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Show Ben Lomond Beacon, Aug. 31, 1978, Page 2 f - rapopn the Lomond Beacon is published each Thursday. Deadlines for each weeks issue is Monday at 5 pm. We welcome all articles from those who wish to contribute. Business Ben office 825-166- America on verge of communication revolt is 5388 So. 1900 W Roy, Utah Phone 6. Publisher J. Howard Sfahle Mrs Bonnie Stahle Sue Ellen Sims Advertising Manager . Editor Carol Shaw Correspondent Aircraft owners must file form s SALT LAKE CITY, of aircraft have until Aug. 31 to file Form 4638 and pay the Federal use tax on UTAH-Owner- civil aircraft, the Internal Revenue Service said today. When filing the return, taxpayers must include the fee for each $25 annual aircraft plus the tax of cents lor each pound of maximum certificated takeoff weight for turbine powered aircraft and two cents for each pound of maximum certificated take off weight over 2,500 pounds for piston powered aircraft. The tax year for the use tax begins July 1 and continues through June 30 of the following year, the IRS said. If the first taxable use of an aircraft occurs after July 31, the tax based on weight is proportionately reduced. Revenue generated by the tax is used for construction and improvement of public airports and air control facilities. 25 OFF is . 773-533- that agree throughout their calling and labor S. Roy, 0 Open Weekdays 10 to 7 time of day customers place calls, in addition to frequency a concept which is similar to charging. Unlike flat rate service, low and moderate-us- e customers pay only for what they use. On the other hand, customers who are heavy users should expect to pay in line with the admore ditional service they use. Measured Service permits customers greater control over their monthly bill, says Bruce Knight, Mountain Bell Rates & Tariff long-distan- Manager. In addition, MS means lower minimum billing, helps to promote widest availability of service, and gives more positive identification of costs with service rendered. Its fairer to the customer, Knight said. Customers should be able to pay for the amount of service they use. MS gives customers the option to save when the price of flat rate service rises, Knight area. The cost of additional equipment necessary to provide with service to customers fulfill these telephone needs will require a substantial increase in that flat rate, in the future. In order to make the ever-increasi- charges more equitable, Retail Price on Organs 1900 W. 3S90 Experts America is on the verge of a communications revolution. While the days of a single black telephone have long since disappeared, using the telephone for voice communications only may soon seem just as ancient. For example, in the future, trips to the bank will be replaced by a telephone call. Utilities may be controlled by phone. College students will access computers for information to prepare for exams via telephone. And, your phone may be connected to security systems in your home. Another change may be coming about shortly, an option on how you are charged for your telephone service. Currently, most customers are charged a specific mona flat rate thly rate which entitles them to make an unlimited number of calls Measured Service (MS) is being developed by Mountain Bell as a pricing alternative of the future. There will be a hearing before the Public Service Commission in the near future on Measured Service. MS is a system of pricing in which charges for services vary, depending on the amount of usage generated by individual customers. Some customers presently have a type of MS based on the number of calls made. In the future, charges for local calling may be based on distance, duration and Saturdays 9 to 6 By Edwin Feulner In Washingtons busy and sometimes bizarre world, with everybody grabbing for headlines at the same time, some of the best stones seem to never get told This is one of them. ..a story about the U.S. Governments housekeeping agency, the General Services Administration (GSA), and its efforts to dodge clean air standards that have been forced down the throats of U S. industry at cost of billions of dollars, under the threat of legal penalty. The story opens on January 12 of this year when a public interest law group, the Capital Legal Foundation, notified the administrators of the GSA and the Environmental Protection Agency, and the mayor of Washington, D C., that d two power plants in the District of Columbia were spewing pollutants in excess of the amount allowed under the 1970 Clean Air Act. Three months passed and no action was taken to clean up the plants, so on April 17 the legal foundation and the Metropolitan Washington Coalition lor Clean Air filed suit in U.S. District Court to force compliance with the law. The suit is believed to be the first ever filed against the1 :ederal government to force it to comply with its own clean lir standards. Of course, U.S. industry has over the years been taken o task many times because of similar allegations. But when ndustry is the alleged violator, it cleans up or else. In 1976 done it is estimated that private industry spent $36 billion or government-ordere- d pollution control and abatement GSA-operate- .quipment. Dow Chemical, for example, in trying to meet federal ind state air quality standards at its Midland, Michigan dant, is being forced to convert its power plants to bum inly oil (the opposite of our national energy policy) at an idditional cost of $25 million a year in operating costs. The to onversion itself, from coal-fire- d plants, will ost an additional $6 million, and the paperwork Dow has een forced to supply the regulators has cost an estimated 21 million more to compile. As Dow president Paul Oref-ic- e noted recently, the whole episode is just mind bogging. According to Murray Weidenbaum, Director of the Tenter for the Study of American Business at St. Louis Jmvcrsity, the total cost of government regulation (in the oming year) will come to $102.7 billion, consisting of $4.8 ullion of direct expenses by the federal rcgulatoiy agencies ind $97.9 billion of costs of compliance on the part of the irivatc sector. That amounts, he said, to $500 for each nan, woman or child in the U.S. If government can and does force U.S. industry to meet ertam standards, why doesnt government obey the same ules? Dream up almost any excuse and it will apparently be kay. For example, in response to the D.C. complaint, on U.S. attorneys blamed the what unforeseeable ...the (of course, policy else!) orcign ircumstances of the current energy crisis... forced (the defendants to reverse their decision to convert to he cleaner fuels. Thus, the unexpected consequences of oreign policy and other tactors have made compliance impossible, they said. Can you imagine what would happen to Dow or some ither corporation if it used such an excuse? For all their gall, the weren't hrough. They also argued that pollution at the plants was ust a sometimes-thing- . since the polluting boilers are not iperated at alltimes... Again, imagine what the bureaucrats would do to a U.S, orporation that argued that it only pollutes the air 15 out of '4 hours a day. This is not a defense of nor an attack on the clean air tandards, though we think they are probably too strict and re too rigidly applied. This is a condemnation of a system hat allows the federal government to threaten and coerce rivate corporations into complying with costly laws it on't obey itself. I'll let you be the judge. (Feulner is president of the Heritage Foundation, a Vashington-basepublic policy research organization.) gov-mme- nt t) lawyer-bureaucra- J ASSORTED GAL'S TOPS V r From Reg $6 00 Retail ASSORTED0 MEN'S SHIRTS Reg From $12 00 Retail (t 3 i J GUY'S WARM-U- P & GAL'S SUITS Reg. $32.00 Retail $179V1999 ts d A 1CHEVR0N CORDS 4",. $5" DRESSES & DRESS PANTS 5$ 2$iQt$i999 illiGW Farm Fire and Casualty Company will give homeowners premium discounts of up to 14 per cent on newer homes in Utah starting immediately, State Farm Agent Eldon Cottle announced. Cottle, whose office is at 445 E. 1908 No. North Ogden, Utah, said the discount will be 1 4 per cent for homes built in the current year and will drop two per cent for each added year of a homes age. It will be 12 percent for homes, 10 percent for homes, and on down to two percent for homes. A typical policyholder who pays an annual premium of $200 and qualifies for the discount will save $28 it his home was built this year. Eldon Cottle said the discount is being put into effect because the company has better claims experience on newer homes. ld ld State Farm, largest insurer of homes in Utah and nation, also offers premium discounts of up to 15 per cent to Utah homeowners who take in the fire and theft preventions steps. Eldon Cottle said this home alert discount is 15 per cent for a who has policyholder deadbolt locks on all outside doors; a fire extinguisher approved by Underwriters certain Laboratories Inc., and a fire or burglar alarm that alerts firefighters, police or a central security agency. Other discounts range from two per cent to 10 per cent, depending on the number and effectiveness of security devices used. Eldon Cottle pointed out that a homeowner eligible for both the newer home discount and the home alert discount could reduce his premium by up to 29 per cent. No food allowed & B Glass Service bus on So. State, say UTA OWNED " "'4EYELASH JEANS &j( GAL'S State by Lee Edwards NOW OPEN 1181 FASHION BELTS & SUSPENDERS 90 - Insurance break given newer Utah homes Clearfield By Bobby Webb Effective immediately the Utah Transit requests that Auto Glass Repair Screens Residential Ghztog Used Windc Weld 773-373- 1 Authority food or drink be carried or consumed on the UTA buses. "The reasoning behind this is basic, stated a UTA spokesperson, "mustard and rootbeer on the seats makes for sticky, unhappy riders and high insurance claims." no Carter Fails Captive Nations Again Last year, Jimmy Carter almost became the first American president not to issue a proclamation making the third week of July as Captive Nations Week that special time during the year when millions of Americans pause to remember the more than 1 billion human beings who live, but not by their choice, under communist tyranny. t A great uproar of protest from public and private leaders," many of them Democrats, forced Carter to change his mind and belatedly release a Presidential proclamation three days into Captive Nations Week. This spring. White House aides reassured Prof. Ley E. Dobriansky, chairman of the National Captive Nations Committee and author of the proclamation first signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959, that there would be no repetition of last years fiasco. They had learned their lesson, was the clear implication. Well, it is true that President Jimmy Carter proclaimed as Captive Nations Week and that the 2 July proclamation was released in plenty of time, in fact the day before Russian dissidents Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg went on trial for treason" and activities in the Soviet Union. The Captive Nations proclamation offered a unique and timely opportunity for President Carter to stress his firm support of the cause of human rights and national independence. The occasion called for eloquence and commitment. What Mr. Carter gave us was bureaucratese and vapidness. There was no mention of dissidents, the Soviet Union, Helsinki, communism or even totalitarianism of the right as well as the left. Mr. Carters proclamation was dull, lifeless, perfunctory. It screamed indifference. 16-2- anti-Sovi- et American Labor's Firm Commitment What could he have said? Here is what George Meany, said about Captive Nations Week: head of the AFL-CIThe AFL-CI- O recognizes the v icious contempt shown to subjugated people in nations captured by totalitarian forces. It further recognizes the fraudulent intent of the Soviet Union in signing the Helsinki Accords. For these reasons, American labor will work tirelessly to seek freedom for the peoples of Eastern Europe and in every other region where suppression of liberty has become the norm and human rights are violated. What could President Carter have done to give Captive Nations Week an added dimension at this critical time when the Soviet Union is grotesquely mocking its signing of the Helsinki Accords? Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas has recommended that the U.S.: 1. Postpone SALT negotiations pending Soviet compliance to the Helsinki accords. 2. Demand the release of the 12 Soviet monitors of the Helsinki accords. 3. Suspend scientific exchanges pending Soviet compliance to Helsinki. 4. Make sure that minority republics like Georgia, Lithuania and Ukraine are invited to the 1980 conference on the accords. 5. Explore the possibility of rejecting the Helsinki as-failed document" that was not pursued by agreement the Soviets with good faith. Jimmy Carter cannot evade or av oid his responsibilities in the matter of captive nations and peoples. It was, after all, President Carter who in February 1977 wrote Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov, We shall use our good offices to seek the release of prisoners of conscience." Now, when brave resolute men like Shcharansky and Ginzburg face death, is the precise time for the President to use his "good offices" to the greatest extent possible. Is he? Or is Mr. Carter contenting himself with the bare minimum of deed and word so as not to prevent any "progress" on his precious SALT talks. I wonder: if the Soviets treat their commitment to the Helsinki accords so casually and cynically, then what value is their word and their pledge to SALT? |