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Show 2 Vernal Express Wednesday, November J 6, 1983 ByJackWallis Cal Ruppe Day-Nov. 26 This year we have Thanksgiving, Christmas and Cal Ruppe Day. Thanksgiving isn't here yet and already the Christmas decorations are on along Main Street. The season for thanksgiving and turning out thoughts to others is here. And this year local residents will have the opportunity to express their thanks and give generously to someone really in need. On "Cal Ruppe Day" residents can rally round this local youth who has recently undergone a lung-heart transplant operation. Cal is only 22 years old and a resident of Jensen. The cost of the transplant will probably reach one quarter of a million dollars. The purpose of "Cal Ruppe Day" is to help raise funds to pay the medical expenses ex-penses of the Ruppe family. Already the community has repond-ed repond-ed generously. Fund raising projects have been organized. Clubs have pledged funds. Businesses have donated profits and volunteered services. ser-vices. Many individuals are working diligently. You, too, can help share the financial burden involved in giving Cal a new lease on life. This weekend, part of the proceeds from the Wladimir Jan Kochanski concert con-cert will go to the Cal Ruppe fund. The Vernal Rod and Gun Club is holding a turkey shoot Saturday with proceeds going to the fund. Many have already donated and may donate by sending contributions to the Cal Ruppe Fund, P.O. Box 1199, Vernal, Utah, 84078. The climax of the drive will be two days after Thanksgiving, Saturday, Nov. 26. On this day a special dinner will be served at the Vernal Junior High cafeteria starting at 5 p.m. Special entertainment will precede the dinner with an auction to follow. This is the time to donate all you feel you can afford to help the Ruppe family fami-ly with their financial expenses. With everyone's help, the financial burden can be lightened. Cal Ruppe Day can be a monumental monumen-tal event that will show just how much the area people care for each other and are willing to help others when misfortune falls. By helping to share some of the financial expenses, we can kindle brighter the true spirit of the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. Certainly it will make us more thankful for sound, healthy bodies. Cal's operation is among the firsts in medical science. Our community's response can also be a first. We can't help Cal much with his physical recovery he has to do that himself. But we can help him and his family with the financial recovery. Let's all chip in and make the holiday season that much brighter for ourselves and the Ruppes. What better gift is there than life' itself? By giving generously to the Cal Ruppe Fund we will in a small way become a participant in Cal's gift of an extended life. Cal Ruppe, we pledge to you our support. PUBLIC FORUM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What is your opinion? The Express welcomes letters from its readers concerning any subject pertinent to the Uintah Basin. While there are no restrictions as to contents or reasonable length, letters must be submitted exclusively to the Express on"d beor the writer's full name, signoture. phone number and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reason -i requested on others. All letters are subject to condensation. Invasions Dear Editor: The President's decision to invade Grenada was highly commendable. Regarding the massacre of our Marines in Beirut, it was incomprehensible incom-prehensible that they were installed in a building, which the brass knew, was eminently vulnerable. It bordered close to criminal negligence. The Syrians, the Russians the PLO and the Iranians will move out of Lebanon, if and when they are forced out. If we have not the courage to bite the bullet, the Marines should be evacuated. GRADY CHUPP Counting Write-ins To the Editor: I find it a little difficult to suppress my ire at some of the tactics employed by public officials of our community to dilute and diminish the intergrity of the ballot and more particularly the voter's right to cast his ballot and have the same counted in an election. I am particularly stirred on this matter because of some events thai came to my attention relating to the manner In which voles were counted in the Naples Cily Municipal election. The Incident I refer to relates to the farl that "write in" votes were not Vernal Express (USPS 6560 8000) Publ'thtd ty WeoWtdoy od fn4oy for S U 00 p in otto o4 $20 00 pw jrtw ovt of O'M by nS Vmol f pMl rvbktfcg Cofon, 54 Nortfc Vtnol A, Vol, Utoh 84071 Sod (tou ootfog pod of W-sol. W-sol. U'oh 84078 POSTmaSUK Sd 041 Wo VCt-NAl VCt-NAl tXHESS, f O. lot 1010, Vtnol, Ux 84071 Jmfc 8 W0. , , , , fo 04 Putt Sit 8 Wofi-i .Htmt 14m Ttoti M . . , . Am Nwi (4 Alk locMt, ,.,.Sfeit Jo Coo ........... 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Yet, these laws not-with-standing, I would refer to a higher authority, namely the Constitution of the State of Utah and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as precedent for contending conten-ding that these legislative enactments are unconstitutional; and I would hope that someone somewhere would raise the Issue relating to the same. For what is involved here is the apparent intergrity in-tergrity of the election process. The right to vote means the right to choose, the right to exercise that franchise for any person that the voter wants to cast his vote In favor of. I suggest that law will uphold that this right cannot be proscribed or limited without coming com-ing into collision with those rights assured under the Constitution. And I wonder if the people who vociferously vociferous-ly cite these statutes would want to ponder the further implications. I am sure that no one would argue that because the Mayor of Naples had no opposition in the election and that no person had declared as a write-in candidate can-didate thereof, he could be issued a certificate of election without ballots being cast. But Is not such the implication implica-tion if we defer to the awkward and lugubrious tntrrprtaUon given to these aspects of the election laws. And even more fundamental, sup-pone sup-pone that the voters of the municipality had opted the right to write in an unoclcared candidate and such candidate can-didate received a plurality, and were the same otherwise legally qualified? Do you suppose that, noting the considerable con-siderable halabaloo that has bran raised rais-ed on tots towue to Opurt decisions, that any Court. considering the Conlilu lion, would allow the disqualification of such candidate on this technical! ly? t say no; and t further o.f1 that the right to vote mean the tight tori erctse the same by writing in any ran didate the voter might ebons; and being be-ing so voted, the Judges in def em to the sacred canons of the election process must tally and count the same. If this be heresy, let them make the most of it. ALMN O NASH Attorney at La Man pleads innocent S2L8X2B tttTrrtrrttt&rni fir. 4 BABSON UPDATE OX AT&T BREAK-UP In this review we will take a preliminary look at the freshly named nam-ed 7 regional holding companies that will be on the market once American Telephone & Telegraph is broken up ' come January 1, 1984. 1 NYNEX will consist of New York Telephone (N-Y) and New England Telephone (N-E) with X standing for the unknown and exciting future of the burgeoning information market. NYNEX, through its two phone companies, com-panies, will serve 10.1 million business and residential customers in New York and New England. With the nation's largest concentration concentra-tion of major companies, NYNEX faces not only the most competition, but also perhaps the most exiciting growth opportunities in serving the expanding ex-panding information needs of its markets. Initially NYNEX may rank in the middle in terms of investment appeal, but then move up or down in rank as it responds to competitive pressure. 2 Bell Atlantic Corporation will serve the mid-Atlantic area, and its giant offspring will include New Jersey Bell, Bell of Pennsylvania, Delaware-based Diamond State Telephone, and the four Chesapeake & Potomac units. Bell Atlantic will probably pro-bably rank around the middle of any investment list in terms of competitive pressure and growth potential. a BellSouth Corporation will be the largest of the 7 regional holdings companies, com-panies, with anticipated assets of some $21.5 billion. BellSouth is the new parent of Southern Bell and South Central Cen-tral Bell. The new holding company will serve some 13 million customers in one of the fastest growing regions in the country. BellSouth will probably rank in the top half of the list in terms of investment appeal. 4 Ameritech, whose formal name is American Information Technologies Corporation, will provide service in the upper Middle West. The five operating companies serving the area are Illinois Bell, Indiana Bell, Michigan Bell, Ohio Bell and Wisconsin Wiscon-sin Tel. Since the states served have relatively low rates of population growth and include some troubled industries in-dustries such as steel and autos, Ameritech will undoubtedly land in the bottom half in terms of investment appeal. 5 Southwestern Bell Corp., through Southwestern Bell Telephone, provides pro-vides telecommunications service to more than 8 million customers in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. Overall, Southwestern's five-state base of operations is considered one of the most desirable service regions in the country since over a complete economic cycle in good times and bad the combined economic growth of the five states has regularly outpaced outpac-ed the performance of the country as a whole. Unquestionably, Southwestern should rank in the top half in terms of investment appeal upon divestiture. 6 U S West, Inc. serves more than 9 million customers in 14 Western states through Pacific Northwest Hell, Mountain Bell and Northwestern Hell. U S West's operating area has ex cellent potential because population growth exceeds the national average, persona! income in the Went is growing grow-ing faster, and job expansion is ovrr the national average, Without a doubt, upon break up of AT4T In lURt. U S West should rank in the top hall in the eyes of investors. 7-Pacific Telrsls Croup, informal-ly informal-ly called I'arTel Croup or, for nhort, PacTel, will be the regional holding company for Pacific Hell, operating in California, and for Nevada Bell. While PacTrl is located in a strong growth area, the new company has its work cut out for it nine in the pM the Male of California has hem tough on rate in creases, In the last year or so top regulatory climate in Callorota h begun to show improvement and now might be rated as "average" in re la-lion la-lion to other stales However, in vie of the highly pnlitKiwd climate on the West Coast, the market will probably not accord Pacific Telew an ep wl ly high fating optte the arras growth potential PROPOSAL FOR A NEW ATTACHMENT FOR SCHOOL BUSES SCHOOL BU<- - SCHOOL WSSII: - UARE FtASHINfr Q' P THE VOICE OF BUSINESS Strengthening fhe chains otf f he Constif u? ion By Richard L. Lesher, President, Chamber of Commerce of the United States Amending the Constitution of the United States of America is a long and difficult process. Those who framed our Constitution ensured that by requiring re-quiring two-thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate and three-fourths of the state legislature to approve any new amendment. The Constitution, then, is not to be changed without serious consideration and serious need. Indeed, in the almost 200 years since the Constitution was written in 1787, it has been amended only 26 times the first 10 amendments amend-ments composing our Bill of Rights. Tits Constitution ensures our liberties liber-ties and restrains the power of the federal government. It guarantees our freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the right to free elections. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in Democracy in America in 1835, observed that the Constitution "forms one of the most powerful barriers that have ever been devised against the tyranny of political assemblies." If our Constitution serves to chain down the aspirations of the central government and keep its powers limited and the people free, I fear that the chain has loosened in recent years. Before the 1930s, deficit spending and the national debt were perceived as evils to be avoided at all costs, and what debt did occur generally came ' during periods of war and was reduced reduc-ed in times of peace. With the advent of Keynesian economic thought, however, deficit spending was presented to the American people as a sound and beneficial policy. Such Naples release crime stats Naples City Police Chief John Lcdkin released the crime statistics for the month of October and the over all number of incidents reported has Increased from the previous month. Total citations rose from 24 in September to 51 In October, Felony Investigations In-vestigations were up from cro In September to one In October, lm-pounds lm-pounds were up from one In September to five in October. Out of Jurisdiction arrests rose from iero in September to 18 in October. Reportable accidents rose from wro in September to thro in October, Total numbers of arrest for adults and htvmile remained the same with 10 investigations each month. The total number of misdemeanor Investigations went down from 18 in September to IS In October. Dli went from seven in Sept ember to only five in October. deficit spending we were told, would create economic growth. And as there was no constitutional prohibition, the deficits came hard and fast in war and in peace and the national debt swelled to more than $1.3 trillion. The deficit spending came about as a result of the government's insatiable appetite for more and more tax dollars. The philosophy of "tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend, elect, elect, elect," became ingrained in too many of our nation's leaders. Government spending was prized, not to fulfill some national need, such as defense, but as means of attracting the political loyalties of voters. James Madison, our nation's fourth president and one of the principle authors of the Federalist Papers, had hoped that competing constituencies, or factions, as he called them would compete against each other in the body politic, much as our three branches bran-ches of government watch each other to ensure that no one institution gains too much power. What Madison did not foresee was that these special interest groups might combine forces to exact tribute from the taxpayer. Thus we see spending bills passed by Congress that include "goodies" for a variety of interest groups. Congress does not vote on the merits of building a particular dam or bridge, but rather votes on a package that includes in-cludes enough dams and bridges in enough states and congressional districts to ensure passage. The president presi-dent must either veto the entire bill which might include projects of true value or allow the entire bill to be enacted. I submit that the resulting runaway spending and mounting national debt are serious enough matters to warrant constitutional change. It is clear that Congress is unable to restrain its spending spen-ding without such safeguards. Two amendments are presently before Congress that deserve the support sup-port of the American taxpayer. The first, the balanced budgetspending limit amendment, would require both a balanced budget each year with a provision for emergencies and also limit the growth of government spending spen-ding to the growth of the economy. Already 32 states have called on Congress Con-gress to enact a balanced budget amendment or convene a constitutional constitu-tional convention limited to drafting such an amendment.-. Virtually every state requires a balanced budget for itself and state legislative support is joined by popular support, which national polls place as high as 80 percent for the amendment. The second amendment I recommend recom-mend is the line item veto, which would allow the president to veto part of a bill and eliminate the all-or-nothing dilemma now posed. Already 42 state governments have such a line item veto for their governors. And presidents dating back to Ulysses S. Grant have called for an amendment. ( It is interesting to note that the Confederate Con-federate Constitution recognized the problem and included a line item vote.) If we as a nation are to come to grips with federal spending growth and mounting deficits, we must now strengthen our Constitution with the addition of both these constitutional amendments. AT113 mBSpOrt by SmiorOrrin llich Unemployment drops In Utah Naples participates in Utah Open House tem Mobbs. . f Duchpsfs has f4eaVd irwwcwit to forcible setual . t fwewndr? ttt thorn m entetfd bis pw tth strxt court fVfe charcH itl committi fit of?en agslnpl tewwg tl te8 Mi A trial fee Km rrt . m4 lit cwtwf !s frw m lm W4 Naples CM a one of almoM Srqethibifdf that participated in the Clan Orn Mow fold at the new ditwn of the fell Palac om the weekend of Sot. 10 1 1 AWng to Marletw Widbam. tiff ti-ff ramr . tb pwpooe of Njpe par-tkipaUr par-tkipaUr W the fmiroat ereoJ to CT?t pr-M to the sto'e Hh the etiMsot of the ct Mrs HSo wl r o rnv tolires ftwft NrJ tolkH wpr I rs rsp iH fe realized thai Naples was even city. Rprtesenlatites from Naples inclwd ed Maflene SJkflvam her hwbend tarry. Crag 6hmt. city building m pettof and his ife Connie. White Mrs Stidhaffl said she was Wptteed t few people reaiired thai Saf4s was a city, she wss happy to be a We toeowrs'e them on the city s proems She said that there were ohet cities presets! with troth ftd ate tnanf ef the mmVm to the state. Snow wasn't the only thing that fell in Utah last week. Unemployment In Utah fell to 6 8 percent, according to the Utah Department Depart-ment of Employment Security, accompanying accom-panying decline on the national level to 8 8 percent. Utah joblessness has thus declined for five months in a row, which fits in with national trend of shrinking Joblessness and an economic recovery that's still surging. Even counting the ll.ona new workers who have entered the tabor force and found Job within the last year, the number of unemployed Uahns is still 23 percent less than it was a year ego at the height of the recession For those who remain on unemployment unemploy-ment lists, there was additional good news during recent weeks. A new job training program has officially replaced replac-ed the Comprehensive Training and Employment Act. The big difference between the new Job Training Pft ftership Act and CETA is thai the new pregrsm was designed to train workers for Jobs In the private sector. NEWS ITEMS call the f8fMl bfrttl 783511 More often than not, CETA simply gave government paychecks to the unemployed for doing make-work Jobs. It provided no training for the long run. The "partnership" In the Job Training Train-ing Partnership Act stems from the cooperation It receives at federal, slate and private levels. Under the program, representatives of business and Indus iry-wbo know what skills are in demand-will design training programs to prepare people to enter current and expanding Job markets. Under the direction of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Commit-tee, the new training program was writtert to give slates a greater role in its implementation and to provide retraining for dislocated workers who lost Jobs as a result of technological advancement, foreign competition or ether economic factors. Utah will receive 113 million for Job training in m under the new program pro-gram By law. 79 percenl of the pr gram's budget will go directly fof jnb training, contrasting with the 18 percent per-cent of Ctrr A s fewrfgrt that went fof dual training to its waning year. As the Job Training Partnership Act take effect, we can etpett Utah s unemployment rate, fcke the snow, to keep falling all winter. |