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Show y y "(Ji h 1111 jj lUjirngirj yiii Stiarrtpiw "1 Marquis Childs fak Sf ihww Sbt-ia- ABM Plan Uj isets Haw aii Tourism Page 18 Sunday Morning, .March 2, 1969 Section A jiri'u Last Ditch Disruption During the many days of study by a special governor's committee on investments, and later when SB205 was being drafted, there was opportunity for every segment of the public and business community to air their views and assist m formulation of this vital legislation which will permit greater letuin cm investment of state money. Utah's banking profession was well icpiescnted on the governor's committie (five of the 14 membeis were representatives of banks) which studied ail phase s of more j rofitable invest an nt of idle state funds The committee's hanker members laised no objection to the committee's to the gov nor. Now, with the bill wi into the legislative mill, the Utah Bankets Assn, went scui lying up to the Capitol with the claim that its collection of amindments would strengthen the legislation. This as.si rtion lias been resoundingly refuted by Sen. W. Hughes Broekbank, one of the bill's spon sors. re-po- rt 1 11 SB205 is designed to increase state revenue from investment of public funds by establishing within state government the mechanism for moie general and more profitable investment of idle funds. Trouble in Paradise HONOLULU is the theme of the scenario de eloping in these beautiful islands that are a curious blend of highly ad'.er- - t tised resort and one of ? America s installations. m i litary The tiuuble is over a ballistic missile site in the Honolulu. of viciniiv While no location has been definitely decided on. Rep. Patsy Mink has a letter from the Department of the Army suggesting four possible sites, one of which would be selected next month. They are all close to present military installations or to the International Airport. Installing an ABM is not merely a matter of propping up a missile. It is an elaborate installation requiring a minimum of 250 acres, On the Bland of Oahu, as more and more resort hotels go up and the three military services expand their operations, land is at a premium. No matter which of the four sites is chosen, or one of seteial additional proposals the Army is submitting, the opposition will be n mainfierce, as it is already in a land cities where ABMs are to be installed. With the battle lines hardening, the ABM is certain to have a rough time in Congress. The three Democratic members of Hawaii's Sen. Daniel K. congressional delegation Rep. Spark M. Matsunaga and Mrs. Mink are all opposed to the antiballistie missile system. Sen. Hiram Fong. Republican, is for it. Battle Lines Drawn that Some such investment now takes place at both state and local levels but present laws, or lack of them, have led to confusion among both state and local officials as to what funds and whose funds can be invested, where, and for how long. Just last week Salt Lake County Treasurer Sid Lambourno said the countys program of investing idle funds belonging to other taxing units had been suspended until the most-powerf- Legislature authorizes it. Investment of state funds is of vital interest to Utahs banks and we can find no fault iri their wishing to protect legitimate interests. Its their method that offends. By passing up the opportunity to gi t in all its licks during the calm and deliberations of the goverpressure-frenors committee, and later during drafting of the bill, the association forfeited its moral right to come charging up to the Capitol at the last minute with a collection of bf fuddling amendments which are patently designed to defeat intent of the bill. Banks have an interest in SB205 and so does the taxpaying public. The difference is that the public was heard from at the proper time and the banks were silent. Now their frenzied, disruptions are an affront to the publics interest and its patience, too. e last-minu- half-doze- te Aii Era ol Israeli History Ends The death of Premier Levi Eshkol of Israel has roused fears abroad that more hawkish leaders may take over the government at a time when a new Middle Eastern crisis seems in the making. Yet Eshkol was certainly no dove. He became premier in 1965, and two years later was to lead his country into the war in which the Arab forces were decisively defeated. He was also at the helm during the reprisal raid on the Beirut, Lebanon, airport last December. Until a new premier is selected, Israel will be run by a caretaker government headed by Deputy Premier Yigal AII011, one of the leading contenders for the office. (Another L Defense Minister Moshe Dayan.) However, the new government will, itself, be a caretaker until national elections are held in November. That would seem to preclude any immediate or drastic revision of Israeli policies, though a surge of Arab terrorism could change everything. six-da- y Were from the International Red Cross with parcels for your prisoners. Israel announced Eshkol died of a heart attack. Not so, said A1 Eatati, the principal Arab guerrilla organization, which boasted it had killed Eshkol in a rocket attack on his country home. This was a typical performance. A1 Fatah and similar organizations are determined to provoke Israel in every way possible, obviously believing that if enough matches are struck an explosion is inevitable. In Arab radio stacontrast, tions reported Eshkol's death without comment. However, no matter who succeeds Eshkol, his passing means the end of an era in Israel's history. He was one of the last of the leaders who emigrated to Palestine during the early years of this century. Eshkol, like the famous David Ben Gurion, was bom in Prussia. Deputy Premier Allon is a son of one of the earliest Jewish settlers in the Galilee area and thus symbolizes the new generation " coming to power. The Public Forum semi-dese- rt Utah. Yet people make a living raising cattle and sheep there. Some of them know 110 other way. A vital ingredient of economic survival i3 adequate winter range and much of that range is made up cf public lands. Take away the range and ranchers must either buy private land or feed their animals or commercial fodder. Both alternatives are prohibitively expensive. This dark prospect faces some 50 operators in Wayne and Garfield counties where expansion of the Capitol Reef National Monument means loss of winter grazing rights. Whether or not it was proper to expand the monument is not the question here. The issue is a moral one and it is larger than the two counties combined. It is an issue that has been raised but never settled to anyone's satisfaction in almost every place a freeway has been built, or a big reclamation darn constructed, or a city neighborhood cleared for edevelopment. How much do changing times and wavs of life owe people hint in the proc- ess The shopkeeper wiped out by the home-grow- n 1 freeway, the farmer flooded out by the dams artificial lake, the landlord whose rental units aie bulldozed all suffer seldom is easier by which made hardship compensation at market value for property lost. In the case of the Utah stockmen, there is reason to hope that the blow they fear can be softened. In similar situations, such as creation of Canyonlands National Park, grazing permittees were given up to 10 years to phase out their operations on the closed lands. And persons owning land in other national parks at the time of the parks creation have been allowed to stav on unt'l they died. Those affected by the monument expansion are few when compared to the thousands displaced by freeways and the like. But in their case there is less urgen cy in implementing the publics will and there are reasonable and less harsh ways of making the transition. Though it is big and impersonal and far away, the federal government can still hear its citizens cries for help. At risk of appearing naive, we believe it will answer them, too. First Hurdle Utah's automobile license deadline has passed amid much last minute linestanding and fuming by people who for one reason or another go down to the wire. But license plates are but one hurdle today's highly regulated citizens must jump. Federal and state income taxes are next and after them the annual motor vehicle safety inspection must be faced and financed. In between there are dog licenses to buy, parking tickets to pay and sundry other official annoyances. Summer brings a breather, just time enough to raise college tuition or register the kindergarten aspirant in September, beat the property tax deadline in November and start the whole race over again. Is there any wonder that societys dropouts stir envy even in the tax collector's heart? The couiteous driver is the safe driver, unless his courtesy astonishes the other in'u hitting a light pole. mo-lori- st 9e M.dl n Si Lous Po Dupa'ch the first job of the Defer.se Don't forget Department is to defend its interests. It s good timing that their birthdays (D-Ill- By Our Readers creased, or worse, are cut, these services which so many average income Utah citizens need will not be available. Gov. on I comment must Tribune: Editor, Utah has made a modest but impressive Rampton's suggestion to the lawmakers calling for added sales tax rates on so many beginning in the field of community mental health. It has done much to maintain job prothings. I don't drink either beer or whisky and ductivity, school attendance, crime reduction and marriage stability. Most of all, it has enhave minimum respect for many of our citizens who drink this sort of junk. Therefore, I abled many Utahns to avoid the despair remight suggest that the state tax pattern be sulting from unnecessary institutional care. State Hospital administrators are, given a closer look and suggestions be made against a tax on soft drinks and cigarettes curiously enough, urging a cut in mental since their use is harmless to anyone other health appropriations, which would eliminate than the user. nearly all local community mental health as to overall harm programs. That an institution that cannot others By contrast, the gain accreditation believes those who live in a result of using beer and liquor is usually acSalt Lake City should travel an hour to Provo wide range. cepted as having a pretty for day care or counseling, is ridiculous. on beer We should press for heavier taxes I sincerely hope the legislators can cut and liquor as well as heavier fines for the frills if they find them in the budget, but person who is found using the mentioned mental health services are not such. a like toward as starts something products MORONI J. SMITH car accident or such. state-controll- A .) has rushed into Rep. Sidney Yates the fray to keep an ABM out of Liberiyville, a suburb of Chicago. In Detroit, Boston and every city where the Army proposes to put a Sentinel missile, indignant citizens have sent,a barrage of protesting letters and telegrams to Congress. The outraged citizenry fed that far from being a protection the Sentinel is an invitation to nuclear retaliation. The Pentagon claim that the ABM might reduce casualties in a nuclear exchange from a possible 100 million to 30 or 40 million is entirely uncon-- v incing. It is here 111 this newest .state, 2.400 miles out in the Pacific, that the incongruity of a protective missile system is most obvious. The eight islands scattered over a vast area are dependent on transport and communication links that would be shattered at the start of a nuclear strike. The jet age has made Hawaii such a magnet for tourists that tourism is a rival to military - government spending in the economy of the islands. The building boom is phenomenal, with new resorts springing up like the luxuriant tropical vegetation. Boom Only Begins Raise Fines One Small Face of Harsh Reality It takes a lot of land to feed a cow in the that is southeastern Experience on the mainland has shown that the battle lines are really drawn when a site is picked and land acquisition begins. re- mind us of truthful Geoige and Honest Abe as the income tax seacon opens. After all, public intoxication is against state law and carries fines for the guilty person so I think we should make the fines much stiffer. And no alibi from the guilty bloke. LOUIS RICHMAN Manti Harmful Influence Editor, Tribune: This is in reply to Vesta St. Clairs letter, Seek Before Shouting, (Forum, Feb. 11). She says, Before soapbox orators start shouting down innovations in education and fluoridation of water, they ought to seek out the facts from experts or adopt a good reliable guide such as our PTA manual. I she suppose by innovations in education means sex education in the school, total integration, etc. The fact is, we, who Mrs. St. Clair refers to as the negative voice, have indeed made careful studies of the issues involved (more so than has Mrs. St. Clair, apparently) and found these programs are being promoted by Communist influence and could be very harmful to us and our children. ISAAC DILTS WORKMAN Las Vegas, Nev. Other Extraction Editor, Tribune: Our legislature has overlooked a most obvious and simple means of extracting more tax revenue from the I mean, people of Utah. sheep Rulings by the Utah State Tax Commission hold that taxes paid on cigarettes, oleomargarine, etc. are not deductable from state income taxes. At the same time taxes paid for gasoline are deductable. It all depends on where and when the tax is applied, the money has nothing to do with it. If the State Tax Commission will rule that the tax on gasoline be applied the same way that it is on cigarettes, then we people of but Utah will be fleeced of this deduction at no increase in erpenre. Also, under this type of ruling additional state sales tax may be collected as it is on tobacco and oleo. The way the sales tax is now administered vve sinners pay sales tax at 31,;. percent of an 80c tax with every carton of smokes we buy. This is really double taxation. Dont know why I bother to pass these gems of information on since I buy everything I can in Colorado. ROBERT W. JOHNSTON Vernal No Frill Editor, Tribune: Certainly those who r, e so adamantly opposing tax increases cannot easily afford the high costs of medical and psychiatric care, or meaningful programs to help their mentally retarded or handicapped children. Yet if appropriations are not in- - The big hotel chains are putting up new resorts not only on Oahu but on Maui and Kauai. It is a boom such as the islands have never known before and optimists believe this All or None Editor, Tribune: If the Republican majori- ty in the legislature really wants to prove that it isnt the party of the rich folks, it can do so by passing some legislation mobile home owners from sales should the buyer of a S25.000 home from sales tax while the low buyer of a $6,000 mobile home be to exempt tax. Why be exempt income subject to it? Mobile home owners are a proud, petnia-nen- t, segment of the community and resent this disgraceful discrimination. Either charge sales tax on all homes or none! ELAINE LARSEN g is only the beginning, with the real gold rush in the near future when the big jets come in. The concern here is to live up to those lush travel posters showing a lovely Hawaiian girl flirting with a waterfall in an idyllic setting far from the stresses and strains ot modern life. Bristling missiles do not fit into this picture. Strong interracial peace groups, mindful that Asians have thus far been the only victims of the atom bomb, are active. They gave former President Lyndon B. Johnson a bad time when he spoke at the East West Center on one of his Asian jaunts. But the peace advocates will be outnumbered by lust plain citizens when it comes to discovering the ABM is to be a next-doneighbor. -- or Theodore Lon" Will "Social Insect System Finally Prevail? Americas troubles are being blamed on everything from Communist intrigue to Dr. Spoek's permissiveness to the generation gap. The truth is that we may be approaching, no matter how unwittingly, the kind of society suitable for social insects. And we arent social insects. Bees, wasps and ants get alorg very well. Day after day, with the efficiency of a machine, the workers work, the warriors fight and the drones do whatever drones are supposed to do. Human beings have no intention of living according to patterns established by a higher authority. Yet that is how' human beings are expected to behave in our modern society. Neither IIovv Nor Why Freeway driving requires strict obedience of predetermined rules. Education is supposed proceed step by step according to an estab- lished pattern. Medical care demands acceptance of a relationship between patient and physician that depends more and more on tne and hospital of laboratories availability space. And the availability and cost of almost food, clothing, transportation everything is determined vvBhout the inor insurance dividual knowing how or why. Social insects wouldn't be upset. Human beings under capitalism are likely at times to feel betrayed and to react accordingly. Human beings under communism may well feel the same way. However, in their system tney are supposed to behave almost like social insects. Even thp most minute decisions are made by central authority, although dogma takes the place of the Instinct that prevails in the insect world. Marxists won't accept this description. It is, indeed, simplistic. But so is the description of what seems to be happening in our plural- istic society. Strong and Ruthless In Communist countries, the state is ' and ruthless enough to strong enough keep complainers under control. In Stalin's Russia, hardly anyone dared to argue with the state. The few who did were destroyed, while those suspected of disagreeing were also destroyed, frequently before they were even aware they were thinking dangerous thoughts. In .he free world, there is very little actual coercion. Freedom exists; no question about it. But this very freedom tends to produce a system in which the guidelines have a compelling effect. We differ from the Communists because we believe primarily in feedom of choice. The Communists say our freedom of choice is an illusion, and they have the real thing the freedom to benefit from the wisdom of their leaders. They might just as well brag about freedom of instinct and join the social insects. The Complexity Increases Modern society is fearsomely mpiex and each piece of progress adds to the complexity. The cities are overcrowded, open countryside is being overrun, the highway builders can hardly keep ahead of the flood of new cars. So new rules and regulations, new checks and limitations bmme necessaiy. The individual is frustrated and angry. Nothing is the way it was in the good old days. In a pluralistic society, no one expects individuals to turn into social insects. Communist leaders may not expect anything like that either. Its just that in solving problems they act as if they did. |