Show I Page 36 - The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 31 1996 In 1960 baseball was America’s game Your view ing the 2002 winter Olympics some places will surely he smoking areas for six months This tells us that our state is willing to accommodate the outside world for their money but not its own cilicns who live and work here As lor those of you who claim to worry about the health of the employees I think you need to think again They all know the ( ontinued from Page 33 beautiful valley I won lil also remind this man that complacency is like a mighty river anil rivers always run downhill as does the morality ol' his real world g mothers and Our lathers sacrificed much to share in a vision that would set our desert slate and beautiful valley apart from the real world concept this man would have us embrace And how low would he have us bend our ideals to blend in with his way of thinking? If what he sees for our valley is progress I know a good eye doctor lie should visit hard-workin- environment I Johnson Smilhlicld Allen In defense of smoking at Logan's cafe the editor: am writing in response to the To I lS I ponder the start of yet another baseball season what is left of my mind drifts back to the fall of I960 when I was a student at Hamid C Crittenden Junior High (“Where the leaders of Tomorrow Arc Developing the Acne of Today") The hig baseball story that year was the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates Today for sound TV viewership reasons all World Scries game arc played after most people including many of the players have gone to bed But in 960 the games had to be played in the daytime health risks of working there Mow can one not? Hut these employees are also responsible adults who choose to work in this Almost any job someone lakes is going to have health risks Yes some are less but some are surely more Other business owners in the Logan area were also responsible for this ruling by claiming Mac's was “stealing" customers from them I would like to know just exactly how a business “steals" customers No one dragged people kicking and screaming to Mac's Aren't customers allowed to make up there own minds either? If Mac's has truly “stolen" customers how can this community allow any new businesses? For if they did these new establishments would he “stealing" customers fmm older ones And we can't have that now can we? Smoking however will still he allowed in bars and taverns Is the stale saying that all smokers enjoy bars? Many people who smoke don't enjoy the atmosphere of these places Where can they relax and enjoy a cigarette? So what happens now? Mow many more cilicns’ rights will the stale take away before people speak up? I hope these legislators realize that all of us affected by these laws are old enough to vote and that next lime our votes may just swing the other way recent ruling prohibiting smoking in Mac's Cafe I don't understand why the stale does not recognie this eale as a private club I here are signs on the door informing people that the cafe is a private smoking establishment and membership is required ( very person who walks through the door cither has a membership or must purchase one to stay The people who go into Mac's everyday are honest individuals who make great contributions to our community These responsible adults make the choice to go to an establishment where they can enjoy a cigarette Why should cilicns not have this choice? Under part of the Utah law a group of people using facilities in this stale can designate the place a smoking area lor the duration of their lime there if llicy wish Dur hard-workin- g 1 because the electric light had not been invented yet Also hack then the players and owners had not yet discovered the entire seasons The result was that in those days young people were actually interested in baseball unlike today's young people who arc much more interested in basketball football soccer and downloading dirty pictures from the Internet But in my youth baseball ruled Almost all of us hoys played in Little League a character-buildin- g experience that helped me develop a personal relationship with God "God" I would say when I was standing in deep right field — the coach pul me in right field only because it was against the rules to put me in Sweden where I would have done less damage to the team — “please please PLEASE don't let the hall come to IQWt N0MM LENDER Whatever perception you may have of loans put tan 2SCO non premotanol Ao of 4196 Pmpofty mouronco m ado roqutrod tolT Oflor only awtablo to now oquy hno s professor and head of the Department of Communication at Utah State University His column appears every other 9unday on the Opinion Page For information on the USU “Values A Liberty’ conference April 1 which is open to to public call the College of Humanities Arts A Social Sciences at 797-- 95 so' Ted Pease m iP 1 29 starters w it hatever you may need or want How so? 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— hit a home run to win it for the Pirates I was insane with joy The truck driver was devastated But I will never forget what he said to me He looked me square in the eye one baseball fan to another after a tough hut fair fight — and he said a seriously had word Several in fact Then he got in his truck and drove away That was the best game I ever saw Nikki Shipka Pease Low much as the next infallible deity which is why when He heard me pleading with Him He always took time out from His busy schedule to make sure the next hatter hit a lowering blast that would upon the Earth's atmosphere come down directly where I would have been standing if I had stood still which I never did I lunged around cluclcssly in frantic random circles so that the hall always landed a minimum of 40 feet fmm where I wound up standing desperately thrusting out my glove which was a Herb Score model that on my coach's recommendation I had treated with ncat's-fooil so it would he supple Looking back I feel had that innocent neats had to sacrifice their feet for the sake of my glove I would have been just as effective as a fielder if I had been wearing a howling shoe on my hand or a small aquarium But even though I slunk at it I was into baseball My friends and I collected baseball cards the kind that came in a little pack with a dusty pale-pin- k rectangle of linoleum-texture- d World War II surplus bubble gum that was far less edible than the cards themselves Like every other male my age who collected baseball cards as a boy I now firmly believe that at one time I had the original rookie cards By Dave Barry The Miami Herald I rom big things like inllcgc and vacations lo litllc things like dinner and groceries Now for the other good stull Key I So you save there qiniy Option- - may he I he interest is low ¥ I m tprlng talc Farsi Rouncftrlp from Mon April SLC i Lauderdale Miami from an low a Ft Orlando New York Boston 238 265 300 Wwi Apr St tin mutt Dr Kjrcttrd J Stf vt rd cmymira hr M I W Washington DC New Orleans o tfnvr awcXiM frrt trr nemrrhimliVt only! 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