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Show The Eureka Reporter Page Two GJIic Statevide testing could April 19. 1991 iEurcka fEcpnrtcr (USPS-179-62- help Utah schools 0) Published weekly at Eureka, Utah 84628 Printed by ART CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY Springvillo, Utah 84663 Subscription in advance, per year: in Juab County $15.00 out of Juab County $18.00 Please send change of address to The Eureka Reporter Church Street. Eureka. UT 84628. Second class postage paid at Springville. UT 84663 POSTMASTER: Publisher MARTIN W. CONOVER MRS. GRACE BERNINI Member: UTAH Editor PRESS ASSOCIATION One of the major contribu- tions that can result from the statewide testing program ini- tiated in Utah last year will be to help local schools and dis- tricts to implement the "shift in locus" program that was cn- dorsed by the State Board of Education several years ago. This was the opinion ol Utah Foundation, the private research organization, in its analysis of Utahs statewide testing to sec the consumer movement at work than in the battle be- tween groups and tobacco manufacturers. groups have gradually whittled away at tobacco advertising in the media. You have to be 30 or older to remember when cigarettes were advertised on television. anti-smoki- Anti-smoki- ng ng PUBLIC HEARING COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT The Six County Association of Governments will conduct a Public Hearing on the FY-9- 2 CSBG proposed application that is effective October 1, 1991 to September 31), 1992, at M.E. Bird (West Millard) Senior Center, 240 West 100 South, Delta, Utah on May 9, 1991 at 12:45 p.m. The intent of CSBG funding is to ameliorate the causes of proverty. All interested persons are invited to attend and com- ment. Copies of the proposal may be obtained and additional comment may be made at the Six County AgingHuman Resources Office, Sevier County Courthouse, P.O. Box 820, Richfield, Utah 84701 or by calling Published 890-922- 2. in Reporter April 1 the Eureka and 2b, 19 W! PUBLIC HEARING FY-9- 2 TO 94 AREA PLAN A Public Hearing will be held on the FY-9- 2 to 94 Area Plan on Aging FY-9- 2 Budgets on May), IMI at the M.E. Bird (West Millard) Senior Center, -- 40 WEst 100 South, Delta, Utah, at 1:00 p.m. All interested persons arc welcome to attend. Copies of the above materials arc available to pub- he review at the Six County Association ol Governments, AgingHuman Resources Of- Room 5, in the Sevier and to adapt the educational system to best meet those needs rather than the traditional con- ccpl of requiring all students to adapt themselves rigidly to the existing educational system. This significant change in the basic approach to public education in Utah was the subject of a research report issued by Utah Foundation in September, Smoking has gradually been 1990. eliminated from public buildThe 1990 Utah Legislature ings in many states and now from all domestic airline enacted legislation that restatewide testing of all flights. This year the federal quired tax on cigarettes went up from Utah public school students in grades 5, S and 1. During the 10 to 20 cents per pack. The next wave of legislation fall of 1990, over 95 .()()() Utah is likely to be the banning of students were tested in five hebasic subject areas--m- at advertising on billboards at matics, reading, language -sporting events and the restriction of cigarette vending maEnglish, science, and social chines. New York City has banned cigarette advertising between the two products that from all ciiy owned vehicles it stopped using Orcos in one and structures, of its flavors of ice cream. Another example is that such as STAT Groups (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco) Kraft General Foods is a suband ASH (Action on Smoking sidiary of Philip Morris, the and Health) are focusing their maker of Marlboro and Virefforts on keeping young peo-th- e ginia Slims cigarettes. Consumers have to make a pic from getting started on cigarettes. STATs publications delicate decision as to how1 cite the tobacco industry with money on one prod- placing heavy emphasis on ucts rcflccls on the approval of It is difficult and advertising designed to recruit new smokers, perhaps unfair to ignore the Examples they give are the good that a company does be- use of cartoon characters in cause of the perceived harm advertising and promotion of that it does. You would be hard pressed smoking in movies. An article in the "Tobacco and Youth to find a product that isnt Reporter" claims that although connected to at least some Lois Lane is not a smoker in practices you disagree with. Superman comic books, she is portrayed as a chain smoker in Superman the movie because of tobacco lobbying efforts. The emphasis on youth and smoking stems from studies that indicate that after 22 years of decline, smoking among teenagers is actually on the rise. Currently, approximately of all high school j) pcrccnt smokcrs. scni()rs an, ,n 1Ucraturc STAT ad- 1 tra- the dilionof the consumer boycott. g0,.c0lts are usually effective, gut in the case of cigarettes the b)cm is a liulc morc com. plicatcd. sincc mosl cigarette companies arc par, of iarl!er vocaICS time-honor- ed conglomcralcs j, isn't ju5t the tobacco products that arc in queslion-ficc- , For instance, RJ Reynolds County Courthouse, 250 North Main, Richfield, Utah 84701. is also part of Nabisco. So, the The comment period is from same company that sells Camel cigarettes also sells Oreo cook- to Published in the Eureka ics. 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