wrF m?r ' Hkht conclusions are more Maly to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through any kind of authoritative selection' — judge Lesmed juM(1S7-1IS1- The Herald Journal Logan Utah Hand ) Page 14 Friday April 27 2001 Our view Logan search hits jackpot Have you searched on the Internet lately for Logan Utah? A search in Yahoo! for our town yields no less than 55000 matches The listings include official government sites business Web pages galore scores of A local woman undergoing a USU was outraged to find out divorce research refand her husband’s that she erences and membership at Logan Golf and hundreds of Club will be going oyer Country menbrief her even though to tions of had shared the the membertwo Logan on married as a ship coiiple pages featuir-Suspecting a gender injustice ing client lists and the like One of the interesting sites we we called the country club to find out what was up and they found in a recent search for informed us that it is simply the Logan provided a list of two- club's policy to retain the mem-way radio frequencies used in the valley from private business bership of the person whose name appears on the official frequencies to city department channels Another site listed all joining agreement be it a man or a woman In this case it was Cemeburial sites in the Logan Woodapparently under the husband’s tery for members of the name workers of the World So women let that be a lesd A search for the son Don’t let your husband pull phrase "Logan Utah smut” a fast one and skip off with all 58 But matches have no yielded those pricey golf and clubhouse fear the smut referred to in all privileges rd key-wo- rote vihoI rote Killing the Internet references was of the com fungus kind Our vote for the most useful Web site based in Logan: The' Logan Public Library homepage (wwwloganlibutus) It has great reference materials and links and you can also actually renew your books right online! to the ifys nd key-wor- Your view often struggle child growing lip in a By Joseph Perkins Ti issue he cover story in the latest of Us magazine profoundly dis- turbs It celebrates “The New Single ' Moms” st It features Kqtie Couric of NBC’s “Today Show” actress Nicole Kidman Calista Flockhart star of Fox’s “Ally McBeal” actress Jodie- Foster and of ABC's Camryn Manheim “The Practice” The latter three are single moms by choice Of course it is absolutely the prerogative of these celebrity moms to bear their children out of wedlock (however deleterious it may be to even their economically advantaged offspring to be e raised without a father preco-ho- Oscar-winni- ng co-st-ar Fire substation an incompatible use To the editor: The Logan city commissioners-durintheir term of office (1962r66) permitted the construction of an electrical substation in the area now proposed for a new fire substation The following Logan city commissioners during their term in office (1966-7determined that the electrical substation was not compatible with the beneficial use which had been designated for the area therefore they had it removed The commissioners decision to have it removed was primarily based on the fact that tire area had been acquired for the beneficial use as a cemetery This then being the will and desire of the people it then became a planned and dedicated part of the cityof Logan The area to be cared for and maintained by the city and to be supported by a perpetual trust fund created from the sale of 0) lots This then created an entity of use that people those in the begin- ning and those' in the future could plan on in comfort and confidence would Continue to exist without hostile encumbrances as a place of pride and beauty To me the ne development a fire substation suggested for the area is in violation of the long term planned use of the area Also you might say in violation of the trust people have placed in the proper administration of the cemetery Having made the original decision of the dedicated use of the cemetery in the past my decision would be same now I fully realize that the need for a substation for fire protection is necessary But I am very positive there are other locations available that would be less encum-bere- d and far less controversial while still complying with committed planning a list of addresses and phone numbers for some of Cache Valley's Here is in representatives government: ' But it sure sends a decidedly harm- ful message to the millions of impressionable young women who look up to them with admiration who figure that if such a “lifestyle choice” is OK for Katie and Calista and Jodie and Camryn it must be okay for them as well Indeed it is not entirely coinciden- tal that the National Center for Richard A Chambers Logan Lawmakers : full-tim- sent) US Senate Washington DC 20510 (202) 224-525- Utah office: 8402 Fed- 1 eral Building 125 S State St Salt Lake City UT 84138 (801) 524-43- 80 Health Statistics reported this week that a record 13 million babies w ett bom out of wedlock in 1999 That’s the first time in American history that- fully a third of births were to unmarried moms' Of course the life chances of children in one-pare- nt homes are severe- - ly diminished compared to kids raised by a mom and dad In fact a LOGAN-MAYO- R Doug Thompson Ave Logan 753-689-9 1 567 Lynnwood : COUNCIL LOGAN-MUNICIP- : Thomas Kerr 35 N 1400 East Logan 752-31Alan Allred 1535 E 1500 North Logan 753-822-4 52 - US SENATE-I- D AHO Larry Craig Republican — 520 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 (202) 224-275- 2 Idaho office: 801- E Sherman Room 193 Pocatello ID 83201 (208) 236-681-7 - Michael Crapo Republican 111 Russell Senate Office Building WashJan Pearce 727 15Q West' DC 20510 (202) 224-614- 2 ington 9 Logan Idaho office: 801 E1 Sherman PocatelSteve Thompson 37 S 200 West ' lo ID 83201 (208) 236-679 Logan Karen Borg Logan 753-696-3 HOUSE-UTA- H --- N 753-359- H 224-544- 225-045- : 524-59- 33 : 393-836- Mallard Fillmore nt 1 ‘ : GAMFUse? Have of ovAFU? fpny Cons Toledo Blade ated the programs including conservatives like Thompson did not want to offend single moms by even remotely suggesting that they ought to get themselves to the altar And by acknowledging the link between marriage and upward mobility that is not to disparage all single moms Indeed there are many unmarried mothers who would like nothing more than to have loving supportive husbands to help them raise their children But unfortunately an increasing number of American women view single motherhood as a “lifestyle choice” as a fashion statement And while Calista and Jodie and Camryn can afford — at least eco- nomically — to hold such avant the' garde views on same is not true for most women who “choose” to have babies out of wedlock Those single moms should be under no illusion They are doing a disservice to their offspring ed A child-reari- - ng Joseph Perkins is a columnist for The San Diego and can be reached at Joseph PerkinsUnion Union-Tribu- ne Tribcom ! 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Herald Journal ok governors around the country Other views fter years of sacrifice there ' finally are indications that Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s US determination to seedemocracy in — V James Hansen Republican her native Myanmar has not been in US SENATE-UTARepresents 1st Congressional District vam Sen Robert Bennett Republican ' Which includes Cache County Wash— US' Senate Washington DC Certainly it’s a good sign that office: 2466 ington Rayburn Building 4 Utah office: US House of 20510 (202) opposition leader Suu Kyi is engaged Representatives' Wash' 4225 Federal Building 125 S State in talks with the government though 3 DC 20515 (202) St Salt Lake City UT 84138 (801)' ington Utah office: 1017 Federal Building 324 history has taught us that it is unwise 25th SL Ogden UT 84401 (801) 625- - to celebrate prematurely in MyanSen Orrin Hatch Republican — 5677 or 2 mar Even so as the leader of the National League for Democracy Ms 75 753-601- one-pare- household is six times likelier to be poor than a child bom and raised in a named-coupl- e family Wary of “stigmatizing” unwed mothers state governments throughout the land have embraced welfare “reform” that aims to lifi the disproportionately poor single moms from the public rolls by encouraging them to go to school and go to work Now there’s absolutely nothing wrong with single jnoms getting an education and getting a job But the fact is neither is the key to lifting welfare moms from poverty ' Indeed one of the ballyhooed welfare reform programs in the country was largely the creation of former Wisconsin ‘Gov- Tommy Thompson who has since moved to Washington DC as the Bush administration’s secretary of health and human ser-' vices A recent report by Wisconsin’s Legislative Audit Bureau reveals that while the state’s welfare-to-- work program has moved thousands of Badger Staters off the welfare rolls very few actually moved out of ' poverty In fact of those who left Wisconsin welfare rolls in early 1998 roughly a third were making so little money by the end of 1999 that they did not even file income tax returns for that year For those who did file rctums the ' average annual income was a mere $11988 roughly $4000 below the federal poverty level for a family of four And it’s not that Thompson — who like his current boss truly is a conservative” — ' ' “compassionate was parsimonious in funding Wisconsin’s welfare reform program He put more money into his state’s program comparatively than most other I -- :