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Show Editorial Pago Thursday. January 2.1, 1973 urn COMES STANDARD i UINTAH BASIN Standard V A coiwolldatlon of thn Roonrvrlt Second Class Pontage Paid C&ATVfc AHGTkCK and Uintah Bunin Kerord at Roosevelt,' Utah H4066 . - MOfifl - P. O. BOX IMH PUBLISHED THURSDAY AT ROOSEVELT, UTAH Paid In Advimce Two Years. 8.50 Subscription Rates: One Year. 3.00 ANnprBI.IsnKU SXESf II D NFvX CORRESPONDENTS Ln point Montwcl Norma Earl Rosebcll Ames Myton Neola W Horror.ks Randlctt Tdlntha Rasmussen Tnbiona Carda Scc,py Tridoll Mrs. Judy Cole Utahn Roberts Tracy Verna Hoopes Whiterocks Veda Labrum Arcadia Ballard Bluebell Fort Duchesne Hanna were well Salt Lake the Rand-let- t the Tribal bus. They were chaperoned by Gloria Alioin Myore, end Maxine Sera-woAlso attending the pow wow were the Clifford Duncan family, the Hank Harden family, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Red-foo- t, Ruth Quinn, Joe Pinnecoose, and the White River Singers. e Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Parriette and daughters were called to Poplar, Mont, 's last week due to the death of Mrs. Bear. Eva Mrs. Eagle mother, Tragedy struck at a snowmobiling In spite of enow, the Utes represented at a pow wow in Saturday. Mike Saylers drove Teen Club to the event in EDITOR GLARIN D, ARIIBY, Roosevelt MRS. RAY WARDUB KEITH FREDRICKSON Roosevelt Area Duchesne Area Altamont Area Ethel Taylor Noln Nelson Louise Fauselt JoAnn Bastian Afton Rogers Connie The Utah State Legislature is presently considering the passage of some form of No Fault" auto insurance to help uncomplicate some of the falicies in the present system. Although we agree that some change is needed, we feel strongly that due caution must be taken by lawmakers in order to be sure the new law which would be designed to save us, does not lead to our destruction. There are some legitimate questions concerning any no fault" law. Among others, these questions include, Will it cost Will it tend, to discrimore? minate against the good driver?" Will it actually eliminate the cost of courts and lawyers?" To perhaps offer some light on the subject, the following parady was submitted to us by the Utah Trial Lawyers Assn., in an effort to show the other side of the The article, written by Eicture. Boyd of the Providence, R. I., Journal-Bulleticontains some and reabut makes fantasies, good ding: No fault car insurance is going to be an issue in Rhoade Island ' after the first of the year, so as a Massachusetts resident who has lived with no fault for a while I'd like to give you Rhode Islanders a few facts about it. You may then judge for yourselves. First some definitions. Its called no fault because no matter whom you go to complain, your agent, your insurance company, your state representative who voted for it, anybody, the answer is always the same, It's n, Lee over-simplificatio- ns above-mentione- d, no-fau- lt the insurance commissioner made them give back some of the WANTED! deductible although I was an innocent victim, but the end was not in sight. Several months later, a brand-necar, less than 250 miles on it in fact, and I was driving along when I looked up to see a wheel from another car bearing down on me at something like 98 miles per hour. Hit me right in the grill. Damage, $225. The adjustor said the claim would come under my comprehensive coverage which covers things like acts of God and falling objects, meaning I wouldnt have to pay the deductible, but when the check came it was for $125. If the woman (it was a woman driver of course) who lost the wheel had thrown it at my car deliberately, my agent explained, the company would pay the full but since it was an accident I would have to pay the de- w 35 people for: Power Sewing Machine Operators and Sewing Personnel: inspectors, Trimmers, Packagers, CONGRESS, PEOPLE SHARE TASK Anti-inflati- at the wheel. . HELP! HELP! Take what happened to me. I was driving along one day exercising my normal care and practicing defensive driving as I always have when I approached an intersection where a car was waiting at a stop sign to enter the road I was on. A woman was right rear door. I carry $100 deductible, so it It's called insurance because it cost me just that, $100. Under is written so that no matter what regular car insurance, I could happens short of every car in the have stuck the woman for the state getting involved in a mas- hundred because she hit me. sive demolition derby the comAll right, so it's cost me $254 is insured for insurance plus $100 under the pany against losing money, and if the but hardly likely, demolition derby did happen the companies would immediately apply for a rate increase that would more than make up for the losses. Its advantages are, as given to us when it was first proposed, lower cost, more speedy settlement of claims and the abolishment of lawyer and court fees. Well, it turned out when they said lower costs they didn't quite mean it would cost us less, what they meant was that it would cost us more, but not as much more as it would cost if we didn't have insurance. Thats not the same thing by any means. When the state found that the insurance companies had profited extravagantly from no fault, head-to-hea- so much. no fault of mine." nine-mont- Vietnam. Mr. and Mrs. Lon Logan motored to Salt Lake over the weekend on personal business. Doug Brotherson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Brotherson was in Salt Lake the end of last week and Monday of this week undergoing tests at Primary Children's hospital. Mrs. Brotherson accompanied him last week and his father drove him to Salt Lake Monday morning. In Phoenix, Arix., the early part of the week to attend an irrigation meeting were Jack Nielson, Irrigation Engineer, and Mack Cole, Land Operations Officer. Home from Hawaii to attend his brother's wedding is Larry Cesipooch, son of Mr and Mrs. Homey Secakuku. Larry, who is serving with the U.S. Navy, is home for the wedding of Ferron Secakuku and Sandy Pike. restraints within a year. It is fair to observe that the Administration carried out its Phase II program with a minimum of bureaucratic interference with our d economic machinery. A few encounters on wage and price decisions in bellwether industries served to make the program credible and inspire what was largely voluntary compliance. profits. From a premium of $254 I got back eight bucks. Eight bucks out of $254. Wowl The year before no fault went in, my premium was $236. As for abolishing legal fees, well, a quick and probably incomplete survey of lawyers I know finds none who had to sell off one of their Caddies or Continentals last year. A no fault policy is a simple document. It provides that no matter how an accident happens its going to cost you, the policy holder, money, and that's why no fault speeds claim payments. The company doesn't have to pay out But this time, secure in the knowledge that even a woman wouldnt run through a stop sign to hit me, I drove on unconcerned. I should have been concerned. She waited until just the right moment (I'm not sure of this, but I think I heard a cry of triumph as she did it), plunged ahead and tried to drive her car through my Steven Streitz is spending a five-da- y leave from the U. S. Navy at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Streitz. Steve is stationed on board the U.S.S. Gray which is docked ln San Diego after a h tour of duty off the coast of Par-riette- Lorna McKee Norma Robb Now one of the reasons I have reached middle age virtually unscarred and with all my parts intact and operable is that I have made it a practice to take evasive action whenever a woman driver comes over the horizon. week. p. insurance questions no-fau- lt event in Jackson, Wyo., last weekend. Frank Arrowchis, Ute Trails and Rivers manager, was involved in a snowmobile accident during which he incurred fractures in both arms, both legs and four ribs. Frank is hospitalised at St. John'a in Jackson but reports say he will be transferred to Salt Lake hospital early next C03? OBSaEJB tyj' FU ' battle shifts on President Nixon's decision to remove almost all wage and price controls from the American economy is by no means based on evidence that we are wholly out of the woods in the fight against inflation. The rapid rate of economic growth which the President noted in his message to Congress could generate a new surge of inflation if the lifting of Phase II controls is misinterpreted. True, the rate of inflation has been cut nearly in half during Mr. Nixon's first term in office, which saw first a e freeze and then the system of restraints that now is being phased out. What the President is telling us now is that he is willing to leave future price and wage stability to the "will and wisdom" of Congress and the American people, with the executive branch of government retiring to the sidelines as a watchful referee. For industry and labor, that means profiting from the experience of the 1960s which showed that wage settlements exceeding gains in productivity and thus demanding price increases in the end are for the American worker. For Congress, it means that the free and easy days of giving no mind to the inflationary impact of deficits in the federal budget are over. Mr. Nixon has faith in his program, but he is hedging his bets. wage-pric- Non-Pow- er While dismantling the Pay Bo d, Price Commission, Rent Advir Board and some other Phase II chinery, he will keep the Cost of ing Council on the job in what wile largely a passive role unless it tccts "action that would be incon: tent with our goals.' n other words, wage and price slra ini will be voluntary up t( i Pressers Minimum guaranteed salary $1.60 per hour can make up to $3.00 per hour. anti-inflati- and Hours Flexible: Either 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., or, either 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m -- point. The President also has chosen i maintain direct controls on wag and prices in food processing and i tailing, in the health services indu try and in construction. Howeve e his request for only a tension of the controls authorii which expires April 30 indicates believes those areas of the econo can be cut loose from governme one-ye- . . . CAR POOLS FROM WEST SIDE! Will use any age over 18. APPLY: Utah State Department of Employment Security 780 West Main Street . Vernal, Utah 1 3 (Roosevelt) (Vernal) or Telephone: ar 722-228- 789-121- Facilities an) Personnel to Better serve You! self-defeati- ductible. I was an innocent victim again. So now my no fault has cost me $454, minus that $8 return, plus the postage on several bitter letters I have written to the insurance company. You know what the insurance company told me? They said it's no fault of their's, it's the law. TheUIntah Basins Complete Shop! 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