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Show -- 1 The Public Forunil I rilmm4 Reader I n fair Ta !7i,1KT(VIMTtV,mjl' js UC'M l Lake I rihunr Sutu, ilav .lanuaiv 7. I'll. I All lah has been my home since my mili- (lt, tary retirement in 1966 My Military iviiecr took me to every one of the 18 continental states and provided me with a eomiction that none of them can compare to the range of natural beauty of Utah ale nely The virtually endless beauty of this state T.us is true and am willing m ,,jV m includes magnificent mountains, distinctive equal share along with oilier taxpayers lur deserts, glaciers, alpine lakes and forests the edueation of children, but Hep Cromar There are natural bridges, deep and narrow-canyonsapparently does not ri alie that single peolush meadows, white water livers, ple. childless couples, and the elderly are and sheer cliffs. There is abundant wildlife already paying a greater share of taxes for including water fowl. deer. elk. antelope. and bison We have the Great Salt Lake and Forum Hulo much, much, more Anywhere in this great state one can hePublic Forum letters must be submitted boid a natural beauty that is distinctly Uhth The Tribune and bear writer s cdusielyo Indeed Utah is nature's showcase full name, signature and address. Names The purpose in writing this letter is to must be printed on political letters but may enlist your support in telling the rest of the be w ithheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days. nation of our pride in the beauty of Utah by Preference will be given to short, typewritadding the slogan "Nature's Showcase" to ten (double spaced) letters permitting use of our vehicle's license plates 1 am the writer's true name. All letters are subvery proud to have every letter of I Utah to in my surname condensation. to Mail Public Forum, ject The Salt Lake Tribune, Post Office Box HOT CARLA HAUPT ,wl iroJuce legislation lu spcufudllv niolubit of imposition any type up head tux' fur edu eution funding lie suvs the buiden w..ul.j be iinluir because "everyone gums burn u liter " v,ds:nt, lie Salt Drawn and Quartered Opinions lVw State Slogan L ls Ul I , 1 , Salt Lake City, Ilah "Why is it that the only easy countries for us to pull out of are the ones who want us to stay?" 84110. education than parents. If Hep Cromar is really interested in fairness, he should address this problem. , Further, the proposal to limit our deduction for federal taxes on stabe returns will do nothing more than extend the existing inequity. shifting more of the burden of education to those of us who have had nothing to do with creating the problem If you have no children in fhe school system you should make your legislators aware of the unfairness of present tax laws, and urge them to favorably consider a bill which has been limiting the number of exemptions for minor children on state income tax returns, and to oppose any legislation which reduces the federal tax deduction pre-file- d Refutes Hansen Bob Hansen (Forum. Dec. 28) took great olfense at the cartoon on capital punishment. It must have hit some kind of nerve We all wan! to mukp a better society and to want to make a better society and to get rid of the murderers, but it seems to me were told, "Thou shalt not kill." "Turn (he other cheek." and "Vengeance is mine." It's just one small woman's opinion that capital punishment is absolutely inconsistent with Christianity and military preand paredness is the antithesis of peace 11 probably be hanged for saying it. GENEIL 1 HOUSTON-WE1DEMA- MAX ORR Protect Sheep, Too I Control X-ra- ys I heartily endorse the health officials of the state who want to control exposure of the machines (Tribune, Dee. 27). public to There currently seems to be no regard for (he patient as to how many are given. me to an referred Recently my physician physician for a lower back with me lying They took three large flat on my back A few days later they decided to me for kidney stones and gall bladder stones This involved five large with my entire back area exposed. Then they shot my poor gall bladder eight times. For this minor problem I had to undergo 16 I really believe that 60 percent of these exposures were unnecessary but when they discover you have health insurance. they want to take as many shots as (hey can They also seem to become irritated when you ask questions, but always assure you that you are getting no more radiation than if you were out in the sun all day. 1 wonder. settlement of Regarding the Grantsville residents in the loss of their dogs (Tribune. Dec. 251 1 wonder how many citizens of "small towns" have taken exception to the statement made by Craig Cook, attorney for the plaintiffs, anil president of the Utah Humane Society. Mr. Cook said that the purpose of the .action was a warning that "people can't go around shooting other people's dogs and then just dump them in the garbage," and further stated that his remarks were particularly directed to officials in small towns. Is Mr. Cook implying that officials in small towns are less honest than officials in large cilies' This whole episode of the dogs in Granls-vill- e came about because the law was being broken in that dogs were unlicensed, dogs were running at large, and dogs were .destroying sheep, cattle, turkeys, etc The incident was then blown all out of proportion, by television news reports. Channels 2. 4 arid 5 JUSTIN HAUGHMANN spent days and days, and even nights at omr city council meetings, turning our town into what looked like a three-rincircus." I feci ice that Channel 5. in particular, influenced the outcome of the trial in which our mayor was Utahns should take time to thank the removed from office, by showing over arid employees for their dedicated service public over, on the days of the trial, the footage shot to our state during the recent snow storms -tfrom its helicopter of the dead dogs. y he Utah Highway Patrol, snow removal I cannot understand why they thought crews and the many other employees who this news was so important to the public. It t worked to help us through the severe storms. must have cost the stations a tremendous I understand the snow removal crews amount of money to send their personnel and j worked around the clock, stopping only to be equipment to our town for so many days. I with their families Christmas morning. This ' And yet. when something important and pos- recalled memories for me when my father Hive occurs in Grantsville, such as the rewas a troubleshooting lineman and would g cent for an $8 million reser- ' have to go out to put other people back in voir and irrigation project, in which Gov. Christmas and in weather many of us power Mathcson took time from his busy schedule do not like to be out in. , to participate, there was not one representa- - j REP. KEVIN C. CROMAR tive from the television news media present, West Jordan nor was the event mentioned in their news 1 broadcasts. Just a short time ago one of our sheep ranchers in Tooele lost six sheep one night, and then less than two weeks later lost an'Your editorial on Dec. 27 criticizing the other 16 that were killed and 27 that were maimed, most of which have probably died Ul ash Liquor Control Commission for refusby now. to a pack of domestic dogs Why ing to stock Russian vodka was ridiculous. could understand your view if the commisdidn't the people at Channel 5 send their helision had banned all vodka, but there is still out and to of take dead those copter pictures plenty vodka available at the liquor stores. dying sheep' If they had done this, then the public Obviously Smirnoff is not good enough for the writer of your editorial Are you also could really witness (he results of "cruel and inhumane deaths and injuries" inflicted by going to run an editorial lamenting the fact that Havana cigars are not available in this (logs It is not just the loss of the individual uncountry? I realize there are many inconsissheep that the rancher suffers. It is the tencies in our relations with Russia, but I told hours and hours of work involved in the Utah Liquor Control Commiscommend raising sheep, the thousands and thousands of dollars worth of feed he has invested, but sion for its decision. THOMAS N. TIPPETTS more importantly, the loss of the lambs H which these pregnant ewes could have produced in other words, his livelihood. I predict that if Mr. Cook hasn't already heard from a few irate officials of "small The Tribune series on Justice Earl Wartowns." then he most certainly will hear from sheep ranchers in the future. No more ren was a whitewash and a rewriting of hiswill they sit back and suffer their losses in tory in f?vor of the liberals. Such chicanery silence as they have done in the past. I sus- is the hallmark of the liberals. What are the pect that they will.be contacting him to repyoung people to believe, if they are not diliresent them in their next loss After all. if he gent historians in addition to their main purcan arrange for a settlement of $25,000 for suits? pet dogs, he should be able to do much better As far as'the news media is concerned, it than that for the loss of a man's livelihood is a case of the fox being in the chicken MRS GEORGIA BLUM house. CHARLOTTE M. HOWE Grantsville rt y $25,000 to four y y Dedicated Sen g ground-breakin- i Ridiculous Editorial 1 Rewriting History w Here are briefs from The Salt Lake une of 100. 50 and 25 years ago. January 7, 1884 The Salt Lake Theater was comfortably the closing perfomance of filled last evening, "In the Range" being almost as warmly as the opening presentation. The engagement here has been a particuarily one. especially when we take into consideration the stringency of the money market and the ill success that has extended most of the shows that have recently been here. January 7, 1934 Re'ention of the long and short clause of the transportation act was urged by Ernest Salm. executive secretary of the Utah Citizens Rate association, before the board of 1 4 of the organization in the directors hotel Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Salm asserted that claims of railroad labor organizations that tonnage will incease and hundreds of unemployed Utah railroad men would be given work if the provision is repealed is wholly erroneous. Janrary 7, 1959 Frank E. Moss and his from shaking hands with at a farewell rehundreds of ception Sunday,, tioarded an airliner late Sunday evening bound for Washngton, D C. the President's Suite at The reception-ithe Newhouse, where Mr. Moss maintained headquarters during the 1958 political campaign. drew Democr atic party workers from many Utah communities Utah's wife, arm-wear- Sen-ele- y well-wish- i r W ilctm r In Presidential Year, Sure Bets Can Ollen Turn At Balloting Into Premature Wagers The Chicago Tribune As the new year begins and the 1984 presidential election campaign intrudes itself upon the country, the town is that President conventional wisdom in this know-it-aReagan will run again, the Democrats will nominate Walter Mondale against him, and the voters will give The Great Communicalease on the White House. tor another four-yeBut before you start calling your bookie in Las Vegas, a brief review of presidential political history may be in order. There has hardly been a presidential election year in recent times when what appeared to be the likelihood in January turned out to be the fact in November. WASHINGTON ll S This is not to say that the low inflation rate, the apparent upturn in the economy and Ronald Reagan's uncanny ability to stay on the sunny side of Main Street America won't see him through this year. Or that Fritz Mondale's combination of thorand'masterful ough organizing, effective won t make him the Democratic nominee in a breeze. But presidential election years have had a penchant over the last 20 years for upsetting early preconceptions. The smart money in Washington in 1964 said the Republican Party would not be zany enough to nominate Barry Goldwater. but it did. Going into that year. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York supposedly was but he got bloodied from the the candidate of the very start, when a totally unforeseen write-i- n campaign for Henry Cabot Lodge upset both Rockefeller and Goldwater in the New Hampshire primary. Four years later, who would have figured that upstart Sen. Eugene McCarthy would have given President Lyndon B. Johnson such a scare in the New Hampshire primary, and that Sen Robert F. Kennedy would have suddenly plunged into the Democratic nomination fight, and that Johnson would decide not to seek On the Republican side that same year, you could have gotten juicy odds on the proposition that Gov. George Romney of Michigan. after a year of beating the political bushes, would quit the race a week before the New Hampshire primary, leaving the GOP "liberals" without a chalthey were called that then lenger to Richard Nixon. Romney's precipitous withdrawal, you may remember, in- fund-raisin- g The Way It Was Trib- Jack W. Germond and Jules power-wielder- s. A front-runnin- g spired Rockefeller to reconsider a previously declared determination not to run again An obscure Maryland governor named Spiro T. Agnew set himself up as a drive and was sure he had succeeded w hen Ruckclcller marched up to the microphones at a festive, televised announcement event and promptly announced he wouldn't challenge Nixon A shocked and bitter Agnew quickly defected to Nixon and by November was vice president-elec- t In 1972. the year opened with Sen. Edmund Mushie. armed with a busload of endorsements, considered by the political wise men to be a shoo-i- for the Democrat ie nomination But another upstart. Sen. George McGovern ol South Dakota, came too close for comfort in New Hampslme and then boat him and the field in Wisconsin McGovern was al a in ie 6 percent in the Gallup Poll at the end of 1971. Four years after that. Hubert Humptuey led the Gallup Poll going into 1976, with Gov. George Wallace ol Alabama a i lose second and Sen. Henry Jackson third One Jimmy Cartel wasp t even in the small print then, but before ihc year was out lie was one-ma- d n president-elect- own . And in 1979. Carter looked like a dead dm k lot hm in the face of the hallcnge of Sen Ted until the Iranians seized the American embassy in party's nomination Kennedy Tehran and Kennedy the real candidate as opposed to Kennedv the heir to Camelottook the stump The pollsters, who bear the hrunt ol publu derision when presidential elections don't always turn out in November tliev they look in January, are ( (instantly r( minding us that they work with what voters tell them in the here and now. not with a crystjl ball that gives them the powers of clairvoyance The standard pollsters' description of their product is that it is a snapshot in a look at attitudes that exist today but may. and open do. time change tomorrow So if you're a political junkie and y ou i e looking tow ai d a cut d 1984 presidential election between Reagan and Mon dale with all the excitement of a bear lacing a winter's Inberna and-drie- lion, don't surrender entirely to despair Something unpredictable may hapjien to liven things up At least it has almost always happened in the past Where, you have to ask yourself, would Harold Stassvn be today it lie didn't look at poll tics that way? 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