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La 5 With a Grain Of Salt Off in All Directions Redlands.Calif. Wednesday, July 20 Qualified lawyers for major criminal trials In criminal trials, things would go better if the lawyers on both sides were always competent. Chief Justice Burger told the nation in a Monday telecast. In California, the State Bar is not only active in a program to discipline lawyers whose misconduct is harmful to their clients. It is also planning ahead to staff and finance this work as the membership in the Bar grows in the years ahead.

But in relationship to criminal trials, that isn't quite what Mr. Burger was talking about. Rather, he seemed to be thinking in harmony with Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General of California. Mr.

Younger's view is that the problem in criminal trials is not the misdeeds of the lawyer, in some cases, but rather his lack of qualifications to defend his client. He says, for example, that in a murder case the defense should not be entrusted to just any attorney but to one who has the qualifications for a capital punishment case. The Attorney General observes that in medicine, doctors are certified as specialists in certain fields. He sees no reason why lawyers can't be similarly qualified. He has such a proposal before the 1971 Legislature and recently said in San Bernardino "I'm not getting much support from the Bar." When challenged that such a setting of standards would be impractical and was asked how he would determine lawyer's qualifications to try, say, the Manson case, he replied to an attorney: "You ask jurors to decide more difficult questions than that all of the time." Obviously, the proposition is a controversial one, and a difficult one about which to jell a consensus.

It is clear, however, that the in the federal judiciary and the Attorney General of California believe something can and should be done about qualifications in major criminal trials. It's truly 'Sylvan' Although Sylvan Park is more than half a century old, it does not deteriorate but grows in beauty. The barbecue on the "Fourth of July" serves to bring Redlanders together to enjoy the park and to again feel pride in it. One of the merits of Sylvan is that there is enough of it. This is no vest pocket park but a greensward that spreads over a large area.

This permits the park to be divided into different sections so that when you are in one you are not aware of the others. Part of this division is provided by the Mill Creek Zanja which is densely lined with shrubs and trees. To the south of the wall is the big swimming pool, the picnic section known as Pinetum and the bowling green. Immediately north is a large area of lawn, shaded by mature trees. People can sit on the grass and enjoy the coolness and the scene.

In that same area is the playground equipment where kids love to play on the slides and swings. The main picnic area will accommodate large crowds, as the Evening Kiwanis barbecue again demonstrated. Yet, this section is separated from the large greensward nearer to Colton avenue by the upward sloping ground and by the landscaping. Because Sylvan is such a splendid park, it attracts many people from afar. The beauty that is represented there is what "Redlands" means to them.

Satchmo There are some roles in life where those who have suffered excel over those who haven't. Such a man was Louis Armstrong, the great Negro jazz trumpeter and singer. Born poor in New Orleans, he shared the hardships out of which jazz music was born. With other kids he sang for pennies on the streets of the red light district. He was sent to a waif's home for a year merely for shooting blanks in a revolver on Fourth of July.

He experienced the tough side of life. But he was also raised in the part of New Orleans where jazz was born. The soul that was expressed in the blues was within Armstrong. When he learned to play the trumpet, and to sing with a band, he merely had to put into music what was within him from life experience. Although the emphasis in his obituaries is placed on Armstrong, the musician and properly so he had personality in abundance.

And that's what further enhanced his reputation when movies and television made music a visual as well as a hearing entertainment. Satchmo was fun when he merely grinned, or opened his eyes incredibly wide. He was contagious. Because he was an authentic jazz man, he was not merely an American entertainer. He was a tremendous hit abroad.

He even went to Russia and charmed his audiences. The poor kid from Perdido street in New Orleans became a world figure. The Newsreel Statistics show that the average age in America is going up. Great Scott! If we run out of teenagers who will mow the lawns? Any American boy can still be elected President, unless he'd rather spend the $10 million on something that would be more fun. The world may, in truth, be going to the dogs.

They already have about half the shelves at the supermarket. These days, you see a lot of bicycles being ridden around by rich people who probably didn't sell a single magazine subscription to earn them. No matter how the blame for Vietnam is finally divided, there would seem to be plenty of it to go around. Walter Tippy shows up at work in a double-breasted suit and his friends can't decide whether tois means they're on their way in or their way out. Another unfair thing about being bald, says one who knows, is that you can't lose weight by getting a haircut.

By FRANK MOORE "Say, tell me," the lady asked. "Are these fancy new bikes I see all over town really much easier to ride than the bikes we had when we were kids?" Yes, Madame. They surely are. A sports bike requires only half as much effort; it will go nearly twice as fast with the same amount of muscle. There are several factors: The high pressure tires.

The light weight of the machine. The gears. For the bicycle rider, shift- able gears are the greatest invention since (he wheel. They help you to ride farther, in less time, with less effort. But wait.

Perhaps you've never even looked at a 10 -speed bike. The way it works is with two forward sprockets one bigger than the other and a cluster of five gears from small to large at the rear wheel. The chain can be shifted between the front sprockets and to any back sprocket. Theoretically, this gives the rider a range of 10 gear ratios, but several gear combinations are nearly alike. Call it seven, net.

This brings us to a wrong assumption which nearly everyone makes about gears. For riding around Redlands what matters is not how many gears the rider has, but the range of gears. Some of our hills are so steep that a very low gear is required to climb them. Indeed, many of the grades up near Sunset drive are so fierce that the adult rider had better dismount and walk. For the guy who wants to race down hill, a very high gear is necessary.

Otherwise, gravity will make his bike go faster than he can pump. In practice, most 10 speeds are not low enough geared for the steepest Redlands hills, but all of them will go down hill as fast as safety permits. While gears do make riding more pleasant, there is a trade off of which you may not be aware. If you are riding up hill and the going is too hard, you can shift into a lower gear and it becomes easier. But in the lower gear you go slower.

An experienced rider manages his gears so he applies about the same amount of push to the pedals all of the time, cranking at a cadence that does not vary much. I ride at 60 pedal revolutions per minute. In the lowest gear my Varsity goes 7 miles per hour that's always up hill. In the highest gear it goes 17 that's always down hill. On the flat I prefer a gear that cruises at 11 mph.

Many young people, I am afraid, buy bikes that are too fancy. If you know about gears, you can often notice that they aren't using them to advantage. They simply don't care. They are strong and they enjoy applying brute force in an overly high gear. The derailleur gear shifting system must be kept in good working order or nasty things will happen such as the chain throwing off the front sprocket.

And the high pressure tires on light weight bikes are for the rider who expects to take good care of them. The real racing tires must be checked for pressure before each riding. And the tiger who uses them had better know how to change a tire on the road. In spite of all of this, fashion is the strongest force in the market place. 10 -speed bikes for teenagers and adults are The adult who lives on the flat of the town might be much happier with a 3-speed a different kind of gear shift and a less temperamental one.

Quick Quiz the Black Forest in Germany really a forest? It is a mountain range so thickly overgrown with trees that it is called a forest rather than a mountain. planet has rings around it? three rings are unique in our solar system. No other planet has anything like them. Minute Pulpit It has been testified somewhere, "What is man that thou are mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou carest for 2:6. You must not lose faith in humanity.

Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become tvichaidas Gandhi, spiritual leader tf India. Law against blocking traffic Redlands Yesterdays FIVK YEARS MM Temperatures Highest 98. lowest 58. William A. Stevenson, newly appointed president of Lockheed Propulsion company, arrives in Redlands today by plane to assume his new post.

At the end of the year the U.S. Forest service will terminate occupancy permits for 15 summer homes in Mountain Home canyon above Igo's in the mountains east of Redlands because of fire danger. Officials of the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District and state Department of Water Resources will meet Monday to begin planning for a cooperative ground water study in the San Bernardino Basin. TEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 104, lowest 59. Conversion of Redlands Airport to a municipal facility to accommodate business and executive flying is proposed by the Chamber of Commerce.

Two more pets fall victim to dog poisoner in the Country Club area, and owner of one dog offers $100 reward. Target date of July 29 set for dedication of the new 16-mile section of State Highway 38 linking the Barton Flats area to Bear Valley. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 88. lowest 55. More than 1.000 visit new- Facts plant during first evening of special open house event.

Park department report for fiscal year shows 1,310 street trees planted in new subdivisions. Dr. Robert Morlan, Dr. Eugene Moulton, Mrs. Lawrence Clark, Dr.

Charles Hobart and Dr. Gilbert Brown given promotions in faculty rank at UR. Now You Know Ark's Wood The wood of the shittah tree, a variety of the acacia tree, which was sacred to the Hebrews, was used by the Israelites in building their Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant. A nose job for the killer whale By NORTON MOCKRIDGE Remember my old buddy, Hugo, the killer whale? I told you about him back in January when I had a little chat with him in the Miami Seaquarium. That was shortly after Hugo had demonstrated that if you stick your head too far down his throat, he's likely to bite it.

I explained, you may recall that, as part of Hugo's act, his trainer puts his head between his teeth about six times a day, and Hugo just stands there, treading water, and lets him do it But one day, suffering from a tickle, no doubt. Hugo went crunchy crunch. They had to take 10 stitches in the trainer's head and neck. Anyhow, I've just learned that Hugo lopped off his own nose! Didn't mean to do it, they say. but two inches of nose, with a diameter about the size of your hand, came off and gave Hugo's snout the appearance of the back end of a baree.

Nobody knows for sure why Hugo amputated his proboscis but Dr. Jesse White, the staff veterinarian at the Seaquarium, has two theories. He thinks that Hugo perhaps became frustrated when his little lady friend, Lolita, the white-sided dolphin, was removed to another tank and started to howl for Hugo. Or, Hugo might have been irked that the people who watch him through a plastic bubble weren't actually in the pool where he could feel them. Whatever the reason, Hugo, who's about 20 feet long and weighs close to 15,000 pounds, began swimming swiftly around his huge tank and then suddenly shot right at the plastic bubble.

It's about five feet in diameter and projects 20 inches into the tank. His powerful drive shattered the acrylic plastic bubble, and knocked a five-inch hole in it. And a piece of jagged plastic severed Hugo's nose. Although Dr. White toys with the yearning-for-LoIita theory, Berry's World 1971 MA, Inc "Hold it, mom, don't dig that are my special Cannabis sativa plants!" he apparently thinks the more likely explanation is that Hugo could see people through the bubble and got to thinking that they were in the pool.

"Hugo is like a big puppy dog," said the doctor, "and he really wants people right there in the tank with him." (This I saw myself. Whenever Hugo had one or two of his trainers in the water, he'd plow into them with his nose whenever they reached the dock and tried to climb out. He'd toss them gently about six feet.) According to Dr. Smith, Hugo reasoned that there was a barrier between him and his friends in the pool, and he ought to get rid of it. And that's how- he got the nose bob.

Dr. Smith, telling the story in the July issue of Science Digest, says that he recovered the two-inch piece of Hugo's nose and decided to sew it back on. He tried to give the killer whale a local anesthetic with a large hypodermic syringe, but the needle just wouldn't penetrate the tough hide far enough. So, Dr. Smith did the stiching without using any anesthetic and Hugo took it quite clamly.

Like other members of the dolphin family, Delphinidae, Hugo uses his nose as a weapon, and his threshold of pain in that area is very high. He never even jiggled while the 20 stitches were put in. Dr. White didn't expect the flap to grow back on Hugo's snout, but he used it as a sort of Band-Aid so that tissue under it might be regenerated. And that's what happened.

In seven days the flap turned white and died. When the stitches were taken out, it fell off. But the tissue underneath had started to granulate and heal from the inside. In four months Hugo had a new nose. "It generated the same tissue, not scar tissue," said Dr.

White. "It built into the same hvdrodynamic shape even the same color as before. It's amazing." Well, I'm mighty glad for Hugo. What's a killer whale without a nose? But I'm worried that it might happen again. So, I think Dr.

White had better find out whether Hugo was yearning for Lolita, or for people. If it's Lolita, let's not put her in a separate pool any more. And if it's people, toss a few into the tank. Timely Quotes We just tinkered with the problems of health, education, jobs and housing. You get justice when you really have a passion for it; you get equality when you really work for it.

Clark, former attorney general, in a commencement address. The Nixon administration has a great deal more confidence in the judgment of the elected officials of this country than in the judgment of the New York Times. A country does not conduct its diplomacy on the pages of a newspaper. President Agnew. By ERNEST CUNEO In the furor over the alleged abridgement of the civil rights of the May Day antiwar demonstrators who several weeks ago attempted to "shut down the government," a fundamental fact has been forgotten.

It appears to be overlooked by many judges that in addition to recording cases, the Common Law represents the accumulated history of the race. Further, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes indicated, one page of history is worth a volume of logic. For example, every school child knows that under the law, each man's house is his castle. In those dear sonorous terms, the rain may come through the roof, and the wind may blow through the windows, yet the king may not enter except by due process of law. This is absolutely splendid, but it is to be noted that it appeared in the law about 1660.

It was shortly followed by Habeas Corpus, requiring that a citizen must be arraigned and informed of the charges on which he was arrested in open court, with the right to confront the witnesses against him. But for 500 years before the enactment of these fundamental rights, the Common Law had been engaged in laying other foundations, quite as basic. When William the Conqueror took over the English throne in 1066. the land was divided into dukedoms and earldoms, which were all but self-governing. To establish the king's authority, however, certain roads ere declared to be the King's Highway.

They bore a special protection. Within four miles of the King's Palace and upon the King's Highway, the King's Peace was declared to be the law. If a man robbed another in a field near the King's Highway, this was no offense against the Crown. But if he robbed the same man upon the King's Highway, it was a violation of the King's Peace, and the punishment was death. Thus, before it was the law that each man's house is his castle, into which the king cannot enter without due process of law, it was first the law that the castle could not enter upon the roads which were the means without which the king could not govern at all.

It has been the history of all nations and empires, paradoxically enough, that the rise of public property is a far more important right than the ownership of private property. This is easily demonstrable. Though each man's house is his castle, it becomes his prison if he is not permitted to use the public road which runs in front of it. Certainly, he owns his house; but if denied access to public thoroughfares, he is reduced to a position of house arrest. Thus, his right to go out freely is more fundamental than to keep the king from coming in, though, of course, both are basic.

The wisdom of the Common Law in underlying these public freedoms, as distinguished from private rights, is bolstered by considering the history of other nations and empires. This, the old adage that all roads led to Rome puts the cart before the horse. The fact is that all roads led from Rome, because the roads were the means by which Rome exercised its imperial power. Before the Roman Empire, this was the basis of the Persian Empire. In fact, the motto of the U.S.

Postal Service, that neither gloom of night nor heat of day shall delay these carriers in the swift completion of their appointed rounds is a quotation from the Persian courier system. The King's Highway system is applied to the sacrosanct status of the mails today because it is a necessity. From Kipling's line, "Oh tiger turn tail, in the name of the Empress the overland mail," to the 1st U.S. Cavalry's protection of the U.S. Mail stagecoaches, the open highway is that single tenet upon which sovereign power and therefore all freedoms depend.

For this reason, any group of citizens, under any guise whatsoever, Right, Left or Center, who take it upon themselves to block a highway, are in violation of the peace and dignity of the land in the ancient and primary use of that term. When, in addition, they announce that their very purpose is to stop the functioning of the U.S. Government, this is an offense which was definable at Common Law as treason. It is no longer treason within the meaning of the criminal law. But it is a most serious crime, for long before it was written that the king may not interfere with the individual liberty of the subject, it was written that neither may the subject bar another subject from the highway of the king.

It is absurd, therefore, for the courts to countenance the idea that however deeply they may feel their cause, any group of citizens has the right to block other citizens from the lawful use of the public highways and public buildings. Labor gains as Heath stagnates By HENRY J. TAYLOR LONDON It is obvious here that the egg has hit the fan: the Heath government in which President Nixon has a vital operational stake is clearly on the defensive. And, behind the scenes and personally, Prime Minister Heath himself is now alarmed. British special Parliamentary elections to fill vacated seats often produce a protest vote that returns to the party fold in general elections and belies what appears to be upsets.

Many voters here merely stray from party allegiance. Conservative and Labor alike, knowing that national power isn't a stake in the by-elections. But recent by- elections have made an unrevealed impact on the Prime Minister that is largely hidden by him from even the White House itself. Of three recent by-elections two were in strong Labor party districts Goole and Hayes and the Labor vote climbed substantially. The shattering effect came in the third district Bromsgrove in the Birmingham area.

This is normally a safe, Conservative stronghold, which is absolutely secure. But Labor won that, too. Moreover, it was a sweep. The startling switch to the Labor party exceeded 10 per cent. Publicly, Conservative party Chairman Peter Thomas called this "only a temporary setback," and so did Mr.

Heath. Privately, however, Mr. Heath sees this confirming the current public opinion polls, which are lethal. He and his party have ruled here for a year. The Conservatives won the government on June 18, 1970.

Their election lead over the Labor party was about 2.5 per cent. tember a National Opinions Poll showed the Heath party still holding approximately that lead. But the latest National Opinions Poll not only erased that lead but now shows a spectacular 13.7 per cent over-all public preference for the Labor party enough to give it a Parliament majority of 140 seats. Mr. Heath believes that his pro-Common Market and other foreign policies have played their part, but sees his problem chiefly in terms of what our American union leaders call "pork-chop issues." Seeking election last year, Mr.

Heath promised to end "at a stroke" the wage-cost-price spiral. Instead, consumer prices have soared 9.4 per cent and union contract renewals have averaged 15.5 per cent increases in the past three months alone. And the union chiefs have served notice at present that they will soon be back for another round of increases forecasting even higher prices as the spiral increases in speed and scope. Mr. Heath attacked the Labor government for unemployment.

It stood at 578,000 when he came in. It now stands at an official 755,000. Mr. Heath attacked the Labor government's bureaucracy and promised to reduce the number of what the British call "the brief case and brolly (umbrella) brigade." Civil servants here totaled 163,000 in 1939. They passed 450,000 before Mr.

Heath came in. The Labor government added so many bureaucrats that they actually exceeded the number of soldiers in the British Army. But now the number is nudging 500,000 for the first time in British historv Until now, publicly and privately, Mr. Heath has proceeded as confidently as a clean-up man swinging three bats. But, behind the scenes, this has gone and the clincher was the polls-confirmation in the Bromsgrove by-election..