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Wednesday. Dweambar 13. 1972
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Tokyo's
traffic is
nightmare
Kyada —
Copley New* Service
TOKYO - The Japanese,
for all their ingenuity, have
not yet come up with a plan to
solve the nightmare of To-
kyo’s traffic — at least none
that can be agreed upon
A (hustle plan recently put
tg> by the Tokyo metropolitan
government is meeting oppo-
sition from other agencies, in-
cluding the police.
Ifce plan was (halted after
several students at a junior
high school in Tokyo suddenly
were taken ill, presumably
from the effects of smog.
Authorities were puzzled
over the fact that only this one
school was involved. They
wandered whether the stu-
dents, neatly gMh, hnd really
suffered from poisonous ef-
fects of oxidants — the main
pollutants of photochemical
smog — or whether it was a
case of mass hysteria.
In an attempt to find out,
health officials stayed at the
school after class hours to act
as guinea pigs. None of them.
however, developed any of the
previously reported symp-
toms, such as pain in the eyes
and tore throat.
Even ao, metropolitan
health officials were certain
the oxidants were the cause of
the trouble, and it was de-
cided to do something about
it Since it is known that auto-
mobiles are the chief polluters
of air in Tokyo as in other ma-
jor Japanese cities, the plan
was aimed at orbing the
movement of motor vehicles
Among other proposed
measires, it provides for pro-
hibiting all privately owned
cars from entering central
Tokyo on days when a smog
alert is issued, and allowing
cars bearing a license ending
in an even number to enter
Tokyo on one day, and those
with an odd number on the
other day.
The plan also calls for a cor-
don to be drawn at certain
major traffic arteries to con-
trol traffic movement when a
smog alert is in effect, and at
other tunes when traffic re-
striction is deemed neces-
sary
If this idea were enforced,
privately owwed passenger
cars and station wagons
would not be able to cross cer-
tain points in Tokyo between 7
and 9 ajn. even during nor-
mal periods.
Ambulances, fire engines,
doctors' cars on urgent calls,
trucks hauling fresh food and
other special vehicles would
not be restricted, but critics
are dubious of how such vehi-
cles could be distinguished
They also point out the need
for an unusually large num-
ber of policemen to enforce
such measures.
The metropolitan police de-
partment, strongly opposing
the plan, argues that there
would be a rush of cars enter-
ic central Tokyo after the
smog warning is lifted, result-
ing in an increased volume of
exhaust gas permeating the
atmosphere
Police also fear that life in
Tokyo would be seriously dis-
rupted if so many motor vehi-
cles were stopped from enter-
ing the city in the morning
Superintendent General
Tadanuchi Honda said if such
a plan were put into practice,
traffic congestion in Tokyo
would be worse than ever, and
road accidents would rise
sharply
The police take the stand
that no traffic control as dras-
tic as that conceived by the
metropolitan government
should be enforced at this
time, when the relation be-
tween photochemical smog
and exhaust gas is not yet
clearly established Instead
they suggest an expansion of
public transportation systems
in Tokyo, such as subways
and buses, installation of
more parking meters and
stricter action on illegally
parked cars.
A police survey revealed
that parking meters could
considerably reduce the num-
ber of parked cars in down-
town Tokyo At present there
are 889 parking meters. The
police suggest increasing the
number to about 20,000,
spread all over the
metropolis
The Transport Ministry
supports the police proposal
The Ministry of International
Trade and Industry also is
cool toward the metropolitan
traffic control plan Officials
point out that the annual in-
crease in production of auto-
mobiles is slackening, and
that therefore air pollution in
Tokyo would not become any
worse.
The metropolitan govern-
ment's bureau of general
planning and coordination has
contradicted this statement,
however According to its
chief, Tokua Shibata, while
there were only about 25,000
automobiles in Tokyo in 1947,
there are now roughly 2.5 mil-
lion. The increase was espe-
cially marked during the last
five years, and it was biggest
in privately owned cars.
These are still increasing at a
. rapid rate, he sate
Former Rep. wants to be free)
State Bar to reopen probe
HILLSBORO. Tex. (UPI) -
The State Bar Association today
will reopen its investigation of
alleged worthless check collec-
tion practices of Hill Count> Dis-
trict Attorney-elect Frank B.
McGregor.
McGregor is suspected of be-
ing involved in the illegal activ-
it> during a 78-month period in
1969,1970and 1971 during a pre-
vious term as district attorney
of the countv. He had resigned
in 1971 when the accusations
were made public, but was re-
elected this year.
A district judge had allowed a
temporary injunction against the
AUSTIN. Tex. (UPI) - For-
mer Rep. Walter Knapp of Am-
arillo, the only one of six elect-
ed officials convicted during the
year to draw a prison term,
said there are 21 reasons his
theft conviction should be over-
turned.
The Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals invited Knapp's attor-
neys to court today to explain
the 21 points and argue them in
persoa
A decision on the appeal was
not expected for several week*.
Most of the points cited as er-
ros by Knapp's attorneys deal
with the instructions given the
jury by the trial judge.
The first point, however, con-
tends the jury should have been
instructed to return a verdict
of innocent because Knapp was
being improperly tried in Trav-
isCountv.
The charge against him said
he pocketed $1,200 in state-pro-
vided postage sumps when he
was a legislator and traded the
sumps for a pickup truck in
Amarillo.
Knapp, who was convicted
Mav 23. said he should have
bar association, halting the in-
vestigation. but the Texas Su-
preme Court last month dis-
solved the order.
been tried in Randall or Foil
County since the truck •
bought in Amarillo.
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Bhood
stops robbery
with key
STREETMAN. Tex. (UPI)
The president of the First N
t tonal Bank Tuesday took U
easiest defense against potenti
robbers: when he saw a mi
coming carrying a shotgun, I
locked the front door ai
wouldn’t let the man in.
"The way my office it loci
ed. there is a window lhat opc
on the side of the building
said Wiley Stroud. "The car w
parked where I could see it.
don't know why I got suspicion
but I was.
"I saw him get out of the c
with it (the gun). He made
effort to conceal It under I
coat. When I saw him conc<
the gun, that's when I locked t
door.
"He got ahold of the doorkm
and pulled on it. Of course,
was locked. He got into his c
and driyve off."
re were two other men
car.
"Eternal vigilance is
the Price of Liberty"
★ ★ ★ ★ Wendell Phillips 1852^ ★ ★ ★ ★
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