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Show MTha Tlmas-lndepandan- Thursday, Jan. 22, 1987 t, Readers write to share their opinions . . . Community Commonts By Sam Taylor Dear Sam, indicates that the City is more I just caught up on reading my economically responsible than the issues of the County. and was brought up short by a Sincerely, E. J. Claus paragraph in the Area Wide Week in Review in the December 31, 1986 issue. The title of the paraDear Adrien, I would like to contribute my graph was Police were listening in. . . The paragraph stated that 32 theory to your question in your Southeastern Coloradoans had their about why every column on third person will not take the top telephone lines monitored by the San Juan County, New Mexico paper in a stack of papers. In most cities, the papers are police. There was no further exdelivered to stores wrapped in a planation for what I thought was a very serious event requiring court strap of wire or plastic. After being orders. handled many times and rolling The paragraph further stated that around in the truck, the outer papers over 100 lines had been tapped, and get rather ragged and torn. After 32 people would receive letters. the papers are placed in the stores, Does this mean they tapped 68 other the first person will usually pull out the second paper as will the second people who were good guys, and 32 people were doing something bad person and the third, etc. (leaving the top paper looking even more enough to receive a letter not an arrest? undesirable). Being creatures of The paragraph ended with what habit, some people will continue to seemed to be a threat by DA Bill take the second paper as a matter of Birdsall. Will you please find out the course. rest of the story- -I thought this kind ' It appears that one third of your of behavior was illegal. customers who buy your paper in Eleanor Inskip the office might have lived in a larger city at one time or another. Dear Sam, Sincerely, I concur with Mr. Ballantyne and John Kingsley Mr. Courseys conclusions in their Palatine, 111. letters to the editor in last weeks T.I. that the taxpayers of Grand Dear Sam, County want both savings of their I received my CONTEL bill for tax dollars and quality law enforceJanuary, which contained quite a ment. The point that I was making in surprise. An enclosure printed upon my ad in the same issue of the T.I. a brightly colored paper with the was that for the latest 3 year period, Lifeline Telephone Surtopline. for which data is available, the was attached Established charge to the billing. A surcharge of Countys cost of law enforcement increased 11.5 percent or $46,803 eighteen cents has been added to while the Citys decreased 14.4 the total of my bill. A list of eight percent or 56,459, a difference of or Programs to agencies $103,262. My conclusion was that which the extra money will be the City has shown more economic alloted. In my humble opinion this is an responsiblity towards the taxpayers than the County in our current affront, an insult to those of us who economic situation. I am not sure if meet their bills conscientiously contracting is a good idea or not, but month after month, and there must if contracting will save taxpayers be hundreds of thousands of us, and money, the County should be conI wish to register my strong obtracting to the City instead of the jection to these tactics. To me, it is as if CONTEL is City to the County. Neither Mr. Ballantyne nor Mr. upholding programs which pander Coursey stated any reason why it to that growing segment of the would not be better to have the American The population: County contract with the City, rather the dead beat who exliberal, than the other way around. pects everything for free, the bum I believe it was Churchill who who lives on welfare and sits up stated Those who do not study nights trying to figure out ways to history are destined to relive it. more, and worst of all those who get The history of the last three year p'bring children outof. wedlock into Times-Independe- nt A year ago today, according to our local weather expert, Bonnie Midlam, the temperature got up to 60 degrees. It wont be that today, Im sure. When went out to do the chores this morning, the thermometer read 4 degrees, and thats cold in my book. Despite the fact that it is sunny and pretty outside. Im afraid the temperature wont get up much past the freezing mark. Thats OK. The days are finally getting longer, and this cold spell cant last forever. In fact, February is almost here, and the pussy willows I cut outdoors on New Year's Day and brought in to put in a vase are fully budded out. That was my early-oattempt to "push" Spring a little, but is hasn't worked very well. records, this has been an Actually, according to the long-terin Moab. a been Its darned average year good winter, compared pretty to most places, and thats the way it usually is here. Sure, we remember the rare winters when we had to pile snow in the middle of the street, and those when the river froze over, but thats the exception, and not the rule. Adrien and I are going to take a trip to St. George this week to attend a party and some meetings, and if the weather there is a whole lot better than it is here, Im going to be mad. sjt in Grand County Monday nights high speed auto chase along ended pretty peacefully, compared to others here and elsewhere. High speed auto chases are darned dangerous for all concerned. Only a week ago, a police officer from a small town in northern Arizona was killed along with the two people he was chasing, when they turned around unexpectedly and collided with the officers car at the top of a hill, with both vehicles going full blast. The factors that made the one in Grand County mild involved good law enforcement cooperation; good radio communications; and the use of a "spike" device which flattened all four tires of the chased vehicle when it passed over it just west of Thompson. The use of such devices is gaining popularity around the country, as ; a'valuable tool against speeding vehicles evading the police. Im told that in Millard County, for example, the County equipped all police vehicles in the County with spike devices, and high speed chases have just about come to a stop there. The cost? $5,000 total, so Im told. That might be a good thing to do here. The wide-opespaces in Southern Utah make it pretty hard for an vehicle to escaping get clear away, radio technology being what it is, but they can go a long way before you catch them unless physical means are found to stop them. Shooting is a little out of the question. So is totally blocking a highway, as was done in San Juan County a year ago, when a fleeing youth lost his life when his vehicle slammed into a which had been used to block U.S. 191 . The spikes sound like a good investment to me. sjt I n k two-da- y one-nigh- t, n semi-truc- k -- so Attending National Newspaper Association conventions and conferences over the year, one can't help but make friends with newspaper publishers from across the nation. Some become rather special friends, s and such is the case with Bob and Marion Best, who publish the atte all, do not make rules you have no intention of enforcing. Children have a great need for parents who are sure of their own values and who are willing to back them up. Of course, children also need to know that they are worthwhile and lovable to their parents This column continues a series on discipline that works. Remember, changing or establishing parental discipline is a long, slow, often tedious, process. The important thing is to form a clear objective, then take a few steps at a time in that direction. Set rules that you think are important and be firm in seeing that your children follow them. Above The world and to others. Teachers try to follow the adBe firm, fair and monition friendly. every year in order to their take while riding Thats a good motto for parents, increase around in Cadillacs. It seems to me that the old precept that in this country a man is free to do what HE wishes with his money, and not be coerced into throwing it into liberal schemes in which the undeserving profit has gone down the tubes. I urge every CONTEL subscriber to make himself heard by telephone letter or personal contact, if he disagrees with this surcharge. I dare say that the is read by our State Representatives both in Salt Lake City and the nations capitol, and they will know our feelings in this matter. Much is heard these days in our Moab media of making out town a retirement center. A surcharge to the utility bills is not a way to attract retirees who are looking for just a pleasant place to live out their lives. These are our feelings, Sam. Thanks for the use of the hall. And our very best regards. Most cordially, A1 and Loretta Kern as well. Another positive discipline step is to encourage responsible decisionmaking. Whenever possible, find areas in which you know your children can make decisions for themselves. If your child approaches you with a request you feel you should deny, try saying, What would you say if you were in my place? What should I say? What would be my reason? Every child every human being-nee- ds and wants to exercise her or his own individuality and autonomy. Parents can decide what areas are comfortably left to the childs freedom of choice and what areas are subject to parental discretion. To try to control every aspect of the childs life not only smothers the childs sense of worth, but it also causes the parents to waste time and effort on things that are not really essential. Youll find that if you treat children as responsible individuals, their level of responsibility increases Times-Indepen-de- nt Tki Tln&-fo4:frnds- rapidly. iit (USP? 6309-200Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Moab, Utah under the Act of March 3, 1897. Second Class Postage Paid at Moab, Utah 84532 Official City and County Newspaper Published Each Thursday at 35 East Center Street, Moab, Grand County, Utah 84532 POSTMASTER: Send Change of Address to : The P.O. Box 129, Moab, Utah 84532 4 Debra Gwinn Dorothy Anderson Ron Drake Randy Andru Samuel J. and Adrien F. Taylor Publishers and Editors Assistant to the Publishers Circulation Manager Production Foreman, Sales sso atf Trite Wssa News-Progres- in Sullivan, III. I made his column, "BB's, this week, with a piece entitled "The little snow storm that grew. I called to check if they are planning to attend the association's Governmental Affairs Conference in Washington, D.C., in March, and if they would like to plan an evening out together. Sam and Marion were both out of their offices that day, so talked to I nSomnClnS ro Bwmfso.tr tsia4 ST moms! rtn l m SriSkS r -- m SStiH mSSm m CTSsSSeeme Sm SSttSSst ooTTwmtt ss mim anTm fse HlQwMlQw w! Bob. they are going; and yes, they would plan on an evening out. last phone conversation had with Bob, prior to this, was in eptember, when he called to ask if we planned to attend the NNA conYes, The I vention in Nashville, and if so, to invite us to spend a couple of night fwith them in Sullivan, and drive down together. jrrc cm mnia w w. sr--sr . . . then proceeded to tell me what individuals he and jyiarion had become, which prompted me to inquire if they had quit sfnoking. had; they hadn't. In that case, he told me, could indulge in ipy habit on the back porth. This verbal exchange should give the readers some notion of the dry humor of Bob Best. He also writes about He clean-livin- g I I his wife. As we didn't attend the Nashville convention, a visit has not yet materialized. Bob also asked, however, if we were interested in exchanging papers, and we were. One of the things I enjoy most about the week in the office is looking over the exchange newspapers. It's a good way to judge what were doing right and wrong, and there is some of both. i So, we have been reading each other's product, with the exception of a few months after we installed a new computer system which lost their subscription. When I phoned he asked how things were going, and I told him he should know, since he gets our paper. "No, I don't. You cut me off, he charged. "Not me, said, explaining the computer switchover, which I knew without looking to be the source of the problem. i At any rate, he wrote recently that Illinois weathercasters look to the Four Corners area to predict storms. mentioned to him on the phone that I had never heard of such a thing, and that we had experienced a few snow flurries a day or so before which should not come to much consequence for them, and that we look at San Diego to see what Mpther Nature might bring our way. I Statewide Classified Ads Statewide classified ads in Utahs community newspapers allow you to place your ad in 35 newspapers throughout the state. One phone call. Call our classified department and we will explain how the system works, help you write your ad, and place it in all the association newspapers. I quoted me on that, which is fine, but he did not spell my name which is unforgivable in this profession, and shall remind him right, about it in March. Other people often spell my name wrong, but then they are not journalists. (My apology to anyone whose name is incorrectly spelled in this issue.) He I He concluded this column item about the snow: "Maybe it didn't amount to much in Moab, but by the time that little snowstorm arrived here, it had grown up to become our heaviest snow of the winter. Some of the snowmobile buffs said it was the best sledding snow we've had in four years. These column comments were amply illustrated by the photographs on the front page. I thought about that looking out over the snowy landscape earlier this week. I even considered calling to warn him, since by the time our paper arrives in Sullivan, the storm will also have done so. If it grows up like the last one did, they're certainly in for a doozy. One ad. We can deliver your ad to 170,000 homes in the State of Utah. The way to cover the State of Utah is with a statewide classified ad. . .it is so " . easy! 25 One invoice. You or your secretary will do one simple bit of paperwork. words,$69. For additional words over the basic 25,. the additional charge per word is $3.00. , Oft Utah Press Association unm3& toafemndiisc 0DO gifDflSgj) IT.. , Pssi . |