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Show 0 inwns The Herald, its readers, syndicated columnists and cartoonists discuss vital issues JL Lri QPCOT POil of fhe Americans suneved bv the Epcot have said medical costs have gone up more in the last j ears than the rests of other product or rvir more than half of the Halt Disnev World survey group the blame on the medical profession. Four out In the past five vears, five And Members of the Department of Energy is so anxious to justify dump- IJ805 3 and women differed in their responses, with men more than women .84 ' to 74'" claiming medical costs have risen faster. Women were twice as likelv as men to see no difference in rising costs Men i Who or what is more responsible? Medical profession fj21o Cost of technology The U.S. Government V 70 The public itself czrL3 The EPCOT POLL is conducted daily in association with marketing researchers Allen. Shapiro and Keller ASK, Inc. Sample Si2e was 8 950 U S adults Americans Blame Medical Profession Editor's note: than other costs, while 12 percent said they have increased equally. Only 3 percent said they were rising slower than other costs. When asked who. or what, was most responsible for the higher bills, more than half, or 53 percent, said the medical profession was to blame, while The following Epcot Poll was conducted at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center. Visitors to Epcot are polled daily and their responses are tabulated by computer. The results of the poll are analyzed by the New York research and public opinion polling firm of Allen, ShapInc. iro and Keller-ASLAKE BUEN'A VISTA. Fla. A majority of Ameri(LTD cans polled at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center blame the medical profession for rising health care costs. Eighty percent of almost 9.000 Epcot Center visitors said medical costs have increased faster in Utah that they seem to he resorting to verbal to justify their position. Some federal officials are actually arguing that the very best place to bury the world's most hazardous garbage is right next to one of our national parks. Hopefully they aren't serious, but it sounds just like the perverted logic of some bureau- crats. i5 Generally rising costs nuclear waste gymnastics 12 The same as other costs of percent attributed the increase to the cost of technology. 21 Nine percent held the govern- ment responsible, 7 percent blamed the public, and 5 percent linked the rise to the overall rate of inflation. The 8.950 Epcot Center surveyed American adults. Feedback DOE is studying a number of sites for a nuclear-wast- e garbage site. Two are in Utah and both are by Canyon-land- s National Park. WASHINGTON It s all over but the shouting. President Reagan, who asked the GOP Convention for a victory "the size of the heart of Texas." is going to get it. Or is he? In 1982. all the polls likewise showed that Texas Gov. William Clements, a Republican, was a shoo-i- n for reelection. Clements won 200.000 more votes than in 1978 but lost anyway. Pollsters hadn't calculated the who fact that Hispanic voters had heavily favor Democrats increased in Texas from 278.000 in 1976 to 415.00 in 1980. This year about 650.000 Hispanics are expected to vote in Texas. Democrats point to that race as an example of what could happen in the presidential contest this year. Their hopes rest on registering and getting to the polls millions of new voters among miniority who will vote against President Reagan on Nov. 6. There is little doubt that, if groups Elderly Need Compassion individual neighborhoods. I doubt that even one would be willing to say "Yes. you may put a retirement or care home in our area." What then shall we do with our homeless handicapped? Will we lock them away in attics and institutions so we may be spared the discomfort of dealing with them in our cozy middle class cocoons? Heaven forbid that one of our innocent children should be made aware that all beings are not perfect and some must be dealt with differently. Extensive study has found that both mentally and physically handicapped as well as the elderly and infirm do much better in body and spirit in small family-lik- e groups in the com- munity. These people are threaten no one. They are the unfortunates and usually the abandoned. Can't you find a bit of compassion and welcome them into your neigh- borhoods? Try loving them. Get acquainted. Talk to them. You may be surprised to learn they have a lot to give and are just folks. Teach your children to deal kindly with them. You will all be better for it. How can we begin to solve the massive social problems on this earth when we can't even take a small group of old people to our hearts? As to only having a four bedh room, home, I don't see this as a problem. Many people rear eight or more children with no more room than this and do fine. Let's not consign our old and handicapped to empty sterile lives when the opportunity for a more normal enriched lifestyle is so near. Consider what you would want for your parents or yourselves should you find your situation changed. We are all responsible for the helpless. Nancy Aston two-bat- the I'tah Critics sites complain that the land under study is as beautiful as the land inside the park and if the park lands are worth preserving for posterity, so are the dump site lands. The whole idea of using this state as the national garbage dump for dangerous radioactive waste is not appealof ing. The latest idea of trying to justify locating it 'near a national park is disgusting. According to Rod Mi- natural resources llar, policy specialist for the Utah Department of Natural Resources, do- cuments and comments from syndicated columnists s varied commentaries from staff and publishing and' by providing a public forum in the "Feedback" column Comments published on this page under Herald "The Comments' headline represent the official editorial policy of The Daily Herald as determined by an editorial board compris- ing the publisher, managing editor, into the buried waste. Millar believes DOE will go a step further and propose that the park be enlarged to include the disposal site to make it even more certain that there would be no future activity at the disposal site. If Millar is right, Utahns should immedi- ately remind their rep- resentatives to Washof the purpose of ington a national park. The proposed nuclear- - v reactor waste are rolled from the of a truck. The back cas-uall- infrastructure required to put nuclear waste in Southern Utah includes hundreds of miles of railroad tracks, new roads but restricted and enormous steel gantries to lower the pack- aged waste deep into underground caverns. What could be more intrusive on the grandeur of Davis and Lavender canyons, the two Utah sites under consid- eration, than the silhouette of towering steel spiders against ancient red rock? the election were held today. President Reagan would win easily. But the contest will probably narrow considerably in coming weeks. And if Democrats come close to their goal of having 100 million Americans go to the polls in November. Walter Mondale could indeed upset Reagan. This scenario may dangle from a slender thread, but by no a victory: now run by Los Angeles, black mayors Chicago and Philadelphia. There are some 5.600 other black largest cities are strong showing among such groups as women though Reagan even leads here at the moment). Hispanics and blue-collworkers, and an elected overwhelming vote among blacks. The latter group is especially crucial to Mondale's chances this year which explains why he has taken care to hold his tongue despite the taunts of Jesse Jackson. There are 26 states with sizable black populations. In 11 of them, the number of unregisblacks in 1980 tered voting-ag- e was larger than the margin of Reagan's victory over Jimmy Carter. And in 10 of these 11 states Virginia being the exthe number of unreception gistered blacks was many times greater than Reagan's margin of victory. The other 10 included New York, North Carolina, South Carolina. Alabama. Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Kentucky. Democrats have mounted a massive drive in these areas, whose. blacks have been politically energized this year by Jackson's historic bid for the presidency. From all indications, the drive is bearing fruit, and blacks have caught voter-registrati- if ( Lee Roderick) Herald Washington Bureau' political fever. Any gain in black registration will be gravy for the Democrats: In 1980. Reagan won only 3 percent of the black votes cast in the 11 Southern states. Surveys this year, including a new Gallup Poll, show Reagan winning about 5 percent of black votes nationally. In trying to recruit these voters. Democrats have some decided advantages, in addition to the Jackson candiacy. For starters, while blacks haven't voted as heavily as whites in national elections, they are becoming politically proficient at the local level. Three of the nation's four officials Speaking as a novice, it seems that legislators ought to abide by a few simple rules when they enter the inner sanctum of the House of Representatives. Assigned to cover the first day of Utah's third special session. I arrived at work and hustled to finish an important story before hitting the road. Once on the way. fairly bursting with visions of an action-packe- d morning. I briefed myself on who was who according to the latest legislative manual. Fat lot of good that did me to me once I got there. If you're not confused by a garbled group of smiling politicians, you're probably related to one. Suffice it to I'm not. and I was say confused. Luckily, fellow staff writer Josephine Zimmerman took me under her wing. After plowing our way through a maze of narrow hallways, shaking hands I wouldn't remember, and flashing press cards to get on the floor, she left me to fend for myself. I found a chair and began to pinpoint which navy blue suit Democratic gains among n blacks, have launched drives of their own. They hope that much of the black gain will be offset by a backlash of new white voters. Because of the smaller number of blacks in the nation as a whole, even a 20 percent increase in black voters could be negated by a 5 percent increase among whites. voter-registratio- Despite Democratic inroads among blacks and Hispanics, Republicans in Dallas elected to preach to the GOP faithful rather than reach out in any substantial way to appeal to minority voters. Republicans, in other words, choose to protect their big lead by sitting on the ball rather than trying to score. The odds are good that their strategy will work. But the ball game is far from over. . . . no animal (with maroon tie tie tacks allowed) belonged to which smiling picture. Here's where I get a little annoyed. Nobody is sitting where it makes sense. Representatives are scattered about like promises. Everyone was shaking hands with everyone else and nobody was sitting still. Loud whispers got louder and wondered if those in the "north 40" could hear what was going on down at the farm. I Xancy ftringhurst news editor, city editor and other members of the to MttC! un- 1WW in- only the opiof the individual writers and not nece- represent nions ssarily the official editorial policy of The Daily Herald Letters to "Feedback.'" likewise, represent the opinions of the individual writers and tmt necessarily the official policy of The Daily Herald The Herald frequently will publish columns and letters which conflict with viewpoints expressed under "The Herald Comments " It does so in the spirit ot giving its readers a presentation balanced of points on all issues managed to latch onto smile I tried to memorize the face and where it was meant to be during the special session. I shoulda said "au revoir" right then. It was the last I ever saw of those pearlies. Not since high school have I witnessed more cliques. It was hard to tell which was more elite, but some people were definitely more popular than others. Side-lin- e groups broke off and huddled in corners. Arms were twisted and backs were patted. Wise nods were dipped in certain directions and hand signals flashed. I felt like asking when they were going to hike the ball. All in all, just around dinner time when stomachs got louder than words, voting began and decisions were made. Once a columnists dividual view- across the country, including 21 members of Congress. Ronald Reagan has done more than anyone, including Jackson, to bring blacks together. No president in this half of the 20th Century has approached his unpopularity among black voters, who see him as unmitigatingly hostile to their interests. Republicans, hoping to offset Utah Politicians Restless Bunch J editorial st.it t Columns published der the names of sim- ply holes in the ground where barrels of red-ho- t Mapleton The Daily Herajd attempts to stimulate healthy discussion of all sides of important through the "opinions" Page by taking stands as a newspaper on issues, by inadvertently drilling means is it Democrats look to several key elements to provide a basis for About Opinions community indicate the feds are willing to argue that a national park is a good place for a nuclear-waste dump because the proximity to the park will discourage future generations from DOE 960 N. 300 W. screened to be sure they have no dangerous habits and public-issue- i waste sites aren't Blacks Crucial Win to Mondale - especially Editor, Herald: I would like to respond to Don and Arlene Baum's letter concerning a home for the handicapped being opened in their neighborhood. It's unfortunate so many have no tolerance for any people, save those just like themselves. If the issue were left to the Parks for Of laid ing More than other costs Less than other costs Of of Poll to other compared costs, medical costs have gone up The Herald Comments I ciK ftp wwmA urn HfT" mx$y rp, i I white-toothe- d I'd made mine long ago. Someone once told me you have to have stamina to be a politician. Heck, I've decided to be a reporter at a legislative session takes more than stamina. You need a clone. |
