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Show mm r y if i iimirr M j iiran In Ptiiladelphia this fall, city boosters strutting around sporting buttons d at say, Think 76. In Boston, have been Bedford Minutemen iving flags and muskets and thumping vay on drums. In Washington, D.C., ofessional ballyhooers have been busily uting the capital as every Americans cos-me- city. It might seem that the local citizen-e-s are suffering advanced cases of giddiness. But tne three cities are ' intense and bitter earnest. A full seven years before the 200th an versary of the signing of the Declara-o- n each has been of Independence, a Presidential com-- i I ying to convince lission for moi.ths that It should be warded the honor of holding official icentennial celebrations. r lgrimage al Philadelphia daims to have tradition its side in the fight to get the t76 Worlds Fair. After all, the Declara-o- n was signed in Philadelphia, the first ontinental Congress was held there and e dty staged the 1876 and 1926 exposi-ons. Boston counters that the true seeds of e Revolution were sown in Massachu-:ttnot Pennsylvania and that, besides, ow its Bostons turn to play at being e real home of Americas heritage. s, Washington argues squatters rights: possesses the Declaration (as well as nost other important national documents nd monuments) and has the added of being the nations capital. Were it not for the huge financial pa-ac- the inter-citould have all the interest ame. But the bicenntennial ring the lucky city one of indfalls in history. Without even considering ake involved, people are expected to visit the fair where they will shell out some $650 million for food, $40 million for lodging and $260 million for entertainment. A hundred thousand new jobs will be created. New buildings, hotels and businesses could add as much as $400 million to the rolls. citys taxable-propert- y squabble y of a childs promises to the big civic the boon of 'ederal investment in the project, the irofessional consulting firms engaged by he three cities agree that the probable ake will be in the low billions. Somewhere between 55 and 65 million To American impress the Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the city fathers of the three contending cities recently marched on Washington as well and at least as lavishly fiprepared as the Colonial Army. nanced Philadelphia, in fact, spent more time on its bicentennial blueprint than it did on the Revolution itself : 12 years. The final presentation was directed by a local not at adman, Franklin Roberts, who all incidentally helped underwrite the Broadway musical 1776. It was a slick and worthy show. The city proposed to carve its fair site out of some of its worst slums, creating a unique opportunity for urban renewal. But the aggressive emphasis on local improvements annoyed one commission member. This bicentennial is to mark the anniversary of the whole nation, he not just Philadelphia. snapped, sition bandwagon, hoped to win favor with a regional approach a coordinated series of celebrations stretching from Ft McHenry, Md. (where Francis Scott Key celebrated those rockets red glare), to Jamestown, Va., with the District of Columbia as a focal point. If the commission saw flaws in every plan, many residents of at least two of the three competing cities were outraged at the prospect of spending millions now in the hope of realizing gains sometime in the future. They questioned the patriotism (let alone the sense) or spending around $1 billion of federal, state, city and private cash on any celebration at the same time that pressing urban problems continue to multiply. The boston City Council voted unanimously against the proposal submitted to Washington and Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, a candidate for the council, has collected more than 20,000 signatures on petitions opposing tiie fair. Negro groups in Philadelphia have demanded a large share of any fair profits while protesting what they call the rape of black neighborhoods. If you are going to celebrate 200 years of your freedom, said one black activist, dont celebrate it in my back yard. To give the anniversary something of a national character, the commission is considering the establishment of a national theater and a national university internaand, perhaps, a tional award similar to the Nobel Prize. It will be a matter of months before the federal commission finally makes up its mind about the bicentennial. It must avoid allowing the fair to turn into a e Boston proposed to create a floating city across Boston Harbor, to act as a kind of urban laboratory. Thousands of people would be able to live for 690-acr- several days under futuristically experimental conditions, and afterwards the THEY'RE YOUR SCHOOLS By LAVORK. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor Vocational and technical education is turn in the bout to take a both on local, state ichool spotlight after years of neglect, appears to be coming into its own. The urgent needs of an d itages. No longer his expanding technology have impelled educators to reappraise their vocational education programs and to search for boldly contemporaneous approaches to the problems of preparing young men and women for jobs. Speaking to the annual convention of the National Association of State Boards of Education last month in Los Angeles, California Gov. Ronald Reagan said vocational education is critically important in the face of the exploding electro-nucletechnology which is upon us. national important will seg-ne- of education looked upon as poor relation, lo - called lasses no longer rill be dumping grounds for poor br troublesome trade V' a- f. stu-Jent- s. There is almost unlimited evidence to mpport these predictions. n The October issue of the Croft summary devotes more than page to the exciting future of voca-ion- Unless California finds a way to train Its own technicians, it will have to import 2.5 million skilled workers in the next decade, he said. Both Peter C. Billings, chairman of the Utah State Board of Higher Educa edu-atio- al education. It notes that vocational education, tion, and Dr. G. Homer Durham, Commissioner of Higher Education, underscored the importance of vocational education in remarks to college and univer- sity leaders - The Melos Emanuel Hurwitz violinists; tcil Aronwitz, violist; Terence Weil, Hist; Adrian Beers, bass; Neill Sand-s- , French horn player; William Water-usbassoonist; Lamar Crowson, pian- - - n En-mbl- e. e, F; Mozart: Divertimento in ahms: Horn Trio in E Flat, Opus Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, us 114, Trout . If you want THE PERFORMANCE know how to stay in business 39 years. Artist Se-- s Salt Lake can easily )ply you the an-e- r, which is per--p s something )Ut building a ter mouse trap. 'Tburdsv ig in Kingsbury (U (use ie los that better trap was sovereign Ensemble t was commanding and perceptive In in j tually every note its members ee difference combinations played, fin its unmatched anywhere at any i : performance (for this department) jthe Trout Quintet, these superb romanti-;- i the drawing-roon to genuine emotional strength and wered power and nobility upon the i vura elements. And if any pianist ever wants to learn to steal the show without playing lly, Mr. Crowson, can give such a jvincing lesson that one will keep xhing concert after concert for a Mr. Crowso ,s lesson can be i simplified in two words: Play artis-He art-rais- members The liberal arts tradition, Durham said, has to be accompanied in our age with new concern for technical education. Part of the task in Utah, he said, is to improve the states two technical schools. I hope the time will soon be here, he said, when the students on the Redwood Rd. campus (of Utah Technical College at Salt Lake) will feel as much pride and prestige as alumni at the University of Utah. Is sure, Is a pianists music written by one of musics greatest melodists. But even more important, Mr. Crowsons interpretative sense combined with the rich musicianship of his four colleagues, brought the Schubert masterpiece vividly and excitingly to life. The same was true in the Mozart and the Brahms. When technique and interpretative insight are complementary, as they were in these less frequently heard chamber jewels, the results, as carved out by the Melos Ensemble members, were outstanding. SanHorn Trio, In the Brahms ders was also an exciting virtuoso who never covered iis colleagues but blended and brought into hairbreadth balance the finest musical concepts. The tempo o the final movement of the trio was made electrifying by Mr. Sanders dazzling technical skills. The impressive concert opened with a superb performance of the Mozart Fixif. Louis Bouih was sure during the performance that the score calls for two French horns, rather than a French horn and a bassoon. If so, the technology facility. Dr. T. H. Eell, state superintendent of public instruction, and the State Board of Education also are pushing for accelerated vocational education efforts. Iii recent years the board has established vocational centers at Richfield, Roosevelt and Smithfield and soon will open one at For the student who chooses vocational education, the future should be bright. Tomorrows best job opportunities likely will be in the technical field. The attention now being given vocational education is both belated and deserved. Powell On The Griddle Again yver-accura- By JACK ANDERSON - WASHINGTON Ever since Adam Clayton Powell burst upon the national scene, happily defying the established whether he order, it has been a toss-uwould finish his career in Congress or in prison. Now he is back on Capitol Hill, incorrigible as ever, involved in another grand jury Investigation. p For Powell, more than Martin Sweig, pulled backstage wires for fixer Nat Sweig may have been more effective, since he spoke for the powerful Speaker, John McCormack. But Voloshen found the Harlem Congressman more congenial. Before Powell was deposed as House labor chairman, he went so far as to conappoint Voloshen a congressional fixer sultant. This gave the high-paiVol-oshe-n. d special status that must have impressed both his clients and government officials. Voloshen also hung out in Powells office, using it as his Washington headquarters. He made frequent appearances in the Speakers office, huddling and hobnobbing with Sweig, but always left his hat in Powells office. Powell also joined Sweig in pressuring the Labor Department to make an appointment for labor racketeer Jack McCarthy. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aikan Abramowitz later ' questioned Frank Kleiler, a Labor Department official, about the meeting. Would it be fair to say, demanded Divertimento performance was probably enhanced even more by the different tone colors of the two instruments. Through the Mozart, as well as the Brahms and Schubert, Mr. Hurwitz rose to great heights of music making. As first and soloist violinist he presented every movement with wonderful concentration of tempo and structure, each phrase following inevitably out of what had gone before. the small society that the only reason that Abramowitz, you met with Mr. McCarthy on March 2, was because a congressman requested you to do that? Yes, said the labor official. This c lumn has now determined that the unnamed congressman was Powell. As House labor chairman, he had more influence with the Labor Department than did Sweig, who also made a call in McCarthys behalf. 1965, The irrepressible Powell, since his return to Congress, remains unrepentant and unregenerated. Ill behave as I always have, he promised reporters airily. He has continued his high living, pausing occasionally to attend to his congressional chores or to cash in on his noHe toriety on the lecture circuit. a $3,500 demands and usually gets fee for berating the white establishment. Indeed, Powell has everything a son of the ghetto could yearn for. He is handsome, lies extravagantly, courts glamoror- - women, vacations frequently in the best places, reaches moments of genuine eloquence, and is recognized wherever he goes. Yet he has been prosecuted in the courts, banished from Congress, fined almost a years pay by the House, harrieu by process servers, investigated repeatedly, kept away from the church his father built, and even forced into exile. On at least three occasions, he has escaped jail by the merest caprice of justice. by Brickman a mnow V ASKING filssA fingers AMP CAlo . 1 ViOAft- A- f Woehingtefl Cvndltct, Inc. Theres a guy on our editorial staff who is a real bean pole. I think he read a line in the Good Book which says that no flesh and blood shall enter the Kingdom . . . and hopes he can squeeze through by being all skin and bone. could even be, in fact, that the three cities pursuit of Expo 76 could all be for naught. The dty fathers are aware that the commission can and, considering the U.S.s dismal record with Worlds Fairs, may well recommend to the President that there be no fair at all He's a nice enough fellow, but his vacations are always being disrupted. Every time he goes to the beach, someone kicks sand in his face. If he jogged along with the boss for two weeks he would probably disappear completely. A small cost of living increase in piy may have made him flush, because he came up with an editorial about Pounds and Sense. In this editorial he claims that a lean, hungry-lookinexecutive will make $10,000 more a year than his chunky g counterpart. I checked around the valley and found a lot of fat cats who headed big firms. And the report from their employees is that they are good fellews . . . spreading happiness . . . white hat guys. On the other hand, local bankers are a slim bunch as a whole . . . you wouldnt want them for the office Santa Claus. He that people prone and early death. Then he throws a Fat not only slows physi- U.S. Safeguards Promise No More Depressions (Editor' Net: Thli li ths Is it of fiv reports analyzing ttie tconomy of 1969 In light of the 1999 stock market crash and the world depression which followed It). By SYLVIA PORTER Now we are approaching the climactic week in which 40 years ago torrential waves of selling rolled over the stock market and prices knew no bottoms. Then it was Oct. 24 and the na- tions most power- ful tycoons formed a banking pool to buy stocks to halt the panic. Then it was Black Tuesday, Oct. 29 and Thomas W. Lamont of J.P. Morgan & Co. announced at a secret meeting of the governors of the New York Stock Exchange: Gentlemen, there is no man or group of men who can buy all the stocks the American public can sell. Then it was the end of the s phony era and then our Secretary of the Treasury came up with the only solution to repair the mon- -- Z4 happened in Can you imagine yourself sitting by numbly as the adults of that era did watching your job disappear, your home being foreclosed, your savings becoming debts, your dreams turning into nightmares, and mumbling to yourself, The less government meddles with business, the better. activity but thought processes. He winds it up with a moral: He who wants to add wallet will lose a few pounds where he carries the wallet. Now I don't have to go to the coal yard to use their Fairbanks to weigh, but I aint thin. His bit about the skinny guys getting more money didnt bother me because Ill never make the executive level. But it did rub one of our readers the wrong way. He, or she, wrote a letter to the editor, but forgot to sign it. That heads it for the litter can right off. But I retrieved it because it had some good thoughts. And old Slim stepped on my fingers while I was getting it. So I know he had read the prose. Anyway, the writer pointed out that if everyone was thin there would be no individuality. He said he was sick and tired of being bombarded from all sides with diet plans . . . everyone wants to make you over. As for dying early, if you have ever spent any time in a rest home visiting the aged, wouldnt you prefer not to last that long? asks the writer. He also takes issue about the thought processes and fatigue. It is not true, the writer says, for to be successful in our careers we have to try harder and do strous damage: Liquidate labor, said he. Liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. . . . And that fantastic, withering remark leads me to what I believe to be the most fundamental of all the distinctions between 29 and 69 and I dont need one statistic to back it up. For can you imagine any public official proposing anything like liquidating all of us. (Incidentally, Mellon came close to describing what actually 1931-32- ... bomb gold-plate- To i By HARRY JONES world-famou- y. - Thin People! It Moab. n. Mr. Crowsons credit he did not set to steal the Trout Quintet show; ibert just provided him a wonderful iical vehicle that gives the piano terrific opportunities for display, md Mr. Crowsons faultless technique :?and unbe-- a of Irable tone and control enviable and . iijme especially those mesmerizing aissirnos gave him the mechanical A I sty to execute the writing. Never my I heard some of the Trouts pas- 4 Is played with such speed. This, for SH A iI ' St. All You cal Later Monday Gov. Calvin L. Ramp-toreviewed the rather bleak prospect for capital outlay funds for higher education md the necessity to establish building priorities. It would be my own recommendation that the highest priority should be the building at the technical college at Salt Lake, Ramptun said. Next item on the schools own priority list is a $3.8 million Merry-Go-Roun- d: The Sovereign Ensemble THE PROGRAM board A major goal of the new board, Billings said, will be to improve vocational and technical offerings in this state. MUSICAL WHIRL By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Critic and Monday. So There, parochial carnival. honky-ton- A 21 24 "(969 Qm has:j jones CRASH OF '29 Vocational Educations Turn In Spotlight nd Friday, October site would become a new community for 40,000 permanent residents. Washington, a latecomer on the expo- e y npnnyi DESERET NEWS Spirit Of 76: Battle For Bicentennial Blowout By PETER BENCHLEY Newsweek Feature Service it .) a better job. Then he releases his bomb. Heavy people dont rely solely on beauty and looks. There was more, but room in this column is slim, too. The writer did say that our editorial writer should not criticize until he has walked in their (a fat persons) shoes. He wxuld have to take about three steps before he got the shoes moving! The writer does suggest that we build each others self image and respect instead of constantly cutting it down. Ill eat and drink to that! Wit's End I know a woman so fat that her band cant believe she is all his! hus- BIG TALK .? Can' you visualize our labor leaders permitting joblessness to soar to tens of millions without demanding (and getting) great national actions to reverse the trend? I could go on and on elaborating on this but the point is clear. Of course, you cant. You would willingly trade off a major inflation for jobs, paychecks, profits, sales. We have learned how to control deep depressions. We know far more about curbing depressions than we do about restraining inflations, as a matter of fact. So summing up: Yes, it can happen again but it wont The institutional investor Is a profoundly important new force regularly investing huge amounts of cash in stocks even though this type of investor recently has not be in nearly as stabib'zing a force as we thought and new regulations in this area may be necessary. It's popular to sneer at any claim of a new era, but dont sneer for if my conclusions in this series are wrong, you wont be interested in reading a new series explaining why. Because if Im wrong, it will mean that the American system of private enterprise and capitalism born almost 200 years ago will have vanished from the pi lf i sS lb: vs: yw ?$ ! "Some people pray only when they want something they look upon the Bible as sort of a Sears Roebuck catalog!" From photos lakoit tor IDs Oejerof gaily Birthday featurs. earth. II MB; Nows populao |