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Show Page 18 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, February 18, 1983 Honey Bee Suggested As State Insect by Fifth Grade Students A SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) dozen fifth graders from Ridge-ceElementary School got some first-han- d experience in the legislative process Thursday when they asked a state Senate committee to make the honey bee Utah's official insect. d The each gave testimony to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The students are in the gifted and talented program at the Cottonwood Heights-are- a school, and the honey bee bill is a class st project. "The bee produces honey and wax that brings $1 million to our state economy," said Ginger Fish, 11, demonstrating a keen understanding that money talks. Lisa Pollary, 10, added, "The Utah people and the honey bee work together on the fruit industry, which earns half a billion dollars annually."' David Randall, 11, placed esthetics above profits. "Bees benefit our state by pollinating flowers." he said. At ?02, She Writes Items Weekly - Ella ADRIAN, Mich. (UPI) Matteson writes a weekly newspaper column about the good old days. At 102, she's eminently qualified for the job. For a year now, Mrs. Matteson has been turning out columns for the she calls them ' letters" Clinton Local, a weekly newpaper that's three years younger than its columnist. The newspaper started publishing in 1884. Mrs. Matteson started the columns at the urging of friends and her son, Robert, 75, a retired newspaper editor now living in Florida, who argued history written bv someone who lived it would have wide appeal. "When I go to bed at night, all those memories come right back at me," said Mrs. Matteson, a widow who lives in an Adrian nursing home. "I have to put them down on paper to put my mind at rest." Mrs. Matteson, who turned 102 Jan. 21, writes her columns and letters by hand, shunning the typewriter. One of her columns was about a Christmas when she, as a child, received a doll, dressed her dog in clothes and took a ride in a long-ag- o sleigh, complete with horse-draw- n jingling bells. She said she gets a lot of letters from people who read her columns and letters, and dutifully answers all of them. Although her columns are about the past, Mrs. Matteson said she keeps up with what's going on today by reading news magazines from cover to cover and watching TV news. "You can't only live yesterday," she said. "Let's live today and always smile. A smile is a curve that brightens a lonely day." A clue to Mrs. Matteson's longevity may be contained in a sign hanging in her room. It reads, "It Takes Guts to Turn Old." Ella Matteson Youngstown Has Bread Line for Pets Ohio (UPI) While soup kitchens feed hundreds of the Youngstown area's unemployed and needy, Animal Charity of Ohio runs a bread line to serve their pets. In the two months since the program began, 3,000 pounds of donated dog food and cat food have been passed out to nearly 500 hard-presse- "Mr m FT YOUNGSTOWN, pet owners, d said Edward Goist, executive director of Animal Charity. "If you have to choose between feeding your kids and feeding your animal," he said, "most people pick their kids." As a result, in this community where about one in every four workers is unemployed, pets are going hungry, or more frequently, are being set loose. "In the bulk of cases where people run out of money," Goist said, "they set the animals free. "Stray animals amplify my problem. Not only are they subject to starvation, but they get d caught in traps and they're reproductive machines turning out puppy after puppy." To help residents keep their pets in hard times, Animal Charity solicits pet food donations from the community and every Wednesday hands out a few cans and about 5 pounds of dry food to pet owners who can prove they need it. People are allowed in the line twice a month. Because that is not enough for most pets to gorge on, Animal Charity also has begun a kind of Sewing machines less than half price. Reg. $289.00 NOW $1 29.00 STILL IN FACTORY CARTONS WHILE SUPPLIES LAST Our education department didn't anticipate the large cut back in school g, funding. Theee machines are all steel portable or cabinet models. now at school prices. Buy zig-za- Edward Goist, director of Animal Charity of Ohio, sits near the stacks of 1,200 pounds of dog and cat food his organization handed out to needy petowners in Youngstown, Ohio, this week. leg-hol- ZCMI and VIKING SEWING MACHINE CO. INC. AUTHORIZED AGENTS UNIVERSITY p animal program. Donors are urged to turn over grocery store coupons for cat and dog food and Animal Charity passes them out along with the food-stam- food. The animal group also has compiled a leaflet to remind money-sho- rt pet owners that didn't always eat dog food; cats didn't always eat cat food." "Dogs It shows petowners how to stretch the food in their pets' bowls by adding whole-grai- n cereal, eggs, dry milk, table scraps or even cottage cheese. Dogs will eat vegetables if they're mixed in with other foods, Goist said, and stale whole wheat bread available inexpensively from surplus bread stores is a nutritious additive. Goist said the group has de signed the program for pet owners whose unemployment has run out or who collect welfare or have no income at all. So far, he said, the only people who have had to be turned away were hamster, snake and exotic pet owners for whom Animal Charity has no supplies. Those pet owners were advised to ask veterinarians or naturalists about alternate pet foods. OREM r WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Thursday confirmed President Reagan's controversial nomination of Assistant Labor Secretary Donald Dotson to the National Labor Relations Board. Suing EPA On Tailings The nomination of Dotson as a board member was approved by voice vote without dissent. Reagan now Dlans to name Dotson chair man of the board, which oversees enforcement of federal labor laws. Dotson, 44, is assistant sectetary for relations and a former NLRB staff five-memb- er His nomination was opposed by organized labor and liberal groups such as the Americans for Democratic Action because of his ties to the National Right to Work Committee and Sen. Jesse Helms, The group blocked Senate Labor Committee approval in the waning days of the 97th Congress. 0 PRESIDENTS' DAY SABS opircc wac mnAY wacn tubii msb rsnnn Senate Confirms Appointment of Dotson - Four Groups MALL 224-175- D D cat ffr oath mmrnm mmr S Cffl'ltiHiH;titiltiiB mm mmmt. i .mm- - u mm. Four environmenDENVER tal groups are suing to force the Environmental Protection Agency to revise standards for cleaning radioactive uranium tailings, claiming current regulations will not protect the public health. Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, a with the Environmental Defense Fund, said this week that the new standards "exhibit an outrageous disregard for EPA's duty to safeguard public health." "There is no scientific dispute whatsoever that radiation poses a serious threat to human health," she said. "EPA's standards allow a level of risk never before considneuro-toxicologi- st Presidents Day 45" WIDE POLY DOUBLE GEORGETTE e e THIS SPRING'S "FASHION" SOLIDS, SOUDS e REG. Joining EDF in the lawsuit, filed Denver U.S. District Court, were the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Southwest Research and Information Center. The lawsuit claimed the EPA standards "will allow residents of such communities as Grand Junction, Durango and Salt Lake City to be exposed to unnecessarily high levels of radiation." The EDF, one of the plaintiffs, said the standards announced Jan. 5 by the EPA were more lenient that those originally proposed by the agency during the Carter administration. The EDF said the new standards would allow emissions of radon gas 10 times greater than the earlier standards. "Decay products of radon may be inhaled and increase the risk of lung cancer,'' the EDF said. The organization said the new standards would increase the chance of developing lung cancer for a person living near a tailings site to "a few chances in a thousand." That would be many times higher than the "acceptable'' risk of one excess cancer death per million population. Patricia Wells, an EDF attorney', said the new standards clearly fail to fulfill" a 1D78 mandate from Congress to "minimize or eliminate radiation health hazards to the public'- from tailings Ms. Wells said the EPA claimed the now standards are cost eft e I5ut she said using "thick, ear' hen ours 'hat greatly reduce radon emissions" would cost "surprisingly little more than applying in 1 ALL WINTER o Pants o Denims o Blouses o Sweaters Reg. up to '46.00 m7W Ipi f AC" tn unite HIVE IVWV M ta BETTER FABRICS REDUCED!! e PRINTS e THESE SALE FABRICS AND SOLID COLORS HAVE BEEN MARKED DOWN REG. DAY SALE! DOkC 33vn 1.98 MT jta. iuo.vstu. m IV Presses (o) Reg. price up to '68.00 v. mm . FURTHER FOR OUR PRESIDENTS' I T0 ft. 099 L Z - SHOP EARLY-SOM- E QUANTITIES LIMITED FAMILY FABRICS HOURS: unit rni DOWNTOWN PROVOUNIVERSITY MALL iomupm SAT. 10 AM - 6 B-3- 8 UNIVERSITY ADCII PM vnLm MALL I II ! mm mandate excuses." 0FF YD. 1 minimal covers." even perform an anaksis." she said. 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