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Show That's Life Hoiv 'bout fEiof? old whit siznosno got elected! by Roger Sturman Well, don't blame me, I didn't vote for him! Actually, it's the fault of all those who didn't vote at all. They didn't vote for him, but they didn't vote against him either. They didn't vote but they will stand around all year complaining about the job he's doing. There ought to be a law that says "If you didn't vote you can't gripe!" There will be some who say, "I didn't vote because I didn't know anything about the candidates." In a town as small as this, that's a pretty . feeble excuse. You would almost have to be blind, deaf and not subscribe sub-scribe to the newspaper to not have heard plenty about all of the candidates. can-didates. Others will be saying, "It doesn't make any difference who gets elected-they never do what I want, anyway!" The obvious answer to that'is: Who knows what YOU want if you never tell anyone? The time to start remedying the situation, if you don't like it, is now. Start working to get your own candidate elected, there will be another turn to vote in a few years. It might take that long to get your point across. If you think the city is going to the dogs, get involved. Newspapers and other media are very influential in the success of a candidate. Look at all the campaign cam-paign ads, Thank you notices, and etc. that abound this time of year. Now, in keeping with the capitalistic system which we all love, I am going to propose a slick way to defeat old Whatsizname. For only about $4,000.00, I will write a one-fourth page ad for you and place it in this paper every week of the next year ($8,000.00 for two years). I will research your opponents family history back to his maternal great-grandmother. great-grandmother. Any hint of wrong doing will be published with all the gusto it doesn't deserve. I mean if this guy's father once spit on the sidewalk, the whole town will know about it! If you're really serious about it, you may want to investigate a television smear campaign. With foil welfare program Can the so-called "welfare mess" be improved by using public welfare as short-term crisis intervention rather than as a long-term dole? That is the question posed by Utah Foundation, the private research organization, in the light of Utah's latest welfare proposal and the general concern with welfare problems across the nation. A proposal entitled Welfare and the Individual Potential Working Together for Change, prepared by a task force of the Department of Social Services, has been issued by the governor and is in process of implementation. The proposal focuses on poverty as the basic problem, rather than on welfare as a means of dealing with it, and sees the role of welfare as a means of short-term crisis intervention rather than a long-term solution to the problem. Utah Foundation notes that Utah has programs now operating which serve in large measure as pilot programs for the new proposal, and State Farm's Homeowners insurance with inflation coverage SEE ME r A 52 Wt ST 200 SO. 489 9M 1 Utaagood SlMaFami Faffl la lhafi. INUNCI Sun Fwn Plrt Mt CauaVT CaoaMf mil mmmmm4tmn this medium you can expose your man in living color! Imagine what would happen to the composure of the guy if he suddenly saw himself kicking his dog on the evening news. This campaign costs on $50,000.00 for a 30 second spot and is being directed by the same folks who are scandalizing the Royal Couple and the Supreme Court Justice candidates. can-didates. This is also available in video tapes for distribution to video rental parlors. In case you haven't guessed, all of this nonsense is aimed at the individual in-dividual Who didn't lift a finger to support a candidate but will enjoy telling everybody what a louse they elected. I don't know why it is but it always seems to go that way. Maybe that's where the old saying, "Put your money where your mouth is!" came from. On the other hand, there are a lot more people who never say anything. If you like what your candidate is doing then maybe you ought to let him know. If what he does agrees with your way of thinking, maybe you ought to tell your friends. Yeah, Yeah, I know, somebody always says, "I never discuss religion or politics." Well maybe that's whats wrong with us, we are afraid to stand up for what we believe. Doesn't it seem just a little strange to you that we send our young people all over the world as missionaries to spread the Gospel, and-or we send them as soldiers to enforce our political view, but here at home we say "Oh, I never discuss religion or politics?" I know this is supposed to be a humor column and is hasn't been very funny lately. I promise to get off my soapbox now and get back to work. Next week you will be able to read all about why cowboys wear pointy-toed shoes, or how Mt. Timpanogas is slipping into Utah Lake, or some other equally insignificant in-significant topic which, as yet, has not been completely researched. In the meantime, speak up if you have earned the right. -Shut up if you haven't! points out that the operating programs provide a basis for optimism, op-timism, although full implementation im-plementation of the new program may require substantial additional resources in money and staff. Utah's welfare proposal does not suggest that poverty can be made to disappear, but operates on the assumption that most individuals can be assisted to become self sufficient. Major criticism of existing welfare programs is that recipients of public assistance tend to become wholly dependent on the system, the Foundation notes. Utah's new plan seeks to assist welfare clients, and potential welfare clients, to attain their individual in-dividual maximum potential for self sufficiency, while recognizing that for a small segment of the population, those with physical, emotional, or mental disabilities, long-term assistance and support may be necessary. The plan does not confine itself to welfare clients, but also seeks to help people in marginal circumstances from having to ask for public assistance. Utah welfare authorities also encourage people receiving public assistance to take part-time employment em-ployment when available, and do not discontinue welfare assistance when part-time employment is obtained. Welfare grants are reduced in time, but not to the point of destroying the incentive to work. Utah welfare officials recognize that this approach ap-proach is rejected by some welfare administrators, but argue that part time work benefits both the welfare client and the taxpayer: clients because they are contributing to their own support and taking a step toward financial independence, and taxpayers because the amount of tax-financed welfare grants is reduced. The Foundation sees one of the most innovative of the new plan's Are generic drugs for you? "Take two acetylsalicylic acid tablets and call me in the morning." "Take two what? I thought I was supposed to stay away from those recreational drugs!" You are. Acetylsalicylic acid is no illegal substance. It's simply aspirin. Since most generic drugs are called by their chemical names, they're not always as familiar to us as brand-name brand-name drugs. But they can cut your medication bill -in half--without sacrificing results. Generic prescriptions save us over $200 million annually, says the Federal Trade Commission. Basically copycat products, generics have the same active ingredients as brand names. Some filler or binder ingredients may be different, but that's okay for most people, according to the Food and Drug Administration. A generic drug must pass a battery bat-tery of FDA tests to show that it provides the same strength, dose, purity and quality as the corresponding brand-name drug. It must also be bioequivalent-reach the same body tissues, in the same amounts, in the same time. Generic costs are usually lower because their makers don't have to pay for safety tests already performed per-formed by the brand-name, manufacturer. Makers of generics also escape high research and development expenses. Unfortunately, Un-fortunately, some consumers leave drug stores no healthier in the wallet than when they went in. That's because not all pharmacists pass along their savings. Twenty-five states now require drugists to pass along at least part of the savings, but only 19 require the full amount. A note of caution: some experts advise sticking with brand-name cardiovascular, anti-convulsant and psychotropic (minoValtering) drugs because even small changes in the non-active ingredients can make them less effective. Be careful when switching to a generic if you're stabilized on another company's durg. As a precaution, monitor your body's reaction. Your best advice? Although three out of every four prescriptions specify a brand name, ask about generics when your doctor writes you a prescription. If he or she doesn't know the generic equivalent (this is not unusual), one of you can call the pharmacy department of your local hospital. approaches as a proposal to make individual contracts between welfare clients and the Department of Social Services. The contracts would be "responsive to individual circumstances and capabilities, reflect available resources, and contain realistic and achievable goals." Clients' compliance with their contract would be necessary to insure continuation of financial benefits to the clients. The Foundation Foun-dation points out that there are serious questions whether the "contract" concept would violate federal regulations which prohibit making mandatory such things as participation in work programs. Utah has currently an Emergency Work Program which was created by the legislature in June 1983 with an appropriation to operate it for one year. While the program was entirely state funded, participants were required to seek employment and to take appropriate education courses to increase their employability. The program was spectacularly successful, a University of Utah study reporting that 70 percent of those participating obtained unsubsidized employment. The program has been continued, but with joint state-federal funding, which means that work and study requirements can no longer be made mandatory. The program is still showing positive results but the success ratio is greatly reduced. In Massachusetts, where the economy is flourishing and employment em-ployment is relatively high, a program similar to Utah's new proposal has been highly successful, "saving the taxpayer millions" according to a report of the Massachusettes Taxpayers Foundation. Foun-dation. With a weaker economy and higher unemployment ration than Masschusetts', Utah officials do not expect to match MassachuseUe's results in dollar figures, but believe their program can be effective. Utah's Executive Director of Social Services concedes that the initial impact of Utah's new program will be a substantial in-' in-' crease in cost, and that the program cannot be implemented all at once, but believes that "over four or five years the dollar savings from welfare clients finding full employment em-ployment and moving off welfare, plus savings from reducing welfare grants because of part time employment, em-ployment, will equal the ongoing cost of the program and perhaps a little more." If so, benefits in terms of human values would be a tremendous 'plus' ". The world's largest lake is the Caspian Sea with an area of 143,244 square miles. The ceremony to marry an Amish couple usually lasts about 3 hours and 30 minutes. The left foot is just a little bit larger than the right foot on most people. Just one square inch of the sun's surface shines with the intensity of 300,000 candles. 1 The driver of this semi tractor traitor and a hitchiker pipe that had just been picked up from Pacific States were slightly injured Friday about 11 a.m. when their Cast Iron Pipe company all over the road. The driver vehicle overturned on the northbound Interstate 15 on- and passenger were treated at Utah Valley Regional ramp by Mt. Springs. The accident spilled a load of Medical Center and released. If a kernal of popcorn were dropped on a neutron star, it would produce as much energy as a World War II atomic bomb. The average adult has about 3,500 square inches of skin. The skin has roughly a billion pores. There are ancient dry river channels on Mars; the largest are about 620 miles long and over 100 miles wide. If the earth were made of ice, the heat from the Sun would melt it in 14, 981 years. November 4, 1987 'iff The adult heart beats about 40 million times a year. 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