Show 1 4A Standard-Examin- er Thursday Standard-Examine- April 19 1930 r Pleasing tradition returns to county In July of 1965 a tradition of paying tribute to men and women who have made significant contributions to the area’s cultural civic and economic growth had its beginning The Weber County Hall of Fame became an immediate hit The first inductee was the legendary sports editor A1 Warden acclaimed as the dean of Intermountain sports writers for several decades The second honoree was pioneer doctor Edward I Rich known as the horse and buggy physician who had delivered almost 6000 babies during his 72 years of service in Weber County The list of inductees that were periodically honored reads like a “who’s who" in Weber County history During its heyday those who were chosen to receive its honors and their distinctions at the time of induction included Hooper pioneer James Beus newspaper publisher Abe Glasmann Utah banker George Eccles former chamber executive and water bureau official EJ Fjeldsted LDS Church president David O McKay Brigham Young University president Dr Ernest L Wilkinson attorney Samuel C Powell former Weber State president and US congressman Henry A Dixon Ogden Catholic Church Msgr Patrick Kennedy businessman and Ogden mayor W Rulon White newspaper general manager Joseph F Breeze philanthropist Mrs Donnell B Stewart Weber State president Dr William P Miller automobile dealer executive John Hinckley educator Olive McCarthy veteran county recorder Ruth Eames Olsen and Ogden banker Frank M Browning The Weber County Hall of Fame was begun during the era of county commissioners Bud Favero Maurice Richards and Dr William Moyes This excellent way of publicly saying thanks to those who worked tirelessly for the welfare of community ajid generously contributed their energies toward the growth and prosperity of Weber County was perpetuated until 980 — the reasons for its near demise unclear The Weber County Hall of Fame was retrieved from its dormancy in 1989 by the Junior League of Ogden Learning that the photos of the honorees had been removed from the Weber County Commission chambers and placed in storage the civic organization sprang into action It participated in the visit of Ogden native Brent Scow-cro- ft who returned here as speaker at the rededication of the Ogden Hinckley Airport The leaguers prepared an attractive plaque replete with Scowcroft’s photograph and ceremoniously inducted him to the Weber County Hall of Fame In the ensuing year the Junior League members have dusted off and restored the photos prepared identical plaques on which to place them with engravings identifying each and their place of honor in the Weber County Hall of Fame The Weber County Hall of Fame will be officially rededicated on Friday night as the Weber County Registry of Honor The Radisson Suite Hotel has provided a highly visible location in the lobby for a permanent display of plaques featuring the photographs and accomplishments of the inductees Friday’s ceremony will see the new plaques unveiled in this appropriate new setting It will also be a special evening for Ogden’s long-tim- e community leaders John A Lindquist and Val A Browning Their dedication and hard work at ensuring Ogden’s g and their philanthropic commitments that have enabled many important programs and improvements to move forward will be appropriately honored as they become the first inductees in the Weber County Registry of Honor Once again the Junior League of Ogden has demonstrated its clear sense of community It understood the historical significance of the Hall of Fame and the need for a prominent place where permanency and public access are ensured The Weber County Registry of Honor will be ensconced in its new home a place for generations to come to visit and be reminded of the accomplishments of many of Weber County’s chief benefactors who transformed their lofty goals into paramount and significant contributions toward this area’s past present and future It must be remembered this new museum becomes reality because of cooperative efforts of the Junior League of Ogden and the Radisson Suite Hotel 1 well-bein- Ralph David Abernathy Scripps Howard Editorial A'ovs Service It was the Rev Ralph David Abernathy’s fate to live most of his adult life in the shadow of a civil rights leader w ho became a celebrated figure in American history Dr Martin Luther King Jr It was not easy to be in succession the friend chief aide and heir apparent of a man of such rare talents The collaboration began as King embarked on the course that would change a country It continued as King’s success and reputation grew and then were lifted to the status of legend by his assassination Abernathy died Tuesday at age 64 alienated from other civil rights leaders over what Abernathy wrote about King’s sex life in his autobiography But the most important phase of Abernathy’s life — and the one for which he should be remembered — took to Memphis in him from Montgomery in the 1968 From the bus boycott to the night King was murdered Abernathy was at his friend’s side enduring the threats and actual violence of those who opposed civil rights for black people mid-195- ( "Saved by recycling" Apology to Jews is a big step forward WASHINGTON — In a passage she wrote long before the events in question Judith Miller wrote these prophetic words about what Germany needs to do to calm reunification nerves: “Only if the Germans fully confront their past can their neighbors believe that history will not repeat itself" she said in her excelattilent forthcoming book about present-da- y tudes toward the Holocaust “One by One by One" That realization has finally sunk in How else explain the extraordinary moment in the new East German parliament when members accepted “joint responsibility” for the Holocaust and begged the Jews’ pardon? Even if they did it for political reasons — that is to soften resistance to the inevitable reunification — the East Germans are to be commended for this display of qualities The country that ravaged Europe three times in a row — in 1870 in 1914 and in 1939 — is saying it is sorry It is showing understanding compassion humility — elements that seemed during the pitiless Nazi years to have been omitted from its character Perhaps even more important it is the y Germans kicking the habit of They have never been responsible for the horrors they have visited on the world It has always been someone else’s fault Now at last they are saying “We did it We are sorry" It is an enormous step forward for them Their martyr complex has made them in their own minds victims never agents World War I was unavoidable What was poor Germany to do? Was there any other response but to plunge a continent into war that took 10 million lives cheating Europe of a generation of leaders and fathers? self-pit- Mary McGrory And what about World War II? Didn’t the Weimar Republic have an unendurable rate of inflation? It had been sold short at Versailles Didn’t the Germans need lebensraum? Had not the Jews threatened Hitler? Had not an unarmed untrained easily frightened segment of Europe’s population declared war on him through the World Jewish Congress in 1939? Was a better excuse needed to exterminate 6 million people? East Germany has finally come off it “Immeasurable suffering was inflicted on the peoples of the world by Germans during the time of National Socialism” read the statement issued by a “sad and ashamed" parliament the first democratically elected such body in decades “We ask the Jews of the world to forgive us We ask the people of Israel to forgive us for the hypocrisy and hostility of official East German policies toward Israel ” It is as handsome and complete as it is overdue Nazi German’s “silent majority” had no Berlin WalL Support of Hitler was almost unanimous Becoming communists — and therefore — later was hardly retroactive “Christian” atonement How a country could acquiesce in the slaughter of a people is left for another day To understand the depth of the complicity it is only necessary to learn that in Fulda which lies on the border betweeen East and West Germany and is overwhelmingly Catholic only one instance of resistance occurred: A priest hid anti-Na- zi so-call- ed two Jewish children Germans might want to investigate further as to why this should be so The day after the Germans confessed Mikhail Gorbachev came forward to state tLe obvious He admitted what every Polish schoolchild knows that it was the Soviets not the Nazis who murdered the flower of the Polish Army some 15000 men in the Katyn Forest in 1940 Gorbachev’s admission had politics written all over it He chose to make it to a fellow communist Gen Wojciech Jaruzelski rather than the democratically elected prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki He timed it to divert attention from his harsh ultimatum to the Lithuanians whom he is threatening to starve It’s late to call the massacre “a tragedy" but it takes time for Soviets to admit mistakes Like the East German parliament Gorbachev understands that unconfessed crimes can clog communications with the outside world We cannot give ourselves airs about these egregious examples of suppressed truth and belated apologies The American Historical Association has complained to the secretary of state about unwarranted omissions in the official history of US foreign policy — for example an account of Iran that leaves out all mention of CIA involvement in the overthrow of Prime Minister Mossadegh It is hard for us too to admit we were wrong We have never owned up to robbing the Indians of their patrimony And it took us almost 50 years to tell that we did wrong in interning them during World War II Congress finally voted reparations in 1988 Universal Press Syndicate Japanese-America- ns Bush will be forced to show true colors WASHINGTON — This was a long time ago kiddies when gas guzzlers had tailfins smokestacks spewed glop that rotted forests and nobody cared that we were ripping a chunk big as the United States out of the ozone lajer You wanted clean air? Turn up the air conditioner It was 1961 and Gaylord Nelson governor of Wisconsin and later US Senator was hitching a ride in the limo with President Jack Kennedy Nelson bent Kennedy’s ear about “conserving the environment” Kennedy Nelson remembers looked baf- Sandy Grady and “Browns" (business establishmentarians who would protect profits) Bush plays the middle ground “Sure I want a clean environment" he waffles “but I’m not going to shut down the economy" Translation: Go slow churn out reports do nothing rash So far Bush has gotten a gentleman’s “C" on the environment mainly because he’s no Ronald Reagan But this week — and not fled merely because of this Sunday’s Earth Day — Bush has to show his true colors I’ve never to “Gaylord given any thought this issue" said Kennedy “I’ve lived in citSeventeen nations are sending representaies I didn’t know a problem existed” tives to tle White House for a two-da-y Now three decades later we’re approach' conierence on global warming that potential n Neling the second Earth Day (which cataclysm of drought flood and cancer the son invented) And Nelson worries that the Bush team prefers to laugh off Already the incumbent US President is almost oblivious White House parley is rapped as a PR fraud as JFK was “It’s really a smoke screen to cover up the Is George Bush behaving like the “environadministration’s inaction" Daniel Becker of mental president” or running a political the Sierra Club says scornfully scam? More bitingly Europeans charge the Bush “The jury is still out — and getting neradministration has stacked the deck so the g vous" said Nelson a leader in the Wilderpowwow will paper over ness Society “The question is in how great Bush's approach y “The whole agenda is a kind of depth Bush understands the issue He’s spent more time criticizing than on the traffic” Dutch delegate Pier Vcllinga comenvironment What kind of priority is that?” plains “It focuses on economic issues not You’d think avid political will" Bush would be something of an It’s curious to hear Dutch Irish Germans k But in the war between the “Greens" (zealots and other Europeans chastising the World’s Most Advanced Nation for selling out the who would move fast to protect the globe) eco-fe- st ex-Se- global-warmin- one-wa- flag-burni- fisherman-boatcr-hunt- er cco-frea- 21st century No wonder they’re skeptical White House adviser Michael Boskin scoffs that the warming threat “roughly translates into a temperature change less than moving from Washington to Atlanta" Never mind that the National Academy of Sciences (700 members 52 Nobel laureates) predicts greenhouse gases will warm the earth by four to nine degrees by next century’s end Or that United Nations experts will move up that projection to 2050 That could mean US droughts bread lines and heat waves that make the summer of ’88 feel like paradise “Maybe it will take an environmental Pearl Harbor” says Lester Brown of Worldwatch Meaning: Too late The “Green” crowd worries that Bush is brainwashed by White House Chief of Staff John Sununu a mole who shrugs that “faceless bureaucrats” want to take “cars away from Americans" Earth Day leader Dennis Hayes calls Sununu “James Watt with more hair" “This is a presidential challenge greater than any war or depression" Gaylord Nelson says “If Bush knows it’s serious and does nothing that’s immoral" Well Bush could end the waffling with two dramatic moves this week: Call for a total ban on CFCs the chemicals in refrigerators and air conditioners that eat away the ozone g cars in a decade layer and demand Instead expect more k And wait for Pearl Harbor pro-indust- ry 40-mp- go-slo- w Knight-Ridde- yak-ya- r Newspapers |