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Show December 1, 1983 Page 8 A story from' our county appeared in a national publication last week. The article entitled, Utah County Rich in Kids USA Today on appeared in November 22. The article follows and is reprinted with permission of USA Today. The map and the sidebar story are also used with permission of USA Today. We are encouraged when Rich County makes national news -especially nice news - and we feel it is important to reprint such articles. By Tim five years, thanks mainly to new babies. The Randolph Elementary School was built seven years ago with the capacity of 120 students. By the time principal James Bingham arrived in 1980, the school had 165 students in kindergarten through the sixth grade. Bingham now counts 249 pupils, including three of his four sons Morgan, 8, Wesley, 7, and Matt, 5. First and second graders - go to -- Schreiner 29. USA TODAY Church support for high fertility makes life difficult for Karil Froh-boes- e an official of Zero Population Growth who lives in Salt Lake City. Rather than say that the church doctrine is wrong - that would be futile for us - we ask how the state will pay for this growth and its impact on water, land and schools, she says. The state already has the highest number of students per teacher in the USA. RANDOLPH, Utah If the rows of Smurf mittens and stacks of Froot Loops in the Rich County Store arent enough of a tip, check out the 69 varieties of Gerber baby food. This ranching country is the land of Baby Magic and Teddy Bears, where almost one out of rive people is under 6 years old, according to an analysis by Donnelley Marketing Information Service. The 403 children 5 and under - make up more than 18 percent of Rich Countys population, more than twice the USA average of 9 percent. For Destiny Lymb, 4, it means lots of friends to help build a snowman. For Betty Weston, it means Everybody I know is either carrying a baby around or pregnant. She has rive kids - ranging from six months to nine years - and teaches a class for 10 of her neighbors children. The only store in this small towns sells lots of cereals, milk, juices and baby food, says Its nice employee Audrey Staker. because it shows the town will pre-scho- longs to TheChurch, as it is known here. The Church encourages married The couples to have children. form to a is of purpose marriage means and that children, family, says church spokesman Jerry Cahill. He quotes the Book of Genesis: God said unto them. Be fruitful and multiply. The state of Utah leads the nation in birth rate. The USA rate (per 1,000 people) has dropped in 20 years from 23.7 to 1S.6. But Utahs rate has remained steady at about ol grow. Grow is exactly what Rich County and Randolph, its county seat, have been doing for the last Were known as the coldest in Utah, says school superinspot The nights tendent Giles Pariier. so cold that might here, get mighty we have so many reason be one why State Tops In Tots, Too! i ; Five eastern Utah counties top the USA with the highest percentage of children 5 and under, a new analysis shows. All five counties are rural and heavily Mormon, the analysis by Donnelley Marketing Information Services shows. The counties and their percentage of children 5 and under: Emery, 19.25; Duchesne, 17.46; and Uintah, 17.34. Other heavily Mormon counties in Utah and Idaho dominated the list down through the top 25. Fifteen are in Utah; rive are in southeastern Idaho. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo JOHN DEERE TOYS school in temporary, John Deere Action Toys make playtime more double-wid- e fun. And, trailer classrooms behind the school. And Bingham expects 320 students by 1989 because so many youngsters will soon start school. The reason pure and simple is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - the Mormans says University of Utah sociogist Lee last. Riding tractors to kits. Come in and look over our full line soon. put-togeth- er Bell Inc. -- Bean. An estimated 90 percent of Rich County (and 70 percent of Utah) be theyre built to OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Oo"" OJ)E Sfj0UJfJ TO TJfeUL TVe hJMAE o? a eme CD mu Dees at Laketown and on the shores of Bear Lake taken at night at the start of winter. NEWS photo by Lowell Nance. 2) shoou. |