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Show 4 Yemal bfytttt Wednesdoy, Moy 15, 1985 Reason told for symbolic 'Poppy Day' celebration U i 1 Every year on the Saturday before Memorial Day millions of Americans wear little red poppies on their coats. Women of the American Legion Auxiliary Aux-iliary and other women's organizations organiza-tions are on the streets all day with baskets of poppies pinning the little flowers on all passersby. Of course, everyone knows that the poppies are worn in memory of the men who lost their lives in the World Wars, but most people do not know how the poppy came to be the nation's memorial flower. On a map of Europe, a wavy line drawn from the Swiss border through France and Belgium to the North Sea might represent a double line of trenches, tren-ches, with vast armies on both sides of it locked in a four-year battle. That is the way Europe looked from 1914 to the fall of 1918. For miles this line waved first one way and then the other as contending armies pushed forward or were driven back. For miles on both sides the ground was trampled by heavy shoes of millions of soldiers. It was devastated by shells of thousands of cannons, full of ugly craters from mine explosions and bleached by clouds of poison gas. In this area of death and destruction hundreds of thousands of American boys advanced in 1917 and 1918, determined deter-mined to end the horrible war. After many months and many thousands of fine, young lives were gone, peace was restored to a war-torn world and liberty liber-ty brought to subjected peoples. As the American soldiers struggled forward through the war ravaged area, they saw only one touch of life and beauty in all that region where death and destruction reigned. This was the little wild poppies blooming bravely right along the edges of the trenches and the ragged shell holes. When comrades were left beneath the bare dirt of hastily dug battle graves, the poppies sprung up and clothed the graves with flowers. It seemed as if the gallant spirit of the dead had passed into the blood-red blossoms and the little flowers were sending a message of courage and hope to those who still lived. Since that time more wars have been fought, with thousands of our young men making the supreme sacrifice of their lives for their country coun-try and this same little scarlet poppy, now as then, covers the earth where our young Americans lie. The poppy has become the symbol of the dead their memorial flower. Saturday, May 18 will be Poppy Day, when, once each year, we of America pay tribute by wearing the memorial flower. Anyone buying a poppy from the women and junior girls of the American Legion Auxiliary this Saturday Satur-day should remember they will be helping to aid the wars' living victims by the contribution made for the flower. These poppies are made by the disabled veterans in hospitals and workrooms where war's suffering is still going on. Those who distribute the poppies receive nothing for their efforts nothing tangible, that is, only on-ly the satisfaction of having helped brighten the memory of the dead and of having contributed to the welfare of the living. Everyone is encouraged to buy a poppy as this is a wonderful way of saying "thanks" and "I do remember" to those who gave so much for their country's behalf. Soil Stewardship Week The Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District will join the nationwide observance obser-vance of Soil Stewardship Week during dur-ing the week of May 12 to 19, announced an-nounced Grant Pickup, chairman. "Tomorrow Together" is the theme of the 1985 observance. As the 1985 booklet for the observance points out, human survival depends on other living liv-ing things: the grasses and grain, fishes and birds, wild and domestic animals. And we all depend for our basic necessities on soil and water. Together, we must think about ways to preserve and renew the topsoil from which all our food comes. Together, we must work to purify and protect our waters. Special educational displays by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (SCS) and the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation Conserva-tion District (UBSCD) are being prepared for Soil Stewardship Week. A display on the SCS's Salinity Program Pro-gram will be in the new State and County Building In Vernal. Pictures and Information on the District's no-till no-till program are on display in the Niles Chapman Building on west Highway 40 in Roosevelt where the SCS and UBSCD have their offices. A display on windbreaks is in the lobby of the Vocational Center in Roosevelt. And smaller displays are up in both the Vernal and Roosevelt Post Offices. In 1985, the soil conservation movement move-ment in America marks its fiftieth anniversary. an-niversary. During the Dust Bowl era of the '30s, conservation districts, local units of government, were founded to take soil conservation information and techniques out to farmers and ranchers. Since 1955, the National Association of Conservation Districts has sponsored spon-sored Soil Stewardship Week, in cooperation with the nearly 3,000 conservation con-servation districts, as one way to emphasize em-phasize the importance of good stewardship of our basic soil and water resources. Materials especially designed to carry the 1985 theme of "Tomorrow Together" are being distributed through the local conservation district to clergymen in the Uintah Basin. Information In-formation and materials for the 1985 observance are available in this area from Sherry Fuller, UBSCD at 722-4621. 'financial planning' Written by Winward, Foley & Company Certified Public Accountants J rv I f v. 4 1 I i Robeft I Foley, CPA Lloyd W.nward, CPA IRA INVESTING Individual retirement accounts are growing in popularity. They are one tax shelter fully approved by the IRS, available to almost everyone and, it used wisely, capable of adding significant dollars to an individual's retirement fund. Don't make the mistake of plunking your IRA dollars into the first program you come across. Take time to learn what's available and what the advantages and disadvantages of each program are for you. Look for a company that will allow you to direct the investments in your own IRA. Then consider your other investments and use your IRA to diversify a bit. If you are comfortable with some risk, put your money into higher risk investments that h3ve a greater thance of producing a higher yield. If you're not comfortable with much risk, look for something that is safe and sure Such as CD's or treasury b'Hs. Above all, do not invest in anything you do not understand. Only lucky people make money on investments tney don't comprehend. The more complicated, high risk investments Such as tommod.tics, futures, Options, and limited partnerships should be left to the experts. IRA investments are Sheltered from income lax; that is, you do net pay tan on any earnings within your IRA. You are taied only hrn you start to withdraw the funds upon retirement, therefore, it is not a good idea to put your IRA into investments that are already "sheltered." Use your non IRA do'iaf s for those investments. A $2,000 contribution made every year for twenty years gows to if it's invested at 8. It gfews to $230,751 when it's invested at 16. It's easy 13 tee that tav.ng the time to get H h-gest yield pcsvfc'9 is worth the trouble. Consult your f.ran-t?i f.ran-t?i advscf for assistance in pu?lrg your IRA money where it w I produce the mcst for you. f vk . . - JKf FT' H! TA 1 0 immm ' liS f ,"fci7 ir Kid f i . L . SHANA TAYLOR, nursery aide, cradles Catherine Casper. Catherine weighed just over two pounds at birth. She is currently current-ly hospitalized at the Ashley Valley Medical Center. Care available for premature infants Care of premature and distressed infants within the Uintah Basin can now be handled by Ashley Valley Medical Center (AVMC) under the director of Dr. Michael Whiting, pediatrician. Up until 1983, premature and distressed infants had to be shipped suiuici imvc uiauiauv.au; uimaovu r- i!rv:c- iuri, ...!.; (...Ilk t. L'v. t v j- , , t. said Dr. Whiting. The county health the ability of the medical center to. . " J i i department is working to provide provide neo-natal intensive care. . ,. . r care in the areas where expectant During 1984, 18 babies were born at parents are unable to afford a private the hospital with low apgar scores, physician " Apgar scores are The health department is striving r'ZTn fn TJut' to crease the number of motheri tain life on their own. Another 14 in- ,, . OM . . fants born in 1984 were ecemng pre-natal ca e They he Dremature by ,ncreasin8 pre-natal care the jhci aim . number of infants born with pro-Only pro-Only four of those 32 babies had to blems will decrease, be transported to facilities in Salt , y Medica, Center is Lake City. In addition three Asniey yaiiey meaicai center is newborns were transDorted to AVMC cmmittel to providing quality care Dr. Whiting said the severity of through the resources made problems among the infants makes available by Hospital Corporation of little difference in the hospital's abili- America that enables us to have the ty to keep the babies in the area. The equipment and trained staff determining factor is the length of necessary to meet our commit- time the infant will require ventilator ment." support. DR. MICHAEL WHITING examines Beau Sorenson. Beau weighed weigh-ed approximately two pounds at birth. When he was released from the hospital he weighed four and a half pounds. pre-natal care and a healthy mother and baby. It has long been determined determin-ed that smoking, alcohol and drug ingestion, in-gestion, uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes, maternal age and nutrition are vital factors in the status of the newborn. "We see a number of mothers who ave had little or no pre-natal care and we know the babies are a very " (if vv.' x Vrl V;W .J f - Z2mK ,fsm BEAU SORENSON spent about two weeks a Primary Children's Hospital before for ventilation support before being transported to Ashley Valley Medical Center. The hospital now has one ventilator which can provide the necessary support sup-port for premature and distressed babies. Another machine will be purchased pur-chased this year at the cost of 18,000. "The hospital has the trained staff and the equipment," said Dr. Whiting. "The problem we run Into when the Infant requires long term ventilator support is we exhaust the staff in three or four days." A number of success stories it yarding yar-ding premature and distressed Infants In-fants at the hospital have taken place over the past year. One mother suffered suf-fered a ruptured uterus during the last part of her labor. An cmcrgrncy C-scction was performed and the infant in-fant was born within IS minutes. Both mother and baby did very well due to quick response of the surgical team. "As far as I know, no large facility could top that record," said Dr. Whiting, Another Infant was born with a diaphragmatic hernia. When a hernia her-nia is prewnl in the diaphragm, the organs in the abdominal cavity art up in the chest eausifiit cuireme df ficulties In breathing, The infant was maintained on the hwpiUl's ventilator, ven-tilator, ano then tfaasported to Primary aulitren'l HnspiUl in Salt Lake City, The baby under enl surgrry the folltm lrtg morning, The infant Is now Hark Mi the Hasin and U doing fine. Whiting Mid that tmly about half the babies boffl i'Jl diaphragmatic hrfnias rnake it la iurgrry. The botpiial turfpnUy hal t0 rrEistered nurses wj,h 0 q ih,r years CJfri-nre in fco natal ir,!en live car?. ThiiKjV(l ib4 year AVMC ill N fn.!.rg ) rrmair.ir.g PO fiunire. 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