Arizona, where cri

and foolis

Paul St. Pierre

- PAULITICS & PERSPECTIVES

’ PHOENIX, ARIZONA — There are two things wrong ‘with the United States — one is. New York ‘City and the other is California. New York City. asenile charity use for generations, taught other JAmericans that crime pays. California ‘didn't spread crime. It ‘nourished it. If you were to pick up : the United States by the eastern eaboard, everything, that was loose would tumble down into California

But now the California nuttiness is spreading cast and New York ity’s delinquency syndrome spreads west. They are both here in a moiel room in Phoenix. Crime? The munagement posts the following warnings to me print-

ed on durable cardboard in: English,

Spanish and French.

“When in the room, always engage the deadbolt, the security latch and the push button on the . door knob.”

+ Were you counting? That's three Jocks on a single door. .

«Tt isn’t enough.

/ “Check. tosee that all door and window tocks work properly. ., If your. reom has.a connecting

“door, be sure the lock | on your ‘side works.”

i Pwas middle-aged before’ | ‘learned to‘check for fire exits in hotels-and motels; Must | now- -sheck, the bandit-proofing?. *

és. If any door or window fails

to Ick I must notify the manage- - “ment instantly and they will put me in another room where society's: ‘dark forces may-be kept at bay. «. “Safeguard the room key at all : times. Never display them i in pub- lie.” And don't look for your room “number on your room key. The management has cleverly pul a false number on the key so a thief -won’t know which door it untocks. ‘Neither will you unless you have a_ “good memory. Somehow it's alf rather hard to assoclite witha Sunbelt city where

the Canadian snowbirds come seck- ing happier old age.

“Never answer the door with- out first verifying who it is through the door viewer or through a window, Ef they claim to be a motel employee call the front desk, ask if someone needs aecess to your room and for what purpose.”

lu Britain a pleasant lady comes naannounced into your bedroom of a morning, bearing a pice hol cup of tea,

Good for the dear lady she's not ina Phoenix hotel where some guest might pull iis trusty 43 from under the pillaw and blow her away before checking the desk,

“Make sure your car is locked. Do noi leave valuables inside it." No sicepy-byes until you dis-

mantle the stereo.

“Avoid drawing attention to yourself by displaying large amounts of cash or expensive jewelry. Do not feave valuables in your room.”

{1 mustn't leave valuables in the car, Lcan‘t leave them in the room and the only other place on which | have proprictorial rights is a couple of thousand miles away.

What should one do? Travel in the clothes you use for gardening

_ and borrow. $10 Mickey Mouse .

wristwatch from your kid so you can tell time?

- Finally in Rule #8 the motel guest is urged to call the desk or the local potice 911 number on observ- ing “anything suspicious.”

Anything suspicious! Now everything is suspicious. Besi to sit up all night with a tire iron in one hand.

It’s almost a relief to open the local paper and discover someone who’s merely California-style kooky. . -

This is a lady environmentalist who is building a house out of old automobile tires and used beer cans. {tis called Earthship, because it is so environmentally friendly.

“The beer cans are cased in cement to form internal walls. The advantage is that they don’t weigh much, Why a light wall is more environmentally friendly than a heavy wall we are not told.

The main walls‘are of earth- filled automobile tires. Why? Because in the winter they absorb . the ‘sun's heat by day and radiate it into the rooms by night.

*. In summer they reverse the process and “draw coolness from the earth for the i interior of the house.”

Onc longs to know how automo- bile tires get to be so cunning as to radiate heat in winter but not in summer. Can they read calendars? Is it written in the genetic memory of gutta percha?

The reporter, incurious as so many are in the age of political cor- reciness, apparently never asked.

WV finders keepers cash for

drug program,

WEST VANCOUVER acting omayor > Andy Danyliu says $350,000 seized by police and ‘recently awarded to the municipati- “ty should fund a drug-prevention program for.local youth.

“By Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter

The. money, discovered. in denominations of USS100 bills, “was confiscated from Neal Brock Son Jan, 18, 1990. “ Brock was stopped by West Vancouver Police Const. Jim

coun. argues

’ Almas for speeding near Marine

Drive and 25th Street.

Said Danyliu. “If it is money that is suspected to have come from illegal activities, it seems poetic and natural justice that the money

be used to fight those kinds of

activities.”

The money is currently being held in trust accounts.

West Vancouver municipal manager Doug Allan is compiling ¢

“report that will examine options to

use the money for specific projects or programs rather than putting the

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Neither of these are new plig- nomena in the U.S. There were crime warnings of this sort in Manhattan hotel rooms where | dwelt fora year or two while attending the United Nations. And the Earthship house-builder who is confident one cin pet enough drinking and wash water in the desert by cofiecting tan the roof is no nuttior than the average Californian college graduate.

But these sorts of things weren't normal in the rest of the greit republic.

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