Redlands Daily Facts from Redlands, California • 12

With a Grain of Salt MOORE fif JL Rei'jnds Calif Friday March 22 1974- 12 fftWfoR tH PO YOU ME FOR A qyj ITTER? The victorious captain $1000 The rest ranged to in excess of $10000 The retail price of this one display window probably was in the neighborhood of $75000 As we looked wonderingly at this jewelry Mrs Moore said to me in the world has this kind of money and how do they come by it?" I had no ready answer Yet there were some of those people in the store where handsomely dressed clerks were waiting upon them Some Redlands banks have drive-in teller windows which are popular Zurich goes this type of banking one step further There is a bank one-half block off Bahnhof strasse that is exclusively a drive-in bank The entire first floor of an office building is arranged so that customers can drive their cars in under cover angle park in front of a glassed-in booth and do business Apparently they are prepared to do more than just accept deposits and payments as some of the booths had mure than one person in them which I took to mean that one was an officer of the bank The three blocks of Bahnhof strasse which end at the station are dosed to auto traffic but the blue street cars run on double tracks in the center of the street A row of trees separates the tracks from the wide pedestrian walks No tickets are sold on the street cars Passengers are instructed to buy their tickets from coin operated vending machines which are located near the intersections where cars stop I watched people buying these tickets They could be obtained in several denominations depending upon the amount of the fare Also apparently it is possible to buy a ticket for more than rae ride at a discount The user would push the end of the ticket into the vending machine and it stamped the date and a number on it I presumed that this was the method for accounting to each ride Los Angeles which had trouble with bus driver holdups night eliminate the problem with Zurich type vending machines Mixed in with the opulence of Bahnhof strasse was a portable shack which housed the display of a chestnut vendor It was in front of a small park and there were two charcoal braziers next to the stand For a franc about 35 cents I purchased a small paper cornucopia of hot roasted chestnuts We walked along the street shelling them -and finding them delicious At least there was one bargain on Railroad Station street within our reach Why a new engine is a Born Loser We had our first significant smog of 1974 on Sunday a Spring day On the day before engines that might be less smog-prone if used in automobiles had been analyzed at the UR "Transportation conference Tie report was made by Robert Riebling of Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Lab where the investigation is being made Before Riebling finished his speech however one facet had become immediately clear Any product to be mass produced for the American market today must satisfy vehement critics representing a wide range of views This is almost impossible as manufacturers who sought to provide retrofit smog devices for 19G6-70 cars learned with disastrous financial consequences to themselves This can be illustrated by supposing that the telephone had not been invented until Just now What would happen? Nader would attack the telephone as unsafe because it might electrocute somebody Federal Trade Commission experts would study it for three years Ending it safe The report would be attacked in court by Nader -Anti-trust hearings would be required in Congress to determine if telegraph companies should be permitted to own telephone companies Senator Proxmire would filibuster against the pro-telegraph company bill claiming the phones should be operated by the Postal Service Environmental Protection Agency would publish in the Federal Register a regulation requiring any telephone company to refrain from using poles Alexander Graham Bell would object but would be overruled Expensive underground installations would be required Senate committee on Natural Resources and Basic Materials would question whether America should use as much copper for wires as telephones would require Federal Energy Office would raise the objection that telephones would introduce a whole new power demand in an era hen energy is already short politicians would be opposed to the telephone claiming that only the rich could afford phones The poor would be disadvantaged They would hold out for a telephone subsidy for those on welfare and free phones for all over 65 Public Utilities Commission would have to receive a proposed rate schedule conduct public hearings and finally fix rates They would set the rates at a discouragingly low level Alexander Graham Bell by now would be over in Japan seeking a more receptive market for his invention Yes we have exaggerated But the point is that in America today nearly every major viewpoint is powerfully institutionalized and is as difficult to please as a tribunal in the Spanish Inquisition Any alternative engine to the internal combustion engine is a Born Loser because of the inquisition burner so were proposals to windfall taxes gas stamps for the poor and federal tax rebates for low-income groups The team captain was ready to switch signals if the game looked close But the game never was close and so he stuck by his original plan Washington has been the ruin of a great many men with high business reputations One thinks of the great automakers who were to put the Defense Department on a businesslike basis And all those other captains of industry who poured into Washington during World War II set up shops to handle copper and zinc and supply and demand and went home in embarrassment as Harry Hopkins took over So you have to hand it to Bill Simon He came to Washington to deal with what appeared to be a major crisis and by working around the clock he turned it into a major nuisance As government goes these days going pretty far tt WW Redlands Yesterdays FIVE YEARS AGO Highest 61 lowest 42 More appropriate spring climate was promised by the weatherman today in the wake of a modest twoday storm that tonight fractional amounts of rain to Redlands and the surrounding area Emphasis on increased production at Lockheed Propulsion Company has resulted in several important managerial appointments and organization changes Chan Bailey Redlands high school teacher selected to attend a year-long Science and Mathematics Institute at the University of North Dakota TEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 52 lowest 40 First real storm since January moves into Redlands and the rest of Southern California turning spring into a winter spectacle in the mountains where as much as 18 inches of snow is on the ground Redlands Red Gross campaign soars past the halfway mark as results of the second report deadline tabulated Redlands Community hospital receives word that Joint Commission on Accreditation has granted accreditation for a period of three years FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 66 lowest 51 School Trustees currently planning to raze present fine arts building erect six portable classrooms and a large general purpose building including cafeteria as part of continuing construction program at Redlands Senior high Hospital board authorizes remodeling of laboratory addition of a new recovery room and a library and lounge with funds still coming In from 1957 community campaign Minute Pulpit Have no anxiety about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God And the peace of God which passes all understanding will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus PhUippians 4:67 thoughts are prayers There are certain moments when whatever to be the attitude of the body the soul is on its knee" Victor Hugo French novelist World teaching results BRYCE ANDERSON By BILL EUROPE When Clifford Irving and his wife were exposed in their hoax over the Howard Hughes biography the news media focussed on the of Zurich' the Swiss bankers who handle billions of dollars of the world's wealth Most of the major banks are located on Bahnhof strasse which translates into Railroad Station street and is aptly named as it leads to the station These banks are not particularly impressive in comparison to the ultra modern headquarters of the big California banks in Los Angeles My only transaction with a Swiss bank had nothing to do with a numbered account All I wanted to do was to change 25 German marks into Swiss francs The sign outside the department I entered from Bahnhof strasse read This is the universal sign for places that change currency although the sign may read It was early in the morning and there was only one other customer in the bank which had about eight male tellers ready to do business I handed in my 25 marks and received back a little less than S3 in Swiss francs The charge for this transaction was roughly 1 per cent American travelers who must change money abroad usually find that after they have paid 1 per cent to purchase travellers checks at home they will lose another 1 per cent or more in the conversion to a foreign currency In Use month that I was in Europe the dollar fluctuated considerably from day to day mostly down I had thought of buying travelers checks in German marks or Swiss francs and the way the international exchange goes these days it probably is a good method of assuring a constant rate as both marks and francs are sounder than the dollar The Austrian schilling is still one of the strongest and most reliable currencies in Europe as I could easily tell by watching the rates posted outside the banks in Austria Along Bahnhof strasse in Zurich there are in addition to the banks many fine stores and shops The jewelry stores display some of the finest jew elry to be seen in any city of the world At a jewelry store located on a busy corner I looked at the displays along the main street then turned the corner to a smaller window There in front of me were jewels worthy of the attention of an Arabian king I would guess that there were probably more than two dozen items displayed Edch had a price tag The lowest priced item was slightly more than By A few months ago Larry Josephson of radio station KPFA Berkeley Calif got a press release announcing the 15th annual convention of The Little People of America Inc The release mentioned workshops on the discrimination against Little People by architects politicians and ordinary citizens who when they bother to think of them at all regard dwarves and midgets as some kind of joke or scapegoat euphemism to dwarf" says Larry the somewhat aggressive tone of the press release suggested that the LPA might be the ultimate minority a bunch of midget militants spouting rhetoric about their oppression by the tall-ists decided to go to the convention figuring I might produce a few minutes of humorous tapes about America's newest emergent Larry was aware to instance that the little People constantly are the butt of all sorts of jibes and ridiculing lines and silly questions that they get over and over again Mihaiy Mezaros whose 33 inches make him reportedly the smallest man in the world recently told me that if he's heard the following lines once he's heard them thousands of and he manages to smile at every one: "How's the weather down there?" turn on the lights here comes a short circuit" any short stories lately?" you standing in a hole?" you know smoking stunts your growth?" get run over by a beagle" did you play against Wilt Chamberlain?" you wearing high heels?" was thinking of things like that' says Larry when I got to the convention I found something quite different something complex and Little of The momentum of impeachment people America WASHINGTON William Simon the energy chief is behaving these days rather like the boy who has just captained the basketball team to a championship season those dire he tells his friends and is ready with a sheaf of paper to remind He has a point an item from the New York Times of last November: unemployment rate of 8 per cent closed public buildings and schools and cutoffs of electricity by early 1974 were forecast yesterday by officials of the New England Council And here is Sen Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn) also last November: Admin program to deal with the energy crisis is obviously inadequate" Here is Rep Morris Udall (D-Ariz) in December: this wishful thinking will boomerang before the winter is over and the American public will find that oil shortages will be far worse than President professional optimists are predicting unemployment could not be 47 per cent 6 per cent but closer to 10 per cent" And here is Newsweek last October: with the mildest of winters there will inevitably be isolated shortages and unheated homes and schools" In effect the experts said that team would lose in the finals and maybe even in the semifinals Arid William Simon who is built rather like a slim forward is walking around these days accepting pats on the back with the easy grace of the natural winner How did he do it? Here comes another reminder of the high school captain was team play" he says and points to the effort of the American people who cut their consumption of energy this last winter by more than 20 per cent They ought to be proud of themselves" But what about the stellar play of the captain? says Simon with a modest shrug think the allocations program worked From the start we thought the important thing was to save jobs That meant preserving fuel to industry It was either gas lines or unemployment lines and I think our strategy proved the correct one" 1974 by SEA He By TOM BRADEN It may be that Bill Simon was just plain lucky The winter was mild there was more oil on hand and incoming than had originally been supposed the public responded to calls to economies 'and as spring came the Arabs lifted the embargo Moreover things never really got serious enough to test the validity of reliance on the old economics of supply and demand The price of gasoline went up the oil company profits soared the poor got badly soaked But the crisis last long enough and the inequities were not severe enough to force a change And it must be said for Simon that he was ready to change Rationing was on the back The California State Department of Education in preparing its statewide testing program reports works out of the school districts based on sociological and economic factors The idea is that these make it possible to predict how pupils should do on the tests Sometimes the predictions work out sometimes they Included in the material fed into a computer to produce the is such information as median teacher salary tax rate assessed valuation per pupil poverty index amount spent on cost of instruction percentage of minority race pupils and of course the scores This year in preparing its report on the 1972 and 1973 state testing programs the department added some information drawn from the 1970 federal census: per cent of population Spanish-speaking per cent college educated and median income This additional input was supposed to make the more accurate Some of the districts are districts Their pupils perform just as predicted For instance Hillsborough Elementary School District in San Mateo County has the highest median income of any in the state ($20873) is in the top one per cent in median teacher salary and college education of parents and in the top 10 per cent in expenditure per pupil It is in the bottom 10 per cent in poverty index and per cent Spanish-speaking And its sixth grade pupils sewed in the top one per cent on three of four tests tot year and the top two per cent on the fourth Then there is Palo Alto District in Santa Clara County whose 12th graders ranked in the top three per cent on all four state tests and the top one per cent on one of them It is in the top one per cent in median teacher salary and spending per pupil the top three per cent in college education the top seven per cent in median income and the bottom 13 per cent in poverty index It fails to fit the formula rally in that 30 per cent of its population speak Spanish according to the census There are several other such districts where a high-income well-educated populace invests Effective gets By By Don Oakley NEA The question is no longer did the President know and when did he know it" but whether the sheer momentum of the ponderous impeachment process may not now have passed the point of no return -Not only have too many things been set in motion not only has popular confidence in the President eroded but die very idea of impeachment has been talked up and down across the nation for so many months that it is no longer as scary and unthinkable as it once was Indeed it more and more appears that both for the President's sake as well as the country's a formal full scale impeachment hearing may be the oily way to settle this issue once and for all It is not just Watergate that the President cannot shake off his back Other matters are contributing to the deterioration of his position Inflation particularly in the basic necessity of food and fuel along with shortages are rightly or wrongly being laid at the door of the White House People are fed up with a seemingly endless stream of crises and bad news While the responsibility for this scarcely constitutes an impeachable offense on the part of the President it is this souring mood of the public which more than anything else will bring the nation to the brink of heavily in its schools pays top salaries and gets top performance from its well-endowed children But not all the districts fit the so well There is for instance Taft High School District in Kern County with median teacher salary within the top one per cent in the state Yet its 12th grade pupils were unable to score up to the state median on any of the statewide tests And there is Emery Unified District in Alameda County which spent $1791 per pupil on costs of instruction the very highest except for a few oil-rich one-room and two-room Kern County elementary schools Yet Emery High School 12th graders scored in the bottom 10 per cent statewide on all four tests Then there is Del Mar Elementary School District in San Diego County ranking in the top one per cent in college education of its populace Del Mar sixth graders barely managed to break into the top 20 per cent in language and were below that on the other three tests certainly not bad but not nearly so good as many districts with a less-educated populace And to spoil the whole there is McCabe Elementary School District in Imperial County median teacher salary was $10950 just a few points above the state median It spent $513 per pupil on costs of instruction which put it in the bottom 19 per cent statewide Only 362 per cent of its population were college educated far below the state average And the median income of its adult males was $5722 In the bottom 12 per cent statewide To top it all off according to the census figures 90 per cent of the people in McCabe district speak Spanish a great handicap in teaching the children according to educators Yet sixth graders were in the top nine per cent in reading the top 12 per cent in language the top eight per cent in spelling and the top 10 per cent in mathematics Maybe there is a factor that should be included in the but is impossible to measure and feed into a computer: the ability and dedication of the teachers NORTON MOCKRIDGE beautiful and very human I was after only a few minutes of tape I ended up spending four days and three nights with the little People recording over 13 hours of raw tape Larry found that the Little People suffer immensely over their rejection by society in general seen lots of women I said one Little Man I never get anywhere because they like to bend down to a person like I like a said little Grade just laughs or sneers and gives me a pat on the And the little People constantly see hurt and reproach in their parents' eyes normal-sized parent looks at the likes of said one Little Person says: God why did I have to produce this? But thank God just short of stature not mentally retarded' But most of the little People put up a brave front: man is never handicapped by the length of his legs so long as they can reach the pedals on his Cadillac" Well Larry produced a delightful warm tender compassionate and educational show And I loved listening to it a judge again this year in the Major Armstrong Radio Awards sponsored by Columbia University and I was happy to be able to give Larry Josephson and radio station KPFA the first prize in the noncommercial Community Division As a result of the show 1 have a much deeper and more intelligent understanding of the Little People and now aware that when you get to know him nothing about a Li filer Person How can you help but love a little guy who when asked how much he weighs says: pounds but don't spread it around!" The Newsreel This may be the first year when it will be possible to pick and choose for a list of the Ten Top Crises You don't have to be a general to become president of a Latin American country but it helps Inflation is what makes it possible to go broke on an income you had always dreamed of earning Streaking must be especially difficult for girl students many of whom don't own hats So many side effects are being reported that most of the things that are good for you are clearly bad for you The drug traffic is terrible but without it what would the ctp shows on television do for a plot? A man who has never sat in a line waiting for gasoline has the feeling that he may be ell un-American "See I TOLD you the wet head is not dead Look at energy czar.