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Show THE SENTINEL Thursday, Dec.1 7, 1981 PQ 2 Opi niohs who breeds and fights dogs in the name of "sports." I am the one (Editor's NOte: This letter was submitted by Rick Lawrence and and Debbie Higgins, Animal Control who must fight the breeders dead the and up pick Officers for West Jordan City. It participants leave was carried in an Arizona and dying animals they an who I not is behind. keeps It newspaper and the officers said it too area to an confined animal reflects their own feelings exacsmall, or deprive him of food, tly.) water, shelter, or exercise. But it Dear Citizens: I am your animal control officer. is I who must deal with the cruel, I am not the dreaded "dog cat- neglectful and irresponsible owner cher," or "the murderer" you call whodoes. me. I am a product of your own It is not I who will not take the irresponsibility. to keep up regular It is not I who allows your time But I am the one who animal to roam the streets, to con- must pick up the sick animals tact diseases from other dying of preventable disease. animals, to be hit by i am the dedicated professional passing motorists, or poisoned by who one must know how to control the the who am I rotting garbage. d look those into must sick, injured, feral and just plain sick, to move the and unwanted animals you leave try eyes, animal without causing further behind. I am the person who loves harm, and most often, humanely your animals and all animals more than you. destory him to put him out of pain. Is is I who must give him his last It is not I who allows the indiscriminate breeding of dogs and and sometimes" inly touch of cats, then dumps the unwanted kit- human kindess. So remember, the next time tens and puppies on roadsides and in shelters. I am the one who must your child is bitten, your trash find those tiny animals before they dumped and scattered, your pet is die of starvation, exposure or lost, stolen or poisoned, or hit by a disease, and once again humanely car, that it is the animal Control destroy them. It hurts me to have Professional you call, not the "dog to destroy many of these animals catcher." Remember, the next each year. But, because of your time your animal is picked up and you are cited, it is because I am irresponsibility, I must. unwannot abandons who is I It trying to get you to fulfill your roads on farm animals ted telling responsibility to yourself, your the friendly farmer will neighbors and your pet. Rememmyself take them in. It is I who must pick ber also, that it is not I who am the up the frightened animals, waiting murderer of innocent dogs and in vain for the beloved master and cats, but you, yourself, and your lack of concern. wondering why he has been abandoned. I am the product of your I am the one who must help that irresponsibility. Do not scorn me. friendly farmer trap, tranquilize Respect me, for I am a or kill that animal because he has professional, and I care! Most sincerely, begun to roam in packs with other Your Animal abandoned animals, killing Control Officer livestock, fowl and game. It is not I SBfiS of children, under the direction Rae and Butterfield Carol Ann Butterfield. by Barry McWilliams AXI1fiWK I 10 years ago if W WDU)Of?5HlR5 DOUBT The sewer line in Little Cottonwood Canyon, under construction IrfcSUNrUtSUMMgRA UlUSOtV1l mm GorussemoQm A. t IAlAll S AA1 cms? I for more than a year, has been approved by both Snowbird Resort ofrepresentatives and Alta town ficials. The resort, which built the original sewer line through the canyon, and the town will both use the utility, and have agreed on a division of cost. t free-roami- Families and friends of servicemen in Vietnam should plan ahead for holiday telephone calls pain-glaze- between the two countries. "If you have a holiday greeting to exchange by phone with a relative or friends in Vietnam arrange to have him place the call from there," said J. H. Bergstedt, local manager for Mountain Bell. m? FitnoGO Updato Sound Off! ' h wwtfMng bagging O COJ9M900f I 40 years ago ; v i aa At the annual meeting and election of officers the following members were chosen to serve in the Midvale Fire Department: L. C. Canning, chief; Mervin Bosh, assistant chief; James Powell, Arch James, vice Henry Gosman, Kelvin Aylett, secretary; and Jerome Wolfe, treasurer, member of the board of trustees. are Midvale firemen president; president; cooperating in home defense by keeping a daily vigil. 24-ho- ur important parts of it obsolete. It contains elements that, when eaten by the ton for years on end, g act as carcinogens, or agents. And even though nobody, not even Popeye, is going to eat as much spinach as it would take to cause cancer, the Food and Drug Administration, by law, must prohibit the sale of any food substance that causes cancer in man or animals, regardless of the quantites involved or the real risk. So kids, are you off the hook? for example, technically requires spinach to be prohibited; it requires any food containing any sort of carcinogen to be banned; and spinach's natural properties, when consumed in almost impossibly large amounts, act as carcinogens. But when scientists have the capacity, as they do today, to break foodstuffs into a trillion parts, almost everything has something that may have negative side effects. That's why I've introduced S a bill to amend parts of America's food safety code. I have no arguments with the basic purpose of our current code: the laws seek to keep our food supply safe by keeping carcinogens and other harmful elements out of it. That's sound public policy; I support it fully, completely, and without reservation. But the code was last revised in 1958, and advancing technological discoveries and capabilities have rendered O CUTfOOf toSVO? Remember When Kids: you don't have to pout, cry, hold your breath or throw your plate when Mom or Dad serves spinach. Spinach is illegal. Hence my bill. Its first purpose is to modernize the law and align it with the expanding horizons of food science. The Delaney clause, The second purpose of my bill is to add flexibility to simplistic, sometimes overly rigid, food safety laws. Now that properties contained in spinach, potatoes, black pepper, vitamin D, onions and human saliva have been found to be possible carcinogens under the proper circumstances should we outlaw those substances? I think not, and the FDA, which sensibly ignores the Delaney clause to leave them on the market, agrees with me. Instead, we should be told what levels of risk accompany what amounts of consumption, and we should have varied restrictions regulating varied risks. Rather than two simplistic regulartory options good or bad, permitted or banned we should allow the FDA to use regulatory tools such as limited use, phase-outor warning labels. s, of other factors besides a product's risks. The FDA could look, for example, at whether a product has any workable substitutes before considering its ban. In this regard, saccharin would be more apt to remain on the market, because diabetics and the have no other way to restrict their intake of sugar, and saccarin's cancer risk appeas to be infini tally small. A substance's merits could be judged alongside its risks: if the benefits outweigh the risks, the product in many cases should be left on the market, weight-conscio- us Members are taking turns at sleeping in the fire station each night, in case of any unexpected outbreak of fire. Each fireman will spend one night per month on night duty during the emergency as a safeguard against sabotage in this community. West Jordan is growing, and many improvements are noted in this progressive community. Mr and Mrs Carl Harmon have now completed the upper structure of their basement home and moved into it this week. This perhaps with some suitable beautiful home is completely furrestrictions. nished with all the modern conveniences. It is located next to the Those are the three main pur- ' James R. Steadman home, which has also undergone recent imposes of my bill. It is a complicated piece of legislation that provements. runs over 70 pages long, but its On the "Pole line" road stands basic thrust is to continue the the beautiful new home of Mr and Mrs Newell Jensen, now being policy of keeping harmful elements out of our food supply, while equipped with the latest imgiving the FDA an updated law it provements, fluorescent lighting and all of us can live with. in this home makes it quite outstanding. And it won't give my kids an exThe residence of Mr and Mrs cuse to not eat their spinach. Nick Bullock on the Bingham Jordan Valloy Sentinel Midvale Sentinel, Inc. Continuing the Midvale Sentinel, weekly newspaper established In 1825, published every Thursday by Sentinel Newspaper! at 125 W. Center Street, Midvale, Utah 84047. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Jordan Valley Sentinel, P.O. Box 128, Midvale, Utah 84047. . Subscription Rate year In State of Utah Senior Citizen Rate 3 year In State of Utah s David C. GodfreyJames M. Landers d Third, my bill, in certain and reasonable circumstances, would allow consideration highly-limite- diseases bone-weakeni- Updated food saffoty law can replace a spinach ban 1442, 00 softening); frequently seen in older adults? Both conditions may be present simultaneously or the two conditions can work independently to weaken your bone structure. Bone protein and calcium are reduced in conditions leading to these diseases. Then, after many years of bone loss, fractures can occur easily. The focal point is that the process actually begins early in middle age. Up to the age of 35 or so there is a net increase in the bulk and strength of bones. After that age 0tof 2SS3S54 woofcdoys botwooo too Hours of I o.m. ond 12 noon or I ond 5 m. Mo nood to 0no your noffto lilSbySendtorOrrin Hatch I don't think so. I happen to believe that spinach, in the amounts consumed by normal people, is still good for you, and I also happen to know that the FDA will not make any attempts to ban it. Ever. I also believe that scientists, with the right equipment, can find harmful ingredients in just about everything we eat, and that it's often not our dietary habits that need changing as much as our dietary laws. IVtoJfO (bone yov 7 Do you how Tho Sooffoof woofs fo ooor frooi you CoW ooo loo os wool you fMolc ooovf ooyfhfo0. A KS3 cancer-causin- By Dale Nelson, Professer Health, Physical Edacatko and Recreation Utah State University Have you ever thought that you may be developing Osteoporosis (bone thinning) or Osteomalacia Adv. Mgr. DavMC. Godfrey Editor James M. Landers - very . gradually more bone is removed than deposited. This leads to a net loss for both sexes, but at a faster rate in females. Highway is being repainted and reWhat Can Be Done? decorated, and is expected to be completed by the holidays. Again, bear in mind that the The new home of Mr and Mrs process leading to fractures starts Barney Lundquist has been started long before the first break occurs. and will be completed soon. It is impossible to repair a conThe main corner, at Redwood dition overnight when it has taken and Bingham highways, is ador- decades to develop. But, the rest of ned with a lovely lighted Christ- your life begins now. mas tree and several strands of One of the most common colored lights extended in all nutritional misconceptions is that directions from the traffic milk is mainly for young people. Not so! Milk and other dairy semaphore. products are the main sources of calcium. Older people need milk Dan C. Radovich, son of Mrs Dan and milk products even more than Radovich, Midvale, was wounded young people, because after the by schrapnel in the Pearl Harbor ages of 35 to 40, many people do not disaster, it was learned Tuesday. absorb calcium as well as when In a letter to his mother, Radovich they were younger. They need to stated that he had received minor consume more to get the same injuries from bursting shells, but benefit. that his condition is not serious. Vegetables such as broccoli, Radovich enlisted in, the U.S. cabbage, kale, watercress and Navy. other greens can also be rich sources of calcium. However, they are . 30 years ago . not widely consumed in the American diet. Vitamin D aids in absorbing Plans are being completed for calcium and distributing it the annual Christinas party for all throughout the body. Milk and forchildren in the Sandy community, tified cereals supply this nutrient sponsored by Sandy Lions Club. Finally, regular exercise in the The program will feature pic- sun helps manufacture you rown ture cartoons and special song and vitamin D. Exercise keeps the dance numbers by students of Mrs bones, as well as the muscles and VerlaBerrett. cardiovascular system, fa good to are made condition. Vitamin and mineral being Preparations give treats to about one thousand supplementation may help but children. follow your doctor's advice. Think For many years Santa arrived in prevention with diet and exercise a sleigh and greeted the children rather than treatment with at the community tree on Main vitamins and minerals. Street, but due to the extreme cold, the programs are now held in the recreation hall. . 20 years ago The Herriman Elementary Christmas party will be held Dec. 20. The play, "Hello Mr and Mrs Snowman," will be presented. Every child in the school will be in costume and participating. The choral work is under the direction of Mrs Wolfinden and Mrs Freeman, accompanied by Roberta Crane, supported by Prin. CottreU. The PTA will give treats to the The first newspaper photograph appeared in the New York Daily Graphic of March 4, 1880. It was a halftone illustration of New York's Shantytown. |