $4. m an hour, but the job goes up to $5.25, according to what things are like. Just how good you are, and then how busy things are. Get a lot of guys want a job, you know. How many hours do you work? he was asked. I He laughed: How many you work, thats the answer you. Work here about 11, 12 Saturdays? Oh, yeah. Work all year if you can. The man a half for overtime." hours a day dont Im going to give hours a day. Work seven days a week pays you time and And no union?" he was asked. "Union around here is about as useless as teats on a boar hog. State of Florida got a law. I see on the television the union wages they get up North. Them wages ridiculous. Thats the reason theyre all out of work. Up New York I bet this here job runs you $8.50, $9 an hour. Down here you take your $4.50 and you thank the man. right-to-wor- k Its a Livin Lots of them from up New York come down here to work, you know that? Oh, they sure do. They all out of work up New York and they come down here and you should hear them all start I wont work for no $4.25 an hour. Thats too cheap. I say to them, to hell it is too cheap. Its a livin' and you better get your tail into that scat and start your machine. We dont dream about gettin' rich around here. You can do that up New York. Down here you work for your livin. Do they like you to tell them that?' he was asked. What does it matter, they dont like it? They all down here collecting unemployment from New York. They can sign down here for it. Then they take a job. Common sense they aint going to get up New York wages. He pointed to one of the earth movers, which was clearing the ground for the start of an apartment house complex. Thats my out there. Got him a learning. Pays $3 an hour. He gets home pretty good. That's all that counts for a working man. I gets home about $300 a week. Nothing else matters. How many kids do you have?" he was asked. 8 Children Lessee now. I got three of my own, my wife got five. That makes eight." What kind of a house do you have?" he was asked. I live in a mobile home," he said Go right home there every night. Take me a shower and go to bed. That's all you can do after workin' a job like this. He pointed out a bricklayer who was from Pittsburgh. The bricklayer did not want to give his name. He said he got $6 an hour. get $9 an hour up there for this," he said. Do you like it better down here?" he was I asked. He shrugged. "Miss the $9," he said. Then what did you come down here for?" he was asked. The sun, I guess." (Copyright! |
