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Show Community Comments rWe were victims of a ripoff last weekend, and it wasn't much fun. If it weren't for the fact that similar sim-ilar things have been happening in our own community with quite some regularity the past few months, we would be happy to blame it all on the big city and let well enough alone, since our auto breakin, resulting in the loss of several hundred dollars worth of stereo and ski equipment, happened in a well lighted parking lot in Utah's capitol city. I don't know the answer, if there is one, and it's obvious the police need all the help thev can get in finding better ways of doing things. Iam convinced, however, that it doesn't help the situation situa-tion to have recognized academicians from major learning centers gain metropolitan headlines for stating that Utah's police chiefs and sheriffs are at least ten years behind the times because they basically aren't nice guys. One such "expert" made statements like that in Salt Lake City last week, and I couldn't help but get a little worked up over it. Policemen in Iltah ho i nHi tAJ i i'i it . i..v.ncn.cvj, nam everyone 10 line mem, but down deep they really don't like anyone else. I don't know what's so darned important about personal popularity when it comes to law enforcement. enforce-ment. Frankly, I don't want the police enforcing the laws that protect me and my family---along with my personal belongings---to 'be "nice guys." I d just as soon they be tough as hell, professional in manner and dedicated to the job of enforcing laws that other people have written for the protection pro-tection of society. If that's ten years behind the times. Mr. Expert, Ex-pert, then I guess I'm a ten-years-behind-the-hmes-editor. When Mitch and Dorrie Melich came to town or a couple of days this week, it made a whole lot of years seem like just a few, because they haven t really changed much in all the years I've known them. It's nice having them back in Utah, and particularly par-ticularly good to have them back in Moab for a day or two. mJ! JUH dn' like.the way your highways are maintained nowdays, just wait for awhile. A syndicated syndi-cated story from Washington this week stated that because major trucking associations had contributed contrib-uted lavishly to the campaign funds of over a hundred Congressmen, the Congress had returned alter election day, and had overturned a previous decision making it possible for truckers to run much heavier loads over the highways and freewavs in America. Some technicians indicate that the rate of highway deterioration as a result of the heavier loads will be as high as 33 per cent greater. 1 hanks a lot. Congress. Glad someone back there is looking out for our welfare. ---Sam Taylor |