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Show 4 Vernal Exj?re Wednesday, August 1, 1984 fiiiitiiiiiiitiitiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiminiiiiiiniiiHmiintiiiiiiiiiiimriiniiiiiiiiiniiiuiiiiiiiiintiiin Western Resources WRAP-UP IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN Corps water authorization By Helene C. Monberg Vernal Express Washington Correspondent Washington Backers of a new water authorization bill for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ire beginning beginn-ing to think there is a chance a chance to get a bill through ":e Senate this year. And if it gets through the Senate, they think it could clear a conference committee, though it's a long shot, as is a final Congressional okay. And Presidential approval of such legislation is a big ? mark. "The White House wishes the omnibus water bill would go away at least until after the election," Harold H. (Hal) Brayman, assistant staff director of the Senate Environment and PuW'c Works Committee, Com-mittee, told Western Resources Wrap-up Wrap-up (WRW) on July 24. Director David A. Stockman of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has already notified Congressional Congres-sional leaders OMB will recommend that Mr. Reagan veto an omnibus water bill if the final version is like the House version. The last omnibus water development bill for the Corps was signed into law in 1976. So a powerful impetus was given to the Corps' omnibus water authorization authoriza-tion this year when the House by a 259-33 vote on June 29 passed a bill (HR 3678) authorizing 258 new water projects at a cost of $14.3 billion. It includes in-cludes project authorization for 28 general cargo ports, 6 deep-draft ports, 7 inland navigation locks and other facilities, 93 flood control, 22 shore protection and similar projects, 71 conservation and development projects, pro-jects, as well as 72 project modifications modifica-tions and special provisions and 27 studies, according to the Corps. The House-passed bill also authorizes a new water supply loan program. It establishes a national water policy board and a port trust fund. It contains extensive fish and wildlife mitigation features, authorizes grants to states for water programs at $20 million a year, and it directs the Department of Transportation Transpor-tation to update a list of bridges. It's Ched the Libs- kknv for the ITS .vmnj:s phm th.it sutisyou. Then !;p around f the o:n para!!e rales of ft fed I y o'.htr fisuiuu! j:;,.:.:;;:;;;v !' u r ca!l a ITS In iV.;:;ri Ou;n ! f and thev 11 I , - V i c t : mill Ilium I hit.'. i().!i'.'u B 9.89 ?i 53 9.6 i a 320-page blockbuster of a bill. A somewhat similar bill (S 1739) was reported to the Senate on April 2 by the ' Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and it has been on tne Senate calendar since early June. The ser. ie version authorizes 131 projects pro-jects 't a cost of $11.4 billion, according accor-ding to the corps. It also says 119 projects pro-jects are in both bills. GEARING UP FOR SENATE HURDLE Representatives of various groups supporting the omnibus water legislation legisla-tion are meeting "all over town to try to resolve differences between the large and the small ports, over user fees, cost-sharing and other issues to provide impetus to push the bill through the Senate," a member of the 57-organization '84 Water Action Coalition Coali-tion told WRW on July 24. ' ' The Coalition was formed by a group of organizations interested in the omnibus om-nibus bill this past spring. "The Water Action Coalition was formed as a subgroup of the Infrastructure Group, but it has become more active than the parent group" according to Susan J. Loomis, associate director, Congressional Congres-sional relations of the Associated General Contractors, Inc. Under the letterhead of the Coalition, Coali-tion, Ms. Loomis sail a letter to Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr., R-Tenn., on June 20 urging him to take up the Senate Corps authorization at once. "It contained the names of 57 organizations from Alameda County, Calif., to us," P y Leonard of the Water Resources Congress told WRW on July 24. Chairman Robert T. Stafford, R-Vt., of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee replied for Baker on June 25. He said he would like to bring up the bill in the Senate for debate soon. "I fear, however," he wrote to Ms. Loomis, "that we will see no floor action ac-tion (in the Senate) unless there is some willingness by the various groups involved to narrow their areas of disagreement, particularly over Title Ti-tle V ( inland navigation and user fees on such facilities). It appears to me that we will need some sort of corn- COMPETITIVE HATES OX 2nd v.'i pav von a cum- SAVINGS AT IVS? YOU BET! jxnme. kiwro. it'll you whats 3U;Uh!e at MS ar.d the mkcMsf luul fnuj-Jtuni ebeuhrre. fduntvs arc vdll f,r,J ttnThvtnli fv&.v.udt4kt .1 HSmu; r!.m that t,'. uc;t ;-,;.e to tne r.;orc f: r,.u: d, utiuwuj umutfui. qtntMTj li.io?; 11.00? 10.90?; Why freedom of speech and press? By Frank Canavan Frank Canavan -is Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. Editor's Note: The freedoms of speech and press are among our most cherished rights. At the same time, many citizens have no clear idea of the meaning of these rights. Freedom to speak is not simply the right to say anything. Understanding a right means understanding its limits, that is, what is not permitted. These limits are discovered by an understanding of the purposes for which the rights have been secured. Above all, our freedom to speak and publish stems from our democratic form of government, in which the right to hold and express opinions on public questions is fundamental. fun-damental. Professor Canavan looks at the elements of the First Amendment for the keys to its interpretation. The First Amendment bars government govern-ment from "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." The meaning of that phrase may seem to be clear on its very surface, but it is not. If it were so clear, we should not have, as we do, an unending series of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court to determine what freedom of speech and press means. Some questions will illustrate the ambiguity that lies beneath the surface sur-face of the words. What is "the" freedom of speech and press? Despite what First Amendment fundamentalists fundamen-talists keep telling us, it is not an absolute ab-solute and unlimited freedom. "That view,"as the Supreme Court remarked in 1961, "cannot be reconciled with the law relating to libel, slander, promise amendment that is acceptable accep-table to all parties if we are to have a chance to obtain the necessary floor time in this Congress." Three days later, Stafford proposed a compromise of his own on this title. Meanwhile, Ms. Loomis said the Coalition had dissected the bill and had prepared a backgrounder of what is in it for each state. "That is going out to all Senators now so they will see the projects in it for their states and areas." Ms. Loomis told WRW or July Ju-ly 24. The pressure being put on b; the port and barge operators, construction, construc-tion, coal, band and gravel groups, water development, flood control ana farm groups is beginning to have its effect, these supporters think. Mnfniur. yunr aam:nt is in rand loSIdo) ly the fMJC. .1 perciaHeM aiuy of thel S (uir.:r.ei;t. I';:t i!iirt$r,a'Maf;n.ind.iJ ir. n than" r.vs Ttals whv I jShn u -v.! d I!. 10 P 'il"'. 12.30?; ll.60?i 12.10?; 1 2 I 11.50?; I2.no?; 12.10?; .jt .,-... i,-t 2 ! misrepresentation, obscenity, perjury, false advertising, solicitation of crime, complicity by encouragement, conspiracy, con-spiracy, and the like." It may be leaning too hard on a single word, but it seems to this writer that, when the framers of the First Amendment inserted the word "the" before"freedom of speech, or of the press," they indicated a freedom with some determinable limits. Again, what is "speech?" Uttering words by voice, of course. But what of "symbolic speech," what is actions intended in-tended to convey a message, such as parades in support of a cause, picketing, burning draft cards, burning burn-ing the American flag, wearing black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam Viet-nam War? All of these activities, and others besides, have been before the Court, which has laid down a somewhat fluctuating line between symbolic speech enjoying protection, on the one hand, and actions which government may regulate, on the other. Or, what is "the press?" When the First Amendment was written, a press was a device for printing words on paper. Now is may also be any device that projects sounds or images. If we invent a machine that projects tastes, smells, and tactile sensations as well, it too, no doubt will come under the constitutional protection of "the press." In recent decades there has been a marked tendency on the part of the courts to contract "the freedom of speech, or of the press" into "freedom of expression," a phrase which is not found in the Constitution. Freedom of expression covers live entertainment, even if no words are spoken and no thoughts are expressed. express-ed. So, for instance, the Supreme Court decided in 1981 that a naked girl dancing dan-cing in a coin-operated peep show was protected by the First Amendment. She was, you see, expressing herself, though the Court did not bother to explain ex-plain just what she was expressing. Finally, what governmental actions "abridge" the freedom of spech and press? That, of course, is the question that keeps the courts busy. There is no short and simple answer to it that can be given in this limited space. You , would have to take a course in constitutional con-stitutional law to learn the Supreme Court's answer. Even then you might find the answer somewhat less than clear or consistent. Underlying all these questions there pmfaMon.s nuihod of doing Wiih a I IS count-lor at Your Janice there is no reason to viMt our utUa unless ou want to. All of iu:ri-;i::u-.scan W handed In' phone or ma;! from the privacy of yu;f h:r,e and of h e. In jhnti, yo;i 'n l have to !ea! to .vn to vain he onrptl;iive r,j!t:Mva!!,! !e!J.n at I IS 1 mi K Ml mivi nm ntraftm 12.35! 12.10?; 2 0 t a 12.15?; P HI'", Custodial Expo planned at UBAVC A Custodial Expo will be held at the Uintah Basin Area Vocational Center in Roosevelt on Wednesday, Aug. 8 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost of the Expo will be $5 which will include a break and a luncheon. The luncheon will be catered by The Handy Han-dy Helpers 4-H Club. Topics to be discussed will include: removing the mystery from carpet care, your vinyl floors are a reflection on you; machines; capital investments in-vestments that deserve attention and restroom care. Other topics include: specialty cleaning, wood and concrete floors, effective ef-fective maintenance management and landscaping techniques and care of shrubs, grasses and plants. A custodial rodeo will be featured in the afternoon followed by awards and a closing session. "This is a tremendous tremen-dous opportunity for individuals who are involved in cleaning and maintenance work to receive some in-service in-service training," states Harry Scott, seminar coordinator. is another question, and it is the basic one: why do we want freedom of speech and press? Note well that the question is not whether we want it but wh y. That we want freedom of speech and press may be taken as is given in this country, but we must still ask why we want it. What purpose does freedom of speech and press serve that is so important that we, the people, peo-ple, should put it in our fundamental law and keep it there? It is on the answer to this question that all intelligent discussion of the meaning and limits of this freedom ' must turn. We cannot know what this, or any other constitutional freedom, means or what its limits are unless we are clear in our own minds on what we, as a people, are trying to achieve by it. The best way to celebrate the coming com-ing bicentennial of our Constitution would be to engage in serious thinking and discussion of its most important, clauses, of which the freedom speech and press clause surely is one. It is not enough to congratulate ourselves on our freedom to speak and publish. We need to ask ourselves what great purposes, both public and private, make this freedom worthy of constitutional protection. Then we may formulate some rational idea of what the boundaries of the freedom are. Call, or Mum this coupon today. Earn comjviiiive, market-linked market-linked rales on insured iIi-poMts, and enjoy the advantyys of hain a Urinal ImeMnient Gniiiselor juM a phone call 3u.1v, I '! v e iriMcl tr.e vi, 1 'iv; I e inp (Ian;, a'4, ah J Prudential Federal Savings rsLic : 4-' J ) GREGORY OLSEN receives Faith in God Award. Local Scout receives award Gregory D. Olsen was presented with his Faith in God Award, at a ceremony Sunday evening, July 29, by Bishop Larry White. Olsen is a member of the Naples First Ward. The Faith in God Award is the religious award given in Scouting. He is nine years old and will attend the fourth grade at Naples Elementary Elemen-tary this fall. Olsen's parents are Dan and Brenda Olsen. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Kedrick Caldwell and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Olsen. It only takes one. Cr Tkt AJvrtttitng Ctmmtt h 1 n ie a. KX |