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Show Utah teens are getting ready for the State Fair care Pamela Shepherd Deseret News staff writer By Utah youngsters are adding the finishing touches to their handicrafts and are examining their livestock for the last time, before entering the Utah State Fair. Mitch Palmer, a student at Viewmont High School, is one of the many teens who will be competing for blue ribbons at this annual event. The young farmer is entermg his registered purebred ram lamb in the Junior Livestock Division. The lamb is six months old and weighs 160 pounds. For the last she months, the Viewmont student has spent between two and three hours each day caring for the lamb. Last month at the Davis County Fair, this prized ram lamb was awarded two blue ribbons, and the young farmer is hoping it will do as well at the Utah State Fair, Sept. Mitch became interested in raising sheep four summers ago. After school let out for the summer, left city life behind and the teen-age- r moved in with his aunt and uncle on a Tooele farm. It was there Mitch discovered sheep raising can be enjoyable, as w'ell as profitable. Mitch explained, Raising sheep is a lot of hard work, but I think cf it as a pleasure, rather than a burden. It has helped me develop and Ive learned to assume responsibility. I know I have to take 8. the sheep every day. Besides being fun, there's pretty he good money in sheep raising, added. On the Tooele farm, Mitch cared for the sheep, and in the fall he continued to learn about the animals in FFA (Future Farmers of America) classes at Bounot tiful. David Rokish, a junior at Judge Memorial, will be showing his prized division of Hampshire swine in the the Utah State Fair. His swine is only 5 Va months old and weighs nearly 220 pounds. Since its birth, the animal has gained between lVi and 1 xk pounds a day. Its fed a special mixture of coni and grain that contains vitamins and minerals. Ever since David can remember, raising pigs has been a way of life for the Rokish family. "My dad's parents came from Yugoslavia and they were used to n. Dad has having a pig, said the laised pigs most of h.,, life, and ever since I was old enough to hold a shovel, I've helped him on our pig farm. I used to spend my weekends on the farm, and when I was younger, most of See THEY on W-- 8 4--H Mitch Palmer will be competing for blue ribbons at the State Fair with this purebred ram lamb. Deseret Newt photo bv Gerald Stiver DESERET TV log Dining out Comics Theater Arts Churches Business Dear Abby NEWS The Russian colony in California meant eventual confrontation between two of the most powerful nations on earth. But they did leave, and for a time each country worked m its own way to tame the same wild continent. For 29 years beginning in 1812, the Russians and iheir helpers built and maintained Fort Ross. Thai colonial occupation 80 miles north of San Francisco brought the skills, knowledge and manners of old Europe into the California wilderness. The colonists were put there by the Russian American Company for the stated purpose of By Jack Schreibman FORT ROSS, Calif. (AP) For a brief moment Russians as time is reckoned on historys clock colonized a tiny part of California, surveyed the land and dreamed of expansion on the American mainland. In that dusty corridor of time long past, their decision to leave rates as one of the turning points hi the annals of both countries Had the Russians chosen to stay, it might have gathering pelts of the sea otter and producing food to support the company's operations in Kamchatka and Alaska. But there was another purpose. The executives of the company, which operated under authority granted by Czar Alexander 1, had on their minds a permanent foothold and expansion on the American continent. The colony and its port operation at Bodega Bay, 25 miles south, were founded without opposition and existed for years without serious challenge. The story of Fort Ross, pieced together from interviews and historical accounts, reads like an exciting adventure yarn. The roots of the saga are d planted at Fort Ross, where the eagle flag of the Russian American company still flies over the stockade, now a national landmark and a state historical park. To discover everything possible about the colony, why it onme, what it acci mplished, and the preservation of what was le.t, s the special interest of Nicholas 1. Rokitiansky, professor of Russian history and language at Foothill College. The intense, Russian-boracademician dismisses anv suceestinn that the Russians limited themselves to slaughtering sea otters and growing food for themselves and their countrys frosty outposts thousands of miles away. Rokitiansky displays what he says are Russian and French manuscripts and maps attesting to the colony's support of science and exploration in Northern California. They surveyed the Russian River aim gave Russian names to all its tributaries; they built the first shipyard in Northern California; they catalogued the official California flower, the ; iden poppy; they named Mount Shasta. According to a memoire by Duflot de Mofras. a prominent French attache in Mexico, there were 766 persons at Fort Ross shortly before the colony disbanded in December 1841. As translated by Rokitiansky, maps showed the Russian River with the name Slovianka. Bodega after a nobleBay w'as called lort Rumiantsov man, explorers from Fort Ross named the 14,162-foo- t mountain they found 126 miles northeast of the fort Shastia, Russian for good luck. The American River was called the Okhotsk." When the Russians were gone, the Slavonic place names they had given to features of the country with at leet one notable vanished with them exeeptiuii One of the final acts before the Russians left was a solemn pilgrimage 2,960 feet to the top of a mountain in the country adjacent to the fort. One account says it was led by Alexander Rotchev, the last commandant to rule Fort Ross. two-heade- n little-know- ,'rJI (t v i r is i tikl.iiif n The mountain was christened Mount St. Helena, the name of the empress of Russia. "1 Many theories exist as to why the Russians left Fort Ross, after selling out to the Swiss adventurer John Sutter, for $50,000. that the Most authorities say it was economic fur hunting was going bad and food could be obtained & more cheaply elsewhere. Others insist that Great Britain forced Russia to abandon its California outpost and go baik north above the 54th parallel D$eret Newi art by Reed His best weapon is talk when facing criminals By John Barbour NEW YORK (AP) The next time some psycho grabs hostages in New York, chances are hell come up against a gregarious and very patient detective named Frank Bolz. Bolz is (he police department's expert in talking captors into freeing their captives without bloodshed Bolz is dead serious when he tells you, When that bullet leaves the gun, its irretrievable. Its gone. It could hit him and go through him and hit somebody else. It could deflect off a window and go some place else. It might not hit him at all, and it might spark him off to kill other people. All these possibilities are what Frank Bolz wants to avoid. As head of the New York City Police Department's hostage team, he is dedicated to not firing that bullet. The New York unit has been remarkably successful in the more than 80 cases it has handled. It was formed after the Munich Olympics hostage-takin- g and is a pioneer, training other police groups from the FBI to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from officers in Medicine Hat and Moose Jaw in Canada to police in Munich and Israel. Bolz and others in the team were trained m part by a police detective with master's degree in psychology, Harvey Scholossberg, who has a knack for putting academic ideas into words police can believe in. Besides that, Bolz says, the basic qualification is just liking people, which includes a kind of intuitive sensitivity, You hear people say. Why dont you blow the guy away? You just can't do that There are so many intangibles, so many ramifications, so many facets, so many things going in different directions you have to consider. The object is, of course, to save lives, "everybodys life, including the perpetrator's " To do that requires extraordinary patience. Bolz always uses "Mister, the title of respect, when talking to him, bolstering what he knows is a battered, sensitive ego "Its an incongruous kind of a position for a group of cops with shotguns, machine guns and sniper nfles to say we re here to help you," Bolz says "But basically we are. Basically we're here to alleviate a crisis a person is in " Bolz encounters three main types in his work. The professional criminal who is interrupted and takes hostages for his protection, the psychotic personality, and the terrorist In each case, if a hostage hasnt been killed immediately, Bolz knows that the intention is not to kill and that there's a chance to work things out. "We try to contain the persons in the smallest area possible, through the use of the Emergency Service Division our firearms battalion. Its a group that's one of the keys to our effort well-traine- "Three things are of major importance: Intelligence, communication, and discipline of firepower. Its something they know is there, but you dont have to brandish it We dont threaten anybody McGregor 'K ht T f T f t |