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Show Timp Agency needs fair GUP hearing By scheduling a decision-making session on the future of the Jordan Aqueduct-Reach 4 the same morning as four new members of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District are sworn in, the district has placed the new members in the position of making a decision of major proportions with minimal information. " It is a position which is unfair to both the new board, members and to the residents of north Utah County who oppose the construction of the aqueduct and favor refurbishing refur-bishing the Murdock Canal to carry that CUP water from Provo Canyon to Salt Lake County. It is also an action which is representative of the way the entire J-4 vs. Murdock Canal question has been handled by the CUWCD over the past few years. Water-related issues in Utah are complex ones, and require a great deal of study. The orientation meeting held with new directors last Thursday coupled with the discussion scheduled for today does not give the new members adequate time to familiarize themselves with an issue as complicated as J-4. Some will argue that the matter has been aired at sufficient length, that most of the board members are not new and are familiar with the controversial decision. Indeed, most of the board members have already supported a motion to go ahead with the aqueduct construction. But that action was one' of the main reasons the Utah Legislature opted in its last session to change the way CUP directors are chosen because board decisions were't based on what the people wanted. However, with three-fourths of the board unchanged from last year when the final J-4 vote was passed, the CUWCD seems unwilling to listen to the Legislature'se desire that the people have a greater voice. Despite mounting opposition, the district directors have maintained a single-minded stance that has allowed no variation from their initial position. And rather than listen to the public, they have continued to downplay opposition to their plans, particularly with the J-4 issue. The district continues to characterize the Timpanogos Planning and Water Management Agency as a collection of a few radical mayors bent on causing trouble with the CUP's master plan. Actually, the Timp Agency was formed with the concensus of each member city council, and a city councilman sits on the agency with the mayors. And over the past two years, the cities have continued to give their support to the agency. Furthermore, the concern over the, actions of the CUWCD hasn't been limited to northern Utah County. Virtually every mayor in Utah County has expressed concern with the way the conservancy district operates. And the opposition hasn't been limited to the cities. The Utah County Commission reiterated its opposition to the J-4 plan as recently as March 9 in a letter sent to Utah's congressional delegation. In the letter, Commission Chairman Chair-man Keith Richan states that as early as 1976-77, when he was chairman of the county's planning commission, he and other commission members felt that J-4 "was a very poor way to go and told them so. This apparently had no impact on them whatsoever, as they made no effort to seek our input or -keep us appraised of what they were doing and how they were proceeding. "I am totally offended at the independent, arrogant manner in which they have proceeded," Richan wrote. "They have completely ignored the county and apparently feel no need to touch bases with anyone." This typifies the district's entire approach to the aqueduct construction program. Opposition has come from other areas. Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson has favored the single conveyance plan that calls for a refurbished Murdock Canal -over the J-4 pipeline. Rep. Howard Nielson has done the same. And yet the CUWCD continues to insist that opposition to the plan is limited to a few as the board has brushed off every attempt to make them consider the realities of the J-4 opposition. op-position. By the time you read this, the Timpanogos Agency will have had what may be its last chance to give the CUWCD, and especially the new directors, a comprehensive presentation about the J-4 controversy and why agency members think a single conveyance will save taxpayers dollars by delivering more water for less money. Once again the presentation is coming against what could be considered a stacked deck. On that same agenda will be voiced the concerns of the Provo River Water Users Association, the Salt Lake County Municipal Water Users and the Bureau of Reclamation all groups that have expressed a desire to see J-4 built and built soon. And all groups with an inordinate amount of influence over the conservancy district board, and little interest in what's best for the people of northern Utah County. The Timp Agency deserves a fair and comprehensive hearing. Then once the presentation has been made, CUWCD directors should act on that information, rather than simply dismissing it as the view of a few radical individuals. . The wishes of the people who live where the J-4 will be built have been brushed aside for too long. It's time the CUWCD board listened. It may be the last time the directors will have a chance. Citizen - Thursday, May 12, 1983 Page 2 fih 22SSjlr S column ) Reach out and . . . By MARC HADDOCK The mother wasn't concerned about the group of junior high school boys who had come home with her son and were now gathered in a room with a telephone handy. At least she wasn't concerned until she went to make a phone call. But she was surprised, to say the least, when she picked up the phone and heard what she later described to me as an "erotic tapes message" on the other. The boys were apparently gathered around the other telephone listening to a female voice talk about sex in explicit terms while simulating the moans of passion that were supposed to accompany the act being described. Shortly after that she called the newspaper to' explain that evidenUy a telephone number with a New York area code had been circulating around the junior high school. She wanted parents to be award that if a number with a 212 area code had been called repeated times and was reported on the home telephone bill, this is what that money was being spend for recorded telephone sex. When I mentioned the incident to another mother, she informed me that her teen-aged son had run up a $12 bill to the two numbers that offer a hearing of the tapes. A friend, she said, was looking at a $50 bill for calls made to the numbers. Evidently, news about the telephone numbers was widespread. And apparently the number was being called by persons who didn't realize that it doesn't take a lot of telephone calls to New York City to run up a healthy long distance bill. I felt like I had the makings of good story, or at least a good column, once I got through talking with different people. I knew the whats, wheres and whens and hows. I still didn't know the whys or the whos. So I called the number. I got several busy signals. Sometimes I got no answer. I joked with people in the office that it reminded me of when I was trying to get dates for a high school dance. Then on five different days I got five different tapes. They were all short, lasting about 30 seconds. And like other types of smut they were all different and all very much the same. But only one of them gave any clues as to why the tapes were available. I still don't know who pays for the telephone number, produces the recordings, and is making the whole thing available to anyone who can dial a telephone. Most of the tapes dealt with acts that are considered "unnatural." Four of them featured unidentified women. But the last one didn't. She identified herself as Marilyn Chambers, a well-known Porno movie actress. These movies have their own system of "stars. I understand un-derstand that Marilyn Chambers is one of the best known, with a large following in the porno movie industry. in-dustry. In the tape she explains that she is taking a break from promoting her latest film. Then she goes ahead and promotes it anyway. (You can't trust these people.) The title has the typical double meaning for the films you see advertised in the movie sections of newspapers in towns where there are X-rated theaters. What follows is the same old stuff, as Miss Chambers takes the listener through a 20 second sex act. (Hers is cut short because she takes time to encourage the listener to see her latest film when he gets a chance.) Anyway, it appears that the telephone number has been set up as a general endorsement of pornography por-nography on the whole, rather than to sell a specific product, although in one instance it was used to promote a film. It's hard to see what other profit could be realized from the exercise. The tapes do serve as a good example of how pornography trivializes a most important part of our humanity, as it eliminates the emotional aspect of sex and turns it into a purely physical exercise It also sets up the kids who spend their afternoons calling these numbers by portraying . sex as something it is not and should not be quick, easy and lacking emotional involvement. Pornography dehumanizes sex. And it dehumanizes people, usually women. There's not much that can be done in American Fork to eliminate a New York City telephone number. But parents might want to be on the lookout for unwanted telephone calls that start with a 212 area code. And if they find the number in their long distance bill, they might want to explain to whoever made the calls that while those sex tapes might sound intriguing, they are not representative of the emotional and physical commitment that goes into worthwhile, healthy human relationships. C browsing By TOM GRIFFITHS The state of education Education, or the lack of it, is a vital topic of conversation these days. We old timers who graduated 'from the little red school house with its pot bellied stove, can say "I told you so." For quite a few years we have watched the conditions develop that has resulted in a lower grade of education. Oh yes, we parents are as much to blame as anyone. We have raised a generation of spoiled kids. Let me cite an example. Recently a bunch of students in a Salt Lake school decided it was proper to wear shorts to school. They were informed that this was in violation of the school dress standards. So what did they do, they came to school in shorts. What action should the school principal have taken? He should have put his foot down and said, "Unless you live up to the school's dress standards don't come to school." Can't you see a number of parents descending on the principal and asking him who gave him the authority to tell the students what to wear. The wearing of shorts is not such an awful crime, but if allowed to continue, there are a few who would eventually show up to school in bikini-type shorts with its demoralizing influence. These are times when morality is low and the wearing of immodest clothes does not help this condition. I sincerely hope that the officials of the school will stick by their guns and insist the school's dress standards stan-dards be observed. It is a fact of life that the easy way is the one that is mostly ac cepted. Our high school students have over a hundred subjects to choose from to graduate, and sorry to say, most of them choose the easy subjects. So they graduate but are unprepared for college or for life itself. As I look back through my boyhood days I am grateful for good teachers and good parents. Ah, you say, things have changed since those days. Of course they have, but the basic forms of education have not changed. The school house I attended was over 100 years old. It was built out of stone that came from a local quarry. There was no carpet on the floor. You walked on oak that was solid and did not squeak. There were no school busses or lunches. The teachers brought their own lunches which they ate in a little sparsely furnished room. My teacher, Mr. Phillips, lived in the next village a few miles away and he rode his bicycle to school with his lunch in a little basket attached to the handlebars. Yes," indeed, things were different. dif-ferent. We didn't have the impediments im-pediments to education that we have today. There was no television with so many ridiculous programs. Rock music was not thought of, or the bearded, long-haired groups that call themselves musicians and make millions of dollars selling records with titles such as "Having My Baby," and "I Shot the Sheriff." It seems the cry these days is for money for education. Higher pay for teachers and less students in class. Money will not result in better education. I remember a few years back that some dimwit came up with an improved math system. It was ridiculous and until it was discarded we had both students and parents at a loss to understand the program. By the time it was discarded, much valuable time had been lost by the students. Yes, indeed, times and conditions can change but the principle of learning does not change. The greatness of America was built on learning the hard way. Students and parents must learn that taking the easy way is a deterrent to character and a stumbling block to a successful suc-cessful life. TWO TOP SIRLOIN Ct799 STEAK PLATTERS SMOiE PUftCHASf WELCOME AT 1400 FULL COURSE DINNER nFtpn ftnnn cucnv nav ciosco tvt rv MCLUOEI: Toe '' IWU om oi hum pome, fcno QlOtat ot BMp 0 OtWMF MM Lars slat it. rh tundowiKi cNm ioatt ISO! H."? SPWSMF(M if""!"." 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