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Show Page 2, THE LEADER-GARLAN- TIMES, September D 23. 1976 I walk up the street and see a frown on someone's face as I approach and it sends me sulking off to my hide-awa- y convinced I'm a failure. I just can't take it any more. It's inhuman. I'm going to become a An Editorial Opinion EPA Rule Discriminates Against Big Taxpayers Sometimes the strings attached to bricklayer. I quit. o Mrs. says I can't quit, the house payment is due. Nothing funny in that either.. The terrible thing about it is that after so long you find Star-Gaz- er have to subsidize an industry which contributes more than its share of sewage ac- ceptance of federal money by local and state governments just don't make any sense to us. And here's the latest case in ' point. The Environmental Protection of the is providing Agency funding for construction to upgrade the Tremonton sewer treatment plant to meet to the system. guidelines established by themselves. The city supplies But while EPA will aid the city it has developed a new restriction which won't allow it to help any industry in the city which provides an excessive amount of sewer to the system. Such industry is required to contribute to the cost of the project. An excessive amount is generally interpreted as that that the average home which utilizes the system contributes. Thus if industry and business are paying a greater proportion of the tax bill than the average tax payer to provide services used by all, why should that same industry be penalized by EPA? Doesn't make sense to case where the industry us Least not is a couple of grocery stores and two meat packing plants. Besides, isn't it that very industry which provides the jobs and the salaries from which the average taxpayer pays his taxes. s On the surface that sounds logical, we suppose. After all, isn't big industry one of the culprits guilty of polluting our waterways. And why should the average taxpay going to read my column today? How nice. I suppose you expect me to say something witty and humorous so you can have a good chuckle. You do, huh? And I suppose that after you've had your little chuckle, you'll just toss me aside and not think about me again until next Thursday. That's the kind of respect I get. You think it's easy to be funny or at least witty, week after week, 52 weeks a year, year after year after year. Well, it's not. You don't know the pressure I'm under to produce something funny. Someday it'll kill me. If you ever meet a man going up the street, stopping passersby and begging them, "Tell me So,-yo- u're Sounds logical, but is it really .An recent Utah Foundation report indicated that in Utah, for instance, commercial concerns which would include business and industry as opposed to the average taxpayer, pay ' as much as 45 percent of the annual property tax collected.Homeowners pay percent. haggl-ed-looki- Portage Man Home number of friends and relatives were on hand Tuesday evening to welcome Glen Morris home from a 100 day stay at the University Hospital in Salt Lake following back surgery .Banners of gaiety hung and hearts were made glad as he arrived home. His wife Faye drove him home. His son and daughter-in-law- , Mr. and something funny, Mrs.Craig Morris and children of Ogden followed them. A daughter, Mrs.Kipp (Sher-ma- ) Parker, of Long Mont, Colorado, arrived early to have things ready for his return. Mrs. Parker plans to stay here for a couple of weeks. We all say welcome home Glen and a continued recovery to you. A me. Educonznent What Does One prominent TV anchorman said he once spent an hour locked in his office reading a piece of news while at the same time attempting to raise an eyebrow and somehow slant the news to the right or left. The only thing be accomplished was to break himself up with laughter. Now that's funny. I guess everyone has their r. off days, even I'll give up all hope the day I run into Perce Watkins, the milkman, and he tells me it's a terrible day. See you next week, funny or not. Every Tuesday as my deadline approaches I call my wife and ask desperately, "Have the kids done anything ridiculous today?- -I need help." Why couldn't I have become a political columnist so I could write long boring pieces about the future of SALT or whether Jimmy Carter can smile himself to the White House? No,- -I have to be funny. The plain and simple fact is simply that sometimes I just don't feel the least bit funny. And right now is one of those times. How would you like to have to feel funny after eating a bad tunafish sandwich on your way to take a picture of a fat lady and 16 little monsters, all of whom want to make obscene gestures while they're posing? And then there's the anxiety of waiting every Thursday morning for the reviews. What did my public think of my latest effort? Was it a bomb or a smash or just so so? . er Ts9 Published every Thursday the Leader Publishing by Co. at 10 North 1st West. Tremonton. Utah.. Box Subscription rate: Elder. Cache, and Oneida $5.50 per year, all other areas $6.00 per year. Second Class Postage paid at Tremonton, Utah 84337. Star-Gaze- yourself laughing at things that aren't really funny. Like today, I found myself laughing at a suggestion that people tape their name and address on the front of their phones. It seems some people get so flustered when their home is burning down, for instance, that they can't even remember their own name and address to tell the fire department. What's funny about that? Sounds like a good, common-sens- e thing to do to me. It might even help the babysitter or your kids some day if they have to make the call. There,- -I feel better now that I've done something constructive for a change, and not simply something funny. Maybe J should become a serious columnist. Too bad I'm not on television so I could raise an eyebrow or curl my lip to add a bit of visual inflection to my columns, like Erik Severied. TV newsmen have been accused of doing just that and thereby slanting the news. Lss MAIN THEATRE Cafes I Vfrk 7SJUT7 w J. WHERE'WESTWORLD'STOPPED ULVJIMJ! iUH,200 ENTRY FEE: PER DAY EXIT FEE: YOUR LIFEI PETER FUNDA . BLYTHE DANNER TURJREWDRLD" nn AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURE ARTHUR HILL as the YUL BRYNNER Gunslmgtif also starring cad 9:10 Ends Tims 7:33 NaxtWMkl "Tlw Hfadti&urg" whfi Gm. C. Scott Pbnto tse HI NEA Endorsement Mean? By Ray M.Hall Chain Brake stops moving cridin in miiiiwuuiiua Powerful - zips thru a 6' log in seconds Easy to use, automatically oils its own bar & chain s Intermountain Farmers Assn, 231 South 3rd West Tremonton 9 Jay's Chevron ' Riverside 458-378- 6 What, exactly, does NEA's endorsement of Jimmy Carter mean? It means that a minimum of 58 percent of the official delegates to last summer's NEA Convention have indicated a preference for Carter. Since a majority of the delegates in Miami in June favored a presidential endorsement, and since the required 58 percent of those delegates do prefer Carter, the organization's official endorsement goes to him - along with a sizable contribution from the NEA Political Action Committee. 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