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Redlands, Calif. Saturday. June Cities should shape their own composition Assemblyman John Quimby of Rialto has a bill in the Legislature which would take away from Redlands and from San Bernardino County the controls they now have over mobile home parks. Our local governing boards could not control the size of partes, the density, the lot size or the area for automobile parking. Redlands could not return to its previous policy of standing pat on the existing parks and denying further applications from developers.

Only the mobile home industry lobbyists could conjure a bill with such provisions. It is inconceivable that the one kind of zoning that has caused the most severe controversy should be totally removed from local control while other zoning matters should be untouched. Essentially, this measure says that a city does not have the right to try to shape its own destiny. Every city shaU be open to development at least of this kind without local sayso. The purpose of a city is to provide a certain kind of environment and to favor certain means of employment that are wanted by the inhabitants.

Redlands made an early decision to be an agricultural and University town, later shifting strongly to a residential function. San Bernardino was happy to be a railroad town in earlier years and welcomed the Santa Fe with open arms. Other cities have chosen to devote themselves to commerce, to dairying, to resorts, to oil, to shilling. lliey should continue to determine the nature of their own cities. The Legislature has no right to take tlus from them, as Quimby's bill would do with respect to mobile homes.

According to Proxmire By Don Oakley. NEA Sen. William Proxmire begins to look more and more like the Ralph Nader of Capitol Hill, with his involvement in so many controversial issues and his knack for making startling revelations. In his capacity as chairman of the House-Senate Joint Economic Committee, the Wisconsin Democrat has made public a summary prepared by the Treasury Department showing how tax law provisions giving preferential treatment to certain forms of income cost the government nearly $44 billion in revenue last year. Hie blood leaps to a quick boil.

Even for the U.S. government, $44 billion is a massive sum to lose. It is more than half the total collected in income taxes; it's equal to about 20 per cent of all federal spending. Not only that but preferential treatment is well, it's as un-American as sour apple pie. But wait a minute.

What kind of preferential treatment? Well, for one thing, all those fat-cat oil speculators, or people who invested all their money in tax-free municipal bonds. Disgusting. What other kinds of preferential treatment? Well, that young family man who finally raised the down payment on a house and then nicked Uncle Sam for the interest on his mortgage. Oh. Well, that's legal, isn't it? Anyway, the nation needs family men and homeowners.

Any other kinds of preferential treatment? Lots. People who ran up large doctor or drug bills and then asked the government to pick up part of the tab, people gave money to churches and charities, and, of course, all those fat-cat oil speculators. In other words, the $44 billion turns out to be nothing more than the value of the deductions claimed by tax taxpayers who itemized their returns last year. But the way the senator describes it, the $44 billion was something that rightfully belonged to the government but vAdtti it was gypped out of by slick taxpayers. It implies that anything less than a 100 per cent tax on everybody represents a "loss" to the government.

The fact is that the government is entitled to nothing more than the people decide to give it or, more accurately, only as much as the people's representatives in Congress think the people will sit still for. Proxmire has called on his colleagues to take a closer look at the tax provisions which grant preferential treatment. Tliey should. The tax laws should be subjected to scrutiny every year as a matter of routine. ITiere will never be a perfect tax system, but inequities and injustices and oversights can and should be corrected as they become apparent.

With a Graiq Of Salt By FRANK MOORE Ihls is a footnote to history. On Thursday, duplicate copies of the treaty by which the US. wilJ return Okinawa to Japan were signed in Washington and The ceremonies bad originally been sdieduled for Monday. But listen to Allison "Bud" White of Redlands, who says with a chuckle: "Ihe signing was postponed so the US. Ambassador to Japan (Armin H.

Meyer), could be in Los Angeles Saturday give his daughter away to my Kathy, the Ambassador's only child, has just flnisbed her junnr year at Occidental. Tim White has just graduated from Oxy. So, as expect. Kathy and Tim chose to be married at the college chapel. That Mi -as O.K.

by Bud. He's an Occidental man. It O.K.. UM. by his brother, the Rev.

Dr. David C. White, who drove all of the way out from Nashville, to officiate. He is aha an Oxy grad. About (he only person who was upset was Bud's mother.

She had many of the wedding guests for dinner at the old family home in Downey. But the most honored guest was not among them. Ambassador Meyer had to beg off. He'd been wvrkuig all night Friday on the Okinawa treaty. Then he flew out Los Angeles for the wadding and for the following reception at the Huntington-Sheraton.

From Los Angeles he vmvld have to fly on over to Tokyo. He simply had to have some sleep Saturday night. Bud (old me another anecdote a grisly one a week ago but let's first back off a little and talk about bears. When I was crosang the front country below the on the fire road Tuesday. Forest Ranger Ted Zrdak remarked that the bears favor the cool canyons below Kdler peak.

A few miles farther on we came to a standard forest service sign, made from a redwood plank. The directions (0 Siberia creek and appropriately to Bear CTeek were embossed in it. The lower edge of the plank was ragged because the bears had been chewing on it. Whether (hey were sharpening their teeth or they happen to like redwood flavor is problematical. Either way, Ted says the rangers are giving up Uiis type of sign and will try plywTwd in hope tha( it will be more economical and possibly, distasteful to bears.

Now, back to Bud's report. A couple of weeks ago a Civil Air Patrol search plane located an aircraft that had been missing for 34 days on a flight from Palm Springs to Santa Maria. There had been four people aboard, including the pilot, an Israeli national, studying at Cal Poly in San Luis As a member of the Riverside County mountain rescue team. Bud went out to the small off Whitewater creek, at the mouth of (he Banning pass, wtere the CAP had spotted (he plane. There were, however, no bodies in the wreckage.

The ground party did find a wallet, scattered human bones, and a skull. And there were bear tracks all over the On happier subjects. let's return to the front country north of Redlands. When we were bdow the Tuesday, Ted stopped and we got out of the pickup to look at the University of Redlands emblem. Ted says that when the helicopter was distributing seed ovo- the area of the great bum of November 13, the steep slope on which the is located, was'given the treatment.

It certainly needed it for it was vulneratde to erosion. From a distance, it appears that quite a bit of seed look root on the naked ground of the letter. The appears to have a case of what the razor advertisements used to call "five o'clock shadow." The new growth is also observed below the letter. The no longer looks as if it were weeping. But let's not go off on that kick again which a few years ago had everybody believing that the government was being cheated out of untold billions by certain tax- sheltered groups.

The last time Congress overhauled the whole sfruc- hire, in 19G9, those billions evaporated as each so-caUed loophole or preferential treatment was examined and most of them were found to have a good reason for being MillUte Plllpit written into the law. That overhaul netted the government an extra $2 billion in 1970 as against 1969. Or as Senator Proxmire might say, the government "lost" $2 billion less to those sneaky taxpayers. The Newsreel The general quality of life indicates that the smarter we get the more things we are learning to do wrong. It's a wonderful nation, where any town can aspire to be as broke as the national government.

Panic is reported in the offices of a national magazine narrowly escaped going to press without an article on the drug problem. Life that is forever new BATTLE OF LW HILL Redlands Yesterdays Ted Kennedy takes on the Titular Leader' FIVE YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 97, lowest 66. Prospects are good that there will be no major increase in the county property tax rate this year. County Administrative Officer Robert Covington indicated in presenting the 196667 San Bernardino county budget to the Community Chest directors approve a Red Cross budget of $29,776. appointed replacements for three vacant directors posts and approved an additional $2,500 allocation to the Family Service Association.

TEN YEARS AfiO Temperatures Highest 96. lowest 61. Robinson and Wilson Construction company of San Bernardino (o begin work on the County Branch Building for Redlands within 10 days under a $119,822 contract awarded by Board of Supervisors. Dr. Frank Toothaker.

of Redlands. to be succeeded as superintendent of the VSliittier Methodist disUict by the Rev. Kenneth P. Miller of La Mesa. Coach Tarkanian, who tutored the Redlands High Terriers to the 1961 CBL basketball championship, disckses he has accepted a head coaching job at Riverside aiy College.

FIFTEEN YEARS Temperatures Highest 77, lowest 55. Qty Council approves new- Courtesy Nickel parking plan to be sponsored by Redlands Lions club. All of San Bernardino county now part of one big air pollution control district by action of Board of Supervisors. Redlands loses out as Methodist conference selects Oaremont as site for new- seminary. By TOMBRADEN There was more involved in the clash on the Senate floor last week between Hubert Humphrey and Edward Kennedy than appeared in the Congressional Record or even in (he public press.

The roo(s of the Kennedy- Humphrey controversy go back to the 1960 primary campaign between Humphrey and then Sen. John F. Kennedy. run for President twice." said one Kennedy man when it was all over last week, "and he has yet to win a primary But it erupted again 10 days ago when a story began to circulate in Washington that Ted Kennedy would accept second-place on a 1972 (icke( headed by Humphrey. One network and several newspapers reported that "a friend" of Sen.

Kennedy's had quietly passed (he word (ha( a Humphrey- Kennedy ticket would be ac- ceplable to the Massachusetts senator. Kennedy men reacted sharply. They verified that no friend of Kennedy's bad made any such statement, and the feeling in the Kennedy camp was tha(. by definition, no friend could have done so. From there, it was only a short logical jump to (he conclusion that (he s(ory was not being circulated by "friends" of Kennedy's but by real ones of Humphrey's.

At least that is how the Kennedy camp read (he reports. Accordingly, the decision was made, as one Kennedy aide put it, "(0 lob a shell across Hubert's bow." The op- por(uni(y was soon at hand. Thus it was that when Kennedy rose (0 address some lawyers in Washing(on. assembled as part of (he ciUzens' lobby for Berry's World Cost your bread upon the waters, for you toiU find it after many 11:1. You give but little when you give of your possessions.

It is when you give of yourself that you truly Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese author. Quick Quiz is caned the father of geography? a Greek geographer and historian, who, 20 B.C., wrote the most complete geography of the then- known world. 1 "This morning I was going to talk to you about tht decline in public acceptance of the relevance of the traditionally structured form of religious institutions, the McGovern-Hatfield amendment, some sharply anti-Humphrey lines were included in his speech. Kennedy noted that the week marked the third anniversary of the death of his brother Robert F. Kennedy.

He went on to recall Robert F. Kennedy's warning in 1966 that the war in Vietnam could not end without a political accommodation which admitted the NaUonal Liberation Front to "a share of power and responsibility" in Saigon. Sen. Kennedy went on to recall that his brother had insisted that the war was being fought over the nature of the Saigon government and could be ended only if that issue were negotiated. Then came the shot over the bow.

"For that." said Kennedy, "he was accused of 'putting the fox in the chicken That accusation and that response, he said, was wrong then and wrong now. The reference, of course, was to Humphrey's scornful assessment of the Robert. F. Kennedy proposal in 1966. As the Kennedy men now see it, "the shot didn't cross Hubert's bow it landed right in (he engine room." Humphrey's response was to take (he Senate floor on "a point of personal privilege," something a senator customarily docs only when he has been attacked, usually by name, on the floor.

When he spoke. Humphrey had very little to say about his assessment of the war in 1966 hardly surprising in view of his often Dovish mind today. What Humphrey did say was surprising, in light of thn "personal privflege" he had claimed. He chose not to defend himself against shortsightedness five years before, but to defend President Nucon against charges in Kennedy's speech that Mr. Nixon was politicizing the Vietnamese war "President Nixon," said Humphrey, "wants peace as much as anyone," thus reducing the argument over Vietnam policy to little more than drawing-room chit-chat.

Humphrey went on to say he was making his defense of Mr. Nixon as 'titular leader" of the Democratic Party. If Mr. Nucon is interested ui the controversy between two of his rivals, be may wish to consult one of his aides, a certain William Safire, who has writtoi a dictionary of politics. Safire defines "titular leader" as follows: "The most recently defeated presidential candidate of the party out of power," and, adds Safire, "he is often challenged by the wing of the party that fell it could have done better." Timely Quotes You can't go down to the comer drugstore and buy a breakthrough cancer research.

Arthur Itichardsm of Emory University. ByS.LHAYAKAWA Slate CoOege The genuinely sane person is creative. A. H. Uaslow used to say that there are no exceptions to the rule that people who are emotwnally healthy are all creative in their own way.

Sometimes this creativity is that of a musician or novelist or innovative business or political leader. Just as often one can be creative in smaller but equally genuine ways. Creativity is the ability of the carpenter, the office manager, the house- organ editor, the housewife or teacher to unprovise. for the particular needs of the job at hand, out of the particular materials at hand, a unique and original solution of a problem. Such a solution immediately strikes others with a thrill of pleasure, so that they say.

"How did you ever think of that!" There is also creativity in human relations. The ability of a company president or manager to lead, inspire and mold his sUff and employees into an enthusiastic and cooperative team is certainly an instance of creativity. So is the bringing up of a child. A good marriage, a happy family life, a good business partnership, a great love affair all these are surely the products of creativity in human relationships. There is a sense in which people in close association with each other are constantly molding, shaping, creating each other.

A wife is in part the creation of her husband, just as a husband is in part the creation of his wife. Each has sensitivities, enthusiasms. interests, vubierabilities, which shape the personality of the other. An outstanding characteristic of the creative person, says the psychologist Carl Rogers, is the "the locus of evaluation is in himself." It isn't what teachers think, it isn't what the critics think it isn't what the neighbors think. It's what he himself thinks that counts.

Because the creative person's experiences, past and present, are accessible to awareness and not buried in the unconscious, because he sees freshly and without rigid categorizing and labeling of the situation before him, he is ultimately his own judge of what is needed. After all, past solutions are merely the solutions of people in different situations. Therefore the creative person, even if he may welcome the praise or advice of others, is not dependen( on (hem. Current books Rock Folk, by Aiichael Lydon. It no accident that Michael Lydon a reader of Charies Dickens, for Lydon's book about the world of rock has all the color, noise and life of Dickensian London in (he 1840s.

Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson, B.B. King, The Gra(eful Dead and (he Rolling Stones are all originals, people with large appetites for experience and the courage of their different talents. Lydon writes about them with vividness and immediacy. In another sense, however, Lydon is less like Dickens than Henry the 19th Century author of an enormous, brooding work about the lives of the London poor. Like Mayhew, Lydon is unsentimental about his subjects and senathre to the dark events in their lives.

One never forgets that rock 'n' roll people live in a real worid and that stardom can be a cruelly temporary thing. Fans and record companies do not look back. Rock Folk is basically journalism, and may survive only as long as interest in its subject survives, but it deserves far better than that, for Lydon one of those writeis who allow joumalbts to believe that jour- nalbm can be art Thomas Powers (UPI) The Grandees: America Sephardie Elite, by Stephen Birmingham. (Harper Row, SIO) Thb a hbtory of pride and prejudice among the descendants of America's first Jewish setders, 23 Sephardim who arrived in New York in 1654. They were proud because their ancestors were Spanish and Port guese aristocrats, often the highest posts before the Inquistiom They were prejudiced against the German Jews who began to pour into after In you've got to see the worid for yourself if you wish to be creative.

If you can see in any given situation only what everyone else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. You haven't got the materials to be original with, since you have before you just another sunset, just another fifth-grade class, just another batch of leftovers in the refrigator. If, however, you do experience the world for yourself concretely and vividly, if you are open to the uniqueness of every object and event, if you are open to your own feelings and those about you, what is before you is not "just another" sunset, "just another" fifth- grade class, "just another" batch of leftovers. The act of bringing together (he uniqueness of yourself at the moment with the uniqueness of your materials at the moment and the uniqueness of other people's feeling.sat the moment that is creativity, whether the end-product takes the form of a painting, a novel way of presenting arithmetic, or an original casserole dish. Which is why art is so intensely alive or perhaps it is more accurate (o say that what constitutes living and wtiat goes into art are pretty much the same thing.

Certainly D. H. Lawrence had something like this in mind when he wrote in "Morality and the "The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his circumambient universe, at the living When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of "And this perfected relation between man and his cumambient universe is life itself, for mankind. It has the fourth-dimensional quality of eternity and perfection. Yet it is momentaneous.

"Man and (he sunflower bo(h pass away from the moment, in the process of forming a new relationship. The relation between all things changes from day to day, in a subtle stealth of change. Hence art. which reveals or attains to another perfect relationship, will be forever new." And for the creative individual, living, like art, is also forever new. The author, who becoming the Cleveland Amory of Jewbh Society, dwells on the Sephardim's pretensions, their famous personah'ties such as Haym Solomon, Judah P.

Benjamin, Emma Liuarus, and Benjamin (Zardozo, and on eccentricities. He does, not neglect their experiences with WASP intolerance which, though galling, did not prevent their from marrying into blueblood Protestant families as early as the mid-18th Century. Intermarriage, religious conversion, and gradual absorption into Ashkenazi Jewry have diminbhed the orthodox ardim community to a few scattered synagogue Birmingham has written amusingly of a virtually un- chronicled and fast- disappearing facet of American life. The Sephardim nourished one very American quality. They were not impressed by anyone not even by Mrs.

Astor's "400." "Who are the 400?" a boy asked hb Sephardie mother. "We are the 23," she replied. Frederick M. Winship (UPI) Curious Facts In 1862, Richard Galling patented his famous gun, which fired 350 rounds a minute. The World Abna- nac recalls that Catling, appalled by the sight of returning wounded soldiers duruig the Civil War, became determined to invent a weapon which would make war more terrifying and help deter the use of arms..