Show ix ' ' ' v t Ogden Cost of public education exorbitant Defends Ferraro position on abortion za In reference to Rosemarie Gar- attack on Geraldine Ferraro may I remind you Ms Garza that not all of us are followers of you and Jerry Falwell If only you would have seen “Ths Week With David Brink-ley- ” on Sunday Aug 19 you s would have found your anti-Ferra- ro anti-aborti- Letter-to-the-Edit- on or (Aug 29 issue) totally necessary In one of her best terviews unin- Ferraro yet fully articulated her stance on abortion Ferraro explained that because of her strong religious convictions she does not in any way advocate abortion for herself yet she does not feel she has the right to dictate to all American women that they should never under any circumstance ever have-- ' an abortion Do you Ms Garza completely understand the concept of “free- dom of choice?” As American citizens each of us has the guaranteed right to choose — whether it be religion moral beliefs philosophical values etc etc No one person or group ever has the right to denounce all others for their contrasting views Moreover there is no one answer for every woman when she is faced with an unwanted pregnancy Face it abortion is currently legal in the United States But it is only a viable alternative to those with the money to pay for it Ferraro supports federal funding for abortion to provide an equal opportunity for all women in the United States to have the right to choose and to receive good safe medical care should they decide to have an abortion Ferraro is demonstrating a key principle in trying to campaign successfully for public office: she is separating her personal convictions from the standpoint that is most fair to the American public No one is forcing you to have an abortion but the legal option is there and it’s not just for those with money So criticize the “Ferraro hypocrisy” if you wish Ms Garza perhaps next time you’ll intelligently inform yourself by staying abreast of the current issues and not resorting to misquotes taken out of context from back issues of magazines KD Hutchinson Clearfield clear-cu- t ? Prison needs more Warehousing’ less PR When will the Utah Corrections Division and State Prison administration learn that the prison was not meant to be an entertainment facility? Under the current administration former and “should-be- ” death row inmates are aided and encouraged to escape Federal court rulings have imposed strict limitations on prisons with respect to treatment of inmates but none of those rulings guarantees a murderer or three-tim- e the “right” to walk out the front door of the prison Well here it is school time again While registering my two high school students I once again was furious We are supposed to have free education Don’t you believe it I paid $20 for two student carcls a must $20 for two student book rentals a must Also I’ll grant you the pictures at $12 each and the yearbooks at $13 each are optional Now I have a student in band $5 fee for band $6 fee for uni- Two students in probably the most use form JROTC worthwhile subject the school has to offer Each student pays $10 each Free education? Where’s all the school district money? I don’t believe Ogden City Schools haven’t any money They don’t offer our students any extras But I read the other night where Mr Carter from Highland Middle School was just appointed director of Community Night School for the district of- have 3 4 5 then? Thursday August 30 1984 er deserve justice Old conspirators Parents start attending your school board meetings I attended one last year The most important decision made was where the board members would stand to have their pictures taken Come on parents voice your opinion Let’s get back to free education L Scala Ogden Letters from readers are welcome Effective Jan 1984 and in fairness to all had been working for more than two years to produce the paintings that are currently on exhibit Since the Ogden Standard-Examincan’t find the space in the “Arts” section I would like to do it here The Eccles Community Art Center a organization for the promotion of art in our er non-prof- it community is currently exhibit 1 the following rules will apply without exception : Writers must include a address and telephone number for verification Unless the author can be established a letter will not be published Please keep letters short and accurately stated A desirable length is two hundred (200) words Preference will Bangerter BJ Esptin Salt Lake City letters No more than one letter per month will be printed from an individual Letters are subject to editing for space and clarity and should not violate libel laws Those dealing with religious dogma will not be considered Effort will be made to return letters unacceptable for publication to the author Address letters to: Letters Box 951 Ogden Utah 84402 (double-space- O It could have been solved but feel it was bought off the inves- tigation many men in high places in the USA have signs on their I lapels that read I am for sale completion of the Verranzano-Narrow- s Bridge whose 4 260-fospan between two robin-re- d towers would connect rural Staten Island with Brooklyn and the gray canyons of the city The ot bridge scheduled for completion Nov 21 would end an era of roadside vegetable stands spacious farms and the easy going rural life that had for over three centuries separated Staten Island from its four sister $350-millio- n ' Aug 1 editorial 1 raises every year and presumable the President will stop imposing on “cap” after another and will drive large adjustments ever and year presumably the admir istration will desist from impo:-in- g cuts curbs and delays o i COLAs This set produces a figure of $528 billion The other set of books uses actual experience as a basis for projecting the debt as required by the Retirement Act This sdt produces a Figure of $1879'(bil-lio- n for a decrease of $55 biljiop cost-of-livi- ng -- during the past year Editorial writers and the public are being deceived by OPM’s chicanery 3 Sammuel F Anderson South D 4? ROY LAYTON 1 DAM SWiURDWpWON 0 has plenty of space for movie reviews that are reviewed on every television station and in almost every magazine but not enough o newspaper be more supportive to all the arts and not pretend to “news-report- ” about them Caril JenMngs td -- startup at Rooms’“ whelm starting uiM! cTuadraUe 50 YEARS AGO August 30 1934 tv®ryWfa &G 7 got under way as postal authorities escorted by a heavy guard of agH°tor leans 1 On One of the greatest movements of gold in the history of the world -- wlt doubie £n9 oftfc De'UeJ Door picked soldiers undertook the transfer of an amount of the metas al worth estimated $1500000000 to $2250000000 Can$leT Com?' ete Convert® vAth ihroettf 43 6 Y Dtuxo X 5381 PM Cants!® Convey Headltg"1 with Head power mi h 7 HP Ousi Top fttt b4- - 4387 TT C-J- M 1 W y 1 dryer 1 fAotchU OOCT v uas on S!Sf®u“uel Save FREE "PLjVotlsserle Burner r Dual u 5 Only 0 AH on SAU m a1 XV K pd M sssg Floor 39-ye- ar v tht inflation 95-59- The arts and entertainment section of our local newspaper from the San Francisco mint to the Denver mint A dozen mail trucks each loaded with a ton of gold moved as a caravan to the train depot where the metal was placed in three mail cars The transfer had been ordered because boroughs of the “earthquake hazard” Sen Barry Goldwater demanded that the Johnson administraOra Bundy former mayor of tion tell the nation “just how Ogden confirmed the report in deeply we have been involved in political circles that he would be the runaway rioting and govern- a candidate for the Democratic mental musical chairs going on in nomination of United States senSouth Viet Nam” His statement ator at the state convention in came following a week of civil Provo strife in the Communists menOgden’s Fall Festival and Style aced Southeast Asian nation Show opened promptly at 7:30 A teenage Ogden girl and a pm with Queen Lettie Garner old South Ogden man were throwing the switch that illumikilled in a motorcycle accident nated the streets and store winnear the Red Rock Ranch dows The queen’s four Huntsville The victims were Re- attendants were Ruby De Haan becca Ann Rich 14 daughter of Winifred Laurie Athleen Read Dr and Mrs Homer E Rich and and Pearl Smith The entire event George Frank Peery driver of the was under direction of Chairman motorcycle The Rich family had Ray M Boyle and the retail merbeen picnicking at The Meadows chant’s division of the chamber in South Fork Canyon of commerce Mrs May Rawle first grade Surveying of a new route for teacher in the Morgan ElementaGreen the Huntsville-Mountai- n ry School for 20 years retired road extending from the from the teaching profession side of Ogden Valley to southern Mrs Rawle recalled that she first Weber Canyon was to be started started in the teaching profession the week according to R in 1919 in the old brick school during W Craven manager of the Webuilding in South Morgan ber County emergency relief adMark Anderson 17 took grand ministration The distance was about nine miles champion honors for both the junior and open class with his fat steer at the Box Elder The state board of education County Fair The youth son of had engaged Walter E Buss as Mr and Mrs Max Anderson of permanent assistant in the geoloBothwell was a member of Bear gy department at Weber College River High School’s FFA Mr Buss had been on the college staff the previous year 878-pou- Ogdci ‘OPM Chicanery’ is deceiving public ing recent paintings by LeRoy Jennings through Tuesday Sept 4 They may be seen weekdays 9 to 5 and Saturday 10 to 4 Remember The date was nearing for the 1 ( space to publicize something newsworthy in our community The Eccles Community Art Center should be supported in their efforts to exhibit local artists not ignored I would like to see this Ol!ro7lhfT Bedroom Dining Sets ALL ON SALE 1 m Wm8kE credit cards on 1 retirement is concerned The Office of Personnel Management keeps two sets of books on the unfunded liability of the civil service retirement system It uses the largest figure to frighten the public into supporting the administration’s political objectives and the smallest figure to calculate the goverment’s interest on the debt The first set of books is autho5 rized by Public Law It uses “dynamic” assumptions that Reaganomics is a failure and that high inflation can never be brought under control that high inflation will dictate large pay d) D Ogden 20 YEARS AGO August 30 1964 tri-Lynd- “Growth of National Debt yond Taming?” rested on tainted evidence insofar as civil service be given to short typewritten S Maybe England this would help solve your vast trouble in Ireland for they couldn’t help feu admire you since Kennedy wa Irish r We may yet here in'th? USA be the scene of some als like the Neuenburg trials i Germany for these old apd I mean old conspirators should b: brought to justice It may ' set a example for the young r i Ms Elsie R ThQmds cy for power Writer wants more support in ‘Art’ section newspaper that couldn’t take a few inches of space' ’to publicize an art exhibit of a painter who it’s-M- Be- rapist-recidivi- st Recently I saw in this newspaper a large photograph of a man who wasn’t working because he was waiting for a truck to bring another load of asphalt The reason why this sticks in my mind is that this photo was in the very ’ death and the humiliation of B Johnson as a conspira- - Your Letters policy " 2 highest bidder! I love my country and wifd never want to be subject to a king or queen but oh how I woul love to see “ Scotland Yard take this on as a challenge receiving no bribes and show the USA Justice Department how it s done they could solve it so fast plain as the nose on your face 7 j It was very interesting to me that the Republican Party chose Dallas Texas for its convention site the city that so many years before had been the scene of the assassination of John F Kenne- dy you notice nothing happened to Reagan! And the fire in the book reposi- tory where Oswald was supposed to have chosen for the fatal shot blarney! They say criminals always re- turn to the scene of their crime: someone or many were worried 6 What happens about the book depository! I have always thought of JFK’s fice full signature Corrections may simply be assisting the parole board in its efforts to return known dangerous recidivists to the streets as soon as possible I for one would rather the prison do a better job of protection or “warehousing” if you will than such a fine job of public and press relations I look forward to a fresh approach to corrections in Utah under the administration of Norm We have a director who sets up the whole program She has help at night and they do the rest of the work What will Mr Carter do? That salary would offset the book fees Some of us have enough trouble putting clothes on our kids for school Then we’re hit with registration fees I know there are others who feel the same as I do How long are we going to let this go on? Most other states I’m familiar with do not have these fees With a $67 million surplus for our state treasury why do we? 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