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Show Free Press - Wednesday, April 30, c c comment King, commoner made great love story 1986 - Page 2 letters to the editor Today a time capsule was opened at the second chapter of the world's most romance famous was unraveled. A poor little lady, classified as a recluse, died at her exile in France. Her name? Wallis Warfield Simpson. The wife of a former King of England, King Edward VIII. The whole world waited, watched and listened as newspapers and radio broadcast the news that the King abdicated his throne for "the woman I love." Mrs. Simpson was twice divorced - A sin and crime in the eyes of the Church of England. The laws said that a member of the royalty could not marry a divorced person. A king and a beautiful American woman. Such stuff as dreams are made. To all the romantics in the world, this was the ultimate sacrifice. To all the cynics in the world, King Edward was a fool who shirked the responsibilities of his kingdom for a wanton woman. Details of the romance, the marriage and their life together have been kept hidden from, not only the royal family, but the public as Adult magazine sales First Amendment right defends your right to worship the God of your choice and not another. I boycott because they gave in to the few and will not support the First Amendment. f 450 plus copies of one title was sold! That is 450 people that come to Lehi's business district who ordinarily would not have come. Lehi's business district needs all the help it can get. Shops that open in Lehi do not remain so for long. Sounds Easy, a major chain of video stores, moving to American Fork is an example. If the residents of Utah County do not want these books why are they coming to Lehi to buy them? Lehi residents do not fear the sale of these magazines because they support the First Amendment . . . they believe in their ability to teach their children with intelligence and have them respond with intelligence in regard to such material. Lehi parents and other residents use the brains God gave them. They know know to think for themselves and pass it on to their children. They are more emotionally stable for the v same reason. Let the rest of Utah County's hair 5 turn white, eyes bulge, and run screaming in terror at the sight of a naked boob. Lehi residents are too intelligent and sophisticated for that nonesense. They know how to think and thus are free of Fear. -- Dan Beck Lehi Editor: The recent article claiming that Lehi is the porn capital of Utah County is not only 1 udicrous but highly insulting! One lone student wanders through the city's business district and finds one location that sells Penthouse and Playboy and suddenly we are all responsible for all the pornography in Utah County! What that student failed to note is that Lehi residents allow such sales because they support the First Amendment; and are more intelligent and emotionally secure than the rest of Utah County. The reasons I'll reveal in a moment. The fact this student comes from the BYU is no surprise and g. The BYU is notorious for its censorship of student thoughts and ideas, especially in the media; most notable being Journalism. Many professionals have cancelled and refused speaking engagements in portest of such a policy. There are m ore square feet of bars and liquor stores in Provo than square feet of business district in all of Lehi. The drunk drivers, teens, alcoholics in Provo cause more trouble and damage than the sale of Penthouse, Playboy, etc., in Lehi. I do n ot buy the magazines in question, but as long as they are legal I will defend their right to exist and be sold to adults. The First Amendment is too important to be lax with. Remember! It also 7-- quite-amusin- well. Now, the whole story unfolds. . , Half-circle- " sagged under his eyes. The eyes were bloodshot, but that was hard to tell because the lids were drooping so much that the upper and lower eyelashes were almost touching. He slouched in the chair, carefully nursing a Dr. Pepper. Every now and then he made a whimpering sound, sort of like a puppy who was recovering after a big person stepped on his paw. He was also, quite clearly, in no mood to discuss his appearance. But that had never stopped me before, so I mentally put on my hip boots, and headed in. "You look awful," I said bravely. "Mind your own business," he growled, and then added sarcastically, "as if you newspaper people ever did; ,It's all your, fault -anyway,11 and' no one wants to' do, about it." anything e ( "Aboutwhat?" realize that this is being written too late to actually do anything constructive for the FFA Lab that is currently being built at Lehi High School, but we feel like the people of Lehi should be aware of the waste of both time and a large sum of money that have been involved in having to move the building so that it would meet the specifications of the Lehi building code. Clay Christensen is a very dedicated FFA teacher who traveled on his own time over a two-yeperiod throughout the state of Utah, to various schools who had FFA labs a place where the students could actually practice a number of techniques that they were learning in class, to find out how these teachers obtained the funds and' the procedure that was followed so that our high school students might have the same benefits. He then wrote a proposal, which took a year and much persuasion to get through the district, to get . money to proceed with the lab. This is special grant money from the, state that if we didn't have a teacher with the initiative to go after it, some other school would get it. We ar column 4 By MARC HADDOCK just like they are. You certainly can't hold thatagainstme." ' ' ""That's "not ' what I'm' upset - the big man said. s''Why don't yon newspapers do something about ending 'u 'unacy that started this day ight savi..6 ... the first place. 1 iat would be a public service. "The - hole thing is unnatural, obscene and physically harmful. Children can't get to sleep at night because it's too light. Innocent homeowners are forced to do yard work late into the night because the sun is still up and there's no good . reason to stop. , ' ; "Then they wake up in the morning and can't figure out why they feel like they've lost an hour of sleep somewhere. They fail to realize that the hour hasn't been lost. Some bureaucrat has stolen it from about,"- "Daylight savings time, of course. notice you didn't even tell your devoted readers last week that Sunday was the day our leaders annually suspend the laws of nature and force us to reset our biological clocks." I was embarrassed because he was right. In fact, in all the years I have been editing newspapers, I have never run a story to tell people that daylight savings was coming, or going. There's a simple reason for that. "I forgot - just like everybody else who didn't realize an hour had been stolen from them until they turned on the television Sunday. I may have failed to serve the public, but I'm them." I Teacher needed support, instead he got hassle Editor: Prince Edward will soon marry his d Sarah, and even Queen Elizabeth married the man of her choice, Prince Phillip. Poor King Edward was banished because he fell in love with the "wrong" woman. They lived a sybaritic life in France. A life of nothingness - an almost existence meaningless forced on the couple because of staid, archaic laws laid down by red-haire- Big John looked bad, very bad. s of dark, wrinkled skin the As you may remember, decision not to adopt this proposal won by a landslide. Hopefully, people will remember what they voted against ihafe- proposition. I jthink-wall realized then, that it is not our right to make moral decisions for other people. , Morality is not an issue that can or should be 1 egislated. All we have the right to do is make moral decisions for ourselves, stay away from those who compromise our ' personal values, and teach our families and children what is right, so when their time comes to make these decisions, they will make the for themselves. right choices --JC Marie v ; : Provo, Utah - By BETTY FOWLER The wrong information was directed to Mr. Christensen when he was told that if the building was being built on school property that no building permit was necessary. What a strange world this is. Is We realize that a mistake was there no peace in the heart of man? made. Then there is Imelda Marcos shoes. But it seems like it was an exIf she were a centipede with a lot of tremely drastic measure to be legs it' might be understandable taken, for the building to have to be why she needs so many shoes. totally taken down and moved to a Some people collect bottle caps or different location because it fell 10 paper clips, while dear Imelda feet from conforming with the collects shoes. building code. We think that it is Her husband is different; he especially disgraceful that this collects money. The only thing is - it building, sitting right on main cannot buy him a safe place to live. street, was allowed to have all the Well folks, the word is out what dirt work completed, all the cement the U.E.A. wants for the teachers. work completed,' and all the walls First, its a four-da- y week, then a 3.2 erected, before anything was ever increase. In another percent salary said about it not conforming with column it states that in the building code. Drive around newspaper Ogden employees take a library town and notice the number of ' salary cut in order to keep the have been that given libraries buildings going. ' variances because they " don't " "4 Industries such as Kennecott and conform to code. Geneva are asking their employees We think that in a day and age to take radical cuts in the pay in where education is having such a their forthcoming contracts. hard time, it would be nice if I don't want to take sides in the to the would help teacher jump everyone it will take more and support of a teacher" who is wisdom dispute, I possess to work it out than working so hard for our students instead of making these efforts satisfactorily. There is no doubt that the U.E.A. almost impossible to carry out., is feeling its strength. They say that -- Larry & Marilyn Alien ' Andrea Allen if their , demands are not met teachers will refuse to sign their er "But what do you expect me to do." I was getting a little angry. I don't like to be blamed for the ills of the world when I had nothing to do with creating them. "Well, in the first place, don't do what USA Today did." But they dedicated their whole editorial page to a discussion of the issue, I argued. That required a lot of time and effort, so ..e certainly couldn't accuse the paper of ignoring the issue. "No, they didn't ignore it. They blatantly bypassed the issue, and created one of their own. USA Today treated daylight savings time as an act of God, and the only thing for us mortals to determine was whether we should start it earlier or later in the year. "It's a classic maneuver by you journalists to overlook the injustices; Of society by redirecting the public's' interest. I thought it was beneath contempt." "But what do you expect me to do?" I repeated. "I have a limited forum, with a small audience. Besides, nobody reads my editorials anyway." Big John's eyes lit up with that fire of social reform I had seen before. I settled back in my seat and prepared for the lecture I knew was coming. "I expect you to do something instead of sitting there . and whining." He was getting ugly now. "You could mount a campaign to end daylight savings time. It would be a service to mankind, and probably the most important thing you would do in your life. You could dedicate your editorial space to '.,'.,.. We all collect something , . This is a letter of protest to the ! Utah County Commissioners. As a citizen of Utah County I am deeply concerned at the lack, of' written data about the Traverse Ridge project. In contacting the planning commission I was handed a three-pag- e planning commission, staff report dated March 18, 1986. If you omit the description of the ' property and the zoning ordinances there is less than one page of written facts. You are talking about creating one of the largest cities in Utah Countv with 'only one; paSe of written data. A fellow at the county planning commission made the comment .that he, had seen larger staff reports for a carport addition. According to the Utah Taxpayers Association, abased on an average, residential services provided by the county will cost!, over 25 percent more than' taxes', collected, this figure could even be higher since 'everything will have to be done In contacting the state Attorney General's office, regarding special service districts, I was told that the law was designed to allow existing . , . twice-divorc- great demand and as a result the browsinq Union made tremendous demands in their contracts and in face of a possible strike the demands were granted arid the coal miners became the highest paid workers in the country. Then something happened, it was found that oil was a cheaper source 'of energy and heating than was coal. The railroads did away with their coal burning locomotives and installed the oil burning diesels. Homes discarded the coal burning furnaces and stores and was replaced by oil. Suddenly there was less demand for coal and many miners found themselves .out of work. In our own Carbon County the mining of coal has not recovered to where it once was. There may n ot be a moral to this, but in these days of mechanical marvels strange things can happen. Perhaps there never will be found a substitute for teaching, but if it gets loo expensive who knows what may happen. Well, my dear friend and neighbor Electa Monson passed away, and with her passing went a story of courage that stirs the " contracts next fall. I hope the U.E.A. will remember they are not only dealing with the School Boards but with the public who have to foot the bills through their taxes, and the mood of the taxpayer right now is against higher taxes. As I watch these developments I think back through the era of John L. Lewis who was the president of the United Mine Workers of America. At that time coal was in ; cities to develop additional areas Utah County residents are being without increasing taxes for violated. The creation of a special everyone in that city. Nowhere was service district is being used as a their any mention of using this to smoke screen to coverup the fact create a city that did not exist. that Utah County will have to spend thousands of taxpayers dollars to In asking why, I was told that the subsidize a private developer. With startup costs, such as road plan- the lack of data and the speed you ning, geology, sewer engineering, are going, you are at risk of setting flood : control engineering, plan alegal precedent for future checks, survey,' police, fire and developers. other municipal services, would have to be provided by the county at As a Utah County resident I their expense til the project was hereby demand that nothing further nearly completed and ready to sell. be done until the Utah County It appears to me that our rights as Planning Commission staff does an i wiping out this pernicious evil that has taken our country by storm. It would be a noble undertaking something worthy of your dubious talents." "But all the golfers would hate me," I replied meekly. "Probably. But you don't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. I have it all worked out for you. You could suggest a novel punishment for the man who came up with this horrible idea. Personally, I think he should be forced to wake up an hour earlier each day until he finally to terminal succumbs sleep deprivation." "That's a novel idea, but it won't work. The guy's already dead." "Somebody beat us to the punch, I guess." "Not really. He died of old age when " he. was 84to 'and Benjamin Franklin is as famous now as he was when he died 196 years ago last Thursday. It's going to be pretty hard to discredit him." "Wait a minute," Big John was starting to see the light. "Franklin was a printer, wasn't he?" "Oh, he was more than a printer. With his 'Pennsylvania Gazette,' Franklin was probably the first real newspaperman in the nation." John could see I was getting warmed up for a lecture of my own. He cut me off:; "I get it now. You newspaper types all stick together -even after two centuries. You look as bad as I do, but you're not about to take this burning social issue and run with it, are you." "No,'.' I answered bluntly. "Then I guess the only thing to do is go home and take a nap." - like shoes County officials need more information on Traverse Ridge Editor: Josephine. There was George and Martha. There was Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Ferdinand and Isabelle. Nicholas and Alexandria, all to dream and speculate about. There was Henry the Eighth and Ann Boleyn and there was King Henry the Eighth and five more of 'em. But there was no royal couple that excited the imagination, that stirred a romantic fervor, sparked even the most dull of us, like the romance of King Edward VIII and Mrs.. Simpson, which led to the abdication of ' the king. We wondered what was different about Wally. Was she that beautiful? Was she rich? What was so special $bout her? Why would a king give up his crown for such as a American brunette? ; At her request, the love letters that tell the story of one of the world's most famous romances are being made public. At long last. The time capsule has a been opened. I want to be the first in line, I wished I could read them all, one by one. The ultimate soap opera. But what a sad ending. What began as once upon a time, ended with a tinyiittle 95 year old recluse, living alone, unwanted, rejected, snubbed during her lifetime of marriage to a king. Now, only now, the royal family is visiting the graveside of this woman. Mourners yet. How nice of them. Who needs this daylight savings time the editor's Pay-T- one-side- d. It's like a glorified soap opera that has finally written finis to the last chapter. Prince Charles has his Diana. limit, or in this case illiminate, the choices made available. The same type of issue was raised with the movies from attempt to ban V believe it -- Stories on porn sales only told one side of story Editor: Recent articles in the Lehi Free Press, the Provo Daily Herald and a have stirred report from KBYU-Tmuch controversy concerning the sale of sophisticate magazines in Lehi's Circle K convenience store. In my opinion, the articles and stories have been myself r do n ot purchase adult 'magazines; but,I also know that it is not my place to make that decision for others. Nor is it my place to judge those who choose to participate in the making, selling, or purchasing of such material. In this community we are constantly reminded of our free agency, or, in other words, the right to choose for one's self. This right is not only guaranteed to us by the Constitution of the United States, but also as a human's individual right. However, this issue is a classic example of how Utahn's attempt to you better royal rules and the Church. One wonders what would have such happened if there had been no law. Would Wally and her king have survived a life before the public? his Certainly, King George VI and would Mother, now the Queen wife, not have inherited the throne. And that means that there probably wouldn't be a succession of interesting couplings which are still of the taking place before the eyes world. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the title bestowed on the departed king and his wife, would - have ascended to Buckingham Palace, and their offspring would have inherited the titles now being worn so proudly by Charles and Diana and the rest of Queen Elizabeth's siblings. For a romantic at heart, there's so many interesting departures the story might have taken, so many dreams to be dreamed, so many mysteries to be solved. An American could now be commanding the attention of the world! There would probably have been a palace in the United States. It might have been located right here in Utah! We could be bowing and scraping to a king and queen who would be consorting with Ronald and Nancy Reagan. and was There Napoleon imagination. It was over 30 years ago that I first met her. The disease of Parkinson had already attacked her body. It seemed she was destined to die very soon, but her son was called on a mission. "I will live until he returns," she said and though this painful, devestating disease was developing more and more, she did live until his return. When it looked like the end was near a second son was called on a mission, and again the words, "I must live until he returns." Her unconquerable spirit again survived and live she did. In fact she lived many years following the return of her sons.. . , She was always dogged with the pain and, crippling effects of this dread disease, but her courage carried her through the years; Her husband, Alvin, was a pillar of strength to her, dedicating his life to her every wish. While his own health was deteriorating he did everything possible to make her life more comfortable. In a troubled world it gives a lift to the spirit to see such courage and dedication. , 3Ccl?i Free press ISSN No. in depth study on the entire project and can provide a complete cost break down and economic study to the residents of Utah County. , me it is almost criminal negligence to have allowed this to proceed so far, so fast with so little hard data. Your jobs as elected Utah County Commissioners should be to protect our rights as residents, not to expedite a project for a private developer because he says he has a deadline to meet.'. ' To -- Donald B. Kaufer Highland USPS. - No. 0 Published weekly except (or Thanksgiving and Christmas by Newtah, Inc. 12 Writ Main Lehi, I'tah MW3 Telephone Numbers Advertising Circulation. t New Publisher Ed'lors Brett R.Beziant Marc Haddock Betty Fowler Subscription price tUP per year Second clan postage paid at Lehi Post Office ra 7. Ammc Fort. luk Mta |