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Liiifiml -t The Salt illumt UncertaintyJ Delaying Water Bill erv strong He grew up in the age Gaston Tills was the lady President of the United Stales as head of the League of America She discovered that cigarettes had a thing called furfural " Furfural is somewhere as a "colorless aromatic, volatile oily compound formed by distilling bran and the like w it h sulfuric of Lucy Page who ran for if 1 1 there know a key isii you t the a! ten dant can deptos- - that ks weigh the the acid computer to K f s pnoriiv ai just lias way You are travel mg alone', and overflow with bnof cases full of work undone It would lie very useful if the seat next to you were unoccupied, so you could slurp your pajH'rs over onto it But by saying you are a nor.smoker, you may find that you are traveling with a delegation of itoiismokers on an Sr Neal Peirce Pedestrian Zones Needed The major cities of MUNICH Europe are a country mile ahead of their American cousins in creating large pedestrian zones in their major downtown streets and plazas, banishing motor vehicles and returning the city to its people. r old pedestrian Munichs system, encompassing the medieval heart of Bavaria's capital sometimes referred to as "the secret capital of Germany" because of its rich cultural and historic heritage is a prime example. The traffic-fre- e zone, set along Munich's central spine between two medieval gates and lined with stores, churches, restaurants, cafes and civic buildings, has done more than free the center-citfrom a glut of car traffic that was destroying the city's charm and tradition Pulsates With Life IT has also created an area that pulsates with Life, day and night. five-yea- suspected organic carcinogens have been found in drinking water by a committee of the National Research Council. Only one, however vinyl chloride, the base of many has been confirmed as a plastics cause of human cancer in certain concentrations and exposures. But benzene and benzoapyrene and 16 substances that cause cancer in test animals are on the caution list. Included are the pesticides DDT, aldrin, dieldrin and heptachlor, and several industrial chemicals. o y street Shopping, cafes and beer balls are all the festive scene. The excellent design includes fountains, large flower planters, freshly laid cobblestones and hundreds of stackable chairs that people can move around as they please and group for special events. Vehicles have also been barred from large swatches of downtowns from Stockholm to Bolgna, from Amsterdam to Vienna. In Germany there is scarcely a large city without a pedestrian zone; indeed the Fussgaengerzonen" have spread to 350 German cities and crowded part - Dirty Water- Bill Bowing to the industry and lobby, the House passed what environmental leaders call a dirt) water bill. Prodded by 40 national organizations, including the League of Women Voters, United Auto Workers and United Steelworkers, in addition to the various environmental groups, the Senate is working on a tougher bill During July the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee held a series of public hearings. Out of these meetings came decisions to recommend $26 billion in federal grants for building municipal sewage treatment plants through fiscal 1962, and that federal installations be subject to the water pollution control act as well as industry and municipalities. The committee agreed to give the Environmental Protection Agency discretionary authority to waive the control act's best available technology" for industries. Under this provision an industry receiving a waiver must meet fishable-swimmabl- e waters the criteria and not discharge toxics. The committee voted provisions for state certification of certain functions of the treatment plant construction grant program. In action probably related to this, the Salt Lake County Council of Governments passed a resolution the other day calling for a water quality management agency to be administered directly by the Salt Lake County Commission. The agency would be independent of the County-PubliWorks Department. Powerful Committees Whatever clean water legislation comes out of Congress this year or next will be determined chiefly by the Public Works Committees of both houses of Congress. These committees control the biggest plum in Congress, the public works funds And water lends itself to public works projects. The EPA wants Congress to keep the 19H3 deadline for cleaning up the nation's waterways. However many industries and most cities of the U.S. have not even met the 1977 clean water deadlines which require them to end discharge of dangerous chemical pollutants into lakes and streams Meantime a movement is gaining considerable support to push for an interim clean water measure, one that would guarantee short-terfunding of the sewage plant construction program, extend tbe allocation date for fiscal year 1976 construction grants, Histpone municipal cleanup deadlines e on a basis, and implement Ihe water-use- r charge to help finance sewer plant operation and maintenance costs ease-by-cas- Avoid Confrontation strategy is to avoid a House-Senatconfrontation over a crucial section dealing with wetlands protection and avoid a battle over whether industries would be ehifrged a pollution discharge penalty before a court determines a violation of pollution laws. e Currently, penalties for air or water pollution can be imposed only afler all legal recourse has been exhausted by the polluting industry. Such an interim bill also would preclude a damaging fight over whether the federal or stale govern-ments should rertify that municipalities had met design require-menl- s for obtaining U S. funds. It will he unfortunate if Congress turns hack the clock on water pollution controls happenings, of towns. but The U.S. has been catching up cities, rather mostly in medium-size- d than the large metropolises most seriously choked with noisy, polluting traffic. There are some exceptions, zones including the totally traffic-fre- e in Honolulu and Louisville and compromise designs, still permitting bus traffic, in Minneapolis. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia But in New York, in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, and almost every other large U.S. city, city fathers have lacked the lorsight or political muscle to reclaim big chunks of their downtowns for the pedestrian. The saddest case of all is probably New York, where most citizens dont ovvn autos and air pollution levels are dangerously high. Still. street urtuaLly all of a 6.123-nu)- e system belongs 1o autos Dr. For the best U.S pedestrian zones, one has to look to smaller cities among them Kalamazoo, Mich., which inaugurated the country's first zone in 1959, Miami Beach, Providence, R I , Winston-SaleN C.. Fresno, Calif., and Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Yet in the entire U.S., there are less than 80 pedestrian zones. The reasons are partly our fabled love affair with the auto, but even more critically the opposition of downtown merchants who fear their business will suffer. Yet with rare exceptions, retail business has increased dramatically m pedestrian-fre- e zones, both in Europe and America Dr. Bernhard Winkler, winner of the design competition for Munich's zone, believes merchants benefit so royally that they ought to pay the entire cost of a downtown pedestrian mall. European malls have proved such a magnet for retail sales that outlying shopping areas have suffered scarcely the U S problem, where suburban shopping centers have enjoyed a huge competitive edge. In one sense, pedestrian malls are deceptively easy to start and involve rapid, clear benefits. A city can start by street experimenting with part-tim- e closings; if that succeeds it can proceed step-b- y step to a fully designed urban mall complex, all at minor cost compared to the intimidatingly huge expenses of most urban projects. As soon as a street is barred to traffic, the roar of engines and tires on roadway and honking horns stop Decibel levels are cut at least in hall. The chance of pedestrians being struck by vehicles Is eliminated totally. Air pollution drops drastically. Vegetation Survives In a pedestrian zone, trees and vegetation have a better chance to survive. Historic buildings decay less rapidly. Crime tend-- , to drop with the "safety in numbers " An environment is created for outdoor cafes and d events ranging from puppet and pet shows to concerts, from homemade food sales to dance exhibitions Local painters and sculptors can display their woik to audiences hundreds of times the size of those who visit galleries Children can play while parents shop many malls have Senior citizens who live downtown, can environenjoy the more human-scal- e ment For many older people, a people-oriente- cil Solomon Contraceptive Like Sponge Dear I)r Solomon l ie heard there very simple, now contraceptive that is just like a s)onge Do you know anything about this? Janice W. Dear Janice: The contraceptive you heard about is. indeed, is some a just like It is also sponge very simple. And it is so new that it is still being f tested by Dr. Milos Chvapil of the University of Arizona The device looks like a chunky ' diaphragm and is made of collagen (Collagen sponge eon tracoptivo) acts as an absorh.mt barrier that traps the sMrin in its minute lores and prevents it from entering the cervical canal The sponge is placed in the upper part of the vagina, to block olf the cervix, just like a diaphragm It can Ikremoved at any tone, washed m tap water, and reinserted directlv or with an applicator. Good Results The CSC Dear Dr. Solomon Can excessive I'm breathing be bad for a child thinking of my nephew, who is eight years old He sometimes has spells ol very rapid breathing and gels dizzy. Dorothy N ll.vperventiliation Dear Dorothy: Hyperventilation -abnormally rapid dee)) breathing tun lead to excessive lost of carbon dioxide and a condition called alkalosis, in which the proper chemical balance of the blood is upset It may cause a number ol symptoms dizziness headaches, burning or pro klmg sensations in the limbs tainting spell-- . It a doctor has not checked your nephew, that should lie done Hyperventilation can lie emotional in origin olten reassuring a (laid about leal's will be enough tn allay I w I it T A'iq needed These, of coursi are first reports Further studies aio being conducted It all goes well, the CSC will then lie submitted to the Food and Ding Administration And if the Fl approves it. it will be placed on the market understand that tins whole plot ess could lake a i oopie ol visa's people malls become a Finally, traffic-fre- e source of intense civ le pride Instead of a tallest building'' or biggest as trodome, people talk of ' their" pedes trian street But pedestrian malls can fail and often do if they're seen as a single-sho- t solution to a citys problems, improperly designed, attempted without merchant and citizen cooperation or created without thought to a city's traffic flow. "Some malls have simply been built too late," Robert Brambilla notes in a Handbook for Pedestrian Action distributed by the National Endowment for the Arts. If stores and people have already deserted the downtown, adding cars to the list is unlikely to turn the tide " U.S. Mall Failures Among the U.S. malls now rated failures, to greater or lesser degree, are Lake Charles, La , Trenton, N.J., and four in California Rivet side. Pomona, Burbank and Sacramento. But a common fear about malls that they would cause monumental has parking jams m nearby streets simply not come true. Adequate public transit and parking opportunities, sometimes with shuttle service to the mall, have proven satisfactory alternatives. Cities shouldnt launch malls without carefull economic revitalization studies, experts say. And its essential, Winkler notes, to have frequent meetings of all interested parties, including the store owners and street vendors, to assure that no group benefits at the expense of others. Before the pedestrian zones in Munich and other European cities were implemented, Winkler says, many peothat ple believed the traffic experts the city's historic heart had to be given over to traffic or it would die economically. The immense psychological impact of the zones, he says, has been to show citizens their city core need not be devoured by vehicles. Now the time has come, he says, "to take our positive experience and restrict traffic where it's socially even more important in residential streets and other areas of the city where people live their daily lives." Some streets can be made dead end. others outfitted with partial barriers that slow vehicles down to the speed of pedestrians. Or along secondary shopping streets, vehicles i an be banned part of the day Tame to Human Scale The goal. Winkler says, should not be to ban the auto in the city, but rather to tame it to human scale Similar ideas have been expressed for several years by and planners on both sides of the Atlantic. But especially in America, has been painfully implementation air purification pilgrimage, and that you are wedged between two of them while, up ahead in 'he smoking section there are seats to spare Try tc; communicate this to the busy lady at the counter Very difficult It is easier to oblige men and women of emphatic positions on smoking, civil rights, air pollution, Vietnam, whatever There is no question that the are feeling their fledgling strength I have always been aware of Ihe high conviction of the truly dedicated nonsmoker, my father having been one lbs feelings on the subject antix-rnoker- s ( )n Words Theodore By Bernstein M Word placement, llovv an improper position of a word or phrase' can make a serious sentence ludicrous is illustrated by this one, w hu ll appeared recently : "The newspaper said the family plans to publish a collection of 319 of Mr. Eisenhowers letteis. most of them written! when the extramarital relationship was purportedly going on, early next year ' The relationship was going cm next yeai The comma's help is ju- -t a limit ml Had the writer taken the trouble to re. id ovr Ills sentence (something every writer shield dol ho surely would have seen that the early next year phi use belongs after publish male who Premarital accord. to be man led is a fiance and a female who is engaged to he married is a fiancee. But, asks a reader in Louisiana, how are the Iwo words pronounced ? All dictionaries give the pronunciation of both words as tee-oSAY', but some give an alternative' pronunciation of both words as say. So the happy couple at least sound alike Affect, effect. The distinction between affect and effect has been discussed here before, but J. W. English of Jer.kmtown. Pa begs us Please, please, please distinguish between them. so he and surely others missed what was soul previously Anyway a bit of repetiion wont hurt. The very affect means to influence, cause a change in or have an effect or a bearing on Effect moans to accomplish, bring alxhit, implement or exeboth words cute One sentence should bring out the distinction ' Congress effected a change in llm tax law that will affect every taxpayer " be Ail aid to memory might begins with an c and so does effect. n fee-O- , -- Losing weight doesnt make sense d slow. But ihe lig'iit is now Pickering at the other end of the long, dark traftic tunnel The evidence of brilliant success of well planned pedestrian zones on two continents is accumulating rapidly. Merchants' opposition, though still strong, is weakening The energy crisis and intolerable air pollution weaken the hand of the auto, freeway and taxu ab lobbies Finally, citizen groups are catching the message Save the street- - for lieople Downtown today our neighborhood tomorrow 'Cup, ,hl JmiMuin I Critically Bad certainly sounds had. and Miss Gaston believed it to lie critically bad "fitty times as poisonous as ordnary Miss Gaston spoilt most of her alcohol hie trying to extrait out of innocent young boys a subscription to the Clean Life Pledge, and she carried Clean Life buttons to reward the conscripts "A boy is a great stickler for honor." she aid "Once he has signed our pledge, he would cut off his hand before he would break it We all know that Miss Gaston's crusade was unsuccessful, and indeed it ts well known now that worse things then furfural have been found in cigarette tobacco, including agents- still smoking increases. But the drive against smoking isn't spearheaded these days by the likes of Lucy Page Gaston, who tell you that you will die a horrible death if you smoke cigarettes, that they will destroy your red corpuscles, rob the body of its vitality and the nnnd of its keenness, -- hatter the nerves, dun the vision, impair the memory, weaken the will lower, and rum the prospects of success The only effective lobby against the smokers is the nascent lobby of those who are offended by the smell of cigarette tobacco smoke and demand sanctuary from it Is It Reasonable? How far is it reasonable to ask that they be obliged? Inevitably, one has to oblige the most demanding member of a lobby. Either there is a right to be protected from cigarette smoke or there isnt. The man who doesnt smoke but doesnt much care whether others do is increasingly a social nuisance as is the man who, asked what he wants to drink, replies. "Anything." It is better to ask for a meringue glacee sour, than for "anything." And as, increasingly, one is asked whether one smokes or does not, in the airports, in the movie houses, in the occasional restaurant, you have to be emphatic. If you, an abstainer, travel about with your wife, a smoker, the rule is easy: You head for the table of smokers. But there again, it becomes unfair, because some people do not mind, and others mind greatly. I have not heard of its happening, but it would not be surprising to read that the law acknowledges as a cause of sundering incompatability the spouse who complains to the court that his partner smokes cigarettes. A Moral Here Is there a moral? Yes, it is this: For heavens sake keep the government out of the way. Let the airlines, the restaurants, the steamships, the bus companies handle the problem. They will devise flexible policies, to oblige those who demand protection from cigarette smokers, and those for whom protection is mere velleity. The authority of the state should extend only to those airless public palces in which air is necessarily compressed, like subway cars and lunar modules. Lucy Page Gaston would not be satisfied, but then as if you Trotsky said about violence don't like it. you picked the wrong this is a bad century to be born m century for people who object to tobacco smoke. 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Metropolitan chain store. j".t South and tree! taking between $!IMi from the stum:; !mx s tmisu.il daimg featured tin- - luh liery the police disi ov ered as the malt is l,u ated at the front of the mezzanine directly aliove and vvithm ease hearing of pedestrians on the stri et below v thousands ou e.ill beeonie one lul .1 llee eOUsUit.lUun "l i for the important position national Kcp'ibln 'in l.a.r mail in charge of the wonn n's divi nin, it was learned ll, ursd iv trnm ich ihl almc-- U ' - t lime ha- - os- lie lits too t "UK Dlseuss mm Nn Main e 111 -- i rile Wav I Weight Cj ,y'' mal - Dr Chvapil reports good results m early tests on volunteers In one group, the sponge was left m place anywhere from 3 to 2H days However, most of the sexually active vounieors preferred to take it out every three or four days, rinse it and put it back in No discharge or irritation was reported According to the Tucson researchers, the sponge is and absorbent so sufficiently that the addition ol a spermicide is not it ifq SyfKIit pedestrian mall evokes the world of their youth, when the auto was still in its infancy and city streets and squares as they had been through most of were still a place for human history ' 1'hat mg 19, "6 4 7 1 were Star Svn.hcMte W'lth drought conditions worsening in several X areas of tbe 1 West, questions are paramount as to how much water, if any. lr. Linford there will be a ailahle and requiring treatment for impurities. A chief obstacle toward the day of safe public water is the lack of specific scientific knowledge as to how toxic certain materials are, how they can be kept out of water supplies and how they can be removed. Viruses that Cause many diseases are not fully known, for example, or which ones cause which diseases, and m what concentrations. Debate Is On Particulates, such as asbestos, suspected of causing cancer, are a cause of debate because of the lack of knowledge as to the extent, size and quantity of fibers necessary to cause illness. Still another troublesome category is chemicals, of which there are thousands in everyday use and hundreds more being added every year. Only a start has been made in cataloguing the possibly hazardous ones under the Toxic Substances Control Act of The 1977 l.T, Jr. Smoking, or nonsmoking" don't smoko Bn' don t care put me tn the Se far as f' I t Ii.it kl . ugnxt Keep Government Out Of Nonsmoking Areas With confusion and uncertainty abounding, it may be just as well that the L' S. Senate will not act on the new Clean Water Bill until fall, after members return from their August recess W, $8 Twenty-tw- I ake Tribune. Monday, 1 DOV HOLLADAY Block Bunding 177 E. 9th South 355-374- 5645 S Waterbury Way 500 East 1 0 278-476- 7 h-- I i 1 |
