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Show South Edition Citizens January 10, 1996 canrc Driver Training Dear Editor: It is so obvious that we human beings are not capable of safely driving a motor vehicle at 35 miles per hour, let alone at 95 miles per hour. Thestatistics, since the change was made 20 years ago, when the speed limit was set at 55 miles per hour, regarding lives saved and energy and fuel saved, are staggering Does it take a genius? H. Wayne Overson’s article (“Increasing speed limits sacrifices humanlife,” Dec. 27) saysit Sometimes the politicians are just too dumb to believe. Between the lack of education, people starving on the streets, “guns don't kill, peoplekill,” our lack of medical rights, Newt, Bob and Rush and nowthespeedlimit stupidity — what's next? Please, everyone,payattention. Car accidents,if you don’t die, can really ruin your life. Don't forget, it could be someone's son or daughter, grandmother, grandfather, ete. Cars are big powerful machines Kate Carlson Salt Lake City Should East High be allowed to establish a gay/lesbian/bisexual student club? Just because the students who want the club cameup with such an ingenious name, they should be allowed todoit Lyle Carbajal Sait Lake City “No, I really don't think the club should be in school. It just doesn't seemright.’ NancySutton Sandy Lyle Carbajal ‘No, becauseit is so important for youth to belong. They may want to belong to this student clubto be trendy. As long as they are in those formidable years, definitely not Eileen Boot West Jordan “They should be able to have the clubin their school. It’s their constitutional right Pat 8. Salt Lake City No. Having a clublike that teaches that being gayis right and that it is natural andit’s not. I don’t think people are bornthat way. I think it’s a choice.” Dawn Ashby Tooele I'magainst it. It's so far from school activities. I don’t think it leans toward any educational means. I think the students are doing it as a challenge tothe es- tablishment. They can have a club outside of school becauseits non-educational,” JL Salt Lake City Dawn Ashby The drivers here are arrogant rude and major tailgaters. At 95 miles per hour,forget it. Noweveryone needsto go back to driver training class to learn “how to drive at 95.” I guessit's time for all of us to drive Sherman Tanks Chris M. Fairfax, Va. a think the parents have a good argument, and they should havea saybecausethey're paying for public education. The Parent Teacher Association should be the one drawing theline. If you ne put a clublike that in the school, *| you never knowwhat theyare going to promote. I think people should beable to havea club if they want, but they have to convince enough people to agree with it. It would have to be in an environmentin which the parents would likeit.” AndrewLenz Murray I’mopposedtoit. I just don't think it needs to be in the public school system. It’s promoting a wrong message.” Jenny Anderson Salt Lake City The club should be kept out of school. I don’t think it should be there, but if it is, that’s okay They can do whatever they want To each his own. Micki Taylor Salt LakeCity I'minfavorof it. I think they have the freedom to do whatever they want DLS. Provo No, I just disagree with the idea of having a club. I think it would be promoting homosexual ity Michelle W. alt Lake City I certainly support Mr. Peterson's recommendation to discontinue the current massive “‘scientific” assault on AIDS. But I somehow don’t quite follow his suggested logical approach, nor is it clear what the “solution” is to AIDS that he’s seeking. It is always easy to knock some- oneelse's efforts, especially when they fail, but since he claims to Whatis the solution? Dear Editor: Having just read David D. Peterson'sarticle (“Progress is more important than winning”) in the Jan. 3 edition of Citizens, I would like to encourageMr.Peterson to write directly to President Clinton, enclose a copyof his article and urge him to terminate all sci- approach to the problem, as I think I understand his use of the term “‘logic,” might beto use logic with everyoneto avoid the situations in which AIDS is transmitted. This might save even more money on a national scale than should share the details of this method with us. We all understand whatlogic is, but howto use logic to solve his definition of the AIDS problem and the details just terminating the current sci- showing how to logically derive entific research As a computer scientist, I am particularly interested in logic since “formal” logic is what we his solution to that problem is what we need next from him. Robert R. Johnson Salt Lake City have a different approach, he Land conservation begins in Sanpete County Continued from page1 As the numberof sheep on the range was adjusted downto about 330,000, someof the managed forest and range made spectacular recoveries but never to the lush conditionsrecorded by theearly settlers. Other areas just barely held their own; these were areas in whichextremelosses in topsoil had occurred tendeddisbelief among the outsider stockmen the turn of the century, overa million sheep were grazing on the Sanpete Wasatch, Not onlydidthetall grass and forbs and timber disappear, but as much as 17 inchesof topsoil had eroded. The valley towns of Manti and Ephraimsuffered floods that carried mud and rocks through the towns and silted fishing streams. Towns on theeast side of the plateau similarly suffered flooding. It was time to do something. At first, the territorial legislature decreed in 1892that no sheep weretobe grazed within seven miles of a town. In 1902, the citizens of the Sanpete Valleypetitioned the federal government to establish a Forest Reserve(later to become known as a National Forest) on the slopes and plateau to the east. In response, 8,800 acres in Manti Canyon were withdrawn from entry and grazing, anda local resident named Nehi Otteson washiredtoride the forest andrangeto enforce the withdrawal. With the stance of Republican U.S. Congressman George Sutherland, anofficial proclamation was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt and the Manti Forest Reserve was created in 1903. Flooding in Manti Canyon stopped. It continuedin unregulated Ephraim Canyon, The Forest Reserve Manual of 1902 stated that rangers were to enforce grazing regulations, build trails, pack, fight fires and shoot, if necessary, Grazing fees were much higher, relativeto the real dollarof thetime, than are the present fees. There continued to be skepticism or pre- about the benefits of forest and range control It was also recognized among foresters that scientific range experiments were needed to establish more clearly the relationship be- tween grazing and land deterioration. Consequently, an experimental station was estab- lished in Ephraim Canyon in 1911. It was originallycalled the Utah Experiment Station, the first in Utah and perhaps the nation. The researchers there werethe first range scientists in the United States. Various enclosures shut out livestock so that the growth within and without the enclosures could be com pared. In 1912, a watershed study was madein whichrunoff passed through a concrete basin in which theload of eroded sediment dropped, to be dried and weighed then related to both the amountof precipitation and numberof livestock on the watershed. The findings were decisive, but some ranchers expressed doubt because only one watershed was studied, A second watershed permitted controls and crossoverstudies, and the findings were undeniable: over grazing was the cause of range destruction. The Utah ExperimentStation was called by several names, the Great Basin Research Center being the most common. The forest and range east of Ephraim becamean experimental forest research area, as it remains today Eventually the station was transferred to nearby Snow College for use in an environmentaleducation center The condition of the forest and range at various sites before and after management is re- corded in photographs, the time between photographs being as long as 69 years. Probably none of the forest and range on the Wasatch plateauwill fully recover for generations, becausesoil formation takes hundredsto thousand of , depending on climate, topography. Ae and country rock. The present sheep population is about 90,000. The historyof the struggle between those dedicated to keeping the forest and range healthy and the more aggressive stockmen can be found in the journals of the old timeresidents and rangers. In one account, a confrontation was defused by the president of the Utah Wool Growers Association when he acknowledged the value of forest and range management andtold the belligerent stockmen that it was folly to think that sheep could continue to graze on white subsoil androck. Theold time rangers, somestill living, were and are tremendously proud to have been a part of establishing scientific forest and range procedures and the regulationsessential to conservation, They are mostly secondor third generation descendants of those first Mormon settlers in the Sanpete Valley, whereit all began. The mostterrifying wordsin the English language Wehavereachedthat time of the year, with the ice and the snow, when the following four words are the most terrifying in the English language: “T think a club likethat should stay outside the school system Youcan't stop kids from. doing this outside of organized high school, but you can stop them in thehigh school.’ Andrew Lenz Kornheiser’s article should give us a cluein what is truly a very humorlesssituation Well, keep meoff the freeways have used to design all the computers that exist today. Logic works but only whencarefully applied. We haveall seen the results of bad logical thinking, particularly in the handsof politicians. I have been a logic designer of computersfor over 40 years, and A possible example of a logical all, and with a little humor, Tony Editor’s Note: Tireless in the quest for citizens’ opinions, editor Vernon recently ambushed a few regular folks shopping downtown, pointed a camera at them andasked. entific research on AIDS. Not only would this save the enormous amount of moneythat he hasso effectively identified as being wasted in the current public effort to identify a scientific “‘solution” to the AIDS problem, but we could then focussociety's concerns on how to soive the AIDS problem logically I would be most interested to learn what Mr. Peterson's logical solution to the AIDS problemis. Perhapsin a secondarticle to Citizens, he could describe what he would do ashis logical approach to “solving” the AIDS “problem.” Bridge Freezes Before Roadway You're driving along at a com- fortable clip, 65 or 75 (or 145 in Montana), and you see those words, and it’s too late to slow down because you're already on the bridge — you'reout over open water! And youthink: “Ohmygodimgonnadie!” Then, in the next fewseconds, as you contemplatethe skid that will surely hurl youinto the guard rail at an impossible speed so your carflips over and plunges into the icy water, causing you to die horribly of hypothermia, you can't help but grin and wonder: ‘Whydid I think it 0 important to live by the bay And nowyouare skidding. Your car is out of control. It’s all over the bridge. You're spinning like a Democrat at a Whitewater hearing This happened to myfriend Gino on a bridge that Froze Before Roadwayin Lansing, Mich., on this very week in 1978. My car became a hockey puck,” Ginorecalled. His little Dodge Colt wound up stalled against the side of the bridge abutment. The ice was so sheeted that hewasliterally just spinning his wheels. ‘I might as well have been a ball bearing on a buttered Formica tabletop.” “My God! Which car am I in? Tony Kornheiser friend Nance: id hersister, and hersister asks, “Didn't he know howto handle the skid?” Which brings us to the seven next most terrifying words in the tain road, heading right at the guardrail, a slight ribbon of metal that is the only thing standing between meand going overa cliff. 3,000 feet straight down, where I will become human cheese — and you want meto turnin the direction of the skid, right for the side ofthe cliff? ARE YOU CRAZY??? Thisis like saying to a drowning man, thrashing about forair: “Go under and takea deep swallow.” Orlike saying to somebody whois having dizzy spells: “Go down into the subwayandstand bythe edge of the platform.” It’s unnatural to turn in thedirection of the skid. It feels wrong — like putting ketchup on pastraAnd anyway, when you're ina skid, both endsof your car are going in different directions. By the time you figure out which direc- Fe a Eyea incident was terrifying, yet some peopie contend Gino overreacted to it. His reaction was to move, almost immediately, to Miami. So, I'mtelling this story to my close your eyes. 24 X 42 CSyeLyd | SHOULD a a onPROT xo (2013 E. 9400 So * 943-2009 Whew Wheel of For- other night, and she saw a segmentabout horrifying things that All these years, I thought the most important person for car safety was Mr. Goodwrench. Now, it turnsout it's Ms. Evelyn Wood Whoknew? can happen to you behind the wheel (like being groped to death r™—cupasave—=—="1 tune! Myfriend Nancy’s sister went on, She was watching the news the by a malfunctioning airbag). Onit, theysaid that the generalrule is still to turn in the direction of the skid — “unless you have frontwheel drive. 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