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Show PHE33 A2.9vU 300 SO. 19 , UTAH U1U SALT LAKE UTAH STATE EAST 1 467 Cin f Growth and i limited resources are primary cog in creating weakness in Davis School Districts Central Office. Smoking & chewing: A problem 7 Davis r Caffei route Resort u S ftOLK RATE RAID Permit no 6 IcMor' 0 Sr1 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1985 NUMBER SIX Wednesday LIGHTER SIDE I 1 i I ( j i k A humorous look at serious topics Fluke Could Lead To Bureaucracy CYCLOPS Guest Writer Lucas Erasmus spoke English when living in his native Rhodesia. But now, after five years in the United States, hes added a valuable word to his vocabulary: BUREAUCRACY. As Gary Blodgetts story relates in this week's newspaper, Lucas and his family arrived in the U.S. in 1980 after being forced at gunpoint to flee their home in Rhodesia. The Marxist government confiscated the property, changed the countrys name to Zimbabwe and the natives have been shooting holes in each others chests ever since. Having a Caucasion heritage may help you win the governorship of Mississippi, but it doesnt help one bit when you're living among the natives in Africa. In fact, Lucass father had earlier been forced to flee from his home ia .Zambia, before plowing fertile ground in Rhodesia. At any rate, Lucas traveled to the U.S. and applied fora Green Card working permit. Nothing immediately happened, but Lucas was patient. He settled in Utah and, with his college degree and sales experience, began working for a computer firm. He became known as a model worker: He paid his taxes, contributed to the Social Security fund, attended church regularly... and did so well that last fall he opened his own computer office in Bountiful. If you work hard, you can be a success in America, he said. I still believe that. This country is fair. But then he went to Mexico. Eighteen months ago Lucas and his family vacationed in California to renew a friendship with a former LDS missionary who had baptized him. While with the missionary, the suggestion was made to hop over the border into Tijuana for an inexpensive dinner. I heard the lobster was cheaper over there, he smiles. And I'd never been to Mexico. I thought it would be fun. It also would be a nightmare. After the dinner, the Erasmus family was stopped at the border by U.S. Immigration officials. They asked Lucas if he were an American. They weren't checking identification; he says he could have lied and said yes. Instead he told them he was not yet an American citizen but he had applied for his Green Card. The missionary was waved across the border; the Erasmus family vas denied entrance into the country. They spent the evening in Mexico and were finally allowed to enter into California the next morning. But Lucas name was now being bandied about: Here was a man working in the U.S. without a Green Card. He was in violation of federal law. Since he was in violation of federal law (Good grief, the man had worked!), he would be deported. But Lucas didn't lose faith. He contacted several congressmen whosolemnly nodded and said there was little they could do. He contacted the Immigration authorities who solemnly nodded and said he should leave. Between all the nods he discovered he could not become an American citizen until he got his Green Card. And he couldnt get a Green Card because hes being deported. Since he is situation, Lucas Erasmus and his caught in a Catch-2family are now applying for entry into Canada. Montreal 2 Continued on page 2 Deportation Clipper - Quick thinking of a Centerville his and teacher has paid off. When Paul fourth grader Stewart Elementary School, at J.P. a student Grant, started choking on a piece of hard candy during a recent field trip, he had the presence of mind to seek out his teacher for help. i CENTERVILLE THE INCIDENT occurred on a school bus when fourth graders at the school returned from a field trip to Pioneer State Park. Paul began choking and walked to the middle of the bus to alert Mrs. Shari Lawes. She quickly applied the Heimlich maneuver on the student - and after three attempts the candy dislodged and came flying out of his mouth. Paul was the real hero," she stated. He had the sense tell me about it. If he had waited on the back scat, come to he surely would have choked to death. Mrs. Lawes stated that she and Paul both cried with gratitude after the incident. -- - News Editor It was the wrong thing to do - to cross the border into Mexico toi but it m.i dinner with friends cost the Lucas Erasmus EamiK ot Farmington a chance to fulfill then dreams as American citizens THE ERASMIS F amily now face deportation not for a crime they committed, but because they Cvl-lope- s made a mistake (Read column tor details ) We're not blaming the U S government, it's laws, or anything else." says Lucas "Appai ently we made a mistake and it's going to cost us dearly We did something that we were not aware was wrong or illegal We just blame it on bad luck. - Lucas J. Erasmus, his wife, Elena (Cookie), two sons, Leon, 21, and Noel, 15, and daughter, Jueneta, 13 face . FACE DEPORTATION deportation from the United States because of a quirk in the immigration law. IT DOESN'T seem right that this can happen in America The Erasmus family came to America and settled in Bountiful nearlv live years ago They tied their native Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) at gunpoint after the terrorists had bombed their sister's nearby home (see picture. Page 2) and the familys lives were threatened They fled at night with only the clothes on their backs, two suitcases between them, and SI. 000 That's all thev had to start a new life somewhere, somehow BECAUSE the Marxist Government had taken control ot Rhodesia, they could not get a visa from that country to travel So they apfiom plied and received visas Africa Using these passpoits. thev entered the United States and have lived in south Davis County for nearly five years. Two sons and a daughter of Lucas and his wife. Elena. (Cookie), have been educated in Davis Schools LEON HAS graduated and has applied for an LDS Mission. Noel is a high honor student (straight-A- ) and Jueneta has outstanding academic and musical achievements at Farmington Junior High Using his engineering degree and - - Tibby Doesnt Leave Problems To Others By TOM HARALDSEN - BOUNTIFUL Tibby Milne wears many hats. She is a wife and mother of six, is active in church, and heavily involved with com- munity programs relating to Heimlich Saves GARY R. BLODGETT By ' Education is prevention. W'hat better way can 1 empress it than that Weve got a lot of good things going on in this community, and it does work, it does pay to educate. she stated. MRS. MILNE has followed with interest the recent stories in the about Clipper and Reflex-Journdrugs and alcohol abuse. Last year, the chairmen of several local THE MAIN reason I got in- groups dealing with those issues volved is simple. We have adopted decided to polarize, combine their six children, were a part of this efforts. Thus, the Network Comcommunity, and you cant always mittee was formed. "It gives al entities a chance to leave the job to someone else and then scream when there comes a share information, and not spend so much time trying to reinvent the problem, she said. Today, Mrs. Milne serves as wheel. We discuss different issues chairman of the Davis County Net- and decide what needs to be work Committee, associate direc- done," she explained. THE NETWORK group has also tor of the Region 3 PTA, and executive director of the Utah Coun- served another major purpose, letcil for Crime Prevention. She is selting those providing help to people dom at home, and when she is, with drug and alcohol problems almost constantly on the tele- know what services are available. What has impressed me most phone. And yet, her dedication to of all is the involvement that many each effort remains strong. young people have taken. Its okay to say no to drugs and alcohol, and SHE SEES those areas of community service intermixing, blend- I think weve seen some real ing together towards a common growth in that area," she said. goal and solution to society's ills. SHE POINTS to programs at schools, crime prevention and drug and alcohol abuse. She may have gone far beyond the call of duty, even for the busiest of people. Davis and Bountiful High Schools where groups of students have formed clubs to emphasize that message to their peers. Such prog- - Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 Chewing, Smoking: Two Major Concerns TOM BUSSELBERG Editor involving 3,330 10th-I2t- h graders were released to the health board by Brad Neiger, health educator. Better than Perhaps of greatest concern was FARMINGTON one in 10 Davis County high school the fact 5 1.1 percent of those chewstudents have smoked and about ing or dipping tobacco purchased d half that many chewed tobacco it. Just over obtained it within the past 24 hours. through friends. ITS REALLY quite alarmTHOSE FINDINGS, admittedly ing, he told the board, indicating subject to error because they were one in six males had dipped or obtained in a survey, chewed tobacco within the last still present data that have both the week when the survey was admi- county board of health and school district poised for action. Continued on page 2 Results of the high school survey By Reflex-Journ- - one-thir- self-declar- I |