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Section 174-- ,of the Utah Annotated Code requires that all meetings of boards of LI county (and city) commissioners must be public.' However, executive sessions are allowed for discussion of sensitive matters which are of a delicate nature or the 4 type where public policy dictates nondissonination! 1 There seems to be no effective traitationon what matters may be considered or what discussions inay cover at I executive sessions. In your situation there can be no: a and there's without hearing. public zoning changes period to appeal any decision. . be , , 8 I : : ' - , - - Handling money and food I ' i.,- , My gripe is against drive-i- n restaurant persormei who handle money and then food without wasitiat their 'bands in between. There's nothhtg filthier than money.: Still. nottody seems to ,:are or do anythhtg about it Can ; you? - LU Suit Lake City. Yes! And so car& you. The practice you speak of is against the health code. The Health Department's nine food establishment inspectors try to enforce this law in the 2.200 food places in the county, but theY need your help. When you see any unsanitary practice in any restaurant, tell the manager about it Tell him you're not happy and why. Most managers wilt do plenty such problems when brought to their attention by a a formal customer. If the manager.doesn't complaint to the County Health Department. Give all the' the date and time you were in the specifics you can restaurant, and just what happened. Then the Health including closing' the Department will do all it can , restaurant, if necessary. I 1 1 ' III moo ottgeom o itoolb Aegilk woolly Ir . . t ...... ....,, - Washington became president) whether this wilak 1 4 .: ' act,-rnak- new system would work. Monarchy v42$ in ' .... e lkilgr - 1 , aUejt IJI r17 1111 Pin vegglyeviNktor to , I , g control everywhere. It was a political as well as a military war; historians guess that Regefs on the way d of the colonists were maybe Tht,IN d My husband died bi March, two weeks before be wat indifferent, and that a opposed, v..' Sr to -- -dominant third led the way. begin receiving Social Security disabiRty payments-- I ., the SS office when he died, bet the iirst dwelt still notified , What happened if Washington won? eMee out to hint I retnnwil mode can en4,tbke, Hamilton did not believe the people could . , , s.1,1,'' would he reissued leith Ins tame to it Tfie it promised ' . ;"4.'-'-- 4 govern themselves; ; there was nothing in t i Vk'.. next check that cattle was mailk oat to him, also. And so modem history to show they could. Ameri.11;;;f4. , ,, &S people have been very nice, but they The the was next sy, .:i. ' ca's challenge to hereditary power shook ::.., ---, '..' .,(4.,.. . . just haven't come through. I'm not a person to tomplain, but the consequences were as , the world, ' -e' P1'..4 of off to ''.. the expenses nu but I need the money pay , 6e' No .. . ': , uncertain as man's first step on the moon. ' e : :' :"' ' ' husband's illness and furseral. Can you get smne action? i ..41. WhA would Washington do? Hamilton k , --- K.S., Salt Lake City. , 4 ,it ..11 seemed to be tempting him. At least he V . Klii Yes. The SS office here contacted their parent office . v, pointed out significantly early in 1783 that in New York. Your check, including all payment due you, .: not . were disband to , officers the , ..,L4.4.. going , ; will be ,....,.........,,,m... ' '1 Ill your 1114111PLJA aLLIall a week. . : ' . k-tv,,,0:. ,,,without their pay, which the '"At 4 . ' tri quietly -" - , ' a e a. , '. 1 4,--- , , answers. investigate Do-to ..anuireoliiiis i.e., a solve Man get ea.; attempts problems, - failed to had Congress provide, , It. ' that ' '''''.es,wa, ge compiaitis and cut red tape. Write or telephone. You must s;gn use intended its to the bayonets army ' 4 -Your name and give your address. Please include your toieghone..; e i. to proeure justice for itself." There was 1' 1 svakmuligitticaelt. number. ; ' V opportunity . for an ambitious war hero, he 11, 417 '' r,- .,, s Th ! , p, .2 ,,,, , .4 ....!,....b..,--- 4 ''- - ' I, ., itv)ze4 ....,.. ,,,,, . "'; I t i . . j . , -1:.., ';',''' 7 6154 AAA,J 7 ' : '', ik, 4----'' r-- .. ', , 1 a ...e., :2; .1 , ' The PiVetel point vesreached at kew--f' . , i' as.a.1 : burgh, 'New Tark, March lk 1783. Anonym' ' ,, ' . '. ous circidars went through the camp. An i . , unauthorized meeting was called; pie, a t8s , - aa, - , ,,,, . . : vances were palpable and pathetic. , 1 , apQuite runexpectedly Washington .1 , ' ' ' 24" , , BY Hunt Jones ' .,...a. peered at the meeting and appealed to " . a , 1 ' them. Had they fought the war for this? he , Deseret News staff ritet , , ,,, , . ,, 11 , , , , ..,,,, L.. - .e, ,, asked. , . ,. . , 'a see ...- He was no Patrick Henry in his oratory; I al ALTA -- - M6it A:3,LS '1'111.. 7'k . 1 he had not swept them off their feet; he , . I ', cans, and some seta may i I could feel their anger still smoldering. He ( blocel . , El i;li telebrating ;:1:11 bbirthiu2day had a letter in his pocket from a congress8I141k V.-armiver cowitry's sary , k.a man promising pay .luid took it out, then .a , . , 4,... ea) -es While Utahns Nslt4 A might go to Evt , io stared watched anxiously. helplessly. They er . ton to buy forbidden pyrotecht; a,r ,, e Something vt as wrong. He drew out , a eim't match . the celebration held at Altai'a .. they possibly 1". . only intimates had seen him something . the big 1876 CermentiaL t Mining WaS big, and skiing ,s, . ,f'A wear, a pair of eyeglasses. "Gentlemen,", a 1 sae.4 been beard about in those hills. ' ..',z:,- ? will he on , 4,, said, "you s my permit me to put N , 0.Joe Brandy, saloon owner, crdied imeeting of 4i,L:-.1 spectacles, for I have not only grown gray , ec.41k .a,,, businessmen. He said that the country was celebrating kr but also blind in the service of my country." . '. ' . . anniversary. "Let's put on a celebration this tskilt 100t.i.h , : It was a small, homely act, but it did ,',4' will never forget!" The businessmen agreed to the!pla71,-- .: a--, 0 what his speech had failed to do; the t A collection among the 2,000 . e I hardened veterans wiped their eyes and townspecrile brouttl' . 11, . , . $700. That was a goodly sum back then. disbanded. .!.7, 1,N 00'4 1 The program was gohig to be a sunrise Perhaps historian James rimier in the release of an American eagle at an afternoon patrlotIC "Washington: The Indispensable Man" (a meeting, and an evening of fireworks. condensation of four volumes), exagger' ates, but he calls it "probably the most The $700 was spent for fireworks. A group cut:' trinuned and polished a important single gathering ever held in the pine for a flag Polq United States." Another group captured an American eaee. and could the President or King? First one up on the Fourth was Jack Partin, stable: would be not to win battles but to keep an undertake a dangerous mission; it was an in unison? work owner. In the dawn's early light, he saw the body of a mart country Washirtgton's to them at field in the anxious group of delegates risking their all, earry army struggle for just treatment for the veterans hanging from the pole. Soon the entire town gathered. -. through Valley Forge, to learn how to fight 4 to almost him, automatically, in pledged unconventional mobile and a struggle The rope would not slide through the pulley, and Washington showed manifest physical ttl( a for when central strive strong government which the very absence of heavy equipment men finally had to chop down the pole They were to reset and nervous power; he was the colonies' the war ended. wzoid mean that he could move twice as it However, it broke in three pieces in the fare on the and its wilderness greatest expert fast as a conventional army. The testing time came in the hot summer The body was never identified, or the culprit caught?, warfare; he inspired confidence. They 1782 of in the Constitutional Convention at made him commander-in-chieLeader and led were close together in "Never mind," said Brandy. "Well mike up for it at-t They chose Washington chair Philadelphia. of in Once kind Monmouth. at that army. such an At the patriotic meeting." appointment the dramatist ' man at once. Ile made few formal speeches, heats the American troops wag looks for a gesture. But held his A profeeeer Busurich of Great Salt Lake City gave:i7 as them but it together presence vered and started falling back. Then Washington was not th6 charismatic type had his ragged rousing speech. "We are about to fetter this eagle to: down came allay. the that the road, dust, through like Nelson, or Andrew Jackson, or ' sail away into the blue to represent the liberty ern no a was brute of all This horse white knew, abstract, shadowy figure, they big One 4 can imagine the scene if Napoleon. freedom we ail enjoy ." 'made apparently of stone, with false teeth with Washington (a splendid rider) on it in a Napoleon, say, had been picked. There ' sweat-staine- d That was the signal to release the bird. It half walked that fitted wretchedly, and turned as much uniform, and young Marquis would have been an oral roll of drums, half ran down the road attempting to get air borne. et de Lafayette watched as he "rode all along - by the painting of Gilbert Stuart into a drama, bravura. national caricature as by Parson Weems' soared to three feet and plopped to the dusty ground. Try: the lines amid the shouts of suldiers; Instead of that the delegates, still a little school fables. them by his voice and example as it might, it couldn't get off the pound, and Sunday silly cheering uncertain at what they had done, heard and restoring to our standard the fortunes of disappeared into the brush stith all the youngsters in Dot, He was a very human figure who went Washington say:' ' the fight. I thought then, as now, that never pursuit. convenfrom trout the , Philadelphia fishing It I this day declare, with the had I beheld so superb a man." tion, who wrote sadly home to his beloved Everything was going wrong, but it was Brandy Ilia, greatest sincerity, I do not think myself Mount Vernon that it now looked as though reminded them that the fireworks was the biggie of thtZ The big question was always (even after equal to the command I am honored with." " , the convention would last all summer and to day, or night. He wanted no pay, he said, only expenses send him his umbrella, the new one in the A large meadow north of town was site of ther. (for which he pledged "an exact account"). 1 study, also his "Blew Coat with the ' pyrotechnic display. They were stored in a large wooelert. Then he sat down. The dramatist gives him Cremson collar!' . I crate. e , up in disgust. Had they nailed up the honeysuelde? And 9 of the people were in the meadow. : By p.m. most Sut what would a military genius like ;TT have yea thinned the Carrots that :,, ' The I of a giant firecracker signaled :ht Napoleon have done in months to come, one 'explosion were too thick?" start A barefoot boy held a candle for light The mat wonders, with an army that lacked shoes, ' He was a private person; it was noted I meat, clothing, gunpowder, medicine and I rockets stepned back and crunch went the igniting the : he delivered his first inaugural address that one where an detachment discipline; , bey toe-army : ' New York, April 30, 1789)) "with trembihIg of New Jersey troops stabborrdy refused to He yelled end drepped his candle. You can gebsi voice and trembling hands." , swear allegiance to the unitA colonies (as , . : .. where Ile dropped it Right. a "critical" e Philaaephia, . July , Ha was not a was he Washington tried to persuade them)? New gregarious sphinx; arms and ammunition of shortage 'and enjoyed paying compliments to women Pinwheels, rockets, Fenian eaidlee and firecreckeni Jersey," they said, Isis our country," was reported and it was easier to and shot in all directioes. : in and Eiration.. But ritualistic erupted engaging kir' of leader in a This tvas a different enlist troops than to procure milit- there was somettdng about him that awed different kind of war. Only little by bttle did Of is said was that show It the greatW it pyechnici , riz i cry stores for the impending war., , , people colonists learn to appreciate him. Depeever held in Utah iu so short of a time. Alas, not tc-- mt.1.4 ... . nance on him grew gradualiy. i people s,.1i it. It is difficult to see a timworlt display wheA tetitla scio,xt putiming tc, iOlt 7!. I t you are ranain or safety with your hock toward buil It was a war in which the greato4-- feat ., 4 . , 'ff i r e,-- '' -- - It '' , -- - :''17.;.- k4'as...'" , -- t.: - 2 as - . , --.: .5 - ,.. ''' -- '7r , te'st ' . . .r - , , . - - - .: - , ' " ". , , , le . ' ---- ----- ' ; ' Ile was also there, at 23, to help extricate survivors. he Braddock's scarlet-coatewas the only one of the aides not wounded. His reputation spread abroad, and at home the state appointed him "Commander in Chief of All Virginia Forces." He was not a prig, liked music, danced with gusto, had good times with fellow and wore his officers, stood hair in a queue tied with a ribbon. Inheritance and marriage made him an immense landowner, and the pattern of his life sz'smied to stretch comfortably ahead. 'He was an outdoor man, rose at dawn, made the circuit of his five farms on horseback, took a hand in whatever was forward no matter how trivial, and if the dogs started a fox, as like as not he would Olt (In 1768 he hunted give a halloo and be foxes 49 days.) the evening there might be cards, and his willingness to take risks snowed up later at Trenton and Princeton. For a man kke this, it was almost ohugatory to be a meniher of the House of Burgesses. At Philadelphia in !771;,, thy eyed him carefully. It w:ss not Governor Dinwiddie nOW Wh'5 WAS looking let somebody to - . . - ,.e - - t' - , flag--raisinI- 1, . 75-fo- ot 1 f. - spine-tinglin- i 200 , - years 09,0 , ' - 4In . --.- .-- - -- - . r .t . - . , o - . - - !ball - ., 1, - - - . , - Walt. 1 - 41 . . ... - , - - --- ..... .. k .....,--- ., - - - ' .. ''',?-;- ' ' t';',;...,' , .. , , ,fr',44,. .k. ' the Declaration ef ladependence in such bold alld sweeping words? "Wc hold these bliths to be therwrote 'that all men ere created equal, that they are teeelowed by their Cleater with certain unalienable rights, Ill.,;.t among these are life, liberty and the parsoit of happiness that to seente thes,e lights, testituted ittcir among men, 2re deriving governments - " : just powers from the consent of the governed.-Why, asked Lincoln, did the kemding fathers bave to say "all men are ereated equal," inetead of putting it in some qualified way? Didn't they know all reen were created unequal, too, and that overseeing things PlaYs into the bands of cynic; and criticz? Lincoln concluded that the founding fathers feared, In the generations to follow them, there tu,t,t. the men and classes and religions who would want to subjugate less powerful Americans, take away their liberties and Tc. set up special ndes lee themselves. That old Declaration," as Lincoln called it, bad to have imequivocal words in it that would choke in their throats. It had to be "a hard nut to crack" for would-b- e usurpers, bad to instill in every ordinary heart a simple a picture of what Ameiica aimed at, said Lincoln picture worth fighting for and dying for. At age 199, we are entitled to say that some of that message came across. So run up the nag Way. Ring the bells and sing the old songs. For all our boners and blunders, we have done something right. Footnote: This is an appropriate time to remind Americans of our 'search for a bicentennial slogan. A few mouths ago, we suggested that the people, rather than the government, should prince the tight words for 1978. Su we invited tale readers to teR bew they feel about their country on her Nerd) birthday. Almost a million letters have poured in, together with offen of prizes. So write down your alogan and mail it to Slogans USA, Box 1978, Washington, D.C. 20013. S 1111Pm?It I ., 1nduzq fathers . ,- ,:44,''''' ,..,. - ' , ,s,e...4 "''v''''' . V O''' . .,m,, al..hiefik, ....,., - d I;- , . - it .1 475 4, '' i60. . It 1 wily , 4.4 - . '',:,':, ti . ,- ' Sol ' 3, - , DESERET NEWS, FRIDAY, JULY I t- ) 'iqa'',,- N4-0- had the Indians call Washington "big hand," and the latter inspired his poem "If" "If you can keep your head when all about you . . . Yet make allowance for their 4- 4 : doubting too'" Governor Dinwid- In Virginia, in 1752-5- die had a problem: King George II ordered him to send somebody across the Aileghenies into the Ohio wilderness to see if the French were there, and to ward them off . - if they were Whom would he send? There was that ,, strapping young surveyor Washington, with Fairfax family. a connection to the t. Could somebody of 22great control older men? "Vk Washington knew the woods; he had gone over the Blue Ridge with a surveying party at 18; he was militia major at 20; he 41y. looked competent So he was dispatched. , All be had to do (with winter setting in) was to travel 500 miles through Indian- ,,,, haunted, murmuring forest, do a little fighting, maybe, and get back again. He did ' ; Oa 'golf ti Z4 it - .': ' red-blood- I ,. ' :, : 1 t," ( A BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL , , ' :: one-thir- 7.47 T. :' , one-thir- -- .. : : pax I. - I ''''' it . big-fram- I 't.'." ,:!' --- go d . tz .4----P- Christian Science Monitor News Service Gouverneur Morris made a little wager with Alexander Hamilton at the Constitu:, tional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787: He was in awe of nobody on earth, he ti boasted. Then, said Hamilton, let us see you ". clap General Washington on the back. A few nights later Washington stood at -, arid towering. "Well, ,,",,tthe hearth, -Z:,,'General," said Morris familiarly, putting '',' s. his hand on his.' shoulder. The general said ' nothing, Instantly Morris saw his mistake; ,,,-- , he said later he felt hke sinking through the , , , 1:,:floor. , , There is other testimony, Abigail Adams was 'not a impressed, e,nd her firm-eyeNew England upbringing did not '" quail before the- Virginia gentry. , , , When America a troops encircled Boston, ') she ..went ottt, tiOitadquarters to meet the ' new commander. Abigail melted ;--- there 4 no other word for it. To her mind came instantly a line from Dryden, she said later, "Mark his majestic fablic!" Anybody who could flutter Abigail was worth observing. , -s, 4.4Ills schooling hardly went beyond what .4 ,,, we would call today the eiementary grades. yet he somehow picked up a dignified 44- .rhythm in his prose. Rudyard Kipling, in his book for children, "Rewards and Fairies," i , - , zotok goNA tVg1 OM Bir .P41111 ...raloovaerraf slogI le : II '" 1732-179- 9 oat By Richard L. Strout I ro4-6- ... , 1 .. - v :'''V i I , : Last of 12 . 1 "1:' --- ' At I :' 7 ' P : :George Washington, ( ',' , ' , IV ' ':.:',..:T.: ' - ,, - ... - .. - ,,.::.! ' - - $ ' : ri;:, - , . '4 .. trappings of beach froltea ball games, ;leak baskets easel a I I , v. back?ard speeders, so complacently sure are we that it. Ftltr,:fai ts, will ever rehire', that we forget wtat we once knew: that WA, the zmnual reappearance of this day is the marvel of tho - . ,ifICK p;:,....4 political ages. t I This year, the Fourth of July finds us with our fingers burnt, our ambitions deflated, our parameters narrowed. Yet, even as the American Empire retracts and the American Dream loses a little rosiriess, events in India, We looked into this possibility. We found, indeed, a te Portugal, the Philippines and elsewhere -- where framework of emergency laws existed that an emhattled democracy, after billoviing brightly on a puff of hope and president might pervert into a springboard to a coup. idealism, fell to the dust show us how fragile is the seed There are more than 500 separate federal laws we planted on this day 199 years ago, how epochal is eur delegating extraordinary authority to the president achievement in keeping it alive, how majestic is the during a national emergency. Theoretically, Nixon could remdting tree that now ahelters us. have fabricated an emergenty; he could have put Whatever hope exists in the world that men and Washington under martial law and manipulated all those women may pursue their individual destinies, enjoy the wires to put down les accusers. fruits of their own lalear and partake of the liberty, But we went around to some of the generals, diversity and husaneness that is found erdy under rule by the consent of the governed, hangs upon the annual return admirals, law enforcers, cabinet officers aid even White House aides who would have to enforce such orders if an cf this day. The grasping of dictatorial power by Indira Gandhi, unscrupulous or demented President issued them. We came away convinced that no such orders would ever be and the acquiescence in this travesty by the Indian obeyed. establishment, threatening the extinction of democracy in its largest and most challenging setting, will etrike As it turned out, after the President admitted his thoughtful Americans as a catastrophe of the most criminality, his actual power vanished completely. Had mournful kind. he not resigned, we concluded that most of the loralists Yet it touches a chord of pride in us, too. Under still remaining on his staff ivere prepared to walk out en similar circumstances, Richard Nixon, whatever the sins masse, leaving him alone and unable to act. on his head, never attempted what the sanctimonious Something unique in human history is visible here, Indira has stooped to. Had he done so, no one of and we must try to grasp it. More than it century ago, a would have obeyed his orders. private citizen named Abraham Lincoln speculated about During Nixon's last year, as he was pushed into the such matters in a fourth of July speech to an audience of corner, there was some fear in Washingtnn farmers. he might resort to force against the Congress and the ' courts.' ' Why, he asked, did Thomas Jefferson and the others :s. pz ; ' .' ': ,::'-.-- ... each year disguise4 as a holidays so prosale are its - g t. : - WASHINGTON .., it . 1 ..- -- - ' '4 ', " , ... , - ibt .., , .... .... ., , , g , .. - : .. .. , ,,,,,,:,' ...!:,..,,..r' |