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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday June 5, Letters To The Editor The Record welcomes letters from its readers on any subject of public interest. Letters must be no more than 300 words in length. The publisher reserves the right to edit, condense or reject any contributions. Letters must be signed. Dear Editor and all our friends and former neighbors in San Juan County: We recently resigned our position as home parents at the Canyonlands Youth Home in Blanding and moved to Cedar City. We want to share our thoughts with you about what we learned as home parents at this county detention center and shelter care. For over a year we had the pleasure and privilege of working with city and county law enforcement personnel in San Juan County. What their work 1985 - Page 2 and jobs mean is never known by most of us. They put in endless hours and seldom receive a thank you. In our work with youth at Canyonlands Home we became very aware of the concern San Juan law enforcement people have for children who are in trouble. We extend thanks to all San Juan County officers and to Mel Laws, probation officer. You helped us do a better job as home parents. We hope our message will encourage others to learn to appreciate San Juan law enforcement people as we learned to do. To get to know you is to love you. Our thanks to those who serve. sMax and Lydia Palmer Box 1952 Cedar City, UT 84720 Mental Impairments under Social Security by John T. Moore District Manager A recent change in the Social Security law is important for many people with mental impairments. The Social Security Administration must establish new rules by early 1985 for evaluating mental impairments in the Social Security and Supplemental Income (SSI) programs. Here are ways people may be affected by the change: 1. New applicants. Until the new rules are in use, mentally impaired people who file disability applications will have their claims decided under current rules. If a claim is allowed, benefits can begin. If it cannot be allowed, the claim will be reviewed automatically for a possible allowance when the new rules are established. 2. Prior denials and terminations. Mentally impaired people who had an appeal of a termination decision pending on or after June 7, 1983 will have their cases automatically reviewed when the new rules are in effect. However, most mentally impaired people whose disability benefits were denied or stopped for medical reasons between March 1, 1981 and October 9, 1984 need to reapply to get a decision under the new rules. If they reapply by October the application may be considered to have been filed at the time of the latest 9, 1985, denial or termination. Should the claim be allowed, Social Security benefits could be retroactive up to 12 months from the date of the new application. Anyone wishing to reapply should contact any Social Security office for more information and to avoid the possible loss of benefits. If you wish more information The Rose Garden is such a lovely place, we could have enjoyed it much longer, but it was time to move on. We bid farewell to its beauty, and to the little ladies in dark blue dresses and sampan hats who keep the place clean. Before boarding busses, we marveled at the different modes of travel. Pony drawn rubber-tirebuggies are not uncommon. Bicycles usually carried more than one person, and lady passengers rode Occasionally we saw a fairly good sized wagon box with wheels, but pulled and pushed by hand. It would be better than carrying something in ones arms or on the back, but quite a chore nevertheless. Our guide Diamond taught us a Thai greeting. My spelling probably is not correct, but the way it sounded to me was d side-saddl- e. sah-bah-dee-ka- h. She said It means good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night and goodby. When you we will put two say hands together, and bend the head until the nose touch the finger. (The hands are placed together in an attitude of prayer.) Ladies always say kah at the end of every word or phrase. Gentlemen say crop. e is the greeting. Why is that we put two hands sah-bah-de- e Sah-bah-de- together. That we call why. Ive written of the temples, or monuments to Buddha, and the familiar name for the style is or Chinese. Thai style is jaydee, Indian is stupa, and bodian is brong. During WWII the Japanese wanted to build a railroad through Thailand. They would start from either end and meet in the middle of the jungle. Diamond was anxious that we know that it was not something the Thais could prevent. We are very small country, we dont have any modern weapons like Japanese, she said. Its like a small tree. If there was a wind we have to bend. We cannot stand like this. We wrote a letter to American telling the president of the United States we have to let them come into the country. Thats why the Japanese people came, but not as an ally. When the American won the Cam- war, the American people helped us a lot. Because the French try to make Thailand in, you know the country that lose the war and we have to pay a lot of money, but the president of the United States showed the letter, official letter from the Thai government saying we have to, and the president approve that, so we didnt pay anything in that war. In Thailand you can hire a maid for $50 per month. She will live with the family, do the cooking, cleaning and laundry, work seven or eight hours a day or longer if necessary, and be content with her work. There are women who dont like this type of work, however, and for them there are other options. For about the past 45 years women have been permitted to study, just as men have, and to go to the universities. As I mentioned earlier, Diamond studied archeology, and she said there were more women than men studying in that field. A woman with a bachelors degree will earn as much as a man with that same degree. Or whatever the degree, women and men earn equal pay for equal degrees. pagoda, but there are different styles. The pagoda is Japanese about the new rules for evaluating mental impair- ments or about other changes in the Social Security law for disabled people, contact the Durango Social Security Office, 701 Camino del Rio, Durango, Colorado or call (303) 247-312- 8. Emergencies Anywhere in San Juan County Dial 0 Ask for Zenith 110 Soldier advances Army Pvt. 1st Class Thomas T. Little, son of Clyde Little Sr. of Tonalea, Arizona, has completed basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. During the training, students received instruction in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, first aid, and Army history and traditions. His wife, Sylvian, is the daughter of Kenneth and Sylvia Roberts of Blanding, Utah. Little is a 1981 graduate of San Juan High School, the San Juan Record Published weekly at Monticello, Utah, 84535. Second class postage paid at Monticello, Utah Address changes: (USPS Box 879, Monticello, Utah. The San Juan Record is a member of 480-400- ). the Utah Press Association. PUBLISHERS J. Martin I. Adams SUBSCRIPTION RATES San Juan County $8.00 Outside county 9.00 12.00 Canada 15.00 Elsewhere Newsstand 25$ |