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Show DAVIS REFLEX JOURNAL DAVIS COUNTY CLIPPER Davis County Clipper Davis Published Reflex-Journ- MAY 1, 1985 Drug Abuser Letter al weekly by Clipper Publishing Co. 76 South Main Bountiful, Utah 84010 newspaper published at Bountiful, UT In the interest of Davis County and colonies formed by former residents. Entered as second class matter at Bountiful Utah, under the Act of Weekly March 8, 1979. Second class postage paid at Bountiful John Stahl, Jr. Dan S. Stahl Lucll Stahl 295-225- (USPS I am a drug abuser, I need help. Dont solve my problems for me. 84010 Publisher Mgr Editor Asst Mgr UT, This only makes me lose respect for you and for myself. Dont lecture, moralize, scold, blame, or argue whether Im stoned or sober. It may make you feel better, but it 1 1491-5000- 1 only makes the situation worse. Dont accept my promises. The nature of my illness pre- vents me keeping them, even though I mean them at the time. Promises are only my way of postponing pain. And dont keep switching agreements; if an agreement is made, stick to it. Dont lose your temper with me. I will destroy you and any possibility of helping me. That the community might be informed about the of daily life, we present the Forum, in hope of aiding a behind-the-scene- s Dont let your anxiety for me make you do what for myself. more intelligent decision. 1 tell you. Often alone tell it. Dont believe everything I 0Q006Q6 600G1 006 0 know the Dont cover up or try to spare using. worse. Cyclops Misses Humor Whoever Cyclops is, he or she does not merit having space on the front page of the Clipper, or for that matter anywhere. CYCLOPS MAY be trying to be an Art Buchwald, but is not succeeding. The style and content of the colums are offensive and insensitive. As a parent, pediatrician and writer, I seriously disagree with Cyclops Lighter Side" about serious topics such as Whats more important, an education or smoking?" Of course education is important, but so is a sense of order and obedience to rules. Why not both? Smoking at school happens to r be against the rules. Now on the front page of the Clipper, with the full authority of our community newspaper, we read an editorial suggesting that even though smoking is offensive sit back and and against the rules, we should be realists--an- d permit smoking at school. truth-le- t I I I would do dont even me the consequences of my it will make my illness may reduce the crisis, but Above all, dont run away from reality as do. Drug dependence, my illness, gets worse as my using continues. 1 Kaysville boys Ryan Whitesides and Joshua King had a lucky day at a recent Jazz game as they both swished the ball after the game. EACH WON a weekend trip to San Francisco. They left April 20, accompanied by their fathers, Boyd Whitesides and Felshaw Start now to learn, to understand, to plan Find Families Anonymous, whose groups families in just your situation. King. Both boys are avid basketball enthusiasts and spend many hours practicing both at home and at school, through the school year. for recovery. exist to help 1 need a doctor, a psychologist, a counselor, from some people in a program whove recofrom a Power themselves--and a from vered drug problem than myself. greater help--fro- m self-hel- p rules--ou- Your NUTS! End Bum Plant Cyclops' spoof on computers was also a loser. The first line from Cyclops provides considerable insight: Okay, I admit it...I do not own or know how to operate a computer. After lines of meaningless satire about computers, Cyclops quotes an unfunny story about a successful salesman and successful! company president neither of whom can write or spell. HOW MANY youngsters read this column thinking it was that spelling and funny and maybe somewhat grammar are unimportant? We have enough trouble convincing children that spelling and grammar are important without the Clipper telling them something else. The Lighter Side is promoted as a humorous look at serious topics. The topics are serious, but not humorous. I try to add some fun and humor to my columns, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't but Cyclops consistantly misses. Citizens of Davis County we have recently had two bouts with the Davis County Planning Board. The first decision we lost but later won on a technicality. Planning Board and Commissioners as judges rendered a favorable verdict on an invalid permit. THE COMMISSIONERS motto, If permit does not match the location, rewrite one that does. By their mistakes we ai;e rewarded a rematch. If you called a stacked deck with Commissioners rendering the final decision a reward. That is known as a situation. By rewriting a new perDavis County political mit Layton City and Home owners suffered losses by their represented commissioners. The rematch went five hours or five rounds. The knockout punch did not come from the planning board members or the opponents. The unseen but expected punch came from a well prepared script written before the fight even began. THE SPECIAL District used scare tactics as we knew they would by bringing up water and landfill pollution. These were not valid issues. Expensive studies have proven landfill water and in no danger if updated. The real issue was the site ( ) compatihome owners are unable to sell property; (2) zoning--nble to Layton City zoning ordinances; (3) we recommended plant be placed within district boundaries. Fair is fair. They want it, let them have it in their area. The main issue (economics) Hill AFB Contract has no guaranteed revenue as commissioners had led you to believe. It is only based on estimates and firm costs must be negotiated on a year to year basis in competition with other available sources. The penalties the District must pay have conveniently never been mentioned. Will 10,500 families in special district be big enough fools to borrow $58 million and give it to Katy Seghers as a gift; enter into a 20 year $249 million debt with steam returns not offsetting expenses and resulting in a deficient of $10 million a year? MR. MILLER, president of Katy Seghers, Commissioners and others have always said, if the plant could not meet required tonnage, steam inflation, electricity, control of landfill, garbage flow, etc., the plant would be disastrous and the company would pull out. None of these are available but Mr. Miller is still here. With such a generous gift, the Budweiser horses could not drag him away. I have been in enough meetings to know our commissioners are not serving your interests. Their special gift to you is to assume all risks and payback the $249 million disaster through exhorbitant user fees and taxation. Citizens, we need your help to deliver the punch to end the burn plant! true-conclu- ding NEWSPAPER editorials and columns cannot always please everyone, but when editorial style and content continue to offend a majority of readers, either the writer goes or readers will. What we have seen of Cyclops is not consistant with the views of the majority of folks in the communities the Clipper serves. This should be important to you because people subscribe to publications with editorial views with which they most often agree. FOR YEARS the Clipper has been an excellent hometown family newspaper. The recent format changes and addition of color to the front page have added class. But Cyclops is a big step backward. I suggest a very quick retirement for Cyclops. Glen C. Griffin, M.D. Pediatrician & Columnist Not Such Good Guys Mr. Editor: Recently, you have been attacked for exercising your constitutional right of free speech. It seems that during a time when one fights for what he or she believes, they become blind to any other points of view. We know this to be true because it has happened in the struggle to build a new school in Woods Cross. Not only from the proponents but also from those opposing the school site. Hopefully neither side would ask that ones rights should be stiffled. Most of us have known or had someone dear, forfeit their protect those rights. SMALL group of Woods Cross citizens have tried diligently to show the school board that the 100 South site was not the safest nor the best location for the city as a whole. The school board, though already in the new for creating a traffic monster in the Centerville area, have refused to listen. The traffic problems caused by buses and parents delivering their precious cargo to school, have created a dangerous situation in Centerville. The Centerville school has an enrollment of only 280 students, (the school is designed to handle 600). The Woods Cross School is being designed to handle 700 to 800 students and will be located on a narrow subdivision road. One reason history is taught in is that hopefully we can learn from our mistakes. Has the school board? We do not want the same monster controlling our streets. We have been accused of being selfish in our endeavors to stop the school. To that we say bull! We have always said and maintained that we were not against the school, but rather the poor location. The 100 S. Location was dubbed just that (poor location) by the Davis County Fire Chief. How can a statement such as this, made by a professional, simply be tossed aside? We ask whos selfish? When a statement is made by Dr. Penrod, representing the school board, that a quarter of a million dollars of tax payers money could be saved by renovating the present school, whos being selfish? WHEN A LETTER is written to the press for publication that says a building is 80 years old, when actually less than of the building is that old, or when, in print, someone states all sidewalks are the same width in Woods Cross, and all streets are the same width; who is being selfish? We know that walk widths at the 100 So. site are four feet, the street width is 32 feet, and that widths at the present school are 5 foot walks and 38 foot roads. These measurements might help answer that question. The 38 foot measurement does meet the State Fire Code: a road with 32 feet of pavement does not! When residents asked for 10 to 20 more feet of cool grass between their back yard and an asphalt parking lot, only to be met with opposition from school proponents, who has become blinded to others needs for the sake of their own cause? We are probably too few and too late to stop the School Board from using their weight to push another mistake into our community, such as Centerville is living with now. The School Board has complained of being mistreated in recent city meetings. Do they think they arc above any criticism or question from their wage payers. If so, its time for a change. As a warning to the rest of Davis County, Be careful The school board promised to work with us but has shown no interest of doing so. They arc not the innocent good guys they have tried to portray in recent news articles. life to A 1 1 one-thir- d 1 ! Mike I homas Sandra Hatch Woods Cross Concerned Citizens User no-wi- Some might think girls sports is a relatively new occurance, but not so, when you consider Layton had a girls basketball team as early as 1912. According to the Salt Lake of March 17, 1912, Utah girls, like Utah boys, excel in many things, and in this respect the Layton basketball team has won notable distinction in playing a schedule without a eingle defeat. Herald-Republic- an le 1 ot Teen Drug Dealers... Teenaged drug and alcohol dependents come from all family backgrounds, there is absolutely no discretion, said Marvin Carter, family intervention specialist for St. Benedict Center. Hospital's ACT ONE BOUNTIFUL Mother said of her children have been hard-dru- g users even though all were reared in a loving, church-oriente- d family. Another mother said her son has been on drugs for seven years and has cost the family nearly $100,000. She said it currently costs $25,000 per year for his continued treatment and all we can hope for is that he will be near normal when he is cured. Mr. Carter said 90 percent of those who become addicted to drug or alcohol will be cured before permanent brain damage or serious physical or mental disease takes all six over. HE EMPHASIZED that chemicdependency (alcohol or is a disease - a disease he suffered with for 27 years. The panel agreed that more treatment centers for drug and alcohol dependency are needed -especially for those bet w een 6 and 18 years of age and just "getting hooked on booze or drugs. IT WAS also agreed that young people would be doing their friends a favor to report them for excessive use of alcohol or use of drugs. Social workers noted that in addition to the usual smell and slur of speech connected with alcohol useage, teenagers using alcohol or drugs will usually have a change in behavior, lack of motivation, become excessively moody, have a change in eating habits, and will almost always deny that "anything is wrong or different." With these visible signs, how do parents live with then childien lor two or three years and not know that they are addicted to dings or al continued from pg. 1 are aware of what is going on. But what can be done to stop it? Rulon Homer, vice principle of Bountiful High, told the panel his side of the story. IM NOT a police officer and even as an administrator I am confined to what I can do by school and district policy. We report incidents as we see them, but our first responsibility is to be a school administrator. We have responsibilities to the 1,200 students, not just the few who may have alcohol or drug-relate- How do teenagers get started? HOW THEY get started, and when, depends largely upon the individual and his associates. For many, it is a lift from their low But once involved, it is difficult to leave the surroundings of those with whom they share 1644 E. 700 S. Clearfield their drugs and booze. drug-relate- BECAUSE we aie the biggest con artists, cheats, hat s and manipulators you can imagine," said Wc will deny cveiythmg, Sally. and everything we say will be a Kenneth Reed self-estee- ORRIN G. HATCH iummiim. UTAH lAiOfl ANO HUMAN MMMtCt -- alcohol? problems. d n 139 ftoMu SwATi omca I umi TWM: (202) Hatch Hot United 1 Um WASHINGTON, (OTAMTQU.PWO juoicwnr MMlLIUtlNUS States Senate UOOfT D.C. 20510 AMCUCTUM omctorncHNOUMr AMUMWr April 18, 1985 and Lucile Stahle John, Dean, Reflex-JournDavis 76 al South Main Bountiful, Utah 84010 layout! After just returning Congratulations on a fine the Cape to watch Jake blast-of- f (and catching a cold the rain laryngitis), I read a copy of I'm sure 10th this isn't the first copy, your April paper. as my press secretary, Paul Smith, says you've been puhl ishing in color for a couple of months, but this is the first copy r. I've had a chance to read cove from from there--cuusin- Anyway, it g looks sharp, and although lot to your coffers through it'sforadding think it looks great. one, I, a 1 don't know if subscribers, more lie. Yet parents will believe because they do not want them to feel they aie not being trusted, Sally explained "Most parents would do then childien a favor by being mote pcisisl.ml and demanding in what they expect ol then-childre- Orrin 0. Hatch United States Senator their childien. POLICE, school adniinisliaims, teachers and even some pnicnls a |