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Show f I I 2 BOX JOURNAL, Brigham City, Utah Thursday, July 12, 1973 ELDER the kids in the neighborhood is still another thing to be conerned about. For them to see a little dog suffer like this is horrible. RHV Wo proudly prosont ono of tho fow choke movio Award Nomination. today. Winner of 6 Acodomy rA (Todtf Show) NBC-T- From CCXUMBIA BCTUKS by CARl FOREMANond RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH A Film ROBERT SHAW ANNE BANCROFT otlodyJtnnm lardlaidolpKCKurch.ll person. The effect this kind of thing has on ROUSING ADVENTURE STOnY! JUDITH CRIST. Another act of a degenerated It takes a warped breed of person to subject an animal to this kind of death. N. Today thru Tuesday Another thing to consider is the danger to children in an area where poison is being left for dogs. If a young child gets a hold of poison it could mean death or serious illness. A Brigham City family recently found their dog lying in a ditch dead with a rope around its neck. It's about time for stricter laws and enforcement concerning crimes against dogs, cats and other pets. The other day a neighbor of mind found a small dog dead in his backyard. It was apparently poisoned elsewhere and wandered into his yard to succumb to an agonizing death. 1:00 OPEN SAT.-SUOPEN WEEK DAYS 6:45 ..SIMON WARD, There have also been a number of dog shootings in the area which nothing has been done about. All of these acts are definitely against the law. Dogs and cats are not the only animals abused . . . locally we've had a case in the winter where horses were not fed properly. This sort of thing has to be stopped and the only way is for stricter enforcement and court action against YOUNG WINSTON -- ''xhe motion picture with all the warmth, adventure and great music youve been waiting for. MAN OF LA MANCHA is now playing CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCES the violators. There is also a need for the public to get involved and report incidents and help police in investigation. This is one of the best ways to combat animal abuse. Dont miss it! Peter Sophia .James and Coco OToola Loren inan Arthur Hiller Gives account of fire Editor: have just read Dain Maddox letter in the Sunday edition regarding police behavior at the scene of the Mack Wilson house fire. I am personally acquainted with Mr. Maddox and appreciate his concern over what he understands to have transpired, however I believe that the public should also have a little more information than has been given. I am a back door neighbor to the Wilson home, and it was I who turned in the alarm concerning the fire. Having had some fire control and rescue training in the past I then went to the house to see what could be done. I found a few youths gathered there and some of the windows had been broken inward (a very bad practice by people). Also the front door had been broken and forced open. Smoke was very thick in the front room and the plaster and charred wood on the floor told me that it was a very hazardous place to enter. About the time that I had sized up the situation several more youths had arrived and the police came. The first task of the officers was to protect the onlookers from: a. self jeopardy b. unwarranted invasion and c. interference with proper fire control and rescue efforts. They could not distinguish me as different from anyone else so I received the same instructions to stay back out of the way. In general that instruction was rather poorly obeyed. By the time the fire control people arrived there were well over a dozen onlookers (not qualified helpers) standing around too close. It is a credit to the police that they had the good taste to not make at least a couple of arrests. They could have easily justified such. Kenneth Ellis is the individual who entered the kitchen's south door and found Mr. Wilson lying unconcious on the floor by the cooks rove. Kenneth dragged him out onto the kitchen porch from which the ambulance people took him to the hospital. letters to the Editor,: I X j Both Kenneth Ellis and Joe Wilson had very strong emotional drives to go into the house and neither of them was prepared physically to be able to protect themselves from smoke inhalation, burn or falling debris which are always to be expected. Kenneth and Joe both had to be watched closely by tiro police. Kenneth moved away, entered the kitchen and was fortunate enough to find Mr. Wilson immediately. Joe was one person whom I observed ask for a flashlight and after be relaxed enough that the officer felt him unlikely to go in through the bedroom window the flashlight was furqjshed to him. I was there. I saw! Some responsible people who arrived on the scene and who visited the hospital were Bishop Lynn Nelson Fifteenth ward and President Dennis Spence, Sixth Elders Quorum. Neither they nor I saw any reason to criticize either the police or tiro fire department. As for Mr. Wilson calling for help he must have done that before I arrived. He did not do so afterward. If he did why didnt some of the early window breakers go to the kitchen and get him? His call, if made, should have revealed where he w as. When I visited the hospital Mr. Wilson had bssn taken off an auxiliary breathing divice, f stitched up for some minor cuts on the backs of heels and elsewhere, and was reported in I'condition. I good til J. J.D. Harlow witness, neighbor, friend 358 North First Wsst I j as mmi if Can we compromise? Editor: Can we compromise with correct principles in regards to current issues? More especially that of the proposed master plan and supporting ordinances. First I would like to state that my ideas are based on the methods and principle used by God fearing and inspired men of God in formulating the proper role of government and the adoption of our original great consititution. I dont think that for the sake of solving problems that can and should be solved on a local level that we can compromise with principles that have offered us the freedoms we have enjoyed in the past and are starting to lose. We dont need men paid by our taxpayers money telling us how to handle problems that we should solve for ourselves. The strength of our nation has always been because of the individual shouldering as much as possible his own responsibilities and I think this is what we are faced with. If we turn our problems over to people who figure their expertise is so excellent and wonderful and should be good for everybody and in addition accept government money we are compromising with a principle that will undermine our strength and support government in a role that they should not be assuming. Government function is that of protection. Persons, liberties, property mankind itself are. not maretials for legislators to exercise their wisdom on. As regard to the proper role of government, their function is to protect within the limits of the law. Law is common force organized to act as an obstacle to injustice. In short law is justice. The law cannot avoid having an effect upon persons and property, and if the law acts in any manner except to protect them, its actions then necessarily violate the liberty of persons and rights to own and control property. Freedom should be the right of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so. Liberty is the destruction of all despotism. Liberty is the non-responsi- restricting of the law to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self defense and of punishing injustice. What I am talking about may be reducing the role of government to an incomprehensible, small and simple form, but I love liberty and hate any type of enroachment upon my God given liberties, and when the government assumes a role more than originally intended this is what happens read the history bodes. Areas where people are most peaceful the most moral and the happiest people are areas where the law least interferes with private affairs. Where government is least felt, when the individual has the greatest scope and free opinion. The great influence. Groups assume their own responsibilties instead of asking for outside help, that they end up paying double for. Become concerned citizens of Box Elder county. Become aware of the facts. We have problems to solve. Lets not saddle ourselves with something that will become a gigantic monster that we cannot live with. The proposed master plan and supporting ordinances if put into effect will be just that. They have been watered down from their original form which we would be living with now if it hadnt of been for a few concerned citizens. So far, according to the commissioners we have spent in excess of $62,00.00. To get where? It is time not to be indifferent, lackadaisical and unconcerned. Remember that life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws, on the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed before hand that caused men to make laws in the first place. 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