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Show The Page 4 Leader-T- ( " ! . I " A 'I X V - "- . - V , jSt; ' A" - f4 5j s,jLr Letters i 1 h '"t The MEMtttOFTMf Leader-Th- e Garland Times welcomes responsible letters to the editor. AH letters should be submitted no later titan noon on the Tuesday prior to publication. Letters should be neatly written and d; preferably typed, Editoral Length should not exceed words. The editor reserves the right to reject Sales Tax's Way letters m CASE YOU hadn't realized it, this week is National Hospital Week. There's nothing particularly significant about that fact, except that it's a good excuse for an editorial on the subject Valley residents have recently shown their feelings a hospital by the way .they supported reopening of our old hospital. AND IT'S APPROPRIATE that an auction to raise funds for a new hospital is being held at the Fair Grounds this Saturday. It will give us all a chance to show our support for the construction of a new facility. Actually, that is exactly what was done when the Valley Hospital was reopened. The hospital was reopened with the stipulation by the Health Services Corp., which has taken over operation, that progress towards a new facility could be shown in reports which are submitted are libelous or which make personal attacks, rather than discussing issues. All letter publish be every 90 days. SO IN EFFECT, by reopening the hospital we have said that we intend to construct a new hospital. The minute we indicate otherwise, is the point in time when the old hospital will cease to exist. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM at the moment for the North Box Elder Community Hospital Committee, which has taken over the task of getting a new hospital built, Is to keep the momentum going. Most of the committee members, we feel, and anyone else who looks at the situation realistically views the implementation of the half cent sales tax as the only feasible method for financing a hospital. Estimates place the yearly revenue from such a tax at around $80,000 for this end of the county. THE COMMITTEE is currently waiting a report from the Attorney General's office which theyhope will clear up a number of questions. Chief among these is whether there is a legal method for insuring that once the costs of building a hospital have been met, the tax will be taken off. The question is important because the local Farm Bureau organization, long an opponent of raising taxes, Is insisting on that provision before they give support. And farm income and support is essential to the success of such an undertaking. NATURALLY, SUCH AN insurance is desirable. None of js likes to see our taxes raised. But how anyonefcan, realisticallyrguarrantee that 20 years from now when a one million dollar hospi- tal bond is retired that the sales tax will be removed is beyond us. It's a neat trick if it can be done. For instance, by that time the original bonds may have had to be refinanced to pay for expansion of the original structure. Who knows. THE QUESTION THAT opponents of the sales tax have to ask themselves if first: Do we really need a hospital? The answer to that we feel is obvious. If we are to grow as a community there are certain basic services we need to provide and a hospital is one of them. The second question they need to ask themselves is: What alternative method of funding can they suggest. VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS are nice and they can help ease the tax burden by decreasing the amount of funding that has to be raised that way. But raising a million dollars through voluntary donations will take a long time. And with construction costs going up higher every day, it seems like it would be a losing battle just to stay even. Furthermore, if a hospital is to belong to the community it must be built by the community and not a few wealthy donors. DON'T MISTAKE THIS as an attack on voluntary funding its not. We urge everyone to support the hospital auction to the utmost and any other voluntary efforts. Such efforts are going to be essent- which signed. The editor will publish? unsigned letters only after the writer has provided proof as to why the publishing of his name would be detrimental. The Leader-Th- e Garland Times encourages dissenting view points and community discussion on the editorial page. ml a-b- out March Of Dimes No Man's Land How are you celebrating Mother's Day? Dinner with Mom? a phone call? a bouquet of flowers? The National Foundation-Marc- h of Dimes, in its campaign to prevent birth defects, wants Mother's Day to serve as a reminder to all mothers-to-b- e about the importance of prenatal care. Healthy Baby Week, which begins on Mother's Day, May 13, emphasizes this message. After 52 years, Bear River High School has just finished its Our hospitals are filled with te evaluation by a group of 46 children afflicted with physical first northwest Association experts. These people spent two days at the school and evaluated or mental handicaps. Some of this damage could have been every aspect of our physical plant, curriculum, teachers, counor treated if the mother selors, custodians, school lunch and administration. At the end of the second day, the evaluators discussed the information that had received medical attention they had collected with each respective department. They had a during pregnancy. Early and list of recommendations as well as commendations, and the ad- frequent visits to a doctor durministration will receive a bound compiled list of each evaluator ing pregnancy can help detect findings in the very near future. problems such as too much or The last part is the follow-u- p on the recommendations - which too little weight gain, toemia, we are currently in the process of doing. "How did we do" is the or infection, which may harm question most often asked, "did our school pass?" The answer the infant We regard the newborn as a is, yes, our school "passed" with flying colors. The reports consistently stressed the fact that the Valley should be proud of priority which cannot be neglecits secondary school. One evaluator told me personally that it ted. We hope citizens of Box was the best school she had ever stepped in and the students looked very good as did the buildings. Another confidentially applied for a job should an opening ever come up in his area. As the report was 146 pages, it is impossible to go into detail, other than to say that the approximately $1,050 the District paid for this evaluation educationally speaking was perhaps the best our edmoney, I personally feel, has been expended to ucational program. The local PTSA was askedto help evaluate our school and I agree with their statement "We are proud ofthe Bear River High School and what it stands for." I believe most of us here at the high school believe that much has been gained and the effort was worth Evaluation on-si- Woodbury County will cooperate with March of Dimes volunteers in helping to create the best possible prenatal care facilities for our community, and encourto be good aging mothers-to-b- e to their babies before they are born. Mrs. Jay Holmgren seems the AND SHRUBS of many kinds Comments by L. B. Roundy and Mrs. William K. with their visited Warnke JohnBarbara Mrs. daughter, son and children in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Rose Marie Jones and daughter of Ogden spent Sunday with Mrs. Hilda Johnson and Thelda Johnson. Tuesday Mrs. MarilynJohn-so- n and her mother Mrs. Ruth Staynor attended the joint funeral services held in Logan of Mrs. Edith Wiltshire and child Mr. Number 1 ren, Daid, Thelma M&rie, La-Rand Tawni Ruth who were killed in an automobile accident in Arizona. Mrs. Mary Alice Westover and family visited with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Warnke Saturday. Mrs. Warnke wasobservingher birthday. ae Mr. and Mrs. Alphalus A. Johnson were Sunday guests o Mr. and Mrs. Thiel Johnson and family in Ogden. Baler rock guard, which extends Metering wheel is located in the center of the bale case, assuring consistent bale length. Bill hooks on all New Holland 14" x 18" balers have replaceable tongue and roller assembly for lower maintenance costs. WHY ! needle yoke of tubular steel and far down to protect needles, are examples of built-i- n durability. Cast iron needles offer less vibration for consistent tying. Heavy-dut- y Ch Bale counter provides easy accessibility for adjusting, viewing, and resetting. Smooth-runnin- g hypoid gears and tapered roller bearings make the gearboxes of Hayliner balers extremely durable. Gears are enclosed and run in constant oil bath. Precision knotfer on twine-ti- e models always releases twine at just the right instant for firm, sure tying. Adjustment for any diameter twine c is easy. A holder lets you make heavier bales with heavy-dut- y twina. triple-twine-dis- A Variety for Every Purpose A Purpose for OUT AND SEE 19 Dam-Collinst- on Precision twisters on wire-ti- e models give the same dependable service as the New Holland knotters. Special design prevents wire from looping and snarling; assures strong, tight ties that give you no trouble in handling, shipping and storing. HERES Brenkman-Breinho- lt 45 The wire carrier holds four coils of wire. Note the guard to eliminate possibility of wire looping around porcelain guides. A decal, located above the carrier shows proper wire threading. Pickup wheel is equipped with roller bearings for longer life, less maintenance costs. Box Elder County's New Holland Dealer Jones Equipment Inc. Phone 257-5Tremonton ooooooooooooooooooeooooooooooooooooox 267 West Main Crank type needle protection latch prevents heavy side loads on plunger. Latch contacts the crank arm instead of the plunger face, reducing shock force on plunger and crank bearings. Twine box is conveniently located and holds tour balls of twine. A hinged lid the twine dry and clean. An instruction keeps lodecal, cated inside the box, simplifies threading Try Our Care Every Variety NURSERY were Beaver " t!rives the PickuP on all A S,,P c,utcn offers protection against overload damage. In tough crops he dutch allows the pickup to meter the crop into the feeder, assuring good bale and shape reducing shearbolt failures at Shown with shielding removed. high capacity See them in areat variety in our two lonq qreen houses, Built to serve you better. teachers need- ""' America's Patended or Common. Bare root or growing in cans, some in bloom , a wide selection 257-50- Elder it's twice as hard if So, it fact, but you know in advance. Iguesswhafs ed is a tough state teacher neangotiating act to regulate the nual affair. The state legislature has considered one before but has never been able to pass one. It's a little like Solomon trying to please both mothers with only one baby. The teachershave their point of view too. They like to make a good living. But I guess it's hard for most of us to feel sorry for a guy who works nine months of the year and has three off. Nobody doubts that teaching is hard work, but so are a lot of other professions. It's hard to see any relief in sight either. School boards are already having to cut back their budgets and teacher salary demands certainly aren't going to go down. They have to fight inflation along with the rest of us. QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. Prof. B.F. Skinner. The Tremonton Volunteer Fire Department would like to express our thanks to all who took part in the Slave Auction last Saturday, it proved very successful. We have completed some of the work projects and will continue to do so until all are completed. We appreciated your support and assure you the funds will be used to improve our Department so that we can be of more service to you. TREMONTON FIRE DEPARTMENT And Flowers Miles East of Tremonton. . . Phone ball rally, you've been to a teacher's mass meeting. I attended one in the Salt Lake School district a while back which was appropriately held in the Collesium. The teachers from all over the district filed in carrying their placards designating what school they were from along with a few insulting comments for the school board. Out in the middle of the floor, the speakers and negotiators sat on what served as a wrestling ring for the Saturday night wrestling matches. Actually, Thanks BLOOMING DAPHNES, POTTED BLOOMING GERANIUMS, CHRYSANTHEMUMS, ROSES 12 The reason is that when the teachers come in and make their pitch, the public is able to see gotiate. Then they hold one of just how much tax money it's those mass meetings. going to cost them. It's one If you've ever been to a footthing to foot the bill after the vil-lia- r Principal Here are a few suggestions for Mothers Day I I school boards. cess is showmanship. At the proper moment the teacher's side walks out protesting that the Board isn't willing to ne- ns turning out to look ilke the too much ofthe time. You can see why they like those private negotiating sessions. New Holland Balers, Swafhers, Forge Harvesfors, Hay Binders de Mother's Day Gifts WALTON'S VALLEY Then for the next two hours they're at it again. fts that time of year when the teacha parade of negotiators and ofer's in the district bring out ficials lead the teachers in their big negotiating guns and cheers depicting how they're square off against the school going to make the school board board while the tax payers sit knuckle under. I dont know if that's how it is in this district by helplessly. Heck, we're not even entitled I don't think they're quite as mad to know how much money the at each other here as they were teachers are asking for until then. the whole thing is over. And I've sometimes wonderedwhy we pay the bill. It's like the negotiations can't be held in United States and the Russians public. If a teacher is going to be paid from taxes, the payers setting down to discuss disarmament of those taxes ought to have a The whole process is shroudright to know what's going on. ed in secrecy. By prior agreeto C. Morgan According ment each side agrees not to Hawkes, chairman of the school release any information to the board's negotiating committee, press unless it's jointly agreed it's been tried in some places, upon or until one side gets mad but teacher's generally don't enough at the other to violate like it. Why? Because open the agreement hearings generally favor the See The New 14Uied'.r,,,er DRIVE a WelL A lot of the negotiation pro- ial to success because projects as big as a hospital have a tendency to increase in cost beyond the jriginal estimates and voluntary funding could fill the gap. BUT WE WOULD ALSO urge valley residents to begin thinking about the optional half cent sales tax and a new hospital. We along with many others feel it's the only way to go. How about you? Gifts That Last 4 ft double-space- 150 TREES Mi Qarland Times, May 10, 1973 he 1 Hwy. 191 Cross Roads Tremonton |