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Show Times Newspaper Wednesday, May 1, 1996 Page 12 Jay Liechty in "a JAY LIECHTY Jay Liechty, CPA, is a Republican candidate for the 3rd District U.S. Congressional Dis How did a relatively new program, pro-gram, from very humble beginnings',, begin-nings',, become; ;a; gateway to health care nationwide? . '" WIC, the Special Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, is a "new" addition addi-tion to public health services. The first, WIC clinic in this country opened in January of 1974. The first clinic in Utah County opened 12 years later, in March of 1982, with a census of 26 clients served in the first month. WIC services are now offered to almost 10,000 Utah County clients in full service clinics in Provo, Orem, and ' if HOME OXYGEN EQUIPMENT UPDATE LINCA RE Introduces. . . . THE SMALLEST AND LIGHTEST OXYGEN SYSTEM AVAILABLE LINCAREIrh 3 natonay recognized leader in home respiratory and oxygen services. JCAH0 ACCREDITATION 24 HOUR SERVICE ULTRA LIGHT OXYGEN PORTABLES (UNDER 3.6 POUNDS) LONG LASTING OXYGEN PORTABLES (UP TO 18 HOURS) SUITCASE CONCENTRATORS 8 200 LOCATIONS NATIONWIDE OXIMETRY TESTING MEDICARE ASSIGNMENT ACCEPTED LINCARB FOR MORE INFORMATION GALL 46 North 1200 West Orem, Utah 84057 Serving our customers for over 20 years. JCAH0 Accredited Republican race for Congress trict seat. He has been endorsed by former congressman Howard Nielson. Liechty has been a certified Public Accountant for 30 years. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Brigham Young University and a master's degree from Stanford in economics. He is currently a professor of accounting, account-ing, economics, and business law at the college level. Elected to the Utah State Board of Education in 1989, Liechty Liech-ty served as its chair. He graduated in the top ten of the National Guard Officer's Candidate Can-didate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and has worked in the Utah County Republican Party as treasurer for four years. "I am a person who has worked hard to raise a family and con-' tribute to society. Like you, I have some concerns," Liechty said. Im-pendingfinancial Im-pendingfinancial catastrophe and declining morals top his list of concerns. con-cerns. Payson, with a Migrant Clinic located at Mountainlands Community Com-munity Health Center. Over the years, WIC has earned the reputation of "Gateway to Health Care" because be-cause of the number of participants par-ticipants being served and the requirement that WIC clients be screened and referred to other programs, especially early prenatal care. The significant improvement in pregnancy outcomes out-comes with earlier prenatal care has led to additional WIC requirements re-quirements in screening for other health risk factors. WIC currently screens for high risk 3338 "The 3rd District needs a person per-son who will stand up for what we know to be right morally and fiscally fis-cally and won't budge," Liechty asserted. The debt is no longer just a nuisance, the candidate said, it is dangerous perhaps even a malignancy. "If major inflationary times come, interest rates will rise so high .they will gobble up every tax dollar citizens pay," Liechty said. Liechty has questioned the ef-. ef-. fectiveness of Bill Orton's representation repre-sentation of the district. "Although "Al-though Bill Orton is a good person, he finds himself collaborating Liechty was born and raisedin Springville on a farm. He married Suzy Calder of Vernal, and they have lived in Provo for the past 23 years, raising 10 children. with a group of 20 other maverick Democrats," Liechty said, "and that coalition is too small to in factors such as substance abuse and immunization status, then provides an appropriate referral for treatment and intervention. WIC's multiple intervention approach of a supplemental food program, quality nutrition education, breastfeeding promotion, promo-tion, and community referrals works. Several national studies have shown that WIC has a significant sig-nificant positive influence on nutritional and health status, thus the new motto, "WIC Works". WIC works to provide: An increase in early prenatal prena-tal care Decreased rate of pre-term $ ACTUAf f CYLINEF SIZE fluence voting in Congress. Thus he does not effectively represent the majority of the voters in the 3rd District." Liechty maintains that there are 224 attorneys in Congress and only one CPA, so it is "no wonder we have budget problems." "We need a congressman with strong fiscal knowledge, a leader who realizes the danger of our national na-tional debt, and who knows how to cure its threat; we don't need another attorney!" Liechty declared. "My financial, accounting, account-ing, and economics expertise give me an excellent shot at landing a seat on the congressional budget committee, where I will withhold government money from pornography, pornog-raphy, abortion, tobacco subsidies, sub-sidies, and other unconstitutional programs. Ideas that are not funded cannot be promoted." deliveries ... Reduced rate., of late fetal deaths V ' ' Improved dietary intake of vitamins A,C, and D, protein, andiron Improved .cognitive functioning of children . Clinton's V by Malcolm Wallop Amidst much fanfare, Presi- , dent Clinton and Vice President Gore on March 7 hosted a one- 1 day summit titled "Youth Drug ; Use and Violence in America" to call attention to and issue , recommendations about the related re-lated problems of teen violence and the skyrocketing use of illegal il-legal drugs by our nation's youth. It needs to be asked why it has taken an election year for President Clinton to discover that America's drug problem has reached crisis levels. The evidence that drug use among teenagers has been rising during Clinton's term of office is overwhelming and has been obvious ob-vious for some time. Indeed, the statistics are staggering: The rate of monthly illicit drug use by children aged 12-17 increased 56 percent from 1992 to 1994, according to the Clinton administration's own estimates. The Justice Department reported in September 1995 that one of every three juvenile detainees was under the influence in-fluence of drugs at the time of the offense. A December 1995 survey found that cocaine use by those in grades 9 through 12 had increased in-creased 36 percent since 1992, and use of hallucinogens had increased in-creased by 75 percent. Between 1992 and 1994, the rate of marijuana use among children 12-17 nearly doubled, according to the National Survey Sur-vey on Drug Use. Until now, President Clinton has paid little attention to what most Americans have recognized recog-nized all along to be a national crisis. Despite the tough talk and finger pointing at the drug summit, the Clinton administration's response to America's drug problem has been abysmal. A quick look at the facts: In his first year in office, Clinton cut his drug policy staff 763 Columbia Lane Provo, Utah Phone: 373-2550 Now that you know where, stop in and see us. Upholstering fabrics, Supply Items, and Courteous Serivce Decrease in number of children with poor iron status Reduction of $3.50 in health care costs for every $1 invested in WIC One of the main goals of the WIC program has been to improve im-prove the iron status of clients phony war on drugs by 85 percent. Last year, the Clinton administration ad-ministration proposed cutting more than 100 drug prosecutors from U.S. attorneys' offices and cutting funding for drug interdiction inter-diction and drug intelligence programs. The Drug Enforcement Agency trained no special agents in 1993, and none were budgeted to be trained in 1994 or 1995. Attorney General Janet Reno announced soon after taking office that she wanted to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for drug trafficking and related crimes. Not surprisingly, surpris-ingly, the number of federal drug prosecutions has been dropping. And who can forget Clinton's own Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who advocated legalizing drugs in order to reduce the crime rate. Just last month, the Clinton Clin-ton administration's misplaced priorities were on display once again. After visiting an elementary elemen-tary school in one of Philadelphia's most crime-plagued crime-plagued and drug-infested neighborhoods, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a speech later that evening, called on the government to protect teenagers from the tobacco industry and pushed for a television rating system. Two important issues, no doubt, but hardly the answer to the scourge of drugs and violence in our neighborhoods. In announcing his drug summit sum-mit last November, President Clinton stated that it is impor-, impor-, tant to counter messages that tell children it is "cool, sexy, attractive at-tractive to drink or get high." He will surely want to explain then why, when asked on MTV in 1992 if he would inhale marijuana if he had to do it over again, he responded to laughter, "Sure, if I could. I tried before." President Clinton's total lack of leadership in the war on runs: "wondeMliere you couSftit? a because of the increased potential for anemia' in this population group. WIC infants and children in Utah County continue to show an improvement in iron status at their follow-up visits. drugs over the past three years should cause all Americans to view skeptically his embrace of the issue in an election year. The tragedy is that prior to his election elec-tion in 1992, America was winning win-ning the war on drugs. Even NBC News reported that "Just Say No" was an effective message mes-sage in the 1980s. , Then, presidential leadership leader-ship was highly visible, tough, and effective. And as a consequence, conse-quence, drug use plummeted. Between 1985 and 1992, overall drug use was cut in half. The number of cocaine users dropped from 5.8 million to 1.8 million. The number of marijuana users fell from 22 million to 8.5 million. mil-lion. The percentage of high school seniors who used drugs was reduced from a high of 54.2 percent in 1979 to27.1 percent -in 1992. The reason? Children were continually bombarded with the message that drugs were wrong. Dealers were put on notice that peddling drugs to kids would not be tolerated. And both the Bush and Reagan administrations pursued tough drug enforcement enforce-ment and interdiction policies. Sadly, those trends have been reversed in just three years. Any progress that we as a nation were making in curtailing curtail-ing drug use has been destroyed because the Clinton administration administra-tion fled the field of battle and has been missing ever since. President Clinton's drug summit was an indication that . his pollsters can recognize a campaign issue. But we must demand more than campaign events and photo opportunities from our president. The lives of millions of our young people are at stake. Malcolm Wallop retired in 199 f after serving 18 years as a U.S. senator from Wyoming. He is now chairman of Frontiers of Freedom in Arlington, Via. ' POOR |