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Show 4A Emery County Progress Wednesday, March 3, 1982 Will we let the SUN go out? Perspective Editorials Forum Opinion The Word Shop by Steve Heide have I as look I three daughters, and military budget this year than at the headlines from was spent on the entire running around this country and the world, am becoming afraid for them, and for their future. We live in a time when, in Egypt, a man who lives for peace dies by violence; when for a year, the entire black community of Atlanta went to bed holding their collective breath, afraid to wake and find another of their young ones gone, vanished to some gruesome fate; when the term freedom of choice" in El I Salvador means deciding of the country less than three decades ago. Has the world gone insane together? Has the disease of terrorism, corruption and greed become incurable? This tree we call Earth is in dire straits. The sun is about to go out. The Solar Utilization Network, that is. SUN, an organization begun in 1978 to promote the use and developement of solar energy in 13 western states, including Utah, will soon no longer be, as Reagan's budget cuts force the group to close its doors March 1. Perhaps this news would not be so alarming if Sun was to be the only fatality in the money crunch, but it's not. In fact, allotments for the research into alternate energy sources including solar, geothermal, wind and fuels such as alcohol and methane will virtually disappear by 1983. Yet, at the same time, givaways to the troubled nuclear power industry will maintain or be cut only fractionally, leaving the many American companies and the millions of citizens who belive in a renewable, safe energy future for this country out in the cold. Nuclear energy is not safe. Solar is. When was the last time a community had to be evacated because one of its solar collectors malfunctioned? Never. How many rivers have been polluted by the deadly flow of hot water from a solar water heater? None. How much money have we spent researching where we can safely store the highly toxic waste from solar panels? Not a penny. to Yet, we will spend millions of dollars clean up the fiasco at Three Mile Island. Milk taken from is showing an dairy cattle throughout the country alarming increase in the traces of radioactive material it contains. And this year alone, the administration has committed as much money to the as it building of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor research has to the funding of all alternate energy combined. We are slowly going blind as we allow the in megabuck influance of the big utlitiy companies the country to stear us toward an unsafe, contaminated and unreliable energy future. We must open our eyes now, before the SUN is allowed to go out, and we find ourselves truly in darkness. But perhaps the roots are not completely dead; there are new blossoms here and there, if you look closely. A nun receives the Noble Peace Prize for her lifelong work in the slums of one of the world's poorest countries, then takes the prize money and buys more food and supplies. A regular citizen becomes a hero as he risks his life in the frozen waters of a river in Washington to save some of the victims of a plane crash, then asks the press hot to print his name. A young girl in California, the victim of a rare disease and close to death, is saved when dozens of strangers contribute the money for her special medical care. Perhaps my fears are unnecessary. I think of those three small faces that look to between living in fear or dying in protest. We watch in horror as the holy leader of millions of the world's Christians is gunned down. We otter silent prayers as the couraaeous people of Poland, already struggling in of the the poised steel-jaw- s Soviets, choose human dignity over tyranny and continue their protest despite the threat of death. We try not to notice as the madman from Lybia shakes his tiny fist at the world and sends out death and destruction in the form of the terrorists he so me for security and gladly trains and supplies. The world trembles on the reassurance, and think that razors edge of total an- maybe there is a chance for this nihilation, yet in this country world after all. we will spend more on the can only hope. I I Exclude the pre? No! Yielding to a belief that juries may be subject to prejudice by media coverage of criminal hearings, federal courts are considering a dangerous retreat into secrecy. A subcommittee of the Federal Judicial Conference appears ready to recommend that the U.S. Supreme Court permit federal judges to exclude the press and public from pretrial hearings, questioning of jurors, or any part of a criminal trial held outside the presence of the jury. This proposal flies in the face of the Supreme Court's own finding of a First Amendment right to attend criminal trials, and it ignores other remedies available to the court, such as sequestering juries. Worse, it erodes one of the fundamental safeguards of the judicial system. The perception of a conflict between the First Amendment right of a free press and the Sixth Amendment right of criminal defendants to a fair trial is wholly unsupported by the objective evidence judges would demand in a case at law. It has been accepted, nonetheless, by a significant number of judges and lawyers who are now urging the courts to resolve the presumed conflict in favor of the Sixth Amendment by holding closed hearings. This conflict, we think, is largely an illusion, created by defense lawyers setting up grounds for appeal. On the contrary, we believe that a free press and fair trial are complementary, justice best in the open sunlight of full disclosure. The criminal defendant's ultimate protection from tyrannical courts and juries lies in the First Amendment's guarantee of a press that is free to scrutinize, report, and criticize every aspect of criminal justice. Insofar as courts are allowed to retreat behind closed doors, the ability of the public to watch over the judicial system is clearly impaired. The trend toward judicial secrecy, if unchecked, wilt ultimately endanger the right of every American to open and impartial justice. flourishing 1 The peoples forum Dear Editor, and poisoner supervision. I found us are angered, concerned, and a that to continue as a poisoner, I severely worried about pills, newspaper clipping, this time from would completely lose my respect pesticides and profits. I believe by for others rights! I had learned of a paper published Let us not forget we have been the Farm Bureau here in Utah. too many ways that the sheep warned that poisonous substances The headline for the clipping reads industry can get their needed are seeping into the sources of our REAGAN JOINS WAR ON protection from coyotes, drinking water supplies! Quite COYOTES! As an I WITHOUT THE USE OF POISON! some poisoning mess, dont you find what really angers, shocks, With traps, guns, and dogs, think? and frightens me! I note that 1080 sheepmen who were very is mentioned as a selective thoughtful of others rights, Lester Reed, I most became great friends to me, but poison! As an retired hunter and trapper! certainly am not surprised when when I was a poisoner, they had no P.O.Box 357 reading that statement! How right use for me whatever! I have been Castle Dale, UT 84513 a Montana state senator was when where the BIG POISONERS had he wrote that 1080 is not a selective high pressured sheepmen into poison, nor can it be, because of permitting them to put on their placement or time! poisoning programs! As a shocked and angered exAfter reading that President poisoner, I challenge President Reagan JOINS WAR ON Dear Editor, Reagan, and Senators Garn and COYOTES; how pleasing it is to I address this letter to you Hatch to furnish me with PROOF remember when we had a because I do not know who only was from qualified authority, that the President Jimmy Carter who, with for the article conresponsible dastardly 1080 poison can be used the health and welfare of the cerning the Little League selectively! If so, why did the Tull people in his country being enWrestling Team. As a matter of Chemical Company issue their dangered by the manufacture, use, clarification, the North was also technical bulletin number 1? Very and sale of poisonous substances, represented at the State Tourlikely, President Ronald Reagan, placed a ban on it! I never voted nament. I was under the imalong with Senators Garn and for Richard M. Nixon, but I do give pression that all the Emery County Hatch, are not aware, that the Tull him credit, and respect him, for boys were on the same team. Chemical Company issued placing a ban on the use of the All the winners should have been technical bulletin number 1. Could dastardly 1080. mentioned in the article. All the it be that whoever wrote the arNo doubt he was aware that we boys that wrestle work hard and ticle, elected or qualified themself are losing our wildlife heritage to deserve all the recognition they to mention 1080 as a selective 1080 poison, while knowing that it can get. Emery County has a good poison! is NOT selective and its secondary program and I am proud that my I have stated many times when poisoning hazards are absolutely boys are associated with the Little writing, that I am all for a needed uncontrollable, as so plainly League Team. control of the coyote, but never by revealed by the Tull Rex Randall, a sixth grader at Companys way of a poisoning program! As a Bulletin. Cleveland Elementary, brought With the 1080 poisoning mess as home a first poisoner, I learned too much about place medal for the the concealed harm I did with it is, no wonder that there are second year in a row. His brother, poison! thoughtful persons asking for Reese Randall, a fifth grader, As a poisoner I became inwhat, when, and where were placed third. Thanks to our subordinate to poisoner policies headed! No wonder that many of dedicated coaches. Max Herzog, Again, when reading ) Doyle Jensen, and Dennis Jones, for all the hours you spent to help them become champions. A proud Elmo Mother, Carolyn Randall Emery County Progress Published by Sun Progress Inc P.0. Box 589 Castle Dale, Utah 84513 USPS Editorial Classified 174 760 & 748-243- 1 Display Advertising 637-073- 2 A weekly newspaper, established in 1899, and published every Wednesday Entered as second class matter at the post office in Castle Dale Utah Publisher Robert L. Finney Editor Steve Heide Advertising Mary Bentley In Emery and Carbon Counties 1 Year-- Jio In Years $14 50 Utah, outside area $n Out of State $12 Includes APO, FPO Out of U S $?5 Postal Regulations All Require that Subscriptions be Paid in advance |