Show ' ' ' f £ f t ' a1' v r' - ' ' v ' 'A "ii f Jf 't VW Thursday IS 1 V' ' ' i 5 a & - juiyn -- vWjLtjf The Herald Journal ' V )' — I' i yf-'- Par view Local libraries on toes a Kectic to ask your kids what they want to read order the children’s books in six a bag In this age of computer games and the Internet it’s nice to know libraries are making it easier than ever for kids to get their hands on a book It’s still good the best thing to stimulate a young imagination and it’s hard to lie out on a beach towel with a computer The drive-u- p library window is believed to be the first in the state Who says Cache Valley is behind the times? To use the service go to wwwliliorgpreston on the Net to access Larsen-Sant’- s card catalog 5 to order then call (208) your books What will they think of next7 Free book delivery to your home? We wouldn’t put it past these folks “six-pack- ”: you think of small-tow- n libraries as musty 'dusty places d librarian where the shushes you with a finger over her lips you obviously haven’t been to somd of Cache Valley's small libraries In North Logan Librarian Sue Randleman woos kids with her duck puppet Quaker Jack and adults with lectures and cooking clashes Now Preston’s brand new Lafcen-SaLibrary has come up with a convenient idea for families window on the go: a Much like a Chinese restaurant the idea works this with take-oway: Patrons call in their requested books an hour or more in advance then drive past the window to pick them up If your day is even too f stern-face- i m I ' ed nt drive-throu- i pre-select- ed gh a I - t y 1 ' !( 'if ' 852-017- ut i ii (i! ranchers didn’t spread disease Corporate wrongdoing not a partisan issue F speech in lower Manhattan Beginning with his executive order creat- By Joseph Parkins Newspaper Enterprise Association ing a new corporate fraud task force headed by Deputy Attorney General resident this Bush X promised Larry Thompson and including week to “use the full weight of the investigators from the Justice law to expose and root out corrupDepartment and other agencies This “financial crimes SWAT tion” throughout American business team” as Bush described it has been And he backed up his tough rhetoric tasked by the president with “over--! with a "corporate reform” agenda that among other things proposes to seeing the investigation of corporate abusers and bringing them to double the maximum prison term for account” Meanwhile Bush seeks a mail and wire fraud — the statutes $100 million increase in the Security often used in cases of corporate and Exchange Commission’s budget wrongdoing — up to 10 years That additional money is on topof Yet Democrats oh Capitol Hill the $20 million increase the adminiswere underwhelmed “I don’t think tration sought earlier this year so the the president or the administration in said what this about” regulatory agency can hire 100 new really gets enforcement officers Sen Paul Wellstone “The silence Altogether Bush said his proposed will “end the days ofcook-in- g reforms the out of the books shading the truth and White House has behn deafbreaking our laws” Still the party of Wellstone and Dodd responded that ening on this the president’s plan is not enough comissue” believe sweeping new laws are Sen They plained needed to govern the corporate sec- Christopher tor and police the accounting indus-- : ' try j The American people disagree Oneimag- ines that the party of Wellstone and Nearly 70 percent according to the Dodd would not have been satisfied Gallup Poll said that current laws are sufficient that those Jaws just unless the president went sofar as to need to be more strictly enforced demand public hangings of v such as last month when former and other corpounscrupulous CEOs ImClone CEO Samuel Waksal was rate miscreants That's because Democrats view corporate corruption arrested for insider trading and this as a political godsend a ripe issueon' past March when the Justice Department indicted Andersen delivering which they can bash Bush and his fellow Republicans between now and the scandalized accounting firm a the November midterm election corporate “death sentence” It seems clear that the public does However the Democrats have a view corporate corruption as a not does American The public problem not hold President Bush responsible partisan issue despite Democratic efforts to tie financial discrepancies for the meltdown of companies such at Merck and Xerox and other sus- as WoridComand ImClone and pect corporations to Bush and the Systems The latest Gallup Pgjl asked Americans a rather loaded Republicans Corporate reform is " Was much too important an issue to be least : Bush at question: partially exploited for naked political purpos-responsible for business scandals es While Democrats and Republi-- :: because of the climate he has set in cans bicker over which is more office by his close ties to big corpobebolden to corporate America and v rations? The majoritysaidno In : fact more of those surveyed actually which can be more trusted to prevent 'future accounting scandals investor Mamed Bush’s ethically impaired confidence continues to wane the predecessor Bill Clinton stock indexes continue to decline fig-athe most Perhaps potewotthy g and the nation's economic of poll was that is threatened respondents said they have confi- dence Bush will take effective action to make Sure large corporations act Joseph Perkins Is a columnist for The ' San and can be thin Diego precisely responsibly And reacnaant JoaapnianunBU ic what Bush told Wap Street execu-- : s y ( fives he would do in his recent - V:: nkxiTribJmr ' P (D-Min-n) Pere-‘gri- re well-brin- - Unkm-Trtx- - - i--- : elk-hunti- ng Writers rv three and a half decades wildlife managers in the Rockies have known that a killer crept among the region’s wild herds of elk and deer And they did nothing Now they have been forced to acknowledge that Chronic Wasting Disease has infected the game herds on Colorado’s Western Slope The disease which rots tire brains of the animals had appeared in the Colorado Division of Wildlife's research facilities in Kremmling and Meeker during the on the Range 1970s What should have been an exercise in basic animal husbandry in the late 20th century has turned into political Mood sport in the new millennium Afraid 'to admit that its inaction allowed the spreading of die disease to threaten die wild deer and elk herds on the Western Slope the Colorado Division of Wildlife pointt jts finger at a favored target: domestic elk ranches the only place where Chronic Wasting Disease has been eradicated Why is CWD absent in domestic elk but rampant in the wild? Simple: disease control is an agricultural core value As specialists in animal husbandry we monitor our livestock for disease Then we work to wipe it out Our tough regulator die Department of Agriculture specializes in controlling disease It’s worked for catde It’s worked for sheep It’s Worked for pigaL And much to dm chagrin of those who lay wild animals should not be domesticated it’s wotted on : : buffalo just like it’s worked on elk But our critics claim that “overwhelming evidence” points to die elk industry as die culprit for CWD Here are some things critics choose to ignore: The Western Slope discovery of CWD was on an elk ranch but none of the 30 domestic elk killed and tested on the ranch have tested positive for CWD Ten wild deer are the only animals that have tested posi- tive for CWD CWD runs uncontrolled in Wyoming’s wild herds even though the state outlawed eUc nnchjtyg yean ago and die sole remaining ranch which was grandfathered in is far from die infection zone The two most recent CWD discoveries in suburban Denver are far from any elk ranches hi die recent depopulation in northeast Colorado’s endemic area four elk tested positive on two relatively new randies which had not been previously been exposed to CWD from domestic elk Regulators agree that this proves the infection has been spread from the wild into domestic herds —not the other way around " Our industry has addressed CWD it’s our nature: That’s what good ranchers do And’ we’ve paid for it through the loss of 3000 valuable animals that were only partly reimbursed— even though government inaction caused their destruction Tins is the siune government that has now imposed an embargo on shipping elk from game farms even though the surviving f ' ve pro-acti- head-onbeca- ' i 'f v WSx-- ’ ' o ?': 'What was the purpose of the five- - " part series m die Latterday Skints Mormons” the week of June 8 Was it political because of the prima-l- y ekctions or because of the dedieft-tro-n of die new temple in Nauvoo? 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'VL' i ' A— nOn WaKOr A GOnUBUnr ID TTnlOfB on the Bangea aeivice of HKjh Coun-- ! try News in Paionia Colorado (hcnorg) He la president of the Col- qrado Elt Breeders AesodaMprt - Why can’t paper to theeditor v'' : fast-trac- Your MllRIOrO ' domestic herd is CWD-fre- e ranches Although the have been much criticized they’re i( actually more ethical than most other recreational hunts Not only are the elk running free on tracts of land ' encompassing as much as four or five square miles but professional £ guides also supervise hums to ensure an accurate and precise IdlL We ' don’t allow wounded elk to run away ‘ and suffer extended painful deaths as happens so often in unsupervised hunts We stand united in helping rid the West of the CWD scourge let loose by the government to run free through wild herds Looking for-ward We think it’s critical to take a regional approach so that state agen- cies are working together to resolve a doesn’t respect state diseree boundaries We also think federal agencies need a stronger role particularly in attacking CWD in the Rocky Moun- - " tain National Park elk herd We agree that die development of a live CWD test is critical and we stand ready to join with government and leading k its develdpment ' experts to Meanwhile we urge state govern- - in regu- ments to be more from removal carcasses of lating the endemic areas On die 35th anniversary of the discovery of CWD in a Colorado Division of Wikllife pen in Fort Collins it’s time for those of us committed to' this noble species to quit pointing fingers It’s time to start working together so we have it under comrol before its 40th anniversary ' ne two-thir- ds i vvU:-:- :V‘ k (W2-190- ) r ' & |