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Show pinion 4 Tuesday October 1, 2002 Stall Sm Mmstfii column Times were fun despite our ignorance the house and later, the farm yard, often under the watchful eye of my mother. My mother has told horror stories of finding me wading in the river, throwing rocks at rattlesnakes near the gets prevent kids from getting seriously injured. Without these I do believe we experienced a kind of freedom that children who came after us have I I fly periodically to see my sons in Montana, do not But as a strong advocate of child safety friends in Oregon or Idaho and to my corporate cringe to think how many of us made it through offices in California. As a reader, I love to scan these times, without the protection of some of the airplane magazines. I am forever tearing these devices I was bom in February of 1951 in a very smalt pages and tucking them in my suitcase. SomeBy KEN LARSON Sun Advocate Publisher and getting stuck in the well, where we A I.; J L. Wain TOT 03nj CuOKIflg 3IK1 QflflKllig. I remember the big old cook stove and can't imagine the number of times I burned my fingers on the hot pans and I also recall the story of sticking a fork in the electric outlet I don't even want to remember how bad it hurt when I stuck my tongue on the side of the large barrel of water woodpile Dal KG times these give me ideas to write about later. I rural hospital on the Canadian prairies. I was taken recently ran across a tattered sheet written by home to the ranch, not in a car seat but in my Robb Moretti, tucked away in the side pocket of mothers arms. Since the old Ford truck not only didnt have seat belts, neither did most of the veone of my carry-on- s. I have to admit that a few of these thoughts or hicles have shocks and driving off the memories are my own but Mr. Moretti summed roadway often meant Mazing your own trail m uio MljJiflii rmoale or mo WHimr ana mo must of gone through to get it snow-cover- ed process mey We had no high chairs, no hand rails in the house and no locks on the doors. up several points about today's standards of through the coulees and hills. As a baby, I was tucked into my crib without a safety that make me wonder how I ever survived as a child. My generation, right in the middle of padded bumper guard or a machine that soothed the baby boomers, came before seat belts, bike me to sleep with amplified sounds of the ocean. helmets, life jackets and all things plastic that All three of us kids have pictures showing our big protect children from the hazards of everyday grins with our heads through the wooden bars of the crib. Those cribs are now banned. life. I know that many of Once I learned to walk I was free to roam around today's protective gad As we were growing up I loved to ride in the back of the pickup as my brothers (much too young to be driving legally) raced over the dirt mads and prairie traits. Even when I was in the front seat looking around it was my mother's (Continued on page SA) Stiff elitoriil What would have it been like without U.S.? By RICHARD SHAW Staff reporter The other day I was listening to a program on public ddio about how the rest of the world felt ahatfpie United States. The broadcast was composed of various viewpoints from regular people all over the globe, rather than governmental officials or supposed "experts." Now an basically said in his broken English that he and his people wish the United States had never, ever been founded. He felt our country was the purveyor of evil around the planet That was not much of a shock considering the source, but it made me think very deeply about our foreign relations and what we have done to he may change his mind. Regardless of. your or my opinion of the United States as the bully of the world, as many of these people seem to see us, imagine a world without its leading democracy. Imagine a world where room had a place they could aspire to go to get the freedoms we enjoy. True there are many European and somo Asian countries that enjoy noariy the same freedoms we do, but none of them got those freedoms until our great experiment in Democracy had reasonably enrrandnH Sure. En- - cause such feelings. I thought about it as I drove back to Price from East Carbon where I had just editor, when putting together a program like this, covered a story. Thirty miles is a long time to can superimpose his or her own view on the think and I couldn't help compare his comments broadcast, so I am aware that I cant know whaT with the mom, "It's a Wonderful Life, a Christthat slant may have been. Yet there were so many mas classic in which James Stewart wishes he who were interviewed who were negative about had never been botn and gets his wish due to a our country. We American's have a hard time hanguardian angel who asks his boss if he can show dling ft, but it is obvious that in mapy parts of the Stewart what things would have been like had he world wo are not we! liked, sometimes even by never been bom. x our "allies. One particular man on the program, who was interviewed was quite adamant about the way he felt I cant remember his words exactly, but he glish common law existed before the American colonies, but it was for men only, It was for land1 owners only and it wasnt shared equally amongst even them. Where would have all those religiously repressed European immigrants gone if they had not been able to travel to a land where they could worship as the wanted? Do you think the Euro- - So what would the world be like if the United States had never existed. That of course is a hard question to answer, but my guess is that if this guy could see the other side of what he said, pean lungs I !i I I M nave lost uwir powers !g woun L. it n naan I 1. (Continued on i SA) Guest coloni You know, you By DONALD HAUL Minute Man Media Last month: US Airways filed for bankruptcy protection. United Airlines said it would have to do the unless it got major consame by cessions from labor unions and suppliers. American Airlines announced it would be cutting jobs, planes and flights in an effort to stay afloat Amtrak twice had to pull its newest and fastest trains out of service on the Boston-Ne- w , run because it discovered cracks in the structure of the trains. This came a few weeks after Amtrak had come within days of shutting down because it had run out of money. Only a infusion of cash from cant get there from here tation power, and losing ground. Its kind of funny, really. Here we are, all puffed up about being the greatest country on earth (and if you don't believe that just ask us) and we cant figure out how to get from here to there. France figures it out So do England, Germany, . it folks,' we may be a world-cla- ss military power but we are a Third World transpor and there aren't any bomb scares and nobody goes on stake and passengers don't mind being it Lets face In Is progress a bad Not n denial of word? application Editor Editor Recent news coverage from Salt Lake CSty about the Utah Division of Ofl, Gap and Mining I As read France's Cunningham's letter to the edi tor (Sept. 24) concerning the BrUnO Farm property my mind it tCk to the days following return to Carbon County in 1990. For 30 years we, my wife and I, carried in our minds the images of Carbon County as wife remembered it I had lived ib eight different communities in Carbon County. My wife waS from Hiawatha. We found us a fine home in die Castle Gate subdivision in the mouth of Spring Canyon. We were retired and looted forward to visiting oin! "home places." With excited anticipation wfe .first visited Hiawatha, or, Mutt was left of Hiawatha. Next,! su$ gested to my wife and childrep that we should then go up to my old home towns of Spring Can--, yon and Standardville. They were (Continued on page 5A) and UtahAmerican Energy's permit application, was very misleading and did not present the most accurate account of the Division's action. What was termed as a rejection of the application for a mining permit was really nothing more than a request for additional information and clarification from the applicant This is part of the standard dialogue between the applicant and Division for any pending application. Utah is thorough in its review of mining applications, but readers should not misinteipiet a routine procedure in the review as a formal denial of the minpro-ce- ss ' ing application. Jay Marshall . them? editor to the Project Engineer . UtahAmerican Energy, Inc. iss if they were reliable and efficient and an airline system that only works if the weather is good te saved every once in a while. about cars, you say? Well, what about the past year I have driven thousands of miles throughout the eastern United States and I'm here to say that the experience Is one of unJapan, Spain and dozens of other countries, but it relieved horror. Have you tried driving on an Interstate highseems to be beyond in We not only dont have' the answers to our transportation problems, way at the legal speed limit recently? How about five miles per hour above the speed limit? It's were not even asking the questions. For example, whens the last time you heard worth your life. If youre in the left lane, people an American president talk about transportation' angrily pass you on the right and cut back in front policy? With me its been so long that I dont of you in a huff. Ive even had a SUV pass me on remember it happening. the right wlfen I was in the right lane traveling at ' Thus we have a ramshackle, rail the speed limit He used the shoulder of the road. But its not just the speed. I've been driving a car system that cant even serve its prime areas Maces where the oeooie actually would use trains for 50 years and I can honestly say that the qual- Congress last-minu- ed What Letters ity of driving today is worse than any I've ever seen. No matter what the traffic conditions, the . weather, Sun Advocate the time of day or week, practically on page 5A) - . . , ', , , The voice of Carbon County since 1892 ADMINISTRATION Publisher. Ken Lama Addrert: 845 Eaat Main, Price, Utah. Telephone: (435) , , 637-073- 2. ' Fax . APramsMG Advertising Director f : (435) j 637-271- 6, : Send change - i v Seles of address to 845 Street; Price, Utah 84501. 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