Show ©glien iitan&arfci:xamtner 4A OGDEN UTAH FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6 EDITORIAL 1 Voice of i t 981 OR WSC caX 1 US air fares hiked again 'bargains' still available Plans by Utahns to vacation advance reservations are by air were dampened this made week when the Civil AeronauThe “regular” roundtrip to tics Board gave the nation’s Chicago from Utah’s metairlines permission to raise ropolitan airport is now $516 fares by at least five percent for a coach seat but only $387 The increase effective im- if reservations are made two mediately was granted to weeks in advance The posted cost of a round compensate for higher fuel costs resulting from President trip to Los Angeles is slightly Reagan’s decontrol of domes- over $300 on some airlines On tic oil prices others the price is around However travelers should $180 A roundtrip to Phoenix costs realize that “bargains” are still available — if they shop $250 — except on Saturdays a for them by asking travel $150 special is available agents to check possible savings through advance reser- City-base- South Ogden cost so does Utah education Why in 36th much? Utah population 5th in from the bottom per capita income ranks 5th from the top in per capita state taxes for education more elementarysecondary ed has schools 15 more higher nearly 5000 more school teachers a 169 pupilteacher ratio compared to Utah’s 243 (nation’s highest) Readers Digest 1980 Almanac for fiscal 1978 reveals Utah’s educational cost at $600 million to Nebraska’s $354 million Nebraska’s total expenditures were even $155 ' James Reston Reagan and the Hispanics off-pea- coast-to-coa- st Costly education 11th in rate of state taxes per capita income and its per pupil cost has risen over 400 percent since 1962 Nebraska is 35th or 200000 more people than Utah operates 1400 So shopping around — and checking different airlines — k hours CAN save money vations or On the price discrimination flights And fortunately a cam- problems Paul Gaines direcpaign by Utah travel au- tor of Salt Lake International thorities to end “discrimina- Airport has been taking the tion” against passengers lead He points out that boarding planes in our state continues flights between cities The CAB said the five per- where heavy competition excent increase would apply to ists frequently are cheaper about 22 percent of the US than shorter trips from Utah markets — those where car- to the East Coast riers are now charging the Mr Gaines has testified bemaximum allowed The board fore the CAB at a regional warned that on the rest of the hearing and has been assured routes — where fares are now by the board’s staff that the below the limit — the price points he raised are now offiincrease could be higher cially being investigated by The latest increase means the agency that posted prices for airline He cited statistics showing tickets have just about doubl- that of ed during the last two years! 1978 between November 1980 air November of Fishburn World Travel travelandcosts nationwide inAgency of Ogden reports that creased 35 percent — but shot several carriers have already as high as 80 percent for taken advantage of the CAB up d flights order and applied the new Salt Lake That’s certainly not fair! higher fares The roundtrip coach cost However it probably would from Salt Lake City to New take action by Congress to end York City and return is now the discrimination against listed at $702 although the Utah That or even more comcost drops to $450 for weekend petition although the market flights and to $450 Monday is already pretty well served through Thursday if proper by numerous airlines the people WASHINGTON — During the election campaign the Carter ad- ministration introduced regula- tions that would have required public schools to teach students in their native languages The Reagan administration as one of its first major decisions has revoked these regulations declaring them to be “harsh inflexible burdensome unworkable and incredibly costly” and turned the problem of teaching these students over to the local school authorities This has produced a storm of protest from Hispanic leaders and has brought to the fore again one of the most difficult social problems facing the nation Much can be said on both sides of the issue but the evidence seems to support the decision of the present Department of Education The Carter administration tried and failed to control the tide of illegal aliens entering this country now variously estimated to total between 6 and 10 million probably more than the total unemployment figure for the United States Neither party has devised a policy that would keep the nation’s borders inviolate There are probably only two ways to manage this problem: first by issuing identity cards that cannot be counterfeited for all residents of the country and second by passing laws carrying criminal penalties for any employpolitical party has been willing to support such drastic measures President Reagan said this week that he intended to give a high priority to this problem but meanwhile the focus has shifted to the education of Hispanic children leg- er hiring illegal aliens Neither al and illegal The Census Bureau estimates that there are now 12 million Hispanic people in the United States Leaders of the Hispanic communities put the total as high as 20 million but despite this vast difference it is agreed that Hispanic peominoriple are the fastest-growin- g ty in the United States at 22 percent a year as compared to 13 percent for blacks now estimated at 26 million Last year the Department of Education estimated that there were 35 million children in this country who could speak little or no English 70 percent of them Hispanic and many of them in the judgment of the Carter administration facing a formidable learning handicap if taught only in English Accordingly the Carter regulations proposed that school districts with more than 25 foreign-speakin- g students should be taught in their native languages as well as in English until they acquired sufficient proficiency in English to keep up The new education secretary Terrel Bell said in revoking the Carter regulations that the federal government would still insist that any school receiving federal funds should “provide equal educational children who opportunity for face language barriers” but he left million less than Utah How much of the high cost is due to the conflict of interest status of Utah’s public education? It has the largest lobby in Utah and it’s essentially the employer of its own legislators Such encroachment is tantamount to giving statehood to the District of Columbia whose primary industry is national government The result is not quality education but Herculean bureaucracy writing a blank check on Utah taxpayers Government improbity begins with the decay of principles upon which that government was foundthe decision about how this should ed Bureaucracy is really an authoritarian wolf in sheep’s clobe achieved to the local schools where most often personal thing What this comes down to is an is aims dominate honest difference of opinion on doomed to its and democracy if cannot it tyranny whether it is best to recruit enough teachers proficient in both Spanish reduce it to be as small and local as and English who can instruct His- possible Bureaucracy is today's King panic children in their own lanits expansionism guage or whether it would be bet- George III with impoverishing the nation its being ter for the children and the nation the antithesis of democracy and to provide special English instrucits history coinciding with deteriotion of freedom and Hispanic leaders argue that their ration It’s even ableprogress to compromquality children will be integrated into the ise representatve government English-speakin- g majority more Gov Scott Matheson’s accusaefficiently if they are taught the tions that the Republican-controllerudiments of reading writing and legislature is dismantling public arithmetic in their own language education is unadulterated poppyThe opposite argument is that this cock the but governor is a Democwould delay their integration who is rat very bureaucratic in This has become a political as The Republican Legiswell as a social issue In many philosophy a is bloated bureauclature cutting states the Hispanic population has the governor’s party helped to grown to the point where it may not racy create The people must see to it only influence but hold the decisive is cut and not educamargin in state and local elections bureaucracy tion In fact the charge was made Ray W Burnett against the Carter administration that its separate language training regulations were at least in part Clean chimney Roy politically motivated We had a fire at home in our (N Y Times News Service) d wood-burnin- g stove which has prompted me to write this letter Perhaps it will save someone else the possibility of a home fire which No snow jobs' is a frightening occurrence We were lucky as we got the fire out with only minor water damage to the carpet We learned a valu- file a disclosure statement The Utah legislature is com- with the state That statement would list pleting action on a commendable bill that should help pro- details of the proposals If tect gullible Utahns from there were discrepancies the state could refuse to allow the money-makin- g phony schemes company permission to do The measure passed the business in Utah House Wednesday 38 to 30 and was returned to the Senate for approval of amendments Its major sponsor Sen KS Cornaby of Salt Lake City explains that the proposal would require companies offering to set people up in business to Richard Maxfield of Provo says the bill would “protect the public from As Rep fly-by-nig- ht operators who move into town give people a snow job take their money and then disappear” Those kind of businessmen we don’t need Virginia Payette Labor's showdown time time for 25 million ed a reduction in wage It’s catch-uunion workers this year — and the and fringe concessions worth $99 Reagan administration has its fin- million And 1450 employees at gers crossed that all the talk about Firestone’s Memphis plant agreed strikes is just so much bargaining to work weekend shifts at straight time baloney The realists in Washington are It’s the same story at Armour hoping that organized labor will where union members faced with look at the the closing of a Texas slaughtering take a economy and see that any big grab plant voted to let management for higher wages might be all it speed up the production line takes to push some tottering comAnd at Conrail running perenbaninto the brink over nially in the red despite constant panies kruptcy taxpayer refueling the transportaraise tion union agreed to cut train crews What good is a they argue if the boss can’t afford and accept special work rules to to pay it? When a business goes help attract new business So did workers could find them- employees of the Milwaukee and belly-uselves in the position of winning the Boston & Maine railroads both more money at the negotiating already bankrupt This is a frustrating development table — and losing their jobs before to a it chance for labor leaders who are still bitspend they have Catch-2- 2 of the current It’s the ter over their increasing loss of economic mess Real earnings of political clout Here it is 1981 — the most workers declined 98 percent 100th birthday of the US labor (in 1967 dollars) during the last two movement — and it’s going noyears Now employees are itching where but backward Union officials are still staggerto catch up at the very time most to are bring ing over the election of a conservatrying companies down their own costs in order to tive president and the defeat of survive their candidates in both the House Labor negotiators are talking and the Senate Now they have to fatter paychecks — and manage- deal with “give-backs- ” ment is asking them to take a wage It’s a trend that cheers one cut to save their jobs Thousands of school of economists Lower wage workers in distressed industries policies they say will slow price have already gone along with these increases increase productivity desperate requests They figure and speed up prosperity That’s what management has to they have no other choice At Chrysler members of the Un- say Labor leaders don’t agree ited Auto Workers union gave up Industries aren’t in trouble be$446 million in future wages and cause of high wages they insist benefits Not only that they’re they’re in trouble because of soartalking about another ing energy costs and the “unfair pay cut of S622 million competition” of import goods proAt Uniroyal 6000 members of duced by cheap foreign labor the United Rubber Workers accept (United Feature Syndicate) p nt Mary McGrory Firing ambassador won't help bite-the-bull- et 20-perce- nt p nt WASHINGTON — The firing of our ambassador to El Salvador the outspoken and courageous Robert White will not help El Salvador Nor will it greatly assist Ronald Reagan in efforts to find a dip- lomatic rather than a military solu- tion to a bloody mess All it will do probably is to signal the military forces that they are home free With White gone they can expect an end to demands for reform within their often murderous ranks The killings — 9000 lives last year — will doubtless go on Increased tolerance for the excesses of the security forces was already conveyed by Jimmy Carter who on Jan 17 on his way out of office authorized the first arms shipment to the junta government which is supposed to bring peace and justice to a small country which until recently was exclusively owned by 14 families Practically every aspect of the the misery is disputed from of the opand character strength to posing forces the effectiveness of the program which we exacted as the price for economic aid the international orthe starvganization which feeds — an exercise a fraud ing calls it of the arm in which the civilian land-refor- Ox-Fa- m m government encourages peasants to become landowners while the military arm guns down would-b- e beneficiaries On the other hand the American Institute for a Free Labor Development maintains that over 100000 campesinos have benefitted from a program which “land-to-the-tille- r” in Vietnam was pilot-teste- d are another point of The refugees contention Rep Barbara Mikuls-k- i d who with Gerry Studds and Robert Edgar a made a trip to countries surrounding El Salvador in January — they skipped El Salvador at White’s request- talked to dozens of refugees in a camp at the Honduras-E- l SaD-M- D-Ma- ss D-P- lvador border They recounted stories of atrocities at the hands of security forces Ms Mikulski was told at the US Embassy that the as refugees were “guerillas” the about their by specifics proven guns of their tormentors And the State Department contends that refugees within El Salvador are fleeing leftist guerillas Many they say have clustered around the security forces in such as we “strategic-hamlets- ” founded in Vietnam Studds finds the parallels to Viet- nam “eerie” “Somewhere in the policy-makin- g levels there is sufficient intellectual and political investment in an approach that they are willing f to go to the point of public deception to defend what is going on — just as they did in Vietnam” He uses the doubletalk about the murder of four US women three of them nuns in early December as an example Aid to El Salvador was suspended as a consequence Resumption depended on “satisfactory progress” of an investigation — which Carter announced on Jan 9 White called it “bullshit” This was the immediate cause of his firing The report of a State Deparment team leaves little doubt that government security forces did the deed But no one has been arrested or charged The reason for abandoning a previous policy was a “final the Left which as a offensive” by matter of fact the junta repelled without any help from us The junta can expect more military aid from the Reagan administration The “domino theory” is at work Intelligence reports show a heavy flow of arms and men to El Salvador through Nicaragua and the belief is that the new and shaky Sandanista government is trying to export revolution Policy planners project the fall of the entire region to Marxism in the event of a leftist victory in El Salvador Mexico does not agree no-ar- (Washington Star Syndicate) able lesson from this fire which I would like to pass on to others as I know there are a lot of people in this area who have stoves and burn wood to save on fuel Take your stove apart often and clean out the residue and creosote that collects in the chimney This is especially important There are several products on the market (such as “Red Devil”) which are thought to completely clean out chimneys We had been using one of these products and were lulled into a false sense of security You must clean out the chimney often — every three or four months if you use “soft” or scrap wood because these products will not do it for you There are also companies which will do this type of work if you prefer to hire someone or are unable to do it yourself Another important thing to remember — call your local fire department for an inspection of your stove before you use the stove to make sure the installation was done properly If you didn’t have your stove inspected before using do it now to make sure it is safe to use J Gabourie Salute to vets Ogden say we should salute our Vietnam veterans with a lot more than parades and yellow ribbons I feel very much ashamed of the way we Americans have treated those hostages of a war they didn’t want to fight but were forced to They were just as much held captive as the 52 but were rewarded with not half as much praise and glory Thank you guys! You did a beautiful job in a rotten situation I salute each of you for your efforts! I R Lambright Start for future Brigham City War highly decorated for bravery Lack of parades or public recognition makes them no less the heroes they are (like their fathers before We had two sons in the Vietnam them) We all join in the jubilation of welcoming the hostages home Remember for some this act of joy releases guilt that grew from former apathy or carelessness Whatever to express joy at Americans returning home from slavery can never be wrong It may well be the start for future prevention of lost freedom A glad family Donald and Marie Stout r |