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Show deseret news Farm Family Wins Honor By SUSAN SUNADA Deseret News Staff Writer '' v - - -- S"''- - - t ' a senior University; Sky View High School and Dale, 13. in seventh grade at North Cache Junior High. CORNISH, Cache County Vert M. Buxton and his bride wanted to be farmers and ; V - a what was available. Nearly two decades later they have been named Utah Farm Family of the Year. The recognition of the Buxtons, whose land has become a tidy, productive farm one mile south of the Idaho border, was unanimous by a committee sponsored from the Farmers Home Administration. The family installed underground tile drains and built a pump to remove excess water by piping it to the house and barn. Mr. and Mrs. Buxton and their five children will be honored at a banquet in Salt Lake City Feb. 16 and Gov. Calvin L. Hampton has been invited as guest speaker. Runnersup in the annual Farm Family of the Year awards were the following d families: Donald Whitear, Morgan; Curtis Lamb, Roosevelt; Lons Wooley, Lapoint, Tooele County; Burt Seely, Mt. Pleasant; Hal D. Jensen, Antimony, Garfield County, and Herman Young, Mona, Juab County. Buxton was born in Tutonia, Idaho and when he was 12 his family settled on a farm near Cornish. He has farmed all his life except for a stint in the and five years Army, 1945-4in carpentry school in Pocatello. 7 Mr. and Mrs. Verl Buxton, "farm family of year," move sprinkler pipes. he married Helen Bergeson, a Cornish girl, and they decided to take up farming in their which wasnt really choice, home town. In 1954, we didnt Mrs. Buxton said. have much money and we Using his carpentry skills, took what land was available, Buxton first built a barn and then their compact m home. Buxtons have reared three daughters and have two The Solons Plot Change In School Financing By ROD DECKER Deseret News Staff Writer Two legislators say Utah will probably respond to recent federal judicial decisions on equal education opportunity by adopting a new formula for financing schools. Sen. Moroni L. Jensen, Lake, and Rep. Frank-ly- n B. Matheson, Lake, appeared on the fourth in a series of eight Civic Dialogue lt lt OUR MAN Qa Sr The Rat Race Some professors up on education hill are trying to find the cause of mans irrational aversion to certain foods by studying a bunch of rats. So you can tell it is no Mickey Mouse operation up there I U. The researchers are watching the eating behavior of rats brain and its reactions. One of the researchers said that when a rat doesn't feel well, he instinctively blames his diet. Just how the professor seaknows, Im not sure. He explained that it is just like the sick ocean traveler who blames his illness on the food he has eaten, rather than the rocking motion of the boat. I got seaoick one time just on the Staten Island Ferry in New York. It was just before the captain yelled cast off. But, I knew it was not something I ate. All I had eaten was a dill pickle, a strawberry malt, and bowl of chili. Dr. John Garcia, professor of psychology at the U said rats and men blame their diet for sickness because of a curious fact. Neither man nor rat can mentally conceive of illness being caused by a place or circumstance. I have to disagree. me sick! Ive Thus the underground water is for watering cattle and cleaning and utility purposes in the barn and for watering the lawn. Culinary water comes from the town's water supply! he said. For maximum use of irrigation water, the Buxtons gather their water shares in a pond and then pump it onto their land as needed. They raise sugar beets, hay, grain and corn while operating a dairy farm. A giant hay derrick, a pole made from a pine tree, is . a landmark on the farm. The derrick was invented by Mormon settlers, but this one is only 10 years old and mounted on wheels so it can be moved about to stack hay bales. In addition to his farming activities, Buxton was elected mayor of Cornish (pop. 200) in 1957 and again in 1961. been to a lot of places that make TALK, TALK, TALK Mans highly developed verbal powers merely enable him to rationalize the coincidental relationship of food to illness, Dr. Garcia said. He means even though men talk a lot more than rats, is what he means. I they are just as dumb, at least think that drink of He did give a rat a harmless saccharin-flavorewater and then gave it an injection of toxin which produced a loss of appetite and brought on inactivity. So what did the rat do. He attributed the illness to the water and avoided it for weeks. was the same way when I went on vacation in Mexico. d I diet Then the good doctor fed the rat a thiamine-deficiesaccharin-flavore- d which produced illness. It was then given the water and a thiamine injection. That crazy rat though the water had curative powers. In a like' fashion, persons who suffer from seasickness or a nauseating illness such as the flu commonly develop aversions to distinctive foods consumed prior to the illness, Dr. Garcia notes. THEYVE GOT NO TASTE he also discovered another quality rats share with mankind. Taste is a much stronger stimulus than smell. In lab tests. Dr. Garcia discovered it took rats five times as long to attribute illness to smell as it did to tast . It is clear that smell does not play a primary role in adjusting the payability of food, since animals lacking a sense of smell were equal if. not superior in acquiring food illness aversions. The end result is a finding that taste is hookM to a region of the brain which monitors the health of the body. Smell is projected to an area in the brain known as the limbic system which increases appetite. techApplications cf the research will help in aversion conin and alcGhol rehabilitation for possibly predator niques trol. Take your pick! sons: Mrs. Brent (Patricia) Checketts, 23; Mrs. Steven (Sharon) Dance, 22; Carol, 20, attending Utah State growing COMPLAINT? PHONE 'NEWS' OMBUDSMAN television programs to discuss education in Utah. The series is sponsored by the Deseret News and appears on KUED channel 7. Jensen is cosponsor of a bill which would distribute the apmillion in $155 proximately state aid to education on a formula. pupil weighted Under this plan, each student in grades one through 12 would count as one unit. Special students, such as vocational students, handicapped children or disadvantaged pupils, will count as more than one unit. The state will determine how much money to allot per unit and then provide funds to school districts on the basis of how many units each has. If adopted, Jensen said, this bill will bring Utah into compliance with a decision of the Court California Supreme which held that educational opportunity for school children throughout the state must be equal and the tax effort for education must also be equal. Educators and lawyers predict this decision will become national policy. Matheson, chairman of the House Education Committee, said he fears the philosophy behind the decision may disrupt the local control of schools which has been traditional in America. Gov. Calvin L. Ramptons proposed budget of $217 million for the schools drew Mathesons support. Although the governor has asked for an increase of $23 million over last years budget, Matheson said the proposal is the most conservative of those which so far have been presented to the Legislature. The increased funds will . allow the stale to adopt Jensens equalization bill, or one similiar to it, without reducing the amount of state funds received by any school Deseret News readers will soon have their own perwho an Ombudsman sonal friend on the newspaper will handle complaints about fairness or accuracy of any news stories. Did we spell a name wrong, leave out important facts, make a misstatement, tell only one side of a story or fail to cover a significant event? Call the Ombudsman. Hell investigate and correct the situation, if such action is warranted. It opens the door to readers who have complaints and don't know where to call. Details on how' to register complaints or comments with the Deseret News Ombudsman will be published ... House Okays Tax Exemption Bill A bill which would guaran- tee a continued tax exemption of church, fraternal, hospital, labor union and other properties was given a favorable report today by the Senate Revenue and Taxation comes to the Senate. Baker, floor of the who unsuccessfully attempted to put millions of dollars of such non-prof- it properties on the Salt Lake County tax rolls, testified vigCommittee. orously against the bill. He said the exempt properties in The bill, HB24, was debated Salt Lake County represent for over an hour before the $30 million of assessed valuacommittee reported it out for tion and would yield $7.5 milaction on the Senate floor. It lion in property taxes. passed the House by a unanimous vote. Sen. Douglas G. Bischoff, Lake, chairman of the revenue and taxation committee, said the state constitution is not clear on the issue of exempt properties and the bill is an attempt to clarify the law in line with historical lt The favorable designation was given the bill with the understanding that opponents of the measure, principally Salt Lake County Assessor Earl, Baker, will be given a chance to testify against it when it 973 p B 1 U.S. Jurors Find The parents arl children are noted for their togetherness and each claims the farm couldn't have been made productive without the others. J. S. Barron, county supervisor of the FHA in Logan, said the Buxtons leveled 71 acres and put 173 acres under a sprinkler irrigation system. Because of a high water table, 54 acres were unproductive. S' took With insights into the p . at It wasn't very good land, but at the .SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH . .Mark, IS. Police Innocent In Rights Case federal court jury Thursday found Public Safety Commissioner James L. Barker Jr., former Police Chief (now Capt.) Calvin C. White-hea- d and four city police officers innocent of ail charges in the alleged beatings and violation of the civil rights of two Salt Lake men. The panel of seven men and five women found that Barker, White-hea- d A and officers Richard Ken Florence, Johnson, William Neves and Michael Welch were not liable for damages in a suit filed against them in February, 1972, by Bill Edward Dewey, 3993 S. 1600 West, and John A. Sego Ave. Barker called the verdict pat on the back for law enforcement. and King were Dewey arrested separately by plainclothes officers in the area of West 2nd South, in the summer of 1971, and charged with soliciting sex acts for hire. The charge against Dewey w'as later changed to interfering with a police officer and being drunk. King, 852 .a In their complaint, filed under the federal Civil Rights Act, each man claimed he was beaten by the arresting officers. The two further claimed that Barker and Whitehead entered into a .tacit conspiracy to deprive them of their rights by failing to properly investigate excessive use of force by police on West 2nd South. trial beDuring a week-lonfore U.S. District Judge Willis g W. Ritter the jury heard widely conflicting testimony about what happened when Dewey and King were arrested. In his instructions to the jurors Thursday the judge told them, This is a case in which you have to determine who lied thats what this case is HEALTH UNIT SEEKS LAW EAR-PIERCI- NG An ordinance calling for medical supervision of in jeu'elry stores and departments has been proHealth Department posed by the Salt Lake ear-pierci- y The action came after Dr. Richard T. Van Orden, a Salt Lake ear, nose and throat specialist, told the board of health that procedures used by some businesses in piercing ears could give rise to problems ranging from simple infections to infectious hepatitis. sterilization procedures do not elimiMany nate the hazard, he said. Ordinary boiling and antiseptics do not kill the hepatitis virus. Van Orden said the problem would be eliminated by autoclaving of needles used, or the use' of disposable needles. I personally think jewelry stores are leaving them-- , selves wide open for liability, he said. Model Cities Funds Cut Could Close Drug Unit program to continue, Sleater said, because appropriated all about. . Utah Drug Foundation, could be withheld and the other $5,000 would be sought through budget shuffles. Dewey testified during the trial that on June 12, 1971, he was walking along 2nd South near 4th West when he came on four or five men in ragged The threatened' program,' through its referral agency, supports administers and correlates projects in the county, including Project shotclothes, with sawed-of- f holding three other guns, men against the wall. He said when he demanded to see the identification of officers Johnson and Florence they arrested him for interfer-rin- g and knocked him unconscious in a struggle that followed. drug-contr- Reality, Odyssey House, men- tal health programs, drug poison center at the University of Utah, and county detoxification center. Federal money for operating the referral service is substantial, Sleater said, with $844,000 for 1373, $1,051,000 for 1974 and $981,000 for 1975. Barkers attorney, Roger Cutler, told the jury Deweys account of his arrest was an incredible story. He said it appeared the testimony of the plaintiffs was very well rehearsed. $10,000 for the program of has been successful, Sleater said. In just one program Project Reality, we now number 36 former patients classified as free from drug need, and they have been returned to the community, and Our . Cutler cited testimony by three officers who said Dewey appeared drunk and was repeatedly told the men were police officers and not to inter- fere. Johnson testified that when City, Regional Dewey was arrested and hand- ; Our Man Jones cuffed a struggle followed in TV Highlights which Dewey fell and hit his Obituaries head on the curb. Deweys at- - 'Weather Map Action Ads See JURY on Page 1, 2, 4, 5 1 3 ,5, 6 B-- 5 ' 0 drug-contr- ol to jobs. The current account of drug abusers under treatment in project Reality stands at 185. jt is expected that by the end 0f March the program will be administering services to more than 200 abusers. Earl Hobby, director of Project Reality, said the services to the addicts are now being given in a new building, located just west of the City- County ; district. Both lawmakers supported a bill which requires standardized testing for the evaluation ' Health Center. The referral agency is also located in the new building. Sleater said, It would be tragic to lose these programs that are being administered properly on a consolidated basis, as the federal government has suggested, but even more so because our, programs are beginning to show results. of the effectiveness of educational programs. Jensen ex- pressed reservations about comparing test scores of students in widely disparate districts. But, he said, if the bill . is used as it should be, to in crease educational effectiveness, it will schoolchildren. benefit City Fights Hill Building Utah The lawmakers discussed two bills now before the Legislature which would affect the status of teachers. One would constitute teachers as a pro- fession giving them more power to discipline their membership and to determine the requirments for certification. Another bill would establish See DIALOGUE on Page B-- i 4 The Salt Lake City Commission unanimously passed a resolution opposing legislation' that would allow the construction of a new state office building on Capitol Hill. On The Mark For Snowshovel Race Two contestants get in practice runs for Worlds International Snowshovel Championship Race this weekend at Brian Head Ski Resort near Cedar City. Entrants from various ski areas in the west wia be competing on some pretty sophisticated equipment. Shovel bottoms are steel wooled smooth, waxed and polished with such exotic x formulas. One of the hazards of concoctions as chicken fat and goose grease, combined with various d snowshoyel riding is posterior anguish." Since this is a no rules contest, such innovations as seats, small rocket engines, or sails are anticipated this year. ski-wa- foam-injecte- A Commissioner Stephen M. who made the Harmsen, motion, said another office building on the hill would result in increased traffic problems, and the need for access route alterations. |