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Show s WEEKLY REFLEX -- DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL. DECEMBER 29. 1 977 loliool Empires ts! $110, find PpaEiotion KTJP By GARY R. BLODGETT In a surprise court maneuver, an County School District employee was fined $299 and put on probation for illegally accepting a gift. is Msal Seieefts Three Cornucopia Concerts with performing groups from schools and communities throughout Davis County will be presented by the Davis School District beginning in jail after he pleaded guilty, but the jail sentence was suspended upon payment of the $299 fine. Judge Cornaby then placed the defendant on probation. January. one-yea- rs THE first concert will be Jan. 5 at 8 p.m. in Clearfield High Schools auditorium. Concerts will then be held on one-yea- JAY HAD been charged with three counts of accepting gifts of luans from persons who would be directly affected by his (Jays) position as district director of building and grounds. He pleaded guilty to the one charge in a session whereby it was ag eed that the two other charges would be dropped upon acceptance of the one DEWAYNE JAY, 53, of 244 W. 250 S.. Kaysville, was sentenced by Layton City Court Judge Douglas Comaby last Thurs- day. The surprise move - only one of several pulled by Mr. Jay in cooperation with court officials during the lengthy - saw proceedings Jay whisked quietly through city court without fanfare of the press or public attention. guilty plea. HE SAID that carpeting and labor to have the carpet installed have since been paid off. The three charges were filed against the defendant following an inves- THE FORMER and building maintenance director, Jay was scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 3at 10a.m. in Layton tigation last September by the Davis City Court. Not only was the sentencing date moved County Sheriffs Department. The plea to which Jay made to the court, and subsequently paid the fine, was a Class B misdemeanor. His probation will be with the Adult Probation and Parole Department. ahead without any announcement, members of the local press were told only hours before the sentencing that the sentencing date was still scheduled for Jan. 3. JUDGE CORNABY was quoted as saying that the jail sentence was not imposed because this is not a good solution in this case because of your (Jays) poor health problems. I had considered the imposition JUDGE CORNABY refused to talk with newsmen. days earlier, Jay was allowed to plead guilty of one charge of accepting a gift. At that time, Jays court day for entering the plea was moved ahead - again without notice of any kind. Only 10 of a jail sentence. The judge added that it is also significant that you have lost your job of 23 years as a result of the charges brought against you. Although this is not a part of the formal penalty, it is probably the most I )UST wanted to get this thing (court hearings) over with and didnt want to be bothered by the press, Jay commented to newsmen. I wanted the sentencing moved up as early as possible to see where I stood on a few things. Jay was also sentenced to six months in penalty that you can be asked to endure. JAY SAID he had resigned his position with the school district earlier this month because of poor health. ir In an age of seeming sexual permissiveness, it is reassuring to learn that most husbands are faithful. A recent survey by the Life Extension Institute in New York City found that 80 percent of 5260 husbands interviewed had never been unfaithful to their wives. ACCORDING to an article by Norman M. Lobsenz in the October Readers Digest, the reasons for marital fidelity span the entire range of a fear moral behavior-fro- m of getting caught or not having an opportunity to a personal desire to be faithful out of respect for ones partner. It is true, Lobsenz writes, that today men and women both have higher expectations about the emotional and sexual rewards of marriage. When a marriage does not live up to these expectations, he continues, the easiest remedy is often extramarital sex. Yet every couple has the power to create a climate of mutual concern and affection that can be a bulwark against infidelity. IT IS useful for a wife to know why men are unfaithful as she helps to build this climate. Failure in business often affects a mans sense of his own masculinity, and he may be tempted to give it a boost through an affair. If your husband has suffered reverses, its important that be solidly his shored up by you. Men have special needs-n- ot self-estee- the Selected Queen At Snow Peggy Follett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kyle was recently Follett, named Homecoming Queen for Snow College. AS part of the homecoming festivities she and her atten- dants traveled to Salt Lake City and met the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. The royalty participated in actne parade and half-tim-e tivities at the game. Peggy is also a cheerleader for Snow College. SHE graduated from Lay-to- n High where she was a cheerleader for two years. Knowledge Of History Is Essential m necessarily sexual-whi- ch they frequently dont com- municate well to their wives. Its up to you to ferret out, and meet them, whether they be emotional, intellectual or social. If your husband likes to talk, and youre too busy with other things, he could look for a good listener elsewhere. SUSPICION will get you nowhere. Lobsenz points out that even a faithful husband who is constantly accused of fooling around may finally be goaded into fulfilling the prophecy. Finally, do your best to keep open lines of communication. Love and sex do not always equate, as many are finding out. If your sex life isnt what it used to be, its important to realize that tenderness, respect and care have probably grown ment upon the Issues which present themselves daily in the modern world. An understanding of history is not to be obtained through a passing grade on a compulsory course. It takes personal interest and a desire to understand past conduct of human beings to make such study profitable. understand a past epoch in history by reading the work of a single writer. Just as no one would expect to get a balanced picture of a political campaign from the writing of one candidate, or fervid speeches of his supporters, its impossible to correctly appraise past events by a single work. Its necessary to read and understand the theories expounded by a number of inNOR CAN one Toddlers Put Most Things In Mouths Almost anything that gets into the hands of a toddler eventually winds up in his or her mouth. From there, it can slip down into the lungs and cause trouble, warns Franklin K. Brough, Ph.D., executive director, Utah Lung Association. THE Christmas Seal People report that approximately foreign bodies are surgically removed from the lungs of children each year in the United States. This is not a large number. But it is significant since all such incidents are preventable. Before we swallow, we automatically take in a little air and hold our breath, explained Dr. Brough. "This closes a valve in our throat called the glottis. This blocks the entrance to the windpipe and lungs. 1,400 BUT anything small can accidentally slide down the without being swallowed - and end up in the lungs. Aspiration of foreign bodies, the medical term for this mixup, is the single most common cause of accidental windpipe death in the home among children under six. Safety pins are the items most frequently aspired by infants. Coins and nuts are most common in the group. Government standards specify minimum toy sizes for children under the age of three. Toys must be more than an inch wide and more than two inches long; too big to slip down little windpipes. SMALL objects including peas, beans, peanuts, corn, candy and buttons - that become lodged in the lungs can permanently destroy a breathing passage and sometimes cause a severe pneumonia that may predispose the youngster to chronic lung disease. Parents should take special pains to keep small objects well out of reach of infants and toddlers. And they should caution youngsters not to talk and eat at the same time. Children should also chew slowly and thoroughly. They should not run with food in their mouths. TO FIND out more about the ways to prevent lung telligent and fair-minde- d authors. THE experience of former generations can only be valuable if accurately reported and intelligently studied. first of Thursday The Utah Bankers Association launched its annual Anti-Fr- campaign today aud with a series of warnings on various frauds now prevalent in Utah. AS ALWAYS, the main target of bunco artists are the elderly and the unwary. Currently plaguing law forcement en- agencies throughout the state is a rash of buncos involving the use of stolen credit cards. Not commonly known is the fact that these crimes are generally committed by sophisticated operators within a period after a credit card leaves the possession of its rightful owner. More credit cards are stolen than lost. IN SOME instances the seeming oversight of a clerk to return a credit card after a transaction could be the result of a healthy black market in stolen cards. Since the act could be an honest error, it is difficult to assess. The owners best protection is to keep purse or wallet in hand until the card and sales receipt slip are returned, and to avoid distraction. Simplest method of recording cards and numbers is to have them photocopied. Those who do not have access to an office copier may find them at libraries and any number of outlets. quick-priTHE RECENT shortage and energy resultant demand for home insulation has created anc'her area of fraud abuse. Primarily .dealing in loose insulation applied by blowers, skilled bunco artists will employ a number of different methods of unwary cheating homeowners. Chief among these is the use of inferior types of insulation, some of which may even be combustible. Some will apply approved insulation to attics under extremely high pressure so that the material appears to be thick, but affords very little insulation because it is highly fluffed. In filling walls, unscrupulous operators may Be Good To Eyes - -- School Plans Citizen Law Study February and March. Wayne James, director, said applications are being Classes will be taught by attorneys from Davis County concerning topics which apply to most citizens. Layton High Community School and the Utah State Bar are sponcourse soring an eight-wee- k received at 45 E. State Street, Farmington. HE SAID last year's concerts featured groups that included elementary string groups, senior citizens orchestra, duets, piano solos and senior high school musical groups, grb Be good to your eyes. After reading steadily for more than a half an hour, give them a rest by looking away at a more distant object for a few moments. Eye muscles arent suited to the prolonged tension of close focusing, and eyestrain often results. CONCERNED legitimate insulation contractors recommend that the job be based on the number of bags of insulation to be used and that the homeowner is best protected by dealing with well established local firms and being extremely wary of any deal that sounds too good to be true. Bunco artists may even offer references who are in publishing offers. SMALL businessmen have been victimized by operators offering advantageous loans in exchange for a small advance fee only to vanish along with the money. In any event, a request for payment in advance should be carefully reviewed especially when solicited by an unknown person or business. If any doubt exists, a check with bank or law enforcement officers will at least establish legitimacy of the request. ABOVE all, citizens must that the deal too good to turn down is cause for suspicion. An effort to force immediate action is reason for doubt and if doubt exists, a call to bank or savings institu';pn or law enforcement agency could prevent a great deal of grief. five yea7sTthe latest' figures show, notwithstanding the - problems that plagued the tion as a whole. Looking Back Becoming wiser today isnt an unmixed blessing. It causes a person to realize what a fool he was yesterday. Courier, Bristol, Va. na- BITTNER Ive been meaning to write to you for some time, but you know how it goes, especially as we get towards the holiday season; the pace just gets faster and faster and sometimes we forget to notice how far we are into the year before its gone. IVE I night on January us. It must be very discouraging for you when we pay so little notice as each special day unfolds. You know that each is unique e gone and done it let a year slip away without so much as noticing its passing. Which is why Im writing to you. I want to promise you I will notice. When you make your entrance on the stroke of midAND again. could make fortunes just hinting what is inside, but you keep your secrets very well and never even whisper what surprises you bring to each of first, everyone will clap and shout and kiss each other and blow horns, and immediately forget what all the fuss is about. And there youll be, all fresh and shiny and loaded with three hundred and sixty-fiv- e packages which you will open one at a time, taking a full day for each package. IF THERE was some way could peek into those packages ahead of time, I 1 and there will never be another just like it, but we only are aware of ihe similarities in our days and we fail to mark the changes until we look back and then we can see how you carefully changed every life, a little at a time, slowly, slowly. PERHAPS your greatest surprise is that you lead us so gently through time. Perhaps we should blow horns and kiss each other each midnight to remind ourselves that another day has gone. After all, isnt a day just as important as a year? A year is just a bundle of days and a lifetime is just a bundle of years. Newspapers will recount the events of last year and call it an eventful year, but arent they all? Days too, if we would just see. Sunrises and sunsets have been glorious this year and the flowers; oh, I remember the flowers. Will you do any better? Every sunrise and sunset is unique and like no other, and it seems to me every year the flowers are lovelier. What have you to offer to improve upon last year? THE REALLY eventful thing is that the sun came up every morning right on time and set punctually, but no one remarks this. Weve had some spectacular moonrises this year. Sometimes I have felt they were a little theatrical, but you must excuse the old year. Good mtxmrise is apt to get a little out of hand. I hope you wont let this criticism stop you, however, because I do enjoy a good pnxlnction. Weve been treated to some remarkable weather this year. But then weather is always remarkable. Either it's too hot or too cold or too wet or too dry or too windy. And if it isnt any of these, it's really remarkable. How fortunate it is for us that the weather is such an endless subject of discussion; if we didn't have it to oj)en conversations with, there would be a lot of very awkward silences and ou know how hard people have to struggle to cope with sileme THE TROUBLE is, we n afraid of the communicating that happens when we stop talking, and we throw up a barrier of words to keep other people at their distance So please keep the weather coming. but dont get carried away. We dont want you free lancing with the weather If I had my way and could help make up the bundles of Id cram eac h one so full of gixid things for every life. But you are wiser and far more restrained than am. You know we only grow when we use our muscles and we must have problems and happy packages you bring, its a good thing you never lit us peek. Sometimes wed do desjierate things to keep from the next opening But since we dont know, we go right ahead and open each one in its turn And even the worst of them we somehow manage to accept We do a lot of complaining but we manage You know that, dont uni You understand that every life gels some bright colored packages and some grev ones and now and then some really black ones Do ou know before hand which ones are going to be the black ones' You so carefully wrap eac h in .1 sunrise and a sunset that when we look ahead at them set out all in a row for us. they look much alike You know better, dont you' 1 heartache and stumbling blocks or we'd stop pushing and then wed get so soft wed stop growing SO SINCE they aren't all "Cite By Bito, Count Yourself Thin Diet Gain a little weight over the holidays? Is ten pounds thinner on your resolutions list? Humbug! Diets are borare a ing, complicated-die- ts pain. COURAGE! The Readers Digest offers a foolproof weight-lossystem in a January article, Bite by s Bite, Count You'ielf Thin. It describes a plan devised by Dr. Richard G. Black, who worked it out for overweight patients at the Seattle Pain Clinic in Washington. Based not on calories, nor on weight, this diet lets you eat anything you like. There have is a catch, of course-y- ou to count every bite or swallow. Using a hand-hel- d counter, you monitor your food and drink (except water and other calorie-fre- e liquids) by the bite, lick, sip or swallow. Do this for a week, keeping track of your weight each day as well as your intake. The counter gives you advance warning, in a way. If you went overboard at lunch, you can tell by the counter how much youll have to cut down at dinner. TO LOSE weight all you have to do is watch dont have to food change habits. Accordingly, when youve shed your unwanted poundage you wont neceslong-standin- g if you sarily gain it back-n- ot watch those bites, sips, licks and swallows. Ready, now? One, two, three, four, five.... IF YOUR weight remains steady during this period, you can figure out what your maintenance number of bites should be. However, if taking 150 youre bites a day and slowly gaining, you may dis- cover that at 100 bites your weight will be unchanged and that between 80 and 90 bites, you will lose. THE extend of that growth, since the beginning of 1972, is brought out in surveys made by the Standard Rate and Data Service. DONT know whether Ill be out with horns and drums to welcome you Aftei a I er-so- has welcomed a fair number of new sears, even that becomes old hat, if you will pardon my saving so See how blase' we become We oven fail to get excited about a new year Bl'1 said when I sat down to write this little note of well ome to you. promise will notice this year I will the attention to pas differences in ms lile as it changes I sx ill mourn a little at the going down of the sun because I will remember that a das is gone foies or And I will roioico at each sunrise because I will remind ms sell that this dav is not oser going to come baik and it must be fulls used while it is here AS I I They show that the volume of retail business in the local area, a principal indicator of business vitality, was relatively strong. DESPITE the general HIGH TIME: By FLORENCE pre-regist- er The County Makes Sizeable Advances Airman In Economic Gains Hirschi Assigned ANOTHER WAY to give your eyes a rest is by palming. Gently place your cupped hands over your closed eyes, with the heel of each hand resting on your cheekbones. Think pleasant thoughts for several minutes and feel the darkness soothe eye muscles and the whole body. disease in children and people of all ages, contact your Utah the Lung Association Christmas Seal People. They care about every breath you take. pre-regist- SOME bunco artists may attempt to intimidate their victims by rough talk or manner and even threats, such buncos ranging from earn - money - at - home schemes to book and song com- 376-340- which to choose. particularly with the elderly. Should such an event occur, the homeowner is advised to find some method of identifying the person or vehicle and to immediately call the nearest law enforcement agency. While many services require an advance payment, it is one of the most abused frauds in existence. Recent reports show an increase in cuss current issues, munity problems or any aspect of American heritage. These classes are offered at a small fee and community pert in each area. The classes will be held on support is needed to enable Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9 them to be carried. p.m. at Layton High School ENGLISH, math, and and a fee of $8 will be charged for the entire course. This is English as a second language an excellent opportunity for are offered at Layton High by citizens to learn from our the Davis School District at no area attorneys. An enrollment cost. If interested in any of of 20 is needed to enable this these classes, contact the high course to be taught. Contact school, will be at LHS Jan. 5, 6 or Cal Harris at Layton High 9 from 6 to 8 p.m. or any School to evening from 3 to 4 p.m. Please in perALSO BEING offered in the son or Most classes January session of Layton will by phone. begin the week of Jan. 9. Highs Community School are fact accomplices. In those areas served by the Mountain Fuel Supply Company, homeowners can receive guidance in both insulation requirements and a list of approved contractors from understand phojewelry making, tography, conversational law topics. citizen-relate- d compensable injuries and family law are all topics which will be taught by various attorneys who are ex- only fill every second or third space between studs. thats classes in first aid taught by LHS Health Occupation instructor, business machines, typewriting, oil painting, Spanish, weight training for men, general class license for ham radio, electronics and REAL Estate concepts and CB radio, wood shop, auto problems including landlord-tenan- t shop, round dance and square relationships, con- dance. sumer law and contracts, inBrent Collette, Layton come tax, estate and gift tax, Highs debate coach and hisprobate transfers of property, tory teacher, is interested in estate planning, personal and moderating a class which property rights including would enable citizens to dis- of Bankers Assoc. Launches Annual War on Frauds PEGGY FOLLETT A proper understanding of history is necessary if citizens in a country are to pass intelligent judg- -' Ull Layton Community I So welcome, little new Wo are so glad sou year could come Make yourself at home and set your bundle down right here and let me help sou get the days sorted out in order It would just noser do cern regarding con- inflation, higher taxes, unemployment, crime conditions, political uncertainties and the like, consumer spending per family was at a better level than in many communities. It reflects the fact that the majority of local families, with steadily rising incomes, had more money available and were willing to spend more. AS A result, the amount of business done by retail stores in Davis County in the past year reached $234,210,000, as compared with the total fives years ago of $100,154,000. The showing was better than was recorded in many areas. Much of it, of course, was due to higher prices for merchan- dise. THE consumer spending locally was equivalent to $7,466 per household, as compared with 1972s $3,943 per household. The rise, 89 percent, topjed the 41 percent m the United States and the 55 percent in the State of Utah. Connie Allen Gains 10 Year Pin rite Connie W. Allen of Kaysville has received a service pin at Hill AFB ceremonies. beginning to age. Time certainly does fly, doesn't it? I neser noticed Funny before You hese wings SHE IS a clerk typist for the base. Mrs. Allen and her husband have four children. to get them mixed up YOU KNOW, even as 1 sc this, Ive noticed youre Airman Mark C. Hirschi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clark H. Hirschi of 2056 North 400 West, Sunset, has been assigned to Lowry AFB, Colo., after completing Air Force basic training. DURING THE six weeks at Lackland AFB, Texas the airman studied the Air Force mission, organization and customs and received special instruction in human relat- ions. Completion of this training earned the individual credits towards an associate in applied through science degree the Community College of the Air Force. AIRMAN Hirschi will now receive specialized training in the missile electronics field. The airman of graduate is a 1977 Clearfield (Wash.) High School. Fashion Todays woman is free to choose her own style when it comes to clothes. If she likes frilly, dainty things and they enhance her personality the romantic look is for her. If she is the country type there are beautiful tailored clothes in the shops for this type of woman. The exot ic woman a iso has a wide choice of clothes. Many of these being shown have Spanish or Chinese accents. |