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Show Free Press - Wednesday, Sept. 2, 19X7 - 2 Page BM&T must prove its ability to turn profit at Geneva Workers started returning to the Geneva Steel Plant this week after Business Manufacturing and Technology bought the plant from USX Corporation late Monday. It's been 13 months since work at the plant stopped -first when local steelworkers were locked out during a contract dispute and later when USX announced its intentions to mothball the plant after contract differences between the corporation and national union had been ironed out. Within a month, over 1,000 people are scheduled to be working again at Geneva, turning out plate steel, as well d as and tempered band and sheet steel and steel pipe. BM&T has orders to fill through the end of this quarter, and a contract for 40 percent of the plant's production over the nest five years. The sale of the idled plant came as time was running out for BM&T to secure financing to purchase the plant. Details of the sale will not be made public. The plant's is good news for Utah Valley; the local economy has suffered with each layoff at e Geneva. But pardon us if we take a attitude towards the "new" Geneva Steel of Utah. After all, the old Geneva Steel did not operate in such a way as to inspire confidence, especially in recent years as the local work force was gradually cut back and then abruptly cut off - first with a hope of reopening and then with the threat of a final shutdown. BM&T's rescue of Geneva Steel still leaves a lot of questions - questions which can only be answered with time. The biggest question, of course, is can Geneva Steel make a profit? The company claims' that by operating the plant without the contractual baggage that plagued the plant when it belonged to USX Corp., steelmaking can still be a profitable enterprise. hot-rolle- is still tough, however. Foreign steelmakers are selling their product at prices which have closed plants all over the United States. It was USX's agreement with one of the foreign steelmakers that caused the corporation to stop making steel in Utah County in the first place. Will BM&T be able to secure enough concessions from Competition wait-and-se- Booster club says thanks Time to celebrate when school starts I talked to a gal this morning who was wearing a smile this wide. "I just got my kids in school, and I feel so good," she laughed out loud. "Don't get me wrong, I love my kids, but I have this sense of freedom this morning! I feel like celebrating." I told her about my neighborhood. The morning all our kids were back in school, all us moms would have brunches and gossip sessions until the wee hours of the afternoon and it was time towelcome the kids back home again. We'd talk about the clothes we'd been forced to buy. The Jantzen sweaters and the Joyce shoes. Nowadays, my daughters tell d me it's Guess jeans, d leather Adidas and demim jackets - at $40 bucks a throw. you better believe it of stone-washe- By BETTY FOWLER goodness. daughters-in-la- jackets from the boys closet. "Here," she trilled. "You can have these. The boys have grown out Kids become know all I want to know about After all, I was one, wasn't I? So I know all about this hormone I teen-ager- too early teen-ager- s column too. My brothers were And I watched them, so I learned all about the wilder side of adolescence. (I had to see that second-han- crowd. The first clue that my child was entering adolescence was this terrible teasing. It never stops. All day and all night it goes on. Sometimes I just wish she would leave me alone. Her basic target is my age - and of course she figures that at 36 I am well on my way to senility. She also takes great joy in letting me know when I've mixed up something important - like my children's names. With six little bodies running around the house, it's pretty easy to look at one you know and then call her by someone else's name. She likes her mother's things, but not mine. She'll wear Nancy's clothes, and her shoes, and her earrings and her makeup. But she treats my music as if it were the kind of stuff my parents used to listen to. I tried to bring my kids up right, helping them appreciate the sounds of Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Bob Dylan - the classical artists who created what my daughter listens to all day long on the radio. For a while she liked most of it. Of course, Bob Dylan never caught on, teen-ager- d teen-ager- r, but the other was okay. But no more. Since I'm old, my music must be old. If I like it, she doesn't, regardless of what "It" and watching them become someone who doesn't want to be all that close to you anymore - especially in a the editor's stuff. because I was such an easy going teen - shy. reserved, chicken. ) The problem isn't understanding s if they are boys. The problem is girls. I never got a chance to observe teen-ag- e girls up close. ( After all, I was chicken, like I said.) But as the father of six children, five of them girls, I suspect I'm going to find out more about teenage girls than I ever wanted to know. At least, it's starting to look like that now. True, my oldest kid is only 12 just barely 12, at that. But somehow, through the marvelous mechanics of the human never mind body, she is a teen-ageher age. That hardly seems fair, since by the same standards. I didn't become a teen-age- r until I was about 17. (Some might argue that I got stuck there.) However Shannan, who turned 12 last month, has been a teen-age- r for some months now, even if her status Then she thought about the washing and ironing those dresses involved. Oh my gosh. Then she thought about this year's unironed look and the heavy denim look. All she had to do was throw 'em in the washer and fish them out, fold them up and put 'em away in the closet. "Where did you say you buy those jeans?" She asked sweetly. "And do they make them in size 16?" stone-washe- stone-washe- One of my was bemoaning the high cost of jean jackets, her mother marched into the boys bedroom and retrieved a few denim the bottoms of the pants on purpose. That was 'way back when size six girls wore hair ribbons and cute little cotton dresses. There were also the soup-ca- n hair rollers and the bees nest hairdos. But they didn't require frizzy perms, or pierced ears either. "Didn't they look funny?" my granddaughter asked. "No they looked cute with their fat ringlets, and they're starched dresses. Especially if they had a couple of full, ruffly petticoats to go under the dresses," Mother answered. them." "Yah, but they don't have the proper label," daughter replied. "Just go buy that new kind of dye that makes jeans look stone wshed," advised her mother. "It just wouldn't work," moaned the frustrated daughter. "Why not for heaven's sake?" her mother asked. "Your girls are only eight and ten years old! Can't you fool'em?" "No way, without that label," her daughter answered. Somehow it would hurt my heart to take a perfectly good pair of jeans or a nice denim jacket and dye them d to that ugly color. But, thank goodness, they're not fraying the bottoms any more. Or putting holes in the knees on purpose. I can remember doing that, I'm ashamed to admit. So at least our daughters have more sense than we did. I mean, they'll spend $40 for a size six denim jacket, but they certainly won't fray back-to-scho- ol My them and there isn't a thing wrong with By MARC HADDOCK is still somewhat unofficial. She's not old enough to be a teenager, but she looks like one - taller than most of her friends, and still a little gangly as she gets used to her frame. (She ought to make a formidable basketball center, until her peers catch up. ) Even more than that, she acts like - that's the clincher. a teen-age- r Now, I don't mind the way teenagers act. I've always gotten along with kids that age (giving credence to the theory that I'm still one at heart). But it is odd to see those changes in person and personality taking place with someone so close to you - om Town workers to make up the difference when that difference was great enough to convince USX to buy foreign steel rather than produce its own r How many local steelworkers are willing to make those concessions? Will the plant be modernized so it can continue to . compete? Another question is the clean up of the environment surrounding the plant. Many see the sale of the plant as a means for USX to avoid having to pay the necessary millions to carry out that clean-u- p effort. The residents of Utah Valley have learned through on at Geneva past experience to view many of the goings often USX and operated the a Steel with jaundiced eye, such warranted that skepticism. plant in a manner At it takes over the plant, BM&T will have to earn the trust of local residents by demonstrating a desire to operate efficiently and at a profit, and by being honest and open with the local public. In other words, avoid the mistakes and mystery behind which USX Corp. operated the Geneva Steel Works in recent years. may be. And she really gets annoyed when tell her to turn up her stereo so I can hear it better. I wonder why? There has also been a growing trend towards independence and I Usually she determines to do absolutely nothing. Unless there is a friend around. Then she determines to go somewhere else to do whatever she's doing. I assume she's doing nothing there, as well, although with teen-ager- s you never can tell. Of course, all of these characteristics are punctuated by "the look," a particularly wilting expression which is designed to demonstrate extreme disdain for all things adult - I'll get one of these when the paper comes out and Shannan reads this column, but I'm used to it by now, so I don't really -- care. I remember all of these things from the other side of the mirror when I was a kid. So I really don't mind watching my kid grow up. What troubles me is I get all these same symptoms of from Erin, who is 10. And that's just too young to be a teen-ageKids today grow up too fast. The Lehi Booster Club wishes to extend a hearty thank you to Jeff Kirkpatrick and Amy Revill for their great performances at the concert. Thanks also to Wendy and Johnny Revill and Paula Shelton for their participation at the concert. Special thanks to the following; David Haws and Haws Floral; Kate Fillmore of Kates; Wayne Soper at Western Tack and Togs; Melvin Anderson, for the horse and buggy. Thanks also to Lehi Parade Chairman Kaay Christofferson for his help with the stage; Chuck Revill and Community Press; Lynn Cook, letters to the editor Let courts decide case Editor: Thank heaven for our freedom. The freedom of the press and the freedom of speech are two of these great freedoms. Through them we have the Constitutional right to speak our mind. I have observed this freedom the Alan being used concerning Hadfield case... I am not condemning or trying to deny anyone their privilege of free speech, but I would like to remind my fellow citizens of another Constitutional right.. .that a man is innocent until proven guilty by a court of law. I agree with the Citizen and the Lehi Free Press that such news has to be printed, but I would like to admonish the readers to not pass judgment, that is the court's responsibility. Just because we know someone who was abused, or live in a "community where we EP SANDERSON m. we mwG Editor: We would like to thank the Lehi Police for their prompt and efficient response to the call for help. The quick action of our police officers prevented our home from being burglarized and two burglars from getting away. We'd also like to thank our good neighbor for her interest and con No pro-re- d TtfOUGMf THE. the: HITTING boys were to do v, Editor: "Congress is perfectly willing to conduct proceedings in order to investigate activity in government," claims Robert Crawley, the local leader of the John Birch But he adds: Society. "When policies favor Communism, they are considered acceptable and no investigations are made." Mr. Crawley pointed to the costly a hearings as an example of "an intense spotlight being shone on the efforts of some to assist the star-chamb- Iran-Contr- UVCC offers evening course on U.S. Constitution Beginning Sept. 30, Utah Valley Community College will offer a course entitled, "The Constitution: That Delicate Balance." This course will be offered in commemoration of the Constitution the actual signing of the Constitution occurred on Sept. 17, 1787. The course will be held Monday ind Wednesday evenings, from 7 to and may be taken for five The tours of credit or 1:30 .. course number is SSP 190.51. For further information, contact Con tinuing Education, The instructor, Lehi High to hold Night for parents of Lehi High, School students has been set for Wednesday, Sept. 9, it was reported by Linda Bushman, PTSA president. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the school's Little Theater. PTSA officers for the current Back-to-Scho- vear will ext. 450. Henry Kriegcr. received his Master of Arts degree in Political Science night back-to-scho- ol ana new Russell Felt, be installed administrators .1 principal; and Richard Schuif, assistant principal, will be introduced, as will faculty members. Following the short business session, an open house will be held in the cafeteria, where parents may meet the administrators and faculty members. This will not he a time for individual conferences with the teachers, Mrs. Bushman stated. It will be a social time for parents and faculty movement." But he asked: "Why are there no investigations of government programs that funnel aid to the Soviet Union and Red e China, or proceedings to find out why administration officials continue a willingness to sign agreements and pacts with liars and cheats in the Kremlin?" Mr. Crawley pointed out that, only a generation ago, "there were several standing Congressional panels whose purpose was to investigate activity in and out of government." He named the House Committee on Activities, the Subversive Activities Board and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. "Today," he noted sadly, "these groups have been abolished and nothing has been created in their place." full-scal- members acquainted. to become cern in our behalf. If it hadn't been for her phone call to the police, we'd have lost most everything of value in our home. We wish everybody could have a good neighbor like ours She's one in a million. Lehi also has a wonderful police department. We're lucky to have people like that working for us. -- Earl and Gladys Thomas investigations Contra f become conditioned to our violent society," does not give us the right to pass judgment. For one thing, very few people have all the facts. Very few of the readers know and love this and all the families involved in this unfortunate situation. My heart aches for these families. Issues do need to be approached head on, but let us not lose sight of the fact that these people are human beings. I pray that we can regain our perspective, to let the courts do their job... by swiftly getting to the truth, may the papers do their job... by printing accurate and unbiased information, and may we as citizens and children of God do our job by loving and caring, and leaving judgment in the proper hands. -- Leslee G. Fillmore Lehi Thanks to police r. bi- - Russ Felt, Lehi High School Principal; Paul and Karen Kirkpatrick and Chuck and Renita Revill. Booster Club members would also like to wish the football team good luck in their upcoming games. A Homecoming game and pep rally will be held Sept. 17 and 18. Please watch for the new look and new home for Lehi's "L". New members are welcome to join the Booster Club anytime. Even if your children are too young to participate in high school activities, or out of school, we need your support, say Booster Club officers, Chad Smith and Lorraine Carlton. According to the JBS leader, "the prevailing rule in government and in most of the media is: Thou shalt not interfere with the Communists or their goals?" He feels that "the Iran-Contr- were hearings a arranged to punish or to intimidate those who harbor sentiments." The society leader added, however, that Lt. Col. Oliver North's performance before the select committees "seems to have turned the tables on the planners, and to have made respectable once again." -- Robert Crawley American Fork Hutfyi IFro press ISSN No. 8750-466- 9 U S P S. 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