Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday February Weak bolts threaten Army vehicles Letters to the editor Continued from page 8 WASHINGTON Some d (5) The school is very difficult to teach effectively and administer properly (6) Teachers are overstressed with 0 months of teaching and need a long break to recharge their batteries whether they KMgnise the need or not My dad taught 43 years and my mom about 30 years I observed this need first-han- d d (7) The school discourages creativity a strong s- - choels have u always excelled over the European “T por and Asiatic schools I feel there are many values of the present summer break are bein overlooked Among them are the following: y (a) Children have a chance to learn home responsibilities such as taking care of a garden a yard and a home Army tanks weapons and helicopters are held together with dangerously substandard steel bolts and at least one soldier has died as a result The bolts look like high- products right down to markings on their heads But they break or crumble under stresses that the would article genuine withstand In 1885 two phony bolts on an households running (c) Children can have summer Jobs in the home and community How many summer jobs will “fit" the school break? (d) Children can have time to plan and attend Scout camps of various types and super activities with all the others their age and not Just those on their same break schedule (e) Family vacations are more easily scheduled where family members have the chance to touch the actual rocks and formations and look at streams and visit historical sites This learning is much more valuable than that only gained from books d in a school (f)- The longer break gives more of a chance to build closer family ties Yes these sorts of things are still happening despite media coverage of the opposite (g) Most important to the traditional summer break is the time to play — free unscheduled creative time — a time to build and keep a sense of wonder Children need time to think time to dream and a time to use their imagination I hope that taxpayers legislators and school officials will keep the concerns of a parent alive in their minds as they consider the switch to year-rouschools Are the benefits worth the losses to our children's futures which after all are the future of America ? howitzer cost one soldier Us life during exorcises in Great Britain The bolts which were holding down a heavy hydraulic manifold that raises and lowers the 135mm gun snapped and the soldier was pinned under the heavy manifold He died of his injuries We’ve been trying for weeks to pry details of the tragedy out of the Army The brass hats have released little information but we have learned that the victim was probably a British soldier Through other sources1 our associate Stewart Harris was able to obtain copies of the test results made on the ruptured bolts The tests revealed a condition called hydrogen which leaves embrittlement steel too fragile to withstand shocks like those produced by ' heavy artillery Hydrogen embrittlement is most eommon among steel bolts imported from Asia but it is also found among domestically manufactured bolts The condition is caused by failure to bake the bolts property after they’re plated In 1984 brittle bolts were found in gun mounts bn the Ml Abrams tank they snapped during tests at Aberdeen lid The tank manufacturer General Dynamics solved the problem by buying bolts from a highly regarded fastener firm year-roun- rity year-roun- (b) Parents have teaching time for teaching the practical of American-mad-e year-roun- d year-roun- nd Rex Alton Richards FernAlice S Richards Brigham City Sacred cow To the editor: ' M109 self-propell- ed '' currently being investigated by the supply command is the counterfeiting of Grade 8 bolts which have turned up in the Bradley Fighting Vehicle the M109 howitzer and the M992 Jack Anderson f Merry-go-rou- nd Industrial found no hydrogen embrittlement in 781 steel bolts it tested but there’s a possibility that the Army’s tests weren’t sensitive enough Raymond and Dene Plummer design and testing engineers in Toledo Ohio have devised a new method of testing Filters low-carb- that turned up 43 percent more substandard bolts than were found by the industry-approve- d procedure routinely used by the military Another steel-bo-lt problem lftTUnited Features Syndicate CASING WELL I S" to 10" now in stock ty 751-511- AVsV y-- Digital AMFM Stereo Receiver Our Best Speaker Slashed 35 Mach Two by Realistic STA-78- Save 80 by Realistic 0 Rag- - Digital readyl Huge 15 woofer 34995 Super value! for solid bass 5" midrange and 4 tweeter Walnut veneer firF Hi 27ie high 404032 HAIf PRICE and 299” Dual-Casset- Five programs! 3 'hr disk drive modem 23901 AMFM Car Cassette Stereo te Nr MonOi built-i- n 16-60- 7 34998 Rag By Realistic by RasRsOc Clarinatta-11- Shack By Radio : rr 259” S Rag 159900 Low AaSS7 timer 13 Color TVMonitor 90 Off 799“ er tuning with fluores- Digital-synthesiz- cent display Six FM and six AM memory presets LED signal strength meter Tandy9 600 Computer Modal 18 by Reaflatic 1 19995 Nr Month Wireless Remote VCR — Cut 150 149!5 Low Aa $20 W T'VVi'i K4 Save ’50 Rag 34995 Wireless remotel Comb filter for sharper picture 1232 Diagonally m—urad RcmoU btttBritt extra Satellite TV System Cut ’500 ResHstic-250- 0 1495°° Government waste Save ’50 Low Aa $20 Nr Month 13-12- 24 watts tal display A LawAsS28 dish system User installable Stereo! Nr MonOi Low As ISS Par Month BVa-fo- Complete compact system! 17 nigh speakers 1 o BJKTHDAY VHS with easy-tknrecording would like to help you buy or full your VALLEY METALS INC 1Mb Wait 1st Narlti 7SI-9S- KESmZTJTS' full-pag- In its tests so far the supply command has found that about 19 percent of the supposed Grade 8 bolts were actually Grade 82 an inferior product made of boron or martensite steel which turns to putty at temperatures that true Grade 8s can withstand The Army Tank Command has permitted the continued use of the weaker bolts in Bradley Fighting Vehicles because the bolts are used in places where temperatures will not exceed 500 degrees Command Simply ed ntrol carrier ammunition told us the bolt problem exists because the Army rarely runs tests that could weed out substandard steel fasteners Instead he said the bran hats rely mainly on contractors and distributors to “certify" that proper material has been used Gilbert first learned of the counterfeit bolt problem 2tt years ago when a colleague brought him a bucket of bolts that workers had been unable to tighten without breaking Gilbert called the American manufacturer whose distinctive mark was stamped on the bolts only to be fold that the company hadn’t made that particular kind of bolt for 17 years The bolts turned out to be counterfeits made in either Japan Korea or Taiwan they had not been heattreated I Just hate to write this letter It's fun to stir up the valley varmints (the CCC HJ staff common oafs etc) but education money seems to be a sacred cow And it may well be that schools do need more dough But is it necessary to accept the USA's ideas without question? At least some of the adults I know are not overly endowed with cash Before we tax them some more it would be nice to know what we would get for the money Would a tax increase go directly and exclusively for more books? Administrative assistants? Teacher salaries? What SPS Technologies of Jenkto-townP- a exactly? Suppose we increase school money 5 percent Can Ms Condie The same with steel announce the kids will score 5 percent better on the ACT test? If bolts also problemthe Army’s grounded not and if throwing money at the education establishment win entire fleet of helicopApache not produce smarter more kids why do it? ters last March after a bolt ACT scores have been going down nationally for years broke Just as a chopper was Classroom size on average also has been going down for years lifting off No one was injured From that do I say larger classes produce smarter kids? but the Apaches were grounded Nonsense but if educated kids are the product and educators until while all bolts were want money is it unreasonable to hold them to a performance testedApril improvement? And if this is not the criteria how then to Justify Lloyd Gilbert an Army quality-cothe new tax? export for 45 e I’m not against the NEA The ad was disturbing: One before Us retirement last years year i ' book for three students? But with thavwhy does M Condie add lU ill I" O the pencil item? I always bought my own pentib and paper And paperback novels for English class too Could teachers make do by copying at the local printers 4 cent each? It is not usually considered wise to ask the barber if you need a haircut It would be much easier to support the NEA if education Continued from page 8 would submit to an accounting by an uninterested party give more evidence of need than unattributed quotes show where the never did like the aroma are to get cranky dough is going now and show us what kind of return we would get emoboldened about it on our investment The social problem is comDS Corleu pounded by the fact cigarettes are unlike some other disgustr Logan ing habits — drinking buttermilk for instance A person drinking buttermilk wil not make me sick so long as I avert To the editor: my eyes while he drinks that clotted eyewash The taxpayers should let the Legislature and the governor a smoker’s But know they will not tolerate any further tax increases until the smoke apparently can interfere with a to more a serious effort the extensive dean up governor makes health And so and pervasive waste in the state bureaucracy do yon do? Do we say what incomes who have average To take more in taxes from people “Come on over for dinner but of leu than 812000 per year and give it to government employees must go outside in the you some of whom total over 8100000 a year is tyranny blizzard whenever you want to The governor talks of increasing efficiency but an audit of the your indulge revolting habit" state’s printing shops revealed employees playing cards do we live with it and hope Or etc runs unrecorded absence taking stretching out production we don’t die with it? It’s cheaper to have the state income tax forms printed in Neither We buy a social Colorado outcast machine We buy an air In our school system oily 58 percent of teachers are in the filter and seat them near it classroom Leu than half of the money appropriated for at stab first My Inviting classroom to the education gets friends who smoke and friends There is extensive misuse of state vehicles One social services who are made in by smoke to his of auto use an by supervisor openly condoned the illegal same one of those was the party g and Joy riding subordinates for little with the built-i- n ashtrays to UDOT says it doesn’t have enough money repair the state's fan and filter And I roads but dispatches nine men and three tracks to dig a hole and do their Job but guess they they are set up a small sign tor an odd unaccompanied special-intereto in caved The governor has obviously groups nerving hum that sounds like such as the powerful education lobby and the railroads Pacemaker is somebody’s (Initiation of pumping the Great Salt Lake was the only way the stuck governor could legally use tax money to rebuild the railroad Besides those ashtrays work causeway) so well that they get dirtier than with UEA has the now the (teachers’ union) For several years NEA and under the guidance of a smoker’s lungs And they aTristag of the burn up batterieslike crazy My Betty Condie conducted a sophisticated campaign to place their electric ashtray is addicted to people in elected office batteries It uses a couple of Much of the action has been in secret “A slip of the lip sinks a packsaday 25 25 now is in the nearly Legislature hip1 Their membership So before the Super Bowl I a can votes and trade added With the of that they body percent me of those lane bought and tax increase massive the friendly media they almost have filters When I got it air plug-i- n pay raise clinched home found I it had two speeds of amount However vocal taxpayers could probably reduce the — low and loud hurricane On the increase For the next election voters are going to know who loud it was not only noisv but so the members of that cartel are effective I was afraid some new of the who also chairman is Monson USU Professor Jay smoker would get sucked into it Cache County Council has repeatedly called for tax increases and cut to ribbons which would raise his and fellow teachers’ salaries I hid the filter behind the In spite of the massive education lobby Monson is quoted in couch where I would seat the The Herald Journal as saying “Those of us who believe smokers and discreetly turned don’t level a funded at be get organized it on low education should higher wouldn’t even They ” I would classify that as deliberate disinformation know was there it tax increases is The saddest aspect of the proposed massive They didn’t either And not that they will come mostly from families near the economic knowing we were protected 900 percent above poverty line and go to those from 100 percent to them thqr thoughtfully Safest couch and went into the that level The minimum wage of 8335 per hour has not increased for six kitchen to watch the game on years but teachers7 pay has increased every year Since the the small set there and do their minimum wage is the benchmark for private sector wages here smoking where it wouldn’t in Cache Valley inflation and steady increases in taxes every bother the Pure Ones in of of the homes standard the reduced living year have greatly Soon there was a haze in the students the UEA claims to want to help kitchen So we moved the filter one Take and taxes minute let A majority of voters oppose the into kitchen out in plain the your rep know how you feel The UEA is down at the Capitol light— and turned it on high every hour of every session But it was for their own good It isn’t easy to keep a cigarette Gene Rasmussen lighted to a hurricane civic-mind- 19 1987- -9 Rag 14998 equalizer ot aWMIMNL digi- 12-19- non-smoke- r’s sight-seein- Scanner AMFM Stereo Cassette Save 0095 50 695 Law As 120 Par Month Hear police fire trains others on UHF and VHF-HiL- o Rag 9985 Record 2106 VHF-A- ir Battartoa crystals oxtra Telephone Answerer By Realistic Reg 15095 Low Aa $20 Par Month Control Never miss another call! 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