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Show 'i I i Wednesday, October I 1, 1980 Sun Advocate, Price, Utah 7A I f Care needed if facility sold t S ! i' Last week four investors arranged to meet with the Carbon County Commission in hopes of purchasing the Carbon County Nursing Home. The home has provided an extremely effective and economic service to local residents since the early sixties. We wonder if the service and the low patient rate structure could be maintained under commercial ownership. The rate, $36 a day for a patient bed, is among the lowest in the state. The Price Care Center rate runs from $39.25 to $41 .29 a day for a patient. $" 'f Certainly effective commerical management could probably make some inroads in reducing cost (as was the case with the Hospital Corporation of America taking over Carbon Hospital). But there is a question whether some increase in commercial expertise would pay for the profit that investors would expect. According to a KSL-Tinvestigation in nursing home businesses on the Wasatch Front, investors expect anywhere from 12 to 18 percent profit. How the investors intend to keep the same services and reasonable rate structure should be fully explained to the commission when the two groups V meet today. The nursing home represents a substantial investments by the county to provide reasonable and high quality nursing services. The competent staff has been complimented by many former patients and the home has met the rigorous standards of the state. County residents should expect the possible liquidation of this public resource to be handled with the same care Price and Carbon County used in deciding what to do with Carbon Hospital. Police promotions reflect wise choice In many governmental agencies there seems to be a policy to hire management personnel who are from outside the area or outside the department where the hiring is taking place. Many workers are past over time after time despite the innovativeness they bring to their job. This happily does not seem to happen to the Price Police Department. When the city council hired a captain to back up Chief Art Poloni, it was a veteran of 14 years on the force that got the job. Norm Vuksinick. The same was true with the man Norm Vuksinick was replacing, Lt. Robert Tilton. The lieutenant had worked his way through the ranks. During the same council meeting, a Price officer was also promoted to sergeant. It is true that there may be some more educated applicants applying for the positions, but that can not replace the experience these men have. The officers have gotten their education from working and growing up with the county. For instance they generally have gotten respect needed to limit violence during coal strikes because they have had relatives who have worked as miners. In any business there is a need to know the people being served. That knowledge becomes even more important for peace officers who must uphold the, law. Having this knowledge could determine whether friendly persuasion is used or less subtle methods are resorted to in responding to a call. Poloni, the city adminstrators and the council should be praised for seeing the value of this wisdom. a story about a lax purity system at the Three Mile and nuclear power plant was 1980, reatened i with suppression, torneys for Metropolitan Edison, ; utility company responsible for ; operation of the plant, argued court that publication of the iry in a local weekly newspaper iuld cause irreparable harm to tional security. Written by a ung reporter who worked for one nth as a security guard, the iry exposed several weaknesses itneeded immediate correction, dge John C. Dowling permitted blicaton of the story and ruled: Publication is many times I ! 4 But unfortunately, Iraqs President Saddam Hussein has also been staunchly anti -- American. He has called for the political and economic isolation of any Arab nation that cooperates with the United States. In the past, Iraq has had close ties to the Soviet Union. But this, at least, is quietly changing. We have had access to secret intelligence reports which tell what is going on behind the scenes. A top - secret Defense Intelligence Agency report, for example, claims that Iraq is easing away from the Soviet Union and moving closer to Saudi Arabia. The report calls the Saudi - Iraqi inconvenient, disruptive, annoying and damaging, but the experience of our founding fathers, an experience which has been reinforced throughout our history, has supported a view that the press has to be left free to publish the news whatever the source, without censorship, injunction or prior restraint. The Judge referred to the freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment and said, Without an informed press, we cannot have an enlightened citizenry to protect the values of Democratic relationship an evolving alliance, combing Iraqs political stability and military potential with the almost unlimited financial resources of Saudi Arabia. Another document states that the French are providing Iraq with the planes and tanks they no longer are getting from the Soviets. There is one final, ominous note. The top - secret report warns that the Iraqis, with French help, are building a nuclear bomb. Here, there Organized crime has now surpassed the automobile industry as the nations second biggest business. Only the oil industry generates more revenue. The crime syndicates total cash flow is estimated at more than $150 billion. These enormous proceeds are largely unrecorded, untaxed and unregulated. The crime lords usually deal in delivered in briefcases, cash cardboard boxes and grocery sacks. Occasionally, the Justice Department makes a case against a crime boss. But he usually continues to run his criminal operation out of prison; sometimes a subordinate takes his place on the underworld board of directors. Not since the late Robert Kennedy left the Justice Department, however, has there been any real effort to break up the mobs. ( Letters To the Editor: I believe the citizens of Cart County would be greatly surpris and even shocked to learn h State Representative Mi Dmitrich has represented our ai on a vital issue - abortion minors. In 1979 a bill entitled Abort: Restriction for Minors cai before the Utah State House Representatives. It provided tl minors could not have an abort: performed without the consent their parent, legal guardian withot a court order. Most of agree with this bill and would want our daughters to seek abortion without our knowledge approval and yet Mr. Dmitr; i I will not vote for Mr. Dmitrich in view of what I have learned concerning his voting record on this issue as well as other issues like tax limitation. Thank goodness we have an alternative - Bob Trepanier - who has had enough courage to run against the incumbant because he knows we need a better choice. Ill vote for him. 340 Organized crime also couldnt flourish without the support of the public. Most of the mobs profits are skimmed from the pockets of everyday Americans in small transactions bets, $50 an - ounce marijuana purchases, $5 pornography peep - show fees, the quarters dropped in mob controlled vending machines. The criminal tycoons have their hands in everything from peddling drugs and processing bets to operating nursing homes and running church bazaars. It sounds incredible, but lawmen tell us that mobsters even run Las Vegas bingo games and nights for some churches and 50-ce- nt -- -- recreation centers. In New York, for example, law enforcement officials discovered that gaming events for worthy causes were directed by mobsters of the Vito Genovese family. They took a generous cut out of the profits, of course, for their services. The same Vito Genovese family that helps out at church charities also does murdering for hire. A confidential federal crime report states that this family is particularly active in contract killing. They specialize in quiet executions with .22 - caliber revolvers. Political potpourri Sen. Jacob Javits, was a surprising casualty of recent primary elections, and he was so disheartened by his loss that he privately considered dropping out of the race altogether. But friends and old political allies pressured Javits to stay in the Senate contest as the nominee of New Yorks Liberal Party. The 76 - year - old Javits finally gave in and promised to make a fight of it. Sen. Ted Kennedy, showed up for a Jimmy Carter fundraising dinner last week to help the president presented a united front. But weve learned from inside sources that Kennedy had another reason for his appearance. The Carter and Kennedy forces, it seems, have agreed to split the money raised at joint appearances s., fifty-fift- y. Deadly exports Many American companies export products that are banned in the United States. Included among the deadly goods, which are sent primarily to developing nations, are pesticides, flammable clothing, cancer causing drugs and contaminated -- food. Now the federal government has created regulations designed to license hazardous products instead of embargoing them. This means the poor people of the world will still be buying products that are considered too dangerous for American to the Editor voted against it. ABORTION VOTE Your Right To Know Sarly in - The war between Iran and Iraq could affect the welfare of every American. The victor will, in all likelihood, dominate the Persian Gulf, a region which holds more than half of the worlds known oil reserves. U.S. strategists tried to set up the late shah of Iran as the guardian of the Western worlds enormous stake in the Persian Gulf. They armed him to the teeth and flattered him to the ears. But the shah was deposed by Ayatollah Khomeini, who is viciously anti - American. Khomeini has brought Iran to the brink of chaos, and Iraq is seeking to take advantage of the situation by challenging Iran as the dominant power in the region. WASHINGTON Shauna Taylor South 500 East Price, Utah 637-55- WHERES THE RESPECT Today - with, dry eyes I cried. The excitement of the High School parade drew me from my home. The sidewalks lined with eager bright eyed children. Then came the pulse raising sound of the band. I held my breath at the beauty of our flag, borne by the leader of three graceful prancing horses. As I placed my hand upon my heart, standing tall to match the moment, awareness came. I stood in respect alone. Not one child stood, nor in any way acknowledged Old Glory. No teacher, within my range of vision, set an example. How can a child grow to love our country and respect her laws? How will we fill them with patriotism and love of America if we ignore the flag? In the homes and schools of America we must light the spark, fan the fame of patriotism. Lois Elaine Brockbank Price FAIRGROUNDS NEEDED Dear Editor: The planning proposal for a new Utah State Fairgrounds to be constructed north and east of Saltair Beach is very responsible and exciting for the near future. The present fairgrounds site is a nuisance to the residential area around it because of traffic, noise, odors, insects, etc. and it will only become worse, causing a constant irritation. The 55 acres of the Fairgrounds is landlocked for future expansion, plus it is too valuable for such minimal ue by todays standards. Upgrading the facilities is unrealistic in costs, plus Utahns should not accept such a shabby showcase for display of their quality exhibits. If Utah is the Best of the West, (Continued on Page 8A) |
