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view PAGE 5 SPECTRUM WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1982 pom In our opinion Inside view qf Begin Bury the waste not the problem Soviet leadership fcr.Positom! 1962 Copier Newt Sarnie two bills one that just passed the Senate and another that is not being studied in the House. The key to breaking the logjam was not technical. The technical community, the OTA found, has been in nearly unanimous agreement for some time about what must be done: The radioactive wastes muct be permanently buried thousands feet below ground in stable geologic formations protected by redundant natural and man-made barriers. What Congress had to do, the OTA concluded, was create an agency with an independent source of funding and a plan of action written into law so that all participants would be assured that these facilities would actually be built. The OTA propose to tax nuclear power users for the costs of the program and to write into law a committment to build several facilites so that no one state is stuck with all the nation's radioactive wastes; a prohibition against relying on temporary storage facilites except in an emergency; a plan for simultaneous study of several alternative geologic sites; and a guarantee to the utilities that the federal government will assume liability for and physical possession of new wastes at a specific date.

The date, the OTA suggested, should be set conservatively to reassure everyone that the government will not end up rushing into an inadequately-planned project. This is essentially what the Senate has now done. It is what the House should do as quickly as possible. Perhaps it should not have been necessary to legislate so many specifics to solve what was supposed to be a mere technical problem. But the pol-tical situation has gotten so far out of hand that, unless Congress succeeds in clearing the air, there will be no nuclear waste disposal program at all.

Although by law the federal government is responsible for safely disposing of the radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants, three successive administrations have failed to create any waste disposal facilites. Worse yet, the goals of the federal research and development effort have shifted with each change in administration-leaving the nuclear industry uncertain about the future it must plan for, and alienating the states and local governments with a string of broken promises about the protections that will be provided at waste disposal sites. It's been obvious for some time that Congress would have to step into the fray, but until now Congress itself was divided on the subject. And while Congress stalled, the nuclear utilities were running out of temporary on-site waste storage space, and the current administration was trying to hold up development of permanent disposal sites for budgetary and other reasons. The states, meanwhile, were refusing to cooperate in federal site-selection studies for either permanent or temporary disposal facilities, because they feared the administration would shortchange the program that once any permanent facility was built, further funding for the full program would disappear.

As the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) reported, the remaining technological problems with nuclear waste disposal paled before mistruct and inconsistency that the politicians had created. In its research, however, the OTA discovered that there were measures that would satisfy all sides in the nuclear waste debate and get the program moving again. These have now "been incorporated in By United Press International Today is Wednesday, May 26, the 146th day of 1982 with 219 to follow. The moon is moving toward its first quarter. The morning star is Venus.

The evening stars are Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. American entertainer Al Jolson was born May 26, 1886. Others born on this date were Peggy Lee in 1920 and John Wayne in 1907. On this date in history: M6Jt 4Mi of today's of WASHINGTON- Israel's embattled Prime Minister Menachem Begin, though capable of statesmanship, "tends to revert to his former style of rigidity and narrowness of view that makes negotiations difficult." So warns a secret psychological profile prepared by U.S.

intelligence experts. Their appraisal is used as a guide by top U.S. policymakers who deal with Begin. If the Israeli leader should visit the White House, for example, the president would study a psychological profile. jack anderson He would be told that Begin is an activist a puncher rather than a counter-puncher.

"As an initiator, he is apt to strive for the dramatic to attract attention. When he reacts, however, he tends to be very cautious and precise." The reason for this, the psychological profile suggests, is that Begin has spent most of his life "in the role of the oppos-er, the voice of a minority, an opponent of the establishment." For five years, he has stood at the center of the establishment. Yet he still has trouble conceiving of himself as a leading actor on the world stage rather than as angry voice from the wings. The secret psychological profile has been reviewed by my associate Indy Badhwar. It represents the best assessment of Begin by experts on the Middle East.

Here are the highlights: "Begin is not considered, nor does he behave as, a man of compromise or flexibility. His image in the past has been that of a passionate believer in his position and an outspoken and somewhat crude or unrefined representative of the Holocaust pholosophy. He represents the mentality of those Jews unable to update in their perspective the Nazi treatment of their brethren." Begin believes that "any expression of curbs on the sanctity of the Jewish state, or the potential Arab 'infring-ment' on Israeli territory" should be "dealt with severely." "To label his views as paranoid is inaccurate," the analysis states, adding: the same time one might admit that Mr. Begin is and was defensive and overly reative to such so-called threats. He has built his entire life and political career on this basis." Even Begin closest advisers have warned him not to behave like the underdog he was for so many years in Israeli politics.

They urge Begin to become the spokesman for the Israeli people as a whole, "rather then for a strident and zealous minority" of ultra-conservative religious Jews who are outside the mainstream of Israeli society. "Their strength is not adherents may increase as the balance between Ashkenazi (Western Jews) and Sephardic (Oriental Jews) changes in favor of the latter." Begin's role as the perrennial outsider became evident in his public appearances with the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat during the Camp David negotiations. "Begin appeared to be under stress and uncomfortable," the profile states. "It was Sadat's show and Begin behaved as if he were not sure what to do next. He was not in control, therefore uneasy." Once this "unfamiliar and uncomfortable" role was over, the analysis noted, "Begin reverted to the 'minority the strict and somewhat strident zealot's view of Biblical rights and overprotection of the Jewish state." HEY In line with its tend-ior-yourself business philosophy, the Reagan administration slashed the budget for the Travel and Tourism Adminstra-tion from $7.6 million this year to $5 million next year.

The TTA's basic function is to provide taxpayer-paid promotion for the hotel and restaurant industries. But the administration budget-cutters didn't reckon on the clout of the Congressional Tourism Caucus, which consists of members of Congress from tourist-luring states. Under pressure from the caucus, both Senate and House Commerce Committees were persuaded to increase the tourism agency's appropriation a cool 100 percent. The additional $5 million in TTA's budget will go for such necessities as junkets for foreign travel writers, who might otherwise tell their readers about Peking instead of Peoria, or New Guinea instead of New York. UNDER THE DOME: Piqued at two members of his staff for failure to produce a budget report on schedule, Sen.

Ernest Hollings, descended to a zoological epithet. "You two are about as unproductive as those pandas," he said, referring to the National Zoo's two Chinese pandas, whose unsuccessful efforts to produce offspring have bored the public for several years. That Man in the White House is really as insecure as the next government worker. A large photo of the president hanging on the office wall of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is autographed "Sincerely, Ron" with an added parenthetical explanation: "(Ronald Reagan)." 1982, United Feature Syndicate.

Inc. almanac to rest ernor, but he lost to incumbent Republican George Dewey Clyde by less than one percent of the vote. World's biggest turkey grower Disappointed, Barlocker left politics with huge campaign debts. But his turkey business was on the rise and by 1963, he was the largest single-owner turkey producer in the world. He had more than 350,000 Thanksgiving turkeys waiting in cold storage in Chicago and Los Angeles on Nov.

23, 1963 when Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. "All over the nation people went on a fast for the president," Sampson remembers. "It was just before Thanksgiving and nobody bought turkeys. That's when Bill started to get into financial trouble." Barlocker had been obtaining operating loans ranging from $900,000 to $1.25 million from First Security Bank and "the bank called the loan in," Sampson said. Bill lost his empire Barlocker couldn't pay.

So he sold off all his assets. The turkey business, his bank, related businesses everything. And still he couldn't pay the investors who'd put their money with him. "He held out," said Sampson. "They thought he would have to take out bankruptcy but he never did." But he held onto thousands of acres of land and the ground grew in value until in 1974-75, Barlocker sold it off, raising $1.24 million in cash.

Then he "paid off all obligations," Sampson said. "Nobody lost with Bill. The only thing they lost was the interest on their money." But before this happened, close friends of Barlocker had intervened, coaxing him off Cedar Mountain and away from his forelorn isolation herding sheep. Gov. Calvin Rampton, a close friend of Barlocker, quietly interceded at Dixie College and in 1966 he was hired as Dixie College Campus Developer and Business manager, where he served for 10 years.

Helped the college grow It was Barlocker, said college spokesman George Rampton, who was instrumental in the campus growing by seven buildings within five years. "He knew where to go, who to see and what to do" to obtain money for the college buildings, added Lorraine Cox, who had business dealings with Barlocker over the years. But most of all, said Cox, Barlocker spent his life building for others. He put his turkey projects where they would boost the feed prices for farmers and he looked constantly for ways for little businessmen to obtain loans and to grow alongside even when Barlocker was operating in millions of dollars. public forum The agenda, prepared by the State Court Administrator's Office, included schooling on versatile subjects essential to qualities of good judgeship.

Judge James B. Kirby, 1981-1982 President of the Utah Peace Officers Association, conducted the well-attended seminar in a competent and articulate manner. The schooling time was allocated in a very productive schedule. The Justice of the Peace provides a unique, competent and economical judicial public service. The court provides local and conveninet access for citizens without the need for costly attorney services and also insures the constitutional guarantees of a speedy disposition of a court case.

For many citizens, the Justice Court is the first introduction to the judicial court system and has a lasting impression on the attitude of the participating citizen. Continued public and legislative support for the Justice of the Peace program is timely and deserving. JOHN E. SMITH Leg. Member Judiciary Committee legacy laid ness.

He obtained a crop and chattel mortgage for the money, using as security 40 acres of land, one 6-year-old gray mare, one 2-year-old blue horse, 1 yellow Jersey cow, 2 Chester white pigs, 600 young turkeys and a Jersey heifer. His first year of business ended well and his father went into partnership with Bill. By the end of 1942, the two men had a net profit of $10 each. Bill's father got out of the turkey business for a while. But not young Barlocker.

He persisted and by 1954 he'd built a hatchery in St. George. In 1959 he constructed his own processing plant, also in St. George, a 6,000 square foot, $400,000 building capable of turning out thousands of processed turkeys daily. Palm trees in St.

George In 1961, he built "Turkey Town" in Enterprise, which sectioned off more than 3,000 birds into smaller groups and prevented them from engaging in mass deaths by stampeding and smothering thousands of young birds in a single incident. He employed more than 100 people in the turkey business alone and had the funds to write $200,000 checks without batting an eye. Barlocker served as St. George mayor for three terms and was a prominent member of local civic clubs. He gave $5,000 from his own pocket to launch a civic project to bring palm trees into St.

George. He donated all of his mayor's salary to Dixie Junior College. He was constantly handing out silver dollars to children. "I can remember," said variety store operator Ross Hurst, "he used to come in about Christmas time and he'd give me $500 and say, 'Give me toys. I want then evenly divided between boys and They were just for people he knew about." Bought the bank A major success story centers on the day in 1954, when Bill attempted to borrow money from the old Bank of St.

George. He was turned down, and the upstart Barlocker told those banking executives that they were wrong and someday he'd buy the bank himself. Two years later, in 1956, he did acquire the bank for $2.7 million. He sold it, with $13 million in assets in 1964, while trying to escape bankruptcy. His fate seemed to be linked to former President Kennedy.

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1960, Barlocker polled the biggest primary election majority in the state's history. In the general election he compiled more votes in Utah than did Kennedy, the Democrat's presidential candidate. Had Barlocker been on a ticket with a strong presidential candidate in the state, he'd probably have been gov penses. Thank You. The same people helped six players go to the State Tennis Tournament in Park City, but an overnight trip that far away need even more support.

We were helped by the Parowan Chamber of Commerce, Parowan High School, and the Iron County School District. In these times of budget cuts and no funds for some programs, please keep in mind that very positive things can happen with a little support. I hope all Iron County Schools can still compete in lifetime sports in the future. Thank you all parents, Parowan High School, Parowan Chamber of Commerce, students and George Jr. Bob Crawford Parowan, Utah Justice of the peace Editor, Spectrum: Having attended the recent Justice of the Peace Association seminar in St.

George, I would like to make the following observations. Barlocker ST. GEORGE William A. Barlocker was buried in his hometown of Enterprise Tuesday, closing the final chapter on 60 years of astounding successes and crushing defeats. At one point in his life he was No.

1 in the entire world nobody sold more turkeys than Bill Barlocker and he came within a few votes of becoming governor of Utah. Cariick Leavitt MANAGING EDITOR A few years later he was broke, hiding his face on the rugged slopes of Cedar Mountain, where he herded sheep through two freezing winters for his father-in-law. Very few people wanted to know Bill then, and his name evoked powerful emotions. After losing a bid for governor by only one percent of the vote in 1960, he lost a bank, an insurance company and his beloved turkey business. Worse, from his point of view, he lost the confidence of hundreds of investors farmers, widows, and low salary workers who had let their life savings ride on the money instincts of Bill Barlocker.

Bounced back Some men are lucky enough to rise to the very pinnacles in a single lifespan, influencing the fortunes of hundreds as they ascend. And if people like this falter along the way, the pain brings out the worst and the best of the community around them. So it was with Barlocker. But he bounced back and when he died on May 21, he left good memories in the community. He'd been instrumental in the building growth of Dixie Junior College and surprisingly, he left stock for a scholarship fund at the college that is currently valued in excess of $116,000.

The stock, in Equity Oil Co. of Salt Lake City, was worth more than a few years ago and Barlocker, with typical optimism decreed in his will that the college may not cash in his gift for two more years. He firmly believed that if given time, the stock would again rise in value. So it was that more than 300 people turned out for Barlocker's funeral in the Bloomington LDS Ward chapel. The stuff of novels Doyle Sampson, a life-long friend, gave the chronological events of Barlocker's life.

It's the stuff great novels are made from. In 1941, Bill Barlocker, 20-years-old and dirt poor, went to a bank and borrowed $950 to go into the turkey busi Thankyou Editor, Spectrum Two of the best words in the English speaking world are "please" and The Parowan High School Tennis Team said please, and now they say thank-you. Please, let us compete in a lifetime sport that costs the school and district very little money. Please, give us as much credit and attention as other sports. Please, above all, be proud of our efforts.

The administration of PHS was supportive, but cautious. We would like to thank Mr. Holingshead. We probably owe even more thanks to the team members, the parents, and the Parowan Chamber of Commerce. The team members and the parents gave their time and money to totally financing a dual match in Mt.

Pleasant, and Region Competition in Richfield. Bake Sales, donations, and parent's pocketbpoks payed for new balls, shirts, awards, food and travel ex In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was acquitted of impeachment charges by one vote. He had been accused of "high crimes and misdemeanors." In 1954, more than 100 crew members the aircraft carrier "Bennington" were killed when an explosion rocked the vessel off Rhode Island. In 1972, at the Moscow summit, President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party chief Brezhnev signed a pact on limiting nuclear weapons. In 1977, South Moluccan gunmen released 105 children they had been holding hostage in Assem, Holland.

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