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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald - December 21, 1994 EDITORIAL Message of love It was some 2,000 years ago that a small child was born into this world who would do more for mankind than any other person who would ever be born. The story of that birth is told and retold. And, as always, the well-remembered words of Matthew and Luke will have renewed meaning and inspiration as we hear them again. The retold story brings us some measure of the awe and wonder that was experienced experi-enced by the shepherds and wisemen so long ago. The supreme moment in that sacred story is when they first saw the young Child with Mary, His mother. This child would not become a king or a great inventor. He would not be a rich man. He was born in a stable. His bed was a box used to hold hay for the animals. He would never have fancy things. Yet, this child would grow to influence the way we all live. His message to the world was of love. He didn't love just those who did what was right or the people who wore nice clothes and had lots of money. He loved everyone. He loved the poor, the sick, the handicapped. He loved those who had a different color of skin or who spoke a different language or who were of a different religion. There would be no Christmas without the Savior. It is His birthday we celebrate. The real celebration of Christmas is accepting the infant babe into our hearts and letting the flow of love He gives spread to others. Let us celebrate Christmas Sunday with hearts full of brotherly love, friendship and deeds of service. Let us focus our attention not only on His birth, but on His teachings and His message. Let us embrace others in Christian love. Thanks to Reams Dear Editor: The world is full of "Knights in Shining Armor" --people who go about doing good deeds for people without any expectation of complimentseither public or private. However, I would like to make people aware of something that has been going on in the SpringvilleMapleton area for quite some time. There has been a business in the community that has been extremely gracious and generous in helping to support numerous youth activities in your community. Last year we started a freestyle free-style wrestling club in Springville for all age groups. The purpose of the club is to improve the quality of wrestling in our community. com-munity. However, most importantly, impor-tantly, the growth opportunities the sport of wrestling offers your youth is tremendous. Wrestling, like an individual "one-on-one" sport, helps teach our youth at young ages, both the principle of Payment not needed The Better Business Bureau of Utah has received more than 50 inquiries on a mailing by National Nation-al Directory Service of San Diego Die-go in the last two days. Award notices signed by Alan Brown, Director, claim the recipient is the "guaranteed winner of up to $10,000 cash." The award notice requires a $15 fee to claim the prize. "Requiring a payment in order to collect a prize in a sweepstakes contest violates federal lottery laws," Bill Beadle, BBB of Utah president, said. "Our office is concerned that Utahns will waste their time and money on what appears to be an illegal mailing," he said. Sweepstakes promoters are required by law to provide a complete disclosure of contest rules to consumers, Beadle said. Disclosures should include a statement that no purchase is necessary to enter the contest and also provide the odds of winning. (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. Main, Springville UT 84663 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 positive rewards for hard work as well as coping mentally and 'emotionally with the aspects of losing-something many adults in today's society haven't even learned yet. This year Reams of Springville Spring-ville helped us out tremendously in assisting us with fundraising activities to help us get a great start for this program. Reams has been a great supporter sup-porter of youth programs for a number of years. They just don't cater to one or two special interest inter-est groups, they truly are interested interest-ed in our kids, whether the activity activ-ity is Scouting, sports or music related. Many thanks to Jim Easley, manager and also to Paul Ream, owner, for their commitment to kids and anything that helps develop kids into good, responsible responsi-ble and mature adults. Gary & Michelle Ratcliffe Devils Den Wrestling Club A telephone number listed on the post cards is from the Los Angeles area. The number reaches reach-es a pre-recorded message, no telephone personnel are available to take customer calls. The message mes-sage states the number has been charged and to call a 900-number with a fee of $9.90. National Directory Service does not occupy any kind of office in San Diego. The address on the post cards belongs to a private post office box. According Accord-ing to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, that box has been closed. Utahns receiving sweepstakes notices can check on those companies com-panies with the BBB. Reliability reports issued by the Bureau may indicate whether the firm has an unsatisfactory or satisfactory record. To check on a company, call 801-487-4656 in the Salt Lake City area or 800-456-3907 statewide. Springville Police report A week ago Tuesday Springville Spring-ville Police were called out to check a suspicious incident at the Springville Animal Clinic on 400 S. and 400 West. Dr. Davis had come to work at the hospital and noticed a vehicle parked behind his building. When he started up his snow blower, the vehicle took off and slid into a ditch where persons in it fled on foot. The police tracked footprints from where the vehicle had been parked to a home in the area where they found that the home had been broken into. The owner of the home was contacted, and he found that many items had been taken including a coin collection. col-lection. The case was turned over to the Utah County Sheriffs office because it occurred in the county. Meanwhile Springville Police had impounded the vehicle, and an 18-year old Provo man came to claim it. Three young men are involved in the burglary and are suspected in the breakin of a trailer the night before. Kenneth J. Anderson, 5634 W. 3940 South, West Valley and Annetta C. Erickson, same address, ad-dress, were arrested for shoplifting shoplift-ing levis at Reams Market. The man was also charged with giving false information to police. Anthony L. Booth, 388 E. 300 North 32, Springville, was arrested for child abuse. Danial W. Boyd, 1641 Sandhill Road, Orem, was arrested on a warrant cited for driving on a suspended license. Masao Kikuchi, 274 S. 400 East, Provo, was arrested on a warrant. Justin T. MOower, 485 E. 900 South, Springville, was arrested for driving on a revoked license. Ivan A. Quintanilla, 860 W. Columbia Lane, Provo, was arrested on a warrant. Joey A. Rowley, 1401 S. 400 East, Springville, Spr-ingville, was arrested for possession posses-sion of a controlled substance, possession of paraphernalia, traffic offense, no driver's license and no registration. Police are investigating four cases of child abuse, a family fight and a fight at the middle school. There were several reports of . kids throwing snowballs at vehicles. vehi-cles. One windshield was broken. Three juveniles were charged with theft after taking Christmas lights from two homes. Thefts included calculators from the middle school; radio taken from the jr. high; handgun from a home; Jeep Cherokee; and theft of a bike. Two juveniles were charged with possession of tobacco and theft; two more were caught shoplifting; a 17-year-old girl was arrested for smoking; and a jr. high student was caught bringing bring-ing a knife to school. Mapleton police report Mapleton Police had 20 calls last week including seven animal related. A stolen vehicle was reported. Police believe that the 14-year-old son of the victim took the car. It was found in Provo, but the juvenile has not been found. He might have flown to Hawaii. Police arrested three juveniles for possession of tobacco. They also are investigating a family fight between two girls and the father. 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The first was a national news story that stated our esteemed senior Senator Orrin Hatch, a major voice against medical reform, had taken over $300,000 from the Medical-Insurance We don't need QBE in schools Dear Editor: There has been much discussion discus-sion recently about the harm being done to education by Outcome Out-come Based Education (OBE) and Goals 2,000 which are related to increased involvement, of the government in public education. Many features of OBE have been in operation in Utah public schools for several years and have failed to produce any significant signif-icant improvement in education. Phyllis Schlafly who thoroughly thor-oughly understands the problems of public education and who writes extensively about those problems has said: "Public school educators know they have failed. That's why they are backing Outcome Based Education. If there are no tests and no grades, the depth of their failure as educators edu-cators can't be evaluated. " Changing values, according to Schlafly is one of the prime goals' of OBE. She said, "....it's mis-; sion is to conform student beliefs, attitudes and behaviors to prescribed pre-scribed school mandated social norms, rather than to provide an academic education". Outcome Based Education is a process which allows our government govern-ment to tell our children how to live, what to say, what to think, what to know, and what not to know. The time and effort involved in-volved in these non-academic thought manipulations makes it very difficult for students to properly study and learn the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. Schlafly said: "OBE is converting the three R's to the three D's: Deliberately Dumbed Down." A Payson resident, Dorothy Bryson, who is appalled at the ffltolw 7 Liu Add On Air Conditioning Furnace Replacement &m TP b o (? a, Last Saturday night someone took it right off our front porch. This is to whoever took it: It may not seem like a very big deal to you. Maybe it was a funny joke or something, I don't know. But it was a very big deal to my two small boys, ages 3 and 6. They were very proud of this ornament. orna-ment. They helped their dad hang combine. The second is a local story about a Utah County woman who has been told by her medical doctor that without a heart transplant trans-plant she may die. This wife and mother has been advised by the regional medical center that she will not be put on the list for heart transplant trans-plant surgery until she and her failure of education officials to properly address this problem, said this about OBE: "It's the most devastating thing happening in education today. It's a lot of double-talk. Some of it sounds good, but if you thoughtfully study it, you will see the hidden agenda behind the sophisticated language." She also said: "It's destroying our values and our children. The research has been false. The climate in our schools is one area of disaster. " The duplicity and destructive-ness destructive-ness of the sociological and psychological psy-chological ideas and practices taking place in the public schools of Utah at this time can be illustrated illus-trated by the example of the recent emphasis of self esteem in our schools. Everyone will agree that self esteem is very much needed and it is praiseworthy. . However, in many schools, tea- chers were ordered by administrators adminis-trators to make self esteem then-top then-top priority in working with their students. Under this pressure teachers started giving credit to students, who needed to build their self esteem, for work they hadn't done. Credit was given for non-skill based activities in place of more rigorous work usually required. Students who still didn't did-n't know how to read and write were allowed to graduate from high school. The misuse of the principle of self esteem by trying to give it to students has resulted in many students leaving school to enter society without any true respect for themselves. Instead of feeling socially equal to others, these students are now going to feel Altera COOLING PAGE it and they made sure that it got turned on every night. We only got to enjoy this for a week. My six-year-old boy told me, "This is my worst Christmas ever!" So whoever you are, thank you for spreading the Christmas cheer. Hillcrest Drive resident family can put up $120,000 cash on the barrel head. Do you think if someone put these two news items together and presented them to Senator Hatch that he might donate some of the Medical-Insurance Combine Com-bine money to the Utah County mother who is so desperately in need? R.C. Harrigan socially inferior for the rest of their lives. It is also obvious in many of our universities today that many incoming students are able to memorize and pass tests but they don't know how to think or how to write. They are really not prepared to do university work or to function properly in society. Students must learn the basic skills through their own efforts, and construct their own understanding under-standing of the world they live in. Memorizing the philosophical, interpretation of others given in a very restricted context does very little to improve one's ability to think. It is the struggle to develop your own views and interpretations interpreta-tions which makes possible future success and happiness. Jess R. Bushman 1238 E. 640 S. Provo, UT Battling back If you're struggling with a backache and don't have chronic problems, it could be because the disks between your vertebrae are squashed from the everyday stresses and strains your body is putting on them. 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