Show I dumm Thursday August 15 2002 A4 The Herald Journal fry Your view Conservative solutions needed To the edikir: Democrat Senator Tom “Bottleneck" Daschle from South Dakota and Senate president is sure living up to the nickname I have now decided to bless him with I le absolutely refuses to allow any meaningful legislation or judicial appointments ' asked for by President Hush To the floor of the Senate for an up or down vote and the liberal Democrats sup? port Daschle till the last dog is hung However he did let one piece of legislation through but not before he had attached an amendment to it that benefited his home slate only It is now illegal for any environmental group Sierra Club included to file a lawsuit stopping logging companies and others from cleaning out the state's forests and using any type of machinery necessary to do the job right and as quickly as possible Why in the name of tarnation didn't he include every slate in the union Senator Alan Simpson was right when asked by a member of a large conference he was the keynote speaker at “What is wrong with Senator Daschle?” He replied he wants to be president so much so that he has got it in his blood so bad that the only sure cure for his ailment is embalming fluid If those German forests had been ' in the same condition as ours are here the Battle Of The Buldge would have never taken place in World War II simply because it would have been impossible for the opposing forces to get their tanks and artillery through a mess like we have here To me all of you extreme environ- mentalists are a blight on this great country of ours and need to be eradicated Logah's spendthrifty mayor has in his previous jobs and'still does Just loves to spend other people’s money Even if it means increasing the burden on people struggling to make ends meet on low income and have no pockets to pick like the mayor His liberal spending habits have now caught fire with some of the key personal he has surrounded himself with The proposed Canyon Road dugway will accomplish nothing Iii Alaska they called it Seward's Fbl-le- y this one should be named Thompson's First and Second East are doing a good job of it and there is only one house to move on the south side of Logan River You cry our oh hut we can get a government grant it wifi cost us very little That money comes from taxes and we the people pay those taxes So Mr Mayor why don't you replacethat liberal hat you wear with a conservative one and start doing things that please people instead of irritating them or give the job to someone who will Etwin Allred Logan Massacre book not worth Page 1 To the editor I’ve lived in many other states (all dominated by Protestant majorities) and have never seen the headline “Protestants linked to Murder of Joseph Smith” or “Author points finger at Protestants for Mormon Extermination Order" For some reason such stories don't hold much ' interest But here in Utah a story about the Mountain Meadows Massacre gets top billing in the Sunday edition In his book about the massacre Will Bagley resurrects the caricature of conspiratorial Mormon hillbillies using whatever means necessary to achieve their nefarious ends But if early Mormons were so bloodthirsty why did the Church patiently endure brutal persecution only to avenge themselves decades later? If Brigham Young advocated murder why was the Mountain Meadows Massacre the only case of Mormon retribution? Since a Utter John D Lee had noth- -' ing to lose before his execution why didn't he confess that Brigham Young initiated the atrocity? And curiously why woe the Indians involved? As elucidated by your arti cle Bagley doesn’t answer these questions but prefers the innuendo and hyperbole of a century ago In the mythology of the West the massacres at Little Bighorn and the Alamo defined who the “real” vie- tims were who were the villains and absolved the collective guilt of mainstream America In like manner Bagley's version of the Mountain Meadows Massacre collapses the complexity of Mormon history and suggests that whatever Mormons suffered they simply deserved it BradTeare Providence Lawmakers LOGAN-MAYO- R Doug Thompson Ave Logan 753-68- 1567 Lynnwood 99 LOGAN-MUNICIPA- COUNCIL L Thomas Kerr 35 N 1400 East Logan 84321 752-315- 2 Alan Allred 1535 E 1500 North 4 Logan 84341 ' Steve Thompson 37 S 200 West 9 Logan 84321 Karen Borg 1 670 N 1600 East 3 Logan 84341 South PI Tami Pyfcr Cory Yeates — representing Logan district No 1 — 281 S 100 East Logan 84321 752-902- 7 Kathy Robison — representing Logan district No 2 — 335 N 400 ’ West Logan 84321 9 Craig Petersen —representing Logan district No 3— 1440 E 1220 North Logan 8434 1 8 753-510- 753-822- 752-667- 753-601- - 753-696- ' 52-13- 84321753-752- 9 CACHE COUNTY EXECUTIVE BRANCH Executive: Lynn Lemon 120 N 100 West Logan 84321 716-71Assessor: Kathleen Howell 179 N Main Logan 84321 0 Attorney: Scott Wyatt 11 W 100 North Logan 84321 1 Auditor! Tamara Stones 1 79 N Main Logan 94321 3 Clerk: Jill Zollinger 170 N Main 71 Eccentrics at home in West By Penelope Reedy Ec Writers Every community has them but out West they seem to take on a unique aura Take the Babbington twins two nearly identical men who lived on a farm on the west end of Camas Prairie Camas County Idaho in the of the 20th century early to mid-pa- rt They did everything together ing dying together in a house fire: People who knew them say it was a blessing they died at the same time insisting that a surviving on the Range wore the pants in the family but her German upbringing wouldn’t allow it She did all her farm work in dresses from feeding cows to working the fields When the girls’ parents died time before World War II they drove their wagon the two pr three miles into town to ask for help The girls who were young women by then had never been to town before Later in life Mary traveled to north Idaho to visit distant family and surprised the prairie by returning with a man named John who lived out his days in a small shack on the sisters’ property John a very quiet man was seen often ridihg with Mary in her old green Chevy pickup up and down all the village streets one by one their windows rolled down People could hear Mary cussing him “up and down” Chi the rare occasions John was asked about the situation he was said to merely shake his head chuckle and say “Oh those girls!” Clara when she was well into her old age giggled shyly like ayoung girl Her ventures off the farm were few and she became attached to her animals so much so that die cared for steers that were very old When Clara was on her death bed hospice workers report that Mary would tortment her sister mischief in her eye by yelling up close so she was sure to hear “I’m taking your cows to the sale ring!” And when Clara sputtered wild-eye- d with rage Mary clucked with satisfaction Mary died sitting up in a sagging reefiner She hadn’t slept in a bed for more than 20 years and the lights old-count- ry brother wouldn't have known what to do without the ’ other Peoplestill talk about how when they shopped at the Market Basket in Fairfield the only town in the sparsely populated county they purchased each can of beans or peas separately andjnde-pendentl- y even though they bought identical products A rural mail carrier reported they subscribed to the same magazines independently as well Old-tim- e prairie commentators tend to disregard the power of isolation on these men's lives preferring to think of their quirkiness as the result of being twins After all living “away from it all” is a highly valued priority in the American West Another case in point: Mary-Botchher sister Clara and the elderly gentleman Mary married ate in life lived on a farm on Camas Prairie all growing elderly and infirm sometime in the 1980s Mary a large muscular woman resembled Mar- jorie Main's famous film character Tugboat Annie I’d like to say she er were kept on in her house all night In cities when eccentrics die they're sometimes discovered by neighbors when the odor of rotting flesh seeps out from under their double-locked apartment doors: If a devoted pair doesn’t die together sometimes the survivor keeps the body around and talks to it or worse City neighbors report them to investigators as anonymous characters shadows seen out of the corners of their eyes rummaging through garbage cans They usually smell bad and mumble through tenement hallways to their nests Out on the Western prairies eccentrics are equally ignored' except that everybody usually knows their names and family histories Their routines are unconsciously noted so when the pattern is broken 'neighbors check in Like when Charlie Ford died one winter in the '1950s Neighbors noticed the absence of smoke com- ing from his chimney up Corral Creek hooked up horses to sleighs and brought his body out Somehow the Botcher sisters ended up with a box of Charlie Ford’s things rediscovered when I helped them clean out a died so I could purchase their unused egg incubator The box con--' tained Charlie Ford's Bible and his last roll of toilet paper The code of the West indsts that people who live off by themselves be left alone and when a lonely death suicide or other tragedy overtakes these eccentrics communities find to rationalize ways ‘ “They liked to keep to themselves” we say “We didn’t feel it was our right to interfere” Sometimes we’re right about that Penelope Reedy is a contributor to Writers on the Range a service of High Country News in Paonia Colorado (hcnorg) ‘ She writes Idaho in Pocatello Other views 716-710- CACHE COUNTY COUNCIL Darrel Gibbons —representing the north district — 840 S 1600 Ie 8 West Lewiston 84320 Layne Beck —representing the northeast district — 628 E 380 South Smithfield 84335 563-32John A Hansen —representing the south districj—252 EMain Hyrum 258-523- ' ' 29 V 84319245-658- 4 Lany Anhder —representing the southeast district — 3475 S 250 -- ! West Logan 84321 753-5lb- 4 ' 716-836- 716-712- 0 Logan84321 Recorder: Michad 716-715- L Gleed 179 N Main Logan 8432 L 716-71Sheriff: Lynn Nelson 50 W 200 North Logan 84321 715-740-0 S Treasurer Karen A' Jeppessen 179 NMain Logan 84321 716- 80 Bush setting good vacation example :s The Chicago Tribune - Some would criticize Mr Bush’s break but he is in fact a good role model fbr the rest of us Researchers have studied what happens to human beings who ere vaca- - t tion deprived It’s not pretty Stress burnout sleep disturbances deteriorating relationships and a long fist of 25-d- ay what you will about our president he knows the value of a good vacation Right now he’sprpb-abl- y easing back in an overstuffed armchair at his ranch in Crawford Texas and wondering if he can Jit in a nap before tee tipie Good work Mr President ' ' ay ' health problems Few it sriems have mastefed the fine art of vacationing People This is America We’re the world leader die trendsetter And yet we are pathetic when it comes to vacationing Look die capitals of Europe are emptying out for the annual August hiatus etyourimind roam Ihke a walk B ake some cookies Do die thing you've put off for months unless it involves home repair ‘ Above alL stop worrying J v Mallard Fillmore Herald Journal The Option page le Intended to acquaint raadsrsi "avanety of viewpoints on matters of pubic importance and prams members of toe oommunKy with a forum tor took riawa Personal columns cartoone and Mara from readers reflect too opinions of their writers and creators Erttoriato under the headta'Our Vteef represent toe views of the Hereto Journal edNoriteboerd Members of toe editorial board: ': DARRELL EHRLICKfcltyedhor ciN0YYURTH1ealureeedtor BRUCE SMmVpubfaher CHARLES MoQOUURMnanatfng edtor — - Amato Me Luneitini ' r n The Herald Journal welcome tottora to toe edltor PotentlaSyiteloue or offensive ledere N not t published however and the edtor ' reasrveetoe tjght to tel tottera to conform to tie length and atyfarequiremsnls of too Letters should be: i 7 Typewritten apddoubteepecad No more than 450 words In length ' Addressed and Include daytime phone number for purposes of verMcsfan Signed by the auftor tadMduals are IMtod to one puUatiad let-to- r wkhin any SMey period Ad&see&tntel totters to hMtorOhnows£om Quasi commentaries are also welcome and are run at ' me sours oscraoon joist (WilXl) 7 J' i s Sea |