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Show Keep CRSP power in cities' hands It's hard for people who rely on the Utah Power and Light Company to know where to stand in the current struggle between the utility and cities and towns like Lehi which provide power to their residents usually at prices lower than those charged by UP&L. - The struggle centers on cheap hydroelectric power generated by the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) and now available to the cities and towns who first subscribed sub-scribed to the power 20 years ago when the project was built. That initial contract is being renegotiated and UP&L claims that if it could get some of that power allocation, it could reduce the electrical bill for those of us who get our power from UP&L by as much as 25 percent. Although local UP&L representative Wayne Mulcock told the American Fork City Council Tuesday night that it would be unrealistic to guarantee such a dramatic decrease, any decrease sounds good to those who have been hit by a depressed economy that is just starting to perk up. And Mulcock's assertion that we all deserve a piece of the cheap CRSP power pie, instead of just the residents of the few cities who provide municipal power sounds reasonable. It sounded reasonable to Pleasant Grove, when the city fathers signed a resolution supporting UP&L in its bid for the CRSP power. It didn't sound quite as good to American Fork's city council members who decided to support neither UP&L or Lehi and the other cities. And while UP&L's arguments are good ("For 20 years they've bought it cheap. Maybe it's time they saw the real world," Mulcock argued.), Lehi Mayor Garry Sampson maintains that the argument against giving the cheap power to UP&L are also sound. For one thing, he says, federal law prohibits private industry in-dustry from making a profit on federal power. For another, 20 years ago when Lehi and other cities signed the agreement to buy CRSP power, it wasn't cheap. At that time UP&L was less expensive. But those cities took the gamble offered by the federal goverment and supported the government project aimed at providing flood control and irrigation water, with hydroelectric power as a byproduct, by purchasing that power. It's unfair, Sampson maintains, to penalize those cities because the investment paid off . And Sampson says that while UP&L can look to cheap hydroelectric power from the northwest to balance out the more expensive power generated by its coal-fired plants, the cities don't have that option. If they lose the CRSP power, they loose their only source of inexpensive power and will have to rely on more expensive coal-fired sources. Sampson says "seeing the real world" for Lehi will mean a 187 percent increase in city power bills an increase that will destroy the city's ability to provide power and force UP&L to take over Lehi's power operation, adding the cost of maintenance and operation of that system to the utility's obligations and decreasing the promised savings to UP&L ratepayers. But beyond this, it should be considered that the low rates offered by Lehi and other cities who have placed themselves in the power business provide consumers with one of the few yardsticks available to measure the utility's performance. By comparing UP&L's rate with that of Lehi or Springville or Provo, we have a way of judging just how efficiently and effectively UP&L is providing our power. As Mayor Sampson, says, "We are the only competition that they have." Its not hard to believe that that competition has forced UP&L to keep its rates lower. UP&L should keep looking for ways to keep utility bills as low as possible, but not at the expense of municipal power companies. We believe CRSP power should stay where it is. . Orem f-Qj KIWANIS SMeity (Ditty - Mall Eait Court Fr To Th Public For Ag 4"thf 7 Yari ' - " Diplomat ForrChilaW Safety Information by Orom City Polk Dept. UNiVlJRSITY(S)MAI.Ii Present ust 9-20 ...'lVV; Area Continuous Half 10 am. 5 p.m. Aug ') 111 !'... X. V'ntiTl. x -. i ,r C You find what you seek, even in rock music ItvMAItCllADlNK'K I like the Btwli Hoys. I always have. And I think (hat's IxHaus' when they worrn't singing alxuil stirring (not much of that on lU-ar likc whore I grow up) or cars, they were singing alxtul being a kid. Some of those early Beach Hoy alliums were filled with songs alxiut iM'inga kid songs with sappy titles like "Don't Hurt my Little Sister," "Help Me, Ithonda," and "Do You Wanna Dance." I couldn't identify with a lot of the situations in these songs, hut I identified with In-ing a kid and that goes for a lot. One of the songs was called 'When I Crow Dp To He a Man," and it asked the questions a lot of kids then asked themselves were they going to change just because they got older? I don't know if kids still ask themselves the same question, but I would think they are, because I'm still asking it and still wondering if I will change. The lyrics were pretty simple (like all of those songs, but then the simplicity was what made the music-work). music-work). And at one point in the tune, Brian Wilson posed the question: "Will 1 still joke around? And still dig those sounds?" "Dig" was a term we borrowed from the beatniks and made our own. I don't use it much anymore; I guess I feel loo old. But as I look back at that song, at many of the songs 1 grew up with, I have to admit that I do still "dig" the sounds that helped shape my life. And that worries me, sometimes. I worry that music, especially music that so many people have dismissed as being trivial, has always been important to me. I can mark events in my life by the music that has surrounded that life and most of it is rock music. Don't let lawyers in . . . By TOM GRIFFITHS I read a most interesting article a few days ago. It was titled, "Don't let lawyers into the New World." It pointed out that Balboa, the Spanish explorer, wrote . King Ferdinand, recommending that he, prohibit the entry :of lawyers into the New World. There was a reason why Balboa took this action and if there was such a thing today as a New World, it would be the feeling . of most people that it would be a better world without lawyers. Why should such a feeling exist. It is because most lawyers work themselves into positions of judgeships where their decisions can affect the lives of al' of us, and Orem City Hour Sessions Softly City n a delightful (hM-siiod town in which youngtlors ton loarn the do's and don'rs of walking to school what to oipaci of etrivorS and actually practko the rules of safoty wider the watchful eyes of an Orem City policemen. (E(IDW&m(&Mt Citizen-Thursday, August II, 1983 -Page 2. c the editor's column And I worry about the fact that I still like it. Because I'm suposed to lo too old. When my brothers or I would listen to Kock V Koll, my parents would do all the things parents are supxised to k get angry, talk alxiul how nonsensical it was, complain that you couldn't understand un-derstand the words. My father, a musician himself, couldn't gel over the fact that the singers we listened to didn't know how to end a song, so they just faded out at the end of the song. But when my kids listen to music, I listen with them. And as I go back over more than two decades of music and am able to name 95 percent of the artists I hear, I worry about the lime I must have wasted learning that, stuffing my mind with names and titles. I worry sometimes because it thrills me when my 4-year-old asks me to put on "The Peggy Sue Kecord," because she likes Buddy Holly as much as I do. That music, all of it, helped shape me. It helped me see things, and sometimes changed the way I saw things. And for the most part I'm happy with that, because I have never thought it was negative I've always seen music, especially Rock 'n' Roll music, as a positive force in my life. So I worry even when I come across surveys that say that this music I have loved and still love has been doing vile things to my mind all these years. And I wonder why I haven't noticed it. browsing many times their decisions are unfair and in other cases border on the ridiculous. An example of this happened in Twin Falls, Idaho. A man was convicted of drunken driving for the ninth time in 11 years. How did the judge rule? Well, the man pleaded guilty to a felony charge of drunken driving and was put on probation. I wonder how this judge will feel if upon the tenth violation an innocent person is killed. ; The rulings of our attorneys can go even into the House of Representatives. It is here we expect our representatives to be men and women of good character. So what happens? Two of their lawmakers admitted to sexual relations with teenage messengers. What action has been taken? They were censured by their colleagues and allowed to continue as representatives of the people. One of them even has the gall to say that A Medical Profession that UUS (by Abortion) more than 1 & MUNM unborn babies each year SHOULD KEEP ITS MOUTH SHUT - ABOUT HOME BIRTH - Time Savers and Money Savers from Grain Country Cheese victorio Phoenix V ,-, Bend strainer f ; Juicer A1"aAc C 5 lb Bag V , . V QQ AA V Almonds 1 $7.90 irl? $99.00 X 5 lb Bag " Many : ""' $9.89 uses! 9 Tray . 24 Hour Dchydrclcr n.s V Timer $ g CQ square feet A 2Year Y lib. Bag 'JtriS? " 5.1b. Bag: f J Wort-Sat J 95 n. 200 E. American Fork, UT 84003 ? ? - r- " . - ;-. :-;. A-;(V,v-::.:,,,ri' '' . -.r -" - For example, the Utah Association of Women recently published a survey of rock music-played music-played on two Utah radio stations. The survey showed that 40 percent of the music on one station was lewd. On the other station, 52 percent of the music was deemed lewd. I'll be the first to admit thai some-rock some-rock music has become sexually explicit - something I deplore. But these people aren't listening to the same stations I do, because I don't get that message out of more, than half of the songs I listen to. (1 just want to make sure everyone knows I don't like that stuff.) But the survey came up with another statistic that I can't let go unremarked the finding that over 95 percent of the songs on both stations contained negative emotion. And I'll take issue with it because I don't know what it means, other than it means that the person listening to the station just didn't like the music. It's pretty hard to put much stock in a survey conducted by someone who's self-proclaimed goal is to see that the kind of thing they are surveying is obliterated. It's hard to see that surveyor coming up with anything but negative emotion. And something else that troubles me is that negative emotion can be found in anything by the person who is looking for it. I once read a book about subliminal advertising where the author claimed that words and images were cleverly hidden in the dot patterns of the photographs in most advertising. The favorite word to hide was SEX, and the author took but it's too he will run for re-election when his term expires. Lawyers have a language of their own. A man once said to a lawyer, "I believe we're going to get some rain. What do you think? The lawyer frowned, pursed his lips, looked up at the sky, sniffed the air, scratched his chin, and reflected a couple of minutes then he cleared his throat and said: "Hmm. After giving the matter considerable thought and studying the evidence - that is the condition of the atmosphere, the color of the sky, and various other natural phenomena, I would be inclined at the moment to answer in the negative - that is provided that other circumstances do not arise which might possibly - and I say advisedly - which might possibly cause me to alter or revise my previous opinion and compel me to give an affirmative answer. Of course, unless there is a radical change which might force me to adhere to my original contention, in which case I will stand on my constitutional rights and state that you might be right and you might be wrong, but I don't think so." the reader through a series of ads showing where the words were spelled out. The concept fascinated me, and the more I looked, the more I saw the words. Then I started looking at things that would never contain such subliminal messages - things like church magazines. And I found the word SEX popping up in all sorts of places. Because the word wasn't placed in the pictures of the church magazines any more than it was placed in the ads I had been seeing it had been placed in my mind, and my eyes shaped the images I saw until they conformed to what I was looking for. When I stopped looking for the words and the images, I stopped finding them. And I think it's the same with anything we find what we look for. When I listen to music, I look for the same things now as I did when I was a kid. (My 4 year old likes Buddy Holly because his music "has a good beat and is easy to dance to." Those are age-old standards.) And I'm finding it. But the people who did this survey are still looking for the same things my parents looked for in rock music 25 years ago. And they are finding it. I think I'm better off than they are. They probably think I'm no longer capable of rational thought, twisted by rock music and science fiction novels until my brain has been fried. I'm still finding what I'm looking for. So are they. What I have to ask myself is am I better off for looking for the positive things, or are they better off for looking for the negative things? And while I'll be honest and say that I'm not sure, I'm don't think I'm going to change at least not if the past is any indication. late In the letters to the editor in a Salt Lake paper a man who was very upset over the death of the five little boys wrote that the perpetrator of the crimes should be given old-fashioned old-fashioned justice and strung up. Another man wrote this was all wrong, that the sentencing should be left up to the courts and, of course, to lawyers. People want to see justice done, but due to past results most of them are afraid the wheels of justice will not turn properly because defense lawyers twist the law in every direction to get their client off. U S P S. No 0185-8000 SI West Main American Fork. I'tah 84003 Published weekly by Newuh, Inc. 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