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Show a Wlk ILLUMINATING THE PROBLEMS, THE PEOPLE. THE LSSUES OF OUK TIME 7 City-County Health Department Provides Valuable Public Health Services To Citizens Of Orem Approval by theOremCityCouncilTuesday night of a new contract witn the City-County City-County Health Department provides an appropriate ap-propriate occasion to re-evaluate the operation opera-tion of the Department and its value to Orem City in terms of costs and services. With a 1970 budget of $186,783 and a payroll of 23 employees, the City-County Health Department spends a considerable chunk of tax money which it receives from Utah County, the various cities and towns within the county, and the school district of the county. OREM CITY'S SHARE of this budget amounts to $5,947 per year. This is based upon a contribution of 27? per capita. Heading up the operation of the City-County City-County Health Department is Dr. Seth E. Smoot who has served in this position for the past five years. Also employed are five sanitarians, 14 nurses, two vital statisticians and one secretary. Professionals all, these dedicated workers are providing vital services to the residents of Utah County which are increasing in value every year. Because of this, it is essential for the salary structure of the City-County Health Department to remain competitive with other medical institutions and private industry. THE SALARY CRISIS which threatened the very existence of the Department back in 1945 must not be allowed to be repeated again in this decade. The stakes are too high. The only alternative to continuing the operation of the City-County Health Department Depart-ment on its present basis would be for each city in the county to set up its own public health department. Each city would have to organize its own Board of Health and employ a city physician, nurses and inspectors who would function on a community basis. The cost of such an arrangement would, of course, be far in excess of what the cities are presently paying under the present cooperative arrangement with the county. For example, Orem City has had a health ordinance on the books for many years. Although Al-though it has been ignored and never repealed, re-pealed, it provides for a Board of Health and a Health Department for Orem City. UNDER TITLE 14, Chapter 1 of the Re vised Ordinances of Orem City, the Board of Health is established consisting of either the Mayor or councilman in charge of public health, who shall be an ex-officio chairman of said Board, the Health officer, and fice representative citizens. Meetings of the Board of Health are to be held at least once a month. The Health Officer is to be appointed for a term of two years and is given far-reaching far-reaching authority in all phases of public health. Why this particular ordinance was never repealed by the Orem City Council years ago when the city joined with the rest of the county in forming the City-County Health Department is not clear. STRICTLY ACCORDING to law, this unused ordinance should be repealed and new enabling en-abling legislation drawn giving validity to the arrangement which has existed for over fifteen year. Someone has said, an effective Health Department is like insurance: It's there when you need it in time of crisis. Actually it's better than insurance. Your City-County HealthDepartment is there every day of the year, spending 90 per cent of its time on preventative medicine, fostering programs which are geared to make certain cer-tain the time of crisis never arrives in Utah County. IMMUNIZATION CLINICS, well-baby clinics, clin-ics, inspections of food handlers and eating establishments, supervision over food storage, stor-age, recording of vital statistics, prescribing pre-scribing sanitary requirements for medical practitioners, barber shops, beauty shops, dentists, etc. are only some of the activities conducted by the Health Department. It is not too difficult to see that the Orem taxpayer's biggest bargain is the $5,947 Orem City contributes to the operation of the City-County Health Department. Many times this amount would be necessary to finance the same services under the suspices of an Orem City Health Department. The OREM-GENEVA TIMES takes this occasion oc-casion to pay tribute to the dedicated workers work-ers of the City-County Health Department whose activities contribute to the health and well-being of the people of Orem and Utah County. f joam M V ;: v. V HVr ) & LITTERBUG- OREM-GENEVA TIMES Thursday, May 14, 1970 DOUGLAS NELSON, son of Dr. and Mrs. George Edward Nelson, Jr., 310 S. 400 E., Orem, recently recent-ly received the Eagle rank of Scouting in Court of Honor in .the Orem 16th Ward. Douglas is a member of Troop 184 with Raymond Pead as Scoutmaster. He is senior patrol leader, was troop scribe, and served as assistant as-sistant patrol leader. He is president ofhisDeacons'Quorum and was named citizen of the week at Lincoln Junior High. He is in the eighth grade and enjoys sports. COPPER THEFT Dennis Hatch of the Mountain Bell Telephone Co. in Provo notified Orem police Wednesday of the theft of 199,220 feet of copper wire in sections from the Salt Lake City - St. George tole line between American Fork and Provo. The wire, taken in sections, weighed 6,531 pounds and will cost $11,953.20 to replace, re-place, he said. GARY A. BROWN, 14, son of Lester and Alice Brown of Tuba City, Ariz., and foster son of Mr. and Mrs. LaDell Richardson of Orem, received the Eagle rank of Scouting Sunday in OremStake Court of Honor Ceremonies. Assistant As-sistant Scoutmaster Doug White presented the award. Both sets of parents were in attendance., Gary is a member of Troop 29 of the Orem 24th Ward. Marion Pomeroy is Scoutmaster. Gary has served as assistant patrol leader, patrol leader and scribe. He is a member of the Orem Junior Jun-ior High basketball team and played on the 7th grade team that won Alpine Days last year. He was second counselor intheDea-cons intheDea-cons Quorum and holds three Aaronic Priesthood awards. Read The Want Ads THINGS TO COME A Lindon man was fined $25 in Orem City Court last week on charges of littering. A complaint com-plaint was signed by a concerned citizen when the man spilled a carton of trash off his truck and apparently refused to pick it up. The defendent testified in court, however, that he did return to pick it up, but a woman living nearby wanted the carton. Judge Vern Wentz told the man it was his responsibility to see that the carton was properly disposed dis-posed of. The judge then suspended sus-pended the fine to $5 on condition con-dition there were no similar violations for one year. According Accord-ing to Judge Wentz there will be other littering charges to be heard in Orem City Court in the near future. FINE FOR LITTERING! A certain Orem lady could have been charged with, littering but, after all, she did deposit her litter in the proper place, a city garbage truck, Orem City sanitation crews discovered a small litter of kittens kit-tens (2) in a box in one of their trucks. Before they were able to transfer the litter from the sanitation department to animal control, the problem mushroomed mushroom-ed all out of proportion, and the litter of two became seven mewling mew-ling newborns. ACO Officer Merrill Finlayson was able to trace the garbage train route and return the kittens kit-tens and their perturbed calico mother to their surprised human family. S Hi i j, ' Ted Maag Ted Maag Retires Ted Maag, retiring after 16 years as school custodian, was honored last Friday at a dinner party held at the Scera Park School. In attendance were his wife, three sons and daughter and their wives and husband, as well as officials and teachers of Scera Park. He was presented with a half-inch drill on behalf of the school. Mr. Maag has been employed at Scera Park for the past eight years and was custodian at Hill-crest Hill-crest for eight years previously. "These have been my most enjoyable en-joyable years," he states. "I enjoy being with the students and meeting different people. Because of health problems, Letter To The Editor AND A LITTLE CHILD Dear Editor: Today in school we had a discussion dis-cussion on the way our own colleges are crumbling beneith our feet. And without our colleges col-leges we are nearly hopeless for the furture. And another thing we discussed was the way "hippies have treated treat-ed our policemen calling them Pigs and so forth. So please respeck the 'policemen of the country. Yours truly, Ned Ashby Cascade School 6th Grade Mr. Maag is unable to resume full-time employment, but is looking forward to working at his hobbies which include welding and repairing small motors. He also tunes lawn mowers and for years has built utility and boat trailers. He also plans to spend time just resting and fishing. Mr. Maag is the father of Eugene Maag, Lindon, teacher at Orem Junior High School; Arlo Maag, Taylorsville and employe of Littofflndustries; Clyde Maag, Orem, employed'at Fakler Tire; and Mrs. Jeannette Bailey, also of Orem. He and his wife have 16 grandchildren who are looking forward to spending more pleasant plea-sant hours with Grandad. leeks Wit WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT? Last Friday night, that is. There it goes, I thought. There goes the television tube. I was engrossed en-grossed in watching "Tarzan and the City of Gold when the picture pic-ture started to strink. I watched, fascinated, onder-lng onder-lng how much a new picture tube would cost. After all, it has been going strong now for nearly four years, and is presumeably living on borrowed time. For several minutes I watched Tarzan and his friends looking like reflections in a fun house mirror until finally the picture shrank to zero, and the sound went off, as well. Now I really am in trouble, thought I. The .sound has gone, too. But it didn't take long to discover that it wasn't just my television set. It was all the electricity in the house. Getting up to investigate, I saw that the lights were off all over town. Orem had been blanked out just as completely as New York City had been a few years ago. Now, where did I put that two year's supply of candles? I can't find them until the lights come on again, so never mind. MEANWHILE, hundreds of people were gathered in Orem's three movie theatres, watching the action. At the SCERA, Gregory Greg-ory Peck was watching the countdown count-down of the rocket ship blasting off into space: 4,3,2,1. And then, just as the huge space vehicle was to blast oof, the picture disappeared from the screen and the screen and the theatre was plunged into darkness. Not a few in the audience suspected sus-pected sabatage. Maybe it's the Russiansl'cried one." It's the Red Chinese, cried another. A calmer head gave a more logical explanation: "SCERA didn't pay it's light bill! At any rate, hundreds of people peo-ple were on pins and needles until power service was restored in a few minutes. At the drive-in movies, there was no lack of light as dozens of cars honked their horns and turned their lights on. Everyone was wondering what caused the black-out and how long would it last. Traffic onStateStreet presented present-ed the most obvious danger, as all the traffic semaphores suddenly became Inoperative. The street lights also went out and darkened the usually lighted thoroughfares. The police, of course, were concerned about the black-out from several angles. Traffic control was only one problem. Any prolonged, power failure would be an open invitation to law-breakers to take advantage of the darkness to cover their depredations on homes and businesses. busi-nesses. FORTUNATELY, the skilled personnel at Utah Power & Light Co. had the power failure corrected cor-rected in a very short time, and life refined to normal in Orem. As far as I know, only two after-effects remained as mementos me-mentos of the night the lights went out in Orem: Saturday morning every electric clock in Orem was slow, and everyone in town was convinced anew about the vital role which electricity plays in our lives. Orem - Geneva Times UTAH. STATEjfs0SSOCIATIOH HAROLD B. SUMNER Editor and Publisher Published every Thursday at Ortm, Utah. Office and plant located lo-cated at 546 South State Street. Mailing address; P.O. Box 65, Orem, Utah 84057. Subscription price: $3.50 per year. Second-class postage paid at Orem, Utah. i W 7 E UUtisCL- if ' ' "flj rT-! i o i. an il Maw .I.' r..i." T.rt -fi w. flamffiiVifr rrrnrfftyt:t mmm 0 fJTTi UP AND AWAY. Cascade School children dispose of litter the proper way in conjunction con-junction with Orem Beautification Project. Students were encouraged to clean up their yards and neighborhoods. Mrs. Sterling McKell is clean-up week chairman. In April the school sponsored a Landscaping Project under the direction of Mrs. David C. Davis. Each child was asked to donate a dime and the PTA matched funds to purchase shrubs and a tree for the school grounds. Children pictured are Randy Goodwill, 5th grade; Joni Crandall, 3rd grade; and Dianna Lucas, 2nd grade. Always greener . . . on the M0RGR0 side of the street! 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