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Show 1 c I. OPINION Paop 7 - July 20. 1999 Uintah Basin Standard n ? mi W I ATEN-YEAR-O- uu IDEA OF A SUMMER SCHEDULE. Right Turn By Edwin 11 Feulner, President of The Heritage Foundation (www.heritage.org), Washington-base- d public policy research institute baby-boom- ers abolished a significant drop from 1973, when 56 percenloffreshmen opposed capital liberalism: Many ofyour andbig-govemme-nt - kids are becoming gasp conservative. Listen to Wendy Shalit, the writer whose new book sends a scandalous message: sexual promiscuity is wrong. Their parents are the ones who sort of believed in this liberaticMi through promiscuity twenty-somethi- a of them believe the death penalty should be Here's some unsettling news for raised onthe 60s culture of free love punishment Washington is not thecenteroflife. Only 26 percent of those suneyed said keeping up with politics is essential or very important, well down from the 58 percent during the ng ciety. highof52 percent in 1987. is losing its appeal. 1 998-99 freshmen surveyed Only halfof the efforts abortion to legal, arecord keep support low. In 1 990, 65 percent supported abortion future rests in their own hands, not MIDNIGHT 1 nintendo 2 am. 2 pm. work on clubhouse 3 am 3 swim in river pm. p.m. Standard welcomes and encourages1 opinions from readers in the farm of letters to the editor. Letters may be utilized to express opinions or to highlight outstanding , service of an individual or organization, or any other worthwhile purpose. Letters may not be used to replace Cards of Thanhs, or to list sponsors, participants or contributors to a particular event or purpose. LETTERS MUST CONTAIN 400 WORDS OR LESS. BE TYPED OR WRITTEN LEGIBLY. SIGNED. AND INCLUDE NAME. ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER OF THE AUTHOR Letters will be published unless they contain libelous or defamatory statements. We reserve the right to withhold a name if the nature of the letter is positive, and to edit letters. Lessen may be submitted to the Standard office at 268 S. 200 E., Roosevelt. Utah. 84066 by the published deadline (normally Thursdays at 5:00 p.m.f All letters become property of the Uintah Basin comments, ' Has the governor build pm lost his mind? Dear Editor, The question is not as outrageous as it seems. Here's the reasoning. The governor is trying to force the Th horn Brad Shafer, special assistant to Sen. Bob Bennett met with officials from Duchecne County, the h) Bureau of Indian Affairs, and th District Ranger for Ashley National Forest to discuss urgent concerns of the Uintah Basin. Shafer was in Duchesne County last week to gather public sentiment on environmental issues and water-relate- d concerns. He will report his findings to the senator. Duchesne County Commission Chairman Larry Rosa told Shafer that the concerns of the people here are serious and expressed the urgency that Sen. Bennett stand up and be counted in Washington. Rose aid that one of the main concerns in this area ia that federal agencies an moving in a direction, that before long, all public lands will be tied up. Bureau of Indian Affaire Super Uintah Basin Standard Inc. Periodical postage paid a Roosevelt aid Duchesne; Utah (USPS 646-90Published weekly 26 S. 200 E , Roosevelt. Utah 4066-310- POSTMASTER: Send eddress changes to the Uintah Basin Sleadwd el 261 S. 200 E. Roosevelt, Utah 14066-310- 9 S OFFICE HOIKS: 00 a m. to 1 00 pm. Monday. 9 00 am. to 5.00 p w Tuesday tfeu Fnday. 00-- 4 Phone Fas: 722-414- 0 DEADLINES: For all News; Legal Nonces, OaMificds A Advertning, die Dwdtaw Thinday el 5 p at PUBLISHER: Craig Ashby EDITOR: Lezlec E. Minting ADVERTISING: Michelle Roberts OFFICE MANAGER: Tracy Womack PRODUCTION: Writers; Aldon Rachclc, Mery Wertz. 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Thia schema is taken directly from the dark days ofthe KGB ana the Soviet Union. It is unethical and it could open the private records of mental health practitioners to bureaucratic snooping. The whole plan is irrational and dangerous! . Dr. Ann Blake Tracy PhD Psychology k Health Sciences Director of the International Coalition for Drug Aware nesa Theres one thing worse than war Dear Editor, Do you all take time to think and appreciate all tho freedoms we have hem in the United States? We are truly a blessed people. But there are always those who protest or complain. To bad they do not have to work harder. Then they would not have time to protest Through out life I have thought many times of what my mother told me during World War IL I had brothers and brothers-in-lain the war, I was only 12 or 13 at the time but I knew how bad the war was because of their letters. One day after a letter from one of my brothers who was in the middle of a big battle, (he wae a commanders tank driver ) He had, had 6 tanka shot out from under him up till then and never been hurt. I said to my Mother, "War is Bad." She said, "Yea, but there ia something worae.'I thought what can be worse than war? When she said, "Sin." As I thought about it I realised she was right. War is bad but it conies and goes, but sin is always about us. There are sins of commitments, or things wo do that are wrong; lie, steal, cheat, gossip, not being faithful to spouse, saying unkind things and it goes on and on. Then there art sins of omittance. We sometimes do not think of them as sins, but just wait until you have to answer to God on judgement day. I think we will all he surprised. Some of these are we do not go to Church, we do not help the poor and needy, we do not teach our children about God and his plan for us. I think one of the biggest sins in thia day and age is that we do not teach our children to work. We are going to be held accountable for our childrens action, believe it or not. Do you think that ia whv Jesus taught repentance so often? We all need it each day. To try each day to be better than we were the day before, or in other ways one step at a time. The righteous life ia truly the happier life Wickedness never was w - 5 am. fort By Loma Stradinger children. non-medi- ghost stories snack 4 a.m. 4:30 am. watch sunrise lunch tl EDITOR 'S NOTE: The Uintah Basin - catch fireflies senators aide that environmental rules need balance MarkTwain once said that whenhewasa teenager he couldnt believe how dumb his father was, but by the time be became an adult he marveled at how much tire old man had learned. Today many of the adults who imbibed the polluted culture of the 60s could take a lesson in common sense from their legislature to adopt recommend-tion- a aubmitted to him by the Board of Mental Health called, "Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT).' This Orwellian nightmare calls for changes in the law that would allow involuntary medication (drugs) tobe forcefully administered to you or your children. Refusal to accept this bureaucratically imposed drug treatment could be aul mitted to the court as evidence that you should be committed; and based on that refusal you could lose your children. Many of your civil liber-- ' ties would be swept away merely on the unsupported accusation of a government official. If you think Governor Leavitt would never allow that to happen, youre wrong; hs already has. Bureaucrats at DCFS wanted to medicate some of the children in the family. The parents declined. They subsequently moved to Arizona and established a marvelous home environment. DCFS officials reached across state lines and snatched the children. The parents appealed to the governor; he retimed to help. Now the state is trying to give the Rodrigues children to another family for adoption. The parents crime? Refusing to allow their kids to be drugged by bureaucrats. (Apparently the state wanted the federal money it gets for each child put on this will medication.) Whatother occur under this proposed new law? It will get wont. The plea the governor m pushing calls for the nintendo breakfast Local officials tell government' three-quarte- rs hide 'ri go seek 9 pm. baseball 10:30 pm. supper freedom and a growing dependence on the state-a- nd they dont like it. They realize their There is little tolerance for criminals. of the freshmen said Nearly there is too much concern for those who commit crimes, a nearly 50 percent increase from the early 1 970s. In addition, less than a quarter pm NOON & - on demand. ' 11 get up 6 pm chores 6:05 p.m. -- - fishin' 7:30 p.m. snack fruits ofbig government exploding drug use, children bearing children, the lossofindividual Abortion-on-dema-nd - -- Itsamazing, really. These kids arc not only rq ecting the iTit feels good do it ethicoftheir parents generation (my generation), theyre also resisting popular culture. As Hollywood parades itsjunk through movie theaters and the music industry pumps out more and more trashy CDs, many oftodays young adults are bu)ing into values and responsibility. Theyre also saying theyve had enoughof Washington-knows-bes- L Theyve seen the all-ti- -- 5 pm. - follow bear tracks days of the mid-- 1 960s. Meanwhile, almost 75 percent said they volunteered time as high school seniors, a strong signal ofthe importance young people place on taking individual responsibility to improve so- own parents rejected. For Shalit and others like her, the philosophy ofIove the one you're with just doesnt cut it. Indeed, according to a recent poll of 275,000 first year college students conducted by UCLA, young people are shunning liberalism across the board-o- n everything from sex and crime to individual responsibility and the role of government According to the survey : Casual sex is no longer the norm. The students were presented this statement Iftwo people really like each other, its all right for them to have sex even if they ve known each other for a very short time. Only 40 percent said it was acceptable. Thats down from the am 4 pm govem-ment-is-the-ans- andexperience,Shalit,authorof ARetumto Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, told the Associated Press. Kids today, however, are embracing the codes of conduct that their BOYS LD happiness.1 ' May we 11 pray for help, then do something about living better each day. From your big old friend, with Love Mr. Whitney R. Checketts intendent for the Ouray and Ute Indian Reservation Dave Allison explained to Shafer that, the more land that is dosed off to development by federal agencies, the greater the pressure there will be for the tribe to develop trust lands. Land open for development ia necessary to maintain th infrastructure necessary for production. However, as more and more federal lands become unavailable for development, a disproportionate burden will be forced on th tribe to maintain op- erations. This brings up serious environmental justice issues. "The impact of dosing these lands said Allison. "Production will ultimately be moved to third world countries where there may not be as much opposition to development of energy supplies. That would bs crippling to not only the Basin, but Utah and the United States." Another nuyor concern ia water. Control and storage of water resources in the Uinta Mountains are heavily impacted by wilderness restrictions that the Forest Service and other federal agencies must ppiy- - According to Ducheana County Water Conservancy District General Manager, Randy CmierI"Wil- - by Cheryl Mecham These hot July days remind me of berry picking when I was a kid. Grandma would hand me a bucket and ask me to run up on the ui hill and pick some hurries, Ps- There wasnt anything I'd rather do when I heard the word "pie" so off I would run, the bucket bumping against my knees all the way up the hill. Grandma had warned me of th dangers laying in the shadows, long black snakes hunting for mice that scavenged the ripened red and Mack berries that fell. Taking the bucket in one hand I 'pounded on the bottom with th other banging it like drum and hollered out, "Snakes! Snakes! Go find you somewhere else to hide, Tm coming in!" Not certain if my chanting and banging had don th job I raked the bucket through the tall grase in from side-to-siand inched my way through the thorny boughs. While I plucked off the pleasing thimble-shape-d berries I'd hum to myself and pop one in my mouth ever so often, when my arms were scratched and stained clear to the elbows and sweat was running into my eyes the bucket was nearing capacity. Grandma would be waiting, so I hurried backdown the hilL Together wed rine them in a sink full of cold water. A few tiny worms and insects would float to the surface. I marveled at their appearance. How did they find their way into th bucket? "They were on the berries dear, you just didn't see them." Grandmas kitchen was reaching well over 100 degrees by this time, but eh didnt seem to notice. The berries were rinsed and sugared and the pastry rolled thin and pressed against the side of two well worn pie tins. Grandma's hands always worked quickly. I watched her big knobby knuckle work th edge of the pi crust into a fluted ring. After she slid them safely in th even to cook, would started in on Cndma That'sget when Td bug out for a cool swim in the creek. Itwas always this way. Grandma just working away, unconcerned in that hat, hot kitchen. Now I know, years later that her feet must have hurt, her back must have ached. Her knuckle were big from being overworked. But, she waa passing on something to me that wu impor de tant to her. She taught me that th earth will always yield, but only after some effort is mad. Most days we hoed the garden together and picked cucumbers and in the dusky twilight hunted for night crawlers for morning fishing the next day. Tody, when Tm kneeling between rows, pulling weeds.or pi g tomatoes from their vines a the sun tops the mountains I think about grandma and notice that her lessons took root And th lesson ia uck-in- dernesa issues are literally becoming a living nightmare. Thera are 19 reservoirs ia this area and most of these reservoirs are in need of maintenance and repair. However, water users are unable to maintain th dams due to severs restrictions on methods of maintenance necessary to bring water storage unit up to standard." District Ranger for the Ashley National Forest Jos Bistryelri slated that environmentalists, water users, and government agencies can situation by bringenjoy a win-wi- n ing tha water out ofthe high Uintas and building projects which would allow the water to be more efficiently controlled. Bistryski said th Forest Service is supportive of any options that can accomplish thia end. He pointed out that increasing th size of Moon Lake is a viable option. Rosa said the countys position is that titers are two option First, the issue of moving th dams in the Uinta and Upalco unite was not emphasized sufficiently. He said the county remains hopeful that the tribe will com back to th negotiating table regarding th Upalco and Uintah projects. Second, ifth tribe does notwant to ha involved in the projects, we will develop smaller storage projects at alternative sitae. Britiyski said that the Forest Service is supportive of any options that may accomplishsuch projects. According to all the parties involved, capturing tha water is vital to th conservation, economics, and recreation of Duchesne County and surrounding arses." Rasa also was hopeful that Shafer may influence Son. Bennett to fight for increased Payment ia Lieu ef Taaes (P1LT) monies. Seye Roes, there ia a proposal to increase P1LT monies from $125 million to $145 million. This amount! to $375,000 annually which is a badly needed 15-2- 0 percent increase. regard-ingVaterkuf- easily passed along, though my kids, just two rows over don't know it yet. Two council seats in Altamont Town will be up for election Two of th five seats on th Altamont Town Council are up for election thia year. Those wishing to file for candidacy have until Aug. 15 to declare their intentions. The two Council seats are held by Dave Jessup and Harry Fieldstead. Melba Markham has tha forms prospective candidates must sign to run for Altamont Town Council. Markham can be readied at 454- - 3702, The municipal election partisan. b non- Tho who may need a bit of a nudge to run for public office could bt nominated. Then is a "bomina-tio- n form" that can be filled out by those wishing to nominate a candidate. At least 25 signatures must be obtained ia order to nominate candidal. City to give new summer schedule a trial period Beginning next month Rooeevelt City office will be open Monday Thursday from 7 JO a m. to 5:30 p.m. Th move to the four-dawork week is being done on a trial basis throughout August If public reaction b good and results warrant the new work schedule will be adopted throughout th summer months starting next year at the end ofsdiool and lasting Until school y, 10-ho- ur Th reason for tha change b to mors effectively serve th public by opening earlier and dosing fetor, explained City Recorder, Carolyn Kriaaman.. At the end ef August, th ached ul will be evaluated for effectiveness end could become part of the city's permanent policy. Th four-dayha been in effect for yean at Moon . Lake Electric Association. The power company four-dacreeks are scheduled to coincide with the start at tha beginning ef Daylight Saving Tim in AnriL When the docks are turned back an hour in the fell. Moon Lake returns to their five-da- y a week schedule. y BIA office hours return to normal Office hours for tha United Stataa Department of Ihs Interior, Bureau fIndian Affairs, Uintah and Ouray Agency, Fort Duchem, Utah, have ntumsd to 8 a m. 4.30 p.m. Repairs to the air conditioning srtera h been mada We am sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused you. |