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Show i " "" i r.. i -f- f -rirfTr i" r ' i thiwi i i1"1 j 1 i 'i " h mrnirn-.ii-nr-iri ri u mrrj iu jii u i. ,. Ml (u L j-nrmij.. BirajTi u ui win ibhii' i rli , ,-m,i.iiiml. w - - iimnm t nDCDfinntl The present land management code in Park City restricts the maximum l height ot Main Street buildings to 45 feet, about the same height as the Claimjumper Hotel. Do you think this is a realistic standard, and if not, why not . If Richard Salowey ama They should keep it down to two stories ana penuin the building near the Timberhaus. You have to set a limit. I say thov arp nnrl keeD the new ones down. r r) r Page 2 Thursday, March 20, 1980 UIC UIUCI UIIW M UIVJ ' v 1 Otherwise it will take away from the western look of the town The Comeback Kids Score the Big One The Class 1A All-Star Team was announced officially yesterday, and it seems to reinforce what Park City Coach Bruce Reid has been saying all along. Only one member of our Miner squad, Marty Cowin, was named to the team, while the three other schools which made it to the tournament semi-finals, Dugway, South Summit and Parowan, each placed two members on the squad. Keid conceded some time ago that there were other Class 1A teams with more raw talent than Park City. And, without appearing to slight the Miners, we think he's probably right. In poll after poll during the league season. Park City was ranked about fourth or fifth in the state. During the Region 12 tournament, Dugway Coach George Bruce went on the radio to say, in so many words, the Miners just aren't that good. Even after they had beaten South Summit Sum-mit and Dugway for the region title, the Miners were listed as long shots for the title. But it almost seemed as if Bruce Reid preferred to be the underdog. At the start of the 1978-79 season he was predicting privately that the Miners would go all the way to the championship. This year he made no such claims to the title. He took one game at a time, and savored each win for its own merits. If there had been a team motto, it might have been "Hang in there." And hang in there they did. Not all the games were ar-l ar-l istic successes. At times the Miners were horrible. They were pounded by also-ran Tintic during the league season, and came within a whisker of losing to unheralded Valley in the first round of the tournament. But in game after game they managed to come back UlilMlll andmondaietpo Weekly gpeefialECjS Talk Loudly, Washington Jimmy Carter's new "tough" policy toward the Soviet Union is neither tough nor policy. In a pathetic mockery of Teddy Roosevelt's "big stick" maxim, the president has been jawboning loudly and carrying a fly swatter. The grain embargo hurt American farmers more than it damaged the Soviets. The summer Olympics boycott appears to be falling apart. The one move that could really punish the Russians is the ban on export of technological goods. We have the computers; the Russians want them badly. With much fanfare, the president announced that the sale of American technological merchandise would cease. But the ink was barely dry on the presidential directive before Commerce Com-merce Department officials were reassuring American manufacturers: Don't worry, the freeze is only temporary. In fact, the technology embargo is not only temporary, but as full of holes as an Emmentaler cheese. And the bureaucratic mice at Commerce are busily chewing even more holes in the embargo. Incredibly, one of these holes is literally big enough to drive a truck through. The disclosure that Russian troops rode into Afghanistan in trucks produced with American equipment at the huge Kama River industrial complex was shocking enough. Now the Commerce Department hucksters are drafting an exemption to the export ban that would permit continued servicing, plus the shipment of spare parts to the Kama River factories. The Carter administration has given conflicting accounts of its technology embargo, The president assured members mem-bers of Congress at a top-level briefing Jan. 8 that he wanted the sale of Carry a Flyswatter sophisticated machinery to the Soviets and their satellites stopped, period. Yet no order was issued. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C, wrote a terse letter to the president, demanding to know why the administration had not lived up to Carter's assurances. The White House didn't even reply for over a month. A spokesman explained that Thurmond's letter somehow "fell through the cracks." Meanwhile, over at the State Department, Depart-ment, Richard Cooper, undersecretary for economic affairs, told my associate Vicki Warren, "The suspension is temporary." The idea was to halt equipment sales while an inter-agency task force studied the situation, he explained. The freeze was never meant to be permanent, according to Cooper, nor does he anticipate a "dramatic shift" in policy when the review is completed. A contradictory appraisal came from the Commerce Department's general counsel, Homer Moyer. He insisted that the changes in the export program will be "profound," and said, "It will not be a short-term policy." But others in the department are working on exemptions that would permit the lucrative export trade to continue. Larry Brady, who quit Commerce in disgust over the lack of firm export controls, described the planned exemptions as "directly contrary con-trary to the president's stated goal of attacking the economic plans of the Soviet Union." Even without exemptions, much useful technology slips through to the Russians because of loose licensing requirements. Many commodities can be exported without licenses, and these are unaffected by even the temporary embargo. One such item, unbelievable as it seems, is an assembly line for with whatever it took to win. The last month of the season was one nerve-racker after another. It began with the St. Joseph game when sophomore Steve Toly hit two free throws to win the game with four seconds left. It continued con-tinued in the region tournament, where the Miners had to go to overtime to beat South Summit. Then came the state tournament, when two of the four games were decided by a total of three points. And even the big win over South Summit was a toss up until the last quarter. What was the Miners' secret? Much of the credit must go to Coach Bruce Reid, who kept his perspective and his sense of humor through it all. He placed no unrealistic demands on the Miners, only that they play with everything they had. But his efforts would have been wasted had it not been for the overwhelming desire of the players, an intangible quality which Reid calls character. They had shared the same dream since grade school, and their play on the basketball court reflected that spirit of cooperation. Whether it was fighting for a loose ball in the corner or supporting each other after a bad performance, the Miners stuck together. And it was this attitude which helped them most when the games were on the line. Their coolness under pressure indicated a maturity uncommon among athletes so young. The state championship is the first in any sport in the history of Park City High School. And it was richly deserved. But we do think that Mark Uriarte should have been on that all-star team. nderson ir production of diesel engines at where else? the Kama River truck plant. It will be shipped this spring unless the administration takes action and this it has failed to do, despite inquiries from the manufacturer, Ingersoll-Rand. As part of its jawboning techniques, the administration has called on U.S. allies to adhere strictly to the rules laid down by the allies' export control committee for technology sales to the Soviet sphere. The request has a hollow ring to it, since most of the rules violations are for sales by U.S. firms. Union Dooze: At a time when the nation's 22,000 credit unions were just allowed by Congress to raise their interest rates from 12 percent to 15, the high-living flair of the Michigan Credit Union League leaves a sour taste with some members. After polling its membership the administrators of credit unions throughout the state the league selected se-lected Edinburgh, Scotland, as the site for its annual "Management Development Develop-ment Travel Conference" next September. Septem-ber. The junket will include tours of Boston and Lexington-Concord en route, plus the option of "an extended stay in an exciting city of your choice in Europe." One disgusted credit union official filled in his suggestion of a conference site as "Siberia (one-way ticket)," and offered as a topic for discussion at the conference "The Michigan Credit Union Code of Ethics." Miffed Mobster: Louisiana crime kingpin Carlos Marcello was upset by my column and other reports linking him to the John F. Kennedy assassination. assassina-tion. Marcello told FBI informant Joseph Hauser the stories were upsetting his family, and that they were a lot of "bull." Copyright, 1980 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. T J .nlU. 1 U idlllcl sec main on cci otajr ai iuj p wvm iibwv because it helps to preserve the look of the old town. If it went any , i 1 11 1 a 1 l 1 ! i. n Vrtl 1 2 nigner, it woman t iook iiKe a mining town any . , i jl. can go to Vail if you want to see 7 'J I think V ;m two stories are underground. S Bud Later I think they should limit the height so they don't take away the beauty of Main Street. I think it should stay close to what it is now. Any higher and it would distract from the area. Anything you have on Main Street should be compatible. 'm are that I ' -A K I Jake Morris I think more important than the height is keeping the flavor of the town. I'm definitely more into the aesthetics. I think the Victorian characteristics are the things you want to enhance. bv Stanley Karnow nmntBiioprr,(Bitiive IHlgpn)irtt Japanese Cars Invade U.S. Washington. D.C. "If they want to sell cars here, they'll have to make them here," says Douglas A. Fraser, president of the United Automobile Workers. And his statement, aimed at Japanese automobile manufacturers, underlines a problem that could have serious economic and political implications, both here and abroad. The problem is that low-mileage Japanese car imports are invading the United States to such an extent that they threaten the American industry. Japanese models represented nearly one-quarter of all new automobile sales in this country in January, and more than two million were sold here last year. W'hat Fraser wants, as he recently asserted in Tokyo, is for Japan's big automobile companies, Toyota and Nissan, to open U.S. factories so that their imports do not steal jobs. Honda, the other top Japanese car firm, is planning to build a plant in Ohio. Fraser's plea, which has strong U S. governmental support, makes a good deal of sense for reasons that transcend the automobile business. For while the Japanese are the immediate target, the sentiment against imports of all kinds is rising so rapidly that it could prompt Congress to throw up strong tariff barriers. Protectionism is an extremely dangerous game, since it would provoke retaliation overseas at a time when the United States, because of the declining dollar, is in a good position to boost its international trade. More significantly, protectionist measures contrived to defend sectors of U.S. business actually backfire against the American consumer by curbing competition and driving up prices. World Bank President Robert McNamara has pointed out, for example, that protectionist devices between 1975 and 1977 cost consumers an additional $1.2 billion for steel, $1.2 Mewspaper Subscription Rates, $6 a year in Summ it County, $12 a year outside Summ it County Published by Ink, Inc. USPS 378-730 Publisher , ,. . ... Jan ilkmg BettinaMoench Advertising Sales Jan U ilking Sandi McCintock General Manger T ,, D . 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" aay noon for Jack CoDDedge Ct.nn rlnu r, f Iff nrQCOIlt hoi'fjht four-story buildings on Main Street are okay as long as Leon Uriarte If you look on Main Street you'll find numerous buildings that height now. Look at the Elks, the Furniture, the Anderson Apartments, Car for years. I think 45 feet is okay because of Main Street has got to have the investment. billion for shoes and $500 million for television sets. The Japanese carmakers are dragging their feet about constructing U.S. installations for a couple of reasons. First, the investment would be heavy, and, they feel, their plants would go into operation about the time that American companies are bringing out competitive small models. Second, like poker players, they are reluctant to change as long as their current winning streak goes on. But they ought to understand that the issue is less a matter of profits and losses than politics. For besides stimulating protectionist feelings, they also are jeopardizing the broader relationship between the United States and Japan, which is vital to the foreign policies of both nations. It is astonishing that trade conflicts already have not damaged that relationship. That is due in large measure to the diplomatic genius of former Senator Mike Mansfield, now the U.S. ambassador in Tokyo. But, as Mansfield warned the other day, "All the ingredients of an explosion are there" unless the Japanese come around. In contrast to Japan's automobile manufacturers, oddly enough, the benefits of investing in the United States are attracting more and more foreign firms, Japanese among them. Last year, indeed, total foreign investment in America climbed a record $6 billion to a total of more than $40 billion. Foreigners are into everything from industry and banks to retailing and real estate, and their motives are more than sentimental. For one thing, the United States is the world's most affluent society, where Bayer can sell more aspirins than it does in West Germany and where Michelin can turn out more tires than it does in France. Moreover, America is relatively KimnlV c. x the junk, f Masonic, Main Street 19. Ihey ve been nere the value of the ground. .Mil) cheap not only because the dollar is inexpensive, but because the social welfare burden is lighter here than in many countries abroad. As a consequence, U.S. labor is a bargain. Foreign corporations are being lured to the United States as well because of its stability. In Britain, France, Italy and other countries, where political parties tend to be ideological, a change of government can mean such radical innovations as stiffer taxes or the nationalization of industry. Here, however, both the Democrats and Republicans are committed to capitalism. The United States also has a good deal to learn from foreign companies, particularly in the field of productivity. The average Japanese auto worker, for instance, makes 50 cars a year, twice as many as his American counterpart, and roughly the same difference marks steel output. Despite the myths, the Arabs are not buying America. Though their holdings in stocks and bonds are considerable, they probably control no more than one-half one-half of one percent of all foreign investments in the country. Strange as it may seem, the Dutch are No. 1, mainly through their multinational giants like Shell and Unilever, and they are followed by the British, Canadians, West Germans, Swiss, Japanese and French. Even the Communists are involved in the form of an intricate arrangement between the Romanian government and the Island Creek Coal Co., a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum. So the pattern is there for the Japanese automobile firms to emulate. Given their skill at making cars, the chances also are good that they will make money besides preventing a clash of potentially serious proportions. ( Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1980) i imim-iM "Tit, J |