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Liftoff The Knoxville News-Sentinel A Scripps-Howord Newspaper EiigWiM Dtc tm RALPH MILLETT JR roger'aToaley Full report of United Pres Intern tional Atcociated Press Washington Bureau of Scripps-Howard Newspapers New York Times London Express United Press International Telephoto and AP Newspictures and NEA Service Inc Published daily and Sunday By carrier S100 weekly Sunday 15c Daily single copies 15c By mail daily S33B0 per year Daily and Sunday S5200 a year Second-Class Postage Paid at Knox vilte Tenn OiM LtM MW fNM tmt tw Om trmi Shvww Oftitt Xrf rnu kbmkiH Tm 1701 rjjiiin tmcm4IS SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22 1975 What Goes On Here? -v Guarantee fair Israel? Id rws me vwsTmoo new YORK The one thing fat the MiAib Eastern diplomatic tangle is that Secretary of State Kissinger fa back home talking more publicly if still vaguely about an American of Israel's political independence within ecure and Internationally recognized boundaries It has been argued In this space for years that 130 million Arabs would never accept an independent secure Israeli attte of 3 million unless it was clear both to the Arab states and the Soviet Union that the United States for its own and not Israeli reasons regarded the security of Israel as a vital American interest and would not tolerate its destruction Until recently however neither the UA nor the Israeli government has ahown much interest in an American guarantee of independence and boundaries for a variety of reasons On the Israeli side the argument was that an American even in treaty form might limit freedom of action Washington would obviously want to be consulted on what action should be taken in a military crisis if fa was expected to defend Israel This could lead to differences of opinion and dangerous delays about when or whether to strike and in the end prevent Israel from defending herself without assuring American military action SERIOUS ARGUMENTS Also an American commitment to defend Israel from military attack would probably lead to a Soviet commitment to defend Syria Egypt and the other Arab states from an Israeli attack and turn every a Arab-Israeli military crisis into a potential military confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union On the American side in addition to these obvious risks there was the further objection that such a guarantee to Israel would limit freedom of action enrage the Arab states separate mmwmwwmwmwmmwwi dafajnanhtwiHoi News-Sentinel Forum Pat Blames Haldeman for Woes Other TV Shows Portray Blacks Worse Than Tarzan Movies UT Mon Says EDITOR The News-Sentinel: A group of black students picketed various tours months Thomson (R-Wis) and Robert 0 Tieman (D-RI) who lost their seats in last election President Ford apparently feeling no sense of urgency has- ruminated anyone to the commission yet possible of course that some of these kinks will work themselves out between now and the April 10 reporting deadline But strange now much lip service there was for passing the campaign reform law in 1974 and how little enthusiasm there is for vigorously enforcing the new law in 1975 The End of Hope IT WAS SAD ENOUGH that the big white ship was on her way to the scrap heap Sadder still and more humiliating she had to be beached in the Delaware River after a collision with the tug that was towing her ripped a gaping hole in her starboard bow But that was merely anticlimax Her logbook was already closed In 13 years Hope had traveled more than 250000 miles to 10 countries where her complement of volunteer doctors and nurses ministered to the physical ills of 190000 people and gave native doctors instruction in the more sophisticated arts of healing She had begun her career as a Navy hospital ship christened USS Consolation She served in World War II and the Korean War and then in 1960 President Eisenhower gave her to the Project for Health Opportunities to People Everywhere which was conceived and adminstered by Dr William Walsh of Washington 1 The decision to decommission Hope and sell her for scrap was made because of the mounting cost of operation and because Project Hope plans to extend its program to countries lacking harbor and docking facilities for a large vessel career in the service of humanitarianism is a shining-chapter in maritime and medical history a splendid monument to the success of enlightened cooperation between government and private initiative James Reston educational and research programs at the Knoxville Zoological Park: Appalachian Zoological Society Docent Council annually conducts guided for 20000 school children AZS Docent Council during winter conducts School" programs on the Zoological Park and its animals An additional 15000 students are taken on tours ly zoo personnel andor the group teachers Each summer thousands of Sunday School church groups tour the zoo The Zoological Park has active educational programs with the Herpetol- ogy Anthropology Zoological Psychology and Biomedical Engineering departments and schools of Veterinary Medicine Architecture and Engineering at the University of Tennessee The park has an integrated educational program with the Mu-sewn The park is working on special programs for physically mentally and socially handicapped (foster children blind Biomedical Engineering deaf spe- dal education UT retarded Behavioral Psychology Eastern State Psychiatric 1 Hospital) The park is involved in research projects: Solar energy UT School of Architecture and School of Engineering space environment School of Architecture animal behavior studies and the relationship to man Psychology Department GUY SMITH III Zoo and Park Director 2211 Cherokee BhnL WHAT EVER HAPPENED to the Federal Elections Commission that was supposed to start policing campaign spending this year? The new campaign finance law has been in effect since Jan 1 But only four of the six commissioners have been nominated None has been confirmed No staff has been hired No money has been appropriated And no regulations have been written Candidates are supposed to file their first financial reports by April 10 but at this point no agency to file the reports with What goes on here? Political war chests are being stocked for 1976 it time we started keeping track of giving how much to whom? NONE OF the four watchdogs nominated by the House and Senate is considered an authority on campaign reform One of the Senate nominees a Montana lawyer named Joseph Meglen withdrew after critics complained that he was an old friend and former campaign treasurer for Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield The House nominees are a pair of ex-congressmen Vernon Curb the Commissaries CUTTING THE FEDERAL budget is like the fable about belling the cat in favor of it but nobody wants to be a victim of the process Defense Secretary James Schlesinger ran into a load of flak on Capitol Hill the other day when in defending his $1047-billion budget he remarked that he plans to save $250 million by cutting subsidies to military commissaries The flak came of course from those members of the House Armed Services Committee in whose constituencies there are appreciable numbers of active or retired military personnel But Schlesinger stood to his guns pointing out that the commissaries had been established generations ago as a means of making up for low service pay Those days are now long past Military pay has increased 125 per cent in the past 10 years and in these times of economic distress military personnel not only receive comparable with that of dvil-ns but protected against unemployment We heartily agree with Schlesinger that there's no reason in these circumstances for taxpayers to underwrite the cost of commissaries where active and retired military personnel can buy groceries and an infinitely wide variety of other consumer goods at savings erf 20 to 25 per cent below civilian store prices in the same locality We hope Congress does likewise and that plan to ditch the commissaries gets the vote of approval it deserves Wesf is Best Washington from fas European allies and Japan who tend to be more interested fat Arab oil than Israeli security and threaten the larger objectives of detente between Washington and Moscow There are dearly serious arguments against a formal US guarantee of Is- net's independence and frontiers but most of the risks exist anyway and this is the dilemma It fa hard to imagine the Arab states reconciling themselves to the permanent existence of a secure Israel or Israel persuading Itself to withdraw to its insecure 1907 borders unless both the Arabs and the Israelis know there borders will be defended by the United States As things now stand everything fa imprecise because no nation has any assurance of anything The Israelis have no guarantees and no freedom of They are utterly dependent on money and arms from the United States The Arabs are in the same position with the Soviet Union They can make war but not for long without supplies from Mos- Wit? Kfogerd SaijJ WBIR-TV Feb 19 to protest the showing of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies because they alledgedly portrayed blacks an unfavorable I am resentful and bitter at this ridiculous spectacle although I am not surprised But I will be surprised and disappointed if WBIR decides to destroy or sell its Tarzan movies as it has suggested it might do even though the Tarzan movies are most popular among viewers and nroductrbuvers Thermos TV show was axed several years ago during the early years of the Civil Rights movement because blacks were offended I was equally offended at the decision to drop the show But now blacks are the biggest viewers of and which differs little from its earlier predecessor except for its lower Why not protest and After all and Son" portrays blacks in a much more unfavorable light than does Tarzan Or why not protest Lawrence Welk which portrays blacks as ignorant tap dancers? Where will this end? Will you try to force MGM to destroy its remaining copies of with the Wind" because of its unfavorable portrayal of blacks at Uncle Toms? And who are you to decide what our families are to watch and enjoy in the privacy of our own homes? I suggest you get out of your playpens and attack real injustice rather than the imagined injustice of elephant stampedes You could be of real benefit! LEWIS RUSSELL Melrose Hall UT 7 Concord Woman Sees No Harm in Showing Old Tarzan Movies EDITOR The News-Sentinel: Pending the protesters wanting the Tarzan movies banned 1 agree with Mary Simpson Children have few movies these days fit for their viewing Through the years Tarzan has been a favorite for This nonsense of what ideas it gives diem about Africa is bunk I have always liked and watched Tarzan No 1 thoughts ever crossed my mind that 'the Macks in the movies were stupid or foolish for we all know it's fiction That's what iswrong with our country now letting a few decide what we can or cannot do Africa is me country the USA is another sure Africans let us go over there and tell them what to do If protesting is in order then I sure the Show" and a few more could be protested for equal rights but lwant it for everyone not just one race creed or color Anyway Tarzan isn't shown often enough to bring a protest arid the blacks that perform in them were paid to do it at their own will They weren't made to do it It's time we got down to business Protest if it makes sense or is to better ourselves and country I say show the good old dean movies that our children love for they are a thing of the put T- ANNIE HEDGECOCK Swafford Rd Concord Smith Defends Zoological Park as One of City's Most Important Educational Entities EDITOR The News-Sentinel: Last week during the Knoxville Board of public hearing on the proposed 1975 operating budget there was considerable discussion on the base sal-' ary for teachers and the lack of money "for samev During this discussion Councilman Jean 1 Teague made the statement is more important animals or children why not take the zoo budget and give the teachers a This same analogy could just logically have been is more important children or books and therefore do away with the libra ly system" This of course would be absurd The Knoxville Zoological Park is one of the most important educational enti- ties available to our children and adults Your zoo is utilized by thousands of students every year and the educational ex- periences cannot be compared to any other aspect of education' A zoo is a liv-ing integral part of one of basic natural resources A resource which is at the point of no return for hundreds of species if zoos fed to act as a "saving bank" and propagate the endangered "I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes I hope they do get 'em lowered down enough so people can afford to pay Dec 28 1924 By HELEN THOMAS UBi HlkUB wFI WnIN PIMM HiPIfNv WASHINGTON Pat Nixon is maintaining a "cheerful'' outlook according to intimates who have visited with her recently but she is staying out of the public eye Mostly the former First Lady has been enjoying tending her gsrden at her San Clemente Calif estate they report Mrs Nixon has not been giving interviews but a friend is quoted in a Home Journal article by Candy Stroud as saying that the former First Lady was she couldn't believe the stupidity involved'' in the installation of a taping system in the White House during the Nixon era The friend said that Mrs Nixon convinced that HR Haldeman did many things without the ever knowing and that this (using the tapes) was just Mrs Nixon has not seen her husband's former White House chief of staff since he was forced to resign in April 1973 but she blames him for the tapes and tells friends that they never have been used in the first Relations between Haldeman and Mrs Nixon apparently never were warm During the Watergate scandal it was reported Haldeman once complained about the amount of time White House suffers had to spend on tasks for Mrs Nixon and her daughters The magazine article says that former President Nixon is working three hours a day on his memoirs and it quotes West Coast TV executive John Grant as saying that Nixon told him will be a great deal better in 1175 than 1974 Lots of things been White House curator Clement Conger recalls that one point in the Watergate scandal Mrs Nixon said to him out to get us Clem They want us out of here But it's all politics and it will go NIXON PAT CLOSER A Whitt House aide who recently visited San Clemente reports that Nixon feels much closer to Pat now and that 1 the tragedy has drawn them together "Things are picking up out he said of the former Western White House He also reported that some 49 to 50 women volunteers have plowed into the job of answering about one million pieces of mail which have come to the Nixons in the past six months Some of the letters were addressed to Julie Nixon Eisenhower who lives in a Washington apartment with her husband David Eisenhower but who requested that her mail remain in California President Ford has new way of let-ting visitors know when their time is up in the Oval Office been observed lately that instead of looking at his watch or having an aide pop in to signal the visitor that time to leave now Golden Retriever Liberty trots into the room and breaks up the conversation Ford stands up and the visitor gets the hint in a polite way with Liberty wagging his tail The President rarely gets angry but one thing that causes his temperature to rise is when he falls behind in his schedule He is obsessed with the need for punctuality and is very orderly in his work When his aides observe that he is angry they often immediately jump to the conclusion that he has gotten fouled up with his schedule DEBATE OVER PAINTING White House curator Clement Conger says the White House has historical proof that the painting of George Washington which hangs in the East Room was paint ed by Gilbert Stuart Marvin Sadik director of the National Portrait Gallery contends that the portrait was painted by another artist not Stuart Conger says that the George Washington portrait was purchased by the Federal Government in July 1800 five months after John Adams moved into the new White House for $500 The bill of sale is now in the National Archives He said the painting was bought by Harry Lee a Government purchasing agent at the direction of the of the departments for the Conger said that the question of au- thenticity of the painting has been debated by art critics for about 100 years and that doubt arose partially due to extensive damage to and restoration of the portrait in the mid-19th Century But he said that most experts on Stuart believe that the painting came from his studio He calls it the important paint- ing in the Western because of its historical value He said that Dolly Madison had it removed from the White House on Aug 24 1814 during the War of 1812 to have it transported to a place of safety The painting was' returned to the White House after the Executive Man-sum had been reconstructed in 1818 following the fire of 1814 Omumii SAMS tor Brvm StorHna Visions of Fred and Font Smith and Their Contributions to University Praised EDITOR The NewwSentlnd: The fast pace of life is scarcely falter- rupted fay the news of the death of an old woman The significance of her life goes unnoted even though her influence was great Recently Mrs Fred Smith known to her friends as Fern died after a long illness Her husband held two joint and weighty responsibilities at the University of Tennessee namely vice president for academic affairs and dean of the Graduate School He influenced the choice of faculty and paced the direction of its re- search In building a great university no two functions surpass these Dr Smith established the first sound pension plan for UT an important factor in recruiting and keeping excellent faculty Dr and Mrs Smith had served on col-' lege campuses tar the West and East coming here from 1 Harvard They brought with them the breadth of their wide experience the perspective that challenges old ways and encourages in- novation After all these the goals of the educated mind? Mrs- modest and soft-spoken manner belied a person of numerous tal-: ents She was during Mrs' Hoskins' long illness the University's gracious hostess She founded the Newcomers Club so vital in making the new faculty feel at home in Knoxville Her home was open to groups such as Red Cross train-' ing programs and informal classes in interior decorating which she herself taught She designed furniture and other woodworking crofts which she and her husband made They were both active members of the Southern Highland Hand- craft Guild Musical instruments were fabricated and played by them Fern Smith was a rare human being a delight to be with for her humorous recollections her most uncommon abun--dance of common sense her uncanny Mend of the practical and the beautiful No bricks and motar record the names of Fred and Fern Smith A university whose academic reputation is' recognized outside the confines of the state fust does not "happen" to achieve excellence It gets that way because of a few people who possess the vision of the true -university The Smiths had that vision MRS A NIELSEN 3805 Timberiake Rd Ho Applauds WBIR-TV For Adding UHF Channel 43 fa Its Telecasting EDITOR The News-Sentinel: WBIR-TV is to be congratulated for adding UHF Channel 43 to fas telecasting There are no dead spots around Knox-' ville now since they added UHF facilities to their VHP tower at Blaine Tenn Most Knoxvillians as yet know that this additional service is available Coal: Nation's Energy Answer KEEP SMILING AND SHIPPING The United States and the Soviet Union are equally suspicious of one another They have signed noble proclamations in Moscow and elsewhere to cooperate for peace in the Middle Earn even to limit the flow of arms into such inflammable areas but they really cooperate for peace but keep smiling and pretending and shipping the latest weapons to both sides Even Kissinger's strenuous efforts to find a way out of ail there problems have become a major source of controversy His style tactics and prominence are now discussed more in Washington than his policies and objectives Personality and procedure are now tiie main topics of conversation in Washington and here in New York at the United Nations Now that back he is trying to bring the question down from procedure to substance He has traveled 11000 miles to 11 countries in 10 days listening to the arguments in Israel and the Arab states reporting to the European allies and fiqally to the President and the leaders of Congress Within a month he will have to go back to the Middle East with the propos- -ab of the UA Government for a com promise settlement Meanwhile he fa bring told by the Russians and oddly by the Israelis that he should go to a Middle Eastern conference at Geneva even before he has an agreement about what should be settled there Kisringer to now saying that this fa not sensible but probably inevitable A few weeks ago he was saying that we go to Geneva without an agreement beforehand you will know that no agreement fa possible" 1 SEARCHING FDR WAY OUT 7 But still he fa searching for some way out of his troubles and in the process he has ordered a study of an American guarantee of independence and security in return for an Israeli with- drawal to its 1987 borders In the next few weeks before he has to go back to the Middle he will be trying to define what such an American to Israel would be whether it would be acceptable to the Senate as a treaty and what the reaction to such a guarantee would be in Moscow the Arab world and Europe In short be is trying to find some way to break the diplomatic conflict between Israel and the Arabs and to bring Washington and Moscow to a point of decision in the Middle East And the idea of an American of security eems now to be the most relevant if difficult compromise with lime and limestone But this process is still so new many power plants won't be able to instal it for years In this sense the regulations are outrunning the technology Besides there is some question about its feasibility It takes an awful lot of energy manpower and equipment to quarry crush transport and handle all this limestone And in the end left with a idle of gunk almost equal to the amount of coal burned This waste sludge has to be disposed of and the way things are going Americans could be thigh-high in the stuff inside of 25 years There are some alternatives on the horizon One is called the citrate process It appears more efficient and cheaper And instead of a waste product it leaves elemental sulfur as a byproduct The citrate process has worked fine in two pilot plants for more than a year So -the Government should stop dragging its heels and launch a large-scale crash program to bring the citrate sys-' tem into commercial use sooner than somewhat And assure the transportation needed to haul more coal the Govern- ment must make certain the Penn Central and other Eastern railroads not only stay alive but upgrade their facilities Also improvement of inland waterways and construction of coal-slurry pipelines must be encouraged STRIP-MINING LAW NEEDED As for Western coal it is low in sulfur and close to the surface So easier to get at than Eastern coal and less trou- blesome to burn Thus the quickest and greatest expansion of coal production can occur there But the big hitch is lack of a Federal strip-mining law spelling out the ground rules for operators before take the plunge So we should waste no more time getting one on the books Fears that such a law might be so tough scare off operators are groundless Pennsy lvania has one of the stiffest stripping laws in the nation yet coalmen -have proved they can live with it and with a conscience" By JOHN TROAN SSSsr TS PHMsrsk Pim TO REDUCE DEPENDENCE on for- eign fuel sources we must develop more of our own Most of all we must use more coal The United States has no shortage of coal We have enough to last us for at least three more bicentennials So all electric-power generating plants which can be switched from oil to coal should be Unfortunately we've had more talk than action along this line Since the oil crisis brought on by the Arab embargo in 1973 only nine power plants in the United States have shifted from oil to coal and eight of them have now gone back to oil I DOUBLETROUBLE Of new power plants going into opera- tion this year only 29 per cent will be fueled by coal Of those slated to go on stream in the next three years half are designed to use oil or gas and cannot be regeared to coal But power plants now using a half- 'million barrels of oil a day could be converted to coal And those planned for 1979 or later can be designed for coal if they going nuclear The Federal Government has author- icy to force electric utilities to do this and the Government should exercise this power nowv Meanwhile' the coal industry faces double trouble as it tries to expand In the East the big trouble is the high sulfur content of the coal In the West the major holdback is the lack of a I Federal stripmining law There is no problem producing more coal in the East although you certainly start up new mines overnight The problem is burning the coal after it is mined'' This is so because Eastern coal con- tains a high amount of sulfur When this coke is burned something has to be done to reduce the sulfur going up the smoke-' stack Otherwise you run afoul of anti-' pollution standards To satisfy clean-air rules utilities are sulfur out of the flue gas FRANK HAILE Box 1125 Signs of the Times by Valentine Every thinking educator realizes the importance of all natural resources We 1 feel certain that our teachers would rather be able to show studehts living exam- pies of animals than to teach them about species that use to exist 1 All of us at the zoo and park are in sympathy with the school trachera and their desire and need for additional salary We do not feel however that tearing down an important educational and revenue-producing program is the logical -Tie 4 7 Here are some facts reflecting the i A 'T J- s''1'- i.