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Show CheBailpiftterald The Full Dinner Pai Letters to Editor Four Seasons Project Should Get Careful Scrutiny, Says Citizen Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Contrast Utah wn the ion af Pro’ should he deeply umcemed about havie a mass Competition Sets Prices € An interesting nobody not in going undersol Moreover. he added. the chains buy at the sameprices Economie Committee and from food producers and have spokesman for supermarket industry the similar costs took At the same time that the committee Ww receiving a lesson in basic sINness economics, however, the na- place in Washington in the waning days of the 93rd Congress Spearheading the committee s investigation inte the cost of food, Sens William Proxmire, D-Wis.. and Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn.. cited the frequency of identical prices in different supermarkets and suggested that the chains arrange among themselves to avoid head-on competition He was “atonished said Humphrey, to learn that a check of A&P and Safeway Slores in Kansas City States William S. Mitchel! president of Safew countered that identical prices are actually proot that competition exists in the ir dustry. When onestore drops a price, others follow, he said Thus identical prices mean they are competing, not colluding We check prices,” each other's said Mitchell, “and ion was e wholes: area dianged ie and environment suff values worn Uhinking about (3) Water. as erms of progress. may fol represent progress, depen slightly under pressure from angles which nd thoroughly consider the public affected Progress at the Ford administration, U.S. Steel chairman Edgar B Speer explained that about three-fourths of the newprices atch-up thal cost? The prospect of “millions” Ronald Reagan hadatthetimeof its o nt to get him a fire t a wateringcan, to help it thal when it comes to supplying South Vietnamwith close look at Sen. George McGovern’s staff — which costs taxpayers more than $414,900 @ year, not including his $42.500 salaryandupwardsof another $10,000 in sundry fringe benefits ly, the committee ought to scrutinize the South Dakotan's remarkable juggling ot campaign tunds — of which he apparently collected more. than $1 million foliowing his 1972 presidential debacle. Particularly warranting Ethics Committee inquiry is MeGovern’s latest addition to his staff. He is Alan Baron, short, chunky ringleaderof the leftist faction that in the past two yearshas been aggressively wrangling and haggling to regain contro} of the Demoeratic party. Moot questions are: Exactly whomis Baron working for; just what are his functions on MeGovern’s staff Renortedly, Baron's salary is $28,000. Yet seemingly his staff work is enly part of his activities. Also. there appears to be quite a variance between him and McGovern on just what he is doing country by North Vietnam issues and ‘egislation Baron's version was distinctly different. Carefully noi mentioned by McGovern is Baron's continued connection with the Democratic Planning Group’ f hing” was thal he asking creditors to settle accounts for 50 cents on the dollar. Ina letter daied Dec h Vietnam wasn't out of line our commitment in over from his presidential bust. much more was How dished out w presumably be disclosed in still-awaited reports, What is kni as of December, \ last till had some $153,000 in his campaign treasury South Dakota ing in some He installed his son-in-law as a $12,000 searchei”” for the Special Committee mittee baiked and cutit to $288, Sen. Charles Percy, Ranking Republican committ: electioneering spending was so free- handed it became an issue in the campaign. He started building up this h jn 1973. Using the list of th small contributors to his 1972 pr tial disaster. McGovern conducted a vigorous mail solicitation drive — through an agency which gol a percentage of the returns. In his literature, MeGovern portrayed himself as the didate fighting a difficult tle against ruthless and vindictive reactionary fore Wholly unmentioned in this pitecus fl , a feliow dove and ardent advocate of huge US food give-aways to needy foreign countries North Vietnam was exceeded One provincial chief in the Mekong Delta said that during the 1972 offensive his troops were able to fire 15,006 rounds of artillery a day. Today — even int of war material it though the Communist offensive With heavy supplying by both the USSR and Communist China, the government of purpose of ‘exploring the nutritional problemsof the elderly Only committeeman to show up was MeGover Ja the seven-year existence of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs,” the onlythingit has to showfor the $1.5 millionthis boondoggle has cost taxpayers is a handiv! of reports of no consequenceorlegislative influence through the project, which certainly has some important things in its favor, is checked byquestions of serious consequence. I take this opportunity to offer them for consideration (1) The very success of the project assumes the massing of large numbers on the designated premisesin order to makeit pay ii has been claimed, irresponsibly, that the crows could be screened to keepout any undesirable element. Any such claims are likely made screen” out the facts from you and me. The law does not discriminate between the desirable and undesirable in society until it is violated. If this project goes through, Prove can look forward to theinflux of al! kinds of people concentrated on. its borders and spilling into the community for good or ill, Will the dollars spent in the city represent a good return for the sacrifice of any of the values enumerated above? Tequirements for the wide ski to change eatin of water and prevention of erosion on the steep slopes. Will the Forest Service people pl make (his issue clear?It's a vital importance (4) Certain promises and assurances are always made during the “courting” period of launching such enterprises to win the confidence of the ci with references to advantages, safeguards, etc Experience cautions that all such should be weighed carefully. It is not unusual that such promises either cannot be fulfilled or are conveniently forgotten ‘The aboveitemsare presented to encourage unbiased investigation of all gles of the ski project before commitments are made Nothing can be gained for the community, and perhaps much can be lost, hy heing stampeded pport. We should remember that not only individuals, but communities also can “‘sell their birthrights for a mess of pottage." Cases are not lacking where they have done suto their regret Gustive 0. Larson Provo Laos and Cambodia and along the western border of South Off the Beat Vietnam Supplies comesouth in an endless stream, both for the current offensive and for Concern at Uncle’s Big Spender Habit stockpiling Poorto the ceasefire US air pover destroyed neariy all the en route. Today, nearly af desitnations Chemical Warfare Against Ourselves WASHINGTON — (NEA) — Behavior modification experiments on selected prison inmates may be just the beginning. it is now practical to implant transmitiers in the bodies of parolees, enabling a central manager Ute keep tabs on where his manis at all times A chronic lawbreaker could be required to carry a transmitter-receiver If he went where he should not, he'd be warmed by urgentsignals. If he layed on the and chemicals, placed in the water reservoirs of majorcities. could produce changes in all who drink the water regularly. Does this mean that one day a man seeking to becomethe dictatorof his country — or wishing to conquer another land ~ will see to it that appropriate behavior-modification chemicals are dropped inte the water supplies of major theorist would force centers countrywide, insuring a docile population readyto follow his commands’ Where doesthis bring us? How chronic speeders to watch shock disobeyed a traffic sign It's reported from abroad that judge ordered a rain operation on a co gamblerto curehim ofsi ealing There's alk. too. of implanting behavior-modification chemicals in the bodies of some habitual sensors he Ly we Seay) low he paoiee would be ordered in for a new implant The men who design these A prominent mind specialisi has already proposed that all political leaders be routinely even drugs which would repress Chronic proposed as logical subjects for experiments! brain work Eager experts sometime back began prescribing drugs for hundreds of thousands of children fo keep them calm in school 1andout. searchers note that some erly designed epeatediy sieai, drive too fast, drink too much. disturb our classrooms or whatever? When ‘ve use a chemical te change a man’s ways, whal are we doing to him in addition to reventing behavior we donotlike The problem will become more serious with the years as scientists develop more versatile S, able lo change human beings and their as-yet-unborn children in ways With adeauate supplies. the South Vietnamese have proved that “Vietnamization” works a ‘an defend themselves without the participation of Amerian troops. Now, President Ford asked Congress for a supplenmentary appropriation of a relatively modest $300 million fer more material for the South uid Vietnamese. This Ud be a matter of or death for the little nation If some of the leadership of Congress persists in its ostrich-like stance toward population far are iaeroared to go in Ine almost infinitol; the proclaimed inadequate supplies, they have at half the rate it will need to Ray Cromley proposals apparently have imaginations which reach out The proceedings were officially labeled a “statewide fielt hearing’” for of south important resupply provision of the Accord: to Stage a committee hearing in his with a population of 13.425 two months. as a result improvedand enlarged the Ho Thefirst thing McGovern did when he got last year’s $288,000 “refresher” was home state. Site of this obvious e! tioneering operation was Mitcheil. $.D sops were able to hold territory and outposts. In the of artillery, we South Vietnam see their last round spent by with a painful electric this time $450,000. Last year he sought $399,000, but the Rule year-and-a-quarterfo! se-fire the South Vietnamese As a result of the current Communist offensive, the South Vietnamese are using ammunition at a rate that could whenever the manin the movie ask for a hefty grant of public funds On-the-scene observers {rom the American Conservative Union noted, For the first survive. of hot rodders They'd ge! - the money repotedly coat Scan i campaign fund. To keephis seven-year-old boondoggle going, Mccuent 1s preparing to aireraft by two-thirds. havefallen short of keeping our ally stable in weapons, rumunition and equipment of $1.5 million to ae Senate me bar members fre committee de!By got around that son-in-law’s $12.00 beIs paid enovaniered ha forced reductionin flyingtime of his 250 bulidup, even that amount might Exactly how much MeGovern spent in his reelection drive : n 2 Notall the reports are in. On the basis of those so far availalbe, the total was considerably more than $500,000, of which some $450,000 was apparently left While only around 200,00) votes were cast in last year’s South Dakota over $500,000. The ieftist literally swamped ius Republican cpponent with TY. radia and olher media publicizing. MeGovern’s buildup of an airborne divi mn says that the fuel sho apes he has withdrawn from dozens of outposts. Dozens of others have been overrun.” No such cuthacks have npered the North Vietnamese, They have debs A few months later. the Senate Watergate Investigating Committee uncovered the fact thal Xerox Corp wrote off $9,606 in unpaid McGovern campaign bills aot Dedede icevols he oulksok ny Une senatorial race, McGovern spent well papress reduced this amount first to $1 billion, then to $700 million. Now, in the face of a is concentrated in the Delta to a great degree down 1000 rounds a da Farther north, thecq ander are resuppiying 15, 1972 his campaign treasurer, Marian and he intends to continue putting out the DPG“newsletter. of whichheis editor and sole contributor. However,’ he staunchly main- needed for South um Pearlman, wrote, “We do net at this provided Lipa Sal operations. Baron, wh stioned, admitted he is continuing his ties wtih DPG — which is not surprising as he is just about all there is to DPC. He also acknowledged Although the President's $1.5 billion request represented the precious natural resources” My first impulse to get excited about aone-fors In fight of North Vietnam's iinie have enuugh muuiey tv pay all our by a coterie of millionaireleftists, as a handy vehicle for his agitational N rt requested $1.5 billion in militar Since mid the North Vietnamese have ignored the — set up by Baron in 1973, with 380,000 phong harbor and the mplion of military bombing Communist He labeled himself as tive assistant to the Senator, coordinating national press and scheduling and his political involvement in nationalaf Nixon ordered the mining of Last year, the administration aidia in m That offensive was halted and reversed only after President survive the attempted takeover of that This McGovern, in disclosing he was hiring bed his functions as “press in developing general offensive e supplies and materials needed to considerin, had several hundred thousand dollars in hand left over from his presidential debacle He carefully arranged tha reserve cost in environmental, social, and moral values? Or loss in Ostrich-Like Viet View 3 ully take a could accept the promise of millions without counting the relinquishing the advantage !t set by US$ Steeli delivers it in the summer as needed. Vegetation on the tmauitain slopes protects our water supply Ts cut down everything to the foet-high a 1 presumably held over its competitors by virtue of having prices lower than theirs. Not onlyis this hard to understand, but just whomthe nation’s No. | steelmaker was catching up wth is not clear to the levels mountains fram where nature age from On the faceof it then, US Steel was voluntarily At least two other companies important natural resc limited in this area the vegetation cov shrubbery to grasses and other competitors. Needs Senate Serutiny WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics i U.S. Steel vs prices with those being charged hy its major McGovern Election Fund Committee could very Progress for whose benefit, and at ae ree! ol Bethlehem Stee! and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel. immediately announced that they would raise their prices Hf naterializes, dour back Defending his company’s re vent average 8 per cent price increase, whichit rolled back represented a planned with exceptions works Robert $3Allen D marginally tion was being given a different illustration of how the free enterprise svstem last October showed identical prices on 2.969 out of 3,955 items. The two chains are respectively first and second in size and sales in the United speris-lovingpeople but of a jes pieelement wh this altogether enligghtening colloquy between members of the House Senate Joint we cannot developments start, in present experiments on aiimals, By RON BARKER withholding tax and meet my Ever wonder where that $5 bill went” Uncle Sam'sgot it President Ford has proposed spending nearly $1 billion a day other commitments,too. Please remember that the figures above are only rough. The nearly $1 billion a day is on President Ford's tuxiget, and who knows what it will look like when Congress gets through adding and subtracting. He's pleaded with Congress to help him get the country’s economy back on the track, and [ during fiscal 1976, and with roughly 200 miilion people in America, that just about averages out to $5 a dayfor every man, woman andchild. And that is seven days a week — even on legal holidays. Fortunately for most of us, the government doesn’t really expect #8 to help it pay cash for all those expenditures Otherwise, there wouldn't be rich left after taxes for yuu and me I have a wife and three children, so my bill would be about $175 a k. id need 2 raise to handle that kind of a Indochina, Communist z super we failed to honor withour ally our bargain guess he's got enwys. | just hope he doesn't get one of those letters that says his account is overdrawnandhi of credit has runout. Berrys8 Worid Today In ea History Jody is Friday, Feb. 7 Seth day at 1975 with 327 tefol between it ‘The morning star te fare , Theevening are Mercury. Jupiter and Saturn Those horn on this date are under the sign with chericais tat improve memory or erase thoughts Theyinclude the use of electric currents to rouse or subduefear ae time epee in er to create sumably, at some the future, our technicians will be able to radically alter individuals for good orfor bad It is certain science will not stand still Weignore these trends et our erine Lucy. the aes to the was in riot court-ordere peril. What wehave not donebut must do is to start thinking, all of us, on how far we wantto go in implementing the resultsof these experiments. These will not be easy decisions. But if we do not make fee in our time, our may reap the several economists. telling him this budget will help do the trick. But i don't really feel qualified to judge I can’t really comprehend spending on the magnitude that Unele awp a lstory Montgomery. Ala In 1973, the US. Senate yo to set up seven-mem! committee investigate the ¢ Demo te br kein ic National Headq arters We'd better pass a law puiting us on the metrit vystem, before the whole world switchesto it ee |