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Show Page Two - The Springville EDITORIAL Prevent injuries and death July 1st was the fourth anniversary for the passage of the Child Car Seat legislation in Utah which established a law to prevent unnecessary death and injuries to children. It has been proved that seat belts and child restraints can save lives and serious injuries of children. The National Safety Council says 81 percent of America's children ride totally unprotected. Bouncing on the back seat, jumping from front to back or diverting the driver's attention can cause accidents that can be very serious, it not fatal for someone in the car. Every state has a child passenger protection law. In Utah, the law states that small children are required to ride in an approved child safety seat or use safety belts regardless of whether they are in the front or back seat. The best place for the child safety seat is in the back seat of the car. Children under age two must ride in an approved car safety seat. Children two years and up to five must ride in an approved car safety seat or safety belt that is placed low On the hips and not over the stomach. The safety belts in your vehicle were designed so that the forces in a crash are absorbed in some of the strongest areas of the body the bones of the hips and shoulders. If the shoulder belt hits a child across the face or neck, it should be placed behind the child's back, using only the lap belt. Please care enough to buckle up your children and yourself. Safety belt use - a good law to live by! ! Unwanted guests or hats in the attic?- by Ron Stewart Information Manager, Northeastern Region When the snow melts and the grass begins to turn green, homeowners often think about spring cleaning and getting out of the city to see the country. But sometimes some of those wild residents that city folk take delight in seeing in the country-racoons, birds and bats-move to the city. For some reason, seeing a raccoon nesting in your chimney isn't quite the same as seeing one nesting in a hollow tree in the forest. Most people prefer to have bats roosting in caves rather than in their attics, and birds singing in trees-not squawking and squabbling while they rest in the eaves above the bedroom windows. What's the answer to having a roommate who doesn't pay rent? Wildlife-proofing, according to Dan Barnhurst, wildlife conservation officer in Vernal. "The most common com-mon problem with urban wildlife is that sometimes they take to nesting in people's homes. Birds, bats, raccoons and even skunks occasionally oc-casionally try raising their young where they aren't wanted. During the winter, a fire in the fireplace will keep wildlife out of the chimney. But in the spring, when fires aren't needed, a chimney looks like the perfect nesting hole to a raccoon. To keep raccoons out, Barnhurst recommends placing a wire mesh screen over the chimney. Birds like (UPS 513 Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah 84663 Phone 489-5651 Publisher Martin W. Conovtr Editor Patricia Conovcr Managing Editor Btty Lou Balloy POSTMASTER: PIo nd change of addrws to Th SprtngvllU Hrald, HI South Main St., SprlngvllU, UT 14663. Svcond clot pot tag paid at SprlngvllU, UT 14663. Subscriptions in Advance per year $15.00 Out of County Subscriptions per year $18.00 Per copy 50'. Delivered by carrier, per month 1 .50 Member Utah Press Association Herald - July 6, 1988 to nest in the rafters or on the eaves and ledges of a house. They can be discouraged by screening off the openings or making the site unsuitable un-suitable for building a nest. Some birds.usually woodpeckers, drill on the house either for food or for drumming (setting up territories). Treating the wood for insects will take away the food source and fixing the shingle or whatever makes the drumming sound so loud, should stop the drumming. A bat can enter the house through cracks in the roof. When it leaves the house at night, plugging or screening the cracks at night will prevent it from reentering. Other urban wildlife problems can be avoided in similar ways. Screens or plugs can stop animals from finding nesting places in basements, under porches or under the house. Occasionaly, animals are attracted to a backyard because pet food is left outside where they can smell it. These problems can be avoided by feeding your pet inside or by making sure the pet doesn't leave any food. "If an animal can't find a nesting place and if there isn't a readily available food source, it will wander off on its own," Barnhurst said. The first bowling tournament for women was held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1917 "The Star Spangled Banner," when it was first published, bore the title "The Defense of Fort McHenry." - 060) Tax hikes could have been stopped If Utah's Tax and Spending Limitation statute which was enacted by the 1979 legislature had been implemented when it was passed, the recent income, sales, gasoline, and cigarette tax increases in-creases would not have been allowed, according to data provided by the Utah Office of Planning & Budget. State spending for the first four years after passage of the statute was nearly in keeping with the limitation. However, during the final years of the Matheson administration, ad-ministration, state appropriations surpassed the spending limits by approximately $200 million and have maintained this level ever since. Ten years ago, a Republican Legislature swept into power on promises of tax limitation. The tax and spending limitation law was their response to campaign promises. The measure is designed to limit state and local spending and taxes from growing faster than increase in population and personal income. However, the law was never implemented because the legislature failed to adopt annually the population and personal income figures upon which it is based. Now, the People's Tax & Spending Limitation Amendment will automatically implement this spending limitation statute, using 1988 as the base year, if the initiative is adopted by voters in November. The initiative would also place a three-fourths percent cap on residential property taxes and one percent on all others. Teacher salaries compared Utah teacher salaries in the past ten years have increased 37 percent faster than those of other Utah workers, according to figures just released by the Utah Department of Employment Security. The accompanying table shows that the average monthly Utah non-agricultural non-agricultural wage since 1977 increased in-creased 76 percent while the average monthly Utah teacher wage has gone up a whopping 104 percent. The monthly teacher wage was computed by converting the annual average to a nine-month working average. The teacher wage does include the normally unreported career ladder money of about $200 per month. v. Figures in the table also show that in 1977, average monthly teacher wages were 159 percent of the state's average monthly non-agricultural wage. But by 1987, teacher monthly wages had jumped to 184 percent of Utah's non-agricultural wages. All of this means just one thing -that Utah's school teachers have fared much better, wage wise, in the past ten years than other Utah wage earners. The average monthly teacher wage in 1987 would have been $2,387 instead of $2,759 had the ratio of teacher wages to other wages remained unchanged since 1977. Citizen support needed at meeting Attention Please: The committee for improving the restrooms at Memorial Park will again meet with the Springville City Council on Tuesday, July 19 at 7:30 p.m. We hope that those of you who can, will be there to support us. Thank you, Penny Nielson Holly Tanner La Rue Child Police report Springville Police answered 13 animal related calls this past week including two dog bites and a bat bite. They also handled several violations of illegal fireworks. Max N. Hales, 140 East 100 North, Springville, was arrested on a warrant. war-rant. Michael Wayne Dennis, no address, ad-dress, was arrested on a warrant. Terry McGonigal, 26 North Main No. 12, Springville, was arrested on a warrant. Mark A. Woodward, 290 West 300 South, No. 2, Springville, was arrested ar-rested for driving under the influence in-fluence of alcohol. Teri E. Brook, 855 East 500 South, Payson, was arrested ar-rested for disturbing the peace. Police arrested a 15 year old male for assault, disorderly conduct and destruction of public property. Over $200 worth of damage was sustained to a vehicle when it ran into in-to a string that had been strung across a road. A home that was broken into lost a camera, jewelry, cash and diamond ring. A man had his wallet taken from his vehicle. It was later recovered in another area. Another citizen had salt poured into his gas tank nozzles. A woman was assaulted in her apartment by two males of about 20 years of age. They cut her on the face with a knife and fled. The polar caps of Mars wax and wane with the seasons, not by melting but by evaporating in the summer and condensing in the winter. COMMENT PAGE Thanhs baseball volunteers Thanks for flag Thank you to the Mapleton baseball fans! Saturday, June 25, was a fun day at the Mapleton Mustang and Bronco ball diamond. The league had one of the biggest fund raisers ever that day. Any every team in the league played a ball game. During the games, lunch was served, all you could eat. Around 800 people attended this event and helped with it. Thanks to all who helped make it a fun day for our kids and baseball. Thanks to John Averett, Sam Giles and Rick Bringhurst who were in charge of the games. Thanks to Tammy Giles Per pupil spending faulty The April issue of the Arizona Tax Research Foundation carried an article entitled, "Education Statistic Faulty." The Arizona analysis fits Utah's situation to a tee. Arizona has the same problem with its teacher union as Utah, claiming that their schools need more money due to their low national ranking in per pupil expenditures. ex-penditures. Arizona was in 41st position in 1986 . using this What fo do with state surplus by Jack Olson The three big political questions in Utah today are: How large is the state surplus? Whose pocket will it fatten? And, if it comes back to the taxpayers, how and when will it be disbursed? Wouldn't you know, Olson has an opinion on the surplus issue. Two months ago, our state fiscal experts estimated the surplus at $50 million. Six weeks ago, the figure had jumped to $76 million. Two weeks later, the conservative estimate had grown to $100 million. Last week, the surplus estimate had ballooned to $110 million. About $80 million of the $110 million surplus is said to come from income tax overages and $20 million from unexpected state': sales tax revenues. I would not be surprised to see the surplus figure climb to $140 million by the time the legislature meets in special session on July 5. All of the surplus is the result of a massive mistake in revenue projections. Taxes were increased $162 million last year and this was a colossal error. The question remains, however, as to what to do now that we have the surplus. Governor Norman Bangerter wants to return $80 million of the surplus through income in-come tax rebates, give public and higher education $10 million and sock $20 million away in a rainy day fund. The governor's proposal is a good one and I personally endorse it. But we must remember that in order to gain support for the $162 million tax hike, the governor and the legislature promised taxpayers in 1987 that any surplus would be returned. Taxpayers should now demand that this promise be honored. I think it would be both dangerous and foolish to wait until 1989 to refund surplus funds. If checks are cut now, the money returned would boost Utah's sagging economy. I estimate that the rebate could amount to about 14 percent of what taxpayers paid in income taxes this past year. Spending the money for ongoing programs would be a serious mistake. This would only guarantee another tax increase sometime in the future. Returning surpluses is but one side of the tax coin, the flip side and just as important is what is to be done about reducing tax rates that produced the dollar glut. The governor's plan would cut income tax rates and restore a portion of the federal income deductibility. This is good, but I would also like to see a reduction in the state sales tax rate. All taxpayers should let their legislators know their feelings about what to do with the surplus. Charter Chum Charter Chum is a public service of the who was in charge of the food. Thanks to all the moms, dads, coaches, umps and volunteers. The Mapleton City Recreation Board wishes to thank John Averett and his league officers for a job well done in boys' baseball and Susan Palmer and her officers for the girls' softball program. Thanks to the groundskeepers and everyone who has anything to do with helping our kids. Have fun this summer. Wave Miguel Mapleton City Recreation measurement. Utah ranked 45th, according to NEA statistics. Evaluating education programs by state expenditure rankings is at best, a dubious exercise. After all, it shouldn't be the cost of education that is measured, but the results in turning out productive, motivated adults. . Utah has been consistently near the top nationally in student achievement and testing. Another major problem in ranking the states is the NEA uses only expenditures for the maintenance and operation ofschools. Excluding from their total expenditures all monies spent on capital outlay, debt service, and debt interest. When those expenditures are excluded it is an inaccurate comparison of what each state commits to education. Utah's spending is skewed considerably con-siderably when capital outlay expenditures ex-penditures are excluded due to the tremendous growth in enrollment in Utah. Per pupil expenditure numbers are very misleading because they do not take into account variations in the cost of living between states. Personal income in Alaska, Washington, D.C. or Connecticut is much higher than Utah and other states. Jobs pay more in these areas The Sweat of Their Brows Years of historical novels and Hollywood movies have casl a rosy glow over America's colonial past. The popular image is of men with powdered wigs and ruffled shirts and women with petticoats and oriental fans dancing around brightly lighted ballrooms. In truth, very few colonials ever saw the inside of an aristocratic ballroom. If we could be transported back to the 18th Century, the obvious differences in everyday lives would, of course, be apparent appar-ent no electricity, few paved roads, travel by horse or ox cart, etc. But another fact would also be apparent the early settlers of America worked incredibly long hours each day. George Washington was a prominent planter raising tobacco, wheat and corn long before he became our first president. His view of labor was simple. "Lost labor is never to be regained. The presumption pre-sumption is, that every laborer does as much in twenty-four hours as his strength, without endangering his health or constitution, will allow." Some of the colonies passed laws to protect workers. Georgia in 1755 "limited" the workday to a maximum of 16 hours. South Carolina's law set a work limit of 15 hours per day from spring to early autumn and 14 hours per day for the rest of the year. Many Europeans came to America as indentured servants to tradesmen or plantation owners. Some entered into this agreement voluntarily, willing to work five years or more for a master in order to pay for their voyage to America. Others were sentenced by courts to servitude in America as a result of debts or lawbreaking. While white indentured servants often worked alongside slaves from Africa and suffered some of the same deprivations, they did have some recourse to the courts in cases of gross abuse. They also had the hope of eventual freedom. Slaves had no such protection and freedom lay generations in the future. In addition to the indentured servants and the slaves, there were thousands of small farmers scratching out a meager living from small plots of land. On the edge of the frontier there were hunters and trappers, who lived an even more precarious life. Looking back in history for the founders of America, the search should not end in the mansions of the aristocrats. It is outside those ballrooms and parlors that we find the workers who cleared the land, constructed the roads, raised the crops and built their homes. They were less interested in philosophical debates over improving mankind as they were in personal freedom and control of their own lives. These were the pioneers who carved a nation out of the wilderness. Ill ' 1968. PM Editorial Services THAT ANSWERS "THAT QUESTION WWW rYlNT SOU 5TAW AND FlGHTUKe A CAT? Springville Herald, Behavioral Therapy Associates and Charter Canyon Hospital In Orem and light for it Old glory waves, and we the people of the Sage Creek area would like to thank the mayor and all who made it possible to have a light installed and a flag hung in the Margaret Conover park on Tenth South. Thank you from the following families: Westman, Reid, Taylor, Child, Stahlei, Bird, West, Hatfield, Marsh, Wood, Morgan, Jones, Salisbury, Dixon, Bjarnson, Day and Brailsford. statistic than they would in Utah. Considering that roughly 80 percent of school expenditures are on employee salaries, it is ludicrous to suggest that those states with high per pupil expenditures are providing a better education to their children when at least some of the difference can be attributed to higher costs of living. One last statistic that impacts heavily upon per pupil expenditure comparison is changes in enrollment. I,N comparing enrollment from the fall of 1981 to the fall of 1985, 33 states show decreases in enrollment. Utah was one of only a handful of states that showed a significant increase in enrollment. States with decreases in enrollment would likely see their per pupil expenditures increasing at a faster rate due to fixed costs and smaller class sizes. States with enrollment increases have lower per pupil spending because the growth requires bringing on more new teachers at the bottom level of the salary schedule. States with stagnant or decreasing enrollment have higher: per pupil costs because more of their teachers are located at the top of their salary schedules and earn more. ! by Roake and Sume KID5- n trr cmai I Pt? THAN SHOULD PICK ON THEM. HOW WOULD MOO UKt OTHERS TO PICK! ON MOU? ; CHARTER CHUM ; 5 AM S "TREAT OTHERS : TH WA4 MOU WANT TO B TK&ATE.D' Hi goo i. . i li |