Show Page 2 - Millard Thurs Jan LSPS County 29 1987 — TO THE UTTERS Teacher to Parent editor Helping your child succeed President by Betty Condie Uth Education Association How can parents lower the risk of suicide in teenagers? Should we try to smooth over the rough spots and prevent our children from taking academic or social risks? We could not shelter them completeeven if we ly from loss and failure wanted to What we can do from the early years is teach them to survive the inevitable sorrows and failures they will face These are some lessons that parents can teach at home: Bad times do not last forever Because teenagers live in the present they may believe that current disappointments or feelings of unhappiness will last forever Give positive examples from your own experience or name people who overcame jection or adversity History is full of such examples Urge your child to keep trying 2 Showing your hurt helps you heal Teach this by example Openly express your own grief sorrow and disapExhibiting and permitting pointment Community Jan 14 Basic EMT Course in Fillmore Call Kent Dalton for information Jan 14 - Feb 11 Traveling Art display Delta City Library pm Jan 29 Food Handlers Class Delta Public Health Office 2:30 pm ($5 fee) Jan 30 Delta Children’s Dance Theater 7:30 pm SponHigh Auditorium Cultural sored by West Millard Council Jan 31 Feast of St Bosco Delta Catholic Church Delta High Swim Team vs Judge Memorial West Millard Community Swimming Pool 9 am Feb 1 Elder Glen Robison mission Fillmore First farewell 10:45 am Ward Feb 2 Gardening class pm M E Bird Center Delta Sponsored by USU Extension Weeds Crop Disease Crop Insects Soils Delta City Bldg pm Sponsored by USU Extension Feb 3 Fillmore Pink Ladies annual ApFillmore Compreciation Luncheon munity Medical Center pm Delta City Pesticide recertification Bldg 2 pm Millard County The open expression of your own feelings in your household increases the chances that your teenager will share problems with you not withdraw 3 You are an important member of this family Suicidal teenagers often have a feeling of worthlessness Susan son shot himself at age 17 Among the things she regrets is that she tried to be in hindsight run her household and “Supermom” without asking her children to help In retrospect she feels that by attempting to make teenage years carefree parents like her may be sending the message that their son or daughter is not a needed and valued member of the family 4 I’ll love you no matter what children often confuse Despondent parental approval with love Make a clear distinction between what your child does and who she is Don’t make your love conditional on your child’s Love and support your performance child even as you discipline her for misbehavior or disapprove a lack of effort Calendar 4 and registration Delta LitWeigh-i7 pm DHS tle League Wrestling Gym Pahvant Valley Senior Citizens Health and Education classes 12:30 pm Arthritis Dr Brent Jackson presentor Feb 5 LandlordRenter Workshop West 7 Central Utah Vocational Center pm Women for Work Sponsor Feb 6 Insects Diseases Weeds Crop Crop Fillmore 9 am Soils Courthouse Sponsored by USU Extension Feb 7 Benefit for Darlene Fowler Fillmore Elementary School 6 pm Duff’s Delta Heart Day 5682 S Redwood Rd Smorgasbord SLC 9:30-- pm East Millard Fine Arts special birthday party 2 pm Library Feb 11 Pahvant Valley Senior Citizens health and education workshop 12:30 pm Identifying and Coping with Stress Sharon Blad and Terri Winslow Feb presentors Feb 17 Utah Crop Improvement meeting Delta City Bldg 9 Sponsored by USU Extension Feb 18 for and Dolls” Tryouts “Guys pm Delta North Elementary Alcoholics Anonymous Chronicle Progress USPS Pubhshsd leetings: 8 Editor Publisher & Wed Health offices 51 Editorial Amott at Large Reporter North Center LAN0N: For info call TEENAGE PROBLEMS? Advertising t Fillmore Office Accounts Manage Receivable Call Geno: Circulation Julie Ward Rita 8ullcreek Shellie Printing Dutson In Advance Subscriptions SI5 00 per year In County In County 00 per 6 months SIS 00 per year Out of County $10 00 per 6 months Out of County cents Single Copy Send Address changes POSTMASTER P O Box 249 Delta Utah Adverting lUin Ddta 2400 64 84624 to Let’s think about when we were told about alcohol and other drugs when we Coffee were children (caffeine) cigarettes (nicotine) whiskey and beer (alcohol) are no good for children Only big people can use these substances Children are going to be big people someday and are told throughout their and adolescence to act grownup mature Part of showing this maturity is to mimick what adults do I wonder why so many teenagers are getting in trouble for possession and consumption of tobacco and alcohol? Call Geno NEW PHONE avams I i Just for Today CirculationComp Production Circulation Commercial s 2 j Sales Legal Billing Riley Wood Dawn Carder Sales Design Evelyn Mallet Deb Greathouse 5 pm at Delta Mental Dutson Susan Mark Mon I NUMBERS Fillmore City Fillmore City Library It is Never Convenient and Later than we think A good friend called on the phone one I hadn’t seen for some time He and relate said “I read “reflections” to the old times in Delta He gave me some good subjects to write about but that need some interviewing He said “Out west of Abraham there is a great cairn of rocks as far as I know it is a monument to nothing Why don’t you go and see Tic Bliss He will know” I said I would but time went on and I didn’t go still intending to Now I cannot Tic is gone from our presence If anyone knows about that monument of rocks west of Abraham they should write about it before they are gone Eldro Jeffery told me about the first school bus from his area a sheep wagon with a stove and horses to pull it It gathered the school children and kept them warm getting to school He said they changed the back of the wagon to the front so the children could see out That is all the story I know Eldro has left us The story of the first school bus from the southwest JOHN WATERBURY Dear John Letters Stress Dear John My husband has a real problem wih stress He gets uptight and becomes a real bear to live with Eventually he calms down but the problem surfaces later on Do you have any information on stress that I could give him? He won't listen to me An Innocent Bystander Dear Bystander “Often when people are upset or a damage relationship or don’t find much meaning or are going too fast or have lost something important pretty soon they get so they don’t feel so good anymore And they get sick So they go to the doctor who looks at them and fixes them and gets them back on their feet And then because thei haven’t learned why they got sick somd people go home and they get upset again and damage a relationship and still don’t find much meaning and go too fast again or lose something important again And in not too long they get so they don’t feel so good anymore And they get sick again It’s kind of wasteful and painful but sometimes people go like this getting up and down forever That is until one time when they get sick and can’t get gotten up again” Donald Tubesing Stess isn’t necessarily bad Without it life would be very dull The key seems to be the kind of stress we have in our lives There is eustress and distress Eustress is positive and distress is negative But in either case stress is a teacher It shows our strengths and our weaknesses Everyone has a different comfort area of early Delta will have to come from someone else if ever Sometime someone will write a history of Delta There should be some real resources written by the people who lived here Those resources are slipping away There are still some who were here in those early days John Peterson was a young boy whose parents worked on the first dams that were built He has a great memory His family came and lived through those first hard years he remembers carrying water to the men working on the dam Delta is still a pioneer town not yet one hundred years old Mr Harold Keyser is a gentleman who is married to the former Mildred Baker They have come back to Delta to make their home on the “long tree road” Mr Keyser wrote: “Have you greeted a friend in the evening missed a friend in the dawn tried to say what you would have said when you realize they are gone?” Mary Henrie level when it comes to stress What’s right for one is too much for another In any event we are generally capable of handling more stress than we at first It takes practice and might think experience Stress is like a violin string When there is too little stress it makes no sound When there is too much stress it snaps But when it’s just right beautiful music is the result It is essential that we find our own comfort level There is no cure for stress because it’s not a disease It’s a condition to be managed Stress is either the spice of life or the poison that kills Again it all goes back to the way we perceive it and the way we choose to deal with it Factors that determine stress levels include: Strength of Constituion Degree of Control Perception of the Event Unsuccessful Adaptation Results In: ‘Emotional wear and tear ‘Weakness and Illness ‘Increased vulnerability to stress Successful Adaptation Results In: Growth and Happiness ‘Security and Strength ‘Greater resistance to stress Two major personality types have been identified and knowingly or unknowingly we choose to develop to one of these types: Type A Personality: There is an tense pressure to get things done to beat the clock They’re always in a hurry always under stress which they create They tend to rush others as well Type B Personality: They have as much ambition as Type A personalities but they’re able to relax They can turn it off They rarely rush and they don’t rush others It must be remembered that no one It is is stuck in either of these types sometimes difficult to change but it is Let not impossible your husband know of your concern and help him get the help he needs After all what do you have to lose? CONFIDENTIALLY: The key to stress is simple: “don’t sweat the small stuff and remember it’s all small stuff” Loophole loans may be dangerous Middle America by Dennis Hinkamp The new tax law is beginning to show First there were the up in advertising ads urging you to buy cars now so you could deduct the sales tax Now there is a push to take out home equity loans the new tax law will Although gradually phase out deductions for terest paid on consumer credit such as car loans and credit cards the interest paid on home equity loans w ill remain deductible loans have been Home equity available for a few years but more than loans were half the outstanding This unintended itiated since 1985 loophole created by the new tax law may cause more consumers to seek this borrowing option says Dr Jean Lown consumer economist in the USU college of family life Lown says the lending industry is aggressively promoting the use of this loophole Not only does it provide a tax deduction for the consumer but from the lender’s point of view the homes safe form of are an extremely collateral She says as the name implies a home equity loan is secured by 'he value of the home Lenders generally set a limit of percent of the appraised value of the home minus the amount of the first mortgage The new tax law allows for itemized deductions for interest paid on first and second mortgages and home equity loans Lown says the money can be used for any purpose as long as the amount does not exceed the purchase price (not market value) plus the value of improvements of the home She says loans exceeding this amount will be deductible only if used for three purposes: home improvement medical and educational expenses Saddest i Congratulations want to congratulate Gwen Hunter the librarian and all those who helped make possible the new library which is now called “The President Millard Tillmore Library” How grateful am that the president has at last been honored that on his birthday Jan 7 1987 the lown held a big celebraiion and named the library after him My cousin Helen McBride Rogers and on her tended the celebration return to Salt Lake reported in detail what took place She said it was a most wonderful day interesting happy The name "Liberty Bell” was first Hall Philadelphia in Independence written by Benson J Lossing The only unfortunate thing is that it was not possible to get a bust of the president erected by the sculptor Dr who had for years Avard Fairbanks wanted to do this Now he of course 1987 can't make one as he died Jan Still understand that Dwight Huntsman is getting a picture of the president which will hang in the library to greet the people who come there which is great How tion as used in the year had been to the celebrastill call Fillmore my town Della Dame Edmunds w ish reference to the large bell in 1848 It appeared in an article My Opinion Public Health cuts are sickly by Mark Amott Last week I bombasted our good governor with my complaints of tax hikes at the expense of budget cuts And I am somewhat chagrin to admit that this week I am prepared to bombast about proposed cuts in the state and federally funded health services But chagrined or not I have to say that I am worried about the massive scope of budget cuts in essential health sevices and even more serious proposals to drop local water testing labs childhood immunization and elderly flu shot programs and child car safety seat rentals The proposed cuts are significant The Central Utah District Health which covers Millard Department will lose 20 percent or County $142000 of its operating budget Almost half this amount is the loss of $60000 in Intermountain Power Agency funding which was alloted to alleviate the impact of construction related population growth in Millard County or about The remaining cuts $80000 in this district are the result of both state and federal belt tightening This is a sad state of affairs The government engages in perhaps no more noble endeavor than attempting to protect the public health especially on the local level Clearly the local health departments will be severely limited in offering some very basic services “It appears to me that the crisis of funding for education in Utah as serious as it may be is overshadowed by the crisis to the public by the funding problems in many local health departments” said Wayne LeBaron of the Central Health District My agreement with that statement justifies my bombasting against taxes for education last week and pleading for taxes for health this week To be fair our legislators in Salt Lake City and Congressmen in Washington have a tough job trying to sort out all of these wants and needs but when it comes to basic public health we should make a stand And now is the time to do it as both bodies are convening To often we hear of these problems long after the decisions on them have been made The time to be heard on public health is this very month bo(h in Salt Lake City and in Washington DC Of local concern is State Senator William T Barton’s Senate Bill number 97 to limit or do away with the services mentioned above Beyond that the programs or services which may be completely eliminated are cancer screening family planning diabetes screening pregnancy testing programs for the elderly Our politicians need to know that we care about these programs so they might be spared New column is a new weekly “My Opinion” feature of the editorial page Readers are welcome to submit columns of 800 words (two type written double spaced pages) Subject matter is unlimited but we reserve the right of rejection and unsigned articles will not be considered We encourage readers to take advantage of their First Amendment rights of free expression Search for “Middle America” by Bob Thomas 1986 Copyright San Francisco The saddest day spent on the road without doubt was January 28 1986 was at Cape Canaveral that day to do “color” for the assigned would Leesburg (Fla) Commercial have been there without an assignment I’ve been a space buff since May of ’62 when watched Scott Carpenter lift off in his frail Mercury 7 And spent the on the NASA beat with the years Gannett Newspaper Group reported on the last of the moon missions landings all of the and the historic with the Russians: Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 knew people around the world with NASA visited with them and wrote about them at their remote lonely and stations NASA provided me with most of the excitement I’ve known in 30 years of almost journalism There for a time felt like “part of the pt for lacking the “right stuff” It was cold that morning for Central Florida I was as cold as had ever been there waiting for a missive digital clock to blink down to Zero Hour Zero Minute Zero Second Roughly two miles away from the It press site sat Shuttle Mission was the tenth flight for Challenger but not too many Americans knew its official designation They weren’t concerned with letters and numbers and times in space This was the “School Teacher Launching” It sat there brillant in a ghostly aura of silver and shite It was a obelisk gleaming under a bright sun that was high at :30 am as it was going to get that day But it was cold and icicles hung from the shuttle and the launch tower At 11:31 approximately Challenger’s three main engines roared into life and the shuttle shivered As it settled itself two solid rocket boosters came to life and combined they began craft with 51 million to lift the pounds of thrust Seventy seconds later we were all witnessing the great tragedy in the nation’s space program We were dumbfounded! Later that night at Ramon’s the favorite gathering spa for people at Cocoa Beach the talk was all of “what went wrong?” We had all talked about the general But none subject before: “What of us had ever dared write a word about it Or discuss it on radio or television It was okay to “talk” about it back in earlier days but everything else was taboo The “Big Boys” weren’t here this night Most certainly Walter Cronkite was conspicuous in his absence Country singer John Denver wasn’t at his usual table and he hardly ever missed a launch Where was actor Hugh O’Brian? Always before you saw Denver you saw O’Brian What had happened was 19 years of in US space exploration had made us complacent We hadn’t known anything like this since 27 1967 when Grissom January Chaffee and White died in a fire aboard Apollo Nineteen years? You can forget a lot in that amount of time But it was Christa McAuliffe the school teacher who was along for not much more than the ride if?” who we were all thinking about Most of her students from Concord NH were guests of NASA that morning and sitting in the VIP section But the others-DiScobee Michael Smith Ellison Onizuka Ron McNair Greg Jarvis and Judy well informed of the chances they were taking Perhaps John Glenn said it best: “You suddenly realize you’re riding in a craft with 25000 of them parts-manufactured by the lowest bidder" Was it indeed the craft itself that failed? Or did Scobee the flight commander or Smith the pilot hit a wrong switch? Grissom we knew had done that once before The investigation still goes on the manufacturer of an seal may end up carrying the brunt of the blame but any (light fueled by 383000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and 143000 gallons of liquid oxygen has got to be considered a “volatile situation” Veteran space writer Martin Caidin probably summed up best that night what really happened He stared philosophically into his whiskey glass and said: "The odds finally caught up with the (space) program” don’t remember much more about the night I allowed myself to get drunk for the first time in a lot of years Now in more sober moments console myself with the historical truth that death is the price of discovery Water has a greater molecular density in liquid form than as a solid This is why ice floats |