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Show A lit will find a way around such measures. By FLORENCE BITTNER FARMINGTON - Faced with the prospect of losing millions in federal impact aid, the Davis County School District has brought out the trimming shears. IN A move slated to save $172,000, district officials de- -, j I cided Wednesday morning to assignment consolidations and changes in administrative positions at the district level. Public information officer Bonnie Durrance said no replacement will be named for the deputy superintendent d post formerly held by schools chief Lawrrecently-appointe- ence Welling. Part of his assignment included over- JEAN MADSEN, who had overseen elementary music, seeing elementary school curriculum. and Ralph Davis, former THAT JOB will be taken up by Asst. Supt. Gayle Stevenson, who will add it to his curriculum duties for the secondary level. Other changes will include elimination of elementary music and social science supervisory posts. Secondary Music Super- visor Wayne James will assume responsibility for elementary grades, as well, while counterpart Larry Wil- elementary social science supervisor, will both see as yet unnamed positions resulting from opening of three elementary schools this fall, Mrs. Durrance said. In further consolidation moves, Dallas Workman, elementary curriculum director, will act as administrator elementary instruction and personnel duties while Grant Steed, who worked with secondary curriculum under Mr. Stevenson, will oversee secondary personnel and curriculum, she said, tb son will add the elementary grades to his social science post, she said. We received such enthusiastic response from the last column of handy household hints that we have a few requests for advice left over. Since this isn't a column on how to deal with leftovers, well clear them up immediately. REMINDS ME of an old prospector knew back in my hometown. Charlie South put ketchup on his stringbeans. Of course he ate out in the hills when only his burrow knew, and he put ketchup on everything else too. Once a year or so he got into town and would treat himself to a meal in Mas Home Cooking Cafe, and no matter what he ordered, he poured ketchup on it. Ma stood it about as long as he could. (Ma. as you might suspect, was really a burly Dane name of Hans Jensen). 1 DEAR MRS. B. My husband is a good man, kind to dogs and children, never forgets birthdays, but he has one habit that will drive me to a hatchet or divorce court, depending upon which is handiest when I finally flip. He puts ketchup on his string beans. What do you suggest? Nauseated. Dear Nauseated. You do have a problem, don't you? A number of solutions suggest themselves such as separate but equal dining facilities, hid- . ing the ketchup, cooking only corn, but a wily ketchup eater High Time South's head. I doubt that Charlie South would have been much upset except that he had to take a bath. Nobody ever knew of Charlie's taking a bath before, but he said the ketchup drew flies. Don't know whether that ended the ketchup feud, but it did make Charlie pleasanter to stand downw ind of for a w hile. By FLORENCE BITTNER Considerable has been said lately about the plight of the aged in our society, and there's no denying they have a plight, but it's not one sided. What about the plight of children who are denied close daily contact with their grandparents? These are kids without roots. If you don't know where you came from, how can you know where you're going. WHY GRANDPARENTS? Well, there are cookies, of course, and a lap to sit on when you're little, but what about when you get older and don't need cookies and laps? I know what my grandparents gave me. Though the last of mine died more than thirty five years ago. I still have tics to wagons and fireplace cooking and patchwork quilts and spinning wheels and cording wool and long horn cattle drives and wild cowboys who came into town on Saturday night, got liquored up and shot up the town. 1 didn't live these lasted, they filled our next generation with the lore and learning of a generation with which they will have no more contact. THROUGH MY father they learned to love the country down around the four corners. They know where Bull Holler is and where Whipstock is and where the cowboys used to hold the cattle on roundup and who named shirt-tacorners. They know where Posey and his gang came up out of Recapture and shot the tires on Uncle Edson's car and where Joe Bishop's boy got shot and where the old flour mill used to il be. They have seen and parents. but because I grew up with this kind of talk, these experiences are fiber of me and will be handed down to my children. my father drove out at Grayson Ranch soon after touched the huge steam tractor World War I. FROM THEIR father they learned another life. They learned about city life and how people lived in New York City neighborhoods when they emigrated to the new world, and Naval Figure Nimitz The towering naval figure of World War 11 in the American Navy was Admiral Chester Nimitz. Nimitz was born on the 24th of February, 1885, at Fredericksburg; Tex. youngster he leaned toward West Point but won an appointment to the Navy AS A Academy at Annapolis in 1901 . After graduation in 1905, Nimitz was sent to China and though he asked for duty aboard battleships was assigned submarines. In the First World War he served on the staff of the commander of the submarine force in the Atlantic. BY 1939, he was an admiral and chief of the Bureau of and Navigation in Washington already considered to be second in the Navy only to Admiral Harold Stark. Following the Pearl Harbor disaster, he was sent to the pacific base (Dec. 17, 194 Mo take command of the Pacific licet. He served there for the 1 rest of the war, eventually commanding the largest and most powerful naval force ever assembled. THE U.S. Navy began World War II with inferior tor- the pedoes and though of the ear- Japanese won many between ly naval engagements the fleets, the Navy gradually emerged during 1942 and early as the more effective Submarines of the U.o. Nimitz'sold specialty Navy were outstanding and did molt than air power of surface units of the fleet to strangle the economy of Japan. BIT AIR and surface forces were also brilliantly utilized; the architect of this ocean Nimitz. triumph was Chester that their grandmother was caretaker on Governors Island in New York Harbor and that their grandfather sang in the church choir where the wealthy from New York came on Sunday dressed in their beaded and tucked and bustled finery. A child who has no contact with his past will have a gap in his foundation stones. He will never really know who he is. THERE IS a long thread leading from the past to tomorrow and if our children are to grasp it and feel they are part of a continuing life stream, they must know what has gone before. They must know what those who preceeded them built and what their inheritance is not money; life and how to live it. My children are all out of grandparents, but while they things except vicariously through listening to my grand- 1943 ONE DAY when Charlie South showed up and ordered the blue plate special and began dousing everything with ketchup: ketchup in the soup, ketchup on the salad, ketchup on the potatoes. Hans stormed out of the kitchen and poured the rest of the family sized bottle of ketchup right on Charlie FROM TIME immemorial grandparents have been tellers of tales. In ancient cultures, this recounting and passing on of the history and traditions and beliefs of the people was the duty of the older members of the tribe and was not taken lightly. It was a responsibility, and it was the responsibility of ' younger people to listen and learn and remember. Today we are in danger of losing this generation span to television's pablum so we wont have any past except soap operas, (four young seem rootless, perhaps it is because no one took time to plant those . roots deep into the past. Perhaps grandparents have Elected To Four Terms NOT SO with my father who was the last of my children's grandparents. He loved to tell almost as much as they loved to listen. When we drove in our car, he had one boy on each side, rapt and as absorbent as sponges, as he told how he used to drive the mail in a Model T over dirt and sand roads in all kinds of weather. As 1 listened to him. I went back another generation and remembered my mother's father telling me how he and another cowboy trapped a mountain lion and brought it into town and sold it to a zoo and how frightened all the livestock in the town were when the animal roared from its rope and pole cage. busy mustache as he told the story and how his eyes sparkled with the telling and how his hands showed the size and shape of the cage. In my dreams through all the years I have heard that lion roar and shivered. but not with fright because always with the lion came the memory of rough, gentle hands and love which could keep even mountain lions at bay. Grandparents are great for cookies and pennies for the piggy bank and for babysitting. but that is not their function. They are links in a chain: they are the repositories of history; they are the gateway of tomorrow. THOUGH appraisals on master politician beyond doubt. His unquestioned contribution to (he nation was restoring confidence and hope and bringing the country out of Recreation Area Use Fee the depths of its worst schedule is now available. THE 1980 fee schedule is in keeping with legislative directive which charged the Utah State Division of Parks and Recreation to become more with respect to park operations. The 1979 Utah State Legislature directed the division to: "diligently pursue plans to increase fee collections to 40 percent of costs of operating state parks." The division responded to this directive in 1979 by collecting 36 percent of its operating costs supported by the rationale that "those who use park facilities should foot the bill." de- pression. Many now in their seventies or eighties can testify that they avoided losing their home or w ere able to educate their chi- ldren. only because of the and emergency measures of the first Roosevelt Administration 1933-36- ). pump-primin- g 1 NO AMOUNT of argument that many of the emergency programswere faulty orwaste-fu- l will convince them they were not badly needed, that the ends didn't justify the means. There is dispute over FDR's role in leading the nation into World War II. though the Pres- THIS SAME rationale prevails with 27 park and recreation areas charging SI day use fees; five will have a S3 camping fee; 10 will charge S4 for camping: 13 will collect a S5 camping fee: one w ill colled a $6 camping fee: 19 will not charge a camping fee. The higher the camping fee the more facilities there will be available to the camper, e.g. A S6.00 fee provides sites with sewer hookups and-o- r electrical hookups. in- creased as evidenced by the 1980 fee schedule. Imposed budget restrictions and general austerity in state government have made these increases necessary in order to permit the division to continue operfaciating park and recreation lities at a level demanded by time, when Roosevelt was quietly aiding England, attacking and pushing Japan into a corner. most Americans were unaware of the whole story. But certainly the United States emerged from the Second World War the most powerful country in the world. Yet world communism was also greatly strengthened, while democracies like England and France were devastated. vo Trt tn vvnv rYrMTvjvJ V.V.V.V.NSVAV.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V SPRING OFFICIALLY on the 20th this year. St. Patrick's Day is the 17th and the month is a notable one for New York. Texas, Mankind and Massachusetts. Maryland Day falls on March 25. Albany be-gi- became the capital of New York on March 10, 1797, and the United States Military Boston Massacre FOR TEXAS, March is historical. On March 2, 1836, even while Santa Ana was the Alamo. Texas was declared independent of Mexico. March 6 is Alamo Day in Texas, anniversary of the fall of the Alamo, in 1836. Many birthday anniversaries occur in March. March 3 is the anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell; March 7, that of Luther Burbank; March 8, that of Simon Cameron, who founded political dynasty in Pennsylvania which lasted for Repeat Performance Who was that blonde I saw you with Iasi night? decades. Thursday night. teenth justice of the United The redhead I was with a pig who was Byron, trained to count and to After harm a small child. Initial symptoms are that of drunkenness, nausea, vomiting, slurred speech and stupor. The more serious mas gift might be a hazard to a small child. DEAR PUZZLED. I've heard of splitting a and flipping a but whoever heard of putting in a gusset? 1 could probably help you more effectively ifl knew just what a gusset consists of. From your question .I've guessed a gusset is part of a dress and is in some manner constructed on a sewing machine. I don't know who referred you to me as an expert on sewing. but let me tell you about my high school sew ing teacher who left the teaching profession and took up professional golf after the year I was in her class. SHE SAID at least in poll he was allowed to use a mu!. where she thought it would do the most good. It was pure rumor that she named her golf balls after former students, but will say most of us steered clear of golf courses where she might be playing. As to your question, may I ask if you've considred strate1 zippers.? DEAR MRS. B. My son has taken a fancy to snakes. He brings them home and hides them away in boxes and things and I'm afraid of snakes. Frightened. Dear Frightened. You have cause. I'd fear not only the snakes, but the son as well. I KNEW a boy once who loved snakes, and while I don't want to upset you. I should warn you that he progressed to even more peculiar actions. He slept with a pet turtle and was seen talking to scorpions. I don't know what finally became of him. but the last time I saw him. he had the strangest habit of flicking his tongue in and out very rapidly. That takes care of most of the backlog of mail, and thank you. dear readers, for your confidence. Always glad to be of service. COLOGNES and aftershave lotions are good examples, according to the Intermountain Regional symptoms are coma, lowered body and temperature breathing difficulties. Inexpensive perfumes also contain high concentrations of Poison Control Center. These common Christmas gifts contain ethyl alcohol or ethanol - s, Swallow, No Christ- innocent-lookin- g Shave-Ye- alcohol, according to Dr. Nail Gullekson. polish remover is another similar substance that regularly the same type alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. A child rarely is seriously hurt by drinking an aftershave lotion or cologne because the taste is so bad that little is ingested," says Dr. De Gullekson. poison pharmacist ai University of Utah Medical Center. "But the chance exists that an in- poisons children. EVEN though most ingese tions of colognes, lotions and the likes are not serious, parents should conafter-shav- sult the Poison Control Center, says Dr. Gullekson. These products cause many accidental poisonings; we average two to three calls a dav. telephone the Intermountain Regional Poison Control or (outside Center at fant could swallow enough to cause a coma and respiratory failure. MANY OF these products contain as much as 90 percent alcohol and as little as ounce may to one-ha- 1 the one-thir- d Lake Salt area) lf Teens & A new, respected study by University of Cincinnati scientists has found that cigarette smoking among teenagers causes immediate and damaging changes in the bodys blood supply. involved STUDY thousands of youngsters, some as young as ten; and the finding of Dr. John Morrison and his colleagues was that the damage caused could lead to early artery and heart disease problems for young smokers. Financed by the National Institute of Healtji, the study reported recently its findings to the American Heart THE Cigs THEYRE considered highly relevant in today's society because tobacco companies are today openly aiming their advertisements at with one picyoung people ture after another of an especially healthy, robust young man or woman testifying as to what he or she likes about this or that cig. It's timely too, because girls are being increasingly and their lung addicted as cancer rate is soaring they emulate the behavioral pattern of males, who have in recent years somewhat turned away from cigarette' - addiction. Clean Humidifier Unexplained respiratory problems could be caused by organisms which can grow in humidifiers. Owners should clean portable equipment at least once a week with a detergent and refill with fresh water containing a chemical such as copper sulfate. For units built into furnaces, the screens should be cleaned frequently and treated with a growth deterrent. growth-deterre- spent his life following the circus. WHEN RICE became a clown, the standard clown makeup was white, with red and black. But Rice added the new famous Uncle Sam goatee, then designed his own suit of stars and stripes to complete the outfit. When political cartoonist Thomas Nast saw Dan Rice perform his act, he was inspired to draw the cartoon that eventually became known as Uncle Sam. Rice earned the then staggering sum of $1,000 a week. AT ONE time Rice owned his own circus but fire and financial problems caused his 30 years to be spent in near poverty. March is a turning-poinwhen winter at times begins to give way to warmer weather and the first signs of spring appear. In early colonial days, the year began in March. The name of the month comes from Mars, which in ancient Italian meaning was the name of the God of War. took place in March of 1770. AT THE was from 1840 to 1870. At 17 years. Rice bought a half interest in "Lord Bryan, and March 29, that of President John T yler, the tenth president of the United States. Girl Scouts Day is March 12 and March 30 is the anniversary of the day in 1868 when Russia ceded Alaska to the United States for $7,200,000. t, tarism. mili- top hat, gray goatee and striped pants was patterned after Dan Rice, highest-pai- d clown of his time. His time Slates Supreme Court; March 18, that of Grover Cleveland, the only American president to course was necessary to safeguard democracy and crush Hitler and Japanese clown? THE TALL thin man in the unseen, Spring faintly cries; Bidding her earliest child arise, March! Bayard Taylor Far-of- Academy was established at West Point on March 16, 1802. In Massachusetts, Evacuation Day in Boston is commemorated on March 17. The ident undoubtedly felt this Did you know that the familiar Uncle Sam figure was modeled after a circus March, 1 980 in 1882. FDR vary widely, he was a Uncle Sam A Clown? An Of forecast coming events. Rice I CAN see now his elected to four terms, and the only one likely to be. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was bom at Hyde Park. New York. Jan. 30 With the establishment of a boat slip allocation and use policy by the Utah State Board of Parks and Recreation. Feb. 8. 1980. an approved Park and the user. stories. The only president ever Recreation Area Use Fees Set Other fees have been forgotten it is their job to tell BUT BACK to your problem. Have you considred serving ketchup as a vegetable A course? I never heard of anyone putting string beans on their ketchup. Dear Mrs. B. I decided to make myself a satin party dress and got along just fine until I came to the gusset. Can you tell mo an easy way to put in a gusset? Puzzled. gic Slap It, that of President James Madison:, March MARCH 17, that of Roger B. Taney, fif- serve two terms as president; March 19, that of William Jennings Syracuse Births A boy arrived to Mr. and Mrs. Glen A. Cook of 507 West 2700 South, Syracuse at the Davis North Medical Center in Layton on Tuesday. Feb. 26 and weighed in at 7 lbs. 6 oz. His parents have decided that his name will be Brody Willard, and he was welcomed home by a brother Cory and three sisters, Glcnna, Melanie and Faylyn. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Willard Miller of Larkspur. Colo., and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cook of Syracuse. Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson of Layton is the greatg- randmother. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Waite are parents of a baby daughter who arrived at the McKay-De- e Hospital in Ogden. She tipped the scales at 7 lbs. 9 oz. She is the couple's second child. They have a son Dint, 2Vt. The new miss will be named Stephanie Lynn. Mrs. Waite was the former Jeri Thurgood. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Grant B. Thurgood of Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Rasmussen of East Layton, and Rodney Waite of Roy. Small Businesses And Government By W. GRANT EVANS. Acting District Director Dear Mr. Evans: As a small business owner I am determined to stay in business despite some tough survival odds against me. I can take competition. labor troubles, difficulties in getting capital, but Irving to get government off my back regulations, paperwork. taxation, inflation seems almost hopeless. I would like to sound off to someone but how do I do it? WHAT YOU say makes reading. Small businesses identify government actions as their greatest source of more than market difficulty competition or any other private sector difficulty. Small businesses are increasingly irked at the amount of employee time spent on doing what government not the marketplace requires them to do. All of this was brought out dearly at the recently held White House Conference on Small Business attended by upproximatcly ness persons. 2(NI Utah Busi- WE FOUND that Small busi-nes- s owners are upset at the number of government forms they have to fill out. 1 hey also feci discriminated against in the tax process. Recently, several avenues of relief from government taxation and red tape have opened up for small business. 1 hat's because small business is beginning to speak as a unified voice. SMALL businesses and small business organizations are forming their own "big" lobby that will work for their interests, just as "big lobbies work for big business, big government. and big labor. Last year, for example, this "big" small business lobby and got campaigned for remedial tax rclicF for small business despite opposition Busmens Committees that the power to draft legislation lor small business. Third, the Small Business Administration itself, a old government agency created to foster a good climate for small business, has taken on a greater advocacy, now have 26-ve- or "ombudsman" role for small business. SBA continues to offer stand, ml services for getting govcnmcni contracts, loans and management assistance. THESE THREE factors bode well for small business. Two important developments emerge from these increased "lobbying" activities that offer an excellent chance for small business persons, like you. to be heard. The first w as a major White House Conference for Small Business held in January . in Washing-ton- . About 2.000 delegates attended. SBA also is creating "Project 200 Plus." with a goal of organizing 200 or more small business opinion leaders from each state to "tell it as it is" to the government. Upsets Affects To Learn Mfy By DR. DART LJ. MCCARTY Funny how we sometimes overlook the things that can seriously affect the ability of children to learn in school. LET A family argument occur just before young Carl leaves for school. It may upset him so much that he simply can't concentrate on his studies for hours. A problem with a friend or another student cun affect a young person the same way. SOME youngsters come to school hungry, and teachers can't learn. Many a teacher is confronted with the problem of a youngster falling asleep in class. Parents can help to remedy this problem by making certain that students get to bed early enough to get proper rest. will tell you emphatically: Hungry kids SOMETIMES, it's a physical problem that stands between the youngster and learning. If a child cannot hear well, that child may not be able to learn well. H Carl can't see the blackboard, he may be missing a major part of his lessons. Those are problems that often are easily overcome. once recognized. As important as any of those learning problems is one that's growing in our society Unlay. It's child abuse physical injuries inflicted on a child. Often the abuser is a parent. from some government agencies. labor organizations, and other interest groups. MORE AND more cases of child abuse are being ported to authorities. THE NEW undying voices for small business came from three sources. As parents take out their frustrations on children in this the way harming them physically and emotionally adults are making it difficult, if not impossible, for the schools to teach these battered youngsters. First, coalitions among small business trade groups have been formed to support major public policy issues affecting small business. The changes in tax policy voted last year are one example. SECOND. THE House and Senate of the U.S. Congress have formed separate Small re- TIIE PROCESS of education involves the "whole child." All parents should do everything they can to see that their children are treated fairly, kindly and with high regard. Mental, physical and emotional stability add up to a child, capable of getting the very happy, most out of school. d |