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Show I Ben Lomond Beacon, July 6, 1978, Page 2 Congressional insistence that the U.S. Postal System (USPS) become by 1984 has doubled the cost of first- - and third-clas- s rates mail and increased second-clas- s fivefold. Additional increases seem a certainty. As result, businesses which are the biggest users of USPS are rapidly developing alternatives to conventional mail service, and the Postal System may soon be stuck with the problem of delivering only the high-cos- t traffic that no one else wants. Writing in the July issue of Readers Digest, James Nathan Miller points to collective bargaining as one of the main reasons postal rates have escalated so sharply. When Congress set wages ( before the 1971 postal reorganization) postal workers were generally underpaid, earning an 825-166- 6. Publisher J. Howard Stahle Mrs. Bonnie Stahle Advertising Sue Ellen Sims Carol Shaw Manager Editor Correspondent average of $10,200 a year including fringe benefits. Since that time. Miller points out, postal workers have used the collective-bargainin- g process to raise their average salary and fringes to $18,200 as this article goes to press the postal unions and management are beginning negotiations for a new contract which will almost certainly result in still higher costs. Generally speaking, America is no longer a nation of letter writers. Roughly 80 percent of first-clas- s mail is generated bv banks, utilities, government agencies and other businesses. These senders, Miller emphasizes, are the ones who pay the postage. Yet the Postal Service spends more than $2 billion each year on conveniences that are designed to satisfy the recipients of mail mainly households but which serve little purpose for the business mailers who pay most of the freight. Although fewer days and a cutback on delivery would alleviate some of the increased costs, Congress has firmly rejected these proposals. Thus users of USPS have looked for and discovered other ways of conducting their business. Advertising inserts ... mail-deliver- y Gam favors limits BY JAKE GARN DC. Citing the Proposition 13 U.S. Senator Jake Garn message, Monday announced his support for two measures which would limit the growth of federal taxes and institute a system of tax indexation. The Utah Republican has previously a proposed constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to balance its budget and a bill which proposes 33 percent tax cut. an Garn noted that any one or a combination of the measures would be positive steps toward real tax reform the kind that puts money into the pockets of the taxpayers. When the people of California overwhelmingly supported the property tax cut initiative, they sent a message to Washington which even the most confirmed big spenders can't ignore. The climate is right for some bold initiatives, he said. The first of the two new measures is a constitutional amendment which would require the federal government to d limit its annual spending to no more than of the average national income for the three previous years. Introduced in the Senate by Sen. James McClure the amendment would allow the government to increase spending only in case of national emergency or war s of the membership of both with the approval of houses of Congress. Limiting the power of Big Government to spend is absolutely essential, Garn said. High taxes are choking the economy by penalizing productivity, thrift and investment. The second bill, introduced by Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, is designed to eliminate the hidden taxes which WASHINGTON, across-the-boar- d one-thir- door-to-do- government collects through inflation, the Utah senator said. Almost every time a consumer receives a g raise, he is pushed into a higher tax bracket even though his actual purchasing power has not increased at all, Garn said. It is a very insidious form of taxation and helps to explain why some politicians really dont want to put a lid on inflation. As an example, Garn noted that a family earning $10,000 in 1978 would have to have an income of $20,000 in 1988 just to keep with normal inflation. But the family would actually experience a loss because its tax burden would virtually double because of taxflation, Garn stated. The answer is to index or adjust the tax tables to take into account the effect of inflation, Garn said. The basis of adjustment would be the rise in the Consumer Price Index. This system is being used in such countries as Brazil and Canada and by numerous federal agencies, Garn said. Indexing provides equitable and fair treatment for all Americans, and would curb federal spending by denying politicians their yearly windfall profit from taxflation, he said. ), three-fourth- CONSTIPATION Doctor proven ingredient requires no prescription! 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A pageant of this quality is a favorable asset to North Ogden and one thing brings dignity and pride to the community. k -- OWNERS-OPE- TO PUBLIC N 5 p.m.-- l FRIDAY & SATURDAY o.m. 4 p.m. 'til 9 p.m. SUNDAY RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED BANQUET FACILITIES AVAILABLE i delivered with the daily newspsper cost about half what it third-clas- s mail. would take to deliver the same message via utilized. were inserts 19 such billion Last year Similarly, the United Parcel Service is fast replacing fourth-clas- s delivery as a speedy, efficient and low-comethod of shipping parcels. The magazine industry is gearing up to move its y business. Alternate delivery programs by in many state in the are experimental firms) private publications. The Readers Digest is now privately delivered to 150,000 California subscribers. When second-clas- s postage rates rise again next year, publishers say alternative delivery will be cheaper. Some Congressional leaders recognize that these changes spell the end of postal service as the nation expects it to be run. Accordingly, a bill passed by the House and soon to be considered by the Senate, would instruct the Postal Service to define which postal activities are strictly public services, and it would authorize Congress to pay for these services from the public treasury, Miller writes. L 4 st (hand-deliver- ! "'I Mining stories retold Mining has made significant contribution the industrialization a to and economic development of Utah. Beginning with the initial discovery of ores and precious metals in the 1860s and continuing well into the twentieth century, the mining towns of Park City and Eureka figured prominently in Utahs These mining history. bonanza camps gained national recognition as silver and gold producing areas; and as such, attracted wide attention of both entrepreneurs and miners. That portion of the physical environment that remains in these towns, (structures, sites, etc.) aid in the understanding of the life and society that marked their colorful past. Park City and Eureka exhibited similarities as well as differences. It is the objective of a presentation made by Phil Notarianni to illustrate the aspects of life and society by concentrating on the and historic cultural resources of theses Utah bonanza'4 camps. "The presentation, sponsored by the Utah State Historical Societry, will be held at the Salt .Lake City Public Library at 7 p.m. on July 12, our readers to send I We invite letters to the editor. in 1978. Helps shrink Swelling Of Hemorrhoidal Tissues caused by inflammation NEW -- ! S S'uoDO F030DD Sfl The Ben Lomond Beacon is published each Thursday. Deadlines for each weeks issue is Monday at 5 p.m. We welcome all articles from those who wish to contribute. 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In an effort to reduce the accident fatality rate on the nation's highways the Nasurely a worthwhile goal tional Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) The Bonneville Chapter of by Janice Hubbard and the Secretary of Transportation have decreed that all the American Red Cross w ill new cars after 1980 must be equipped w ith airbags or other be offering an Advanced passive restraint devices. First Aid and Emergency The bureaucrats are convinced that these airbags are Last week this super, sophisticated columnist went to Care Course and a CarNational more the effective than seat belts in preventing serious injury in in award to first a Antonio San place pick up diopulmonary Resuscitation contest. communication Womens of collisions. To sway Congress and the public, the agency and Press Federation Course. (CPR) others in the Obviously they had decided that The Cupboard was These courses will start lobby have mounted an extensive professional. It then followed that I was a "professional Wednesday July 5, 1978 and campaign to make Americans believe that airbags would columnist." But I went to the convention as a housewife from run every Monday, Wedsignificantly reduce the death rate. Outer Suburbia in my "columnist disguise. 7 to and from nesday But there is just one problem: facts do not support the Friday It was my first time to ever fly . . . fly in an airplane that 10 p.m. until August 11. claim. the is. My fifst time to stay overnight in a hotel. I'd never left Red Certified Volunteer In testing done under NHTSA contract, the Calspan children overnight before EXCEPT to have another one Rick Cross Instructor Corporation measured the impact on cadavers and dummies (child) or an operation. Knowlton will be teaching involved in front end, off center collisions. In the simulated In my travels, I made a few discoveries. I learned that the course. The Advanced true security is when the plane gets in the air . . . the higher in crashes insolving airbag protected subjects, three out of First Aid portion is designed four accident victims would have died had they been real the air, the better! 1 felt real gratitude when the plane for use by persons who are to the earth and I heard the motor stop. The epitome returned life collisions, according to the tests. for giving responsible of security when flying, has to be, arriving where youre Yet in the same tests, not one seat belt restrained emergency care to the sick on the ground . . . softly on the ground. and injured. It provides the going would have "died." dummy I also learned that you can take the mother physically essent al information for Bud Shuster of Pennsylvania, ranking Congressman away from the nest, but not mentally or emotionally, uur developing the functional member the House Subcommittee on Surface of minority to see Antonio San in us called children Thursday evening first aid capabilities if we were having a good time. I'm Transportation, believes that NHTSA has purposefully miswas and our how flight required by policemen, ashamed to admit that my first comment was. "Tell Matt to led Congress and the public by withholding the findings of firemen, emergency squad be sure and lake the garbage out. I don't want to come home the Calspan tests. He charges that the agency has "preand rescue members and sented material distorting the facts, completely omitted reand find trash all over." This is real motherhood . . sucambulance attendants. cessfully nagging from three thousand miles. Talk about levant information, impuned the integrity of those who opdedication! pose them, suppressed data in their possession . . . and inMy adjustment was much more difficult than the timidated employees who could not ,Em dogs from me go along with their children's. They had an absolute ball, living on junk food, fmili gat worm. Under his leadership, the House voted June 12 to coverup. 1 w television. sleeping in our bed, staying up all night atching the Department of Transportation from using any of cried every morning because I was homesick . . cried for prohibit its funds to implement or enforce the airbag regulations. I. about fi e minutes until we started the day's activities. too, Test results aside, there is also the matter of cost: how a ball. had then The secret of The Cupboard winning was a hard one to much are the bureaucrats going to force us to pay to save us keep. I was notified the first of May and for several months from ourselves? NHTSA admits that the airbags would cost felt just like I'd had a baby and then had to hide it in the at least S2(X) per car for factory installation. With over 100 closet, not able to show the baby off or even tell anyone about million cars on the road presently, that adds up to a $20 the baby being born. billion bite out of Americans' purchasing power as people Sergeants In my cool sophistication, I was so thrilled that Matt kept their aging cars with post 1980 models. There are replace to warning, "We're going to have to grease your head get you even more costs involved, tint: once an f A19r AntfWfCo cwiug airbag is inflated, ? out the door." the driver can not repack it himself and must send the car to a repair facility. By NHTSA's own estimates, this could cost from $400 to $6(X) each time. finally, there is the principle involved. By forcing consumers to purchase a questionably effective safety device, the bureaucrats again are saving they know what is best for us. It is an insult to the intelligence of every American all 130 million of us. that the government thinks we driver, DENTURE WEARERS Residential Auto Commercial lack the maturity and sophistication to make rational decisions about our own safety. A major STORM DOORS INSULATED GLASS advancemenl for some, airbags may be an attractive investment. But WINDOWS Co , to make them mandatory is to deny our rignt to make basic INSTALLATION cNNt decisions about our own lives and safety . J. COREY STAHLE DENTURE ADHESIVE 563 W. 100 N. Big Brother is not only watching, hes acting to protect UT S4010 ISMVAlu AU IA,U BOUNTIFUL, one application holds Us from ourselves." 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