Show Pace 2 County Chromc'e Millard Process Febnjarv 9 1990 Comments Media Man! is going to be a WHAT?! by Sue was impressed and interested in Taiwan economic development We visited Taipei World Trade Center and a Science Industrial park and were addressed by Mr K H Wu Vice Chairman of China External Trade Development Council and Dr Fredrick F Chien Minister of Stale Chairman of the Council for Economic Planning and Development The trade center is impressive It is made up of four facilities: the Exhibition Hall the International Trade Building the T aipei International Convention Center and the Hyatt Regency Taipei The Convention Center which we toured is a 7 story building Exhibition capacity in the Hall's atrium showground has been expanded to 1313 display booths and hosts a trade show each month internationalized to include foreign exhibitors Floors 2 to 6 are display booths for Taiwan products The 7th floor is for foreign products Utah has a booth there (for which they pay S650 a month) but I thought it was a little bland particularly is comparison with the Taiwan displays Seems to me a golden opportunity to show off what Utah has to offer Taiwan is the 13th largest trading nation and Mr Wu stated they plan to increase their import and exports They export over 3000 items and want to import food and machinery Raw materials also are important import items The United Stales misses the boat a lot by not study ing Chinese ways w hich would enable us to do more business with them As labor costs have risen in Taiwan they have simply moved the factories to other countries They are moving away from labor intensive and to high lech - telecommunication robots computers In 1949 per capita income was S50 It has now risen to $7500 US dollars The United States per capita income is $17000 with Millard County's about the same as Taiwan’s The Science Park we visited sits on 800 acres and they are in the process of acquiring 1000 more acres But they must relocate the present land owners and with land so scarce it takes awhile to work it all out The park at present has 2000 housing units for workers a man made lake sports facility and an experimental bilingual K through 8 school 8 000 workers are employed at 03 businesses and there are 5 applications from businesses wishing to locate in the park All businesses allowed in the park must be high tech and nonpolluting Research and development are encouraged and there are universities nearby and also another industrial park We toured the Acer Computer company at the park which I will discuss next week Meanwhile I must go home and pack as I am attending Utah Press Association's annual convention in St George this weekend I Interior view of World Trade Center Construction at the bottom of the picture is preparation for next trade show TO THE EDITOR Two old Utah’s booth at Taipei World WE'ttr HE® Delta Area Fillmore Area Mlvry” Roclt B Trade Center L Jan 40 31 Feb 37 2 35 3 34 44 39 40 4 5 6 January precipitation was 69 the average is 145 6" of snow fell in Jan Average is 6” 11 10 Community Calendar Motor Vehicle Schedule: Fillmore & Delta weekdays Millard County Assessor’s Office 2nd Thursday of Month Great Basin Historical Society meeting 7:30 pm Museum open every day pm except Sunday Every Thursday TOPS meets at Della Middle School dining room 5 pm 10 am Wednesdays Story Hour Delta City Library The Millard County Chronicle Progress USPS Published 0 by DuWiI Publishing at 40 N 300 W Located at Delta every Thursday Utah 84624 Publisher - Delia Utah Editor B Dulson Susan Editorial Ken Rand Reporter Fillmore Mallet Evelyn Rcc Office Manager Circulation Julie Ward Goertz CirculationComp CirculationProduction Rita Robinson Commercial Printing Shellie Dutton POSTMASTER: to PO Address Send Delta Box 249 Utah 84624 Rates on Request Advenising Second Class Postage Paid at Delta Utah 84624 Delta- or Fillmore: DUWIL PUBLISHING OWNED SUSAN WILLIAM COMPANY BY B DUTSON V WILSON A Stained Glass Exhibit Fillmore Library Library hours by special appointment February 8 “Once Upon A Time In Clear Lake” Great Basin Historical Society topic 7 pm Delta City Building Service Officer from American Legion will be at Delta Job Service pm February 9 Registration deadline for Girl’s Bas& 7th8th ketball (5lh6lh graders) White Sage Regional Park 10 am - 5 pm Monday - Friday Gary Hatton and Merrily Carpenter wedding Open House ptn Kanosh Ward Cultural Hall Everyone invited February 11 Elder Kevin Wasden Mission Farewell noon Scipio Ward Elder Sean Wood mission report 11:50 am Holden Ward February 12 16 Teacher Appreciation Week February 15 East Millard Fine Arts Guild annual B irthday Party 4 pm Fillmore Elementary School Millard County League of Writers 7 pm Flora Wood home Sherwood Shores February 15 - March 1 Girl Scout Cookie sales February 17 Order of the Arrow 'Mix"ican dinner 5:30 pm Palomar Indian Dance Show Subscriptions in Advance In County - $2000 per year $1300 per 6 months Out of County - $2500 per year Single Copy - 50 cents changes February February 13 Delta Utah West Stake Standards Night 7 pm Stake Center Sutherland Advertising Julie Ward Gocrtz - Design Riley Wood - Sales & Accounts Rita Robinson - Sales Wednesdays pm English class for Spanish speaking people Della City Library 7 pm Overeaten Anonymous Newcomer's Workshop 1:30-pm Fillmore City Library February 16 Le Ann Wamick and Russ Church wedding reception 7 - 9 pm Deseret Oasis Ward February 17 Becky Bacon and Shawn Harris wedding reception 7 - 9 pan Delta lst2nd Ward Overeaten workshop 1:30 - 4 pm Fillmore City Library February 23 Fransiska Oei and Rod Dastrup wedding reception 7 9 pm Fillmore 2nd 3rd Ward pioneer trees I would like to report the death of two trees in a valley that had no trees until one was planted and nourished In 1878 the Railroad Company was building a track from Salt Lake to Frisco Frisco was the mining town in the west area of what is now Beaver County The working trains moved south with supplies as the road was completed They had a place it could not be called a town with only one long “section house” It was built on the north side of the Sevier river and west of the railroad tracks a few hundred feet from the great new bridge The place was called “Riverside" and can be found on the early on the maps of Utah The long black tar paper covered f bous4 faced the east built on the river bottom salt grass surrounded by rabbit brush shadscaleandgreasewoodlt was hot in that black section house on the long summer days Someone went to the canyon and found a young cottonwood tree and moved it to Riverside to give shade on the section house The tree grew in the rich river bottom soil and soon gave shade Men working on the railroad ate from their grub boxes and rested in the shade Travelers on the deep cut wagon road along the west side of the river came for supplies filled their water banels and rested while their horses found the salt grasses along the river bottom Times changed A new and heavier track was laid in 1903 all the way to the coast Bigger steam engines pulled long lines of passenger and freight cars that replaced the ore cars Deep wells were dug to fill the engines from great tanks where the sidings became towns Workers could live in worker cars and the caboose Riverside was no longer needed It was abandoned The water tank with it’s long spout was moved Riverside like many places in the building of the west became unrecorded history Somewhere in the years of what we now call “the great depression” a gen just married bought the old section house and moved it to Hinckley to make into a home Maybe it is still there covered with aluminum siding built on still in use no one knows The land was sold for cattle pasture The cottonwood became t great tree It was for cows chewing their salt grass cud for fishermen for hunters for folks looking for solitary places for birds with their great nests year after year In the spiring of 1983 a flood from a broken reservoir dam washed down through the river valley washing everything away Mud and water covered the tree piled debris against the trunk and washed the sand away from it’s roots The tree still lived but grew smaller its branches fell in the winter northerlies But this resolute old pioneer kept put- ting on some new wood each spring until 1988 when there were no more new leaves The tree was dead there was no doubt a skeleton of history that had given all that it had to give for over a hundred years Some of the older folks still living in Deseret remember the great spreading tree standing alone reaching great gray baked branches as only a tree standing alone can do If the tree was planted in 1860 it would have been fifty years old in 1920 and it lived another sixty seven years There are not many records of the lives of those resolute pioneers We do know that they went into the canyons and took roots and cutting from along the creeks They were disappointed They brought apple and picach trees raspberry branches currant bushes and asparagus roots The root trees and bushes could not live through the harsh winters and alkali of the land and the river water but the cottonwoods and the asparagus lived and flourished along the ditch banks How the women must have longed for the comfort of shade and a tree tall enough for a swing for the children While the men were working on the land building the dams and the ditches the women must hive worked on gardens and surely a few flowers There must have been a little adobe house with a willow roof underneath that old cottonwood How the family must have watched for the new leaves of the young tree each spiring with the pungent odor of new cottonwood The people of Old Deseret could not stay They had done all that was possible The dams built across the Sevier river by the men of old Deseret were the first dams built anyplace along the river There was no way to keep the early floods from coming down and spiring washing away the dams the people left in 868 to go back to places they knew to where the fresh water flowed down from the mountains The cottonwood trees were about ten years old Folks came back to Deseret in 1877 They built a good town farther north than the old settlement A ne w and better dam was built Thenew settler found the cottonwoods growing into great trees The one alone in the field stretched its trunky branches high into the desert sky No one knows when the great tree began to fail lose branches to the winds and grow smaller and smaller It became the home of fledglings and greasewood creatures standing between a road and a railroad that were made after the tree was planted In the spiring of 98 8 the old tree w as cut down and burned to clear the land of debris Now we know the life of a cottonwood tree in our valley over one hundred and twenty years Mary Ilenrle Children are precious Most everyone agrees that children are our most important and precious source It follows that those we trust to their care should be well trained and rewarded for their efforts School teachers spend more time with our children with the exception of parents than any other group I don’t believe that we can pay an excellent teacher enough money However we should make every effort to pay them well and to provide excellent benefits for them I have done farm work when it quired hard and often unpleasant work I have likewise done cons miction work and janitorial work I have commercial fished out of a 20 foot skiff in ten foot waves I’ve had the ocean toss me around like a toy boat while picking fish until my fingers mere twice their normal size i None of the above is as important as the work a teacher does Nor is it any more exhausting than working with 30 students per class and correcting papers and preparing for the next day SOme w ill say that teaches only work form 8:00 am to 3:00 pm I know that this is not the case Often teachers are at school at 7:00 am and don’t leave until 5:00 pm They then spend several hours at home on schoolwork True some teachers don’t put in that much time but that doesn't mean that they aren’t doing an excellent teaching job I believe that teachers should be among our best paid people When they are we will attract even better teachers have excellent students and thus a brighter future Bryan Petersen by Kcb (Cramps) Rand note: Media Man! Is (Editor’s But we’ll going to be a grandfather let him explain) I’m going to be a grandfather (Ed note: See? From now on you’re on your own) Last weekend my daughter approached me “Dad” she said which she calls me because I am her father “Yes daughter” I replied because she is my daughter "You’re going to be a grandfather" she said grinning sillily This explained not only the silly grin on her face but the even sillier one of her husband's face The only grin sillier than that of an expectant mother is that of an expiectant father “That's nice" I said I sat down calmly cm the cat and proceeded to finish eating the funnies I'm cool I remembered you see how it was when I first became a father And when I second became a father too I too once (twice) sported a grin as silly as Molly’s husband Robert That was almost 20 years ago and I remember it like it was almost 20 years ago My daughter was bom in Sweetwater Memorial Hospital in Rock Springs Wyoming It's not that we had anything against her we lived there at the time We lived in a tiny house that rented for $65 a month (I am not making this up) I worked at the radio station where I was paid the pirincely sum of $400 a month (I wish I was making this up) We were young happy stupid pregnant Just like Molly and Robert only I had a better moustache (than him) It was a wintry night as I recall the grayish snow falling like dandruff on the hillsides of good blackened ol’ Rock Spirings “The Lumpy Bed o’ the West!” Suddenly my wife started screaming like the time I wrecked the car As usual I assumed it was my fault I had made dinner that night “The chili wasn’t that bad" I wimpered bravely She grabbed me by the collar and slammed me up against the wall as she gently explained she was in labor Instantly I sprang into action just as we had carefully rehearsed putting her overnight bag which we had prepared days before into the car which I started up to let it get warm as deftly adjusted the seatbelts we had installed in the back so she could you know sort of spread out as we drove to the hospital (and so we could use it to secure a car seat for the baby later on) and then I calmly phoned the hospital and let them know we were coming (I had earlier written the number down using neon paint across the wall above the phone) and I calmly drove to the hospital over route as we had rehearsed several times Then I drove back home and got my wife and put her in the car loo Goodol’ SMH was built by the same guy who designed the set for the movie “Shocker" We have no idea how many Chinese laborers are buried within its rock walls One of the overseers later bought a radio station where I worked (The hospital has since been replaced by a new modem one equipped with nurses in squeeky shoes billing department and millions of dollars worth of that nobody knows what they do when you plug them in and no patient has yet volunteered to find out) Casual was the word for good ol' SMH When we arrived it was night but somebody had left a light on so we could find the place in the dark We interrupted a tot game of gin rummy to notify some nursish persons that my wife was in labor The blank look we got was replaced when my wife by enlightenment shouted “I’m gonna have a baby you morons" As quick as a rabbit decomposing we got action After a few more hands my wife and her fetus were escorted to a room in a Safeway shopping where we were cart promptly ignored Molly was bom in the middle of the nighL The doctor who supervised the birth showed up in the delivery room wearing his pink fuzzy slippers and Snoopy pajamas about 15 minutes before my daughter came out screaming like Mikey in “Look Who’s Talking” “Ten toes ten fingers" the doctor said as he passed me in the hall on his way back to bed “Congrats" he added as he flipped me the bill had no idea what my wife had been screaming about all night long until I saw that bill Somehow she knew Then I saw my daughter Confession: a few minutes after my daughter was bom she looked as ugly as a hairless monkey Her purple nose was wrinkled up and she was screaming just like her mother had been a few hours earlier I thought this couldn’t be my kid I figured maybe one of the nurses had lost her in a card game or gotten her mixed up with the twins in the next crib Then I noticed the thumbs Those were my thumbs the genetic heritage piroudly passed on from generation to generation in my family We had hitchhiked across the Atlantic in the early 600s to Rhode Island on those thumbs and across the Great Divide to Oregon Territory in the 1850s on those thumbs and up and down the coast from Seattle in a record 16 hours to in the 1960s on those thumbs Pink pudgy and wrinkled from generations of sucking those were Media Man! thumbs Ycssir My daughter’s terrible affliction of having one leg as smooth as my bald spot and the other as hairy as Yassir Arifal's chin was doubtless inherited from her mothers side of the family But we won't get into that Second confession: as ugly as my daughter was immediately after she was bom (she has since reformed) her mother was beautiful Which is offered in partial mitigation for the subsequent birth of Michael Ryan a few years later Then we brought the baby home Feedings at 2 am diapers cholic spitting up diarrhea babysitters Now I remenber! 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(Editor's note: From this point on MM droans on and on and on about fate and mortality and age and other morose m usings brought about by the sudden realization that not only is his an indiImpending grandfatherhood cation of advancing age but an Indication that eventually he'll be asked to burp a baby or change a diaper or even babysit He ends by doing the Yorik speech from Hamlet We’ll pass) Valliquette continued the plant one day “I had 24 hours to make up my mind whether or not I was going to stay” he said The Valliquette family moved into their home in Delta in 1969 They raised two children here They now have five grandchildren Fascination with the product is one major reason Valliquette stayed with Brush for 37 years “These space pirobes for instance wouldn’t be possible if it wasn't for the guidance systems" he said "Beryllium is of course portion of it" When Valliquette saw his first jet at the end of World War Two he said he thought he’d seen the ultimate in technology What could piossibly top it? He wasn't prepared for beryllium Beryllium applications became portant in the Manhattan Project when the first atomic bomb was developed Beryllium is part of the Voyager space which is now heading out past pirobe Neptune into the galaxy the farthest man made object from the Earth McMillan there" Valliquette is a past president of the Utah Manufacturers Association continued is practical at the level we’re dealing with That’s my style" Mining has been t part of McMillan’s background all his life He was raised in Butte Montana He got his BS in metallurgical engineering in 1961 from the Montana School of Mineral Science and Technology at Butte He worked with ARCO from 1961 to 1985 “But I really never served any time with the company working in a mining environment" McMillan said When the company was sold in 1985 McMillan decided to go back to school He completed his degree in business accounting from Montana State University in Bozeman last summer before he and his wife moved to Delta “We both wanted to end up in a small town" he said McMillan said he was also "taken" by the people he met when interviewing far the job “I liked them all" he said “They fit the type of culture I came from in western Montana a lot There's not a heck of a lot of difference between Montana pieople and Utah people There’s su!) a Western culture Hike the small town work ethic and the style of living projected here" The fact that Brush is a small operation (roughly 100 employees at the mill I Beryllium is also used in such mundane applications as golf clubs and light switches And gyroscopes for missile guidance systems “This whole industry has developed since I’ve been with the company” he said "You can point to any piece of beryllium around” Valliquette said “and it started right here at this mill" There is no other beryllium mine in the world outside the Topaz Mountain mine The Delta mill processes that ore Valliquette is also fascinated by the people who work with the company “I think it’s exciting to provide jobs for people and see them grow in their jobs and different things of that sort" he said Valliquette plans to spend some time fishing traveling and golfing in St George “We go down there for weekends vacations and different evcnts"he said “I think we'll probably wind up spending maybe more of our time down and mine) was also attractive to McMillan “That allows you to have a better interface with people and get to know people on a more personal level” he said “I like that smallness because you don’t get so removed One of the real drawbacks of management is that the the more relarger the organization moved you get You lose track of people “We feel very much at home here in Delta" he said "People have been friendly to us and have welcomed us I feel very good about how the people at the plant have treated me" McMillan enjoys outdoor activities travet and community involvement Helen McMillan is an acgardening complished watercoor artist She received several awards at the Utah State Fair last year Men are never so settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely " Thomas Babincton likely to - |