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Show Plans have been announced for both a Dairy Queen and a Burger King in Park City. How do you feel about fast-food franchises coming to town? PageA2 Thursday, November 4, 1982 IEoMtoiriistll National results are murky, but county asserts itself Many Americans saw the 1982 midterm election as a referendum on the economic politics of the GOP administration. ad-ministration. As it turned out, the message delivered on Reaganomics was an unequivocal "maybe." But this year's election was like a bad news good news joke. While the national voting ended in ambiguity and anticlimax, the Summit County elections stirred up an unexpected level of excitement and citizens' involvement. Residents finally realized this neat privilege called voting was extended to them, and especially in western Summit County, they made good use of the opportunity. On the national scene, each political party found reason to rejoice. The GOP side retained control of the Senate which they had won in 1980 an important asset since the last time they controlled even a portion of Congress was in 1984. With the Senate in his hands, Reagan doesn't have to govern by vetoing what he gets from a Democratic Congress, and his program stands a chance of still moving forward. On the other hand, it is estimated that the Democrats have picked up about 20 or 25 seats to solidify their control of the House. The party sitting in the White House always loses seats in an off-year election, but there's no doubt the GOP losses were bigger than average. Reagan will have to compromise in the future. It will be harder for him to pass programs through the House using a coalition of Republicans and conservative "boll weevil" Democrats, as he has in the past. Across the country, the advantage see-sawed back and forth. Teddy Kennedy won, which was expected, and Millicent Fenwick lost, which was not expected. In New York, Democrat Mario Cuomo beat Lew Lehrman, the darling of the William F. Buckley conservatives. And in California, the man they call Governor Moonbeam could at least console himself that he wouldn't be called Senator Moonbeam. Jerry Brown lost his bid for the Senate to Pete Wilson. In some states, with high unemployment, the GOP candidates can-didates hoped President Reagan would not appear to endorse en-dorse them. In other states, Reagan meant the margin of victory. It's possible that Reagan's llth-hour appearance in Utah helped Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Dan Marriott beat off tough challenges from their Democratic opponents. But some of the most remarkable news came out of Summit County. Democrats showed surprising strength in a number of races, but any observers looking for major trends ended up taking to the bottle in frustration. Republicans like Carl Ovard and Al Cooper seemed to suffer suf-fer for their association with the present government. But Republican Fred Eley scored on his county experience to tromp his opponents. Ted Wilson ran well in all segments of the county, while GOP House candidate Howard Nielsen rode roughshod over Hank Huish. And western Summit county, for perhaps the first time, asserted itself as a force in county elections. As vote counting dragged on into Wednesday morning, it was apparent ap-parent that Park CitySnyderville votes would determine the close race for treasurer between Bob Williams and Gwen Larsen. Observers have speculated that the hot Hatch-Wilson race stimulated county residents to turn out, or that citizens just woke up all of a sudden to the growth pressures and complex issues confronting the county. Whatever caused the excitement, we know many Park City officials who wish they could bottle it and give it to the kids in their lunch milk. National political fortunes will struggle along, with each side claiming victory. But there's a new spirit of optimism in Summit County a hope that we have finally decided to plot our own destinies in the confusing years ahead. -RB r. ; . 4 T ' t 5 if if w 14 Left to right: Richard Klein When you're on the run you want that burger fast ! Doug Nickels I don't mind fast food places but I do mind their waste products. Steve Deckert Mellow mountain people don't need fast food, but I will frequent the Dairy Queen for late-night munchies. Peter Marth As long as fast food franchises don't bring fast food-type people . Stein Demkowicz I am the Burger King ! by Jack Anderson And now, sex games for kids It had to happen. In this naughty world nothing, it seems, stays clean and decent for long. And so, through the miracle of electronics, elec-tronics, we now have dirty video games. Specifically, x-ratpH scenarios in which the player who may be only 10 years old is challenged to move the tiny computer stick figures toward what Somerset Maugham called "sexual congress." Sometimes ihe congress Iooks suspiciously like rape. And sometimes it's seduction over odds that would stagger the average Romeo panting after a coy Juliet. Those of us born before the computer age set in roughly 1960 can only regard such games as corrupting. A jaded school teacher of my acquaintance acquain-tance dismisses the thought. "You can only corrupt the innocent," he points out, "and today's kids are hardly that. They've seen porno films on cable TV. They see what Hollywood is turning out nowadays. These kids have no romantic illustions." The generation that began these kids ought to find this loss of innocence upsetting. up-setting. Carnal knowledge should not come before the baby teeth are loose. But it does, and childhood thereby loses a certain sweetness. Society loses, too, as a generation grows up with the tasie oi ruuniK pigs. Habitues of video arcades successors suc-cessors to the old pool-hall riffraffclaim rif-fraffclaim that parents are unduly distressed by the sex games. "Harmless "Harm-less fun," they say. And then this chuckle for the day: "What's wrong with learning the facts of life from a computer?" Everything's wrong, I would say. And the x-rated games are projecting a great deal more than the facts of life on that blinking little screen. One of the x-rated games calls for the player to guide "a white male figure across a desert obstacle course to ravish an Indian woman." This game won't be confined to video arcades. ar-cades. It will be in the shops in time for Christmas. American Multiple Industries, In-dustries, the manufacturer, expects to distribute at least 1 million cartridges. Would it be a wild inaccuracy to say that a million small boys and young men may now accept the notion that brute sex is acceptable behavior? With the video-game explosion now producing revenues in the billions more, in fact, than movie box offices are taking in society has reason to be concerned about the content con-tent and tone of the games. Psychologists who have examined the games say their effect is "dehumanizing." Weekly peclatl hI EX Tax hike is probable, though Reagan won't Throughout history men have fought wars, raped women, tortured prisoners, murdered babies and old folks by reducing them to non-human objects. In recent years the brutal conditions of American life particularly par-ticularly slum life have accelerated the dehumanization process. This was most vividly demonstrated in Vietnam, Viet-nam, where the killing became depraved, senseless. We know that computers can generate games that teach history, literature indeed, almost any subject. sub-ject. A game called Geography Search sends competing teams on a voyage of discovery through uncharted waters. Players must calculate winds and tides and cope with such perils as a tropical storm and an attack by pirates. Youthful players feel an enormous sense of satisfaction when they maneuver their ship into a safe harbor. In the best of all possible worlds we do not admit censors, but how about ordinances requiring video arcades to offer educational games along with Pac-Man, Smurf and Turbo? And nobody under 16 admitted if the games are x-rated. (c) 1982 Harriet Van Home Dist. by Syndication Sales Corp. Special Features like it Washington President Reagan said recently that there won't be another tax increase while he's president unless there is a coup. Don't bank on it: There is a very good chance your taxes will go up next year. In fact, our sources say that a new tax increase will have to come next year. The projected budget deficits will make it necessary. What's happened is that the president's economists have taken a look at the expected gap between revenues and expenditures, and what they have seen has alarmed them. The administration's budget-cutters are beginning to realize that there is less and less so-called "fat" in the federal budget. In other words, there isn't much left for them to cut out of the government's expenditures except for the Defense Department budget, which Reagan regards as sacred. At the same time, however, the economy is showing few signs of early recovery. Unemployment just hit a new high since the Great Depression. This means there is less coming into the Treasury. But the government does have a way to make ends meet: It can increase its income by raising taxes. And that is what the Reagan administration is going to have to do, like it or not. Even after the elections, raising taxes isn't going to be an easy thing for the administration's economists to push through. Our sources say the White House will resist a tax increase right down the line. But they may not have much choice. The last tax bill plugged some loopholes and tightened up on compliance. com-pliance. That helped, but it didn't solve the problem. So a tax on energy oil and gas is under ' consideration. ' Another possibility is tightening tax deducations for individuals. And if all else fails, we're told, the administration ad-ministration will consider sweeping tax reforms. They may even try the flat tax rate or a value-added tax. But one thing you can count on: No matter how much President Reagan may kick and scream, your taxes are probably going to go up again next year. Change of Heart: The , American-equipped American-equipped Israeli army overwhelmed the Soviet-equipped Syrians and Palestinians in the battle of Lebanon. In the process, Israeli military experts gained valuable intelligence on Russian weaponry. At first, the Israelis brushed off U.S. inquiries about the captured guns and tanks. But now we've learned that Israel will share some of the intelligence in-telligence it picked up. Israel will also pass along the secrets of its own inventions inven-tions that helped win the war. Why this sudden change of heart? The Israeli government is anxious to smooth over relations with the United States, which deteriorated in the wake of the massacres of Palestinian civilians in two Beirut refugee camps. One of the captured weapons that Pentagon experts are anxious to inspect in-spect is a Soviet surfact-to-air missile system that Israeli forces captures intact. in-tact. All told, Israeli troops captured an incredible amount of weapons during the Lebanese conflict, and now they must be disposed of. According to our sources, the munitions about 1,500 truckloads will be sold. They should net more than $1 billion, which will go toward paying the enormous cost of the war effort. One of the customers, believe it or not, is likely to be Iran. Intelligence sources have told us that Israel has secretly signed a $50 million arms deal with that nation. Why does Israel support Ayatollah Khomeini? Israeli officials consider Iran's chief enemy, Iraq, to be more of a threat to their security. Mob Debt: High-level Justice Department Depart-ment officials have privately questioned President Reagan's recently recent-ly announced initiative against drug traffickers. The disgruntled officials say that the president's new drug task force will actually take experienced prosecutors away from other mob-related mob-related cases. We suggest that the president keep hitting organized crime. It will put a dent in drug dealing, and it will also bring a few million dollars into the federal treasury. An Internal Revenue Service study, intended for official eyes only, shows that between 1970 and 1980, mobsters were involved in 207 cases of drug dealing and were assessed $33 million in fines. There is a slight hitch: Mobsters don't surrender their dollars easily. Of the $33 million that was assessed in the last decade, less than $4 million was paid. The remainder was simply written writ-ten off as lost. This year has proved no better. In 94 cases against mob dealers, less than a fifth of the fines have been collected. What's Next?: Despite soaring unemployment, there's one field with a severe labor shortage: the data-processing data-processing industry. Experts say it is 50 percent understaffed. By the end of the decade, the experts believe, a computer technician may command a six-figure salary. (c) 1982 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Subscription Rates, $8 a year in Summit County, $15 a year outside Summit County Published by Ink, Inc. 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