Show ditorialopinion “Drupotiiuii rim iiiimim ninl in h nation nnlil nNM lx limirinnl" tin- - lila-rl- — Logan Utah Sunday November of ill v learning to stop worrying and love didates seeking fers S&rKX L V V:V Ml to Newton To The Editor: Better community support might in the future encourage more qualified people to seek office Malin Foster managing editor mm In V '"V X before city elections and withhold “bad” audit reports until after election Because cumbents in- control release dates policy should be consistent it was 1176-7- 7 brought out in the open by a council member that Logan City had an Carol W Clay Logan illegally Larsen’s prepared budget a substandard audit unapproved transfers questionable purchases as far as items being budgeted and a difference of a half million dollars In an external audit report and a city auditor's report Incumbent Burtenshaw accepted both figures Bringing such matters into the open resulted in positive change from 1176 to 1676 It is also worthy to note that our city officials succeeded in raising all kinds of utility rates property and business taxes If officials succeed in doing this they can spend all the money they want and the audit report will show the city la in good financial condition Note that the opinion To the Editor: It la disappointing that in Logan City we have a to $12765581 in council who makes laws and affixes a penalty for violation and then does nothing when violation is proven We have an who administration evidently has failed to instruct and supervise and who refuses to act when Infraction occurs and we have a gutless legal department who picks and chooses who will be answerable when the laws are violated We have witnessed the spectre of spiraling Inflation and the decline of the purchasing powers of our money and we have all experienced the comment It is interesting to note that at the time of the November 1677 elections Arthur Young k Co did not present the The cost of government at all levels is the culprit and we would be hard put to find a place where the cost of local government To the Editor: December When I asked matter Mr Newton I feel Logan City has a fine form of government and it is because of these peoples effort that it is working so well! city budget has increased from $6704727 JJ in Briggs Logan Utah Clay 1676-7-7 1676-7- 6 V audit report until some questions the following January Arthur Young Co’s Logan City audit report released to the Council November 1 is worthy of comment It is indeed good that the city ap & illiterates" Kndolf edaeatlon Arthur Young refused to answer because I was no longer In office In- cumbents release "good" audit reports Berry's world because the “look and say" method taught la our schools ta vastly Inadequate By GIB" by Wendy Leigh) siw WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter’s belated threat to punish the oil companies for turning the worldwide oil "crisis" into unconscionably high profits may once again turn out to be a case of too little too late The sad truth is that if the president wanted to be fair then-energ- data Sources told our sssociate Dsle Vane Atta the report if released in April when it was completed would have been devastating to Carter's and Schlesinger's credibility But it was buried According to a source close to the probe the CRS and analyst "was raked over the coals by higher-up-s they stonewalled Gore” who never did get the full report Oil Another report belying the admin is tration-Bi- g line was a Treasury Department report in April It too concluded that Iran had nothing to do with any US oil shortage and pointed the finger at the oil hoarding” industry for The report was suppressed until we obtained a bootleg copy five months later We have also learned about two other reports that would if not relegated to the “deep six" file hsve helped tie the can to the oil companies — and the administration The oil industry was following its traditional policy of bombast and deceit last spring brazenly denying any responsibility for the gas lines and skyrocketing prices Now exposed by their own profit reports they are changing their tune And Jimmy Carter who has given only lip service to tough measures against Big Oil so far has finally threatened to punish them As for the man who told the truth Dario Scuka is also being punished His bosses are threatening to transfer him out of his field of expertise — international petroleum — to a job where his honesty will be less embarrassing HELICOPTER HEROES: Two Coast Guard helicopter crews who dipped and hovered over the volcanic inferno of a grain elevator explosion near New Orleans to save trapped workers deserve a place In this column's special Hall of Heroes But for their eourage and skill the death toll in the Continental Grain Co explosion Dec 22 1677 would have been “pre-empti- - atopasilo Three times their chopper plunged into updrafts flames and turbulence trying to reach Flowers Wilson 150 feet above the ground On the third approach a new explosion ripped the elevator and the desperate Wilson leaped down a grain chute to a nearby ramp where the helicopter was able to save him Cmdr William B Watkins and his crew David W Kennedy Jr Gary D Rauser and Jack E Patton were rushed to the holocaust from the Coast Guard station across the river Watkins a said it was “like wartime everything was exploding" Frustrated rescue workers on the ground had silo franspotted a workman on top of a 125-fotically trying to escape the fire and fumes that engulfed him Twice Watkins maneuvered his chopper within 20 feet of the man only to be driven off by blinding smoke that filled the cockpit and explosions that tossed the craft about like a cork On the third try the crew succeeded in lowering a cable and rescue basket to the trapped man but when they tried to reel him in the cable caught on a jagged edge of the silo wall Coolly the two enlisted men leaned out the aft door and finally wrenched the cable loose The badly burned man In deep shock by then was hauled aboard and taken to the hospital GUnlted Feature Syndicate co-pil- ot Jeffrey Hart HteMSNC In defense of Connally has spiraled as It has in Logan in the past few years The liberal majority of the Logan City Council Just why John Counally’s proposals regarding the Mideast caused such a storm remains a bit mysterious Several Jewish Connally supporters quit including the estimable Rita Hauser And Connally was roasted by journalists An that is odd because Connally took the toughest stand of any candidate for the presidency since 1646 He even went so far as to suggest that we station American troops in Israel to guarantee the security of that nation something that no president from Truman through Carter has proposed You can argue the merits of each of the things Connally proposed but you can hardly claim that his package was The storm of criticism seems to have risen because of Connally’i proposal that Israel return to its 1667 borders that it return the West Bank and Gaza to the Arabs and negotiate the status of Jerusalem all of which were seized In the Six Day War In return for that Connally said Israel would be recognized by the Arab nations and the PLO and the security of Israel would be guaranteed by the United States Now this may or may not be a good idea but it’s certainly not bizarre or on the face of it unfriendly to Israel One senses however that there Is something unavowed in the whole discussion Connally's critics seem to be saying that we must be committed not only to the security of Israel to the "existence of Israel" — and no one is questioning that commitment — but also to the expansion of Israel Into territories seized In the Six Day War It is me thing to talk about the existence of Israel It Is quite another to assume that we must support the position of Prime Minister Begin who thinks that Israel has a legitimate claim to all the land encompassed by the biblical Israel Begin actually asserts a religious claim to the West Bank which he calls Samaria That Idea may appeal to Begin and some of his supporters but It dors not appeal to Moahe Dayan and many other Israelis and It can hardly form the basis for US policy in the area Is US policy really supposed to be based upon Brgln's interpretation of the Old Testament? It Is too early to determine what the political rffect of Connally's speech will be and whether it will advance his candidacy Connally surely reasoned that at this point in his campaign he needed something to put him on psge one pro-Israe- li pro-Isra- 11) Why the courts run America anti-Isra- - So who governs America? Part of the answer to that question was two blocks up Walnut Street In Room 622 of the United panel of States Courthouse A three-judg- e the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals -Anthony Cclebrczze Bailey Brown and Cornell Kennedy — was ordering the state —: co-pil- ot ?§Mww forever rr s: v even worse than the 36 lives lost LL Cmdr David Scott was on a routine patrol that Lt jg frosty morning when he and his Mike crewmen two Fallis enlisted and Phillip Whitcomb and Terry Thompson were ordered to the disaster scene They quickly transported injured men to the hospital and then were told of a worker trapped hist b CINCINNATI The sign of the decline of American politics is in the window of Batsake's Cleaners on Walnut Street It's a young man poster showing a blank-face- d holding a telephone Under his picture are two words: “Luke Listens" “Luke" is Charles Luken a Democratic candidate for the City Council He doesn't have to identify himself further because he is the son of Congressman Thomas Luken Voters presumably have a vague Idea of who he Is because the family name gets some recognition The poster reminded me of something said by Wilson Wyatt the former mayor of Louisville and Adlai Stevenson's campaign managrr In the 1656 presidential election "The sure sign of the decline of politicians" Wystt told me last winter "is Cares' or those slogans that say Listens’ That's an absolutely meaningless phrase unless it means that doesn't Intend to do anything in A- o xr about it he'd have to march himself out to the woodshed along with the oil moguls A wealth of information was available to Carter and his advisers that showed Big Oil's excuse for the gas lines and price jumps — a worldwide oil shortage caused by the cutoff of Iranian production — was in fact a phony We recently disclosed a CIA analysis that exposed the Iranian scapegoat as a myth Other nations more than made up for the Iranian shortfall and US Imports actually rose over 1678 Both the oil industry and the Carter administration y czar James Schlesinger knew this Yet steadfastly insisted that our imports were down 2 million barrels a day because of the Iranian situation and that according to the administration was what was causing the gas crunch We have uncovered other reports some still suppressed which shot down the Big Lie sbout Big OU The wsy the reports were handled has convinced those who knew whst wss in them that there was indeed a conspiracy by the oil companies to extrset huge profits from the American public's belief in a shortage that was in fact a phantom One vital piece of evidence which debunked the myth of the shortage was a study prepared for Rep Albert Gore by the Congressional Research Service’s top international oil snalyst Dario Scuka last February Gore made some of the conclusions public in March including a prediction that world oil production would be the same in the first nine months of 1676 ss it had been a year earlier despite the Iranian cutback Gore drew denials and ridicule from the oil moguls the administration and the media The Scuka predictions though turned out to be right on the money Meanwhile Scuka assembled 60 pages of backup doesn't intend Usually in fact to do anything Making decisions doing something is what gets voters mad — If a politician just listens and cares no one will notire him and he might get "Gloomy poll results time! Ready?" - (“What Makes a Man Jack Anderson office" M sober" Phyllis Diller Many helped tell Big Oil’s lie 'So-and-- M (Family Circle) 'So-and-- I “The perfect man for me would have to be my last husband Only expert can't read properly tremendous impact in the high cost of living (Continued on page Phyllis Diller Fleseh declares that Americans noise however it’s an important one The citizens of every community in Cache Valley owe it to themselves and to the people they have chosen as candidates to vote A large turnout at the polls would at least serve to let the candidates know they have sup- on Tuesday In response to Mr Patrick Newton’s letter of Oct 28th I would like to ask if he does not feel that it was necessary for Clay Martlndale and Larsen to seek the declaratory judgment? It Is unfortunate that the real estate transactions which you spoke of in your letter never even entered into the court I have to compliment these people for their effort Logan City had adopted a new form of government and it was very important to determine the powers of the Mayor and the Municipal Council It is my belief that these people would have been derelict hi their duties had they not pursued the and one-ha- lf million Americans today are functional lackluster campaign political pears to be in compliance and that financially the city is in good condition It should be noted that incumbents are running for election Response bit a and Facing the planning Adam “Thirty-thre- e Despite the lack of the usual port Dr Strangesmith economist on why the Ui has avoided a recession that was expected thia fill zoning issues alone is more than a part-tim- e job and there arc many other issues that require council members’ serious attention Compared with some the election coming Tuesday may council In- flation" It’s no easy job positions in Cache Valley communities that they are running "because nobody else would" or "because someone twisted my arm" That’s an unfortunate attitude — for everyone concerned The days are long gone when town and city council members in small communities had little to do It’s more important than ever these days to have competent interested people running local government 10 "The economy's — appear - failure to go' into the anticipated downspin is a direct result of people The Herald Journal's opinion It’s municipal election time again and with exception of some hooks and jabs being traded in connection with the Logan and Preston city council races interest seems to be at an alMime low The Herald Journal has been told by more than a few can- The Herald Journal Timely quotes t ' Inllim I 4 1979 v-- V ' " A- vi : 'Si ' ' K 'T j iRfcKalixl 'ReeVes Will tj of Ohio to revise Its welfare procedures because of a lawsuit brought by four Franklin County residents "Go back and tell the Legislature” Judge Celebreeze said "to hire more hearing officers" Courts rule because elected politicians — the "Lukes" of America — refuse to take stands or actions that might make anybody mad They just listen and care — like cocker spaniels On that day Oct 17 Cincinnati newspapers were reporting the latest developments on a state court order to city officials to renovate or close the city's old jail which was originally built to house Civil War prisoners And the federal government was threatening Ohio with court action because slate officials have not been able to come up with an effective environmental protection law Chicago at the same time was being threatened with eourt action because that city's officials have been unwilling to approve a school desegregation plan "A lot of the cases that come in here are pushed In because local officials county commissioners for instance didn't want to take responsibility for a decision" said V T 40fe V US Magistrate J Vincent Aug In his office in the Cincinnati federal courthouse "The courts' power is becoming awesome because they're the only place you can find g Judges may not want to make some of those decisions but they don't shy away They know that’s what they're here for" The “Lukes" do shy away And the situation is not healthy — not If you believe In democracy If elected officials won't move unelected ones have to move In or take over In some cases the courts have already taken over — schools in Boston and prisons in Alabama are examples — and that may soon happen with the crumbling old Jail In Cincinnati Rule by judiciary has become so common in fact that J Skelly Wright the chief judge of the US Court of Appeals In Washington hss said publicly that Judges "must restrsin themselves be more hesitant about filling the void when In our Judgment the elected branches of government hsve acted and failed" But It's becoming harder and harder to hesitate while “Luke" does nothing but “listen" 'Universal Press Syndicate decision-makin- el C'Klng Features |