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Show Free Press - Wednesday, April 1, 1987 - Page2 I rode a bike for 30 years before falling off Geneva fulfilled promise of 1944 I reckon that most of us are tired browsing of hearing about Geneva Steel and its problems, yet it is so close to our lives that we cannot ignore them. Recently I came across a copy of The Citizen dated November 24, 1944. In it was an article with the heading "Geneva Steel Sale Discussed at Government Hearing in San Francisco." It was interesting to note that Dr. J R. Mahoney, director of the Bureau of Economics and Research of the University of Utah, gave this testimony at the hearing. "Industrialization of the west depends upon the operation of plants using ore resources of the west. Citing steel as the chief undeveloped industrial field. Presence of abundant mineral and energy resources close to the Utah plant, he said, made it possible to produce steel as cheaply as in any industrial section of the country, but the handicap of undeveloped markets, he added, led him to suggest a method for private operation of the plant on a reduced scale from its full capacity." He also stated that the postwar operator might be required to assume a capital cost of only part of the plants cost, say 50 percent, or an amount equal to the useable capacity of the plant. The post war operatio might assume increased capital costs as the usability of the plant increased. This would permit Geneva to be operated on a low cost basis and in conharmony with marketing ditions. "It would give the west a chance to demonstrate whether the steel industry can be established here on a sound basis." Senator Abe Murdock of Utah drew from him the admission that the $190 million cost of the plant was due to war conditions and specific war uses. Dr. Mahoney gave as his opinion, that a $40 million addition to the plant would modify it to serve the tinplate market ofthe west. He said fl By TOM GRIFFITHS B Jeremiah R. Dandoy, training school superintendent, said individuals needing shelter from winter's cold were referred to the school by Mrs. Miller, and were housed on the upper floor of Iris cottage on the training school campus. The program was to end Saturday, March 28, he said. "By and large it (the shelter program) has served a need for another disadvantaged group of people in the State of Utah," Dandoy said. In return for the housing and food which was provided by the school, the individuals staying on campus hundreds of have contributed volunteer hours to assist the training school and its clients, Dandoy said. Dandoy called the program a "two-wa- y street," saying the training school has provided food and shelter for those in need while they, in turn, have aided the clients (residents) in various ways. He expressed appreciation to employees at the training school who contributed funds to help defray the cost of meals for individuals taking advantage of the shelter. Hittyi fro press ISSN No. 8750-466U.S.P.S. No. 309-50Published weekly except for Thanksgiving and Christinas by Newtah, Inc. 32 West Main Lehi, Utah M043 Telephone Numbers 9 Advertising k Circulation. semi-weekl- y Newt.., Publisher Editors 3 Brett R. Bezant Marc Haddock Betty Fowler Subscription price $16" per year Second class postage paid at Lehi Post Office pMtiriMtfr: ScMl tddrtM ctunget lo PO. Boi T.AfmrfcMi Pork. Uth MM By MARC HADDOCK there by himself. the west manufactured no tinplate, of although using about one-thithe national supply. He said development of the west's basic industries, such as iron and steel, created employment in the ratio of 45 employees in the basic industries to 55 in service industries. While much of the west's coal had formerly been rated low grade, said modern developMahoney ments had given it advantages to offset former disadvantages. August Moffrey of Washington, chief economist for the Department of Commerce, made his comment. "Possibilities for post war export of steel and steel products from the Pacific coast look good, which would extend the market for Geneva Steel." Senator Abe Murdock asked Mr. Moffrey this question. "Do you see any hope for steel?" His answer, "It is probably our best hope." That was 43 years ago. We all know how the plant was purchased by U.S. Steel and operated successfully until the recent stoppage. I am grateful for the 30 years I spent with this company and for the employees who made it run. At first these men were called "beet trompers" by steelworkers who came from eastern plants, but they soon proved they were the finest workers in the steel industry. rd They were given two meals a day in the school's cafeteria, he said, including "cereal or something similar for breakfast" and dinner. Dandoy said he got the idea last December to see about using the top floor of Iris to provide shelter for transients and other homeless individuals during the winter months after hearing a plea on the radio one evening. "We had the building and although we were using the downstairs for programming, the upstairs was vacant. We already had tables, beds, mattresses in and blankets storage." The Mental Retardation Association of Utah (MRAU) - the training school parent organization - was also invited to participate in the project, he said. Officials at the training school were put in contact with Ms. Miller in Provo, who referred families in need of shelter to the training school. rules such as "no Building smoking" were enforced, and those housed in the building were asked to perform some type of volunteer work at the school in return for their shelter and meals. of Randy Blackburn, the program at the training school, said families were referred to the school because it wasn't feasible for them to stay at Hotel Roberts in Provo where single men and women have been sheltered from the cold. He said those coming to. the training school have ranged from to an older young families "malnourished" man. Ms. Miller called the training schools' participate a "Godsend to -- us." She said prior to the opening of the training school dormitory to the homeless, the families had to stay at Hotel Roberts not always the most for young desirable existence children. "I have felt so much better to have them over there (at the training school). It is so much better and so for the children than much safer staying at the hotel. "At the training school, the children have been able to run and not annoy anyone," she said, and "they had large dormitory rooms and were able to get out on the grounds." She said individuals referred to stay at the training school shelter have included not only transients but "low income families" who had lost their apartments or homes because of loss of work and didn't have any place to go. - - - 10 pound harder. But you know, we tend to blow things way out of proportion. By the time Adrienne was scheduled for baptism, I had been (I had broken a bone in my hand) and fitted with a temporary splint. With the offending limb wrapped in plastic, the baptism came off without a hitch. I can't write on the computer, but I can still edit everybody else's copy '. and be just as. with one hand ruthless as I always have been. (In . fact, everytime I get a twinge in my hand, I'll delete a couple of really fine phrases, just for fun! ) This column was written out in longhand. It's not easy, but it's better than huntin' and peckin.' I'm still working on skiing. Maybe if I tape a ski pole to my hand, I can get in one more day before the lifts close for summer. - to. We started off safely enough, until we rounded the first corner. What - I happened next is inexplicable tipped over. That sounds pretty stupid. I mean, here I am, 35 years old with years of experience balancing myself on two wheels - and for no - homeless aid 1. Well, not really. I'd get off the thing now and then. In fact, I hadn't seriously ridden a bicycle since I got my drivers license when I was 14. That all changed this past Christmas, when I badgered Nancy into letting me get a city bike for Christmas. As a former runner, I know what jogging can do to your knees, so a bike was an acceptable alternative for aerobic exercise that would take me out of the gym or the family room. A bicycle is a lousy Christmas gift; you can't really use it until Spring. However, our unusually mild winter had provided some chances to go riding, and I was doing pretty good. Saturday's trip was to be a minor one just a short jaunt to accompany my son, Seth, on his way to play with his friend Darren. Since Darren lives on the other side of a busy street, we don't let Seth ride long-distan- USTS to end A program at the Utah State Training Schools program to help Utah County's homeless during the cold months of winter will conclude this weekend. Adah Marie Miller, director of the Food and Shelter Coalition in Utah County, said four homeless families with a total of 14 children, and an additional eight single men have found shelter at the training school for varying periods of time since Iris cottage was opened to them on Jan. column fell off. daughter in about three hours. Now that was going to be very hard. --I probably wouldn't go skiing again this season. --Work was going to be a lot discernable reason, I go flying half block fanny over teakettle a from my home on a clean asphalt road. It was embarrassing, not to mention painful. I hit the road hard, hand catching myself with my left first - and I felt something give. I lay on the asphalt for a few I minutes, my hand under me. didn't want to look. in Finally, after I felt I had lain crawled I the street long enough, over to the gutter and lay on the neighbor's parking strip, hoping when the pain went away, I'd be intact. But when I stood up and dusted myself off, I noticed my ring finger didn't point the way it was supposed the editor's Fd been riding a bicycle for 30 years, give or take a few, before I That's scary, but for someone who earns his daily bread at a word processor, the temporary loss of the use of a hand is devastating. As I looked at that hand, I realized three things (in this or- der): -- I was supposed to baptize my bag baby can't hug you back It's one of those ideas that sounds good at first but the longer you tidbits think about it, the less sense it really makes. I heard about it on the radio. A teacher in some high school in America had decided to teach her students about growing up and becoming parents. She wanted them to appreciate the commitment it was going to take to be a good mom or dad someday. She wanted the kids in her Social Responsibility class to get a realistic concept of So she assigned each student a "child," otherwise recognized as a 10 lb. sack of flour. The "flour children" had to accompany their young parents everywhere for the term of the class. k The parents had to keep a log on the child's care, noting the time spent feeding, changing and cradling the baby. They were allotted enough money in a paper budget to clothe, feed and care for the baby if they kept to a fairly strict accounting plan. They had to make arrangements for someone to "flour-sac- k sit" if they had to be away from the child and pretend as much as possible that the flour sack was in reality a child. The student's grade would be determined from the entries in the log at the end of the semester and if 4 i Copyright Sharon Morrey child-rearin- By SHARON MORREY evidence were found that the "baby" was neglected or abused, the consequences were clear. I listened to the announcer talk about what a lark it started out to be for the kids and what a pain they discovered it was before the class round-the-cloc- ended. They discovered it to be a weighty problem carrying a sack of flour everywhere with them. They found it unfunny to be paying others every time they needed to be somewhere that a flour sack could not bear Most of the students admitted they were relieved when the class ended and the flour sack children became again nothing but flour sacks on a shelf. flour sack snooze would create the same stirrings within that watching a tiny, angel-facewarm, reaK baby does. You wouldn't lie awake at night listening to see if the "precious" flour sack was still breathing. A flour sack would never grow up, walk and talk, have his father's chin or his mother's dimple. That's the fallacy in the teacher's plan and the more I thought about it, the more I worried about the warped sense of parenthood those teenagers in that faraway Social Responsibility Class might be getting. They'd certainly feel the constraints, the pressure, the financial burden that can come from parenting. They'd come to realize that a baby doesn't go away when you're bored with it, or tired or sick or broke. They'd find out it can be darn tough to take on total responsibility for another being. But they'd be missing all the joy, ' the feeling of being needed, the return for giving. They'd never know response, see the smile, play with tiny toes and fingers or feel a tight little hug from a pair of skinny earnest arms. A flour sack baby won't kiss you back, burp in satisfaction or pat its mommy on the cheek, ever. One without the other is not reality. Something about the whole idea bothered me. While it seemed a good idea on the surface I kept finding more flaws in the plan the longer I thought about it. For instance, it would be one thing to "change" a flour sack baby, watching a timer to make sure you used up three minutes or four and subtracted the cost of a diaper from an imaginery budget. It's quite another to change a wriggling, kicking, giggling live baby. .While it wouldn't be any fun that I can see to change 10 pounds of flour, it's indescribable fun to nuzzle a real baby in the tummy during the process of changing, tickling little pink toes and smoothing powder across a little bare bottom. And there's nothing like the moment of that first grin, usually displayed just as you're concentrating on not getting the pin into the baby or your finger. Unexpectedly and incredibly, "it" flashes by. You look back and there it is again, a smile, a real smile, a toothless idiotic smile that lights up your heart. It can't be much fun to rock a flour sack to sleep. The sensation of kissing a damp fuzzy little neck wouldn't be there, or the sounds of a gently snoring infant with sweat beads on his tiny nose. I can't imagine that watching a Local Exchange Club formed The first of its kind in North Utah County, a newly formed chapter of the National Exchange Club, was recently organized for American Fork and Lehi. Exchange Club is similar to other service organizations, such as Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions, but with at least two important differences. National Exchange Club is strictly an American, rather than an international service club, and is one of the few service organizations that allows women to join its ranks. Exchange Club is specifically dedicated to projects that promote patriotism and foster greater awareness of our American heritage, seeking to preserve and improve the American way of life. The national project for 1987 is furthering the National Foundation for the Prevention of Child Abuse. On hand to organize the area's charter club was Robert A. Stretch, e Jr., who is one of three employees of the national organization. Of some 1400 clubs nationally, he serves most of the clubs in the western states. Ralph Carlson of the Sandy exchange Club and Lee Budell of the Provo club served on the organizing committee. Other guests included Kim Hodges, president of the Provo Exchange Club, Mike Tyrell, district director, and Mike Holman, president of the Sandy club. Local officers for the newly formed Timpanogos Exchange Club are: Brent Huff, president; David president-elect- ; Ken Westover, Barrington, secretary; and Douglas full-tim- Exchange Club officers: Recently elected to serve as charter officers of the newly formed Timpanogos National Exchange Club are Brent Huff, president; David ) Ken Barrington, secretary; and Douglas Yates, treasurer. Westover, president-elect- ; (L-R- Yates, treasurer. Other directors for the charter board include Carma Johnson, Devere Fowler, Guy Cash and Annette Naisbitt. The club will meet each Thursday at noon at the American Fork Corral for a luncheon Golden meeting. Interested guests are always welcome. A charter banquet will be held Friday, May 1, at the American Center at vited. 7 Fork Senior Citizen p.m. Spouses are in- Steven Bailey, Harold Jacklin, Jr., Darwin Starks, Lynn Ledbetter, David Haws, Jerry Brown, Byron Thomas, Carl Mellor and Doyle Kohler. New prospective members are encouraged to attend any of the Thursday luncheons or can inquire about membership by contacting any member of National Exchange. Twenty-fiv- e members were required to establish the new club. Other charter members are: Bert Wilson, Cynthia Johnson, Bradley Nielsen, Sandra Harris, Eric HOlman, Brett Bezzant, Pharis Blackhurst, Jennifer Swenson, New cable firm to upgrade system Wasatch Front." Insight will be informing residents in the construction areas of work to be performed and services to be be offered prior to starting work. Insight Cablevision announced today that it has taken the first step in meeting its construction commitments since acquiring Acton CATV last month. Insight pledged an expeditious start regarding the construction and service upgrade. The extensive work is scheduled for completion within the next 24 months. "We've begun and "We are committed to improving picture quality and system Pierce stated. He. reliability," are ahead of schedule," significantly said Wade Pierce, general manager. "Insight has committed over $2 million to rebuild and extend the cable system within Its franchise boundaries on. the ' cautioned, however, that some service interruptions would occur as equipment was replaced with state of the art electronics. The company plans to perform the work between the hours of 6 a.m. to S p.m. Insight wants to insure that service will be interrupted to as few customers as possible during this complex upgrade procedure. New cable lines will be placed within the public right of ways. "We realize many people ahve landscaped in many of the right of ways which usually run along property lines in frontyards or backyards Insight will pay special attention to Restore landscaping as close as possible to its original condition " stated Mr. Pierce. While work is proceeding in the neighborhoods, a standard cable line can be laid directly to the home, at no charge or obligation to the owner. This will avoid unnecessary delays or trenching charges should the homeowner want cable in the future. Pierce stated that his goal was to beat the 24 month construction deadline. He added, "The upgrading of electronics would allow Insight to significantly im- prove the picture quality while giving the company the capability of adding channels in the future." j Insight serves 9,000 customers In nine communities on the Wasatch Front. |