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Show The Saline Sun Thursday, February 24, 1983 The Salma Sun SECD 73 4780-800- 0 Salina, Utah 84054 Eait Mala Street Telephone S TheSalina Sun (SECD 478080) i published each Thursday for $8.00 per year in Utah and $10.00 per year out of Utah, by the Salina Sun, 73 East Main Street, Salina, Utah 84654. Seqpnd class postage paid at Salina, Utah 84654. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Salina Sun, P. O. Box C, Salina, Utah 84454 Single Copy :25c Mark G. Fuellenbach, Publisher John C. Speer, Editor Editoral ... Lack of Involvement Could Hurt Schools . Last week a bonafide meeting of the officers and board members of the Parent, Teacher and Student Association of the North Sevier High School was held. The meeting was called to air out a few problems that parents in the area had expressed privately to PTSA board members. No one teachers job was on the line. It was, according to PTSA President Rose Weaver, a meeting simply to talk over the concerns with Principal Tim Smith. AS far as this newspaper had heard, that was the extent of the meeting. There were no ugly rumors about witch hunts and no gossip spread about who wasnt doing whose job; If that is the case, and we have no reason to believe it was not, then a nagging question remains: Why not air out these problems with full PTSA representation at the meeting? We thought that was why the organization existed. The answer to that question distrubs us as much as the question itself. According to Mrs. Weaver, the PTSA has many members but few participants besides the officers. We wonder if it is legitimate for teachers, students, or parents to complain about the problems of our high school when each group so poorly represents itself at general membership meetings. Treatises about Whats Wrong With NSHS should be read aloud at PTSA meetings not whispered to PTSA officers to be left for these good, active participants to quietly take to the principal. The PTSA by its very nature is democratic, not rebublican. That is, it is an organization where each member has the responsibility to represent himself and his views. The officers are not elected to represent each group named in the organizations title. Board meetings should be held to prepare for the coming membership meetings, and to lead various committees of the general membership. Apparently, the NSHS PTSA through no fault of the officers or board is being run almost solely from the board meetings. If that is the case, it is sad, for the students of the high school who will suffer the most from this lack of concern on the part of their parents, their teachers and themselves. Perhaps one way to help solve the apathy problem is for the association from each of the North Sevier Schools to merge for the purposes of general membership meetings only. Many parents have students in two or three of the schools in this area. Many concerns of the parents overlap. The meeting concerning 5th graders going to the middle school is an ideal example of this. We hope parents, teachers and students not involved in the association designed to improve our schools will overcome their apathy and become active participants in the PTSA. If they decide not to, we hope they are prepared to accept any negative consequences that could have been avoided had they cared enough to become involved. Veterans but it should be reported. 'Because The People Must Know' Probate and Guardianship Notices Consult Clerk of District Court or the respective signers? for further information QUnder what conditions may a veterans entitlement be restored after it has been used? home-loa- n may be restored when the property on which the loan is made is disposed of and the loan is paid in full. Also, a veteran with sufficient entiUement may assume your loan and substitute his or her entitlement for yours. happens if GI payments are not made? hat home-loa- n to make GI home-loa- n payments may lead to foreclosure and loss of the veterans home. In addition, if the government is required to pay a claim as a result of failure to repay the loan, the veteran will berome indebted to the government for the amount of any such claim. ilure PUBLIC NOTICES 'Because The People Must Know' Probate and Guardianship Notices Consult Clerk of District Court or the respective signers L f for further information ' PUBLIC NOTICE I Scott Robinson, will no longer be responsible for Mary Robinsons Scott Kubinson Published in the Salina Sun, Feb. 17, 24, March 3, 10, 1983. 1 When we drove bade to Orem from Salt Lake City to pick up our kids at my wifes brothers house, his wife greeted us with the sad account of Marden Dixons plane going down and exploding in a San Diego parking lot. Carolyn and Marden Dixon were our dearest friends in Orem. They lived just across the street from us. He and I were called and ordained LDS Seventies on the same day. When he was called to be the stake Seventies President, he asked me to assist him in the ward group leaders duties. We saw each other virtually every day during that time two years ago. two of Triumph It was like Academy Awards Night last Saturday at the Marriott Hotel in Salt Lake City. Diane and I were so excited we couldnt stand it. The Sun had picked up either first, second or third place in nine categories and we were waiting for the announcement of who would win the General Excellence award in each of the three divisions in the state. When we heard the name, The Salina Sun, announced my wife screamed and gave me a hug as Publisher Mark Fuellenbach went forward to accept the award. Its interesting how like movie making is publishing a newspaper. The producer provides the money and hopefully (as in the case with my publisher) the freedom to his director (editor) to make the film (newspaper) as good as it can be. If there were space I would mention more about this and about those people such as Hal Edwards, Hal Bradley and others who really have made the Salina Sun the quality newspaper it is. In fact, that was originally what my column was going to be about this week. Until we heard the news. Being a medical malpractice attorney, he was gone out of state much of the time. During those times, Carolyn and Diane would get together. They became very dose friends. When Marden was home, he and I would discuss the quorum and how he felt a need to do his very best. He never really said he felt the need in so many words. It was in his actions. Once he took me up in his airplane. It was the same plane that crashed in San Diego taking his and four other lives last weekend. I dont remember where we went, but I do know it had something to do with helping the Sharon East Seventies on a project My wife worried constantly about Carolyn. Dianes father was an Air Force pilot who was killed in a famous Air Force crash in Germany in 1962. He left a wife, three small children and no life insurance. The ceremony, with immediate family members attending, will be held at DeKator Manor. Bishop Rodney Rasmussen will officiate. v'. t Mrs. Jeffery recently from Zions Bank after 15 retired' years NOTICE TO WATER USERS Hie following application has been filed with the State Engineer to change water in Sanpete County throughout the entire year unless otherwise designated. Locations in SLB&M. Wayne Sittre, (63-192- Box 149, Centerfield, UL proposes to change the point of diversion, place and nature of use erf 0.015 sec. ft of water as evidenced by Appl. 43254, Cert. 10129. Hie water has been diverted from a well, 87 ft deep, at a points. 4678 ft W. 1970 ft. from NE Cor. Sec. 19, T20S, RlE; and used for the domestic purposes of 1 family; and from Apr. 1 to Oct 31 for die irrigation of 0.37 acs. in RlE. ' Hereafter, 0.015 sec. ft of water is to be diverted from a well, ft deep, at a point N. 1950 ft SWV4SEV4 100-30- Sec. 19, T20S, 0 ft from SW Cor. Sec. 31, mi SE of Salina) ; and used for commercial uses of a restuarant in NEV4SWV4 Sec. 31, E. 1950 T .21S, RlE (1 RlE. Protests resisting die granting of this applicadon with reasons therefore must be filed in duplicate with die State Engineer, 1636 W. North Temple, SLC, Ut 84116, on or T21S, before March 26, 1983. Dee C Hansel, P.E. . , . . .. ,EIl Published in the Salina Sun Feb. 10, 17 and 24, 1983. . r van Couple Plan Feb . 26 Wedding Maurine Jeffery, Salina, announced recently she will marry Warren Ottley Sr. St. George, Feb. 26. 'AJ She encouraged Carolyn many times to take out life insurance on Marden just in case the worst should happen. Diane was devastated when she heard that Marden he could not afford to waste a , had died and even more crushed minute and he didnt. when she learned that Carolyn had Diane and I visited with Carolyn been left with six kids including a two a and old year last Sunday and she told about his four month baby little if any life last hours. When she told us how old toddler-wi- th he talked to each one of his children insurance. on the telephone (Thank Heaven But even with that major over- they were all home!) I turned to his to fourteen year sight, Marden tried to make things oldest and said the remained I He you will sit hope old, Annette, easy for Carolyn. conscious for six hours after the down soon and write every word crash. With 90 percent of his body that he said to you. It will be came horribly burned, he lay in his precious to you later. Tears she as call she made promised to bed her and eyes phone hospital after phone call talking to each oi would. his four older children; to Carolyn, Diane and Carolyn discussed to his attorneys setting up his final ednes-da- y will, frMng care of real estate whether we should return W funeral. the for Carolyn which ventures might help (yesterday) and engaging in a conference call Carolyn asked Diane if she with his office staff wrapping up wouldnt mind coming to visit in a loose ends on his malpractice cases. couple of weeks when all the relatives were gone home and she Being a physician as well as an was left alone to think more dearly attorney, Marden knew that he of the tragic event. would lapse into a coma soon and wanted to accomplish all he could As we drove bade to Salina that for his family while he was still afternoon, I thought of how easy it' conscious. could have been for Marden simply to have given up after being so I personally cannot think of a badly injured. I thought of how this more valiant way to die than to one event above all others revealed spend your last hours trying to the mans true character and his make things easy for those you are wifes. leaving behind. I prayed that none of my family have to go through what would That is the way Marden lived. and his family have gone Marden to Every day was spent striving that if we did, that our but improve himself and others. Every through would reveal us to be actions morning there was Marden and as the Dixons. unselfish and loving the around often Carolyn jogging To desire any more than that is block. Often Marden would jog with unnecessary. To desire less would a Sony Walkman listening to scripture tapes. With his tight schedule, be inadequate. Hagedy opot that she was with Barretts Food Town and has been active in LDS Church service all her life. of service. Before Mr. Ottley retired Jan. 1 as advertising sales manager of KDXU-KZEin St George. by Lloyd Mullican Z The couple plans to winter in St George and return to Salina this summer. f i .. 'v and supported my column since it started and also those who did not agree. After aU, criticism helps to spur us on to do better. Keep your letters and comments coming. More Taxes Well, theyve done it again! Our elected officials and their special study groups have come up with a new scheme to gouge more taxes out of us poor people. They have come up with a plan to do away with property tax and slap a county income tax on us. I am all for doing away with property tax or any other tax, but not at the expense of the renters and owners. ty In all of the U.S., renters are the majority and property owners are the minority, so this plan must have two sides to it The property owners will jump at the idea and the renters will reject it, and there is merit to each side of the issue. PUBLIC NOTICES -- A-- No, By John C. Speer Salina Sun Editor Last weekend was filled with Triumph and Tragedy. Triumph when The Salina Sun won the general excellence award in the state for a weekly newspaper in its division. Tragedy when a dear friend was killed in a small plane crash in San Diego. . . . Does income from welfare count as income for VA purposes when a veteran or beneficiary draws a VA pension? Q Sunspots Weekend of Triumph, Tragedy America has always been a land of promise. The major reason most of our grandpas decided to leave the old country was that here the choice was theirs. They could do and become whatever they wished. It didnt take us long to become the major economic power in the world. As our influence grew, so did our holdings around the world. Ford, GM and other auto manufacturers took advantage of lower labor costs and sales outlets, and expanded into the foreign market 00 companies flocked to the Near East Boeing, Lockheed and Douglas built more and bigger aircraft, and nonchalantly sold them to any country that seemed at all interested. It all seemed great It was the American Way-wa- snt it? But then one day the tables were turned. Those strange looking little German cars started it all, as Volkswagen began to manufacture the little bugs right here in the old U. S. of A. Then the Japanese, who before the war were noted for manufacturing junk and toys for the kids, suddenly began to manufacture quality items. Well, nevermind that Were still at the top. Right? Wrong! The country that once supplied quality goods to the world is now very much a consumer of other nations products. We are outsold on the world market, and our Yankee soil harbors hordes of foreign manufacturers. Shades of Sherlock Holmes! Lord a Canadian Thompson, British newspaper owner, is buying up American papers and TV stations right and left One of New . Yorks major dailies has been taken over by an Australian. Howard Johnsons Restaurant-Motchain belongs to a British conglomerate. The Sony TV producing plant near San Diego? Right. Owned by the Japanese. And now Japan and GM are combining their efforts in a California operation. Michelin tire firm is from France, and boasts of its new American . factory in South Carolina. Fepsodent toothpaste, Kool ciowned garettes, Timex watches-a-ll by corporations. Alka Seltzer (Good grief. Isnt el . sacred?)--ye- p. Foreign ownership. Gimbels and Saks Fifth Avenue, British owned. Ohrbachs,' another giant, is Dutch owned. ' The Easts biggest food retailer, A it P has been taken over by a German firm. One of Wisconsins largest dairy producers, Kikoman Foods, is now controlled by a Japanese firm. A pair of Saudi Arabian businessmen, flush with petroleum profits, have gobbled up real estate, shopping centers, hotels and banks, including the Georgia Bank once controlled by Jimmy Carters friend, Bert Lance. Hie Dutch have holdings of over $12 billion in the U.S. Not far behind are the British, Canadians, West Germans, Japanese, Swiss and Flench. Eve Romania owns an American coal company. WeO, thats life, you might say. Great . .terrific . .American Dream. After an, its not our fault that there ate no more new countries to emmigrate to. Hie trophy goes to the top contender. Right? Or could it be that were looking at the world through barnyard-colore- d glasses? by Jan Property owners resent that renters do not pay school and property tax. Renters will resent having additional income tax levied against them. Oh well, you can always take every other paycheck (if you are working) and cut into three equal parts. One part for federal, one for state and one for the county tax. Then if you happen not too have too many bills to pay out of the next paycheck, you may have a little left to buy food, clothes, gas and pay rent and utilities. If you are lucky. column. Today this is a Strictly generic. No brand name, no title, no company ties . . . simply a plain-jan- e column. no-na- ' It fits in with the numerous other items which are running loose on the market without title, label or brand name. It started with generic drugs; no name prescriptions, which came about to help toe elderly. This got a foot in the door, and now the craze has spread. Supermarkets have complete aisles dedicated to the distributional display of their noname products. The range is wide: from cake mixes and frosting to breakfast cereals and milk; from deodorant and hair spray to sox and tennis shoes. And they work. Lets face it, when youve finished the cake, if youve done a good job, people shouldnt be able to tell if its Betty Crocker or from some unmarked, unlabeled box. And generic tennie-runnestill jump high and run fast. I sometimes wonder if politicians spend sleepless hours at night figuring out ways to get more money out of us or have they become so adept at this that they can go to sleep and dream up these complicated and devious schemes. an anything Just Stuff . If our counties and cities got all the money they collected in taxes, it wouldnt be so bad, but we all know this money is apportioned and not always equally. Why not tax hixory items, or candy bars or pop? Now on top of everything else, President Reagan is advocating doing away with corporate taxes. I cannot for the life of me, see where this is going to benefit the poorer help the economy, but of course, I havent seen anything the administration has done to help the economy yet All I have seen is new and continued federal spending that is not necessary. ' Instead of giving millions of doQare in aid to some foreign country, lets keep the money at home and lower the deficit and feed some of our own hungry people. Wen, Ive let off enough steam for this time but before I turn off toe spotlight, I would like to thank everyone who has commented on rs When you walk down the aisle to select your beverages, mixed in among the Coots Light and Miller High Life is a plain white can with black letters: BEER. Who knows, maybe its the downstream beer. If weekends were made for Michelob is toe rest of the week generic? You plastic-wrappe- d labeled ' can even find stacks of toilet paper simply toilet paper. It might not have toe squeezability of Charmin, or the'stroftiness'bf MD: it might not even have toe perfumed scent of Kleenex, but when it comes down to the it gets toe job done, and lets face it. The jobs not ' finished until the paper work is nitty-gritt- y, done! f |