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Show inn "i By LEWIS M. SIMONS Associated Press Writer Lee Kuan Yew is a SINGAPORE retired a says Singapore podictator, lice officer. Lee may be but hes what Singapore needs. He put this place on its A feet. British businessman. e t - nn'i njin ytli4rr'''ngwfrr'7,'if)V;' DESERET NEWS, Nothing Like Sleepyt Isle Of Old Is Singapore i.'t ijt in my ttprrjJfg)ri - 2 .... '' k- - to eat, we are clothed and housed. We are happy." Food is plentiful and cheap. A longtime resident once commented that on any night the loudest sound in the streets of Singapore is tlie clicking of chopsticks. s LWwNSfA" " ; . As soon as the sun fades, hawkers and stall keepers set up shop in parking lots or in streets of the old Chinatown sector. Illuminated by lanterns, the night markets are steamy pinpoints of activity. The choice of delicacies includes dozens of varieties of noodles, from thread-thitransparent strands which even the most practiced chopstick user has difficulty picking up, to broad stripes drowned in bold or subtle sauces. .. .i & children My go to English school. I have a job and we live in a clean flat Without Lee Kuan Yew 'would have none of this, A taxi ; Vs- d Other stalls display glazed ducks, hole roasted fish, innards of half a dozen types of animals, great heaps of dried birds nests, salted sharks fins, tubes of snappy live crabs and giant freshwater prawns. brown-candie- driver. ."Mr. Lee Kuan Yew is too clever by Prime Minister half." Malaysian jnnku Abdul Rahinan. ' Somewhere among these divergent opinions of Singapores dynamic young prime minister lies the real Lee Kuan yew. Whatever he may be, Singapore today is what he has made it d Lee, 46, is a ruler who directs his Peoples Action Party and most of Singapores two million polyglot population with demanding severity. At the same time, not even his most outspoken critics can deny that Lee has altered the face of Singapore for the benefit of the islands people. It is almost e unrecognizable as. the sleepy it as when he elbowed his way into office 10 years ago behind a pockmarked face, thrusting jaw and an unsmiling, hard-line- d mouth. For no more than 17 cents, the native or the tourist can eat his fill of soup, noodles, chicken and dumplings, steaming hot and equal to the best in many American Chinese restaurants. hard-fiste- Other restaurants offer vast selections of food catering to the varied tastes of the islands conglomerate population. The Indian curries are fiery'. A milder snack is Malay satay, small bits of meat barbecued on a straw and dipped in peanut sauce. Expert Chinese chefs in continental restaurants prepare French, Russian, Italian and Swiss specialties. The dress of the islands people is as varied and colorful as the food : first-clas- s city-stat- .There are frequently strained relations between Lee and his genial, easygoing Malaysian neighbor, the Tunku. observers of Singapore-Malaysrelations claim that when the leaders meet, the Tunku automati- Longtime two ia no to any proposal Lee cally says makes, fearing the brilliant Singaporean will trap him. lees most obvious accomplishments are seen on the streets of sweltering, bustling Singapore every day: workers apart; Hundreds of high-ris- e ment. blocks tower from the flat, red earth over the island, which forms the dot at the end of the Malay Peninsulas exclamation point Over 600,000 Singaporeans how live in this efficient, if somewhat sterile, hous. es- street after street in the traffic-choke- d downtown section, modem office buildings and luxury hotels are shooting On up. Thirty-thre- e rooms are now boards. hotels with over 9,000 being built or are on the Giant tankers and cargo, ships from virtually every seafaring nation steam in and out of the superb harbor, making this the worlds fourth most active port At the new Jurong Industrial Estate, a Lee Kuan Yew scheme of vast proportions, bulldozers and steam shovels gobble up gaping mouthfuls of earth, making hills disappear while swamplands harden under transported fill. Some 3,000 feet of dredged deepwater wharf hug the Jurong area, providing sea transport for the multitude of factories and plants springing up. Dockyards are being enlarged to enable Singapore to service tankers up to 200,000 tons. ' . : sissippi River, there takes place today an event which the State of Mississippi has not witnessed for 100 years. Charles Evers, a Negro, will take the oath of office as mayor. - The ceremony and the barbecue and ball which follow will be a triumph in many different respects, also an object lesson to black militants in the North. First, it will be a triumph of love over hate; for it was only six years ago this month, July 12, 1363, that Medgar Evers, brother of the new mayor, was shot and killed from ambush by a white racist who was twice tried but never convicted. Charles, who carried on for his brother as head of Mississippis NAACP, could have become bitter. Instead he turned the oilier cheek, "Just herause a white man killed my brother, he told me, Im not going to fake out my revenge on white men. I want to build the kind of community Medgar and I dreamed of. I want to bring us together. Evers Second, is a inauguration triumph for the Negro voting rights bill now which the Nixon Administration wants to modify and some say weaken. Before passage of the voting rights bill in 1965, there were only 20,000 registered in Mississippi. Now there are 236,000. Before passage of the Ne-6'o- the small societv sihks Bearded Forget Arvilla! with tightly wound By HARRY JONES Theres going to be an important cutback at the Geneva Works of U.S. Steel Corporation down Provo way. Its going to be quite a loss. Arvilla Jones is going to retire! Shes been out there 27 years, and tough to beat, especially since the plant has only been in operation for 25 years! Arvilla started during construction of the plant a time when there were 99 construction companies trying to get all the parts to fit together. Thousands of people were on the job hammering, pounding, riveting and banging metal against metal. And in the middle of it all, Arvilla tried to keep the communications intact. To make matters worse, there were no telephone directories. People came and went with rapidity . . . a book would have been useless. It was so confusing at times that visitors thought it was a government instal- thats ... well-dress- d n three-bedroo- d ... quasi-Danis- cane-furnitu- re MERRY-GO-ROUN- WASHINGTON On the steps of the city hall of Fayette, population 1,600, Mis.eight miles from the broad-flowin- g They Wont turbans: old Chinese men in wraparound baggy trousers; young Chinese mini cheong girls in sar-on- s sams; Malay women in and waist cinching blouses known as kebayas; Indian girls in modified hipster lation. saris and others, from tire Punjab, in Telephone stations moved about like tight trousers and tunics. trucks. You could never know for sure Well-feand people in just where a telephone station was locatAsia are seldom dissatisfied with their ed, Mrs. Jones recalls. a diplomat notes. government, Someone would call and want to speak to a John Doe." But there are others, Singaporeans and outside observers, who fear the Where does he work . . . what degrowing power of the puritanical Lee partment? Arvilla would ask. Kuan Yew government. I dont know for sure, but he is There is integrity in government," a blue shirt and carries a lunch wearing attorney David Marsays native-borbucket," the voice would say. shall, but there is no humanity. SingaSuch information narrowed it down to pore humanity is being transformed into about 6,000! ants. A former civil service clerk observes: Finally Arvilla had just about everyThe people in Singapore think the govone pinpointed except the very new Growth and modernization is orderly in Singapore. planned pattern. Queuing up for buses, lower ernment is efficient, very efficient But workers. That was the week that conWorkers' apartment blocks, top rise in well- photo, is expedited by new system of pipe runways. struction was completed, and most of the they also think its too strict. The government, which holds every men went on to other jobs. seat in the Such gains are impressive, both to the parliament, is strict When ,he marries, But from such experience, Arvilla Eng says, of radio combination sits on a low book- indeed. Not own cabinet mineven Lees outsider and the citizen of Singapore. case. course he will leave and we will miss his gained a reputation of being able to find isters deny this. Singapores problems are the kind other earnings. Perhaps my wife will return to anyone, anywhere at any time. That The older Eng children are music countries in this region would like to work. nations are like airplanes made her very popular with most people. Emerging fans. They know all the latest pop in a storm. Foreign minister S. Rajarat-nahave, a Western diplomat says. A few soreheads who had been hiding out The family lives in a tunes, their father says. Hock a in clerk says. The captain must be able to to get out of work may have been Huan, Eng flat in one of the older government hous; steamed up a time or two. a British-ownerubber brokerage, tends ing developments. The rent was $57 a Engs annual income is more than make decisions without interference. island-wid- e of double , to agree. Hes worked for the same firm $667 the to Rajarat-nr.mis What needed according average month until this year when the building Her cheery voice will be missed. Even 11 years, earns $117 a month and finds a former newsman, is democrawas turned into a cooperative under a yet the national per capita income is with the convenience and speed of direct life in his native country comfortable. n twice that of Malaysia and indito democratic cy without the employes are going to miss government plan and the family began nearly dialing, in cates Singapores high living standard principles. We want for nothing, he says. His buying their flat a happy Hello. that human touch Southeast Asia. Once we give full vent to the printwo younger children, a girl of nine and The apartment is plain but extremely Arvilla has been active most of her a boy, 12, attend English school. His neat and clean. The living room is furciples of democracy, as is going on in the Many of the poorest Singaporeans, . . . since she kicked the staves out cf life been eldest son, 17, has completed high school nished in h motel: plastic-toppe- d live in ramshackle attap, or thatch huts, United States today and as has crib. So shes going to stay active. her countries Asian in some Southeast few tried to have seem and has a clerkship in a government ofbut complaints. they tables, orange and blue plastic effective make we with dismal failure, One of her plans is to take a course in fice. He lives at home and contributes One attap dweller, a Chinese cushions. A large television has a place his salary to the family. of honor and a portable record player- governing impossible, he adds. speech at BYU. Now, a telephone operamaker, says: We have plenty tor taking a speech course is like a heart surgeon taking first aid. They are all exMUSICAL WHIRL pert talkers. Evers Victory: An Object Lesson By DREW PEARSON and JACK ANDERSON OUR MAN JONES n HjLftmm; Aj5 Monday, July 7, 1969 D voting rights bill, not one Negro was elected to public office. Now 81 have been elected, including one mayor and one state legislator, several district constables, justices of the peace, district and county supervisors, members of the boards of education, and deputy sheriffs. These would have been impossible before the voting rights bill, Evers told me. I know. Ive tried to register in Philadelphia (Miss.) before the bill was passed and I personally know the runaround they give you. First they send you to the chancery clerk,' who sends you to the circuit clerk, who sends you to the sheriff. The sheriff tells you that the registration books are out, to come back in 30 days. So you come back in 30 days and then they make you recite the Constitution from memory. Then, if by extreme persistence you manage to register, and if you do finally get to the polls, deputy sheriffs sit around, armed to the teeth, glowering at you as if daring you to walk past them and vote. All this would be lost, Evers said, if the Nixon Administration should succeed in weakening the Voting Rights Act. The final triumph to be scored by the inaugural ceremony in Fayette is the it is giving to the Negro new population, plus new hope for the future, which may keep Negroes at home with friends and family Instead of migrating to the crime-ridde- n streets of the North. Its not only given new hope to Negroes, says Mayor Evers, its also given new hope to poor whites. They they have been trampled on just as much as the Negro. I think as many poor whites as Negroes have won the right to vote under the new Voting Rights Act. I asked the mayor whether there was much white resentment against his election. he replied. Only from the Klan, They have made a few threats, but o'Jier people have been fine. Mayor R. J. Allen, whom I defeated, couldnt be more cooperative. So has the city clerk, Mr. Felix Noble. They have been wonderful. Fayettes population of 1,600 is 75 per cent black. Of these, 100 per cent of the whites are registered and 98 per cent of the blacks. The total registration is 728, of which 699 voted at the election which 'The Mighty Raging Elements By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor havent realized that elected Evers. You couldnt get a much higher voting participation than that, he said. Only 29 registrants failed to vote. Thats how seriously people take their voting rights. Things are changing," said the new mayor of Fayette. And the way to change them is not through rioting and violence but by voting. With the right to vote we can hold our heads high. That is a lesson which both black militants who riot and Attorney General Mitchell who wants to weaken the voting rights law should note carefully. by Briekman The most effective and popular of all oratorios since Handel, Mendelssohns Elijah will be presented by .the Salt Lake Oratorio So- ciety next Sunday (13) in the Temple View Theater, 50 North Main St., at 8:30 p.m. John Nielsen Marlowe will conduct. Don Watts, Utah well-know- n artist, will sing the baritone role Mr tts and not Robert Peterson because of his engagement in a production of Camelot in Denver. Don is currently attending the Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where he is studying the Elijah role with one of Americas great coaches and teachers, Martial Singer. Glade Peterson, leading tenor of the Zurich Opera who arrived with his fami-- ly Thursday from Switzerland, the tenor role. will sing An orchestra of members of the Symphony Orchestra will play, with neth Kuchler as concertmaster. No ets are required and the gates will at 7:30 Utah Kentick- open p.m. The occasion for Mendelssohns composing Elijah was the 600th anniversary of the Corpus Christi Festival in EngMendelsland. And if the German-Jewissohn chose in his Opus 73 to be as Italian, as emotionally joyous as Rossini or even Verdi, we can only conclude that a great artist refused to confine himself within narrow philosophical limits. h Such is the case with Mendelssohns and St. Paul Biblical oratorios, Elijah, beneath which throbs an intense faith in the Divine Word. Mendelssohn could not have created his New Testament oratorio, St. Paul, without matching it with a companion oratorio glorifying the Old Covenant ' (Testament). St. Paul ante- - . The fact that his dated his Elijah by 10 years was mere chance. The succession might equally have been the other way around; there was no question of preference, and certainly not of conversion." Old Testato Mendelssohn, Gods ment and New Word. Word was Gods Prince Albert wrote in his own libretto of Elijah a tribute such as few sovereigns have ever been known to give a But Arvilla says shes a little nervous speaking before a group. Instead of taking a speech course, why doesnt she just use the telephone for a prop . . . talk into it. She could lecture the United Nations! ... at Arvilla is not of our Jones clan least I havent seen her at the family reunions (there are quite a few Jones people around). But she is sure welcome to join. We wouldnt have known about Arvilla if half the people down at Geneva hadnt called to tell us about her retirement That must mean something! Wit's End: Harold Lundstrom, our man in music, has a combination tape recorder and air conditioner . . . likes to play it cooL composer. Prince Victorias Consort, Queen Albert, wrote on April 24, 1847, after the second of four attending BIG TALK Artist who, surrounded of debased art, has by the been able, by his genius and science, like another Elijah, faithfully to preserve the worship of true art, and once more to accustom our ear, amid the whirl of empty frivolous sounds, to the pure tones of sympathetic feeling and legitimate harmony; to the Great Master who brings home to us the unity of his conception through the whole maze of his creation from the soft whispering to the mighty raging of the elements. Inscribed in grateful remembrance. Albert. Buckingham Palace. To the Noble Baal-worshi- p far more than St. Paul, Elijah, anticipates the future. Elijah is also elemental music; it is music in which Mendelssphn found a creative intermediary position between classicism and romanticism. The true core of the oratorio is the landscape of Palestine, charged with elemental forces. The soil of Palestine in shares the stage with the Elijah Prophet Elijah himself. It is a land of drought, thirst, and hunger, and also of k torrents of lightning, thunder, rain; of earthquakes, fires, raging storms, green oases, and golden deserts, of leathery palm leaves and aromatic shrubs, and whistling winds in which is the Lord. blue-blac- "All that fuss over picking the right doctor to be assistant Health Secretary. Maybe Nixon just should have looked in the Yellow Pages!" From pholoo taken by Uonol V. McNedly for h Deseret Now popular daily Birthday feature , |