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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald EDITORIAL Folkfast fever I am a Folkfest junky... along with lots of other people in our community. I love the World Folkfest. I attend every night. My family houses some of the performers every year. I not only house, but I have done lot of other things in the past fourteen years, all volunteer, to help make the Folkfest happen. But I am not the only one who volunteers every year. There are hundreds like me, who, once they got involved in the Folkfest. loved the experience and want it to happen again each year. The Springville World Folkfest has grown to be the largest international festival of folk dance and music in the United States! More than 4,00Q performers from 45 countries have participated in past Folkfest performances, and more than 25.000 spectators have attend in the past 13 years. The Springville World Folkfest has received the coveted "State of Utah Tourism Award" for outstanding tourist events in the state. And did you know that the Springville World Folkfest is recognized as one of America's most valuable cultural events, bringing people of all nationalities together, with financial support coming from leaders in business and the arts. Did you know that there is a National Folk Organization of the USA and two international folk festival organizations, all who certify the Springville World Folkfest. A total of 175 nations belong to the two international groups. The World Folkfest isn't something we made up locally. Folk dance festivals happen around the world all the time. Our festival is patterened after classic European festivals. The dancers and musicians are come to share their cultural heritage through folk dance and music in their colorful native costumes. The costumes, variety of dances and unique musical instruments instru-ments make the World Folkfest entertaining for everyone in the family. The dances and music are performed in the traditional, old world style. And the performers are real people who share many of the same values and dreams you do. The Springville World Folkfest is a non-profit corporation governed by a board of trustees and an advisory committee. All the work is done by volunteers including the many host family who donate their time, money, food and hospitality for a week while the performers are here. It is a labor of love for all who get involved in volunteering in any way. About 400 dancers and musicians will pay their own way to Utah for the 1999 festival. They will be picked up at the SLC airport and taken care of while they are in our community. The visitors are not professional dancers. They are, for the most part, just people who have jobs and families and like to dance and carry on the traditions and cultural of their country. Their groups practice in their spare time and tour around the world to various dance festivals. Most of the performer have never been to the United States before. The impression they get here in Springville is what they will believe about all Americans. This is your opportunity to be a part of the largest cultural exchange you have ever imagined and one you will never forget! The Springville World Folkfest is a big, wonderful way to share love and friendship with peoples of the worlda perfect way to promote world peace. You, too, can become a Folkfest junky! Y2E1 nothing to fear It's coming sooner than you think. Y2K. There are millions of chips and lines of code that could be infected. What can we expect in Utah? There is no doubt that Y2K is not a hoax. Many have claimed the two digit faux pas could cripple computers world wide and provide a series of interruptions ranging from inconveniences incon-veniences to life-threatening events, but others maintain that calamities are unlikely. The original predictions for Y2K were grim, but thanks to the efforts of Y2K watchdogs like Senator Robert Bennett of Utah, there has been a flurry of activity in government, business and personal lives to address the bug that will invade our lives at the stroke of midnight on 123199. Executive Producer John Reim thinks that its important to dispel the hype surrounding the event. "We wanted the public to be better informed about the issues. Unfortunately the media has, on occasion, been irresponsible about Y2K. KBYU has taken a look at the infrastructure of the state of Utah to see how well Sty (USPS 5 1 3-060) 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, 161 S. Main, Springville, UT 84663 Subscriptions in Advance per year $20 Out of County Subscriptions per year $23 Per Copy 500 delivered by carrrier, per month $2 Member Utah Press Association - July 7, 1999 Y2K re-mediation and contingency contingen-cy plans have evolved." said Reim. Join KBYU on July 13 at 9 p.m. for "Y2K: Nothing to Fear." Learn about the people behind the scenes in Utah that have worked hard to make sure Y2K will pass uneventfully as we move forward into the 2 1st century. centu-ry. V Mapleton Police report Mapleton police cited several individuals for criminal trespass after they were called to a home in which there was a party in progress and they found out that the owners were in California. Those cited were: Ryan Daniel Smith, 1012 E. 80 North, Springville; Spring-ville; Cheree L. Olsen, 114 E. 800 South, Springville; Brett Allan Tipton, 531 E. 100 North, Springville; Elissa Butcher, 2570 E. Monte Bellow, Sandy; and Gngm should change tulesl by Dick Dellinger How big is the Postal Service monopoly on first class mail? Consider that when the first class stamp increased a penny to 33-cents, that means another Springville police report Springville police handled 326 calls last week including 54 that were animal related and 13 calls were regarding fireworks. There were four grass fires and two other fires. Clint R. Batty, 1250 N. Main 6, Springville, was arrested for DUI and evading police, a third degree felony. Arrested along with him was Rhonda Batty, 1250 N. Mam 6, for intoxication intoxica-tion and Clinton Shaune Hardy, 1250 N. Main 3, Springville, for a warrant, JDUI, open container con-tainer of alcohol and evading police. Tarrick C. Beach, 1336 S. 550 East, Springville was arrested arrest-ed for an outstanding warrant. Bodie David Bona, 451 Brook-side, Brook-side, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. Christy Oleah Brown, 309 W. 450 North, Orem, was arrested for a warrant. Mark A. Cook, 257 S. 500 East, Price, was arrested for a warrant. ; Darci June Espinoza, 1825 N. Main, Mapleton, was arrested for DUI. Jerry Don Fagon Jr., 147 N. 860 West, Spanish Fork, was arrested for a warrant. Pate Fe'a Jr., 900 N. Main 7, Springville, was arrested for intoxication. Mark James Hartley, Hart-ley, 254 E. 400 North, Springville, Spring-ville, was charged with assault. Jesica Lynn Tripp, 26 N. Main If 5, Springville, was charged with assault. Patrick Houchin, 78 W. 700 South, Springville, was arrested for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and intoxication. Duane Cook, 325 W. 100 South 2, Springville, Spring-ville, was arrested for a warrant. Dan Constantine Leonard, 61 S. 700 East, Centerville, was arrested for two warrants. Darcy Wayne McDonald, 300 E. 600 South, Springville, was charged with intoxication and assaultdomestic as-saultdomestic violence. Quinn Mounteer, 26 N. Main 12, Springville, was arrested for carry ing a concealed weapon and intoxication. Adam Mathew Page, 1143 S. 800 East, Mapleton, was arrested for a warrant. Kevin P. Rieske, 53 W. 300 North, Springville, was cited for possession of alcohol alco-hol by a minor after police caught him throwing fireworks at gas pumps. Brandon Sorensen, 1012 E. 80 North, Springville, was cited for criminal . trespass. Joseph Charles White, 772 Navajo, Kanab, was charged with reckless driving, failure to notify following follow-ing an accident, failure to stop and open container; he was taken to Wasatch Mental Health. A 14-year-old male was caught shoplifting at Reams and referred to Juvenile Court for giving false information to police and possession of stolen bike. A 16-year-old male was caught shoplifting at Aliens. Four more male juveniles were cited for curfew and one of them for shoplifting. shop-lifting. A 17-year-old male was taken to Youth Receiving for a warrant and possession of tobacco tobac-co by a minor. Two 11 -year-old males were arrested for attempted auto burglary bur-glary and violation of curfew, another male juvenile was arrested arrest-ed for possession of tobacco, warrant, giving false information to police, possession of stolen property and tampering with records. Thefts included a dressed statue that was in a garden; three gas skips; a bicycle; and two 11-inch 11-inch speakers from a garage where the garage door had $800 worth of damage from persons trying to pry it open. one juvenile. Jace Sanders and Maria Sanders, Sand-ers, 175 E. 400 South, Springville, Spring-ville, were cited for disorderly conduct. Steven E. Hill, 1305 N. 190 East, Lehi, was arrested for a warrant. Arthur D. Hone, 1675 S. State 3, Orem, was arrested for two warrants. Someone took a stereo from a home; a mailbox was blown up; the sin in the restroom at the city park was shattered; and $200 worth of damage was done to a tent trailer in which a small amount of food was taken. billion dollars in annual revenue to the Postal Service. The captive customers have no place to go. It is illegal to mail a regular letter any other way than via first class mail. You may not know that, but Postal Service executives sure do and they are milking it for all it's worth. - Worst of all, our current system of oversight of the country's largest monopoly allows al-lows the Postal Service to run roughshod and continue driving up first class revenue when there is absolutely no need. You know something is wrong when Congress voted 393-12 to demand no increase in first class stamps but the Postal Service Board of Governors ignores them and approves the increase anyway. any-way. Our representatives were reacting to a litany of events that cast a glaring spotlight on the Postal Service's gluttonous appetite appe-tite for our money despite four years of record profits and an appalling lack of accountability on current spending. Included in the infamous series were: - Millions of dollars spent on advertising for the first class mail monopoly. COMMENT PAGE Extremism in defense of liberty Editor: July 4, I've been pondering Independence Day, it's meaning, the founders' courage. A small, dedicated, representative group of patriots gathered together to attach their names to a document (the Declaration of Independence) of extreme defiance to their own British government. These 56 brave men signed their own death warrant. Nine of them lost their lives in the revolutionary war that followed. July 4, 1776 was the birth of our nation from 13 colonies to 13 independent and sovereign states, united as a confederacy. The birth of the liberty experiment of self government. A sovereign and independent nation of free people was born from the eight-year revolutionary struggle that followed fol-lowed the Declaration of Independence. Inde-pendence. Their reliance on God, their sacrifices, their struggle was a Bennett endorses Hatch Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) issued the following statement regarding today's announcement by Sen. Orrin Hatch (also R-Utah) R-Utah) that he will establish an exploratory committee to review his potential candidacy for president presi-dent of the United States: "While everyone recognizes ! that Governor Bush is favored to win the Republican nomination, it is always unwise to award the championship trophy before any games are played. Both the party and the eventual nominee will be better served if there is competition, competi-tion, in both ideas and personalities, personali-ties, between now and the Republican Repub-lican convention. "After 23 years in the Senate, including more than a decade as a committee chairman, Orrin Hatch has become a legitimate and significant national figure. All Utahns can be proud of the record re-cord he has compiled. It is perfectly per-fectly appropriate that he explore the possibility of running for president. I will stand with him and help him as this effort moves forward. He is my friend, as well : as my colleague, and I know he will wage a vigorous campaign. "A word of clarification; While waiting for Sen. Hatch to . make his final decision and with his encouragement, I have been assisting Elizabeth Dole in her own exploratory efforts and will continue to do so." The first design for a bicycle : may have been created by Leonardo Leo-nardo da Vinci or one of his ' pupils. The design shows a ma-' ma-' chine propelled by cranks and i pedals. f - More marketing dollars spent sponsoring a bike team in the Tour de France with a mostly European audience. - More than $5 billion in profit over four years for the "break even" USPS. - A cheating scandal that showed how easy it is for postal employees to distort the new delivery test that alleges delivery rates are improving. - An elegant retirement party for Postmaster General Marvin Runyon at spectacular Union Station with a final tab of more than $124,000, with the check picked up by the postal customers. custom-ers. And like an agency in search of a 12-step program, the Postal Service just can't seem to stop itself. Since the Governors approved the hike, the General Accounting Office has reported the Postal Service lost almost $85 million on new products that have nothing noth-ing to do with delivering the mailand despite this record-900 postal executives received year-end year-end bonuses that averaged $10,4000 Congress needs to stop playing play-ing the fool and grab this out-of-control bull by the horns. First, final authority on first great success. A Constitution followed that created a new form of government, a Republic with specified and limited powers, checks and balances and protection protec-tion of individual rights; but now, 223-years later, we face the gradual loss of the very independence, indepen-dence, sovereignty and liberty won for us by the founders and the revolutionary armies. We face the subordination of our Constitution Constitu-tion and Bill of Rights to a foreign" for-eign" power, the United Nations, which does not recognize the concepts of liberty forged into our Constitutional order. The UN seeks to create a new jurisdiction over America and all nations. It's latest attempt is the ongoing formation of a court or tribunal to hold jurisdiction over individual humans worldwide. The new International Criminal Court (ICC) is being promoted as a way to bring war criminals to . justice. The Kosovo war provides Work at home scheme using BBB to lull victims A work at home scheme promising "unlimited monthly income," and a chance to win $3,000,000 is circulating in Utah mailboxes with an assurance that the offer is, "proudly listed by: the Better Business Bureau." , "They're listed alright," says Russ Behrmann, President of the Better Business Bureau of Utah regarding the get rich scheme that calls itself, Mike Carrier Marketing, or MCM Postcards out of Citrus Heights, California. "When we called the BBB of Sacramento, California to check the company out, they confirmed they had a record and were aware of MCM. Their record is nothing to brag about. The fact they're listed with a Better Business Bureau is a negative in this case," adds Behrmann. "Many times businesses state they are listed with the BBB in an effort to lead the consumer to believe that they are members of a Better Business Bureau. MCM couldn't qualify for membership with any BBB in the U.S. or Canada," stresses Behrmann. Because MCM's . post card scheme is now hitting Utah mailboxes, mail-boxes, and because of the attempt to mislead the public about their affiliation with the BBB, Behr-. mann says MCM will also soon, "be listed in Utah for all the wrong reasons." "People in Utah that are now receiving these post cards have appeared on some sort of marketing market-ing list compiled or purchased by MCM" explains Behrmann. "We know one individual in Murray that purchased a list of names from MCM and sent out at least 100 cards to others. It will only take a small percentage of those 100 to send out their 100 cards and have the cycle repeat itself class mail rates must be given to the Independent Postal Rate Commission (PRC). The Postal Service acts with such impunity because it not only has a huge monopoly on first class mail, it also is the final authority on what to charge! Second, the PRC must be . given subpoena power to get the information it needs out of an uncooperative Postal Service. Given these big clubs to wield, the PRC could bring the now foreign concept of account- ", ability down on the Postal Ser-.; vice and force the agency to." make the on-time delivery of first -class mail its top priority. Last year, the Postal Service.!; showed Congress the kind of'; respect most people reserve for-: Rodney Dangerfield. This year;! Congress can, and should,: change the rules. Then we would finally be oh;: the way to a monopoly that is first class. Dick Dellinger is chairman of the board of the Association of Retired Americans which is a member of the Coalition to Make Our First Class Mail FIRST CLASS with more than 200 member organizations representing represent-ing more than five million Amer- icans. a test case. Demonize a Yugoslavian Yugosla-vian dictator, charge him as a "war criminal", try him before ; the ICC then justify the ICC to the U.S. Senate so they will sign a treaty subjecting U.S. citizens to the authority and jurisdiction of this global tribunal. Suddenly Americans become world citizens subject to a global court. Our independence is gone, our sover- . eignty vanished, our Rights no more, the Declaration of Independence Indepen-dence is effectively repealed if such a treaty ever passes. And who has opposed this ICC? A small group of org- '; anized, committed, patriots who are extreme in their view that we ' ' must remain independent and freeThe John Birth Society. As George Washington once : pointed out, "Extremism in de- ' ' fense of liberty is no vice." Bliss W. Tew Orem before we've got thousands of potential victims in Utah alone." ' ; Recipients of the cards are ' ; asked to send $3 to find out more ; about the business opportunity and then you can pay more to ' purchase marketing lists of poten- ' rial targets for the scam. Partici-' ' pants are even told they get a ' commission on lists or other products purchased by individuals they "signed up" in the pyramid like scheme. The BBB suggests-:; that the cards destroyed, or for- : 'z warded to the U.S. Postal Inspec- tor. - - Health notes Many older Americans need a tetanus booster. About 70 of Americans older than age 60 are not immune to tetanus, according to a study at the University of Florida at Gainesville. They lost their immunity because they failed to have a current tetanus booster shot. Immunization guidelines guid-elines recommend that people receive several vaccines by age five, then receive booster shots every 10 years. Not keeping up with tetanus booster shots can make a person susceptible to lockjawa potentially fatal infection infec-tion of the central nervous system that causes spasms in facial, neck and throat muscles and makes breathing and swallowing difficult. diffi-cult. . The Code of Hammurabi, a collection of Babylonian laws of the 1700s B.C., included a form of credit insurance. A borrower did not have to repay a loan if personal misfortune .made it impossible to do so. The borrower borrow-er paid an extra amount for this protection in addition to the interest. r? 1 v". POOR i 1 I |
