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Show Friday, August 15, 1986 Vennf hpttSt 9 ftftfflmmimnmiiiiiiiniiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiiuiiimmiminL'minffliim THffinnmnnmiiHnninmtmimmnin Chiefs Comer L ' Lookneg -att HnlFe Non-sectarian commentary from local clergy uiiuinuiituiiiiHiiitintJtitiiMnHnuinniiniiinnMnriuitstiiMiiHnrtwiiiiifiiinrnniMitiinntiiiniiintiinirriJi God's miracle book by Robert T. Downard Vernal City Chief of Police Positive We've even mentioned...tennis?...In past articles we have talked about everything from drug abuse to changing chang-ing values and our complex society. Important issues, like problems faced fac-ed by our youth today, can be readily identified. The question is, are we going go-ing to address these issues with positive solutions? The worst that can be said of our youth is that they are a mirror image of our local community. Vernal is a very good place to raise a family. But, for all its good points, we do have all the same social problems of our more metropolitan brothers. Cocaine has replaced marijuana as the drug of choice in the local drug culture. We have seen the newest derivative of cocaine co-caine called "Crack" surface recently recent-ly on our streets. We have child abuse and spouse abuse and a lot of other local problems. The problems our youth face today are no greater, in perspective, than the problems of past generations, just a little more complex. The 60's and early 70's saw our youth faced with a period of unprecendented social unrest. They saw riots, peace demonstrations, our flag burning, and a generation lost in drug abuse. Did we lose? The answer is unequivocally, No. By the mid 70's these people were beginning to return to the apparent lost values of their fathers. Family and home values were being sought and stressed. This was demonstrated in the music of the time. One of their most popular songs was a story of a mans life. At the beginning of the song the chorus went, "Well the cats and the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue as the man on the moon, when ya-comin-home dad? I don't know when. But we'll get together then son, we're gonna have a good time then..." By the end of the song the chorus went, "...when ya coming home son. I don't know when. But we'll get together then dad, we're gonna have a good time then." A call from that generation to, "spend quality time with family, before it's to late." Quite a change from Woodstock, and protests in the streets, only a few short years earlier. With a new set of problems we have the same old calls to stem the tide with stiffer rules and tougher enforcement, for example, the proposed closed campus cam-pus at Uintah High next year hit my desk again this week. I hope we consider con-sider all options before we do anything. The pygmalion effect is preferable to police dogs. Pygmalion was the sculptor who fell in love with the statue he made, thus, she became all he envisioned in a woman. Shaw used this myth in his play about a linguistics expert who fell in love with a flower girl, who he had taught to act like a lady. This play became the basis for the musical, "My Fair Lady." In short, the pygmalion effect asserts that if a person is taught, supported, and provided positive reinforcement, rein-forcement, they tend to do what is expected, ex-pected, even if the desire and skills are at first thought to be lacking. Many school teachers can point to TBnamilk Yona From and You helped with our Triathlon! Club West Sophist-A-Cut Don Hatch River Exp. Salon 1210 7-11 Ranch Restaurant Adam's House ot Diamonds Basin Sports Frandsen's Rcc. Center The Pro Shop Vernal City Police Vernal Jaycees Uintah County Search & Rescue Division of Wildlife Resources Todd Tesster Don DeCamp JoJo Gale Kim Ence Uintah County Vernal City Parks & Recreation Department And all others that helped make The 4th Annual KVELKUIN Triathlon a big success. solutions the reality of this, when referring to that student who became an over achiever due to their positive reinforcement rein-forcement and special attention. Athletic coaches know the value of this concept. I have seen many police officers of-ficers perform at high levels, early on in their career, as a result of this effect. Could this be an alternative in controlling con-trolling conduct and crime in our schools? I'm betting it can. I hope our educators attempt positive solutions in our schools before turning to negative sanctions. I think our kids deserve better. Did you know?. ...Recent studies, reported in "Communication Briefings," Brief-ings," show that attitude and mind play an important role in being positive, and therefore, more happy and content with life in general. The report starts off by saying, "Everyone likes positive people.. .Get ahead by becoming a positive person." It suggests: "Avoid pessimists, don't be a grudge collector, and start each day by thinking positively. Wake up happy." The explanation is that by doing this, one stimulates the production of endor-phines endor-phines in the body. The study reads, "Medical researchers have discovered that the body produces natural morphine-like substances. Secreted and used by the brain they reduce the experience of pain and screen out unpleasant stimuli." In essence, they cause a feeling of well being, and that means a happier person, family, and friends. This information is important to law enforcement in that if people are happier hap-pier and more content, then violent street crime, family violence, and even alcohol related offenses are less apt to occur. Our town could use a big shot of that. "Have a nice day." How 'bout them Utes....The Utes start the season against arch rival Union at home on August 29th. Good Luck to Coach Nawahine and our team. Jackie tuna pasta salad 8 oz. shell macaroni, uncooked 1 6 12 oz. can water-packed tuna, drained 1 cup creamy cucumber dressing 12 cup sweet pickles, sliced 12 cup diced carrots 14 cup finely chopped onions 14 cup slivered almonds (optional) salt & pepper to taste Cook shells according to package instructions. Drain and cool. Mix with above ingredients, ingre-dients, tossing lightly in large plastic bowl. Add dressing before be-fore serving. Keep chilled. Yield: 4-6 servings. CJ's Cut & Curl Last Chance Cafe McDonalds Raintree Plaza Hotel Bitter Creek Books The Vernal Express First Security Bank Sunburst Rec. Center Utah Highway Patrol Uintah County Sheriffs Dcpt Uintah County Ambulance Jam rjf v ALVINALICE Allosaurus offers youngsters a chance to meet a dinosaur in person. The creature will be walking around the Dinosaur Quarry during Discovery Days Sunday. Discovery Day to be Sunday extravaganza at Dinosaur Monument If it is possible to pinpoint the dates when the Uintah Basin first earned its nickname of "Dinosaurland," that date would probably be Aug. 17, 1909 the day of the discovery. That was when Earl Douglass, trudging along a sandstone ridge north of Jensen, spotted eight dinosaur tail bones the first of thousands of fossil bones found in what soon became the Dinosaur National Na-tional Monument Dinosaur Quarry. This Sunday, Aug. 17, marks the 77th anniversary of that historic event with its annual Discovery Day celebration. The discovery was no accident. Douglass, a paleontologist from the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, Penn., was deliberately searching in this area because he knew that certain cer-tain rock layers exposed here had produced dinosaur fossils elsewhere. But even though he noted in his diary that those first few bones were "the best looking Dinosaur prospect I have ever found," Douglass had no way of knowing that they would lead to a deposit rich enough to keep him busy for the next 15 years, excavating ex-cavating specimens for the Carnegie Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Utah. , , , While the work was in progress, President Wilson proclaimed the quarry site as Dinosaur National Monument in 1915. As the early quarrying quar-rying came to a close a few years later, Douglass wrote of his hopes that the remaining fossils would be left in the rock where they were uncovered un-covered and housed in a protective building. "It would make one of the most astounding as-tounding and instructive sights imaginable" im-aginable" a description of the Dinosaur Quarry today, even though Douglas did not live to see it himself. Besides commemorating Douglass' initial find, this year's Discovery Day festivities will welcome home a special dinosaur. One of the best specimens excavated in the quarry's early years was a near-perfect skeleton of a young Camarasaurus (a smaller cousin of Brontosaurus), now displayed in the Carnegie Museum. During the last - VOTE - FABRIZIO Uintah County School Board Member Qualifications Jean Fabrizio Runner tor Uintah School Doard Member. She has served in many different positions in the Duchesne County Schools. Jean has committed to be of full time service to the people ol Uintah County if elected to the school board. She believes in courtesy and fairness that each individual has the right to be heard and to bo treated with courtesy as that person comes before the school board with his or her problems and concerns. Jean Fabriiio is the wife of Arthur Fabriiio. They have six children and twenty four grandchildren and reside in Maeser. In 1986 Jean was given a special award from KNCU for her years of community service. Her church and community recognize her as being honest and dependable as well as tireless in serving others. Vote August 19, 1986 Primary Election li District 3. p aid Political Advertisement year and a half, preparators at the museum molded and cast an exact fiberglass replica of the 17-foot-long skeleton and the rock slab in which it lies a process as painstaking as uncovering un-covering the original fossils. The cast, purchased for Dinosaur National Monument with the aid of private donations, is now at the Dinosaur Quarry awaiting installation installa-tion along with a new exhibit series, due for completion in the next two years. On Discovery Day only, Camarasaurus will be unveiled so that visitors can see "the most perfect skeleton" of this type of dinosaur ever found. The Dinosaur Quarry will offer extended ex-tended hours, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. for Discovery Day. An open house will begin a 2 p.m. giving visitors a once-a-year chance to enter the quarry laboratory for a close-up look at fossil preparation tools and some of the rare, fragile specimens found there. The park paleontologist will be in ' the lab to answer questions, and other Park Rangers will give short talks about the quarry's discovery and development throughout the afternoon and evening. Youngsters should keep an eye out for Alvin (or Alice) Allosaurus, who may be wandering in and out of the quarry during the open house. The Allosaurus is a friendly dinosaur that loves to talk about life in the "good old, old, old days." However, his sharp teeth and claws could be deadly dead-ly to balloons, which will be available free, as well as soft drinks, from the Dinosaur Nature Association. The association is a non-profit organization organiza-tion which operates the Monument bookstore and is the major contributor con-tributor to the Camarasaurus purchase. pur-chase. Topping off the day's events will be a special program at 9 p.m. in front of the quarry building. It will feature a 1922 silent film of the early quarry-ings quarry-ings followed by a slide program about Earl Douglass' contribution to By Pastor Michael Bailey Our Saviour Lutheran Church The Bible: God's Miracle Book The Bible is unique in that it does not include a haphazard collection of writings but is an organic whole. Anyone who reads the Bible carefully will quickly realize that there is a unity about it that is nothing less than marvelous. It's inspired, authoritative, and entirely trustworthy. trustwor-thy. What are the grounds for believing believ-ing this? Consider the following: THE WONDER OF ITS FORMATION The 66 books of the Bible were written writ-ten by about 40 different writers who came from different backgrounds. The writers were a king, a doctor, a herdsman, herd-sman, a tax gatherer, a scribe, a fisherman, etc. Their writings spread over a period of 1600 years, so there could be no collusion among them. Yet, when these 66 books are placed together, there is a perfect unity and harmony about them. What is the explanation? ex-planation? Only one: The Bible is God's miracle book. THE ACCURACY OF ITS STATEMENTS It is commonly held that the Bible is full of errors. However, what seem Hard As A Rock When's the last time you ate a gooey golden brown mar- g $ shmellow roasted over the glowing campfire? jg : Or had the warm smoke follow you no matter where you j g: move? fi j Or felt the cool mist of water splash your face as a fish wiggl- ; j ed on the end of your line! (The fish being only half as ex-$ ji; cited as the catcher! ) : Or heard the crickets chirp as you strolled in the moonlight. j$ Or counted stars from your sleeping bag. The ground rock : : hard! Not getting much sleep but then remembering... jg $ "He who keeps you will not slumber." Psalm 121:3 J. R 1U111 T AJ U VJ UU M. IV A LllliVy 111 our knowledge of dinosaurs. The quarry shuttlebus, which runs every 15 minutes between the lower parking lot and the Dinosaur Quarry, will continue running until the evening even-ing program begins. Visitors coming to the program should be at the lower parking lot by 8:50 p.m. in order to ride the last bus up, and should bring a flashlight if possible. After the program pro-gram the bus will resume running to return visitors to their cars in the lower lot. OMWAO Shopping the classified ads mini llVVTIvVUMiS IU TUU 789-3511 . Official Savings Ballot . Y )f A full 10 Discount on all-K . purchases, even items already v, reduced. Present this "Savings Ballot" .for your discount. Our promise - 'V mrtnnw rn nuorv money on every 5f Three Days August 151617 JC Penney Does not to be discrepancies are cleared away after careful investigation. There is not one single proved inaccuracy in the whole Bible. It is accurate historically, historical-ly, geographically, scientifically, psychologically, and verbally. What is the secret of its accuracy? The Bible is God's miracle book. THE FULFILLMENT OF ITS PROPHECIES Prophecy is history written in advance. ad-vance. There are over 30 Old Testament Testa-ment prophecies relating to Jesus' arrest, ar-rest, trial and crucifixion which were all fulfilled within 24 hours after He died. What is the explanation of this prophetical accuracy? It is this: The Bible is God's miracle book. THE INSISTENCE OF ITS MESSAGE There is one message which runs right through the Bible. It is the message of God's great love for sinful humanity, of the gift of His Son, of His gracious provision of salvation. This great message is stated as early as Genesis 3:15 and can be traced through the Bible until its final appeal to sinful man to accept the Gospel invitation in-vitation (Rev. 22:1). How can this insistent in-sistent message be accounted for? 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