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Show I 4- 2 t f LWV JOURNAL, Brigham City, Utah Thursday, November 11,1 976 BOX ELDER says thanks Editor: We entered the Votingest City years election. Brigham City the real joy is seelng such but in the Nation competition, School Talk 4 are delighted with the citizen participation in this and responsibility. hearty exercise of our democratic right who contributed to all to We wish to express appreciation of registration and our percentage of high acMevement the Speech, hearing help part of district program Thanks to the mayor and city council who initiated contest and gave support all the Brigham Citys entry in the which made their own unique us to known way. Groups contributions were Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, some Central school classes, Newschool fourth graders, PTA, various chamber of Wagorf Welcome comers, Elks, Rotary, the political parties, Women s commerce, local businesses, Gamma and People Delta Kappa Lions, council. Legislative efforts may not whose others and Who Care. We thank you attention. our to come have to the Box Elder News and Journal and Our special for the magnitude and excellence of KBUH radio station information and publicity given to this community effort. We tmnk our county clerk and his staff, the registration to agents and the public librarian for their willingness supply and of results to ascertain progress us with the data needed candidate for the program is based upon diagnostic test results, the childs age, and the cooperativeness of parents. The full cooperation and support of the childs parents are a vital part of this and-o- r weekly conprogram. tacts of 20 minutes duration Aould be supplemented by various suggested activities within the home. Studies in the area of education support the concept that parents are most frequently the most important "teacher" that a child may have. This is certainly true during the formative years of 0 to 5 years of age. We in the speech and hearing field recognise this fact and have various suggestions for parents relating to speech and language activities. children We urge parents of with suspected speech problems to contact their school and request that a member of our staff communicate with them. We are actively engaged in the area of preventing speech problems as well as correcting problems in older children. by 8. Wayne Batter, District Speech Therapist Box Elder School district, as part of its educational responsibilities, provides various special services to the parents and Sincerely yours, League of Women Voters of Brigham City ly children of Box Elder county. Among these special services is that of speech and hearing therapy. Such services have been available to the children and patrons of the district since 1857. The speech and hearing staff of the clinidistrict consists of three S. Wayne Butter, Kay Davis cians Fakhraie and Mildred Baer. Butler and Mrs. Fakhraie work in the Brigham City area. Mrs. Baer works with the schools in Tremonton and the surrounding comfull-tim- e munities. Each of die Qn fluoridation Editor: Here is the full text of the proposition on fluoridation we did vote on on Nov. 2, 1965: REFERENDUM ORDINANCE: That it shall be iliegal to add fluorides or any other fluorine cheniM to the public water supplies of Brigham City, Utah. FOR pre-scho- ol above mentioned clinicians is responsible for the speech and hearing services administered to the children in the various schools. , Such services consist of diagnostic speech and hearing testing, therapeutic application and follow-uprocedures when necessary. Therapy is available to all elementary or weekly age children on a basis. Students at the junior and senior high schools are evaluated on a referral basis only. Parental permission is essential and required before any child is included in the program on a regular basis. Referrals for inclusion in the program come from teachers and parents. The decision as to whether the child Is a AGAINST A FOR vote on the above referendum will prohibit what is commonly known as fluoridation of Brigham LET IT OVERFLOW City culinary water and water for human consumption. An AGAINST vote will allow the city officials at their discrimination to control the fluorine content of the p consumption. program an important and integral part of the educational program of the Box Elder School district. Good and bad mi '"r, ... ; "1 , - nv.i student away from valuable school activiand cut down time available for ties by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretary Utah Education Association If you have a child whos nearing high school age, you need to discuss a th matter. Its this thing about getting a car. Courses that teach high school students how to drive are among the most popular ones around. Thats good. Youngsters should learn to drive well. The day a young man or woman gets a drivers license is a Mg day in that young personas life. Inevitably, the next step is the desire to own a car. Car ownership causes a drastic change in priorities for some but certainly not all students. An automobile is the door to many new experiences some good and some potentially harmful. Authorities have suggested that good students can become less than enthusiastic about school work after they get cars. Most high school students who have cars must also pay for them. This usually means getting a job, which may pull the homework. On the other hand, it can he argued that youths who assume the obligation of making monthly payments are learning a valuable lesson in responsibility. But making payments is not the only element of responsibility in car ownership. Even though a teenager may be ready to accept the burden of making car payments m time, be or she may be entirely too casual about speed laws, dragging main or accepting challenges for a fatal race down a canyon. Usually girl drivers are less daring than boys. Ask any insurance agent. Often, the question of whether a high school student buys a car is largely up to the parents. They are the ooes who co-sinotes. And they are the ones who are called gasoline loans, etc. upon for short-terThat means parents are in a strong negotiating position. . They should use that position to assure that a car doesnt destroy their childs grades or his life. It was, of course, wrong to add the words: or any other fluorine chemicals, since doing so would mean chemical homicide via the drinking water. Only sodium fluoride or are ever used for water fluoridation. sodium this Adding sequence of improper additional fluorine chemicals to this proposition makes the latter improper in itself. The number of such other fluorine chemicals is actually legion, as any Thiokol chemist will tell you. . If you will note in the above explanation of what an AGAINST vote means, to wit: An AGAINST vote will allow the city officials at their discrimination to control the fluorine content of the citys culinary water, may I just say that no city official is ever allowed to use what is wrongly called discrimination in the matter of the fluorine content of fluoridated water which is universally set at one part per million. Also, the fact that the voters (electors) defeated this referendum ordinance on making it not illegal for the city to fluoridate, does not by itself make it legal for the city to do so, unless and until it has drafted an ordinance to ' that effect; this has not been done to'clater vote we I indeed did on this thing, but So, might say that mid only after, first, the Kiwanis voted on it on We should after, secondly, the council voted on it on have been first and not last, and we would have defeated fluoridation in 1965 on a straight YES or NO vote, just as every other Utah city had done before that time. I trust that I have dissipated in the foregoing a bit of the heavy smog that has gathered around and about that historic vote of silico-fluori- parents and children in making our Students and t cars: door to experiences , citys culinary water and water for human This applies also to the area of hearing and related hearing problems. A more detailed presentation of the clinicians role in the speech and bearing children will be programs with school-ag- e explored in later issues of this newspaper. We, as a staff, sincerely appreciate the support of the administration, teachers, BOX ELDER JOURNAL In A WMkhr uuwipupuf Mtubllihud fbu r IKS, publlihud uy Thuridw bySouth l, lea Ildar H Sint Wait. Irlgbum City, Utah, M02 Second Clan poitaga paid at tba , II South Sint Wait pact office, Irlgbum City, Utah, MM2. Charles Tuff CUybuugb Sub Other 6eaeral Manager Inca I. Kayoi, Managing Editor MHia Sorry, Sporti Editor Soreb Yatat, Society Editor Shirley Mcherdua, Clauifledi lotty Claybaugb, Circulation Arlend Tlngoy, Newspaper Supr. Van Claybaugb, Sboto-Sra- n Supr. H. E. Andenon, Commercial Mating Supr. Lowers to the (Editor,,. The editor invites and welcomes letters for publication in these columns, however, contributions must be signed and also bear the writer's adress and telephone number. It is suggested that letters not exceed 250 words in length. Subscription rata $10.00 par year payable in advance In connection with tba loi Eldar Newt (published Sun- dan) In Ion Eldar County. Subscription rata $14.00 par year pay- able In advance In connection with tba Ion Eldar News (published Sundays) outside Son Eldar County. de , sincerely yours, Adolph Kaltwasser, Brigham City. We owe him a favor Blame it on computer Editor: Editor: NATIONAL NEWSPAPER lfl m tMii ini I neasmuRw U NNA , ' SBSTAININ6 MEKIEI 1172 m nstssumns Congratulations to our city fathers. They have finally come up with the ultimate way to rip the people of Brigham off. When they want to steal more money, all they need to do is say the computer forgot to bill us enough. us for Why dont they forget to tax us and over-charelectricity and everything. All they would have to do at the end of the month is say the computer forgot to charge us. Then they could add up what it cost the city to operate and then bill us for it. This way they would not have to explain in money that was spent. They could just add on any pay raises, money for vacation (conventions) or any money they may need. They wouldnt even have to take the blame. They could Marne it on the computer. H3NWMY...1UIJ1MM 328 Oliver Dunn West Fourth North I just finished reading the article on the front page the excavation ditch on Fifth concerning the boy and dog-iWest last week. You can imagine my inner turmoil and horror when I realized it was my son, Steven, and our dog, Clementine, that the story was about. Steven came in that evening all mud and said he had fallal in a hole with Clementine. He neglected to tell me what hole, where and the true significance of the accident. I did not think too much about it because he is always playing in the dirt piles behind the house in the open field, which I hope will soon be filled with homes, and getting dirty. I supposed he thought I was going to yell about the mud. I did not even think about it until two days later when my elder son, Michael, mentioned it seemed funny to him that a dog could get a boy out of a hole. I have repeatedly punished the boys for playing in dangerous areas. We have repeatedly told them to stay away from buildings under construction, excavations, workmen areas, etc., and why. I hope that this accident has brought the message home to them better than either their father or I have been able to. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Jim Whitaker for his sixth sense that told him something was amiss and for his foresight in investigating a dog on a leash that would not move. If it hadnot been for our dog and for Mr. Whitakers check, our son might have lost his life and we would never have known where or how. There are no words to express my gratitude. I would also like to apologize to him and to his workmen and especially to Mr. Bessinger for Stevens causing them so much trouble and inner turmoil to say nothing of Mr. Bessingers lack of sleep. A fright like that is too large for a mere apology to seem sufficient but it is all I have. I hope that this article, which I have already taken to Lake View school, where Steven goes to show his teachers and classmates will be shown to every child in the area, with the emphasis that his can happen to you. We all think it cant but believe me it certainly can, and Steven will attest to that. Again I would like to thank Mr. Whitaker and if he ever needs a favor just pick up the phone, we owe you one. N In Utah Foundation report Too much government pictured as The following is from Utah it foundation, the private and deals service agency public with federal government regula-- , non-prof- tion. Overregulation of American business and industry has brought widespread fears that American free enterprise is losing much of its freedom, and that the power of decision is being taken from business and placed hi the hands of government bureaucrats. in a researdi report released this week, tbs foundation called attention to the proliferation of federal regulatory agencies in recent years and to the lack of aocowtability of those making and enforcing the new regulations. government, in. PtZsajr observers in citizens feel that mid among lay mo frightening aspect of the mass of nidation is that it is drawnzL by appointees and em-J- flconnewot agencies who are not responsible to the American any establiAed channel. ' -.-., d Latest i "port note. Many feel that the regulators are not even indirectly responsible to the people. They appear to be immune to firm control by the peoples elected representatives in either the legislative or executive brandies of government. Agencies of the executive branch of government are usurping the legislative function by writing rules and regulations that expand on or even differ from the laws enacted by Congress. Concern over government regulation of American life is not restricted to business men and aroused private citizens. Many people in the executive and legislative brandies of government share concern. President Ford estimates that the cost to the American consumer of unnecessary and wasteful government regulation amounts to $130 billion a year, an average of $2,000 for every American family. Senator Hubert Humphrey, a noted liberal, has questioned whether bureaucrats regulations implement the laws or rather serve to impede or obstruct them. He publicly called for periodic reviews of the rules and regulations of each department of government, and for "an economic impact study or evaluation of every threat rule and regulation and of every piece of legislation we pass. Regulation of American business and industry dates back nearly 90 years. The Interstate Commerce commission was authorized in 1887. More than 40 years later, the Federal Power commission was instituted, in 1930. Four more regulatory giants were created in the depression years, between 1934 and 1938: the Federal Communications commission, the Securities and Exchange commission, the Federal Maritime commission, and the Civil Aeronautics board. These agencies regulate specific industries of national scope and vital importance to the economy. Their twin objectives are to safeguard the public interest and to watch over the welfare of the regulated industries themselves. Within the past decade there have appeared a large number of additional federal regulatory agencies which do not fit into the classic pattern established by the Interstate Commerce commission. They are not concerned with the totality of any single industry, but only with the specific segment of operations which falls under their jurisdiction. In the words of a noted American economist, this limitation can result in a total lack of concern over the effects of their actions on the company or industry as a whole . . matters such as productivity, economic, growth, employment, effect on over-a- ll living standards, inflationary impacts, may be ignored. Among the new generation of federal regulatory agencies are the Environmental Protection agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity commission, the Occupational Safety and Health administration, the Consumer Product Safety administration, and others. Americans concerned with the dangers of overregulation generally do not quarrel with the objectives of the new regulatory agencies and are aware that many of the programs have produced substantial benefits. They do question the propriety of placing avowed partisans in positions where clear headed objectivity is imperative for the making of sound decision, and where unsound decisions are a threat to our entire economy. Sincerely yours, Harvey and Marie Locklin, 1920 Fisbbnre, Brigham City Thanks for paper Editor: As I will be returning home shortly, please cancel my subscription to the newspaper. I have greatly appreciated this service to me while I have been serving in the Georgia Atlanta mission. I am sure all of us who are away, and can keep in touch through your paper, appreciate your Sincerely, Elder Bart Penrod |