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Show 9rrTrwm lE Japan September 22, 1977 (Eljrontclr Page GttftttmtU 35 West Utah Avenue Phone Payson Utah-8465- 465-922- weekly newspaper established in 1888, published every Thursday and entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office in Payson, Utah 84651 A Richard M. Buys, Publisher Susan F. Buys, Kent Fuellenbach, Editor Jayne Brereton, Office Manager Co-Publish- er Production Staff Robin Fuellenbach, Assistant Editor Tanya Kae Manwill, Ad Layout Steve Asay, Advertising Manager S; ticians to make possibly unpopular decisions, especially in an election Often politicians year. delay important decisions until alter the critical elections. The Payson City Council was recently faced with such a decision, whether to use PVC pipe or ductile pipe in the upof Payson's grading culinary water system. After selling bonds for $1.1 million the council called for bids on the proOnly one bid, ject. $954,306, was under the bonding limit. That bid was tor PVC pipe. The council then had a difficult decision to make. J hey could rebond for more money, or reduce the size of the project or accept the PVC bid. Ductile pipe is manuIt has factured locally. a proven ability to remain for serviceable many years (Paysons present ductile system is over It also 40 years old). costs almost the same per linear foot as PVC. ; Unfortunately ductile pipe is very heavy and the increase in installation costs is tremendous. PVC pipe is a relatively new product. It has not been proven over long periods of time because it has not been in distance for very long. The light weight of PVC pipe makes it easy and economical to install. To rebond for the additional money needed to use ductile pipe would be costly in time and The council money. would have to call a bond election for approxiIf the mately $300,000. bonding was approved by the voters the city would then re-lbids. The new bids would be higher than the bids received in the last bidding because prices would raise in the interim. Do Editor: PVC toured a the plant, facturing council was convinced that PVC pipe would be adequate for the Payson culinary system. manu- As most of us in the City of Payson is about to be updated with new lines and are aware, our water system However, I distribution system. Reducing the size of feel that many of us are unaware of the water improvement the materials, pipe, valves and gates, project would make the 1 he council could have etc. which will be used to do this. use of ductile iron pipe possible. But that would postponed their decision leave some parts of on the bids until after Im told that Mayor Harmer and the November with the election, the City Council have almost decided present Payson system. but they determined after to have this done with plastic pipe inadequate What portion of the sys- careful study that PVC produced out of state, instead of tem would be dropped, pipe was the best way to ductile iron pipe produced by Pacific and when would it be go with the bonding States Cast Iron Pipe here in Utah possible to update the money they had. The County. Chronicle salutes them excluded areas? The council took the tor making a difficult Im told that the plastic pipe is much bids under advisement and timely decision when cheaper to buy and install. However, and began an intensive it would have been easier 1 ask the questions as to how often of PVC to wait until after the do we, the taxpayers and citizens of investigation pipe. After a committee election. Payson, intend to pass bond elections to replace this water system? How is this money most wisely spent? How long will this plastic pipe withstand the pressure and vibrations of traffic under our roadways? ( Remember all the delightful special treatment you got from the children on Mothers Day and Day? Ideas o Emotional problems need treatment By Dr. M. Ford McBride Sharon Clark has just home from the hospital after losing a She takes no baby. interest in her husband, children or the house. Her husband keeps sayo Sharon will be ing, all right. Shell snap out Grand prize winner in the Goshen School fair was fifth grader of it. Her children Joel! Keif who had made a small quilt and pillow. so too, but now thought .V.V.V.V.V.WV.V.V.1 .v.V.V v.v.v.v.v.ViV. V.V.V.V. .'.wWK, wv o the specific guarantees beyond the installation of plastic pipe? Im told that many new housing projects which have installed plastic pipe are now having to replace their 10 years or systems in only a span of less. have been iron systems as for servicable be to many proven as 118 years as in the case of a line in Boston, Massachusetts, which was evacuated in 1952. Cast 1 would urge all citizens of Payson who feel as 1 do to make their thoughts and wishes known to Mayor Harmer and the City Council. Lets back the industries within our counties and state. We rely on their tax dollar too. Thank you, Erval K. Christiansen Executive Secretary Utah Education Association -- u new by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Wednesday, September 14, Goshen Elementary School held its annual Maybe its time we lair with 350 different items brought by the students. These were either set aside a special Kids made or grown by them. Many different and original things were entered. Day. we d make it on 1 he w inners were: (left to right) front row: Georgann Sprague, Tamra Davis, a First, Tfelc?nc so Parents Shawna Sanderson, Chris Mellen, and Troy White. Back row: Shelly C0U e wl 1 homas, Joeil Keif, Stacy Evans, and Cindy Reynolds. o want our proposed and Home Fathers - we street surface torn up yearly to What are replace this plastic pipe? School . 1; "m Letter to the Editor Councilmen make good decision 2 Jftaprm A'W n Editorial It is difficult for poliV. rrrrv returned v.V.WV.V.'JV.NV.-.V.V.V.V.V.- Introductory offer! Teds Service they are beginning to wonder. Yesterday Sharon started talking about being "better off dead, and the family is afraid she may try to hurt herself. Mrs. Clark is from a severe tional problem. Anybody can have mental and emotional difficulties and something can be done about them. Today one out of ten Americans suffer from some kind of emotional disorder. Unfew seek fortunately, professional help. Who are the experts and how can you get in touch with them? special, get ready for winter at the low cost of fTune--up of the mental health experts is the He is a psychiatrist. One is the psychiatric social His training worker. also enables him to help people with emotional problems. emo- It makes sense to go to an expert when you are seriously troubled. 25 So. 1 00 W. Payson The third member of the mental health team These experts will listen and talk with you about yourself and your problems. As you work 'together they will help you do something about what is troubling you. Dr. McBride medical doctor with a The best way to get medical specialty in in touch with one of these psychiatry. His training experts is to contact your enables him to treat local mental health mental and emotional center. Mental health problems. He can also centers are listed in the prescribe medication. white pages of the phone book under mental Another expert is the health center. clinical psychologist. The clinical psychologist has a Ph.D. and has Remember, anybody had extensive graduate can have emotional in training treating problems and something emotional problems. can be done about them. all day. youngsters Maybe wed let the kids sleep in an extra hour, and we may even do one of their chores such as taking out the garbage. Children like to get mail, right? On Kids sure Day wed make every one of them got a letter a love letter. It would be a letter from Mom and Dad saying what they like about the child. It would be the day for each child to get a telephone call from some adult who is special. Maybe that adult would a be a grandparent, close family friend, or a prominent citizen admired by the child. If the parents are really brave, they might even listen to the kids favorite music with them for awhile. of Dinner, course, would be extra special. If young Ralphs favorite dish is stuffed trout, Mom would be sure to put that on the menu. And shed be certain to grant his request for upside-dow- n pineapple cake with walnuts, brown sugar and cherries on top. At some time during the day the parents would stop everything, sit down with the kids, and listen to them. (In these days of hassle and bustle, were forgetting how to do this.) Above all, this would be a day when parents make a solemn vow not to yell at their children. Mom and Dad would not talk down to the children, ctiticize them, jump to unwarranted conclusions about their behavior, underestimate their ability to make or judgements, good ignore them. It would be a day for the whole family to do something special together. Kids Day would start with a hug. It would end with a kiss and the good-nigh- t parents saying, I love you. And meaning it. Gary Thurston, owner Pharmacy Facts The ancient Greeks developed a panacea for poison. Later, known as it was Theriaca, a in medpopular cure-al- l ieval Europe. 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