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Show Mjsfcuww TBLome AMer This is the third and Final true-lif- e story of Cato Persico, of Bountiful, who with her brother, Petie, barely survived 20 months captivity in a German concentration camp. When she arriveid in Toronto, Cato got off the train - and with only $30 in her pocket - began looking for a place to stay. Cato. It was a joyous reunion." Cato always had dreams of visiting-- - even living in America, so she applied for a visa a few years later. SHE WAS 21 years old when By GARY R. BLODGETT Clipper News Editor 20 JLmsgjs Warntbs left for America, via Canada. -- just to she I deserted a found hours several warm. After park," stay said. Without money for lodging, Cato said she lived through two bitter cold nights by opening her huge suitcase, taking out her clothes, and crawling inside the suitcase. IT WAS bitter cold and I remember walking for hours, her number came up" and Cato BOUNTIFUL - Cato was only 12 years old, and her brother, 13'2 when they were separated from their family in Amsterdam, Holland. -- IT MAY sound silly, said Cato, but it kept me from freezIm glad my suitcase was as large as any suitcase Ive ing to death. NOW, 20 MONTHS later, they had survived brutal beatings, torture and starvation. American soldiers had reached ever seen." Nor-dhaus- After a couple nights in the park, Cato became very discouraged and had decided to return home to Amsterdam. Prison Camp in eastern Germany and the two Dutch children - along with hundreds of others who had survived the terrible ordeal, were freed. But Cato was now barely 4, her brother a year and a half older. What would happen to them? -- I WAS ON my way out of the park when an LDS Missionary, who had visited my family in Amsterdam, saw me. He knew I was very cold and hungry and he took me to a nearby restaurant where I ate my first steak in my whole life, she said. We talked a lot and 1 decided to stay in Canada until I could someday make it to America. That.day came eight years later. 1 THEY HAD received no outside contact to let them know if their parents were still alive. They could only assume they would return to their native Holland. But first, they must spend a few weeks in the hospital, recovering from malnutrition. CATO MOVED to Florida, California, Washington, finally to Bountiful. She married and has one daughter, Louisa, 16, a student at Woods Cross High School. Two other sons died as small children, having been bom with severe cerebral palsy. Catos future is still uncertain, but with her drive and determination she is pursuing writing of a book depicting her life. She has e also completed one segment of a playscript and hopes to or a have her life dramatized in a movie, television television documentary. I WAS BARELY alive when the Americans liberated us, she said. I could not have lasted much longer, emotionally or physically. Petie was in worse shape than me. The Americans came just in time for many of us - but not soon enough for hundreds who died in the months just before we were freed. Cato emphasized that it was largely because she was non-Jethat she escaped extermination. But I suffered hunger, pain and all the miseries that others in the camp suffered, she said. And if I had not stayed healthy enough to work for them, I, too would have gone to the (gas) chamber. -- 200-pag- mini-serie- s, w full-leng- SCREENPLAY was written by Mark Williams from the story by Cato H. Persico. David Lister, of Mt. Pleasant, talked her into writing her life story and now several persons have played prominent roles in preparing the story for production. Tom Ballard, producer of the Wildwalker met with Cato for the third time Tuesday. He said he is interested in getting a Hollywood producer to make a film of her life from childhood to. the present. He said cost to make such a movie would be $18 million to $20 million. SHE SAID the Germans were aware they were losing the war several months before the ward ended. As a result, she noted, punishment and starvation increased, accounting for hundreds of deaths in the final weeks before liberation. But once the war was over - and she had recuperated a little bit from malnutrition in a nearby hospital - Cato and Petie were given a ride home, to Amsterdam. -- -- of th STEVE CRACROFT filmed segments of her life for auditions and Greg Clyde will interview her live on Channel 20 at 0 a. m. on June 19. OUR PARENTS were shocked because they never did know our whereabouts or whether we were alive or dead, said 1 1 L Davis Jail Study To Be Presented Great Saif Lake Reaches 84 Peak Level not only growing needs on the county level but as a facility that would share some services with the state corrections division. Changes in drunk driving laws and population growth, among other factors, have raised the need for an expanded county jail while a burgeoning inmate census at the Point of the Mountain has forced state officials to seek other ways to house some e minimum and prisoners, possibly closer to their homes where social services and families would be closer. FARMINGTON - The final chapter in the Davis County Jail study will be presented to the committee of city and county government officials, law enforcement personnel and citizens Aug. 2 at noon in the county commission chambers, here. -- CONDUCTED BY the corrections facility consultant firm of DeLand and Associates, of Salt Lake County, its expected to include recommendations for location of a jail that could serve By GARY R. BLODGETT Clipper News Editor GREAT SALT LAKE finally reached its peak. -- - The Silver Age Events Listed water level of Great Salt Lake has TED ARNOW, district chief of the U.S. Geological Survev. twice a month recordings of the which direct the continuous Great Salt Lake water level - said the lake has reached its seasonal high point after rising steadily for the past nine months. "The lake level will now recede for the next several months, but just how fast will depend on the weather and temperature because the lake is landlocked and has no way to recede but through evaporation, Mr. Arnow explained. - -- peaked at 4,209.25 feet above sea level at the Saltair Beach Boat Harbor on the HE SAID the lake between July and 3 south end of the lake. "This the highest level the lake has reached since 1878, when it was 4,209.40, said Mr. Arnow, "And is the second highest lake level since record keeping began at the lake in 847 - the first year the Mormon Pioneers arrived in Salt Lake Valley. 1 -- 1 THE LAKES highest level during modern day record keeping was 4,211.5 feet above sea level which was recorded in 1873, according to geological study reports. North of the Southern Pacific Causeway the lake level is slightly lower, about 3.65 feet below that of the main body (southern) part of the lake. Mr. Arnow said that difference between the two parts of the lake w'as the maximum recorded difference since the railroad causeway was completed in 1959. THE RISE of the lake has caused extensive damage to lakeside industries and thousands of acres of farm and ranch lands, and has also caused some environmental problems. State Health Department officials said the west side of Salt Lake and Davis Counties have had serious problems with increased rat populations - and increased size of the rats infesting the area. -- weather, the BECAUSE of the high runoff and excessive rodents have migrated farther from the Jord? . iver and into subdivisions of Rose Park and south Davis County. Residents of these areas were cautioned to avoid attracting rats and other unwanted rodents by keeping their garbage cans covered, keeping meat - including dog food - to a minimum, and by picking up fruits and berries that have fallen on the ground. County and State health officials should be notified of excessive rodents in any area. -- -- HEALTH OFFICIALS said the Jordan River is also more polluted now than normal and no one should swim in the river or its surplus channels. lake level has destroyed or severely damThe aged about 75 percent of the lakeside waterfowl marshes, causing more than $35 million damage to physical facilities. record-breakin- g - making the months summer the after receding during net increase show. feet, the reports IN 1984, the lake rose an additional 5.0 feet -- 4 - -- - 9.60 fresh garden peas, sliced bread cookie and milk. Tuesday, July 24, center closed. cancer screen clinic for women will be held at the Golden Years Center in Bountiful on Thursday, Aug. 2. Afternoon A appointments are available for Silver Age ladies starting at 1:30 p.m. Transportation will be made available to all women wishing to attend. The clinic is sponsored by the Department of Health, cancer and control program. Fees range from $2 to $15 depending on income. chilled melon, ranger WEDNESDAY, July 25, roast beef, whipped potatoes buttered carrots, fruit pieces on lettuce, baking powder biscuits glaze, milk. butter, fruit bars lettuce leaf, cheese slice, salad on chicken 26, July Thursday, baked beans, fresh tomatoes and cucumber slices, hard rolls peach upside down cake and milk. ey DONATIONS of Western paperback novels and aluminium cans are needed. Menus for the week of July 23 will include: vegetables, French rolls icing and milk. FRIDAY, July 27, beef stew fresh fruit, crazy cake MONDAY, July 23, meat loaf with creole sauce, hot fluffy rice, Teachers Expected To OK Contract By TOM BUSSELBERG North County Editor FARMINGTON Davis School District teachers were expected to ratify contract negoti- for the school year, Tuesday night, ations although they may not be over- joyed at the salary increase in- cluded. REPRESENTATIVES of the Davis Educattion Assoc., the. professional organization for the ,700 Jeachers, and the district administration have intermittently tried to hammer out a workable contract for months finally arriving at the four percent across the board increase as passed through by the Legislature. Discussion had started first with a three percent increase but Supt. Lawrence Welling said Tuesday morning as we went to press that he felt "comfortable with the negotiation results quickly adding, I think we did the very best we could in a difficult situation. 1 THIS ONGOING situation where many teachers feel they arent being properly compensated may explain the twice last years number of teachers who chose resignation, Mr. Burningham theo- rized. Indicating THAT FOUR percent roughly equal to the cost of living increase over the past year is augmented for many teachers by lane and in- crement changes. But as DEA Executive Secretary Dee Burningham notes, the increase comes on the heels of a virtual zero percent increase last year. Times have been bleak, as far as salary increases, he continued, noting that while a cost of living increase was offered the year before that it came after only a half a cost of living raise provided before that. over 30 teachers have terminated, he said about half had taken the option of early retirement offered those over age 55 but said others at varying years of experience opted out. For some, they felt why fight the hassle who were performing adequately and were excellent teachers while others indicated they couldnt handle it anymore. OTHER POINTS to the negotiations include adding nine teachers to the elementary grades, especially the primary Kindergarten-3r- d grades, over and above new teachers hired to handle expected enrollment increases. Those nine teachers will give help to nine schools although the average decline in pupils per classroom--i- f it could be evenly would equal only about student, he said. The increases in teachers should help further in lowering disparities between some schools where they might be a classroom size difference of from an average of 24 pupils per classroom in one school to 29 elsewhere. OTHER CHANGES center , one-fourt- BUT AT the same time, the high water has washed out most of the mosquito breeding habitat in Salt Lake and Davis Counties. In Davis County, mosquito spraying this spring has been cut the lake recedes, nearly in half, but may have to be expanded as health officials noted. The rise of the lake this year has exceeded that for all years rise of 1983. The lake level dropped the and the continuing only a few inches during the entire summer continued through and in level lake the September rise of began the wettest December ever and claimed the year with a record high 5.15 feet. medium-security-typ- h largely around benefits for teachers and continuation of a Healthy Life Style program along with a change in sick leave. In addition, termination procedures for provisional educators, a new designation effected earlier in this year for newly-employ- ed structors, was outlined, noting have signed, although the states such educators will be given at biggest Granite in Salt Lake least 15 days notice prior to end of County is at an impasse and has the contract term with a hearing had to call in a federal negotiator. allowed with the superintendent. Teachers there are being offered Mr. Burningham called the change AVi percent. Park City, thanks to a new voted a bit more expeditious but said procedures for other teachers will leeway, gave nearly a 17 percent remain in place allowing 60 days raise, but that was apparently far notice and a hearing before the from typical. Jordan, in south Salt Lake County, awarded a similar board. to Davis; Ogden has offered set-u- p THREE TEACHERS were terminated through such procedures over this past year, he said, with five others deciding to terminate who were in some stage of termi- nation proceedings. ' Speaking of the four percent raise coupled with the career ladder program where some teachers could earn up to $2,500 more for extra duties and merit. recently-approve- d A VERY basic dilema for educators is that many in the public and some legislators feel that 10 percent of the teachers who are great" and can receive the additional salary will motivate the whole system of teachers. But he emphasized its probably better to say 70 percent are great teachers in the eyes of some students and parents. We really need a system that motivates the bulk of teachers otherwise he predicted that the career ladder program as currently envisioned could fail. SALARIES, IN addition, must be brought into a more compet- itive" stance, he continued. Around the state, meanwhile, abof the 40 districts out three-fourt- seven while Weber teachers accepted a four percent with Salt Lake teachers yet to sign, although theyre close. IN PAST years, administrators and the DEA prided themselves on completing negotiations and signing before the school year was even over. Turnout is always far lower in the summer when many are out of the area. Administrators had previously expressed concerns about tight financing and uncertainty over how much money would be available due to possible mqjor reductions in the federal impact aid monies to those students who live off of federal installations but whose parents work there. THAT COULD mean a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars for the district. Those funds are supposed to provide of property tax payments. in-li- NOT VERY LONG Policeman - How long have you been driving miss? Girl Motorist Ever since my miles boy friend fell out--thrback. -- ee 4 |