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Show ' : I " it- - 'V akr tribune ebc Suit Friday Morning, March Nrotinn 4 V .11, 1978 i'Alit Proposed Utah Nuclear PI an It Gelling Needed Early Study nation's largest nuclear sort information of authorities must have before sions are made power-producin- g sites is a concept difficult fier i - Just as important are answers for inevitable claims that the proposed plants will constitute an immense waste material peril, will monopolize available local water supplies, will pose a constant danger lrom accident or sabotage. Nuclear power plant construction is encountering increased public resistance imagine Thats why its so to fully the is This Turning the area around Emery County's Green River into one of the essential to run the idea through a meticulous planning study. The U S Department of Energy is evidently serious alxiut designating Green River a location for nuclear Not just an jxivver plant a but ordinary plant, multiple comof generating between plex capable m, (KM) and 13, (KK) megawats ol jxiwer This is an enormous proxisal in today 's terms Presently, among the fid nuclear power reactors operating m the oju-ratio- To its credit, the Department of Energy is involving state and local officials in the planning process A public hearing was held in Green River, now Gov. Scott Matheson will he permitted to comment on the DOEs impact study. He has referred the matter to the state energy States, there are none, not even in combination at certain Untied more than 2,(KH) of electrical cncrg Only megawatts the Itaipu Dam, planned by Paraguay and Brazil, is expec ted to generate anything like 10, (KK) megawatts. It is supposed to ultimately supply 12,0(K) megawatts There isn't a hydroelec trie project in the United .States raled at more than 2.7(K megawatts It isn't, of course, ust the jower production that needs analysis. Obviously, with construction and permanent community expansion later on. Green River, Emery Countv for that matter, would never be- the same. How would that be good, how would it he bad and how could the changes be adequately managed places, producing conservation . and zc)( T "Do miu know J.IIW- - development council. New York Times Service r jev being Biology it is. some four years are required to realize the fruits of the increased cattle breeding. It isn't long thereafter. however, that the excessive production produces a surplus which in turn causes the price to drop and wipes out the small timers and even big producers who faded to anticipate the inevitible. Then the cycle starts all over again It will be small satisfaction to shoppers over at the butcher counter but the fat prices they are paying will eventually inflict compensating pain on the cattle barons. jioillt Why Consumer Agency Bill From the Baltimore Sun Roll calls tell part of the story The House of Representatives in the 42nd Congress, bv a vote of 2!4 to 44. approved a consumer protection agency hill that died in the Senate In the 93rd Congress, the House repeated the process by a vote of 243 to 94 Bv the 94th Congress that margin had dwindled to 208 to 144 Then (last month' the House of the 45th Congress killed a water down, defanged. innocuous, anemic mere shadow of past consumer protection measures hy a vote of 189 to 227 The defeat cannot be explained bv clu hes It cannot tie blamed solely on a lobbying campaign by Big Buiness or on another lackluster performance by the Cartel White House While these factors were present one could as well blame an earthquake on a c rac k in the pavement What the House vote reflected m our view was a growing public alienation tow aril consumer advocacy as it has developed in the1 past decade No longer is Ralph Nader popularly hoc caved as a SI George dome battle with the General Vlotors dragon No lean air zealot accepted longer is the automata ally a' the defender of the public interest - the publics economic interest Those who would bun sac (harm find them well-oile- c 1040 d Dead selves opposed not only bv the drug industry hut by Americans who worry about their sugar intake Those who would impose air hags anno' not only Detroit but motorists who resist the extra cost K'en energy conservation is now depicted in some quartets as a drag on prosperity and jobs Why this alienation from those who are trying to protect, their fellow citizens One reason is that dn-- Mulcts are sometimes self apixiinted and self nought eous which in an era of mass media saturation can lead t public revulsion Another is public suspicion of the institutions that make up the Establish g rnent Nader and his followers were as common folk they had pnpulai appeal But once thev themselves bei me a highlv visible institution, they found them elves regarded as warily as governnunt big he business organized labor, the courts medical piofession and yes, the press Politicians who like to he against gowm ment while being part of it, were qua k to smft the decline of consumerism Listen to Rep lohn Andeison. R 111 What hear most from the small businessman and the average blue collar worker and consumer is govern ment s already tint big too intrusive and too but ea lit i at ic The people ate not (rung out h r mute but t aik at les to pie umuhly ptolic (hem from other hureaut t ac les nl so the consumer protection full died Mowevcl mil' h its proponents argued that an oi in v is needed to protec t consume r inf o sis tin dei i toils nf government agent it s in howivtr simply hev contended thal it w t noil government reorgani, ation to put w.it 'i i d consumer representatives m one agi in v ho a ever plaintively thev held that another nv eminent regulator' agency was not being reated - Mr Anderson s argument pt ev ailed So long as Mr peri el v id 1 c i ttle point in rekindling the fires fm et while consumer protection agency ongres-- , has jejec t(xl a separate ageni y it has sivin considerable lip service to the idea "f slrcnghtenmg the consumer's voice within individual government agencies This is a modest goal, hut one worth sec king I hei e is i i (lit but verv role, e long-rang- anybody is going to compose the and policy differences within tile maior industrial and trading nations it will probably have to he Callaghan He was the trust of Carter here and Chancellor Schmidt of West Gcrmanv, who do not always trust one unot he though Callaghan denies it He is on good bums as well with Brezhnev in Moscow md teat s that the- - United States and the Sov id iiii'e. are now drifting hack into Cold Wai i" "p ig.md i w it hout really meaning to do so Talk Oxer Problems Hiflunks that Cartel and Riehnev should talk ov vi t lic'ii problems 'and the sonnet the b Met Thev at e getting in trouble- ov ei arms tontiol and the- - Soviet incursion into Africa lie se.s Therefore he adds, maybe Moscow doesn t lealic that the Congress of the I nited States will not agiee to a second strategic arms control agreement so long as the Soviet I mon is using military force to achieve political and is'gi aptnc gams in fi a allaghan obscr u-- that then- - is a ditterence in tin lice World between what is ni u s and He a glees that then wn.it is truh ire fund imental iiinflnt- - witnin the mdostii, I mon n them and the Sov nations and But in the Middle Ea-- t and that enl.uged eonflwt- - n i.d to .u i erated and t" t n inlugeii pi , Old and th it ninnnr mid propagand Still if I m maor nations are (lear toi-rl- quiet and personal For example, the Brit ish Prime Minister James Callaghan almost slipped into Washington over the weekend to see Ills grande hddien and have a private talk with President Carter No big ceremonial gun salutes at the airport No ap Mr. Reton poaranoes on "Meet the Press or Face the Nation " A dinner partv on Secretary of State Vance's filst birthday at the British Embassy, and the conversation with a few reporters on the state of the world The older he gets he was ti( this month -the more Callaghan looks and sounds Bovin, the former fonign socieUm But even more than Bevin. ' Big Jim" is now the trusted philosopher and miMtei.ioi within the Wesiorn alliance He looks on the metem porarv world with some anxiety but with a verv Mil mind He is worried aUnii the lait that there are now Hi nullum unemp'oved iii the industrial nations He sec s tm si maiui fr-nations trying to deal separately with this He fears the rise of common problem economic protectionism now is greater threat this yc ar than last Dollar Decline He is also concerned about tbe decline of the dollar in the world financial maikets and wonder? whether it can continue to lx- the mam resene currency without help from other quarters When the major industrial nation-mefor their next 'Summit in Bonn thm summer he wants them to be readv, not with more proclamations," but with spenfii proposals, even if such proposals involve national sacrifices, to deal with what he peri cives as a coming would economic crisis The last industrial Summit Meeting in london in 1977 was not carefully prepared and the results have been disappointing allagh in did not say so. but Washington was not readv tor that meeting One of the purposes of his present mission here is to assure that the Bonn summit will be prepared with specific re medics and he has already placed before the Carter administration a careful definition n( the problems he thinks must be resolved Rejects Suggestion Callaghan rejects the suggestion that he e- - n sell appointed "mediator" among the Undtu-o- f He agrees that the industrial nations somebody has to bring the problems of finance trade unemployment and inflation into some kind of coherent toe us But ho insists that nolMsiy udl he an effective mediator" if the media says Callaghan or anybody else is ti v mg to play that role Those hefty increases in the price becoming, everybody with a bit of meat which contributed so much to pasture land gets into the cattle the 6 percent rise in the cost of living business. And the growers already last month are also the best guaran- there expand their herds to take tee consumers have that moat prices advantage of the higher price. will eventually decline what of the business uncontrollable' tie The British plus influential of nntlu - still an Means Low Hiifli O Association and he has charts and graphs to document cyclical price patterns going back to 1896. His figures relate to farm value which accounts for about 60 percent of retail price. Actually its all v ery simple When prices are high, as they are now twenties art almost worthies? with inflation 11 WASHINGTON reassunngh in mot ion And once they subside, the then low price of meat will in turn v irtually guarantee that cattlemen will cut back production and the cost of steak and such will go right hack up again. As Richard A. McDougal explains it, the best cure for high (beef) prices is high prices. Mr. Dougal is president of the National Cattlemans IvCr-f- t tl wit British Arc Still Influential Worldwide Nothing is definite yet and its indicated that even with eventual approval, the plants would not be underway until the late 1980s The U S must look ahead to the day when energy demands are met by sources more dependable than oil, coal and impounded water. Additional nuclear capacity is one alternative Utah, it appears, is seen as a possible part of that tut ure Wliich shouldn't be intimidating if all questions concerning safety and ordeily development are answered Attempts to do that are - Am i -- i i the the summit meeting at unitnei Callaghan unless the 80 s alMiut how to in Bonn .let this role in all this, tint he has lieen through the Depression and the- wars and the Cold War, and has now come into calmei w ati-- in Ins (id's He is not pessimistic He- seems to say tiut the free nations must liegm to plan together, or then-wil- l he muc h more serious pioblemsol division and protec tionjsm later on - - slacks and his in the earlv morning sunshine at the British Kmbassv hne disclaiming anv special sit- - m his r illbim I'.ppU'rn N Plus 3Rs Schools Must Show What Real World Is Like The Washington Post While Americans are busy with their efforts to push public education hack to basics. one basic apparently being ignored is that of teaching children something of what the real world is day's work Both elected to return home' to broken families on welfare rather than for so low a salary Their demand seemed tn be $15 an hour or nothing, and I fear nothing is what they will get I repeat that, while this is prohublv not the norm, it is (ar from being " unique, or even exceptionally unusual Ilk- Misled by Counselors What's going on" Have these young people been misled by counselors and recruiters' Have they run across one plumber making physician's income and concluded that such pav is normal' Or is it the fact that when there aren't any skilled workers in the household, it's tim'd to get a realistic sense of what skilled W SHTNGTON - 1'here s no lnsui mountable difneulty in leaching basil reading, writing and math skills, although I have serious misgivings about mak ing such skills the of education 11 have more to sav about that another time) We also seem i Ple. when we put our minds and resources to it. of teaching the basic c raft skills Realistic Understanding What we are fading to do in an astonishing number of cases is to help young people toward a i calistir understanding of what their training Iv to pi oduc e m lerms of money. is like I fu st eneoimti led the problem among young people who emoll in nebulous but nurses in eommunitv colleges on the it ion of quickly landing obs in the $24 nun range Tins -- aine unreality is starting to sot p into the ti ade si htMils g i cp Jack M Grimes of u.stin, Tex . knows what t tn talking about Gi lines is white which may not he re'evant to what he has to say He scIicmiI district and u a, he-- - bolh in an in a mostlv black and chicano Job Corps i which is relev ant Significant Difference H" is struck tiv one significant difference between the two groups of students "Almost without exception, he told me, the Job Corps bidents have incredibly unrealistic expectations of salaries benefits and the standard of liv mg they will lie able to immediately achieve -- ' It is mime to me to see sons and non too nno-x-- r year families daughters willing Of exact lv eugen to ac cept $2 jobs to pi ov ide extra spending money for them selves or save for college costs In some instances thev will even pass up college and r start careers as trainees, grocery ti ainees and so forth for $4 and $5 an hour But main if not most Job Corps students would never ev en consider such jobs of not $4(1 meat-cutte- Permanent Employment This wick for an unfortunately (unfit quent example, two of our graduates were plat ed as welders for Hughes Tool Co ill Houston beginning at $5 4ti an hour This was stable employment with a good firm bt ginning at almost $50 a day base salary - not t(Mi bad loi 18 year old droMuts, one would think of the two showed up for the first workers earn Grimes has weighed the theories, ranging to the televised from instant gratification "good life." and concluded that all the theorization is as useful as speculation cm angels' feet and pinheads he says. "I am less As a pragmatist, interested in esoterical treatises on why than mundane answers of how Basis of Validity observations have any basis of do we change the situation' How do validity we make the underprivileged realize that a basic education and employable trade are not . an immediate panacea for all the ills of whites that, m reality, most middle-clas- s do not sail around on KMKcxit yachts or sit around in glistening resorts being served endless delicacies from some unknown cornucopia, that a job pay mg a livable wage is merely the basis for beginning a life which will involve innumerable problems and sacrifices hut. if pursued reasonably, can lead to acceptable How if my then-lives- Middle-Clas- s Families don't know the answers Most children from middle-clas- s or working-clas- s families grow up wilh a fairly realistic idea of what sort of lifestyle can be supported by what sort of career It's enough to look at what Dad and Mom do for a living and see what kind of I creature comforts their jobs can produce children from families miss out on that common knowledge May-li- Even so. shouldn't it tie obvious that an $4 or $5 an hour will buy a lot income of more than no income at all1 What produces the expectations and attitudes that Grimes and others encounter with such distressing regularity 1 Grimes admits he hasn't a clue $-- Depressing, Frustrating "But I do assure you." he said, that it is awfully depressing and frustrating to work erv hard for much less money than might be making to convert a grade sehool dropout and functional illiterate into a capable, employonly to see him angrily able, tradesman rt'tect his potential and blindly rage against 1 me (C opyright i i i In-- - il ion is ni edi d .mion, avoid ill unplanned di ,ft ntu en nulitai v util old at n and i t i Supports rill Hi it l, pr dlscussim the II ll i risis C.olii 111 alio, is h In d i d n at lei ( HI idi Mu on-m- t - tl - l Hit lolls ,1 mill lb the Middli I thin Fume Man tei lilies about xh.'t Wll' i, I'm i and w nt Sad it ol Egvpt it Sad.il s happen to In-sidpeai i plopos.ds a; e ijellld Bill lie lllges p.iiiem e on Hus issut and thinks it pt u li nt to a ceiv httlenow andlil lsiailatidlhi ni e- - of n flee t oil tbe piob ible on m i r P.egin t s ol ! s at i i.d-tat- t" compinv lots lot odiic c'd j $ ji .dkiiu " ivi tli it n Its nkc s timin' 4 a, ii r ln- on in to re l.o c Bill' i i m diplomatu stalemate coni ntr i'i on tin anwhile. falla'-haam it oivmii i n - 1 It in (mrt oil thing i Hu il - Mi a- Babe in the V nods bar o mi ,n- - In n mg disc h hi i s 'on o nth uliniji Dav id hint - n N i k I h 'h H it,: to II t m v JIM i il d h it too mull to worn nut hoi t r mg e n a tn in a probh ms. hut to fm o - on Oil long i ui"i- erononiu ptobli ins w hn h m i s - "I keep telling myself the FVntagon would never expose us to dangerous radiation levels but how is it theyve given us uranium bullets and were starting to glow in the dark?" |
