Show 4 ' fi&g&En : ©tanftarjb£3eammEr 4A OGDEN UTAH Vobgb Pushing People Around WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12 1980 - EDITORIAL m Plans for a central courty-Unio- n Station has played a ard with a fountain and a park-lik- e exterior will entice waiting game 'Waiting for funding waiting tourists to stop for approval waiting for con- - Many groups have con tractors and waiting for the tributed to that project in public to discover it eluding: the Rich Family But all good things come to Foundation the Blanche B those who wait and Union Rich Val A Browning LT T Dee Annie Station is no different Pro-are beginning to take off lor Dee and Edith Mack Green at the station at a rapid rate Foundations Robert Patter-Thi- s Saturday will mark the son Community Develop ment block grants a National opening of the Browning-Kim- ball Car Museum Endowment for the Arts Work is already under way grant and a Utah State His on a major landscaping pro- - torical Society preservation ject And an announcement is grant expected momentarily on the Construction on the model railroad is scheduled to begin plans for a model railroad All of these projects have soon Edna Wattis Dumke has taken years of behind-the- provided the funding for the scenes planning and are fin- - project Union Station officials say ally started thanks to the it promises to be one the e generosity of local citizens For a long time Ogden’s --- Dee-Jan- et Tay-jec- ts -- -- ‘ Hang in There Til I Get The Shovel' sta-Th- Robert J Waqman car museum is the gift t ion's most ambitious - of Matt and Barbara bie” Browning “Bob- projects The more Union Station de- It will feature a rotating velops the more people it of their beautifully tracts restored cars During the recent tourist seaIt is a project that will son the railroad museum hit greatly expand the attractions this year's goal of a 100 at the station Visitors will be visitors a day able to spend more than a day Next year the goal is in Ogden seeing trains cars or higher And with the new car art in the gallery The new landscaping pro- - museum the finished land- ject will make Union Station scaping and a model railroad the anchor for the 25th Street there should be no problem reaching it redevelopment at-select- i! ? r Win Mo Surprise It ion Soldier Maurice L Watts adjutant general of the Utah National Guard has announced his retirement after 41 years in the military service Utahns share with him the pride of the National Guard as its enlisted personnel and officers are trained and prepared for combat or disaster work His guard units rank exeed-ingl- y high ready and prepared Lt Gen Watts enjoys what a- number of National Guard commanders do not enjoy — a nonpartisan command that need not bend to the whims of politicians Cronyism is not a factor People of all political pursuits respond and carry out their soldierly duties in a ready reserve Thus under quality leadership both the air and Army sections of the Guard have earned the respect of Utahns and professional career milit- with calm smiles They were in the congressional and Reagan’s chief pollsters A week before the election they knew that Reagan’s victory had the makings of a landslide And 43 hours before Americans went to the polls they were sure of its dimensions to his Maurice Watts' service The four — Richard Wirthlin country has been all about Vince Breglio Richard Beal and As Gen Watts departs for a Craig King — kept much of this civilian life he may be as- good news to themselves “Over sured his service to his coun- the weekend we ran a complete simulation and came up try has contributed to that ap- election electoral-vot- e an with total of 395’’ preciation of freedom which explains Breglio “Although we so many young officers and had a good deal of faith in that privates have learned is vital number we decided to keep it to to the United States its past ourselves We simply reported that we thought we were in good and future Strong patriots are still shape Their final estimate on the Sun-- needed in this democracy guber- - natorial races Polling has become a staple of the political campaign no But previous presidential perhaps effort polled as extensively or used the results as successfiilly in its strategy The accuracy of Reagan’s pol- was largely due to a relatively new technique called “tracking” Political polling has traditionally employed a technique called interviewing” m which a field force does a series of interviews every few weeks with a different sample The costlier tracking process involves a large number of daily telephone interviews with each respondent called on several consecutive days before being dropped from the survey fine-tuni- ng ‘cross-section- al in-pers- on in-dep- th day before the election gave - Rip-Of- one-thir- one-thir- cross-section- al ff int 15-2- ary officers Gen Watts is quoted as saying “Our appreciation of freedom is enriched by our service and sacrifice to sustain reinforce and preserve it” That statement sums up a lesson in civics Americans enjoy freedom but do they appreciate it? And if liberty is to be maintained won’t we serve as good responsible citizens and defend our na- public-opinio- cross-section- al tion? One must work for freedom and that’s actually what Virginia Payette Berry's World Smarting Lame Duck Congressmen Sometimes Mean After the Reagan avalanche you probably figured ithings would quiet down some and you could ignore politics for a while That’s because you forget how mean Jame ducks can be precongressmen And Especially lame-duc- k sidents still smarting over what the history books will say about their humiliating defeat Well we’ve got a w’hole bunch of Democratic lame ducks in Washington now all of them powerful and all of them bitterly angry over the prospect of relinquishing their little kingdoms to the enemy And all of them still in months office for the next has already made that The perfectly clear He accepted his crushing rejection with smiling grace and he was quick (too darn quick in the opinion of some west coast candidates) to offer his congratulations to Ronald Reagan But Jimmy Carter is still president and he intends to right up to the carry on unfinished business as usual to bargain to continue 20 He’s of going morning January in the for of the peace for the release hostages negotiate most And that fact the etc etc Middle East foreign leaders have already crossed him off their Christmas-car- d lists seems to bother him not at all There’s still plenty he can do at home and a lot of it has is in nothing to do with the mess the economy a Republican of face the in "Particularly pressing one-ter- two-and-a-ha- about-to-be-ex-preside- nt lf equip- ment before they go pushing their noses into other people’s affairs Clearfield a phone number as I can’t This is to comment on the inf alla- newspapergive policy requires because n bility of our favorite And with I don’t have a dollar conglomerate Mountain service like this phone not I’m likely to Bell get one Approximately two months ago John Shumway I made a long distance call to my fiancee in West Virginia from a pay How to Conserve phone booth Upon termination of the call the Ogden operator did not ring back for the How to conserve Stay home additional charges as is the usual Turn off all and heat Freeze procedure This led me to believe to death Putlights your wife and kids to that there were no more charges work so one day out of the week you so after a wait of about five mi- can warm When you learn to stay nutes I left oil lights and gas they conserve A week or so later I learned that will raise the price more So then the phone company called my fian- how do you conserve? What are cee in West Virginia to get my Now you cannot conserving? name and address so they could bill you afford the things in life I me She gave it to them but I remember simple when received no bill in the mail Today I used to work for Ready Kilowatt pennies a day found out that they billed her fami- now he works for dollars a day We ly instead of me more one for month’s service pay This was not a $50 call nor was it than we used to two for pay $20 It was a measley buck thirty Please tell me what conserve thirty-fiv- e Seems to me that Moun- means The I conserve the tain Bell spent a lot of money and more it costsmore Who is conserving? went a long way out on a limb to get The light company is not conservthat buck thirty-fiv- e Especially ing the gas company is not consince I discovered that the entire serving the oil companies are not problem arose because of a mal- conserving They are ripping me function in their crummy pay off I can’t save any money can’t phone to go to the movies can’t afford Not long ago the airwaves were afford to use truck and camper saturated with TV commercials anymore Somyfellow Americans saying how Mountain Bell is train- please conserve ing experts to analyze the needs of If you would like to conserve small businesses What I’m won- let’s not buy from certain stations dering is why they don’t train ex- - — for one straight week then the next week we will not buy from another and all types of oil companies in your area Next pick out food stores For one week you buy nothing from one particular chain store Watch your newspaper for the notice for the week we should not buy from each Reagan’s tracking effort inter- business If this does notparticular work we viewed 500 voters in each of 20 key can extend the time a longer states nightly beginning Oct 6 week Maybe we can stop thethan Great Each voter was telephoned three American f Then you will d of the sample see that if all Americans will times with stick replaced each night Another 1500 together like Americans should voters from throughout the country you will bring were also called every night they should be prices down where d of the sample was again Then maybe you can afford to go replaced nightly on a trip next summer Why should “Our polling af- we pay for their inefficiency? The ter the conventions showed that a more you conserve the more they large number of voters wanted to will take away from you So fellow vote against Jimmy Carter and Americans let’s join together and would in fact vote for Reagan if stop the rip-oTalk about inflathey felt they could trust him” tion — our government is our bigWirthlin explains “So the first gest inflation The more you make weeks of the campaign were the more they take They talk abgeared to showing that Reagan was out cutting taxes but where do not some kind of dangerous person-lin- g they cut? They cut in our pocket-book- s ality Our initial tracking showed The more hours we work’ that we had succeeded and that the more taxes they take out Taxpeople now felt free to do what they es taxes taxes Where does it end? really wanted to do — vote against I hear people say “If we cut taxes Carter” we hinder our schools” but if peo“Our tracking showed that this ple are aware of taxes everything campaign was not very volatile as you buy is taxed Where does all to issues” adds Beal “The the tax money go? It used to be (for economy continued as the main instance) the gas taxes would go issue throughout the campaign de- into making our roads If they spite Carter’s attempts to make would use the taxes like they are Reagan the issue supposed to be used our roads The initial tracking showed would be made of gold So where lead that does our tax money Reagan with a go? Fellow remained steady through most of Americans do you know? I don’t October After the Reagan-Carte-r know If I don’t pay them though I debate the Republican’s lead be- get free room and board so what gan to mount to the final projection do I do now? of 11 percent fellow Americans I Please In the week before the election enjoy thehelpsimple things in life the tracking revealed that Carter’s Your wives are working so put slashing attacks had started to your children to work too so maybe work against him cutting into the you can warm this winter I “decent” image that was his am tired stay of being ripped off Let’s greatet asset It was then that do something about Let’s fight Reagan’s pollsters began to sense a Jerry Allred landslide The polling showed that the hos- Polluting in Libert tage issue had little impact on the voter Explains Wirthlin: “Had the Liberty hostages actually been released south on the Liberty Dug Going and come home during one short road I realize what a beautiful valperiod say Oct 0 it would have ley our forefathers settled The sun caused us quite a bit of trouble But shining on soft sage surrounded by once we got past the 20th our hills green with pine reaching up tracking showed the issue receding to the crags of higher mountains and actually beginning to work Men brought their families and against Carter So at that point we homes nestled here and there as a could ignore the hostage issue reminder we too belong to this which we tried to do” haven Mamy are wondering how Rounding a bend I look down on so big after Weber wildlife and boy man also Reagan could have won n most national polls brought a lot of city these past few predicted that the race was too weeks — mainly the city dump! close to call Comments Wirthlin: I’m sure the greater percent bewere of these “Many longing to this club respect the polls By the time they were grounds and surroundings and released the data was a week or 10 people when shooting should redays old I often saw major polls in place the paper targets with those which I knew the data was both old people and let Mother Nature and incorrectly analyzed The eradicate the mess Robert M Shaum campaign had faith in our numbers and we ran this campaign by them The results proved us out” to GOP Pollsters LOS ANGELES (NEA) — was Reagan a popular-vot- e margin of well before the dinner hour on the 11 percent his actual margin stood West Coast when it became clear at 108 percent when 99 percent of that Ronald Reagan had captured the votes were counted Their electothe presidency A wave of surprise ral-vote estimate proved conser— even shock — swept through vative Reagan won several states Reagan’s campaign workers as — including New York Florida and they realized the size of their vic- Wisconsin — that his forces tory thought too close to call on Sunday But at least four key staffers The pollsters were surprised only watched the mounting vote totals at the length of Reagan’s coattails Wafts Served Utah Well ‘ perts to maintain their own multi-billio- Browning Car Museum Boosts Union Station I Of The People m takeover are all those presidential appointments — judges commissioners and other influential places where he can tuck a few Democrats and thus rob Reagan of a chance to fill the vacancies with people of his own political persuasion What he does about the red-inbudget is something else Fiscal 1981 is already upon us and all anybody knows for sure is that instead of being balanced as he promised in many a campaign speech we’re at least $30 billion or $40 billion in the hole (Thanks to new taxes that’s an “improvement” over the 1980 deficit which will come to about $61 billion deficit total to $1824 billbringing Carter’s ion Another first that’s the highest for any president in k four-budg- et history) Actually from now on that’s Congress’ problem Along with a lot of other things it was supposed to do and didn’t the 96th Congress lollygagged around on passing a budget resolution Most of the legislators were up for and they couldn’t bring themselves to let the voters in on how bad things really are Maybe it’s just as well When they dropped everything including at least 50 percent of their business — last October 6 to hit the campaign trail major were they talking about a increase in spending and a rise in taxes re-electi- $60-billio- n $90-billi- on minute over inflation taxation and government spending Mad enough by golly to actually “throw the rascals out” d liberals There’s always the possibility that after conservative more a with Congress faced January 20 will try to stampede their pet projects through before Reagan can block them with a veto now and But the Republicans are revved up a stalling into are guessing they’ll swing act to block any legislation that won’t fit in with Reagan’s regime That may take a lot of swinging Included in this year’s unfinished business along with the budget and appropriations bills are the revision of the criminal code the fairhousing bill the “superfund” to finance the cleanup of hazardous waste dumps an expansion in the urban program and several versions of a possible tax cut The prospect of zinging a Republican administration is so appealing to Democratic lame ducks they’re not even squawking too loudly about missing their usual overseas junkets although we may suspect there’ll be a few Financed as usual by you and me die-har- Washing-ton-watche- rs mass-trans- it end-of-the-ye- on a Now they’re back but things have changed considerably Congressmen have learned (and for many it was a painful lesson) that the public is getting madder by the rm ar ® 1980 by NEA Inc there ! 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