Show Pf 2 Millard 11SPS Count) Thurs Apr 17 1986 fflmnments - - Ujl &UI' have a birthday coming up and if anyone wants to know what my little all heart desires besides a pense paid trip to Puerto Vallarto is one of those little gadgets that munches and chews limbs weeds grass and other unwanted plants around one’s yard and makes it into compost material was so ticklreally like to recycle ed to find out that the Delta Lions Club recycles glass paper and copper etc just hate to haul anything to the junk yard What a nasty society we have become On the other hand save most everything You can always find a use for it IT you can remember where it was you tucked it away We needed a paint roller and tray as Dob took on a paint project in the "lounge” in the Delta office Well had two so went home and knew looked Couldn’t find them So mentioned to Lewis I was going to have to buy the equipment as couldn't find mine He said he had two in the shed just come and get them So went over and couldn’t find them He looked and said "Mother it is your fault I have saved all this junk and can’t find the painting supplies" said "Not my fault blame Grandma Wanda She taught me about savremember daddy ing everything" saying he was going to build a ramp to the basement and just back in a dump truck But all this saving comes in handy once in awhile Mother has saved all was just my old prom dresses and lovely at the Halloween party So bought a new roller and tray and are we going to paint up a storm when we get all the others found Staff Editorial Thinking about garbage In the next few weeks County have before them a rather awesome task: to change the way people think about garbage as preparations are underway to open the new sanitary landfill and close the open dumps scattered throughout the county Few of us in our society give much thought to where all those bannana peels potato chip bags and soup cans eventually end up Somehow when it’s out the door it just disappears Were it that simple federally mandated open dump closing would not exist But growing populations and a awareness greater of fragile underground and surface water systems have resulted in the demand for more responsible solid waste control In addition to water pollution problems open dumps are ugly and a for disease and breeding ground pestilence and in the case of Delta where the town is growing toward the dump the fire hazard is getting out of hand To their credit Millard County officials are among the very few in rural Utah to face the open dump problem Though the federal government has demanded the cleanup EPA officils admit that progress in most rural counties has been slow or nonexistant and that unless counties cooperate their is little thev can do to force the changes In Millard County the advent of the Intermountain Power Project and the population spurt it created brought the dump problem to light Complaints of Community Calendar April American Cancer Social y Drive April 9 16 23 30 Growing Younger program 10 a m noon M E Bird Senior Citizen Center Delta April 17 Millard High School PTA elections Deer Rides Oak Creek Canyon Call Bient Olson April 18 5:00 6:00 pm DHS gymnasium to benefit Cystic fibrosis Foundation April 19 Deer Rides Holden Call Brent Olson EMFAG Closing Social 2 pm Senior Citizen Center Fillmore April Clean-ufor Delta and area April 20 Elder Craig F Dutson mission report 10:45 am Oak City 1st Ward Elder George D Gamble mission report 12:45 pm Delta 2nd Ward April Professional Secretaries Week April 22 Diabetics Education Clinic 7 pm "Diabetic Diet” Delia Com Medical Center April 23 Blood pressure screening Meadow LDS Church 3:30-- pm CPR class starts at West Central Utah Vocational Center Diabetic Education Clinic 7 pm "Diabetic Diet” Fillmore Com Med Center Food Handlers Fillmore Class Public Health Office 2 pm Announcement USPS Editor Dutson Editorial Mark Amott at Large Reporter Affairs Desk National Bob lhomas Middle America Feature Consultant Editor Advertising Riley Wood Sales Legal Billing Dawn Carder Sales Design Fillmore Office Manager Evelyn Mallet Deb Greathouse Accounts Receivable Circulation Julie Ward Rita Bullcreek Circulation'Comp Production Circulation Commercial Shellie Printing Dutson In Advance Subscriptions In County 51500 per year 00 per 6 months 518 00 per year 51000 per 6 months Copy 50 cents Out of County P O Box 249 Delta Utah fetet PoMif 3400 Dffta Hbnorv Driu SJ40 changes 14624 to Delta Job Service am Immunizations am & pm Delta Public Health Office April 29 Kanosh Blood Pressure screening Town Hall 10 am noon Upholstery Workshop Fillmore call Extension Office for information April 30 A May Delta Utah West Stake Young Men and Youn Woman Dance Craze 7 pm Palomar May 2 May Fellowship Day St John Bosco Church lunch 11:30 am May 3 St John Bosco first annual fundraising dinner Dinner served from pm Door prizes strolling Mariachis May 6 Ford Bros Circus Delta 5 & 7:30 pm May "V- - Features to sketch roles at newspaper In weeks to come we’re going to tell you a little bit about the people who work for the Chronicle Progress and something of what it is they do around here We’ll do our best not to sway too far afield from the truth and we’ll clear everything with the publisher first Newspapers must live up to only two criteria to justify their existence They must inform and they must entertain If for any reason we fail to do that we’d like you to tell us about it It's up to you to keep us honest whenever you feel we’re not living up to our obligations to subscribers and advertisers We here at the Chronicle Progress have the responsibility of putting out the newspaper but it’s your newspaper We’re merely working for you In a sense what we’re going to do in upcoming weeks is introduce you to your employees We think you’ll find that we’re not much different than a lot of other people you know We too are just trying to live in a world on the brink of destroying itself Watch for us next week please We’re going to tell you about PublisherEditor Sue Dutson In County Out of County Single POSTMASTER: Send Address Field Representative Clinic am Delta & pm Somewhete along the line in the history of American journalism (nobody is quite sure when it happened) reporters and editors picked up a bad image in this country Our dedication to the truth today in the minds of most Americans is about equal to that of a lawyer or used car salesman On the whole we're all taking a bum rap There are more honest lawyers than r not and the same holds true for salesmen Maybe ‘Old Man’ Hearst and his YELLOW JOURNALISM began to For certain give us a bad name Hollywood didn’t do us much good back in the ‘30s and ‘40s when it porwomanizers trayed us as w ho refused to take our hats I know in church some beer and guys in the business who also have a preference for females but I don’t think of them as drunks or for their drinking-wAs immoral being they have “relaxing” dowm to a And science most of the know are reasonably newspapermen in their marriages or happy relationships Millard County Chronicle Progress The Susan We Were The Way We Are: Seasons in the Contempory American Family” series begins every other Thursday for five sessions Fillmore Library Food Handlers Class Delta Public Health Office 2 pm April 26 Susan Harris Edward Johnson openhouse Johnson residence 188 N 200 E Delta pm 27 April WalkAmerica for March of Dimes Register 7 am Delta City Park April 28 Blood pressure screening Scipio 1:30-firehouse pm Blood pressure screening Holden Town Hall pm WE'ttTMEtt Do mi need help with your fuel costs? Applications will be taken ihiough April 30 1986 from the general public including the elderly and disabled Income guidelines are: Household SieMax Annual Income $7875 pet son 2 person 10575 3 person 13275 Add $2610 for each additional person a 20 percent deduction is allowed for earned income allow for cost of medical insurance premiums and for medical costs exceeding 5 percent wil be taken at the Applications following locations: Dept of Social Services Mon - Thurs 252 West Main Street Delta Dept of Social Services 15 E 100 N Mon - Thurs fillmorc Publisher am 4pm "The Way VFW May 7 Free Blood Pressure Public Health The West Millard Care Center in Delta has a new phone number The Please note new number is this number in your phone listings HEAT April 24 First Older Americans Heritage 10 Festival Richfield Youth Center rotting animal carcasses blowing debris smokey fires and smelly garbage have been lodged from Lynndyl to Kanosh and county officials are confidant they have public support for the complicated process of creating a completely new garbage system However changing the way people think about garbage is not going to be easy As explained in an "Open letter to Millard County residents” (see front officials are working to page) familiarize residents with the changes even before the landfill is opened For some the change will be difficult For example scavaging will no longer be allowed and will in fact be illegal This for some people may mean a change in lifestyle But for most the new system will mean learning where the "green box" dumps are located (in most cases it will be at or near the old and what can be open dumps) deposited there where the new landfill will be and what must be taken there In addition a system of fees will be established: one monthly fee of $3 for cost of maintaining the sanitary landfill and then for some the additional cost of pickup in their town which in the case of Fillmore is a mandatory city service Elsewhere it will be an option to pay for private service or you can do the job yourself Either way residents will have to lake it upon themselves to learn the system and then cooperate with what will be an entirely new experience for most of us but in the long run will mean a healthier safer environment for present and future generations Attention: East Millard Chronicle Patrons! Progress The Millard County Chronicle Progress office will be Friday and Monopen day from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm for your convenience Evelyn Mallet is the office manager and will be at the office during those time Should anyone want to contact the Delta office direct on others days the phone numbers are and or send pictures articles or advertisements directly to Box 249 Delta Utah 84624 4 8 Businesses Workshop Call Extension office for information May 14 Flower show and end of school night 7:30 pm at Delta South Elem Summer fashion show and dinner 7 pm Palomar sponsored by Delta Area Chamber of Commerce and Extension Service May 31 Pink Day - Fillmore Community Medical Center Volunteer Auxiliary (Pink Ladies) fund raiser June 7 Renaissance Fair June 21 Kris Fowler and C Dean Shields wedding reception Fillmore June 26 27 28 "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” DHS auditorium sponsored by West Millard Cultural Council end of the junkyard era The junk yard era We have arrived at that great state of culture where our junk yards and garbage piles are going to be managed They have to They have become growing living giants of such proportions that they threaten to over take us and cover us with our own pollution Already they are advancing toward Leamington and Lynndyl There had to be a study made a solution found and a management crew hired Our era may become known as the Era of Waste We have out grown the old motto "Waste not Want not” Our motto is “Throw it away and get it is really less expensive a new one than getting it repaired" Manufacturers promote it Everything is made of plastic that breaks or is made for one time using Diapers for instance made for one using to be thrown into great black plastic bags to be hauled to the junk mountain In our affluent society everything comes sealed and wrapped in heavy paper or plastic foam or heavy boxes that have to end up at the junk yard Back in time there was no such pro Maybe twice a blem as a junkyard the year the family would haul away a few broken crockery collection leaked pieces the old washtub that milk beyond repair the galvanized bucket that had been kicked out of bent the old bedsprings usefulness after a final season’s use as a hammock a few patent medicine bottles and a burlap sack of cans They were taken to some place where someone else had thrown some junk and started a junk pile Our ancestors would turn over in their graves if they saw our junkpilcs and the things we throw away They had to make everything now we buy It makes a difference everything Maybe some future civilization will make a “dig" down into our old junkyard and garbage piles and find out about us by the stuff we threw away The open junkyard era Is over We can never go there with a load and bring back a load We will never know the satisfaction of retrieving a treasure that was someone else's junk Mary Henrie TO THE letters EDITOR Wrong about golf course About 6 weeks ago we wrote a ter about the county fair and in the ter we stated that we felt Robin Pearthe Millard son County Adhad mishandled the East ministrator Millard Golf Course application Since then we have found out all of the facts concerning the application and we feel we owe Robyn a public apology We apologize to Robyn on the statement about the golf course We would also like to encourage everyone to get behind the commissioners and have the best county fair in Utah JerF Brinkerhoff Colette Hunte Teacher to Parent Helping your child succeed J President by Betty Condie Utah Education Association Teenage pregnancy sensitive problem Schools and parents have a serious and sensitive problem to address It’s teenage pregnancy Teen pregnancies are on the rise across the country with too little effort to stem the rising tide Utah is among the top five states in the nation in the number of babies born to girls under 19 years of age Utah tec itgers have 000 abortions each year and 4000 live births Schools churches and families are the logical entities to deal with the problem yet we have no effective programs to reverse those sad statistics The human and dollar costs to all are unacceptable Teenage girls who have children are more likely than their peers to drop out of school and become dependent on government assistance Families headed by young mothers are seven times more likely to live in poverty A report from the House Committee on Children Youth and Families sh ws that in 1975 $85 billion from Aid to Families with Dependent Children Medicaid and the food stamp program went to families that were begun by teenage mothers Although the nation spends billions on teenage mothers and their children there is no attempt to solve the complex problems of teen pregnancy at any level of government Pregnancy information programs for teenagers receive much less emphasis than programs for already pregnant and parenting teens Schools and parents should be concerned about this mounting problem Schools can help if they are staffed with nurses psychologists and counselors The rising statistics on teenage lead us to believe that pregnancy families in transition often are not able to cope successfully with the problem Churches can’t help unless the That teenagers are leaves the school as a logical agent to focus on the problem It is a difficult issue There are no easy solutions But we must try to find answers Middle America Delta not all that different By Bob Thomas You’re not all that much different from the rest of “Middle America” you know You’re nothing more than a weave in the fabric that is the t you have your own idiosyncracies and no one is going to mistake you for Horse Cave KY or Gloucester Mass or Temaqua PA or Dime Box Texas NM or Columbia You have a proud history here On the other hand Levittown PA and Sun AZ don’t They’re too new and City have sprung up since War II days Levittown today is habitated by the baby boom of one global conflict Sun City is populated by those who followed an earlier international conflagration Most of you with the ception of the influx of newcomers would imagine were born within hollering distance of this place If I’m wrong about that chalk it up to a mere observation I like your town although confess it was not on my original itinerary of r search for places to visit in a whatever is "Middle America" You don’t have an ocean and thought "Middle America" should have one of those But keep the faith if earthquakes keep occurring on the West Coast you may have one within a century or two know could have an enjoyable time in this city and its immediate environs if an extended stay were possible I like what you have to offer Friendly people top that list You also have a restaurant here that makes poached eggs exactly the way my mother did think the cook added a touch of vinegar to the water like the history of the place and the fact that you see fit and proper to preserve such bits of antiquity as the McCullough homestead that sits on your city park and the walls of Fort Deseret could spend days trudging about the moonscapes of your Amasa Valley and I’d like to take in the panorama that the top of Sugarloaf must afford the climber I’m also something of a rockhound and I’ve given serious thought of late to renfor a lost weekend ting a could get all of that here couldn’t I? I’m also a “cheese freak”--i- t has to do with my Welsh something I’d probably pitch a tent background out at Delta Valley Farms for a time You have volcanoes born in a time of dinosaurs have never peered into the black womb of one of those It sounds as though that would make for an interesting afternoon Stone formations intrigue me would like to photograph that which resembles the Mormon prophet John Smith There is also a bit of a nation’s embarrassment here too I refer to Topaz and its reminding of "A Bad Day at Black Rock" We should never forget that scar On the other hand you are an oasis to the weary traveler You will never know how inviting you looked to me during the gloaming hours of a recent Monday evening And I will be forever grateful to the owners of the Killpack Motor Lounge for a sincerely warm a firm mattress see no signs of economic decay in your midst and that is not always true in small towns whose centers have fallen victims to the urban sprawl and the shopping mall Perhaps for your you should be thankful isolation You have a taste of "la dolce vita” about you You have a fine hospital good schools sturdy homes that look like they would withstand whatever would be the ravages of Armageddon dedicated public servants and the bright I also promise of sensible growth notice a long list of professional people in your Yellow Pages You would seem to hold education in as high esteem at the work ethic There is no vestige of laziness nor sloth apparent to the passer-bIf the truth be reported you also have crime and its accompanying agonies But feel not t or fact Crime remains by that a troublesome way of life for a small misguided element in this country And there is nothing novel about it here You and I speak of people are a microcosm of all that is "Middle America" You are a beat of what is the heart of this country and am haphave to py passed your way And thank you for having me |