Show 2 - Page ( Millard (mini) ISPS Thurs Jan 22 1987 TO THE LETTERS Teacher to Parent EDITOR Helping your child succeed President by Betty Condie Utah Education Association Where is the loss of a job or tailure to get one academic failure or failure to be accepted in a particular social circle Whoever is different or in the minority is at risk according to some experts This could help explain why the valedictorian of a high school shot himself shortly after receiving an academic scholarship to college Being different even in a positive sense can create stress or pressure for a teenager Meeting high expectations of parents and teachers can be as difficult for some students as facing their disapproval when they fail Teenagers today have fewer demands but more pressures on them than previous generations Students whose parents teach them to solve their own problems during childhood usually are able to handle the pressures of adolescence Others often are not What causes student suicide and how can we prevent it in our own families and communities? Some experts say that academic and social pressures increase the probability of teen suicides A 1981 study showed that 30 percent of events precipitating teen suicide attempts are including poor grades truancy and disciplinary problems Students list pressure to succeed in school and drug abuse as major factors in their inability to cope with their lives Perfectionists and those who suffer from depression low and feelings of hopelessness seem especially vulnerable to suicide This state of mind often is caused by a teenager's inability to cope with a personal loss or failure The loss could be the death of a friend or family member (especially a suicide) parents' divorce rejection by a girlfriend or boyfriend Community Calendar Pahvant Valley Senior Citizens Health and Education class 12:30 pm Senior Center Hypertension presentors: Terri Winslow and Sharon Blad Jan 29 Food Handlers Class Delta Public Health Office 2:30 pm ($5 fee) Jan 30 Children’s Delta Dance Theater 7:30 pm SponHigh Auditorium sored by West Millard Cultural Council Jan 31 Feast of St Bosco Delta Catholic Church Feb 4 and registration Delta LitWeigh-i7 tle League Wrestling pm DHS 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 7 Benefit for Darlene Fowler Fillmore Elementary School Feb II Pahvant Valley Senior Citizens health and education workshop 12:30 pm Identifying and Coping with Stress Sharon Blad and Terri Winslow presentors 14 Jan Basic EMT Course in Fillmore Call Kent Dalton for information Jan 14 leb Traveling Art display Delta City ibrary pm Jan 23 DHS Swim Team hosts Vernal and N Summit West Millard Pool Jan 24 Mary Tippetts 80th birthday Openhouse pm at her home in Sutherland Jan 25 Elder Jeffery Rasmussen mission farewell Fillmore 4th Ward Jan 26 Clinic Delta Public Immunization Health am & pm Jan 26 & 28 Senior Citizens Day Utah State egislature Jan 27 Estate Planning Seminar pm Millard County Courthouse Fillmore R J Ellis & Co sponsor Use of Over the County Medica7 Diabetes tions American pm ssociation Delta Medical Center Jan 28 Fillmore Food Handlers Class Paradise Inn 2:30 pm ($5 fee) Adult Education Classes Millard Auto Shop High School Computes Preparation for GED Test Registration 7:00 pm Fillmore RPh Roger Killpack 7 Medical Center pm American Diabetes Association Wmwwww'99wwmwwww99w9wm The Millard County ’”" j Chronicle Progress USPS Mon Meetings: located Publisher J Editor Susan Amoll ! & Wed Health offices 51 North Center For info s call Advertising i TEENAGE Fillmore Office Manager Evelyn Mallet Receivable Deb Greathouse Accounts Circulation Julie Ward Circulation Commercial Shellie Printing Dulson Advance Subscriptions 00 per year 00 per 6 months of County 00 per year $10 00 per 6 months County Single Copy 50 cents In County In County Out Out of POSTMASTER PO Send Box 249 Wrond Address changes 84624 Delta Utah Ram Pad Rfque! Call PROBLEMS? 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 wonder why so many teenagers are getting in trouble for possession and consumption of tobacco and alcohol? Call Geno Minor OttMD i NEW PHONE NUMBERS Kuul J Every morning Papa turned the crank that powered the milk down the discs of the cream through separator that stood on the back porch The cream came out the top spout and into the cream bucket The milk flowed in a bigger stream out of the bottom spout We had a bucket of real rich sweet cream We used cream for everything Mama could stir up a cream cake that was light as a summer cloud layers put together with jelly and topped with whipped cream or biscuits made with cream or cookies or corn bread or hot cakes topped with cream and a little sugar There was cream for vegetables any vegetables carrots cabbage potatoes corn cream for the fruits in season peaches and cream strawberries and and if fruits were cream raspberries not in season there was cream for the dried apple pie whipped cream for apple salad JOHN WATERBURY Dear John Letters Dear John Dear John Call me a skeptic bul I really don't believe that people are capable of changing the way they are Our personalities are set for the most part I really especially with adolescents question the usefulness of any kind of treatment program for them Sometime ago there was a TV report that showed how useless adolescent treatment programs were Why do you persist in this hopeless endeavor? Deceitful Outrageous and Acrimonious Dear DOA Basic personalities seldom change dramatically But when the right situations present themselves and the dividuals reach a point where their options are depleted change does occur What happens is that life brings out other characteristics and abilities that were not recognized earlier In this manner major personality changes do occur and new attitudes are developed Now as for adolescent treatment there are two main points to be considered First as adolescents lose of their lives as a result ol chemical dependency they are in need of assistance and direction to repair the damage to the various areas in their life Treatment that is oriented toward a comprehensive family process proIts goal is to vides that opportunity establish consistency and continuity both of which are based on sobriety Sobriety does not simply mean not using It means developing a new way of life It addresses thoughts and feelings that are essential to positive behavioral It provides an avenue development that adolescents may use to restore themselves to sanity It provides hope where none existed before The second point to consider is that with treatment the adolescents are not the only ones to benefit The parents receive support guidance and consolation in a setting that is based on dividual responsibility They are given direction and permission to utilize effective techniques that help them gain some measure of control over their lives again They learn how to successfully avoid reaching the end of their rope They learn the dynamics of growth and have the opportunity to share those periences with others who are not quite as far along Treatment is a process that is vigorating and challenging renewing It is unfortunate and rewarding that most individuals must experience a life crisis to be able to have the opportuniBut ty to benefit from such an event guess those are the same dynamics that influence all other areas in life Geno: Just for Today Comp Production Circulation 2 j Sales Riley Mood Legal Billing Dawn Carder Sales Design Rita Bullcreek 1 pm at Delta Mental ALAN0N: at Large Reporter 8 £ Dulson Editorial Mark Alcoholics Anonymous cream pitcher? Fillmore City Fillmore City Library Governor’s Task Force on Oil & Gas Regulation to Meet The Governor's Utah Task Force on Oil and Gas Regulation will hold its first meeting on Friday January 23 1987 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm in the Division of Oil Gas & Mining The address is 355 West Boardroom North Temple 3 Triad Center Suite 301 Salt Lake City Utah The newly formed task force is composed of eight industry representatives Dr and eight state representatives Dianne Nielson Director of the State Division of Oil Gas & Mining is the task force chairman There was cream for the old crank turned ice cream freezer cream for the “dutch cheese” made from the skim milk cream to churn for our ow n good butter Every family had a cream pitcher not a little thing but a real pitcher to hold a quart or more Papa could pour cream from the pitcher into his bread and milk He had a saying “If there it is is anything that deserves cream milk” No one has a cream pitcher any more Cream now comes from the market shelves in boxes not from the separator It is good the nutrients are still there Nutritionists frighten us with fat and cholesterol so we buy vitamins and drink the skim milk that once we gave by buckets full to the calves Nobody has a cream pitcher Mary Henrie THINKING Dear Readers For centuries a bit of wisdom has been passed from generation to generation The words may have changed some but the message has always been clear Very simply we need to be careful about what we think because that’s what we become If we can grasp that idea there is almost nothing that we are incapable of achieving Just for a second examine some of the people who the world considers to be successes Both Caesar and Napoleon will tain their places in history as men who had a definite impact on the destiny of the world Yet both of them were epileptics at the very time they were making themselves most powerful John Milton who wrote Paradise Lost was totally blind and living in complete pov erty w hen he wrote the masterpiece in literature George Washington won the American Revolution despite the fact that his family was against his volvement And then there was Abraham Lincoln who had to borrow money to go to Washington to give his inaugural address These are perfect amples of men who understood that their thinking went hand in hand with their behavior What would have happened to Abraham Lincoln if during one of the 20 some odd elections that he lost before being elected President he would have allowed himself to think “I’m probably going to lose this one too So why try” You have to remember that thoughts are like magnets They attract you to the very things you think about One of the problems that many people have is that they don’t have any goals in mind and consequently they have nothing to focus their thinking on As a result they do a lot of thinking and acting but they never accomplish anything due to their lack of direction It’s been said that we usually waste energy to get us to our enough destination-if we only knew where we wanted to go CONFIDENTIALLY: Success is never final and failure is never fatal Delta did right on DUIs Dear Mayor Ruth Hansen and the Delta City Council for Bravo Delta City Council “biting the bullet” by passing stricter Our family was DU1 Ordinances elated to see a long neglected problem acted upon The harsher punishment just may help those who won’t help themselves to protect the rights of others As I said in 1985 when Ken was a victim of a DUI accident all of us are guilty at times for being thoughtless blatant Drunk Driving is just disregard of the rights of others We are grateful that Delta has taken measures to help those stronger misguided people who are not willing to help themselves The Ken Talbert family Where Is Our Support? Where is our support teens parents educators bank employees employees of the City of Delta unemployment office employees Chamber of Commerce members police department County doctors Commissioners lawyers nurses insurance agents and farmers?? Do you leave your dollars in your community? Do you want your tax dollar to work for you? Do you want your tax dollar to create jobs to help your schools? Who helps pay your wages? Tell your merchants what you would like alive! and keep your community Remember who gives you parades and helps the ball clubs Remember who to the year book and to community organizations Remember who sponsors the Christmas Money Tree Dave Taylor could have given the schools computer discs The cities won Delta Photo could do school pictures Again cities won Delta Sport Center could supply the athletic department but the cities won Good bye dollars that could help our community If you go to the cities for everything Local town suffers the whole businesses need your support Don’t let Main Street in Delta disappear Spend your dollars at home!! Save your community Shop at gives home- Farilyn Edwards My Opinion Open letter to Gov Bangerter What happened to the conservatives? by Mark Amott Dear Gov The voters of Utah seem to have misplaced some conservative politicians and was wondering if you might know what happen to them remember As beginning about eight years ago Utah was labeled the most conservative state in the known universe by overwhelmingly voting for President Reagan and ushering in the that was going to save “Revolution" us from government spending You yourself benefited from this trend by crushing your Democratic op- ponent in 1984 Now however you and your conservative friends want to increase taxes in this state from somewhere between S206 to S236 million They say its a record What bothers me most is that there doesn’t seem to be a lot of conservatives around Republican or otherwise who are trying to "get the government off my back” This comes at a particularly tough time when like most Utahns my real income growth parallels a January nighttime temperature: minus zero and dropping If remember right the conservatives wherever they are were going to slay the dragon of government glut by cutting costs and programs So what happen? Did they run out of ideas or what? If so The Utah Taxpayers Association has an impressively long list of ideas for cutting costs at the state level which they offer as an alternative to your tax increase proposals “The governor says higher taxes are needed to improve our educational system” says UTA spokesman Jack Olsen “But there is nothing wrong with Utah education that some basic structural changes won’t fix” Those changes include use of school buildings which could net an estimated $150 million per year in savings consolidation of the 40 school districts and a voucher system to introduce competition in the education marketplace “Millions could be cut by trimming where only 57 school administration percent of school district employees are teachers and requiring better use of classrooms at our colleges and universities where utilization is now only 50 percent” Olsen said vs tax increases Other ideas espoused by UTA are contracting to provide with private industry for everything services government from snow removal to prisons find all So please Gov Bangerter those conservatives tell them about the UTA ideas and lets see if we can’t get for one this revolution back on track can't afford the alternative 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 Middle America Search for “ Middle America” Hitchhiker Bob Thomas Of all the hitchhikers picked up in 82000 miles of driving around the country these past four years Robert Biggar stands head and shoulders above them all in my mind a few miles stopped for him on south of Knoxville Tenn He wasn’t a very serious hitchhiker He was walking along at a fair clip his back to traffic and his left thumb just sort of hanging out from his hand It seemed to say: “If you want to pick me up okay if not I’ll understand” He was toting the biggest backpack ever saw on man or beast but it was most professionally rolled Quite neat in fact He made no exira effort to catch up with me after pulled off the road He just kept up that steady clip He opened the side door of the van his load and then stepunshouldered seat ped up into the passenger "Thanks Mate” he said guessed his accent for Australia or New Zealand or maybe even London’s was wrong on all three He West End and his was from South Africa favorite expression for the next six days was "That’ll put a knot in your by knickers” Bob Biggar then was 34 years old single and he had 20 years in the carpenter's trade In his possession was visa and everything a man an could want to set up housekeeping His pack weighed 74 pounds It held a stove propane two pans a coffee pot waterproof tent sleeping bag two blankets a plate cup and flatware It also held a supply of dry cereal vitamin pills candy bars tea bags powdered milk and a carton of Jack Tar cigarets And three changes of clothing Biggars told me he had worked the previous two years seven days a week 12 hours a day to finance his Cook’s Tour of America No he wasn’t even remotely thinking about moving here He liked his Africa veldt and his work as a construction foreman in Natal And he owned his own home at 9 Fleming Street He was a cheerful guy and he had more questions than a congressional committee He wanted to know everything about this country and seemed a bit disappointed when couldn’t give him knowledgeable answers to such queries as “How long is the Mississippi River?” “How could meet Joe DiMaggio?” “How high is Pike’s Peak?” “What’s the coldest it gets in San Diego?” finally had an answer when he asked me what my plans were told him was wending my way to Gainesville ria with stops in Atlanta Pensacola and Tallahassee to see old newspaper buddies who were still nailed to desks “Mind if tag along?” “Not at all” told him “I’d appreciate the company” took him up to the top of the Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta (72 stories) for breakfast in the revolving We took in the sleaze that restaurant is entertainment at Trader Jon’s in Pensacola went swimming in the chilly gulf at Fort Walton Beach and then went a little out of my way and dropped him off in St Augustine before reporting for work trusted They were a great six days him with the spare set of keys to the van as we sometimes went our separate ways during the day I’d come back and find him stretched out on his sleeping bag or writing copious notes in a diary And always a Jack Tar cigaret hanging from the corner of his mouth And he seemed to be forever brewing tea over a can of sterno He loved American hamburgers and hated our beer He found it “quite polite" that our women smoked on the street although he thought American women the prettiest he had ever seen He was a devoted fan of American jazz and we found a little place in Tallahassee one night that pleased him He surprised me by playing the drums He was quite good We parted company early of a mordidn't give him too much ning and thought after that There was too much to do and too much to see He rushed back into my mind about a month later though was fumbling around in the glove for a tire compartment looking pressure guage when spotted an unfamiliar white envelope It was addressed simply to “Bob Thomas” in a handdidn’t recognize writing Inside found a short note and $75 American The note read: “Next time you’re in South Africa drop by” It was signed with his name address and telephone If you’re ever in Natal give him a call: And try to find out for me what it means to have “a knot in your knickers" will you? |