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Show i ; Venice, Says Expert, Has 80 Years To Live Several experts have suggested in recent years that the only way to save Venice is to build a huge dam around the city, isolating it from the sea, with a number of gates that would permit engineers to regulate the flow of water into the city. Even Miozzi once favored this solution and presented a detailed plan to the city in 1966 for putting it into effect. But now he says it wont work. According to his c a 1 c u 1 a t i o n s, the con- - The death VENICE, ITALY (UPI) of Venice is more imminent than anyone imagined even a few years ago. In just 80 years, unless something is done to save it, the sea will roll in and remove from the world one of the great cities in the history of mankind. tinuing This the th expert opinion of Eugenio former chief engineer of Venice and a renowned authority on the prob- Miozzi, the Lagoon , if Vvr1 City. Most experts have been saying for years that Venice has another three centuries to live. But Miozzi says recent geodetic surveys conducted by the Military Geographic Institute and the hydrographic institute of the corps of engineers have demonstrated tlxat the original calculations were mistaken. They were based on the fact that the Venice subsoil has been sinking at a rate not exceeding four centimeters (1.5 inch- es) every 100 years. But Miozzi said the recent studies show this rate is increasing and is now only slightly under one centimeter (.39 of p. Venice, says one expert, is fast sinking into the sea and only prompt action can save it. Here children play with cafe chairs in St. Mark's Square in 1966 when water level was 40 inches above normal an inch) a year. Already high tides regularly flood St. Marks Square to such an extent that gondolas can float across it YOUR HEALTH No Reason To Fear Frozen Foods By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear . Dr. Thosteson: We often hear that meats which- have been hard frozen should noi.be refrozen. In what way may such pieats be Injurious to health? Is it safe to refrteze meat that has partially M.M. thawed but is stQl cool? - 'Dear Doctor: I know several people who will not cook or eat any meat that has been frozen. This seems to me to be such a wasted convenience. Mrs. L S. Answer: It is a matter of bacterial in the matter of refreezing, that is. There is no reason in the world for avoiding meat that has been frozen, so long as it has been properly handled. Foods in a deep freeze can be kept safely for long periods of time. Thawing and freezing is another matter. Foodstuffs in general can be expected to contain bacteria. That is why foods spoil, why milk sours, fat turns rancid, other types of foods ferment Not an of these bacteria are necessarily harmful to eat, but sometimes bacteria also are present "unfriendly various types of the salmonella germ being one of the commonest that can growth cause "food poisoning. LBJ's Last Great Society Effort By GORDON EUOT WHITE Deseret News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The old order pass-et- h away, in some confusion, and the new order arrives, also in disarray. When President Richard M. Nixon was sworn in at noon yesterday, he ended a week-lon- g rush by the - Johnson outgoing to Administration tie up all its loose ends and commit the country as far! as possible to the . Society. President Nixon ended his 75 days of transition with fewer than a hundred top appointeees named to run the vast federal establishment, and one of those al- ready seemed discredited. Nowhere was the confusion 'of coming and going more apparent than at the Interior Department, so important to the Western States. Mr. Johnson popped a promise out of hat a week ago to set aside great new areas for recreation and conservation, surprising even Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. In the next 135 hours, the department issued new higher grazing fees, new recreation regulations, a proposal that the process of staking a mining claim be abandoned, named the District of Columbia stadium after the late Robert F. Kennedy, and prepared his you. Always Dull! By HARRY JONES The average newspaperman Isnt at all like the newspapermen the movie patrons see on the big screen. He doesnt have all those adventures, parties, or the large expense accounts. In fact, most newspapermen dont even own a trench coat. The average newspaperman covers a beat day in and day out. It sometimes becomes dull and routine. And then, on the other hand, a routine assignment can turn out to be a real adventure . . . nightmare! Take the other day as a good By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor ROYAL MUSIC - What kind of a pi- anist is Princess Irene of Greece who will play with the Utah Symphony Orchestra and her teacher, Gina Bachauer, in the Tabernacle February 8? In Mondays New York Times, which I picked up A reporter was assigned to cover a meeting of the Salt Lake chapter, National Conference of Christians and Jews. The group was to select a citizen of our beautiful Valley of Salt to receive a brotherhood award. The citizens name was the information the reporter was seeking. Te meeting was held at the sedate MERRY-GO-ROUN- D andamU Alta Club, and un- known to the reporter, it was a dinner meeting. It is not exactly clear just who, but the reporter was taken for someone else. He was GOP Senators IN WASHINGTON Little or no regard was taken of the acres of state land involved In Utah alone, or of the 3,480 privately owned acre. These are the little probthat the legislative process papers for the withdrawal of 7.5 million lems acres of new national monuments and 1.3 involves, but which a exec-tiv- e million acres in wildlife refuges,, far act, no matter how laudatory in conmore thart twice the acreage smilarly set ception cannot assimilate. aside by. a single previous president. On the other side of the presidential By DREW PEARSON transition, Republican Interior Secretary Proposals to create the monuments And JACK ANDERSON had - been accumulating for many Walter J. Hickel took his lumps all week before had the Interior Senate never but discussed been Committee, months, WASHINGTON Its now a foregone with . elected representatives from the largely because of some careless words conclusion that Wally states involved. The department decided he had used at a December press conferHickel will be confirmed as Secretary of no "significant grazing, timbering, minence in discussing his views on conservathe interior, despite the tremendous voling or other activity were taking place on tion. Although Hickel successfully fended off almost all his political enemies these vast tracts, and, under Mr. Johnume of mall deluging senasons whim, went ahead with its plans. charges of personal malfeasance as gov- tors from conservation groups. ernor of Alaska, he ended the week as Though the recommendation to make The tradition of approving a new of the member unconfirmed the only national parks of seven national monuNixon Cabinet. Worse, he was forced to Presidents new Cabinet is too strong, ments were themselves not hotly controthat he would not exercise many and such Western senators as Frank versial, the precise boundaries of such pledge of the usual powers of the Interior secreChurch, the Idaho Democrat, are merely reservations have in recent years been without consulting Congress. tary examined in detail and at length by Congiving Hickel a polite dustoff. Some of Land withdrawals, hiring of profestheir gress to reconcile economic and consersounds like a sional personnel, lease policy, water polvation interests as far as possible. Viennese waltz. This was not done last week; in fact, lution abatement enforcement, and a In Republican circles, however, there the secrecy the administration sough '.to dozen other areas were tightly circumare so mixed feelings regarding Hickel. for and his scribed him, reputation impose was intense. Even the chairmen tarnished that he seems likely to face a While they cant talk about it, some GOP of the House and Senate Interior Comsenators who have been around a long mittees were kept largely in the dark. difficult if not impossible job as secreNone of the small problems, such as tary. time sense that Hickel spells trouble. Even some people in the incoming adrights-of-wa- y for federal and private They think the Nixon Administration power lines across the extended Capitol ministration were wishing privately that would have been wiser to have withReef Monument were considered or Hickel could somehow withdraw as drawn his name. ry-designate and give the new Pressolved. Rep. Wayne N. Aspinall, the House committee chairman, was ident a chance to name a man who They know the Nixon honeymoon is incensed at what he considered a person- would not be impossibly hobbled in the not going to last forever, and, with oil al slight. job. spelling as strong as it does in the public nostrils, the Hickel appointment could backfire badly. Its not that Hickel is dishonest; rather, that hes careless and a bungler. The latter is Illustrated by the fact and penetrating performance then, you that he MUSICAL WHIRL got careless with his tax returns are sure to be at the An Affair of the Heart and hear it again. If you didnt and had to pay an income tax deficiency hear it then, this is really an unexpected of 326,235 plus a penalty of $2,425 in 1963. Princess Irene crossed the footlights to pleasure to be able t) have a second While this was a civil tax case, Its highsit with Gov. Dan Evans and his wife, chance to hear it. Either way, you win. ly embarrassing that a Cabinet officer Nancy, for the remainder of the conGrant will also perform Faures was dunned by the government he Is cert. "Ballade. If you didnt know, Grant is serving for being tax careless. "Ed Baker, for the Seattle Times, the only American pianist ever to record However, the main wrote that the performance, limited to the Nixon the entire piano works of the poetic and Administration will problem have to watch with the Bach piece, was not sufficient to refour these and for Hickel is oil. Reason is that some of those indicate whether Princess Irene is more charming Faure, cordings Grant received international close to Nixon have been than competent. big oil backers acclaim as the leading exponent of or have oil "John Voorhees of the Seattle Investments, and Hickel will music. have jurisdiction over several million wrote: The performance of Faures acres of government oil land. Mr. Abravanel has also scheduled sevthe two piano concerto proved to be a Hickel at first claimed he had no oil pleasurable one, particularly in the eral other choice items for this worthwhile benefit concert As always, the Investments, then on gentle and lovely second movement. Utah Symphony concert begins at 8:30 admitted he had about a million dollars HEART AFFAIR Utahs own great p.m. Paul Huish, a g friend of Invested in the Anchorage Natural Gas Grant Johannesen plays his 25th anniver- Grant's, is chairman of the Utah Heart Company, of which he had been chairsary concert in Carnegie Hall Wednesday Association this year, and was successful man. He didnt seem to think there was in (22), and Washington I met many in getting Grant to include thi3 January any connection between oil and gas, prominent musicians and former Utahns musical highlight in his heavy schedule. though the two are usually to for who plan attend this gala highlight and the Anchorage Gas Co. is part of an SEE! HEAR! and this includes a reception Grant Tuesday (22) the Salt oil and gas combine owned in Houston. Artist Series ColumLake financed presbeing sponsored and by Hickel also tried to minimize the fact ents the brilliant young American Mibia Artists (an unheard of act of generosichael Rabin in a recital at Kingsbury Hall that Tom Kelly, Alaskan chief of natural ty for an agency). And just three days after this imporai 8:15 p.m. . . . The Utah Symphony resources, was an oilman. He told senators he didnt know whether Kelly had oil tant performance, Grant will be here in will give its second "Contemporary Conholdings and that it was difficult to find town to play a benefit concert with the cert of the season in Kingsbury Hall Utah Symphony and Mr. Abravanel for Thursday (23) and Friday (24). Gladys a good expert on natural resources. the Utah Heart Association in the Taber- Gladstone will be the guest soloist in a Real fact is, however, that Hickel nacle. Grant will perform again the Greig performance of the Haieff "Concerto for fired Phil R. Holdsworth, a highly quali"Concerto for Piano and Orchestra In A Piano and Orchestra. Mr. Haieff is the fied commissioner of natural resources Minor," that he played so brilliantly just composer in - residence at the Universi- with considerable experience in Alaska, a month ago. If you heard his moving ty of Utah . . . in order to make way for Kelly, who is of Mike Halbouty, head of the Halbouty Oil and a successful Texas independent oilman. Halbouty and Hickel by Briekman are reported to have had some joint 31,200 Say Hickel last-minu- Spells Trouble lf secreta- placed at the table between President N. Eldon Tanner and Bishop Federal. It was clear that more people came to the dinner than were expected. It was crowded. The reporter wanted to excuse himself, but the group wouldn't think of it. Bishop Federal may have had second thoughts about excusing the reporter. The good Bishop Federal speared a pickle and other relishes being passed, only to find that the reporter had used his A few minutes later, asked who had ordered buttermilk. He was sipping it at the time. "I did, said President Tanner, looking at the fresh milk right In front of the reporter. Outside of the bread plates getting mixed up, the rest of the meal went smoothly. When the business part of the meeting got underway, ballots were passed out to those few people who were eligible to cast a vote. The reporter got one. He tried to give it back to the fellow passing them around, but he wouldnt take it! He didnt want to tip the scales for any one candidate, so he just kept the ballot in his pocket The rest of the ballots were collected. Now it was time for the group picture . . . just the delegates. And was rushed up to the front to watch the birdie or say cheese. Just before the cameraman snapped the shutter, the chairman announced that a ballot was missing. The reporter handed over the ballot, trying to explain what he was doing at the meeting. I just came over to get the name of the candidate, he said, explaining he was a reporter. Now it may have been Bishop Federal who lost his pickle plate. It may have been President Tanner who lost his buttermilk. It may have been the chairman who lost a ballot. But someone suggested that they withhold the name and announce it at the next meeting. The reporter may not be there! Wits End When our famed Tabernacle Choir sang The Star Spangled Banner at th Inaugural yesterday and the camera panned on the flag . . . Howard Pearson signing off early I thought it was KSL-TaiiiiiiiiiimiiuitatmmnimaimimRiTmintiiiiimtui'.uuitumuui BIG TALK - son-in-la- investments. Kelly was executive vice president of Halbouty Oil, and when queried by the Senate interior Committee, reported that he owned $60,000 in mineral stocks, including 532 shares of Anaconda Copper. Hickel did not tell the senators, however, that he has been promoting a government railroad up to the area where Anaconda has rkh copper deposits. Kelly revealed that he owned 1,400 shares of British Petroleum, which is drilling in Alaska. This put Kelly in a clear position, since he has to rule on the permits of the company whose stock he owns. confict-of-irtere- . , plate. life-lon- bit WaeMrptan gtor dvwdeqf . ex- ample. Princess Irene Makes USA Debut the Dear Dr. Thosteson: I have Meniere's disease and would like to know if I can stand a plane trip across the Atlantic. I am 74, and am taking Dramamine, nicoR.L.L. tinic acid, and Vitamin A. Answer: With the medications you are taking, the plane trip should not bother Life Isn't anti-Hick- Great meat thaws, the bacteAs ria begin multiplying, even while the W a shington, meat is still "cool." Refreezing stops the in at the Dulles D.C., Remember not instantly. process, but the as Airport even that it takes quite a bit of time for an efficient freezer to freeze meat solidly Tabernacle Choir returned to Salt all the way through. Lake City from its exciting and signifiIt is possible, of course, to thaw meat, cant three performances in connection then refreeze it, and get away with it with the Inauguration Ceremonies, the unharmed. But sooner or later you will Times reported: thaw some once too often, or some more The American debut of "Seattle savage type of bacteria will be present, Princess Irene of Greece as a concert piand the family will come down with diaranist at the Opera House" (where the rhea, cramps, or other "food poisoning" Utah Symphony Orchestra and Maurice distress. Abravanel performed last June) "won Food inspectors soon get so they can lively applause and three curtain calls spot refrozen meat at a glance. A sort of from an audience of 3,000. And newspasilvery appearance on the surface, parper reviewers agreed that the Princess performed creditably. ticularly with poultry, is the tipoff. "Princess Irene aud Gina Bachauer, The best rule, the safe rule, is to wrap and freeze food as soon as possible and her. countrywoman and teacher, perto formed Bachs Concerto No. 2 for Two keep it hard frozen until you are ready Pianos and String Orchestra with the thaw and eat it. Seattle Symphony conducted by Milton causes What Dear Dr. Thosteson: Katims. After the Bach performance, underactive thyroid trouble? My daughin 15 three pounds ter, 22, has gained months. What can she do to get her norsmall society mal weight back? Mrs. M.M. is a this Answer: Do you know that case of underactive thyroid or are you just guessing? It is not usual for a thyroid condition to develop so suddenly. I cant give you any advice except to urge you to have a physician check her thyroid activity. If that is the true cause of her trouble, it can be readily treated. n subsoil Miozzi said the only way really to save the city is to close all artesian wells in Venice and the surrounding area, stop oil companies from drilling for gas in the northern Adriatic and pump water underground to increase the pressure in the artesian basins below the city. Miozzi said he consulted Prof. Joseph P. Poland, director of geological services of the United States, on the problem, and Puland estimated that a repressuring operation of this type could raise the surface of the soil by 1 to 20 per cent. Miozzi warned there could be no further delay in taking some action to save Venice and its incomparable treasure of renaissance art and architecture. "If authorities do not intervene immediately, Venice will not last beyond the lifetime of a man bom today, he said. "Help-Yourse- revive. deep-froze- He said the accelerating rate at which because of the steady increase in the level of the Adriatic Sea, swelled by the melting of polar glaciers,- and the drop in 1 When meat is put in a deep freeze, harmful or otherwise the bacteria do not multiply, but neither do they disappear. They are dormant and can Therefore with each period of thawing, such bacteria as are present begin to multiply. Although they multiply most rapidly when quite warm (like picnic foods in the August sun) they will still multiply at lower temperatures. As you know, foods spoil, although more slowly, In an ordinary refrigerator. To prevent bacteria from proliferating (and food spoiling), foods must be kept at a colder that is, in the "deep temperature freeze. By the year 2000 the city will be 11.8 inches below its present level and by 2048 it will have dropped 31.4 inches and "that will be the end, Miozzi said. sinking of the Venetian and the steady rise in the level of the sea would make it impossible to onen the gates more than once every six years without destroying the city. In the intervals, Venice would be trapped in a stagnant pool of water that would make life impossible. January 21, 1969 A Newsmans soil, he said. By RAY MOSELEY lems of Tuesday, the level of artesian water supplies under the city. Drilling for natural gas in the northern Adriatic also may weaken the sub- "Unless something is done to save it , the sea will roll in and remove from the world one of the great cities in the history of mankind . . AH DESERET NEWS, "Mommy, didn't you hear President Nixon say you're supposed to stop shouting at me?" photo faktn by Llontl V. McNotly lor tttt Dastrtf Mowt popular daily Baby Birthday faatura. 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