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Show 4A Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Wednesday, April 22, 1981 ' t,i S - Letters 6,h IV to the Editor PROGRAM EXPLAINED Dear Editor: I am writing as a representative of the Price Sorosis, an affiliate of the General Federation of Womens Clubs. This is the worlds largest organization of volunteer women. As a part of its national activities, the Federation has developed a program entitled FREE. FREE stands for the Federations Role in Enterprise Economy. Through this program club members study public policy issues and encourage national, state and local actions that are consistent with a free economic system. One area of study and action has focused on the regulatory agencies. The federal regulatory agencies are often referred to as a fourth Many private citizens are hauling trash, tree and bush cuttings, dried grass and general garbage to the local dumps in uncovered trucks. These loads could and should be either covered or tied down to stop the scattering of debris far and wide. Many vehicles have had to dodge boxes, limbs, sacks, and other items which have fallen out of some careless haulers truck. This endangers everyones right to a safe highway. Litter along the roads and city streets puts out the message that here is a county that doesnt care how outsiders must certainly see them. They picture an uncaring citizenry that thinks of nothing of throwing their pop cans, hambranch of government. In- burger leavings or anything else creasingly Congress depends on they wish to be rid of out onto the regulatory agencies to originate highways. This gives them the feeling, and implement public policies. While most people approve of were sure, that they can get away some regulations, many people with littering in this county. Clean oppose other regulations. This is roads bring clean roads. If the citizens were in fear of the basic source of conflict over the activities of the regulatory getting a ticket for littering, then they would be more likely to take agencies. The cost to the American their garbage to a trash can at a economy of compliance with rest area or even to their homes for federal regulatory policies is high. a garbage pick up. As it is, everyone coming Murray L. Weidenbaum, director of the Center for the Study through the county can dump of American Business at anything out of their car windows Washington University, estimates onto our roads adding to the ugly that regulations cost the nation scene and know they will be safe in $103 billion in 1979 alone. This is a doing so because litter laws are sum equal to $450 for every man, clearly not enforced. woman and child in the United Surely, we agree that our police officers have many major crimes States. For example, regulations add and offenses to take all of their roughly $2,000 to the price of the time but isnt there a way for the county to make the people take average new home. Environmental and safety pride in their roadway? Perhaps a special day set aside regulations added an average of $666 to the price of a 1978 auto. for the whole county to take part in Regulations add $8 a ton to the cleaning up the roadways with a price of steel. Regulations increase prize for the cleanest stretch of energy, food, drug and tran- road going to the city involved in the clean up. sportation costs. Even the juvenile offenders A variety of proposals have been offered to increase accountability could be ordered to spend time in the regulatory process. These cleaning roadways rather than include costbenefit analysis. paying an easy fine. Once the roadways are clean, This would require agencies to weigh costs against the benefits of then the police would be able to proposed regulations. If the costs pull over an uncovered truck outweigh benefits, the regulations hauling coal or trash and give them a ticket for littering. would not be allowed. Another recommendation is to They will then be able to keep an for substitute goals regulations. eye on offenders of the litter laws. The regulatory agencies could And we believe that a clean increase their effectiveness by roadway will encourage people not setting performance goals instead to litter and make the scenery an of creating hundreds of rules . eyesore again. Please see if there is something Sunset laws would require Congress to review all agnecies you can do in this area of great andor spending programs on a concern to our membership. Sincerely, regular basis say every eight to 10 years. If an agency or program East Carbon Wildlife Federation Members is no longer needed, or if it is duplicated by another program, it would be terminated. MORE TRIVIA Sunrise laws would require Dear Editor; In response to the A Voice agencies to state specific obFrom The Past letter written to jectives for all major regulatory proposals. you: A congressional veto would allow A Cry From The Present Congress to veto agency Being a new member in Carbon regulations before they take effect County, I thought that the when the regulations do not meet following information would be of the original intent of the law. interest to your readers: I graduated from Grove City Perhaps the most important recommendation, however, is to High School, Grove City, Pa. in encourage increased citizen 1979, 1 was not active in any school participation. activity, not football, basketball, The public interest will be better debate, track, brown nosing, or served if all of us, the consuming petting. public, become more actively Therefore, I hold no records to be involved in the rule making broken in these popular high school process. activities. This is why the General The only event which I will claim Federation of Womens Clubs has credit for is the 1979 senior class undertaken this FREE Enterprise prank, the placing of several Program. Through FREE we hundred plaque detecting tablets encourage our members, and our in various candy dishes at the communities to exercise their Senior Prom. citizen responsibility. They were the kind of tablets Berniece Webb that turn the plaque on your teeth, Program Chairman and anything that comes in contact Price with them, bright red. The reason I speak of this is that I feel my last two years of high KEEP ROADS CLEAN school were a waste of time. I am not, and will not be, in the Editor: The East Carbon Wildlife military. I will have nothing to do Federation membership hereby with it. I am not L.D.S. or on L.S.D. and requests your best endeavors will not be going to BYU therefore the towards enforcement of the anti - litter laws of the State of or on a mission. Like many people in Carbon Utah in Carbon County. Although the laws are mostly County, I have married young but enforced in and around Price City, unlike many people in Carbon the county at large is in dire need County, I did not have to. Additional information I am of cleaning up. Coal trucks are carrying their six foot tall, weigh 167 pounds, and hauls uncovered and scattering wear a size 8 shoe (sometimes 74, coal along the highways and en- depending cn the cut). Kenneth P. Acklin dangering other vehicles on the road. Price WASHINGTON eight months, the State Department has been keeping the lid on an outrageous attack made by the Brazilian Navy against an American shrimp boat. The U.S. vessel was rammed repeatedly by a Brazilian warship and sunk. A crewman was killed in the incident. Yet the State Department accepted the Brazilian governments version of the episode. It was far from the truth. The Brazilians claimed that the American boat was rammed accidentally. They also insisted that the missing crewman never actually existed. The trouble is traced back to the Brazilian governments claim that its territorial waters extend 200 miles out to sea. The United States recognizes only three miles of territorial waters. The Brazilians and the United States used to have an agreement on the disputed territorial claims. It stipulated that American boats could carry out shrimping operations within 200 miles of the Brazilian coast. But dont. For more than this agreement was unilaterally canceled when the Brazilians declared that they owned all thqocean within 200 miles of their coast. The result was a Brazilian standoff: The United States insists its shrimp fishermen have a right to operate within the 200 - mile zone; the Brazilians insist they . Since the agreement lapsed several years ago, American shrimp boats are routinely captured by the Brazilian navy, brought into port and their owners fined. Under the Fishermens Protection Act of 1971, the U.S. government just as routinely bails the fishermen out of jail, pays their fines and covers any other costs of the seizure. But the incident involving the shrimp boat Caribbean Seas last August was unprecedented. According to our sources, when the Caribbean Seas saw the Brazilian Navy ship bearing down on it, the skipper headed toward shore. The Brazilians claim their ship issued a warning by megaphone. Two surviving members of the American boats crew say there was never any such warning. They say the Brazilian corvette circled the shrimp boat and then rammed it in the stern. It circled again, they say, and rammed it again, disabling the shrimp boats tiller. The crew of the American boat signaled that it was immoblized. But the Brazilian warship circled once more and rammed the American boat a third time, causing it to capsize almost immediately. One crewman was lost. When our reporter Robin DAlessandro asked the State Department about the incident, an official said the Caribbean Seas had been fishing illegally, had been . Letters WORSE THAN PORN? I was deeply shocked by the assassination attempt on our president. Yet, as I listened to the first horrifying reports and became aware of the grim details, my thoughts turned to the movie Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De VIOLENCE Niro. The alleged assassin, John Hinckley, reminded me so much of this pitiful character portrayed by De Niro, a man teetering on the thin line between hero and villain. They seemed similar to each other in so many ways. Within 24 hours of the shooting, it developed that Hinckley had indeed been influenced by Taxi Driver". The FBI has discovered that Hinckley wrote letters of adoration to Jodie Foster, who portrayed a young girl saved by the heroism of De Niro in the movie. warned, and was then rammed accidentally by the Brazilian ship. In other words, he mouthed the Brazilians official line. Only later, when confronted with the evidence offered by the surviving crewmen, did the State Department change its tune. Kremlin report major subject of discussion in the Kremlins deliberations on whether to invade Poland has been the superb quality of the Polish Army. According to a top - secret CIA report, the Soviets consider the Poles to be crack fighters and have sought to keep the Polish military under their thumb. The Russians methods, says the CIA report, include dismissal of politically A unreliable officers, thorough schooling and indoctrination of key personnel, and the careful integration of Polish and Soviet officers. The Defense Intelligence Agency has informed the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Soviet Union (may have developed a rapid reload capability. This would mean they could rapid - fire their monster missiles. It would also alter the strategic arms balance heavily in Russias favor. The DIA used secret satellite photos to demonstrate what they have discovered; they have pictures, for instance, of the Soviets as they simulated a rapid reload during Warsaw Pact exercises last September. Vesco returning? Fugitive financier Robert Vesco may soon return to the United States from his hideaway in the Bahamas to testify before a Senate committee. Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, say our sources, will ask the Justice Department to offer Vesco limited immunity in exchange for his testimony. The international swindler would tell Senate investigators about his role in an alleged influence - buying scheme with prominent Democrats and members of the Carter White House. Headlines and footnotes Florists in the nations capital were doing a blooming business delivering flowers to President Reagans hospital room, following his narrow brush with death from an assassins bullet. First lady Nancy Reagan also got some flowers more, in fact, than the police officer and Secret Service agent who were wounded in the same incident ... Congressional leaders are considering the establishment of credit limits for purchasers of Japanese cars in an effort to limit imports. Maximum terms would be a 25 - month loan with a 15 percent down payment ... Sen. Jesse Helms, is planning to introduce a taxpayers bill of rights this week. Among other things, the legislation would grant taxpayers a hearing before IRS agents seize their property for failure to pay taxes. to the If I was able to see the connection between this movie and the assassination attempt so soon after the event on that fateful Monday afternoon, how many other people were able to make this connection? John Hinckley cannot be the only one so intensely affected by that movie. I certainly was affected; I was in a cold shock for many hours after I had seen it. How many other lonely people like Hinckley are there with intense feelings easily exacerbated by movies such as Taxi Driver? It is my feeling that Taxi Driver is indirectly responsible for the actions of John Hinckley. It is a dramatic example of the tremendous effect that movies have on our modern society. The implications are frightening. There has been much discussion about controlling pornography in the movies, but what about the violence and brutality so graphically protrayed in todays movies? In my mind, it has a much more lethal effect on our society than pornographic material ever could. It brutalizes us. I am not advocating censorship of the motion picture industry, I am merely wondering if laws could possibly be passed controlling the incredible brutality in movies much as pornography is presently supposed to be able to be controlled. David L. Farnsworth BYU Intern Washington, D.C. (Former Price Resident) GROUP WANTS CONTROL Our President lies wounded, felled by a bullet fired from a Saturday Night Special. This favorite weapon of the assassin was easily obtained at a Dallas pawnshop. In all but one of the eh assassinations assassinations and attem of Presidents Presidential candidates, used a handg assassin Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley were slain. Candi Robert Kennedy was kil Governor George Wallace crippled. In September 1975 al President Fords life threatened twice by assas wielding handguns. Now Presi Reagan has been shot. Must we bury another Presi before the Congress acts to pas effective national handgun cor law? Together we can make Congress act now to cor handguns. Join with us today. N.T. Pete! Handgun Contr 810 18th Stree Washington, D.C |