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Show ILLUMINATING THE PU0I5LEMS. THE PEOPLE. THE ISSUES OF OUK TIME, Solution lo 10 Crisis In Orem venereal disease is a subject few people like to discuss, and yet (next to the common cold) one form of venereal infection is the most common contageous disease in America today. The name of the disease stems from Venus, the goddess of love, and it applies to any disease which is transmitted by sexual contact. Syphilis and gonorrhea are the most common forms of venereal infections, and according to public health authorities they are completely out of control con-trol in the United States. In 1971 there were 650,000 new cases of gonorrhea and syphilis reported in the United States. According to public health authorities, authori-ties, VD, particularly gonorrhea, but to a numerically lesser degree syphilis also, is completely out of control in this country. It has become more than just a spotty epidemic epi-demic in big cities and liberty ports; in public health terminology VD is pandemic-prevalent pandemic-prevalent throughout tlfe nation. PUBLIC HEALTH experts believe that more than 1 percent of Americans are afflicted with highly infectious diseases that, if unchecked, can result in sterility, arthritis, arthri-tis, blindness, insanity or death. New cases of syphilus are on the rise again after a steady five-year decline. Congenital Con-genital syphilis, which attacks the newborn and cripples or deforms them if untreated in the first months of life, also is increasing. increas-ing. GONORRHEA'S INCIDENCE in 1970 was double that of 1956. The fact is, the U.S. Public Health Service Ser-vice estimates that last year there were more than two million new cases of VD in the United States. This conclusion seems justified when it is known that most cases of VD are not reported to the proper health authorities. The American Social Health Association says the increase in syphilis is "so dramatic that national emergency action is needed. The rate of infection of gonorrhea is rising ris-ing 15 percent a year, and syphilis is increasing in-creasing 8 percent annually. According to W. F. Schwartz of the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control, 'If you look at the trend chart, you would swear that by next year, or the year after, everybody in the country will have gonorrhea." OREM RESIDENTS, reading about the venereal epidemic of national proportions, are rightly concerned about how serious the problem is in the State of Utah and in our own City of Orem. Tragically, Utah, also, is facing a venereal disease epidemic of major proportions, and Orem is contributing to the problem, along with most every other city in the state. TV IP y3 ii in t i a ; ' Syufh Louise Just as I've promised myself that I have bought my last expensive expen-sive rare book, I'm offered a biograhpy of Amasa Mason Lyman, two volumns for forty dollars. What does that have to do with me? Amasa Mason Lyman married three of my grandfather's grand-father's sisters, that's what. Well, will I or won't I? Really I have enough problems without THIS. A certain trial for attempted assassination about to end, I will mention no names as my feeling is that a certain unrepentant murderer has had too much publicity now without me putting in my one cent's worth. This brute's diary has been read. He was capable of the most meticulous planning, careful arranging of time and place. He was capable of persistence, even after repeated quate "disappointments "disappoint-ments and unquote, but because his aim was murder of somebody, almost anybody just so it was a person of importance, he's liable to get off with a slap on the wrist because he is quote, again, "sick" and unquote. I submit that he isn't half as "sick" as his victim in this horrible hor-rible affair, and now that capital punishment is outoffafiuon,what we must do is get some sort of law through declaring murder a cruel and unnatural punishment. This seems to mo to be our only way out of this crimiral swamp we're sinking in. I have a report to nuke. On a quick walk through duwatown Provo, I found one store window displaying Christmas and this in August. I don't mean things on sale accompanied by a discreet mention of "putting things away" no. I mean of display of Christmas bells, wrappings, glittery this-and-that's. Christmas for sure. I deplore it, for what it's worth. The flag kit I ordered for the 4th of July, came the 5th. I did have it for the 24th of July. After consultations with interested persons, the opinion was that if CThS TT Partridge I wanted the flag to be seen, I better post it up at my back door. This was done. The forest primevil. . . that doesn't look right but if I stop to look it up in my fifteen pound dictionary, I won't get this in the mail and it should have been in the mail yesterday. Where was I? Oh, yes, I was explaining why I must hang my flag at the rear if it is to be seen. The chaparral around my house is so much so, that the house here at The Last Resort barely shows. But my drive way is at the rear and of course there's a clearing for The Green Dandt to get through. B y the way, I ha ve two new tires for that jalopi and it wasn't easy to find. The man tried four places. Tires for thirty-one, soon thirty-two year old cars are neither cheap nor easy come by. I took th3 man a lovely boysenberry pie (not of my own baking) in appreciation. My grandson is off toSaltLake City today so I have nothing special by way of meals coming up. I do have bread rising and must do my errands before time to bake. This warm weather hurries it along. I love to bake bread and I have scones to look forward to, to boot. But I've lost a summer dress I was saving. Also, two very large summer hats. Over to Fairfield onSundaythe twentieth to the annual Mercur reunion. I never lived at Mercur, one of the West's more spectacular spec-tacular ghost towns. I should say it WAS one of the West's more spectacular ghost towns. It has been vandalized almost to being gone without a trace, including the old grave yard. This year J. J. Keeler, a friend and neighbor talked about Mercur. Mer-cur. He's a "buff" or af-ficianado" af-ficianado" or something where old mining towns are concerned. The reunion, Mercur, that is, is always held at Fairfield. The attendance goes down as the age goes up. The oldest person there was a Mr. Evans who is ninety- V lira LAST YEAR, VENEREAL DISEASE was the number one communicable disease in Utah, and no less than 56 percent of the cases of gonorrhea were in the age group of 15 to 24 years. Minors accounted for 36.6 percent of all the gonorrhea cases reported in Utah last year. The fact that Utah is shawing a sizable increase in VD cases is indicated by the report that the number of VD cases registered regis-tered in 1970 was equal to that tabulated during the three previous years. Actually, the exact number of VD cases in Utah is unknown. State health officials estimate that less than 10 percent of the gonorrhea cases and less than six percent of the syphilis cases are reported to health authorities. DR. SETH SMOOT, Director of the City-County City-County Health Department in Utah County, reports that the VD problem in this area is a real and a growing concern. Since there are no venereal disease clinics in Utah County, patients are generally treated by private physicians. However, they are occasionally referred to one of Utah's two venereal disease clinics in Salt Lake City or Ogden. Under a new law passed by the Utah legislature, minors may now be treated for VD by a physician without parental consent. As a result of this law, health authorities believe they will be better able to treat young people for the disease. LEADING THE FIGHT for a continued and expanded venereal disease control program pro-gram in Utah is the Utah State Division of Health which argues that young people need more and better information about VD. State Health authorities contend that the public schools are the logical place to provide this kind of information. Another approach gaining some acceptance in several states is a program known as "Operation Venus." Following the pattern of suicide prevention clinics and "Crisis Lines," "Operation Venus" is a VD hotline for teen-agers seeking medical attention for a suspected infection-without their parents knowing about it. THERE ARE MANY approaches being advanced ad-vanced by professionals and non-professionals, alike, about the best solution to the venereal disease epidemic. Staggering infusions in-fusions of federal funds into State health budgets, widespread blood tests to pinpoint the disease, universal dosage of antibiotics; all of these hold out some hope of alleviating the crisis. And yet, there is one book found in every home which contains the real answer to the problem: The Bible. And that answer, which we have on the highest authority, is this: "Thou shalt not commit adultery!" six. I kissed him goodbye. The probability is that I will never see him again. Alas ... and the man who introduced me to the Mercur reunion just couldn't make it this year. Reunions are lots of fun, and very sad. Fairfield is a fantastic place. The things I could tell you of Fairfield 1 Eut I learned something some-thing of present day Fairfield. There is a boy's ranch there. They bus to Lehi for school. High school. My cousin Jeanie Partridge Harris of Orem teaches at Lehi, had some of the boys in her class and that's how I learned about the Ranch at Fairfield. Fair-field. The ranch house is a restored re-stored old residence with a sign out front and it looks like a very much going concern. Anything that will restore an old house I'm for, on general principles and speaking of old houses, go south on Center Street in American Fork until you come to it. You'll know it when you see it and you won't believe it. It's on the west side of the street. Where was I? Oh, yes, at Fairfield. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Keeler and son Brent and I were at the reunion from Provo, and Cousin Jeanie of Orem had son Richard with her. He is interested in old mining towns, too, and this is encouraging enough to mention men-tion here. It lessons the generation genera-tion gap somewhat. Get ahold of the book, "John Steven's Courtship by none other than Susa Young Gates, daughter of Brigham and read it for an insight into the history of Fairfield. Fair-field. My visiting family left the very morning we went to Fairfield. Quite a day. And the day before that Son and I went up to Heber to spend the day with the Heber Creeper and what a visit that was. We didn't ride it this time, but we participated in it's goings and comings and then hobnobed with it at Vivian Park and Bridal Veil Falls. More about this at some other time except to say the Creeper is off and running and hallelujah! Seems as though I've been writing this chit forever. Started it last night but had to give it up I was so sleepy. This morning I read it over and into the wast basket it went for a new start. leffer To The Editor Dear Editor, Tuesday night I attended a meeting concerning the new sight of the Utah Technical College. Too few of the elected officials and candidates who were invited were present to discuss this extremely ex-tremely important issue. I would like to ask everyone to consider these facts that were presented at the meeting. 1. Some 28,000 people in Utah are unemployed, yet many jobs can't be filled because of a shortage short-age of trained personnel in the vocational-technical area. 2. Utah continues to spend a high percentage of its education dollars on four-year college preparation pre-paration programs. 3. The vocational - technical facilities are full, and the technical tech-nical college at Provo had 200 students on a waiting list in the 1971 school year. 4. This year UTC has leased 20,000 feet of extra space plus added seven mobile home units to expand their classroom facilities facil-ities It seems to me to be obvious from the foregoing facts that we desperately need a new campus for technical training. However, all of the citizens in the area should be heard on this matter. As a candidate for the Utah State Legislature I desire to know how the people in my district feel and I am sure that other elected officials and candidateswould too. As the elections approach be sure and talk to the candidates about this. The State Legislature will make the decision. Make sure it is the one you want. Jim Ferguson Legislative Candidate Dist. 36 STRANDED Recently, a British supplemental supple-mental air carrier went into bankruptcy. Thousands of U.S. citizens who had purchased in advance ad-vance tickets for charter flights with the carrier lost nearly $700,000. Two thousand other Americans found themselves stranded over-, seas when their return flights were aburptly cancelled. In recent years, wholesale standings of traveling Americans have occurred with growing frequency. fre-quency. The victims are often those who have the least means to arrange alternate transportation. transpor-tation. Indeed, the lower fares offered by charter flights are especially appealing to groups of teachers, students, retirees, etc. A growing number of unscrupulous unscrup-ulous operators lure the general public into purchasing cut-rate tickets on charter flights intended inten-ded for groups with common interest. These exploiters are adept at devising many ruses for creating ad hoc "affinity groups. Frequently they deal with airlines that operate illegal charters. char-ters. There have even been instances where passengers paying for round-trip flights were furnished only with one-way tickets. The American Society of Travel Agents, Inc. (ASTA) is working to halt the traffic in illegal il-legal charter flights. ASTA endorses en-dorses federal regulation of its industry, The Society supports Congressional legislation to require re-quire travel agents, and otherwise other-wise unregulated charter organizers or-ganizers and charter consoli-dators consoli-dators to register with the Department of Transportation, which would set standards for Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Sent out 7. Brags 13. Wigwam 14. In a line 15. Argon: chem. 16. Either 17. Unit of heat 18. Big cat 20. Failure: slang 21. Egyptian river 22. Gaelic "John" 23. Weary 25. Dandy 26. More lucid 28. Radium: chem. 30. Suffix: collectively 31. Declaration 34. Exclamation 36. Musical note44. Neither 37. Settling, 45. Springs as a bird 47. High: music 40. High peak 42. Carries 48. Sicilian volcano Answer to Puzil J. ynmprlA O-L S VI 5n 5tH2 YtSL 5 IT i. 1 2iZ 2D? Lp 2 y i N jETtI. l a I Jl5 sxlsvo5lJa3loss T W . . - A - Special Report from Washington - MCGOVERN'S POLLS TELL HIM HE'S FAR BEHIND PRESIDENT By Jack Anderson 19.2 Pulitzer Prize' Wiiwirr fur National Hi-portini: "'upyright, 1072, lv I'nitM Ffituie Syndicate, Inc.) WASHINGTON The grim reaper of political ambitions the American pollster has dealt a heavy blow to George McGovern. The latest polls show McGovern Mc-Govern more than 20 percentage percent-age points behind Richard Nixon. Normally when an underdog is faced with such gloomy polls, he hires his own pollster to come up with figures to dispute the experts. But we have learned that McGovern's own private polls also show him running far behind the President. Yet, despite these polls, it is still too early to count George McGovern out of the presidential presiden-tial race. The next few weeks, however, are crucial to his chances. Unless McGovern begins be-gins to move up dramatically in the polls this month, according accord-ing to his own analysis, he simply will not have enough time to catch Nixon by election elec-tion day. So, what is the real deadline for McGovem the date when he must begin to make his move in the polls? McGovern himself says the middle of October. But his aides privately private-ly are more realistic. They say the deadline is Labor Day. If McGovern isn't beginning to move in the polls by then, he's had it. travel agent qualifications and financial responsibility. A bill calling for these measures was recently approved by the Senate. Senator Warren G. Magnuson, Chairman of the Senate Com-merce Com-merce Committee which handled" the legislation, called it "A major step toward eliminating the stranding of thousands of Americans Amer-icans abroad, which will help assure the traveling public that it will receive the services and accommodations it pays for. The majority of travel agents have served the public with distinction but occasionally an unscrupulous or financially questionable operator oper-ator has damaged the reputation of the entire industry and undermined under-mined the public's confidence. This legislation will enhance the well deserved reputation of the travel agent industry and help restore the public's confidence. A companion measure (HJR. 3173) has been introduced in the House of Representatives. To date, however, the House Interstate Inter-state and Foreign Commerce Committee has not scheduled hearings on the bill. The public deserves legislation of this kind. The House Committee Com-mittee should conduct hearings at the earliest possible date and send the measure to the floor for full House approval before thousands thou-sands more travelers are defrauded. de-frauded. Deer fawns are quiet creatures that rarely make any noise while hidden. 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Neon: i hem. ..S3 A I J CHINESE COUNTER-STRIKE COUNTER-STRIKE If the Russians ever decide to move against China's nuclear nu-clear works, the Chinese in retaliation would probably strike Vladivostok, the important impor-tant Russian port on the Sea of Japan. U.S. intelligence reports reveal re-veal that Mainland China has deployed its tiny arsenal of short-ranged nuclear missjles in the north near the Soviet border. The missiles, we understand, under-stand, are all aimed at Vladivostok, Vladi-vostok, which lies only 30 miles from the Sino-Soviet border. Intelligence reports also reveal re-veal trouble on China's home front. Mao Tse-tung, we have learned, is becoming increasingly increas-ingly concerned about unrest among Chinese youth. An old revolutionary romantic roman-tic who believes the peasant life can purify young people, Mao has sent thousands of city youths to work on agricultural agricul-tural communes. But many Chinese youngsters young-sters are rebelling against the simple life. Thousands are fleeing flee-ing the farms and sneaking back into the cities. Hundreds more, say the reports, have made it all the way to Hong Kong. Beef Calf Contest Open To Grades 7-12 The first Annual Beef Calf Contest, sponsored by KSL and the Utah Beef Council, will continue through midnight of August 31 said Mr. Hugh C. Bringhurst, Director of Div. of Expositions, Utah State Fair, The Fair Director wishes to encourage encour-age all young people registered in grades 7-12 to participate in the contest. He feels that his particular kind of activity will help give them a greater insight into the Livestock Industry and C " - ,, - "I've seen the amount of mail we handle get bigger every year. Zip Code's the only way we've kept t up with it." I OifeaqoJlt." M l If IV Pi N 1J Help us hel reon e ripnpnri sEach time you use a Zip Code you help everybody's mail move faster. So use Zip Code on every letter you mail. 1, If you don't know a local Zip Code, check the Zip Code bection of your phone book. 2. -For out-of-town Zip Codes, call us. Our number is in the up oae section too. 3. For next-day delivery crosstown, Zip the last pickuo 4. For next-day auu uidu ueiure Air Mail Box. 5. Always Put f So people can copy it down. TTca Sp.ice (or this advertisement has been contributed as a Public Serv.ce by this newspaper Orem-Geneva Times MINE FINE BACKLOG Among our most dismal statistics are the growing casualties cas-ualties in the nation's mines. Congress passed a tough mine safety law three years ago. But the Bureau of Mines has been far from tough in enforcing enforc-ing it. Now, the General Accounting Account-ing Office has accused the Bureau of "negligence" in assessing as-sessing and collecting fines. The GAO charges that an average of four months usually usual-ly goes by between the discovery dis-covery of a mine safety violation viola-tion and the assessment of a fine. Yet this is just the beginning. beginn-ing. The big corporations, which control America's coal mines, can tie the case up in appeal proceedings atmost indefinitely. in-definitely. At the end of last year, the GAO found, there was a backlog of more than a thousand fines totaling nearly $3 million. Even after the appeals are exhausted, the GAO found that the Bureau of Mines still dawdles. The result of this astonishing astonish-ing performance is that the safety record of the nation's most hazardous industry is not improving significantly. The public has been given all too many dramatic reminders remind-ers of this. Only a few weeks ago, for example, a fire at the Blackville Number One mine in West Virginia killed nine men. That mine had been assessed fines of more 'than 810,000 during the previous year. But more than $9,000 remained unpaid at the time of the fatal accident. FLOOD SINKS 'WILKES-BARRE' It is part of a congressman's duties to cut ribbons, shovel ceremonial soil, attend banquetsand ban-quetsand even, perhaps launch ships. But Rep. Dan iurther their education in this field. 1st Prize in the Contest is a pure-bred registered Hereford heifer presented by Maynard Sorenson of Axtell, Utah and the Utah Hereford Association. 2nd Prize - a $300 tuition scholarship scholar-ship to UtahState University presented pre-sented by Producers Livestock Marketing Assoc. Winner must have a grade point average of 2.5 or above and major or minor in Animal Science. 3rd Prize -$100 scholarship to UtahState Univer ' T unnn the moil at before 5 :00 n.m. delivery to cities within ;uu p.m. irom any specially vour ZiD Code nn vnnr rot,, fc.. -w-jj .: -6 m vnW m 'WT FW gTTT TTT T WT Wr T p . y.-JiS f3,-.:., 33 II JtM :i: l it 1 w m. 'M R'w md mi mt e-'m . WW:' syS Your Postal .y - x , Thursday, August 24, 1972 Flood has come up with a new one. He was invited by. the Navy to witness a "ship-sink- ink'-' , , , The Navy recently selected a 29-vear-old cruiser, the Wilkes-Barre." to test the "vulnerability of light cruisers to torpedo attack." The sinking was supposed to take place far out to sea. But the city of Key West. Florida, prevailed upon the Navy to lay the ship to rest a mere 13. miles off the' coast. The idea was to create an artificial reef, around which fish would congregate. The Navy, ever in search of a public relations coup, graciously gra-ciously agreed. Congressman Flood, whose hometown in Pennsylvania is also named Wilkes-Barre, was invited to the event. The cruiser was positioned, the explosives were attached, but the rusty old Wilkes-Barre refused to cooperate. Instead of plunging to the bottom, she broke into two large pieces. Both ends poked out of the water. Instead of an artificial reef, the Navy had created a water hazard. A demolition squad had to come out the next day to finish off the job without the congressman congress-man and the ceremony. RUSTLERS RIDE AGAIN The rising price of meat in today's supermarkets has helped revive cattle rustling out west. Modern bandits now use trucks rather than horses to steal the beef. The rustlers pull up alongside some stray cattle, cat-tle, drive the animals into a truck and then speed down a superhighway with hundreds of dollars worth of beef. With no hoof prints to follow, fol-low, sherrifs out west are often at a loss to track down the rustlers. sity presented by KSL Radio, to be used in pursuit of furthering' education in the agriculatue' field. The Calf and Prizes will be awarded on September 16, 1972, in a live remote broad-cast over KSL Radio from the Utah State Fairgrounds at 6:50 p.m. Entry blanks for the contest can be obtained through KSL-Recep-tion desk, State Fair Office, any of the County Agents, Vocational Agriculture teachers or any of the officers of the Utah Cattlemen's Cattle-men's Association or the Utah Beef Council. The barred owl is often' referred to as "eight hooter" because of its call which gener-aUy gener-aUy consists of eight hoots. Code and mail hv: 1 600 miles, Zip Code marked aa ' 7: fJl ' Service - yv 1 |
