Show -©tanimrii Examiner ©gimn 4A OGDEN UTAH FRIDAY EVENING Holmes Alexander Goldwater Really Won NOV 23 1979 Cn ° EDITORIAL any are due to the Arizona senator from a good many of his wrongheaded countrymen and certainly none are required of him How the Republican party could have preferred in 1960 and ’68 to nominate Richard Nixon instead of Barry and how the national electo- n rate in 1964 would have given Rewinning of the West It was not too many years prevail As the Western states back that the advice to the view the situation the federal adventurous was to go west holdings limit sovereignty and and seek their fortunes obstruct economic developWhich makes it appear ment Some of the federal strange at first thought that it land is in national parks and shouldbe descendants of forests about which there is those who heeded that advice little objection But most is who today are displaying a wilderness timberland and marked reluctance to cash in range in the custody of the on fortunes literally beneath Bureau of Land Management their feet which as local governments Yet this is the situation as a dozen Western states warily eye Washington’s gropings toward a national energy policy and find themselves suddenly courted by an administration that previously could spare too-sudd- en m two-year-o- ld much-travele- non-Weste- rn Virginia Payette Drinking Smoking Less self-governm- hard-drinki- 74-perce- tee-totalle- rs lds side-effe- ct nt ng ent his-tor- & eitL 47 c&t'j Distributed by LA Times Syndicate Voice Of The Parade Manners Ogden We are writing this letter to call attention to the appaling lack of parade manners among Ogdenites Saturday’s Christmas parade was d vibrant and had the to be thoroughly enjoyed potential by all However when the crowds converged downtown common courtesy fled Courtesy would demand that: (1) people who arrive first in a spots should be in the front (2) parade-goerdo not move in front of the elderly in chairs nor the handicapped in wheelchairs and (3) that all spectators watch the events from the curb To crowd into the street causes real safety hazards The marchers are crushed and distracted children could be injured by animals or vehicles in the parade and fire and well-planne- emergency lanes are totally blocked We would urge better parade De- coverage by the Ogden Police partment For the most part we saw one lone policewoman trying to keep the crowds back Finally two motorcycle policemen came by near the end of the parade The police department should be strict about keeping people on the curbs and should have all the officers they need on duty to enforce it We love living in Ogden and want to continue to support community traditions such as these Let’s make parade courtesy a tradition as well! Mr and Mrs Roger B Wilson Mr and Mrs Robert M Tesch Will Cost Bundle Roy In reply to the recent letters by Margie Fouser: Mrs Fouser you certainly do have a right to your opinion but you also have a responsibilty to be sure that what you present as fact is accurate You are completely mistaken in persisting with the idea that the LDS Seminary Program is costing the taxpayers money It is not Absolutely none of the cost of the seminary is paid with our taxes The program is paid for by the LDS Church What you are advocating in doing away with seminary will not save one dime of our tax money but will do just the oposite It will cost us a bundle The seminary buildings and the property they are on are owned by the church When you do away with seminary additional classrooms will be needed in the schools to accomodate the students that now attend classes in the seminary buildings We taxpayers will have to pay for these additions The seminary teachers now being paid by the LDS Church will need to be replaced with teachers paid by the district to teach whatever classes the students take during the hour that they now attend seminary Another burden on the taxpayer The court case in Logan didn’t take away the right to hold seminary What it did was end the giving of credit for Bible classes Since credit was not being given for Book of Mormon or church history classes that did not change Attending seminary is not mandatory and students must have parents written consent to participate Please Mrs Fouser since no one is compelled to attend seminary what can it possibly hurt to allow those who choose to go the right to do so? Especially when in so doing it gives the taxpayers a thing now even with the less suburban and country-clu- b less smoking working ing crowd Table wines are up 93 harder and going bankrupt faster We’re also killing ourselves fas- percent grabbing a ter on and off the highways share of all wine shipments There must be a lesson in there That’s up from 50 percent in 1979 somewhere and 32 percent in 1960 As for beer even the heavy guzNobody has to ask why bankruptcies are up around 30 percent With zlers are switching to the “light” interest rates prices and debates brands This may change too in view of piling Up the way they are maybe even should be those recent studies that say folks the question why more families aren’t going broke who down a couple of drinks a day (And maybe under the new ban- (and only a couple remember) tend to live longer than kruptcy law they will) But it’s harder to explain those But there’s not much research yet other statistics Especially when on how long you can live with doubleinflation historically at least a lot of folks -digit What’s even more interesting is turn to drink and tobacco to ease the pain of nagging landlords and the national surge to protect teenathreatened job layoffs gers from the dangers of barleyit’s That’s not the way working corn Most adults are beginning to double-digit out in these the days when realize that giving all the experts tell us we’re heading right to drink wasn’t such a good into a recession Any minute now idea This was a of the 26th Just as soon as they can find it Take drinking Liquor ship- Amendment in 1971 which gave ments which usually go up around them the right to vote and led 18 three percent a year are down In states to lower the legal age for the first six months of 1979 they marrying owning property and tydeclined 65 percent from what ing one on on Saturday nite The result was pretty frightenthey’d been the year before And most of that was in the hard ing: 33 million teenage alcoholics break 8000 killed every year in drunken-dristuff Blended whiskies were off 15 Merna Smith re12 ving accidents another percent percent and scotch welcome letter from our Th readers or topics of current interest Letters should be flecting a growing trend in recent 40000 crippled r PO Box New addressed: Massachusetts a national toward preference Hampshire 95 Ogden Editor years Letters should not exceed 84402 Utah away from booze and toward the and Maine have already shoved the 309 words and all letters are subject to condensation No more than one letter per month will be legal drinking age back to 20 Monlighter drinks Iostill Minnesota and Tennessee printed from any individual No poetry please tana gainThe only liquor that’s Letters violating rules of good taste and laws of libel 19 to and Michigan will wa upped it ing in sales is rum and tequila be rejected All must be signed and include for verification writer's address and telephone number Wine mostly white is the “in” raised it all the way back to 21 Well guess what? We’re drink- The mother Josephine Williams came from Nebraska with a lung complaint but worked her way to health as a surgical nurse in the local hospital and went on to become the golf club champion It was she who took the children on the camping trips where Barry learned his love of nature Indian Johnson almost 49 million history and culture his skills as an votes (44 states) and given Goldwa-te- r exploring photographer and his less than 28 million (6 states) zest for aviation and military lore His life was all adventure flying requires some sheepish explanations transport planes in World War II Few if any Americans today discovering hidden canyons and would deny that the better man drifting without ambition into was beaten by a pair of incompe- municipal politics It seems to have tents and that the man of shining been the Korean conflict — conhonesty was discarded for a brace ducted on a No Win policy — that of scoundrels who were neither snapped him to attention on national and world affairs truthful nor competent He likes to say that he rode the If we have any alibi for this flagEisenhower coattails to the Senate rant misuse of the privilege of it can only be that we in 1952 but he never lived in ' unintentionally proved that irony is another’s shadow Soon in the prevailing law of life By his Washington he became the magdefeats Goldwater became the netic star of conservatism which clear winner over both these com- swung and held the compass needle petitors in the final judgment of his to that fixation y own time and of foreseeable But he never stopped living his life’s adventure which was also his This is the stuff that American country’s He flew all the new wardreams are made on The Goldwas-ser- s planes as they came on line he Poland even- plunged into the politics of labor of Russian-rule- d ur- and finance of the international handsome this tually produced bane talented patriot by being intrigues and the universal aspiraJews who far from groveling tion for freedom he rose far above under their oppression took off ac- partisanship and ideology ross Europe learning French and It was Eisenhower or Johnson or English as well as the tailoring Kennedy or Nixon who called him to the Oval Office for his counsel It trade beto was Joe McCarthy whom he tried They arrived in California to save from come merchants instead of and from with bounced Nelson Rockefeller whom he up They a ran re boisterous was conferred it Jackie guarly bankruptcy they saloon with a popular bordello up- Robinson whom he sought out in stairs always aiming at excell- friendship ence Mike and Joe anglisized their Though maligned for his opinname married multiplied and es- ion’s sake and misunderstood for tablished the family business in his candor Goldwater is Arizona Goldwater ’s the quality totally incapable of sustaining a department store which lived up to grudge and is probably the “hap-it- s motto “The Best Always” piest” —— no other adjective will Barry Gldwater with father and serve politician of the past three mother brother and sister the decades He is the last man who Lyn--do- see it does not do a very good job of managing Several states are contesting Washington’s right to the public lands — Nevada having gone so far as to legislatively expropriate 49 million federal little of its attention for them acres Taking possession is and their interests however another matter The reason for both developWith their energy rements is the oil shale natural sources the states are in a gas uranium and above all different position — a much coal possessed by these more advantageous one The states deposits that represent land is subject to state jurisd90 percent or better of the iction enabling state governpotential new energy sources ments to determine to a great in the entire nation Com- extent the conditions of exploipared to this treasure the tation And most are doing so lodes of gold and silver that Montana whose vast coal in the deposits are only beginning to helped open up the West dime-store were last century be tapped has enacted strinstuff gent severence regulations The states are well aware of and fees that are models of the value of what they pos- their kind in minimizing the sess but they are not about to destructive environmental rush into its exploitation and social havoc that mineral They favor development but extraction can entail It has they want to be certain that profited from the example — the form of development be- a bad one — of neighboring nefits them as well as the dis- Wyoming which got into the tant industrial and population energy game earlier with centers of the Midwest and much looser rules and has sufEast The West does not want fered some of the disadvanto become another Ap- tages of growth — contowns its wealth as boom such palachia shanty sumed its environment de- and law enforcement its future fore- problems spoiled and short-tereconomclosed for The Western 12 have joined — ic gain working through the Western Governors their wary Consequently attitude toward Washington’s Policy Office — to develop common policies where possenergy frenzy of Western From the ible and present a united front point view there is good reason for to Washington And they are wariness The history of the being courted by Washington region’s relationship with the by no less an emissary than d rest of the nation and particu- the Jimmy with who federal the Carter between trains governlarly ment is not encouraging and river steamers managed For decades the geograp- to work in a visit to Albuquerhically vast but sparsely que especially to confer with underdev- the governors populated and eloped region has seen itself He found them not so much as an economic colony of — that difficult business interests the Westasis determined not going to repeat More it has been held in virtu-a- l an chapter in its histerritorial fiefdom by toryearlier which Colorado Gov' Washington Vast tracts of all Richard D Lamm entitles Western states are government land The extreme case “rape and run’’ is Alaska — 95 percent federWith good reason The regthe owned In ion’s contiguous ally present inhabitants are 48 Nevada is high with 87 not like most of the old prospercent In none of the West- pectors who were the first to ern 12 is the federal territorial exploit its riches They were share less than a third just passing through In no other region of the Today’s Westerners are a nation does similar situation there to stay WASHINGTON — Barry their community — several cuts water’s title for his autobiography above the Kennedy s Nixons John“With No Apologies” (Morrow) sons — long before the senator besays to me that the apologies if came a household name Standard-Examine- r Standard-Examine- 1 A Everyone Help gold-mine- rs Hill AFB After reading your articles on the State of Iran vs the US I feel I have to offer my questions and reasonings to all the people who think President Carter is doing such a poor job How many people here in the US will go over to Iran to help get the Americans back? Did anyone ever consider who would do it? Or how many? President Carter is trying to please far too many people and all he does is get kicked for it in the rear President Carter is being cautious because he doesn’t want to start what could possibly lead into a war with Iran plus kill the hostages He is so cautious because everyone made such a stink about being in Vietnam in the 60’s No one wants to be drafted and no one wants to fight At least the PLO tried That’s a lot more than what people are doing here burning dummies ! What happened to our leaders? They were let down by the very nation they worked for In Roosevelt’s time there were men who were willing to go to war to help save our country and each other But what have we got now for it? g A big country with on their own who stand can’t people two feet They are saying “Let Jimmy do it” Well don’t you think everyone in the US ought to help for a change? Everyone has forgotten in these times of “think of me only” what John F Kennedy said “Ask not what your country can do for you ' but what you can do for your belly-achin- self-destructi- on off-the-h- ip ’ much-love- d Democratic leader needs to offer or accept Uncle Morris were First Family in “apologies” Robert Walters Bold Misplaced Action ELLISTON Mont — Slicing across the Continental Divide MacDonald Pass offers an incomparable view of the contrast between the rugged Rockies soaring high above and the gentle contours of the rolling green valleys far below But that breathtaking splendor soon will be despoiled if the White House approves a scheme that could require cutting a swath 90 feet wide and digging a trench 8 feet deep all across the “Big Sky Country” Within the next month President Carter must decide whether to grant federal permits being sought by the Northern Tier Pipeline Co for construction of a crude-oi- l pipeline stretching almost 1500 miles from Port Angeles Wash to Clearbrook Minn Although the pipeline project probably is unnecessary and surely is misplaced the president’s current campaign to demonstrate his commitment to bold action in alleviating energy problems could produce his approval That action would lead to the disturbance — and in some cases the destruction — of 3900 acres of forest and woodland 6600 acres of New pipeline construction required along the Trans Mountain route would total only 148 miles in the United States and 573 miles in Canada much of it within existing y pipeline compared with 1491 miles of digging necessary to complete the Northern Tier route At Edmonton Alberta the Trans Mountain line would connect with right-of-wa- the existing Interprovincial which runs southwest pipeline from that city and crosses into the United States near the Minnesota-Nort- h Dakota border Because it takes advantage of existing pipelines the Trans Mountain proposal would cost $575 million less than half of the $123 billion required for Northern Tier’s plan Unlike Northern Tier its three competitors all propose running most of their pipelines through Canada Yet security considerations that might favor the Northern Tier proposal are virtually of the eliminated long history by the United between cooperation country” and northern States its neighbor America quit being so babyish Even if Canada sought to interMrs J A Hadley fere with the oil flow the United most of 6400 acres pasture States could retaliate because rangeland oil flows crude wetof eastern 700 Canada’s and cropland and acres of lands and riparian woodlands No Incentive through the United States before But the physical damage to some reaching its destination of the nation’s most Despite the logical case against Ogden There is no incentive for me or landscape is only one aspect of the the Northern Tier route its promoters outmaneuvered their comproanyone else to belong to the Utah extravagant and Humane Society or donate to them ject petitors by hiring politically concomnected Three other pipelines are when the state continues to allow laywers consultants and to be put to death in such an peting with Northern Tier for the lobbyists to advance their cause in dogs inhumane and painful way (in Box right to carry crude oil from Alas- Washington The Energy Department overka and the Pacific Northwest to the Elder County) as the Nov 14 Examiner northern Rockies northern Plains rode the findings of its own experts article states and endorsed the proposal The InThe Utah Humane Society is sup- and Midwest — If any pipeline is necessary an terior Department responsible for posed to inspect all shelters in the state and call for prosecution of assumption that is at best ques- consolidating the views of all other into a formal any community and all individuals tionable — the proposal being ad- federal departments to the president caught inflicting this type of tor- vanced by the Trans Mountain Oil recommendation ture on helpless animals but they Pipeline Corp clearly represents recently offered Northern Tier a don’t the alternative that is most backhanded endorsement If Carter doesn’t overturn that economical and least destructive God bless the children in Garland decision the placid tertentative western Trans Mountain’s who turned the dogs loose It’s of Elliston minal community would be at Low Point ranching much less painful to be shot a pumping with burdened will be Wash just west of Port Angeles Why can’t all unwanted animals of rest the nation the and station be put to death by a veterinarian but from there it would head north an acwill have into Canada instead of slicing overpriced underusing a needle? Every community ross utilized pipeline the Rockies has a vet often several Surely one a hour could donate each they week to stop this torture I belong to the Humane Society of Utah as well as the Weber County Humane Society but I am still not able to stop this sort of atrocity How can those who care help? Really help My granddaughter held a carnival for two years to raise money for a “spay clinic” Apparently you have to go to Salt Lake to benefit from it This “spay clinic” was supposed to have reduced the cost of neutering so it was within the reach of everyone but the cost continues to skyrocket Our efforts in this direction have failed although the state insists this is the only way we can reduce the number of unwanted puppies and kittens Visit your shelter Become a in demanding a painless (y by NEA Inc death M N Mathews Ingest fewer calories than your body burns ” awe-inspiri- ng Standard-- nui-san- ce ‘ c6whj 1979 i |