| Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday January 5 1986-- 27 iddle class is losing ground in US today The no room theme gets a alwayi work-ou- t during the Christmas season but un- Nicholas Vtn Hoffman Syndicated columnist like the way it was 20 years ago when they into the street The case histories of msny a pack up the Santa costumes nowadays the homeless stay real bag lady suggest that many around for the rest of the year didn't fall quite so many rungs Street begging once down the socio-econom- ic associated with the Middle East ladder and the unholy poverty of Nevertheless the is places like Bangladesh is now an oblique way of bag lady about talking commonplace in American the gradual impoverishment of the American middle class We don't have mobs of For the moment the boys offering to sell frame of discourse permissible passersby their sisters at least not yet but as in the mass media doesn’t quite the politicians put it don't sell include the fraying of the mid-di- e class or even the the nation short which sent men diminishing stream of goods to the moon In the last 10 or 15 years the and goodies going to younger white collar people bag lady has become on American cultural archetype a worTo do so would be to question risome symbol of what could the Reagan prosperity and the happen to us all a living person legend of Mr and Ms Yuppie who has fallen all the way out of One is allowed a little ritual the middle class securities plop caterwauling about poverty and well-dresse- family the tion line endlessly repeated by pauperisation of families mass media editorialists is that headed by women but unless President Reagan has ended one is willing to risk being inflation but he hasn't It is much reduced but at stigmatized as a liberal or worse one does not discuss the somewhere near 4 percent per standard of living of people over year it hasn’t vanished the poverty line the people who True it is low enough so that are supposed to be making it e people can stand A lot of people who know they the bite for a year or two but not are working every bit as hard year after year when they are as their parents did also know getting their salaries or perks they aren't getting the goodies cut back or kept at the same level their parents got This is owning to what Lord The weight of the real estate Keynes called “the money il- industry on the mass media is lusion” Median family income heavy enough to stimulate freis up around 825000 per year quent pieces on the diminishing People have more dollars than numbers who can look forward ever before but those dollars to buying their own homes buy less a lot less Prices for homes have gone Real income calculated after up about 40 percent faster than inflation is lower than it was 12 incomes to pay for them over or 13 years ago Figured not in the past 15 years When the dollars but in terms of what price of the car you must have you can buy with the money to drive to work has tripled in 10 median income for younger years who can afford a house? workers has fallen almost 15 Thus the residential rental percent in that time span market is tight almost everyThis is particularly hard to where and new home construcaccept because the administra tion is down when compared to the at the inn d single-pare- nt middle-incom- the number of new households being formed It is estimated that 800000 young families who would have been able to buy in times gone past have had to do without in the past five years If most of the politicians and the mass median are slow to speak up and say some of us are being pauperized and many of us are growing shabby the conventions do permit these points to be made on behalf of the small farmer He gets sympathy and a lot of attention as well he should But there are many million more office workers and sub- professionals whose net worth is being slowly filed away who are being forced to take a second job to put in dubious day care facilities to Eet another pay check for the who don't have enough left over at the end of the year to put something aside against bad days or unlucky ones They have no people speaking for them no movies made about them: Here are tens of millions who should be a special interest but turn out to be of no interest at all pre-school- 115 King Features Syndicate Inc Is Sniokey the Bear a government spy? W A S H - Is Smokey the -- Jack Anderson Bear hiding a transmitter in his hat and using that famous shovel for an Merry-go-roun- vehicle-trackin- antenna? Could be Incredible as it seems hikers campers climbers anglers hunters and other Americans who like to get away from it all in government parks forests and wilderness areas may not be getting away at all No matter how remote the site they may be well within range of federal employees using sophisticated surveillance systems The National Park Service National Forest Service even the Fish and Wildlife Service all make extensive use of electronic-surveillanc- n uses or plans to use nine mitters systems vehicle trackers satellites and surveillance systems and will hidden sensors probably add six more to its An official of the Rangers observation arsenal The ones already in use inActivities Branch told our d associate Donald Goldberg that clude satellites telephone taps and many of the gizmos were used miniature transmitters g for building security and law devices OfTechnology Assessment did a enforcement functions But he ficials also want to use “pen study of federal agencies that added candidly “I can't imag- registers" which monitor have electronic-surveillanc- e ine an application for some of numbers called from targeted n systems and found that their these" telephones and use has begun to encroach on The Fish and Wildlife apparatus (“Hello citizens' privacy Service with more than 90 that you Bambi?”) — The Forest Service favors Rep Robert Kastenmeier million acres to oversee inwants to bring legal cluding wildlife refuges fish eight snooping systems for its hatcheries and research areas 229 million acres protections into the high-tec- h age Some of what the congressional investigators told him was puzzling For example: Logan — The National Park Service V Bowden — those benign folks who run the guided tours answer your Chiropractic Physician kids' questions and keep the traffic moving — use nine y Acupressure-Kinesiologdifferent technologies to keep track of New patients welcome who does what on the 79 million acres under its control acNo Main cording to the OTA report 753-212- 6 The devices included: radio Call night-visio- INGTON e - voice-recognitio- is Chiropractic Center Dr Joseph electronic-surveillan- technologies The solitude you seek could be shared by rangers many miles away without your knowledge The congressional Office of scanners ce miniature trans 2176 Logan for appointment SUNDAY MONDAY & TUESDAY GRADE A' BLADE CUT WHOLE CHUCK STEAK FRYERS 3068 COC1POMJ LB TRI MILLER SUCED g BACON 1 6 PACK 12 OZ CAMS COKE TAB OR SPRITE LIMIT 3 WITH COUPON LOGAN STORES COODATI58E 0LY OID AFTER ICON f 1400" MAIN JANjiR- 7th 1QA6 - 24 OZ AMERICAN BEAUT SPAGHETTI OR ELBO RONI REG ME I CLASSIC CHERRY CAFFEINE CAFFEINE WFT CAIEEJNf FREE REG EKFt TAB REG & DIET SPRITE Hitt f FRESH CRISP JUMBO CUP TOP YELLOW CARROTS ONIONS ! 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