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Show Working People: Strength Of America Much is heard about the high living standard in America and the countrys wealth. While the living standard is high, its not the highest in the world. THE category in which America is most wealthy is working people. The American people still believe in working for their living--fo- r the most part. Thats the basic difference between the productivity rate in this country and that in so the many other countries-i- n western world and in communist countries. THE UNITED States, because its people still work, is the one western country capable of preserving the democratic system in its Comwith competition munism. PROOF of the superior productivity of the United States in the western world is the sharp increase in foreign-owne- d industrial plants in the United States. Spiraling foreign industrial investment in the U.S. last year reached $25 billion (compared to $3 billion in the 1950s) and foreign spending here is still increasing. ITS ESTIMATED that foreign plants in America now employ almost a million workers and there are plans for new multi-millio- n foreign-owne- d dollar plants in all of the country. This foreign investment is parts ENTER QUILT Lynda Stewart, center, advisor and Sharon Jones, left, Mia Maid president, present their quilt to extension secretary, Margaret Hadden, right to be entered in the quilt contest. The quilt named Light to Mankind was created and quilted by the year old girls of the Bountiful 30th Ward Mia Maid class. 15-1- The Utah State University Bicentennial Quilt Contest comes to a close this week. Davis Dorothy Hansen, County Home Economist announced a number of beautiful quilts have been entered by Davis County residents in the statewide contest. ALL THESE quilts, which will include five winning selections from this area, will be exhibited on May 24, 25, 26 in the Davis County Library in Farmington, Utah, 38 South 100 East. The hours are: Monday Thursday, 12:30 p.m. to 9 have been accepted. Each THERE WERE no tied quilts. Only hand quilted double bed or larger quilts entries in the final contest are to be on exhibit dur- -- D.m. quilt is an original creation of the quilter. The five best entrants from each regional contest will be entered in the final contest to be held by the College of Family Life at USU. All ing the Festival Davis County includes Etta Service Miens In Davis County, larger proportion of the work force than ever before is engaged in providing services rather than products. FOR A NUMBER of years, service businesses have been playing an .role in the local economy. As in many other parts of the country, they have been re--sponsible for most of the new job opportunities that have Over-expandi- opened up. . The Labor Departments statistics tell the story. They show that nearly 7 out of every 10 American workers are now employed in service industries, as compared with 4 out of 10 at the end of world war II. IN THE services category are people engaged in retail trade, communications, in- surance, business and repair services,' entertainment, banking, education, health care, government and the like. The production workers are those employed in manufac- turing, construction, mining, agriculture, forestry and fisheries. In 1970, by way of comparison, 82 percent in the local area were found to be in services and 18 percent in production work. AS FOR THE nation as a whole, the latest figures show 68 percent in services and, in the State of Utah, 77 percent. The dramatic growth in the service industries is attribut- ed to the rising output per worker in the production industries, due primarily to automation. With machines substituting for men, it meant that fewer people were needed to turn out the required volume of goods. THE FIGURES for Davis show that approximately 86 percent of the working force are now in service-related occupations and 14 percent in production jobs. It represents a marked transition from earlier years. major sports boom is contests the best team wins, IN THIS connection, every franchise owner and every athlete has a stake in maintaining the image and reputation of his or her sport. taintBoxing has long been ed with fixes, corruption and in recent payoffs-thou- gh has years the general picture the better triumphs--unde- r performer fair rules and conditions. Instant Photography Competition Instant photography, eliminating the need to take negatives to the neighborhood camera shop or drug store, is just around the comer. improved. BASEBALL has a traditional reputation as a clean sport, though baseball, too, has had its scandals. Pro football has lost as something in recent years a result of drug abuse by players, excessive brutality and physical cruelty, but is slate. generally given a clean . PRO basketball has raised questions. Playoffs are many and they too often go the full seven games. Maybe its all coincidence. Golf and tennis, now big sports all over the country, are thus far free from major scandals. What makes following is sports attractive to millions the conviction that in athletic American West at USU during July and August, 1976, and also in the State Capitol Building immediately thereafter. UTAH Cooperative Extension Service is an equal employment condition by bone deposits developing in muscle tissue has long been observed in patients suffering from a wide range of maladies. THE DISEASE, known as myositis ossificans, can occur from birth on, as the result of a severe trauma or due to other neuromuscular and chronic illnesses. Now, two University of Utah bone specialists have identified a new category of pa opportunity Exchange Club of Bountiful. employer, provides services to all persons regardless of race, color or national origin. KsSify A painful characterized Larry Landward, Director Davis County Victim and Witness Assistance Program, recently described the program to the Breakfast of the HE EXPLAINED that POLARIOD, of course, has long been selling instant picture makers; now Kodak is getting into the act. In May in Canada and in June in the United States Kodak will introduce two cameras which have been years in development. One will sell for something over $50 and the other for about $70. KODAK claims its process produces clearer pictures of Polaroid, than the introduced some four years ago and priced at about the same level as the new Kodak competitors. Polaroid thinks its system of batteries in the film pack is better than a battery in the camera. SX-7- 0 4 . , KAYSVILLE ARTIST Mrs. Lillian Ringer is one of the many talented artists in Kaysville. She is shown above with several of her paintings in oils that she has done in the past. HER BEAUTIFUL paint-- , ings in oils mostly of landscapes with a few portraits have been given to her family with some being sold throughout the area as well as in California. Mrs. Ringer said, she always had a desire to try her hand at painting but with raising her family never It was while she was employed at the Frost Drug in Kaysville that she saw an ad in the newspaper for painting classes, to be conducted by Richard Long of found time. traditionally the main focus of the criminal justice system is on the offender, with crime being viewed as an event affronting society. The identity of the victim and the victims problems have typically been ignored. Lillian Ringer shown with an assortment of her paintings. Layton. Kay Nakashima, the druggist persuaded her to go and take the classes, which she did. That was in 1962 and she has been painting ever since. making her home tients who appear healthy but suffer from the disease. " SHE RECALLS the first one she finished was rather small, but she framed it and it still reminds her of her first adventure into this field. Her family has kept most of her paintings in their possession. Artist LeConte Stewart gave her many pointers and the one he stressed most was, do not paint from pictures, use originality, mother nature or a live suoject. has made and also helped with the quilting of many beautiful quilts. She plays the piano and is an excellent cook, as well as a friend to all. SHE RESIDES at 450 East 200 North, Kaysville and she and her husband, the late Frank Ringer are parents of three children, Dr. Wayne MRS. RINGER was bom in Park Valley, Utah, moved tr. Kaysville in 1922, later Ringer, Logan; Mrs. Aldene Christensen, Plain City and Mrs. Robert (Donna Mary) Mitchell, Kaysville. She is proud of 11 grandchildren and two np Mr. Landward explained that Davis County received court, n, progressive S. DRS. SHERMAN Coleman and Kent M. Samuelson of the division of orthopedic surgery reported their findings in a March issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). They said the newly identified disease form has been found in healthy patients whose lesions are neither the result of trauma nor are federal assistance about 1 years ago to undertake a pilot program to assist the victims of crime. The pilot program was one of only eight in the THE PROBLEMS victims experience include loss of (from there unusual in these patients disease processes that makes them more susceptible to development of bony lesions in muscle tissue. tissues. Subsequent biopsies of the affected areas resulted in microscopic tissue sections that indicated myositis ossificans was present. THE U physicians based their observations on four patients who had no medical complaints other than pain and swelling in various portions of their bodies. Tests were conducted that showed bonv masses in the THE SYMPTOMS in all four cases spontaneously subsided, and none of the pa- they birth).. It appears High Time What with the advent of spring and all, its maybe not the right time to bring up such an ominous subject, but theres no way to get it done sooner, and we need to know. THERE are all sorts of evil spells and bits of bad luck lurking about and too many of us bring on our troubles by not knowing what not to do. Im not superstitious, but it never hurts to be on the safe side. Walking under a ladder may not be bad luck, but its certainly poor judgment. BLACK cats may not always belong to witches, but they are very hard to see in the dark and usually any color cat takes unkindly to being crossed if you get too close. There are bits of wisdom, however, which may not be so obvious. Folklore has come on such hard times lately granny may not know the omens herself, so how can she pass them on? IN A grocery store, recently, while I whiled the time waiting for the lady at the checkout to decide whether she really wanted to pay $2.56 for four pork chops, I spotted a small booklet entitled Omens. The lady decided $2.56 was too much for the pork chops, but decided to get hamburger instead. The checker dispatched a runner to return the pork chops to the meat case and bring a pound of hamburger. tients yielded evidence of further masses in the soft muscle tissues several months later, the physicians reported in the JAMA article. Scandal Of Rudolf Hess, 82 PAGE 7 in Omens said If you put your clothing on wrong side out, turning it right side out will bring on extreme bad luck." maybe so, but talking about you. The real biggie, however, was When the back of your neck itches, an evil power is threatening, take steps to escape evil for Well, one will take my chances with a hex rather than brave the world dressed in an inside-ou- t dress all day. A hex in the hand is worth a whole gang in the book. I spells. tell me. In hay fever season, I itch and itch and never till now did I know it mattered. Except for making me excessively twitchy at times. But what in tarnation does a body do to escape evil spells? I wonder if a warm bath to stop the itching will cancel the spells. The check was written, and now the checker called for the check OKer to come and inNOW THEY RIGHT after the warning about inside-outanother warning; s, was Things will go badly if you button a garment incorrectly. Well, I should hope to tell you. I can think of any number of disasters which might result from incorrectly buttoned garments. I skipped over the one about spilling salt. I already know thats not only bad luck, its very messy, but not as bad as sugar. I ONCE knew spect it. UNDER about disasters associated with spilled salt, came the injunction to keep something edible in the oven when not cooking to avert poverty. Thinking back, I remember the time I left those baked potatoes in the oven a whole week. Its true, I did have more money that week a couple scattered it around on purpose cause she knew it set his teeth on edge. The runner returned the hamburger and with the business with the checkbook began. I found this little gem which is going to put my entire schedule in jeopardy. "If you leave the house, its unlucky to return. If you must, sit down and count slowly to 100 before starting out again." Ill never make it. forget so many things usually make anywhere from one to four trips back into the house when I so much as plan a trip to the mailbox. wonder if I can count by tens. Im late enough already. Under the heading. Itches, it said when your nose itches, expect company. When your hand itches, expect money. When your left large toe itches, someone is I because distinctly remember finding a five Rudolf Hess, Hitlers former deputy, recently spent his 82nd birthday in a Berlin jail. He was not even allowed a visitor, according to the strict rules of the war crimes prison. four-pow- THE FARCE and scandal of Hess treatment are sure to western the haunt democracies in years to come. Hess flew to England early in the war, hoping to persuade the western powers to agree to a peace with Ger- many, after which all could oppose communism. THE Russians have never forgotten him and it is the Soviet Union which insists on Soviet methods, the cruelty at Spandau. The United States, Britain and France have gone along with this Slavic sadism too long. HESS inhuman treatment is a festering irritant among the German people who see an man, who never set Nazi policy and who was far less implicated in Nazi crimes than many free or paroled, refused even the slightest Christian kindness. dollar bill in an old pocket DISCRETION book. THE REASON I remember is because I was hunting for some money to go buy a kitchen deodorizer to get rid of the smell of rotten pota- OH MY. toes. Under the heading Health, Omens said, When you 1 1 housekeeping hints, soon after the warnings got divorced about sugar on the floor. She said she swept it up and he said she did not, she I San ville. . She has been active in the LDS Church organization activities and has many talents in addition to painting. She personal possessions, which become evidence in criminal prosecutions but are often never returned; a lack of interest in the victims problems by police and prosecuting authorities; being required to tell and and hence to repeatedly relive the agonizing events of the crime and requirements of repeated court attendance at great personal inconvenience and to inconvenience employers and family members. Local examples of victim frustration in dealing with the criminal justice system were described by Mr. Landward. In one case a old child was severely injured by a old man who picked up the child and slammed her down on the ground hard enough to severely injure the child. The man took the position that the kid deserved it. The police, instead of telling the mother what she could do about it, asked her what she expected them to do about it. The mother finally called the office of the County Attorney in desperation because no one else would listen to her. IN ANOTHER local inold girl was cident, a raped. On the date of the defendants arraignment, the defendant kidnapped the girl. The parents were unable to find out what, if anything, the law enforcement agencies were doing for several days and finally one week later phoned the County Attorney to report that no one at all would tell the parents what was being done to help them find their daughter. In yet another local inold girl was stance, a raped. Two physicians in succession refused to examine her following the attack, taking the position that they could not take the time later to appear in court. ANOTHER TIME a wife was severely beaten by her husband several times, and when she finally complained to law re-te- ll ar By FLORENCE BITTNER in Francisco, Calif, for a short time and then back to Kays- nation. to Mg lisoRiGP County Sports disappears, fans will be turned off by the millions. the (f 6 instead of the massive unemployment that had been feared with the advent of automation, it did not happen except in times of depression. Of U. S. sweeping America and thats is a possible because honesty of U.S. sports. part prevailing If that admirable quality of wealth of America. HOWEVER, Honesty: Fart A coming here because most American workers give a days work for a days pay; this, in reality, is the greatest V -- wash your hands, let the water run down your fingers and bad luck will drip off with the water. Ive tossed and turned through many a night because I forgot to do that. Havent you? THE CHECK was okayed, the checkbook returned to the The wise husband meets a marital crisis with a firm hand-fu- ll candy or flowers. Coast Guard News. of -- TIMELY ADVICE The best thing that parents can spend on their children is time-n- ot money. Times, Marshalltown, la. -- pocketbook, the bags loaded in a cart and my groceries and I entered the chute. I hate to be chintzy, but why pay for a book youve already read? Its the stores bad luck their checkout lines are so slow. enforcement officers, overheard them comment that it was his right to keep her in line. She therefore did not report the next six incidents, and the seventh time was beaten so severely she received a fractured skull. Landward explained that a Davis County survey of felony victims discloses that 26.9 percent had been previously victimized or had seen a crime and yet did not report it to the police. The reason commonly given was that the witnesses and victims simply did not think reporting the crime would make any difference. OFTEN TIMES the average citizen will ignore a crime because he does not know where he is supposed to report it or what he has to do, or what will be the result if he does report it. Law enforcement officers are often too busy to give simple answers to crimes. to witnesses including the location of the the nature of a preliminary hearing and what will occur if the witness does not attend, the length of time the witness will be required to attend and what will be expected of the witness at the court. The recognition of these kinds of problems led to the creation of a Commission on Vicitm-Witnes- Assistance s under the sponsorship of the National District Attorneys Association. Field offices were established in New 'York, Kentucky, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Denver, Oakland and Farmington, Within the past 18 Utah. months over 400 similar programs have been established throughout the nation. THE VICTIM-Witnes- As- s sistance Program in Davis Coutny provides several services: 1. A sex crime response unit. Eight women have been trained to provide warm, caring, helpful response to victims of sexual assault. Two of these women responded on Friday, March 26, 1976, when the abduction and rape of a old Bountiful girl wa- - reported. questioning of witnesses, and of during the collection evidence. They make follow-u- p visits, assist with court appearances when required of victims, and provide coun- immediately ar seling and referral service. 2. A crisis intervention program. Immediate response is made to any crisis situation. THESE WOMEN are present during doctor visits, during the investigation and 3. AN information unit provides information on the progress of the case and an explanation of the events in the criminal justice system to victims. 4. A court preparation service. This advises witnesses of what is expected of them to how and respond appropriately to examination and 5. AN ESCORT service. In one case, a physician was transported from the delivery room to court and back again to the hospital, all within 14 minutes. His testimony was critical to the prosecutions case. 6. A court appearance con- trol. The Davis County unit has been able to prevent percent of unnecessary court 60-8- 0 appearances. 7. INTIMIDATION control. 8. Employer intervention service. Often the Davis County program has been able to enlist the cooperation of employers to make victim witness employees available without docking their pay. -- 9. PROPERTY RETURN assistance. 10. Social service referral system. BABY SITTING service. Interviewing and investigation work. 11. 12. 13. AN ALERT system. This makes it possible for witnesses to remain at work or at home until just before they are required in court. |