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Show The Public Forum The Salt Lake Tribune Numerous motorcycle accidents are listed every week in the newspaper. On the way home from work I came across another vehicle, motorcycle accident which prompted this letter. Since I am a motorcyclist and a motorist, I am concerned with my safety out on the road. Vehiclemotorcycle accidents are induced by the motorist and the cyclist. Motorcyclists weave in between cars when changing lanes, do not use signals, exceed the speed limit, tailgate, do not wear protective helmets or clothing that is either bright or colorful so as to be seen, ride in blind areas of vehicles, do not allow enough time when making turns in front of oncoming vehicles, and expect all motorists to be aware of them. Motorists constantly tailgate, change lanes without looking, pass motorcycles on e the right on roads, engage in speed races with cycles, maneuver cycles off the road, pull out in front of cycles, and generally "block out that a motorcycle is on the road. Why can't we (as drivers) make a conscious effort to give a little more consideration when out on the road . . . and remember the next cycle you see could be mine . . . and I want to stay alive! one-lan- L. LYNCH Holladay Watch the Birdie The picture of amateur golfer Jay Siegel in the sports section of the Aug. 30, 1984 edition of The Tribune is indeed interesting. According to the caption Siegel is watching the flight of the ball. If this is true, we have a first. Siegel is the only golfer I know who watches the flight of the ball at the crest of his backswing. JOHN L. PAXTON Space Buses Have your tokens ready, folks, for upcoming space buses. Free rides have gone to (first) a black, (then) a woman, and (next) a teacher. President Reagans advisors are a mul- missing the most obvious bet of all doctors, (yes, Virginia, they do exist), licking their chops and drooling. Didnt they learn anything during the life of the 18th Amendment? In an earlier speech the president claimed that the Democrats heads were full of San Francisco fog. Well, Mr. Reagan you lived in California for so many years, perhaps your head may be filled with smog. BETTY HANSEN It's ludicrous that the Salt Lake City CouncilRedevelopment Agency is so sure the Lincoln Property Co. proposal will be such a good thing for Salt Lake City. The same councilRDA is witnessing the redo of their predecessors goof on the bus stalls and beautification. Earlier predecessors' decision intensified the business traffic by Temple Square, paving the way for the decay south of 200 South. Long ago the city was adamant about the faults of angle parking. Angle parking seems to be making a quiet comeback. Telling us "Father Knows Best after three or four generations of mistakes they still expect us to believe it? Triad, Price Prowswood, Zions Securities and now Lincoln Property Co. are all juggling their plans concerning how big the developments will be and the portions devoted to offices, condos and retail functions. Each eyes the competition and tries to out guess them; all of them are jockeying for position with the RDA. Only rarely in the articles are property write-down- s mentioned and figures given. Price Prowswood had such a discount for Block 53 of $3,000,000 plus. Now Lincoln Property Co. seeks what isnt theirs, raising the ugly visage of condemnation and eminent domain. What if the city just butted out closing down the FDA? Then developers would have to balance the strength of their convictions and plans against their own bank books. no super Wouldnt that be something deals to developers and no super excuses later on from the city administration. JACK C. BILLINGS Bountiful Open HB60 Classes 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 writers true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Mail to the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune, Post Of-- f ice .Box 867, Salt Lake City, UT 84110. tipie symbol. How about a black paraplegic woman teacher who is 64 Vj years old and on welfare? Think of the economy of that, and maybe the votes! RAY R. CANNING Hopes Worst Enemy The Soviets are masters at making death look like an auto accident, a heart attack or suicide. They are masters at assassination. John Barron in his published study of the KGB pointed out that since 1926 it has been part of Soviet policy to use assassination and murder to achieve their goals. We know that for the past 25 years the Soviets have been luring planes into their territory so that they can shoot them down. In 1958 for instance, they shot down a United States Air Force based in Turkey, and 17 lives were lost. An article in the September 1983 issue of Conservative Digest lists 28 such incidents, mostly against American planes, but against Korean. French and Swedish as well. The Soviets use a technique called which confuses pilots trying to follow radio signals from the ground. The network news all but ignored the fact last year (when KAL 007 was shot down) that U.S. maps used by aircraft flying over the Sea of Japan near Russia bear the following statements: Warning: unlisted radio emissions from this area may constitute a navigation hazard, disrupt onboard navigation equipment, or result in border overmea-conin- flight. We now know also that the missiles used to destroy KAL 007 were direct duplications of the U.S. Sidewinder, including the electronic circuitry produced by U.S. firms and sold to West Germany, which the Soviets ei- ther bought or gained by industrial espio- nage. The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them, ( Max Eastman, 1955). JACQUELINE JENSEN Head of Smog I've decided that all delegates at political conventions are Idiots. Either that, or their chairs are electrically charged so that they jump up when someone pushes a button on cue. Often the point the speaker is trying to make is lost because of the prolonged hysteria. Now President V Reagan is blaming the Democrats for all the teen-ag- e pregnancies! Some years ago three different guys tried to seduce me, and guess what? They were Republicans, as was I, before I saw the light. And the Democrats are to blame for the drug abuse which has been on the rise the past three or four years, according to what I read and see on TV. He did mention some of the good stuff such as lower inflation and lower interest ratel but nary a word about the increase in (arm and small business bankruptcies, or my of the real issues. And I have yet to hear any definite, and 1 do mean definite, proof that the students "ere imprisoned on the island of Grenada. Also, I hear there is a genuine fear that the coming election in Grenada may bring hack the same leadership that existed before the invasion. As for an amendment prohibiting abortions, I can just picture a gaggle of unethical I applaud the theory behind House Bill 60 as described in Robert Woodys article Elderly Mix with the Muses at U. of U., Aug. 21. The same day the article appeared in The Tribune I received a DCE catalog from the University of Utah and was disappointed to find that of the 600 class offerings, 450 of them are closed to HB60. Those open to HB60 are not the sort of classes that would appeal to many elderly pilot ground school, secretarial training, career planning. It seems to me the elderly would want classes on estate planning, physical fitness, nutrition, music appreciation, art, stress management, economics. Even the begininng knitting and patchwork quilting classes at the university are closed to HB60. Woodys article described available history and Engish classes, yet the only offerings I found in the fall catalog open to HB60 were History of China, Adolescent Literature and Womens Experiences in Literature. House Bill 60 is a great concept. Open the classes that will draw the people. Its the least we can do for our citizens over 62. MARILYN GROUSSMAN Review a 4Hoot Dick Johnson and the men ia the Artie Shaw band must have got quite a "hoot if they read Tom McCartheys review of the Symphony Hall concert which appeared in the Aug. 30 Tribune. It was amazing some of the wrong titles Mr. McCarthy seemingly pulled out of the air. He referred to Im Beginning to See the Light, as I Begin to See the Light. That is wrong, but not so far off. Then he named "Home Glow, for the song Moonglow. That is much worse. Worst of all was when he came up with Carry Over, for the song "Carioca. Isnt Mr. McCarthey acquainted with these tunes? Youd think the Tribune would send some one to review big band concerts who has some knowledge of the standard repertoire of pop music. Moonglow has been around since 1938 and was revived as a million seller blockbuster when combined with the title tune Picnic in 1955, by Morris Stoloff. Its been recorded by many. s Carioca was written by Vincent for the Fred Astaire-Ginge- r Rogers picture "Flying Down to Rio and has been a big standard recorded by many ever since. Carry Over for Carioca is so gross its really funny. Mr. McCarthey did get one thing right. The concert was great! PAUL COBURN You-man- Amen! Mondale wants six debates, President Reagan wants four. Me thinks the public would settle for none. Already both have said everything but amen. EVELYN V. HUNTER Los Angeles Times Syndicate WASHINGTON A flurry of actions in Moscow suggests that Russia is moving to heat up the politics of arms control in the American elections. is a marked difference of For Reagan Here are briefs from The Salt Lake Trib12, 1884 The Old Folks Club will give one of their pleasant entertainments at Prof. Sheldon's Academy tonight. The public is invited to attend. September 12, 1934 Sprinkling restrictions, in effect most of the summer because of the drought, will end Tuesday so far as city residents are administrais itself tion, which divided. The Mondale stance was organized in harmony with comments made priMr. Kraft vately to a third par ty by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. So on his visit to the United Nations later this month, Gromyko has an opportunity to test the administrations willingness lor serious negotiations. The third p.nty is a former Democratic senator. He was in Moscow just before the Democratic convention and had a 3 1 discussion with Gromyko. The main theme was arms control, and these points stood out: First, Gromyko never once mentioned the nominal leader of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko. It appeared evident that Gromyko himself was in charge of foreign policy. Chernenko, whether well or ill, seemed to be in Gromykos pocket on international business. Second, Gromyko asserted Russias continuing interest in working out some kind of arms control accord with the U.S. He came on particularly strong in expressing fear of an uncontrolled arms race in space. He referred to the Reagan proposal for a star wars defense against missiles as a development that would kill all arms control. Third, Gromyko reasserted the Soviet view that the Reagan administration had no interest in serious negotiations. He did not say, as some Russians have, that Moscow would never talk with Reagan even after the election. But he made it plain that In his view the chances of ever reaching an accord with the Reagan administration were extremely slim. Fourth, Gromyko dwelt at length on the importance of a moratorium on further testing of weapons in space. He indicated Russia would participate in such a freeze. He also asserted that it would be very popular in the Ernest H. Linford Erosion of Alzheimers Strikes Conservationist In 1947 Dr. Walter P. Cottam delivered a bombshell of a lecture titled "Is Utah Sahara Bound? at the University of Utah. In the 10th Reynolds Lecture he urgently warned that countinued abuse of ranges and watersheds was destroying the stability, productivity and beauty of much of the state. The appeal for protecting renewable natural resources by the professor of botany and distinguished ecologist sparked a campaign which greatly minimized the loss of the Wasatch Front to repeated floods and other forms of erosion. Dr. Cottams Is Utah Sahara Bound later was incorporated into a volume of his other conservation writings under the title a Chalof Our Renewable Wild Lands and His lectures superb nawritings, lenge. ture photographs were only part of distinguished service on behalf of conservation. But by a tragic irony Dr. Cottam has been silenced and incapacitated by a kind of erosion which he fought so hard to prevent in nature. For several years Walter Cottam has been ill with Alzheimers disease, a brain incapacity sometimes called senile dementia that kills 10,000 Americans a year. Walter Cottam alternates among nursing homes in the Northwest and the homes of his daughters, Bea and Fae. In giving permission to reveal the nature of the distinguished scientists illness, Bea (Mrs. William Fowler of 808 South Alkire, Lakewood, Colorado) said, "The more publicity this death-in-lif- e disease gets the more hope there may be for increased research funds. Dr. Cottams illness interrupted, and in all likelihood, ended important scientific projects on which he had been working with spectacular success, notably the developing and growing of hybrid oak trees with which he had hoped to turn bleak land into beautifully permanent greenery. enIn the greatest single terprise in Utah history, Cottams hybrid trees have been transplanted to communities throughout Utah and many outside the state. Dr. Cottams hybriding of oak trees began in 1954 when a graduate student in his department at the U., Rudy Drobnick, found a clone of a hybrid of a native Gambel oak and live oak in the Oquirrh foothills near the Kennecott refinery. This led to cross breeding other kinds of oak, domestic and exotic. Apparently during the altithermal period of 4,000 to 7,500 years ago, live oak spread northward from southern Utah to the Salt g with the GamLake Valley, bel. As the climate grew colder, the live oak died out, but some more vigourous hybrids survived. Walter Cottam's work with trees went far beyond hybridization of oak. Thirty-od- d years ago he acquired several seedlings of a fossil tree contemporary with the dinosaurs, popularly known in the U.S. as the dawn redwood. One seedling, transplanted to a sheltered ravine in Sait Lake Citys East Bench area survived and when last heard about was doing well. When the tree reaches full maturity it will be about 115 feet high and eight feet in diameter, comparing favorably in size with both the sequoia and California redwood. Though a conifer the dawn redwood (metsaquoia) sheds its leaves in winter. A hundred million years ago, when the region was considerably warmer and more humid, ancestors of the famous tree flourished even on the western edge of the Great Basin. Dr. Cottam planted a sequoia tree, famous in California, on the edge of what is Cottams Gulch on the lower University of Utah campus, southwest of the Anthropology Building, formerly the library. This sequoia will be the largest tree in Utah unless the metsaquoia outdistances it. Walter Cottam, who is now 90 years old, has received so many outstanding honors that only part of them could be listed. The University of Utah accorded him an honor- known as U.S. The conversation with Gromyko was reported in detail to Mondale. At the time, it tree-planti- cross-breedin- The Way It Was une of 100, 50 and 25 years ago. there position between Mondale and the Walter P. Cottam ary doctors degree in 1963, he was named Man of the Year in Conservation by the Utah Foresters Club of Utah State University in 1947. In 1960 he received the annual award of the National Conference of Shade Tree Commissions and of the National Association of Garden Clubs. The Ecological Society of America named him Eminent Ecologist, its highest honor. The Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences cited him for distinguished service. American Motors, which gave him its Conservation Award, called him a Fearless crusader for the preservation of the natural resources of the nation who for many years was the inspired head of the University of Utahs botany department. In September, 1977, the Utah State Aboretum and the University of Utah dedicated the Cottam Hybrid Oak Grove which he had developed at the mouth of Red Butte Canyon. He not only was the first person in the country to cross two species of trees from two different subgenera, he developed between 40 and 50 new hybrids many of great beauty and hardiness that could be patented and grown commercially. Walter Pace Cottam was born in 1894 in St. George. He was awarded his bachelors and masters degree at Brigham Young University and received his doctorate at the University of Chicago. After being visiting professor at Chicago he returned to Provo and headed the botany department there until 1931 when he accepted a position on the University of Utah faculty. He was head of the botany department there until he retired in 1962. Armed with a pick, camera and vascul-uhe explored the depths of the Grand Canyon and other hard to get to areas. His field studies extended into Mexico and Canada and he had herbariums at both the U. and BYU. He spent several summers and one full year at the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment station where he was in charge of a western range survey. He was botanist at the U.S. Army University Center in England, in 1945, and in the division of information and education in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1946. Walter Cottam and Effie Frei of Santa Clara were married in 1915 and they had five children. The eldest son, Grant, is a prominent botanist at the University of Wisconsin. m September A15 Actions Suggest Soviet Interest In Arms Talks No Super Deals Forum Rules 12, 1984 Joseph Kraft Tribune Readers Opinions Be More Courteous Wednesday, September By order of the city commission, on recommendation of heads of the water department. unlimited sprinkling will be permitted beginning Monday morning. September 12, 1959 A recommedation that the State Building Board use part of the $500.00 planning fund appropriated by the 1959 Legislature to speed up a space utilization analysis was adopted Wednesday by the Capital Improvements and Parks standing committee of the State Legislative Council. Shri-veha- was not clear whether or not the administration would pick up the offer made by Russia on June 29 to hold talks on demilitarizing space beginning in Vienna on Sept. 18. When that invitation fell through, there was some thought Mondale might himself go to Moscow. In the end, Mondale decided against seeming to turn a national security item to political advantage by direct dealing with an adversary. But' the former vice president did craft the major arms control proposal he announced to the American Legion in Salt Lake City on Sept. 5 around the Gromyko position. Thus Mondale indicated he would be prepared to initiate a freeze. He asserted he would expect the Russians to join in the voluntary limitation. Then he would use the mutual restraint as a springboard for a summit meeting on arms control within six months. Almost simultaneously there took place a flurry of actions in Russia which seemed to clear the way for a new Soviet offer. First, Chernenko, in a Pravda interview, expressed Russias continuing interest in arms control. His statement was given added force by a after a long absence personal appearance in a televised Kremlin ceremony. Illusions that deals could be cut around Moscow were shattered by the cancellation of the visit to West Germany which the East German leader, Erich Honecker, had proposed to make at the end of this month. The ouster of Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov as chief of staff whatever its other reasons made it plain the political leadership was thoroughly in control. The announcement that Gromyko would meet Secretary of State George Shultz at the U.N. on Sept. 26 took place against that background. So the stage is set for maximum attention on t'.ie Russian foreign minister. While no American is certain exactly what Gromyko will say, Soviet experts experienced in arms control would not be surprised to see him trail the following message: Russia remains keen to negotiate an accord that blocks further development of defensive weapons in space. The Soviets would also accept an administration proposal they have so far rejected. It is that talks on defensive weapons in space be accompanied by a resumption of negotiations on limiting offensive missiles START and the INF talks, which the Russians quit at the end of last year. But as a condition for the package, the administration would be asked to accept a moratorium on further weapons testing in space. Such a proposal would make the Mondale offer look like a real starter. It would put pressure on the administration, for the president has indicated that he regards the development of space weapons as a sacred duty. He has never been able to wrest Pentagon approval for a moratorium on testing in space. Secretary Shultz, though indicating a willingness to discuss a moratorium, hewed to that position on Meet the Press" Sunday. So unless the president overrules the Pentagon, the administration will be fingered as the real obstacle to agreement. If the president did shift position, a costly row within the administration would be touched off. Either way. arms control would emerge as a live issue in what has so far been a dead campaign. The veteran father passes out cigars, r while the is more likely to just pass out. first-time- The greatest quality of leadership is the ability to hide your panic from the others. A r |
