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Show Page Two - The Pyramid - February 28, 1996 Commentary FROM THE BARBER'S CHAIR .From what we hear in the barber shop, the south end of the county must be going through a little turmoil. Emmett said he went to the IFA the other day and some fellows were in there in a pretty hot debate over the bond election held recently for the South Sanpete School District. Emmett said one fellar from Fayette was nose to nose with a fellar from Manti and the two of em were debating the finer points of tax monies and where they oughtta be spent. Emmett said the general tone of the conversation was whether Manti High School should get their wish list from A to Z, or whether the Gunnison area should figure into the equation on some of these tax dollars raised for education. Emmett said in hindsight that he thought the bond would pass, especially since his cousin Edna had been called the night before by someone soliciting her vote for the proposal. When Emmett used the solicit word, Claudy sort of woke up from his nap and wondered what they were all talkin about, but after Emmett explained it, Claudy went back to sleep in the chair. Lyle spoke up and said it would be interesting to see this all develop in the future. Lyle said that if a heap of building starts in Manti, and there aint similar goins on at Gunnison, then that oughta make it fairly clear about all the talk that went on before the vote. Well keep an eye on that for Merrill Ogden & Calvin Hobbes beat us to this idea and may have it trademarked); 2) Oakland Raider licensed In President Clintons last (With everyone wearapparel. weekly radio address, he advowould appear it, everyone ing cated the use of uniforms in to belong to the same gang public schools. Presumably, love the wearing of uniforms in thereby promoting unity, and harmony; school would be a method of 3) Striped bib overalls and attempting to curtail violence flannel shirts. (They have all and misbehavior in school. those handy pockets for pens, Clinton does not mean for calculators, guns, pencils, this to be a federally mandated And 4) Anyknives, etc.); Uniforms or no program. thing made of leather. (The uniforms is to be a local decifunctional life of leather is sion, as it should be. Each and could be passed down school district is encouraged to long from older to younger sibconsider the idea. Evidently like uniforms have worked with lings). Plus, many girls the looks of guys in leather some success in the Long and vice versa. Perhaps Beach, CA, area. would give the There are pros and cons to to help defray a schools grant school uniforms, I suppose. the initial costs of the leather Some believe that dressing attire.) alike in neat uniforms imYou know, the more I think a and creates proves behavior about it. Im beginning to like spirit of unity. Proponents say this uniform proposal. Maybe that uniforms are less expenMr. Clinton isnt as wacky on sive in the long run than cloththis one as I first thought. I ing otherwise. think that with some adminisThe negative aspects run to trative creativity, using one of issues of individuality. Stuthe suggestions listed above, it dents and parents in behalf of might sell. just students may feel strongly Then again, maybe I need to to about losing the prerogative take an Advil, get some sleep express themselves through the and wake up to the real world way they choose to dress. My in Sanpete tomorrow. guess is that the ACLU would line up on this side. love affair What is this Lets get this down on a with older mengreat and women??? Sanpete level. Does the issue "Grumpier Old Men", of school uniforms have releOld Men", "Covance here? Is it possible that "Grumpy"Golden Girls" I love coon", the Sanpete school districts it! would adopt a uniform-wearin- g senior Being a soon-to-b- e policy? is the official starting (when I submit that we dont need "40 is the old age of such a policy here. Why? point?) and 50 is the youth of Because we already have an youth old age". Hard to tell! unwritten volunteer uniform A few years back "The 10 policy. Most of the students Sexiest Men" were all over 60 conform very well to it. There in McCalls Magazine, includare two basic uniforms which the likes of Paul Newman ing students choose from: A: and Lee Iacocca. Joan Collins, and athletic Jeans, of soaps, posed nude superstar westshoes; or B: Wranglers, in Playboy to "...break the ern shirt and boots. The basebataboo so many feared and ll-type cap is an optional dreaded. " item. Even colleges and universiI have some suggestions for ties are becoming grayer with alternate uniforms for Sanpete finding the seniors professors schools. Im sure that the local more and intellecstimulating boards of education will want tually alive than their younger to weigh these possibilities colleagues. carefully. If Willard were to kiss every Here they are: 1) Day glow female centenarian in the land, orange jumpsuits with identifi- on camera, the program would cation numbers stenciled on turn into a telethon! If, as them. (Truants could easily be Oscar Wilde once said, that spotted at the local con"Youth is Americas oldest venience stores. Unfortunately, tradition" then Old Age is I think the prison system has Americas newest myth! Went to PRovo last weekend and witnessed Utahs first Sanpata'i Laadlaj Nawapapar harbinger of Spring: primroses on sale at Eagle Home ImTHE PilRRmiD provement Center. Also happy to see all the ads in the papers (USPS 365-58- 0) for spring bedding plants and winter clearance sales. Published Weekly at Mt. Pleasant The new IHC Health Center Utah, 84647 had its Grand Opening a week last Saturday-anot- her ago 49 West Main Street positive sign of Sanpetes great Telephone: 462-213- 4 growth. Maybe well see an orthopedic center soon to take care of all the needy skiers FAX: 462-245- 9 (hopefully) soon to be skiing in Mt. Pleasant. Publisher Craig Conover Watched Demi Moore and Penny Hamilton Managing Editor Alec Baldwin in "the Juror" Shirley Christensen .....Associate Editor Saturday afternoon. Intense! Demi is powerful; Alec is Staff Writer Cheryl Brewer School uniforms irt Deanna Pate Staff Writer SUBSCRIPTION scary! four! Four Calvin. out of RATES Chance L. Young, son of Chris and Katie Young, Chester, celebrated his first birthday on Feb. 26, 1996. Grandparents are Ted and Peggy Young, and Bud and Flo Mitchell, all of Chester. Anson County roots Dear Editor: Please print this letter in The Pyramid for the interest of any readers who may have ancestral roots in Anson County, NC. The Anson County Book Committee is in the process of gathering material for a family history book. This book will contain histories of past and present-da- y families along with other interesting articles about Anson County. To receive a free brochure, please send a 4 18" x 9 12" stamped envelope to Anson Book Committee, PO Box 2194, Rockingham, NC ya. Ike came in for a trim the other day. (It wouldnt be fair to charge Ike for a haircut with as little hair as he has.) He said he was up to the capitol the other day to see full-pri- 28380-219- 4. Steven Bailey Rockingham, NC Dear Editor: Last Tuesday, I had the privilege of having an informative discussion with one of our distinguished county commissioners. It seems that the commissioners are in the process of revising the old 1981 Book of County Ordinances. To quote the commissioner, "We are throwing out the whole of the old book, and rewriting it." This is good. Some of the old ordinances take away the peoples constitutional rights. The Utah State Constitution and the United States Constitution, were written for the people to control government misuse of power. For any government body to say where a person can live, what they may choose as a home, even to make law as to what color they may paint their house is going beyond the scope of authority, given by the people, for the government to regulate. I would like to make a suggestion to the commissioners. When you are sitting down to draft this new book of ordinances, have a copy of the Utah State Constitution, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights close at hand. Also, as I know you are men with compassion, when you are making an ordinance that will affect the less fortunate people of the county, who cannot afford nice, big houses like you live in, then remember, some people are on welfare, on fixed incomes and with compassion, write an ordinance to help those people. Dont punish them because they are poor. For example, in some cases the only difference between a family being homeless and not being homeless, is that older trailer house, single wide and no pitched roof. You know the type. The old ordinance has made such trailers in Sanpete County illegal. Bear in mind the old ordinance preamble states that the ordinance is for the safety, health and welfare of the people. I say if a family is kicked out of a trailer, so described, and is forced to move into a cardboard box or their old junk cars or under a viaduct, where is the health, safety and welfare, even for the community? So, while you are making your new ordinances, do so with just a little dash of humanity built in for . , Birthday galas lauded My own day was Feb. 5, and a birthday party was given to me by my niece, June Bell, at her home in Sandy. Everything was lovely with a big, decorated cake and lots of other goodies; colorful balloons, three beautiful flower plants (gifts) and all the relatives and friends who attended-many know to Fountain Green for they were former residents. Dear Editor: A birthday is a gift! A day we can call our very own. A day to be happy and thankful to be alive to enjoy the beauties around us, and special if it is spent with family and friends. (In Advance) CORRESPONDENTS Manti, Bruce Jennings 835-382- 4 835-519- 1 283-474- 7 436-857- 0 NOTICE TO BID Bids will be accepted by the POSTMASTER: Send change of address to The Pyramid, 49 West Mam Street, Mt. Pleasant, UT Irrigation Co. for water master for the 1996 irrigation season, until March 11, 1996. The company reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids. Bids will be accepted by Don H. Prestwich, Secretary, 63 North 200 East, Box 66, Moroni, UT 84647. Setond doss postage paid at Mt. Pleasant, UT and additional moling offices. 84646. MantiEphraim Angela Rasmusson Manti High SchoolEphraim Jill Cragun M&M Wales, Chester Mathel Anderson Moroni, Barbara Gordon 436-87- Fairview, Deanna Pate 427-379- 5 Ftn. Green, Jessie Oldreyd 445-342- 2 Dean O'Driscoll Snow College Reporter, Ray Truitt Photographer, Hollee Anderson 445-332- 6 462-3- 1 31 ' Guests included: Maxine O. Jensen, Edgel and Lori Oldroyd, Dorene O. Igo, Robert and Mower, Carol O. Ware, ROnald and Mary Ivory, Leola I. Mikkelsen, LaJune A. Jones, Dr. and Mrs. John Sanders, Phyllis C. Rowland, Margene M. Weir, Michelle O. Kent and little son, Cory, Ross and June Bell, and many who called and sent greetings. It was a special day and surely appreciated. Another birthday in my honor was held Feb. 6 where . June and I were guests of Hannah Ivory Watinore and Lois Ivory Housen. Birthdays are a gift, especially .when spent with family and friends. Or-lin- da . w 1 doin. He said he overheard some fellars dressed real nice in suits and ties talkin about the senator from District 28, and that didnt mean much to Ike until he found out that Sanpete is in District 28, and then he put it all together, and said they were talkin about Leonard Blackham. He said they talked pretty flowery about Leonard, sayin " what " . . .a good job he does. . . and stuff like that. We were all glad to hear that from strangers. Well, it looks like us boys who like to vote a straight ticket for the GOP, (Gods Own Party) better get ready for fireworks if those easterners pick Buchanan over Mr. Dole. We aint quite sure how to take all this news we see on the television. But Mr. Buchanan says he wants to keep the jobs in America and we all said that thats a good idea. Emmett said this whole thing started goin bad back in 1916 when he was a senior in high school and the Kaiser started doin crazy things over in Prussia. Next thing Emmett knew, he was buttonin up his leggins and wearin a steel hat that kept failin off his head when hed lean over. (He also said that was where he picked up the filthy habit of chewin tobacco, something his wife has never let up on in all those years since.) It sounds as if they may start buildin some more on that prison down at Gunnison. The way its goin we aint got room for all the crooks and scoundrels here in the state, so theyve been sendin some of em to Texas. Rewrite ordinances with care, compassion $20 peryear-50- ( per copy $23 per year outside Sanpete County how the elected officials were - Jessie Oldroyd Fountain Green the people who must live within the guidelines of that ordinance. It wouldnt hurt to have a copy of the Bible close at hand, and maybe to use some of the teachings found in that book in making those new ordinances. John Burke Fairview A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. Samuel Johnson Now, none of us here in the barber shop are lawyers, (Lyle says thats the last thing hed want to be) but it looks like maybe these poor fellars who get themselves sentenced to prison in Utah are not getting their full moneys worth when it comes to rehabilitation. Lyle says that those guys who are locked up in Gunnison have all kinds of things that he and his wife, Myrtle, have never been able to afford. We all wondered what Lyle was referring to and he said a neighbor of his works at the Gunnison prison and told him that those prisoners have Nintendo games to play, and weight rooms, and all such manner of foolishness. Emmett said he read where down in Mississippi they put their convicts in chain gangs and have them clear weeds off the roadsides. Well, it seems to us here at the shop that some poor fellow who breaks the law and doesnt get to play Nintendo, and instead ends up in Texas is and the being mistreated ACLU should check into it, as far as were concerned. Well, there aint much more to talk about since its almost closing time, and supper will be on the table when I get home. Of all the things Im thankful to the Almighty for, I do believe the main one is that my bride of 35 years had the good sense to accept when I proposed to her. Her first attempts at cookin left a man wonderin at times if bachelorhood wasnt a better alternative, but I always have been a patient man, and I believe thats a virtue Floyd Lawson. Ftn Green seeks musicians for Wool City Band by C. R. Truitt FOUNTAIN GREE- N- Annette Hansen announced Sunday that some city residents are going to recreate the "Wool City Band" and play at Centennial functions. Hansen said they are looking for band members and anyone interested can contact her after 5 p.m. at 445-355- 8. If your life changed, so did your taxes. Marriage. Divorce. A baby. Buying or selling a home. Retirement. When your life changes, so do your taxes. Come to H&R Block. We can help. 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