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Show 6 Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Wednesday, Mar. 1, 1978 editorial letters to the editor A good image for lawmen Union miner criticizes contract talk at the time. Now the time has come to see just how strong we really are. When we first went on strike, the BCOA said we will not negotiate with you we because have enough coal to last, going to get. This would Editor; I fail to see how we be the contract of all could benefit from this contracts. It would be the best contract this latest ) has ever seen union agreement. Before December 6 because we wouldnt all we could talk about settle for less. That was mighty big was what we were (UMW-BCOA- Safety Inspection they didnt realize at the time was that the union was ready and willing to stay out for a year or more until they agreed What Time is Mere! if the window sticker on your car reads to our needs. However, a Demo- cratic president who said he would sup- port the labor work- ers has threatened to intervene because of a national disaster. This not helped our cause for the mere fact that the government is expecting the UMWA to agree to a far worse contract than what we had in 1974. safety ejy inspuud p f on Worrit. a Inspection Station 00500 No. 1051 !!' Von tie. Dinosaur TIRE SERVICE 200 E. Main In President Carter is reluctant to pressure Price the BCOA and help the are, unless we get what we want. The coal companies and oil should he companies cant afford union. Why the support for us to be out forever. jeopardize of his conservative But we can stay out as voters? long as were willing. Weve been out now Coal operators are not willing to give in yet for about 90 days. All because they are being they have offered us is backed up by several something less than large oil companies, what we had before. These particular oil Are you willing to give companies dont want up 90 days for less? Not coal as a national me, Ill fight first. When we first went resource because it on strike the BCOA said would affect them. There is an Energy money wasnt a factor. Bill in Congress now. If What happened to the it is passed, it would $114.00 a day they grant Federal money to consented too? It was energy suppliers. If, by cut down to $84.52 a day means of long term at the end of 3 years. First the BCOA strikes, the oil com-ha- s to fine the wanted coal can prove panies as an unstable fuel, strikers, they didnt they would receive want to pay the most of this money for medical costs, and they lesser a wanted development, Thats why we retirement fund. Up to date the BCOA shouldnt work, no the matter what dropped the fines and the penalties. and companies consents cutback However they also cut governments our medical benefits and retirement. The BCOA can be bent, its just a matter of time. because he has already lost the support of one large labor UMWA I gripes of the 1974 contract, along with the goals and promises we were going to strive for this contract. What happened to the $114.00 a day wages? What happened to the full nocut medical? Wheres the Dental and Optical plans? What happened to the substantial raises for our pensioners? I believe it was sold out, from President Carter on down to our own Council. Bargaining EflQEDMjjlEMCy MhIncaI T ecDundcdan Class (E UMWA Member Dean Julian Local No. 6363 cancer in their sights. Penrod held fire and ordered the man four times to drop the gun. The officer resisted the strong perhaps justifiable impulse to protect himself by shooting the man. Again, professionalism and respect paid off with a nonviolent arrest. In these days when television and movies portray police at war with lawbreakers, it is heartening to see that is much reality at least in our area different. The difference lies in the long standing philosophy of the county's law enforcement community and it shows most dramatically when the chips are down. The philosophy is that the function of the police is not necessarily to eliminate the criminal, but to protect and to serve the entire community. advocates slated is a nowhere. Im telling Exactly. A nuclear economic you, Serf, its colossal melt down would only Duckbander cancer Cervical drunken genius who routinely for takes at potshots Emery-Carbothe government planners area will be held each and their partners, the Wednesday throughout electric companies. the month of March. Theyre all bush The clinics will be league when it comes to held at the finding power plant Utah sites, he declared the Southeastern Health District Offices other night. They in Price. Included in should drink more beer the screening clinics before they go around will be a pap smear, drawing circles and blood arrows on the map. pressure measurement and To prove his point, he examination. grabbed a can of his breast Sponsored by the favorite, pulled off the health district at no tab and took a long charge, the clinics are swallow. Then he set up for women over opened his Utah road 20 or under 20 but map and put the tab married, who have not smack dab on Green had a pap smear within River. the past year. This is a nuclear An appointment at power plant, he the health district stated. Right out here, offices can be made by three inches below calling Price, in the middle of screening devi! by john serfustini clinics clinics n 637-367- 1. to stupidity megawatts generate kill the population of the Green River. Thats from melon patch. But Duckbander, said, The only about have a good case for it there. They need the juice to ser- vice all that demand in the big cities. And Green River is right close to uranium and really isolated from the plant had a little cident? It ANd CONTINUE ThROUqli stop Right again, Duckbander said, pulling another tab. And the people here the tab on Salt (putting major Lake areas. City) would have Youve just made a blackout. And power my point, he mum- plants all along the line like fall bled as he crushed the would as dominoes idiots The can. they empty are isolating the plant strained to make up the from the big cities its power deficit in Salt got to supply. Thats Lake, What you would bad economics. Why do is an interruption have think you theyre trying in supply without a to isolate the plant? deWell, if theres ever corresponding an accident, it wont crease in demand. kill too many people. . Reduced prices on individual head purchases Reduced prices by the case lot Reduced prices with turn-i- n of used brass heads '78 would generating. metropolitan Rainbird Sprinkler Heads IFA Case Lot Sale CIasses people. 1,000 I But you know what else utilities would happen if the IF IFA SELLS IT - YOU CAN DEPEND ON IT Department of CEU May b, Cervical another Well, SpoNsoREd by The Mirdivq start the remember Twice in one month, Price police officers have drawn their guns in the line of duty. Both times, guns were holstered and suspects arrested without a shot. This is a credit to the professionalism of the officers involved and to department policy which shapes this attitude. B.R. In the first instance, officer a Bryner had cornered burglary suspect in a dark basement. The dark shadows gave the suspect an edge, and this knowledge could have produced a nervous quickness to the trigger finger. But the risk Bryner took by not shooting paid off with arrest of an unarmed man. Larry Penrod also had a suspect cornered. But this time the man was armed and had already been chased for firing shots. In the darkness of Horse Canyon, Penrod and the suspect had one what are you I asked suggesting? him. He pulled another tab and put it on the east shore of the Great Salt Put Lake. nuclear your plant here, right next to the biggest demand area. But Duckbander, theres almost a million people living around there. mishap nuclear A would wipe them out. EAch Now June 18, '78 SaturcJay ANd SuNdAy Only 40 applications accepted! They'll go fast! Were not taking about OR Model 30 Double Nozzle - " base Individually Reg. $6.15 Sale Price $5.75 ea. Case Lot (30 heads) Sale Price $5.35 ea. Per Case $160.50 With turn-in- s $153.00 MiNiNq Ext. 511 657-212- 0 Model 30 base Single Nozzle ea. Sale Price $5.50 $5.90 Individually Reg. Case Lot $5 0 ea. $153.00 per case With turn-in- s $145.50 per case WS-TN- ApplicATiON DEAdliNE Must Iiave two Passport To down? 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Pictures submiTTcd wBiasfeieii&gOiti T 1 MarcIi 17, 1978 you Discounts of 25t on each brass head turned in toward the purchase of an equal number of new heads. picked up AT TllE AdlVtiNisTRATioN officE or tIie MiNiNq Department DIrector of talking about jobs. Do ALLOWANCE MAy l)E Were economics. TRADE-- IN AppliCATiONS EdEN, were lives, talking about corporate Miners have first consideration caII Kent youre getting the point, he replied, crushing his beer can. When the plant goes, it takes the consumers along with it. That way you dont have a power shortage and the accident isnt too costly. A million lives isnt costly? Provo 373-768- 0 1 Richfield Riverton 254 3501 2 Roosevelt Sallna 529 3931 SI. George 1 2 Salt Lake City Soda Springe (208) 547 3056 Spanish Fork 798 7418 Tremonlon Sprinkler Irrigation 529-748- I Quite a few, answered. Right. But if the plant was in Salt Lake and it blew up, nobody would be out of work because everybody would be dead. Your rate unemployment would remain fected and marginal unaf- your cost-margin- al revenue curve wouldnt change. Also, the company wouldnt have to buy surplus power from out of state to make up for tlie broken plant. must admit, economic argument makes much more sense than the romantic drivel of the environmentalists. All the eco freaks care about are collared lizards and the quality I Duck-bande- rs of life. But Duckbander talks in terms of jobs and dollars, things everybody can un- derstand. If theyve had enough beer. |