Redlands Daily Facts from Redlands, California • Page 12

Redlands, Calif. Tuesday, January 12 Smog control depends on a slippery science A new health problem may be created by the smog reduction devices on 1975 model cars according to a report issued yesterday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The catalytic converters may issue more sulfates than pre -1975 cars, to the particular detriment of elderly persons and persons with chronic heart and lung disorders. Although this confirms fears raised 18 months ago, the report is not final and is subject to revision.

In California we have been grappling with the automobile smog problem for 20 years. Yet, it has taken all of this time for us to understand that atmospheric chemistry is not a science in which black or white answers can be quickly and uniformly obtained in the laboratory. On the contrary, this science is so difficult that solid answers come very slowly. The most notable case in point is the basic one: "How much pollution is in the air at this place at this minute?" The very best brains in the science, working with the most technologically advanced equipment, have been unable to get uniform results. Hence, they have been unable to agree on which system produces accurate readings.

This is like trying to forecast frost without having an accurate thermometer. The present controversy over the health effects of the catalyst system for reducing emissions has been around for a couple of years and yet EPA does not have conclusive results. The major lesson in smog control during the past year has been that we are trying to advance smog abatement more rapidly than sicence is capable of advancing. We try air pollution control remedies of a major sort and then find out that they were never scientifically well grounded in the first place. This is not the sort of conclusion that anyone wishes to face up to.

Smog reduction is a major goal of California's. Meanwhile, up in Sacramento, the Senate is rushing to administer the final blow to the program to reduce nitrogen oxides emissions from 1966-70 cars. This law is all right scientifically but is doomed to political rejection because popular democracy will not tolerate it San Bernardino Court Riverside Press It has been proposed that the San Bernardino division of the State Appeals Court, Fourth District, be moved to San Diego. For a number of reasons, it is a proposal which should not go very far. The San Diego court is Division 1 of the Fourth District court; the San Bernardino court is Division 2.

There are five justices in San Bernardino, four in San Diego, and in that sense, consolidating the two divisions in the southern city would be akin to moving the mountain to Mohammed. The best reason for leaving the arrangement alone is that it seems to work, and furthermore, it is convenient for attorneys and clients in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, all of which come under the jurisdiction of the Fourth District. Convenience isn't all, but it does count for something. The National Center for State Courts, which is proposing the consolidation, says it would lead to more efficient administration, a greater interchange of ideas between justices, more equitable judicial workloads and less conflict between rulings on similar situations. Perhaps.

But by the same token, perhaps there should be no districts at all, simply one appellate court with all justices in one locatioa That would make for a certain efficiency on the court's part, but it would work a hardship on lawyers and clients. The same can be said, in lesser degree, about the proposal to move the San Bernardino court to San Diego, and for much the same reasons, it ought not be carried out The Newsreel Gold hits a record high price. Many buyers may prefer to hold off until the sales. An ancient tradition is that parents, rather than children, play with electric trains. Railroads are too important to be run by children.

Or boards of directors. Still another general says that after he retires he is going to write. A writer friend says that after he retires he plans to be a general. In figuring the "livability" of cities, a magazine author thinks that a town is better the higher the average cost of housing. Ordinary folk might ponder the point.

Cousin Fuseloyle is aware that he has a problem, but worrying about the potability of the drinking water is not one of them. Practitioners of older crafts find themselves once more in demand. Uncle Elmore has come out of retirement to bricks. In spite of what the radio announcers say, gold bullion is not a kind of soup. The feeling that the world has come to an end is the sharpest when somebody on the telephone suggests that you hold on for a moment and is never heard from again.

With a Grain of Salt Bv FRANK MOORE Picture on page4 By filming "Stranger in the House" in 1951 at the Morey House on Terracina boulevard, MGM awakened Redlanders to their heritage of fascinating, Victorian houses. Our Town also has a wealth of picturesque barns but they have been neglected by artists, historians and Redlands enthusiasts. If there is tinder to be ignited here, the match has been put to it by Earl Thollander in "Barns of a rich collection of sketches and comments published recently by the California Historical Society. In his book he gives a double- page spread to a barn which hundreds of Redlanders see each day as they pass Palm avenue while going up and down Center street. Their view is over the top of a small orange grove, and is of the roof, the cupola and the weather vane.

The hand lettering on the page reads: "Johnson Coach Barn. Redlands, in San Bernardino County, still has some handsome old coach barns. This is one of them, built in about 1887 by a Mr. Johnson. Quarters for the coachman were in the barn, too." Because the space given to the barn in the book is so generous, I had to crop it at the right, (seepage 4) or you would see a jungle gym, a slide and a wheelbarrow.

Many people who know the place will say that Mrs. Charles Hitching had them there when she operated her private nursery school. Thollander lives in a forest home (Calistoga) near the Napa Valley. I wondered how he happened to know of Redlands barns and then select this particular one. During a pleasant telephone chat, he explained that in preparation for the book, letters were sent to historical societies and county farm advisors, up and down California, inquiring about picturesque barns.

Although he found that some societies were bund to the historic barns in their areas, Arda M. Haenszel of San Bernardino steered him to the coach barns of Redlands. If time had permitted, he would have familiarized himself with many of them working on a very low budget of the California Historical Society he could not afford that luxury. So he makes no pretense to be an authority on the barns of Redlands. Earl Thollander is a mail whose love for his subject runs broad and deep.

He wrote: "I like barns. There's something good about entering their dark, cavernous, airy interiors and smelling the barn odors From childhood, one doesn't forget the intriguing interior of a barn, with its bigness and its array of hay, farm implements, and animals chickens, spiders, owls, bats, bees, swallows and doves. "Barns in California are in every stage of Like many historic buildings, however, barns should be preserved. They are part of the people's history and architectural heritage of our state." Our particular heritage in Redlands is carriage barns, and it was in broadening his definition of California barns beyond ranches and farms that he came here. Unlike farm barns, which can usually be seen from public roads, the historic barns in Our Town are often difficult to observe.

As in the case of the "Johnson they are located back of a house and the only view from the street is a limited one between trees. One must ask permission to walk closer and then drink in the sight with his eyes. Surely this is the reason that our wonderful barns have been so long and grievously neglected. Don Wilcott was mindful of this when he moved the Edwards house from Cajon street to the Orange Tree, near the County Museum. While the old Gingerbread mansion is being renovated, an old-new barn has been erected behind it.

Thollander explains that, in making his barn sketches, he used a stick of bamboo, whittled Japanese style, to a blunt chisel-like point. The Chinese was applied to watercolor paper. As to matters of art, he inspiration from the Chinese and Japanese masters. The medium and style he chose are just right for barns with their rich line and detail. In printing the book, a sepia ink was used and that, too, is fitting to the subject matter.

of California" is published by the CaliforWa Historical Society, 1120 Old Mill Road, San Marino, CA 91106, $15.95.) Continued tomorrow High-rise living By NORTON MOCKRIDGE The residents of a high-rise apartment complex in New Jersey, near the George Washington Bridge, apparently are not exactly in love with the gentleman who owns the joint let's call him Mr. Hooker. And they aren't overly fond of the management of the place which we'll call The Rookery. A tenants' committee has just printed and distributed a circular which, with its title, The Rookery, looks exactly like the circulars that the management prints and distributes from time to time to all the tenants. And here's what the circular says: "To All Residents Recently, the Manager of The Rookery has become aware that there are tenants living here who show signs of ingratitude over what we are doing for them.

"The Management regrets such an unfortunate lack of comprehension on the part of those we permit to live here, and has decided to use a portion of your rent money to print up this letter. Its purpose is to list the reasons you should be grateful to reside at The Rookery: "1, The Rookery Exercise Program: This is free to all tenants whenever the elevators are not in proper operation which is seven days a week. "2, The Rookery Economic Incentive Program: Leave anything you want to in a Rookery storeroom. It will be stolen, and you will have to earn enough money to buy a replacement. "3, The Rookery Wallpaper Program: Many of our tenants are not aware of the real reason for the condition of the elevators.

The real reason is that Mr. Hooker is the founder of a new religion that frowns on the use of machinery, and discourages any attempt to repair it properly. "Mr. Hooker's new religion also insists that wallpaper is of the greatest significance for leading the Good Life. Perfectly adequate wallpaper is therefore regularly stripped from the walls, and even more adequate NEW wallpaper is put up instead.

"4, The Rookery Arts-and- Crafts Program and The Rookery Musical Symphony: Wallpaper replacement at The Rookery is conducted by special workmen who have been carefully trained to sing, shout, and tell jokes for your daytime amusement. To make sure that you appreciate their performance, the front door of your apartment has been thoughtfully designed to admit all sound. "However, it is impossible to have our workmen replacing the wallpaper on your floor every single day. Some of them are therefore employed in floor work, and by a miracle of modern engineering, the sound of their banging and scraping is instantaneously transmitted to every part of the building. "5, Tenant Cooperation: All The Rookery programs would be useless without Tenant Cooperation.

During the hours when we cannot serve you in these ways, there is a Mad Carpenter and a Mad Trumpeter or Pianist in each of our buildings helping us to bring you the full blessing of modern life. No need to thank us. We exist to serve YOU!" Appended to this circular was a note headed: "What To Do If You Are Trapped In An Elevator." It reads: "If you are trapped between floors and if you haven't been yet, you will be just lie down on the floor and go to sleep. It's a waste of energy to kick, yell, scream, and cry (as most tenants do). "Sleep peacefully.

You can be sure that for at least 24 hours NOTHING will be moving. If you're trapped more than 24 hours, the Board of Health will lower food through a hole in the ceiling of the car. Meanwhile, take advantage of the chance to get that good sleep. Management makes no extra charge!" Barbs A "sidewise shift" in the economy translates to, "You've just stepped off the ladder in midair, buddy." The best thing to take for a hangover is the pledge. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Redlands Yesterdays FIVE YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 69, lowest 38.

Redlands residents enjoyed bright sunshine, warm temperatures and only slight breezes today while other sections of the San Bernardino Valley and adjoining areas were being ripped by strong gusty northerly winds. Redlands will go to the County Planning Commission tomorrow to "strongly recommend denial" of permission for a Type-L mental hospital on Terracina boulevard. Ron Hentschel of Redlands named vice president at Bank of America's San Bernardino- Eastern California Regional Administration headquarters. TEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 78, lowest 40. Ambitious plans for a 30-acre commercial and residential development, including a shopping center, at Oak and Ford streets in Reservoir Canyon were revealed today.

Edmund L. Zander and M. H. Emerich have accepted the co- chairmanship of the $350,000 Community Hospital Expansion and Improvement Campaign's Division III, it was announced today by Lewis I. Pierce.

Firm protest against a proposed auto wrecking yard on Alabama street made to the county Planning department by the Redlands city Planning Commission- FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 75, lowest 38. Mayor Harry G. Wilson, Vice Mayor Charles C. Parker, city clerk Harry Whaley and city treasurer Marion Poyzer all take nominating papers launching campaigns for reelection April 12. At request of Verne C.

Sandwall, the applicant, county planning commissioners postpone action on proposed commercial zoning for nine- acre parcel on Barton road, from Dee and Walt's Service station at Brookside west to Bellevue road. Businesses on Orange between State and Highway 99 are without water for several hours this morning because of bad leak in front of 212 Orange Mayor Harry Wilson's jewelry store. The temper of Clarence Long By TOM BRADEN Long is a representative from Maryland who manages to get elected as a Democrat in a swing district by sticking pretty much to the middle of the road and displaying an equable frame of mind on controversial subjects. There is one subject, however, on which Clarence Long feels strongly; so strongly that his temper shows. This reporter had a recent encounter with the temper and it occurred to him afterward that it was revealing.

The flare-up came quite suddenly, momentarily disturbing a congenial gather esenta ti senators, a few foreign a Washington dinner party. Someone had mentioned the President's request for more aid for South Vietnam, and this reporter vented the view that it was in difficulty. Rep. Long asked a question: "Are you for it or against it?" "It seems to me certain," I replied, "that South Vietnam will fall sooner or later. If so, why spend any more money on it?" It was then that the temper showed.

The congressman talked about honor; he talked about ratting and running; most feelingly, he talked about the fact that he has a son twice wounded in Vietnam. "Are you one of those," he asked with an accusing glare, "who thinks that all those dead and all those wounded and everything they did should just be tossed aside? You reporters," he opined, "maybe you ought to run everything. I'd like to see where we'd be then." At that point someone thoughtfully engaged the congressman elsewhere, mostly by pulling on his arm. The encounter was over. But not, I think, the argument which Rep.

Long put forward nor the temper with which he argued. We are going to hear a lot of his argument during the next few weeks, and there is no point in dismissing it as mere anger. A lot of people in this country Berry's World feel as angry as he does, and those of us who disagree with them ought to take their anger into account. What we ought to be asking ourselves, it seems to me, is whether more aid to South Vietnam might be important, not so much for South Vietnam as for the United States. Suppose we grant that in 1977 or 1978 South Vietnam will fall.

Would it be worth the money to keep it going for a couple of years while tempers cool and wounds are healed? Would it be worth it, not for the South Vietnamese but for us? The issue is not all or nothing. President Ford asked for $1.1 billion in aid. Congress cut the request to $700 million: Now the President wants to raise it by $300 million. Is it worth a compromise in order to assuage the angry? Like Rep. Long, a lot of Americans had sons in Vietnam.

For those fathers and those sons, the war had to be right. They know we'll never go back, no matter how much Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger talks about it. They must know in their hearts that they are doomed to see the cause in which they fought go down to defeat. not now?" is a popular view. But the encounter with the congressman gives me pause.

Is there not some logic in letting him and those who feel as he does go down a step at a time? Minute Pulpit But when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost and cried out; for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, "Take heart, it is have no fear." Mark 6:49,50. "The stories of past courage can define that ingredient they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself: For this each man must look into his own soul." John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S.

president. Timely Quotes "Many things sound like a lack of equal justice. You prosecute some people and don't prosecute others for a multitude of reasons. It may be this way You punish some people one way and some other people another way, and that is also a necessary way of law enforcement." Chief Watergate prosecutor James F. Neal, saying that although he has no doubt about Richard Nixoon's guilt, President Ford was right in pardoning him.

Democratic vendetta? llv Frnnk Vnn llVr Undrn WASHINGTON By kicking out three Southern committee chairmen, the liberals dominating the House Democratic caucus have charted a suicide course for the Democratic party in its historic stronghold, the South. The revolution against the seniority system has taken away the main reason for Southern conservatives to continue sending Democrats to Congress, while consistently voting Republican in presidential elections. Although it has been giving about half of its popular votes to Republican or third-party presidential candidates ever since 1948, the South has kept on rewarding the Democrats with about three-fourths of its approximately 100 House seats on the grounds that seniority assured the old-timers powerful chairmanships. Now, however, the liberals have tossed that whole rationale out the window by deposing the three Dixie chairmen with great seniority: F. Edward Hebert of Louisiana, Armed Services; Wright Patman of Texas, Banking; and W.

R. Poage of Texas, Agriculture. In addition, Wilbur Mills of Arkansas had to give up his Ways and Means committee chairmanship because of his own personal tragedy, his admitted alcoholism. These men, plus George Mahon of Texas, the Appropriations Committee chairman, are the five Democrats with the greatest seniority in the entire House. Patman arrived in 1929; Mahon in 1935; Poage in 1937; Mills in 1939; and Hebert in 1941.

Today, Mahon is the only one left in his chairmanship. It is no wonder, then, that Southern voters are angrily protesting to their Congressmen that chairmen from their region were singled out for the purge. Although California Rep. Thomas Rees insists this is "not a vendetta against the South," the caucus action speaks for itself. It won't do for the liberals to claim they were only removing chairmen because of their great age and arrogance.

True, Patman is 81, Poage is 75, and Hebert is 73, and all have been rather bossy at times. But the most arrogant and vindictive boss Wayne Hays of Ohio, held onto his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee by a large majority over his challenger, Frank Thompson of New Jersey. The 75 new Democratic Congressmen, who gleefully joined in deposing the three Dixie chairmen, chickened out at the prospect of knocking off Hays, who reminded them of the money he had tunneled into their election campaigns in his other role as chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. So much for reform, when money is involved. Furthermore, the oldest, and one of the most arrogant of all House Democrats is Ray Madden, chairman of the Rules Committee, which controls the flow of all bills to the floor.

Madden is 82. But there is a big difference between him and the three ousted Southerners. He is a liberal from the steel city of Gary, he is a favorite of the labor unions, and he never deviates from the liberal line. So he was never threatened. The message of the caucus is clear: No Southern conservative, ever again, can expect to head a major House committee by building up seniority.

If he approaches the chairmanship, he will be cast aside for someone else who pleases the liberal-labor-left bloc that now controls the Democratic caucus. 1975 by NEA, Inc. think it's time for me to shift some capital from tax-free municipals and gold into groceries!" "Too much importance is given to the views of politicans, civil servants, agricultural researchers, economists, big business and other so-called experts. It is the depision of the world's farmers and the farmer alone which will affect supplies of food in the future." Munro, Canadian farmer, addressing the World Food Conference in Rome. Your Public Officials State Governor Edmund C.

Brown, Jr. State Capitol Sacramento, Calif. 9SIM Senator Robert Presley State Capitol Sacramento, Calif. 95114 Senator Robert Presley 3410 Central Suite Riverside, Calif. Assemblyman Jerry Lewis State Capitol Sacramento, Calif.

95014 Assemblyman Jerry Lewis 101 S. Sixth street Redlands, Calif. 92373 Federal Senator Alan Cranston Room 2102 United States Senate Washington, O.C 20510 Senator John V. Tunney 4237 New Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C 20510 Rep.

Jerry L. Pettis 341 Cannon Office Bldg. Washington, D.C 20510 Rep. Jerry L. Pettis 242 N.

Arrowhead, Suite 1-A San Bernardino, Calif. 92401 Phone IS4-M16.