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Show Thursday. August 9. 1979 Lehi Free Press Page 7 Letters To The Editor 'inyjgjs Aire Very CSeoD IPiroIbDoirin)' The Balanced Budget Amendment In 1848, Abraham Lincoln gave this good advice to those who would contemplate amending the VS. Constitution. "As a general rule," be said, "I think we would much better let it alone. No slight occasion would tempt us to touch it. Better not take the first step which may lead to a habit of altering it..." Fortunately, with the exception of the current push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment for symbolic purposes, the Constitution has withstood literally hundreds of amendment assaults and has come through relatively better for it. There is reason now, however, to seriously consider an amendment which could be the saving of the American economic system. It is an amendment which most of the States in the Union have attached to their Constitutions and which has served those that have it very well. Some 30 state legislatures have already petitioned Congress for it. The needed amendment, of course, is a Balanced Budget Amendment. Just what would a Balanced Budget Amendment do? First, it would shackle the wild spending federal bureaucracy to a limit in spending - something that has never been tried at the federal level of government. It would get the federal government out of the business of tampering with the national economy and back to the business of providing needed, affordable services. President Carter's proposed budget for this fiscal year is $29 billion over our current national income. The standard suggested approach for balancing this budget is first to spend the money we don't now have and then tax the people to recover those dollars obviously spent on services we can't afford. More than $404 billion, of the $532 billion federal budget, is spent on what the bureaucracy calls "uncontrollable items." That 76 percent of the national budget! A Balanced Budget Amendment would, however, put controls on that 76 percent by forcing accountability and restraint on spending. Basically when the money was gone, there just wouldn't be anymore until the next Congressional appropriation. Billion dollar losses as reported by HEW, HUD, and GAO last year would suddenly end, because they would result in lost jobs due to the shortfall in funding. Federal budget items, known as "entitlement" benefits, such as public assistance, would soon be more closely scrutinized and limited to available income. With the Balanced Budget Amendment, economic priorities would be set on need instead of political preference. All agencies of the federal government would come to Congress with equality seeking "needed" money to support "justifiable" programs. And the traditional raids on "discretionary" spending items, such as the defense budget, would end because they would no longer have to support the brunt of all spending cuts. Coupled with a cut in taxation allowing the economy to expand and put people back to work, the Balanced Budget Amendment could bring economic stability to the United States at a time when we are looking at a frightening economic future. By Bill Hendrix Capitol Watchdog Citizen Concerned About Rate Increases hopefully open up the minds and eyes of many of these concerned parents. As of two and a half years ago 1 was myself involved in the gross affects of drug abuse. I am a boy that was lucky enough to find my way out. But. as with me and more than 75 percent of my friends in the same situation, our parents knew very little if anything at all about what we were doing. Like most, my experiences started with "concerned one joint. This led to parents." bigger and harder drugs, The real reason I am which led to stealing, writing this letter is to prostitution, dealing of drugs and finally the death u. my best friend from an ov rdose. do My first parents really know where there teenagers are and what they are doing? I can testify that there is a great dif- Dear Editor: As an outsider of your community and a concerned citizen, I am writing this letter in conjunction with two articles that I read in the Lehi Free Press. The first one was in the June 21. 1979 issue. It was a very truthful article written by one of your writers, telling of her son and his use of drugs. The second was a retraction plea of this and one other article from the week before, this written by some ference between the excuses given to parents and the actual goinjs on of the teenage crowd. The parents involved made a remark that I would like to quote. They stated, "The common knowledge of marijuana uses was not common knowledge to all." This brings me to my second question. Why? Why do parents eye-openi- d am sure most of us are concerned about the recent increase in our sewer bill. On receiving my bill I called the City Office to see why my sewer bill was more than double than that of last month. An employee of Lehi City told me that they took your last water meter reading from October until April and charged you for your sewer according to how much water you had used during those months. I told the clerk I didn't figure that was fair to those who had to use city water to water their lawns during the dry months of fall and spring. The clerk at the City Office told me not to be I watering our lawns from October to April or our sewer bill would be more. I can't see why those who use city water for outside watering should get charged more for sewer, when the water that you are putting on the lawns does not go into the sewer. It makes common sense to me that the more persons in a household the more water is used for Dear Editor: People of Utah County claim they believe in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law; what they really mean is they believe in obeying all laws except one!!! They nearly all break the dog leash law, and then when their pet gets run over, poisoned or R. Chadwick, 38, were conducted Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Fourth Ward with chapel H. Alma Counselor Hansen in charge. Mr. who had Chadwick, resided in Babbitt, Nev., for the past seven years, died Jan. 12, following an illness of about three weeks with a liver ailment. Write: St. Marks Music Center 881 East 3900 South 84107 J shot, they Dear Editor: As medical doctors on the staff of the Utah Valley Hospital and as individuals concerned standard of deeply with the care for down in a football game that might be made or missed by inches, delivering a healthy baby is sometimes a matter of of our special training which consists of three or four years of residency for an obstetrician goes into managing the seconds. I remember a problems that occur in lesson once taught to me the other 10 percent. obstetrical patients in our by my professor. He There are problems of and to said: "Doctor, no one will judgement which take community upgrade the quality of ever know if you are a several ye...s to learn care and to avoid a good obstetrician or just how to cope with and potential tragedy we an average one. You may complications that can write at this time a series 'save just one or two more come Ui so quickly that a of articles to explain our babies per thousand than few minutes may mean views concerning the the other guy. That the difference between problem of hospital mother, however, will life and death for the mother or baby. It seems delivery vs. home know!" We are familiar with like the more one knows delivery. We are not soliciting patients as many arguments that about the problems, that each doctor has ample have been made for home could occur the greater work, but we are making delivery: cost, peace and would be the fear of d a plea for all concerned to quiet of the home, delivering anywhere listen openly and obatmosphere, outside of the best jectively to whatever fewer examinations, no hospital available with as "forced" medications much might be said. emergency A few months ago I was and anesthesia, and equipment and facilities as humanly relaxing in the back yard many others. There is no there after some yard work. A dispute that some of possible. I remember still when I large squirrel was these things have merit. darting about, his cheeks A good debater can make learned how to swim. pouched out with some convincing iJaving no fear at all and At times, not even knowing where provisions that he was arguments. storing for the winter. I however, I feel as I hear the deep water was I the thought how impressive these things that it is proudly showed this was that he should much like reading a young man I was with prepare so far in advance scripture out of context how good I was at juni for the cold of winter and or missing the forest ping into the pool. I went Ao face any eventuality because of the trees into water over my head 1 have told several of and because of his that might come about. So it is in the science of my patients and their alertness my life was obstetrics - so much husbands that within a saved. On that particular preparation must be week of intensive day I learned a new made to prepare for any training I could teach respect for water and a much eventuality that might them to deliver well over developed occur. Like a crucial first 90 percent of babies. All greater understanding. person's sense of values when they place the life of their dog above the life of a human (as the woman who was attacked) or a person's livelihood (as in the death of all those sheep)? I've counted five and 10 dogs in my yard at a time making it unfit for my What happens if a baby called children to play in and destroying my shrubs. Why do people in Utah feel a pet is unloved if it's penned up law stetrical up immediate placenta bleeding depression to express for the installation of sidewalk and curb along 300 North Street recently. We have been very concerned since completion of the 5th and 9th Ward Chapel of the in- creased to danger and adults walking to the church on 5th East or the Stake children Center three blocks west. This danger increased during the school year since 3rd North is a route. However, with the new sidewalk on 200 and 300 East completed, children will no longer have to walk in the street or keep crossing the road from sidewalk to sidewalk. We now have a through d and fetal requiring Mormon communities are just as prone to drug problems as any community. testify that the drug problem is real and that ignoring the problem will just make it worse. It is my hope that this letter will make some of these I concerned parents open their eyes and recognize problem. It is knowledge that if parents would worrying about social status and Lehi Businesses M.J.Davis spirit my more stop their really start to show loving care and concern to their children that they will find more joy and eternal with their happiness families. Signed, Been There and Back the wishes and thoughts of those who desire to deliver at home. We wish them to know that as physicians we are doing everything within our lives of our children newborn and our mothers. Richard Lohner, M.D. Provo Obstetrician and Gynecologist facilities at the hospital needs of each individual, less impersonal, and yet all inclusive to handle conceivable every - l! 1 I emergency, whether it be I an emergency Cesarian section, an immediate blood transfusion, a fetal $10,000 monitor to follow the Deposits course of a baby that is in for 6 Month Period full-tim- e It trouble, anesthesia personnel to provide the relaxation that might be necessary to deliver a baby caught e in the birth canal, or 9.320 Aug. full-tim- respiratory to handle a baby that needs resuscitation. In the remodeling of therapists distressed the obstetrical unit, It 9-1- 5 Earn the highest possible interest rate thj'aais ae Ea"y a substantial subiect to me'est penalty will be consideration made for those who desire family-oriente- d delivery and for those who have special needs. The hospital and the obstetricians are here to serve you the people of Utah Valley. We issue this plea for you to use good judgement when the 0REM PLEASANT GROVE SANTAQUINLEHI We Have The Formal Wear In Dear Editor: We would like to take this opportunity to thank for Lehi businessmen their contributions to the scholarship fund of the Miss Lehi Pageant. It is because of their com- in- the BEST Selection of Royalty Thanks Utah County! and willingness to support the young people of our city, that has made the Miss Lehi Pageant a very worthwhile project. We appreciate very much your assistance in helping us to continue our education through the scholarship fund. Sincerely, Sandy Nielsen, Dear Editor: I would like causing immediate resuscitation to save a life. I have seen them all and many more and as more home deliveries happen one does not have to be a prophet to predict that tragedies will inevitably occur. One cannot play with fire without being burned sooner or later.- We are not trying to be or argumentative dramatic. We are trying to be realistic and helpful to the citizens of our community. We respect Residents Laud Lehi City appreciation Cesarian distress, (8) severe fetal convenience of keeping them in your own yard where they belong! Then why don't you practice what you preach? everyplace else in the world people feel a pet running loose is not loved? WAKE UP, you so- - emergency section to save the baby, of the (7) separation abiding the with ob- arises such as: (1) a prolapsed umbilical cord, (2) a mother who begins to convulse, (3) profuse hemorrhage in the mother, (4) an undiagnosed twin coming down in an abnormal position who has to be delivered in five minutes or suffer death or brain damage, (5) shoulders in a large baby which cannot be delivered except by someone skilled in the proper (6) manipulations, sudden cessation of the fetal heart requiring citizens. If you REALLY loved your pets, you'd put when at being delivered home and a true munity everyone except the best ff not but is blame the person who is really to blame -- THEMSELVES. If they themselves had not been breaking the law, their pets would not be dead. Where is a tired looking 'Practice What You Preach' Earl your area. 262-923- 6 baths, sen res for Funeral purchase fine Baby Grand Piano May be seen in of one who irrigates bill was $6. To me this shows that the new system used for billing you on your sewer is not a fair way to charge, but maybe just the easy way for them to charge. I would hate to have my lawns and yard burn Up and die just to save me money on my sewer bill, but would pay for what we put into the sewer. Concerned Citizen Catherine Jeppson person News In 1949 Reliable buyer to (801) $12.80; A person of one who uses city water for lawns bill was $10; A washing clothes and etc. that goes right into the sewer. I took a survey of a few people and this is what 1 found: A family of four who uses city water for lawns bill was $12.25; A family of nine who uses well water for lawns bill Wanted1 S.L.C.. Utah toilets, was fifteen-year-old- being able to sleep. loss of weight, blood shot eyes all the time, no desire to have a good appearance, and others like these. If any of these symptoms are seen, it is cause for concern. Oh yes, I have heard the reactions of parents when told of these things. I quote, "Things like this don't happen in these nice little Mormon communities." "Not my little Johnny; he is a little angel." Well, let me tell you, I was born and raised in the LDS Church and have lived in good little Mormon communities all of my life. These little Why Hospitfcal GDelSveiry? family-centere- Dear Editor: keep themselves ignorant to drugs and the affects they could have on them and their children? Is it because they feel that it won't happen to them? All I have to say to that is, don't fool yourselves. It is said that 97 percent s of the have tried pot at least once. Of this group 80 percent come back for seconds and thirds. Do parents actually know how to spot the early symptoms of drug use? There are a few basic ones. Like a sudden drop in grades, loss of appetite, not wanting to be at home, nervousness, sidewalk from 5th East to Center. Thank you again for the concern you have shown in our neighborhood. I guess our responsibility now is to help beautify the city by landscaping our homes. Jan Felix & Neighbors Miss Lehi Shelley Wagstaff, 1st Attendant Deia Palmer, 2nd Attendant Darlene Peterson, Pageant Chairman SimsiiiiEfaiinic && ageirofts News In 1949 Luzianne Tea Bags DSI1C3 Your '8- to be your car, home, life. AND health insurance agent. See or call: J. Ralph Binnall 120 North 100 East - American Fork 756-351- good neighbor. State Farm is there. 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