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Show Page Four Opera is No Longer Domain THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Labe Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday as Salt Labe City, Utah Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake Gty as second class nutter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, 1879 South West 711 Telephone 364-84Temple Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, PtaMfcher "T bis publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction ttnmtt 48 the Of High Society, Prof Says 64 Volume THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY?, 1969 Opera has ceased to be the exclusive domain of high society. It is now beginning to flourish throughout the country, and no n one could be happier than UniWatts, director of the versity of Utah Opera Company and associate professor of music. Opera is a unique art form, he says, because it combines theatre, singing, dancing and music with dramatic impact. He believes the reason it has been limited to high society is not that it is difficult to understand, but because of the cost of production. Theres a simple formula for enjoying opera, according to director Watts, and that is a knowledge of the story line. The easiest method is to arrive at the theatre 15 minutes early and study the synopsis in the program. Even better would be to read a digest from an opera appreciation book, he says, and the best possible understanding would come from reading the text know in opera as the libretto. A production like 'La Trayiata, which we are presenting in Kingsbury Hall. Feb. might require an hour for a slow reader, he says. If youre concerned because you cant understand all of the words in an opera, you can relax, says Professor Watts. Youre not supposed to understand all of them. An opera company feels it is extremely successful if an audience understands 75 per cent of the text. Were shooting for 80 Ar-dea- Number 41 Air Pollution Affects Behavior (Continued from Page One) duced by the drug pentobarbital, a depressant. It took 48 hours for the rats responses to return to normal. The same experiment was conducted using ozone, an air pollutant connected with smog formation. The effects, judging by brain wave patterns, are quite different from carbon monoxides. This suggests that ozone acts on a different site in the brain. In addition, carbon monoxide appears to affect th ebrain rapidly, while ozone has a one-hodelay. Dr .Xintaras says the carbon monoxide may change the animals awareness of its surroundings so that information from the senses is no longer processed properly. People who must make accurate judgments, correct decisions, and rapid responses in performing their duties may lose efficiency in performing their tasks if exposed to low levels of carbon monoxide, he said. To study thee ffects of lead, which could come from industrial fumes or car exhaust, the brain waves of sleeping rats were monitored, the journal notes. Lead treated rats showed shortened and less stable periods of dream sleep. Sleep patterns also became less regular. These changes in dream sleep may directly or indirectly reflect the impairment of a neural control system. Altered functions of the central nervous system may be evident before clinical signs and symptoms have been induced by exposure to toxic materials. Dr. Xintaras indicates he is now ready to begin direct studies on the effects of air pollution on behavior. In 1969, hie plans to have a digital process control computer connected with each of five monkeys. Information such as brain, heart and lung action will be collected and correlated with the monkeys responses to two types of behavioral tests involving decisions such as humans are called on to make. The underlying importance of the work is to determine what factors in the environment make it difficult for people to perform their jobs efficiently, he comments, ading, Of course, we cant hope to assess every chemical in the air. We can hope to assess the more important ones in these terms: how they affect performance efficiency of a specie task. To do this we must also learn what that task demands of the brain. Typing, for example, requires mainly muscle coordination, whereas driving a car involves decision making. Another problem is redundancy, or the massive amount of information, both needed and unneeded, bombarding the brain. It may be difficult to measure the test animals responses because, like the typist, they can still function doing simple mechanical operations despite the presence of air pollutants. Only if they are given other tasks requiring more complicated brain operations would the interference-othe pollutants show up. ur f oOo ; An American family which, two generations ago, spent 50 per. cent of its income on food, eats better today on 22 per cent. If the average American family were willing to dine as meagerly as it did in 1935-3it would need to spend only 16 per cent of its income for food. 9, oOo The middle of the stream runs faster than its sides. The constant rubbing of the water against the banks causes friction which holds it back. Also, the little jut-tinof land and rock along the shore further retard the speed of the water. , gs 13-1- 5, LEASED per cent in 'La Traviata. Professor Watts explains that opera makes tremendous physi- cal demands on a singer, and there is a point at which a sing- GBOPmNE r er has to make the quality more important than the diction. Usually a composer takes this, into I City police may make arrests consideration, and words that and otherwise aid in law enare indispensable to the plot are forcement on the University of usually sung inthe easier part of Utah campus where disturbance the range and with a minimum or other incidents may affect amount of accompaniment. citizens or property off campus, Arias by contrast (solo songs but such aid must be rendered and duets of the opera) dont in a reasonable manner, Atty. need to be understood in terms Gen. Vernon B. Romney said in of the text. They appear when an opinion this week. the story has moved along to an The opinion, prepared by John emotional peak. The plot sus- T. Evans, assistant attorney genpends itself and the audience eral, was in response to quesshould be carreid away with the tions by Salt Lake City Commisnot the sioner James L. Barker Jr. music and singing . words. Commissioner Barker asked If one is swearing vengeance, what rights and duties city poasking forgiveness or saying'I lice had on state owned land, love you,' it doesnt make a bit such as that at the university, of difference what the actual and whether city police could even I dont care, make arrests on such property. words are Watts. Everyone Professor says Some 3,000 businesses have gets the message. When we shift gears and return to the plot, the been added to the tax rolls of words should be understandable Salt Lake City and County in again. the past two years, the county Opera is a unique art form. It auditors office announced this can be enjoyed on many levels, week. Of the 3,000 some are Ardean believes. A person who new, others have been located knows every word in the original which were not on tax rolls and language can appreciate the nu- some had been lost on tax recances of the actors, and yet those ords. who attend their first opera will receive enjoyment because of Dale R. Holt, Salt Lake couna dyoperas dramatic impact ty surveyor, this week said he namic combination of theatre, expects county commission apsinging, dancing and music. proval to hire four new field men and two design engineers in his office Utah Farm Bureau Blasts Decision On Lands Transfer and that more than 200,000 acres in the immediate area are now under oil and gas lease. The legislative resolution also pointed out that the area contains valuThe Utah Farm Bureau Board able grazing lands vital to the of Directors, in its meeting Iasi week, blasten Presinent Johnsons action in adding more land to the Arches National Monument and the Capitol Reef National Monument, as being disastrous to public interests in Utah. Speaking for the board, Elmc. W. Hamilton, UFB President, said, We find the Presidents action unconscionable since he acted without consulting Congress, holding hearings, or even properly consulting members oi Utahs congressional delegation. Its difficult for us to unden stand the continhing trend awaj from multiple use on public lands. The tendency of Secretary Udall, who engineered this move, and many other public land administrators, seems to be to set aside huge chunks of land for future generations while at the same time dispossessing stock-me- n and miners who have, by agreement, been generating a living from this same land. How long will it be, Mr. Hamilton asks, before all of the public land in Utah is declared a national park and the people who live here asked to confine their economic activity to the small percentage of land in private ownership? In its action the board sought the assistance of the American Farm Bureau Federation in opposing the move and expressed support for the resolution passed by the Utah legislature on the subject. TOie Legislature pointed out in its resolution that the area contains extensive reserves of oil, gas, uranium and other minerals economy to the southwestern region of the state. It was noted lands are that many checkerboarded in the region and will be isolated by the withdrawal and that the action will state-owne- d seriously hinder continued economic growth of the state, which is dependent upon multiple use of its natural resources. We support the legislators desire that the lands be restored to the public domain, so they are available for multiple use until , . He also is asking raises averaging $20 to $25 a month for 26 persons in the surveyors office and several promotions, he said. Continuing expansion of the county has increased the need for more personnel, the surveyor added. He said the four additional field men will bring the number to 30. Theodore J. May, Magna, has been appointed director of the Salt Lake County License Department, Royal K. Hunt, finance commissioner, said this week. Mr. May succeeds Persyl L. Richardson. His appointment was effective Monday. Professional bail bondsmen aU issues involving their incluwere ordered to pay or else sion in national monuments have in connection with three to four ilton said. dozen traffic violation and city been fully considered, Mr. Ham-criminal cases. f The or else policy, contained BLM Reclassifies in letters signed by Judges J. Patton Neeley and Melvin H. Land In Box Elder Morris states that the city will The Bureau of Land Manage- seek judgments against bondsment has classified 1,125,352 men who fail to comply with acres of public land in western the new order and that city jail Box Elder County and in Rich personnel will be instructed not County for retention in federal to accept bonds from them on ownership. As a result the lands any kind of case in the future. will receive intensified management under multiple use prin- sale and agricultural land laws. ciples. However, this action does not Robert D. Nielson, BLM state preclude acquisition of public director for Utah, explained that lands for agricultural developclassification was made under ment and other public uses undirection from Congress which der the Public Land Sale Act in 1964 enacted the Classification of 1964, nor does it preclude the and Multiple Use Act. BLM ac- mineral exploration and develop tion was taken on 957,377 acres ment, except in a few small parin Box Elder County after a pub- cels intended for receration delic hearing in Brigham City with velopment. local citizens and public land users. A public hearing was held Army Pfc Karl J. Swensen, Nov. 13 in Randolph concerning son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Swenthe 167,975 acres classified for sen, 374 North First West, was federal retention in Rich county. assigned as a personned specialMr. Nielson said classification ist in the 459th Signal Battalion will prevent acquisition of pub- near Nha Trang, Vietnam, lic lands under the old public |