Show I I conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through any kind of authoritative selection " —Judge learned Hand (1 (721(61) American JuiM The Herald Journal Logan Utah" Thursday Page 15 April 18 1996 Our view Hansen land idea would mean double -- taxation nation to ensure everybody using has paid their fee? them Hansen Jim has an idea for Utah's federal lands Beyond those issues though is Hansen is proposing that recre- one even more troubling — double ationists pay an annual fee before taxation By their very nature public lands being allowed to enter national forests or go on Bureau of Land are owned by all of us Not exclu- lLep R-Ut- ah Management property Like to snowmobile in the Temple Fork area? Pay up Or how about a family picnic at your favorite spot in the canyon? Fork it over Hiking ATV and horseback riding on government lands would all require the fee sively by mining companies or log- ging operations who pull resources from them or ranchers who run livestock on them but by those of tax us who bear the burden for them We’re all already paying for the public lands A $50 fee may sound like not If everyone using public lands much on a big Washington DC were to pay a $50 annual fee he salary But to many Westerners it said the government could bring in would put access to nature — one forms of enjoyof the last low-co$13 billion a year It sounds nice in theory — in fact ment — completely out of reach some environmental groups have If you want to raise money from backed the idea They say if hunters public lands Rep Hansen don’t are taxed other users should pay look to the families who enjoy their share quality time in the mountains But at first glance there are sever- together Instead stop supporting al major problems with Hansen's subsidized mining and below-coidea Who would enforce this $50 timber sales and grazing fees — fee? The Forest Service? Would we those who make money from the put fences and entrance gates to lands that every single American every parcel of public land in the taxpayer already pays for ever-increasi- ng st Children should act their real ages st Your view had and Wrestling club I view our sport as a productive use of for young people Instead of skat- support appreciated time ing To the editor: The Sky View Cache Wrestling Gub had a very successful season thanks to many people The club is made up of over 60 boys ranging in ages 4 to 18 The boys wrestle in collegiate tournaments around the valley and also in freestyle tournaments around the stale Jim and Norma Hancey have done a tremendous job organizing the club They volunteer numerous hours of their time to make it successful Thanks a ton Jim and Norma! We would also like to thank the coaches: Dave Swenson Troy Bingham Ryan Larsen Ron Guallicr Blake llanccy and the rest of you guys who helped coach You were great and the boys couldn’t have done it without you! The club hosts their own tournament each year and this year it attracted over 400 wrestlers from around the stale We would like to thank our sponsors: Schrcibcr’s Foods McDonald's of Smithficld Domino's and DJ’s Tumbling We would also like to thank the following businesses for donating to our concessions: Lee's Market Mark and Diane Rigby's Farm Meadow Gold Dutro Inc and Rilcwood Eggs You all helped to make our breakfast a huge success Thanks bunches! We arc extremely privileged to have this program for our children and without the volunteers and contributors it wouldn’t be possible Thanks again to everyone for your lime and effort Parents of the Sky View Cache Wrestlers Nancy LaBonly Logan Local youth who skate discriminated against people could be doing much more destructive things to themselves and the community which could ruin the rest of their lives Authority figures arc always complaining about the youth of today But they just kick us out of places and arrest us anyway They always say that skating is destructive I would just like to say that I some have major problems with the public's attitude toward skaters I have been skating for about a year and over the course of that time I have been kicked out of places just for being on skates cursed out and yelled at by security guards police and normal people I’ve First guess it all comes down to money and power: They have it and we don't so they can do what they want And I think that sucks Just because a person has wheels on their feet docs not mean that they should be discriminated against or be considered a hazard You don't need to ask me to take off my skates I can stand or move around just as well with I them on as off Jeff Hansen Logan Humane Society thanks To the editor: We at the Cache Humane Society wish to express our deepest appreciation to Mr Jed Smith for organizing and putting on a "rock and roll" dance benefit for the Cache Humane Society on March 15 1996 at the Whittier Community Center in Logan The four bands which particig pated in this very successful effort were Stone Groove Mountain Hippies Joe’s Band and Quim In A Pipkin Thanks to these excellent musicians a significant amount of money was raised and we will apply it toward our goal of raising enough money to build a much needed animal shelter here in Cache County Laura Fisher MD Cache Humane Society Pros idc nee Mallard Fillmore Ki 81 PWsaJT ittCCM nW&!tr he was barely old enough to fly alone as a passenger The Jessica Dubroff who shines out from all the videotape looks like one of those precocious children the unaccompanied minors who sometimes sit next to you on a plane With a baseball cap boasting ‘'Women Fly" she was the child who gels the kiddie meals the flight attendant's attention The kid who always wants the window seat liked This was what this best about flying— looking out thcwimJow ‘’It's a joy for me to he up in the said air” she and you could feel it What she wanted to do course to break the record to become the youngest pilot to cross the country in the glare of the spotlight So on Wednesday morning this leather flight child in a pint-sie- d jacket strapped herself into a booster scat put her feet on the extenders used to reach the pedals and set off to play pilot The stories that morning treated her like a midget Amelia Earhart A girl with a dream Her quest was framed by the camera like some cute brave stunt As one reporter put it ‘Tl was a neat story about a neat kid” (Juitc the little gal Even then many of us — parents who cannot put our kids in a car without worrying — wondered about the madness of this mission But we shook our heads and went about our business Until that is Thursday morning when the adventure and the lives of this girl her father and her instructor crashed near an airport in Gieycnnc Wyo I will not be glib over their graves But spare me the explanations of how safe flying is — even a child can do it— with a double set of controls Maybe adult judgment about the weather is to blame for the crash not a child's ability It may have been nothing more than an accident who cannot But should a drive a car be allowed to fly a plane? Of however course not Should a bright however eager be allowed to set endurance contest to off on an eight-da- y break a record? Of course not To me the story of Jessica Dubroff is not just about Inc tragic end of one child's life It offers some chilling footnotes on the end of childhood With all due respect for the dead I cannot gel over the words of Jessica's late father: "litis is just another experience that Jess has selected for herself" With all due understanding for the grieving I keep hearing the words of Jessica’s mother: "I don't want this to mean that you hold your children down you don’t give them freedom and choice And God that's what her beauty was She got to choose” What do such words of choice and independence mean when you arc talking about a Ibis is an odd time in our history We seem to he caught between protecting our children and pressuring them to grow up Jessica herself was shielded from the risks of watching television and the uncertainties of public education But she was allowed to fly a plane If her divorced parents prided themselves on anything it was their children’s joyful spirit But was Jessica as vulnerable as any child to'a parent's pride in her performance? Today Americans lobby for but praise precocity We want 7 year-old- s to to wait for sex hut chilwhen We for the applaud gold go dren arc prosecuted as adults hut cheer when they perform like adults When we tell our children to act their age we arc not telling them to act like children In sports the stars arc getting ymiritpr and younger The lf-- y car-ol- d gymnast Women's has become the tennis has become girl's tennis Children arc encouraged to be the first or at least the youngest became the In 1993 an 11 year-old youngest pilot to cross the country In In 1994 the record went to a 1995 the pilot was 8 Jessica was 7 when she died trying With a network camera in the cockpit and adults cheering her on In the 18th century children were dressed and treated like short adults 1'he line between childhood and adulthood barely existed Now at the end of the 20th century on the ground and in the air the line is blurred again A family friend said of Jessica "She was 7 — going on 20" lie meant that as a compliment Hut in fact this child was 7 going on 8 And she will never sec 20 1 -- © 1996 The Boston Gtob Newspaper Company Other views Report shows problems in immigrant program By Scripps Howard News Service For a government report the language was refreshingly blunt: 1'he program regulating immigrant workers is “perfunctory at best and a sham at worst" US laws allow employers to import workers with unique skills to fill jobs for which American woikcrs are unavailable For years anecdotal cv idcncc indicated that the program known as II IB was being widely abused Now the Labor Department has confirmed the worst Instead of sicking American workers most employers were trying to gain permanent resident status fix foreign work ers already on their payrolls Thus the report said II IB serves as “a probationary tryout" fix illegal aliens foreign students and tourists to sec if employers will sponsex them fix permanent status Since many of these employers pay well below prevailing American wages the foreign workers once they get permanent residency often quickly depart fix belter paying jobs 1'he department's survey showed 27 percent of those granted a green card wcic gone from the job within six months if indeed they showed up at all While the law requires employers to look hard for American workers first the repixt indicates that the employers have Editorial policy dAwdlW 3 The Ooon page x intended to acquaint readen with a variety of viewpoints on malton of puNic mwortance and P'ovfle mermen of 1h sonvrvmty with a forum far thee views Personal columns caloons and fatten from readen retted the apeuons ol the wnen and ae Biers Edifanafa under ihe heading XXjr Vew represent the views 0 the Herald Journal edtona board Memoen of the editorial board an BRUCE SMITH ‘publisher CHARLES McCOLLUM managing editor JENNIFER MINEStty eoxor RAEANNE THAYNEYxws editor little intention of hiring them Of 28682 Americans referred to 10631 jobs for which employers were seeking II IB status only five were hired The Labor Department's inspector general recommended that the current program be scrapped and that the administration huddle with Congress to dev ise an effective and fair alternative Those recommendations are eminently sensible and since Congress is alrcaJy embarked on a rewrite of the immigration laws now is a good time to enact them The immigration issue is divisive enough without abuses like the II IB program making it wixsc UttersjpollcygKUgsni Herald Journal up of s Rich people have golf courses acres wide in the middle of the city taking up on this trip was Statue of all that space which could be used for see the Kid stuff Liberty much better things Anyone who doesn't What she also wanted or what her dad than more that destructive that’s think wanted or what she came to want — scraping some paint off a handrail is choose one of the above— was of retarded fund-raisin- To the editor: 7 the cops called on me been chased almost arrested just for skating By Ellen Goodman The Herald Journal welcomes fatten to the editor Potentially libelous or offensive fatten w not he published however and the editor reserves the right to edit alt fatten to conform to the length and style requirements of the newspaper Lenen should be w Typewritten and fa No more than 4 SO words at length fa Addressed and mdude daytime phone number far purposes of verification fa Signed by the author individuals an fanned to one pushed letter within any penod Address E mail fatten to hjfatfa'ffl'tynews com Guest commentaries an also welcome and an run at the editor's daemon double-space- |