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Today is Father’s Day – the day set aside to honor good old Dad. It may not have much status as a holiday. The flags probably won’t be out and there won’t be a parade. But it’s listed (just barely) in the encyclopedia. Father’s Day comes each year on the third Sunday in June. Merchants… Continue reading Good Old Dcud-It’s His Doy

This is an era of rising salaries for public officials – local, coimty, state, and national ap pointive as well as elective. in some situations, the salaries have spiraled rapidly; in others the climb has been more gradual and conservative. There appears ‘to be little correlation among government levels in some cases. One wonders if… Continue reading Rising Pcay of Public Officials

It isn’t very often that a new town is incorporated in Utah County. But two such incorporations have been accomplished in less than a year – Highland just this past week, and Salem Hills last December. . The two newcomers bring the total incorporated cities and towns in the county to eighteen. Highland became the… Continue reading Incorporated Cities, Towns

A college sociologist got his name in the papers several months ago by asserting that ”1-lonest Abe” Lincoln didn’t earn his nickname by walking barefoot for miles to return a few cents a story the educator considers a myth. The nickname really originated because Lincoln’s Illinois neighbors thought he was a good referee for cock… Continue reading Lincoln: A Great President

In the Fifth Century hordes of Germanic people called Vandals ravaged Gaul and Spain and in A.D. 455 sacked Rome destroying untold quantities of property. In our enlightened age some have called those people barbarians. Today, in our own time, what do we call the vandals who overrun Utah’s highways and rest stops, destroying their… Continue reading Utah Highway Vandalism

The Carter Administrations decision to ask that $32 million be slashed from the budget of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project could be disastrous to Utah’s water development and a setback to economic objectives, if approved by Congress, The request for a cutback from the $39 million Bonneville Unit budget the Ford Administration… Continue reading Request for Bonneville Unit
Fund Reduction Ill-Advised

It’s somewhat staggering to learn that in their 60-day 1977 session, Utah legislators introduced 954 bills and resolutions and passed a total of 365 of them. This was a record in both categories. .Bills introduced exceeded by 145 the number in the general session two years ago. And the number that made it through both… Continue reading That Flood of New Lows . . .

The Carter Administration has been spearheading a whirlwind campaign to “sell” the proposed new Panama Canal treaty to Congress and the American public. The push will reach a zenith Wednesday at a treaty-signing extravaganza in Washington, to be attended by Gen. Omar Torrijos, Panama’s chief of government and other Latin American, Caribbean, and Canadian dignitaries,… Continue reading Slow Down on the Treaty