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Show tf .P w as. jHUi U Hi I ys It. WplSnft $ t TnreHav Mmmincr. November A K Ik PHI f AArkli ' s;u hh; ib 1i AHr A I Carter Victory, Moss Defeat (1iTi. Ilf oh lw7 rpjlensfe . J X,4La.Jl X V- - I 1 Nixons Ghosl ciii A round Page I 4. 1976 I Field Newspaper Syndicate race. speorre haunted 'be 1976 presidential to not Nixon shaped Richard of The ghost the charav- A A - t j t Jimmy Carter. who rr.arched out cf Georgia anti won the t 78 presidential put toneLhei thar r.id traditional Democratic power coalition to win. He won in a reconstituted solid South. something no Democratic candidate has been able to do for 20 years, and he captured the important, electroal vote heavy, industrial states of the North. Barring last minute vote shifts, an unlikely possibility, Mr. Carter carried 24 states and the District of Columbia with 303 electoral votes. President Ford had 26 slates with 235 electoral votes. Carter earned While Mr. i 58 per- cent of the electoral votes, his popular Vote margin was but 51 percent. Hardly a landslide victory and, naybe, not even the mandate Mr. barter needs to successfully pursue he objectives he addressed himself OHnrlml Me (larnnulrm ' Mr. Carter, when he moves to the r, white House in January, will, immediately enjoy a significant political advantage President Ford would not have had and has not had in two years as Chief Executive. The jiew Democratic president will be working with a Democratic Congress. After Tuesdays elections Demoj crats will still control the U.S. Senate by the same 8 margin they did in the 94th Congress, despite some new faces. In the House, however, Democrats will hold an even heavier 5 margin than the present At four additional least majority. Democrats will take House seats. how-feve- 62-3- 290-14- New faces in the Senate will include Utahs Orrin Hatch, the Republican challenger who ousted Senate veteran Frank E. three-terthe Democratic Moss, incumbent. Mr. Hatch, a newcomer to Utah politics, soundly defeated 18-ye- ar m Sen. Moss, capturing nearly 54 percent of the vote. Dan Marriott, another Republi- - v V oK c 64 to AMf-rAmK- 4VM iVWV t pAvutPoeeiA VWOV4AU with any substantial 95th Congress. in the seniority When Utah voters let Sen. Moss go, they reduced the states influence in Washington measurably under the delegation Mr. Hatch, in the Senate, and Mr. Marriott, in the House, will carry no immediate clout into the halls of Congress. We wish both Mr. Hatch and Mr. Marriott spectacular success in their new jobs and congratulate them on their victories. We hope these two men will exhibit the same energy in Washington as they did during their campaigns so that their influence will be soon felt for the continuing benefit of Utah and the nation. State on Steady Course Changes in Utah state government, wrought by Tuesdays voting, are of the orthodox variety, but loaded with fascinating possibilities. If theres an overall pattern, its politically conservative, generally reflecting the influence Gerald R. Fords popularity had on Utah balloting. But enough contradictions remain to make jhe pattern uneven. No significant gains were registered by extremism at either end of the political spectrum. Whether executive or legislative branch, the resulting mix averages out to a middle-of-th- e road position Utah state government policies have occupied for decades. i The governors office stays with the Democrats, as newcomer Scott 'Matheson succeeds retiring chief executive Calvin Rampton. However, ;Mr. Matheson campaigned mostly as a capable of apply- -' e business-likto state efficiencies ing 5 non-politicia- n, More than that, the 'government. extent of his opportunity to govern is in question considering hes outnum- bered on the Board of Examiners by Republicans, Lt. Gov. David Monson and Atty. Gen. Robert Hansen. Mr. Mathesons problems could ijiultiply when he submits programs Hill Mauldin to a Legislature now divided between House and a Democa Gov. Rampton Senate. ratically-led to work well with usually managed in the LegislaRepublican majorities ture. Still, he always . dealt from Democratic strength on the Board of Examiners. GOP-controIl- ed Legislative shifts arent likely to alter the previous heavy emphasis on maintaining the states fiscal soundness. There may be competing attempts at tax reduction, stemming from chronic state budget surpluses, but essential programs wouldnt be made to suffer. New elements in the legislative line-u- p could cause sparks, but no faction bent on dismantlement or demolition is visible. The number of experienced, responsible returnees is reassuring. bow cn dont even pat ice cubes in my booze. m. 1976 Give Me Y our Tired, Your Poor packed the theaters people 8 re beginning to say that sharks aren't so bad after all. tot Anqelet . Ttrv . . The Public Forum up, or should I say stolen. Whoever you are "Mr. Sportsman I hope you enjoy your deer meat Oh one thing, be sure and say a blessing on your food before you eat. FRANK W. JENKINS amounts of energy. To reduce the energy consumed and still maintain a comfortable environment has not been an easy task, but in its management of the facility, GSA has largely accomplished both of these objectives. Those areas that were uncomfortable in previous winters should be improved as a result of the actions described in The Tribune article. The GSA efforts should be commended rather than censured, as was implied by your headline. ROBERT H. TERRY Director Internal Revenue Service Center Ogden Taylorsville Nothing Meaningful Credit to Patrol Editor, Tribune: When a state trooper gives a person a ticket, they may want to call him by not so in my case. On Oct. 24 1 another name lost the wheel to my camping trailer and in the process sheared off all lug bolts and nuts making it impossible to put on my spare. Luckily I managed to pull my trailer over to the side of the freeway adjacent to the aporoach ramp. This was a dangerous situation for the approach ramp because the trailer obstructed the view of oncoming traffic. It was impossible to move my trailer without mechanical work being done on the hub. Have you ever tried getting mechanical assistance in Orem or Provo on a Sunday, especially on a deer opening weekend? This is Forum Rules Pub He Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune sod bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names mutt be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writers true name. AH tetters are subject to eondooMtiAq. Mail to the Public Feruia, The 8ait Lake Tribune, Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84114. another impossibility. In desperation, I called the Highway Patrol. Trooper Don Morrel (I hope I have the name right) and partner arrived on the scene; investigated my pight; immediately got on the radio and located, and escorted me to Sorrenson Marina where a gentleman (I didnt catch his name) cured all my problems including selling me a good used rim (my original one was ruined) for an incredibly reasonable price, when in fact I was in a position to be fleeced. I thank this gentleman for his honesty people like this make me thankful for living. I am grateful for the officers that assisted me and for officers like Don Morrel and partner. They are a credit to the Utah Highway Patrol. I have nothing but the highest regard for the Highway Patrol. HERBERT H.WOMBLE Woods Cross Editor, Tribune: My son, who is a student in first grade, handed me a note Oct. 21 which said that there would be no classes the next day due to the hunt. What hunt? Are children supposed to go hunting? So that week-en- d fathers were teaching their small sons naming of paits of a rifle and what to do after the firing. In this case it means learning to cut the throat of a Bambi without turning red. Killing without no real need for the meat; but perhaps to show off the antlers. Sunday morning in the churches here in Zion, the bishops probably smiled forgivingly and with a fatherly understanding, because most of the younger, male congregation were not there due to the hunt. No excommunications because of killings; after all animals are put here for our use is the general idea. No real sensitivities are encouraged in churches or schools or most homes nowadays. One day the children bring home pictures and poems of gentle, graceful, unforgettable doe eyes; the next day they were told now is the season for shooting deer. If you do not teach your son such, he will surely become a sissy (whatever that is). I feel that we need political leadeis who are poets at heart: a poet for president would be perfect. An angry poet, who is angry because of the laying waste of the land, because of wanton killings; who would wear sandals and a robe and whose only weapon would be a whip to punish the parents, who allow their children to kill the least sparrow with a BB gun and thereby introduce the pliable heavens clay to violence. Give the children a day off in the fail only to see the flaming red leaves decorate the ground; only to crumble the dead dry leaves into a fine powder and give them an award for the best picture they shoot; mount it and praise the artist. Nothing real meaningful is taught nowadays in churches or schools. RUTH F. HUFF the national leaders require a tresn mandate. as Robert 'Teeter, President "Tue issue, Ford s pollster, said to me in early August, was About 60 percent of the people "trust. regularly volunteered to pollsters that the quality they most sought in the next president was the exact opposite of what Nixon embodied integrity. Public Yearning Tire two caiitliuttles spiting fiuni limt Overwhelming public yearning. When Spiro Agnew was forced to resign as vice president, suspicions in the Congress, which had to approve the next vice president, obBged Nixon to pick a man the Congress trusted. So Nixon was forced to abandon the leader he former Secretary of the Treasury wanted John Conn ally. He picked instead a man he calls (in the sample chapter of his latest memoirs which I have seen) decent and honest but also weak in foreign policy. Which is how Jerry Ford, who otherwise never would have made it, reached the White House and became the Republican nominee in 1976. If anything an even more unlikely prospect for nomination was the virtually unknown, one-terformer governor of Georgia. But alone among the Democratic contenders. Carter reassured the American people with talk of love and God and family. More importantly, he was able to turn public mistrust to advantage by being the candidate the fresh figure with no corrupt ties to the political Gomorrah. Having struck the poses of Mr. Honest and Jlr. True, neither candidate could afford prolonged scrutiny by a public unhappy about national politics. So both campaigned in short bursts, periodically returning to the safety of their fiefs in Washington and Plains. Stimulates Instincts That behavior inevitably stimulated the instincts of preis and television journalists eager to make their mark by the discovery of some new Watergate. The most serious questiies regarding Ihe economy and the handling of foreign policy were little pursued. Instead ihe locus was on the Playboy interview, a bank account in Grand Rapids, misstatements on Eastern Europe and taxes, 8nd other such bagatelles. I do not agree with Carters press secretary Jody Powell when he says: The national news media have absolutely no Interest in issues at all ... Theres nefaody on the press plane who would ask an issue question unless he thought he could trick me into some crazy statement. But I know what he means. Hie 1976 campaign defined (the not unsevere) limits that should probably be placed around investigative reporting. No doubt this years campaign was so bad that there is blame enough for all of us. Still there is no doubt about the main culprit, and if there is a hope that attends this campaign it is that the ghost of Richard Nixon will finally be exorcised. well-found- (Copyright) Bill Vaughan's Incomprehensible Action Editor, Tribune: As a Utahn, I am ashamed that the senators from my state played a key part in stalling final adoption of the Clean Air Act. The filibuster which Senators Moss and Garn initiated led to the defeat of one of the most important pieces of environmental legislation in years. Adoption of the Clean Air Act would have insured protection to our national parks and other scenic areas from pollution. We in Utah are extremely fortunate to be living in a state that is unparallelled in scenic beauty, and we are aware of the importance of protecting that beauty. Because of this, I find it incomprehensible that our senators could be the very ones who would lead the fight to permit the deterioration of environmental quality. DONALD E. MAHACEK Orbiting Paragraphs The Orient Express is to be closed down and who have to hitchhike from Pans to Instanbul. Whos going to pick up a dagger-carryinguy in a cape? its going to be tough for the spies g An intoxicated motorist in Florida is arrested for impersonating an officer. Which is not to be. taken as meaning drunk drivers are necessarily imitating policemen. It is said that any reasonable bright child, with a proper materials, can build an atomic bomb. Better cheek the ingredients in that birthday chemical set pretty carefully. Slayshal Today s, Public figures who suffer from tarnished reputations may take heart that a year after "Jaws" Out of that widespread misperception there as born the salient issue of 1976. It was not the though in both economy or foreign policy cases the country has entered a new era and w ct A fr'erd who issued the warning years ago never to get a haircut while the World Series was on the radio says it is also a bad idea to visit the dentist m times of high political prnoliona'isrn Troic thP cuiuiuca. with the last. Poor performance ' of government in many areas over a long period of time had no doubt Mr. Kraft turned off lots of voters, especially younger ones, Vietnam intensified the disaffection. Cheating, Lying But Nixon by his cheating and lying confirmed the worst suspicions of government. For a year, moreover as that insightful man. Chairman Robert Strauss of the Democratic party, has repeatedly pointed out Nixon used the "bully pulpit of the presidency to tell the American people that what he did was normal. Thus millions of Americans had it on the highest authority that the standard mode of behavior m Washington was criminal. Utah voters demonstrated immense good judgment in turning down two initiative proposals that could have thrown local as well as state government into needless disarray. These were, of course, the recall and budget ceiling measures. By letting the fluoridation initiative slip through on a narrow margin, voters Headline Disputed did create a serious question about continued treatment of water supEditor, Tribune: On Friday, Oct. 22, The plies against disease. The confusion Tribune printed an article the should be settled with the earliest Ogden Internal Revenue Serviceconcerning Center which, though factually correct, carried a headline possible court case. which was misleading It was couched in the Gov.-eleMatheson and Legislalanguage of a game in which there is a winner ture members should give prompt and presumably a loser. This is certainly not the case in this instance. The Internal Revenue consideration to a constitutional Service and General Services Administration amendment embodying recall princiare jointly and cooperatively involved in ples. Utah public opinion does favor efforts to achieve energy conservation, a that. The new governor, all the problem which should be of concern to &1! os us. The results achieved since the GSA began its and executive branch energy the Legislature, regardless of party been conservation measures in late 1973 have iii impressive. The energy label, still owe their first obligation to buildings managed by the GSA Saltsavings Lake area the state, its people and those pur- office have amounted to an average of almost 36 percent each year since then. Within the poses that keep Utah a place of has Ogden Service Center, energy opportunity, harmony and promise. been reduced by an average ofconsumption approximately in not Political success is measured 38 percent during the same period. victories alone, but, ultimately, in the The problems confronting GSA in the Ogden IRS Center were unusual because of the nature quality of public service that of the facility. Much of it is comprised of large, perform. connected open areas with several office-holder- use lie opmKn. Begin first existing seniority systerti. With the Labor Lost Moss departure from the Senate, Utahs new senior senator, Jake Editor, Tribune: The 1976 deer season has Gam, will have only two years added another sportsman to my list. buck in tne East seniority, as opposed to the 18 years Oct. 23 1 shot a nice Sen. Moss held. And Republican Gam Canyon area. I field diesstd my deer, tied its and placed it in a cool area. It was too big will be a member of the minority legs to haul out so I returned home to gee a deer party in a Democratic Senate ; with a cart. White House occupied by a DemoWhen I returned my deer had been picked crat. jl the major issues, the attitude of the leading mid the us joumulisU niiH- - can new to Utahs political battles, easily captured the U.S. House seat ui U.e second Congressional District. His victory was virtually assured when Allan T. Howe, the Democratic freshman Congressman, was arrested last summer on sex solicitation campaign by charges. A write-i- n Daryl J. McCarty, with the approval of the State Democratic Committee, was a resounding failure. The Utah Education Assn, executive director and Democratic national committeeman polled less than 8 percent of the Second District House seat vote. K. Gunn McKay, the Democratic incumbent Congressman from the First District, easily overcame John Birch Society member and Republican contender Joe H. Ferguson. Rep. McKay will begin his fourth term in the House in January. Most significantly, he will be the only one of T Tf itouit mi buildings together with covered corridors. Also, some of the activities withih the building involve machines which themselves generate considerable heat. In addition, there are significant differences in ll.e kinds of work performed by our employes much of it is sedentary desk work, but other jobs require considerable physical activity. To cope with these varying conditions, the systems originally heating and designed for the center were highly scphisti- - The doctor will be a little late ... As emergency jast came up! f k malpractice trial ( |
