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Show Page The Utah Independent July 17, 1975 2 'j The Paper That Dares To Take aBaaiiaaiiiiiinmiiiiiiiiiiarMafiaiim ( ISM The Independent READERS OUTLOOK POLICY NOTICE Coordination then says, The bill received the formal support of most state agencies, the GACLA. the Utah Association of Counties, the Utah League of Cities and and twenty-eigof Towns, e counties. (Emphasis twenty-ninin quoted portion added.) Every reader is probably aware that the association of counties and the league of cities and towns are both affiliates of 3 3 Center and thus of Intergovernmental We like to receive Letters To Constitution, Liberty, The Editor. Frequently, however, these letters are much too long for us to use. For this reason, we are adopting the following policy: 1. Letters To The Editor or should be typed (double-spacewritten legibly on one side of an 8!':.l sheet Of paper. 2. We will publish these letters STATE AGENCIES IN INTERregularly as space permits. that fact the We appreciate GOVERNMENTAL PLANsome subjects require more length. NING In such instances they should be by Thomas O. Breitling submitted as News Articles and will be subject to our regular Prior to being diverted to the editorial policies and current Salt Lake City Commission race needs. and to the subject of earthquakes News items Must Be Fully and wells. I had been reviewing a Documented. We want to print book called Intergovernmental ONLY THE TRUTH! Many Planning Coordination: The Utah thanks. Experience. In my last article on we cannot print your that subject I had outlined the Sorry functions of the Governor's requests for funds. Advisory Council on Local U.S. WEAKNESS Affairs, which serves to tie all local governments in Utah into one Dear Editor: package, which can be influenced the governor and his various The Mayaguez incident need by administrators. not have happened had the United States showed its strength, and PLANNING STATE won the war in Vietnam. COMMITTEE ADVISORY We showed our weakness with In addition to GACLA there The our peace with honor. functions in communists have been known are other planning Utah State Government. To quote never to keep such agreements from the book: unless for their own good. We Another link necessary to learn nothing from history, except that we learn nothing. We lost a functional intergovernmental planning coordination is a vehicle big war and won a small one. at the state level to make state Kissinger must go." agency policy compatible with local government planning. This Sincerely. was provided in 1963 in legislation w hich established the office of state Harold A. Shurtleff. Jr. That planning coordinator. Taunton. Mass. 02780 legislation provided also for a LAND USE State Planning Advisory Morality, and Truth Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty I ! Corinthians 3: F d) MI KERSHXERS COMMENTARY By Dr. Howard E. Kershner THE CREATION OF A MYTH A concerted effort is being made to create the impression that the U.S. was defeated in South Vietnam. For instance, in the current issue of UJS. News & World we read this statement: Report (5-12-7- 5) Forces of the U.S., strongest and richest nation on earth, have been driven away by an improverished existence has barely country that in its moved into the industralized twentieth century . . . The truth is that the U.S. was not defeated in South Vietnam. It never even tried to win. Our generals told our government how they could administer a smashing defeat to the communists but they were restrained from so doing, just as MacArthur was restrained from winning a great victory in North Korea. The people of all countries are now being taught to believe that the U.S. is a paper tiger and could not y nation of North Vietnam. defeat the tiny The truth is a false philosophy prevailed in Washington that stalemate, or a policy of containment was preferable to waging a successful war to complete victor)'. If this policy is continued, it will destroy America. No nation can last very long if it does not have the will to win. For the first time in its history, the U.S. has lost a war. It has also lost the admiration formerly accorded to it by its friends and the respect of its enemies. If the American people learn from this humiliating experience never to enter a war unless they are willing to make an attempt to win it, there will be some compensation for the severe losses in life, property, prestige and honor which we have sustained. 30-ye- ar war-wear- all-o- J ut The Independent Utah's Largest and S7 Fastest-Growin- Oakland Avenue g Subscription Weekly Salt Lake City . l.'tah X4II5 Committee Dear Editor The federal government wants to control land use. The regional governments want to control land use. The state governments want to control land use. The count) governments want to control land use. The city governments want to ? control land use. Hut! No one wants to let the person who bought the land, and who must pav taxes to keep the land, have unv control over his own land. Whv? Constitutional!) vours. 1 l Assorted copies older months 2 12 I I than for Sl.00 Subscriptions: USA SI 0.00 per year Foreign S15.00 per year The Name Address I 1 25c each (i. D. Sevelin Peru. Iowa 12 for S2.75 WHAT CAN WE DO? 25 for $5.00 50 for S9.00 100 for SI 7.50 UTAH INDEPENDENT Deal Editor: I " As we journey on in life and sec the things developing more every day to put the American (SPAC) for coordinating the responses of numerous state agencies to both federal and local issues and concerns and for bringing individual state agencies under a common set of priorities and policies as set forth by the governor and the state legislature.. ..The committee serves as the state for review of clearinghouse for federal funds and applications of environmental statements. impact The committee also review s proposed state A most important legislation. committee I unction involves development of a unified state policy or position regarding (I) federal legislation, and regulations: (2) policies, proposed federal programs, guidelines and regulations; and (3) resolution of program conflict among state agencies." Thus, the governor has two vv state ide adv isory bodies which are linked at the local level hv state agency representatives who participate in local A()(i f Associations of Governments) advisory committees. A circle is thus created within which communications flow between and among the various state and local entities. I hrough this process it is possible to determine not onlv when communications are breaking down, but exactlv where a problem occurs. (Emphasis added ) People under bondage and slavery, one cannot understand how come the American people don't rise up and do something about it. It seems to get more popular each day to put on paper what should be done, still so manysav what can we do? Yes. we can all sit by until something happens, then it will be too late to do. We that stay at home unable L I All LAM) LSI. AC I to get out and do very much, on I he book goes on to say that account of our health and financial this planning svstem was used in means, have to watch our Dear Old trving to sell the Utah Land Use Continued on page 3 Planning ht 1 I Stand Act. It points out how quickly this svstem produced a recommended land use planning bill once the machinery was set in motion. Dedicated To The A 1 1 Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR), Citizen's Blue The Ribbon Task Force on Land Use so-call- ed Legislation representatives contained of local government. So as to give us a clear picture of the interlock involved in producing and attempting to sell this bill to the people. . Intergovernmental Planning Coordination says. As is evident, differences were identified and compromised as part of an ongoing process of communication among staff of the AOG DCA. and SPAC. That dialogue caused representatives of local government on the Blue Ribbon Task Force to seek and support positions similar to that created by the coordination system and was instrumental in the development of consistent recommendations to the Blue Ribbon Task Force. Webster's New World Dictionary says that conspiracy is a planning and acting together secretly, especially for an unlawful or " I believe that harmful purpose comes close to describing what these agencies are doing. ARE LEGISLATORS AWARE? Do you suppose all of our legislators are aware of this by program of legislation propaganda? they Undoubtedly are aware of it. but perhaps they do not see it in the same frame of reference as we do; Recently it has been interesting to note that when the governor was unable to get his water control bill passed by using the same techniques, he resorted to doing his own legislating through another of his executive orders. More than anything else, such actions by Governor Rampton should show members of the Legislature that he does not consider them to truly be the lawmaking body of state government, but merely a body to ratify the laws that he offers. democrats III RT THEMSELVES Democrat members of the House and Senate realize that they not only hurt themselves but everyone in the State w hen they act automatically to ratify whatever the governor demands of them. Since they had majorities in both houses, as of July 6. it required a Democrat-Republican coalition to deleat the water control bill during the late June special session. Encourage your legislator to represent the people who elected him rather then the governor or some lederal regional agency. h used to ask God if he would come and help me. Then asked if I might come and help him. Then I ended up by asking God to do his own work through me. I 1 Taylor |