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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald EDITORIAL You are needed! In recent weeks two parks have been announced to be built in Springville. One is at 550 E. 650 North and is being planned and will be built primarily through volunteer efforts. The other will be built at about 1200 East 1300 South where land was donated by the Edward and Hannah Clyde family. Volunteer efforts will probably be needed to complete this park too. With the tremendous growth in the city, more open space in the form of parks is needed. Plans are also underway for a walkingbike trail up Hobble Creek Canyon. The city recently completed the Bird Park just west of the high school. It includes four baseball fields that are fully equipped and a nature trail. This was built on property donated by the Bird family. The new park in the north part of town will include three soccer fields, a walkingnature trail, playground area and picnic tables. The land on which it will be built is owned by the Nebo School District who opened up a seven-acre area to be developed by the city with tentative plans for a school to be built there sometime in the future. And the city Centennial Beautification Committee is firming up plans to plant trees and erect a sign with a statue at each entrance to the city. It would be wonderful if the city could afford to build and equip all of these parks and trails, but they cannot. The completition of these areas will take hundreds of volunteer hours and donations. But it is also with projects like this that a community pulls together. Neighbors get to know one another. And things happen. If you have time and talents that can be used in the community, come forward. You are needed. Volunteer to help complete these projects. They will each make our city better and a nicer place to live. What was that Hillary Clinton said, "It takes a village." It does take a villagenot to raise our children--but to make this a better place to live. What can you do to help? There are so many needs. There is a place for you and your family to volunteer! Fire threatens Mapleton homes by Kjirstin Youngberg A weed-burning expedition turned into a full-scale fire Monday Mon-day afternoon for three Mapleton boys. John Boyd, Logan Bench and Mike Barnes, all 14, set out to clear a path to their "Boys Club" trailer down near the creek, when wind whipped the flames into an instant inferno. Fire engulfed the trailer, and the boys ran to call 911. A propane tank inside the trailer exploded, propelling the fire outward, fed by dry weeds and fierce winds. Aaron Johnson, operating his front end loader across the creek, heard the explosion and saw flames "as high as the trees." He drove his loader directly to the scene, using it to scoop sand up to smother the flaming trailer. Becky Haggard, leaving to watch her children at a softball game, saw smoke near her horse corral and investigated. "I just heard on the news that Utah was the number one state in the nation for fire danger and there it was, in my backyard!" The flames had already spread across the field and were threatening threat-ening homes on the exclusive 1700 North bench. Becky grabbed her garden house which was used to water her horse, Christmas, and sprayed the flames as she ran barefoot down the side of the hill to rescue Christmas. New construction on the Mitchell home next to the Haggard Hag-gard residence was especially vulnerable. Unprotected wood lay only a few feet from flames which were whipped by wind gusts to 70 mph. Becky turned the hose over to her son, Dainon, 16, who continued the work even (USPS Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah Publisher Martin W. Conover Editor Patricia Conover Periodical Postage Paid in Springville, UT 84663 Postmaster send change of address notice to: The Springville Herald, 1 61 S. Main, Springville, UT 84663 Subscriptions in Advance per year $20.00 Out of County Subscriptions per year $23.00 Per Copy $0.50 Delivered by carrier, per month $2.00 Member Utah Press Association - July 2, 1997 after fire fighters arrived. Damage was limited to the hillside area, and all homes were saved. Two snowmobiles and the trailer and some hay were destroyed. de-stroyed. Eight fire engines, three police cars, one ambulance and a county fire truck responded. 800 numbers should be free The Better Business Bureau has received reports of people calling toll free (800, 888) phone numbers and then being switched to a 900 number or foreign exchange ex-change that charged access fees. According to the Federal Communications Com-munications Commission (FCC) regulations to charge a fee in relation to a call made to a prefix typically used for toll free calling. call-ing. In once instance a teenager called an 800 number with her friends to listen to a "racy" message. mes-sage. A month later her mother received a bill for $30 for a six-minute six-minute call to the island of "Niune"!!! According to the FCC, this practice is illegal and they will pursue consumer complaints. com-plaints. However, the perpetrators perpetra-tors are supposedly located outside out-side of the country and that makes it difficult for investigation and prosecution. Meanwhile, the daughter is paying off the phone bill. The biggest spenders on foreign for-eign tourism are Americans, who spent $38.7 billion abroad in 1990. 513 - 060) Thanks! Editor: A big thanks to all the people in our community who purchased Girl Scout Cookies. Because of your support, 14 girls from Mapleton Map-leton Troop 939 went to Day Camp July 17, 18 and 19. They also went to Core Camp July 25-18 25-18 at Payson Lakes. Hiking, swimming, canoeing, compass and rope skills and team work games are some of the activities the girls enjoyed. Springville police report Springville police had 331 calls last week including 50 that were animal related. They investigated inves-tigated two accidents, one involving involv-ing the death of a seven-year-old boy, and the other the death of an 85-year-old man. They also were called to the scene of an apparent suicide of a 34-year-old man in Hobble Creek Canyon. Tyson Robert Simmons, age 7, of Fairview, was visiting family in Springville Thursday evening when he was struck by a train at about 400 South and 400 West. Simmons and two cousins, ages 9 and 6, were by the west railroad track throwing rocks at an eastbound train when another train going west came around the curve. Apparently the boy could not hear the second train because of the other one. The conductor and engineer honked the train's horn, but Simmons did not move in time. He was transported to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced pro-nounced dead. The other boys were not injured. Hugh Roylance, 85, walked in front of a vehicle and was struck and killed. The 25-year-old male did not see him step in front of the vehicle. Police arrested Thomas F. Conklin, 95 S. 100 East 3, Springville for having an outstanding out-standing warrant. Kip Randy Edwards, 653 S. 880 West 4, Provo, was arrested for a warrant. war-rant. Joseph Edward Fair, 656 E. 900 South, Springville, was arrested for four warrants. Earl L. Johnson, 8689 S. 400 South,. Spanish Fork, was charged with six counts of issuing bad checks. Shane Michael Peart, 187 S. 1920 West, Provo, was arrested for two warrants. Roy D. Pierce, 850 N. Main 24, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. Patrick Philip Simkins, 4115 S. 800 West, Spanish Fork, was arrested for theft after an incident of stealing steel from a storage area. Rachelle Raisor, 339 W. 100 South, Springville was arrested ar-rested for perscription fraud. Eight bicycles were reported stolen and two recovered. Other thefts involved perscription glasses glass-es from the swimming pool; license plate from Mt. Springs; diskman and amp from a truck; two tape recorders, a stungun and rifle scope from a home; speakers and amp taken from a vehicle; rings taken from a home; and soda pop was taken after someone some-one broke into Sage Creek School. A window was broken in a vehicle; someone smashed eggs in several mail boxes; tires were slashed on the mower at the cemetery; and someone set a fire in the restroom at Heritage Park. Several pornographic tapes were left by a church. Two female fe-male juveniles were arrested for curfew violation. A male adult was seen running at 400 N. 880 East with no clothes on. And a female juvenile took checks from her parents and forged them. Mapleton police report Mapleton police said that someone set four grass fires last week apparently by throwing firecrackers. They do have a suspect vehicle but are asking citizens who might have seen anyone around the fires to call them with information. Travis Paul Johnson, 510 N. 800 East, Spanish Fork, was arrested for a warrant. Police are investigating a report of child abuse. A bike was taken from a garage. Two citizens citi-zens received Nigerian fraud letters. There were two gas skips reported. And police found graffiti graf-fiti in the Mapleton Park. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -George B. Shaw '".Utah StNttBS. hSGk: "Oh, Utah," exclaims a Washington Was-hington Post story about the state's controversial new federal monument, the Grand Staircase-Escalante Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The writer waxes lyrical about the sweeping vistas and geologic marvels he sees there. The irony, however, is that most of the scenery he describes isn't in the monument at all. Those sights that are in the monument are either in areas the state already wanted to protect or miles away from a proposed coal mine that the monument was designed to stop. So, nine months after President Presi-dent Clinton made a campaign stop at the Grand Canyon-in Arizona, mind youto declare the Utah land a monument off limits to development, Utah lawmakers are, if anything, even more unhappy un-happy about the designation than they were before. "When he designated the monument," complained com-plained Utah Republican Chris Cannon at a press conference this week, "President Clinton ignored the law, ignored the facts and ignored the people of Utah." Two state groups have since filed suit, charging that Clinton violated environmental laws and the federal statute providing for the designation of federal monuments, monu-ments, the 1906 Antiquities Act. COMMENT PAGE Shopping at the cemetery To Whom It May Concern: I am addressing this letter to the person or persons who have been helping themselves to all the cute decorations I have been putting on my infant son's grave. You seem to think that because he is dead it doesn't make you a thief to steal items at the cemetery. ceme-tery. I have one question for you: Would you take it from him if he were alive, playing with it in my front yard? As parents who have lost children, or others who have lost loved ones, the only thing we can do for them is to keep their headstones and graves looking nice and placing ornamental things there. When you pilfer these articles that we have so lovingly placed there, you wound us - those left behind. I sure hope Guard against illegal Dear Editor: Instead of sending our troops to disastrous quagmires around the world, we desperately need to send troops to our southern borders bor-ders to defend our nation against the hordes of illegal aliens who are invading our nation. These include drug smugglers, imported criminals, weapon runners and others who are bleeding the border states into financial ruin along with raising havoc across the nation. Senator Orrin Hatch recently said, "Utah has experienced experi-enced a significant, growing problem with criminal illegal aliens." He noted that in Salt Lake County during 1995, over 80 percent of all drug felons, over 60 percent of homicides and most of the gang membership were illegal aliens. According to the Constitution, Cannon votes to lower tax burden Chris Cannon (R-UT) voted "yes" last week to pass the Taxpayer Tax-payer Relief Act and fulfill the Republican commitment to provide pro-vide permanent tax relief. Cannon Can-non calls tax relief the most important thing Congress can do for the average family this year. "This is the first tax relief hard-working Americans have seen since 1981 under Ronajd Reagan. American families ana businesses routinely pay their bills and play by the rules, only to be shortchanged by the weight of the federal tax burden," said Cannon. "This plan is the first step towards letting taxpayers keep more of what they earn, reversing about a third of the tax hike imposed by President Clinton Clin-ton and the Democrats in 1993." "The typical worker puts in three hours of each work day jut to pay taxes. President Clinton The Utah Association of Counties alleges the president illegally used the act to effect the preservation preser-vation of wilderness, an authority which Congress has reserved for itself. The designation also violated violat-ed the Federal Land Policy Management Man-agement Act, according to the suit which requires notice and comment beforehand. In a statement, Cannon said the While House briefed officials in Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana and New Mexico on the plan six weeks in advance and invited comment from them. Meanwhile, he said, the "people of Utah-including our governor, our delegation and even my Democratic predecessor, learned about this proposal in the pages of the Washington Post 1 1 days before the announcement. And, even then, our delegation and governor were misled and substantively sub-stantively ignored." A second suit filed by the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration charges char-ges that President Clinton has violated the promise he made at the time of the designation that the monument" will not come at the expense of Utah's children." Mineral development, including coal production, on the lands surrounded by the monument you enjoy having these items, and when someone asks where you got it, you proudly answer, "I stole it from a baby's grave!" Many people have advised me not to buy such attractive and nifty things to take to the cemetery. ceme-tery. My replay is, "Do you not buy your children or others presents pres-ents or toys because you are worried that they might break or lose the gift?" NO - you hope they will be careful and enjoy it. The same goes for me. I hope it will be left alone and not taken by someone. As many of you read this, you are probably not the ones who have swiped things from my son's grave, but maybe you have from someone else's. I just want to remind you that you will some day have to face that person and the main purpose of our government govern-ment is to defend us from foreign invaders, not sending our troops to foreign countries. President George Washington warned us against foreign involvement when he said, "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience experi-ence prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government." Our military defenses are being desecrated by our draft-dodging draft-dodging president who loathes our military. Our military and country are being bleed to death by sending our troops all around the world as part of the New World Order. Before 1960, about 50 percent of the national budget was spent on national defense. has a moral obligation to join with Congress, sign the tax cut bill and let Americans enjoy some tax relief." The Taxpayer Relief Act targets tax cuts to the people who need it most: middle class families fami-lies who are trying to raise children, chil-dren, pay for their education and save for their own retirement. Under the plan, a $500 child tax credit will help parents provide pro-vide for the basic needs of young children and teenagers. Savings and investing will be made easier through expanding IRAs, including includ-ing a homemaker IRA. Passing down the family business will be eased through a decrease in the "death" tax. The U.S. Congressional Medal Med-al of Honor was authorized on July 12, 1862. stood to generate millions of dollars for the education of Utah children. Projects planned for the lands have since been canceled. The president promised to appoint ap-point a commission to trade the trust lands for federal lands considered con-sidered equally productive but less environmentally sensitive. But a spokesman for Cannon says the president has yet to appoint anyone. Clinton, of course, can afford to ignore Utah and three electoral votes he wouldn't have gotten from the conservative state anyway. any-way. The monument also happens to put off-limits a coal source that might have competed with the coal operations of the now-famous Indonesian Friends of Bill, the family of James Raidy. Perhaps Per-haps it's just a coincidence. There is one other irony to this controversy worthy of note at this environmentally conscious time. Utah's coal reserves are the low-sulphur, less polluting variety. vari-ety. Knocking them out of production pro-duction raises the cost of lowering lower-ing emissions. One can only hope these lawsuits will help clear the air. taken from the Washington Times Editorial Section June 30, 1997, pg. A15 tell them why you took it. As a community, let us show more respect for our kindred dead. Leave the items at the cemetery that mourning families have left there to show their love for the ones they have lost. If you read this, please teach your children, teenagers, grandparents grand-parents and friends that the things at the cemetery are not free for the taking, but are to be left alone. It is a place of reverence for those who have someone buried there. I know I am not the only one with this problem. I just hope it makes those who need a reminder, remind-er, think a little, before they choose to go "shopping at the cemetery. " Kristi Murdock Springville aliens today only about 15 percent of the national budget is spent on defense. President George Washington Wash-ington said, "To be prepared for war is one of t he most effectual means of preserving peace." With an inadequate national defense, a nation debt of about 5.5 trillion dollars and a interest debt payment pay-ment of about 250 billion dollars per year, we can't afford to be welfare keeper of the world. It's a shame that innocent people are murdered on our highways because the corrupt Clinton Administration will not properly guard our borders against illegal aliens. When I think of the Clinton Administration Administra-tion and the Democratic Congress, Con-gress, I am reminded of the Book of Mormon and the Gadianton robbers. Art Larson Springville Utah Poison Control Center The Utah Poison Control Center, a program of the University Univer-sity of Utah College of Pharmacy, Pharma-cy, has purchased a new telephone tele-phone system and added two new emergency telephone lines. There are now six emergency telephone lines available to the center so it can better serve all Utah citizens. Licensed pharmacists and nurses with special training in clinical toxicology staff the Utah Poison Control Center 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They provide pro-vide free assistance to the public and to health professionals during poisoning emergencies. For a poisoning emergency, call the Utah Poison Control Center at 581-2151 in the Salt lake Valley, or 1 -800-456-7707 elsewhere in Utah. Free telephone tele-phone stickers may be obtained by calling 581-7504. ,mmm ,m 1 r- "I i- - n inniij m - r-.. a - . |