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Show Page 2 THE LEADER GARLAND TIMES July 7, 1977 Insf An Editorial Opinion Council's Stand Was An Unwarranted Step ..TREMONTON CITY COUNCILMEN may be elected to represent the people, but they d their bounds Tuesday evening. The council voted to go on record favoring from Elwood k the central route for western route, the and opposing Plymouth which has been chosen. They plan to reveal their position to the Transportation Commission when it meets here Friday. It should be noted that Councilmen Russ Webb and Dr. Reese Mason were absent when the vote was taken. ..THE QUESTION of which route they oppose or support is not at issue. The fact that they supported either one is. A public hearing is scheduled tomorrow at which any and all citizens of the valley including citizens of Tremonton have an opportunity to appear and voice their opinion. The council, however, has assumed it has the right to speak for the city as a whole without having given local citizens a chance to voice over-steppe- their opinion. ..THE TRANSPORTATION Commission will assume that the city council speaks for the city as a whole or at least the majority of it. City council members have no basis on which to back up that assumption. Their action is bound to please center route supporters and offend western route supporters. The council action was also tained by the fact that their vote was solicited by a center route supporter who made a presentation to the council, but no western route supporter was heard from. . . TREMONTON RESIDENTS do not expect council members to hold a public hearing every time they want to take an action. Elections are designed to give voters a chance to approve or disapprove the overall actions of elected officials. But the question is so volatile that the council's action may serve only as another log on a fire that has already burned too long. Something on your mind?. a-Comm- onr raws Nlxed toseMora westloini Editor's Note: The name of Insta-Po- ll has been changed this week to A poll represents a scientific or random sampling of public opinion. on the other hand, is merely a vehicle to allow members 'of the public to express an opinion on a subject such as they might do in a letter to the editor. The number of comments for or against a particular proposition is not and should not be viewed as a reliable indication of how the public as a whole views the question. Those who oppose more hearings, however, were much more vocal in their opposition while supporters in each case merely said, "Yes, I do" in response to Insta-Comme- Insta-Comme- the question. Wayne Dalton, Garland, one of three callers who gave their name, opposes more hearings. "I feel that the longer it goes the more money that it will cost to build (the freeway). Then it affects every taxpayer," he said. "I think that this has gone on long enough." A female opponent of more hearings noted, "The only reason the hearings are asked for is because a few QUESTION: Do you think additional hearings should be held on the question of which route from Elwood to Plymouth should 10.1 express an opinion. Because something has already been decided does not mean people are not entitled to an opinion about it. As far as the picture of the kids in the canal, it was Operating funds for the just .that. It was not an editorial comment on anything but simply a picture of kids having fun. And it was not an editorial Box Elder School District comment on the Health Department. will increase by $861,898 or 10.1 percent next year as a result of actions taken by the 1977 Utah Legislature. Estimated operating funds in , will amount to or $953 per weighted-pupil unit, compared with $8,564,069 or $873 per weighted-pupil 7 unit during the school year. 1977-7- 8 Letters to the sdltor welcomed. From anyone. Letter-To-E- dr Editor: Do we really have an energy shortage in this country or are we simply being denied an abundance of energy by our inequitable income tax laws? There are at least six proven practical methods of producing enormous amounts of usable energy from inexhaustible energy sources. Why haven't we taken advantage of these inexhaustible energy sources on a large scale? The answer is very apparent: In 1926 Congress passed income tax legislation which enables those people with income from the extraction of minerals and fossil fuels, such as oil and coal, to escape the income tax entirely on up to 50 percent of their net income from such extraction. No tax advantage, even remotely comparable, was given to encourage the development of energy from the inexhaustible energy sources such as solar power, wind power, regrowable vegetation and waste conversion. Congress has failed for over 50 years to remove this gross inequity from the tax law. This has worked to the extreme disadvantage of those tryhing to raise capital to develop the inexhaustible energy sources. If Congress continues to fail to remove this inequity from the tax law, it is not likely that there will be any significant, development of these inexhaustible sources very soon because the development capital will obviously continue to be . attracted to where the tax advantages are. I will gladly supply more information on this subject, free on request, to any one who will write to me at Box 127, Gillette, Wyo. 82716. k-u- Lottor To Man Without A Church Toam Editor: This letter is in answer to the Catholic man who wants to play ball on an L.D.S. team. Although I am female, in 1973 I was faced with the same problem. The Mormon bishop told me that in order to be eligible to play on his church team I would be obliged to attend four meetings a month and tithe my fair amount. The solution to my problem seemed a simple one as I did attend four meetings a month and I also did tithe, so, all I did was go to my priest and explain my problem and the priest in turn signed a note for me that said I did these required things. I took the note back and showed the bishop. He laughed, and I played catch on that team the entire season. Of course, the age-ol- d statement of, "if you can't win 'em, join 'em," could apply to this situation. However, I feel there are other alternatives such as neither joining nor winning, but rather learning to cooperate, to try to understand one another's needs and rules and ethics, and above all, put aside the name of one's religion and live with one another as true Christians which, of course, was the original plan of our Lord. Cathey C. Hunsaker Roador Is Amazed Sincerely, Stephen Tarver Gillette, Wyoming Thanks For Cooporatlon Editor: I would like to thank the Wheat and Beet Days Committee for allowing me to participate in their event this year. I would also like to thank members of the Methodist Church for letting me photograph the contestants in their basement. During the four shooting sessions I managed to wake Ron g job, Ogborn from a nap, interrupt his wife in a break up Mrs. Borcherding's shopping, throw off Sam Woerner's watering schedule, and delay Doris Bean's typing job. I would also like to thank Curtis and Bonnie Starr at The Leader for doing an excellent technical job in reproducing the portraits for the paper. hair-curlin- Graphically yours, Craig & Cindy Feller Shocked By Another Hoarlng hearings also. She favors the western route. "It wouldn't take part of our farm, no, but we have nothing but clay dirt up here to grow our farm products in and we feel that all of the good soil over in that area the farms that own it got a right to keep it to feed the country..." "We feel that they better save the good soil and feed the valley because we got a lot of new children coming up that we've got to feed." Steve Gilmore of Bountiful State Provides . Must Rofflovo Tax Inoqulty Ir; Tremonton opposes more Utah Foundation Says follow? That question prompted ten responses as near as we can tell from our recording machine. Six felt enough hearings had been held while four felt more should be held. selfish people are afraid they're going to lose a few bucks..." Mrs. Floyd Chadaz of $9,425,967 1976-7- These were some of the facts reported by Utah Foundation, the private research organization, in an analysis of school financial trends within the state. The Foundation study points out that state and local funds for public school operations in Utah have been rising at an average rate of 13 percent each year over the past several years. It notes that while part of this increase is due to inflation and higher enrollments, a substantial part is attributed to other factors such as (1) higher salaries, (2) expand--, ed benefits, (3) reductions in class size, (4) added personnel, and (5) the introduction of new programs. Projections made by Utah Foundation and other groups have indicated that school enrollments in Utah will climb by 100,000 pupils over the next ten years. Based on this estimate and assuming continuation of the cost trends of the past five years, school operating expenditures in Utah will exceed $1 billion annually by the 1986-8- 7 school year. At that time, school costs in Utah will be rising at a rate of more than More million each year. Throughout the state, total operating funds for schools will rise from $317.4 million in 1976-7- 7 to $357.7 million in 1977-7In addition to this increase in operating funds, the 1977 Legislature also approved a new school building aid program which will allocate $11.4 million in state building aid plus another $1 million for a loan fund to assist a limited number of school districts that are unable to complete building projects from existing re; sources. Utah's guaranteed basic school program was raised from $683 per weighted-pupi- l to $732 per unit in 1976-7- 7 weighted-pup- il unit in who owns property in the valley also opposed more hearings. Gilmore said new hearings can't accomplish anything. He said the center route would cost more because more irrigation ditches would be involved. "Somebody has to make a decision," he added. We found two problems Here's this week's quest ion: Do you think a new bond election for two swimming pools - one at Bear River High and one at Box Elder High would pass or fail if the question of an auditorium for Box Elder junior high were left out? with our service in its trial run. In one case it appears that one woman called in more than one time. The women, each time, spoke against additional hearings. Only one of her phone calls and comments from it has been Insta-Comme- nt THE LEADER THE GARLAND TIMES included in the above story. The second problem is that we may have inadvertantly eliminated the comments of one caller who called just as the service was in operation. The service is turned on each night at 5:30 p.m. on weekdays and is left on all day Saturday and Sunday. Comments received after 8 a.m. of the Tuesday following publication of the week's Published every Thursday by the Leader Publishing Co. at 10 North 1st West.' Tremonton. Utah. Subscription rate: June 17, 1937: A $40,000 addition is now under construction to the Western Creamery Products Company plant in this city. The addition will be a powdered milk factory and, with the creamery in connection, will have the capacity to handle all of the whole milk and cream produced in this county. The work, which was commenced on the first of this month, is expected to be completed some time in July. June 26, 1947: Parking meters were removed from the Tremonton business district early Monday, under a y moratorium agreement between the meter company and Tremonton City officials, according to Henry Morrison, local Chief of Police, charged with enforcing the meter ordinance. While the parking meters have not proved entirely successful, since they were installed last July, they have, however, brought in sufficient revenue to pay for maintenance and policing. "It's now up to local business men and their employees, whether the meters remain out," city officials informed The Leader this week. If parking again becomes a serious problem, due to local conditions, the meters may again be installed. 60-da- SELECTED SUPER SPECIALS HUGE REDUCTIONS SANDALS THONGS CLOGS PURSES VALUES REGULAR VALUES REGULAR 12 50 to y00 S00 25 95 '12-50 '17.50 to '21.95 '12.95 0()OO $QO J (mQsnn. 12 West Main I jp First Security Bank of Utah, N.A. Subordinated Notes First Security Bank is offering $23,000,000 in Subordinated Notes. Editor: Your paper seldom fails to amaze me. I wonder, how can events, - or at least your version of them, - oppose each other as inadvertently as they do in The Leader Times today? Two things bother me. First, the announcement of your Insta-Poon page two. Your topic, "Do you think additional should hearings should be held to determine what route take from Elwood to Plymouth?" has already been decided. The hearing is on the 8th - the day after your next edition appears. If the response is negative, still the hearing is scheduled. The question seems irrelevant. My second problem. The last article on Ithe front page certainly deserves reporting, and maximum consideration by all valley citizens. "Turbidity of Water Too Great-Poo- l May be Forced to Close." If Belmont Springs is forced to close and kids continue to swim in the west canal as you report with a big photo at the top of page one, there is something distinctly wrong with the Bear River District Health Department. Turbidity in the canal is unbelievable and tl water is scarcely clean enough to flush toilets with. 1 have been swimming in both of these places for nearly sixty years and know them intimately. In younger years I swam regularly in the canal. It was refreshing after a day's work. I also made many, many trips to the Udy springs. Swimming there was always a special treat. It seems ironic that this choice natural resource has had such unfortunate circumstances in its history of development. Now, after the varied failures of the past, Wendell Welling steps forth and manifests enough enterprise to build something nice in the way of resort facilities there, and people are beginning to appreciate it. So, an unsavory government agency steps in and says, "No, it cannot be." Something is wrong here. I say with emphasis, -let the Bear River Health Department patrol the valley canals and keep the kids from their skinny dipping if they can, but let the people who are trying to develop this natural mineral spring facility alone to do their work of development as best they are able. They are to be complimented for their efforts. ll Sincerely, I, or us O. King, Garland, Utah was not instituted necessarily Editor's Note: Our Insta-Pol- l to change anything, ... merely to give people a chance to Editor: Much has been said and many public hearings held concerning the route for Interstate through Bear River Valley. I was shocked when I saw an article in the Ogden Standard saying another meeting was being called. After the hearing a year ago we were told the location had been settled once and for all. When the decision was made a year ago to take the west route why is another meeting being held July 8? What can we believe of what representatives of the Utah Highway Department tell us, or can we believe anything they say? Was this another false statement - like the one they made in 1938, when they purchased a strip of good farm land for almost nothing along the east side of the road now called Temp. from Elwood to Plymouth.? At that time we were told this road would be widened in the very near future. Many of us looked forward to the time when we would have a wider road but, almost 40 years have passed and it has not been widened and the land that was purchased is growing weeds. Some of the best land in the valley lies in the narrow strip between the two rivers. This good land should be kept for agriculture and not used for a highway. Where I live is about two and a half miles to the mountains east of us and two miles to the west mountains. In that four and a half mile wide strip there are six roads, three canals and two rivers, two railroads that are in use and one abandoned railroad across the road from my home. Why should more land be taken in the center of the valley when there is another route that can be used that is not all good irrigated farm land? Land owners along the west route claim they did not have a voice in the hearing. Who's fault was it? The hearings were announced in our local paper, surely some of them saw it. fc. i inn i ii 15$tt - .,.,(- - 1 pass I.ora Astle Garland Available in a minimum of $500 and increments of $100. The offering circular is available and notes may be purchased at any office of First Security Bank of Utah, N.A. KH SAIL I!I74 I'll 550 Four Honda. Luggage rarick, roll ,ar. Low mileage. Reasonable price. 2.'i7 3019 after p m Box Elder, Cache and Oneida $5.50 per year, all other areas $6.00 per year. Second Class Postage paid at Tremonton, Utah 84337.. Looking Back $130 8. question generally will be too late to be included in the following edition s story. The principal office of I irst Security Hunk of Utah, N.A. is 79 South Main Street. Salt Lake City. Utah 841 1 1. |