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Show I i i gUD 4A Tuesday December 31, 2002 Stall JUllDOSS column Skiing adventures of an old publisher i By KEN LARSON Sun Advocate publisher once heard that a skier is a person who pays an arm and a leg for the opportunity to break them and skis are a pair of long, thin, flexible runners that permit skiers to slide across the I snow and into debt really can't consider myself an avid skier anymore because I only ski three or four times a year, but in my younger years I used to love to go I skiing every weekend. My sons and I decided we needed to create our own Christmas tradition back in 1987. So since that time we have met on Christmas day at various ski resorts in the west and have spent Christmas day. and the rest of that week on the slopes. This year was our 16th and now that the boys are grown up and can drive or fly themselves. We have made the gamut California, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and this year, Utah. The only difference in Utah was that we had to decide which slope to ski each day. In other areas we have never had seven or eight different ski mountains we could chose from. Utah is very blessed in this way. We picked Alta for two days and Solitude for ers, a person must buy a special outfit that meets strict requirements of the Ski Fashion Institute. Namely, it must cost as much as a medium sized wedding reception. The outfit includes a jacket the final day. sweater, havent rented our skies for years but I remember actually reading the lengthy document when I needed to rent a pair one year. If I rememWe ber correctly it said something like this. The undersigned apes that skiing is an insanely dangerous activity and that the rental personnel were just sitting around minding their own business when the undersigned, who agrees that he or she is a raving loon, came barging in uninvited waving a loaded revolver and demanded that he or she be given some rental skis for the express purpose of suffering serious injury or death, leaving the rental personnel with no choice...." gloves, pants, goggles, as well as skies, bindings, poles and, of course, boots. All must be color coordinated and must make you look like a giant radioactive Easter bunny from hat have changed space. Thank God the from the early 90's when they were pink, mint green and peach.' As you buy ski goggles be prepared to pay upwards to $50 an eye ball. These goggles are designed not to fog up under any circumstances, except when you put them on. Many veteran skiers recommend that you do not pull your goggles over your eyes until just before you make contact with a tree. youll need boots, which have really changed over the years. I swear that my first And Of course many people went to buy the proper gear for skiing and the key to a successful ski trip is planning, by which I mean money. For open boots were made from melted down bowling balls, (Continued on page 8A) Stall column Owens was the genuine article War had proven to be a quagmire which caused many of us to wonder if the government ever told By RICHARD SHAW Staff reporter was 1972, was a 20 year old college student at the University of Utah, not far from my high school experience at Murray High, and not to far into any kind of career except having fun and It 1 trying to get through school. It was a year that changed my life in many ways, including galvanizing my feelings about politics and issues for the rest of my life. was Richard Nixon, a man I despised, and running against Jiim was George McGovern, a well know liberal, who was not only too liberal to win as a president but in retrospect was probably too mild of a person to be in that job too. I was a s, campaign worker for him. That was also the year 1 met and decided to In office None-the-les- work for Wayne Owens. As with many people my age at the time, we found the status quo to be a mess. The Vietnam us the truth about anything, ever. Between the deceit of LBJ and the crookedness of Nixon, I and many others were fed up with the way things were. We were out to change the political world country had known it Owens felt the same way. At 34 years old, he reminded me, and many others of the young Jack as this as an eight year old child. However, as far as I was concerned he was .better than Kennedy, in that not only did he have enthusiasm and the leadership ability the royal family of Massachusetts's had, he could also be trusted. While running for office he ran all over the state meeting people and promising that if he won he would hold regular town meetings to Kennedy I had seen elected get people's feelings on important issues. I had seen him on television, but when he came to campus and spoke one evening in the Union Ballroom it made my mind up. Sherm Uoyd, part of DRUGS the old Utah culture needed to be gone. I signed work on his campaign, expecting to split to up time between he and McGovern. But soon I found myself doing a lot more for Owens than for McGovern. knew, 'deep in my heart, Nixon's "silent majority would vote him in once again, and that beating my head against the wall for a liberal I from the upper midwest in Utah was probably have about as much effect on that national election as me throwing a rock in the Pacific Ocean and expecting people in Hawaii to see the wake. So I spent that spring and part of the summer working on Wayne Owens campaign. During the campaign I actually got to meet him a couple of times and he seemed so real, so sincere. But when I really became impressed was after he was elected. I went to a number of "town meetings he held in various parts of his district to ask questions and see how people reacted to his style of politics. While most politicians wait (Continued on page TURN IN A PUSHER Information gathered as a result of the TIPS form remains strictly confidential. Carbon Metro Drug Thsk Force acts on all submittals. Name of suspected drug dealer Nickname: Description: Hl Hair Sex Age Wt Eyes SS Address: Home: Motor Vehicle: Make Color License Year Associates of Dealer Method of dealing: Location of dealing 9A) Drug(s) being dealt: Price: finest editir ial List any other suspected illegal activities: May we contact you? YES Imports are killing dairy farms By JOHN BUNTING Minute Man Media Never, not even in the Great Depression, after adjusting for inflation have farm milk prices been farms are being destroyed, but nothing new. "Well, they didnt save the Mom and Pop grocery store, why save the family farm? many will say. Larger, more efficient farms are replacing them, we are told. The giants will save us, experts have maintained. This time, however, the giants are falling as well. Some banks are hying to prop some of them so low. Family that's up. Some farmers are borrowing from their implement dealers and some are racking up personal credit card debt at high rates. Just this month, a daily farm with 1,700 cows in Wisconsin, and an 850-codaily farm in Vermont have filed bankfarms in Idaho have been served Several ruptcy. with foreclosure in one week. The smallest had w 950 cows. The 2002 Farm Bill did create a new dairy payment called the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) program that compensates farmers when the farm milk price falls below a certain level. While this small payment helps cushion losses by providing about 13 of farmers' income lost during this past year, it does nothing to increase the price for dairy farmers. Adding to the confusion is the current system for term milk pricing. If ever there was a program designed to deny understanding it is milk pricing. Most farmers don't understand milk pricing, nor do their Cooperative Extension agents. Questions on the system are directed to PhD dairy economists at colleges. These experts will forth facts and data on cows and happily spew milk and efficiency until the questioner is blinded by facts. At this point the processed ready-to-econclusion is offered: "Farmers are just plain too efficient They will say. "When the price was high last year, well, they just cranked up milk land-gra- nt at production." they will add. "What it realty comes down to is the fact there is too much milk, they continue. If there is one thing Americans team about economics in school it's the old supply Amount: If yes, then how: by mail or by phone. When and demand story. Too much of anything and the price goes down. Americans are assured there is just too much milk. Overly simplistic explanations of supply and If we may contact you by mail, what is your address? oemana wimer wnen me import oata is reveaieo. While experts talk about supply and demand driving down farm milk price, the United States in- Thsk Mail completed forms to: TIPS, Carbon Metro Drug Force, 91 East 100 North, Price, UT 84501. creased imported cheese by 12.6 percent (up over 34,830,475 pounds from January through September of 2002 alone). Before leaping to the conclusion we have developed a taste tor exotic imported cheese, it is important to know we now import plain old Ched- dar from India and Poland. Goya, a hard grating is cheese, pouring in from Lithuania. The only criterion is cheap Cheese imports from Argentina, where the currency has lost 73 percent of value, have increased 63 percent this year. Some of the stress and impacts are visible: farm foreclosures, auctions, and their impacts Sun Advocate on the rural community. 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