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Show f9) l (nl cx B, Postmaster Clyde E. Weeks ('19851 LETTERS T THE EDITOR Orem residents are not exempt from the lure of the con artist, and during the past year they have joined join-ed many Americans who have received receiv-ed phone calls which led to their giving giv-ing them millions of dollars by mail. In Fort Worth, Texas, investors in a scheme by Garland Film Buyers to extract silver from used film, lost $17 million. One operator of the scheme, Peggy E. Stines, was sentenced to 99 years in prison. The judge who sentenced Mrs. Stines said she was "cold, calculating and heartless" in defrauding 1,200 people, many of whom were elderly invalids who lost their life savings. The judge fined her $50,000 and ordered restitution restitu-tion of $608,836. In San Diego, California, Curtis It. Richmond got a seven-year prison sentence and partner Charles Morse, president of a Las Vegas video game distributorship, a four-year sentence for a multi-million dollar mail fraud scheme involving tax shelters. Investors In-vestors were sold phony oil and gas leases, non-existent drilling equipment equip-ment and video games, only a few of which were ever made available for sale. "Boiler Rooms" In Covington,. Kentucky, Arnold Goldman pleaded guilty to mail fraud and went to prison for four months for swindling consumers through "boiler room" telephone solicitations. He supplied inferior advertising specialties, such as pens, key chains and calendars, and promisedprizes of higher value than the merchandise, provided people pay a fee to obtain the prize. In Cleveland, Ohio, and Dallas, Texas, U. J. "Jack" Sweesy used telephone solicitations to misrepresent misrepre-sent vacation packages offered by his Eastern Travel Company, America-Can-Travel and Preston Advertising. He pleaded guilty to mail fraud late last year after consumers and seven banks lost nearly a million dollars through C.O.D. purchases of vacation packages. Usually, you get a phone call saying say-ing you've won a vacation to Florida or California, and if you're willing to pay between one and fourteen dollars in postage and handling, a C.O.D. packet will arrive with some coupons. What they don't tell you is that there are more fees, and added charges for travel and meals that add up to something less than a bargain. One of the oldest schemes around-envelope stuffing-is still tailing tail-ing its toll of mail fraud victims. A West Coast operator, still being sought by authorities, promised victims vic-tims they could earn $270 a week stuffing stuf-fing envelopes at home. Only 35 of the 6,000 who responded got anything in return for the $20 each invested, and there were no envelopes to stuff. Typically, there are no supplies or envelopes to stuff; just instructions telling you to place your own advertising adver-tising in similar publications, soliciting other unsuspecting victims. Postal inspectors have never found a market for envelope stuffing at home, since such work has been done by machines for many, many years. Know The Rules Orem residents should know that the rules to avoid being taken are mostly common sense. Refuses any unfamiliar C.O.D. mail, or any C.O.D. mail connected with nothing more solid than a voice you've heard on the other end of a phone. Don't let any offer of something for nothing tempt you. In every case, know with whom you are doing business by mail or any other way, and make sure you have a bonafide address, not just a post office of-fice box, so you have some recourse if what is furnished is not what was advertised. Never send cash. Make sure you have some record of a transaction involving in-volving the mails, so you can obtain satisfaction where there is some accidental ac-cidental failure to furnish what you ordered. That record may also help postal inspectors and the Postal Service Ser-vice shut down the kind of operators who simply want to take your money and run, whether its the C.O.D. letter scams or a similar offer to a business owner. Catch The Crooks Our problem in the Postal Service, Ser-vice, as hard as postal inspectors work, is catching these crooks, who quickly close down, leave town, and resume their search for victims under a new name and from a different city. Your best line of defense, as always, is to be forearmed by being forewarned. Being an educated consumer con-sumer is the very best way to do business, whether the mail is directly direct-ly or indirectly involved. If you are suspicious about a company, com-pany, check with the Postal Inspection Inspec-tion Service, the Better Business Bureau or the Utah State Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's office, before you order, to see if there are any complaints on record against the company. The Week of April 22-28 is the Postal Service's ninth Postal Consumer Con-sumer Protection Week. It's a good time to leaiuhow to conduct your affairs af-fairs so that you become a victor, rather than a victim! Community Church Sponsors Recital Orem Community Church is sponsoring a recital May 1, 1985, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. A reception will follow. Ruthann Franker, soprano, will sing Broadway hits, religious songs and light opera. David Lines, pianist, will accompany her. Free will offerings will be used for church renovations. It is requested re-quested that children under eight years of age do not attend as the program pro-gram will be taped. The Orem Community Church is located at 130 North 400 East in Orem Electronic Cash Registers Designed to Meet Your Business Needs. ft Sales Service Supplie For Fast Service Call 324 West Center Provo 3 74-0725 To The Editor: We are employees on the nursing i staff at the Utah State Training 1 School. We want to reply to the recent letter published by Mrs. Harrison of ' the Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC) which appeared in the news media on Monday, March 25. i As employees with a combined , total 6i thirty-nine years service, we feel we are better qualified, more knowledgeable and more directly ; involved with the daily routine of the Utah State Training School than someone who has spent a total of four and one-half hours on a single day touring the facility. Contrary to popular belief, not all of the residents at the Training School are well-behaved, quiet, passive, pleasant individuals. .Many of the residents are aggressive to themselves, other residents, their own families and staff . To enlighten Mrs. Harrison and the general public, the necessity for bars on the windows, and some locked doors on two of the eighteen buildings are because these buildings house residents who have been determined by socieity to be a danger, due to their antisocial behaviors while living in your community and ours. All of this negative press involving the Training School is very disruptive, and demoralizing to the majority of the employees working here who are decent, compassionate, caring, and committed individual. The individuals who truly suffer from these negative and unwarranted charges are the residents. To many of the residents, the staff is their only family. They depend on the staff for love and personal care. This service is being greatly affected by the inaccurate reporting of individuals who tour the facility and make rash judgments. The locked doors at the Training School are not to keep out parents or the general public, but to insure the safety of the residents from the dangers in the community. Lest we forget, the greatest majority of mentally retarded individuals are unaware of natural or manmade hazards, to protect them and to insure their welfare, certain precautions must be taken. These include restraints and secured facilities. The residents at the Training School are provided with ample recreational opportunities year round e.g., camping, circus, professional ball games, swimming, bowling, movies, ice shows, Festival of the Trees, plays, snowmobiling, fishing and weekly trips to the Adventure Learning Park where they have outdoor cooking experiences and nature walks, horseback riding, hayrides and the list goes on and on. The medical services provided to residents far exceed what is possible for the average ci'izen. How many of us have routine physical examinations every three months or have access to twenty-one different specialty clinics? The medical care given is designed to meet the individual needs of each resident, based on their physical and mental capabilities. Why do we as staff members have to constantly defend our jobs, when the general public often make comments to us such as, "How can you possibly work tljere, it is so depressing" or "I wouldn't work there if it were the last job on earth." To most of us it is a rewarding, fulfilling, worthwhile, humanitarian profession. It is a profession in which we take great pride and provides a sorely needed community service. ' In some areas we agree with Mrs. Harrison, such as the necessity for more direct-care staff at higher wages. But we ask, is a four and one- half hour tour enough time to provide anyone the knowledge of the intricate workings of the provision of twenty-four twenty-four hour, ongoing care of the retarded? Just as a four and one-half hour tour of the State Capitol wov.'.'l not make us qualified to run the State Government. We are writing this on behalf of the residents and our fellow workers in the hopes that both sides of the story will be equally presented. Sincerely, ; LeeKampman 9855 N.Canyon Dr. Pleasant Grove, UT Joyce Foster 255 N. 1600 W. 32 Provo, UT Marsha Elwell 6535 N. 5750 W. American Fork, UT MerriTrexler 222 E. 300 N. Pleasant Grove, UT Dear Fellow Readers, This article is about Garn's space flight. They said they made a guinea pig of him for people in NASA. This is duplicating what already has been learned, first from the monkey and then by the flights by John Glenn. The experiment proved that continued weightlessness without exercise in the gravity field will waste away muscles in the body. At best this will lead to a disease from the prolonged flights. I would like to see the flight by The Jupitor. The craft would have to have gravity and gravity might be achieved achiev-ed by having a center of rotation. Thus, I guarantee some form of gravity gravi-ty weightlessness condition could be used while approaching and when up to the desired velocity. I am in the process of designing such a craft. I will know its feasibility by July 10. Garn was a brave boy. I, myself, have undergone guinea pig ex-periements ex-periements in the hospital. Lewis Morrey Orem Community Hospital Births April 12 Boy to Dwight and Amy Infanger Green of Orem April 15 Girl to Bruce and Patricia Engbert Call of Orem Boy to George 'and Cheryl Tolley Walters of Provo AprU 16 Boy to Brad and Tami Longbrake Arntz of Eureka Girl to Steven and Brenda Blocker of Orem . , J ,,, , Boy to Paul and KimLee Sorensen Davis of Highland Boy to Shawn and MicheTfe'Harding Johan3en of Orem Girl to Clayton and Laura Allen Wengert of Orem Girl to Robert and Jerri Walker Sume' of Orem April 17 Girl to Devon and Meliauna Kirby Anderson of Orem Girl to Philip and Lisa Husar Sheperd of Springville Girl to Dennis and Cecilia Lopez Wilkins of Orem April 18 ' Girl to Dennis and Sarah Phillips of Provo Girl to C. T. and Melissa Stuart Rose of Provo Girl to Thomas and Pamela Blake-ly Blake-ly of Provo . April 19 Girl to Jack and Martha Arnold Ruiter of Provo Boy to Stephen and Kimberly Gonzalez Gon-zalez of Orem Boy to Anthony and Mary Watson Fugal of American Fork Boy to Anthony and Patricia Cole Ferguson of Springville April 20, Girl to Roby and Tamara Haines Hunt of Orem Girl to Jay and Pamela Condie Graft of Provo . Girl to Stephen and Hillary Callar-do Callar-do Phillips of Wyoming Girl to Mark and Susan Frampton Fisher of Provo AprU 22 Girl to Darren and Jan Rees McDer-mott McDer-mott of Orem f:-i If: SEA-GOING MAN - Steve Willden is a Navy petty officer second class aboard the San Diego-based guided missile frigate USS Ramsey. The 23-year-old sailor is the son of Gorden and Linda Willden of Provo. (Left) The USS Ramsey steams off the " Southern California coast. . Orem-Oeneva Times Wed-.- .Jay, April 24, 1985 Utah Valley Symphony To Perform 'Pops' Tonite The Utah Valley Symphony has consented to perform the ever popular "Pops" Concert, again ... on Wednesday night, April 24th, 7:30 p.m., in the Timpview High School Auditorium. Each year the Symphony schedules a "Pops" concert in April for their regular series, and each year the attendance is greater than before. In an attempt to satisfy the demand it was proposed to open up the rehearsal night to the public. The Timpview High P.T.A. became aware of this need and invited the Utah Valley Symphony and it's Conductor Ralph Laycock to perform again the Program given April 17th at the Provo Tabernacle. So now the roar of the cannons will fill the Timpview High Auditorium when Karl Furr's 16 six-powder replicas will fire on cue in Tshaikowsky's "1812" Overture. Steven Thomas a senior at Timpview, will be the featured soloist for this concert. Steven is this year's State Sterling Scholar in music. He will be playing the Allegro Movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto in A Major, K488. Steven is not only an accomp-. accomp-. lished pianist but also excels on the Cello. He is also one of those musicians who continually gives of his time to accompany many of the valley's soloists and many young and up-coming musicians as well. Of course the concert will include l STEVEN THOMAS other popular numbers designed to delight the audience, including Lionel Richie's "Endless Love," Edward Crieg's "Peer Gynt Suite, No. 1. Op. 46," Ann Ronnell's "Willow, Weep for Me," and Bennett's arrangement of Frederick Loewe's "My Fair Lady." Tickets will be available at the door, also by calling Mrs. Peter Crawley, Mrs. Merrill Bateman, or Mrs. Don Robinson. ' May Will Honor Older Americans "Help Yourself to Independence," is the theme for this year's Older Americans Month. The theme and activities being planned during the month of May are designed to focus public awareness on the needs, abilities, and talents of Senior Citizens. Older Americans Month was first designated as a national observance in 1963. Nationwide activities will include a Presidential Proclamation. Locally, older Americans months will begin with Mountainjands Area Agency on Aging sponsoring an Aging Conference on May 3, 1985, at the Eldren Center in Provo (270 West 500 North). A variety of topics will be discussed from 9:00 a.m. to 1 :00 p.m. Lunch will be served at 12:30. For more" information or to make reservations for the luncheon, call 377-2262. CARPETS CLEAME (NOT STEAMED)- 3 Bedrooms, a Living Room and Hall for I T Scotch Guard add EXPIRES ' 4-30-85 I I i all 226-6807; $jqbo 1 i i i i onoy Back Guarantee L : J n Seldd Sve Services mem 'J J LJ O o o DON'T BE LEFT OUT OF THE PICTURE...-. 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