OCR Text |
Show Thursday, July 10. 2008 0 R E M TIMES ROTC grad excels, revels in duties in the corps veterans 4 better purl of two years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, approving ap-proving massive purchases of equipment to be used by the Corps. The Signal Corps Supply Agency in Philadelphia bought anything the Signal Corps used from radios to transmitters to wire and table. We were probably prob-ably the main Signal Corps procurement agency in the world at the time. We supplied all the depots in the country, and also a number of foreign depots, because a large part of the complex involved transportation trans-portation people, who shipped stuff to different places. Wire and cable were my specialty. My biggest procurement procure-ment was a contract for more vm mm fa&qgty, pomp mm Ik am afkfrn Editor's note: This is the second in a series about Boh Graul of Orem. This week (iraul wins the heart of his co-worker and spends the than a million dollars (a lot of money in those days) with a ( jerman outfit. This was telephone tele-phone cable about an inch and a half thick, used for burial across the ocean. Of course it contained many wires and extensive ex-tensive shielding. A number of U.S. companies compa-nies that competed for the bid claimed we violated a buy-American act, but this purchase pur-chase wasn't covered by such an act, and the German producer pro-ducer was very qualified. The price was also considerably less than the American bids. As procurement officers, we o mm m ts natural to Feel uneasiness when you have medical issues. But if you're being treated by skilled caregivers using proven technology, you can also feel peace. W hich is why American Fork Hospital has developed a less invasive method to treat premature infants with respiratory problems and Intermountain Inter-mountain Medical Center uses Utah's only gamma knife to treat brain tumors without surgery. It $ the reason Dixie Regional employs lap banding for less invasive weight loss surgery and LDS lfosptt.il uses advanced endoscopic . ' f.v " t fry - - - I .r . AFRICAN RK HOSPITAL LDS HOSPITAL inMART" 'ljU4j MEN'S MEOIpAL.CEKTER UTAH VALLEY Rftj'bSlAl VE!Mi.AL CENTER ' Intermountain Healthcare were not allowed to accept pay from contracting companies, but we were free to have lunch with people. I once went on a couple of fishing trips on fairly large private boats owned by companies. That was allowed; my superior officer knew all about these favors, though there was a restriction on how much we could be entertained. I actually fe.t that my job was like a civilian job. I never felt superior to any of the people below me, whet Iter they were sergeants, corporals or whoever. Here I was a second sec-ond lieutenant only because I had taken ROTC in college. And I was never comfortable instructing people what to do that is, acting like a superior supe-rior officer. An important part of my military mil-itary service was that I learned responsibility. I learned how to deal with different types of people I was thrown in with units of people from privates mmivim ultrasound technology to fight lung cancer and other diseases. It Is why Primary Children 'i ( Medical Center developed the Intermoimtain'vfest's only fetal heart program, Utah I 'alley Regional utilizes electrophysiology to more effectively treat heart patients, and McKay-Dee Hospital formed an anticoagulation team to prevent blood clots. These advanced methods and others are utilized by skilled caregivers at Intermountain Healthcare hospitals to help our patients overcome fear and uneasiness so they can feel peace. INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER McKAY-DEE HOSPITAL CENTER " DIXIE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER i 1 on up, and I was in charge of teaching them. One thing about the Signal Corps Supply Agency Agen-cy was that though superior officers demanded respect, it wasn't the same as if you were out in the field with a unit. You were treated more like an equal. 1 never saw anybody who tried to "pull rank." The people respected me as a second sec-ond lieutenant, and I respected the new people who came in as lieutenants. It hadn't been that long since I had been where they were now. One night while I was sitting in my living room, 1 heard an advertisement that the choir connected with the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Orchestra was looking for singers. I had spent four years in the men's glee club at the University of Pittsburgh, was a student conductor for two years, and even did some solo work. Given that my job was pretty much nine to five, except ex-cept when I pulled duty, I was ill mm i ! fc 5 ; j QD free to volunteer. I went for an interview at the Academy of Music, only a couple of blocks away, and was accepted to sing second tenor. We practiced Verdi's "Requiem" "Re-quiem" twice a week for six months under an assistant conductor, con-ductor, and near the end, the orchestra conductor, at that time Eugene Ormandy, came in for practices. We did two concerts at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, and also two concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City. A number of years later, after I married mar-ried and we moved to Toledo, I sang the "Requiem" again with the Toledo Orchestra and chorus. In Philadelphia, we always celebrated some of the holidays, holi-days, and I remember that I once sang the "Star-Spangled Banner" for one of the Veterans Veter-ans Day programs. After two years of active duty. I stayed in the Army Re E-mail registry protects kids from adult ads Brittani Lusk nailVHERAiD Parents tired of filtering through adult advertisements and worried that explicit material mate-rial could make it into their children's hands, have an option op-tion to protect them. Utah is one of two states that has an e-mail protection registry similar to the national do-not -call list, aimed at protecting pro-tecting children online. Utah's Child Protection Registry has been available since 2005. but only protects about 150.000 e-mail e-mail addresses. Officials say it could be more. "People don't really understand under-stand what it is. what it offers, what it's for," said Kevin Olsea director of the state Division of Consumer Protection. Parents can protect their children's e-mail address, cell phone numbers, instant messaging mes-saging IDs and fax numbers by logging on to the registry's Web site at utahkidsregistry. com. The law that created the registry only restricts messages messag-es sent to children that contain adult material, such as pornography, pornog-raphy, gambling, tobacco or alcohol adds. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said the measure mea-sure is meant to protect children from advertising for products they wouldn't be able to buy legally. The registry was not designed to protect accounts that belong only to adults. However, adults can register their accounts if a child is likelv to have access to it. "The idea behind this is. if MAYTAG FamwyOwrwSf CL I Newlnf I It I Uhe Box I III f. I serve for six years (a requirement require-ment of the ROTC program). I returned to work with ADis-Chalmers ADis-Chalmers in Pittsburgh, where I became the commanding officer offi-cer to a small unit of the Signal Corps in Uniontown, Penn., about 25 miles south of where we lived. When we moved to Toledo, there was no such unit, and I left the reserves as a captain. These excerpts from local veterans are courtesy of the Orem Heritage Committee. Complete stories of the veterans will eventually be put on the Orem City Web site, www.orem.org. Readers aware of any veterans who have written about their military service are asked to arrange to have these archives in the Veterans History Project, Library of Congress. Phone Don Norton (225-8050) on how to do this. there's material that's hurtful to children, you don't want to make it available to them," Olsen said. Utah company Unspam Technologies Inc, developed the technology to "scrub" advertisers' ad-vertisers' lists of protected addresses ad-dresses and phone numbers. Eric Langneinrich, Unspam's chief technology officer, said once users place their information informa-tion in the state's database, it can be checked against advertisers' adver-tisers' lists. If an address or number matches, it is taken off the list. After 30 days the spam should stop, if companies are obeying the law. Utah law allows for criminal and civil penalties for companies that continue to send material to protected addresses. Shurtleff said it is important to monitor for unwanted ads and file complaints against those who are violating the law. Olsen said the registry is not a fix-all for Internet safety, though. Parents should still be cautious with children and their technology. "The Internet world offers a great means of educating kids, but it's also very dangerous. . Parents need to be aware of that danger and protect theirj kids." Olsen said ' He said parents should always al-ways monitor what kids are doing on the Internet, including includ-ing being aware of whom they are talking to in chat rooms or on social networking sites. " The state is in the middle of a lawsuit concerning the registry. In November 2005, the Free Speech Coalitidh sued the state, claiming the registry conflicts with the federal CAN-SPAM CAN-SPAM Act that admonished the Federal Trade Commission to compile a do-oot -e-mail hst. There is no such federal fat. A press release from the Free Speech Coalition also outlines several holes in Utah's law, including in-cluding a lack of specificity. In the meantime, the registry regis-try has continued to function. "We're not close to a decision yet. I think we've had some favorable rulings. We're pretty confident," Shurtleff said Imkh II. fctlMf 17. MM tp4 ? Enm f miHit My Story pV-fnfcf MtttllMl. - - aiiriii.tiii'iiniinei hmim hit far TWw hinnttw Behind this ear lies an engineering masterpiece Open Ear Technology is the most revolutionary development in hearing care since the introduction of digital hearing aids. Come in for a FREE hearing evaluation and give them a try n-ith our NO OBLIGATION ROAD TEST 303 W. University Hwf. M 22D-1170 ; Hour l.tcrt'Eat 10-3 |