The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah • 4

WlW(p) Color Country Spectrum Sunday, May 14, 1978 Page 4 PAUL HARVEY Ctptf Mmw mntcm Meanest mother There is a lady in Fresno. who is convinced she must have had the meanest mother in the world. She wrote a letter to the editor of the Fresno Bee that I hope you'll consider worth requoting. "Surely mine was the meanest mother in the world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast.

I had to have cereal and eggs and toast. When others were enjoying pop and candy for lunch. 1 had to eat a sandwich and fruit. "I was not alone in my suffering: my sister and two brothers had the same cruel mother I "She insisted on knowing where we were ALL the time. She had to know who our friends were and what we were doing, and if we said we'd be home in an hour that meant an hour or less not more.

"When we were young and disobeyed, this tyrannical mother of ours would strike us with a switch-imagine! "And now you begin to see how really mean she was. But even this physical brutality was not the worst. "We had to be in bed early, get up early. We never got to sleep till noon like our friends. While they slept, we worked.

I mean my mother broke every child labor law there is: we were not vet 16 when we had to wash dishes, make beds, help cook, all sorts of cruel things. Surely that meanest mother must have lain awake nights think up mean things lor us to have to do. "She demanded that we tell the truth even if it hurt, and sometimes it hurt like everything. "By the time we were teen-agers life became increasingly unbearable. Our dates were not allowed to toot the horn to bring us running as other girls' dates did.

"My cruel mother embarrassed us by insisting that our dates come to the door and get us. And where some of our friends got to date when they were 12. my cruel mother refused to let us date until we were 15 and then only lor school functions. "My sister and brothers and 1 finally got away from my cruel mother and could do as we please, but by now we were helplessly warped and twisted in our behavior. "We grew up taking baths and tithing to the church and we never learned not to.

"None of us ever had the opportunities other young people have to wreck schoolhouses or burn Hags or smoke pot. "Each of us went to school and learned; went to work and earned. "Each of us got married once and still is. "It's a rut. We keep going in the direction in which we've been pushed.

And my meanest mother in the world pushed us into this bathing and learning and earning and giving and living and loving." 1978. Los Angeles Times Syndicate HIHIHI IUIU 11192 li kJI I III 10006 JACK ANDERSON (service area in your article) of any sheriff in any county in this state? Who votes on and are entitled to services from the sheriff, city or country folk? You are aware that city folk own property and have interests in the county and that in most cases the Iron County schools have both city and country students attending. You should know that the sheriff doesn't solicit calls or complaints from within a corporate city or town. But if such a call comes to his number and he is requested, he responds. After reading your article I get the impression that if you were sheriff and received a call from within a corporate city, which requested your attention, you would say "refer this call to the proper people.

I can't respond." Is this what your reply would be? Mr. Harris, the sheriff really isn't leaving the county unprotected while he is taking the many city calls because he delegates this responsibility to his deputies: or did the. deputies all quit -when you did? Name Withheld by Request Expresses thanks Editor. We wish to extend our appreciation and thanks to our many friends, neighbors, and relatives who were so kind to us at the sudden and unexpected passing of our beloved husband, father, and grandfather. W.

LaVand Bauer. A special thanks to all who participated in the lovely furneral service. For the beautiful music, the words of comfort, the gorgeous floral offerings, and the large attendance we are most grateful. We appreciate the love and consideration extended to us from the Iron Countv School Board members and Central Office Staff, the PTA Organizations, the faculty, staff, and students from all of the. schools in Iron County.

A very special thanks to the I.C.E.A. members. Elementary Faculty, staff, students, parents and all who helped purchase the picture that will be placed in the South Elementary School in honor of LaVand. We appreciate the help given us by the 14th ward bishopric and our home teachers. Thanks to the High Priests Quorum who contributed song books to the ward in honor of LaVand.

Thanks to the dear Relief Society sisters who took care of the flowers and the luncheon. A special thanks to the Presidency and Ordinance Workers at the St. George LDS Temple. To those who brought food to our homes, made telephone calls, sent letters, cards, books, and assisted in any way to show their love, we sincerely thank you. To those family members, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and cousins who came from long distances for the viewing and funeral service, we are most grateful.

A very special thanks to the students of LaVand's fifth grade for their attendance at the funeral service and for the letters they shared with us ex-' pressing their love for him. Mrs. LaVand Bauer Mr. Mrs. Evan Jolley and family Mr.

Mrs. Garlan Mitchell and family Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Bauer Responds to candidate Editor: Mr.

Don Harris, candidate for Iron County Sheriff, wrote and published a very interesting article for our local papers. I would like to paraphrase this article and hope that I don't leave out too much of his intended meaning. I.e. Dan Harris, addressing a meeting of the Escalante Valley Women's called for "a change in procedures" in the county sheriff's office. The sheriff is taking many calls in the city and at the high school and other locations, "often leaving the county unprotected." Present and former city officials agree the city police could be more effective if they knew what was going on, but the sheriff takes the calls and does not relay any information.

New employees should be required to live in the sheriff's service area; Mid Valley, New Castle, Modena, Kanarraville. etc. rather than in Parowan and Cedar City." The "procedures change" that Mr. Harris suggests would certainly simplify the sheriff's job. All we have to do now is to determine who are city folk and who are county or country folk and have the sheFiff move his office out with the country folk.

This "procedures change" would be as simple as to tell chief Bolton "that he shouldn't spend time on Main Street or the Cedar City office or that County Commission Chairman Seaman not spend so much time at the court house. Mr. Harris is a candidate for Iron County Sheriff so he should be qualified to answer some of the following, in his Own mind. Mr. Harris: Do you know the area of jurisdiction Memo indicates F-15's are shoo-in Attend the mass meetings Monday night residents of southern Utah will have an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of local and state politics.

Mass meetings are scheduled throughout the state Monday night. Members of political parties will elect new precinct officers, but most important, they will select delegates to county conventions. It is these delegates that will have the final voice on the development of political platforms, and it will be these delegates that will narrow slates on candidates for primary elections. Voters complain about selections of candidates on November ballots, and citizens complain about performances of local, state, and national officials. Monday night voters have the opportunity to express themselves where it will count the most, in an atmosphere where each voice will carry weight.

The Spectrum suggests voters take this opportunity Monday night to shake off the cloak of apathy and get involved in southern Utah's political process. It is a right and a privilege that must be protected by continued involvement. Moratorium is needed A recent fire in Cedar Valley completely destroyed a home which the fire chief said might have been partially saved if there had been fire hydrants nearby. This situation adds another reason for considering the Iron County Planning Commission's recommendation that a subdivision moratorium be imposed until some of the present ordinances can be altered to cope with problems of mushrooming growth. Fire Chief David Bentley has recommended the county not issue any more building permits if there is not above ground water storage and adequate lire hydrant installations.

There are four subdivisions in the valley that meet the fire chief's recommendations but there are at least ten that do not. Permitting further construction without ordinances which 'will insure better fire protection costs everyone money, not just the people who suffer' the fire loss, although their personal loss is the greatest. Fire insurances rates soar. Fire crews and equipment cost money to maintain. Every run costs tax money.

Everytime a highly trained fire crew must stand by and watch a fire destroy a home for lack of water, there is a human toll in terms of frustration and low morale. Bentley estimates that 10 to 12 homes have been totally burned in the valley over the past seven or eight years. In a similar period in Cedar City Bentley can't recall a single one. Through the years the county has permitted urban-type subdivisions to spring up in scattered places throughout the valley. The costs of serving these far flung areas is going to become more and more burdensome on those taxpayers who receive few benefits from the existence of these bedroom communities.

The county needs time to study and develop ordinances which will insure more orderly and less costly patterns which will at the same time afford the kind of protection suburban buyers have come to expect. Afghanistan is relevant By tradition, the wary dispenser of opinion has been able to avoid controversy by dwelling at length on such issues as starvation in India or tribal unrest among the natives of South Pacific atolls. The practice of concentrating on topics of doubtful revelance to readers has long been known as Af ghanistanism, -in acknowledgement of the 'isolation of that mountainous, landlocked Moslem nation that borders on the Soviet Union, Iran and Pakistan. But recent events in Afghanistan suddenly have made the capital, Kabul, if not a household name, then, at least, a headline word. In a bloody military coup, President Mohammad Daoud was killed.

He has been replaced by Nur Mohammad Tarrakhi, a Communist leader and chief of the military revolutionary council which will rule Afghanistan. The new government won quick recognition from the Soviet Union, its major arms supplier. More than 20 million people have been brought under the Communist banner in the continuing struggle between the Free World and totalitariansim. And Afghanistan is relevant. WASHINGTON At last count by the Attorney General's office, there were 647 registered and active foreign agents in the United States.

Registered foreign agents differ from unregistered foreign agents in two notable ways. First, they are not here ostensibly, anyway, to steal state secrets. Second, most of them are not foreign. Instead, they are American citizens retained by foreign governments for the purpose of prevailing upon the U.S. government to act with charity toward their clients.

Saudi Arabia, for example, is represented in Washington by 19 registered agents. They are devoting their energies right now to persuading Congress to approve the controversial package sale of F-15 fighter planes to both Israel and Saudi Arabia. Secret instructions have been issued to their lobbyists on how to win friends and influence votes on Capitol Hill. We have obtained a copy of the hush-hush memo, which came out of the Saudi Arabian information office in Washington. "The ball is in the Arabs' court," declares the memo.

It warns, however, that "congressional friends" of Israel will be used to espouse "pro-Israeli rhetoric to try to stop such high-profile Arab victories as the F-15 to Saudi Arabia." This startling assertion suggests that the Arabs feel they have the F-15 sale in the bag. Congressmen, the memo advises, are now "more cautious about all forms of influence the Koreagate controversy did not lessen this attitude. "With the infiuence-buying Korean scandals flooding daily television. 'few congressmen are going to interested in any contacts that have the slightest possibility of catching them in the waiting net of foreign intrigue. "Contacts with Congress people," therefore, "should be done by high-level personalities," the memo suggests, with informational activities "directed toward the Congressmen's constituents in terms of economic advantages of the Saudi Arabian-American relationship." The "light touch," emphasizes th.e memo, "is definitely suggested for Saudi Arabia." It hints that the American appetite for oil can be converted into political currency.

"The American people are not only hooked on high resource consumption," it states, "but actually don't believe there is an oil problem." The memo also calls for a bigger press punch, pointing out that "Saudi Arabia is among, the top four or five 'hottest' media sources in the United States today." It contends: "Just as Carter must go to the people for support, the direction is the same for Saudi Arabia." Looking ahead, the memo predicts that the powerful Israeli lobby will turn against Carter because of his concessions to the Arabs. "The pro-Israeli forces in the United States," it declares bluntly, "are now fully aware that they must undermine President Carter and his Cabinet and lay the groundwork for his defeat." The mysterious, seven-page memo, entitled "Saudi Arabia and United States Relations: Current Prospects and Problems," has been authenticated by inside sources. But Saudi Arabia's six-figure Washington agent, Fredrick Dutton, told our associate Jack Mitchell that he had never seen the memo. He amiably admitted, however, that certain passages looked "Duttonesque." Officials at the Saudi Arabia information office said they couldn't locate the memo in their files. And Saudi Ambassador Ali Abballah Alireza told us he had not seen the memo.

"I communicate directly with Secretary of State Vance," he said. COMMUNIST VIOLATIONS: A batch of documents smuggled from behind the Iron Curtain portrays chillingly the dire risks dissidents run for speaking out against the Soviet satellite regimes in Eastern Europe. They give the lie to pledges made by the governments of Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia in the Helsinki Accord to protect human rights. Encouraged by the pact, people in those countries dared to question their governments and incurred harsh totalitarian retaliation. Newspapers in Poland have been subjected to police state censorship," which even prohibits any mention of health hazards from the use of toxic chemicals on agricultural products.

In Romania, critics of the puppet regime are carted off to mental hospitals for barbaric treatment. In Czechoslokavia, children of politically suspect parents are deliberately discriminated against in their schooling. Copyright, 1978, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. vWV- 6(h JOHN SINOR A cast is a status symbol It wasn't Friday the 13th but it should have been. The youngest girl broke her wrist playing ball at school.

The youngest boy had to" be rushed to the dentist for an emergency root canal. The second youngest boy dislocated his jaw while performing for a repertory company. The next day one of my readers asked me: "Where in the world do you find something to write about each day?" I think the broken wrist was a great success. It was only a hairline fracture, but with it came her first cast. From wrist to elbow.

It's a big social thing to have a cast in grade school. Your friends write on it or draw pictures on it and everybody stands around and admires it. And if a boy tries to twist your arm. you can bonk him over the head with it. (True story.) She wore a long-sleeved sweater when she went back to school.

Didn't unveil the cast until assembly, which, as president, she had to lead. Talk about making an entrance. The boy with the root canal well, I don't want to talk about that. I don't even want to think about that. It gives me a shiver up my spine.

The dislocated jaw was pretty painful but it seemed to snap back in. The doctor said people dislocate their jaws slightly every time they chew. He said: "Actors are especially prone to dislocate their jaws." I said: "Listen, this kid is prone to everything." Another silver lining for the girl with the cast on her arm. She gets put on the injured reserve list and doesn't have to do dishes for four weeks. When the youngest boy heard that, I think he seriously considered going out and trying for a fractured wrist himself.

I said: "We'll just have to double up and take her nights over." (If it's my night to do dishes, I usually spring for a bucket of Colonel Sanders. The only thing I ever broke when I was in school was my thumb. I did it while boxing. We wore those huge 16-ounce boxing gloves and I wasn't strong enough to tuck the thumb of the glove into my fist. I didn't get a cast, but the doctor came out to the house (remember those days? and put a wooden splint on it.

I not only got out of dishes for a while, I also didn't have to milk the cow for i month. It was a terrific broken thumb..