Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thunday June 28 Not a Dry Eye in the House 1973 Editorial Time To Limit The Monopsony "QUALITY OF LIFE" ranking for the various states in the recently has been compiled Nine basic indicators are considered California ranks first Utah is eighth Arizona eleventh and Idaho twenty-seventIt leads Don Oakley to muse : “Nothing may be finer than to be in Carolina especially in the morning “Oklahoma where the wind comes whistling across the plain may be an experiencethe heart may yearn for its old Kentucky homeGeorgia may be on the mindone’s dying request may be for carriage back to old Virginnybut on balance all things considered when it's a matter of QOL it's California here we by Colorado Connecticut Washington Oregon and A USA In economics “monopoly" is the term that describes the domination of a market by a single seller “Monopsony" is the term that describes the domination of a market by a single buyer The latter is of more than merely academic interest to economic theorists According to a recently released study the federal government has acquired the characteristics of a monopsony as a buyer of goods and services in at least one field and is on the way to monopsony in others The study— “Monopsony: A Fundamental Problem in Government Procurement"— was commissioned by the Aerospace Industries Assn which represents the major manufacturers of the nation’s aircraft spacecraft missiles and related components The study warns that the problems presented an single buyer are no longer restricted to defense and space suppliers Government agencies are taking an increasingly active role in such areas as mass transit education health and environmental h come-follo- THOSE SIX STATES alone of the 50 can claim to have an excellent over-a- ll of life"— at least as measured in a study just released by the Midwest Research Institute of Kansas City Mo At a time of great technological advancement and growth in material wealth and emphasis on Gross National Product (the monetary value of the nation's production of goods and services) the question of the quality of life in these United States as distinguished from its quantity is becoming of increasing concern 0 THE PURPOSE OF THE MRI study- -a refined and updated version of an earlier one by the institute— is to develop a systematic methodology for assessing social economic political and environmental indicators to reflect the overall “health" of the nation g and its citizens' QOI-"Qu- protection The significance of this trend the study points out is apparent from the fact that federal government purchases now constitute nearly 10 per cent of the gross national product The annual increase in these kinds of government expenditures over the last decade (adjusted for inflation) has been nearly 3 per cent Many forecasts project increases of 24 per cent or more in the current decade “One of the unique and distressing aspects of the process by which government acquires major (production) systems" the study says “is that all too often all of the parties involved are unhappy with the results" Technical failures slippages cost overruns excessive regulation and politics have become all too commonplace in the management of public resources It has been suggested that Congress establish an independent regulatory board to monitor and limit government’s monopsony power much as the Justice division limits the use of Department’s anti-truin monopoly power industry has come to try to balance the the time Perhaps economic power of big government in our country's traditional free market st Wet Substrutu Nuvy Reunion Dear Editor: Dear Editor: We are trying to contact all exof Among all the ungodly acts man none is more stupid than crew members of the Navy the current inundation of the Transport USS Wharton AP-- 7 environs of Rainbow Natural An association has been forBridge National Monument med with the object of a national The Time-lif-e book entitled reunion in 1974 “The Grand Canyon" says “The Interested members please Glen Canyon Dam is regarded contact me with loathing by conservationist George H Howlett groups and individuals— it has 110 Central Ave created a huge reservoir lake Malden Mass 02141 Powell which has flooded one of the lovliest pacts of wilderness in North America" Letter I’oliev The dam builders not only want to flood out Bridge Creek (Thu Letters la the Editor Ravine next to the Great Arch column is intended at a public lorum where Herald Journal but they also want and intend to readers may retister their ruin numerous other opinions on issues ot interest in the The newspaper community the same by process welcomes letters but certain are necessary Letters About the most blind guidelines should generally be 1M words or assumption set forth in the less and the editor reserves the to edit for length No letter controversy is that the ap- right will bo printed unless it Is signed proaching and rising waters and includes the writer's address “can do no damage to Rainbow and telephone number lor verification purposes Letters Bridge" even when the lake is considered libelous In poor fasto Bill'd to capacity or commerciol will not bo published nor will poetry) These claims are based only on the appearance of the Kayenta layer of stone upon which Rainbow Bridge rests The lower substrata below the THURSDAY Kayenta are not exposed to view Bui when they saw him and have not therefore been walking on the sea they examined thought it was a ghost and side-canyo- Thoughts Nature however has been and is revealing what the understructure is like a few miles downstream on the Colorado River below take Powell Jack Anderson Here in the Grand Canyon qualified geologists have made a thorough study of the exposed layers along the sides of the canyon and its They have prepared a chart which appears in a book referred to covering the twenty known layers of stone shale sandstone limestone decaying rock sand - compressed mud and various materials of which the substrata consists “Each has reached a different stage in the long process of lower layers of decay-t- he comparatively soft Hermit Shale and Supai Sandstone will break down faster than the overlying sandstone and limestone - SO Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage wilh others Robert Louis - Stevenson English novelist FRIDAY Rejoiee with those who rejuiee weep with those who weep Live in harmony with one another do not be haughty but associate with the low-ly never be conceited Romans 12:13 18 If civilization is to survive we must cultivate the science ol human relationthe ability of all peoships ples of all kinds to live together in the same world at Franklin I) Boose-vei- l peace - - strata" The entire regions are highly susceptible seepage II M Hart I SATURDAY to the final $100000 Neither Kalmbach nor Raine would comment on the strange transactions Sources close to the investigation told us however that both men followed blind instructions They were never told that the money would be used against Wallace nor did they learn the identity of the bagman We also have been unable to identify the mystery man From White House sources we have that established only Haldeman's Man Friday tarry Higby was in touch with former To WASHINGTON eliminate George Wallace as a threat to President Nixon's the White House not only smuggled $400000 in cash to his political rivals in Alabama but also brought pressure on him through a tax investigation id his brother Iimg before the 1972 election the President knew from his secret polling that Wallace at the ticket head of a third-part- y would drain votes from him The polls showed as many as four out of five Wallace voters otherwise favored Nixon The White House therefore wanted Postmaster General Winton “Red" Blount about channeling to stop Wallace from running for President as an independent Both the secret polling and the Alabama's were strategy directed by the President's former chief of staff H R Haldeman So secretive were the moves against Wallace that Haldeman didn't even confide in his brother-in-lawho served as a The White House strategy in was to block Wallace from winning back the governorship of Alabama This would have deprived him of a power base and would have reduced his ability to campaign for the presidency in 1972 Kalmbach Funds 1970 therefore Haldeman arranged to sneak $400000 to Wallace's rivals during the 1970 Alabama primary The money was siphoned from surplus campaign funds in the custody of (he President's personal lawyer Herbert Kalmbach Mysterious arrangements were made for Kalmbach to fly across country and hand over the first $100000 to a stranger at d New York City's Sherry-Netherlan- Hotel Not long afterward Haldeman's brother-in-laFrance Raine delivered another $200000 presumably to the same mystery man at the w A Sherry-Netherla- similar tryst was arranged at I as Angeles' Bank of California where Kalmbach turned Into money Democratic primary Blount couldn't be reached for comment Brother Gerald At the same time that Haldeman sluiced $400000 into the campaign against Wallace he also requested a rundown from the Justice Department of its tax case against Wallace's close associates including his brother Gerald The Justice Department sent back a confidential progress report to the White House According to this document the Internal Revenue Service's audit division had found that Gerald Wallace allegedly had omitted legal-fe- e income from his tax returns in 1967 and 1968 The charge was that the Wallace brothers' law firm was used in funneling political and that Gerald failed to report all the income that came to him through the law firm After deducting large losses from his cattle farm he reported a total taxable income of $109944 in 1967 and $65980 in 1968 The charge was that the Wallace brothers' law firm was used in funneling political and that Gerald failed to report all the income that came to him through the law firm After deducting large losses from his cattle farm he reported a total taxable income of $109944 anti-Walla- over 1970 kick-bac- kick-bac- in 1967 and $65980 in 1968 The Justice Department report added that on January 20 1970 the case was referred to Internal Revenue's crack inwhich division telligence handles criminal investigations A group of agents from various Southern offices was imin assembled mediately Alabama Since we had exposed the kick-bac- k schemes which led to the tax investigation details from the progress report were leaked circuitously to us I sent my associate Brit Hume to Alabama to double-chec- k the facts and to discuss the tax Investigation with Gerald Wallace ARer George “They have got 47 agents on me right now" Gerald said bitterly “You all are trying to beat George Wallace You're not interested in my tax returns" He added that federal agents had been after him' “as long as George has been cussin' federal judges and most especially since he scared the hell out of Nixon and Humphrey" We ran the tax story which got a big play in Alabama In the subsequent primary George Wallace had a close call He nosed out Albert Brewer by a narrow 515 per cent of the v vote Thereafter the White House changed its strategy and sought to persuade Wallace to enter the 1972 presidential sweepstakes as a Democrat rather than an in- dependent In May 1971 President Nixon visited Alabama and invited Wallace to ride with him on a flight from Mobile to Birmingham No one will tell us what the two men said to each other during the plane ride The subsequent events therefore may be merely coincidental Rut not long afterward the tax case against Gerald Wallace was dropped and George Wallace announced he would run for President as a Democrat not as an Independent NINE INDICATORS WERE used to provide the framework for the Quality of life assessment: Individual Status Individual Equality living Conditions Agriculture Technology Economic Status Education Health and Welfare State and local governments MORE THAN 100 individual factors were combined to develop the composite QOL measures for each of the above categories For example under health and welfare the number of physicians per 100000 population was one of 11 factors The percentage of occupieJ housing units with p'umbing facilities was one of nine factors under living Conditions Raw scores were converted to index form and after statistical weighting each state and the District of Columbia was given one of three ratings-excel- average or substandard lent FOR CERTAIN OF the QOL categories the variation among the states was found to be relatively large This was particularly true In the areas of technological development agriculture and economic status But for other important categories the differences among states were sometimes unexpectedly small For example there appears to be little difference among the states in the areas of health and welfare and individual status There is much closer similarity among states In the social and environmental indicators than in the economic and technological QUAIJTY OF material IJFE wealth-bey- ond is not necessarily a function of income and a certain minimum level as yet un- defined say the researchers For instance high income-loQOL cases were found in Delaware Florida Illinois Indiana Maryland and Michigan In contrast such states as Colorado Idaho Minnesota North Dakota Oregon Utah and Washington all had relatively higher ranking in Quality of life than their respective income rankings HOWEVER IT WAS found that states with very low levels of per capita income also tended to rank low in all measures of the quality of life How valid are the findings? The researchers compared the results with an earlier MRI study conducted in 1967 and also with two similar studies published by lifestyle magazine In 1972 and as far back as 1931 WHILE THERE IS LESS agreement among the four studies as to which are the 10 best states they are to a surprising degree unanimous in pointing out those which rank the lowest The states which ha ve low QOL ratings have held that position for more than four decades primarily because of depressed economic conditions in those states Glancing at the map we have California running first Colorado second Connecticut third Washington fourth We were surprised that Arizona got only eleventh Texas thirty-seven- and Florida thirty-eight- "O— In summary say the researchers “it may be concluded that some minimal economic g is a necessary condition for achieving minimum acceptable Quality of Life" well-bein- Paul Harvey Builders’ High Noon The heavens are telling the glory of find and the firmament proclaims his handiwork Psalm 19:1 - The building tradesmen-t- he workmen who build buildings-ha- ve been organized for a long lime Now the builders who employ them are organized It's high noon No segment of American labor has boosted its wages faster than the men who man the machines and the hammers and saws the trowels wrcnclies and paintbrushes Their union contracts include escalator clauses which promise annual Increases thus regularly adding further to the almost prohibitive cost of construction which has depressed the housing business and threatens to curtail industrial expansion And in areas where builders tractonKrepresents 5500 firms are building with nonunion labor they face threats Intimidation and physical unions The older AGC Associated General Contractors representing 9500 companies now has as many nonunion as union construction projects under way Recognizing that labor "went too far" in hiking workers' wages tlie Bricklayers local violence Hut like the workers who organized in their own interests in the 1930s the builders are now organizing The AHC-Assoc- lated Builders und Con- - th h him side-canyo- silt To the extent that the indicators used by the researchers are a valid measure of the quality of life the results provide a comparative picture of conditions in each state at one point of Merry - Go - Round cried out for they all saw and were terrified But immediatelv he spoke to them and said "Take heart it is I Mark 8:49 have no fear" ality well-bein- stop-Walla- Letter To The Editor wed Wyoming" This "union of employers" has taken its grievances to the National tabor Helatiuns Hoard and is accusing construction unions of fires explosions vandalism assaults 170 acts of violence last year alone ' The AHC has asked the NLRB to issue an immediate court order burring further physical attacks on building projects and nonuniun employees This "union of employers" membership has doubled in four It constitutes a years desperation mobilization of emiiloyers who singly have little ckiut in Washington And there's other evidence of displeasure with the trade Seven of Akron Ohio recently accepted voluntarily a 20 per a cent pay from hourly wage bricklayer's cut-redu- cing $981 to $751 Overtime was cut back from double lime to time and a half (’resident Hunter P Wharton of the International Union of men Operating Engineers-t- he who run the heavy equipment at the construction site -t- old his own union that "we can no longer demand standby labor on ' the Job just to create a job for those who have no desire to work for their pay" He said "Productivity of construction workers has not kept up with wage increases causing contractors to switch to nonunion workers and bringing on public criticism of the unions" an perhaps he exception represents an enlightened generation of labur tacticians who will recognize in time tliat survival sometimes requires strategic retreat Maybe Wharton Mr Is Or "Golf tennis sailing hiking conoeing — how about sending ME to this camp too f" |