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Show iWSt, SSlA 'u' "" ' ii M. .;1iil S " "' Rimniiiiiii!i!!iiiiiini!!tiiiHii!i;n!iiiiiiiimiiii!iiiiiiii;iiiiiii!!niii!Rniiiminmii!n LETTERS DESERET NEWS l!!!lil!l!l!!!!!tl(!IIll!!llllil!linil!!IIIIIHI!imillllUIIllinilllinnill!llintllimilli!ll SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States I, I - Depends On Definition i As Having Been Divinely Inspired ! --A. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1969 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE i ... .. The Story Behind Costs Swollen Hi44 A.4v. a 41 Congress has complained long and bitterly about the baland not without looning cost of the jet transport reason. good The original $3.1 billion contract for 120 planes and spare parts has ballooned into a $5.2 billion project. Here is how it happened : The Defense Department insisted on a total package bid uncommon for such large from prospective contractors involved first a development In the past, big systems projects. contract, and then one to produce the first five planes for test purposes. Contractors didnt have to nail down costs beyond that. After the development and test phases were completed, the military then negotiated a production contract when the contractor presumably had a better idea what his production costs would be. contract fixed a price for the development and The but also left room for a price increase on the first 58 planes the full production phase if the military chose to purchase more planes. ,!he purpose of this loophole was to protect the contracting company, Lockheed Aircraft Corp., from the substantial unknowns in bidding on such a big job. As one Lockheed officontracts which call for substantial cial points out, fixed-pric- e work far offer greater risk of loss than the development chance of making a profit. ; In fact, Lockheed forecasts a small $13 million loss on the project even under the repricing formula. The Air Force saysjthe company will lose a lot more. ! vThe trouble is that its possible for a firm to purposely unrfej'bid on a project with the intention of making up by costs for additional work later. overrunning and tacked-o- n Anwhen contractors make a bad cost estimate, accidentally orot, theyre the ones who should pay for it not the ity. As to the three radio stations Mrs. Cheyney mentions, whether they are presenting good music is entirely a matter of opinion. I consider all three of them basically very bad radio stations in that respect. KEITH MOORE 30814 S. 13th East - Don't Blame Brine Fly C-5- A It's September 1st , vUnless the military devises some simpler and more foolproof system for defense contracting in more realistic terms, it will be faced by continuing hassles over production costs froip ft suspicious Congress and public. How many times have you heard people say they couldnt find time to serve their church or their community because thy were too busy making a living or raising a family? ,That excuse just wont hold up. One can always find time for whats really important in life, and few things are more important than service to others. Just ask anyone who knew John Longden. Here was a man who proved beyond doubt that one can be, simultaneously, successful in business, active in civic affairs, and an untiring religious worker and leader. "Before becoming an assistant to the Council of Twelve Saints, Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Elder Longden served on a mission, as a bishop, in the Mutual Improvement Association, as a high councilman in two different stakes, and as a member of the Church General Welfare Committee. He also was a leader in four civic and professional organizations, and worked his way up through the ranks of business to become area manager of an electrical products firm. You are here to serve, he often said. No courtesy he copld render was beneath his dignity, no kindness was too small for him to bestow despite his busy schedule. He was the height of dependability, his daughters recall. When he promised something, he would always follow through. Parents far less busy would do well to emulate this trait, a cornerstone in building trust between parents and children. . How did he accomplish so much? A sense of proportion certainly helped, and with Elder Longden service to his Church came first. But underlying it all was the realization that real joy comes from helping others. With his death at 70 the past weekend, Utah has lost a diligent civic and business leader and a devoted spiritual leader. The Deseret News expresses its condolences to his family and friends. North Vietnams callous disinterest in prisoner of war treatment leaves little, if any, hope for positive action on tougher and broader issues at the Paris peace talks. As the U.S. delegation has discouragingly admitted, the North Vietnamese will not budge on the prisoner matter, even though it has been kept in the forefront of the deadlocked SOS's Vague New liberation' Goal By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND from Columbia to Berkeley, from Harare heedvard to San Francisco State ing valid student demands affecting the from whole range of decision-makin- g campus rules to curriculum to election of students to boards of trestees. More students can see that theyre no longer on the outside looking in, but on the inside acting to shape the decisions which affect their education and their lives. The campus extremists, who dealt only in nonnegotiable demands and who resorted to violence to halt university life, not to improve it, are apparently losing much of their campus constituency. One lost semester may be tolerable in an exciting cause, but most students want to get on with their education and arc less disposed to provide the student following without which the destruction-ist- s cannot successfully carry out their plans. 3 The Students for a Democratic Society, which has been the spearhead of campus violence and which is often led by nonstudents dedicated to an undemocratic society, is enunciating a new set of goals so vague as to be meaningless. They are without focus and are not likely to seem relevant to students. No wonder the SDS is losing its con- 2 Trouble is like a voracious infant, and the more one feeds it with worry, the larger it grows; it can only be starved to death by judicious neglect, but few are resolute enough to adopt this firm regimen. What could it possible be? a father next to me said. I dont know, I admitted. I thought they had given up making films for the entire family. Maybe It's a foreign film, his wife suggested. i have risen above the poverty line of a income. Th SDS announced its total support of the North Vietnamese Communists and the Viet Cong in order to bring to South Vietnam, ur aware, freedom perhaps, that netrly 1 million North Vietnamese migrated to South Vietnam in order to escape Communist oppression. North Vietnam wants to bring ail the freedom and independence to South Vietnam that the invading Soviet troops brought to Czechoslovakia a year ago. SDS declares that wars of liberation are happening in the jungles of Guatemala, Bolivia, Thailand and in all oppressed nations throughout the world and It is now summoning young Americans to get into these wars. It says that this is a good kind of war, a war in which there are only two sides; a war not for destruction, but for liberation and the unchaining of human freedom. It urges young Americans to ' fight in it. It is, SDS finally says as the United States is withdrawing troops from Vietnam, a war which we cannot resist; it is a war in which we must fight When Fresident Nixon is making it clear that U.S. foreign policy will depend less and less on military power, the SDS is making it clear that one of its major objectives is to persuade American youth that there are new foreign wars they ought to be fighting, new wars they ought not resist. No wonder students want to get back to their classes. $3,000-a-yc- f f ; - h, f I G. Drummond R. Drummond stituency. Consider this picture of SDS thinking from an authoritative article in an underground newspaper, the Quicksilver Times in Washington, D.C. Here is the SDS action program for the coming year: The SDS is out to persuade its constituency that working people face higher taxes at the very moment when the tax reform bill is about to free more than 2 million working poor from paying any income taxes whatsoever. It proclaims that competitive enterwhich it aims to destroy prise steals the goods and the labor of the poor and working people when most w orking people in the United States have achieved the highest standard of living in history and when, during the past five years, more than 10 million Americans Imagine A 'G' Rated Family Movie . . . con-dip'o- hs THE DRUMMONDS There are three good WASHINGTON reasons why there may be less restrive-nes- s and less violence on the campuses this year: 1 Many universities and colleges CAPE COD One of the problems of taking children on vacation is that there is nothing to do with them in the evenings. There is one movie house in our town on Cape Cod, and it shows a different film every n i g ht. Unfortunately none of the children has been able to go because every film that theyve shown has been graded by the Valenti code as M for mature audiences only, R for restricted audiences only or X which means you have to prove youre Dirty Old Men before they let you in. You can therefore imagine my surprise when I heard the other day the Bijou Cinema was advertising for Saturday night a G picture, which meant it was for the entire family. I couldnt believe it, so I ran down to the theater to see if it was possibly true. Other parents liad also heard the rumor, and there was a large crowd in front of the building staring at the coming attractions" poser which said the film on Saturday had been declared for general audiences wi out any restrictions. talks. Both inside and outside the talks, U.S. officials have insisted that the North Vietnamese at least provide a list of American pi isoners they hold so that families can be notified. But so far this request, as well as a plan for mutual inspection of prison camps, has been unheeded. Only after three U.S. prisoners were returned from Hanoi recently were military and diplomatic officials made aware of prisoner there. Even then these accounts fell short of providing a $tl picture. The U.S. has the names of some 1,350 servicemen who have been listed as killed or missing in action in Vietnam, and believes that only about 340 of them, mostly pilots, are held in Communist captivity. But because of the uncertainty, this creates torment for many families that dont know whether their sons, husbands and fathers are dead or missing. The North Vietnamese stance on the matter is needlessly callous and cruel since the information on POWs cannot have any effect on the war. - Despite the frustrations involved, the U.S. should keep hammering away at the POW issue in order to keep faith with the servicemen and their families. on a new production, a sinkfore ing feeling just before they face new classes with new names to be learned and remembered, new aptitudes or lack of aptitudes for learning to be considered and skillfully met . , . September 1st is a welcome sun on your shoulders at noon and the warmth of a blanket at night . . . And it is being lost while staring and dreaming in the spray mist of a secluded spot on American Fork Creek and then discovering that Mount Timpanogos is unexpectedly at our side as if it had stepped up, to be dose to us, while were were not looking . . . curtain-ris- e w . Keep POW Talks Going students and teachers alike. The former, accustomed during the summer to freedom from set routines, now face the certainty of assignments taking time both in and out of school. And for teachers, as with actors be- September 1st is the last of the vacationsoon back at their desks . . . And it is the harassed chief clerk breathing easily now that he no longer need worry about making do without taking on expensive, albeit incompetent replacements . . . September 1st is golden rays of sunshine filling the blue sky, and roses making a comeasters apback . . . And it is purple-blu- e pearing and the earliest chrysanthemums opening gold, yellow, maroon, pink or bronze petals . . . September 1st is also a very quiet and dull house as the youngest son goes off to school with a happy smile, a brand-necherking account all his own, and dozens of personal items too numerous to mention . . . September 1st is periods of adjustment for ists tax-pajjii- rs. Elder John Longden , ual excitation and-o- r monetary gain, and in music I want neither of those. One of the major catalysts for the downfall of tliis nation, besides television, is corrupt sound," which I will not call music," and to which about 99 percent of the populace adheres with sick avid- C-5- A Afterthought I appredate Mrs. Verna C. Cheyneys interest in helping me to find legitimate music ou the radio, but my complaint still holds. The fact is that there is no classical music on FM stations on Sundays, especially in the daytime, and there is much of it in other cities of the country. Mrs. Cheyney mentioned something about certain stations having only one commercial between every three songs. I do not regard songs as music, if one is thinking of Tin Pan Alley, genres, or anything other than music and by music I mean Corelli, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart that gang. Anything but that, to me, is cacophonous, because its root motive is that of sex-- semi-classic- al C-5- A C TO THE EDITOR ART BUCHWALD It could be an old MGM film that they retitled, another man said. Irri sure Hollywood wouldnt make a new film for children to see. A lady became indignant. They should have given us some advance notice. I had a big dinner planned for Saturday evening and now I have to cancel it. Why? a man asked. Ive never seen a movie for general audiences, and another one may not come along for years, she said. Apparently word had spread beyond the town because people were driving in from the countryside to see the poster. Main St. was clogged with cars and fathers were standing in the middle of the street holding their children on their shoulders so they could get a better look at the G rating. The manager of the movie house came out perspiring. Please go home. This is Thursday and the family movie isnt scheduled until Saturday night. You're hurting my regular business. Nobody moved. can get in on Kow do we know we Saturday night? a man shouted. "Yeah, someone else yelled, suppose the whole Cape hears youre showing a G movie? We wont be able to get in. Why cant we buy our tickets now? Tne crowd was becoming ugly. The manager got up on a box. "Please, he said, its not my fault. Were only permitted to show one film for the entire family each.summer. If It was up to me Id show another one, though heaven knows where Id find It. A mother cried, We support you when you show your M and R movies. Why cant we get some consideration when you show a G movie? How about a matinee? I suggested. In that way more people could see it. "I cant show it at a matinee. Next Saturdays matinee is already booked for I Am Curious Yellow, My childs never seen a movie, another mother cried. Couldnt children who have never seen a movie be given first preference? the manager said. We Madanrf, cant cater to lower age groups. It looked hopeless, so I decided to go home. As I suspected, the word had spread all along the Cape that our cinema was going to show a family movie, and on Friday morning caravans of people started to arrive with tents and sleeping bags. By Saturday morning people had abandoned their cars 20 miles from the town and walked on foot in hopes of seeing it. By Saturday aftsmoep the place looked like the Woodstock Festival at Bethel, N.Y. The Bijou Cinema has only 500 seats, so 60,000 people had to be turned away from the theater. But they didnt seem to mind. The father of one tribe said as he tied up his bedroll, I think just being in town where they were showing a film for the entire family, even if we didnt get in, was a wonderful experience for the kids. Great Salt Lake as a tourist attraction has many dangers to overcome. Why blame its troubles on the innocent little brine fly? This practice is only a diversion to take the public mind off the real hazards such as a serious less in the water supply that should maintain the laxe at a proper level. This loss is what killed Saltair. The struggle for the mineral and water resources of the area is a lasting and contest and use of these resources are the final determiners of the lakes hard-foug- conditions. Lets not add to the effect of this exploitation or development, depending on our viewpoint, the mistake of completely disrupting nature by destroying tne basic tood supply of tne great numbers of wild life of this area. A machine to sweep the beaches cant cost enough to justify that course. These shrimp and flies must be thought of as a resource, not at something to fear or do away with. ROGER WILLIAMS 256S S. Fargo St. - Deceived ' About U.N, This letter is in rebuttal to the letter of Tom Wharton criticizing the letters of Taylor Turner and Vene Dee Turnbull. The American people have been lad to believe that it is better to be Red than that if we offer any real resistance it dead might result in nuclear war. Did you know that war has never been declared in Vietnam? It is just a containment. We arent war but the boys go on being fighting an all-okilled and maimed. All the while the Paris peace talks go on. The Reds think what they cant win on the battlefield they will win at the peace talks" in Paris. If the talks go like they have in past talks with the Reds, they will probably get what they want. Either Mr. Wharton has been deceived about the United Nations or he is deliberately trying to mislead the people. Like Vene Dee Turnbull says, Alger Hiss, the Communist spy, was the architect of the United Nations. -J-OSEPH MACK BEAN JR. Springdale Helmets No Cure Anyone who rides a 'motorcycle is taking chances, helmet or no helmet. But so is anyone who rides in a car or on a plane, or does almost anything else one could mention, such as crossing a pedestrian lane (without a helmet). There is nothing wearable that can mean definite or positive protection, whether its worn on one end or the other, or in the middle. A human body is destructible. Personal decisions which involve no one else should be made only by the person himself. Most of us in this country believe in decent, logical, unhampered, personal free agency. No doubt a motorcyclist could feel like kissing a helmet during some times of the year, for it keeps an east wind from going through one ear and taking everything out the other. But if a helmet is to mean protection, a more likely product to wear would be a reasonable facsimile of a knighthood suit of armor. If only a helmet, then part of the law should be that a cyclist can land only on his head. Many of us wish that these noisy whatzits had never been invented. -- MARJORIE HUGHES Bountiful Labor Monopoly Even the largest industrial corporation in the world, General Motors, owns only 2.72 per cent of the assets of Americas industrial corporations. As the figures clearly point out, labor, in particular the AFL-CIhas a much stronger control over its main asset, the American labor market, than the largest conglomerates have over the American product and sales markets. Something must be done. The American way of freedom is at stake. Business must take a strong stand, government must stop playing politics, and show some guts toward labor and the people must speak up. Business is always talking about its social responsibility to society. Now is the time for business to get tough. Business has an ethical duty tq try to protect the liberty which this country stands for, and fighting the labor union conglomerate is one way of trying to preserve freedom for all the American people. -- DALE K. NEWTON Salt Lake City SiECUS Exposed SIECUS (Sex Information and Education Council of the United States) is the most powerful and influential organization pushing for sex education in our schools today. Mary Calderone, executive director of SIECUS, holds some rather curious views on parents teaching their children about sex Here is a statement from her: Im afraid that parents cannot exercise judgments as to quality in terms of content because most parents are not qualified. Even many doctors are not qualified. -P- AUL CARVER Soda Springs, Idaho -- |