Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday October senator begins to act tough Mild-manner- ed By Jack Anderson r - WASHINGTON What’s gotten into Sen Richard Lugar lately? The Indiana Republican has long been considered the Mr Peepers of the Senate a diffident hardworking spear carrier on a stage dominated by prima donnas But first the Foreign Rela- Jack Anderson 0 Merry-go-roun- d MINI-EDITORIA- confidential letter to Shultz What led Lugar to invoke the dreaded name of Foggy Bottom's irascible nemesis? It all began with a 1983 General tions Committee chairman Accounting Office report rechallenged President Reagan quested by Rep Jack Brooks The GAO pointedly over South Africa endorsing sanctions that the White House criticized the State Deparment tradition of appointing a considers counterproductive And now Lugar has taken on Foreign Service officer as inSecretary of State George spector general Shultz and the Foreign Service "These personnel face “old boy” network for what he and external impersonal views as a deliberate refusal to to their indepenpairments follow clear congressional in- dence when are assigned to they structions on the choice of a their own new inspector general for the other senior post supervisors State Department officials and individuals with In fact he was so steamed whom they live and socialize at that he made a veiled threat to foreign posts" the GAO report sic the department's severest noted investigate Sen Jesse Helms from the outside" So that's what Congress decided to do — or tried to in legislation last year ordering the appointment of an “independent and effective” inspector general Unfortunately the law did not state explicitly that the inspector general must not be a member of the Foreign Service For professional diplomats accustomed to interpreting every work phrase and clause of treaties and prolix official communiques this was all the opening they needed But first the wily bureaucrats in Pettifoggy Bottom decided to test congressional willpower by stalling They claimed that because of Gramm-Rudma- n Senate expert amplified on the stubborn diplothis point to our associate mats Lucette Lagnado saying: “The “I want to repeat a very Foreign Service is a small strong belief which 1 share with clubby place An IG was likely Sen Helms that the depart- to have lived next door to the ment should take immediate person he was investigating action to implement the law His kids may have gone to regarding the office of inspector school with the audited person’s general" Lugar wrote in a children We needed someone A R-N- C The industry lobbied hard to evidenced by recent statistics department nominated an inspector general for Senate get a nationwide exemption showing a dramatic declir " i aproval He was a Foreign through Congress but the lan- decisions overturned b ilie Service officer guage was finally cut from the judges Our So Congress passed new legis- Treasury Appropriations bill HEROES OR BUMS? The erudite fellow scribbler lation that stated explicitly: has Buckley “No career member of the American Bar Associaton and a William F subcommittee headed by Sen scooped the rest of us: He is Foreign Service may be ap- William Roth disagree marketing a peanut butter for pointed inspector general of the over the of the adults There will be those performance of State" Department who irreverent enough to suggest law administrative judges Now according to Senate sources the State Department have been handling appeals of that Bill's admitted fondness for peanut butter is what makes has fallen back on its old Social Security Administration off disability decisions him speak with his jaws shut cutting The delaying tactics Foreign And no doubt some critics of pensions Relations Committee was the the that columnist’s often infuriating They agree judges for nomination assured that a have been under pressure from eloquent opinions will recominspector general will be sent to the administration to let the mend a slogan for his new the Senate any day now But it seems unlikely that a candidate cutoff decisions stand but the spread: "Sticks in your craw can be named committed Bar Association has just given not on the roof of your mouth” the judges a citation for As for us we’re trying to figure hearings held and a Senate vote out if there'd be a market for a the pressure arranged before Congress ad- withstanding However Roth’s subcom- personally endorsed line of for the election journs mittee says the agency "has muckrakes BEER MONEY STRET- been successful in its efforts as 0 1986 United Feature Syndicate Inc CHED: The nation's beer drinkers may have saved $1 billion a year when Congress failed to pass a law exempting beer distributors from certain anti-trurules KICIIARI) W WATERS That's what the Consumer ASSOCIATES : mild-manner- critic R-D- el financial planning requirements the department didn’t have the money to set up an independent Federation of America fully staffed inspector general estimates beer buyers would have had to pay if the exempCongress gave them $12 million Their bluff called the tion had been granted The diplocrats complained that they estimate was extrapolated from couldn’t use that much money the price increases that occurred in states that allow Congress remained adamant Finally convinced that the distributors to set up exclusive lawmakers were serious the sales networks cost-cuttin- st g AiNl) YOUR CHILDREN AND TAXES Tha naw fox law will offact not only you but also your children Hera ora soma of tha naw rules It will be harder for parent to shift income from their higher lax brockets to Itwir children’s lower brockets Storting in 1987 a minor child’s (under oge 14) unearned income in excess of $1000 will be taxed at the parents the parent to the child The top tax rate if the income is from assets transferred by new law also gives a child only one exemption if that exemption can be used on the Under prior law on parent's tax return it is not alllwed on the child's return the parent's and the child's tax exemption for the child could be token on both returns device known as the Gifford Trust is rendered all but A popular income-splittinuseless by the new law Under prior tow o parent would transfer income-producinassets such as stocks or property to a Clifford Trust for a period of al least ten years and one day making the child the beneficiary The income produced by the property r in the trust would be taxed at the child's lower tax rates At the end of the would have the period the assets in the trust would revert to the parent The parent for various purposes during the properly back and the child would have hod income Tax Reform Act of 1986 provides that The tower rates taxed r all at period the income from a trust will be taxed to the person (parent) who transfers property to the trust if the property eventually reverts to that individual or hisher spouse Letters to the Editor They might also encourage school administrators to inhoist the silent ox up over a vestigate better methods of railing and place it at the teaching writing skills door ready to be pushed into a Better methods do exist and have been used successfully in new "pasture" An extraordinary ac- other areas of the country They complishment! Such a heavy do not necessarily involve the load! My appreciation to these huge amounts of class time g implied as necessary in the generous d teacher's letter The ox century-olgentlemen The use of a coded style book is on display now DUP museum for example can greatly simplify theme corrections No method however can succeed Vera Christensen in a school system which lacks Logan clear writing goals and stan- Continued from page 38 well-meanin- dards Standards must involve teachers as well as students Education The contained above-mentione- Solomon scratch his head The problem as some see it is that there is too much property off the tax records In our county there are many institutions such as churches hospitals health care centers and foundations The greenbelt also results in lower asssessments thus helping to provide relief for farmers A change in the method of valuation has resulted in inequities Taxes were formerly determined with a mill levy applied to assessed value Now the method is to apply a tax rate to market value non-prof- it letter d On Sept 21 the HJ printed a letter from a Cache district English teacher in which he expressed his opinion that it is not possible to teach “good writing" at his school because teacher there are too many students and Smaller classes and more not enough time in the money won’t improve a learnclassroom He implied that if enough ing situation where overall standards for both teachers and money is thrown at a problem it students are low or nonexistent will go away and that parents who care should ask their Jane Carlson legislators to increase funding Smithfield for education I agree with him on the latter and some other points but disagree that spending more money to reduce class size will produce students To the editor: How do we finance county LOS ANGELES J199 $59 Hound Trip from Abtatu 7 Night Luxury SoocMront FROM WHEN FUHCNAMD Round trip airfare iKlqi Air anlv UN ISLAND PACKAGE a CM Some A and Hotoi Tin Flown Lit Gmtmg A US THRIFT & LOAN aach way J Marimiltkpwil NON-STO- THE BEST OFFER EVER FROM Holiday Mhadula now ivaHabto Book party lor bast availably and for lowaal advanca purctiasa laraa cwyiMMa Ml Uni P UTAH’S ONLY SATURDAY DEPARTURES 1 hr Mail Non-lto- AM £399 DENVER 14- 0- Mora CaN Now Liimtod Rooms AvaMaMo Al Tina Pric Airtara A 7 NigMi Accommodation Mk W way Mofiiiy CSjwtur and latwrii iSttrettd Orptrturtt only) II 2 ISLAND PACKAGE II 'St ISoHcttd doportum only) ’ SAN DIEGO from PtK and 59-- “way VIA OAKLAND PACKAGE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 749 COWETI oach way 89 $89oah 4 ISLANO -- Daporture BURBANK DAI SAN FRANCISCO PACKAGE CONFUTE COMPLETE Spaclol Christine tUANO km$649 $499 PHOENIX DAV 2 "A FULL SERVICE CPA FIRM” 399 North Main No 325 Logan Utah 84321 as you want-Tha- t’s Prestige The home equity line of credit from US Thrift & Loan ludvdas: Sound Trip Airport Trnmfort Woo hr flight bagiiining Oocambar Mod 'Soma mtrktian opply CaHlardatail the parent to separate the child's income if any comes from Income from assets gifted by the child's grandparent for "non parental sources would not be taxed at example would be from a "qualified segregated asset’ and the parent's rales Another provision in the new tow requires taxpayers to list on their tax returns the social security numbers of dependents over the age of five This 1 1988 provision goes into effect January It will be up to A revolving line of credit to use MAZATLAN p relief GUARANTEED FOR 6 MONTHS government without burdening some of our citizens and under assessing others? Such a thorny question is one that would make Non-Sto- p Nan-Sto- County also feel they need some Make Yourself A Loan Below Today’s Prime! Taxes with good writing skills Parents who care will need to do more than ask for money They could consider whether or not they have any responsibility to produce fewer children relief is granted what other segments of our economy will be standing in line next for exemption of taxes? Small business owners in Cache Any relief given to one segment ultimately will need to be made up by other property owners in the county We need to pay our share but in my opinion it should be a fair share Let us remember that tax relief given results in the rest of us paying a bigger share I suggest that we put pressure on our legislators now to return What were your feelings when to the former method of proyou saw your last tax notice perty evaluation with the market value of your property listed? Were you as June S Welling shocked as I? Logan As I understand it over 1000 people appealed to the Board of Equalization resulting in a valuation decrease of $18 million They were able to document the value of their property and deserved to have the value decreased What about the other property owners who may have been on vacation ill handicapped or without transportation and not in a position to appeal? A recent bill has been sub-- 1 mitted to the Legislature for exemption of farm equipment If the bill passes I understand more than $1 million worth of property will be taken off the Cache County tax rolls We all regret the farm situation and empathize with the farmers Nevertheless if such numerous errors in grammar and usage The number and seriousness of these errors would be disturbing if written by a teacher in another discipline they are alarming when written for publication by an English To the editor: magically 12 1986 TimI latfd or Road M smMt Tn Holiday tefaduta now avaMaMa Book party for boat aval lability and lor low ' ' Borrow below today’ prime Less than a regular installment loan or ordinary credit card lines D No membership or commitment fees G Apply only once Use your available credit again and againany time in amounts of 81000 or more Pay interest only or a minimum monthly payment of 8 100 whichever is greater e Small only closing costs G Ask your accountant if this line of credit may be to your advantage under new tax laws one-tim- -- Apply for a Prestige line of credit ut any office of US Thrift X Loan today But don’t wait Applications for this special low rate accepted until November I t 1986 suMct SUBJECT TO CREDIT APPROVAL way MORRIS AIR SERVICE EPCOT CARIBBEAN CRUISE 1400 No Main 752-520- 0 1 1 15 Air only from $218 TOTAL PACKAGES from 297 (adult) a Round Trip Union a 7 Nighti Accommodation adult from lath way aw fare 237 (kid) Round Trip Alrlaro a RaMncRona Apply — CK For Data I USTHRIFT SLOAN DISNEYW0RLD LOGAN OFFICE Suite $499 wfcew mrcMeed mi Mum (rwM I ntfhtt hum ICttRUmilMM Nouftf tap r from Ml UM A subsidary of US Bancorp Member FDIC 4 Nay 81 Print 77 EAST 1400 NORTH LOGAN UTAH 84321 752-066- 2 Brigham City Salt Lake West Jordan Price Orem American Fork Spanish Fork Example: Ordinarily the October 1986 Annual Percentage Rata for this You pay only 650 Tha Annual Percentage Rata account would be 950 an this account may vary after the Initial 6 months |