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Show Its time for a change Anytime you have a system that benefits few people at great cost to many people, its time for a change. We, the people, are the ones ultimately responsible for such injustices. One of our articles this week addresses the trouble counties and cities are having getting liability insurance. We taxpayers are the ones who pay the bill. And, that bill is increasing astronomically because of one reason. Greed. Some people have learned that to get set for life, all you have to do is sue son... cne with liability insurance. I feel that by far most lawyers are very honest, but some unscrupulous ones even advertise, If you have been injured, come to us, we can get you a juicy settlement. Put such a person with such a lawyer and sue such an entity, and the person gets awarded $10 million, the lawyer gets $5 million, the entity gets blacklisted with insurance companies, the insurance company coughs up $15 million, and liability premiums increase 500 overnight. Who pays? We do. This issue of liability insurance is entering and changing every aspect of our personal lives. Pretend you are a local doctor. Your malpractice insurance premium has just been jumped from $4,500 a year to $10,000, just to cover obstetrical and surgical malpractice coverage. You have never had a malpractice suit brought against you, but thats the bottom line from the insurance company anyway, and remember, it wasnt the insurance companys fault either. Suppose you look at your last years records, and find that you made about $12,000 from deliveries and surgery. What do you do now? Stop delivering babies and performing surgery? Maybe thats exactly what you have to do. Its just been made an economic necessity for you by factors totally beyond your control. How do your patients feel about it? Probably just as bad as you do. Your only alternative is to charge $1,000 per baby instead of $500, and guess who gets hurt the most? The people do. And the doctors. And the insurance companies. Everyone but .you know who. Social conditions are bringing us to this predicament. There was a time when people accepted the fact that other people are not perfect, and they make mistakes. Even doctors, for heavens sake! Find me someone who NEVER made a mistake! There was also a time when accidents happen but nobody is really responsible for it. Now, someone is responsible for every accident, and boy, can we make them pay! Of course, I agree that gross negligence or flagrant violations of safety or ethical standards ought to rightly be pursued by lawsuit. But now people expect to be protected completely from not just mistakes, but even well intentions. If you make a mistake, POW! Youre sued for a fortune. So much for human frailties and forgiveness, even if youre trying honestly to help to the best of your ability. And what is the result? Your insurance premiums go from $300 a month to $500 a month, if you can even GET health insurance. Counties, cities and governments have to raise your taxes SIGNIFICANTLY to absorb those whopping premium increases and settlements. Businesses have to pass on increased insurance and settlement costs to you. I cant possibly name all the businesses this type of thing affects; think about it yourself. There is probably NO BUSINESS it does not affect! The only ones who benefit are the persons who win a lawsuit, and the lawyers who get a percentage of the action. I dont need to say again who really pays, do I? Our society is being threatened by the greed of a few. I wish I knew the answer, but I dont. One thing is clear, our society is changing, and not for the better with this threat. I certainly hope I don't get sued for libel with this editorial, because we CANT afford libel insurance. The only real solution was not stated by me. It goes, Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. I hope we can change while there is still time. Lloyd Call, Editor Manti temple receives preservation award Manti L.D.S. The Temple received a singular award last week. newly-restore- d Heralded for their innovative work preserving important elements of Utahs cultural and architectural legacy were recipients of the Utah Heritage Foundation's 1985 Preservation Awards. The 18th annual awards ceremony was held Tuesday, Sept. 24 at the Westin Hotel Utah. Under the Heritage Award designation, one residence, one public facility, one institutional structure, and three commercial buildings, along with their owners and architects, were recognized. Manti LDS Templet Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, owner; Emil Fetzer, architect. "This restoration is extremely well done, obviously the result of extensive quality research. The beautiful result should serve to encourage and inspire others to perform simitar restoration projects," the citation read. in y Others cited were: Quince Street Cottage, Salt Lake City. "This a demonstrates project very a small of adaptation ingenious bungalow and can serve as a model for making a common building type an attractive housing alternative." Emery Building Addition, University of Utah. "The addition provides a strong contrast to the Emery Building and its exterior finish and detailing highlights the old structure. The high quality of design, materials, and workmanship result in a very comfortable addition to a fine histone structure. Building, GreenewaldSterllng Salt Lake City. "A good historic building rehabilitation with an addition that is very well done in good contrast of style of design. The facade-wrapainting scheme is works well with the and clever quite buildings presentation to the street. Snow College j Letters News and l Fine job by Joe May ! To the Editor: ! by President Steven Bennlon J I I 1985 kickoff The changing color of leaves, cool crisp air, the football and volleyball games, and most the return of importantly, students to campus signals another school year at Snow marks the 98th College. 1985-8- 6 year in Snows history. Each new group of students certainly builds and benefits from the excellent efforts of those who have gone Dedicated before. teachers, committed staff, enthusiastic students, and supportive alumni and community members all combine to make Snow College a special place to learn and grow. Enthusiasm runs high as we anticipate the coming year. Snow College enrolled 1321 students last fall. We anticipate a higher enrollment this fall. Our students are primarily Utah residents. Just over 12 percent come from other states and foreign countries. From Utah, about half come from urban areas along the Wasatch Front and half come from the more rural areas of Utah. This mix of urban and rural, and foreign students enrich the learning environment. This year we have students from such countries as West Germany, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland, Japan, Venezuela, Mexico, Jordan, Thailand, Palestine and Canada. Academic excellence is the cornerstone of any college. The quality of our faculty and the strength of our programs are key to the learning opportunities of students. Snow College reflects well on several measures of quality including: (1) Offering the only honors program at a two-yecollege in Utah. (2) The excellent reputation Snow has earned in its transfer program. A recent study showed Snow students performing on average better at B YU than college transfers in any two-yethe country. Similar reports come from other four-yecolleges and universities in Utah. (3) The placement of vocational students in industry is solid and the service vocational on several Snow advisory committees of industry representatives has helped to enhance placement opportunities for our students. ar ar development of solid programs in the cultural arts help serve our students and the broader Central Utah community we serve. Snows plays, musicals, dance and debate programs continue to provide culturally enriching opportunities for students and the community. These The . , programs combine student growth opportunities and spectator njoyment for many. Special thanks go to the teachers and directors of these programs who work such long hours to enrich our the year lives. Thoughout selected artists and lecturers come from outside Central Utah and out of state. A recent gift from O.C. Tanner in the form of a permanent endowment will enable us to bring in two or three outstanding lecturers each year. In athletics, Snow College has built a strong tradition of athletic accomplishments through the participation of many student athletes. Our teams have won regularly in virtually every sport four men's and three womens. Our coaches have done this with primarily Utah athletes. Many of these student athletes have graduated with high honors academically. In fact, in the past two years, two basketball players have been academic and in the past six years, three football players have been valedictorians of their respective classes. And finally, the balanced involvement of students in academic, social, leadership and spiritual activities is key to a positive college experience. At Snow, with approximately 80 percent of the students living away from home, there is an opportunity for involvement in multiple activities that is not available to the same degree at a commuter campus. The small town environment provides fewer external distractions to deter students from their studies and constructive involvement . on campus. In the past year we have seen improved rebtjiou.-Tsuppor-t services provided our students with the establishment of the St. Judes Catholic Center, the provision of Protestant services, and the creation of a Snow College Student Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints along with the completion of the new LDS Institute building. These services are an excellent resource for our students. , y In summary, another exciting year has arrived. We are delighted to have the opportunity to continue the excellence which Snow has provided over the years. And to our students and prospective students, we claim with confidence that Snow's an excellent launching base "You can get there from here." Some news from other communities . . . A 13.1 mile section of NEPHI from Scipio north to the Sevier before River will be open Thanksgiving, according to UDOT. The $13.2 million construction project is the next to last segment of the system, the infamous "Nephi Death Strip. The final 18.5 mile segment from the Sevier River north to Nephi is expected to be next May. Herald Building, Salt Lake City. completed A group from the MORONI "The present conversion to office use and rehabilitation is an excellent Tianyin Agricultural Ministry of the example of a quality treatment of an Peoples Republic of China last week important Main Street historic toured Norbest Turkey plants in building. The care and attention to Moroni and Satina. The men the original are exemplary." represent Tianyin, a city of about eight million on China's mainland. Devcrcaux House, Salt Lake City. The ministry became interested in "Commendation is given for the turkey production when Governor Scott Matheson and other U.S. high quality historic restoration of the exterior. It is obvious that officials toured China and explained rudiments of the turkey industry thorough, quality research was used the Chinese. The Chinese have the the to the to achieve accurate, elegant feed capacities to raise high quality finish. and colors, detailing, turkeys and are interested in Keynote speaker and Awards Jury learning how to set up a growing and Chairman was Edwin Astone, who operation, according to a has been active in public projects, processing Norbest official, but at present the private consulting, and the developonly turkey in Tianyin are the old, ment of his own projects for 20 years. breed, in a zoo. Following comments about the A delegation from the SALINA state of historic preservation in the Central Utah Water Conservancy United States, Astone showed District told the Salina City Council slides of dramatic that the CUP would have to be each project and elaborated on the before a dam and power comments made by the judges completed in Salina Canyon could be plant during the selection process. In considered. Emmy-lik- e fashion, each recipient RICHFIELD Whatever has was presented an award and given time to summarize involvement and been contaminating the Richfield extend thanks to others who assisted City water system, feeding coliform bacteria into the culinary water, in completing the project. p d . t f Views Page 2 Thursday, October 3, 1985 Messenger We would like to take this opporour tunity to publicly express for the job Joe to May appreciation he has done as administrator of the Sanpete Valley Hospital. He is being transferred by Intermountain Health Care, our parent organization, to be the administrator of the hospital in (Evanston, Wyoming. This is a 'promotion for him and is being done because Intermountain Health Care ' he recognizes the tremendous job I has done in this area and wishes to utilize his talents in a larger setting. We have worked closely with Joe for the last 4'i years that he has been administrator of the hospital and have found him to be a very capable and efficient, as well as fair, administrator. We are sure that few people in this area are aware as we are of the trememdous qualifications that Joe May brought into this job as far as previous hospital and health care administrative experience and educational background. We felt at the time he was hired as administrator that we were extremely fortunate in getting someone of his sterling qualifications and were somewhat fearful that IHC would not let us have the benefit of his abilities very long before they moved him up the corporate ladder. Fortunately for the entire valley, Intermountain Health Care has allowed him to stay for these 4 Vi years during which time dramatic improvements have taken place in our health care system. We know from direct involvement in the planning and fund raising activities that went into building the new hospital that without Joes organizational abilities and the tremendous experience he brought to this job we would still be without a new hospital. We hope that many of the citizens of this county will take this opportunity before Joe leaves the area in October to personally thank him for the fine job he has done. We think he is an example of how the efforts of a single individual can make a big difference in the wellbeing of an entire community. Sincerely Bruce Burnham, M.D. Kim Bateman, M.D. Things are different here To the Editor: the power and sewer systems were The American Flag stands to me resolved. I thought that was as a symbol of freedom and interesting, since the mayor and the forefathers city council awarded an open end My independence. in the Revolutionary War, the contract on the sewer. That fought War of 1812, the Civil War, the councilman would have to stay in Spanish American War, and cousins office until the Millennium fought in WW I and II to preserve our because the contract is good until freedom. My husband served 20 then. the Nobody mentioned years in the service of our country irrigation system that works with and saw action in the Korean War half the water, for half the people, and Viet Nam. The American Flag half the time. Things are done and way of life means so much to him differently here. he spent 20 years of his life to protect After the 2 conventions closed, I us. was amazed to find that in this with all the wonderful When we came to Manti we were great city told my many, "We do things talented people who live here that differently here!" Last week we only one person was qualified to run went to the Republican convention. for mayor unoppoaedlll What The Republicans totally ignored the happened to the two party system there was no pledging our that my ancestors fought and died flag oneness of allegiance. It is the only for ?????? You really do things policital convention I have ever differently here!!! attended that the flag was not Priorities in the county are also honored. Even the Mormon Miracle perplexing. In an area of great it's good Pageant honors the flag unemployment, it is more important but not the to enough for pageant spend $3400 a month on a service Mr Republican Party. Things are contract for a computer system, than different here. to hire a jailer to take care of the new The mayor stood up and told us jail we spent SSSS on. A machine is what a good job hed done as our more important than a family the samayor. He told us how great it was to lary would support. What are the ramifications, if a prisoner hangs go through lines at wedding receptions and be introduced as "The himself in a cell? It's happened in Mayor. How good it was to go other places. Can we really afford for through funeral lines and be something like that to happen before I steps are taken??? introduced as "The Mayor. thought that was different. Its about time we really start to do I A retiring councilman stood and things different herelll Sallee Kesler apologized for leaving office before School lunch menus Fri., Oct. 4 Sloppy joes, tator rounds, cole slaw, apricots and pineapple, milk. Thun, and Fri., Oct. 10, lit School closed for UEA meetings. The Weather Mon., Oct. 7i Cheese bunwiches, green beans, oven fried potatoes, fruit salad on lettuce, milk. Tues., Oct. 8i Shepherds pie, whipped potatoes, mixed vegetables, celery sticks, cherry cake, rolls, butter, milk. Date Sept. 24 Sept. 25 Sept. 26 Sept. 27 Sept. 28 Sept. 29 Sept. 30 Max. Min. Prec. 71 69 74 34 40 should be gone by the end of this 33 week. Richfield's residents have 38 75 been using chlorinated city water Wed., Oct. 9r Burritos, bean 41 62 treated to kill the bacteria. Unless a sauce, green salad, pears, rolled 58 25 continuing source of contamination wheat muffins, butter, milk. 25 68 is found, chlorination will be discontinued in high concentrations, according to a Richfield City administrator. The chlorine level in the water his been checked three times a day. NEPHI The Central Valley Published Weekly by Medical Center in Nephi has received a new $40,000 ultrasound Messenger-Enterpris- e, Inc. machine, donated by an undisclosed 35 S. Main, Manti, Utah 84642 private foundation. The mobile Phone: 835-42unit can bemoved ultrasound Publisher anywhere in the hospital. Its primary Lloyd E. Call use will be in obstetrics and President of the Board Max E. Call gynecology, gall bladder, pelvic, Ed,lon Max E. Call liver, kidney and other abdominal Bruce Jennings imaging to assist in the diagnostic Pat Meilor process. Staff Writers Bruce Jennings, picH FIELD A poll conducted Pat Eleanor Madsen Meilor, Richfield the if by Reaper shows Advertising . Richfield's mayoral votes had been Lloyd Et Photographers Pat Meilor, Bruce Jennings cast last week, Craig Ross would have carried 48 percent of the vote over incumbent mayor Sue Marie Deadline: MONDAY NOON Young's 27 percent. However, the for all ads, including classifieds poll showed 25 percent of those still undecided disinterestor polled Copy Deadline is Tuesday Noon ed in voting for either candidate. 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