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Show Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday, April 4, 1990 Page 14 Drama, heartache Of described WASHINGTON,D.C. In an emotional congressional hearing recently, Senator Jake Garn (It-Utah) (It-Utah) and his daughter, Sue Garn Home, shared their personal per-sonal experiences with Diabetes and asked Congress to be supportive suppor-tive of national initiatives to discover dis-cover a cure for the disease which plagues not only the senator's daughter, but 12 million Americans and ranks as the third most fatal disease in the country. "People are dying of diabetes because we have not laid a hand on a cure for this devastating disease," dis-ease," Garn told the Senate Ap- Eropriations Subcommittee on abor, Health and Human Services Ser-vices and Education and Related Agencies. The senator reflected back 20 years to when he and his wife learned that his daughter had contracted juvenile diabetes. He said at that time his doctor promised him that within five to 10 years there would be a cure for the disease. "Here we are, 30 years later and there obviously is no cure. I'm here at this hearing not as a senator and member of the Appropriations Committee, I'm here as the father of a diabetic. I'm here to ask congress to take into consideration the need to find a cure for diabetes." Garn, a member of the full Appropriations committee said, "I know how tight the budget is, and soon 111 be out fighting again for funding other important programs, so I am well aware of the many budget demands. I am not here today to advocate a certain cer-tain budget figure, only to deliver the message that diabetes is a very serious disease the third killer of all diseases in this country and there is still no Investing trends for the new decade By Dwight Christie of Piper Jaffray and Hopwood Inc. Although no one can be sure what the stock market will do over the next ten years, there are certain trends which cannot be ignored and which are likely to be reflected in the marketplace. According to The Economist, Econo-mist, a British economic weekly, over the next 40 years aging populations will cause social and economic changes greater than those which resulted from the oil embargoes of the 1970s or the recession of the early 80s. Shortly after the year 2000, approximately approximate-ly 6 percent of the population will be 75 or older, a fact which should benefit pharmaceutical companies com-panies and drugstores. (Prescription (Prescrip-tion drug use nearly doubles among people aged 30 to 60. It rises to 10.5 prescriptions per year and increases to 13.0 per year for the 70-and-older group.) As people live longer, their needs for surgery and for in-home and long-term medical care services will likely increase. Nearly one-third of the current cur-rent total U.S. population and nearly half of our country's adult population are baby boomers bom between 1946 and 1964. As this group progresses through various stages of life, implications implica-tions for investors abound. Companies Com-panies offering day care, temporary tem-porary employment agencies, telecommunication companies, and specialty retailers should be beneficiaries of this large population popula-tion segment. As the world is coming closer to being one economy, demand for skilled workers will grow and $ CASH $ For Aluminum Cans & Recydables HIGH PRICES PAID Cal Us Befort Tm Sell NATIONAL STEEL TUBE DISTRIBUTORS INCORPORATED 126 North 1330 West, Orem 224-6783 Learn the Printing and Newspaper Trade After School Must be willing to work 15 hours per week with a late shift Tuesday night. Must be willing to get hands dirty. Call Brent Orem-Geneva Times 225-1340 to Congress cure. We still don't know what causes diabetes. We know about the results and the complications, but we don't know much about the root of these problems, the disease itself. We want to encourage en-courage the committee to take this into consideration when deliberating the upcoming budget" Garn's daughter, Sue, learned of her diabetes when she was 10 years old. She was diagnosed as a Type I Juvenile Diabetic which means her pancreas was not producing enough insulin to keep dangerous levels of sugar from building up in the bloodstream. She credited insulin for keeping keep-ing her alive and for helping regulate regu-late her sugar levels, but said, "I must stress that regardless its positive contribution to treating the disease, insulin is not a cure for diabetes. There is no cure. Insulin In-sulin helps diabetics cope with the disease, but it does not make the disease go away. It may be a miraculous treatment, treat-ment, but it certainly is not a miraculous cure. It extends life and that cannot be underestimated, underes-timated, but at the same time, we cannot use it as an excuse for not vigorously furthering diabetes research. re-search. A cure must be found." Home said as a diabetic, she has suffered from kidney failure, which led to her father's kidney donation to her in September of 1986. "Fortunately, I had living related donors, and a generous, loving father who could offer me one of his kidneys. Even though the transplant gave me a new lease on life renewed energy and hope, I still have not guarantees from day to day that I will not again have to yet, there is considerable concern over the level of training that young people in the United States are receiving. A recent study found that the typical 21- to 25-year-old young adult reads below the level required for the average job. This is particularly troublesome trouble-some as jobs which are yet to be created will likely be more complex com-plex and require even stronger reading and analytical skills. As -the population ages, the work, load will be shifted to a smaller group of younger individuals who are less skilled. A greater effort and expenditure on educational processes will be needed if we are to maintain our productivity. We will continue to see concern con-cern over environmental issues. There will be increasing efforts to control auto emissions, acid rain, and other air pollution. Companies Com-panies will be forced to minimize or eliminate waste and curb the use of chemicals. We should see increased demand for pest and weed control alternatives which do not require the application of harmful chemicals. Each day the U.S. generates 450,000 tons of solid waste, 95 percent of which is being sent to landfills. Because of concern over products which take years to decompose, demand for new forms of biodegradable packaging pack-aging will increase. Environmental Environmen-tal clean-up technologies and services ser-vices will flourish. And our water, a scarce and precious resource, may at some point be viewed as more valuable than energy. Our national infrastructure is in poor condition. Countless U.S. bridges, highways, and other public works are badly in need of repair or replacement. For example, ex-ample, 30 percent of all of our bridges are older than their original estimates lives of 50 years. Vehicle traffic is up 70 percent per-cent since 1967, yet spending on roads and bridges has declined 35 percent in real terms during that period. For the long-term investor, the problems of the next decade present potentially rewarding opportunities. op-portunities. Many publicly held companies are already developing develop-ing answers to these difficult problems. New companies will be formed to meet these new needs. diabetes face kidney failure." Gam called his donation the "easiest thing" he's ever done. "It was not a difficult thing at all. It was something any parent would do for a child. It was without doubt the most important thing I've ever done without doubt." - The senator's daughter told the committee she also has suffered suf-fered from the total loss of vision in her right eye, which required many eye laser treatments and two complicated surgical procedures proce-dures to try to halt her fading vision. Both surgeries failed. She also endured two miscarriages, which were directly related to the diabetes. "I am eternally grateful for my healthy five-year-old daughter and realize how blessed I am to have her. she, however, came seven weeks early because of my diabetic kidney problems," she said. These are some of the complications com-plications of diabetes, she said. "As they demonstrate, diabetes affects every part of a diabetic's health and life. I still check my sugar level at least four times a day. And, my life is a constant balancing of health considerations." considera-tions." She said "while we naturally react to the complications, we need to aggressively pursue a cure for the root of the complications complica-tions the disease itself." Gam and Home were part of a group of many other witnesses invited to urge Congress to fund diabetes research, specifically further studies of a possible "diabetes gene," which is being researched in various parts of the country, including the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Dwight Christie is an investment in-vestment executive of the Provo office of Piper Jaffray and Hopwood Incorporated, a full service investment firm founded in 1895. UTAH SKI Ever since Utah's first chairlift went up in 1939, the ski industry has become more and more important to the state's economy. Today, Utah's 15 resorts provide world-class skiing to more than 2.4 million snow buffs annually. Last year, out-of-state skiers spent an estimated $200 million in UVCC to host Date and marital rape will be the topic of a Utah Valley Community Com-munity College (UVCC) forum April 11, at noon, in the Hall of 'When a woman says no, ifs rape whether she is single, married, mar-ried, or separated,'' said Laura X, forum speaker and director of the National Clearinghouse on Marital Mari-tal and Date Rape in Berkeley, Calif. "Ifs a crime punishable in 43 states, but not in Utah. I think the growing concern throughout the state over husbands being exempt from prosecution is one of the reasons I have been invited to speak at UVCC" The two and a half hour program pro-gram features video clips from "60 Minutes" of interviews with marital mari-tal rape survivors and their children and a marital rape debate between Laura X and an attorney, moderated by Ed Bradley. Following Follow-ing the video presentation, a panel of Laura X and local participants wiQ engage the forum audience in a discussion of the social, legal, political, historical, religious, economic, philosophical, familial, and psychological meanings of date and marital rape. According to Laura X, who chose her name to represent the anonymity of women's history and the legal ownership of women, research has shown that one in seven women are raped by their marital partners, and twice as many women are raped by their husbands as by other men. 1 see non-prosecution of mari- Santa Claus, a famous town in Indiana, In-diana, re-mails thousands of letters and parcels with its postmark at Christmastime. TIPS We want the scoop on what's happening in Orem. Call in news tips. Orem-Geneva Times 225-1340 , :p v 4$m:izwif II INDUSTRY itmaf...'. ...... L.V.SiBHHlkn. ., i) 1 idMMB Utah. Utah definitely enjoys a sloping ." economy: the more people heading downhill, the more things look up! At Utah Power, we're proud to supply the essential electricity. And we're also proud to supply that electricity at rates which have been ivrasm;...making the future date and marital rape forum tal rape as an extension of the fact that women are systematically denied recognition as separate individuals in-dividuals with identities and rights of their own," she said. "And though date rape is illegal, some of the attitudes about it are parallel." In date rape, a man believes that since he has spent all sorts of money on whatever they have enjoyed en-joyed on the date, he has bought the woman for the evening, she said. Other myths about acquaintance rape include: rape is committed by crazed strangers, women who are raped deserve it, women who don't fight back haven't been raped, ifs not rape if the victim isn't a virgin, if a gun or knife isn't used ifs not rape, women lie about rape, and if a woman lets a man buy her dinner she owes him sex. "Rape really happens, to. role vou know, bv oeoole you low," said Laura X. "Everyone has a right to say no regardless of what has preceded it." While the scope of date rape is huge, few people are aware of the ypVi COW tT Cty S" BE S? Just in time for Easter & Mother's Day One Day Only! Saturday, April 7, 1990 10 am to 6 pm Country Collectibles Wooden toys Sweatshirts - Tee shirts Specialty Clothing Baked Goods Wreaths -Florals Gifts Galore! Dolls & Much more! Join us at our NEW LOCATION Pleasant Grove Recreation Center 41 East 200 South : Formerly held in the Alpine Gym rft 'J 0 o o o very brighL.for the state.ior new industry.Jor new jobs...for all of us. Wc have the power good things happen. magnitude of the problem, she said. The fault does not lie in the inability of women to say no, but in men as long as they feel coercion is appropriate for their sexual activity ac-tivity with women." A graduate of the University of California, Laura X is also the executive ex-ecutive director of the women's History Research Center, director of the successful 1979 California campaign to make marital rape crime, consultant to 45 other state campaigns on date and marital rape, a guest on the "Phil Donahue," "Geraldo," "Sally Jessy Raphael," and "Hour Magazine," shows, among others. She also received. Woman of Achievement Award from Mademoiselle Magazine, a World Congress of Victimology Award for Innovative Programs and Services, and a commendation by the American Library Association. ' Students and Utah County citizens are invited to the UVCc forum. Special services will be Erovided for participants with earing impairments. For Information CALL: Terry 785-2084 Central Cashier o o 8 o node ODODd u QQGiD1 A D'vivon o P.vi'Oup |