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Show 4. By Postmaster :. Clyde E. Weeks "Dreams For Sale" is the heading of an advertisement for one of our international airlines which offers of-fers "Dream Vacations," including accommodations and flights for one low price. You can spend eight days in paradise (Hawaii) for $599, four days on the beach in The Bahamas for $479, or four days at Walt Disney Village in Orlando, Florida for $439. A few years ago these kinds of vacations for Orem residents were truly just dreams, but today it is not at all unusual for couples, and even families, to board a plane and travel to almost any corner of the globe. The price of air travel has dropped dramatically in recent years, and deluxe accommodations are being built all over the world to house the increasingly-mobile population. Even some of the more remote and mysterious regions of the world are now readily available to travellers who want to go and see what before they could only read about. DEVIL'S ISLAND Devil's Island, the old French penal colony in French Guiana is just one of these out-of-the-way places where today's vacationer can visit the site where some 70,000 hapless souls, convicted by the French courts, served serv-ed their time. Convicted of everything from political crimes and minor robberies to murder and forgery, they were brought in by ragtag freighters, handcuffed hand-cuffed and shackled like a cargo of cattle. Mexico is becoming one of the most popular vacation spots for local residents, as the dollar can be exchanged ex-changed mere for around 2,200 pesos. Europe, the South Pacific, South America, Russia, Scandinavia, the British Isles: all of these places offer fabulous sights and sounds to the traveller which are unforgettable. Whether traveling by plane, bus, train, auto or cruise ship, vacations in other parts of the world hold out a great attraction to many local residents wanting to get more out of life. r; SEE YOUR NEIGHBOR wit may be a grand tour of the world for $25,000, or a week-end trip to Wendover for $11.00 ($10.00 cash back). In either event, you can be sure to meet someone from your own hometown somewhere on your trip. There is no question about it: Dreams are for sale! And while you're traveling on that vacation, don't forget to send back a post card picturing some of Timpanogos Cave offers new visitor program ' The visitor center of Timpanogos Cave National Monument will be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p xn., Sunday through Thursday, and 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday through August 27, 1988. Special evening programs will be held at 7:45 pjn. on Friday and Saturday Satur-day at the visitor center. These special hanger Slide Talks will cover a variety of topics, including "Caves of the National Park System," "American Fork Canyon Natural History," and "Human History of American Fork Canyon." Canyon Nature Walks will be led every Saturday by a National Park $rem-$ttteua Slimes -USPS 411-700) Published each Wednesday for $8.00 per year by the Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Times, 546 South State Street, Orem, Utah 84058. Second Class Postage Paid, at Orem, Utah 84057. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Orem-Geneva Times, P. 0. Box. 65, Orem, Utah 84057. POST MARK 6 o 1988 o your adventures. But if you are in a foreign country you must get some postage stamps from the local post office of-fice to mail your cards. The stamps of one country are not valid to send mail from another country. Fortunately, in every one of the 50 United States, the same postage stamps can be used on mail. LOTS OF LOVE The newest stamp being issued by the Postal Service is one which proves that it takes a lot of love to run a post office. For the fifth consecutive year the Postal Service will issue a new Love special stamp. This stamp will feature a lovely pink rose against a leafy, dark green background and will be issued on July 4 in Pasadena, California. The dedication ceremony will be held in conjunction with the Independence In-dependence Day celebration at the Rose Bowl. The stamp was unveiled earlier this year during the New Year's Eve celebration in Washington D.C., and also was featured later in the day at the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, as a salute to the centennial of that annual Pageant. The Love stamp, available since 1982, has proven to be an enormously popular choice for customers' valentines, valen-tines, wedding invitations, and other correspondence to friends and family. fami-ly. In recent years, almost a billion love stamps have been printed annually an-nually to meet customer demand. The Love stamp will be on sale at the Orem Post Office on Tuesday, July Ju-ly 5. POPCORN WAGON One of the things which captivated cap-tivated me as a child was the old-fashioned, old-fashioned, gaily-decorated popcorn wagon that was the center-piece of the concessions at carnivals and circuses, the hot, buttered popcorn tasted like nothing else in the world, and was an essential part of any visit to the circus Well, believe it or not, the old-time old-time popcorn of my childhood is going go-ing to be memorialized on a brand-new brand-new 16.7-cent postage stamp which represents the basic rate for bulk mail. The design, by Lou Nolan of McLean, Virginia, uses a profile of the Cretors Number 1 Wagon Model 1902. A glass case at the right encloses Charles Cretors' now-familiar popcorn pop-corn kettle, suspended above a mound of freshly popped product. Under the canopy his toy "Rosty Tosty: clown dances above the cylindrical peanut roaster. Bulk mailers can buy the new stamp starting July 8. Service Ranger at 12 noon, 1: 15 p.m., and 2:30 p.m. from the visitor center. Special cave tours, such as the Candlelight Walks, Historic Routes, and Flashlight Tours may be reserved reserv-ed in advance by calling the visitor :enter at 756-5238 through August 22. Ml tickets are $3, regardless of age. Ticket sales for cave tours are ivailable daily on a first-come, first-served first-served basis from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. Tickets are $3 for adults, age 16 through 61, $2 for children, age 6 through 15, and free of charge for children under age 6. Golden Age Passports admit senior citizens, age 62 and older, for $1.50. Two-worker families increasing Some 13.4 million two-worker families where the wife was 18 to 44 years old had children in 1987, up from about 8.3 million in 1976, according accor-ding to a report by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. Two-worker families without children increased to 4.2 million from 3.0 million in 1976. More college-educated women with newborns under one year of age were employed than those who had completed less than 12 years of school in 1987, 63 percent compared with 38 percent. Of all women who gave birth, 51 percent were employed after the birth, well above the 31 percent recorded in 1976. The report also showed that the, only age groups with increases in fertility fer-tility since 1980 were women aged 30 to 34 and 35 to 39. Some 709,000 unmarried women gave birth in 1987. Of those, 583,000 were never married, while 126,000 were widowed or divorced. As in all surveys, the data in this report are subject to sampling variability and response errors. , Cannon fire silenced at FIREX ends The sounds of cannon fire at Dugway and Camp W.G. Williams were silenced as FIREX 88 came to an end and thousands of soldiers began the long drive home last weekend. The largest field artillery exercise exer-cise since World War II drew over 14,000 active Army and Air Force, Air and Army National Guardsmen and U.S. Army Reservists from more than 20 states to Utah's west desert areas for some intensive coordinated training. The exercise ended with a spectacular spec-tacular bang Thursday afternoon as the 12 artillery battalions participating par-ticipating in FIREX all fired their howitzers at once in an impressive display of coordinated firepower. Almost immediately after the shooting stopped, the soldiers involv- -1 ' ed in the exercise began packing their gear and heading home, clogging . Utah highways and freeways with large convoys of soldiers and equipment. ! And, at the same time, Utah Na-; tional Guard officials were joining with military experts from around the : country to assess the value of FIREX. ! According to Gen. James Miller of Cedar City, the I Corps Com-; mander who was in charge in FIREX, ' initial indications are that the huge ; exercise was a success. "Our initial exchange with the leadership of the Army and the National Na-tional Guard indicated that everyone was very, very pleased," said Miller. I "A lot of training of soldiers took i place. My feeling is that they really got a lot of training for their buck. We f hope we can repeat FIREX at a later date." f The I Corps Commander said all of the initial goals of FIREX were met as both artillery, transportation, . Army aviation, Air Force, signal and support units coordinated their efforts together, just as they would in , wartime. ' "The FIREX objectives generated a tremendous amount of interface in-terface with all the units," he said. "It brought together the whole I corps family. It went very, very well, I'm pleased with the overall results." Miller was especially pleased with the lack of serious accidents during dur-ing FIREX and the way the soldiers in the field tried to take care of the en- , vironment. i Statistically, for an exercise this size, there was an expected potential of 7 to 12 deaths, said Maj. Bruce Holley, the Patient Administrative Officer for the Utah National Guard's , 144th Evacuation Hospital which coordinated the emergency health care for the soldiers. During the exercise, 2,043 pa- , tients were brought to the hospital. The vast majority were released a few hours later. Holley said there -were a few lacerations and colds. The blowing dust was tough on soldiers with asthma conditions. "To me, the safety record was a ; reflection of the general's stressing the importance of safety," said Holley. "No liquor was allowed in the , field during the exercise and I think . that was a key contributor to the safety." Auto burglaries Police are investigating several auto burgalaries that occurred over the weekend. ; A car stereo valued at $180 was reported taken from a vehicle at 700 N. 950 W. in Orem Friday night. Stereo and tapes with a value of $180 were reported stolen from a vehicle vehi-cle at 300 N. 300 W. Friday night. gF m$y& ( OLirCMS IS LIKEY RZP&k ffK LISTENIN'T' ) I I J l-jU : , 1 'EM J (Lofefeoro fc fcto Enough is enough Editor, It was interesting to read of the Alpine School District budget presentation presen-tation to the school board. The board increased the property tax rate by .0001 percent, indicating that this tax increase is mandated by the State. Jim Hansen of the Alpine Budget Dept. evidently said this .0001 percent increase would only mean a 45 cent tax increase to a $75,000 property valuation. Mr. Hansen forgot to move the decimal point to read $4.50 tax increase in-crease on that valuation. The 1 percent increase in property proper-ty valuation due to a growth factor, along with this .0001 percent tax increase, in-crease, will give the school district almost $500,000 in extra money. This .0001 percent tax increase alone will give them $210,655 on the same property pro-perty valuation. They will receive $17,701,312 from the property tax rate m By Dennis Kinkamp Consumer Information Writer Utah State University The old gray sweats ain't what they used to be. The traditional grays are out and colors are in. Baggy is out, tight is in. If you haven't been to an aerobics class lately, you should check one out, they are the most colorful col-orful thing this side of a polka festival. Many of us wear exercise clothes even when we're not exercising. Part of this is due to the new emphasis on exercise, but this trend is also due to improved fabrics used in exercise clothing. The new fibers and textiles create a micro environment for athletes. They keep them from getting too hot, too cold or too damp. Some of the most common new materials: Polypropolene: Cotton is comfortable, comfor-table, but it also has the undesireable characteristic of retaining moisture. So, when you perspire during exercise you end up with a cold damp layer of material next to your skin. Polypropolene on the other hand does not absorb moisture, but it does wick it away from the skin. This helps keep you dry during exercise and helps eliminate that clammy feeling you get when exercising in cold weather. Gore-tex: This is a brand name for a process applied to the fabric in rain suits, gloves, shoes and anything else that needs to be water resistant, yet breathable. Gore-tex tends to be expensive, so many competitors have come out with similar processes. Among them: Gamex, Lovock-PH, More-tex and Sevina. i Lycra: Spandex is the generic name, but the Dupont trade name of Lycra is more commonly known. Under a microscope Lycra fibers look like little corkscrews. It is this shape that gives Lycra its desireable stretchy stret-chy qualities. Although few pieces of clothing are made of 100 percent Lycra, it is blended into many fabrics. Nylon Lycra blend swimsuits and leotards are the most common uses of this synthetic syn-thetic fiber, but it is also blended into in-to jeans, socks, hats, sweaters and anywhere else you need a garment that stretches while maintaining its shape. Nylon: We almost take nylon for granted, but it was one of the first synthetic syn-thetic fibers applied to sportswear. Most people will remember the comfort com-fort improvement nylon running shorts were compared to the old cotton variety. Nylon also rinses out and dries quickly and is fairly tear resistant. Orem-Geneva Times- of .8403. They also receive $76,098,688 from state and federal sources for a total $93.8 million budget. This over $17.7 million property tax collection is mainly used for capitol improvement. improve-ment. New buildings, remodeling, reserves and investment portfolios. Supt. Clark Cox estimated that if all 3 tax initiatives were to be passed by a peoples vote at the ballot box, that it would cost the school district $9.5 million. The property tax rate is .84, the limitation initiative would set a cap at .75, or a difference of .09, which would mean a reduction to the school district of $1.9 million, but they have much more than that amount in reserves and investment portfolios. Remember, this would be a loss in the capital improvement account, not to the maintenance and operation budget from which teacher salaries and student supplies come. As far as the tax roll back initiative in-itiative is concerned, Governor Bangerter is now admitting to a $130 million tax collection surplus. It increases in-creases each week. So the tax in- Fashion, Comfort Sportswear As long as exercise remains popular, the fabrics and materials used us-ed in sportswear will continue to improve im-prove as companies vie for your sport-wear sport-wear dollar. Prior to the running Something for everyone: 1988 Census abstract The 1988 version of the nation's best-selling annual statistical roundup roun-dup has been published by the Commerce Com-merce Department's Census Bureau. It's the 108th edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, offering a continuing portrait of the people, institutions, and trends in America. It is used by students and teachers, journalists, government workers, the business community, and the just plain curious. The new version contains 970 pages and 1,425 tables and graphic charts, with more than a million statistics (town form both public and private sources. It has 100 new tables on topics such as population projections, projec-tions, the elderly, AIDS cases, child care arrangements, disposable personal per-sonal income, mortgage delinquency, minority-owned business firms, and residential energy expenditures. Efforts increase The City-County Health Department Depart-ment of Utah County announced this week that they will begin actively promoting pro-moting awareness and compliance with the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act. "There has been a great deal of interest and concern recently about an individual's right to clean air at work and in public places," says Pat Tucker, the Tobacco Free Utah representative from the Health Promotion Pro-motion Division. "Our goal is to help restaurants and worksites achieve compliance with Utah's Indoor Clean ir Law." The Utah Indoor Clean Air Act restricts smoking to designated areas in all public places, including restaurants, worksites, theatres, clinics, hospitals and public transportation. transpor-tation. Smoking is prohibited in all elevators, restrooms, stairwells, building entrances and hallways. Employers and managers have the responsibility for designating well-ventilated well-ventilated smoking areas and ensuring ensur-ing that employees, visitors, and customers comply with the designations. designa-tions. However, the law permits an employer to designate an entire building as non-smoking. This activity is not just a Utah phenomena. In April, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) prohibited pro-hibited smoking on domestic flights of -Wednesday June29, 1988 Page 2 Gtep crease was actually unnecessary. Dr. Cox is claiming a loss on funds he has not yet received, as the income tax collection funds were not appropriated ap-propriated until July 1, 1988 and should be withheld from budgets pending pen-ding a vote of the people. An economic fact is that the more money you have to budget with the more money you spend. There are always more wants and wishes than money available. I cannot buy a car, or boat, or a trailer merely because I want one. I have to save, budget, cut or prioritize with the funds I have available. That is all the people are saying, enough is enough, and we are asking administrators and elected officials to be realistic, responsible, accountable and innovative in the use of taxpayer money, and to streamline and reduce administration overhead. If they continue con-tinue to make unreasonable and irresponsible ir-responsible threats, then they should be replaced with someone who will take another approach. R. L. "Bob" Wright boom there were only two companies manufacturing running shoes. Now we have whole stores devoted to running run-ning shoes. As a convenient guide to other statistical publications and sources, the 1988 edition contains a telephone contact list and a new listing of selected foreign statistical abstracts. It also includes a special section on a variety of state rankings. ' Copies of the 1988 Statistical Abstract may be purchased for $25 each prepaid for the paperback edition edi-tion (GPO) Stock No. 003-024-06707-2) or $30 for clothbound (GPO Stock No. 003-024-06708-1) from the Superintendent Superinten-dent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, or form GPO bookstores in major ma-jor cities. Holders of a MasterCard, VISA, or GPO account number may phone in orders to (202)783-3238. A pocket-size insert, "USA Statistics in Brief," is included at no cost in each copy. to clear the air .ess than two. hours. Northwest Airline has gone one step further and banned smoking on all domestic flights of any duration The State of California has prohibited smoking on all public transportation. New York City recently enacted legislation to restrict smoking in public places and the town of Aspen, Colorado has prohibited pro-hibited smoking entirely in all public buildings and restaurants. The 'clean air' phenomena has been prompted by public concern about the health hazards of "second hand," "sidestream" or "passive" smoke. This is the smoke that is exhaled ex-haled by the smoker as well as the smoke that is produced at the burning burn-ing end of the cigarette. The smoke has been found to be associated with' more colds and bronchitis in non smoking children and to increase a non-smoking adult's chances of heart disease and lung cancer. Because of . the hazards associated with second hand smoke, many people are re- 4 A. questing non-smowng areas ai worn and in other public places to avoid be- ng exposed to contaminated air. . I For more information on smoking smok-ing policy development, please contact con-tact Pat Tucker at the City-County Health Department of Utah County at 379-8795. |