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Show Page The National Enterprise, June 15, 1977 twenty-tw- o Letters Editor's Note: The following letter was sent to the Enterprise in response to commentary by columnist Chuck Akerlow. In your May 25th column entitled "Open Account" 1 am dismayed that you seem to have somehow missed the point of historical preservation. Having never lived or worked in the Bamberger or Hogle homes, I cannot defend their functionality and would probably have to agree that they were difficult to work in. To me that is not the issue. It is a far deeper one than the number of available restrooms and usable office space. You seem to be unaware of the importance of history, of the value to the human spirit these ties with our ancestry have. If, in fact, you find aesthetic pleasure in the New York Life building or the U & I building, I can only d ToJedlaoo undoubtedly extol the virtues of modernization of "Les Champs Ely see." I would agree that the Steiner building is one of the most beautiful of Salt Lake Citys modem structures but with n the thousand other dirty, lots available, was the destruction that built the Steiner building really necessary? I think not. Congress would regulate regulators over-grow- You seem to forget, Mr. Akerlow, that The Friends of South Temple" are not objecting to the building of new structures. They are to which can that never be fighting preserve replaced at any cost. Unfortunately, your type of mentality seems to permeate this valley. Fifty years hence when your grandchildren admire the workmanship of John Price's coming attractions, you may, too, lament your shortsightedness. surmise that your appreciation for the grand avenue that South Temple once was is totally Were we in Paris you would lacking. Gordon S. Bowen Salt Lake City, Utah THE NATIONAL by Ralph de Toledano Copley News Service From time to time, Congress makes a few headlines by promising to curb that plague of locusts, the federal regulatory and then it agencies. There are loud huzzahs from the public is all forgotten. Few know that simply supporting these regulatory agencies costs the taxpayer more than $4 billion a year. But thats only a beginning. The nuisances perpetrated by the agencies runs to money that comes out of the many, many billions a year pocket of the consumer. Two years ago, for example, the Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank, estimated that the economic loss resulting from the regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1968 alone was somewhere between $3.78 billion and $8.79 billion. Other studies show that the ICCs restrictive rate policies add $5 most of it passed on to billion a year in excess freight rates consumers. The Bureau of Domestic Commerce points out that featherbedding enforced by the National Labor Relations Board adds $3 billion in railway shipping costs, $400 million at the supermarket and $275 million in truck shipping costs. Small businesses spend more than $18 billion a year on the paperwork demanded by the regulatory agencies. store grossing less than $30,000 is required to fill out p an average of 52 different forms a year. The grocery store just cant do it, which is one reason why there are fewer and fewer of them. A family mom-and-po- 1H8 GWNStfa isTffir THNKIMtttN6 3 QCCtJDDP Corp. told the Sunday Oregonian that it filed "6,000 to in excess of 8,000" copies of federal reports each "Literally hundreds of employees work on them year. with a lot of part-timthe company stated. The Georgia-Pacifi- c full-tim- e, e, In 1975, the intrastate air fare between San Diego and Los Angeles was $11.40. On federally regulated lines, the cost was $21.64. Because an unregulated intrastate line is there to force e basis regulated fares down, it costs roughly half, on a to fly within California than it does on comparable interstate per-mil- runs. Before Christmas of 1975, United Airlines asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to add more flights to Hawaii to take care of the holiday mail rush. The following February, the CAB got around to making its ruling, denying the petition on the ground that Christmas was over. d When the Supreme Court ruled that poultry was an agricultural product and therefore not subject to regulation, the rate for shipping it fell 33 percent. fresh-dresse- aluminum-covere- d The Southern Railway System developed a 100-to- n wooden boxcar hopper car to replace the old n which allowed rain and weevils to get in, grain to spill out. When Southern petitioned the ICC for permission to lower its g rates by 60 percent, the commission refused. 50-to- TOM m grain-haulin- TjSC3H6l ?308j The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) tile in requires plants. The Food and Drug Administration regulations require ceramic tile for sanitary reasons. sound-absorbe- 3iNttC0Ng. nt milk-processi- ng OSHA has ordered the installation of back-u- p alarms on vehicles at construction sites. It also requires workers to wear earplugs, which means they cannot hear the alarms. o OSHA says grated floors are mandatory in supermarket butcher department because of the danger of slipping on blood. The U.S. Department of Agriculture bans grated floors because they are hard to clean and increase the risk of contamination. I could go on and on. Some of my examples are petty, some cost millions and put businesses out of work. and people Congress talks about regulating the regulators. U's Copter No Cor, let That will mean another layer of bureaucracy and another wave of regulation. But that must be the way the taxpayer wants it, or we would have a revolution in this country. |