Show Millird Count 2 - I'uu Ihurv l)ec II I SPS I9S6 THE LETTERS — Room The hope of every parents is to have children who are responsible concerned members of society Discipline is Research has pait of this effort repeatedly shossn that despite the importance of the peer group parents usually have much more influence than they realize The next less "Teacher to Parent” columns will discuss discipline that works Disciplining children takes a great deal of effort but the mam idea is that children and parents can change Some parents simply do not have the time or patience to attempt to energy motivate change in the child or even in themselves It is not easy but it can be done Here are some suggestions for positive steps toward belter discipline in your home et your children know you like them Tell them how much you admire their good qualities Reward them once in a while These rewards may take the lot m of extra time reading to your child time spent in an activity chosen or even something as by your child simple as a hug Listening to your cluldicn hugging them smiling or talk ing to them are all rewards the kind that you can give hundreds of times every day One of the most powerful rewards for children is the love terest and attention they receive from their mother and father Iet your children know exactly what et limits Too you expect of much freedom is frightening to a child Set limits for the actions that your children are not ready to control themselves Children need to know exactly what parents expect of them and also how parents will react to their behavior It's important to state your requests clearly For example it's much easier for the child to follow the direction “Please put your glass in the center of the table" than it is to follow “Be careful with your milk" Make your requests politely You know how much more likely you arc when someone to respond says "Please" Next week I’ll tell you about some more positive discipline methods that work Community Calendar 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changes (4624 to All Millard County Offices will be the 26th of on Friday closed December 1986 and Friday the 2nd 1987 By order of the of January Millard County Commissioners this 1986 25th day of November so JOHN WATERBURY Dear John Letters Dear John As hard as I’ve tried to rationalize my behavior I guass you’d say I have a problem I’ve bet a taught not to use drug or alcohol and for most of my life I’ve followed that religiously But I started using sleeping pills a few years ago because I couldn't turn things off at night And then I found out that (hey would work quicker If I took some Nyquil From there it only made sense that I could use alcohol "medicinally " And from there things went downhill quickly I'm still active In church and nobody really knows that I have this problem except my family but I'm going crazy I'm tired of hiding It and I’m tired of everything Signed Kxhausted in Zion Dear EZ Your case is a classic But the fact that you’re willing to face it will turn things around for you and it may help a lot of others with similar problems That may be somme consolation Next talk to your Bishop and then contact a treatment center to get some help The feelings that you are experiencing are very similar to those of former First Lady Betty Ford when she wrote “Since began practicing abstinence have become more valuable to myself and to others think was always a talknice enough woman walked ed was polite when you got my tention but for a while I had been unaware of how much went on around me and I had no particular will to live There are a lot of people out there in the world who exist like that don’t think they have to think they can change" Recognition and acceptance are the first steps toward getting help You appear to be there at this point Keep goIt gets better ing Dear Readers For years researchers have been trying to develop an effective method for Identifying those who had a tendency to develop alcoholism or chemical dependency There have been attempts to compare blood enzymes or Identify but a recent toxicological patterns study dealth with something much less subjective According to a study by researchers at Ihe University of California at San Diego a major clue which Identifies a toward alcoholism is susceptibility thought to be the amount a person sways after a few drinks This study dicates that those who are related to alcoholics swayed the least This supports prior research which has shown of alcoholic parents that children developed alcoholism four times more than the children of parents Undoubtedly there are several but the reasons for this occurrence primary reason appears to be that a is passed from genetic predisposition parents to children And undoubtedly further research will confirm this suspicion "To sway or not to sway That is the question" In either case watch your drinking If one man CONFIDENTIALLY: calleth thee a donkey pay him no mind If two men calleth thee a donkey buy thee a saddle Tips for keeping needles on the Christmas tree DONT YOU REALIZE THAT ONE WAY TO RUIN A PUBLIC CAREER IS TO MISQUOTE HIM? i Also the forestry specialist says putting chemicals in the water is thought to have little benefit Baker says as long as the tree keeps using water it will be fire resistant "But when the needles begin to dry out or drop onto the wrapped gifts below the tree becomes a fire hazard and should be removed” he says Set up your tree away from sources of heat such as fireplaces radiators television sets and heaters Before lights are strung Bakers says check each string for cracked or worn insulation Small or blinking electric lights reduce the tree’s demand for water and help keep it from becoming a fire hazard Baker estimates that more than 33 million American families will be buytrees this year ing fresh Christmas which means about 40 percent of the homes will have Christmas trees r percent of homes will have artificial trees and the rest will have none ) J K V During this past week several groups of children decorated the six little trees in the Delta City park Many of these children spent a great deal of time making beautiful decorations to go on these season They the trees in the spirit of were all proud of their work and the trees were garnished with the charm of their personalities When I arrived at work this mornnoticed that the decorations from ing one of the little trees had been taken off and thrown on the ground Not in the spirit of the season it offends me that there are a few mental midgets that invariably do their best to ruin it for everyone I do not appreciate Before we leave Delta we would like to express our appreciation to the many fine people we met during the past three years We especially want to thank each school and its dedicated staff North Elementary Delta Middle School and Delta High School Our children worked hard and were readily accepted The teachers in this district put in extra time and effort to educate them We feel that our children were able to obtain as good an education as anywhete else CttMP picking up or cleaning up behind It is someone’s despicable behavior too bad you cannot be brought to task for your wanton disregard for other people’s property and your disrespect to the children who worked so hard Chances are you will never be law brought to justice in a court of to justice You will be brought in life out what give you though always comes back to you with astounding accuracy If anyone knows who is responsible for this act of vandalism please contact ihe Delta City police department Jean Smith To the business people and the banks who were always friendly and helplul thank you! Of course there were a lew that did not want to offer their friendship but for the most part we were treated with friendship and respect We will not forget Delta Thanks to everyone who made our stay here memorable The Youngs Mark Carlotta Kali Stephanie & Elizabeth Middle America Search for “Middle America’ by Bob Thomas Copyright San Francisco 1986 You'd like Brooks Campbell guarantee it! He was introduced to me by a volunteer curator at the little museum in the gulf coast town of Cedar Key Fla He was was told a living was there on authority on the area assignment to do feature articles for the Gainesville Sun the biggest of The New York Times affiliates in the south That’s the kind of a paper you want to impress with your stuff when you're was more out writing on the road than pleased to make the acquaintance of someone like Brooks Campbell Brooks has a sense of humorsomething appreciate in everyone asked his age and he said "I'm pushin’ eighty and that's all the exercise want!" took Brooks Campbell for a "local character” In short time was quite was sadly happy to learn that mistaken about that earlier assumption Brooks never made it through third grade in a state where even today a high school diploma doesn't say too much for you But this man is nobody’s fool He has been hired by the University of Florida in roles of both biologist He is and icthyologist and somewhat surprisingly We spent an afternoon together on the screened porch of his home It was Tlorida contypical struction Long low concrete block with a corrugated tin roof years rusted in the damp climes of the The porch was shaded by towering live oaks heavily bearded with Spanish moss And he served an excellent lemonade asked him to talk about himsell and then leaned back and allowed a pocket tape recorder to do the work He talked about his youth when the railroad left over from the Civil War days was still running between Cedar Key and Fernandina north of Jacksonville He recalled when the Farber Brothers out of New York were cutting cedar trees for their pencil plant And he remembered the days of "The Great Experiment: Prohibition” Brooks had his own shipyard back in the '20s He built a special boat for Ol’ Joe Kennedy Rolls Royce engines and secret compartments “Probably had a capacity for about 2000 gallons and planed like a bat out of hell” Brooks only surmises of course but he thinks it was used on the West rum run back then He still has the sales slip for that work: just a tad over $28000 A lot of money in those days “I was a boat though Proever built" bably the fines tone What Brooks really wanted to talk about though was his newest project: AND ANOTHER WAY IS TO QUOTE HIM ACCURATELY "The Brooks Campbell Home Remedy Aid for Aching Joints” Actually he says it’s a proven cure for rheumatoid arthritis but the Federal Pure Tood and Drug Administration won’t allow him to say that He can’t go nationwide just this moment has a whole Brooks pile of testimonials from Tloridians who have gained relief from his product You can buy four ounces of it at major drug stores in the Sunshine State It sells for $10 For $12 he’ll mail you a bottle (in Florida) It’s all bottled capped and by hand It has been a running battle between Brooks and the FDA The FDA wants to know what’s in the formula Brooks ain’t about to tell them All he says is "nothing in there you can’t buy in a drug store or pluck right out of the sea” And good for man or beast too It’s not intended for internal use but Brooks took a swig just to prove it can’t hurt you The formula came to him one night back in the early ’50s when lys own arand thritis stopped his days “I just asked God to help me and He told me how to make it” Brooks is a good Southern Baptist and the church gets 10 percent of his profits Know the difference between a Northern Baptist and a Southern Baptist?" he asked No “A Northern Baptist says there ain’t no hell A Southern Baptist says the hell there ain’t!” Like said there's a lot of humor in the man another whole day We spent together We went down to what was the old foundation for the railroad station (it juts out into the bay) and wet a line for a few hours Didn’t catch anything to write home about Used to be great oyster beds out there though he recollected “And blue crabs there was a time we had them in these waters by the millions And mean millions" He got quiet for a time after that and he seemed to be staring off into some invisible distance Maybe he was remembering younger and better days A time when a man and his boat in the midst of the sea made up an entire world When the sun began to fade way off over there in the direction of East Texas we reeled in the hook for the final time and called it a day Later that night we shared a meal of steamed clams corn on the cob hush puppies pecan pie and hot sarsaparilla tea After that we parted company He wants me to be his pr man “if the PDA ever gets wise to itself" Nice man Brooks Campbell You’d like him I’d bet the farm on that Will regular exercise keep you young? AV( According to Stephen R Yarnall MD Fellow of the American College of Cardiology the answer if “yes” If “young" is measured by counting birthdays then exercise is more likely to make you “old”--bgiving you more birthdays to celebrate! If by "young" you mean fit energetic enthusiastic good humored mentally alert and cited about life then it’s true that exercise will help keep you young Very few of us would want to be a teenager again really! Regular exercise allows us to enjoy the benefits of younth without all of its hardships y ft fnCW3dV t 1400 or X4 W XlfON j Dutson Shellie In PROBLEMS? Call Geno: TEENAGE Comp Production Circulation Rita Bullcreek place for travelers many come and go and try our mountain slopes ihrough the Christmas season I hey pay well and tip and say "We had i great time in your snow" II il were nol lor this busy season and all the people m our need to make this business pay would have helped io fill the baskets lor the needy and could have helped the school committee with the Christmas play Mary Henrie a If you don’t want to dig your Christmas presents from under a pile of needles Christmas morning you might consider a few tips from Utah State University Extension on how to keep your tree green and fresh Fred Baker USU Extension forester says the first step is to choose the tree wisely Bend the needles he suggests and if they don’t break the tree usually is fresh Bounce the stump end of the tree on a firm surface If needles fall out the tree may have dried out However Baker points out some needles may collect on the tree branches from fall which is normal for all shedding evergreen trees If you don’t plan to set the tree up right away keep it in a bucket of water When you are ready to set it up make a straight cut on the trunk removing at least an inch from the bottom and put the tree in fresh water "Trees are thirsty They use up to 2 quarts of water a day” Baker says “If you allow the water level to drop below the irunk end a seal will form and the tree will stop absorbing water” Chronicle Progress USPS If had been The Inn keeper’s wife would have said to the Merchant wiih ihe bags of wares "get out there is a guest coming here tonighi without gold but royal nonetheless He shall have the best and the tired pair can find room and help alter the hard journey from Nazareth and resi" Bui am not the inkeeper’s wile just keep a good motel today these many years since Bethlehem EDITOR NEW PHONE NUMBERS WE’RE FIGHTING Fillmore City Fillmore City Library UtiMJ ©‘83 i QJR FOR LIFE A American Heart Association rjlf 4 |