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Show Free Press Wednesday, July 29, 1992 - Page 2 There's source Editorial So many exciting things are happening in Lehi that its not easy keeping track of Childhood diseases threaten to make a comeback Some childhood diseases are threatening to make a comeback largely because modern science has been so effective in fighting these diseases. That sounds like a contradiction, but as such childhood diseases as whooping cough, measles and other have beealmost eliminated, some parents have failed to keep up with their children's vaccinations. The irony is that these very vaccinations have been extremely successful One ofthe most interesting things is the surge to preserve our historical past. Right now, the Chamber of Commerce is helping to spearhead the Jordan Valley Tourism Group's invitation to view and experience Lehi's Historical Sites, Where the Wild West Still Is". Those who participate will ride in a tour bus sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Refreshments will be served on the bus. Visitors, many of them members of the Jordan Valley Tourism Group, will meet at South Towne Mall and travel to Lehi to view the many historical sites marked along the tour route. Some of the sites included on the tour are the Rockwell Monument near the prison, interesting irrigation facilities at the Jordan Narrows, the Pony Express Route will be pointed out, and when in Lehi you'll visit the Hutchings Museum, the only two ZCMI buildings still standing and both in Lehi! Lehi's store Broadbents; Saratoga, the Stage Coach route to Fairfield, Willows State Park and the Pony Express Station Site and much more are included in the tour. We have so much of interest in Lehi. And, its going to be fun to show off Lehi's fabulous historically significant sites. Even though I'm a native of American Fork, I can appreciate Lehi's significance in the state's history and be proud of it. We point out to our children and grandchildren that their ancestors had an impor- - 370-873- and other information. Some families object to vaccinations for religious or other valid reasons. in almost eliminating polio, pertussis, That's not the problem. Many people diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, simply don't take the time or make the effort to have their children vaccinated tetanus and Hemophilus influenza. The results of failing to properly because they feel childhood diseases immunize children are becoming ev- are no longer a threat. And their failident. According to the Primary ure to follow through with their Children's Medical Center, 37 children children's vaccination schedule is crewere hospitalized in that facility last ating a climate that may promote an also known as epidemic of measles or some other year for pertussis medical center childhood disease. The whooping cough. also treated 11 cases of measles out Measles, one of the most serious of the 224 cases reported in Utah last common childhood diseases, is a good example. "A severe case can last up to year. Nationally, some 25,000 cases of two weeks, during which the child is measles were reported in 1991, with 80 absolutely miserable," Dr. Christenson patients dying from a childhood dis- said. "The main complications we see ease that we once thought we had con- are blindness, deafness, pneumonia and brain damage. Tragically, chilquered through vaccinations. "We've done a fairly good job of con- dren are also still dying from this trolling preventable childhood diseases disease." This loss of young life is unneceswith immunizations in this country, and that success has apparently lulled sary and pointless. Parents have a us into a false sense of security,' says responsibility to see that their chilJohn C. Christenson, Medical Director dren are properly immunized. of Primary Children's Infection ConFor Primary Children Medical trol Program. "The germs that cause Center's free pamphlet on immuthese diseases are still present and nizations write: Immunizations, active in the United States. As more Hospital Relations Department, children go without immunizations, Primary Children's Medical Centhe greater the chances for widespread ter, 100 North Medical Drive, Salt epidemics like those we had many de Lake City, Utah, 84113-110- ld - each family's history tually see that infamous tree, so we trek through the park, and I'm willing to bet, that almost every tree in the park has been Voou'd them. cades ago." The vaccines are readily available. Every doctor can administer them. The Utah County-Cit- y Health Department sponsors clinics on a regular basis offering these standard vaccinations. The clinics are offered at low cost, or at no cost for families who can't 4 afford to pay. Call for hours - of pride in Doelieue ott By BETTY FOWLER tant role in building Lehi's history: Thomas Fowler was a marshall when Utah was still a territory; Niron Fowler continued doing his bit to bringlaw and order to the community while he served as policeman for sev- eral years. Grandpa Daryl worked at the "Hoogley Factely". ( His children couldn't pronounce sugar factory.) Daryl also served as mayor of the community, actually dying with his boots on, so to speak, when he died while still in office. He also served on the Civic Improvement Association's Board of Directors and helped initiate the Lehi Roundup celebration. We've discovered that kids are proud of the olden days stories that involve someone in the family - even ifits in a somewhat less than heroic roles. Most of us stretch the truth a little too if an exaggeration makes the stories more interesting. Ahh, c'mon, you do too. For instance, in order to enhance Grandpa Daryl's contributions, we tell the kids that a tree in Wines Park is named for Grandpa Fowler. They insist that they ac named after Grandpa. How would we know, for heaven's sake? Now, another grandmother, Jane Ann Fowler Sparks, has reached Joan of Arc status in our grandchildren's eyes, and Grandpa Tom Fowler was probably the" lawman whostrungupGeronimo, or helped General Custer at his famous last stand. Who can prove he wasn't there? We're talkin heroes here folks. Why tread lightly? There's no better way to preserve our past, than making it a very personal past, by making it your story. And, inasmuch as this is Olympic Week, I love to tell my kids that I knew Jay Lambert, Lehi's first Olympian. True, I didn't ever actually talk to Jay, but I cheered for him when he played basketball for old Lehi High. I tell my kids that there has never been a better rebounder than Jay, and that he didn't give ground to anybody. So, as a result, My kids think that Jay is partly theirs too. I tell them that Jay's sister, Marian, is a personal friend, and even though she didn't box, or play basketball, she is a wonderful mother and a wonderful person. They, my kids, think the Lamberts are sump'n special. So see, make history live for your families. It works. Every one of my nine darling's are proud of their roots. Proud? Heck, that's a mild word for how they feel about their home town. Crawdad hunt turns up a taste of yesterday that The wanted to get in the act. The kids took off their shoes and started searching for crawdads. Sharon thought hunted about stepping in too. the creatures from the bank - using a stick to chase crawdads into Jeffrey's bucket. In about an hour we had captured 15 crawdads and placed them in the large bucket. soles were already tender. Kari caught three. my but was Sharon almost caught one The answer is simple. I was reliving my By MARC HADDOCK afraid she had and let it go. childhood and having a ball at the same I caught a couple - but I let the biggest time. And I was teaching a younger generacrawdad ever get away when it started tion about the tricks of crawfish hunting. towards me and I jumped about 12 feet. Frankly, they caught more than I did. e mastered the art of capturWe took along several plastic buckets -Crawdads, also known as crawfish or crayfish, are an important part of the my- some to catch the critters and one to keep ing crawdads without getting wet and because them in. And we took along my wife's called her husband a thology of my youthful memories. I remember several of us trolling along brother, his wife and daughter, who dehe showed no interest whatsoever in the bottom of Montpelier Creek, picking up cided to come for the holiday after we had crawdad hunting. All in all, it was a hoot. the lobster-lik- e g crawdads, accumulating made our plans. dozens in an empty coffee can. That evening, with our catch still wigAt first no one believed crawdads could I remember deftly avoiding the dangerous-lobe found in local waters. And no one begling around in the bucket filled with creek claws tat napped as we picked oking lieved you could really catch one, even if water, we heated a pot of water to boiling, the crawdads out of the water. And I re- there were. No one believed you could eat washed off our crawdads and plunged them member the sharp pinch of those claws them either. It was just me and a party of into the water. In minutes they turned a when I failed to stay out of their way. unbelievers of all ages. bright red - and not too long after that, I I remember hauling our catch home, So when I took off my shoes and waded figured they were ready to eat. I poured the contents of the pot into the then building a fire in the field behind my in enthusiastically, everyone else stayed house. We filled another coffee can with behind to watch. I looked for a long time, colander, poured the steaming crawdads water, placed it on the fire and brought the seeing several tiny fish darting along in the onto a plate, and showed the kids how to water to a boil. water and hundreds of water skippers. I remove the shell from the tail and eat the We dumped in the live crawdads, watch- moved rocks and searched in shady places succulent tail meat. But in my memory, the tails weren't so ing them turn bright red in a matter of and finally saw my first crawdad. minutes. They look like tiny lobsters and move tiny about the size of a child's little finger. And then we feasted, picking out the backwards by flicking their lobster-lik- e tail. I mean, it would take a lot of these little crawdad tails and cracking open the They are fast, too. So when I put down my suckers to make a meal. claws to suck out the tiny pieces bucket to capture my first one, he deftly We each ate some even Sharon, who of meat inside. escaped into another part of the stream -- cringed as she chewed, and Steven, who I bet my mom would have died if she's and the on lookers remained unconvinced. didn't join in the hunt and said he wouldn't known what we were doing - and that we Then I lifted up a rock and found a eat bugs. mud stationary crawdad one too stupid to get were eating these Nobody was left out of the feast. Everywhile the getting was good. I scooped him body ate enough. One was enough for most crawling crustaceans. The way I remember it, nobody went up and returned to the others with my prize of us. Now the kids are bugging me to take away hungry from a crawdad cookout. The - stepping :arefully on bare feet that were them on another crawdad hunt - but I'm way I remember it, it was a glorious event. already st .rting to hurt. So when I ran across some kids catching The kids were delighted. Sharon was not so sure about it this time. crawdads in a nearby creek, I thought it appalled at the inherent ugliness of the Maybe some things are better left in the sister-in-lawould be a good idea to spend a morning critter. Finnish past. Will I ever be able to eat a seafood and my was intrigued. And everyone soon crab subway sandwich again? doing the same. Yes, that was me crouched down in the muddy creek water, bucket in hand, looking for ferocious fresh-watcrustacean - the crawdad. The few who saw me must have wond dered what had gotten into that guy in shorts limping along the creekbed. The rocks were sharp, and after a few steps, -- er gray-haire- shoe-wor- n Ann-Mar- ie Editor's -- Column Eight-year-ol- d -- 0. Ann-Mari- Times tough in 'Dirty A few days ago I read an interesting article in a magazine. It was titled "What life was like during the TMrty Thirties.'" The author said he knew because he was there. Times were tough everywhere, and everyone tightened their belts. Shopping for food, as an example, was a perpetual hunt for bargains to make the family budget stretch through each week. Most meats cost 20 to 30 cents a pound. A pound ofbutter went for 28 cents. A dozen eggs was 29 cents. A pound of cheese, 25 cents, and a pound of potatoes was two cents. Food was cheap, but money was scarce. I, too, was there in those Dirty Thirties. I remember the day I checked out of work. There was a sign on the time clock, "Closed until further notice." It was a morning in late spring, the type of day for rejoicing, but instead there was sorrow and uneasiness. I went up town to draw my savings out of the bank, the huge sum of $112. I joined a line-uabout a block long, all going to withdraw their savings, but it was not to be. There was a sign on the bank door, "Closed until further notice." Fortunately for me I was single and had no family responsibilities so a companion and I decided to take a pack trip through the Thirties' party-poop- Browsing crawdad-huntin- -- r By TOM GRIFFITHS ered it. Believe me that meat was good. Trout fried in mutton fat tasted real good. We dined like kings for several days. We returned home to find the plant where we worked still closed. Just then a friend of mine offered me a job. His father was in the mining business and was operating a prospect mine out in western Utah. The job paid $30 a month and keep. The keep consisted of a cabin with a bed and we did our own cooking. The work was not pleasant. It was hot and wet down in the mine. We worked stripped to the waist and wore rubber boots. Some time later the owner of the mine brought out some people from the east to see the mine. These people had invested heavily in this mine. When we came up at the end of our workday we were greeted by these people. One man was the spokesman. "We will give $1,000 for the first piece of ore that is brought up out of this mine." But to my knowledge, no piece of ore ever came up out of that mine. So, we can look back on the Dirty Thirties and pray they will never come again. p High Uintahs. We invested what little money we could spare for food and gas to take us to Mirror Lake, then we took off on foot carrying a 40 pound pack on our backs. Some day I am going to tell of the two weeks we spent in this primitive area. It was quite an adventure. For example, one We afternoon we heard a sheep baa-insearched the area for a sheep camp but didn't find one, so we decided the camp must have moved on to richer pastures. I hope we will be forgiven for what we did. My companion, who had a Woodsman pistol, ended the life of that ewe and butch- g. once-menacin- creepy-lookin- On our fragile spaceship Earth the seven seas have become an open sewer. You can see it in Florida's Biscayne Bay where pollutants are creating deformed monsters -unless fish and crabs with three claws ulcers. And where swimmers are now at risk. Researchers there blame raw sewage and O 1991 Lot Angel e boat fuel. Time Syndicate Recently I visited one of the Pacific Ocean's most isolated islands, and the beaches even there are awash with beer cans, sanitary napkins, containing poisons dioxin, DDT, PCBs, shredded clothing and Jettisoned from commercial ahdfifs- s WrTney can it a cnermcai snap.As a sewer for what was East Gersure boats. of northmany and Czechoslovakia, the Elbe River Axel Heiberg Island is one the has become one of Europe's filthiest waernmost points in the Canadian arctic. Tourist boats arrive, their passengers terways, washing into the North Sea thousands of tons of pollutants each year. gazing in awe at the primitive splendor. Eight million barrels of oil were And in disgust at the piles of rusting dumped in the Persian Gulf from Kuwait's steel oil drums. Scientists from Canada, Germany, oil wells; 30 large lakes ot oil remain slums the mushrooming Japan and Sweden are on ElkMmIWM In Brazil's do without sewers, makes source the to of population determine land trying befouls its aquifers with raw Mexico 75 since increased has percent that smog sewage. 1956. Cousteau has photo Jacques-Yve- s They've found 800 waste sites, some (Paul Haoruey " - ne gartpfc;fWrme. - ' - ; g g, -- -- Ann-Mari- e, Letters to fthe editor Supreme court has destroyed Constitutional rights Editor: The Supreme Court killed our constitutional right to a "free exercise of religion." We now have a freedom from religion and not a freedom of religion. In the last month, traitorous courts decreed (1) No prayer at Seven seas now a sewer on fragile Earth once-pristi- er graphed "oceans of tar balls, plastic, hyrunoff podermic needles and chemicals." He says every country in the world contributes. Peru's once beautiful beaches are now a dumping ground for litter, 6.5 million tons a year. Sixty rivers and streams feedfilth into the Black Sea, including still "hot" nuclear fallout from Chernobyl. The Barrier Reef is what forms the Florida Keys. From coastal erosion, runoff and sewage, it is dying percent land-base- d Ocean' advocates are calling for an international treaty specifically to deal with pollution. The United States contends that present international laws are adequate: It's just that few nations pay any attention to them. So all that came out of the recent Rio conference on the subject was agreement that countries "should commit themselves to cleaning up the seas." Nothing mandaland-base- d tory. So we will deep-si- x today's problems for tomorrow to worry about. use every profane and obscene word, illuspublic sponsored assemblies, e.g. graduation or council meetings, (2) burning of trate your message with any obscene gessacred emblems if free speech, and (3) the tures or pictures, insight the audience to future violence, and interview avowed Boy Scouts is NOT a Christian organization but a business which MUST admit atheists witches and satanists, but you may not and homosexuals. mention the name of your God or acknowlThese are the capstone on the degrada- edge your religion. You must speak as an tion of our fundamental rights and the atheist! establishment of Secular Humanism or It may seem that religion is only restricted at schools. However, the court "legatheism as the national religion: a. No prayer or public acknowledgement islation" is based on public moneys supportof Deity shall be allowed at a public sponing the activity. Thus, these restraints apsored activity, Weisman v. Lee (1992). ply to ALL PUBLIC FORUMS. They prob. Bibles reading is prohibited during hibit worship services or priestly ministrations at community hospitals and camp silent reading time, Bibles and other religrounds. They prohibit scripture reading in gious books shall be removed from classstate cafeterias and county lunch rooms. room shelves and school libraries, Roberts v. Madigan (1990). They prohibit the wearing of religious c. The theory of creation is expelled, all symbols by public employees. But, you say, children shall be taught evolution even if this is true, why hasn't it been enforced. though it is only a theory and considered We waitonly for the Civil Liberties Union to sacrilegious by the faithful, Webster v. New bring any of these to court. The courts have Lenox Sch. Dist. No. 1222 (1990). relegated religion, namely Christianity, to e. Prayer at extracurricular activities is the status of a scarcely tolerated superstition which is a menace to their sovereign forbidden, Jager v. Douglas (1989). e. "Secular Humanism or atheism is atheism: Ruling that Christianity must be acceptable curriculum, ot her faiths shall tightly regulated and contained. not receive equal time, Doe v. Human ( 1989). Our fathers died to protect our constituf. Texts may omit any religious signifitional right to worship and speak of our cance ofhistorical events, Smith v. Board of faith, anywhere at anytime. The Supreme Court has systematically destroyed that Sch. of Com. of Mobile (1987). right. They are traitors and have betrayed g. A moment of silence is prohibited, the constitution which they have sworn to Wallace v. Jaffe( 1985). Yet, US vs. Eichman (1990) held flag uphold. Congress can impeach traitorous burning as free speech, and Duran v. City of justices. Why isn't this happening? Write Douglas ( 1990) held obscene language and your representatives and senators, demand an answer. gestures are free speech. At a graduation ceremony, city council Quass meeting or other public sponsored forum, you may burn a flag, cross or menorah, you Orem , |