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Show The Paper That Dares To Take IS UNIFICATION FOR ANSWER A Stand September 15, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 3 IN PERSPECTIVE NO SAIT Sen. James A. McClure COUNTY LAKE TAXPAYERS of The takes too vacations. That statement Utah for comments on a recent assertion in an editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune for August 27. Referring to citizen reaction when they received special garbage billings Salt Lake many Congress Independents favorite people sent the Editor a note recently asking from By (R-I- D) You often hear people say that By Thomas 0. Breitling One PRO - LIFE County government, the Tribune said: Rather than send irate notes, county residents should resolve to get behind another move for government unification. Thats the best opportunity for bringing public costs under control. Such a statement begs the question. It is an unproved assertion. HOW ABOUT FUNCTIONAL CONSOLIDATION Some consolidationists feel that half a loaf is better than none, and if they can only get all of the police power in Salt Lake County under one appointed head they are willing to settle with that for awhile. What about this idea? Is it the way to go as regards police? We have no absolute proof one way or the other, but we do have a case history from a nearby city. Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas consolidated police with Clark County, Nevada in 1973. By 1974 the increase in total combined costs of the two forces had increased (in one year) by 25, with a total dollar increase of Thats right. The Deseret News reported on September 16, 1974 that in 1973 the combined cost of the two forces was and in 1974 the cost of the was unified department WHAT ARE THE FACTS? Rather than our making a lets look mere counter-assertio- n, at the facts. Fact No. 1: Any unification" charter for Salt Lake County and City, which receives the support of The Salt Lake Tribune, will contain the General Power Grant' which arrogates power from the people to the government. Fact No. 2: unified or Consolidated county-cit- y governments in diverse parts of the nation have all had higher per capita rates ofgrowth in direct general expenditure and IS THERE ANY HOPE? Lake County taxes than has Salt At this point the disillusioned Increase follows: as and City taxpayer might ask, Is there any (1967-197Taxes Expend iturehope for us?m That should be City 68 20 Lake Salt City a) answered in at least two ways. 109 57 b) Indianapolis pirst of all, taxpayers in Salt Lake 51 139 c) Minneapolis County (and all cities in the coun-7- 7 41 Nashville d) ty) are better off than in any of the Jacksonville 29 89 c) other cities evaluated in this article. . Secondly we could possibly all be the between difference The somewhat better off if zero-basgrowth in expenditure as combudgeting were used by all Salt Lake County governments and if pared to taxes is caused by large increases in State and Federal Grants all such governments elected ofand the introduction of General ficials were rated by voters on their Revenue Sharing. rather than on how many new, costly things the Fact No. 3: government provided for them that A strong Mayor" city, Tucthey didnt ask for. Now is the time for you to be son, Arizona is about as bad as Minneapolis, as follows: seriously thinking about who you Tucson want in elected positions in Salt 60 Lake County government, Salt 129 Lake City, and the other eight cities in the County. Remember! Every NOTE: All of the statistics used registered voter in Salt Lake Counabove have come either from the ty, even if you live in a city, votes on Statistical Abstract of The United County officials in the even States or from Urban Affairs numbered years. And city officials are up for election this fall, 1977. Quarterly. 54-milli- on. 516-milli- 0) ed . ...to improve human relations with all men everywhere, we must begin on our knees. -- J. C. Penney FOR SALQ NEW CHANNELS ANGLES, FLATS, and SQUARE TUBING Also USED PIPE and FIAT I WASATCH METAL & SALVAGE 205 Wost J3rd South SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH PHONE BUYERS OF SCRAP IRON AND METAL 484-351- 1 on, is Connie M. Pratt Vacations really over for the House and Senate conferees who must agree on wording to prohibit federal funding of abortion. Before the recess, the House voted to fund abortions only when the life of the mother would be endangered if the baby were carried to term. The Senate, swayed by abortionist rhetoric, voted to fund almost all abortions, including Similarly, there are no known psychiatric diseases which can be cured by abortion and none which can be predictably improved by it. wrong on two counts. First, what A Standard textbook on Congress does is provide for ocpsychiatry says pregnancy does not casional weeks throughout the year adversely influence the course of when Members can plan on getting schizophrenia, manic depression back home to work on official or the majority of psychoneuroses. business that can only be con(Incidentally, those for whom " ducted there such as the recent abortion is considered justified on hearing in Grangeville on Gospel-Hum- p. those which are medically neces- psychiatric grounds are the very ones who run the greatest risk of sary. Second, and most important, We need to tell people that the n mental disorders.) is the fact that talking to the folks as is, Does pregnancy ever really outside of Washington puts things phrase medically necessary the chairman of the House threaten a womans life? Yes, in an back in their proper perspective. conferees says, a loophole you ectopic pregnancy (when the child Traveling around Idaho, chatting could drive a truck through. We implants outside the womb) and in with old friends. Ive learned that need to teach them that a cancerous uterus. But in neither the people, at least those in the abortion is a myth instance is the procedure needed to Gem State, dont always see eye to therapeutic manufactured to make the killing save the womans life a bona fide eye with what is going on in of preborn children palatable to abortion: in the first, the surgeon Washington. the public. merely removes the already-dea- d Take Panama Canal, for Gone are the days when child and repairs the ruptured instance. Before I left Washington, toxemia, high blood pressure, fallopian tube; in the second, he I got the impression that although diabetes, tuberculosis, rheumatic removes the diseased uterus and a lot of people oppose the treaty, fever and epilepsy were irreversible does all he can to save the baby. most folks dont really care all that death sentences for the preborn. In light of all this, its easy to much, and if the President says it is Past is the period when women see why Dr. R. J. Heffernan blunneeded, eventually most suffering from kidney, heart, lung tly states, Anyone who performs a Americans will fall in line. diseases. ..or nerve or malignan- therapeutic abortion today is either That just isnt true. I dont cies... were practically forbidden to ignorant of modern methods of know when I have encountered the give birth. treating the complications of depth of feelings over a national isThere are now no automatic pregnancy or is unwilling to take sue that I have over this one. And it indications for the time to use them. physical-healt- h isnt just coming from the rightleaders abortion. Even anti-lif- e Remind yuour legislators of wingers. Ive heard it from liberals, like the late Dr. Alan Guttmacher Heffernans moderates. diagnosis.. .and of the Republicans, say almost any woman can be from folks who the and fact that Democrats, Supreme Court's alive pregnancy through brought maternal-healt- h never cared enough about loophole now unless she suffers from a fatal allows a woman to have a government to register and vote. illness (and then, abortion will In the last couple of months, Ive medically necessary abortion if much less save unlikely prolong, had letters from at least 2,000 her baby distresses her by disrupher life). Dr. Kenneth Niswander, her vacation, her career, or her Idahoans on this issue and only even ting another says four favored a new treaty. with malignancies known to be endo- personal plans. Those public figures who supcrine-dependent, such as cancer Tell them well accept a the are to resorting port treaty is survival clause in abortion of the breast, maternal scare tactics to win approval. unaffected by abortion. legislation...but nothing else! Former Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, said that failure to ratify the treaty will lead to another VietIt will take three years of nam . Others have implied that the normal winter snowfall to bring Panamanians themselves might our water supplies up to normal. destroy the Canal. What utter .Conserve water, its a matter of do nonsense! Are we to believe that or dry. the Canal is less subject to sabotage under the tiny Panamanian government than it is our own? Our current water supplies ABORTION Are we to believe that foreign will not begin to be replenished un- M YOlJNtt TD Ult! governments would be less likely to til next if then. Conserve spring, a if the it over of take Canal attempt water, its a matter of do or dry. is controlled by the Panamanian Republic than by our own? Are Communists less likely to commit aggression against a Republic of BUY AND DISTRIBUTE EXTRA COPIES OF Panama which controls the Canal THE UTAH INDEPENDENT than one which doesnt? Would the Panamanians cut their own throats 25C each by harming the Canal, since income from the Canal is the major 12 for $2.75 1 Dozen assorted copies source of income there? To each 25 for $5.00 older than 2 months $1.00 question, the answer is quite ob50 for $9.00 viously, No." 100 for $17.50 Lets not foiget that in the event the treaty is rejected, the Price includes postage and handling. present situation, which is quite lucrative for the Panamanians, will ISSUE DESIRED continue. i ; But the people of Idaho seem NAME to understand all of this, even if the State Department doesnt. How ADDRESS refreshing it is to be back h ere in the real world! 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