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Show 'i1nl Page Six - The' Springville Herald - July Editor's Note: This is the third installment of Chris Tahbaz's account of the Iranian revolution. By Chris Tahbaz Contributing Reporter For several weeks after the rioting of September, Tehran was relatively calm. Demonstrations stopped for a few days, and although they bagan again, they were not too fervent. Meanwhile, Iranian merchants and workers found a new way to force the revolution on the country: a general strike. During a general strike every industry, every shop, every business endeavor simply closes. The workers walk out for a day or two, and the "wheels of commerce" come to a screeching halt. In a country that was producing millions of dollars worth of export grade petroleum, a general strike was economically crippling. To the Americans, a general strike meant not being able to get food for a day or two, not being able to get a taxi, and other similar annoyances. an-noyances. The American attitude toward the revolution changed somewhat after the September riots. People were determined to stay in the country, but they were tense. Curfew ceased to be a joke, and Americans made themselves less visible on the streets. Because several supermarkets had been firebombed (or threatened;, my mother began shopping at local stores. And we stopped taking taxis around the city. Perhaps the most History contest winners ' Continued from Page IS and went back to work. Lunch time at the ranch was so much fun! The girls hurriedly ate their jelly sandwiches and ran to chase and play with the others. Most of the pickers were cousins, some from one side of the family and some from the other. Only a few were neighbors. There is a special bond between cousins and the girls felt it. Anything done with cousins is more fun because it is done with cousins. They had water fights, wrestled, chased, shouted and laughed. They shared a carefree kind of fun that belongs only to the young and especially to cousins. When lunch was over, Uncle Ive herded them all back into the patch and settled them down as best he could. By then it was hot and the kids were tired. The work pace slowed considerably. The afternoon was spattered with teasing, complaining and outbursts of shouting and laughter. Uncle Ive took all but the worst behavior in his stride. He managed to keep things reasonably controlled. It was after 3 p.m. before the girls noticed that Grandpa had not retured. Uncle Ive and some of the bigger boys were already loading the flatbed wagon with gunnysacks full of beans. "Maybe he has a watering turn," said the younger girl, "Or maybe he went to the Poultry Plant." "Maybe," thought the sister, "But why didn't he say something?" It wasafteM p.m. when Grandpa finally returned. He got out of the car and went straight to Uncle Ivor. He looked very serious or mad. All the bags had been loaded on the wagon and all picking had stopped. Some of the kids were still running around and playing, but by now most were too tired and were anxious to get home. The girls had already staked out their place on the wagon. The best part of the day was yet to come. Soon a tractor would pull the wagon load of kids and beans down into town. The ride would be bumpy and slow and so frustrating part of the revolution was the lack of news. The American radio network, the lifeline of English language communication in Iran, virtually stopped delivering all but the most basic news of the revolution. The Americans, being inventive, in-ventive, created a new way to get information around: the rumor mill. Rumors were always exaggerated, although they served in getting across some news. As the middle of October Oc-tober approached, rioting had become a daily occurence oc-curence in downtown Tehran. The riots grew in fervency, and soon the situation became intolerable in-tolerable for the Iranian government. Very early one morning, the government decided to take some decisive action. ac-tion. Martial law was declared throughout Tehran, including a ban on all demonstrations. At about 6 o'clock that morning, a large demonstration was staged by unknowing students at Jaleh Square, in the heart of Tehran. The army responded by firing into the crowd. The official count of the dead was 200, although some unofficial estimates put the toll at 2,000. Rumors reported firetrucks washing blood off of the streets. It was now evident to all that this was to be a real revolution. The United States Embassy finally took a stand on the situation: the Americans were going to stay in Iran, but the United States government was taking precautions. The Embassy Em-bassy began holding bi much tun. As more pickers piled on to the wagon little arguments broke out as to who was going to sit where. The girls sat firm in their choice seats. Grandpa and Uncle Ive approached the wagon. Ivor took his seat on the tractor and Grandpa stopped at the back of the wagon near the girls. His face was straight and his expression was intense. "You two girls get in Old Lizzie! You're riding into town with me." The girls were astonished. "But we wanted to" - Grandpa inhaled a big breath through his nostrils, straightened up, glanced at the ground, said nothing, then turned and walked away. The girls were so shocked and so hurt they couldn't move. That man couldn't be their Grandpa! Grand-pa! He would never do such a cruel, unfair thing to them. They had done nothing to deserve this. Why was he letting all their cousins ride the wagon? Why was he letting even those cousins from the other side of the family those who were not even his grandchildren? grand-children? How could he do this? The two sisters reluctantly gave up their places on the wagon. Two boys jumped to take their seats. The girls climbed into the old car and sat silently while their hurt turned to anger. When they saw Grandpa approaching ap-proaching one hissed under her breath, "I HATE him !!!" "ME too!" agreed the other. The ride home was much too slow for them. They couldn't wait to get away from that mean old man. Not a word was spoken. Grandpa looked straight ahead out of the window. So did the girls. They could see Springville and the lake shimmering under the September sun. The details of trees and houses seemed in incredible in-credible focus now. The Autumn colors were bright - boisterous. The clarity of the entire scene made it appear surrealistic - almost offensive. Such stimulus only added intensity to 8, 1982 weekly "security briefings" to inform representatives of the American community of the happenings of the revolution, and how the embassy was responding. My mother, holding an elected position in the American Women's Club of Tehran, was privy to these meetings. And the meetings soon became a joke. The security attache of the Embassy would give the participants of the meetings information that was old and inaccurate. inac-curate. Soon he began to talk of evacuation plans, the evacuation of 50,000 people from a city with no seaports and one of the world's most dangerous airports. Basically, the Americans were given no concrete help from the embassy. Tehran was very quiet from the time of the Jaleh square incident until the end of November. Martial law was effective for awhile, and there was very little rioting in the city. Tanks had been stationed at many street corners. As our home was only two blocks from one of the Shah's palaces, we had several tanks very near. The men in the tanks were very cheerful and friendly. One man even put a bunch of flowers in the muzzle of his tank. It was as if these men were unaware that there was a revolution. Rioting began again in the beginning of December, centering itself around the Islamic holy period of Ashura. The activity was constant, con-stant, and there were reports of shootings almost daily. Martial law had only delayed the revolution, not stopped it. the anger the girls turning it now to rage. felt near The car turned south on Main street and began to slow as it reached the motel. Grandpa heaved an enormous sigh, stared straight ahead and spoke. "Girls, your mother had a baby today and it died." Something terrible burst inside two little heads, inside two little hearts. "Is Mama all right?" screamed the eldest girl as she grabbed the door handle. "Your mother is all right." The girls burst frantically fran-tically from the car and ran toward the cabins. Grandpa shut the car door and drove away. Clamoring into the kitchen kit-chen cabin the girls sought their father who knelt with outstretched arms. A little boy stood behind him looking lost and confused. It was more than an embrace. They hung on to one anot her desperately sobbing -- crying out asking questions. "It was a little boy. He never took a breath. Mama lost a lot of blood. She's in the other cabin. The neighbor women are with her." sf4i"; ) HAPPY SERVICE U ;, 1-1 ' tQ-':-1 1 A I- IVs Miss Springville, Patrice Nielson, cuts the ribbon Brookside Polar King under new management. The Jenkins, Mary Ann Jenkins, Barbara and Leon Lee. Everyday, the riots became larger and more violent. The Americans were very scared, but did not know what to do. On December 5, the United States Embassy held a special meeting for about 30 executives representing large corporations cor-porations in Iran. Although nobody knows exactly what occurred in that meeting, the basic message was 'We can no longer protect your people. It will be your responsibility to get them out of the country.' The United States government govern-ment had pulled its support out from under the Americans. The next few days witnessed a mass exodus of Americans from Iran. On December 6, over half of the students attending the American school officially withdrew. The scene was chaotic --parents --parents coming in the middle of classes to pick up their children, friends exchanging addresses, hoping to hang on to small fragments of their lives in Iran. On December 6, Tehran American School officially closed, never to reopen again. My father had also decided that it was time for our family to leave. He scheduled our flight for December 8. We packed up as much as we could fit into suitcases, saying that v we would return. But the revolution had come with a fury, and it was now only a matter of time. We awoke on December 8, ready to leave Iran, when we heard the following news: the airport had been closed for 48 hours, supposedly because of bomb threats. We could go nowhere. The man moved to an army cot on one side of the room. The girls moved right with him and the little boy followed. The man reached his arms around his three children and as he did so the world seemed to break up into little pieces. And the pieces seemed to drift away from one another until there was no longer an Old Lizzie or a bean patch or a flat-bed wagon. All that existed now was an army cot where a grief-stricken father clung to his three children on a late afternoon af-ternoon in September. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. Dutch Proverb Adopt nature: patience. the pace her secret Emerson He that can have patience can have what he will. Franklin Noble blood is an accident ac-cident of fortune, noble actions characterize the great. Goldoni Bell phasing in card dialing Most telephone customers in Utah will soon be able to place telephone Calling Card (credit card) calls without aid from an operator by using a new service being phased in this summer. Calling Card Service (CCS), a new service available with Touch-Tone Touch-Tone phones, can be used by both residence and business customers in Utah as it becomes available, according to W. Mack Lawrence, Utah vice president for Mountain Bell. Lawrence said the mechanized service will be more convenient and faster than third number-billed number-billed calls or collect calls. In September Mountain Bell will initiate a policy of no longer completing calls billed to a third number from a coin or "charge-a-call" telephone unless someone at the third number accepts ac-cepts the charge. "With Calling' Card Service, Touch-Tone customers will still dial zero-plus on longdistance long-distance calls, just as they do today," Lawrence said. "They will then hear a special tone, signaling them to punch in their personal number. At coin phones, the tone will be followed by a brief recorded announcement noting the dialing instructions. in-structions. "All billing will be handled quickly and automatically, without the need to recite the Calling Card number to an operator. That factor should cut down on the type of telephone fraud that occurs when Calling Card numbers are overheard as they are Demos schedule 1982 convention The 'J Utah . State Democratic Committee has scheduled the 1982 State Convention for Friday and Saturday, July 9 and 10. at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. Following the convention Saturday the Committee for a Balanced Legislature will conduct a campaign seminar for legislative and county candidates from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Salt Palace. Later that evening, at 7:30 p.m., Utah Democrats will meet at the Little America Hotel for the annual Jefferson-Jackson Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. The following is a general outline fo the convention: Friday, July 9 7:00 p.m. Call to Order -Utah Democratic Chairman Michael Miller 7:15 p.m. Speaker -Senator Alan Cranston of California 7:30 p.m. Address to Convention - Michael Miller 8:00 p.m. Adoption of the Democratic Platform - Dale Lambert Saturday, July 10 10:00 a.m. Call to Order - Convention Chairman James McConkie 10:15 a.m. Keynote Speaker - Utah Governor Scott M. Matheson 10:30 a.m. Nominating Speeches - U.S. Senate Candidate Ted Wilson and Congressional Candidates Stephen Dirks, Frances at the opening of the new managers are Stan given to the operator, Lawrence emphasized that mechanized CCS calls can be made only on Touch-Tone equipped telephones. Customers with rotary dial phones can continue to place Calling Card calls, but will automatically receive assistance from the operator. The Utah conversions to CCS are scheduled to begin in early July. Nearly all Mountain Bell locations in the state will have the service by early August . The presence or absence ab-sence of the special tone after dialing zero plus the number being called will notify Touch-Tone customers whether or not the service is in operation. In addition, operators will be reminding customers that the service is available. Most Touch-Tone equipped independent (non-Bell) telephone companies in Utah will also be phasing in the service during the same time period. Lawrence stressed the fact that Mountain Bell customers will be notified by bill inserts when the service is operations in their area. The inserts will give more particulars regarding the specifics of CCS. Bell System Calling Cards are free to any Mountain Bell customer in Utah. They can be obtained by contacting a service representative at your Business Service Center or Residence Service Center. Lawrence said the CCS cutover represents an investment of more than $1 million in equipment and related costs by Mountain Bell in Utah. Farley and Henry 'Hank' Huish - ,. ' 11:30 a.m. Nomination of Multi-County Candidates Can-didates 2:00 p.m. Candidate Seminar - Committee for Balanced Legislature 7:30 p.m. Jefferson-Jackson Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner -Address by Governor Charles S. Robb of Virginia Gone- glimmering through the dream of things that were. Byron 0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday. Henry Arthur Jones 1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. Carl Sandburg The best prophet of the future is the past. John Sherman Lois Bartholomew took first place in the adult poetry division of the Art City History contest with the following poem. WHAT EVER HAPPENED What every happened to the Orem? with its rattle and its clang, its wooden seats and its quaint charm that no other form of transportation has quite been able to match What ever happened to the Orem? What ever happened to the 4th of July? on the park with friendly people waving little flags and children running races barefoot or chasing greased pigs to win a prize. What ever happened to the 4th of July? What ever happened to Saturday matinees? at the Rivoli or the Ritz where kids waited in line to see heros in cowboy hats and beautiful heroines where villains always wore black and had moustaches. What ever happened to Saturday matinees? What ever happened to art themes? pick a favorite painting, write an essay. If you could write, you liked it if you couldn't, you hated it there was lots of cheating cause you couldn't get A grade in English without one. What ever happened to art themes? What ever happened to Easter Saturday? when hiking was the thing to do with sack lunches and hard boiled eggs' and the destination was Camel's Back or Round Peak or just the Flats depending upon your age. What every happened to Easter Saturday? What ever did happen to the Orem and the 4th of July and Saturday Matinees and art themes and East Saturday? Oh, yes progress That's what happened. v::v:::-v " ' II t, f i r Hit . ? . 1 'i- , " - if If ' - ' ? ' "4 A I ilk . I $ r-h , An aspiring artist concentrates during one of the Arts, sponsored by the spnngvine museum u. . v. 'Summergrovjfh' The Springville Museum of Art is currently sponsoring a series of classes to increase in-crease the artistic talents of local residents. Entitled "Summergrowth "Sum-mergrowth Arts," the program encompasses programs for both children and adults. The following programs and classes are offered as part of the Summergrowth Sum-mergrowth Arts: Life Drawing: Bob DeWitt will instruct students in perception, "Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain" learning lear-ning to see relationships in space and figure studies will be introduced. in-troduced. This class will be taught Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 9. Sculpture: Jim Avati, will instruct students beginning with preparation of armature, An early days experience told Second place in the adult short story division was won by Frankie Averett for the following short story, entitled "An Early Day Experience": In the first part of May in 1915 I was teaching school in Wallsburg, Utah. We had been having beautiful weather so I decided that I would go home to Springville for a visit. I planned on riding was out on Friday afternoon. af-ternoon. I had ridden horseback to school in Colorado as a child and ,oved it There was to be a dance looking forward to it. In those horse and buggy days when all entertainment en-tertainment was local, young and old looked forward to the dances The dance had been the subject of conversation for a week and the teachers were expected to go to the dance. On Friday morning some of the older boys came and said there had been a heavy snow storm the night before in Provo Canvnn and that I couldn't possibly get thru. I thought they were just telling me this as they wanted me to stay for the dance. I hurried home after school and got my horse ready. The sun was anatomy and modeling form. Touring of a foundry to learn first hand the casting process. Taught Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9. Oil Painting: Lou Jene Carter, award winning artist in the Annual April Salon, will instruct students of all levels in design, composition and techniques of Oil Painting. Pain-ting. The class will be taught Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9. Ceramics: Two workshops will be offered entitled "Raku" and "Primative Pottery." These workshops will be taught by Edward Ham and David Twitchell. Classes will begin Saturday July 17 and continue each consecutive con-secutive Saturday through August 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. shining and there was just a skiff of snow on the hills. I figured it would take only about five hours to get to Springville, and it was now about 3:30 so all would be fine. As I got ready to leave, my room mate came out with my coat and said, "You had better take this." And she titft it 4j Ikn kntb nf mil saddle I enjoyed my ride to where the Deer Creek Hnm IP rirvm Tkftt.fl idapa aiung mere men. me whole area was covered with green grass with twnnr. .-I . .U.. it B,,,uua higher areas and the ca,tle were roamin8 a11 two large white two story homes. A beautiful sight. One I never forgot. As I rode along I began to run into snow which kept getting deeper and W " th,n,king wneii i goi iariner aown the canyon conditions would get better, but instead the snow got deeper. As the snow got deeper it was harder to tell where the road was. I . 1 ..: . i i " T u ut ' a! hfav'"g s m"ch, troub e I finally decided that if I went down on the railroad tracks that I could guide the horse better. But when I got on the tracks the horse refused to go. So I went back up on the road and decided to give the horse his head thinking he could follow the road better than I could, which he did litterly jumping thru the snow. When we got down to the electric plant which was above Bridal Veil Falls, it was dark and nine o'clock by my watch. I rode around the building but I could only see a man " SPAN SHOWTIME MTV a. 60 TV CHANNELS NOW, OVER 100 BY 1983!!! Call Today or Drop By Satellite TV Division of the Grand Lumber Co. 1900 S. Hwy. 91 X o !$QRQK00 Installed 55 UU 3 M 1 block South on Springville 1489-6611 u NICKELODEON PTL session of Summergrowth , i dos$e Registration for the classes continues through July 14, the day classes begin. There is a registration fee for each of the classes. Further information can be obtained ob-tained by calling the Museum. Working together w?th the Springville Library,: children s activities jnl drawings painting, and. mask and puppet making-will making-will be held beginning' July 14 - Aug. 11. Guest speakers, demonstrations; i i ana museum tours are also part of the program. Morning and afternoon sessions are available.' There is a registration: fee. Further information can be obtained by calling; me HDrary. - j. By time and toil we sever What strength and. rage could never. v La Fontaine . inside so I decided to ride on. When I came to Nunn's, which is below Bridal Veil Falls, there were at that time abotit five or six homes on the ; other side of the river. I rode across the river and J around the homes until I j saw a woman inside" I knocked on the door and Qetorl tf cKa niM toll ftO 't if there was less snow niif ' toward the mouth of the-t canyon. She told me noi and that it was still deejrj along the bench too and that I couldn't possibly-; make it to Springville: She invited me in and; insisted that I stay for the night and try to get thru ifH the morning. I was cold'; and tired from my exC; perience thus far and so 1; accepted her offer of'iH place to stay for the night-j I shall never forget her'.J kindness a n'd hospitality. I left about eight o'clock the next morning and it"; took me until one o'clock to get to Springville, as; there was still two feet of deep snow all across; Provo bench. I couldn't even phone"' back, to Wallsburg as all the phone lines were down in Provo Canyon. It wasn't possible to go back ' until Tuesday and then , my future husband drove ;,; me back in a horse and f buggy with my horse tied ' at the back. ! When I got back I didn't tell anyone I didn't make ; it. straight home. Later-on, Later-on, one of the eighth grade boys came to me;' lanahino I caiH "What T struck you so funny?" He said, "My mother just got; a letter from her sister.v who lives at Nunn's,-. saying that a Wallsburg school teacher had stayed-' overnight at her place; ; atter the heavy snow, storm." 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