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Show ihi'Ciiju::; ten Mr;!'::1 ; i '! f f'f 'I ' ) ',) V . : t r l 1 1 ' 1 M dDnrtntt What did you think of the concerts held at Park West this summer? Kathy Kizer ' ' . . Emmylou was delightful. That was the only one I saw, and I hope they continue the concert series next year. Pane 2 Thursday. September 18, 1980 ! i : : ,i i 1 1 Remove the Newspapers, Or Can the Project The aluminum can and newspaper recycling center east of the old Mt. Air Market was a good idea whose time had come, but the time to remove the evidence of its popularity has long come and gone. Like the buckets of water that kept coming at the hands of the unwitting sorcerer's apprentice, the newspapers continue to mount up in the bin, and the city has yet found time to move them to Salt Lake City for recycling. Granted, there are other problems more important than a recycling center, but its present condition is discouraging would-be patrons. The idea for the center was proposed by local artist Marianne Cone, who donated her time to design the sign that embellishes the wooden building. The structure itself was designed, free of charge, by Steve Deckert of Alliance Engineering. Both of those people volunteered their time with the belief that the center would serve a useful, community purpose. The center opened its bins for donations last May, and the intent was that revenues collected from the recycling first would pay off the $3,500 construction fee, then would go towards a litter, control program. It's ironic that a project designed to clean up the litter in the city is itself one of the biggest eyesores. Since May, the newspapers have been taken to Salt Lake once.. .by Ms. Cone, who unloaded nearly a ton of papers from the bin with the help of Newspaper staffer Bill Dickson. And as intended, the bin rapidly filled again, this time to overflowing. Repeated requests to City Hall to remove the papers have been met with promises that city employees will take them to the recycling center in Salt Lake on one of their frequent trips down to the valley. Promises, but no action. , As of Wednesday morning, the papers were pressing up against the roof. But at least they still were contained inside the center. Last week, they were cascading through the doorway and onto the ground. The recent rainstorms made things worse, turning the piles into a gummy mass and making them ineligible for recycling because of their water weight. They apparently were hauled off to the City Dump, a move somewhat contradictory to the purpose of the center. , A few feet away from the newspapers is the aluminum can bin, and the opposite situation seems to be occurring there. Each week there are fewer cans to be recycled, indicating that perhaps someone has been turning the cans in on their own, and pocketing the change. A can in the hand is worth at least two papers in the bin, and if they were not pilfered, everyone would gain if the funds could be built up and used for a litter control program. The center is one of those little nagging problems that the city may already have taken care of, as promised, by now. If not, perhaps the whole idea of the center should be canned and recycled. BBM Astealih bomber ' ' 1 sopwith (fS) qPI gffip earner (bp V ILettiters t ttlhe.Edlfiitop P.C. Ski Team Gets Boost From Locals On behalf of the Park City Ski Team, its staff and members, I extend a sincere thanks to John Newman, Gus Cutrubus and all "1980 Cutrubus-New-man Open" participants for their contribution to the Park City Ski Team. This organization has faithfully contributed con-tributed to the team each year a portion of the proceeds raised through their successful fundraising events. This year $1,400 was donated to help support the junior racing program. Our thanks to John, his committee and participants for their help in making another one of our community youth athletic programs more successful. Sincerely, Bob Marsh and the Park City Ski Team Loser Thanks Supporters Editor: To the voters of Precinct 1 and 2. I would like to thank all those who supported me. I would also like to apologize to those voters who feel that I did not campaign enough. I fully intended to conduct a door to door campaign the weekend before the election, however our son suffered a neck injury in the game against Beaver. He spent the night in the Beaver Hospital, returning home with us Saturday. I was mentally dazed and physically exhausted the entire weekend. week-end. I did try to conduct a phone campaign. I was just not up to it mentally. I spent a large part of Tuesday calling people and reminding them that it was election day and would like to see a large turn out. I did not recommend myself, I just asked them to vote. Sincerely, G.MaryEley by Stanley Karnow Himtteirpneitiiw IKeptmrtt Strikes Reveal Marxist Errors Washington, D.C. The labor mutiny in Poland has been matched in recent weeks by a less dramatic but equally significant development in China. Taken together, they again underline the bankruptcy of Marxism as a practical base for government. In a broader sense, it seems to me, the erosion of the Marxist concept also is symptomatic of a worldwide reaction against the idea of government interference in the lives of individuals. This reaction extends as well to the United States, where much of the New Deal notion of big government has lost its appeal among voters, so that both the top presidential candidates are essentially conservative in their outlook. out-look. But nowhere is the trend illustrated more vividly than in communist societies. By winning the right to create independent trade unions and stage strikes, dissident Polish workers have effectively shattered the claim of Poland's ruling Communist party that it represents the proletariat. In other words, workers who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of Communism have rejected its monolithic mono-lithic control in their demand for the freedom to represent themselves. The Polish uprising could inspire similar protests through eastern Europe, Eu-rope, as has happened before. If so, the Soviet Union may intervene with troops in order to keep its empire entact. But whatever transpires, the events in Poland already are enormously important. impor-tant. For they have punctured Karl Marx's original theory of Communism as the ideal of the working class and revealed the party for what it really is an entrenched bureaucracy more . concerned with preserving its prerogatives preroga-tives than with raising the standards of people. In China, meanwhile, the successors to the late Mao Tse-Tung have just initiated policies that promise, in their way, to set in motion changes as momentous as those taking place in Poland. After two years of deliberations, pragmatic Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping Xiao-ping is promoting plans to introduce what amounts to a market economy in China. Among other things, Chinese factories and other enterprises will be run on a profit basis, with workers and peasants spurred, to produce by material rewards. This is a retreat from Marxist principles, under which the means of production and distribution are to be controlled by the state. It also augurs the end of the Maoist system, which sought to exhort the Chinese to sacrifice themselves in perpetual revolution. Interestingly, Deng went further than he ever has to denounce Mao in an interview the other day with Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist. Mao, he said, was an "ultra-leftist" who had "lost contact with reality." Thus China no longer pretends to stand as a model for the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, as it did when Mao was alive. Instead, it appears to be trying to emulate Japan and the west, its former "imperialist" foes. Key differences mark the shifts that have occurred in Poland and in China. The Polish Communist authorities have been forced to reform under pressure from below, while the Chinese Communist Com-munist leaders have imposed reforms from the top. In both instances, however, Marxist tenets of only a generation ago have lost their validity. Communism no longer can be defined in idiological terms, rather, Communist states must be seen in strictly power terms. This means, for example, that Soviet ambitions are less a reflection of Communist design than they are a continuation of the objectives that propelled Czarist Russia to reach for influence beyond its borders. To a large extent, I think, this is a plus for the United States and its Western Allies. For communism's appeal has evaporated except as a device for grabbing and holding power. It should be added, though, that unbridled capitalism is not an alternative, alterna-tive, even for rebellious Polish workers ' and others who have suffered under the yoke of an oppressive communist apparatus. So the challenge for the west and especially for the United States is to shape a form of social democracy that truly fulfills the communist pledge of rewarding everyone "according to his abilities and according to his needs." Communism has betrayed that lofty aim, and for that reason it has proved to be a disappointment. It is now up to the West to show that it can do better. ' Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1980 Clint Magee They were great! Emmylou knocked my socks off. I hope they come back next year to wow us folks ! Lloyd Stevens -I thought they were great. They should do them more often and early in the summer . Myle Jackson I thought they were wonderful. I hope they do it again next year. f ,S Vy , TomVasquez I thought they were great. It was just a walk away for me, which made it even better. ill ' I Al Allen They sounded really good from my house. I would have gone if I could have afforded it. Weekly Sipcicii-aa" Carter, Reagan Running Close, Anderson's Strong in New York Washington In any presidential campaign, cam-paign, the man in the White House has an advantage oVer-hls challengers'. An 1 incumbent president has the power, the perks and the purse strings. He can call a press conference for an announcement that will make him look good; or use Air Force One for a supposedly non-political trip to an important state; or hand out federal grants to critical election battlefields. Jimmy Carter demonstrated his skill at presidential gamesmanship in his successful primary races against Sen. Ted Kennedy. Any time Kennedy threatened to get the next day's headlines or a spot on the evening news, Carter could undercut him with a hastily arranged, camera-grabbing event. Local governments also found themselves wallowing in federal grants and suddenly announced aid programs on the eve of the primaries. Meanwhile, the latest polls have Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in a dead heat. But Reagan may be gaining the momentum. Our sources have seen the latest public opinion samplings. The next published polls will show Reagan about four percentage points ahead of the president. Reagan is showing strength in a number of big states that Carter won in 1976. Reagan is even undercutting Carter in the South. But even worse news for the Carter campaign is coming from New York. It will be difficult for the president to win re-election without carrying New York State. This makes the Liberal Party's endorsement crucial. The endorsement has gone, not to Carter, but to independent John Anderson. This might give Anderson enough respectability respect-ability in New York to win the votes of disgruntled Kennedy Democrats. The Liberal Party has never failed to endorse a Democratic candidate for president. But incredibly, the party , leaders got the brushoff from the Carter camp. Carter's aides treated the The Newspaper Liberal leaders with an arrogance, that, bordered on conten1pt. The ; jUberal pleaded with Carter to listen to their complaints. They sent a 15-page memo to the White House detailing their grievances. Carter's reply was a routine rehash of his administration's accomplishments. The president also assigned his domestic policy adviser, Stuart Eizen-stat, Eizen-stat, to smooth the Liberals' ruffled feathers. But Carter's inner circle boasted that they didn't need New York towin. The president's Georgia boys were whistling "Dixie," which they realized at the last minute. They tried to get New York Gov. Hugh Carey and AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland to plead the president's case with the Liberal Party leaders. But by then, it was too late. Who's To Blame? Members of Congress are up in arms over what they say is a worthless grain embargo of the Soviet Union that is costing American agriculture millions. Farm income is down but is the grain embargo really to blame? According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Russians will be able to replace only 8 million tons of the 17 million tons of grain they planned to buy from the United States. Those replacement shipments will cost about a billion dollars more than the American grain would have coat. Yet, here . in the United States government statistics show that U.S. agricultural exports will set all-time records this year despite the reduced sales to Russia. For instance, exports in 1979 amounted to $32 billion. This year, farm exports will add an estimated $39 billion. If you look closely at the recent prices of wheat, corn and soybeans, compared to prices when the embargo took effect, they've actually risen. " So the embargo's effect on American farmers seems to be more psychological psychologi-cal than economic. B Biea.dlineSjand Foatnpg'ere of 3-c ,rr, i r.-.: closed doors at the state Department about the way the Carter White House has treated him. His biggest gripe is that he has been excluded from major policy changes. Our sources say Muskie has served notice on the White House that he will depart the next time a policy decision is made without his input. Muskie's close friends say he is also thinking about leaving right after the election no matter who wins. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commis-sion is under orders from Congress to disclose the routes taken by shipments of nuclear waste across the country. But the commission has gotten around the order by classifying the information on such shipments as proprietary in other words, it's a commercial secret. But it's really an open secret because anyone, including potential terrorists, can spot the waste shipments easily. The 30-ton containers are carried in open flatbed trucks and are clearly labeled "radioactive" in large yellow letters. Even though the White House has organized a multimillion-dollar aid package for the auto industry, the automakers want more. The industry giants are taking aim at the federal rules establishing passive restraints that will soon be required on American cars. General Motors also wants the government to stop its series of crash tests comparing the crash-worthiness of different cars. While the Senate investigates Billy Carter's activities as a foreign agent for Libya, the House of Representatives has been quietly seeking ways to prevent future "Billygates." 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