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Show Bcmier (fomnte f&mitor JANUARY 23, 1997 PAGE 2 Note: Jhe follm vig article adds a cynical tarnish la the rosy glow MirroiinJiiif: political activities this past week. Whether it is 14 official inaugural parties in P C, Olympic promotinals in Salt lake City, or luncheons in rural communities, shrial interest groups across the nation (and a growing number from outside our borders) are bent on gleaning tax dollars. I he common "folks " are, of course, not invited to in the revelry... ..they hive to work tofixti the bill. hiitiH- Tiger Wrestling Milford High School was host to a Wrestling Tournament Saturday January 18th. There were 8 teams that traveled to Milford to participate They were; Escalante, Valley, Parowan. Millard J.V., Delta J V , Beaver, Beaver J V . and Milford Beaver took first place in the tournament Following are the results of the different weight class matches Change! Change! Change! Region Wrestling February 1st at Wayne County High School Weight Name 1031b Jack Waters Brett Thomas Robbie Bradshaw Steven Florence Cody Curtis Burton James Cory Curtis Brett Raddon Ben James Duke Barnes Jonathon White Sheb Davie Wyati Davis Brian Yardley Josh Long Chad Marshall RickJarvis Brady Carter Brandon Wiseman Justin Beaumont Jared Smith Steve Carpenter Ryan White (B) (M) (B) (M) (B) (M) (B) (B) (M) Straight Talk State Wrestling February 7th & 8th College of Eastern Utah at Price By Martha Stevens - Corporate Welfare, how they do like to keep their little games going with as little interference as possible from the '"underlings." 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HWT Ranking , 1st Place 4th Place 3rd Place 1st Place 4th Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 1st Place 4th Place 1st Place 3rd Place 1st Place 4th Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 2nd Place Bank (Continued from page ij, . 4 t " ' " - . 1 ) V f 1 a H 4, k i window was added in 198011 titer 1st The Drive-thr- u feitertttte took over The bank evolved to the proent First Security status in 1993, with the latest addition being an ATM in 1996 Over the yean the bank has employed a surprisingly large number of area residents Ron Wunderlich, who worked there from 1972 to 1993, has the ledgers and minutes dating from 1912 until when it was sold to Walker Bank in the 70s Although much of the material is confidential Jack Davis may use some of old tnfomution to ad rest to the Sesquicentennial book Wunderlich says that when he started work in 1972 he hired on it $550 per month Some other employees included Phyllis Hicknun, Keith Barton, Kathy Kirk, and Bob Lee An CpsQ Letter to Kir. Neman Baiter DMrtir, Dim wii j you on your uifomuiue, enieruuuag nJ potgaaat eokiaa. Tkeak you for srjnng our nch meraona sad cxpencoce writ us 1 sntocqxM my weekly history tenoa Be it global or kxl; you tod a humanistic slant that is all too often absent in historical 1 tfty oeouats. Yoa. Mr. Baxter, uc lurch one of this town's valuable natural With tikoeie gratitude, sJnaettsM Moatgomry Editor 's Nott I hop Mr Baxttr hi forgive mt for taking thtt opportunity to skart an tncitltnt that he mated w mt. At a h!gk school sttuknt he had secret dreams of being a great writer Always skttlfkl at spinning a yarn, he put considerable extra or Into particular English cstifpiment Pleased wtth his finished composition, he anxkmsiy awaited what He anticipated would be a superior grade Instead, the paper wa returned with a stinging xmrnent from tht teacher, suggesting that he would he better attend to choose a the world that he decided to takt different Urn ofwert fthat a loss the Hahers advise' And.....hai an apt rvminder for teachers and leaders that they have the daily responsibility of nurturing or discouraging great natural talent fa "I v join (M)MiIford (B)Bcavcr - MMBSVILLE LIBRARY PART C? PIONEER PROJECT Cooperative Contract Allows Public Library to Access Full Text Data Base ' Minersville library users now have access to a thousand , ' magazines online In an unprecedented financial collaboration, public and higher education, the State Library Division, and tie Utah Education Network are building PIONEER, an electronic library for the people of Utah. On January 16th, Governor Leavttt announced that they have signed a contract With Access Information to Company (IAC) World Wide estimated via Web to an the povideinfbrmationn ofte trillion public school students and library patrons in Utah Pubbc Hbrartes with access to the Internet and the World Wide Web are also included under the contract through the State library Division. The IAC full text data base includes the contents of over a thousand magazines, thousands of newspaper articles, and several reference books The magazine titles are diverse and range from scientific and technical journals to popular magazines like Time, Forbes, Consumer's Digest, Buabeu Week, Sunset, Smithsonian, and Psychology Today. be able to get up to date informat ion on almost Ubrtry users choose Patrons can search the IAC data base a asry topic they variety of ways, including by author or subject key word. Aier exploring the information available, the)' can select what they vault, print it off, and take it home IAC data bases MueV "General Periodicals; "Academic," "Business," "Heateh," rtd "SuperTOM"(gradesK-12)- " "Library users also have several their bases data for available other use through the Utah Library Network Home Page (http:www.sutc lib ut us) According to Stee Ubrary Division Director Amy Owen, the purchase of the IAC data base is consistent with past efforts to make the Utah Ubrary Network web site more than just another bfiftoard abng the ifftrmation highway "Librarians know that all bads of people need full text information on a wide range of topics aid they need it fast. Students, for example need research Businessmen must keep up Wrth material for reports and To meet infbrmstion needs of trend. naoketplace product our been has to add value to the mterset citizens, always goal through commercial databases." The coBaborattve contract for IAC databases represents an era of cooperation among public, school, and academic libraries Just as network technologies reduce barriers of time and distance between people, affording and enhancing networks requires organizations to bridge distances and cooperate. Utah System of Higher Education, the State Office of Educarioa, the Utah Education Network, and the State Library Drvision have worked together in the past to build an online infrastructure The IAC purchase, however, marks a turning point. Together, they are now building PIONEER Utah's Online Electronic Library The PIONEER project signals a commitment by all parties to pool resources and acquire online electronic information resources for Utah's citizens Other online information resources that were purchased earlier and are also available include the Deseret News and ERIC, an educational data base The Utah Library Network Initiative won the 1995 Infrastructure Award for the best government sponsored online project in the nation. For more information contact Melinda Dalton at the Minersville Library National Information - informed that the EEP was being discontinued. (I was ready for that one, and requested information of MAP... Market Access Program which is virtually the same thing ) For companies like McDonalds, KFC, Jim Beam, etc., (mustn't leave anyone out!) I understand there is also a program called "Product Promotion," which helps pay for advertising their products overseas. My "friendly" USDA lady further informed me that meat was not included in EEP, nor is MAP But, among the recipients of MAP funds are the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute ($2,770,000), the American Sheep Industry Association ($450,000) ( 'atfish Institute ($205,000), US l ivestock Genetics, Inc. ($945,000), US Meat Export Federation ($6,860,000), and US Poultry and Egg Export Council ($2,190,000). 1 guess I just don't understand what "meat" is Add the wine and distillery companies to the tune of $4,153,000 and others selling everything from chocolate to fruit and nuts, and this program doled out $90,000,000 to giant corporations like Ocean Spray, and Sunkist. An excerpt to the Corporate Welfare Programs is the way the system works. For example, both ADM and Continental Grain recently plead guilty and paid large fines for illegal activities. By pleading guilty andor agreeing to pay fines before the court mandated they do so, these companies were allowed to remain eligible for the government hand-out- s. ADM paid one of the largest fines ever ($J(jK) million) for price fixing, yet is still a top recipient Continental paid $35 million for fraud, showing their patriotism by aiding Iraq in "buying" US products with US government guaranteed loans of approximately $2 billion, on which Iraq promptly defaulted (So Iraq got $2 billion worth of products for a measly $35 million.. which CG paid. The taxpayers got stuck for $2 billion!) This little feat was accomplished by CG supplying "false, fraudulent and fictitious documents" to banks and the USDA on behalf of Iraq's Arab Finagrain and his AgrtBusiness Trading Ltd In apother oour great callepSM General aje Manager). iXG remains a top recipient of Corporate Weifare. (Source: AP and . five-awa- ys News-Pres- s) In the final days of EEP, Tradigrain, Cargill, and Continental Grain Company are still the top three, with Louis Dreyfuss and ADM not far behind And once again, although "no EEP funds go to exporters of meal" I find on the list such names a R W Meats, Ltd., Seaboard Trading and Shipping, Smith Packing Corp , and last but not least Monfort. (We all know what Monfort deals in, ddn't we???) The USDA's EEP, in fiscal 1995, paid a totai of $339,484,222 96 to 71 of the country's biggest corporations; MAP paid out $90,000,000. And. there are others. According to 60 Minutes (CHS), Martin Marietta was one of a number of companies which received billions from the Pentagon. Martin Marietta, one of the nation's most profitable corporations received over $ billion from US taxpayers through the Pentagon budget, to pay for mergers with other companies (like Lockheed) and eliminate hundreds of thousands of American jobs in the process The Pentagon sees this as "saving money!" With reasoning like this, small wonder the country is head over heels in debt! Using the same logic, they'll cut Medicare, Social Security, Food Stamps; and Farm Programs to "balance" the I' budget' give-aw- ay . . . 1 Unfortunately, this country has gone from the land of opportunity to the land of corporate greed with ample assistance from our elected officials. Circle Four Farms has established a Comment Line. We welcome you to express your opinions or viewpoints, positive or negative, on any matter concerning Circle Four You can remain anonymous if you choose, but we ask that you keep your conversation at a professional level. 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