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Show abc Salt i'akf tribune 11. Thursday Morning, September l!7s rluri Primary Vote Typically Utahn: Bonneville Rejection Wise AUnit o( tin- JO (Hiit-ii- t - registered frankly concocted maneuver the Salt Lake by legal to Commission stop erosion of County that tody's tax base by blocking further annexations and incorporations It served that purpose, but still was a bad idea It would have created an "instant" city of 2r0.000 population that didn't own a single fire truck, hav e a single road grader or employ a single firefighter, police officer or garbage crew. It would have been the state's largest city managed by a slate of officers who hadn't even bothered to file for election, but were depending on holding public office, and incidentally spending tax dollars, by reason of a relative handfull of write-ivotes Tuesday's voter participation was probably no greater than could have realistically Imxmi anticipated, considering the generally lack luster nature of conditions. There was a dearth ol contests. The only major primary contention was that between Democratic Congressional aspirants Peter Cooke and pre-electi- Edwin R. Firm a He in the Second District. In Salt Lake County there were just four partisan primary contests, two Republican and two Democratic This situation was generally reflected across the state. For that matter, one had no primary county Emery a n Rejection of Bonneville City now clears the way for voter endorsement of the league of Women Voters' plan for unification of Salt Lake City and County. This is a well thought out. carefully considered plan for estab- contests. It was the Cooke-Firmag- e primary that, in the end. provided the one suspenseful note in Tuesday's government that will provide for the orderly transformation of local government into a modern, efficient system for delivering municipal services. representative lishing election. Unofficial vote tabluations by the Utah Election Service show Mr. Firmage edged his opponent by a scant 390 votes. If that margin The league's plan, to be voted on by eligible voters in Salt Lake County during the general election Nov. 7. will give residents a unified community; a merging of Salt Lake City and the unincorporated areas of the county, based around a one man. one vote elected council, with an elected executive administering that coun- remains substantially unchanged alter canvasses by the various county commissions and the secretary of state's certification process. Mr. Cooke is entitled to a recount under state law. So. the curtain is still up on e race and is likely the to remain up until the first week in October, depending on whether or not Mr. Cooke decides to exercise his statutory right to a taxpayer-financerecount . While the meager voter participation rate was something of a disappointment, the same in no way can be said about the defeat of the proposal to create the City of Bonneville. Its to resounding defeat by a nearly of residents unincorpomargin by rated Salt Lake Count v is a singular Cooke-Firmag- cil's policy mandates. It vviil 1 Seriibl)ers: Bad Medicine When Congress approved the Clean Air Act Amendments ot 1H77 it megawatt the cost ol ment east ot the Mississippi. - Constructed a seven mile long pipeline to carry the sludge from the generating plant, located about ''' miles northwest ol Pittsburgh, to the "lake" ol sludge behind the dam. Spent s!Hi million to build the dam and pipeline and contemplates spending another Mi.'i million annually to operate this s ud ge disposa sv stem I disease ot ,i No doubt a ( )rl)itinji Puniiiniph c,':i;'l Now Yorker powered cars They during blackouts You'd thillk the more confidence ol confidence fool i i.. Viiu-- l: tlu.si decile ;i .uddi'i, slop e...!e a.iuM :'m ri. , W.'si.. :iv find i'i unless the fool has a ( a A -- i t i i are (,in opportunity. There' a new "The Bobbsoy 'Iwies Hook publishers K i 'ii '.ihi.i.,'1 liudi cM ,,1 , ,m ( Pacifists have plav tug of peace im on picnics Tin. .,- u. created a ' ' rocrv i m ' with : a implications tor I tali, and other western states where much, if not most, of the land is owned and managed by the federal government, that can be drawn from the exp'-renee of Pennsylvania Power Co 's experience with scrubbers as an pollution control dev ices are reasona i U v obv lOUs. Even if future western generating plants in an area with an abundance ol low sulfur coal are sited on private land, those pipelines and sludge storage reservoir., will very probably encroach on federal land. This vviil mean the writing of environmental impact statements and lederal licensing, along with creating additional env ironinenta! impacts on the land What Congress seems to have done when .t decreed "best available ' In ioli .gy" is to give Americans air at the expense of then' land. That is v, hat some people might call "im King vour priorities in order." In reality is is more like cutting oil one s hand to deal a broken liue.er i n - "Von av John Tom W - i ilkt Booth claiin. he didn't ;hoot Lincoln "til the conunitttr hears about this!" Hon . wait ieker W Report a Blow to Conspiracy Buffs irequetitly disputed finding, wire fired from behind Millions of Americans came to doubt this, primarily because they saw a television showing of the "Zapnider film" the home movie of a bystander which in seemed to show Kennedy's head lashing backward as if from a terrific impact. This suggested he had been shot at least once from in front perhaps from behind the "grassy knoll" from which some reports said a second gunman was at work. But on this central point there was not even a single dissenter among the pathologists who reassessed the evidence; all agreed that all three shots came from behind. This ought finally to lay to rest persistent allegations lhat there was an entry wound in which was reported even Kennedy's throat by the doctors at Parkland Hospital on the day of his death, and which I and other reporters included in our stories of that unforgettable day. Apparently in making a medical incision New York Times Service Tile panel of medical i'iel-assemble- d M')W YUttK by the House Assassinations Committee has reached conclusions that just mitihl hctin to break down the elalnirate web oi conspi- racy theories surrouiid-mi- ; the murder of John F. Kennedy. But don't slow-motio- n count on it The panel's findings, made public last week at a committee session, were of great significance because they confirmed the most important and controversial Mr. Wicker conclusions of the War the body that investigated ren Commission the Kennedy assassination rich! after ii happened, 15 years ago. But oven some of its memlRTs had said in later years that they were not entirely certain its report had been accurate; the CIA and the FBI have toen shown to have Ioen less than candid in telling the Commission everything they knew; and in general grave public doubts about the Commission's performance had impaired the credibility of its report Disputed That vastly detailed document contended that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, killed Kennedy and wounded Gov. John Connalh ol Texas as they rode in a motorcade through downtown Dallas But this central contention never accepted in Europe and. with the passage of time, less and less credited in this rested on two others that assassinacountry tion theorists have consistently disputed One was that a single bullet fired by Oswald had struck Kennedy in the back, exited through his throat, passed through Connally's torso, hit his wrist and lodged in his thigh This bullet later was found on a stretcher on which Conally had been carried into Parkland Hospital in Dallas. The governor himself has said he did not heheve this version of events. But the panel of pathologists, who among them had conducted more than 100, OoO autopsies, concluded with only one dissenting voice that the "single bullet theory" was correct. Their spokesman, the respected Dr. Michael Baden, chief medical ixaminer for New V :'s Cny. reported that careful examination ot all victims' clothing autopsy photographs. and other evidence fully supported this finding. 1 )i li M Newspaper One of the things you will not catch me at is jogging. Two others are swimming and bicycling. The reason is not, as you might expect, because I am very-fas- t at jogging, swimming, and bicycling, but rather because I do not indulge in these boring activities. I eschew them entirely, in fact, although from my svelte, wraithlike, wiry physique you Mr. Dance otherwise. might suppose No, joggeth-not- , panteth. sweateth. t, and that is my motto, learned at my mother's knee or rather at her couch. Sprightly activity of any sort was harmful to the health, and the first mcist hint of perspiration was a sign of illness that required retirement to the couch until cool returned. She did pass on. eventually, but not until she was H9, and was cool to the end. hurteth-in-side-no- tn-e- hi myth-makin- !);nice Knight-Ridde- r Single Bullet Theory the "single bullet theory" had repudiated by the pathologists, that would have lent much weight to contentions that more than one gunman must have been involved in the shooting. In the period of time within which the shots were fired.it would have been all but impossible for a single marksman to have hit Kennedy and Counally with separate hots Altogether, three shots were fired The Warren Commission reported that in addition to the shot that hit both men. one shot missed both and the other struck Kennedy in the back of his skull and killed him. All the shots, the Commission said in its other crucial and I 111 in the President's throat, the Parkland doctors distorted the exit wound and confused themselves about its nature. Dr. Baden said the panel of pathologists found clear photographic evidence that the wound was an "exit perforation." But even this authoritative confirmation of the essential findings of the Warren Commission probably will not put an end to the g surspeculation, suspicion and not just rounding the Kennedy assassination liecause there are zealots and charlatans to keep conspiracy notions alive, but because it is too difficult for many people to accept that a cat can look at a king or that an emotionally disturbed misfit can kill a President. People want to believe, naturally enough, that there must have been some reason of state or high politics for something so nearly a regicide, so we are likely to keep on hearing that "Castro did it" or "The CIA did it" or that unnamed conspirators of unimaginable powers not only "did it" but fixed the Warren Commission as well Fitness Zealots Die Harder? s It well-bein- g Halt Life Insurance This by inclination, training, and heredity, I am not inveigled by the Occidental Life of North Carolina insurOccidental ance company's come-on- . says it will discount its whole-lif- e premiums by 20 percent for joggers, swimmers, and cyclists who will swear thev have done these things for at least 2d minutes, three times a week, for the last insuryear. The insurance for half-lifance, as opposed to whole, should be 40 percent cheaper, we assume. Or maybe only 10 percent. How wcu'd I know? I'm no actuary. But Occidental has actuaries who tell them that militant movers-aroun- d are good bets to last a long time because they are unlikely to have heart or artery trouble or all like that, and thus can be given a price break at no great risk to the company. Occidental does not just trust people who say they do all these things, however; it requires a medical test wherein the blood pressure, the pulse rate, and the flab quotient serve as a lie detector. Life's Finish Line e Twenty percent off is not nearly enough to lure me into feeling like I am dying for 20 minutes three times every week just so I can feel like I got a bargain as I approach life's finish line. And I point out that there are other ways to reach The New Jerusalem besides the cardiovascular route. Those whole-lif- e of us whose classification be as an might assigned risk in the jouit underwriting, or joint undertaking, pool could just as easily take another exit ramp. Besides, if I know insurance companies, anybody getting the 20 percent physical zealot discount would probably have to pay 20 percent extra for an Occidental accidental rider: This would cover whole-lifcessation as the result of fender. jogger's dogbite or right-fron- t e iiwiker Another T'ne sci lib bers will greatly reduce the amount of pollutants gettiir.' into the air But. disposing ol that presently useless sludge (nates niher env iroiiment ,i! problems I'enns !v ;i:n,i Take tin1 ea-- e la nules shoreline and a surface area ot '.hio aei'es. in a picturesque and seeuie vallev ot western Peiins Congress' "be.-- l av ailable let hi.e! og " gambit could possibly be a ca-- e ot the medicine being worse than tin s - i J iSJ 3'- wi generating complex stack-ga- high dam. the :"l)-fo- largest earth and rock fill embank- spraying a lime and water d Built a - mixture at the flue gases, pollutants are precipitated out as a water, sludge. Engineers figure in order to operate a scrublter it requires nearly o percent of the electricity the plant generates. Also, a scrublxT rcpres one-thir- s2."i Mansfield sludge the company e ents about Bruce generating complex, which utilizes scrubbers, produces lX.noo tons of sludge each day. To dispose of this low-sulf- Bv The company's new Rower Co mandated that new stationary sources of pollution, like electrical generating plants, which had boilers lired with fossil fuels must use "the best technological system of continuous emission reduction." no matter i! coal as they used untreated a step toward compliance with clean air standards. This has generally been interpreted to mean stack gas scrubbers. Generally, scrubbers can remove about H" lie: cent of the particulate matter ifly ash' and )2 percent of tin from a plant's stack s. m ConU-ntion- be a form of government, responsive to the people, that will provide the structure by which the waste and duplication inherent in present systems can be eliminated. The unif ication measure is as good as the Bonneville City proposal was bad. Unification should be embraced by voters with the same intensity as Bonneville City was rejected d ga.-.e- W?' 1 Hut sulfur-dioxid- L s.T 1 lliellt The idea was ballots in Tuesday's primary 'Hie nearly voters who t(Kik time to vote in t lit slate's l.TlJo voting districts represented what has Ih'i'oiih' to U' so disappointingly typical of I'tah primary turnouts 1 for he cause ot good govern ictor I'tah cUTtorak' bothered to mark ' Knmlii l( iilitei Ncu S. 0. B. s,., i When liarrv Truman was president lie loon eceitiun In the words of a Washington iiiiisii critic vilio didn't think much daughter Margaret's conoertiing In an Irate Father Letter he used the letters then con idereil pretty salty, "s Well. sir. the heavens tell bricily and t lien it ,i as explained to the innocents that the letters 't really stood for Senate (lltice Building make sense, but it calmed some ol Ui ! Thi-didn- nchurch vote Harrv were around tod.iv and wanted to music critic .1 Senate office Building he could ilo it by fours There are two buddmg-standinoinlv one n Truman's timci. a third ahuilding. and a fourth aplanning There hasn't been a riper rip off of the taxpayer since those lines from "The Bohemian Girl" l:i" years ago "I dreamt that I dwelt in marble hall-- . I! call a itli i mh it v assals and serfs at my side not ,i di cam s All in Same Building Once upon a long ago in the histon ol the voimg republic, the House, (he Senate. Court, and the Lihrarv ot ( 'orn'.ross, ali were lodged in tile CapiM building ,'itll t.VlT Alien the l.ibiarv tun el mil thing,-- remained I that ua The lo st enlarged Hii'h.eil SOU i.n;il. teil l'U! u,is Brevard Itii-sil- l n: I'm'l and named the Soiia'c Olfice ult inal el in Rises on Taxpayer's Money Build, ng after the late Georgia senator. That leeied sufficient, but it wasn't. A second B the Everett McKinley Dirksen Senate ' Mliee Building, was completed in 195K so The Senate's architects showed so much otnpassioti for the taxpayers that the K Me I) SOB came in at $la million over budget and was completed nearly two years late Further, the garage ramps were too steep im cars and the mailbox chutes led into the kitchen of the cafeteria It of the is a lenuniler. prematurelv mismanaged slate of energy legislation In l'i!i. with eight fewer senators than there ate today, the Hussell building provided enough office space for them all As we have seen, this didn't last, for along came the Dirksen complex edifice To Land On Its Feet? A quiddity, perhaps, but the reader is a deserving quidnunc. The steel is up for the Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building, a two year late bloomer, which will cost $122 million as against the lUTIi original estimate of via million. That is what is called quantum jump, although it will probably land on its feet despite the snide comment of Sen John Chafee of Rhode Island "My stroll:; feeling is that we've got lo draw the hue somewhere on this constant, constant expansion I'm a firm lieliever in Chafee's law that stall expands to (ill the space available i And that is what is happening The I' A.ll.S.O H with its Km private bathrooms lor senators' offices, double-thicmarble halls a revolving restaurant on the roof, probably will run to $1h.t a square foot for a tab of $215 million Steven Uattner in The New York Times reports that the new Citibank building in his town cost less than $!) a square foot But that's just a bank. With four marble palaces, how do you face the polls" Vassals. Serfs Increase We have, indeed, all the dramas ol "The Bohemian Girl." The interior marble halls w ill cost $2.9 million. And the vassals and serfs have increased in the last 2I years from fewer than 2. ml staff people to nearly 7. (XXI. So congressional architects are looking for a site for a fourth building True, legislative government has grown with the needs of a growing population. Pop a letter to your senator, and if it doesn't rebound you get sore at him. At present there are only (17 square feet of office space per employee in contrast to tali square feet in private business Vl k and offices Some of the Hon. Chalcc's allies are aghast, though, and there is a move to tear down the steel of the P A H.S 'O 1! and turn the area into a parking lot That would reduce the taxpayers' burden to $:! million. But a parking lot would come in at $KMUHXI per space Amortize that on your abacus. You might even call that Prop.. sit ion r. |
