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Show Tuesday, May 11, 1993 Sun Advocate, Price, Utah 9A Letters to the editor Appreciate teacher Editor: To the Carbon High School band students and Mr. Lynn Brown, we would like to say, Wow! How you shined." We attended the band con- cert Wednesday night at Mont Harmon Junior High and enjoyed some wonderful music. Helper Junior High, with Mr. Hughes, was great. All of the bands were very good. But the exceptional sounds that came from the CHS band were truly enjoyable. It would be very sad, because of a few malicious rumors, that we, our community and band students should lose a teacher such as Mr. Lynn Brown. The band has done a great job in representing our community everywhere the students have performed and there have been many places, thanks to Mr. Brown. He gets the students enthusiastic about music by choosing fun and exciting arrangements. If youve ever had the opportunity to hear the band, either marching, pep, jazz or concert, then you know what we mean. Mr. Browns enthusiasm brings out the best in the students. We know that there are many others who feel this same way. Please dont let the mistake of losing a good teacher happen. The students have a real good feeling toward band. We can see and hear it when they play. If you dont want the misinformed people or the ones misinforming to cause CHS to loose its band director, then you need to help counteract the complaints. Mr. and Mrs. William Callor Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Marshall the two years I spent there. I did not mind the bus ride, as I got my best studying done on the bus as all of us crammed together for tests. I count many friends all over Carbon County who I shared some of the best times in my life. But, and this is a big but, since my mother did not drive, she was only able to attend two functions during the two years there and one of them was gra- duation. My older sister, Claudia, was the homecoming queen in her senior year at Carbon. Mom and Dad were unable to attend. Parental involvement is a very important part of education. We do understand that it is expensive to keep East Carbon High School opened and we welcome the funds from Sunnyside Coal and the union men, but do not like being put in debt to ECDC. CAN will continue with our fight against the dump because we do not want to lose our whole community nor have the reputation of being a garbage dump for the world. Good luck, Troy. All of your cartoons have been excellent and do make us all think. We are one community up here, but we do not all think the same. We are individuals first. Phyllis Johnson Citizens Awareness Now Limit involvement Editor: There is much confusion in our country at this time over what we should do about the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. I believe the answers can be found by looking back at our own Civil War. Although the causes and details are indeed very different, I believe all civil wars are basically the same. Another view ,, While our Civil War was Editor: ; being fought, there was great While I swore I would never hope on the part of the South write another letter to the Sun that England would come to Advocate, in this instance her aid. Much the same, Bosthere is no other choice. Some nia hopes foreign countries people of our towns of Sunnys-id- e will come to her aid. and East Carbon seemed During our Civil War, Eurto take offense at the cartoon ope was appalled at the terridrawn by young Tf oy Madsen. ble carnage and agony our I just want to assure Troy that fairly new country was suffernot all ofus have lost our sense ing. People in Europe, for either political or moral reaof humor. We understand what it sons, wanted to see the sufferfeels like to be treated like piring stop. However, I believe anha for not walking lock-ste- p fortunately for our nation, with certain opinions held by a wiser elements in these nations prevailed and foreign As citifew vocal intervention was kept to a zens of East Carbon and we, of course, support minimum. our high school as is only Daily, we see pictures of ternatural. We, however, do not rible atrocities or devastation support the dump and, yes, all in Yugoslavia. In our Civil waste can be considered toxic War, much of the same atrocities and devastation were also according to experts. I personally feel our high committed by each side. Civil wars are terrible. But school can stand on its merits of asset. as a community Many unfortunately, they happen. It our older citizens would lose is only natural to want to stop the joy of attending school the pain. However, I believe functions like proms, plays, that like foreign powers kept sports, banquets, and being a their involvement in ours to a part of the childrens lives. minimun, we should learn The parents and grandpa- from the past and keep our rents would not have the involvement limited only to money in this tight budget humanitarian aid to both time we are all experiencing in sides. I do not believe we have the Carbon County to travel back and forth and take part in wisdom to determine which their childrens education and side possesses the most correct, cause or the right to activities. As a personal example, I victory. ,If foreign powers had graduated from Carbon High School. I loved every minute of actively became involved in nay-sayer- s. Sun-nysid- e, RNTO BSN COMPLETION PROGRAM Weber State University is assessing the an RN to BSN possibility of offering completion program in Blanding and Price, Utah beginning fall 1993. Representatives will be at the CEU Career Center, Room 215 in Price, Utah on May 20 at 12:30 p.m. Any registered nurse interested may attend. If you are unable to attend, please contact Mary Flo Bruce, Ph.D, RN at Those in the Blanding area can contact Scott Parker at I our conflict, I do not believe the working and lasting peace that began at Appomattox would have materialized. As hard as it is, we have to stay out unless both sides ask for humanitarian aid. Hopefully, their own Grants and Lees will emerge to form a lasting peace. Ned E. Scarlet RS2477 Editor: In 1866, the Congress of the United States passed a bill that allowed rights of way claims on federal lands. This act granted rights of way for constructing roads to mining claims, logging camps, shearing pens and homesteads. It permitted construction and improvement of those roads running from town to town, etc., over public lands, giving counties the right to maintain and improve these roads in the interest and safety of the citizens residing in a county. The statute was enacted during a period of time when the federal government was aggressively promoting the settlement of the West, giving a standing offer to the public and local government to establish the transportation corridors they deemed necessary. Although the statute was repealed by the Federal Land and Policy Act of 1976, it has become an issue in the southern and western pait of Utah. Counties have expressed their rights to keep and maintain those roads that were in existence prior to the repeal of Revised Statute 2177. Claiming those roads they have been actively maintaining, they still have the controlling rights to these roads. The wilderness factions, sensing a loophule or a point of question with the law, are pushing for the repeal of 2477 to be binding on all roads; which would remove them from the counties. Counties would be disallowed their rights to any and all l oads on federal lands that have not been surveyed and marked as an established road. This pertains to those roads on the Forest Service us well as the lands managed by the BLM. In many areas, were this statute interpreted to remove those rights from counties, it would and could give the environmental communities additional quasi wilderness acres not included in the present wilderness study agenda. Roads that will be affected include Skyline Road from Highway 191 to Strawberry, Cleveland to Buckhorn Draw to Woodside; Highway 10 to Joes San Rafael Swell to n to Reservoir Hunting-toValley Reservoir; and all lateral byroads. Paul L. Young 0; Understanding small businesses Editor: Why do so many lawmakers make it hard on people pursuing the American dream of being their own boss? On s ownbehalf of ers throughout Utah, I urge our legislators to pause and reflect during National Small Business Week (May small-busines- 10-1- 4) Length policy changes on all that main street businesses contribute to their communities and the nation as a whole. Too often, state and federal lawmakers fail to recognize that small businesses are the backbone of our economy and the engine of economic growth. Despite the high costs and obstacles thrown in their way via excessive regulation, entrepreneurs employing fewer than 50 people have created 85 percent of all new jobs in America over the last 12 years. Those with fewer than 20 workers produced more than half of all net new jobs. If our nations economy is truly going to recover, we will need to encourage not inhibit the capabilities of small firms. Now is no time to increase the already exorbitant costs of running a small business through new payroll taxes, new business fees or new taxes on services, supplies or energy. Nor do we need more laws that dictate how entrepreneurs should spend their money or run their operations. Small businesses need lawmakers who understand the risks and challenges they face. Lawmakers need to understand that when owners oppose proposals like mandated health insurance, its not because theyre insensitive to their workers desires. But business owners do realize that every benefit has a cost and that they cant afford to buy something that threatens to drive the busi- ness into bankruptcy and put themselves and their employees out of work. We need people to understand what it takes to meet monthly payrolls with no guaranteed funding source. Its tough. Yet its also exhilarating to run a business you can call your own. On behalf of those brave enough to risk their all in running a business, we at the National Federation of Independent Business work to preserve their opportunity to do so. If there are lawmakers out there who want to work alongs side a owner for a day, I urge you to contact me. Well try to show you what its all about. At the very least, stop and consider their challenges and dreams during 30-da- cannot take the time to cover an event that points out good things that our young people do. It seems to me that the very least you could have done is go to the high school and East Carbon to write an adequate article on this achievement. Shame on you! Lorin M. Bailey Reva Beck Bosone was the first woman ever elected to Congress from Utah after a distinctive career as a judge in Salt Lake City. Her husband was Joseph Bosone, a member of a prominent Helper family who was born and raised in Helper. They were divorced in later life, but Reva Beck retained the name of Bosone to her death. Your readers may also be interested in knowing that the second woman elected to Congress from Utah, Karen Shepherd, now representing the First District of the state, also has Carbon County ties. Mrs. Shepherd attended elementary school in Price during the time her father was assigned here in his work with the Soil Conservation Service. Walt Borla Corrects error Editor: May I call to your attention the gross misspelling of the name of the now deceased Reva Beck Bosone, a distinguished woman in the history of Utah politics? The name was spelled Reva Beck Bas-soin the front page article on the womens conference in the May 4 issue. ni feBSfl mu wcw VJdwlUily Automatic Foreign & & Standard Domestic Most Experienced Slamboree Transmission Personnel in Area May 23, 1993 5:00 p.m Call for Prices 2H T3l23S2SE2i SPECIALTYiGIFTS small-busines- National Winner receives 50 Gift Certificate Small Business Stop by for Coffee & Doughnuts and guess this weeks Most Preferred Person Week. Glade Sowards National Federation of Independent Business Order Vow PmwonaRzwl License Plates Shame on you Editor: In the Deseret News of May 30, 1 read an article hidden on the inside pages (so what else is new) about the Sterling Scholar program that was held at San Juan High School about two weeks ago. I noted that Carbon High had four first place awards and eight runner-u- p awards. Where was this covered in our exalted local paper? Nowhere. I am starting to think as I read the bylines for the articles that if Layne Miller is not interested, it does not get into the paper. In a time where we hear so many negative remarks about our young people, it is a crying shame that our local paper electric, gas, phone are buried everywhere: in streets, down alleys, under vacant ground and along property boundaries. When you dig anything from a post hole to a major excavation, you run the risk of breaking up a utility line. Blue Stales is a FREE service that will mark utility lines on your property within Utility lines The Sun Advocate welcomes and encourages letters to the editor. Until now, length requirements have been lenient. Because we want to print as many letters as possible and an increasing number of readers are writing their opinions on a wide variety of topics, we are no longer able to print lengthy letters within the space available. The Sun Advocate will on only accept letters that are typewritten, double-space- d one 8x10 page or handwritten on one and one-ha- lf 8x10 pages of lined paper. Letters of greater length will be edited unmercifuly to meet length requirements. Writers will be more successful in meeting the length guidelines if they limit their opinion to one idea or one example. It is the sincere hope of the editor that the letters column of the Sun Advocate will continue to be a vital forum for the opinions of all segments of the community. The newspaper will continue to print only those letters with verified signatures, with no more than one letter from a time period. The deadline single author printed in a y for letters is Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Up $-j- One guete per person per vttl In cate of more than one correct anewer winner wRI be chosen by a drawing. to 7 Letter 0 95 East Main, Price Last Weeks Winner Kathy Rail back Moet Preferred Person: Diana Root 2 PThanfc iJou The family of Leon Wayman would like to offer thanks to Dr. David Nichols, Castle Country Health Care, Bishop Thomas Smith, members of Price 3rd Ward, all friends and relatives for their care, thoughtfulness, floral and food offerings and cards during the loss of our father and husband. Edith Wayman, Scherl Wayman, Fawn Alexandar, Lanny Wayman and their families 2 working days of a request. You'll know where not to dig in the future. So before you plant Blue Stakes. TOLL FREE and, more importantly, where a tree, dig a basement, grade or |