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Show t'dru-sday- , June 29, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 1983 The Herald, its readers, syndicated columnists and cartoonists discuss vital issues Opinions J Page 31 iffj The Daily Herald Comments , Qdl Signs Eleven million Americans are still out of work, and for them the only economic recovery worth talking about will be recovery of a job. But it remains true that the nation otherwise is rebounding nicely from the deepest recession in this half of the 20th century, and fuller employment should not be far behind. President Reagan notes a telling sign that the economy is starting to peak: "Sud- denly, the critics are no longer calling the program 'Reaganomics.'" Signs of the recovery are busting out like spring flowers: The Commerce Department says 23 of 29 key indus-- ; tries are expected to do better in 1983 than in 1982, and such vital sectors as housing and autos will do considerably better. The stock market has hit new highs, new businesses d are forming at near-recor- rates, factories in May ran at ;the highest level in 15 months ;and venture capital invest-fnenhave reached record levels. ; ts v The question now is how to , sustain the recovery. Reagan took a big step in that direction with the reappointment ! of Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. While Volcker has been sniped at by critics as opposite as presidential candidate Walter Mondale and conservative Republican Rep. Jack IE "If Congress is doing its job the Fed's job becomes rather easy," said Gam. 5 .. " J -"- 7 JT .... -Bk ilfe&w itl(t cigar-chompi- Volcker was reappointed. "I pushed for his reappoint- L ment many months ago," Sen. Jake Gam, chairman of the Banking Committee, noted in an interview. "I admire Volcker's courage not Salt Lake City. When to be pushed around by Congress or the president, because I think the independence of the Fed is very im- portant." The confirmation hearing for Volcker will be before Garn's committee later this summer, and the Utah Republican predicts a cakewalk. "There may be a couple of votes but he negative shouldn't have any real trouble," said Gam, who believes the Fed has done "a pretty remarkable job" in helping to heal a sick economy despite irresponsible by Congress. Editor, Herald: Is there anything more frustrating than unmet expecta-- . s of the anger tions? i in the world must have such a cause! And to feel yourself be- trayed by the PTA must make it doubly hard to take. y I can only utter complete Three-fourth- J ; sym-'path- with Sondra Jones' frus-- ) trations contained in her June 22 letter to the editor, and I think some explanation is certainly in order. We of the Provo PTA feel as if we've definitely been caught between a "rock and a hard place." The problem in this entire comedy of errors seems to be the pictures of Disney .characters that were used in advertising the first two fantasy ; movies of the PTA movie series. First of all, that advertising did not originate with the PTA, or even with the local theater or Mann Theater management it ; all comes as "orders from headquarters" in California. Their 'printing is all done there and ; simply sent in sufficient quantity for distribution locally. The only advertising that was planned and printed by the PTA was a single colored sheet which went home from the schools and "listed the titles of the movies, ; times, prices, availability, etc., information originating with us Mn the PTA, having nothing to do ; with the California office (and containing none of the mislead-- ! ing pictures or wording). ; Secondly, the printed material came so late that no one in the ' PTA had time to check over the 'material for accuracy before ' distribution was necessary (an- -' other problem traceable to the California distribution), local thea-- j However, both the ter management and the PTA workers involved believed that the movies would be the Disney " versions after they received the ' .materials using the Disney car--" toon drawings. What none of us knew then, is that the copywright on Disney T cartoon drawings expired some ; time ago and anyone can use ilhose drawings to depict any-- i jhing he wants; it is legal, but can certainly be misleading. The Mann Theater manager called California after the showing of "Sleeping Beauty" to find 'out why we'd been sent the "wrone film. He was told that spending anything and we've been so grateful for the support of both Provo and Orem families, as well as the cooperation of the Mann Theaters and Provo City for enabling us to use movie tickets and swim passes to help earn some money for the operation of PTA projects that benefit all of our children in all of the schools. I did attend the "Sleeping Beauty" movie with my children, I can assure readers that the only real fault with the movie for most viewers was that it simply was not what was expected. Hoping that this has at least explained the situation, we an- ticipate many happy viewing hours for the rest of the series by our ticket holders. Please forgive us for something over which we didn't seem to have much control but we will next time! Carolyn Thompson Provo City PTA President 1300 Maple Ln. . Provo WORLD WHEAT Five Countries Dominate Trade night of the party's dinner, Washington and most of the city's black political leaders were holding a "counter-dinner- " at a small restaurant on the city's black South Side. Washington's decision to cott the party's dinner boy- spot- lighted the sharp division within the Cook County Democratic organization. During the counter-dinne- r, which was attended by about 200 supporters, Washington called his feud with the regular party organization Robert "war" and characterized it not as a simple political battle, but as "good Wagman - CHICAGO (NEA) Each spring, Chicago's Cook County Democratic Party throws a g dinner to pay off old campaign debts or to gear up for an election. The latest turnout was one of the best in recent years, with the party faithful filling nine ballrooms of the city's largest hotel. As always, the setting's focal point was a huge picture of the mayor, hung behind the main dais and this year it was of the new Democratic mayor, Harold Washington. But this year's dinner differed a bit from those held in the past: The mayor's picture was present but the mayor wasn't. On the fund-raisin- vs. evil." Chicagoans had assumed that, after the election, Washington would make peace with the regular party structure in order to get on with the business of running the city. But this hasn't happened, and it's beginning to look as if it never will. Even Washington's closest supporters talk about a protracted power struggle that could well continue for the next four years. So far, that struggle has centered on the City Council, in e which a majority of Democrats have rallied behind the Democratic County chairman, alderman Eddie Vrdolyak. Vrdolyak has put together 29 votes in the council, while Washington has only been able to muster 21. The 29 have pre old-lin- Council was nothing more than a rubber stamp for the late Mayor Richard Daley. But in 1972, then a young alderVrdolyak led a brief rebellion man against Daley's ironfisted control of the council and managed to get some concessions from him. A transfer of power began after Daley's death and the election of Michael Bilandic as mayor in 1976 and for the first time in decades, what amounted to an independent City Council Daley days of absolute mayoral control. Therefore, Vrdolyak has been able to assemble his major- which includes aldermen ity who were perfectly willing to work with Washington, but who feared that he wouldn't work with them. Washington ran as a reform candidate, and one of his campaign pledges was to do away with patronage. Now that he has the power, however, he seems to have changed his mind. Due to a federal court suit filed several years ago, most city jobs can't be subject to political hiring and firing. Lawyers for Washington have gone to court and asked that 1,259 jobs now covered by the injunction be removed apparently so Washington can fire the incumbents and replace them with his sup- emerged. porters. vented Washington from reorganizing the council and giving its power positions to his support- ers. Washington has branded the "Vrdolyak 29," all of whom are white, as "racist." But longtime observers of Democratic politics here say that it isn't that simple. For many years, the City But, flush with victory, Harold Washington announced that he wasn't about to work with Vrdolyak and that as far as he was concerned, Vrdolyak was through. Washington announced that he was installing eight of his closest aldermanic supporters as chairmen of the council's eight most important commit- tees. Many on the council saw this as a power play to wrest away d indethe council's pendence and to return to the hard-earne- Stalt United Cind 198263 world porl) uommuniiy ........ "" SOURCE OepartmaM ol Aa.ncull.ura world martial ihil li lloodad with mora whel than domlnala countrtal can abtorb. Tha primary European producar la Franca. f iva producara purchasing This, combined with Washing- ton's increasingly shrill rhetoric, already has begun to disillusion some of his supporters. Said one, almost wistfully, "It's as if he's still campaigning. He seems trapped in an 'us vs. them' mentality. "I thought that when he took office he would work out a compromise with the party regulars and get on with business. we may Now I'm not so sure be in for a long struggle that will run into the next election." Washington Window Scenario for Scrapping Summer - By ARNOLD SAWISLAK WASHINGTON (UPI) - By this date in 1976 and 1980, both the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations were effectively decided. By this date in 1984, with all the presidential primaries run, one or both of the nominations could still be in doubt. There are two conditions to attach to that scenario. First, if President Reagan decides to run for a second term, the question of a Republican contest at Dallas almost surely becomes moot. Second, if either Walter Mondale or John Glenn is able to knock the other out early in 1984, the Democratic race also could be no contest by mid-JunBut if Reagan decides to step down, the Republicans could end up with the hottest nomination battle since 1952. And if Mondale and Glenn (or someone else on that long Democratic list such as Sen. Gary Hart) stay within striking distance of each other through the spring, the Democrats may go to San Francisco with their first real convention contest since what used to be called the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Nowadays, these Taft-er- a Republicans often are called the "Old Right" to differentiate them from the "New Right" faction led by Sen. Jesse Helms. The Republican almost surely would have their own candidates as they but it 1972, 1976 and 1980 seems likely that a 1984 GOP candidate will have to be positioned more centrally in the did in Republican spectrum than In truth, .Reagan certainly was and it wasn't until he began attracting support from the traditional Republican conservatives in 1980 that his road to the nomination was cleared. Helms. e. On the Democratic side, the prospect of a true contest rises more out of the changes in the delegate selection rules adopted by the party for 1984 than from ideology, although there is a perception already that Mondale is the candidate of the party's liberal wing and Glenn of the middle ground conservatives. 600 By providing for a large bloc of uncommitted or more delegates, the party rule makers may have restored the conditions under which a nominee actually will be chosen at the national convention rather than at the state primaries and caucuses that led up to it. Under the 1984 rules, if two or more candidates go to the convention with sizable blocs of committed deleg gates, an situation is entirely pos- sible. Again, none of this may happen, but under the right circum- stances it is clear that the On the Republican side, if Vice President George Bush and Sen- ate GOP Leader Howard Baker became the leading candidates in a race without Ronald Reagan, the struggle would be for None of this is to say that Bush and Baker would be alone in a GOP contest. It is possible to see both Sen. Bob Dole and Rep. Jack Kemp, with a slightly softened image, as viable contenders. horse-tradin- 1932. IParcant ol If the economy continues to rebound the way it is today, the nation should enjoy a more solid base for future growth than in the recent past. Obviously it will not have been painless, but there is reason to believe the pleasure of the cure will help us forget the pain of the treatment. Chicago Demos' Feud Heats Up they couldn't send Disney films because they require a 50 percent box office percentage to Disney and therefore couldn't possibly be used for a promotional such as this one. Because of this policy by the theater company, none of the rest of our series will be Disney films, even where it could be assumed. Because I personally did not see any of the Disney pictures used as advertising, either in the newspapers or in flyers (my children brought home only the flyer which our city PTA person had printed), I had no way of knowing that there was a possibility of misleading advertising, even though I personally hadn't expected the Disney versions. I can certainly understand how Mrs. Jones could have gotten the wrong idea though, since many people concerned believed as she did. We have talked with the local management and we are all distressed. They have assured us that in the future they will ignore the prepared materials sent to them by their headquarters that are misleading and will draw up something of their own that will be accurate concerning movies they show for us. It was not our intention or that of the theater to misrepresent Because I needed a fire chief, I didn't go to the Utah State Prison and hire the No. 1 arsonist ... the last thing you want to do is let Congress, which set the fiscal policy, take over the monetary policy as well." Volcker, a Democrat appointed by President Carter four years ago, has been at the Fed while inflation has gone from double digits to 3.5 percent for the 12 months ending in May. He has also watched a s the prime interest rate has been cut in half, from 21.5 percent when Reagan took office to 10.5 percent today. A cloud of deficits, estimated at between $170 billion and $180 billion for 1984, con PTA Leader Tells Dilemma ; mendous amounts of spending. You can't expect the Fed to perform miracles with monetary policy if the fiscal policy is all wrong." As for those in Congress who hoped for a new Federal Reserve chairman who would try to loosen the nation's purse strings, Gam said, "It was like when I was mayor of Kemp, the broad middle ground of politicians and economists alike breathed a collective sigh of relief when the crusty, Feedback ! "The major reason for high interest rates and problems with the economy is the tre- , tinues to hang over the economy. But Garn believes they will not cut short the recovif President Reagan ery prevails, as Garn believes he will, in the "many confrontations" expected with Congress over spending proposals. "Congress wants to go back to doing things like before Reagan was president," said Garn, citing an $859 billion budget proposal on Capitol Hill. The measure would raise $12 billion in taxes next year, cut the president's defense increase in half, and add $22 billion in domestic spending. "I don't think the president has any choice but to veto spending bills reflecting this substitute budget plan," said Garn. "Otherwise, high interest rates and greater deficits would choke off the growth of the economy." it weren't for these arguments on foreign life wouldn 't be worth living. " policy 'If 1984 political conventions could become the kind of contests that might even pull television watchers away from the summer reruns. |