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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald EDITORIAL Court ruling applauded We applaud the recent ruling of the Utah Supreme Court to continue the tradition of opening prayer at city council meetings around the state. When city councils have prayer to open their meetings, they are thus permitting free speech in the form of prayer. This does not mean that they are recognizing one religion as opposed to another. They are simply recognizing a form of speech known as prayer. Prayers at public meetings are an expression of humility. The individuals there can pause to think beyond themselves. To think about the whole the city in this caseto recognize the responsibility they have toward the citizens in the decisions they make. Humility is not just a religious thing. A person does not have to be religious to offer a public prayer. Nor does one have to be religious to benefit from the experience of listening to a prayer. Public prayers do not necessarily reflect religious orientation. They are not a religious exercise. We believe that public prayer is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment and thank the Utah Supreme Court for believing that too. Financial assistance in Nebo District Nebo School District has adopted regulations and policies for students to make application for fee waivers. A student may request a fee waiver which will be granted if the studentfamily meets state guidelines. The district annually adopts a set of school registration and activity fees. The fees are reviewed re-viewed to comply with Utah State Board of Education guidelines. In 1992-93: Student fees were waived for 1,172 students. The dollar value of fee waivers was $72,280. Free lunch is provided for 3,427 eligible students. This figure represents 19.1 percent of a- a if if "Uncle Wiggly Wings" as the Berlin kids called him back in 1948-49, and later dubbed, "The Candy Bomber", was the guest speaker at the last Kiwanis meeting. That famed cold-war Air Force pilot is Colonel Gail G. Halvorsen, right, who told about how two sticks of gum got it all started. After landing at Templehoff Airfield in Berlin, as he was leaving the runway he saw a group of youngsters through the fence. With only two sticks of gum in his pocket, he first just waved at the kids and continued walking away. Then he said to himself, "What the heck! I'll break the sticks in two and have four pieces to give." Then he went back and poked the gum through the fence. The kids were most grateful, having tasted no candy or gum most of their lives. They joyfully shared the four pieces, and those who were left out were given the wrappers to just smell with delight. On subsequent flights he came prepared with candy and gum tied to handkerchief parachutes and as he passed over the city he would wiggle the wings of his plane to let the kids know which plane he was in, then drop the candy. Before that two-year airlift was over the candy-dropping idea had captured the fancy of our entire nation and at one time over 6,500 lbs. of candy, already rigged with chutes, were shipped from the U.S., and was dropped over the entire city including East Berlin. The "Candy Bomber" became famous and an elementary school in Frankfurt, Germany, at the originating airfield at Rhine-Mein, was named in his honor, as was learned from his wife, Alta, also shown above. The toastmaster was Ronald Schouten, left. Thursday will be a 7 a.m. breakfast meeting. jrnnguiU? Hrralfi (USPS 513-060) Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah 84663 Publisher.. Martin W. Conover Editor Patricia Conover Second Class Postage Paid in Springville, UT 84663 Postmaster send change of address notice to: The Springville Herald, 161 S. Subscriptions in Advance per year $18.00 Out of County Subscriptions per year $21 .00 Per Copy $0.50. Delivered by carrier, per month $1.80 Member Utah Press Association - January 12, 1994 the total district enrollment of 17,871 students. Reduced lunch is authorized for 2,527 eligible students. That number of students represents 14.3 percent of the district enrollment. enroll-ment. The percentage of students receiving free andor reduced school lunch is 33.4 percent. Student assistanceaid to families fami-lies with dependent children is given to 1,248 students in the district. That number of students represents 6.9 percent of the district. Honor student Ricks College recently named 1 ,623 students to its fall semester honor roll, an increase of 135 students over last year's honor roll. Those from this area are: Jan Marie Bradford, Anna Lee Harmer and Jacqueline Metcalf. Main, Springville UT 84663 Springville police report A group of Springville male teenagers were hanging out in a neighborhood near the high school one night this week when they saw a vehicle turn around the corner. The vehicle's bright lights turned on and one of the boys thought that it was some of his friends. He turned around, dropped his pants and mooned the approaching car. They were his friends, but not the ones he thought they were. It was a police car in the area investigating investigat-ing an accident. The embarrassed youth is being charged with lewdness. Springville Police arrested Shenandoa A. Harris, 44 Roosevelt Roose-velt Ave. American Fork, for driving under the influence of alcohol, possession of a controlled contro-lled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Charges are pending on Chris E. Warenski, 997 N. 100 West, Orem, for disorderly conduct after a fight at Mountain Springs. Landon L. Barker, 82 Brook-side, Brook-side, Springville, was arrested for shoplifting at Reams. Two juveniles juve-niles were also arrested during the week for shoplifting at Reams. Brian L. Woods, 1761 S. State, Springville, was arrested on a warrant. Mike Matola, Orem, was arrested for parole violation. Two juveniles were caught after they escaped from the Observation Ob-servation and Assessment Center in Springville. A juvenile was arrested on a pickup (warrant) order. Two juveniles, a male and a female, were charged with possession pos-session of tobacco. And another juvenile was charged with illegal consumption. Thefts included three bicycles; a vehicle; a cardboard dog decoration; deco-ration; CD's, Game Boy and games from a vehicle; and wood from Brook Court Condos. Charges are being filed on two men who were fighting at Moun tain Springs. Mapleton police report Mapleton Police had 24 calls last week. They arrested Ronald D. Speaker, 101 W. 1500 South 92, Provo, on a warrant. They also arrested Rob L. Bull, 1190 N. 300 West, Mapleton, Maple-ton, for speeding, illegal consumption, con-sumption, driving under the influence of alcohol and driving on a denied drivers license. Two juveniles with him were also arrested for illegal consumption and another was charged with giving false information to a police officer and illegal possession. posses-sion. In another incident police investigated an assault and criminal crimi-nal mischief between two female juveniles. A window was broken after the assault, but no charges were filed. Ponzi and pyramid By Dennis Hinkamp USU Extension Ponzi and pyramid schemes are to consumer fraud what Dickens Dick-ens and Hemingway are to literature. litera-ture. The hucksters never tire of introducing these classics to a new generation of unwitting consumers. So, as the saying goes "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. " Ponzi schemes are named after Charles Ponzi, a humble store clerk who amassed $10 million in the 1920s by bilking gullible investors. Even in those pre-computer, pre-computer, pre-late night television televi-sion 30-minute commercial days, the scam was disarmingly simple. Ponzi offered his investors a 40 percent return on their money when the going rate at banks of the day was five percent. This incredible offer was given validity validi-ty by actually paying some of the first investors their 40 percent return. The catchand the fraudulent part-is that Ponzi was paying off the first few investors with the money of later investors. These new investors were baited into the trap by those who actually had reaped the high rate of return. re-turn. As" it became more difficult to get new investors, Ponzi upped the ante by offering 50 percent or more return on investment. The COMMENT PAGE No such thing as 'federal money' To The Editor: In a recent article, by Lee Allen of Provo, he addressed what he called "a quintessential demonstration of mindless government gov-ernment regulation." (A brilliant description!) In his article, he pointed out that the EPA has "mandated" a carbon monoxide (CO) level, for cities, of now more than 8.0 parts per million (ppm) for any eight hour period. This level was predicated on protecting those in society at greatest risk, i.e., those with respiratory difficulties or lung disease. Apparently, the continuous exposure level for healthy individuals, in submarines for example is set at 25 ppm. In industrial settings 100 ppm is the limit and he mentioned that smokers smo-kers inhale thousands of ppm. According to the EPA's tests, the typical violation, of the 8 ppm limit, in Provo occurs between be-tween the end of the evening traffic rush hour and the early morning hours of the next day. He then asks the pertinent question: ques-tion: "How many very sickly people do you find standing or sitting in their wheel chairs for eight hours, in the middle of the night at below freezing temperatures, tempera-tures, breathing 9 ppm CO along deserted Provo streets?" The entire article was a good exposition of the folly of over-zealous, over-zealous, mindless bureaucratic regulation. I should like to comment com-ment on two points he made in the article. First he reported that the Director of the State Department of Environmental Quality said that Utah either does what the EPA wants or the EPA will deny Utah $160 million of federal aid for highway construction and Senior Companion program works Dear Editor: Home care, the kind lovingly dispensed by Utah, Wasatch and Summit County volunteer Senior Companions to more than 225 frail, elderly shut-ins, will be a State and Utah County propose partial boundary settlement for Utah Lake The Division of State Lands and Forestry has issued a draft decision concerning the ownership owner-ship boundary on Utah Lake north of Saratoga Resort and south of the outlet to the Jordan River. The proposed boundary between be-tween the state's sovereign lands (the bed of the lake) and upland lands owned by Utah County is the west bank of an abandoned canal that runs south from the Jordan River outlet. This is the first of several anticipated settlement settle-ment agreements involving the lake's boundary. Utah was awarded title to the bed of Utah Lake by the Supreme Court in 1987. The division is in the process of negotiating an agreement to determine the loca scheme falls apart like a chain letter because the bases of investors inves-tors become so large that they can't all be paid. This classic chestnut of a scam still thrives today because of the basic principle of human nature-we nature-we want to get rich quick and we want to "get in on the ground floor" of a new investment. ' The modern twist to the Ponzi Scheme is that with computerized accounting, you don't even have to give the investors their money. Modern Ponzi practitioners often just show their investors "paper profits" by sending them an : official looking account statement ; that shows them making money. The investors are, of course, 1 urged to just leave their money in the account so that it can earn compounded interest. The scam doesn't fall apart until many of the investors try to simultaneous-, simultaneous-, ly withdraw their money. I 1, Ignore promises of high-! high-! guaranteed profits. Legitimate investments avoid promising specific percentage rates of profit. prof-it. Most will at least mention the degree of risk that goes hand in hand with the potential for large profits. J $130 million in federal aid for waste water treatment plant construction. con-struction. Federal aid hell! It is our own money that is being used to bribe and coerce us into doing what the federal bureaucrats want. When is the poor taxpayer going to wake up to the fact that there is no such thing as federal money! All funds dispersed by the federal government come from the citizens. citi-zens. Either they are taken from us in direct taxation of one sort or another, or they are surreptitiously surrepti-tiously stolen form us in the indirect taxation known as inflation. infla-tion. The government, or some other free enterprise counterfeiter, counterfeit-er, are the only ones who can cause inflation, for they all do the same thing: issue currency which cannot be redeemed in anything of value. The voting public must wake up to the fact that government govern-ment aid is like a blood transfusion, transfu-sion, where the blood is supposedly suppos-edly taken from one of your arms and injected back into your other arm, while most of the blood is actually wastefully spilled on the floor! The second point needs to be made with regard to his question whether the federal government should be allowed to mandate onerous and costly programs without first demonstrating a need for those programs. The question implies that there is a valid basis for the federal government govern-ment to be involved at all. The founders of this nation, wisely, provided for no such involvement by the federal government in local issues. That the Supreme Court has been allowed, by default, de-fault, to create that power by judicial interpretation, from the key link between the community and President Clinton's national service mo vement in 1 994 . - The id& of seniors helping others their age to live indepen- tion of the ordinary high-water mark at statehood to set the boundary for state ownership. Sovereign lands lie beneath the ordinary high-water mark of navigable bodies of water. The Division of State Lands and Forestry manages sovereign lands in the public interest for navigation, naviga-tion, commerce, fish and wildlife habitat, aquatic beauty, public recreation and water quality. Copies of the draft decision are available from the Division of State Lands and Forestry for a fee. Public comments are solicited solicit-ed and should be submitted in writing by January 28, 1994 to Karl Kappe, Division of State Lands and Forestry, 3 Triad Center, 400, Salt Lake City, Utah 84180-1204. 2. Avoid vague investments: If the promoters describe the investments invest-ments as "too technical" or that the principles in the investment "wish to remain anonymous," back off. Demand detailed information infor-mation in writing and ask for it to be explained in layman's language. lan-guage. 3. Back away from plans that offer deferred payments: As mentioned previously, a fraudulent fraudu-lent investment promoter may be trying to get you to accept paper profits to keep you from withdrawing with-drawing your money. 4. Don't accept any claims at face value: If the promoter says 'the company is registered with a 'government agency or has Dun & Bradstreet's stamp of approval, check it out. If they give you the location of a plant that is producing produc-ing a product, make sure it really exists and that manufacturing is going on there. 5. Check with state agencies: Call the State Securities Division, Salt Lake City or the Utah Division Divi-sion of Consumer Protection. Happiness is activity. Aristotle "general welfare" clause of the Preamble to the Constitution, is an indictment of our Congress and, by extension, of the American Ameri-can voter as well. Today, the public is continuously continu-ously presented with false alternatives alter-natives between which to decide. Should our tax dollars be spent on foreign aid or food stamps here at home; should the U.S. police the world or finance the UN in doing so; should international interna-tional travel be taxed $10 or $6.50 to make up for lost tariff revenue caused by NAFTA; should spending caps be put on Medicare or Medicaid; should American troops be brought home form Somalia now or on April 1; should we adopt the health care plan of the Republicans Republi-cans or the Democrats? This deceptive tactic is as old as politics poli-tics itself: Quibble over the details de-tails but never let the basic premise prem-ise be debated! Never are the real issues debated in Congress or in the media. The correct answer, in all the above instances, is that none of these actions is a proper, constitutional function of government. govern-ment. The widespread, abysmal ignorance of what constitutes the proper functions of government, any government, is reaching critical proportions. Hence, we have a federal government out of control. I heartily commend to one and all, the video of Ezra Taft Benson's Ben-son's speech, "The Proper role of Government." I would be happy to lend a copy of that video to anyone who will take the time to view it. I would also recommend, to all Mormons (and Gentiles as well), a repeated reading of D&C 134:1-11. Albert V. Burns dently at home was a topic often emphasized by speakers at a four-day four-day national conference of Senior Companions Program directors, which I recently attended in Washington, D.C. Although issues such as adult care, Alzheimer's respite care and aging trends indicate how SCP's role in the community is expanding, I was impressed by how much the conference theme of "Linking Lives Through National Na-tional Service" was pointed out by Tipper Gore, the vice president's presi-dent's wife and other speakers. As part of the National Senior Volunteer Corps, to be administered adminis-tered by the new Corporation for National and Community Service, SCP has been quickly caught up in the spirit of change. Yet, as SCP celebrates it's 20th national anniversary during 1994, it is still reassuring to note that these dedicated volunteers, locally sponsored by Community Action Agency will continue to help our homebound elderly live full lives independently as they have always done; with patience, understanding and friendship. Some ideas, it would appear, seem to thrive on change. Sincerely, Rosemarie Chipman Project Director Senior Companion Program 373-8200 Interest Rates are still low take advantage NOW! GEORGE G.WRIGHT Loan Officer CONVENTIONAL JUMBO WANS NEW HOME CONSTRUCTION NO COST PRE-QUALDICATION MORTGAGE SERVICES 222 9393 774 South 400 East Orem, Utah 84058 Home: 489 7944 "Conventional rates are the lowest since the 1960s" 2& |
