The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 4

Prince of Wales Studies History Of Mad King' 4 A OGDEN UTAH MONDAY EVENTngT DECEMBER 13 1976 9 1 EDITORIALS I Don't Abuse Free Xmas Parking Alexander nize that if shoppers find parking places easily downtown in the metered district head for the suburbs to do their buying more to it Tentative plans for the long-dreamed Downtown Ogden Shopping Center hopefully to be completed before Christmas of 1979 call for parking in the 2800-car city-owned terrace to be free Anyone will be allowed to park in the terrace without bothering to validate a ticket whether they are shopping in the new mall itself or in nearby stores However experts from Ernest Hahn Inc the developer have already warned that the proposed system should be quickly revised if the free parking privilege is abused by downtown workers It would be necessary then to install ticket booths and require validations That would dilute the value of the shopping complex prove this Christmas by practicing an honor system and not abusing the City charitable action that Ogdenites recognize what is right and what is wrong when it comes to using free parking facilities The Ogden City Council has pro- vided an unexpected Christmas pres- ent to residents of Ogden and vicinity: Free downtown parking abuse it! The parking meters will be silent snd the metermaids assigned to other" duties through Christmas so shoppers have to worry about the flag popping up while still in stores But the City Council could change its mind quickly if the available parking places are filled by clerks 3tnd other regular downtown workers instead of keeping them available for customers We know from observation that Ithere are already too many men and "women who work downtown who are -selfish when it comes to parking their car for the day watched them drive into the parking lot at a downtown motel where the facility is maintained for guests only lock their vehicles and head for their offices and stores bad enough Monopolizing the on-the-street parking places whlie the meters are turned off for the holidays v7culd be even more selfish and foolish These should recog How close a collaboration or consultation if any of importance went on between the two men can only be surmised But the short essay on his mental health does not suffer at all by comparison with the length and excellent biography Between them the prince and the professional writer have presented George as a pain-wracked unhealthy overworked and conscientious administrator He was never He suffered bouts of physical agony and at 80 doubtless was senile He was the founder of the line of British monarchs who respected the English Constitution and understood that he was king by act of Parliament The unstable and unreliable kings of the United Kingdom were the Scottish Stuarts his predecessors LOVED BY PEOPLE George elector of Hanover as well as head of the empire was loved by his people to about the same extent as he was maligned by historians and statesmen The character assassination began with Jefferson who stigmatized him as a stupid tyrant to be the ruler of a free Life played a monstrous game with George 3rd American scholars needed him for a villain and British historians needed him for a scapegoat The falsehoods have been -exposed by researchers but live on in the school textbooks of both nations have laboured harder at being a good king than George wrote Prince Charles cared and he was a genuine honest person father of his By HOLMES ALEXANDER CAMBRIDGE England In the Lodge of Trinity College here (a place I visited out of nostalgia for I was a Trinity student in the long long ago) there hangs what appears to be an enlarged snapshot of a big-eared young man in a sack suit On the -walls are formal pictures of robed and posed masters of Trinity Among them is the famed-in-his-day scientist Sir Jay-Jay Thompson who was master in my time and sometimes had me in for Sunday dinner It would have been fitting if the young man had been pictured in ornaments and on a dais for he was and is Charles Prince of Wales But the unstylized photo casually hung among those of college servants is a compliment to his popularity and his common touch The prince now on duty as skipper of a mine-sweeper has chosen his proies-sion the Royal Navy Seafaring never inhibited any intellectual talents England has more than its share of saltwater poets novelists and artists I would expect that we shall hear from Charles Windsor as a thoughtful author KING GEORGE III In April 1972 he wrote a mature and penetrating foreword to John definitive biography of King George 3rd The prince was already deep into the archives of Windsor Castle exploring the intimate subject of alleged insanity from old correspondence and reports when he met Brooke who was pursuing the larger subject of the 60-year reign "GOT ANYTHING FOR GAS PAINS? WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Bitter Blazing Controversy Erupts Over Fight on Crime forces are supposed to mobilize the resources of the federal government to disrupt underworld operations and to bear down on the crime lords The strike force chiefs believe this By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON A bitter blazing controversy has erupted inside the Justice Dept over how to combat organized crime In theory the special strike a pledged duty And he carried out his responsibility even when it meant long hours and inhaling a lot of smoke It is career firemen like Darwin VanDeGraff who make up the backbone of the Ogden Fire Department an efficient organization of which the entire city can be proud Rock Away An awful lot of people play musical instruments you can hear on rock programs all the time Round Figures If you want information in round figures conuslt LETTERS Assistant Chief Darwin VanDeGraff in the minds of the many Ogdenites who know7 him is an unsung hero been with the Ogden Fire Department nearly 36 years until retirement has been an assistant chief since 1965 after working his way through the ranks beginning in 1941 when he was 29 as a truck driver He rarely made the columns of our newspapers But when there was a fire in Ogden and that takes in thousands of blazes big and little over the last one-third century Mr VanDeGraff was always there He expect praise He had TO THE Algeria Fights Undercover War With Morocco EDITOR MONDAY NOTEBOOK Hooper's History Related Anderson requires a concentrated coordinated national effort without interference from politically appointed US attorneys Most US attorneys on the other hand want to bring the strike forces under tighter control They are supported by Richard Thornburgh chief of the Justice criminal division In recent months he has revised and restricted the investigative guidelines He has also closed down the strike forces in St Louis and New Orleans and has given the US attorneys in Newark and New York City jurisdiction over the strike forces in their cities OUTRAGED CHIEFS This has outraged the strike force chiefs who look upon themselves as professionals free of political pressure It has also upset Internal Revenue Commissioner Donald Alexender whose agents are helping the strike forces bring the crime bosses to justice He told us the New Orleans strike force for example was developing several important cases In a blunt confidential memorandum endorsed by all the strike force chiefs Michael DeFeo of the Los Angeles strike force warned that the new guidelines would reduce the effectiveness of the organized crime charged that the guidelines would exclude and confederates of organized crime But his greatest concern according to the memo was that Thora-b 1) moves would the strike force program dividing its control among the individual United States The new guidelines approved recently by Attorney General a Levi limit the definition of organized crime -v M'f UiMi in John Bel nap's Book Molar free Gilmore and other killers on technicalities and twisting our constitution around to their benefit A psychiatrist in New Mexico says Gilmore needs treatment I think the psychiatrist needs treatment If a person is capable of knowing right from wrong he is capable of standing trial and punishment Actually Gilmore shows more intelligence than most of the people who have been involved in his case When are we ever going to get some courage and common sense into our courts and public offices? We already have many courageous and dedicated ones but they are outnumbered by the weak the greedy and the ignorant that are always pitying the criminals and making excuses for their heinous crimes If ve start executing these scum of the earth criminals who are on death rows all over the country eventually they will all be free to prey cn the innocent again Most of the crimes committed are by criminals on parole or pardoned You decent law-abiding people who are so busy raising families pursuing your recreation working and paying taxes to feed clothe and house these criminal parasites should take the time to make yourselves heard and push for capital pun- and require strike force chiefs ishment to be carried out You to inform US attorneys about Lake Storage Editor Standard-Examiner: Promontory Point is pivotal in any long term handling of the Great Salt Lake water-levels problem during both wet and dry periodic cycles As you may observe it is about two miles from the Point to Little Mountain at the mouth of Bear River Bay A levee across here would allow control of the flow of largely fresh water into the brinish part of the lake from Bear River Bay By storing water in the bay we would get a marvelous fresh water body which would serve the whole surrounding area in a variety of ways one of which would be to greatly increase the natural habitat for wild waterfowl to supplement the present migratory waterfowl refuge at the north end of the bay west of Brigham City From this vantage point we could also predetermine the volume of water that might be allowed to enter the south arm and the northwest arm of Great Salt Lake proper Hart Panguitch Utah (Former Ogdenite) Not a Cult Editor Standard-Examiner: I have received an editorial dated Sept 18 which mentions the Church of Scientology along with several cults being challenged by I am writing to inform you that classifying the Church of Scientology as a is not accurate The Church of Scientology is an accepted religion with US membership of 600000 according to the 1972 Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook The reason I am bringing this to your attention is that we have been very concerned the past couple of years with false reports and the effect that they have on a group or person When false reports and information is disseminated into the community about an organization religion or any type of group that group will have a hard time expanding and be viable in the community Connie Bowman Mission of Salt Lake Salt Lake City Betrayed Trust Editor Standard-Examiner: Gov Rampton betrayed the trust of the people of Utah by staying execution and triggering the daily circus we have had to endure for the past two months The governor could have retired with the respect and admiration of most of our citizens instead he bowed to the loudmouths who only have their own personal gains at heart and cast a blight on Utah and his record in office that will never be forgotten Now lawyers are trying to The Far Sunset The former Spanish Sahara with its incredible sea of billowing sand is south of and adjoins Morocco It is an immense area rich in phosphate and other natural resources and Soain has developed the phosphate beds on a large and profitable scale But this year Spain relinquished the territory King Hassan you may recall left his palace near Rabat and staged a dramatic of 300000 Moroccan men and women south from Marrakesh to the Spanish Sahara frontier' before Spain relinquished the rich territory7 DIVIDED SAHARA Then Madrid negotiators allowed the Spanish Sahara to be incorporated into Morocco and neighboring Mauretania King Hassan signed an agreement with Mauretanian President Moktar Daddah to divide between them the Spanish Sahara Boumediene has violently opposed the Hassan-Daddah agreement In fact he has taken to the Algiers radio again and again to condemn- it claiming that the Spanish Sahara belongs to Algeria The State Department including Secretary Kissinger knows well Soviet affiliation and is highly suspect of the challenge to Morocco and Mauretania Algeria produces iron ore Besides the phosphate and other riches that Spain developed in the Spanish Sahara the State Department believes that Boumediene yearns for the overland railway that Spain built to the Atlantic It would give Algeria access to the Atlantic for iron ore Boumediene supports a guerrilla force -called the Polisarto Front inside the former Spanish Sahara Some are native thugs who live in the Spanish Sahara others are infiltrated from neighboring Algeria The Algerian armed forces modernized by the Soviet Union total 63000 men Algerian army regulars and their armed patrols are heavily engaged Moroccan and Mauretanian forts have fallen Algerian planes- have shot down Moroccan US -built F-5 jet fighters But who would know it? Now You Know A mix of longevity and adulation comes naturally to the live oak According to one legend the tree grows for 200 years lives for 200 years and dies for 200 years By HENRY TAYLOR Behind the scenes undercover war with Morocco flares like a charcoal grate at a barbecue Our State Department calls it a war within the worldwide wars and it flares on a unrevealed scale threatening the American interest and the stability of pro-Western Morocco When I was in Algeria in September I found it a police state Revolutionary President Houari Boumediene then a colonel arrested Premier Ben Bella in a palace coup on June 19 1965 and proclaimed himself president on July 11 He lives in an opulent villa that was the home of former minister of defense high above the Bay of Algiers And Boumediene elevates himself in Algerian eyes by being a sworn enemy of Morocco and of King Hassan II He is a flight wiry man with eves that screw through you like a gimlet His presence blows like a cold breeze across your skin When Boumediene condescends to smile (he does not laugh) this grimace seems not so much a smile as a dental problem American Ambassador Richard Parker is as patient with him as can be But Boumediene runs Algeria and with an iron fist CLOSE TO REDS relations with the USSR are very close He has been to Moscow repeatedly and when Soviet leader Brezhnev says Boumediene jumps In fact Boumediene allows the Soviet to use the former French Mers-el-Kebir naval and air base near Alders It establishes the USSR within 260 miles of Gibraltar prepared to block the Gibraltar Strait and confront or deny our US access to the Mediterranean This involves the American interest Boumediene has visited the United States He saw President Ford at the White House and had sessions with Secretary Kissinger But in Algiers I found him back at his old pro-Soviet stance Actually after Washington visit he went promptly to Cuba and a roaring welcome by Fidel Castro They are birds of a feather The Kingdom of Morocco is officially the Sheri-fien Empire Along with Algeria it is in the the name given the North African countries on the Mediterranean For like Algeria north coast is washed by the Mediterranean its west coast the Atlantic Arab geographers name Morocco the search warrants in advance There are also other new restrictions strike force involvement in narcotics cases for example will be reduced and your family could be the next victims and time will mean nothing Hope Bisbing Brigham City IT HAPPENED frame a constitution for the State of Deseret In 1859 he was elected a delegate from Utah Territory to the 36th Congress in Washington A monument marking the location of Capt herd house was unveiled on July 24 1927 on the lawn of the home of Mr and Mrs George Beasley site of the initial development it ic Other pioneers followed On Dec 20 1856 William Gamer Sr and 23 others petitioned Weber County selectmen for a permit to take water from the Weber River and to construct an irrigation canal The inlet was near Wilson Lane near the now-abandoned sugar factory The next step in the settlement cf Hooper was the June 18 1869 petition by Gilbert Belnap and 22 neighbors for creation of a school district The names of the first settlers as listed on the first HoGper City map were: James Hale William Baker Levi Hammon Peter Lowe James Lowe Gilbert Belnap William Garner Thomas Read John Everett Henry Stone Thomas Hull Edwin Parker William Parker Charles Parker George Davis John Thompson Levi Cox Thomas Smith and James Henry Mr book is filled with lists such as this He includes names of the first school children initial land purchasers town officials and officers of the LDS Church wards and auxiliary organizations Other highlights: 1913 construction of the Hooper Sugar Factory The building of the first grist mills and brick yard names and addresses of the many stores that have operated in Hooper over the years 1946 location in Hooper of a plant to manufacture sugar beet harvesters and photographs of the construction cf schools and churches including the Congregational School built in 1892 of the various postmasters who have served the community since 1870 After reading John book I took a drive to Hooper I found few of the landmarks still standing Still it looked like a comfortable place to live and I could understand the pride of the Belnaps and the other Hooper families like Fern Fowers wrote in the conclusion of an article that forms the last few pages of the history of Hooper: of a simple pioneer beginning has grown a progressive community of fine homes productive farms and businesses of the type which are the pride of the nation and the heart of the American By MURRAY MOLER It was several years ago that a delightful gentleman eame into my office and introduced himself as John Belnap He explained he was writing the history of Hooper which he calls the of Beautiful and wanted to reprint an editorial written about spectacular sunsets send you one of the books when Mr! Belnap promised I have that book now and quite a volume Anyone ever lived in Hooper or has relatives there should have one in his or her family library it is so uniquely detailed Unfortunately John Belnap live to deliver me that book He died late last September after the volume had gone to the printers Max Belnap of Ogden delivered the red-bound book on behalf of his brothers sister and their spouses He explained that additional copies may be secured from Mrs Wendell Belnap 5109 South 2575 West in Roy the widow of his eldest brother Her phone number is 325-5173 The first page of the book is devoted to a spectacular photograph of the sun setting over the Hooper farms and marshlands and neighboring Great Salt Lake proving John point about the community being the of the beautiful He dedicated the volume to his wife Zina Hattie Taylor Belnap who died in 1334 and then explained how collecting the history of his hometown had been a hobby throughout his It must have taken hundreds of hours to assemble all of the facts names and pictures that he finally published! He told how Indians had roamed the area before the whitemen arrived and how early-day trappers and explorers including John Fremont in 1843 had traversed the shores near Hooper in their early visits to Great Salt Lake The first usable route from Salt Lake City to California and Oregon went right through what is now Hooper because travelers wished to avoid the perils of the Bonneville Salt Flats When Mormon pioneers first settled Weber County taking over the land purchased from Miles Goodyear they used the bottomlands south of the mouth of Weber River for herdlands The initial grant for semi-private use to the man whose name was given to the town Capt William Hooper Capt Hooper brought his herds to the area in 1854 and built a small shelter for his herders Frank Knowlton and Quincy Knowlton The captain was a member of the state convention selected in 1855 to 4t 2 -YEARS AGO DECEMBER 13 1956 Mrs Clair Schneider Ogden had been elected as the Utah delegate to the National Spiritual Assembly of the World Faith to be held in Wilmette 111 some time in the spring Mrs Schneider was elected at a meeting for all state groups Ready to present the Wilson School operetta for were Michael Bouwhuis Claudia Carnahan Charles Turner and Terry Zuech The operetta was under the direction of teachers Ethel Stanford Lola Bouwhuis Gladys Barton and Helen Slater Morgan American Legion Post and auxiliary held their annual Christmas partv in the DUP building Toastmistress was Mrs Errol Eddington Mrs Faye Eliza Williams was in charge of entertainment and Mrs Albert Welch was responsible for table decorations DECEMBER 13 1926 Five students of the Weber County High School were chosen to compete in the finals of the first oratorical contest held in the school Finalists were: Francis Wilson Vera Shaw Emma Jacobs Floyd Farr and Wilburn West Miss Mildred Barnes was one of the judges Nels Joel Petersen 69 of Milton Morgan County died in the local hospital after suffering a stroke He was born in Denmark a son of Balthazar and Metta Joel Petersen pioneers cf Morgan County He was one of the oldest violinists in Morgan County The Young Mutual Improvement Association of the Thirteenth Ward entertained the mutual girls and their mothers at a banquet Taking part on the program were Althea Bell and Maurine Corni awho sang a duet and Mrs Elmer Barrett who gave a reading V-.