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Show BEN LOMOND BEACON. April 19. 1979, Page 2 Hwn. Bm Imcm b Mbln Mch DhIiii ftr Mch Mk'i S p.n. Wi mIcmm rfl artidM few 6mm m(n afah to tmb tribitt. SwiiMU (Kin U S3U S. 1900 W.. K(y, IM. Mm J. Howard Stahle Publisher M. Glen Adams Asst. Publisher Mrs. Bonnie Stahle Advertising Manager iM it m Keith Duncan Reflections contest comp cont. from page Kimberly Swensen, Jeremy Painter, Kristen Dixon, Ann Marie Hale, Kristen Stites, Rebecca Warner, Jennifer Hale, Robert Seager, and Sheri Coleman. PIONEER ELEMENTARY: Scott Gibson, Lisa Phipps, Erin Tippetts, Matthew Godfrey, Michelle Tucker, Guy Slater, Wendy Child, Christie Editor 782-714- 9 KrisEwert Plain City Correspondent 731-327- 6 Carol Shaw North Ogden Correspondent Glen Perrins GaryToyn Sherri Hall Correspondent Correspondent Weber High Correspondent Stander, Chris Wirick, Shaun Halverson, Laurie Mizer, Paige Tembrink, Larry Simons, Kirk Adams, and Jennie Welch. 782-811- 6 VALLEY ELEMENTARY: Emily Toone, Troy Dawson, Julie Coy, Heidi May, Brenda Allen, Kimberly Bates, Nesha Johnson, Sally Ann Creer, Tricia Goodenough, Tony Johnson, 782-410- 2 V U V M V M 1 J Darren Hislop, Rhonda Clarke, V&mnMiim Amanda Allen, and Joseph Tripp. NORTH OGDEN JUNIOR HIGH: Lisa Woirhaye, Annette Strebel, Mark Hoopes, Susan Canfield, Mike Kinyon, Debbie Tripp, Denise Janke, Randall Lewis, Michelle Howell,. Kelly Wickersham. VALLEY JUNIOR HIHG: Allison Walter, Jodi Hill, Carol Lee Layton, Richardson, Geniel Suzanne Goodenough, Julie Satterthwaite, Kay Sparks, Mark Wilcox, Cailin i ?r Michele Beedes, Beverly U.ce, Brandon Creer. JUNIOR HIGH: Ron Keith Miller, Hal VanMeteren, Kirby, Denise Stratford, Krisleen Andersen, Colette Webb, Stacie Combe, Lisa Bibee, JaNae Barlow, Jill Smith, April Larsen, Tammy West. WEBER HIGH: Jenny Hale, Kami Mitchell, Elaine Ruth Laramee, Cathi Larkins, and Daine Hales. WAHLQUIST We invite A GAME ENERGY OR SERIOUS BUSINESS? area churches to submit stories By Edwin Feulner Congress and the Carter Administration seem to be playing political games with one of our most serious, pressing problems. The energy ball is being tossed back and forth lots of talk and g and nothing much is being done. Speaking recently at the National Conference on Energy Advocacy, hosted by the Heritage Foundation, Margaret Bush Wilson, Chairwoman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spoke out against the tendency to use our energy dilemma as a political forum. As Mrs. Wilson put it, if the Congress and the Administration continue to engage in a tennis match with energy policy , it will be a love game and the American public will be out. g to be a spectator at such proIts pretty ceedings. That lumbering giant, the federal bureaucracy, also atin its own way. Describing it as a "monstempts to play ter itself rather than the public it serves, Mrs. protecting V ilson said that far from helping, it does actual harm. The government must be made to lead in ensuring that the country develop abundant, affordable energy supplies that will promote vigorous economic growth, she said. "We are well aware as well that free market forces hardly apply anymore to energy prices. At work, instead, is an archaic system of regulations that are rapidly crumbling by their own weight and the unpredictable nature of forces and developments abroad. "Furthermore, the U.S. has for so long been complacent about developing new' energy sources that it is now almost at the mercy of fate. W hile it is a ma jor thrust of the NAACPs policy that the national government lead in ensuring abundant, affordable energy supplies to promote vigorous economic growth, helping relieve the burden laid on minorities, the old and the poor, Mrs. Wilson pointed out the danger to all American citizens. "Let us guard against the misconception, she said, that it is only the disadvantaged who will be hurt by sharply rising oil prices." For example, unstable world oil prices are among the major factors contributing to inflation. "We live in a rapidly changing world," said Mrs. Wil-- : son. "which, in these times of profound social and economic j upheava Is, test our w'ill to survive in ways unknown to earlier : generations. The American economic system is increasingly show ing. signs of the .strain. : n "Its inadequacies arc glaring. The cy-- : lies are recurring v.ith troubling frequency. At the same : time, hardcore social problems intensify." : She makes her point. It hardly sounds like a game, however. ; (Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation, a . Washington-basepublic policy research institute.) score-keepin- nerve-wrackin- HATCH BILL TO RESTORE COYOTE CONTROL MARK HOOPES boom-rccessio- d 16 April 12. 1979 TRICIA GOODENOUGH Guest editorial RHONDA CLARK JANA JEPSEN An American Critique . : "An American Griti iqur" The by Ray W. Burnett purpose of this article is to catalyze : , : Americun in- volvement into resob ring the enigma of events tliat con- tmue to erode Americas prosperity, and good way of life. I am not an erudite professor, but I am f pom the real world and I feel a graduate of the College of Hard Knocks. I belie re what is needed in America is more common sense and less unpracticed theory. I expect this writing to be criticized, however, in America lately it has become much e astir to be crit ical than to re solve or l correct. If Amerii :a wants tree and enterprise to remain prosperity healthy, and not jus t remain temporary, then re alize it's going to take all of us to remedy the problei n. The formula for basic economic growtti is not complicated as sot tie of our learned scholars w ould have us believe. Eight other tot nations of the Western world ha passed us by in per capita income, in-du- savings and investment, beet i use they have a ppiied a sim pie formula -- N ational Savings equals National Overall Investment plus Fetleral Dificit Spending. People have to earn enough money to have savings and make investments, and government must be controlled so that its size and who have put this nation into a ruckus from which we may never recover. Part of spending do not punish those attributes, or wipe them out. America has too many organizations and too much government. If unity does not include alLit is division. If government does not include all, it is tyranny. We have both. At no time is it the writer's intent to cause the bottom SO percent of the taxpayers to do battle with the top SO percent. We should all do battle with a tax system that is giving us more government we don't deception is in the fact that it draws 92.9 percent of its tax revenues from the upper 50 percent of the taxpayers. The upper fifty are those who have all the lobbyists in who have Washington created the system that has need, and wrecking our ecomony. Washington D,C. has become a conflict of interest to the American way of life. Every crisis during the past 40 years has caused federal government to be come larger, until now it has become our master. Herein lies the cause of most of America's problems. National government has wheeled and dealt through lobbists with special interest rather than working with all the American people, and created some mighty big deceptions. If America is ever to return to prosperity, it must unveil the subterfuge that is in the workings of government, thanks to America's cunning lawyers. governments great just about destroyed America. They are business, professions, organized labor, and government officialdom, who can and do manipulate all these exorbitant and inflationary prices on goods and services, until the bottom 50 percent of the 92.9 of all taxes percent generated by them for that, In many cases, unworthy recipient-governme- nt. Another deception is inflation. Every time inflation raises by I percentage point, tax revenues increase by 1 .63 times the inflation rate. The C.N.P. (Gross National Product), inflated as it is, now is about 2 trillion dollars. At a ten percent Inflation rate, that would amount to 330 billion dollars for government. Mow convenient, and all that without even legislation. What does government need Congress for? America's per capita income in 1950 was twice that of Sweden and Switzerland. By 1974, not only had Sweden and Switzerland passed us by, but so had Belgium and Denmark. We are now being passed up by Canada. France, Japan, and West Germany. What have these countries done that America seems unable to do? Their business, professions, and labor have practiced restraints. They do not have government that represents nearly 50 percent of their G.N.P. They have cut the government they and drastically have, reduced taxes, hut most importantly, by way of greater wage and fringe benefits, these countries have increased their rates of savings and investment. During the period from 1963 to 1975, America's wage and fringe benefits only amounted to 16 percent. For this same period, Canada rose 48 percent, while France, West Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland rose between 50 and 80 percent, and Belgium. Italy, and Japan rose over loo percent during that decade. Suppose all Americans could have received wage in- creases and fringe benefits amounting to between 30 100 would percent? There probably be no mployment. and une- greater production, cheaper prices, more savings and investment, and less inflation from business, industry, and professions. Organized labor would have realized its desires also. But instead, American government has been so hard on economic growth, that government is even responsible for the low growth potential of its own Social Security tax base, making it necessary for government to increase tax social security periodically the ecomony continues to decline as a result of that same govern- ment In four short years, he ate more than $100 million worth of lamb dinners and the ,raw material for 5 million new suits. He cost consumers at least $30 million last year and will cost us even more this year. Yet some Washington officials think he needs protection! "He" is the wily coyote, howling away on our Western grazing lands and slaughtering millions of our sheep and cattle in Utah and neighboring states. Little larger than a small dog, the coyote can bring down a huge sheep and have the carcass dressed out quicker than your old comer butcher. While he prefers defenseless prey like sheep and rodents, more and more Utah cattlemen report attacks on birthing cows by the coyote. With losses literally in the in both dollars and millions, destroyed livestock, something clearly must be done soon to control the coyote. I am introducing a bill. The Coyote Control Act of 1979, which will bring back the safest and most effective method of control of the coyote. Compound 1080, which was banned by Washington bureaucrats in 1972. A classic example of overreaction to the questionable claims of environmental extremists, the 1972 ban of Compound 1080 has left our farmers and ranchers with no effective means of protecting their livestock short of traps and rifles. COYOTE COUNTING In the seven years that Compound 1080 has been illegal, the coyote population on Western grazing lands has increased astronomically. Coyotes are amazingly tough, and few of their pups fail to live to adulthood. As a result, it has been estimated that just to keep the present coyote population stable, it would be necessary to take 75 of the coyote pups at birth while leav subject to existing trapping techniques. Because they are so tough, sheep and cattle in coyotes numbers almost directly proportional to their quantity on the range. Without Compound 1080, sheepmen have been particularly hard-hiReports from Utah sheepmen of losses of up to 20 of a single herd are not uncommon. One of our Western ranchers, a three generation sheepman, recently sold 7,000 head and cited his inability to keep the coyotes out of his herds as a major reason for selling his entire operation. STUDIES SHOW SAFETY Washington's bureaucrats fear the environmental impact of Compound 1080. Fortunately, Compound 1080 is an extremely selective agent When administered in proper dosages, it kills coyotes almost exclusively, while leaving other animals in the same ecological niche untouched. Studies have shown that the effect of Compound 1080 is lethal to coyotes but is not passed on to other segments of the food drain in nature. One such study indicated d that for an eagle to die from meat, it would have to eat almost 20 lbs, which is a physically impossible. Humans who have ingested such baited meat have experienced nothing more serious than diarrhea. My bill will bring back for our sheepmen and cattlemen the most effective safe means known for controlling coyotes. There is no conflict in this situation between the needs of the environment and the human needs of our people. Fewer coyotes roaming our ranges will do much to insure that our sheepmen and cattlemen will be able to continue providing all us with food and other vital goods. ing the remaining 25 kill-ou- -- r t. Com-pou- 1080-ba'ite- d Mow is that for double jeopardy? We don't seem to have government of. by, and for the people anymore. Government today is of representatives.' by bureaucrats, and for special interest. Americans are not receiving sufficient wage and fringe benefits to increase America's rate of savings and investment. This is because taxes ancf inflation amount to about 53 cents out of every dollar. percent of a year is 193 days, or July loth before most Americans start earning money for themselves. The solution is for Fifty-thre- e Americans to unite in the cause of making Congress understand that government and taxes must be cut so that wage and fringe benefits be might increased, promoting savings and in- vestment, increasing business and production (which should drop prices and Inflation). Our government must be made to value free enterprise, investment, and savings, not castigate it. Please consider why other western nations are passing usby.Weareas capable, but we may net exert the influence on government that they t!o. America is not as united as it Used to be. We talk about human rights, but we refuse to accept the obligations that sustain them. If the citizen would undertake his responsibilities, right and justice would prevail, but everytime it is shirked, a truth is obscured that we should have known about. to Whatever happens America will be the fault of her citizens. Funds needed Funds in any amount are earnestly being sought by the Weber State College Wildcat Band. The WSC Band has 101 members but is currently at a disadvantage competing against other Utah Schools which obtain more funds with which to recruit students and travel around. WSC has. organized a Friends of the Weber State Wildcat Band Club and a (hive is on to raise 112,000 annually. Dr. Herbett Cecil is the band director and he reports that donations should be made out to WSC Band Development Fund, Weber State College Ogden, Utah, 84406. |