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Show THURSDAY. MA If 195 29. ft Gf RONALD REAGAN REPORTS The Shaw Just Another Bureaucracy By RONALD REAGAN Copley New s Service A few days after read you this, the House of Representatives is expected to pass a bill creating the Agency for Consumer Advocacy. It has already passed the Senate. SWIM AND PICNIC AT DOWNATA PICNIC AREA, SHADY PARK, WARM WATER Who wants this repackaged version of the Consumer Protection Agency bill defeated last year? Ralph Nader and his friends, the professional consumerists and Sens. Jacob Javits, Abraham Ribicoff and Charles Percy are its most ardent supporters. Who doesn't want it? Most Americans, according to a recently published survey by Opinion Research Corp. ." over the next three years. In the same survey, 59 per cent said they were "usually" treated "fairly in the marketplace, and another 27 per cent went further, saying they were "almost always" treated fairly. Only 13 per cent said they had been treated "unfairly" as CHANGED FREE FACILITIES FOR REUNIONS WITH RESERVATION CHURCH AND SCHOOL RATES make any changes it wishes in the laws governing these existing "watchdogs" in order to improve them. IF OV owned a retail chain and one store was doing poorly, you might IT FOL ND that 75 per cent of the people do not favor efforts to create such an agency. Only 13 per cent do. And, more than half of those changed their minds when told that it would cost some $60 million in tax dollars clerks, prices, advertising, decor, store hours or product lines, but you certainly wouldn't cure the problem by opening up a competing store across the street. Yet, that's just what Congress is about to do. It means another big bureaucracy which is bound to mushroom (don't they all?). How will it determine what the consumer's viewpoint is when it is supposed to represent some con- 210 million Americans? That's easy: the bureaucrats will simply equate their own OPEN HON. thru SAT. 10 i.m. to 11p.m. ROBERT MORROW 1. SUNDAY CONSTRUCTION GENERAL COMPANY opinions with those of all consumers. Their opinions become yours whether you agree or CONTRACTOR 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. 408 DOWNATA build WE HOT SPRINGS South East 6th what CUSTOM Utah Logan, 84321 want with YOU 3 Miles South Of Downey AND HOMES CEMENT not. And who plan or OURS. YOUR BUILT 3627 801-75- spokesmen to be? Consumif the professional consumerists have anything to say about it (and they are the ones who have persistently pushed this legislation for several years). WORK Serving Northern OPEN TIL LABOR Utah and Southern are the agency's Idaho DAY ELECTRICAL AND GENERAL CONTRACTING potentate reserved more PHONE OR WRITE FOR duties of this new agency would be to monitor the cost and quality of the goods we buy. Organized labor's actions certainly have a direct bearing on such matters, but labor has been specifically exempted from the bill. That's not surprising, considering the heavy political debt many congressmen owe to labor's hierarchy for campaign support. The bill has an Orwellian twist, too. The agency could demand from private businesses confidential information and trade secrets which it could make public. Consumerists, who are obsessed with the idea of controlling the economy and production, couldn't have dreamed up a better way to stifle new product develop- a American Ballet Theater performance. Some of the regular customers were miffed when they were asked to "voluntarily" exchange their tickets to accomodate the Shah's PHONE 208 - FREE ESTIMATES BOX CIRCLE 67 PRESTON, IDAHO 13263 CONSTRUCTION G 852 2999 PHIL GLEASON OWNER party. KNABE EVERETT WINTER Jo BUY LIKE RENT! 30 Elegant Grand Pianos Over 200 Beautiful Pianos Special Prices in Stock flMMMMMMMM BUY LIKE RENT ment. Unless a few House members blink and take a second look at this bill the public doesn't seem to want, it can only be stopped by a presidential veto. Low Down Payment Low Monthly Payment Low PWom Mod ma additional information obout yowf buy kka rant plant Interest No Charge for Local Delivery ADOMSS PHONf .... SUMMERHAYS MUSIC CO. SAIGON RAID 1343 North Vietnamese guerillas raided the U.S. Embassy Jan. RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL than 800 seats at the Kennedy Center for a May 17 OVK OF THE in Saigon on CIRCLE G CONSTRUCTION BALLET BKOLIiAIIA: The Shah of Iran has made enemies of some Washington ballet buffs. The Persian erists, CABINS On Highway 91 Interchange sales change managers, sumers. Despite this evidence, the bill's chief pushers forge ahead. Ostensibly, it would create an independent consumer voice in other government agencies' public hearings. The argument is that the existing agencies responsible for watching out for the public interests aren't really doing so. 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