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Show VIEWPOINTS BY GARRY TRUDEAU Mallard Fillmore By Bruce Tinsley IM SO ABSEATMINDED~. yee I NOT ONLY KNOW ALL THE STUFF THE PresiDeNT Doesn't Avon 1 Aico Do AL THE STUFF He Doesnt Do/ By ROBERT RENO Gay What he deserved was something on the brder of Lord Nelson’s column,the Piazza San Marcosor a massive Saint-Gaudens memorial with angels and furies and winged ions. His legend seemssecure with or without anotherpile of stone and sculpture on the Tidal Basin. That he belonged to the ages was confirmed when President Reaganproclaimed him nolongera fit object of vilification. This reversed 50 years of Republican orthodoxy that held Roosevelt in something of the image of the anti-Christ, which obstructed WhatFranklin D. Roosevelt is getting is artistically prosaic monument on the Tidal in and an unseemly public squabble over hether he should be depicted sitting in a heelchair. 3 Everything we know about Roosevelt’s haracter suggests he would have been put off by the whole affair and by the sculpture hat portrays his wife looking like a common age, which was enshrinedin the peevishly enacted 22nd Amendment,dated the decline of American civilization from the moment of Roosevelt’s inauguration in 1933. Now even i}dard-issue cement dogs they sell to decorate graves in expensive pet cemeteries. Roosevelt Was enough ofan aristocrat to disapprove of § people whoputbronze statues of their dead figures such as House Speaker Newt Gingrich have come to concede that Roosevelt is an icon, like Washington, who can be bent to dogs on their lawns. Besides, Falla was a spir- anybody’s purposes. >ited beast andhis full name, Murray, Outlaw of Falla, did not suggest some animal to be (VEGETABLE STARTS 30°... *cucumber squash e watermelons © many others And what are these? They include Aid to Families with Dependent Children, FDR’s federal entitlement now butchered beyond recognition. They include federal subsidies for the arts, pioneered in New Deal programs for unemployedartists. They surely include massive federal investmentin the infrastructure, a mootissue in an era of shrinking government. And widely supported proposals in the present Congress to abolish capital gains and inheritance taxes are antithetical to Roosevelt’s notion that progressive taxation of surplus wealth wasessential to a fair distribution of the American dream. plans for earlier FDR memorials. That im- | scold and his dog Falla resembling the stan- ofBedding and Vegetable Plants 1 gal. TOMATO PLANTS Many varieties available TOMATO CONES 59°ea. Reno is a columnist for Newsday. FDR’s shiny new monumentthat was ded- LETTERS Do anyofthese coalition peoit) ple really know what they are } talking about? Do they read the 4 whole paper, listen to all the + news? Or do they just concern 7 themselves and their closed 7}mindsto their own little coalition +) world? I really don’t believe this “‘en- + vironmentalcoalition”thatis cry# ing about the chemical weapons | burn plant at Tooele A De- Army Depotgetting any unusual sicknesses? I really don’t believe the Army would continue “the burn” if they were discharging any toxins into the air, especially in a civilian-populated area. I think they learned their lesson after so many cancer patients surfaced from the atomic bombtests in Nevada. It’s kind of funny. people |) pot sees the whole picture,Tt “didn’t Want this sort of thing / seems to methat the residents of }the eight states which are storing | these “deadly toxins” should S look real hard at one word: ¥ A “aging.” Just how long do they figure the containment cannisters and stored around them, but yet they still live there and the people doing most of the crying about burning those toxins probably don’t even live in this area. And, for sure, nobody wants to move it, including myself, because it % storage bunkers will last? The would be extremely dangerous! longer we wait to destroy this deadly arsenal, the closer it gets to possible breach of containment — not to mention possible terrorist bombings. Remember the World Trade Center? Okla* homa City? And the older the | storage bunkers get. the easier So, unless animals and people mysteriously start dropping dead out there, let’s keep “the burn” going and destroy that aging arsenal before it does starts to leak and kills off everything! ® they comeapart! oxide kills and injures thousands of people every year! 2) The ' » * - source can be as simple as vapors leaking from devices which burn coal, oil, natural gas, gasoline, propane, charcoal, wood. 3) Initial stages of carbon monoxide poisoning are similar to flu symptoms: fatigue, headache and nau- sea! It can ultimately lead to brain damage and death! Carbon monoxide fumes from ¥ furnaces, hot water tanks, gas ing this ng ir each vent or chimney as we do on automobile’s exhaust to stop people from having flu-like symptoms? As we walk around homes where gas metersare visible, you can smell natural gas vapors! of | er ww a. Ogden by HAFBjust to get “reduction in force” letters a year and a half tell McClellan workers,” April 25, I must get something off my later (not long enough to get their career or career condition status). Most never received any offers personnel and the general forgotten about the 400 displaced off the Priority Placement List. workers from Defense Depot Ogden whowill be looking for work come Sept. 27? Many of these jobs back? employees until 1991, when they were transferred to the Defense Logistics Agency (through no choice of their own), Or what about the forgotten 400 aircraft maintenance workers (co-ops) HAFB laid off in 1991? They worked in the hangers, were trained and went to schoo! to learn the work and were hired R COPY LAWN WEED KILLER ways, Olympics, etc. I have al- ways noticed Salt Lake seems to ignore Ogden in different ways. Please, public, write and help me fight for our trains. A big thanks to our train employees at the Ogden depot. They are the best! Fern M. 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We need you at Hill, Utahns Covers 5,000 sq. ft We've solved the major problems that prevent kids and adults from getting the smile of eir dreams. we need pollution devices on fireplaces and gas dryers are for Whena person calls for reservations, they always seem to be booked up. Why? DENTAL BRACES FOR$1,997 © Gandy Manytimes in the news media we have heard and seen graphic pictures of large areas and schools being evacuated by natural gas leaks. Also, people dying in homes from improperventing. Is this a clean-burning fuel? Do $98 to keep ourtrains running. I would like to comment on the articles in the paper on Amtrak taking off the Ogden, Seattle, Wyomingtrains. I believe we should be subsidized for Amtrak to continue service. How do you think people will travel? For instance, airplane strikes and other problems may arise in the future. To keep the San Francisco train running seven days while “taking away our méasly three days per week doesn’t make sense. Please reconsider this change. I would like the public to write Amtrak and the president ¢ Holladay Is natural gas really 2 clean-burning fuel? FEED Government should subsidizetrain service Charles W. Williamson Roy Is anyone around the Tooele After purchasing a carbon > monoxide detector, it listed the following facts: 1) Carbon mon- and 2 gal. i } Chemical weapon arsenal should be destroyed WEED ROSES $6°8 ve: St ccomplishments being torn down Rg. 1000's ofFlas icated Friday — a sort of grade-school teaching aid to the NewDeal- begins from the premise thatit will be visited by ignoramuses whohave never bothered to learn that he led the nation through its worst economic calamity, was victor in the bloodiest war in history, the only man elected four timesto the presidency. This expensive exercise in remedial education missesthe real lesson ofhistory, whichis, of course, that at the very time the nation is enshrining Roosevelt for the ages, it is tearing down his larger monuments. tamed foreverin lifeless amusement for tourists. We do know that Roosevelt himself, in written instructions, expressed the wish that his only monument in Washington be an unadorned marbleslab in front of the National Archives, barely the size of his desk, with nothing on it but his name andthe dates of his birth and death. This was quietly accomplished many years ago. weishare%2; 7 DAs monument goes up,his real eseeare Fo: | DR statue misses real lesson of history are tesaretezavelepare fepareteszaveteeae oea el@harelezare fo} Our Greenhouses are Full of eal COLUMNS ave tatare hare tasae Shae tesavetabaw tesa tesaetsaesa tsatypeUSSUSEUeSU VAS \ Non Patent Varieties OPEN 8:30-7:00 MON.-SAT. 1815 W. GENTILE * LAYTON 544-1211 Priees Effective Through May 6th » |