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Show THE BEAVER PRESS Weather Stats Beaver Plans For Statue Campaign Our statistician took the summer off so we'll have a new monthly report each week until we get caught up ! ) BEAVER UTAH Through the cooperation of Superintendent Lynn Haslam, AI Marshall, Principal of Beaver High School and Dan Joseph, Principal of Belknap School, the fundpraising campaigns for the restoration of our Statue of Liberty is underway. This is to be an education, patriotic campaign, sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. They hope for the cooperation of all students and their parents, faculty members and all loyal American citizens. We are more richly blessed than any people on Earth. We want to teach our children to appreciate the blessings and freedoms that we daily enjoy. Sometimes we need to sacrifice a little, and this campaign for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty is to bring to our minds one way we can help our great nation. Instead of having children ask their parents for 'money to help restore the almost 100 year old statue,' we are asking that every student will willingly sacrifice one day or one week's spending money for candy, etc. and donate their savings to this worthy fund. There will be no campaign for adults. Containers will be placed in the schools and in some of the Main Street business houses for free-wigifts. Every child will feel a deeper love for America and for our heritage. Each school will sponsor and Weather Facts and Information for the Month of June, 1983. High Temperatures: Highest 87 degrees, June 17 (Record 102 in 1954); Lowest High 54 degrees, June 2nd Average High 78.3 degrees (Normal Average High 80.6 degrees for June); Monthly High was 2.3 degrees cooler than normal. . Average High was 11.8 degrees warmer than May 1983. Mode (Most frequent high) 84 degrees (4 times); Low Temperatures; Lowest 30 degrees, June 14 (Record 20 degrees 1968), Highest Low 59 degrees, June 24, Average Low 44.4 degrees (Normal average low 43.0) Average Monthly low was 1.4 degrees warmer than normal, Average monthly low was 10.8 degrees warmer than May 1983, Mode (Most frequent low) 45 degrees (3 times). 1 night of 30 nights below freezing -- (June 14). door-to-do- ll Teacher Turnover Rate The teacher turnover rate in Utah Schools last year was 5.8 percent, the lowest in recent history. This fact, reported by Utah Foundation, the private research organization, in a study of teacher personnel in Utah. According to the Foundation analysis, the turnover rate declined significantly during the 1970s and has remained well below the 12 percent and 13 percent level recorded in the late 1960s. Among the factors cited in the report to account for the generally lower turnover rates of recent years are the higher salary levels and benefits approved for school personnel during the past decade and the poor economy affecting the private sector that has prompted more teachers to stay in education. Last year, Uath's 40 school districts employed 17,476 professional personnel. , Of this total, 15,158 were classroom teacners, 732 were principals, 1,124 were other instructional staff members, and 823 were professional personnel (superinten- dents, supervisors, directors, administrators, etc.) employed by the district. Since 1960 there has been an 85 percent increase in the total number of professional personnel employed by Utah school districts. During this same period, school enrollments in Utah have grown by 55 percent. In 1960 there was one professional school employee for every 25 enrolled pupils, while in 1982 there was one professional employee for every 22 enrolled pupils. Foundation analysts point out that nearly all (99.3 percent) professional school employees in Utah are properly certificated. Last year only 127 persons (0.7 percent) 22-ye- were employed an under emergency 'letter of authorization.' In the years immediately following d World War II approximately of all Utah teachers were serving with emergency credentials. While nearly all teaching positions in Utah now are filled by certificated teachers, some teachers are teaching without adequate preparation in the subject field to one-thir- carry out its own campaign with the cooperation of students, teachers, parents and loyal citizens and the committies. We hope everyone will sing, 'God Bless America, My Home Sweet Home.' This educational campaign will begin, October 20th. and end Nov. 4th. Financial results will be published. Remember the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States almost 100 years ago. Today, she needs our support to be renewed. America has always been a 'Light to the World.' Let us keep her so! Signed by the American Legion Auxiliary Committee P.S. Thanks for your cooperation! Greenwood Camp This months meeting was held at Duahgter Leola Limb's on October 11. Captain Zona Myers conducting. Prayer by Chaplain Rose Jessup. Members had Pledge to Flag. Sang 'Utah We Love Thee.' Daughter Lola Hutchings gave lesson 'On Native Pioneers.' As an extra Adelia Nowers had read interesting experiences of Issac Riddle, early settler in Pine Creek, Beaver County. which they have been assigned. This is particularly true in the case of mathematics and science teachers. In 1982-8thirty percent of the mathematics teachers, 56 percent of the biological science teachers, and 47 percent of the physical science teachers did not have a college major nor a minor in their principal assigned teaching area. Moreover, of the teachers with a secondary teaching assignment, 73 percent of those in mathematics, 62 percent in biological science, and 71 percent in physical science were not prepared with a college major or minor. The Foundation report indicated that the results of this Utah survey confirms the findings of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, headed by Dr. David P. Gardner, which charged that 'the shortage of teachers in mathematics and science is particularly severe.' To help solve this shortage, the National Commission recommended that substantial personnel resources, such as recent graduates with math and science degrees, graduate students, retired scientists, etc., by employed. In addition, the Commission suggested that incentives such as grants and loans, should be made available to attract outstanding students to those areas of critical shortage. non-scho- Atkin construction will be taking applications for skilled andor semiskilled help until Oct. 22, 1 983. Work will be In Minersvllle and Holden, Utah on L.D.S. Church additions. Call Steve Atkln In Beaver at 438-505- 7 AlfDlnlSG'S GDFDUG TTJC: WSltO DGG7 DK) KimfcTS" Drop in for a bico to oat curgcrs - Piles - Cokes - Tocos 155 N.rcaln Doawor Average date of last frost is June 4 (Average number of consecutive days with no frost is 106) Average Temperature: Monthly average 61 .4 degrees, Normal Monthly average for June 61 .8 degrees Monthly average temperature was .4 degrees cooler than normal. Average monthly temperature was 11.3 degrees warmer than May 1983. Day to Night Variations: Widest 43 degrees June 14 (73 degrees to 30 degrees), Least variation 9 degrees June 2 (54 degrees to 45 degrees) Average Monthly variation 33.9 degrees (Normal average monthly variation 37.6 degrees), Monthly variation was 3.7 degrees less than normal, Average monthly variation was 1.0 degrees more than May 1983. Variation between monthly high and low 57 degrees (87 degrees - 30 degrees). Precipitation for Month of June 1983; .57 inch is normal for June, .85 inch for June 1983 (.28 inch more than normal). Two of 30 days with precipitation June 3, 2, 8, 12). Most days between precipitation in month (13) May 18 to end of month, Day between precipitation (15 days) May 18 to June 2. NOTES: Information from the BEAVER PRESS and Utah Weather by Mark Eubank, page 123. Compiled by Dean Thales Brown, Beaver, Utah (Oct. 3, 1983) Crop Weather Summary All 48 reporting stations accumulated measurable precipitation during the past week. Most of the rain fell during the first part of the week from thunderstorms that left heavy accumulations at most stations. For example, Corinne received 2.54 inches, Bryce Canyon measured 2.11 inches, and Modena accumulated 2.05 inches. The smallest accumulations were 0.07 inch at Hanksville, 0.15 inch at Manila, and 0.18 inch at Richfield and Delta. The rainy weather left maximum temperatures about five degrees below normal for all divisions, except Dixie, which was 10 degrees below normal. Minimum temperatures averaged five degrees above normal in the northern half of the state, and near normal in the southern half. Highest temperatures for the week were in the low 80's. Several stations reported temperatures in the 20's; Scofield 24; Loa, Brighton, and Woodruff 27; and Bryce Canyon and Panguitch 28. Pan evaporation averaged only 75 percent of normal for the state. Too Wet To Harvest Fields too wet to harvest was the comment from Beaver, Box Elder, Duchesne, Iron, San Juan, Washington, and the list goes on. Almost every county in the state reported having to wait for fields to dry up before resuming harvest. An average of only 3.9 days during the period was suitable for working. Only Sanpete County producers could put together more than five days. An early effort to summmarize the damage to the year's hay crop was made last week. The second cutting was the hardest hit, with over 50 percent receiving some quality loss. The third cutting was assessed at 48 percent, and the first cutting 33 percent. Several counties reported as much as 90 percent of the second cutting was hurt to some degree. Wolcomo Door Huntors VA News DENVER In one of the largest single acquisitions of data processing equipment undertaken in the health care field, the VA has awarded several contracts to computer hardware firms expected to cost $62 million over the next two fiscal years. The VA computer acquisitions POISON CONTROL CENTER WARNS SEASONAL HAZARDS cessing. The equipment will be supplied by several companies, including Digital Equipment Corp. and System Development Corp. (for central processing units), SMS Data Products Group, Falcon Systems and Codex Corp. (for peripheral equipment). Delivery will begin this month with prototype installation and acceptance testing at one of the VA's Verification and Development Centers in Hines, 111. Following the testing period, d multiple-phasedeliveries of the computer hardware will begin in the agency's 172 medical centers, 226 outpatient clinics, 99 nursing homes and 16 domiciliaries. The agency's medical budget of $7.7 billion this fiscal year will provide for 1.3 million hospital impatient visits and 18 million outpatient vists. Wildlife News Heart Assoc. Dance for Heart 'address a critical need to automate clinical support and administrative functions' in the nation's largest health care system. Custis noted the equipment will enable the VA to run computer programs developed by its field facilities supporting clinical laboratory functions, pharmancy activities, patient scheduling and patient admission-transfer-dischar- pro- DEER HUNT PROSPECTS BRIGHT This year's general season deer hunt, slated for October 22 through November 1, should be a good one. Division of Wildlife Resources regional big game managers say most deer herds wintered well, with populations generally up statewide. Veteran observers say deer hunters may have to work harder for their bucks this year because an abudance of water and the resulting heavy cover have scattered the deer and made them toughter to spot. But most deer hunters, primed for the annual outing and encouraged by increasing deer numbers, aren't complaining. Northern Regional Game Mgr. John Kimball says he expects deer hunting to be 'very good' in his area this year. Kimball adds public hunting areas of the Box Elder, North Cache and North Rich areas look 'real good.' Road access is reported as good in all areas. In central Utah, Regional Game Manager Jordan Pederson reports the South Nebo and the west slope of the Manti range should offer good deer hunting. According to Pederson, deer populations are up on the West Desert units (Heaston, Stansbury, Vernon and Tintic) and hunting there should be good. 'Hunting pressure is lower in these areas,' says Pederson, adding, 'hunters may want to consider hunting these units to avoid the congested Wasatch Front.' Some minor losses were reported on the North Nebo, Diamond Fork, Hobble Creek, Timpanogos and Salt Lake herd units, where heavy spring snowstorms took their toll. Pederson says many backcountry roads are washed out in the Manti-LaSmountains. He advises hunters to contact the Forest Service for current road conditions before going afield. Deer hunting prospects seem to be bright in southern Utah as awell, where regional game managers predict good hunting throughout the area. They say the East Zion and the South Boulder units may be problem areas, as well as the Parowan face, where some winter loss was noted. Conservation officers throughout the region report the deer are in excellent condition this year as a result of high forage production. Road access should be good in more areas. Reports from the southeastern portion of the state indicate a fair to good hunt there. Winter losses on the east slope of the Manti range and limited access due to washed out roads may result in a somewhat decreased harvest there, but improved hunting on other units in the area should offset any decline. Northeastern Utah big game managers predict a very good hunt this year. They say the deer herds there have been steadily increasing in recent years, although some winter loss was reported in the Currant Creek and Avintaquin areas. The deer are in excellent condition due to good forage production and water availability, but they are scattered. Road access for most of the region is good. OCT. 20, 1983 - PAGE 5 UOfU Medical News As autumn arrives and winter approaches, the hazards within a childs environment appear to increase. Abefore the first frost, little red berries hang invitingly from the trees; spiders come crawling inside to escape the cold; and mom is canning the last of her green chiles for tomato sauce. Also, the season is rainy, yet warm and the lawn is full of unknown mushrooms. With the change of season, colds and flus are increasing, along with the use of medications for them. All of these comprise a hazard for you or your child. The Intermountain Regional Poison Control Center at University of Utah Hospital would appreciate you watching for these and observing the following precautions. Identify all plants indoors and outdoors. Make sure you assume all berries are toxic unless you are informed they are not by the Poison Center. Spider bites can be painful, swollen and be easily infected. There is one species of spider that is toxic in Utah, the Black Widow. This bite usually doesn't swell. The symptoms of severe muscle cramping, nausea and vomiting usually occur in 30 minutes to three hours after the bite. If a Black Widow bite occurs, a physician should be notified. When canning the last of your fall harvest, remember to pressure or water bath all products. Handle any form of chili peppers with gloves and if symptoms occur while preserving these, wash with soap and water, then try these remedies; mayonnaise, vinegar and water, fingernail polish remover or ice baths. Never eat an unknown mushroom growing in the lawn or wild. Ipecac will equipment the agency's medical centers with over 300 computers, 12,000 terminals, 6,000 printers and about 800 communication linking devices. In announcing the awards, VA Chief Medical Director Donald Custis said the acquisitions will - Registration is in full swing for Dance for Heart, a Utah Heart Assoc. special event scheduled for October 31 through November 5. Dance for Heart encourages aerobic exercise through dance while raising funds for Heart Association research and education programs in Utah. 'Nearly 200 classes have already registered for the event,' says Sue Smith, event chairwoman. 'Last year, nearly 3,000 people raised $22,000 .for the Utah Heart Association.' Classes ' dance for three-hour- s taking several rest periods and then collect pledges for each minute danced. Participants can earn incentive prizes for pledge collections. Everything from tot bags to bicycles will be awarded for various levels of pledge donations. Grand prize trips for participants have been donated by Chi's Tours Travel Agency Eastern Airlines, Western Airlines and Simplex Tours. 'The Utah Heart Association encourages aerobic exercise as part of its preventive program,' says Dr. is recommended when an unknown mushroom is eaten.' Cold season is upon us. Keep all medications out of the reach of children. Don't leave them on counters, in cabinets, in dressers, near cribs or in purses. Read the label or follow a physician's directions when treating yourself or your child. Also, make sure vitamins, to 'keep colds away,' are in small containers securely closed. When winterizing your home or car, check for any leakages of carbon monoxide or gas. Headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting could be symptoms associated with a furnace problem. When putting away those spring cleaning products, keep them out of reach in their original containers. Do not mix any cleaning products. Mixing clorox with a toilet bowl cleaner or ammonia, for instance, makes chlorine or chloramine gas. Each season seems to have new wonders for your child to see but also new hazards to experience. Please winterize your home not only for continued warmth, but also for your child's safety. If exposure to poison occurs, please call the Intermountain Regional Poison Control Center located at University Hospital, at outside metropolitan Salt 581-215- Lake City call toll-fre- e Utah Ballet An evening of premieres will open the Utah Ballet's 1983-8season November at the University of Utah. These dates represent an extended run for the company, which in its debut performances last year sold-ou- t. With the goal of providing dancers with the widest range of experience, five new ballets have been set on the company that span the stylistic range of contemporary ballet choreography. Concerts begin on Wed., Nov. 2, at 8:00 p.m. with matinee performances on Friday at 5:00 p.m. and Saturday at 2:00 p.m. For additional information contact the University of Utah's Department of Ballet at or Douglas Sonntag at 4 2-- 581-823- 1 581-670- The performances will be held in the Dance Building Theatre 208. The ticket prices are $3 for adults and $1.50 for students and may be purchased at the door. 381 Welcome Deer Hunters" Garth Fisher, honorary event chairman and public education committee chairman for the Utah Heart Assoc' A $5 registration fee includes participation in the event. Dance for Heart head and wrist bands and the opportunity to earn incentive prizes. For more information about how to participate in Dance for Heart, contact the Utah Heart Assoc. at 322-560- MDey PtaeCifiirogjco. dggf Hunters!! we do Custom Process Deer Meat OPEN FOR ALL MEAT NEEDS Retail Open 8:30 AM 3:00 PM 6 Days a week Closed Sunday -- 340 w. 300 s. 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