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Show 4A Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Wednesday, May 21, 1980 Racial dispute eases in town recent months, a ritt has grown between the East Carbon City Administration and many Hispanic persons living in that city. The difficulties have been witnessed in verbal clashes and allegationsot police brutality. Thirteen Chicanos and one Black, represented by Utah Legal Services, threatened to file a suitagainst the city if certain concessions were not made. The concessions included firing one officer and payment of damages to several persons. Friday, representatives of the city, the Hispanics and mediation agencies met to search out solutions to the problem. The negotiations call for the formation of a committee to hear future complaints. Police force members will also receive training in dealing with minority groups. We applaud this cooperative effort on the part of the city administration and the Hispanic people. With the Friday negotiations, we hope the channels for communication have been opened that will allow the rapid solution to problems rather than continual struggling. We also recognize the importance of accurate reporting on the part of the news media as a factor in the negotiations. Following Friday's meeting, two Salt Lake news agencies reported East Carbon City had agreed to pay up to $1 million in an out of court settlement. The incorrect data was a setback in the negotiations. City officials felt the publicity put a guilty label on the police department when it was unjustified. Mayor Joe Shoemaker said the continued release of such information could force law suits in order to clear the police department. We encourage care on the part of both news agencies and news sources in order to facilitate the elimination of the difficulties in East Carbon. In Bad example set When the federal bureaucrats call on us to conserve energy, you would think that they would be a shining example. However, the federal government is acting like a energy drunkard in Washington and a conserving puritan in Utah. Throughout the state these bureaucrats, as required by Congress, have demanded a reduction in oil consumption. If gas stations sell more than their allotment for a given month, station owners must lock their pumps until the next monthly allotment. to Jack Martin of Senator Orrin Hatch's office, this caused the community of Leeds to be without a gas station. This required Leeds' residents in April to drive 36 miles roundtrip to the nearest gas station in St. George for But the bureaucrats' job regulating themselves has been totally lacking, despite a Congressional mandate that the federal government be on the According (R-Uta- fill-up- s. conservation forefront. Common Cause, a lobbying organization, filed a lawsuit last month against the President, the and the Federal Procurement Policy for their failure to comply with explicit statutory requirements to implement conservation measures for federal agencies. Federal agencies certainly need the regulation. While businesses and homeowners are reducing energy usage, the ten largest federal agencies have increased their energy usage. The federal lackadaisicalness seems to be another example of the "do what we say, not what we do" rhetoric coming from some of our Washington guardians. Department of Energy Copley News Service LETTERS to the Editor ITS TIME WE DID Dear Editor: We, as the physiology class at Emery High, would like to respond to the letter that was published in your last edition concerning the issues and topics covered in our class. We would like to express our feelings and point of view on this subject. A physiology class is provided by a school as a study of the body and its functions. Sex is a physiological process of the body and we feel that if we havent learned about it by the time we reach high school its about time we did. Some of the topics cause embarrassment with the parents and we felt more comfortable discussing these concepts in the classroom. Its natural that sex would be taught in this class and that fact should have been considered before a student entered the class. We would like to tell you what we have learned on this subject in connection with this class. We were taught about abortion, birth control, diseases and functions of the male and female organs. We were taught basic principles of sex and things that we should know. We would like to thank our teacher for teaching us these things. We feel it is better to learn them here than to wait until it is too late to be taught by our parents, or hear myths on the streets. Our teacher stated many times that he didnt mean to embarrass anyone or take sides on any controversial issues. We feel it is very unfair of the parent who wrote the letter in the last issue of the paper to accuse him of doing otherwise without knowing the facts. We need to clear this teachers name, because we feel he is a good person and a good teacher. We dont want anyone to think otherwise. Physiology Class Emery High School unavailable. themselves call guts to teach your children the Esther Trease facts about sex. Todays world is a complex and And they Pro - Life. Scofield THANKS Editor: Thank you Sun Advocate for presenting The Jazz Ambassadors in concert. Editor: From the opening with our In true but a sad This is story. the nineteen - fifties a sweet and National Anthem to the toe tapping beautiful young girl was attending tunes of the big bands of yester a small college in Utah. Although year, to country western selections she was only eighteen, she was in made popular by Kenny Rogers, to the last quarter of her sophomore swinging In The Mood and the year, and she had been on the rousing finale of John Phillips Sousas music The United States honor roll every quarter. She was also a talented and Army Field Band played beautiful accomplished musician. To the music. Who enjoys Jazz? Glancing girls in her dorm she was helpful and kind, and a good friend. through the audience I saw many Carbon High Students, CEU Although she was very inshe young families, senior had been athletes, rather telligent, sheltered and she was somewhat citizens, and those in between. The spontaneous applause told naive about the ways of the world. An unscrupulous young man, you everyone was enjoying the with promises to love, cherish, and selections. A beautiful warm evening, marry her, conned her into going all the way, as we said in those plenty of parking space, comfortable seating, a wear - what days. Soon she discovered, to her you - want - to affair and it was horror, that she was pregnant. He absolutely free to the people of had told her that could not happen. Carbon County. The band should The young man disclaimed any have been playing to a standing responsibility and coldly told her room only crowd. To everyone who complains, he did not want to see her again. In desperation, she used a there is nothing to go to in the crochet hook to attempt an county or everything is too costly, abortion. She bled to death. you missed a wonderful experience This senseless tragedy did not by staying home. I do hope Price will remain on have to happen. A quick, clean, and safe medical abortion could the list of Utah Cities for future have been performed, if it had tours by this great band. Jan Oliveto been legal. The whole situation Price could have been averted by birth control information if it had been TEACHERS APPLAUDED available. Some groups in this state want to Dear Editor, This is a reply to Pat Farnsworth return to the way things were in the fifties. They want to make all and the parents of Emery County. abortion illegal. They want all I say count your lucky stars that birth control information made you have a teacher that has the SAD, BUT TRUE -- --s tfrvtZL confusing world to all of us and being open with each other and learning to cope with the problems of today, including sex education and teenage pregnancy, are problems we all must deal with. Unfortunately, most parents are not able to sit down and talk with their children about sex, sexual responsibility, birth control and also all the ramifications of sexual activity and teenage pregnancy. Yes, it is our right and obligation to teach our children high morals and responsible living. However, it is also the right and responsibility of our churches, and yes, definitely, schools, to teach our children the Facts of Life. It is ignorance that is causing teenage pregnancy to skyrocket, it is the ever present presence of sex in movies, television and music, that is encouraging the youth of today to experiment with sex more than ever. It is only through proper education that we are going to be able to turn the tables on the in- creasing rates of teenage pregnancy and venereal disease. Its time to wake up in Utah and face the facts, that we have a teenage pregnancy rate higher than the nation. That nearly two thirds of all teenage brides in Utah are pregnant at the alter, and that all babies born out - of - wedlock are not fortunate enough to be wanted and loved by their parents. Sex education is necessary in our schools and its time we come out of the dark ages and see that our children are lucky enough to learn the facts of life! I applaud all teachers that are willing to help give our children a proper sex education. J.L. Bench Helper, Utah Washington Watchdog by bill hendrlx After endorsement from the White House and the stamp of approval from the Ad- Environmental Protection Agency, Russian cars will soon be sold in the ministrations United States. The wonder car of communism, the Lada, will be marketed by Satra Corporation from a plant in the Presidents home state at Savannah, Georgia. The 76 - horsepower subcompact has a French Fiat body and millions of dollars in U.S. technology under the hood. The money was spent over a period of three years. U.S. technicians exchanged technical skill and provided testing to make the Russian car acceptable to American fuel efficiency demands and EPA inspired environmental requirements. Total retail price for the Russian built car will be about $4500, right in the middle range of U.S. built subcompacts that are struggling for acceptance in the American market. This inconsistency in our policy with Russia creates a difficult dilemma for those who are supporting the Presidents boycott of the Russian Olympic Games, who decry the invasion of Afghanistan. Confusion seems the order of the day as the White House demands compliance by American athletes and the U.S Olympic Committee in its Olympic boycott, while on the side making deals to strengthen the Russian econony. It is even harder to understand in the homes of California, Ohio, and Michigan auto workers who have lost their jobs because of foreign auto imports. The Russian trade ban does not effect Russian imports into the United States. American firms are the ones restricted from exporting to the U.S.S.R. Russian businesses, on the other hand, are now very reluctant to deal with U.S. firms because of the instability of U.S., U.S.S.R. relations. As a result it is our own economy, not the Russians, which is hurt by the embargo. And then, to add insult to injury, our government agrees and bankrolls the importation of Russian cars. |