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Show 1 1 rritygrv - - . IHInw BDaDMrl Hit? 4- ! i ID What's the secret to skiing the bumps? Nancy Fredrick Keep your legs loose. PageA2 Thursday, March 3, 1983 ISdlittdDipisal 1 ? ' ' " I Iw' Have fun, but remember: Park City is our home We all know that Park City is a fun place to be. But sometimes it seems that some of our visitors are having a little too much fun. It's not funny anymore. It's easy to see how this party overkill comes about. Fun is, to put is mildly, encouraged in Park City. It's a resort town. Besides excellent and abundant ski facilities, Park City is crammed with more top-quality bars and restaurants than any other plot of real estate of similar acreage in the state, if not the Intermountain West. Main Street is a great place to have a meal, a drink and catch a show. There are abundant offerings of theatre, music and other entertainment available in local nightspots each week. Indisputablv. Park City is a fun place to be. But a little bit of fun goes a long way. Likewise, too much of anything even fun is not good. Don't get us wrong, we're as delighted as anybody to see all the visitors in town. A resort needs visitors like a heart needs blood tourists are Park City's lifeline. But we don't need tourists so bad that it's worth risking life, limb and sanity if one chances out onto Main Street late in the evening. If you do hit Park City's main drag around midnight, you'll see quite a show as the throngs of fun seekers stagger and stumble out of the bars and into the street. About midnight, you can see visitors and a good number of locals as well taking it a bit ton far on Main Street. Those who come to Park City with only a week or so to visit sometimes try too hard to have the ultimate ski vacation. These fun-seekers are so intent in their blind, obsessive ob-sessive pursuit of fun that they get dangerous. By midnight, they are having so much fun they've resorted re-sorted to such activities as : racing their cars up and down Main Street. , yelling and screaming mindlessly at anyone who happens hap-pens by, without apparent reason. grabbing and harassing passersby. fighting (and some of these fun seekers are armed) . petty vandalism (fun seekers often get so funny they destroy things for no discernible reason) . general obnoxious behavior. It seems that some who come to visit our good town come here with the idea that it's a Disneyland for grownups anything goes at anytime. It ain't so, folks. We love having you here and hope you come back again. But this is no fantasy world. Park City is a bustling little community where people work and live. To them, the town is their home. . If we came to visit your home, we'd want to have fun but we wouldn't go so far as to abuse the privilege. While you're visiting our town, fun seekers, how about extending ex-tending Parkites the same courtesy? -JH SURE, ITS AVIOIEMTSPQKT, W ITS THE OHLY WAY SOME POOR K1W CAH SET OUT OF THE GHETTO ... WeeMy pegnali by Jack Anderson r Soviet missile launch violates SALT provisions Washington On Feb. 8, the Soviet Union launched a new missile for the second time in four months. The test launch violated three specific provisions provi-sions of the SALT II treaty. It is a fact that SALT II has never been ratified. But both the United States and the Soviet Union have informally promised to abide by it. For example, the United States is putting identifying devices on B-52 bombers that carry nuclear cruise missiles. That is one of SALT II's requirements. But the Russians' missile test blows SALT II sky-high. We can tell you the exclusive details of that missile launch. They are in a CIA report that's so tightly classified it makes top-secret look like a letter from Aunt Harriet. The new Soviet missile has been dubbed "PL-5" by U.S. intelligence experts. This is why its launching violated the SALT II treaty: It is an improved version of the Soviets' SS-16 missile. And the SS-16 was specifically banned by SALT II. The new Soviet missile violates the SALT II clause that allows each country to have only one new land based missile. The United States is counting the MX missile as its new one. But the Russians already launched launch-ed a new missile last Oct. 26. As it happened, the test was a failure. But still, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin told the State Department it was their one new missile. The one that was launched on Feb. 8, therefore, would be a second missile under SALT II terms. The third violation involves encoding the radio signals from the missile. This means that U.S. trackers can't read the missile's transmissions to tell if it is in compliance with SALT II. Putting all of a missile's radio signals in code is forbidden by the treaty. Intelligence sources told my associate Dale Van Atta that this is the first time the Soviets have pulled that little trick at least, it's the first time they've put 100 percent of their missile's transmissions into code. How the Kremlin's apparent violations viola-tions of SALT II will be viewed in the White House is not yet clear. But it may mean that President Reagan will no longer insist that the Pentagon observe the provisions of the unratified SALT II treaty. Elderly victims: There is a whole class of Americans who feel particularly particular-ly vulnerable to the criminals in our midst. They are the elderly, our senior citizens. Older people are tempting targets for criminals. They have money their life savings. Generally, they're physically physi-cally weak. Some of them are not as sharp mentally as they used to be. And they suffer from another disadvantage: disadvan-tage: They are survivors of an age when liie was simpler, when Americans Ameri-cans helped one another instead of trying to rob and cheat their neighbors. Unfortunately, senior citizens' fears are borne out by the statistics. Investigators for Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., asked law-enforcement officials around the country for facts about crimes against the elderly. States and investigators report: "Overall, consumer and economic frauds directed at the elderly are widespread and pervasive, touching nearly every aspect of senior citizens' lives." In fact, more than 80 percent of the law-enforcement experts who responded re-sponded to the congressional questionnaire question-naire said the elderly are more frequently defrauded than the general population. What are the top 10 frauds perpetrated against the elderly? According Ac-cording to the survey, it's appalling but true that quackery and other medical frauds head the list. Obviously, this is an area where older Americans are most vulnerable. Next on the list of frauds are home repairs, bunco schemes and insurance swindles. Then come land and investment invest-ment frauds, nursing home rip-offs, automobile cheating and last but not least funeral frauds. It's significant that the congressional survey concluded that many of the schemes used to bilk older Americans involve use of the mails. Yet on the last day of the lame-duck session of Congress last year, Sen. James McClure, R-Idaho, singlehandedly blocked a bill that would have given the Postal Service greater power to go after mail fraud. Fortunately, the bill has been introduced in the new session of Congress, And Sen. Heinz is sponsoring a bill that would compensate crime victims, including the elderly. It's the least we can do for our senior citizens. Headlines and Footnotes The Defense Intelligence Agency has been granted new powers over its civilian employees. The new regulations allow DIA officials to fire an employee for any reason, permit no appeal, and exempt the records from independent scrutiny. The public-works system in America Ameri-ca is in deep trouble. Highways, bridges, sewers, water-supply and mass-transit systems are suffering from severe disrepair. An unpublished Congressional Budget Office report estimates that $20 billion was spent last year to upgrade the ailing framework but that billions more will be needed to salvage it. 1983 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Stewart Hayduk A magician never tells his tricks. - S it: t Bubba I don't know. I only ski Clementine (Cockroach Knoll). Sill r.ili Hans Jakobovitz Straight and fast. Doby Have at least six fun tickets in hand. . ';- ,n ii.t.i.i(i Bob Graff Wait 'til they groom. '-. . !! hi'; i vii' i i;uit SB in mi i.ttvjir. tut iuiw n mif. The mire of ignorance "The boy is in the ninth grade and he can't spell his name Joe." A disgusted father offered that observation in a Broadway play a decade ago. The jest still has bite, for it sums upwith only slight exaggerationthe exaggera-tionthe state of public education today. For more than 20 years now, we have been turning out a race of yahoos. Beaming ninnies and noddies, capped and gowned, take home gold-leaf diplomas while still not sure how the story of "Chicken Little" turned out. If you doubt that we're wallowing in the mire of ignorance, just tune in any TV game show. Mature citizens, some with college degrees, are stricken mute if asked any question about history, literature or the arts. Some are too muddleheaded to solve the kind of math problems Duncan the Wonder Horse used to do with his left hoof. Anywhere you look there is smashing evidence that our teachers for many years now haven't been teaching, and our children haven't been learning. Signs in grocery stores are invariably invari-ably misspelled. "Today's Specul" at the meat counter may turn out to be "Caf Lever." A grocer in my neighborhood recently had a hand-lettered hand-lettered sign in his window announcing a supply of fresh herbs. Among them: "basal," "tarigan" and "dill." That last one is the real special dill spelled correctly. "Decline in Teaching Linked to Low Salaries," said a recent UP story. Low pay means inferior recruits. Prospective Prospec-tive teachers, according to the U.S. Department of Education, consistently score the lowest on reading and vocabulary tests. We were not always a nation of dummies. Years ago we had fine village schools, town academies and good land-grant colleges. We had a body of common knowledge, shared by all Americans who had reached the high school level. Now we have 23 million illiterates, many of whom have loitered 10 years or more in the public school system. What, you may wonder, do children do in school while they are sitting there not learning? Edmund Janko, a teacher in Bayside, N.Y., answers that question in a recent issue of Education Today. He says the main occupation of high school students nowadays is sex. "I, for one, have never doubted my students' abilities," he writes. "What I saw decline was not brain power but will power. ... Our young people are hopelessly distracted." Before the start of a sophomore class, Mr. Janko was startled to see a local gridiron Adonis drift into the room "to nibble at the neck of his girlfriend before an admiring audience." au-dience." He was also surprised to see a girl in the back row patting the thigh of a boy across the aisle. "All this, along with embracing, fondling and kissing in our hallways and classrooms is just the tip of the erotic iceberg," we are told. "Teenage pregnancy and venereal disease are rising..." '- So much "libidinous scrimmaging" inevitably leads to other distractions. Mr. Janko is astonished by the amount of time students spend in "combing, primping and all-around mirror-gazing." mirror-gazing." Five minutes before the end of the period, he has noted, "out come the combs, tweezers, skin lotions and mirrors, frantic preparations for the five-minute nibble and nuzzle session between classes." Nor is this frenzied grooming limited to girls, he adds. Two other obstacles to teaching disturb today's educators. One Is marijuana, smoked openly on the school bus, according to Mr. Janko. The other is earphones, beating rock music into kids' ears while the teacher tries to explain the Civil War or the meaning of "Hamlet,'? Today's students, more often than not, live by the pleasure principle. But pleasure gives way to acute anxiety after graduation, when they try to fill out a job application. . .. Thie wages of ignorance, if seems, is a permanent place on the welfare rolls. 1983 Harriet Van Home Distributed by Special Features Syndication Sales Park City Subscription Rates, $8 a year in Summit County, $13 a year outside Summit County Published by Ink, Inc. f , V , t USPS3787-3OO0 );. '" J rv; . ' ..................... .V. Im WHIdng Edttor "... ........... Dtvld Hampshire Advertising Sales jaB Wilking, Bill Dickson, Jim Finegaa Business Manager Marion Cooney GrPhi Becky Widenaousc, Uz Heimos S' Writers , Rick Brongh, Jeff Howrty Contributing Writers Bettina Moench, Jay Median, Nan ChahU, John Kinch, Gary Hetns Typesetting Sharon Pain, Dixie Bishop Subscriptions & Classifieds Karen Fancy Darkroom A Photography ; Jul Snyder Distribution Dusty Rhoades Entered as second-class matter May 25, 1977, at the post office in Park City, Utah (4060, under the Act of March 3, 197. Published every Thursday at Park City, Utah. Secoad-clau postage paid at Park City, Utah. . 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