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Show THE SENTINEL Thuruy,0cti.i8i Ptg 2 mon Opi serve Riverton, South Jordan, Crescent, Draper, and Bluffdale, provided the citizens of the area approve formation of the district at a special $2.5 miUion, will Th eirs High enrollment foreseen Utah Technical College D. Orville Carnahan, president staff speaking at a unless that money meeting, said, is available for the expansion of facilities at the college, technical and vocational students will be forced to leave the Salt Lake VaUey to gain Job skills. He projected that enrollment at the college will increase from the 7,000 students presently enrolled to 20,000 students by 1891. Carnahan, who assumed the UTC presidency on Aug. 1, told the 330 faculty and staff that the . pre-scho-ol college presently has "more students than we can handle" and noted that many students are on n waiting lists to be admitted to programs. He pointed out that UTC has a good reputation as a technical coQege outside the state, based on information he gained while serving as a college president and administrator in Washington state and Iowa. "This reputation is based on the quality of students cer-tai- trained here." said Carnahan an that organization is needed to speak for vocational education and urged college personnel to "become politically active in making legislators aware of our need for Yours Editor: July 13th I wrote a letter to Mr IScOain (Mac) Haddow asking for his views on an important bill that I am in support of, that being bill HR 556 (formerly 4805) the Research Modernization Act which is a bill asking that alternatives be found to replace laboratory test animals. never-the-les- s, public bearing wherein he said, "What we don't need is all these 'professionals' (spoken with contempt) running our city." I would like to ask Mr Dahl if be considers himself (as an attorney) a professional? It appears the of politicians typical found has already its way into the mayoral hopeful's rhetoric. All over town I see signs of candidacy for Mr Dahl and Mr Kemp (both of whom seem to have a dif- ''double-talk- " by David Y. Denholm " public Service Research Foundation (c) Public Research, Syndicated, 1981 The abortive strike by PATCO has focused renewed attention on the question of the illegality of strikes by public employes. The day after the strike began, Representative John Conyers introduced a bill, HR 4375, (D-M-I) which would legalize strikes by federal workers and retroactively sanction the PATCO strike. Public sector union officials like Kenneth Blaylock, president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union of federal workers, are engaged in a battle for the hearts and minds of their members and the American public. To achieve these ends they portray Reagan as laws against public sector strikes as "archaic" and action as "heroic." Public sector strikes are illegal, not just because there is a law on the books that says "Thou shalt not strike," but because there is a long "stiff-necked- ," PAT-CO- 's , U- Bingham High School debate club held an election of officers and are president, Roger Johnson; vice president; Bonnie Jo Cam- J pbell; second vice president, Sherry Cowdell; secretaries, Sherilyn Harmon and Claudia Bone. The officers are in charge of arranging for debates and debate material and keeping the dub going smoothly along with their advisor, Jay Clegg. skills, be said. "We wUl never get away from the emphasis on vocational and technical training," he said, but the college needs a broader base of general education to fit into the job needs of graduates. The lack of space at the college could be remedied by finding locations in the community such as vacant stores and supermarkets, he said. Such business locations should be centrally located for population and would be ideal for classrooms where no special equipment is needed. Prior to assuming the presidency at UTC, Carnahan was president of Southern Utah State College. He has a background in vocational and technical education in two-yecolleges, having served as vice president as well as director of vocational education in Yakima Valley College in Washington and president of Highline College, also in mat state. 10 years An additional Merit Scholarship ImIx semi-finali- ' r1 ii ' impt 'i Dan congressman cluding Scott Governor Marriott, Matheson, and I am ever so thankful for all the help and information I received from Jake Gam. Mr Haddow is truly a big disappointment sSuzann Withers Sandy ficult time of speaking in clear language and of interpreting the needs of the City of Midvale); Other candidates for public office who have not been so vocal appear to me to be more deserving and and not so interested in making big splashes in an attempt to obtain the plaudits of men and to be seen of many. What Midvale doesn't need is level-head- ed crafty lawyers and long-ter- m council members running our dry. What we do need is conservative men or women who come to public office without bias or prejudice and who can take a fresh look at city government and change that which needs to be changed, accept and promote that which is good and to have the wisdom to know the difference. Roy L. Hardwick 40 years ago sfcwp" School. Leslie is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Robinson, Sandy. paJiM7 kvvT space Jordan students will find them- selves digging beets, cleaning house, or at other out-o- f school ocbeen awarded the 1941 cupations as the case may be from by the All American Oct. 10 to 18, during which time Yearbook Service rating for the school will be discontinued for the Scholastic Press annual beet National A first class honor rating has "Beet-digge- -- r" harvest Association, according to word received last Friday by Miss Laura Gardner, adviser. The 1940-4- 1 editors were Rulon Rasmussen and Edna Hansen, with David Meyer, artist. Faculty advisers were Laura Gardner, Orson Smith, and E. L. Crawford. Lee Dimond, James Leak, and Wayne Smart have been chosen to represent Utah in the national dairy cattle judging contest. They will also be in the milk judging contest Dahl Clark, who is now at the Lockkheed factory in California, was unable to take the trip, so Wayne Smart tried out and was chosen to take his place. Paul C. Boyce will accompany the boys, who win leave Oct 17. The convention will be held at Kansas City, Mo. Mrs Orpha Soffe Brown entertained at a piano recital at the East Midvale Ward chapel. Pupils of Mrs Brown participated in the recital were Jeanne Poulson, Beverly Harrison, Lois Evans, Maurine Tripp, Lois Glover, and Kenneth Lambson. E. G. Epperson, district supervisor of music, also entertained with A & B numbers of bis own composition. 30 years ago... An illustrated lecture on "Spring Flowering Bulbs," will be given at the Draper Flower club meeting in Draper Second Ward, by Leo Van ' Lyverden, according to Mary Steadman, program chairman. Mrs Iris Searle, one of the judges at the club's recent flower show, wUl discuss points upon which tries will be judged. en- Mrs Helen Fitzgerald, tour chairman, will announce plans for a garden tour, to be held in the near future, to Leslie Robinson, is st, announced by Brighton High Pvt. Brice N. Jenson, son of Mr and Mrs John M. Jenson, Midvale, recently arrived in Ft. Lewis, Wash., to begin eight weeks of basic training at the U.S. Army Infantry Training Center. ar answer the people who elected him. I have had a response from everyone else I have contacted in- ago... outstanding chrysanthemum gardens. The entire family of Mr and Mrs J. Graff, 37 S. Main St., Midvale, was home for the first time in several years, when Mr and Mrs Clarence J. Palen, BosweU, N. Mex., and Mr and Mrs John H. C. . The welcome mat has been unto folded the following sophomores: George Brkljacich, Marilyn Moore, Ralph Gibbons, Parting Miller, Ruth Darton, Dennis Minnich, Vera Ann Nelson, Rose Maria Blank, Lorene Anderson, Bonnie Adamsen, Wanda Daws, Bobby O'Brien, Lawrence Forbush, Larry Wood, Rayola Thompson, Arnold Angle, Val Player, RoUie Hall, Marva Mad-seDonald Edwards, Ann Buhl, Betty Crookstan, Ada Gail Lipsey, Evalyn Sjostram, David Root, and Elsa Bauer. ' Twelve juniors getting friendly smiles include Glen Wardle, Patricia Hoffman, Lois Wolf, Morris Frantz, LaVonne Clayton, Samuel MuUiner, Milton Smith, Everett Devey, Russell Walker, Mae Mangun, Jack Weichert, and Olaf Bauer. And seniors are happy to add 15 to the list of hopefuls for spring n, graduation: Janette Jachwak, Amalice Alva, Paul Bowen, Toni Whitmore, LeRoy Jones, Teddy Jones, Marilyn Duffin, Zena Koon-cSandra Hall, Richard LanReid Burkinshaw, Rex Frey and daughter, Lancaster, caster, Renee Cole, Steen, Kenneth Pa., visited here. and Harward. Marian Parkinson, . At the conclusion of classes at Peruvian Park School in May, , Misty Berg, third grader, daughter of Mr and Mrs Barry Berg, was so impressed with a program on pollution and so moved by a study of cancer of the blood, she was motivated to write to President Nixon. Her question to the President was "Why can't we spend more on cancer research than on moon space exploration?" Although Misty watched the mail box all summer, no mail came until now. She received an impressive letter from the White House, thanking her for her concern about cancer, and telling her what steps, have been taken and what futin research is expected' the post offices in Salt Lake County, plus many others, will become mere branches of the Salt Lake post office in the near future. This is the plan of the new postal service, it was reported this week by David R. Trevithick, Salt Lake postmaster, who said that the plan is to give the Salt Lake post office All jurisdiction over 78 post offices in Utah. e, There are 53 strangers being officially welcomed into the Jordan studentbody. In the group are Sewage facilities for five comstudents from schools in other in South Salt Lake County munities Utah cities and counties, and came a step closer this week when from schools in sue other states, the county commission approved including California, Idaho, establishment of the special imNevada, New Mexico, and district. Wyoming, and from schools in provement The system, estimated to cost Germany. 20yearsago... Jordan Valley Sentinel MMtssi SmHkmI toe. CwttMiMf MksM RtnMMis i tfct MnJuh) M ScKtMssi, wnUy fjfvifDfsff IMS. mMmM tnq Ikmla; SmbmI lrt m. CtMtr Strati IMnm. ft MM7. mi. PatMttt six mm ckMf SmM. ' K! 121. n mm MMi. ft MM7. Subscription lata Senior CHIim Rota , "yew In Statonf 'V yoar in Stat Utah Of Utah CfrhiMislMn David C. GodfrayJamas M. lander Should public sector strikes be legal? 'v ; Mr Denholm is President of President PISC0- reading, writing and speaking i Editor: As I continue to lose faith in the news media, I doubt mat you will print what I am going to say, but, I must speak out: , I have been made aware of Mr Everett-DahT- s candidacy for Midvale of City. About mayor three months ago I heard Mr Dahl make a stinging speech at a city foflio. . expansion. He defined the role of UTC as a specialty technical college which provides services to the community. The college needs to expand in the general education areas since those trained in the skUl and vocational areas need Apparently Mr Haddow is too busy golfing in Washington D.C. to - yYJh wStk education In technical election. tradition in common law that imposes upon the holder of a natural legal or economic monopoly the obligation to provide the service over which he or she enjoys the monopoly. A strike which made impossible the delivery of the service would violate this common law obligation. A number of union officials are contemptuous of laws prohibiting public sector strikes. Arnold Zack, in his book, Public Workers and Public Unions, points out that "the power to strike is of far greater relevance than the right to strike." Robert Poli, the president of PATCO, was even more blunt when be declared, "The only illegal strike is an unsuccessful one." Very recently, an official of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), admitted that "all our strikes are illegal, but generally . . . workers are granted amnesty as part of a strike settlement." Public sector strikes have several dimensions, only one of which is usually visible to the general public. Whether it is a strike by air traffic controllers, teachers, the police or sanitation workers, the public usually knows immediately that a public service is not being delivered. The real harm of public sector strikes and the true justification for their prohibition, however, is more subtle and far more impor- tant than the temporary deprivation of public service. A strike by a public sector union is a political, not an economic, action. Its purpose is to mobilize the elected the representatives people to make it politically more advantageous for them to agree to union demand rather than suffer the pressure against of political disadvantage of public discontent arising from the lack of service. Union officials recognize that in order to succeed, they must create a climate of public opinion in which government is discredited. This frequently leads to charges by waste unions of and in government. mismanagement In the PATCO affair, for instance, PATCO went to great lengths to question the safety of the air traffic control system, even before the strike began. Beyond this, a union leadership intent on striking must develop within its own cadre a sense of being exploited. This forces union officials to be extremely hyperbolic when it comes to communicating with the membership. In such a situation, such as the PATCO debacle, a strike becomes much more an inevitability than a last resort. The union leadership is actually forced by its own rhetoric to engage in an action that is unreasonable and ; Elected public officials, when faced with a strike or a strike threat, must decide whether they wish to maintain control over the size, cost and quality of government or relinquish that control to the extortionate demands of a in this special interest group sector union. a case, public self-defeatin- Recently, it has been fashionable to quote the taciturn Calvin Coolidge as the authority on public sector strikes. During the 1919 Boston police strike, Mr Coolidge declared, "there is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime." This might led us to imagine that such a philosophy was limited to Republican presidents, but no less a liberal Democrat than Franklin D. Roosevelt made the same point when he wrote: "A strike of public employes manifests nothing less than an intention on their part to obstruct the operations of government until their demands are satisfied. Such action looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable." Unions have succeeded in the last few decades in imbuing the American public with the notion that collective bargaining in the public sector is not just a good, in and of itself, but that it is somehow a sacrosanct right. But an objective analysis by observers on both sides of the question shows that collective bargaining and strikes are inseparable. Noted labor mediator Theodore Kheel, who is certainly not antiunion nor bargaining, has said on several anti-collecti- occasions that ve "collective bargaining and strikes are like Siamese twins." Professor Sylvester Petro, who is the intellectual father of the movement against public sector collective bargaining, notes that "collective bargaining unsupported by the right to strike is a mere sham, any government whose employes may strike is no less a sham." It is time for the elected leaders of this country to realize that collective bargaining is an inap-- . propriate method of public sector employer-employ- e relations. It was foisted upon us as a means of promoting harmony and equity. In fact, it has become a means of for insUtutionalizing strife. It has had the effect of transferring influence over the size, cost and quality of government from elected officials to union officials. It is hard to believe that we are limited in our intellect that we cannot devise a better means of insuring equity and harmony in public employment. This task, unfortunately, is obstructed by an enormous vested power structure known as public sector unionism so and collective bargaining. Perhaps the PATCO strike ha shown us both the problem and the solution. |