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Show Review Wednesday, April 14, 1993 - Page 2 ' editorial Plan for Timp Cave solves many issues American Fork Canyon is the home of many valuable natural resources, chief among them Timpanogos Cave. Apian to improve visitor access at Timpanogos Cave National Monument would have a profound, and positive, effect on the monument as well as on the entire canyon. can-yon. Anyone who travels through American Ameri-can Fork Canyon in the summer knows that this narrow jewel of a canyon is stressed to the limit every day of the week -- and especially on weekends. And Timp Cave is by far the most visited feature of the Canyon, with the number of cars to the area often outnumbering outnum-bering the available parking spaces -and lengthy waiting periods for cave tours. .' There are several reasons to upgrade monument facilities. When the visitorscenter burned down in February two years ago, it was replaced re-placed by an obviously temporary prefabricated pre-fabricated building as a stopgap solution to get visitors to the cave site the following follow-ing summer. The problems at the cave site go beyond be-yond the b' lding itself. Parkin- s woefully inadequate and dangerous, since almost every visitor must cross the canyon road facingcars that come whipping around a blind turn much faster than the posted 20 mph. In addition, visitors are trampling Mom's job includes moving mountains "Mom," said my son just home from school. "YouVe never going to believe this. There's a mountain in our driveway I stepped out the. door into a gray wall the size of an elephant What an hour ago had been an unobstructed expanse of concrete now erupted into a towering hill of two-inch rocks. I no longer HAD a drivewav. As a mother of several active children, I am used to rapid changes in the topography of my home. It is no particular surprise to discover mountains springing up in unwanted un-wanted places. : No matter that the scene was smooth as sea-level the moment before. In minutes dirty dishes make cliffs on counters, crayons cray-ons spill into mounds, junk mail and school papers reach frightening heights. Rolling hills of wet towels lend a patchwork patch-work landscape to bedrooms, book stacks totter on the edges of tables, buttes of video tapes rise up out the floor. Dirty clothes form irregular, everchanging heaps, bikes form jagged peaks on the lawn, shoesmound in hallways, coats mass against doors. My job, simply put, is one of geological redistribution and, since I don t own a steam - . ii tj.ii.:.-. i t, 1. 1 i i ' , uu vino luuiiuiiiciiwuo hogn UJ UCU1U. If personal resources fail, I nag others to do it, as in, Who put this here? Did you make . this mess? and Whose stuff is this? The answers to these questions are predictably pre-dictably moot, and I am left to trust in a higher power that peace and tidiness will someday be miraculously restored. Gaping at this newest elevation, the one blocking any future entrances or exits to and from my garage (the most pressing required for my daughter's downtown viola Iaaaam unthin Va T Mali it uroii s a icoovii niMuu uic iiyui ; icauAvu i n w viic mountain it would take more than faith to move, i;- ' After a call to the police station yielded sympathy but no help, I started looking up local rock companies. Westrock checked their schedule which confirmed there had been no deliveries in my area that day. A call to a particularly astute neighbor was my first breakthrough. She had been lying down, heard a truck and gone to the window. "I think it was a green truck." "Did it by chance say Geneva on the side?" I asked. "Could have," she said. Terrorism : The face of World War I I I ? Is this what World War III is to be? There were 2,989 bombings in the United States last year. That's a 20 percent increase in-crease in one year. Twenty-eight people were killed and . 349 injured, some terribly injured. . ,- And these numbers predate the bombings bomb-ings of the New York Trade 'Center which killed six more and wounded an additional addi-tional thousand. . ' ; ; That bombing, we're told, may have ' been masterminded by a Brooklyn cab-driver. cab-driver. i V Is this what World War III is to be? A bunch of crazies with increasingly effec-' effec-' tive explosives? Our FBI, charged with responsibility for our nation's internal security, has been pherwmenally effective in totercept-' totercept-' mg terrorism until now, v The pew breed, however, is an elusive adversary, mosth motivated by religious . fanaticism, otherwise disorganized and ' deployed worldwide. One day the target is a coffee shop in Cairo, another day the Israeli Embassy in downtown Buenos Aires, another day a moeqoa u Bombay. v In Turkey, Tunisia, AIjria and New YorkCithperpttrsirsarfanati- the river bank in large enough numbers to cause serious damage and erosion and the amount of traffic itself generates enough air pollution to create problems as well. The main proposal by the National Park Service addresses all of these issues. is-sues. The $7 million project includes building a visitors center outside American Ameri-can Fork Canyon and establishing a shuttle system to take visitors to and from the trailhead. The picnic areas near the cave would still be accessible, but many of the existing exist-ing buildings would be removed and the area would be restored to its natural state. Alternatives to the proposal include in-clude options from continuing operations opera-tions as usual to mothballing the facility. But the proposed plan offers the best chance for the national monument to keep up with the ever-increasing number num-ber of cave visitors while having a minimal mini-mal impact on the canyon itself. Thecanyon areasoutside the national monument would still be accessible to everyone, and there is a chance the National Na-tional Forest Service would consider sharing quarters with the Park Service at the visitors center site -putting them closer to the forest. It is a well thought out proposal that willmeetthe presentandfutureneedsof both the Timpanogos Cave National Monument and American Fork Canyon. SdQUibs & Ctractxers By .JANICE GRAHAM I called Geneva who said their trucks were white with blue lables but could I hold? Finally, a tired man got my address and said he'd call back. In a few minutes, he did, sounding even more tired. "Looks like we made a mistake he said. "The first part of your address is same as a new construction site about 6 blocks west. That's drain rock you've got there." He paused. "Uh, you wouldn't happen to have a use for it, would ya? No charge." Was he kidding? In the end he assured me a truck would be out to remove the ton of rock within a half hour.;.' Sureenough, two pickups, a dump truck and a tractor showed up, made a lot of noise, and left me in the flatlands once more. We moms know there's no need to make mountains out of molehills. It's all in a day's work. - Pooul .FUGI7 TJQUJS C 1993 Loe Angeles f Times Syndicate cal Muslims. . . Within Islam the violent extremists are a tiny minority - but noisy. Even as within Christianity the violent vio-lent extremists are a tiny minority - but - noisy. ' . " ' :- ': ' ' - . . The line between faith and fanaticism ' is faint, and in a land of the free how can the FBI anticipate which misleader is a tiding time bomb? - Often religious terrorists are "amateursyet "ama-teursyet organized in small local groups around a charismatic clerk. - Terrorism as practiced by the Black Panthers in the 1960s was readily subjected sub-jected to surveillance because its violent agitators would proclaim from New York street ccrners, "Were going to killalot of H6 tUpe... ' 1 Betty told a g reat story, was great colleag ue Betty Fowler,' my. colleague who has served as city editor for the Lehi Free Press for the past 22 years, has retired. She has held the same position in Lehi that I have 1 here at the Review. She has just done it longer. : Because of her experience I have often called upon her for helps and suggestions over the years. I will miss her. Last week the newspaper sponsored an . open house and program in her honor. A flood of recollections about our experiences , over the past 13 years came back to me. ". Betty was born and raised in American . Fork but she married a Lehi man and became, from that moment on, a Lehi ' booster. No one ever has supported a com-: munity like Betty has Lehi. We paste up the newspaper on Tuesdays at the American Fork Citizen office. We always eat lunch together that day and we take turns bringing the lunch. Most of the time, up until recently, all the special birthday cakes, pies, and rolls all came from Lehi Bakery. She would make us all say in unison in answer to her question, ques-tion, "Where did this cake come from?, The Lehi Bakery." She wanted us to be sure and remember how good their products were. Betty would regale us with jokes she had picked up during the week. They were usually from her son, Bill, who is not only a college dean but an LDS bishop, as well, and from her regular club meeting with all of her old cronies. Betty was so defensive of Lehi that if anyone even so much as sounded like they were going to make a derogatory statement about "her town" that she would bristle and become quite indignant. One writer from American Fork always ruffled Betty's feathers by saying some-thingabouteveryone some-thingabouteveryone in Lehihaving webbed Today is anniversary of Lincoln's assasination The cherries are in full bloom along the Potomac and they are exquisite., Today marks the 128th anniversary since Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater. He died thenext morning, April 15, 1865. Yesterday was Thomas Jefferson's birthday. The post office will be extra busy tomorrow processing process-ing mail destined for the federal treasury, via the Internal Revenue Service. It is a fairly common practice to complain com-plain about the tax load we carry and no one can minimize the very real burden it is to many hard-working Americans. Since the early days, Americans have made no secret about their aversions to taxes, particularly if they feel they have had no say in the taxation process. H" ' t In something of an unusual' twist, local residents elected a paid lobbyist to the Utah State Senate last November. Senator Howard Stephenson is a hired gun for an organization known as the Utah Taxpayers Association. The organization keeps an eye on government at all levels in an effort to keepgovernmentfatfree.Thenewsenator's voice was heard on many occasions calling for restraint and prudence. The notion is that governments are instituted insti-tuted for the good of the population. In America it was by the consent of the gov-ernedthattheConstitutionwasestablished. gov-ernedthattheConstitutionwasestablished. ; That means that at least a majority thought it was a good idea to tell the Redcoats that their services were neither needed or wanted. The fact is that it was a minority of people who got together and pushed the idea of independence until they got a majority major-ity of the folks to go along with them. - The 56 signers of the . Declaration of ' Independence paid a dear price for their support of independence from the motherland. mother-land. To the cause of freedom and independence indepen-dence they pledged their lives, their for-tunes, for-tunes, and .their sacred honor. The price they paid makes our annual contribution to the cause of freedom seem such a pittance. - A visit to Arlington National Cemetery makes one ashamed to complain about the price we, the living, pay for theblessings we enjoy in this country. Row after row of graves fill the acres of Arlington with the remains of these honored dead who gave their last full measure of devotion. Those who were present at the Utah - State Capitol will never forget the funeral processionfortheyoungsoldierfromOgden cops and judges!" v . Today's shooter may be as innocent appearing as a Brooklyn cabdriver. ZealotsoftheMushmfaith,likeJapan's , kamikaze pilots of World War IL are almost impossible to intercept - being themselves convinced that to die in their "holy war" is to go straight to heaven. r " Combine that with. technology capable of shrinking an A-bomb into a briefcase, and our nation's much vaunted "freedom'' "free-dom'' and "tolerance" become weapons that adversaries can use against us. r In the Islamic world there is great resentment of the United States for its continuing support of Israel and for our intervention against Iraq.,. Islamic fundamentalists in Turkey, trained in Iran, have demonstrated such hatred that their critics are barbarically tortured before they are killed. All in the name of religion. x Israel's move toeipel 400 Palestinians and the plight of Muslims in Bosnia are certain further to fuel hatred of us. Thus Robert Hunter, former director of Middle Eastern Affairs for our National Na-tional Security Council, expects terrorist attacks against us will be more frequent and more violent. , IPG BOGOEi) By MARCELLA WALKER feet because of the "swamp" they live in over there, c,.' , . Betty used to fill up space by making up gossipitems.Thelittlestorieshadnonames, had no base in fact, but were worded to soundlike theyreallyhappenedormightbe happening. Everyone loved them. I tried to write some for The Review a couple of times but I just did not have the knack she did. She was another Hedda Hopper. v ' Betty has a fantastic imagination. She would write an article for special holidays wherein she had had an interview with someone like Santa's Elves, or something similar. Her sense of humor really came ' through and they were a delight to read. Betty never misses a ball game if she can help it She always has some sons, sons-in-law, and grandsons playing in the mens softball league. When I'd see her at the games I would go over and visit a minute and enjoy listening to her cheer. She is an umpire and referee's bane. .-' 'r . -1 - One of my daughters was dating a boy from Lehi High School at one time. He played football and soccer. I found myself attending the Lehi football games and soccer soc-cer games so she would have someone to ride over with. . .;' v-v Betty and I would chat. She was always there. Betty never misses a beauty pageant, either. She goes to Lehi's, American Fork's, Pleasant Grove's, Orem'sProvo's, Utah IPoDOGOes By E. MARK BEZZANT who was killed in Desert Storm. Those who sat in the gallery will never, forget the loyalty of a family who willingly offered that' ' son for a cause they considered worthy of his spilt blood. ,, i i.y.-a y Last year the government required of this American close to $8,000 in various taxes. About$l,000ofitwenttosupport the local schools through property taxes and other required fees. Almost $2,000 went into the social security fund. Medicare got about $500. The state of Utah got about $1,000 in income taxes. The federal government govern-ment withheld almost $2,000 in income taxes. Fortunately, this American works for an organization that has medical coverage for its employees, making it possible to access the best medical system in the world. Those who have lived without medical insurance know first hand the financial burdens that the most basic of care can place, upon a family. Millions of Americans work everyday every-day at honorable jobs but have no access to affordable medical care. We need to work toward a system that is both fair and affordable afford-able for all Americans. What then does this and every other American get for his or her annual mandatory manda-tory contribution (taxes)? This and every American goes to bed at night under the protective umbrella of the finest and most powerful military force on the globe. This ILGGGGPS fi GGUG GtOOtf OF Youth Council thanks seminary ; Editor: - The Pleasant Grove Youth City Council would like to thank the Pleasant Grove High School Seminary for passing out the invitations for the Senior Citizens Dinner. , The group had over 400 invitations that mv;ii in : ioi rajno is ocnooi EM;f v .. - . . - Mhis is my 24th year at P.GJH.S. My career precedes our new building and I sometimes cringe a bit as more and more parents say, TRemember when you .taught me?" at Parent-Teacher Conferences. . I like teaching here and even though I have been coaxed a few times to move to other schools, I have stayed because I ap- predate the quality of the community, the - students, and especially the. facur here. I want to correct a misconception that misconception i has been voiced lately. The education that Policy on letters to the editor V7e welcome letters to the editor. A3 letters should be typewritten and double spaced. Letters must also be sfjaod, and must include the writer's name and telephone number. Flease end letters to Editor, NewUh News Group, P.O. Eos 7, American Fork, Utah,4CC3.. County's and thenthe Miss Utah pageant She knows how to picn a winner, sne ought to become a judge, except she would have to be eliminated from any contest that had a Lehi girl in it. - When a Lehi girl has lost at Miss Utah or Utah County, and Betty really thought the girl should have won, you should hear her comments! They would burn the ears of any of those misinformed judges. And, she has valid reasons fof her opinions, too. ' Betty didn't like bad news. She jusilikes good news. She hated to put in sad stories. She likes things to be happy and upbeat. I remember when her friend, Phebe, passed away suddenly. Betty was devastated. devas-tated. It was that way whenever anyone she knew from Lehi, or anywhere, passed away. She could recite so many stories about her experiences with these people. She lives across the street from Wines Park in Lehi. She tells about people coming to the park for picnics or reunions and coming to her house to borrow things or use the phone. She always tries to oblige. ; The best story I ever heard about Betty, though, is one that happened just a few years ago. She volunteered to drop off the deposit for the bank and she went to the driveuparea. . ' f : The sign said to not put coin rolls in the container. She didn't know what else to do so she just dropped the deposit bag jtself down the hole, sans the container. 'v: U J U ahAiit tialfunv ia all Sliiunt mortified when she found out what she had done. She went home and took her blood nrouun nilla and didn't return to the of fice. The bank had to call and report the incident , .' Fortunately they were able to find away to retrieve the bag without having to dig up the drive in. For sure, we are going to miss that gal! and every American sleeps with the security secu-rity of federal, state and local law enforce-mentofficersprotectinglife,libertyandour enforce-mentofficersprotectinglife,libertyandour pursuit of happiness. - This and every American has neighborhood neighbor-hood schools where the children can attend without regard to race, gender, national origin or economic, standing. Were, this American to spend the education portion of his taxes on day care he would get, at most, two months ofcare. One day this American won't have any children in school but his contribution will go to help others who do, thus creating a better community, state and nation in which all may live and enjoy the blessings of liberty. ..; ' ?.';cThisaridevery American cantravejfreery -on a network of roads from sea to shining sea. Those roads can take this and every American to a vast multitude of parks and recreation areas that have been set aside for our use. Those roads lead to school, to churches, to libraries, to post offices, to family and friends, to places of commerce . and business. ' ; : T -.; , ,; fi, ThisandeveryAmericanhasasafetynet of government services available should the' need arise. Social .security and medicare . are not just for the old but often for those most in need. Unemployment insurance ' has saved millions of displaced workers from economic disaster , , f , Where, oh, where but in America can you sing sweet freedom's song? Who in this world would you trade places with? Would it be with the Russians? Would it be with the Japanese? Would it be with the British - from whose womb we emerged? ' The sacrifice of the Jefferson,' the Lincolns and the boy who gave his life in Desert storm, make our April 15 contribution contribu-tion seem small. The benefits and opportunities opportu-nities we derive are without price. . Even with all there is to be grateful for, we can and must do better. It is the American Ameri-can way. Enjoy the spring blossoms. they hand-delivered. . v Their efforts are commendable. Without their help, this dinner would not take place. ' Thank you! ' -Holly Stansfield, Advisor - . Mindy Olsen, Mayor li l r . 1 " 1 1 i or excellence v; .- .v i -j " the sincere dedication of our faculty his :' changed very little-P.GJ.H.S. has never been a "jungle," nor has it been an "aca demic wasteland." It has been a place, of opportunity, discipline and earing. - A ' h .' This much acclaimed and honored faculty fac-ulty has, during all those 24 years, worked as naro ana uugnc as wen as we do now. In ' . that sense, we have always been a "S of Excellence " rmt - Y ".v " . ' ' " " - f J"3- "School Joe Shelton . a " ; .- -. - - - i - ... r. - |