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Show TheBaily tfHerala bettorstaiEditor etnies Cone Lauds Efforts Of County in Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Garbage Setup Tuesday, May10, 1977, THE HERALD,Provo, Utah —Page21 Editor Herald An apology should be extended to our former Utah County commissioners and particularly to Mr. Kenneth Pinegar for the Common Sense Wins One _The Carter administration is firmly committed to cutting the government red tape that frustrates businesses and complicates all our lives, says Bert Lance, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. “That alone will help restore public confidence in government,” says the former Atlanta bnaker. ‘Business is spending too much time fooling with government forms and government regulations.’’ Of which there is no end. Last year, the Federal Register contained 57,000 pages of notices, rules and regulations issued by government agencies. The 94th Congress enacted 588 new public laws, each carrying its own economic impact. The Commission on Federal Paperwork conservatively estimates that federal reporting requirements alone cost $40 billion a year. If the Carter people are really serious about tackling this problem, they might take a fresh look at an idea that has been kicking around Washington since at least 1974. Originally advanced by the National Canners Association during the economic summit meetings held that year, the idea is to require every proposed new regulation or law to first undergo a cost-benefit analysis to make sure the public gains morethan it loses. As an example of wellintentioned but unnecessarily costly regulation, the Food and Drug Administration a year ago roposed that labels on canned foods near drained-weight intormation showing how muchfruit or vegetable was in the container after liquid was poured out. This would have involved taking samples off the productionline, stor- they The Regulatory Cost Impact Act would, of course, generate new paperwork ofits own. But in this case, more would really be less in the long run. So They Say “Laos will need substantial foreign support for manyyears, in the medical field as in every other, before its people can be assured of a reasonable standardof health care. For the moment, they simply have to suffer, and sometimesdie.”’ —A western official in Laos discussing the country’s raging malaria outbreak. How Utahns Voted WASHINGTON — Here's how Utah members of Congress were recorded on majorroll call votes April 28 through May 4. Ambassador Young. Rejected, 91 for and 318 against, an amendmentto prevent United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young from increasingthe staff of his Washington office by five persons, to an estimated totalof 168. The amendment sought to delete $90,000 for the five staff-salaries from the fiscal 1978 State Department authorization bill (HR 6689), later passed and sent to the Senate. Debate centered on Young's performance as ambassador. Rep. Robert Bauman (R-Md.), the sponsor, said Young should be denied the staff increase because “‘if he continues to make statements that embarrass the United States then we in the U.S Congress ought not to grant any additional staff to be used to propagandize his views.”’ An opponent, Rep. John Buchanan (RAla.), said the $90,000 would enable Young to communicate better with congressmen such as Bauman He added his opinion that “almost every incident that has been blown out of proportion and has been twisted in press reports las been an offhand comment that has been turned into a very serious foreign policy statement bythe pre: Rep. Dan Marriott (R-2) voted ‘yea Rep. K. Gunn McKay(D-1) voted “nay Vietnam Aid, Adopted, 266 for and 131 against, an amendment preventing any money in the fiscal 1978 State Department authorization bill from being spent to negotiate reparations payments to the Vietnamese, The bill (HR 6689) was later passed and sent to the Senate Although no money in the bill is intended for such negotiations, the sponsor, Rep. John Ashbrook (R-Ohio), said his amendment was a necessary precaution, He viewed the vote as a statement af the record’ on the issue of paying the Vietnamese for war damages Many opponents of the amendment also op: pose reparations, but said Ashbrook’s amendment would jeopardize MIA negotiations and noted that HR 6689 was the wrong legislative vehicle for such an amendment McKay and Marriott voted “yea.” Strip Mining. Passed, 241 for and 64 against, a strip miningbill requiring surface miners of coal to restore land to its approximate original condition. Among other provisions, the bill (HR 2) would tax mining companies to raise money for such reclamation and protect certain areas such as national park lands fromstrip mining States would administer the federal law. A similarbill is nearing floor consideration in the Senate One supporter, Rep. Leon Panetta (D. ‘Theissue is a verybasic one Calif.), said: will we makeuse of the technology we now have available to us to restore and preserve in the beauty of thousands of acres of land thjs nation? 1 believe we must Rep. James Quillen (R-Tenn.), an oppo- bageservices in the county Someof our citizens are lucky they have nol been sued for libel and even someof our local newspapers weretoo quick to condemn without investigation. They, too, might have been subject to libel suits if it had not been determinedthat the re-cycling proposal was not a criminal act in any nent, said: ‘‘Today, as has happened overthe pe four years, we have the samebadbill fore us, trying to hamstring strip mining in the appalachain area, trying to bring it to a dead halt, trying to stop the production of coal when we need more energy.” Marriott voted ‘‘nay.”” McKaydid not vote. SENATE Coach or Ist class? Rejected, 43 for and 45 needsofthe future. The first is elimination of the pollution problem in our county and the second is possible benefits to be drived from innovative ideas. Re-cycling garbage has got to come to Utah Countyif we are to protect our lake and our natural environment Hats off to those honest private citizens who are willing to serve in a public capacity for a time and endeayorto improve our community. The more weinsult themwhile in office the harder it will be to find public- spiritedindividuals whoare willing to run for public offi Ashamed, Merwin G. Fairbanks Orem, Utah 84057 P.S. Our familyhas financial interests in the entire county from Lehi to Payson and therefore we are keenly aware of future needs of our wonderful county as an ideal home environment HenryJ. Taylor In Memory of Bonaparte On May 5, 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte died. His life has been chronicled thousands of times but his death has been mostly neglected. Napoleon's father had died of cancer. So did he. Not quite 52 years old whenhedied,this man whosegenius we admire, but whose despotims we abhor, was the victim of a massive stomach cancer. Eight doctors confirmed this in their post mortem The Corsican adventurer was imprisoned on St. Helena for six years. He had needed less time to conquer con- tinental Europe But it tock two months for the newsof his death to reach England. Napoleondied at 5:49 p.m. No loved one wasthere. His mind was wandering, his face was marred by a red nosethat shone like Chinese lacquer. Amonghis last words: “My God ... the French nation ... . head of the army’’. ‘The uniform of the Chasseurs de la Garde was Napoleon's favorite. He was buried in it, covered by the gray overcoat he wore at Marengo. Napoleon sometimes walked beside a stream in the Rupert Valley and was buried there between two weepingwillows. The gravestone bore no name, Only ‘‘Herelies.’’ And it was 19 years before King Louis Philippe brought Napoleon's body back to Paris. Napoleon was wounded in battle seven times — fourin a single day during the 1793 Toulon seige. Napoleon was only 24. A forehead bullet wound left a permanentscar but the third wound was more permanently serious A British bayonet deeply pierced the inner side of Napoleon's left thigh just above the knee. The wound becameseptic. He carried the recurrent pain, the trouble it caused and the deep scar to his grave. Then in 1809 at the Battle of Ratisbon a Tyrolian sniper's bullet cut Napoleon's heel near his Achilles tendon. And only three months later, at Wagram, another bullet wounded the sameleft leg. In Sciousness. Some thought these indicated he was an epileptic, but the evidence does not supportthis. Napoleon begantakingpills and potions, but they aggravated his hemorrhoids. i fact, he traveled to Waterloo in a carriage, unable to go on horseback because of prolapsed inflamed piles. And on the eve of Waterloo another attack suddenly incapacitated him. His pain-relieving doctors applied leaches. But Napoleon's mind gradually the spring of 180, when On 1801's New Year's Day he issued the new Civil Code, signed the peace of Luneville with Austria in February ; achieved peace with Spain in March , the Concordat with the Pope in July ; peace with Turkey in October and by May,1802, peace with Holland and Russia. But within three years Napoleon began to ex: pand his mistakes. By 1812 he attacked Russia As Churchill said of Hitler “He should have known it snows in Russia."’ Napoleon not only deserts his troops but treacherously sacrificed Marshal Michel Ney to save himself. Ney brought the rear guard through, walking at the head of the French troops when even Napoleon had given him up as dead. Napoleon displayed deep emotion when Neyfinally arrived in Paris — heunabashedly, publicly and all but uncontrollably cried. In a teardrenched order Napoleon announced a new, unprecedented title for Ney Bravest of the Brave Napoleon had the world at his feet and all he got outofit was a prison for himself Napoleon was about 40, the tiny pituitary gland at the base of his brain began to malfunction. He had Frohlich’s disease. His slimness gradually turned to obesity Napoleon was never again the same. In portraits painted after 1809 you will find a gradual, subtle and progressive change. His body became soft-skinned and largely hailess.His virility waned. He developed skin trouble — probably neurodermatitis. Napoleon always had a slow heartbeat, which grew even slower. He suffered occasional lapses into uncon- against, an amendmentto require congres- smen andother federalofficials to fly coach rather thanfirst-class. Also, the amendment was aimed at private businessmen who claim first-class air travel as a business deduction. It soughtto disallow as a deductible expense the difference betweenthe costoffirst - class and coachtickets, leaving only coach tickets fully deductible. The amendment was proposed to HR 3477, the Carter Administration's economic stimulus package, later passed and sent to conference Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the sponsor, said: “The additional costoffirst-class travel is primarily a luxury item and should not be deductible With a corporatetax rate of 48 per cent, each dollar of deductible ex. pense saves the corporation 48 centsin tax therefore the average taxpayer payshalf the cost of the first-class ticket Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) voted ‘‘yea"’ and Sen. Jake Garn (R) voted ‘nay.’ Standard Deduction, Rejected, 33 for and 55 against, an amendmentpreserving the $2,400 maximum standard deduction for single tax payers. The amendment unsuccessfully Sought to change a provision in HR 3477 (see above vote) which lowers the singles’ maximumdeduction to $2,200, while raising the standard deduction for married taxpayers Sen. Spark Matsunaga (D-Hawail) called the amendment an “‘equilable remedy” of the fact that ‘a single person already pays a higher rate than a married couple reporting the same amount of income.’ Hatch and Garn voted “‘yea.’ Housing. Adopted, 57 for and 39 against, an amendment increasing by $6.2 billion the budget authority for low- income housing assistance payments, known technically as “Section 8'° assistance, The vote, coming during consideration of the Senate's fiscal 1978 budget resolution (S Con Res 19), raised to $82.8 billion the projected Section 8 outlay over the multi-year life of Section 8 contracts between HUDandprivate landlords Under Section 8, the federal government subsidizesup to 75 per centof the rent paid by a poor tenant, on the rationale that this makes decent housing available to people who could not otherwise afford it while Paul Harvey Young Criminals And the Statutes The late J. Edgar Hoover oncestirred up a hornet's nest of righteous wrath when he said, “Any youngster old enough to commit a man’s crimeis old enough to take a man’s punishment Wewere not readyto accept that To this de, policemen are reluctant to shoot at a fleeing fugitive for fear he might turn out (o be ‘'a mere youngster.”’ But youngsters are nowhere near as “mere’’ as they used to be. New York sought to dry up hard drug traffic with a new law stiffer penalties for adult pushers. So now the adult pushers are using childrento do their dirty work A boyarrested on a Harlem street in possession of $94,000 worth of heroin — was 11. So the criminal court had to send him home to his mother, What do we do to punish juveniles whe are less juvenile than heretofore” A New York gun clubis of fering a $200 reward for crime victims who shoot and kill robbers says it’s time for the good guys’’ to defend themselves. But you know societyis not by encouraging the going to sit still for such bounty hunting when the rob- Supporters said (headditional $6.2 billionin Last year of record 43 per cent of all suspects arrested stimulating the economy construction of new and rehabilitated hous ing ber is a young boy budget authority is needed to meet housing demand and pump up the economy. Opponents cited the need to curb federal spending were under 18 Hatch and Garn voted “nay way. Two major concerns should keep our private and our public residents alert to my son Congressional Roll Call received concerning re- ycling county garbage. Now that they have been vindicated of any wrong-doing by the attorney general'soffice, the least we can do is express appreciation for their vision and desire to improve gar- ing them for a month. opening them and then weighing and destroying the contents. The canners submitted data showing that the regulation would cost $104 million a year and add about a cent more to each can or jar of food. Instead, they suggested a voluntary program, costing only $10 million, in which the solid weight of raw food was weighed before it was put in the can. The FDAagreed to try out the simpler, less expensive plan. It was one small victory for common sense, Now the canuers , idea of making cost - benefit anaiyses mandatory has been revived on Capitol Hill in the form of the Regulatory Cost Impact Act, which has beenintroduced by bipartisan supporters. The act would require every federal agency to prepare a consumer cost assessment setting forth the direct andindirectcosts, as well asthe benefits, of any proposedregulation or legislation that may havea significant impact on costs to consumers. New Orleans’ French Quarter or girl suspected stabber believed responsible for four slayings — is 16! The easy out these days is for parents to blame "thesit- ter — and the No. 1 “sitter is television Nielsen says children under 5 watchtelevision an average of 23'% hours a week — multipled by 17 years that’s 20,000 hours. TV gets more time than anyother human activity except sleep Without doubt it is a potent influence. grew more lethargic and in- decisive. French medical authorities find it significant that Napoleon's most constructive years were previous to 1809, the most amazing were 1801-2. More Power To Anita Bryant Editor Herald HowI wish this could be publishedin every paper throughout the country wantto let everyone know how thoroughly disgusted I was when I saw andread the article titled “Rod Raps Anita,” in Thursday night's paper, where Rod McKuen makes the statementhe will make a laughing stock out of Anita if she continues her campaign against homosexuals. How low can anyone get? To want to destroy so wonderful a person as Anita Bryant, for all the beauty and joy she has brought to millions. “Everyone to their way of thinking or doing,’’ said the old lady as she kis: cow — and that’s well and good for all homos But for goodness sake, let’s have as much good in this worldasis possible without some far-outs trying to destroy what is decent. More power and good luck to you, Anita, and to all others who are trying to do away with the evil in this world The Lord does not love homosexuals for whatthey are doing, and surely one day they will have to stand before Him and be judged (as all of us will) Respectfully, Mrs. N.H. Madsen Barbs Where do they keepall the prize goodies the rest of the year that show up only at county fairs? When you were 20, you couldn't imagine what it would be like to be 40. After that you wonder whatyou looked forwardto all those years. Count to 10 when you're angry and the other guy will have plenty of time to deck you People whoflip their wigs usually forget to use the goop that sticks 'em on. At20, you'd do anythingfor a lark; after 40, everything turns out to be a turkey We knowa doctor who's going to be drummed out of the AMA. He writes legible prescriptions Pioneering, '77 style: Being forced to walk three blocks to the beverage store because one of the kids has the car Think how much less municipal projects would cost if someone could only find a way to eliminate those expensive feasibility studies. Berry's Worid Most psychologists concede that viewing violence roduces aggressive human havior But while television seeksto moderate this negati in fluence, and while the govern: mentallocates $3.2 million to employ students to police schoolhouse crime, and while New Yorkers are invited to become bounty hunters, a federal prosecutor in Philadelphia is getting no public response to his remedial suggestion S. Attorney David Marston saysthere is already a law which would deter juvenile crimeif we would en forceit It is part of a child slavery law which has been on the books for a hundred years It was used in the 1880s to put a stop to child beggars in New York It is a law which says that i ge child com: mits any crime, his parents face trial, It is they who must pay any fine. It is they who would go to jail © Lael Is the President up there? |