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Show Free Press - Wednesday, August 21, Page 2 1991 - Many are beautifying Lehi city better joa believe it Editorial Beautiful women in bygone days would their cheeks for color. They'd brush their hair 100 strokes each night, and they'd take milk baths all in the name of beauty. They'd dab beet juice on their lips for d that look, and they'd use corset stays and tight girdles to minimize their and Jeff cant find time for some quick hugs out there, they can at least enjoy the scenery from their kitchen window. Oh yes, and then there's the Streets' home up on Ninth North as you drive west to the North Stake Center. No, it isnt big, and it isnt fancy, but ifs cute, homey and built with more love than typical of homes ' pinch Back to school: Watch for kids just-kisse- With thousands ofchildren heading back to school Monday, it's a good time for drivers to take particular care on the streets. Monday morning local sidewalks and city roads will be crowded with children on their way back to the classroom. The children will come in all sizes and a lot of them are small sizes. ing. Warn children, once again, about the dangers oftraffic and the rules of safety. And be particularly careful during the first week or two of school. Drive to get back in the groove of keeping school children safe. Watch for crossing guards. Be conscious of school crossing zones, Kindergartners learning the and be even more careful in those ropes of walking to school require places where children tend to cross special attention, as well as first without the benefit of zones or graders who think they have this guards. walking-to-schoGive the bikes and groups of thing down pat. Add to that the large number of school children a wide berth. would-b- e daredevils on bicycles, Stop for the school buses when and you are looking at some serious the red lights are flashing and the obstacles on the road. stop sign is extended. These first few days ofschool are The kids rely on drivers to pay attention at bus stops and they especially dangerous. We have had months to become are likely to dart in front of traffic accustomed to driving without without paying attention to the these tiny pedestrians. We have cars. And help see that our kids get to gotten used to zooming through it school zones at and from school safely throughout the school year. speeds. Add to this the exuberance of Safe travel to and from school is for and the result of a joint effort by the youth you have a recipe disaster. students and the drivers so that The opening days of school call our kids can be kept safe throughfor cool heads and parental coach out the school year. ol - above-the-lim- Vareity of churches offer diversity of stories When I was a boy over there in Wales, I attended many churches. I even went to the Church of Wales where the whole program was in the Welsh language. While I couldn't understand all that was said, I did enjoy the congregation singing in Welsh. My friend Scrummy Chislet was a Baptist, so once in a while I would attend his church. I felt kind ofbad when the collection box was passed and I didn'thave any money to put in. Jimmy Simkins was a Wesleyan. I liked to go with J immy for in his church there was a balcony where you could look down on the people and tell which ones went to sleep. Then there was the Salvation Army. They had a nice band and played uptown every Saturday night. Some of us boys were naughty to the band. They played on a corner outside of the grocery store where there was a wall. We kids would sit on top of the wall and suck a lemon while the band played. After awhile they couldn't play any more because of the fluid in their instruments. Eventually, Captain Edwards would tell us to take our lemons and leave. At Whitson I enjoyed all of the churches. It was a time of celebration and served cake and ice cream. So I would go with my friends to their church and partake of these good- browsing - ies. Many are the stories told about ministers. I like the one about the traveling show that came to town and the villain, of the show got seriously drunk and couldn't go on. A minister offered to take his place. In doing his part in the show, not the imbibing part, of course. So the manager of the play coached him for the part Now, at one place a gun is fired, and the minister was told he must clutch waistlines. But the ultimate beauty weapon was the beauty spot or mark. If a woman was lucky enough to have a mole on her cheek, she wouldn't need to use a small spot of soot from the fireplace for a beauty spot. But any beautiful woman worth her salt would have some spot in plain view to emphasize her femininity and loveliness. All that was a lead-i- n for me to tell you about some of Lehi's beauty spots. Look around town and there are some folks who have outdone themselves in making their homes absolutely gorgeous, all done with flower gardens and posie borders. And there isn't a dab of makeup in sight. Just green thumbs and hard work, cald loused knees and fingers. Have you noticed the Davis' home as you enter Lehi from East Main? Then there's Berl Peterson's and Ruth Wing's efforts for all to see. Okay , I can't possibly name every beauty spot, there are so many, and some of them aren't visible from the street. But, I com- mend all those folks who've contributed to the loveliness of Lehi by enhancing their By TOM GRIFFITHS g his heart and shout, "My gosh, I'm shot!" He refused to take the Lord's name in vain. Just before the curtain went up the manager soaked a cherry in red ink and put it in the gun ahead of a blank cartridge. An d at the crucial moment he fired it at the minister who then clutched at his heart and murmured, "My goodness I'm shot." Then suddenly he saw the red fluid on his shirt front. "My goodness, I am shot!" Of course, ministers, bless them, are confronted with many problems, some difficult to answer. For example: "How was the collection this morning?" asked the Reverend. "Not good, not bad," answered the chief usher. "There's $170.74, five buttons, three bus tokens, a slug and what's this here" It's a note from somebody saying, 'I'm awfully sorry I can't give you the cash, Reverend, but if you will come to my home at 347 Andy Street some evening, I'd be glad to show you how to fix your gas meter so it won't regis- ter." Paul Harvey News a ifj ; lawns, flower borders and a gazebo hidden in a clean cool nook just within calling distance from their spacious home. Then there's Cindyjs Park. She had help from some friends, but she and Jim have created an eyeful from a former pasture and it adds somuch to the swimming pool block. Evalo Smith is a determined gardener and her home reflects her love for cleanliness, order and flowers, . Jeff and Donna Chruma work tirelessly to maintain their Victorian home and envi-- , ronment. Their son Jack made a gazebo for Donna to while away quiet summer afternoons, and its just outside her door, so ifshe Eulogy for a piece of junk We moved the Compugraphic outside last week to make room for our optical scanner. The Compugraphic, a phototypesetter which was state of the art some years ago and a mainstay at many newspaper offices for decades, is much bigger than a handheld optical scanner, but the old machine was in the way and had to go. The Compugraphic came in two units a keyboard that was the size of a desk and the typesetting part that was about the size of Robbie the Robot five feet tall, four feet wide and three feet thick. The hand-hel- d scanner is small enough to, well, fit in your hand. But you have to have table space to spread out the image you want to scan, and for a year now the Compugraphic has done nothing but occupy 60 cubic feet of space to mention the keyboard. ... There Was a time When we treated' the Compugraphic somewhat like a tin god it through electrical storms which could fry its delicate circuits and painstakingly cleaning and polishing the film strips that created the images of letters that appeared in our newspaper columns. It is very difficult to describe how the old Compugraphic worked, but it was basically a tiny projector that flashed a light through the appropriate letter at the appropriate time to photographically imprint the image of that letter on paper that came in long rolls. The paper was then developed, much like a photograph, and prepared for pasteup on dummy sheets in columns and reproduced in the pages of the newspaper. I knew how to use the typesetter before I ever came to this newspaper, because I'd used Compugraphic equipment in Castle Dale to publish the Emery County Progress i and a Compugraphic unit was an essential part of my work at the Intermountain Contractor. So many publications once relied on this machine, or one very like it, for many, many . years. We couldn't find a buyer for our Compugraphic now, but at one time in the past it would have been worth a lot of money. In fact, everything about the Compugraphics was expensive. . ' They cost a lot to buy. The font strips were expensive. The paper and the chemicals needed to develop it were a constant drain on the budget. And maintenance was expensive and hard to come by. As our only piece of typesetting equipment, our Compugraphic Unisetter was crucial to our operation, and I remember many Mondays and Tuesdays after the .; But oh, the darling landscaping there. Petunias border the walk to the front door. What a welcome! And there are perfume patches in every nook and cranny. If looks like a million bucks. I go by Glen and Alta Wanlass home every day and never have I seen it look lovelier. And they do it with vision and love. Glen built the rock walls, Alta plants and tends the flowers. They spend so much energy and gardening expertise outside for all of us to enjoy. Thanks you guys. Tanners live right next door to Glen and Alta and they have made flower beds, vegetable gardens, and lawns for all to see. Their project all began with the removal ofa huge tree from their lawn. At first I was resentful of them for taking out that mammoth tree. But, that was a vast improvement that the Tanners could see needed to be done. They've continued on with their beautification project, and wow, have they worked. But, everything looks great now. Congratulations John and Naomi. Well, I'm going to stop now and see if I can do something about my beauty spots (freckles). They aren't pretty. I don't look the least bit like Madonna, and I haven't tried the egg treatment yet. Here goes. By BETTY FOWLER surroundings. And if you want to go a little afar, you'll have to admit that Lester Burningham has made a small Garden of Eden out of a tumbleweed patch. He and Margie have created an oasis complete with sweeping The clanking, whirring and beeping of the Compugraphic, and the cussing that went on when the infernal machine broke down, were the standard sounds ofa newspaper office to me for many years, but no more. Computers and laser printers and wonderful software packages have seen to that. We came into the modern ages slowly, first plugging our PCs into the The Editor's Column By MARC HADDOCK Compugraphic through a "black box," so called, I believe, because it practiced the black art of turning computer-generate- d machine had broken down sweating until the repairman showed up to make the equipment run smoothly again, worrying that there would be no paper in tomorrow's mail. Other times, the publisher or I would work with our, ear, to the phone and our hands "on the; innarcte of the .tyesetter' trying to solve a problem over tie phone to avoid' the costly service charge that dame with a repairman and trying to get the machine back on line before it was too late. I spent one whole weekend purchasing computer chips to replaceother chips on the Compugraphic's circuits, all in vain, only to learn from the repairman that this model had been wired differently than the model my telephone consultant had been working from. One Tuesday the typesetter didn't work ' at all and we had to go begging to someone who had a Compugraphic to typeset our papers. It was the most hectic day of my life, ferrying information back and forth and finally producing a patchwork publication with mismatched typefaces and headline styles. For all its quirks, it was a wonderful machine, once you understood its language. It could justify type, or set it ragged right or ragged left - any column width you chose, as long as you chose it in picas, a length of measure printers have used since the days of hot metal presses. And when a headline, was getting ready to go over the length allotted it, the typesetter would give you a warning beep, and you had a chance to rewrite the head to fit. -- words into typeset on the copy Compugraphic. Then we purchased a laser , -- printer and typesetting software and a newer, faster computer to drive it all - at a fraction of the cost of the original Compugraphic, and I produced laser printed copy while Karen, our typesetter, continued to turn out copy !v oneCdmpugraphic:5 Before long we bought Karen a computer and a laser printer, too, but each Monday ""' and Tuesday, we could hear the Compugraphic clanking and whirring and beeping away. Gradually, it clanked and whirred and beeped less and less as Karen got the hang of using the computer and the laser printer. And finally, many months ago, the Compugraphic just never got turned on. We could do everything it could do, and more, on pur laser printers which sat on our desk tops next to our PCs taking up a fraction ofthe space required by the Compugraphic. ' And for months the Compugraphic sat accumulating dust and taking up a lot of space until last Saturday, when we hauled it out back and put it where it might be picked up by whomever wanted it. We worship it no more. We still measure things in picas and talk about leading and point sizes and kerning - the language of the old typesetters and old hot metal days is still with us. But we are freed from the bondage ofthe old technology by thenew technology. Thank goodness. I wonder what the Compugraphic re-- , pairman is doing for a living today? - ' -- - Letter to the editor light-sensiti- FDA policies cruel to terminally ill Forafriend with advanced Alzheimer's disease I sought and got a supply for the drug THA. I guess I broke the law. When there is no other treatment, youll try anything that promises to help. Areport in therespectedNew England Journal of Medicine five years ago recited the results of a multimillion-dolla- r study on patients in 16 research centers, af1991 Los Angeles firming "some easing of Alzheimer's pa- ' Times Syndicate tient in 40 percent of the test patients." That was enough encouragement for me. It was not enough for the Food and Drug Administration. might be helpful against AJDS. Because Now, five years later, the FDA is still the FDA will not approveftistribution, protesting that the drug "needs more a concerned undergrounds manufacturstudy' ing and pirating the drug. This homeThe families of 4 million Alzheimer's made DDC might not be as pure and safe Roche could manuas what Hoffman-Lpatients can just waitl The Wall Street Journal's editors have facture, but the FDA is driving desperate rarely been so incensed, suggesting that people to desperate measures. FDA Commissioner David Kessler it might have better if the Food and Drug Administration and National Institute seems to want a reputation as "a tough on Aginghad never sleeted to test THA in guy administrator." He personally dithe first place, because the resultant cru rected the advisory committee that voted elty to patients and their families "is Just against THA. Repeatedly he cautioned too much." the committee "not to bend to external There is also a drug called DDC that pressure." money. weed-staine- light-sensiti- 9 ; committee, really nothing more than eight doctors from around the United States, was obviously influenced by his presence and his persistence. Kessler has become something of a folk hero for one of Ralph Nader's groups up on fruit juice companies - that add water things like that. But to people with AIDS and cancer and Alzheimer's, Kessler is a stubborn bureaucrat who cherishes his own macho reputation above any humanitarian con- - - X-r- , a , . sideration. '., You will want to know, did the THA help in the case of my own stricken friend. ,. Diseases of the mental process do not lend themselves to clear-cu- t "objective" measurements. I think I witnessed some easing of symptoms. I can't be sure. The Wall Street Journal notes that other pharmaceutical companies have been investing heavily in drugs to treat Alzheimer's Hoechst and DuPont and other but now that approval of THA has been thwarted for more years, these other companies might well figure research is not worth what it costs. ' If it were up to today's FDA, we'd have to go to Europe to buy bootleg aspirin. - I feel I must write and tell the people at American Fork Hospital thank you. Especially to Emergency Room team of Dr. Dale Greenwood and those with him, on the day of Saturday, July 20, at 6 p.m. You all were s6 kind and professional in your treatment of our son, Ron. Treatment was administered, after the and scan, care was given arid then he was sent to the intensive care unit. I can't say enough about those women in that unit. They cared for Ron and checked and monitored him hourly. They were very kind and gracious to Ron and to those who ' , v came and visited. i rude or impatient with They were never The for beating deserves a thank you Hospital Editor: cared to visit any of those , who Ron. enough A week later we returned to the emer- -' gency room because he was still hurting. This time Dr. Shelton and those there gave us their kindest as well as professional help. This time Ron was sent to LDS hospital. About three days later we got a telephone call from AF Hospital emergency room inquiring about Ron's condition. Can you believe that?1 Ron is home, all is well and we owe it to AF. Hospital personnel who assisted him and a big thank you for your kindness to us. You made our visit to emergency and to ICU as pleasant as it could be. -- Dennis and Helen Ann Durfey Policy on letters to the Editor , ' ' We welcome letters to the editor. All letters should be typewritten and double spaced. Letters must also be signed, and must include the writer's name and telephone number. Please send letters to Editor, Newtah News Group, P.O. Box 7, American Fork, Utah, 84003. , - |