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Show .1 ,:J --"iffWrr 1 ' . . MaDw AlbaDiinit lit? " poDnnDtt What's the most professional news source in town? Bettina Moench ,. .. v ,f There's no question. I'd be dumb as a Mb weren't for the treasurehouse of information containea m each issue of the Park City Lodestar. PageAL Friday, April 1, 1983 5 i DMiiitdDirnsiIl Et & 4 , i Rampant teens in heat? Time to think about it! Blair Feulner Where do you think the newspapers get their information? informa-tion? For live court-martial interrogation techniques, KPCW's morning news can't be beat. You know, when we were younger, we got some advice from Grandpa that we've never forgotten. He used to say, "No one's going to buy the cow if they can get the milk for free." Now, some of the things Grandpa used to say didn't make a lick of sense. (Once, he warned us, "Fish never smile." What the hell was that all about?) But anyway, in his non-senile non-senile moments, a lot of Grandpa's remarks made sense. And his words about the cow and the free milk came to mind in this current debate about the use of famiiy-planning famiiy-planning money. We just can't figure out how these teenagers can learn to use sex responsibly to "buy the cow" so to speak when dozens of Planned Parenthood chapters are giving out pamphlets and counseling teaching them how to get the milk for free. On the other hand, numerous studies have shown that restricting the sexual activities of rampant teens in heat can lead them to vent their frustrations in anti-social activities. ac-tivities. It starts with small things bending the "Mad . Fold-Out" while it's still in the store, or walking up behind someone with tennis shoes and giving them "Flats." But soon these same kids are hijacking Greyhound buses and terrorizing isolated gas stations. We think that some family-planning should trickle down, but in a responsible way. Therefore, we welcome the new guidelines laid down by the State Department of Health for dispensing family-planning monies. The following letter was sent to Deeana Mayswell, director direc-tor of the Park City Community Clinic. We believe it should be reproduced here for the benefit of the entire family. . "Dear Ma'am: "As per your receipt of this note, you will receive family-planning family-planning funds directly from the state. However, you will be required to follow a set procedure each month to receive your monies. "You are directed not to contact us by letter or voice communication. If you are discovered or your clinic assailed by "Citizens for True Freedom" pickets, the Health Director will deny any knowledge of your actions. "On the 25th of each month, place an ad in the Personals section of the Park City Newspaper. This should say, 'The rabbit has died, but the stork is too tired to fly tonight.' Signed, the Smiling Fish. "Thereafter, you will receive a phone call. If your grant has been accepted, a man will say 'I like your ad for the typewriter. Mine has three keys missing itself.' Quack like a duck to acknowledge you have understood the message. "Two days later, go to the Red Banjo. Ask the short waitress for the best selection on the jukebox and tape the song. When you play the tape backwards, this will give you the location of the money drop. Then burn the tape, take the ashes, mix them in Gravy Train, and feed it to your dog. "On the specified date, drive to Kimball's Junction at night, and park your car so it is facing Summit County Lumber. Flash your car lights three times. A car at the lumber store will signal three times if the exchange can be made. If so, take your federal Title 10 stat forms, which you must keep in a brown paper bag, and exchange it for the bundle in the phone booth by the Chevron station. "If you see two flashes, this means, 'The moon is out! Meet again tomorrow night.' If you see no flashes, this means the battery in the departmental car is dead again. Please bring jumper cables, just in case. : "Do not take the same route back to Park City. If practicable, prac-ticable, use Guardsman's Pass." The state's few, discreet requirements here illustrate their determination to meet federal Title 10 demands in a way that also satisfies local Utahns. We applaud this thoughtful approach, and firmly believe it is the most perfect per-fect method yet devised by man to solve this problem. Course, that doesn't mean we're not open to changes. -RB V, I ' r y 7 The Blow Hut Bunny i I think Playboy Magazine has the most revealing, m-4 depth coverage of the current social situation. t..- 7 Senator Orrin Hatch There's no question about it. Professionalism in journalism jour-nalism is important. And it's one of the prime reasons I , helped to sponsor the Rocky Mountain Free Press Management Act, which takes meals on wheels to homeless journalists. It was an important bill and I was proud to sign it right alongside Ted Kennedy, whom you know, although we've fought shoulder tooth and nail on most issues, we were together on this all the way down the line. When I get out to talk to the farmers in Utah, to the machinists, the mine workers in south central Utah, they approve of what the President is doing in El Salvador, with our depleted defense, with our bloated social budget. But thpv snv "cznsh Ham it whv can't we do more to en courage small-town newspapers? " This is something the liberals in Washington don't understand yet. But we're making breakthroughs, believe you me. David Hampshire Don't print this, but I used to work for the ParfcRecord ,., ; . ,. . and believe me, that was WORK. I didn't last Six months.' ' Now J'm at the Park City Newspaper and I put in, maybe, , . 20-25 hours a week, and that's when the skiing's lousy. Did i ; you say professional? What's that? 11 ' ; ' ( . VWUCOICVER T0NI6HTANDHEAR SOMEOFMV (JOHN IENN0K TAPES? -.11 !10 Back East we were brought up on five newspapers, and I always preferred to use the Park Record. jfi ' i ......jr. Anderson Majrjpnil; Vaaim MaDiFinie ' Dame Rebecca: a remembrance U.S. fears a Soviet Iran after Khomeini Washington Pentagon strategists have been doing a lot of deep thinking about what will happen in Iran when Ayatollah Khomeini passes on. Then-worst Then-worst fear is that disciplined leftist forces will seize power and invite the Soviet Union to cross the border and help stabilize Iran. It sounds like the Afghanistan invasion all over again, and that is precisely what concerns the strategists. strate-gists. But Iran is far more strategic than Afghanistan. The Soviets have the military might to smash through Iran to the Persian Gulf and menace the flow of Arab oil to the West. This nightmare has been haunting the Pentagon since August 1980, when the Soviets conducted maneuvers on the Iranian border. The maneuvers took the form of a mock invasion. Soviet troops are still on the border, and the Ayatollah reportedly is seriously ill. So the strategists are worried. States one of their secret documents: "A worst-case scenario could include a full-scale invasion of Iran, starting with operations to seize Azerbaijan and the Strait of Hormuz, and subsequent operations through Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to Oman. In this scenario, the Soviet Union could generate a force of over 20 divisions from the Soviet military districts adjacent to Iran." A Soviet strike into Iran not only would endanger the Western world's oil supply, but would upset the military balance in the Middle East. It could take nuclear weapons to stop a Soviet thrust to the Persian Gulf. In fact, one of the contingency plans calls for a nuclear response to a Soviet attempt to occupy Iran. That makes it a real nightmare for all of us. Proms loophole: Government anal ysts have predicted that skyrocketing health care costs could put Medicare out of business before the end of the decade. But President Reagan has a plan to save the ailing health benefit system. The scheme calls for setting fixed payments for nearly 500 common health problems, from hemorrhoids to heart attacks. The idea is to encourage hospitals to treat patients more efficiently and to get them home faster. But there's a loophole in the plan. It was created by lobbyists for privately owned hospitals, which are in the health care business to make money. Under Reagan's plan, these hospitals will be guaranteed a profit by the government, whether they are run efficiently or not. It could cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Conflict in Nicaragua: A group of pro-American guerrillas has launched a counter-revolution in Nicaragua. Their goal: to depose the leftist Sandinista junta which displaced dictator Anastasio Somoza four years ago. According to our sources, a second invasion is about to be launched from the south. A famous ex-Sandinista commando will lead this incursion from Costa Rica into Nicaragua. He is Eden Pas tora better known as "Commander "Comman-der Zero" the rebel who led a 1978 takeover of the National Palace in Managua. After the revolution, Fastora was given a mid-level job in the new government, a job that did not satisfy his political ambitions. He split with the Marxist Sandinistas and sought exile in Costa Rica. He will make his comeback, he apparently believes, in the counter-revolution. Headlines and footnotes: In a recent speech, President Reagan lamented that1 U.S. athletes have to compete in the summer Olympic games without federal subsidies. That's not quite the whole truth. Tucked away in the president's own budget is a $50 million request for funds for the games. On top of that, the federal government will try to raise as much as $600 million for U.S. athletes through the sale of commemorative coins. The Environment Protection Agency will soon approve a neat little plan that will allow the Kennecott Corp. to continue polluting the air around its Salt Lake City copper plant. EPA policy makes allowances for dirtier air over a company's private property. So Kennecott has swapped land with the federal government, and the result is that most of its pollutants new hang above company property. Internal estimates prepared by the Federal Reserve paint a disturbing picture for the jobless. The Fed's experts predict that even if the economy recovers, job opportunities in traditional industries will remain sparse for a long time to come. Fed officials are also concerned that displaced workers might not be able to find jobs even after the economy gets back into full swing. Federal experts are closely watching watch-ing more than 400 banks to make sure they remain solvent. To prevent bankruptcy, the government has a plan to merge failing banks with healthy ones to keep them intact. A recent audit of the Department of Health and Human Services disclosed that workers in the agency's Boston office have been using their computers to write resumes, plan diets, keep diaries and write letters. 1983 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. In a century that has seen the world caught between decency and barbarism, barbar-ism, Dame Rebecca West stood firm for decency. Her death March 15 at 90 diminishes us all. But we should rejoice that this beautiful, brilliant woman lived so long, and that her pen never lost its keen moral edge nor its lyric beauty. I never knew Dame Rebecca save in the remote but passionate way one knows a deeply loved author but my husband met her in London more than 20 years ago. "She is lovely and charming and very funny," he wrote home, "but totally intimidating. She knows so much!" She wore her learning lightly, somewhat as ladies of her era would wear a flower. But she was tough and smart and a lifelong crusader for women's rights. Virginia Woolf called her a "hard painted woman" on meeting her back in 1928, but later wrote to a friend, "I like her vitality and inquisitiveness and hardness." In an era when women who wrote were referred to as "woman writers" concerned primarily with womanly things Dame Rebecca established herself as a political journalist. A 1933 entry in Virginia Woolf s diary says, "I must go see Rebecca about fascism." Besides her novels and travel books, Dame Rebecca left a splendid legacy of writings about crime and treason and the human errors that lead to war. She covered the Nuremberg trials for the British press in 1946, ; and her judgments collected in her 1946 book, "A Train of Powder" remain as vivid as the swastika on its bloody field. She was one who "saw quite through the deeds of men" and no writer has ever matched her indictment of the Nazis. Of Julius Streicher, perhaps the most fanatical Jew-hater in the Nazi heirarchy, Miss West as she then was observed cooly that he was "a dirty old man of the sort that gives trouble in public parks, and a sane God should have sent him to the asylum long before. ..." Of Hermann Goring, Hitler's field marshal, she wrote, "Sometimes ... he recalled the madam of a brothel. His like are to be seen in the late mornings in doorways along the steep streets of Marseilles, the professional masks of geniality still hard on their faces ..." Rudolph Hess "was noticeable because he was so plainly mad. -... Evidently his distracted personality had torn up all clue to his past." Dame Rebecca she was awarded the title, equivalent of "Sir," in 1959 also wrote a life of St. Augustine, which was praised for its insight into the tortured personality of this complex saint. She admired him because like her he believed in guilt and punishment. ' . . ' It disturbed her not at all that Hitler's 10 key henchmen were hanged. Von Rippentrbp, she noted, "struggled in the air for 20 minutes." Like every good journalist, Dame Rebecca had enormous respect for fact. "Facts put together are the face of the age," she wrote. She was also1 intensely human, womanish and witty. I remember a piece she wrote for a London paper last year about the ordeal of having her teeth extracted. On the night" before the surgery a friend took her out to a sumptuous feast. "The condemned teeth ate a hearty dinner," she wrote. Her last article (in last month's Vogue) comments wryly on the problems of being 90. "It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that the upholstery is already dead around you.'? The problem:- Was it worth it to have, her London flat "done up"again?;nr:.if V; Dame Rebecca became a feminist in 1916, marching for women's suffrage. In dozens of essays she reverted to the subject, if only to lash out at the convention that put women into tight girdles and corsets. : 1983 Harriet Van Home Distributed by Special Features Syndication Sales - jt Newspaper- Subscription Rates, SSayeartn Summit County, $13 a year outside Summit County , Published by Ink, Inc. USPS 3787-3000 S-" " ..............vJwWUkln, 77 -Li" ! " V D,vW Hampshire Advertising Sale, im WHkiBg , DlckMm Jim f BosineHManager MarionCooney seV::::::::::::::::::; r.;.....uw Rick trough Contributing Writers Btttin. Moench, Jay Median, Nan Chalat. 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