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Show 2 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, June 9, 2005 Comments What a swell Editor: An 80th birthday party for Orpha Dee Johnson with a few honored guests and family, fam-ily, NO WAY!! In true Orpha Dee style she had a part for the whole town and what a party it was! The music was live and the refreshments were delicious. She met everyone that came thru the door personally and if you were or the male gender, gen-der, you had the privilege of dancing with "The Birthday Girl." She truly was the bell of the ball in her long purple gown and big brimmed hat that she chose "because it had the most roses on it!" Orpha Dee told me before the party that it was about Illegals bringing dangerous diseases Editor: One important issue the liberal lib-eral media and our politicians politi-cians are not telling the American people about are the many and serious diseases dis-eases which some illegal aliens are bringing into this country as they pour across our borders without being checked and rejected for diseases. dis-eases. We have up to 20 million mil-lion illegal aliens in this country. coun-try. The United States is required re-quired by the Immigration Nationality Act to enforce health standards for legal immigrants im-migrants who enter the country. The Attorney General Gen-eral is not to admit legal immigrants im-migrants if they are affected by any contagious disease. There are many dangerous infectious diseases which would disqualify someone from migrating legally into the United States. Because illegal il-legal aliens sneak into our country illegally by the millions, mil-lions, there is no way to check them for disease. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has warned of problems in the American Southwest originating in Mexico. Illegal immigrants who migrate mi-grate from their native countries coun-tries are often leaving behind everything but their endemic illnesses. A. study conducted by health officials along the Texas-Mexico border discovered discov-ered that among the many illegal il-legal aliens apprehended in Port Isabel, Texas, region in 1999, 49 percent tested positive posi-tive for the TB bacterium. Among the many diseases brought in by illegal aliens are: NIVAIDS, Tuberculosis, Tuberculo-sis, Cholera, Measles, Hepatitis Hepati-tis A and B, Malaria, West Nile Virus, Dengue fever, Leprosy and SARS. One new disease which Springville Herald 269 E. 400 South Springville, UT 84663 An edition of The Daily Herald, Lee Enterprises Inc. 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We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, punctuation, taste and length, l etters are welcome on any topic. party it was! time the young ones of this town got to see what Maple-ton Maple-ton was like in the gold 'ol days. What a shame we've gotten so into ourselves that we have let this kind of entertainment en-tertainment and friendship slip thru our fingers. Well, Orpha Dee, you accomplished ac-complished your goal and much, much more. Thanks for sharing your 80th birthday birth-day with all of us. What a swell party it was. What a great lady you are, what an honor to get to share it with you. Here's wishing you many more Happy Birthdays. Thanks again, One of Your Many Friends. Barbara Jensen makes tuberculosis look mild is known as Chagas disease which flourishes in Latin America and operates mainly main-ly by threatening the United States blood supply in the future. fu-ture. In Mexico, Central America and South America reports indicate that about 20 million people are infected, and 50,000 a year die of it. Exposure to imported illnesses ill-nesses not only endangers Americans' physical well-being, it costs taxpayers billions bil-lions of dollars. Additionally, funds diverted to cover the medical expenses of illegal aliens are leading to severe cutbacks in services available avail-able to U.S. citizens in areas where there are high rates of illegal aliens. The importation of new diseases and escalating costs incurred by illegal immigrants immi-grants is compelling evidence evi-dence that the U.S. should protect its borders and do all that is possible to halt illegal immigration and prevent the importation of dangerous diseases. Why the government govern-ment will not do its federally mandated job of protecting our borders and the American Ameri-can people is beyond belief. Is it any wonder that national na-tional polls indicate that two-third two-third of Americans do not believe be-lieve elected officials care about what citizens think and that 7 out of 10 Americans Ameri-cans believe that "our country coun-try is run by a closed network net-work of special interests, public officials and the liberal media." Art Larson Springville Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all. Friends of Thomas P. Cadmus Here's a riddle: How do you get the American Civil Liberties Union to stop defending de-fending terrorists? Tell the ACLU that the detainees are really Boy Scouts. Sadly, I am only half joking. jok-ing. This is the same group, after all, that defends pedophiles pe-dophiles in the North American Ameri-can Man Boy Love Association, Associa-tion, yet sues U.S. service-members service-members engaged in a war. The latest outrage from the "America-does-nothing-right" crowd is a series of lawsuits against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Lt. Gen. Ricardo . Sanchez, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski and Col. Thomas Pappas. The March 1 news release, in which the ACLU announced the lawsuits, would be laughable laugh-able if not for the serious impact im-pact it is already having on military operations. Among the alleged abuses committed by our troops against the peace-loving detainees de-tainees is "degrading treatment" treat-ment" and "restraint in contorted con-torted and excruciating positions." posi-tions." It would be easy to make a comparison to Western West-ern hostages who have been beheaded by Islamic terrorists, terror-ists, but we are, and should be, held to a higher standard. In fact, most military ser-vicemembers ser-vicemembers and veterans were horrified by the photographs pho-tographs taken at Abu Gnraib prison. The military, however, is Wearing seat belts is personal responsibility Editor: These last few months several sev-eral belt challengers have proclaimed that it is an individual indi-vidual choice to ride with or without a safety belt, a personal per-sonal decision that adults can make for themselves. However, How-ever, fastening a safety belt is not a personal decision; it's a legal decision and a personal person-al responsibility. Because citizens don't always al-ways take the personal responsibility re-sponsibility to ensure that everyone in the vehicle is buckled, officers spend Say No to CAFTA Editor: President Bush continues to insist that the 1993 involvement in-volvement of Canada, Mexico Mexi-co and the United States in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been a grand success. He now wants Congress to approve ap-prove a new pact entitled the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which would expand NAFTA NAF-TA into the nations of that region. But now we have more than a decade of experience with NAFTA, and the results have hardly been the success Mr. Bush claims. NAFTA has cost close to a million American Ameri-can jobs, opened more widely wide-ly our nation's already porous southern border, and Failure to protect limits freedoms Editor: President Bush signed the REAL ID Act into law. Never before has our federal government gov-ernment ordered the creation cre-ation of a national identification identifica-tion card with a corresponding correspond-ing centralized, national, identification database to keep track of Americans. The federal government now mandates national standards stan-dards to the states for their drivers licenses, thus further destroying our original federalism. fed-eralism. Sure, the states will still issue the identification, but ID information resides on a federal database; thus, by nationalizing identification identifica-tion requirements for drivers licenses and birth certificates, certifi-cates, the new Act establishes establish-es a federal national ID sys terrorists, foes of Boy Scouts investigating these abuses and has court-martialed or nonjudicially punished those already determined to be responsible. re-sponsible. These lawsuits represent the latest salvo in a pattern of "lawfare" engaged by the ACLU and fellow litigant Human Hu-man Rights First. These groups, along with the Center Cen-ter for Constitutional Rights and Veterans for Peace, have exploited the Freedom of Information In-formation Act by requiring the Pentagon to release documents docu-ments to the tune of 15,000 pages per month. All of these documents need to be gathered and reviewed re-viewed by intelligence personnel per-sonnel and other troops before be-fore public release. I suppose these intelligence specialists don't have anything better to do, like maybe prevent the next 911 or keep our troops safe in Iraq and Afghanistan. "The effects of Rumsfeld's policies have been devastating devastat-ing both to America's international inter-national reputation as a beacon bea-con of freedom and democracy, democ-racy, and to the hundreds, even thousands, of individuals individu-als who have suffered at the hands of U.S. forces," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. Thousands? Of the 50,000 detainees processed between September 2001 and August 2004, 300 allegations of abuse have been made. After 150 investigations, only 66 cases have Deen confirmed countless hours and resources re-sources enforcing safety belt laws. Assuredly, officers would much prefer to handle other incidents than to write safety belt violations. So if you really real-ly want law enforcement to spend time on another community com-munity problem, use common com-mon sense, buckle your belt, and let the hardworking officers offi-cers enforce other laws. Bill R. Watada Acting Regional Administrator U.S. Dept. of Transportation given its judicial tribunal power to override decisions of our state and federal courts. In short, NAFTA has been a disaster for our country and a huge step toward a whole government, the hidden hid-den motivation behind each of these so-called "free trade" agreements. Rather than adding to these setbacks for our country, coun-try, Congress must say "NO to CAFTA" and then begin to repudiate NAFTA. Reasserting Reassert-ing U.S. independence should be the goal of our leaders, not placing our country into agreements that harm us economically and threaten our sovereignty. Gordon Norman Springville tem. Next, will Ver-Chip, a rice-sized rice-sized global positioning and ID system be implanted under un-der your skin for tracking purposes? Supposedly the 9-11 attacks at-tacks justified creating a national na-tional data base on us. Instead In-stead of tracking us on a federal fed-eral database, what if our government had watched our borders and enforced our immigration laws in the first place, would we have suffered 19 illegal-aliens to board commercial airliners and murder thousands of Americans? For failing to protect our borders, we Americans are now less free. Bliss W. Tew Orem that's a whopping 0.132 percent. per-cent. Two-thirds of the 66 confirmed abuses occurred at the point of battle, not during dur-ing the interrogation process. Department of Defense policy forbids requiring a prisoner to stand more than four hours straight. Under this more than generous rule, nearly every waiter and waitress in the United States could claim "abuse through stress positions." War zones are dangerous places and people do get hurt. A detainee bumping his head while being handcuffed and put in a humvee should hardly be considered abuse, yet according to some it's a war crime. The United States "does not permit, tolerate or condone con-done any such torture by its employees under any circumstances," cir-cumstances," William Haynes, the Defense Department's Depart-ment's general counsel, said in a 2003 letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Many war critics claim that the detainees are either entitled to due process in U.S. courts or Geneva Convention Con-vention protections. I fail to see how foreign terrorists who have never set foot in the United States are being deprived of their "U.S. constitutional con-stitutional rights." Yet some wish to micromanage military mili-tary operations by judicial fiat at the instigation of the ACLU and other radical or DITORIAL Comedy is lots of fun! We attended onenintr nieht of the Springville Playhouse production of "Noises Off!" pointed. It was one or tne runest evenings we nave spent, at theatre in some time. . If your like to have a good laugh, "Noises Off! is a must-see. It has six more performances, tonight, Thursday, Thurs-day, June 9, and June 10, 11, 13, 17, and 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Springville Playhouse under the library. You will laugh, giggle, gaff aw and snicker when you see "Noises Off!" It is a comedy about a theatre group who are preparing to perform a play. , This is not an easy, play to do. It is well-cast, and the timing tim-ing is superb. One wonders how the cast can keep their lines and everything else straight, but they do. The set design and construction by former Springville High School drama teacher Roger Nelson is really something. some-thing. The whole set turns around for one of the acts! And the costumes are very tasteful and perfect for the characters Thank you to all the actors and actresses, director Maureen Mau-reen Eastwood and all the folks at the Springville Playhouse. Play-house. They have outdone themselves-again. Some do not know that the Springville Playhouse is the longest, continuing volunteer organization in the state of Utah. How neat is that. We encourage the citizens of our community to support the Springville Playhouse and enjoy a very fun evening! We also congratulate all those who organized and performed per-formed at the first annual Community Talent Festival held Saturday at the Arts Park. That too, was a very fine evening of exceptional talents. Thank you all for a memorable memo-rable event. Springville Police report Four male juveniles were arrested for forgery after they made and passing $20 bills. A female juvenile was cited for possession of alcohol alco-hol by a minor. Primitivo Juarez Avila, 1025 N. 300 West, Springville, was arrested for possession of someone else's ID, obstructing justice, no insurance in-surance and driving on a suspended sus-pended license. Joshua Solis, 844 E. 100 South, Payson, was arrested for an outstanding out-standing warrant, littering and open container of alcohol. alco-hol. Charges were filed on Jeremy Je-remy Morgan Baker, 1230 S. 1140 West, Orem, for issuing, is-suing, bad checks. Cody Lynn Bennett, 944 E, 1060 South, Provo, was cited for shoplifting. Two juvenile males were charged with criminal tres- Eass after trying to get in the ' igh school. Another male ju-. venile was referred to Juvenile Juve-nile Court for possession of a, stolen skateboard. Charges were filed on James R. Bounforte, 374 E. Sweetwater, Springville, for two counts of prescription, forgery; Rebekah Jones, 62J. E. Swenson, Springville, for( six counts or prescriptionr forgery; and Colin Robsorr Younkin, 890 N. 2000 West,: Mapleton. iS Ryan Brough, 2099 S.( Mountain Vista, Provo, was charged with burglary and theft. John Paul Daley, 280 N . 800 East, Springville, was-, charged with assault. r f Brad J. Finster, 905 Si, Artistic Circle, Springville, j was arrested for giving false information to police, a war- ganizations. The protections of Geneva did not come from one convention, con-vention, but actually a series of meetings that occurred as far back as 1864. It is a body of laws passed piecemeal, most in 1949. It requires a clear distinction between combatants and civilians. For example, combatants must wear uniforms and carry their weapons openly during military operations. As the Society for Professional Profes-sional Journalists correctly states, "Combatants who deliberately de-liberately violate the rules about maintaining a clear separation between combatant combat-ant and noncombatant groups - and thus endanger the civilian population - are no longer protected by the Geneva Convention." Despite this, the U.S. military mili-tary has given Geneva Convention Con-vention protections to Iraqi soldiers who met the criteria. Unfortunately some who are released return to fight our soldiers again. In April, the military released re-leased a comprehensive report re-port citing 4,000 interrogations interroga-tions of Guantanamo detainees. de-tainees. According to the Los Angeles Times, "captives have described how AI Qae-da Qae-da trained them to spread deadly poisons and at other times armed them with grenades stuffed inside soda cans, bombs, hidden in See BSA on page 3 last week and were not disap rant and no seat belt. Anna Kaitlin Fraley, 1177 S. 880 West, Payson, was arrested for possession of heroin, possession pos-session of drug paraphernalia paraphernal-ia and a warrant. Terry David Hall, 615 S. 200 East, Springville, was arrested ar-rested for a warrant. Joel thomas Harrison, was arrested ar-rested for two warrants, DUI and possession of drug para-phernailia. para-phernailia. Dennis T. Hill, 2175 Mountain Moun-tain Vista Lane, Provo, was arrested for a warrant. Charges were filed on William K, Kinross, 790 E. 200 North, Springville, for theft of services. Stephanie Koyle, 586 E. 180 North, Salem, was cited for shoplifting at Wal-Mart. Ida J. Migliaccio, 1433 S. 280 East, Orem, was arrested for a warrant. James Lee Laster III, 2521 S. 150 East, Springville; Gino J. Shorty, 988 W. 1430 South, Provo; and Christopher Yazzie, 988 W. 1430 South, Provo, were all cited for open container. A female juvenile was cited cit-ed for open container and possession of alcohol by a minor. mi-nor. Casey Ray Nielsen, 67 W. .700 North, Spanish Fork, w.as arrested for five warrants war-rants and giving false information infor-mation to police. Charges were filed on Joseph Stanley Penwell, 117 W, 400 South, Springville, for assault. Valerie Peterson, 347 N. 800 East, Springville, was. arrested for DUI and possession of a controlled substance. Isaac Luke Prince, 329 N. 100 West, Springville, was arrested for a warrant. A rock was thrown threw the Dairy Queen window to gain entrance, and money was taken. A credit card was taken from a vehicle, and checks were taken from another an-other vehicle and cashed. Other thefts included three gasoline skips; aluminun bin from a construction site; all the stuff from a stroage unit; rear license plate; jet ski; power tools from a carport; and a bike. The Springville Herald Customer Service 375-5103 489-5651 Fax 489-7021 239E.400S. 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