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Show i. , iit-i- y igi" iji ly 'n " 0 wrni iryii ji mjni qyr- The Salt Lake Trihune, Saturday, Jim Dane' 23, 197K Dw-emb- fr , I 5 How to Make Doss Behave i Newspapers Knight-Ridde- r You might say the idea cropped up that's close enough unilaterally in California, home of instant solutions for everything from high taxes to, now, doggy-do- . It sounds a bit weird, as do many California-isms- , but the word is spreading that dogs will not do their business in ' your yard if you spread out some bottles on the greensward. Bleach bottles came first, some with a httle bleach in them. Then imrefinements and-o- r ' provements: capped glass bottles, uncapped bottles, plastic bottles with the tops cut off, or with holes punched in them ; bottles hidden in bushes, or stuck on sticks, upside down. A segment of the canine league says only glass gallon jugs have a clear and lasting effect as a deterrent. n Littered Neighborhoods However all this got started, the phenomenon has been monitored by a graduate student who says he has counted 300 homes so behttered with miscellaneous containers that whole neighborhoods look like mutinous garbage men have not been picking up but rather spreading out household once one or homeowner puts out bottles everybody else does too, lest their yards be targeted by anxious dogs as the only place to go. In yard-defens- e, e, All of which would strain ones credulity as just a lay superstition were it not for the a continent away, in Millbrook, N.Y., goings-o- n at a branch of the New York Botanical Gardens. Up there, experts and specialists are barbershop gathering together human hair which they snood up in sweepings, mostly g httle balls, like Christmas decorations. Then they hang these from their valued trees. This keeps the deer, they say, from nibbling on the trees nylon-nettin- Be Not Quick to Scoff folklore that Whether it is brand-nethere is a way to make dogs behave or or scientists misbehave somewhere else controlled experimentation keeping deer at a distance with mankinds hirsute clppings, I say do not be quick to scoff and ridicule what may very well work even if he dont know why. Personally, I have been monitoring an experiment for some 16 years in which a bottle and ideally no full, ideally is kept in my freezer as a less than 90 proof three-quarte- r against various provocations It splendidly To date, not a single dog. or deer, has trespassed into my freezer And there's not een any hair in there Unless ou count the hair of the dog preentatie has worked Family LiuAtr Insect Sting Is Covered By Will Bernard American Bar Association Could a person collect workers' compensa tion for a bee sting? Arguing yes, a factory worker pointed out in a court hearing that he had been stung while on ihe job, operating a fork lift. The company outside event" , protested that the sting was an having nothing to do with his work However, evidence showed that the company had been having trouble for years with bees that nested in the walls of the building. The court held that the injury was indeed and granted the victims claim. Workers compensation covers not only risks from machinery and equipment but also risks from the working environment. This may include injuries inflicted by insects and animals In one unusual case a clothing salesman, peddling his wares in tropical Africa, suffered a fatal injury when he was bitten by a mosquito. His employer denied legal liability, noting that no one knew whether the bite had occurred before, during, or after working hours But the court granted a compensation award anyhow. The risk of being stung," said the court, was present day and night a risk to which he would not have been exposed apart from his employment. On the other hand, compensation is not necessarily payable merely because the injury did occur during working hours. In another case a garage mechanic, hearing two dogs fighting in a nearby field, rushed over to separate them. In doing so he suffered a bad bite on his right hand Nonetheless, his efforts later to collect workers compensation ended in failure. The court said that since his entry into the dog fight was "an act apart from his duties, his injury cannot fairly be traced to the employment 'f, James Renton Time May Ease Mideast Conflict New York Times - Wnter WASHINGTON Even to write about it seems to contradict the point. But these continuing public arguments and recriminations between officials in Washington Jerusalem are and obviously not helping the cause of peace in the Middle East. They make news but they dont make sense. Lately they have gone beyond honest differ-- , ences over policy to charges of bad faith. The controversy is becoming Mr. Reton emotional and personal, inflamed by press and television on both sides. It is hard to think of anything that would relieve the pressure more than a year-en- d holiday season of total silence. Tribune Readers Opinions In reference to your editorial Civil Defense Gamble, why gamble with our civil defense when our surrounding mountains can provide for building excellent bomb shelters not only for personnel but for storage and maintenance of food, munitions, and for critical civil defense activities? Tax money presently spent on many makeshift jobs public works-typ- e could be diverted to building bomb shelters instead. When bombs and missiles begin dropping out of the sky, bomb shelters may spell the difference between survival or the end of all good things. FRANCIS T. MENALIS Tooele Sheared and Skinned We read often of another dope raid, complete with pictures of the stuff. We are told it is worth some fantastic price in street value. Big deal. It is of no value at all to anyone. How about a little truth? Tell us how much us in taxes. We pay the legislators to pass the laws. We suffer sharply increased thefts. We pay a huge pyramid of agencies to enforce the laws. We pay the courts. We pay the lawyers. We pay prison expenses. And finally we may support the twisted and unemployable victim the rest of his was squashed by a few public officials that ruled it was two days late in being entered. This was many days before the ballots were made ready to be printed Now we are told that most public employers must have a cost of living increase to equal this inflation. Unless drastic steps are taken, the mill levy will rise to the 100 mark just as it Forum Rule Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writers 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 867, Sait Lake City, Utah. 811 10. was before this unreasonable valuation was made. Where will our taxpaying homeowner get the cost of living increase? CHESTER L BELLO let these things happen to us, but when its impossible to pay your taxes, what itematives are left? At no time have I ever seen anyones name taking credit for this drastic increase in taxes. I wonder if any one of them will dare come out and publicly claim the glory for this dastardly act. Or are they afraid? BILL SHERWOOD Riverton Store-Broug- ht Time to Be Drastic have talked with an elderly lady who had just paid her 1978 taxes. She was crying and said she had no money left to buy food, pay the power bill, gas bill, or any other living expenses. She said it would be January before the family would receive their monthly income. I i td h She had been to the City and County Building to try to get some help, as all taxpayers have the right to do. There she was herded up and down the halls and finally soft soaped to sign a slip that she agreed to this tremendous new valuation. She was told that shi could now fill out another one which would give her a rebate on her 1978 taxes. After totaling them all up, she found they had just over $7,000 and were not entitled to anything. I know there are thousands of others who can not pay double taxation all in one year. Last summer thousands upon thousands signed a petition to let the people vote on a Proposition 3 plan to hold taxes to some reasonable level. We thought that was an American's right. The plan to have this on the November ballot Cliristmas We would like to let the citizens of Salt Lake City know that the Christmas spirit is still alive and flourishing in our town. Dec. 13, Aue- rbachs opened their doors to the trainable mentally handicapped students of Salt Lake City, offering their assistance to these Christmas shoppers. We thank them for their kindness and special considerations. To all the employees at Auerbachs, the TMH teachers at Glendale Intermediate School wish a very Merry Christmas. 1 Settlement Timing Obviously they differ fundamentally on the if there is any timing of a "final settlement" and whether there such thing in human life link between the Israeli should be a withdrawal from the Sinai and an agreement on the political future of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinians at a "certain date or at a target date. These are secondary but reasonable arguments, which have to be negotiated between Israel and Egypt, but upon the ability of the parties to negotiate in good faith, to concentrate on their common interest of creating an area of stability in the Middle East much depends. The present differences between Cairo and Jerusalem are less important than their common threat of Communist penetration n from the North and Islamic from the all modernization way against Lebanon through Iran, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the oil basin of the Persian Gulf to Pakistan Strategic Terms At least this is the way Washington tends to see the problem of the Middle East. It is thinking in world strategic terms, and particularly in terns of its own security and the security of the rest of the Free World, of which Israel is an important part. Specifically, officials here are concerned that the major oil supplies of the world are not controlled by the Soviet Union, in which case Moscow could strangle the industrial nations by cutting off their supply of fuel at the source, and thus transform the military balance of power in the world to Moscows advantage. Israel is not indifferent to these themes, and is probably more aware of the Islamic in Iran and elsewhere than anybody in Washington, but it is not surprising that it is preoccupied with its immediate quarrels with Egypt, and is furious with the Carter administration for breaking the special relationship between Jerusalem and counter-revolutio- n Washington in favor, as it thinks, of Sadat and the other Arab leaders. But these problems are not likely to be solved by dramatizing the differences between Begin and Carter. These two men are sore at one even more than they have let on in another public. The Congress of the United States, which is the main supporter of Israel and the source of its economic and military funds, likes and respects Secretary of State Vance, and after watching him play middle man and errand boy for months between Cairo and in fact a Jerusalem, is not ready to believe the growing number of members resent Israeli parliament's conclusion that the United States has been unjust and does not contribute to the advancement of peace. In fact, it is probably a good thing that the Congress here was in recess when the Israeli parliament passed this judgment on Vance, Carter and the United States, for ij would probably have had a vicious debate that Israel would not have liked and would have made things even worse than they now are. Carter was probably wrong in pressing too settlement by hard for an he is a bit of a calendar-worshippe- r Dec. 17 but he is now trying to knock off the propaganda. Listen to Protests' He has personally instructed his foreign policy aides to listen to all the protests, to receive all the delegations, but to shut up as far as possible. He is not impressed by threats that he will lose the Jewish vote in 1980, assuming that, if he runs he will lose most of it anyway, is for probably not to be forgiven for opposing some while of Israels policies and for breaking, still financing, the special relationship. Meanwhile, he will concentrate on the strategic arms problem with the Soviet Union, the new relationship with China, and the struggles in Iran. Later, he may resume what he now regards as the thankless task of mediator between Begin and Sadat, but for now he prefers to let them reflect on the consequences of their differences, and get a little peace, if not good will, over the year-en- d holidays. (Copyright) one-side- Israeli-Egyptia- n pro-Israe- li U.S.-Israe- li ROZANNE ALBRIGHT TERRY JOHNSON MARLENE MIHALIK that raid is costing life. What is the difference between the person smoking marijuana or snorting cocaine, and the overweight person on tranquilizers and diet pills? Odds are that the pot smoker is going to be alive and paying taxes longer. We accept a shocking burden of taxes to control drugs. Frequent reports say that this control is almost completely ineffective Lets ask ourselves questions. Who gets more power with every controlled substance law? Do our controllers really care what is good or bad for us, or is the taste of power heady stuff? Who gets the profit from our prohibition of the 70s? As before, organized crime. In many areas, these fleecers are shaking hands with each other. Have we been brainwashed? Can the Great Society really save everybody? Are we being both sheared and skinned? MRS. KATHARYN Y. REES specific issues that arc now icing so angrily between Prime Minister Begin of Israel and President Sadat of Egypt are important, but not so important as the things they hare already settled The debated counter-revolutio- The Public Forum Build Shelters v DANETTA RATCLIFFE Swallowed Myth response to Francis Fowler's letter (Tribune Forum, Dec. 7), Utah does not have the highest divorce rate of any state in the country. He has swallowed (and perpetuated) a myth and one wonders how many other myths that have gone down his gullet and been In regurgitated as fact. JIM FISHER Dastardly Act Shades of 29. Here we go again. We always thought there would be a tax rebellion, but we never thought that it would be brought about in such a dastardly way, and with the type of propaganda we are fed. Most people I know in South Salt Lake Valley have had their taxes raised a minimum of 30 percent and in one case it has raised over 1,400 percent. There are many in between, so the tax income can be evaluated at least one third over last years and probably much more. One friend has had open heart surgery twice in the last few years and can no longer work his land. He does own some farm property in South Jordan. Last year, his taxes were $1,400 dollars. This year it is $12,700. My brother-in-lapaid $36 dollars last year on seven acres of unimproved land on the Herriman Flat. This year the tax is over $500. The tax assessor came to my home last I had an old stock shed spring to that was built in 1903 and ready to fall down. He measured it and added it on the evaluation. I told him if he would wait a few minutes, I would tear it down. He wouldnt wait. A friend in West Jordan old tear his old buildings down, then called for a reappraisal. The assessor came out and told him that he had now improved his property so the evaluation would remain the same. I remember when most peoples homes were sold for taxes oack in the 30s. Most people were able to ouy their own homes back for a pittance. Its different now though, as there are gluttons out there with money, ready to gobble them up. The instigators of this fraud were afraid to come out with these outrageous taxes, so they waited until the last minute, and after election so no one would have any time to do anything about it. All of us have sat complacently by and Sect, Not Cult A definition of any cult and sect reflects a relative point of view. I might suggest a different perspective in light of the recent suicide of a religious group. Religious feelings sometimes divide the real world from what is expected. The degree of enthusiasm displayed for another kind of world is nihilism. Nihilism tends to be silopsistic. This means a rejection of customary beliefs and replacing those beliefs with a dream. The dream is the perfect idea of another way of life. The jnl way to reach this other life is death. A cult is defined as having a book other than the Bible. This book is as important an authority as the Bible. In contrast, a sect is emphasizing a certain aspect of Protestant theology. One example is dating the end of the world. Jim Jones took himself too seriously. Split off from reality, plus defy ing himself, Jones made the decision to leave (death). Dying is Christ-like- . Jones group is a sect. ROGER K. EDWARDS ,, Riverton Air Pollution The Way It Was Radically Wrong w am sure that there are thousands of Utahns, besides myself, who need a prompt sensible explanation of the reasons behind these unwarranted delays in the case of the people against Dale Pierre and William Andrews From the time of their arrest there was never any doubt as to their guilt They had the trial and were found guilty. The sentence was death If that trial and court procedure meant nothing, why was it taken? It is absolutely nauseating to think they could do those foul acts and not be punished. Sure, they are separated from the public so they cant repeat their rotten deeds, but after years they are still being housed and fed by us who would not willingly give them one meal. It is past time for the top executive and judicial officials of Utah to meet and put a stop to this sickening miscarriage of justice Something Is radically wrong with a system that allows parasite lawyers and gutles. justices to drag these cases on and on I K H. CUSHING Here are the bnefs of news in The Salt Lake Tribune from 100, 50 and 25 years ago December 23, 1878 Edison has at last got down to a rough estimate of the cost of making electric light by this method. He positively asserts that he can make 600 lights for twelve hours, for $6.50, whereas with gas, in New York, it costs $51. He says a power will make more than six lights each equal to a gas jet Secretary Sherman is as delighted over resumption as a boy with a new toy. He thinks that within a short time, however, greenbacks will command a small premium. December 23, 1928 WASHINGTON The consensus of opinion of members of the Utah congressional delegation is that the Utah lesioldture should do nothing atxiut Boulder Dam, ratification of a compact, until Arizona has had full opportunity to decide w hether or not it cares to compact under the ratify the seven-statone-hors- conditions laid down in the Swing Johnson hill, which has now become law In other words, the time has not arrived when Utah should decide whether or not to become a party to a compact The Boulder dam bill as passed by congress provides that it shall not go into effect within six months unless the Arizona revises itself and ratifies the seven-stat- e compact December 23, 1953 At least one Salt Laker is helping Santa Claus catch up on his correspondence and is doing an excellent job of it. He is Postmaster David R. Trevithick, who is answering letters to Santa Claus from children in view of the fact Old St Nick. Is burdened down with the task of trying to answer ko much '' fan mail " Rush days at the Salt Lake Post Offic have not stopped Mr. Trevithick from acting a'k St. Nicks personal secretary. He even takes some of the work home with him. six-stat- e I t |