Show Rijahf conclusions an mon likely to bei gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through any kind of authoritative selection' —Judge Learned Hand juriel(1S7MSS1) Page 15 Friday July 17 1998 Thtt Herald Journal Logan Utah ' Oorviocr 1 T Instructions not included i A?- - em society’s ills Still shouldn’t aTL frequent critic of The Her-Joum- al took a new and last week puking his car jn front of die newspaper office Spotting a sign that read ’Need cheap Metipaper? Buy The Herald Journal” Such a use for our product is not recommended but we can say proudly and without risk of repetuission that our product still remains your very best option for lining die bottom of a bird cage interest-lac- k 4 A local moviegoer laments that on several recent occasions he has seen children possibly as young as S years old attesting movies with their parents in Cache Valley and this includes a little one at a recent showing of the the Lethal Weapon IV Yes the entertainment industry must shoulder some blame for mod- R-nit- ed ultra-viole- nt consumers have to take some ' responsibility too? Some wisecrackers have taken paint to the private parts of the “Meet the Challenge” bull stat-f ue near the Spectrum at tJSU No news there It is noteworthy however that some poor innocent USU employee has to clean the paint off each time one of our upstanding young collegians pulls that stale prank How embarrassing! V- - i It's better to be lucky than good: The Logan area's ranking as fourth out of 317 metropolitan areas for a healthy environment in the Rating Guide to Environmentally Healthy Metro Areas was nice But have you noticed that no local politicians are scrambling to take credit for it? And why should they? It would probably cost them votes in this largely anti pro-highw- ay J RaewHmi News-- a Your view ile HOB vironmentalist Transit center decision pivotal valley Ihke heart though maybe we'll score worse in the next edition agriculture and creates greater traffic congestion For the past SO years we have made many decisions which creat- To the editor Are the citizens of Logan up to the challenge? The challenge of directing growth and managing the future of the community Across the state we have heard of the need to plan for growth and its impacts but when confronted with actual solutions some of them more Trying to make sense of the Millennium bug ByDalaMcFMttsfS Scrippi Howard News Service s o you step outside on midnii Deci31j 1999 to welcome ia the New Yearend the aew century aid all the lights go out Your bank account is wiped out your flight to Cleveland is diverted to Rwanda and a notice anives saying bring your horse you've just been drafted into the US Cavalry All of this pens because the inconvenient than others we seem inca- our minds open even Eble of keeping enough to address these problems and their solutions You may have Maybe the Y2K alarmists will be wrong If so I want the alarmists dragged onto a TV reality-base- d show i calt$d ‘Sh&mer inhere In a rite akin to an Iron Curtain show trial they are forced to grovel and apologize and explain how they could be so laughably wrong nt congestion problems That action led to the creation of one of the premier bus systems in the state decision in the next several weeks regarding the location of a new bus plaza in downtown Logan The ideal location for transit systems is one that can conveniently bring people to work shopping and other essential services Typically transit centers are located in the center of town much like our city hall library and tabernacle When services are not centrally located we tend to get sprawl dally" vinced that any problem is far worse than previously thought This problem even has a name Y2K for year 2000 a name popularized by Vice President Gore and the metric cabal who want us to believe that K stands for IjOOO instead of its true meaning strike The problem also has a neat little inter- national angle After we goaded and prodded all these Third World countries into buying computers - thus putting out of work all the people who worked the manual calculators and sorted the 3x5 cards - we have to tell them the stuff we sold them for millions of dollars won't work after next year Nothing like a good laugh at the expense of the developing And the cause of the problem goes by foe Michael Crichton-lik- e name of “the millennium bug" which plays into pop- change the damage caused over the past SO years but it can put us on track fora better future I believe that the location of this bus center is one of those pivotal decisions If you are a citizen of Logan you owe it to yourself and your fellow citizens to attend the public hearing on July 21 at S: IS pm in the Little Theater at Mount Logan Middle School to discuss the location of this important facili- ty Jay Aguilar LTD Transit Board Member and Regional Planner Property owner rains on Lewiston parade To the editor I am writing in regard to the Lewiston parade held on the Fourth of July I love this parade more every year I attend until now I lived in Lewiston for 10 yean of my life and the people were always wonderful to my family Don't get me wrong ‘it wasn't the parade or the people this year it was one bad experience with a previous business owner My family went ahead of me to save places for the parade as I was turning to get into the driveway of the closed business I was rudely stopped by a car that parked BeUastjIe leg ra phJH 117 IT or the sake of our children” was a phrase much used in May during the nm-u- p to the Referendum Back then foe troubles had taken a toll on 257 young Maybe the Y2K alarmists will be lives The murder iff brothers Richard Mark and Jason Quinn is a tragedy not just for their grieving family but for all of us How a hand could fill a bottle with petrol light it and throw it into a house where children lie sleeping is beyond most of us Yet that is what happened on Sunday morning And every morning for a week Hundreds of people have been burned out intimidated made homeless in the week of foe Dnimcree siege And we accepted iL After all no one was seriously hurt Until now To be fair this is not just a parade problem It is something that has gone on for more than 30 years We may talk about justice and rights and equality but this is really about an thing Nearly a year ago Ulster went into a frenzy of grief after the death of Diana Princess of Wales century But I have to ask what kind of society are we foal will mourn foe passing iff a princess who was rarely here but will barely lift a hand or say a word to save our own children? T hirty-on- e the sex life men seeking to restore of their youth have paid the worst price They’ve died They died believing that the medication they'd taken — Viagra the bo chug in the market — was sale for them Although Pfizer Inc the drag's manufacturer along with the Fxd and Drag Administration insist the drag is safe foe consumer group Public Citizen may have found a deadly exception Pfizer refused to admit men with cer- Atojr cm society mo tain heart-relat- ed conditions into its trials of the drag but men with hose condi- tions are allowed to take Viagra anyway and some have suffered heart attacks or strobes Public Citizen says The FDA despite its insistence on Viagra’s safety has agreed to consider the concerns Public Citizen has raised Another fad has overcome reason So many men are so eager to reap Viagra’s rejuvenating benefits that they have Etirtolpotie someone- - ’you Vm l 'v or copy! The Optnion page is Intended to acquaint readers wfi a vanity of viewpoints on matters of public importance and provide members of community with a torum tor their views Personal coMTaw cartoons and tatters front readers retted fie opinions of tie writers and creators EdSonate under the heading Our VteeT represents views of tre Herald Journal editorial board Members of w odtaatal board: m sotwmns '(pRcfciw- - ohxee cemse itte e&famss r rV people want to spend time together and be with each other Well I went over to where the owner's family was comfortably sitting and asked them what the big deal was! I was then informed by a pleasant lady that the lot was private property and I could pretty much shove it Well it's no wond tx why your business is now closed It’s either one of two things: Your wonderful disposition (ha ha) or there was never a place for people topark " Katy Jones Hyde Park oe-ft- amp s r&tnfeC thrown reason and caution to the w ind In some cases so have their doctors Life is precious — don't lose it in a blind leap to regain a bit of your youth I American movie houses this summer doomsday comes via asteroids and space aliens conspiring to take over the world In reality the likelier doomsday comes when Japan's economy collapses test-selli- Herald Journal awfos oh ’vuver twy bad for the hundreds of people who weren’t able to find a place to park because there were two whoie cars in a huge lot This is afaraHy hobdat where Miami Herald CapefcCodiTimes Mallard Fillmoro Mf T&HP enough room to get around him and park my car into the parking lot Let me remind you again "parking lot" There was another family that had gotten into the lot to enjoy the parade and we both couldn't believe how rude these people were After the parade was over die nice man sitting beside me came to tell me that he heard the property owner say that he was blocking my car in the parking lot so I couldn't leave This upset me very much to think a man with his reputation could be so selfish on a holiday that represents freedom Excuse me that I thought his parking lot was a free place to park What was I thinking? I just feel BWHUai alarmists dragged onto a reality-base- d TV show called Shame! where in a rite ular doomsday fears that if something akin to an Iron Curtain show trial they big like an asteroid doesn't get us first ate forced to grovel and apologize and iwUL n virus like something tiny explain how they could be so laughably Faced with foe possibility that tens of wrong If the alarmists ate right you can millions of Social Security checks may bet they'll waste no time telling us about all be mailed to foe same grain and feed iL store in Dimmit Texas President ClinIf they are right not all is lost The ton has joined Gore in the Y2K fracas Clinton administration and the Newt The administration says Y2K is one iff Republicans have gushed on foe greatest technological challenges in Gingrichabout access to the Internet and and on history In a century that has seen the giving every kid a computer airplane television and men By foe time every kid gets a computer a foe greatest will be the year 2000 and the stupid it programming glitch? won't work The combination of thing The problem exists everywhere there flawed technology and failed govern- are computers but we Americans have ment promises will put the necessary already put our own peculiar spin on it steel in their souls to face foe challenges Companies are afraid to share tips for of the 21st century or if it comes to that fixing Y2K problems because they're the rerun of foe 20th Of his car and walked away while I sat there dumfounded Weil I had just Other views wrong that banks hospitals reservation systems air traffic control credit card billing assembly lines mid power grids won't go haywire If so I want the out coun- The LTD board and the Logan Municipal Council will be facing an important afraid of being sued and with reason: Preparing to sue the chips off companies that have millennial computer problems is described as “a burgeoning legal spe- - Much software is programmed with only two-dig- it dates for the year 98 for 1998 99 for 1999 but when we get to 2000 the computer will think it’s 1900 Or so I've mad 1 don't know whether any of this is true but I'm easily con- if not the ity computer geniuses who have been held up to the test of us as the wave of the future were taken by surprise by the future noticed the parking problems and traffic congestion in Logan These issues will not go away on their own If not for the farsighted action of a handful rtf Logan citizens we would currently have up to a million more vehicles adding to our cur-re- ed this sprawl One decision cannot n sufflijunwamui1 J to blockme out He got out of sideways ?-- development Sprawl eats up open space BRUCE SMTHptiMsher CHARLES McCOLLUMAnanaging edtor HOKE WENNERGRENfcHy armor CINOV YURTHleaturae editor Such is today's global economy: Japan twitches Southeast Asia teeters and South Floridians suddenly have reason to cringe at what might come next On the optimistic side Japanese voters sent a clear message to their leaders and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party: Right the economy! 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