Show iien Vlfa'""1 Pnyette ©taniiarb-iExatmn- er 6A OGDEN UTAH FRIDAY AUGUST Americans approach future with more caution 20 1982 EDITORIAL The good news is that the recession is over the bad news is that you might not notice it Not until Christmas anyway — and even that’s iffy to get on the voting rolls Admittedly there is little on a statewide basis to excite interest in the Sept 14 Primary Election But in Weber County in addition to some races in legislative districts on both the Republican and Democratic tick- ets there are important contests for the positions on the State Board of Education and the Weber and Ogden boards of education More importantly to Weber County property owners is the special bond election to decide the ultimate fate of the Ben non-partis- an Lomond Hotel For that reason all people by Monday and turn in their packets to the Weber County clerk by Tuesday at 5 pm Others who might find it more convenient can get on the voting rolls by stopping by the clerk’s office on the second floor of the Municipal Building Deadline for this procedure will be 5 pm Tuesday Final opportunities for gistering for the Primary Election will be Sept 7th 8th and 9th On these dates the voting district registration agents will be on duty in their homes in neighborhoods Primary Elections historically draw few voters to the polls With so few election Another face at helm for DDO Defense Depot Ogden’s ics Agency recommended that mission ping depot in Ogden’s north- west sector Gibson relinquished the command but his presence in the Ogden area will remain Col Gibson is moving to Hill AFB where he will become Col director of distribution Col Gibson’s tenure at DDO has been long in comparison to most Air Force assignments He came here in August of 1978 as deputy commander and moved into the commander’s office on March 23 1979 boom-and-bu- $99-billi- re- eligible to register to vote in Sept 14 Primary Election who do not have their names on the races there is little incentive voting records should do so at to put forth the effort to travel to the voting places this year the earliest convenience We must not allow voting There are some deadlines apathy to decide important isapproaching Roving registration agents sues or choose the candidates — and there are 74 in Weber for the November election If County who are authorized to you are not registered take sign up those who are eligible the most convenient course — must complete their work and sign up now small cadre of military personnel and its 1600 plus civilian workers bid farewell to Col George H Gibson Jr Thursday as their leader as the command was changed at the sprawling supply and ship- How’s that for A bulletin to chill your bones in the August heat? What makes it even scarier is the growing suspicion among the common folk that the men who are running the country don’t know what they’re doing that they don’t have a clue about how to get the economy going again This is pretty heavy stuff Always before sometimes the White House and the Congress have managed to take advantage of the cycle the counon to seems run This time nobody seems to try know how to bring back the boom President Reagan who talked a good line two years ago says he really doesn’t want the new tax package but it’s the only way he can think of to convince the money markets he’s on the right track Better he should worry less about the money markets and more about the taxpayers who are beginning to fear the economy is completely out of control and that maybe George Bush’s crack about “voodoo economics’’ was on target after all It’s not just the president’s grasp of the situation that worries them What puzzles most Americans is that there are 535 supposedly savvy men in the Congress — and they can’t seem to get a grip on things either They know the budget is over $100 billion in the red but they go right on spending spending spending Most of us are pretty familiar with debt these days Once we pay off Uncle Sam the local tax collector the grocer the utility companies and the loan company that holds the mortgage on the old homestead there’s not always enough left to settle the rest of the bills But when that happens we know what to do We put the credit cards on hold stop eating out and going to the movies and resist all the sales pitches for luxuries like new cars clothes and cut-rat- e diamonds And if that doesn’t do it there’s always a personal-credi- t adviser who will sit us down on us a put budget and convince the bill collectors that we won’t squander a single penny until they get what’s coming to them The alternative is bankruptcy but the federal government is not allowed to go bankrupt Instead it keeps on borrowing borrowing borrowing until it is now more than $1 trillion in debt with no hope of ever getting it paid off DDO be closed and its transferred to Tracy Calif This became a rallying force in the community and leaders worked in concert with Col Gibson to prove the viability of the depot and its inland location The odds were overcome and today DDO remain? as one of the DLA’s major shipping operations and one of Weber County’s larger employers The reins of the depot now will be be in the hands of Capt Jerry B Douglass who comes to Ogden from the Naval Supply Corps Personnel Office in Washington DC Best wishes are extended to Col Gibson as he embarks on his new assignment And a hardy welcome to Capt Douglass May he have a good measure of success in st on no-fril- But that’s nothing new We’ve always been stuck with a national debt and despite it we’ve always managed to pull out of past recessions Usually with a fairly quick upturn in the economy Until now Now the recession is officially ended Interest rates are down from a high of 21 percent to about 14 percent inflation is running at an annual rate of “only” 6 percent down from twice that and the July tax cut gave us an extra $30 billion to spend in the marketplace And still the “boom” eludes us With all that good news you’d think we’d be snapping back right on schedule Not so If this is “recovery” it’s the puniest since World War II On the job front 108 million people are out of work — and the experts keep telling us unemployment will go to 10 percent by election day Business failures are running 43 percent ahead of 1981 which was a lousy year too More than 450 small firms go under every ls week and as for the biggies — several giant corporations and a few big banks are in deep trouble Housing is having its worst year since 1946 Corporate profits in the second quarter were down 19 percent Factories are operating at only YOU GEKTIEMEN LOOK UK£ A MONSTER? 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Well the Republicans are struggling to put down a right-win- g revolt in their ranks against what the supply-sider- s call Reagan’s flip-flo- p to taxes And chance higher every they get they blame the Democrats for the current “stagna- tion” by Garry Trudeau DOONESBURY I ASK I 70 capacity The automobile industry is so crippled it may never come back Farmers are predicting abundant crops — and a terrible year Prices are down 35 percent and expenses are up 47 percent msvmm WORLD SAW7HE PALESTINIANS AS PEOPLE AS VICTIMS OFA TERRIBLE INJUSTICEk ' CHAIRMAN ARAFAT I WONDER JF I A LOT OF AMERICANS (MOULD LOVE TO KNOUT MIGHT JUST FOLLOW UPON THE MATTER OF YOUR PERSONAL Ter HOW YOU GET YOUR BEARD TO LOOK UKB YOU'VE Air WE ujays VONS oara 3'Day growth SERIOUSLY DO YOU TRIM IT JUST BEFORE WUGOTDBED APPEARANCE 3s3T iJl His first crisis as commander erupted just hours into his administration A study by a the partnership private firm and commis- - perpetuating with Northern Utah sioned by the Defense Logist- DDO has Chance to communicate when parents angered that the city was not going to give tion Department programs trophies to achievers stormed are truly interested in de- the City Council meeting to veloping rapport with the city complain recreation director then they All of this could have been should be at a meeting Aug 24 avoided had Hennon exat 7 pm at the Weber County plained to parents earlier that Voice of the people If parents and others critical of the Ogden City Recrea- Library Paul Hennon has generated considerable criticism — some of unjustified — since the trophy program had been eliminated due to funding pressures Hennon also has had his share of problems with personnel at the Marshall White Center once again attributable to his inability to communicate Hennon wants to correct this weakness He has called a meeting to consult with those in the community directly or indirectly connected with the recreation department This is Hennon’s overture for better community rela- taking over as recreation director a year ago that it would seem he has been forced to spend more time stamping out the fires than doing his job He has the reputation of proven leadership If he has demonstrated one failing since arriving in Ogden it was simply that he has not communicated with the citizenry more specifically parents of young people involved with Little League ball teams It boiled over a week ago tions William F Vets not overpaid Clearfield me more than Nothing gripes hearing someone imply that service connected disabled veterans get too much money in their VA compensation checks each month This is not the case at all When you compare what the courts are granting to victims of industrial accidents and negli- gence cases to what the VA pays in service connected compensation for similar disabilities you can see that disabled veterans are definitely not overpaid Veteran benefits all of them are part of the cost of war Benefits for disabled veterans in particular were paid for with blood loss of health and impairment of mental well-bein- g The government cannot give back the legs a soldier lost to a Viet Cong booby trap the sight lost to a bullet at Anzio the psychological balance lost in POW camps nor lung capacity lost to chemicals and gas in the trenches No amount of money could ever repay the obligation America and those who would not serve to the men and women who made such sacrifices at their government’s bidding That’s why I feel so disturbed when I hear not only government leader but fellow humans questioning the amount of compensation payments to disabled veterans Larry L Kerr Lost sick leave vacation Liberty I would like to extend our deep appreciation to the firemen from the Weber Fire District who have worked for my husband — he is home recuperating from an accident Buckley Jr 'Extremists' read too much into abortion bill The Planned Parenthood people e ad of a are featuring a the under bed with three people covers sitting upright unsmiling On the left the young woman in her nightie On the right the young man in his pajamas Between them dressed in a business suit a middle-age- d man The grim-face- d to Have a Decision “The headline: Be Between You Baby Could Soon Your Husband and Your Senator” The brief textual message warns that the US Senate will soon vote on a bill which “could deprive you of your most fundamental personal rights: the right to have the number of children you want When you want them Or to have none at all” And it continues: “Sponsoring the bills are Jesse Helms Orrin Hatch US Senators and other right-win- g who will stop at nothing to impose their particular religious and personal beliefs on you” Now we live in an age when people will publicly swear to it that to be refreshed you need only a full-pag- or to be nourglass of Coca-Col- a ished a cup full of Wheaties or to live vigorously a tablespoonful of Geritol and we smile at our own commercial exuberance But along the way a lobby in America crystallized that began to insist on cer- poses infanticide aggresses against the sovereign right of the parents to decide on how large a family to have One would not think it necessary to lecture to Planned Parenthood on alternative ways of regulating the size of a family than tain restrictions They tend to by abortion crowd under the generic heading of And then the sly business about g What galls is that senators who “will stop at nothing the very same people who are to impose their particular religious mobilizing to resist outrageous hy- and personal beliefs on you” What vendors is that supposed to mean? What perbole by corn-flake- s and tolerate the kind of beliefs is a legislator supposed to sponsor disingenuous hypocritical blather act upon? Elvis Presley’s? If a for which the Planned Parenthood legislator believes that it is religiAssociation should be driven out of ously wrong let us say to kill one’s business aged grandparent is he exercising The Hatch Bill seeks to return to sectarian aggression in acting on the states the powers they exerthat belief by voting against cised up until 1973 It is that simple euthanasia? Senator Helms is a The bill in question is indeed sponBaptist Hatch a Mormon Are we sored by those who disapprove of supposed to ask what is the religion abortion To reason from the disapof the Planned Parenthood people proval of abortion an aggressive and are they “acting” on that religdesire to regulate the size of a ion in insisting that the newly disfamily is as reasonable as to covered (1973) right to terminate charge that any senator who op the life of an unborn child be truth-in-sellin- guaranteed by the federal govern- ment? What gets you about the proabortion people when all is said and done is their persistent refusal to face up to the only serious question involved in this heated controversy It is as if 150 years ago e s had taken out wantads asking whether you ed the Congress of the United States to decide whether you could own property No no no the abolitionists said It isn’t a question of whether people should be permitted to own property It is a question of whether black people can qualify as property Well the right-to-lif- e people are saying no no no the question isn’t how large a family the parents desire the question is whether the implementation of that right should include the right to kill a substance which is more accurately described as human life than as animal life full-pag- slave-owner- Universal Press Syndicate One can’t help but feel bitterness r disease (connective tissue) adult family members and those with a vital interest in Lupus may attend It has been necessary to change our meeting time and week to 7 pm on the fourth Tuesday of each month Our next meeting is August 24th at McKay-De- e Hospital’s North Green Room Please help us eliminate some of the needless suffering often associated with this disease Sheila Christensen President Peggy Reimschussel collagen-vascula- at the circumstances that make it necessary to be dependent on this help Blair has worked for the Weber County Fire Department for over 20 years He had never abused his sick leave always believing it was an insurance policy for the time when sickness or accident might occur In that time he had accumulated 1700 hours of sick leave and 170 hours of vacation he wasn’t paid for This was all abolished by the Weber County Commission when they reorganized the department into the Fire District I realize in these times of hardships we all have to sacrifice but why just one department? The rest of the county employees still have their benefits and the commissioners still have Vice-Preside- nt Free lunch breakfast Ogden Who once said that there is no such thing as a “free lunch”? Ogden City School Administrators and Ogden school board members their raises have proven that this “Ain’t necesWe want the guys at the Weber sarily so” as they consumed not Fire District to know we do ap-- only free lunches but also breakpreciate the time donated in Blair’s fasts and dinners as well (recall the behalf and the phone calls and $2700 food bill in Cedar City) visits Administrators have Lila Shaw teachers and students toexpected display be comin models and the Sharing helps patient Ogden integrity blat-antl- y while themselves munity they fabricate stories about The Lupus Support Group that has been meeting in Ogden w’ould reasons for their being in Cedar like to thank the many people who City and about their outrageous have helped to make it a success expenditures The speakers have been excellent Perhaps we as taxpayers should The area radio stations have been attend a workshop (at our own exmost gracious with their PSA time pense) to study methods of evaluatalong with the Ogden Standard-Examin- ing and dismissing these administrators who care so little for the We’d like to thank those medical value of the dollar Also perhaps personnel who have offered to be we should consider more carefully on our medical board Dr Jeffrey our votes for school board memE Booth Dr Ronald Reimschus-se- l bers Sheril R Ackett DDS Marie Green MSW and John March pharmacologist Our group was established be- Said it all 0gden cause knowing the current facts dated Your editorial August about Lupus is vital for the patient 16th School “Ogden regarding and their family so that as good a Board Trip Shows Lack of Concern quality of life as possible can be for Taxpayers” said it all How one maintained Being with others who involved in the caravan can say have the same type of disease “it was justifiable” is beyond my means being with others who understand Ways of coping can comprehension To Weber County School District then be shared officials thanks for a job well done Because Lupus can sometimes consideration for be difficult to diagnose those being and your - tested for Lupus are encouraged to taxpayers Viann Chow er attend Anyone with Lupus or a similar More letters on page 7A |