European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes monday Congress can stomach Only so Many f by Dick West Washington up the current congressional Economy drive is moving apace one step Forward and two tothe rear. The House of representatives fori instance expects to save about $5,000 this year on ice cubes. Unfortunately in order to accomplish this saving the House had to spend about $12,000for an ice making machine. It will however be a prudent trans action Long Range Wise. Once the machine pays for itself the ice cubes will be pure Gravy. Meanwhile the budget for the join congressional committee on reduction of non essential Federal expenditures has increased by $14,400.these and other interesting figures Are included in the new legislative appropriations Bill which received House committee approval last  appears that the major problem confronting the lawgiver As they Grap ple with their own expenses is internal. Specifically the  indications Are that the Vari Ous restaurants cafeterias and carry out shops operated by the House will have a balance of payments deficit amounting to about $538,000 in fiscal196�. In other words House members employees guests and other customers would be eating $536,000 More than they paid for with the balance of the Tab being picked up by the  appropriations committee was concerned about this and considered number of ways to reduce the deficit including such drastic moves As Rais ing prices on the menus. I must say that the committee finally dealt with the problem in a Forth right manner. What it did was Call fora full scale  for any straight from horse s Back when director Robert Totten wants realism he goes out and gets it himself. In order to show the roping of a Man he takes his camera horse Back and sits in front of stuntman Mickey Gil Bert. The victim is actor Carroll o  vulnerable to quakes seismologist says could be disaster is Salt Lake City up Utah seismologist agrees with the Pioneer mormon Leader Brig Ham Young who said of Utah. This is the  but or. Kenneth l. Cook head of the University of Utah geophysics department has something else in mind. He warns that this could be t h place for a major  Cook makes the Point that 80to 85 per cent of Utah s 1 million residents live along the Wasatch front a 150-mile stretch West of the Wasatch Range of the Rocky mountains where the major Utah cities of Salt Lake City Godert and Provo Are located. We re literally astride Anarea of seismically Active faults or Breaks in the Earth s strata and we re very vulnerable Cook  1850, when the mormon pioneers settled in the Salt Lake Valley to 1965, More than 600 earthquakes were reported inthe state and of these at least 38 were  one quake in Hansel Valley in 1934, caused ground breaking. But tremors at Elsi Nore in South Central Utah caused 1iiii1 chides to for race riot coverage new York up Vic president Hubert h. Humphrey has levelled Sharp criticism at the television Industry for serving As a catalyst to promote even More trouble during racial  an interview in the current Issue of look Magazine the democratic presidential hopeful admitted he was not wis enough to counsel the television Media on How it should respond to riot situations. But he said the Basic question is How do you report the news and at the same time not add fuel to the  Humphrey said it was absolutely essential that television in particular and radio and the press secondarily accept their responsibility in these  if the Media Are going to broadcast the emotional appeals of the Stokely Carmichaels another agitators it is like throwing gasoline on the flames he said. I am convinced that just As the Media can Tell the facts to the people they can also exaggerate and inflame the situation. I do know that to i particular has spread the message of rioting and looting and has served As a catalyst to promote even More trouble circus train wreck site marked Hammond ind. A Cir Cus buffs and historians dropped a Floral Wreath on Penn Centra Railroad tracks Between Ham mond and Gary saturday. The Hammond historical society then conducted a Short memorial service for 68 Hagen Beck Wallace circus performers killed june 22, 1918, in one of America s worst train wrecks. The spot was unmarked half Century until the society discovered that Oscar a. Timm the circus train brakeman was Liv ing in Niles  was brought to Hammond a few Days ago and marked thespot where a Monument will be erected. He since has been hospitalized and could t attend the ceremony. A world War i troop equip ment train slowed into the circus train which had stopped partly Michigan Central tracks and partly on Gary and Western tracks with a disabled wheel. There was a crossover at the Point called Ivanhoe. Timm went eastward along the Michigan Central tracks to place flares in pre Dawn dark Ness. Then i realized another train was headed our Way he said. He started running Down the tracks to Stop the other train. He threw a lighted flare at the locomotive cab to attract the Inginger s attention but it hit Ai window and went out. The troop train telescoped thei 15-car circus train. Flames broke out in four wooden Sleeper cars. Many performers were trapped and burned  the dead 48 were buried in a common grave in Woodlaw cemetery near Chicago. It is guarded by five Granite elephants Symbol of the show men s league of  found a muscular Young Man unconscious beside one of the burning cars and pulled him away. The injure Man was Joseph Dierickx a belgian professional strongman who awakened in a Gary Hospital 30 hours later looking at a nurse. She was Marie Jones sister in Law of Notredame football coaching great Knute Rockne. Dierickx mar ried her a few months later. About $100,000 damage in a tember 1921, and another in damages a month pc Logan in North Utah in 111quake caused $1 million in Ages. The prime danger to Cook need not come front quake itself but from caused by ruptured Gas electrical lines As was the in san Francisco in 1908. Mormon pioneers Settle Wasatch front area it offered a prime requisite a a t e r in the arid desert  the Salt Lake met area grew to its present Sia Jabout one half million Perso planners continued to carry Ter from Mountain canyons Ervo irs through aqueducts the City below across the i Tive Wasatch fault. Cook says that since there no provision for movement or expansion of the Aqueduct syst where it crosses the fault Art or any provision for rapid to pairs of ruptured sections Lake City could be without of half after a severe  advocates flexible As pings in the piping system i Ter cutoff valves provisions u speedy repairs and water Raer voids at the opposite ends the  codes lax building codes have quire ments for mandatory up quake resistant foundation we be gotten lax Cook sap by contrast he relates How pioneers constructed Bow several times stronger i necessary because of the w stantly shifting ground