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Show Page Four - The Springville Herald - March 1, 1979 The Springville Herald (UPS 513-060) Published Weekly at Springville, Utah 84663 by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Phone 489-5651 Martin W. Conover Publisher Oneita Sumsion Editor Margaret R. Fleenor Managing 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 20. Delivered by carrier, per month 80 Member Utah Press Association Weekly Press Association National Newspaper Association ours .comment yours Vandalism at flood stage here Continuing vandalism here seems to be prompted by some strange urge to outdo the previous vandalous act. We wonder if parents are aware or if they care, what their children (grown children-whom by their very ages should have learned responsible patterns of behavior) do. We are also wondering what will happen next if the violations are to continue. Vandalous acts which begin in fun and games, most generally end up in some sort of disaster. In the last few weeks, acts of vandalism, either at the high school here, or elsewhere by high school students, most of whom have been identified, have reached the point of being course, flagrant and grossly unjustified. Some believe the more that is made of a problem, the more it is publicized, the more out of hand it becomes. We believe we have a responsibility to let the public know what is going on and to solicit its help in putting an end to mischief which inevitably turns into maliciousness, or even disaster. Not only do the acts create an unnecessary financial strain on the taxpayer, they also do something to the person who commits them. Any person with any conscience at all never will cease to recall the trouble he brought upon himself, as well as others involved. He will constantly be plagued by an inner turmoil which never will leave. Recent acts of vandalism at the school are many and varied. Lawns have been torn up by vehicles, causing costly replacement. Parking signs have been knocked over...-windows over...-windows broken. ..wood shavings dropped from the rafters during ball games... santary napkins strewn about the school. ..pans of jello dumped on floors.. live chickens turned loose inside the school kitchen, cafeteria and student lounge area, complete with chicken feed, bread crumbs, and water for the birds as well as other acts of deliberate wanton destruction of someone else's property. Are there not enough constructive con-structive programs for our hyper-active oversized babies? School authorities are genuinely concerned for the welfare of the students as well as the safety of the buildings. Maybe we should all take a good look at ourselves, ask what we can do to help, and then do it. Children's benefits outlined Because this year has been designated the International In-ternational Year of the Child, social security wants to remind you of the rights and benefits children have under the social security program. If you become disabled, retire, or die, after working long enough under social security, your unmarried children can get monthly checks until they're 18, or 22 if they go to school full time. A child who becomes disabled before 22 and remains handicapped, can get monthly payments as long as the disability lasts, even if both parents die. If you have step-children or adopted children, they have the same rights on your social security earnings record as natural children. Children's benefits are part of your comprehensive com-prehensive package of protection under social security. For more information, in-formation, call or write any social security office. Someone there will be glad to help you. AHD IT GE10VJG ft ffy ;-vKv.v...' ..." "...1. 1 ' Never settle for second rate personalized service E xperience knowledge taste. Now for the discriminating buyer TII3 PROFESSIONALS 20 North 600 West Heber Manufacturer COHTRflCT KITCHEfl DISTRIBUTMG i001 North 1200 West Orem, 01 -225-8522 DealerShowroom Route2Box167A Spanish Fork (Benjamin) 798-7555 DealerShowroom Prodigal parent Washington dateline By Ted L. Hanks At an accelerated rate a frightening percentage of today s parents are attempting to shift their responsibilities to someone else. Child abuse is a sickening social disease, and with the inflation-fed financial drain upon a family, mothers are leaving their mothering opportunities to provide a second income. j As a result of these and many other complex social disorders, I the training of children, which only a family and a home environment en-vironment can provide, is being abandoned. The following story, THE PRODIGAL PARENT by Dr. Vernon J. Tipton is a message from nature which tells the saddening circumstances in a modern-day drama. "A sudden flurry of wings ruffles the predawn stillness as a cowbird finds an unguarded song sparrow nest in a currant bush. Quickly the cowbird settles into the cup of the nest and deposits a brown-speckled egg, replacing one of the sparrow's eggs she had stolen from the nest the previous day. When the sparrow returns, she will lay still another egg and then begin the incubating process, never suspecting that among her brood will be a noisy, voracious youngster whose demand for food will enable him to soon exceed the sparrow in size. Eventually, the fledgling will desert the nest to join a flock of his own kind, without even a backward, glance for his surrogate mother. Meanwhile, the carefree cowbird mother continues to pursue a promiscuous course, never building a nest of her own, foisting her unwanted young upon the care of others, frustrating and disrupting the feathered community. If she cannot find a convenient nest, she simply abandons the egg on the ground along with her parental responsibilities. There is today an unfortunate trend toward the cowbird syndrome in humans. Many mothers leave their young in the care of others or abandon them altogether to seek after less precious but more tangible and immediate rewards than those offered by motherhood. Thus, these mothers deprive themselves of the joy of working with God to give life a meaningful purpose. Sadder still is the usual fate of the children. They have little understanding of their individual in-dividual worth and potential. Following parental example, they have no feelings of gratitude or of responsibility to inhibit their own selfish purposes. pur-poses. They, too, join a flock of their own kind and continue to perpetuate the cowbird syndrome. syn-drome. The duty of the mother is to watch over her children and give them early education, for impressions received in infancy are lasting. You know, yourselves, your-selves, by experience, that the impressions you have received in the dawn of your mortal existence, bear, to this day, with the greatest weight upon your mind." Carter versus Carter Utah Forum to feature Gunn McKay Congressman K. Gunn McKay is the scheduled speaker at the monthly dinner of the Utah Forum. The Utah Forum, a Democratic Party discussion group will host Congressman McKay at the Orem Chuck-a-rama, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend the $5.50 per plate dinner. Those interested should call Mrs. Abe Kader, Orem or Mrs. Richard Taylor of Spanish Fork for reservations. The Utah Forum will honor Congressman McKay for his moderate representation of Utah in Congress. Forum spokesman Bill Evenson said, "Congressman McKay's voting record reflects the middle of the road political attitudes of most Utahns. Utahns benefit greatly from his positions of influence in Congress" Congressman McKay sits on the powerful Appropriations Committee Com-mittee and chairs the Subcommittee on Military Construction. McKay is credited with making a major contribution con-tribution to retaining the funding for the Central Utah Water Project. Open letter Students apologize We would like to express ex-press our sincere apologies to the Student bodies of the Spanish Fork and Springville High Schools and to the communities thereof; for the incident which took place during the basketball game last Friday night. We would like to also express our most sincere apology to the Spanish Fork High School Pep Club, and tell them we are sorry for what we did at the game last Friday. We hope we have not caused any adverse relations between the two schools. Sincerely, Evan Graves Dean York Craig Conover Some say showing your money to the new moon will help you grow rich. The dark of the moon is considered the best time to plant roots. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. ' Samuel Johnson By Henry Hazlitt There is no prospect for a halt to the inflation or even for a slowdown in its rate. Instead, we have the strange spectacle of Mr. Carter's railing against the consequences that his own policies have brought about and must continue to bring about. He complains about "skyrocketing hospital costs," and proposes stringent controls. But the reason for the rise in hospital costs is not mysterious. In addition to the issuance of too many paper dollars, which raise all costs, it is caused by the provision of Medicare and Medicaid. When the government pays the major share of hospital bills, the demand for hospital services is certain to soar. But Mr. Carter not only favors Medicare and Medicaid, but also promises that "This year we will take our first steps to develop a national health plan." If price controls are imposed on hospitals, they can only discourage the expansion of hospital facilities and the increase in the number of doctors and nurses necessary to relieve the shortage and ultimately lower hospital costs. Mr. Carter expresses to Congress his deep concern con-cern about this country's lagging economic productivity--the, slowdown slow-down in output per worker-hour, and in the growth of jobs. But this again has been obviously-caused obviously-caused by the policies that Mr. Carter has favored and followed-heavy followed-heavy taxation of corporate cor-porate earnings, double-taxation double-taxation of dividends, Draconian tax rates on the higher personal incomes, in-comes, price and profit controls, accusations of so-called "obscene" profits--in short, the discouragement of saving, investment, and business expansion. But these are the very things necessary to provide additional jobs and to make them more productive. For what is called "worker" productivity is really worker-machine productivity. It is increased in-creased capital investment, in-vestment, the provision of more and better equipment, equip-ment, that is needed to increase such productivity. produc-tivity. Now Mr. Carter fulminates against inflation. in-flation. It "is a burden for all Americans, but it's a disaster for the poor, the sick and the old... I am determined, as President, to bring inflation under control." How is he going about that? Not in his budget plans, certainly. The rhetoric that accompanied ac-companied the budget was all about its "austerity" and "restraint". The people who accepted this rhetoric at face value couldn't have looked closely at the actual figures. The expenditures for the current fiscal year-which does not end till September 30-will be $493.4 billion, the highest on record. The budgeted outlays for 1980 will rise to $531.6 billion, still a further new high record. The planned outlays for 1980 have grown as ex-pected-but not te as fast as for 1979. If you can call that "restraint", so be Jt. Much is made of the fact that the planned deficit for 1980 will be "only" $29 billion, compared with an expected ex-pected deficit of $37.4 billion in the current fiscal year. Even if this $29 billion figure is realized, it would still be an enormous spur to inflation. Even so it will be achieved only because American taxpayers are counted on to pay $46.6 billion more in taxes in 1980 than in the current fiscal year. But there are too many over-optimistic expectations built into this budget to make this result likely. Revenue estimates are based on the assumption of improving im-proving business; expenditure ex-penditure estimates on the assumption that Congress will accept the few cuts that Mr. Carter has recommended. And finally, both the expediture figure and the deficit figure for 1980 simply leave out $13.9 billion of "off-budget" expenditures. Hence, the officially planned expenditures ex-penditures for 1980 jump to $545.5 billion, and planned deficit to some $43 billion. Readers who are looking for a more realistic estimate of the 1980 deficit will find it in the official estimates of the federal debt. This is expected to increase $59.77 billion (to $898.96 billion) at the end of fiscal 1980. The interest charge on this alone will come to $57 billion. Mr. Carter's new budget must be listed under best-selling fiction. Meanwhile his earlier pledge to balance the budget in 1980 has been completely forgotten. Inflation will go marching on. "The silliest of all people are those who do foolish things to show off." Vauvenargues "Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand." George Eliot Some used to say that putting one's ear next to a lion's ear would cure deafness. The drama is the book of the people. Wilmot QDEPQDtP scan) That's where Wasatch Bank the Superbank is headed! Why? Because Be-cause Wasatch has earned the reputation rep-utation among Utah County businessmen busi-nessmen and families for leaping tall banking challenges at a single bound and for handling customer's account concerns faster than a speeding bullet. Fanciful? Not really. Consider these down-to-earth facts about the Super-bank: Super-bank: Super Loans? Wasatch makes them! Our extraordinary extra-ordinary growth means we've got money to loan for any worthwhile purpose. Chances are, you'll 5 save when you i r oorrow irom us. Super Protection? Wasatch provides it! Every savings account is insured for up to $40,000 by an agency of the federal WfflffB) government. .Aim Super Strength? Wasatch has it! Assets total $26 million, mil-lion, and offices reach from Lehi on the north to Santaquin on the south. Super Long Weeks? Wasatch works them! Our lobby is open on Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. (except Santaquin). Super Long Hours? Wasatch offers them! 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