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Redlands Daily Facts Redlands, Calif. Saturday, July 15, 1972- 12 Police mustn't use speed-trap radar Traffic officers in Redlands and in every other California city--must play by the Marquis of Queensbury rules when they use radar to determine that a motorist is speeding. It was the Legislature that served notice this week that the police must scrupulously observe a code of fair play. This warning was an indirect one but the message will come through, loud and clear, to any seasoned officer. Let's discuss the background.

In the earlier days of motoring, some hamlets and towns deliberately bolstered their revenues by zealous enforcement of their speed limits. Their cops would write tickets for 27 mph in a 25-mile zone. The local judge would levy a $25 fine for an offense that the victim felt warranted nothing above $5. The public sense of fair play was particularly outraged when motorists were stopped for speeding without having been paced by a following police car. The speed of the vehicle was calculated by observing the time that it took to travel a pre-measured distance.

The Legislature became indignant and wrote into the Vehicle Code a Chapter which forbids the police to operate speed traps and also bars speed trap evidence in court. This same chapter further provides that while on duty a traffic officer must "wear a full and distinctive uniform." If he uses a "motor vehicle, it must be painted a distinctive color." When radar developed for the military was adapted for civil use, police radar appeared on the market. Like the hated speed trap, this made it possible to determine the speed a motorist is driving without following him in a police car. Sharing the deep-seated mistrust of the public in speeds determined other than by pursuit, the Legislature refused to sanction the use of radar by the California Highway Patrol. The issue came up again and again and was always defeated.

To this day, the CHP is still forbidden to use it. With extreme reluctance, however, the Legislature did bend a little and permitted city police departments to use radar. This sufferance is thin as paper; the police ignore it, when they do, at their own peril. Senator Lawrence Walsh, D-Huntington Park, claims that Sacramento has established radar speed traps and has arbitrarily lowered speed limits "to fill their coffers." By a 26-5 vote Wednesday he put a bill through the Senate which would require that before a city could use radar to enforce speed limits on a street, a survey would have to be conducted to determine realistic speed limits. While opponents argue that the costs to the cities would be prohibitive, they are not on sound ground.

Wise city managers know that if the public sense of fair play is to be respected, realistic surveys always have been necessary as a prerequisite to radar acceptance by the public. Whether Senator Walsh's bill passes or fails, the Senate action is a reminder that radar must be used to enforce speed limits that can be justified by traffic engineering evidence. And radar cars cannot be halfhidden by parking them in driveways. Any practice that raises the spectre of the discredited speed trap will invite the eventual wrath of the Legislature. Boorish Bobby Whether Bobby Fischer is the high grand master of chess, or Boris Spassky rightfully claims the title, is yet to be determined in Iceland.

But Fischer has already proved that he is the most stubborn, picayunish, obnoxious, boorish, stinker to play any kind of a game under the American Flag on foreign soil. As an enfant terrible he has no equal in modern times. He won't play unless the pot is not only sweetened, but doubled. He won't play if he doesn't like the the chess the hidden movie the color of the hair of the lady in the second any other little irritation that comes into his head. This might be endurable if Boris Spassky, his opponent, was nasty tempered, complaining and insufferable.

Instead, everything is A-OK with Boris. "Show me the chess board. When do we This is the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution that Americans have rooted for a Russian and hoped that their countryman would as the slang term has it 'Drop Bohby Fischer is America's gift to Soviet propaganda. If the Commies make the most of the opportunity he has given them well, we can't blame them. The Newsreel MIAMI BEACH The those who indignantly denied vice presidency and then The Democrats made McGovern's opponent is the Republicans will anyway.

angriest politicians in town are that they would accept the weren't asked. it clear that George to be Richard Nixon, but hold their convention It's hard to tell who gets more slams at this convention, Henry Ford or nonunion lettuce. George McGovern's victory came as a surprise. He demonstrated that even a front runner can win. The average orator outdoes Abraham Lincoln in one respect.

When he says that the world will little note nor long remember his words, he's pretty certain to be right. Hardship is said to be so good for the character that it seems selfish not to let other people have most of it. With a Grain Of Salt By FRANK MOORE Sandy Power, who lives on West Sunset drive, says that he found deer tracks by his swimming pool recently. Perhaps he did. Deer are occasionally sighted in the brushlands of the San Timoteo canyon, although heaven only knows why they wouldn't leave such a miserable environment.

But for my part, I have become suddenly skeptical about the casual identification of wild animals. It happened one evening recently on a picnic near the Big Falls in upper Mill Creek canyon. Several of us had just left the cars, with baskets and gear in hand and descended into a thicket of low brush and scattered pine trees. With my Kit Carson knack of observation, I spotted a fawn about 30 feet abead. The coat was light tan, as a baby deer should be, and the animal was taking a chew of something at ground level.

"Look," I cried. "A fawnright over An embarrassing silence greeted my proud remark. I took another look. It was a kid -a goat. I've never seen one before in Mill Canyon.

If I played a practical joke on some one, I would suspect that this "fawn" was planted there by way of tit for tat. While walking on the golf course in the cool of the evenings last summer, my wife and I would see skunks every time. would emerge from somewhere back of the houses that face Mariposa drive, nibble their way across the 12th fairway, and then chew away at some mysterious substance they like beneath the deodar trees. Another set of skunks favored the little valley farther south, near the 8th hole. With the return of warm weather in the past couple of weeks, I felt sure that the black and white kitties would play a return engagement.

Yet, we haven't seen a single one. That can't be because the skunks have died off during the past winter. They not only survived in large numbers. They added to the 1971 population, according to the tales people tell me. The grey squirrels who live in the trees in back of my house have the notion that they are circus high wire walkers.

They have discovered a telephone cable and adopted it as their personal skyway. They use it for travelling from one clump of trees to a more distant one. That saves a lot of branch hopping, in between. Perhaps they really aren't going anywhere. They are, I suspect, just show-offs.

After all; their worst enemy--the -can't do that. While driving home on Center street recently, I stopped to pick up a boy who was' thumbing a ride, just above Gerrard's. After a block and a half-at -he wanted out. The lazy bum. Imagine having the gall to thumb a ride for a distance that could be walked in three minutes? "Well, you might have been turning here," he said.

He could see nothing wrong in what he had done. I was so annoyed I didn't pick up anyone for three days. The cross-country hitchhikers who are always waiting for a ride on Redlands boulevard at Ford street, frequently make and hold crude destination signs. The commonest one reads: 'Phoenix." I like that. On a City street on a hot day I won't hesitate to pick up a boy if I have any way of knowing he is going two miles.

But I certainly don't want to bother with the chump who is only going two blocks. He does not have the right to ask for a ride. He is just spoiling it for himself and everyone else. There is an energetic breed of boys and girls who ride their bikes to summer school. They get out of class at 12 and scatter in all directions.

A popular song of yesteryear held that "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon day sun." That ditty has no meaning for the young. They ride as if they were trying to qualify for the Olympics. Minute Pulpit A greedy man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the Lord will be enriched. He who trusts in his own mind is a fool; but he who walks in wisdom will be 28:25, 26. What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

-Daniel Webster, American statesman and orator. "Bee-utiful!" The New Politics, old rules don't apply By TOM BRADEN MIAMI BEACH, Fla. With the nomination of George McGovern, a once-in-ageneration event has occurred in American politics. It has been 24 years since the American people were asked to decide an election on an ideological basis- that is, to choose between left and right. That was the choice they had to make in 1948 between Harry S.

Truman and Thomas E. Dewey when. to the astonishment of every political pundit and prognosticator, Truman won. It was a battle of ideology. Truman was asking the American people whether they believed in labor's right to a union shop.

He was asking whether they believed in government aid to hospitals and the beginnings of a government health service. He was asking whether they believed in federal aid to local schools. Back in 1948, Truman's answers to those questions seemed pretty left- So do George McGovern's answers to the questions he is asking. Do Americans want to quit and get out of Vietnam or do they want to win this war they have been fighting? Do Americans want to spend most of their taxes on armaments? Are schools more important? Do Americans believe in the progressive income tax they enacted back in the days of Woodrow Wilson? Or do they wish to continue to tax those with high incomes and those with middle incomes at about the same rate? These are the issues the basic issues as between George McGovern and Richard Nixon. In terms of 1972, they are issues of left and right, and just as in Harry Truman's day.

the pundits and prognosticators are saying that the left cannot win. Maybe I ought to be counted out as 3 pundit and prognosticator. But I'd like to go on record as saying I think they're wrong to say McGovern 1972 by HEA, "Now comes the part I like best in political campaigns -when they all tell you whatever you want to hear!" First you have to learn to crawl By S. I. HAYAKAWA President, San Francisco State College DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM en NEA Redlands Yesterdays FIVE YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 98, lowest 68.

Shoring and bracing of Franklin elementary school will be completed in approximately another week when the building will face a massive cleanup before being pronounced officially ready for school next fall. Second session of the summer's Learn-to-Swim program will begin Monday at Sylvan Plunge. Westside Church of Christ, 1495 West Olive avenue, calls Ted E. Hurlburt as new minister. TEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 86.

Need for an across-the-board pay increase for city employes will be determined by a salary survey to be started this month, city Personnel Director R. P. Merritt, says. Arrest of two more juveniles by police believed to have smashed operations of an eightmember gang suspected of 10 burglaries in past two months. Seventy -eight youngsters receive certificates for completion of the first session of the City Recreation department and Red Cross swimming program.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 100, lowest 62. Flames race along Sunset drive and in ravine at rear of Mariposa drive, destroying 600 acres of brush and threatening some of Redlands' most beautiful homes. Annual report continues to show increase in use of Smiley Library with 9700 adults and 5121 children listed as card holders. The low wood building at 205 E. State, occupied for many years, by Sanitary Plumbing, to be demolished by new owner Lloyd Hulbert.

Quick Quiz -Which basebell park has the greatest seating capacity? A- -Cleveland's Municipal Stadium with a seating pacity of 76,977. Berry's World Deep in the jungles of the Amazon there are Stone Age tribes such as the Kingu, Caraja and Kalapalo among the most primitive people known. They do not use metal. They have no writing or numbering system. They do not even have floors in their large, primitive huts.

To Carl Delacato and Glenn Doman, this absence of floors was of great theoretical importance. Babies, in order to achieve full neurological development, must learn to crawl before they learn to walk. If, because of snakes or insects or other dangers, children are not permitted to crawl, they will grow underdeveloped. Delacato and Doman decided to go and investigate these tribes for themselves. Dr.

Delacato tells what happened in "A New Start for the Child with Reading Problems" (David McKay, "'We searched everywhere for babies on the ground, but could find none. At each village we offered to pay mothers to place their up-to-18month-old babies on the ground, but they refused." But the observations made by Delacato and Doman richly confirm their theories. "We tested many children of all ages for general neurological fitness and we found that, as a group, they were seriously lacking in nervous system development. We found that they had difficulty in using their two eyes together; their creeping was extremely awkward, and very few of the group had developed sidedness (a dominant hand, eye or foot). "They did not pass our tests for the development of the nervous system; in fact most of them performed as poorly on our tests as did American children with reading problems." In short, the human brain and nervous system develop through use.

"These children could see well, because they shot birds out of trees, and fish under water with their bows and arrows, but they did not perceive as we do. Testing their ability to recognize symbols, we would place a fish on the ground and next to it we would draw a picture of a fish. They could see no relationship between the "It would be impossible to teach them to read, we knew, until they had developed the brain capacity to deal with symbols, which, of course, is written language. We theorized that the constant carrying of children had deprived them of the opportunity to crawl and creep, stunting the development of the nervous A baby has to learn to see. As he learns to crawl and coordinate his hand with the opposite knee, he also has his head up from the floor and learns to use both eyes together, no longer taking in the world one eye at a time.

He learns to fuse into one image the separate images coming into each eye. He also takes in sounds from both ears and learns to fuse them together. By the time a baby is two, he develops sidedness -one hand, one foot, one eye becomes dominant. Curiously, man alone of all creatures has this sidedness and man alone has language and speech. The two facts are not unconnected: "If the left half of the brain becomes dominant, the child becomes The dominant half of the brain becomes the language center.

Here is where reading, writing, talking, and the learning of language are controlled. Here is where reading and the decoding of speech take place, as well as the storage of language. If one of the halves does not become dominant, then the brain is not completely developed and a problem with reading usually results." The method of treatment based on the foregoing theories has come to be known as the Doman-Delacato "patterning method" and it consists of putting the child through the stages of development he has missed or not completed. This method involves having older children creep and crawl as if they were babies, learning all sorts of games and activities that bring into coordinated interplay feeling, sight, sound and motor activity. The principal center at which the method is taught and used is the Institutes for the Achievement.

of Human Potential in Philadelphia, of which Glenn Doman is director and where he and Dr. Delacato have worked together for almost 20 years. can't win. I think they may turn out to be as wrong about McGovern next November as they have been wrong about McGovern all along. The talk in Miami was of the terrible blow dealt by the defeat of Mayor Daley.

What would happen to McGovern in those Chicago wards which Daley commands? The talk was of the frightful insult dealt to the Italians and the Poles and the Irish all the ethnic blocs when the McGovern Reforms seated a convention made up instead on the basis of sex and age and race. What would the ethnic blocs do to avenge themselves against McGovern and the Democratic Party for this insult to their prides? The talk was of the terrible wound which had been inflicted by McGovern upon the old Establishment. Congressmen and senators, mind you, who were not invited to lead their delegations and announce the votes of their states. Surely they would revenge themselves, work for themselves and ignore the top of the ticket. The talk was of George Meany and the insult which had been inflicted upon labor by the fact that the convention had no "labor bloc." You would think, to hear the pundits and the prognosticators talk, that everybody had forgotten the famous words of John L.

1 Lewis in 1940: "You ask me how shall I cast my vote? And I answer, of course, for Wendell L. I think the questions McGovern is asking and will ask the American people cut deeper than the Daleys, deeper than the ethnic blocs, deeper than the old Establishment and deeper than George Meany. I think he is asking, "What's fair? What's American?" And he is asking it just as Harry Truman asked it plain and simple and right from the prairie. The American people don't get asked such questions very often. When they do, watch out.

The old rules of politics no longer apply. The Almanac Today is Saturday, July 15, the 197th day of 1972 with 169 to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Jupiter.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn was born July 15, 1606. On this day in history: In 1945 Italy declared war on its former Axis parter, Japan. In 1964 Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona was nominated as the Republican candidate for president.

He was defeated in November by Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1971 President Nixon disclosed plans to make an unprecedented visit to China and went there for a week in February, 1972. I am aware that the DomanDelacato method has been under attack from both medical and educational sources. But there are also equally strong 'advocates.

"A New Start for the Child with Reading Problems" goes farther than any writing I have so far read on the subject in explaining the background theory and justification of the method. Furthermore, the book is rich with suggestions for parents for home therapy, as well as fascinating case histories of individual children. One thing I have found most welcome in both Delacato's writings and Doman's is their willingness to explain things simply, clearly, and without scientific or education jargon to muddy the exposition. In short, it's good reading. Current books books The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty.

(Random House, $5.95) There is hardly anyone who writes as well as Eudora Welty about the deepest currents of her characters' Her latest novel, first published in a briefer version in the New Yorker, is about a death and its resonances. Laurel Hand, a war widow who has never remarried, travels from Chicago to New Orleans to be with her father, Judge McKelva, while he undergoes an operation. The judge dies and Laurel and his second wife bring him back to the family home in small Mississippi town to bury him. The simple narrative is driven by the tension between Laurel, whose present is dominated by the past, and the judge's second wife, Fay. who-young.

vulgar, selfcentered- cries in response: "The past isn't a thing to me. I helong to the future, didn't you know that?" But it is more complicated than that. The past contains as much betrayal as it does love for Laurel and the future is not only Fay but the unknown first -graders who wave her goodbye on her way back to her life in Chicago. Peggy Polk (UPI) The Heretic Pharoah, by Joy Collier. (John Day, $9.95) This study of Akhenaten and the brief flourishing of monotheism during his reign draws on all evidence known to modern archaeology to link the pharaoh's God to that of Moses.

The Story of Hendrik Willem Van Loon, by Gerard Willem Van Loon. (Lippincott, $10) Hendrik Willem Van Loon, whose The Story of Mankind made him rich and famous, was his own most fascinating creation and his son has written a vivid, witty account of his father's life. Helen Frankenthaler, by Barbara Rose. (Harry N. Abrams, $25) The twelfth volume of Abrams' handsome series on contemporary artists is the first devoted to a woman.

No better choice than Helen Frankenthaler, one of the most influential painters of the New York: school. Frankenthaler abandoned references to realist imagery in her work about 1952 and has concentrated since on the problem of creating illusions of space through color. As Frankenthaler matured, she placed more and more limitations on herself in regard to color, abandoning an early playful lyricism for ascetic monumentality. Her spatial effects often are achieved with oils thinned to a wash that satins the canvas and leaves its texture exposed. This technique has had profound influence on several prominent artists, notably Kenneth Noland and Louis Morris.

Her recent works are landscapes of the spirit to which the viewer can turn again and again with appreciation of the tightrope path this artist has chosen the question asked but never quite answered. Critic Barbara Rose has supplied an intimate monograph that documents Frankenthaler's development step by step. The book, of manageable size rare in this period of super-tomes, was designed by artist Robert Motherwell, Frankenthaler's husband. The beautiful color plates are another tribute to Japanese printers. Frederick M.

Winship (UPI) Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet, by Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos. (Norton, $6) The authors' credentials are excellent, which is why they were chosen to write this tract for the United Nations on ways to insure the survival of our species..