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H e r e y o u ' l l f i n d o p i n i o n . . . e l s e w h e r e o n l y f a c t . By John M. Barrows s w o r n IM N m fcP U b is h e r E n f o r c i n g t h e l a w . . . Last week Dillon's mayor, Jim Wilson, and the city's new chief of police, Doug Pryor, announced that several d ty ordinances, observed as much in the breach as anything else, would now be enforced. Most of what Mayor Wilson and Chief Pryor said could not be faulted. Dillon has an over-abundance of dogs that wander about the city's streets, unhindered and unleashed. Drivers park here and there... with little fear of a ticket except for the most flagrant of violations. Hie city's ordinances covering open containers has often been over-looked, and the sight of late-night revelers making the rounds of Dillon's night spots is often accompanied with the sound o f breaking glass. Now, with the promise of the mayor and the chief, these laws dre going to be enforced. The council is even busy at work drafting an ordinance to provide penalties for illegally parking in, a handicapped zone. Few can argue against any of these new steps... they are simply good law enforcement and in many cases are long overdue. One promise, however, raises a cause for concern. Among the ordinances promised to be. enforced is the city's old curfew law. In the latest issue of the Beaver, the local high school's newspaper, the d ty has published a notice warning students of its intentions. The notice sets the curfew at 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday for children 13 years old and younger, and 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. For children 14-17, the curfew is set at 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 12:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Provisions for extending the.. curfew 30 minutes past the end o f any school activity are also included. On first reading it seems perfectly sensible. Children shouldn't be out late, anyway. More than one parent has expressed their appredation... a good excuse for getting the kids home at a decent hour. Some even have commented nostaligically on the \good old days,\ when the fire whistle used to blow at 10 p.m. announcing the curfew. On second Teading... it’s not so sensible. The curfew law, like a number of other laws on the books (including one that governs women drinking in bars) has simply outlived its time. The law's constitutionality can certainly be questioned. So can the state law which gives the power to enact a curfew on the county commissioners... not the cities. A curfew, like the one the d ty has promised to begin enforcing, goes against the very grain of our legal system that presumes innocense u n til guilt is proved. A curfew on minors does not reinforce parental authority... it usurps it and substitutes the government's authority for the parents'. A curfew sends the wrong message. I t tells our young people that we, as a group, have no faith in them. That we expect them to be incapable of reasonable dedsions... at a ll times. That we suspect them... as a group... of being vandals and law-breakers. Chief Piyor noted he asked io have the curfew enforced as a jS ^ ^ lr o L .i^w ^ e 'a t the same time admitting that only a small percentage' of young'people cause any problem a t all. The chief said the curfew would give him a reason tostop young people and question them... whether or not they were suspected of any mischief or not. In other words, a curfew,.more than regulating our young people, could be an invitation to \fishing expeditions,\ without the benefit o f counsel or parental representation. It's a shame that the mayor's and the chiefs efforts to address real problems, which should be applauded, are clouded by theirresurrection of the curfew... an idea and a method whose time has long passed. Hie public mightbe better served if, rather than trying to enforce the curfew, it would be included in those obsolete laws that are currently being reviewed by the council and axed out of the ordinances. A YELLOWSTONE NEWSPAPER John M. Barrows, PuMsher Danette Borovsky, Advertising Manager Doug Brown, Art/ertisng Kevin WhtaMth, ReportetiPhotognapher Connie Beck, Conpo6tion Mickey KoHer&ShaionVVBams, Office - MaigeLixoln, Distribution Y~ i .r ^ n d Nn* ip»¥isr Assorinlnn. f lit n h in lYlnnr The DtonTrtxj»(USPS1570€000)ispubi8hedweeMy at 22&Mantana Street, (P.O.BcK911)DScnMcxtana5972&T9i8ptone(406)683-2331. Second Class PngtagapfliH^piln^ f/ln r ta r a M cmmww O* eonM d M D B n »U * rilWPt ) l » M iiTi(bu«LNDttifcnclt*i T d u n f i v t v . Subscription R ales: Bewwhaad&Maribon Counties $16JOOayear h Montana $21.50ayeer Out of Stale $26j00ayear Let us know! TheDionTifcinfr&aminerhvtaycur oorrmenti and wetoomesidBaskx news dories. Voir toamtotie edior are welcomed lotw i msy daslwriliaty lope ofgenenl htawt AI letter* must be signed and conttn an adctoss and phone number. L s tn of any iangti are aooeplaUB, rf- hough ta la r leOen general^ hove a much beter chance c< prompt pobica- fen CALL683-2331 R e m e m b e r i n g t h e v e t . . . Saturday is Veterans day. Bom in the battlefields of France, the day has transcended its original intention... the celebration of the Armistice in the Great War... WWI... the war to end wars. The world has changed a great deal in the 71 years since that first Armistice. The relative peace and calm that America now eiy'oys has not come cheaply. It was' purchased with blood... the blood of thousands upon thousands of American men and women who paid the price of peace with their lives... with broken bodies and with mental anguish... in war and conflict and skirmish. Peace and liberty are not permanent. In times of quiet we a ll too often forget that. They are difficult task masters. They require constant vigilance. They require constant sacrifice. Our veterans have paid the price of peace. Our men and women in the Armed Forces... in the Guard... in the Reserves... are paying that price now. Veterans Day reminds us of that price... and of those who have, and are, making the. sacrifices to pay the bill. It's a debt that will never be marked \Paid in Full.\ 1 Up from the ash e s ... i f yj'.T . i f / w ! r , ; % * f J * ,r * / < * * ^ Y ? * * i i 4. t l i ^ r tt i t ; n 0 ^ *. «% * * / * & y i ' * * * ' £ H is t o iy a s it w a s w r itte n ... i n t h e b a c k p a g e s o f t h e DillonTribur&e- Exam fner 100 Years Ago H ns Week Nov. 8,1889 “Hoisthigh the statebanner'’the headline read, announcing the official signing ofthe prodama- tion by the President admitting Montana into the Unipn. “A newmeans of amusement and reaeation in Dillon is the establishment of a lawn tennis court by Rev. C. R Compton.” \Hxmas Porch’s tractor engine is doingduty at the P. J Kelly smelter, Argenta, there not being sufficient water to run theirwater wheel” ‘Sheriff Rose is. giving the boys in the jail exercise by having them saw the wood for that institution. It saves theegpenseafbuingand they prefer to work at it occasionally as a means of _ • f t exercise. \Hie s ti*^ and alley committee was instructed toroundupafl the tools andothereffectebelonging to the dty andmake an inventory ofthe same.” ■ ‘llte Indians are camped on Starration creek, and are killing the elk, much to the disgust ofthe ranchers, who, according to our Montana law, dare not shoot them,birtmustbecmtentwith long eared jack rabbits andanoccaskmalsage hen.” 50 Years AgoHtis Week Novftl939 TTie Civilian Conservation Corp’s Birch Creek camp bu0t 11 andaquarter miles of new road and maintained 50miles. Italsocompleted 16 miles of telephone line and maintained over 100 miles cf line. During the year the camp built several ski slides in theBeavraheadFarestareaandhelpedat 12 finest fires. “JP . Best was appointed to succeed his father, the lateO.M. Best, ascounty assessor by the Beav erhead board of county commissioners.” “Beaverhead oounty’snewdyra^anized chapter of Sans and Daughters ofMontana Pioneers held a membership dinner anti dance at the S t James guild hall Monday. It celebrated Montana’s 50th anniversary of statehood” 25 Years Ago H iis Week Nov. 6,1984 “Flags will fly Sunday in observance of “Mon tana Day \commemorating the diamond JubOee date cf Montana’s admittance to the union on Nopvember 8, 1889. The day ■will be cf special significance to Beaverhead County, which has produced five governors and two lieutenant gover nors. Sidney EdgertanafBannack was appointed first governor of Montana Tenitay by President Abraham Lincoln, serving from June of 1864 to July 1866, while B F. White, DOlcn’s first mayor and founder ofthe FirstNational Bank here, was Montana’s last territorial governor (April 8,1889 - Nov. 7 ,1889.X E. L Norris (1908-1913) and Robert Smith (1897-190I X Dillon lawyers, were elected to the gubernatorial post in later years while J . B. Poindexter, also of DOlon, served as governor of Hawaii (1934-1942X Dillon also pro duced twoMon tana lieu tenantgovernorB in Frank A. Hazelbaker (1929-1932) and George Gosman (1952-1956). T)fflonTribune-Examina-E(fitcrChariesSauffir will be among sports writers accompanying the MSU Grizzlies when they fly to S^n Diego, Califj this weekend to dose O u t t h p r r B f t a g m g g r r f n g t S g n Diego Marines. MSU Athletic Director Wally Schwank issued the invitation to Stauffer pinrp Dillon is represented by five members on the varsitysqnad-Bill Martin, EdFerris, Ron Rebish, Jim Salvo and Roger Clemans.
