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Show Meanwhile, Over Here An open letter to Jimmy Carter: Dear Jimmy, ize, Jimmy, that not all of our existing problems - and they are numerous, perplexing and burdensome, as anyone who's been awake the past six months can attest - are your do-- ing well and the group to which I belong is growknow, In fact, I think there's an aspect to all this international and domestic turmoil in which we're entrenched thats too often overlooked. Its part of a pattern thats been developing for nearly two decades, and to say that it's exasperating to watch its continuance is putting it mildly. It's a crisis of leadership. bad is our How case of the blues, you ask? Speaking for myself, let me put it this way: I thrive on being informed about whats going on in the world, but the news of late has been so bad that Ive reached the point where I almost wish the paper boy would miss my apartment in the morning. And its getting so that I would rather turn on my stereo and flip on a Willie Nelson record than tune in the 6 and 10 oclock news. As the guy whos got to be in the globes most unenviable position at present, youre probably wishing that your troubles could be confined to merely penning some of your opinions and reactions. And I real- - Births o LATEX SEMI-GLOS- S -- -- BUILDERS MART 3555 W. 3500 So. were girls. Babies were born to the following area families. Girls Wetzel, John, Wildrose Dr. Murray, Lane, 1866 W. Homestead Farms Vanderhoos, Richard, 5136 White Blossom Way Winn, Albert, 4491 Crown Dr. Breeze, Gordon, 3927 So. 3485 West Rocha, Pedro, 3789 W. 6390 South Mangigue, . . and a guy who, to the dismay of most Americans, pardoned his predecessor and apparently didnt know what a president should know about who runs the political show in eastern Europe. Which brings us to you, Jimmy. James Perce W. Jaime, Alusa, I Then along came Gerald Ford, our Jr., 1, 1980 Thurs., May Blackhawk. She is in student government a member of the school choir and involved in honors classes. The Granger high girls are being sponsored by the Granger American Legion Auxiliary, with Mrs. Louise Erickson as chairman of the Girl County SALT 4501 LAKE. 1 for county youths the County Summer Youth Employment Program. To qualify, youths must meet CETA income guidelines. Workers will be involved in government and nonprofit agencies 32 hours per week for 10 weeks beginning June 9. SELECTED . . . Representing Granger high at Girls State this summer Wages are $3.10 per are, from left, Ynette Montgomery, Kathy Page, Mitzl Hermansen. hour. Enrollees are involved in such work as custodial aide, clerical acchoir and the plays cordion. She is the aide, health care aide, daughter of Mrs. Bertie research aide, craft Hermansen, 2842 So. 3000 aide and child care aide. The purpose of the West. The Page girl, program is to provide daughter of Mr. and Mrs. eligible youths useful Ben Page, 2974 Marcus work and sufficient Road, plays piano, is on basic education and inthe yearbook staff, is in- stitutional and volved in public speaktraining to assist ing and dancing. Her them in developing Miss Hermansen, also father is a teacher at maximum occupational GRANGER. Three a member of the student Granger high. potential. junior girls from A popular component The alternate is the Granger high have been council, is a member of selected to attend Girls the Accolade staff, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. of the program is the at SUSC in Drama club, concert William Bruce Brooks, UofUs State June Cedar City. The girls selected in14-2- Randall, Granger High 7 Ynette Mont- gomery, Mitzi Hermansen and Kathy Page, with Maree Brooks named as an alternate. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Montgomery, is a member of the stu- gladly provide you with a free booklet to record your wishes. 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West Harmon, David, 6585 W. 3500 South Allred, Alma, 3124 Mark Ave. Leavitt, Leslie C., 4330 W. 5780 South Bracken, Ronald, 3877 W. Carolina Dr. Zupan, David, 6015 So. Aquarius Dr. Cowles, Rick, 4852 W. 3850 South (See Page 3, Col. 6) 4015 ace-in-th- hole, though, Jimmy. Let the religious man from the South pray harder and longer than he ever has before for the kind of leadership we so desperately need. Because the way things have been going lately, maybe only your and my ally, the good Lord himself, will be able to bail us out of all our troubles this time. 3587 We Never Talked SOUTH realize not all the blame for eligible Valley View News programand seniors in SOUTH REDWOOD 5255 I rests on your shoulders. But youre the guy wearing our nas hat, tions heaviest most of the secret no that and its decisions youve reached during the past 32 years havent exactly left us sitting where wed like to be. You may still have an decision-maker- Boys Jefferson, Again, am among those who helped send you to the White House, Jimmy. And I must acknowledge that I havent been entirely disappointed in you. For instance, I believe youre still the basically honest, decent man who mounted a campaign extolling those virtues and successfully ousted Jerry Ford from the Oval Office. The leadership pledge hasnt amounted to much, though, has it? Instead of the force and decisiveness by which true leadership is measured, we seem buried beneath an avalanche of weakness and Pita, 5051 So. 5450 laden with economy runaway inflation. A society that in our age of rapidly-depletin- g resources still has no workable comprehensive energy policy. South who offered us a type of presidency which, we were told, would be characterized by an honest kind of leadership we had been sorely missing for too long. Heath Ave. Watts, Don E., Appleton Swen, Brian, Hazy Way. Beddes, Lyle, Copper Hill Crosland, James, Colter Dr. Janke, Manfred, E. 4085 South Stainer, Robert, Ebony Ave. Theres evidence of this almost every w here we look: Americans still held captive in a Mickey Mouse country after six months. Our major Cold War adversary doing as it pleases in the Middle East despite our vocal but opposition. An Youll remember, I 'rust, that youre the religious man from the Brady, Val, 4532 W. South Carsey, Stanton, 3734 W.4140 South Crane, Calvin, 3433 So. 7120 West Wright, Kevin, 3756 Gandale Dr. Wall, Michael, 6042 Don Carlos Warren, William, 1536 Russet Ave. FUNERAL 4330 So the U.S. was stuck with Richard Nixon, a guy whose affiliation with McC'arthyism at its worst in the 1950s was apparently overlooked by a populace that was desperate for a solution to our Vietnam dilemma. What we got, of course, was a presidency marked by monumental deceit, horrendous abuses of power and ultimately, the first occasion of a C. S. chief executive resigning from office. nations first unelected president 4985 Kearns Hansen, Ray, 4391 W. 5780 South Daniels, Gordon, 4488 Edgeware Lane Bullock, Dean, LaBrea Bowen, Noel, Orleans Way Shurtleff, Scott, Barker Road Melby, James, Bluebird Dr. Smith, James, Early Duke Dr. Shosted, Rick, Aries Dr. Thulin, William, W. 3940 South 968-212- 1 leadership in some kind of perspective. Following in JFKs footsteps was Lyndon B. Johnson, a powerful president who made enormous achievements at home, but whose decision to accelerate our military effort in Vietnam turned out to be a costly one, indeed. In terms of not only human life, but also much of our credas well as ibility domestically abroad. Not only that, it was LBJs ego problem which didnt help the presidential chances of Hubert Humphrey, his own vice president and the man who I feel would have been one of our nations greatest leaders ever. Florlita Ave. Webb, 5530 Nez Ardis, Obie D., B Mlrn't d -- 3321 W. families the area greeted newborns during the week ending Sunday evening. Thirty-eigh- t of the infants were boys and 32 A bit different from the Afghanistan situation and some other international crises that have been turning up lately, isnt it? I relize an across-the-boarof comparison then and now isn't entirely valid, and I also know that everything that took place under JFKs administration wasnt all in the best interests of the U. S. However, in retrospect I feel he was a forceful and competent leader, and I cant help but think that if the U. S. had been blessed with more of the stuff he was made of since his death, many of the problems that have saddled our nation in recent years would have been averted. Perhaps a chronological look at some things that have happened since then will help put our crisis of ever-so-blea- k Newborn Total 72 For Week Seventy-tw- thing happened: our adversary did as directed and the Cuban missile crisis was over. Dont take it too personal, Jimmy. Remember I said I feel its all part of an agonizing pattern that began long before you entered our national picture. If I asked you to cite a November day that proved to be an one from the U. S. standpoint, you would probably - understandably - provide the answer that bears the most recent evidence - Nov. 4, 1979, when the hostage crisis began in Iran. But the November day more than 16 years ago when our 35th Pres- - - in You remember JFK, Jimmy. He was the guy who in October of 1962 told the Russians to get those missiles out of Cuba. A funny Some? Certainly. Most? Perhaps. All? Of Course not. ing dramat ically. ident, John F. 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