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Show BEN LOMOND BEACON, Dec. 28, 1978, Page 2 Aei Communcafioins n D The Ben Lomond Beacon is published each Thursday. Deadlines for each week's issue is Monday at 5 p.m. We welcome all articles from those who wish to contribute. Business ottice is 5388 So. 1900 W Roy. Utah Phone 8251 666. J. Howard Stahle Mrs. Bonnie Stahle Keith Duncan Carol Shaw KnsEwert... alcoholic drinkingThose so shown wswwr Ftr s-ass- as Publisher Ad Manager Editor, 825-619- Correspondent. Plain City Correspondent, 782-- 7 8 1 1 f m A , 731-327- 6 . ;W- - 1 Hatch for I ju : I f it I 4 WOODS FRANCIS MR. (Editors Note: Francis W. Woods, of 2568 North 1300 East, is a concerned citizen legislation Sen. Orrin G. Hatch has endorsed White House legislation to restore the security of unpublished information (R-Uta- held by reporters, broadcasters, freelance writers, and academicians. The legislation proposed for the 96th Congress, would reverse the United States Supreme Court ruling in Zurcher v. Stanford Daily. The ruling allows search without warning for evidence of ciminal activity on the property of third parties not suspected of the criminal conduct. The actual case involved the search of the Stanford Daily newspaper office for photographs of a 1971 campus demonstration even though the newspaper staff was not suspected of any wrong-doinThe bill which Im supporting, said Hatch, will protect informationgathering activities basic to the First Amendment and still retain the governments authority to conduct essential searches and maintain public safety. The measure falls somewhere between the Supreme Courts decision and the sanctuary that existed before the Stanford case. The Hatch supported bill would prohibit a search for, or seizure of, the notes, photographs, or other work product of a person possessing such materials in connection with the dissemination to the public of a newspaper, book, broadcast or other similar form of public communication. There are two important exceptions to this prohibition, said Hatch. First; if the person possessing the material is believed to be involved in criminal activity related to the evidence sought; or if the search and seizure is necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury. For product materials in media possession the subpoena-firs- t rule would apply. In other words, the subpoena process would have to be followed without a search until all appellate remedies were exhausted. Too much of the important information that is uncovered by the media could be destroyed if this Supreme Court decision is allowed to stand. Law enforcement could become dependent on independent investigation under this ruling. In addition, the confidential sources of newsmen could be exposed and lost without protections contained in this bill. We who expose corruption need the government whistle-bloweand political viiong-doin- g from the inside. Unless the Stanford Daily case is corrected these conscientious servants might be hesitant to come forward for fear of the loss of their jobs," concluded Hatch. non-wor- k rs over the Communications Act of 1978. ne recently wrote to Senator Jake Garn, Senator Orrin Hatch, Gunn Representative McKay and Representative Dan Marriot and voiced her concerns) To: Mr. Lionel Van Deerlin, Chairman on Communications Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington. D. C. 20515 and Senator Jake Garn Senator Orrin Hatch Representative Gunn Representative Dan McKay Marriott Thanks Representative McKay for sending me the Communications Act of 1978. Congratulations to you and Representative Marriott on to the your Congress. I have studied the Bill and the highlights and find some are that provisions frightening. The present bill, if it becomes law, could be devastating to the moral climate of the citizens of our country. In reading the bill I had the uneasy feeling that the public broadcasting system will gradually be phased out. If this happens, it means total capitulation to a few greedy, aggressive, people. This must not happen. We must have something better than we are getting new from the broadcast media The PBS system is a very excellent alternative. Financing the PBS could come from a use tax as discussed further on in this letter. I am aware that the 1978 Bill was accepted by the sub- committee. Has it been accepted by the entire committee? If so, was it one of the bills passed in a hurry, near the end of the last Congress? If such was the case, it probably was passed TRANSMISSIONS without adequate discussion HAVING TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS? TRANSMISSION ?12 50 PHONE s30 WASHINGTON 8 LVO. 84401 Order your Christmas Bouquets. . . A a Bam to 2 pm FINANCING ON APPROVtO CRf DU MOST MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED Christmas Pton YhJ Glass) 4 i i OGDEN OFFROAD CENTER 1 394-347- 2955 Washington Blvd. Ogden, Utah 84401 WV! (Right Across from A situation present regarding programming, advertising, news quality and documentation and the reasons for my proposals. Proposal No. 1: IN TRODUCE A BILL IN THE CONGRESS NEXT PROVIDING TELEVISION, TELEPHONE Now equipped to do j G Front-En- d Alignments! USE A Phone: 392-051- 1 advertising and reporting to w hat it was during the 1930 to 1950 period. Proposal No. 3: Restate the provisions in the 1934 law requiring that programming. advertising and news be in the best interest of the public 100 per cent of the time. Prohibit advertising, either direct, by assiciation of example, which encourages use of alcoholic beverages, or which depicts extra marital sex. Far too often programs now being aired begin the show with eloscups of people injured or maimed, some of them for life. No one cares, not even the Federal Communication Commi- ssion. We kill and maim more people on the highway every year than were killed in Viet Nam in any one year. Another first scene shows a couple in bed, the inference l being they are indulging in intercourse, the male apparently nude and the female wearing a covering. In a year or so the female may be shown topless, a year later such scenes probably will be explicit. see-throu- Raise the Proposal language standard used over No. 4: the air. Vulgarity, obscenities and blasphemy must be stopped. The requirements contained in the 1934 law should be restated in the new one and reinforced with severe penalties imposed for abuse. Proposal No. 5: Limit the network time spent on national political campaigns to the following: President and Vice President, 3 hours; Senators and Representatives 1 hour; money to pay for air time to come from the use tax. Prohibit all other funds, from .. whatever source, being used on work campaigns. 01 . O' No. 6: Make and carry our for provisions exercises designed to secure every important radio, TV or automatic relays which are used by either broadcasts or telephone service to insure that such stations or relays could not be taken over or sabotaged at ,the, beginning of a national emergency., The National Guard. Army, Marines, Coast Guard, Air Force and Navy should conduct correlated security exercises. Proposal No. 7: Insist that Article 6 of the articles in addition to and amendment of the constitution of the United States be strictly a enforced whenever denamd is made to fact one's accusers. Proposal No. 8: We must have citizen participation on program material. If we do not. the slide toward hardcore pornography will eventually have the nation wallowing in filth. Two people from each state should be elected every 2 years to serve on a national committee to work with the network people on a national basis to oversee programs and have the power to veto and-o- r cancel, on a state basis, programs which are offensive or do not meet standards of conduct or morals in any specific state. Committee members and staff to be paid a fee for such services, the money to come from the use fee fund. Assuming that one standard for the entire nation is sufficient is erroneous and be cannot justified. Believing that we. as a nation, have to accept whatever the networks dish out, is an iasult to one's M'l Comments on the 1934 law and conditions generally as they now exist: Hie 1934 law provided that all broad- - m H Vw a 5 TV 9 & Jr trr r mm h r'v rjfVvrrr iclfjn & V' o Vf "J - pro 4 y go EXCLUSIVELY AT: 100 W. 773-533- SIM J. 0 casting should be done in the best interests of the people. Free use of the frequencies involved was the bait offered to insure this. No one, at that could forsee the tremendous power inherent in the operation of broadcast stations and networks, etc., time, nor could they forsee the billions of dollars to be made from such use. There are serious penalties contained in the 1934 law for the use of or obscene vulgar statements. Today no one cares. Not even the FCC. There seems to be con- siderable apprehension among many people that the networks and owners of stations obtain pretty much what they want from the FCC. The new bill em- phasizes this belief and gives one the impression it was written for the broadcasters and not necessarily in the best interest of the public. One might suggest the rough draft may have been written by radio and TV people. The networks and affiliated stations are today the second most powerful force in the United States, second only to the military. Allowing such power to be exercised by a handful of executives unsupervised without control by the people in the programming and advertising areas is to court disaster. I give you an example: A number of years ago Orson Welles narrated a radio program about an invasion from Mars. You may recall this. His program very nearly threw the entire nation into panic. Drastic steps by the authorities were required to assure the people there was no invasion and it was just a radio program. Those who control the networks and radio stations are not better than the rest of us, and neither are they any worse than the rest of us, but the opportunity to exercise power can corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This has been proven time after time since the Teapot Dome scandal down to the present. The latest figures I have read indicate profits after taxes for the three major networks were nearly one billion dollars. Quite A rake-of- f for using something you do not own nor pay to use. This has been going on for 45 years and amounts to the largest direct subsidy we have ever made. It must be ended. The new bill leaves toy OPIN 10 or radio programs or advertising do not influence the minds of people, WHY ADVERTISE? A large amount of advertising on the networks has long since passed the bounds of decency. They talk about, show and discuss the most intimate female requirements. They talk about large, small, layered, rolled and-o- r programming advertising quality have or contained sexually suggestive comments. ABC also included 221 "gigglies" in its programs. Such scenes place undue emphasis on a particular part of the female anatomy. TV interviews with experts often go beyond the bounds of decency. A KSL female personality recently a male specialist in the field of family problems, particular in the area of sexual relationships. They discussed erection, orgasm and ejaculation in explicit terms. Hardly a suitable conversation to be aired. I believe KSL is one of the more discreet stations. I dislike guessing what other stations may be discussing. Can you imagine the impact on young minds?? No wonder there are three million unmarried mothers in the United States. The big he today, one which is often heard, is TV and-o- r radio programs do influence us. Hiis has been said so often that those who say this really believe it. I have a simple question. If TV curved especially ap- expression are beautiful concepts, but they carry with them responsibility, honesty, self discipline and integrity. These ideals are often overlooked in the mad rush to scoop the other fellow. Many times radio and TV reporters hide behind what they call usually reliable sources. This is usually a It is all right for a cop-ou- t. reporter to report first hand information but it is wrong to hide behind "usually Such reliable sources. sources may be second, third illegal methods used to obtain information. The reporter involved has no way of knowing for a fact the information he is reporting is factual and how it was obtained. This is a very, very dangerous situation disclosing ones as in the Bill demonstrated Bruhn affair. The idea that source would dry up such sources is not defensible. It most certainly would weed out those who should be weeded out. This will elevate reporting to a plane the general public will accept, appreciate, and it will restore confidence in those who are reporting. Reporters often completely ignore the sixth amendment mentioned above. I have a question for you. Whom do you want to influence your children? Will it be the family, the church, the school or a handful of greedy, aggressive network officials? If, perchance, the bill I have been discussing is now law, I suggest you take such steps that may be necessary to amend it. attached The correspondence shows how irresponsible and confusing can ruin a reporting reputation, and, in fact destroy a family. Sincerely, Francis W. Woods 2568 N. 1300 E. No. Ogden, Utah 84404 or even fourth hand and can be, and often are, vindictive and may be the result of Phone: 782-986- 4 Project T.U.R.N. is non - profit Project TURN (Teaching Utahs NorRetarded malization) is a private non- profit social service agency providing residential services to the mentally retarded citizens of this state. The principal goal of the agency is to provide quality group homes serving handicapped mentally people in their own com- munities. Project TURN presently operates three group homes: two in Salt Lake City, and in one Bountiful. a and Houseparents program specialist provide the eight residents in each facility with training in survival skills that make it possible for them to help themselves cook, clean, shop, and move about the city and otherwise function in ways that most people take for granted. An ancillary program Project TURN within provides training retarded their own. supervision and for mentally adults living - on TURN staff make routing visits and help these clients with money management, employer and landlord mediation, leisure time and management, personal health and hygiene. Alcohol and pregnancy just don't mix ad- seriously deteriorated. The market place works well in the commodity area. It has not worked in the broadcasting field. An article carried in the Ogden Standard Examiner just a few days ago had this to say about TV programs: "The number of sexual scenes or comments were 4.13 per hour in 1976. In 1977 such scenes increased to 6.06 per hour, 92 per cent of the sex depicted was extramarital. From September 17 to October 14 ABC aired 394 which scenes either suggested sexual intercourse comfortable plicator. They show pantyhose with a special cotton ventilated insert in the crotch area. This is most offensive. This type of advertising has no place in ones living room or den. is Such advertising especially embarrassing in mixed company. Freedom of the press and demonstrated conclusively it has not resulted in better vertising. On the other hand, it has deomonstrated time after time that program and and tampons which stay in place. They even advertise a prepackaged douche with an and adprogramming vertising quality to the market place. The market place has, since 1934, d $850.00 nrf- Jr Hf) net- Proposal Anjcricaq Classic Billiards SJ Auto & Truck Repair CABLE RADIO, TELEVISION, OWNERS OF STATION AND NETWORKS quality of programming, Poinsettias Ozaleas , 319 28th Street adultery, cheating, lying, etc. This letter is divided into proposals which would improve the present bill, comments on the 1934 communications act, and on Proposal No. 2: Raise the Arrangements i fornication, cent on profits after income and other taxes are paid. It should be similar to the use tax now being paid by trucking industry. Money so raised to be used in part as suggested above and in proposal No. 8 and elsewhere in this letter. 394-347- 4 OGDEN. UTAH 8omio6pm$AT have read nothing about the bill in any magazine, neither have I heard it discussed on radio or TV. If it has been passed, then it would appear the network people received exactly what they wanted. This could be construed as some sort of a conspiracy, even a cover-up- . FCC Chairman Ferris, in a recent interview, had this to say, I do not think I should be imposing my views on other people. This sounds great, except he permits of handful a TV, radio station owners and executives to impose the worse kind of violence and sex on two hundred million people. Apparently he did not consider the other side of the coin. Polls can, and sometimes are, misleading and can be manipulated to show exactly what someone wants them to show. For example, polls taken on the east coast would most certainly favor the present grade of programming, while polls asking the same questions taken in the bible belt would probably show a completely different result, imposing on a citizen of the United States the muck in the pigpen instead of the beauty of high ideals as expressed in The Waltons and Little House on the Prarie is an insult to ones intelligence. It would be exquisite pleasure to hear correct English instead of vulgarities, blasphemy and the obscenities to which we are now exposed. Most of the time present programming teaches the "ME concept, COMPANIES PAY INCLUDES CHANGING TRANSMISSION FlUIO. GASKETS. AND ADJUSTING BANOS FILTER EXTRA. OPEN MON tmu FBI I drinking drivers, and another 250,000 who are of TAX ON ALL BROADCAST FREQUENCIES INVOLVED. Such tax to be 50 per TUNE-U- P 2xnncn3EcoupoN special mnminn public debate. and writes editorial. AND 2955 REG. beverages. are principal actors who represent attorneys, doctors, police chiefs, etc., people who generally are respected in the community. Such scenes exert a powerful influence upon young people. There are six million known alcoholics in the United States and probably another six million who do not admit it. There are about 25,000 deaths per year on our highways as a direct result are a dangerous combination that could result in a pattern of problems called the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, acAlcohol and pregnancy cording to a Utah Social Services official. There is concern about a possible increase in the syndrome as the number of women drinkers increases. In a study of one major city, it was found that the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was the third leading recognizable cause of mental retardation, according to Dr. Lyman Olsen, Director, Division of Health. Below average weight and size at birth, small head circumference, and heart mental retardation are problems found in about half of the problems children bom to alcoholic mothers. There have been cases of infants who suffered alcohol withdrawal during the first month of life. Infants who show no physical symptoms of the syndrome at birth may have problems later. Learning and behavioral handicaps including hyperactivity are possible. Poor attention coorspan, poor dination. slow development and other problems are also common. eye-han- "Most birth defects are caused during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy when a mother may not even know that she is pregnant, Olsen said. He suggests that since safe alcohol levels are not known. pregnant and those who may become pregnant abstain from drinking entirely. The actual amount of alcohol that causes damage is unknown and may vary with each individual. You should discuss your drinking habits with your physician and follow his Olsen stated. suggestions, is There significant evidence that as the amount of alcohol the mother consumes is increased, the possibility of birth defects is increased. Though studies are incomplete and there are no absolute guide lines for to mothers follow, it Is generally assumed that greater than two ounces of alcohol consumed regularly during the first portion of pregnancy in cases has caused the fetus' to have mild to severe problems. Even if a mother drinks less than one ounce of alcohol per day, physicians feel there may still be a risk. Studies suggest that eliminating or reducing drinking during pregnancy lowers the risk to offspring considerably. In a study of 42 drinking women, 15 quit or reduced drinking during pregnancy. Of the 15 infants born to these women, 10 were born normal. Only three of the infants belonging to the 27 mothers who continued heavy drinking were bom normal. Most research has been done on chronic alcoholics, but a study of middle class, moderate drinkers who drank an average of one ounce of alcohol per day gave birth to infants whose average birth weight was 1 80 grams less than the weight of infants whose mothers abstained or were infrequent drinkers. Instead of being concerned with how much alcohol is safe to drink, we should wonder how many problems would be solved and how many infant deaths would be avoided if mothers were to abstain from drinking while pregnant," slated Olsen. fv i |