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Show Page Four - The Springville Herald - July 13, 1978 The Springville Herald Published Wkly at Springville, Utah 84663 by Art City Publishing Co., inc. 161 South Main Street Phone 489-5651 Martin W. Conover Publisher Oneita Sumsion Associate Editor Laurie Snow. Editor Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Springville, Utah 84663 under the act of Congress, March 3, 1897. Subscriptions in Advance per year $8.00 Per copy 20C Delivered by carrier, per month 80C Member Utah Press Association Weekly Press Association National Newspaper Association EDITORIAL The opening of a $650,000 swimming pool should excite a lot of people, especially anxious swimmers. However, at the rate of progress for the new city swimming pool, the only reaction the grand opening will get will be a restless yawn and a reply of, "It's about time." Since the swimming pool proposal was brought up the Springville Herald has kept on top of the pool's progress and needless to say it hasn't been filling the pages at a very fast rate. The opening date has been postponed approximately seven times beginning with the original date of December 7 up to the most recent date set for the end of August. It was hoped the pool would open for Art City Days but construction crews couldn't meet the deadline so the fourth of July became the next hopeful. Now it may be a closer estimate to set Labor Day as the next holiday to be topped off with the pool's grand opening. Controversy stirred within the city when officials proposed the possibilities of a city pool. Citizens were worried for good reason about whether the city should become involved in building a pool and become tangled in the financing of such a project. Apparently financing is not the problem but still, worries are not eased because of other problems encountered since construction began. The investment of $650,000 is still thought to be well-spent, but now the project is underway construction crews, pool advocates, and officials involved should make a concentrated effort to ease the skepticism of the city and assure the previous barriers are not an indication of future success of the pool. The efforts of swimming enthusiasts, members of SWIM, Nebo School District, Springville High School and Springville City have been put to good use and hopefully will prove so when the pool finally opens. Problem shared Dear Editor: We have encountered a problem we would like to share with your readers. We have been residents and homeowners of Springville for more than 22 years. When we settled in this fine community, we brought with us pets, and we have continued to keep pets during all the years when our four children were growing up here and also now that they are gone from home. We have always felt comfortable having pets because we have a large yard (half an acre) and because we have always taken good care of them providing them with shelter, food, water, and veterinary care when the required it. Until this summer, there have been no problems, but since the end of school we have encountered a great deal. We had a mother cat, a sleek, gentle animal, that had four kittens. First, one of the black kittens disappeared. We placed another with friends, then another kitten disappeared disap-peared from our yard. She vanished one day, and the next day the mother disappeared. Then our male cat disappeared. We had one kitten left, and he was a beauty. He was a long-haired yellow-orange yellow-orange male, and we've never had a more enjoyable en-joyable pet. He was gentle, particularly affectionate, af-fectionate, and a playful clown. He'd had all his shots and had been neutered, so he didn't More on EftA EDITORIAL The equal Rights issue has been exploited ex-ploited over the years and is now at its peek in terms of legislation. The recent rally at Capitol Hill in Washington was composed of opinion leaders from every walk of life lobbying to extend the Equal Rights Amendment ratification date but they are having a rough time because of the movement's strong opposition. Opponents to the ERA are not necessarily opposed to the intentions of the amendment or the idea of equal rights, rather, they are opposed to the amendment amend-ment itself, and rightfully so, the amendment amend-ment is inept, extremely open and allows too much room for interpretation. Many people believe the Amendment is long, complicated and drawn out when actually the entire amendment is quite simple and is based on complete equality equality with very little limitation. The entire text of the amendment is as follows: Section 1: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any other state on account of sex. Section 2: The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3: This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification. The ratification deadline is approaching ap-proaching quickly and ERA advocates are giving every effort to see the extension pass Congress. It has been said, passing the ERA as written, would be comparable to giving the bureaucrats a blank check which they may fill out according to their immediate pleasure. This may be true. The goal of equal rights is a good one. Women should be treated fairly and if that calls for an equal rights law or amendment so be it. But the movement should be directed carefully and the legislation should be very clearly and plainly defined. The ERA, as written, should be defeated. The ratification date should not be extended and if activitists persist to demand equal rights, they should re-direct their action and rewrite the amendment clearly and explicitly to avoid loop holes and misinterpretation. wander. In fact, he rarely left our big yard, which he considered his kingdom. Last week we returned from a social at night and he was there on the porch to greet us, as he always was. The next morning he, too, was gone. We have discussed this with our neighbors, but they have been able to provide us with no information. We called Ernie Steele, the animal control officer, of-ficer, and he was particularly par-ticularly considerate, but could do nothing except promise to watch for our pet. The loss of this last animal is particularly stressful to us because he was a beautiful, healthy young animal who had a strong attachment to us, and we to him. This situation is Plan now to attend the ( 44th Annual Nephi, Utah My 13th -14th -15th Ml - Schedule of Events - m .m. Western Parade, Main Street 7:30 to 8 p.m. Herb Rosa, Stunt Pilot Pre-rodeo entertainment, fairgrounds 8:00 p.m. RCA Championship Rodeo fairgrounds 6,-0l0Va.m!1- Chuck Wagon Breakfast City Park 4:00 p.m. - Mammoth Parade, Main Street 7:30 to 8 p.m. Herb Ross, Stunt Pilot Pre-rodeo entertainment, fairgrounds 8:00 p.m.- RCA Championship Rodeo fairgrounds a.m. Chuck Wagon Breakfast, City Park 4:00 p.m. Bathing Beauty Parade, Main Street 7:30 to 8 p.m. - Herb Ross, Stunt Pilot Pre-rodeo entertainment, fairgrounds 8:00 p.m. RCA Championship Rodeo fairgrounds Each day City of Fun Carnival, fairgrounds &&h- JSC V- XJLnffl, Ute Stampede Royalty 3 big Rodeos Featuring The Best RCA Cowboys - Cowgirls And Stock From The Flying U - Tickets Write Box 404, Nephi, Utah 84648 -Reserved Seats: $3.50 Thrusday is Family Night! Children 12 and under admited free with adults! Library growth needed? Is our library overcrowded? over-crowded? If so, when? And why isn't it open all day including Saturday? Is it overcrowded when they have children's story hour? Couldn't they hold that outside, downstairs, in the hall or at a school? They could put in benches and use that big hall for something. It is said they want a stage, and someplace to show films for the summer programs. Our schools are adequate for that and could very well be used, as well as the downstairs of the library could be used. We've noticed the copy machine has almost as many people using it as the books. Could it be put elsewhere? We've honestly never seen it crowded. It was a shock that they no longer have O. Henry books. Are we throwing out our many great ones? If so, for what? We should be looking for ways to limit spending, spen-ding, not looking for every possible way to spend. When the swimming pool (which is costing far more than anticipated) gets paid off and can pay it's own way if it can, and other bonds get paid off it may be time to enlarge the library. Let's get out of debt for a change, get government out of our pockets and off our backs, including the extra $5 per month for our light bills. Women for Constitutional Government, L.J. Chase Open letter 'Porno flicks don't belong' Dear Editor: As a citizen of Springville, I wish to express my deep concern regarding the type of movies shown at our very public drive-in movie theater. Since the opening of the Art City Drive-In in March, all the movies shown have been rated R with the exception of two PG-rated movies and one G-rated movie which all viewed for a total of about four weeks. Are you as citizens and parents of Springville aware of the degrading and pornographic flicks that are being supported by our chamber of commerce as "family entertainment," as indicated in-dicated in a recent Springville Herald spotlight? Do you realize that homes are being constructed and occupied east of the drive-in and your children have easy access to view these movies from the fields and hillsides east of the drive-in? Is the name of the Art City Drive-In a representation of our city and the type of films they show? Do you want Springville to be known as the city that supports It-rated It-rated movies such as "looking for Mr. Good-bar," Good-bar," "Kentucky Fried Movie," Naked Rider" and "Convention Girls", etc? These movies that could very easily be rated X. Why our local drive-in is advertising the area premiere showing of "Convention Girls" at this present time. Read the ad either in the Provo Daily Herald or the Springville Herald. Is this the type of recognition . you want for our city? Are these the types of movies you want your children to view? Not me!! I propose that as citizens we make our desires known to the city fathers, the local authorities and the owner of the Art City Drive-in. Yes, you may say that they have rights, too. But, so do we as citizens and parents. If they want to show this trash let them do it in an enclosed building NOT where anyone of any age can go to the hills at the north end of town and get a full County Feir to sponsor Poiv-Woiv Indians in native costumes competing in authentic dances will be a colorful and exciting addition to the Utah County Fair this year. The First Annual Intertribal In-tertribal Indian Pow-Wow to be held at the Fair is expected to draw several hundred dancers from tribes throughout the area, according to Hilton Honyaoma, President of the Mountainlands Indian Council, who is sponsoring spon-soring this event. The Pow-Wow, to be held at the Spanish Fork Fairground site, will feature displays and exhibits of Indian arts and crafts along with dance competition for $1,800 in prize money. Dance contests will be held both Friday, August 18, and Saturday, August 19, 1978. To complete the atmosphere, at-mosphere, the Utah 1 Stuntmen will provide a Western Village in which they will stage many gunfights and holdups reminiscent of Wild Bunch, famous or infamous in-famous from our state. 1 LOBBY DRIVE-M OPEN EVERY SATURDAY view of any movie. Make yourselves known if you have any degree of concern. Don't sit silently by wishing something could be done. Let's really make our city known as the "Art City." Thank you, Kathleen C. Card FREE cuscmua with S00 mifwnum Mlnc OREM ' PLEASANT GROVE frustrating for us. Vte want to love and care for pets, but we no longer feel comfortable in subjecting a pet to theft or more probably death. We need to know why our pets are no longer safe, in a neighborhood neigh-borhood where pets are the rule rather than the exception. For that reason, we are offering a $20 reward for information concerning the disappearance of our animals. Sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil J. 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