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Show Free Press - Wednesday, August Page 3 Zucchini season: a time to squash vou'cfl Editorial Prayer decision increase intolerance will Last week the Alpine School District public, as well as private, the Supreme took the only action left available and Court decision promotes an open hostilagreed to drop prayer as a part of the ity towards any public religious practice. district's graduation ceremonies. The Witness the actions of the American decision comes in the wake of a Supreme Civil Liberties Union and you will see Court ruling which declared that prayer this hostility at work. The recent ruling at any shows that it is working effectively. activity is inapRather than increasingreligious freepropriate. The ruling has drawn the expected dom , the ruling promotes religious intolnegative reaction from school board off- erance. This can hardly be what was icials and others who feel that the Suintended by the Founding Fathers when preme Court, rather than imposing the they drafted the Bill of Rights. Constitution-guarantee- d freedom from Nevertheless, the best response to imcourt's decision is that followed by is the instead religion the Alpine School District. It would be philosophy posing an of freedom from any type of religion. folly to continue throwing financial sup"Let's pray for the Supreme Court; port to fight a constitutional battle which they could use some divine guidance" has already been lost.. said one school board member as she Graduating seniors still have the opaccepted the decision with resignation. portunity to experience a more religious Another suggested that personal val- approach to the graduation services in ues had been lost because of the Su- the baccalaureate ceremony where prayers are an important and proper preme Court ruling. Many Utahns, and particularly Utah part of the meeting and where attenCounty residents, are offended by this dance is strictly voluntary. By stressing the religious nature of particular Supreme Court decision. It flies in the face of the strongly-hel- d graduation at this gathering, and by beliefs of many. focusing on the other aspects of graduaNo doubt some will argue that by tion at regular Commencement rites, school district officials can put the best removing the practice of public prayer - particularly prayer in the manner of face on the Supreme Court decision. As a society, however, we can hope the LDS Church would help to ease some of the traditional tension between that the current trend to take religion the state's predominant religion and out of every aspect of our public lives will soon shift back to a more moderate apmembers of other religious faiths. No doubt, this is the court's intent. proach - one that balances the need for individual rights with the all important Unfortunately, by system atically our opportunities to worship in freedom to worship God. school-sponsor- state-support- 19, 1992 - It's zucchini time in Lehi. Donna likes to tell about the time her kids loaded their little red wagon with zucchini androcks. They pulled their wagon from door to door hoping to pick up a little cash from either the zucchini or the rocks. " They sold more rocks than they did zucchini," Donna laughed. Anyway, more recipes have been developed, tested and served from zucchini than any other vegetable. Its because of their availability. Anybody who has a garden grows zucchini squash. Wait a minute. Did I say vegetable. Some people think zucchini is a fruit. Yes, they make pie, cakes, and bread from the popular squash. Be wary. Before the summer is over, you'll probably find some zucchini on your doorstep. ed - -- - -- cur-tailin- g For those who would doubt the real power of prayer There is much being said these days about prayer. As far as I am concerned, the negative arguments are coming from organizations like the ACLU, who know very little, if anything, about prayer. Let me take these unbelievers back a few years to where they are standing in a field with the Mormon pioneers. Devastation is staring into their faces. Their crops are being devoured by hordes ofcrickets. Everything to stop them has failed so there is only one thing left, to call upon their God for help. Bare headed they stood in their fields and petitioned God for help. Suddenly from out of the blue sky came the flutter of wings, and seagulls coming in clouds from the Great Salt Lake descended I By TOM GRIFFITHS on the fields and devoured the crickets and care of him when he was young. the crop was saved. Now I must tell you about Larry. He was You members who were there that day and saw a miracle, can you say this was a a very close friend in my single days. Why we were friends I'll never know because we coincidence? Go with me somewhere closer to home. were as different as chalk and cheese. I loved my church and was active, but The year was around 1917. 1 was a small boy of month The was Larry felt he had no need of spiritual help. but my memory big. November was bitterly cold and wet and my He had a brilliant mind and a personality sell ice boxes to Eskimos. father, who worked outside, came down that couldcame World War II and Larry was Then with pneumonia. forces and became a armed into the drafted There was no hospital or wonder drugs, the to so death was close by. Buthe pulled through pilot in the Air Force. His duty was fly war for the to bombers against England and lived. But it was several weeks before big Germany. All went well until one day when he could return to work. In those days, there was no such th ing as his plane was approaching the coast of sick pay or unemployment so our family Ireland and one of the motors conked out. This wasn't too bad; there were still was on the verge of starvation. I can only tell motors left, but soon another motor three into went you what my mother told us. She her bedroom and closed the door. Then she went out and they started to lose altitude. Then Larry, who had not prayed in years, poured out her heart to her God and petiprayed, "Oh, God, if you will help us deliver tioned his help. I I Now, you members of the ACLU, go back this plane to our destination, promise to that day when the mailman delivered an will not forget you again." They limped into their destination. envelope with a South African postmark. It from came and Larry was true to his word and became mother to was addressed my her brother who had emigrated to South active in the church. I just wish the members of the ACLU had Africa. descended toward The letter contained a nice sum of money. been on that plane as it Sea. Irish the It was in appreciation for mother taking Browsing My friend, Kris Radish stayed here a couple of days during her Utah visit. She looks great. We went to an open house held in her honor at Paxm an's cabin at WildWood. It was fun recalling experiences we enjoyed during her stint in Utah. And now, she's becoming famous! KWTO in Springfield, Mo., had a lifelong love affair with the Missouri Ozarks. His happiest hours were floating the White River before all the dams went in, matching wits with largemouth bass. Those days Branson, Mo., was nothing more than a bait shop. Foster's radio station featured counsuctry, cowboy and bluegrass music so the it 1940s that the got cessfully in attention of New York. The ABC network offered a nationwide hookup for his weekly "Ozarks J ubi-lee- ." Paul Hearuey My son starts playing 1991 Lot Angeles Time Syndicate knock football this year. At least that's what he thinks. Personally, I've never seen 6th graders play football with pads on, but I doubt that there is as much full contact as you might see in, game. say, a BYU-Uta- h Still, this is a major step towards jock-hoo- d for Seth, if that is where he is headed. Frankly, it doesn't matter to me all that much. Oh, my wife claims differently. Sharon says that I have promoted this love of sports I see now in my son. She stops short of saying that I am trying to experience the thrill of victory through the boy, but only because she knows that would probably make me unhappy. Like any good parent, I want my kids to succeed. But I don't try to force them onto the playing field where that success can take place. I let them choose their game, er, endeavor, and then hope for the best. But, she will argue, didn't you buy him his first ball? Of course. This is the father's role in society - to purchase toys for his kids. And a ball is a marvelous toy. People have been giving kids balls to play with for centuries. It doesn't mean I am promoting sports above everything else. But, she will continue, didn't you play catch with him? Of course. Every father should play catch which'his children. It promotes hand-ey- e coordination, which is important in many endeavors. And that's all it was when I was throwing the soft Stuffs football to my boy five or six years ago as he ran a down-and- -- "Nashville sound" has undergone evolu- Broadcasting from Springfield, some- tion. claswho prefer times from Branson or Silver Dollar City, sicsPurists have ballads and already hillbilly the "Jubilee" quickly won a wide follow- been inbred with performers wanting to fof its commercial recognized became ing, different." "sound potential. Most Branson musicians - notably But it wasn't many weeks before the disRoy Clark - are trying to hold the line. network, in its infinite wisdom,direcmusician, but his Clark is a concert-grad- e and patched New York producers e anceis Branson perform to the every "broaden appeal tors and began to fun. encompass a wider audience" with New family In between the fiddle and guitar music York nightclub singers. turned Branson on the glitzy And the "Ozarks Jubilee," by then a that first of brassy new stuff with no soon cacophony was hybrid, mongrelized mishmash, third-tone- s at all are very subtle compromercifully declared dead. another after another. after one s mises, There is only one kind of music that I went next door to Branson From Mo. "at home" in Branson, Dollar Silver City. So you will understand if I watch If somebody had buried a time capsule from New outsiders of intrusion today's middle of American 200 years ago, York and Hollywood and Las Vegas with in the cow-count- -- down-hom- son-in-la- w w "I'll keep your advice in mind," one gradu- ate told the speaker. "Even though the only books I've been interested in are mom's cookbook and dad's checkbook!" At least he was honest. The speaker also told about a courting experience he'd had when he was a young man. I met Evelyn Woffinden downtown. She told me that she had a houseful of company th at her son Neil was here because one of his children was graduating from BYU. Ann and Neil used to be high school friends. There's a coincidence there somewhere. Time marches on. Graduation time is over, the summer is winding down, and school is about to begin. Finish your shopping, mendto and get ready party thatfirst ing, ironing, day of school. back-to-scho- ol The Editor's Column By MARC HADDOCK out on the front lawn. It was just good, healthy exercise. But, the argument continues, didn't you buy him his second ball? Certainly. Every child outgrows a toy and needs a new toy. If it's shaped like the old toy, so much the better. Besides, he's got to learn to pass, catch and punt the real thing sooner or later. I always thought sooner was better. But I didn't teach him to play rough. He's just always played like that. Seth was the one who wanted to catch the ball on the fly and then land on the ground with a hard thump. He was the one who started to run back the punts so I had to tackle him. In fact, most of this football stuff was his idea. The same with basketball and baseball and soccer. I just played along, like a good father. But, Sharon might continue, didn't you take him to game after football game, instilling in him a love of the sport? Well, yeah, but only because he wanted to go. You see, I go to the games to work, to take pictures of the action for next week's newspaper. So football games are strictly business. I just took Seth along so he could see what I do for a living.and because he liked the games. He especially liked the games from the sidelines, where he could hear the crash of pads and the grunts as the offensive and defensive lines collided, and where you always have to be on the lookout for a play that might come your way. But it was all his idea. You see, I had my glory days. I suited up and ran plays and had chalk talks and worked out through three years of high school football. Never mind I weighed 120 lbs. when I started, in my high school you either played football or you were a girl. There was no middle ground. As a junior, I was a 140 lbs. end, defensive end and center (honest). All of these positions were on the junior varsity third string. I played a couple of minutes in a couple of games - and judging from the game film I looked pretty silly in shoulder pads and a helmet. As a sen ior, I ran on my high school's first thank goodness for cross country team progress. It was the first year you could not play football and still be a man. The point is I don't need to relive my days of jockdom. I lived it once already. I don't need to recreate those thrills through my boy. He can get his own thrills. So 111 probably go to my son's little league football games from time to time -once a week is all. And 111 cheer a little when he gets in the game. But with reserve. Anyone who has seen me at an athletic event can testify that I react to such moments with reserve. (You betcha!) After all, that's what any good father would do. Eyre would sacrifice kids to get votes Editor: Now that the initial dust has settled around the Republican conventions, I feel it my civic responsibility to inform you and your readers (hopefully) of a possible prob- lem. I was elected to be a county delegate and did indeed go to my count's convention. At the convention I heard all of the Republican hopefuls give speeches and I was awed at the process of politics in this great country but I was terribly concerned with one of the candidates. This man has quite a following on a popular level because he has had a successful television show seemingly sponsored by the leading employer and religious organization of the Great Stateof Utah. (I wonder if people in Utah realize that just because a show is on KBYU it is not necessarily in 1792, and it were scheduled to be dug up and opened in the summer of 1992, a multitude of Americans would converge to see how we dressed and what we ate and how we made-d- o a hundred years before power saws and motor cars and microwaves. Such a time capsule is opened every morning at 10 at the entrance to a cave in Silver Dollar City i n the Missouri Ozarks. To today's mountain people who are heirs to that legacy - in evenings from December to December as you lie alone upon your cot think back on all the tales that you remember... - long-cherish- and a Ann's daughter, a all graduated from BYU daughter-in-lalast week and they were all here for the big event. I listened to a graduation speaker on TV instead of going to the actual exercises. He told the grads to keep interested in books, keep studying, and keep reading even though they now possessed a degree. Letters to the editor -- a feeling of deja vu. I am aware that the it full-conta- N Hews By BETTY FOWLER The kid is the one who wants to play! Branson tries to preserve that sound Ralph Foster, ownermanager of Cselieue "We hitched a horse up to a buggy, helped our girl up in the seat, gave the horse the go signal, and were on our way. When the horse sauntered to a stop, I took the opportunity to lean over and kiss my girl," he bragged. The girl asked, "what was that for?" "Oh, that was just a kiss," he explained. "Oh?" the girl said. "What was the kiss for? "Well, the kiss makes you feel good and a little lively," he explained. "Well then," the girl said, "kiss the horse and lets get going!" Yes, I enjoyed that graduation talk. Of Fannabelle, shootingsquirrelsfrom horseback to feed her four children. Of the young girl who commuted 50 miles to nigh school each week and home each weekend to work. her Of Sherry's mother cabin of logs. Let there ever be a Silver Dollar City where we can watch blacksmiths and potters, glass blowers, wood carvers, basket weavers and quilt makers, where we can yesterday. And where wecan hear authenticmusic of the mountains and the plains. To paraphrase Alan Lerner, "Ask every person if he's heard the story - and tell it loud and clear if he has not - that there is yet a spot that is as we were -when we were young." hand-buildin- g re -- -- condoned by that religious organization?) City and because of a youngfamily chose to be a theater teacher. After 25 years of This man is charismatic and charming a little too charming? experience I had to s tart at the bottom of As a delegate I was first of all insulted by the ladder with no consideration for any of in attempting to my professional experience and now this his obvious man wants to improve education without promote his current book which is cutely UEA?!? Is that because of his ego? Is it A of Utah. in the shape cut out political because UEA chose not to endorse him? Is forum is not the place to advocate it becausehe looks at himself as too popular and ask the delegates to supto need some 50,000 votes from teachers? with the and him his purchase family port is it because he thinks that those of his book. That, however, was only the tip Or members of the predominant religion are of the insult. He went on to say that he desires to too politically unsophisticated to make a valid choice without his omnipotent presimprove the quality of education in Utah, "but, let's do it without the UEA!" That is ence and rhetoric? My wife and I moved to Utah to raise our akin to Lee lococca saying he is going to improve automobiles without the UAW or children in a healthy family environment and we have found that too many people, by President Bush asking to improve American clothing manufacture without the their actions, feel that education is unimILGWU - or let's make better movies with portant. Parents work to give their children i SAG. everything, but then have not the time to be involved in their education. He went on to say he was going to deAnd this man is willing to sacrifice the crease the spending in Utah by developing as we little So "volunteerism." now, support our children do have. a system of PTAassociation is against our IftheNational consider to who are supposed teachers, some of his plans and if the education jobs "callings" or worse, "second incomes," are also going to be asked to volunteer even associations are against some of his plans, more time! The reason there are unions in how can we as Utahns allow this man the opportunity to deride and dissolve all the this country is because of just such exploitation. Have we notgrown beyond the 1880" s things we do have? do not let this Please, fellow Utahns, era of Samuel Gompers? I am no w in a position where, for the first happen!!! Do not vote for Richard Eyre! time in my life, I do not get paid for experi-- Don Fleming, ence. I was a professional writer, singer, educator York New dancer, actor and producer in self-intere- st - -- Cannon has proved leadership Editor: As the November elections draw near, the race for Senate has drawn a lot of attention. Without putting down any of the other candidates, I would like to speak out in behalf of Joe Cannon. I worked at Geneva Steel for almost 20 years before it was closed by USX. I can remember how homes werehard to sell and work was hard to find in Utah County. Thanks to Joe Cannon I was able to return to work when it started back up. I can assure you that there have been more improvements made in the equipment for both the environment and the production in thet Ik ll last live years tnan tnere was in ine preceding years under USX. Joe has proven to be a responsible leader. We all know what he has done for the steel plant, Geneva School and many other places throughout the state. He personally helped our family when we lost our oldest son. Thank you, Joe! I know he has helped many others since returning to Utah. Let us allow him the chance to work for us in Washington. ' . . Humble Pleasant Grove Policy on letters to the editor 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. We |