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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1971 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with Tbe Salt Labe Mining 6 Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake City as second class nutter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, 1879 South 711 West Temple 4 Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 364-846- GLENN BJORNN, Publisher "Ibis publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation." Volume 50 Number 37 Pictures of the Past - i , . . , (Continued from Page One) is one of an early flying boat, the Philippine Clipper, landing in Hong Kong harbor on October 23, 1936. The huge flying boat is in the foreground, a. few feet from the water on final approach for landing.. The city of Hong Kong serves as a backdrop Hong Kong as it appeared in 1936. In addition to researching the detail of the airplane, the artist had to search through the New York Public Library and other sources for pictures of Hong Kong as it looked more than 30 years ago. Another lithograph shows two of the airlines early mail planes. Shown in the background is a Model T Ford U.S. mail truck, which the artist copied from historical pictures, and a boy on a bicycle. As the artist said, In those days, no matter what airport you visited, there was always a boy on a bicycle watching the airplanes. . All of this sounds as remote from the present as the voyage of Columbus, and yet it happened but yesterday as time is measured. By recreating in true to life detail some of the momentous firsts in transportation, the airline s historic illustrations, from the world's, finest producer of lithographs for nearly 200 years, help to restore perspective and a true appreciation of our times. For the Sake of Energy Without regard to overall impact on the nations energy supplies, the oil industry has been subjected to b Majestic Fish Hawk Colonies Are Falling to Insecticides One of the world's most majestic birds, the osprey, is becoming an innocent victim of mans war against insects. Sometimes called the fish hawk, the osprey is a tireless hunter, dramatically the water for its dinner. But insecticides in the fish are sterilizing the birds eggs and causing overly thin shells. The osprey, Pandion haliae-tu- s, is a world citizen. Its great nests of sticks perch atop trees on Japanese islands, on sea cliffs near Gibraltar, on Swedens spruce-covere- d Baltic shores, on Nationin Yellowstone pinnacles on headlands of al Park, and the Mexicos west coast. Sadly, persistent insecticides already have wiped out whole writes ornithologist colonies, Roger Tory Peterson in the July issue of National Geographic. Near the authors home at Old Lyme, Connecticut, the number of nests decreased from 150 in 1954 to 10 in 1968. Across Long Island Sound, a great colony of ospreys on Gardiners Island once perhaps the worlds largest dropped from 300 pairs in 1945 to 35 in 1968. The heavily polluted Great Lakes area also has taken its toll. Michigans fish hawks are producing young at less than a third the rate and are declining about 12 percent a year. A osprey stronghold, Cape May, New Jersey, now counts few birds. In the 19th century, nest robbers collecting the birds richly colored eggs exterminated the bird in Britain. Recently a pair of migrating ospreys started nest dive-bombi- ng one-tim- e ing again in the Scottish highlands. With a hooked beak and a wingspread of up to five feet, the osprey is frequently mistaken for an eable. Its breast, neck, and head are white; wings and back are glossy brown. A mature three-poun- d osprey is a fisherman without peer. Cruising 50 feet above its fishing grounds, the bird suddenly checks its flight and hovers on laboring wings to take a bead on a fish swimming near the surface. ' Snapping shut its wings, the bird drops into a steep dive head projecting like a spear tallons forpoint, needle-shar- p ward. The fish hawk crashes straight into the water, but reappears within seconds flapping off with a fish inevitably held head-fir- st like a silver torpedo. A reversible outer toe and tiny spikes on the pads of its feet which help the osprey to grip the fish this way, one foot before the other are among the characteristics that put the bird in a group by itself. Unlike other birds, the osprey has only one genus and one species. Sometimes an osprey may grab too big a fish, be pulled under, and drown Eagles may hijack an ospreys catch in mid-ai- r. The biggest threat to ospreys, however, remains pesticides. The poisons are passed on through insects eaten by fish that make up the ospreys diet. If the osprey passes from the American scene, Mr. Peterson warns, we will lose a majestic and unique bird. sky-raidi- ng . a wave of adverse actions, ranging from price repression upon citizen possession of fireanns can be seen in Israel. to incentive killing taxes and pressure for relaxed import Jac Weller, Honorary curator of the West Point Mucontrols. seum and author of several books on military history, The chief executive of a major oil company observes has written of the current travails of Israel, which he We are going to have to have intelligent, firm and con- calls A Nation of Armed Citizens." He says, it's diffisistent long range national policies. Put bluntly, what cult in Israel today to distinguish between the military we need are guide lines from the government that don't apparatus and the civilians in arms. In some areas of keep shifting on us. We need to encourage rather than Israel every individual must carry his personal weapon inhibit the ingenuity that has long characterized the with him at all times. Almost every single man and many energy field in this country." Another oilman, the presi- of the women in Israel can fire at least one weapon adedent of the American Petroleum Institute, declares, For quately. Mr. Welles witnessed a school picnic at which the short term, our industry is confident that it can meet teachers carried submachine guns and the boys had rifles the petroleum needs of consumers. For the long term, close by as they munched their lunches. It is difficult for a U.S. citizen to believe that any changes in governmental policies will be required if our nation is to have available adequate supplies of petro- nation could be reduced to such extremities, but as Mr. leum and other fuels to meet our ever growing energy Weller concludes, although heavily outnumbered by The Israelis are likely to survive because a needs. Overall, what is clearly needed is a coordinated and consistent approach on the part of the federal gov- nation in arms is hard to destroy." Even in this nuclear ernment to the many complex issues and problems relat- age the right of firearm ownership by responsible citizens and that means the great body of Americans give ing to our country's fuels and energy needs for the years and men in meaning to those historic words, Don't Tread On Me, to come. The main problem is man-madgovernment and industry must work together to solve imprinted on the famed rattlesnake flag of the American the problem." Continental Army in 1776. What U.S. oilmen are pleading for is relief from the current nonpolicy" that encourages every critic of the oil industry and every legislator and regulator to pursue fragmented objectives with, at best, short term benefits to the public as taxpayers and consumers. hos-tileAra- e, . 'Don't Tread on Me' From the beginning of the United States, and long after, the security of the nation and of the individual depended upon rifles and handguns that held predators, both human and animal, at bay. Every schoolchild knows or should know the part that the skill of American rifle men have played in our history from the battle of Bunker Hill to the jungles of Viet Nam. The extent to which a nation may have to depend vfrftostfQ) 860 Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! bs, A tie LEASED GRAPEVINE Salt Lake County Commissioners this week rescinded two decisions of the former commission and rescheduled meeting days. On motion of Commissioner Ralph Y. McClure commissioners rescinded a vote to seek bids on voting machines. The commission also rescinded the former commissions action in formation of the local community councils and the naming of the various council members. Commissioners McClure and William E. Dunn said they were not opposed to the councils but wanted additional time to study them. Former Rep. Laurence J. Burton will become the chief of congressional relations for the Department of Transportation, a department spokesman said this week. Mr. Burton will serve as a special assistant to Secretary John Volpe. According to the department, Mr. Burton will start his new duties next week after the Civil Service formalities are completed. The post was formally filled by Robert H. Bennett. A series of tough laws should be enacted by the 1971 Legislature to combat a rising . crime rate and the growing threat of organized crime in the state, Atty. Gen. Vernon Romney said this week. Mr. Romney spoke at a University of Utah meeting sponsored by the Utah Peace Officers Standards and Training Division, A $1,075,000 grant to Community. Health Center Foundation for the first year operations for the Salt Lake County Neighborhood Health Center, has been awarded by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The health center, to be located in the old Salt Lake County General Hospital, is expected to be in operation by this summer. It will provide health care for some 30,000 persons from the low income families in the county. , There were 5,504 marriages recorded in Salt Lake County by the clerks office last year. At the same time 2,916 divorces were processed through Third District Court which includes Salt Lake, Tooele, and Summit Counties. Approval of a statewide consolidation of data processing for school districts was given this week by the Granite Board of Education on the condition that the State Legislature appropriate funds to purchase Granites computer. .. Payments of $48,028 to two contractors for work on Salt Lake .City projects were approved this week by Salt Lake City Commission. A partial payment of $27,701 will be made to Rocky Mountain Contractors for installation of. ' gas fueled generators and auxiliary equipment at the citys sewage treatment plant. If it s printiog . |