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Show Wednesday, August letters to the editor To Three cheers for letter the Editor: Just a brief comment to let you know I found the picture of the UHP officer informing Mrs. Hopper of her husbands death pretty tacky. Perhaps because I have a husband and four children I waS somewhat sensitive to this. Yet to exploit a womans grief to g get a picture is paper-sellin- tacky. The news media comes across as insensitive enough via TV, etc. Why not be one of the good guys? Report the news, but show some heart. Teresa Moore Huntington Swimming lessons needed the Editor: After reading the article pertaining to the discontinued swim classes at the Helper Pool, I was raged to think this was compared to rental of the pool for scuba To diving. Why cant Miss Topolovec continue these wonderful and useful classes to the children without this outrageous overhead? What an opportunity to have someone take time to teach our young how to swim. Read the paper, everyday some child drowns in a pool or canal because they cannot swim. Swimming has become' so very important in this day and age where there are so many open canals and recreation on our lakes. As for scuba diving, this is a sport so how can you compare the rental of the pool to the more Learning How to important, Swim? Why should these children suffer due to a conflict? Let Miss Topolovec continue at the expense of the city. Name withheld on request figure that if windshields were lost on the project at an To the Editor: average cost of $250 that there was A big hurray for Flora Hinkle of a net loss of $25,000.00 to the insurance companies and residents Clovis, California. I myself was raised in the city of of the area. Multiply this figure Helper. When we come to Helper several fold for other resurfacing we often question our relatives (I projects in the state and the figure will not mention names) on who probably surpasses several million and what has happened to the city. dollars. In fact, we even questioned if This is an outrage and should be still council a has and brought to the attention of our Helper mayor. legislators and the Utah DepartTo Flora Hinkle I take my hat off ment of Transportation (UDOT). I to her for this fine letter. Maybe if would suggest that the local we had more people like her, the residents give Mr. Sterling Davis a city would shape up by shaming call at UDOT and ask him why his these big politicians when they run resurfacing projects have to cost us so much money and what hes for office. In my opinion the entire city is in going to do about it. Mark A. Mackiewicz a total mess. I agree 100 Flora Price why dont you move back and maybe the ball would get rolling. Veternarian responds Since I dont recognize the. writer I must name the Hinkle, admit, by I dont know who she is under her To the Editor: married name. Im writing to comment on A letter well written from a back several items that seemed up former Helperite! ! misleading to me in an article on Arthur Murray the Animal Hospital in the July 30, Salt Lake City 1982 Sun Advocate. 1. Everyone including myself realizes the value of a medical doctors care. Between my wife, Highway resurfacing myself, and our four children we I To the Editor: I was rather amused to see how casually the Utah Department of Transportation handled the complaints about the Huntington Canyon resurfacing project. The fact is there were no 25 mph advisory speed limit signs posted on Friday, July 30, or Saturday, July 31, when I traveled on the highway. I just happened to be one of the lucky ones to lose both of my car headlights from the project. I am fed up with the archaic way the highway department resurfaces highways. Why cant the chips be rolled in with a large steam roller and the excess swept off? It seems to me that a several ton roller could do a much better job than cars and trucks. 100 Ive earned the right to speak for myself. Also, a citizen of Carbon County Carl Nielson Price visit them often. I entered veterinary medicine because I was interested in that field. I feel there is no reason to compare the two fields of medicine. 2. The American Animal Hospital Association is a group that any animal hospital or veterinary clinic can apply to for membership; if they meet the high standards and qualifications of the association. We are pleased to be one of the twelve members in the state. 3. 1 have very limited experience and certainly am not accomplished at treating exotic or wild animals. We do the best we can by com- municating veterinarians with other at zoos when necessary. Unnecessary tax? communicate my feelings on a few points. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify my views. J. Boyd Thayn D.V.M. To the Editor: Id like consumers in the Eastern Utah area to be aware of a recent Congressional Don't speak for me another To the Editor: I was appalled to open the Sun Advocate and find that someone had signed Citizens of Carbon to a letter without conCounty sulting me. Im a citizen of Carbon County too with rights like everybody else. Where do some people get off presuming they can speak for everyone else? If those few people who signed anonymous are afraid to sign their own names, why include me? If I want someone to talk for me, Ill hire a mouthpiece only mine will be a competent one! I now understand what the Madill letter meant. If I want an apology, Mr. Gonzales, Ill ask for it. By the same token, if I want to commend Mr. Gonzales, Ill commend him. You citizens may count me out. Its fine to state your opinion, but dont tell me I must think the same way. God gave me my own mouth and my own mind to use, and the Constitution says Im entitled to use them. Just because I think differently than you doesnt mean youre right and Im wrong or ed vice-vers- a. Whether you want my opinion or not, here goes. I personally feel that if more people would get out and work harder at their jobs, at loving their fellow man and at working toward peace, we wouldnt need rabble-rouseto tell us how to think, what we may or may not say, or when to stand up and shout discrimination. You dont just go around demanding respect and special treatment or recognition, you earn it, regardless of your creed, color, videorecorders i n.e, v. .mi tax on my would be tax a such and discriminatory would act as a deterrent for some who might otherwise buy this equipment or tapes. It is essential this royalty tax not be made law, that the public airwaves remain free from any taxation, and that the American consumers continue to have the right to tape in their own homes. Video is in the forefront of technology and has been a boon to retailers in poor economic times. Will each emerging technology be shackled with a tax just because it is new and popular? For the welfare of American business, lets hope not. Jeanselmes Inc. blank Letters welcome The Sun Advocate wnitomes letters from readers on topics of community interest Letters should be in our office by noon Tuesday for inclusion on the editorial page in the following day's newspaper. No more than one letter per month will be accepted from any individual Letters should be signed We will withhold names on request only if the writer has a valid reason We reserve the right to edit letters, particularly those longer than 200 words and those in containing libelous or objectionable formation or something in poor taste. Usually, letters to the editor are considered on a first come, first serve basis. The opinions and ideas expressed in cartoons and personal columns on the editorial page are not necessarily the opinions of the Sun Advocate copyright holders, but those parties are already compensated when their work is sold for broadcast. Motion picture companies are realizing record profits, and now they want more money out of the pockets of consumers. Consumers in this area should write to their elected officials in Washington, urging them not to support this tax which would unfairly tax them for the benefit of the movie industry. As a retailer of video equipment BENEFICIAL LIFE ...Any man who doesnt believe in Life Insurance deserves to die once without having any... Will Rogers $100,000 TERM LIFE INSURANCE (Monthly Premiums) KENT ANDERSON AT 377-960- 5 We've Moved! lisco headlights, of customers such a tax. The industry claims a royalty fee would compensate artists and We now have our biggest selection of RCA TV's Just whom is foolin' whom? grills, on r uvu-oiu, I feel any additional videotapes. The movie industry would be the chief beneficiary of corner caspers tom winshields, and CALL COLLECT: I I guess I got to apologize to the world for my thoughts. I was involved in the now infamous Huntington Canyon Chip Seal Episode. That was when a nifty yearly maintanence program was carried out for bout the second time in many years. A lot of rocks was poured on a little bit of oil and everybody took off to high ground to watch and snicker as innocent coal miners and power plant people hit the highway. Now, and this is where the apology comes in, my winshield got thrashed five times and I aint sure what done it. I thought I seen two coal trucks kick up and tirelessly fling a ton of gravel at my truck. But ... I read in the paper where radar checks, set up later on, proved it werent no coal trucks. Just whom is foolin whom? How in blazes can a radar check prove what broke so many tax unnecessary American consumers and efforts to infringe on our right to privacy. The movie industry has been trying to have Congress pass an amendment which would impose a royalty tax on the cost of -- rs r by to impose effort oun iyu race or sex. 4. While the problem of abandoned animals is a very small one; we do have a dog at the hospital that is available for adoption to a good home. I enjoyed visiting with the reporter from the Sun Advocate, but I can see that I failed to Finds photo tacky 11, radiators, and paint jobs on all The shoulders is now deadly and make a mint by sellin it to Idaho as them outfits what drove up that we got a bunch of rolls, grooves, a Instant Earthen Dam Kit. road hours earlier? If radar is that and humps what werent there in Next year we can paint tiny little letters and numbers on all good then maybe we oughtta set the first place. Now I sure aint one to complain one up to find out who erased that new local road chips and pass I of so few a them minutes White out game cards for Winshield got fun) (or poke eighteen House tapes! Course, maybe me suggestions for the road upkeep Bingo. To win alls you gotta do is and my friends were wrong. But, if program in our general areas. bring in the winnin rocks, the filled Dont waste no time pickin up out game card, and the broken we are ... our counties had better put out an APB on a sixty foot, them dead deer in that other winshield. And next year we can set up quadruple axled Fiat whats haulin canyon. Just oil em real good and cover em with gravel. You can that omnipotent radar check the coal in its trunk! My point, though, is not to blame brush em off in a couple days and, day before the resurfacin. That WALL-Lwe got a new road. wise ol check can tell us which car speedin coal trucks or speedin I And Bulldoze and truck outfits. or truck is gonna get chip sealed by all dont dump passenger contractor extra blame the that what road Canyon Huntington really proxy the next day and them laid on too much gravel, niether. I gravel to a storage area. One can people can helicopter to work. do blame the Utah State Highway Department. That chip seal junk aint no answer to our road troubles. Thats like tossin a dollar Get Results with the bill into the Federal Social Co-e- d Aerobic Fitness Program! Security Fund. We need new pavin done. Our old bumps is still there, just higher after gettin chip sealed. -i- n our new spacious location at 21 West AAain, Price (building formerly occupied by Helper Furniture Co. of Price) All MJBJU the extended Televisions! ,on sale Now! 3 WARRANTY. t5 Class Schedule LODAY&SEECIAI3J Carbon & Emery County Area LOCATION! liiv-- LI wl For International Days FEOB FERRON Elementary School Legion Hall PRICE Moose Lodge Tues.-Thur- fcon Husky Restaurant and Fuel Stop TTcTT I RKfJLColorTrak s. Mon. Wed. -- Fri. Tues.-Thur- s. Drink with any meal August 7 thru 14 on picture tub BANKTERMS AVAILABLE! Auditions for new instructors will be held Aug. 19, 6:30 p.m. at the Price Moose or Lodge. 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