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Show sccntecmmemns snesel OPINION Standard-Examiner ISNT 2, DAN eid \S No, U7 \AYRPEN BROWNS ditorials aW le Not the right time eee\ BABY WITHA Standard-Examiner WELLT\)iz FOR YEA Vee sae for vote on center Weber (¢ unty Commission members are in disagree- ‘r the appropriate time to approach the taxpayers he proposal to proceed with the downtownconfer- 1ing arts center. Their differences may be a atter of timing te last week, the Weber commissioners disSuggestion i » go to the voters in November to BE In a split v ed a t a consensus on whether to move ahead on the center. e single commission proponent of the votestrongly ves in the ballot box for obtaining public opinion on najor construction project. We agree. When public servants entrusted to run govire faced with a decision with immense implica- rely on the fundamental principle that it lave the people’s participation in the n-making process. That is done throughtheballot he two opponents of the November vote proposal see ; premature. They understand the ramifications. They re that a vote this year would doomtheconference r plans to failure. Why? Because the plans are not far enough along for a \ nt Planning is at an extremely preliminary, vulnerable tage. There is no definitive, comprehensive proposal that ould be marketed to the electorate. Currently, there are rea! estate agents working on proprty option documents. Design architects who have been engaged in preliminary studies to determine feasibility, sts, layout, etc. released their results a week ago. The : center executive committee has not had time Estimates of the total cost are just not possible now. Besides, there are elected and appointed bodies that ust wholeheartedly concur with the plans and then pubicly express strong support. And they are indeedentitled to time for intense appraisal of the potential of the entire project. When they do ex- press support, it must be enthusiastic and sendasignal to their constituencies that this is in the best interests to the future of Ogden and Weber County. Another major obstacle remains: Securing commitments f private sector financial support, moneythat is vitally needed to cinch opinions that the project is viable. Currently, the $800,000 a year in restaurant tax revenue s committed elsewhere until 1995. The county is using it to fund its $2 million share of a $5.9 million ice sheet being built near the Dee Events Center. \fter January 1995, the restaurant tax money could be used to repay the bond indebtedness on the dual-purpose onference center. Until this range of preliminaries meshes, it would be counter-productive to ask for a vote on a concept or uninished business. It would be something akin to asking voters to sign “a blank check,” trusting that somedaythose in command will have a definitive, workable plan. No, this is not the year to be asking the voters to approve general obligation bonds for the proposed down- town conference center. In the future, yes indeed. * OK XK Royal Gossip | | Scripps Howard Editorial News Service Whydo we find the travails and sufferings ofthe British royal family so engaging? What makes us so interested in hearing (this is the latest, folks) that a London tabloid quotes friends ofPrincess Diana as saying that she’ll leave Prince Charles soon? Is it that we are reassured to knowroyaltyis not immuneto the essential messiness of the human condition? Or is it that we simply have voyeur hearts? When wesee pictures of a bare-breasted Fergie — separated from Prince Andrew(or randy Andy, as he once was known) — cavorting with her American financial adviser, are wereally sorry about the pain that broken relationships will cause or does our falsely pious church-lady sense of high-toned morality just tsk-tsk deliciously? Maybe the great French intellectual Blaise Pascal got it right back in the 17th Century: “Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope ofever telling.” Diet candy bar makesone looksilly Now it’s diet candy bars. Have we no shame? Is there no limit to our gullibility and devotion to the myth that Americans can haveit all, with ice cream, and neverget fat? { don’t blame Hershey Foods Corp., which introduced its “reduced calorie and low-fat” bar last week. The company was merelyfollowing the lead of Mars Inc., which came out with its allegedly guilt-free confection in January. And Mars was doing what everybodyelse has been doing since marketers discovered that the public wants to believe in the tooth fairy. Not only do we want to believe, but we want to invite her over for dinner and serve a “lite” cheesecake for dessert. There is no such thing, and I say that as one who has a recipe for one. It’s in a cookbook dedicated to healthy eating and is one of the few dishes that doesn’t involve turkey or chicken. | think the authors included it to try to cheer everybodyup. But it’s not really cheesecake. It’s pretend cheesecake, and while it cuts the calories and fat, it also cuts the taste. To fill the void, some of us have two pieces, which is just as bad as having one piece of real cheesecake only not as much fun. We'll do the same with the new candybars. We'll eat a couple of Hershey’s 150-calorie, 9gram innovations and pat ourselves on the back All natural. No preservatives. With nuts. Just a few. Better we should be honest and spring for the SUSAN TRAUSCH homemade, double-dip, extra-rich chocolate for avoiding the usual 200-calorie, 12-gram route to gluttony. walnut ice cream in a tub. Knowthy enemy and its fat content. Gulp down the truth, however harsh. All things in moderation, as the philosopher oncesaid. If a person wants a candybar, then a person “I’m dieting,” we'll say. “And you know, these things aren’t bad.” That’s what I say about the McLean Deluxe at McDonald’s. I order it with cheese and a small bag of fries and walk away feeling as should eat a candybar, not something almostas bad that is actually caprenin and polydextrose. though I’ve one-upped Jane Fonda. Go ahead and sweatthose thighs into oblivion, Jane. I do it sitting down. I doit in the microwave oven with artificially butter-flavored low-cal, no cholesterol popcorn. The whole bag right down the hatch. I love vegetables. My cats get Science Diet Light drypellets for sedentary felines and have figured out that this entitles them to twice as much as they used to get when they ate “heavy” andto fresh fish at An Associated Press story defines that first ingredient as a “reduced-calorie fat made from fatty acids contained in common fats” and the second as “a reduced-calorie carbohydrate from natural sources.” Yum. And five years from nowwe'll be reading that they both cause baldness in malerats. The lunch is never free, as another philoso- pher oncesaid. A frozen dinner will not taste as though your mother made it unless she cooks least once a week. with cardboard, and Lite beer will not keep you sober. I hear the self-righteous tone as theysit in front of the cupboard, yelling for kittytreats. limate-controlled office buildings can’t smell of fresh air. The deficit won’t go away if we keep spending money. And a diet candy barwill not makeus svelte. It'll just make us look silly. And, yes, of course I'll buy it. Shame has never been my longsuit. Boston Globe “Wepaid,” they seem to be saying. “You owe.” The mind plays tricks on the waistline. The mind knows that the answer to most dietary snack questions is carrot sticks but somehow makes the leap to frozen yogurt in a sugar cone. New York senate race: Down and dirty NEWYORK — When women activists first learned that Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman were going to run for the Senate, they shared a prolonged, collective groan. This was the year to energize the women’s vote, not to split it. Here were two strong women, both identified with the women’s movement, both former members of Congress. And both eager to win the Democratic nomination for the Senate race against Republican Al D’Amato. But these supporters looked deep into the feminist handbook, and read the rule that says: Thou Shalt Not Prohibit Two Women From Running Against Each Other. They came up with the politically correct description of this situation to recite in public. They repeatedly called the candidacy of the two women “an embarrassment of riches.” Now, an embarrassment of riches has turned into a plain old embarrassment. In the final days ofthis four-way primary, the fight turned personal, nasty, negative to the hilt. Much of the sludge was hurled by Holtzman at Ferraro, who watched her lead wither under attacks on her family and character. The debates turned into an ugly free-for-all that had a moderator pleading, “Ladies, ladies.” And the winner who emerged Tuesday was the least-sullied: Attorney General Robert Abrams. This was not the way it is supposed to be. The Year-of-the-Woman script after all identi- fies women with change. The Year-of-the-Woman success story is supposed to read like Patty Murray’s Tuesdayvictory. This “mom in tennis shoes” won the Democratic primary for the Senate in Washington state on the new theorem: I am a woman therefore an outsider therefore a different breed of politician. ported Ferraro, says that “The real dilemma a woman candidate faces is that we want some- ELLEN GOODMAN one who is not politics-as-usual and we want It’s pretty clear that the voters of 1992are attracted to women candidates when, and because, they offer somethingfresh. It’s clear from the New York primary that women maysuffer, lose the patina of “difference,” when they take the low road or whenthey are taken downthat road. But the question for the rest ofthis political season is not just whether women will win, but how they will run. Can most of them hold to a different campaign or will they inevitably — by the inexorable laws ofpolitical gravity — get as down and dirty and disappointing as the New York primary. It’s a question that will have a special resonance as the Senate campaigns in states like Illinois and Pennsylvania get tighter and tougher. In some ways, this is a political variation on a theme that has tracked women as they moved up in every field. On the one hand, many ofus believe that women should have a fair shot at the corner office or the Oval Office on the simple groundsof fairness and equity. We say they should be judged the same as men. No special virtue required. On the other hand, we also promote women on the grounds that they are different. We promise they will bring another set oflife experiences andpriorities to governing. We promote change... for the better. Our expectations, then, for women candidates are enormous. We expect them to succeed in the one existing system, and we expect them to change that system. Ellen Malcolm of EMILY’s List. which sup- women candidates who can participate effectively.” Malcolm confesses to hating negative campaigns, but adds, “Sometimes to beeffective a woman hasto go negative. There is no doubt in my mind that a woman hasto be able to defend herself. Those are the hard realities of politics.” A case in point is Ann Richards who has made significant difference for women as a governor of Texas. But only after “fighting like a man” to win. A Texas man. Nevertheless, it’s important for women candi- dates who regard themselves as part of a movement for change, to establish a higher standard of campaigning. To be held to it and to hold men toit. This may add another women’s burdento the political quest. But unless we raise such a standard, women could becomepartnersin a political system that’s in full, cynical, collapse. “We have an obligation to our daughters,” says Ruth Mandel of the Center for the American WomanandPolitics, to gain political power “because whatexists isn’t fair. But we also want to do it differently so that when they come along they'll not only find it easier, they'll find it better.” There’s blame to go around, but the sorriest footnote belongs to Holtzman. This year, many women have claimed that they’re running for something higher than office. But when Holtzman decided to launch a highly personal and often unfair attack against Ferraro, she lost more than an election, She exchanged hercredentials as a change agent for those ofa spoiler. Boston Globe a REMEMBER WHEN passed by the Senate would give the President sweeping new powerto curtail air traffic to and from coun- tries harboring skyjackers or assisting airborne terrorists, In addition, the bill would set up a federally financed airport police force, require screening ofevery passenger, and give juries the option of meting out the death penalty to a convicted skyjacker, bers was announced by Robert T. Heiner, senior vice president. A star-spangled burst of agriculture — showcased in red, white and blue — had netted Weber County the grand prize in the Utah State Fair county exhibits competition. Selected from among 29 displays, representing all Utah counties, the local exhibit was an ar- tistic arrangement offruit, vegetables and American flags. The exhibit was created by Arvin Shreeve ofOgden, an independent landscaper. The rank of Eagle Scout had been attained by Craig Dee Thornock, 14, son of Mr, and Mrs, Wallace D, Thornock of Ogden, He had been assistant patrol leader and senior patrol leader in Troop 170, sponsored by Ogden LDS 44th Ward. A ninth-grader at Mount Og- den Junior High School, he maintained a 3.0 average, Two Layton men had been elected to the Northern division advisory board of the First Security Bank of Bear River High School's annual Harvest Ball was scheduledfor Sept, 23 in the girls’ gymnasium, Theme Utah. They were Wayne M, Winegar, manager ofthe for the dance was “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.” Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, and Dr. , Robert F. Bitner, The election ofthe two board mem- Co-chairmen of the event were Jay Christensen and Brenda Bourne 50 YEARS AGO September 22, 1942 WEATHER: Little change in temperature; highs in the mid-70s, lows 40-45 for Ogden and Northern Utah, Indian summer days found Weber County and Ogden City schools still on a part-time basis allowing students to help harvest the tomato crop and work in the canning factories. At the 24th annual National American Legion Convention in Kansas City, the Legionnaires adopted a strongly worded resolution calling for the immediate drafting of men in the 18 and 19-year-old groups, to spare family men, and for conscription ofthe nation’s resources, The resolution also asked for one-year's compulsory military training for all American men before their 22nd birthday as a post-w ar policy, An outstanding feature of the U. S. Navy radio program broadcast was the reading of a letter from Chief Store Keeper, William B, Howes, of Brigham City, somewhere at sea aboard a Navy aircraft carrier. His son, age 17 months, listened to his father while sitting on his mother's lap in Brigham City, Two appeals, one for men to join the Navy, and the second for women to work in the canning factories, were madeat the Ogden Lions Club meeting in the Hotel Ben Lomond, Trace A. Turner urged Lions to encourage their wives to work as tomato peelers at local factories, and Ensign Laurence Tippets, Navy re- cruiting officer, urged Lions to assist in securing men for the Navy. He pointed out that 3,23 0 ships were presently under construction. Eight teams were expected to see action in thefirst interpost bowling league ever organized at Hill Field, Officers of the new league included: Corp. Max E, Kosof, league supervisor; Roger Thompson, president; Milton Priest, vice president, and Sgt. Lowell David, secretary-treasurer, An immunization program was well under way at the Clearfield Naval Base, according to Margaret Thornley, office clerk in the Davis County public health department, Of the total number employed at the base, approximately 3,000 already had received typhoid and smallpox serums, ———————— 20 YEARS AGO September 22, 1972 WEATHER: Highsin the low 80s; lows in the upper 40s. Onthis first day of Autumn, Jack Frost had already begun dabbing splotches ofyellow, red and gold on trees and shrubs in the high country. The advent of autumn was evident in Ogden Valley and, higher, on Monte Cristo, where the landscape was brilliantly painted in fall hues. in the face of the spiraling rate of skyjackings, a bill |
