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Show Editorials; Opinions Letters Pse2 1981 Manti Messenger, Thursday, April 30, . . . LETTERS TO THE EDITOR RULES: OUR We encourage our reader lo express their opinions in our Letters to the Editor forum. Published letters must meet the CfiD5S-1P'60flR- 1 0 eODGfrCUTS, 'CCPf .. aw QCrfUolfAlf --1 following criteria: 1 . Letters submitted to this paper exclusively. 2. Not libelous or slanderous. 3. Limited to 500 words (we will edit letters to meet this requirement if necessary). 4. Must be in good taste. 5. Limit of one letter per month per person. Trivia SI 58 could stop abortions Dear Editor: Some very grim statistics have been released concerning the rising number of abortions. Since it became partially legal in 1967 and nationally legal as a result of the Supreme Court decision in 1973, there have been 9 million unborn babies murdered. The statistics for 1979 show there were almost half the number of abortion as there were live births, l.S million abortions versus 3.S million births. The passage of legislation by Congress can be achieved with the approval of a simple majority of both Houses, followed by a Presidential signature. Approval of the measure would enable state legislatures to pass their own laws, barring abortion. measure Proponents of this pro-lif- e insist that Congress does have the power to step into the void left by the Supreme Court, which never defined when life begins. They insist that in order to classify the unborn child as a person, they need only establish the likelihood that life begins at conception. If you can agree with this new measure to try and stop the killing of unborn children, please contact your Senators and Representatives right away. Sincerely, Phyllis Jensen Plea to support Ephraim Legion Auxiliary to Girls State. Representation there is based on the number of ladies who join the Legion Auxiliary. This year Manti is sending five girls and Ephraim only three because of lack of interest. I appeal to all the eligible ladies in Ephraim to rally to this cause. Please join this worthy organization and come forth and volunteer to serve as an of- To the ladies of Ephraim: After contacting 15 or so ladies asking them to be President of the Legion Auxiliary and being turned down, my spirits have reached low ebb. I have held this office two years and although not having done all the book recommended, I think my helpers and I have done a reasonably good job. Now, with the lack of interest shown, we face losing this organization and having to join with Manti. This means well get to send only half as many girls ficer. Sincerely, Roxie Johnson Snow Collogo your community JJ The portion of the Community Relations Committee that studied Snow Colleges community services noted career van what they termed a program which the college has initiated with some special state and federal funding. Many patrons have noticed this van, or trailer, parked at various places in the county and have asked me what Six County Intake Assessment painted on the side of the van means. I admitted to many of these individuals that that is probably not very descriptive of what goes on in the van unless one is acquainted with the proposal that Snow College wrote in order to achieve funding for this project. highly praised by our community services committee is a career van. It has been parked at various high schools, the college and at Sevier Valley Area Vocational School in Richfield, and is to equipped with computer hook-u- p Snow College so that students can, in a very sophisticated and automated way, explore career possibilities, examine their own goals and strengths in connection with their talents and interests, and essentially make better career plans. Our community relations committee, suggested that the college might review to see if the services of the career van could be of value to the adult population of the six county area. Snow College is going to consider this suggestion. School and Home Report by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretary - Utah Education Association from Congress A Utah teacher is trying to export . an idea he has for saving hundudu 4 thousands of dollars. He is Clay Petersen, a teacher at Harry S. Truman Elementary School in I the Granite District. Petersen started a war on waste that is aimed at paper waste and school vandalism. He started the program, but students made it work. Kid The school calls this program Power. ; The object of the effort to cut paper waste is to have each student cut paper use by one sheet a day. They do by using for short assignments. If whole use a sheet of paper for a they task, they save the used sheet for another assignment that will be written on the clean side. ; By cutting paper use by one sheet a day, Truman Elementary students can save 134,100 sheets a year. Thats a saving of $402 to the school district and taxpayers, Petersen said. If all students in the state cut back two-prong- by Jim Hansen 1 recently sent out 250,000 questionnaires to my constituents in Utahs First Congressional District. One of the questions was: "Do you favor adoption of the Presidents tax cut plan an d tax cut of 10 percent a year for all Americans over a three-yea- r So far, after receiving period? thousands of responses to this question, support for President Reagan's tax cut plan has been a whopping 90 percent and above. This overwhelming support should come as no surprise. American taxpayers have had enough. They desperately need tax relief. Inflation is increasing taxes by shoving taxpayers into even high tax brackets while e inflated pay buys less and less. According to recent figures, if President Reagans tax package is passed intact, the average Utah family of four will reeive a tax break of $2,161 over the next three years. The need and desire for a massive individual tax cut is evident, but amazingly, House Democrats are proposing to dramatically reduce President Reagans tax cuts. These Democratic proposals mean that taxes will continue to escalate at a dizzying d pace. Even with Reagan's tax cuts taxes will actually increase over the next three years. In across-the-boar- take-hom- across-the-boar- reality, the Presidents tax plan will only slow the rapid increase in taxes. In the face of Reagans mandate to dramatically cut taxes, the House Democrats stubbornly refuse to yield. After weeks of carping about the Presidents tax cuts, they have finally begun to form an alternative budget plan of their own. The plan espouses more of the same worn out programs of the LBJ Great Society era. In fact the plans major architect. House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Jones has been quoted as saying the amount Reagan has requested for a tax cut should be slashed by 40 percent. Fortunately, the Senate has approved budget targets for next year which are in tune with what the Reagan Administration has requested. However, it's a fact of life that the House is still under Democratic control. The more conservative Southern Democrats hold the balance of power and it is still unclear whether they will back the President's tax cuts. I predict that the outcome will hinge on public opinion. If the public is outspoken and brings pressure on Congress to approve President Reagans proposals, they will be passed. Otherwise, there is still a strong possibility the House Democrats could gut the Presidents tax package. Advertising VJorCx s ircac IKJC200GN0ED USPS 328-40- 0 Published every Thursday at Manti, Utah. Entered in the Post Office at matter under the act of Congress of March Manti, Utah 84642, as second-clas- s 3,1879. . MAILING ADDRESS: 35 S. Main, Manti, Utah 84642 Postmaster: Send address changes to Manti Messenger, 35 S. Main, Manti, ' Max E. Call Bruce Jennings Lloyd E. Call Advertising Manager. Joel Pratt Advertising Salesman Beth H. Call Circulation Manager Staff Writers Pat Mellor, Marion Lee, Eleanor Madsen, Nedra Allred, Wynn Young, Polly Willardson, Cathy Buchanan Editor & Publisher Associate Editor. Phone Number: 835-424- 1 colltt by President J. Marvin Higbee Essentially, the van which was so President Legion Auxiliary A Utah 84642. should read some of by some of expressed opinions The my predecessors as editors of the that before and Messenger Manti Sentinel. A few examples: In 1892 a couple of subscribers stopped taking the Sentinel because they were offended by the editor s (Sam Leroy) bluntness. Whereupon editor Leroy published the following: Two individuals have stopped subscribing for the Sentinel because we failed to hunt them up and advocate their principles on the sheep question. If there are any more, dont wait . . . come to the office and have it stopped. Rather would we issue 100 copies and run the paper ourselves than have each subscriber a committee of one to tell us how it shall be done. On the sheep or any other question, this paper will pursue such a policy as shall seem just and right to its conductors. Dont grumble and say you will stop it. We will gladly cut you off. We dont want to bother with you. We are printing this paper for real, live e people and if the pace is "too fast, unload yourself. Hows that for bluntness? outspoken the it. A new measure, S1S8, has been introduced in the Senate by Jessie Helms and as HR 900 in the House by Henry Hyde. The proposed legislation includes a declaration by Congress that present day scientific evidence indicates a significant likelihood that actual human life exists from It states that the conception. Fourteenth Amendment forbids the states to deprive a person of life without due process of law, and that since this is what abortion does, abortion shall no longer be permitted. Section Two of this bill then seeks to employ Congressional power (Article 111 ' Now I never said anything like that about the Democrats. is Anyone who thinks this editor of the Constitution) to limit the jurisdiction of the federal courts in this area. Specifically, this section seeks to bar federal courts from interfering with state and local laws which ban abortion and the use of public funding to finance half-shee- ts W.R. Keller school psychologist Raising children isnt easy. Even if magazine and newspaper articles indicate otherwise. Often we feel like we are winning a few battles and losing the war. Keeping a marriage together isn't easy either. Its something that we have to work at. Sometimes, however, the war between spouses overshadows the war with the children. Maintaining good marriage and family relations is one of the most challenging experiences that we face on this earth. As husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, we have our work cut out for us. The best guide to help us in our work is not found in psychology books. It's found in the bible. There are at least three very important rules for good relationships found within. They are the golden rule, the rule regarding being a good neighbor and the rule to love one another. The golden rule, indicates that we should treat others the way that we would like to be treated. In marriage that might mean treating a spouse the way we know they want to be treated but it also means treating them at least as nice as we want them to treat us. With our , children it might mean treating them the way that we hope they will someday . treat us. The good neighbor rule tells us to love others as ourselves. This implies that we ought to love ourselves so that we can Y he said. Relationships by ' ' Did you hear about the guy who spent so much time promoting a . Bruce Jennings lays it on me for laying it on the Democrats. But Im only following tradition. Heres what Peter A. Poulsen said in 1898: The Democrats are trying everywhere to create dissention in the Republican ranks. This effort will fail. The Democratic Party today is an agglomeration of all the isms that flitter through cranky brains. It has few principles and can be divided at any time. This is not the case with the Republican Party. It is a a party of principles and ideas party of patriotism and progress. statue of himself that he became a monumental bore? A jolly young fellow from Yuma Told an elephant joke to a puma. Now his skeleton lies Under hot western skies The puma had no sense of huma. The caddie rushed up to the golfer and shouted, Ive got good news and bad news! you got a hole in one on the sixth hole. Now the bad news were playing the fifth. Not so trivial: No one can open his mind to the truth without risking the entrance of falsehood; and no one can dose his mind to falsehood without risking the exclusion of truth. i ' by Thomas Reeve Sanpete County Agents There are two tomato special plants that are advertised each year. Before purchasing any of these you should understand something about their performance. The first one is the tree tomato. The plant currently being sold as a tree tomato (cyphomandra crassifolia) is a member of the night shade family to which the regular, tomato belongs. However it is a different species. Like the tomato, it is a native of Peru and grown in home and market gardens in ' areas of Peru, Brazil, the New Zealand and other countries. The plant is woody upright and grows up to 10 feet tall, but does not begin to bear fruit until two years after seeding. However, it may continue to bear for five or six years. They are not winter hardy in Utah and would have to be is for the respon- taken inside over winter. Fruits of this cultivar are oval in shape, about one inch long. They change from greenish purple to reddish purple when fully ripe. and the flavor is Fruits are sub-acmoderately agreeable. Some cultivars produce orange or bright red fruits. Fruits of the tree tomato are used in stew or preserves after the tough skins 0, sibility, n, wide-awak- g in school. The fourth And heres what editor of the Messenger, M.A. Boyden (a incidentally) had to say We about young men smoking: think the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors should be enforced more strictly than any prohibitionary law we have. This cigarette habit, more, than we realize, is endangering the very safety of our state. Any business man detects the cigarette boy by his dull eyes, his his yellow sallow complexion, fingers. Business men want nothing to do with him, if it is avoidable. There is not much hope for a man who has been drugged through the growing years of his youth. This is a frightful waste of the most valuable our of our natural resources manhood. From the desk of your County Agent paper use by a sheet a day, 59,863,500 fleets gnd $179,591 could be saved. 1 Kids at Truman School adopted this motto: If one sheet will do, dont use two. Petersen has the idea that huge sums can be saved by putting a stop to vandalism in the schools.-Durinschool year. the 1979-8- 0 Granite School District paid $76,483 for damage to schools caused by vandals. At Truman Elementary, the cost of school was vandalism in the 1978-7- 9 $121. During the 1979-8when the Kid Power project went into effect, the vandalism tab dropped to $22.30. How did it happen? Pride, said Petersen. We told the kids that waste and vandalism cost money, and that their parents pay that money. They listened. Petersen said that one beauty of Kis Power is that students learn a fourth r by Max E. Call love others. We can learn to find the good in ourselves and value ourselves even though we know that we have lots of faults. Then we can look for, and find, the good in others. And we can be as charitable to them in overlooking their faults as we have been to ourselves. We should love one another. That means that we should find the good in others and not dwell on their faults. It means helping . them when we can instead of making it harder for them. It means finding the good in them and telling them about it. It means supporting them instead of opposing them. It means working with them to overcome some fault. It means keeping critical remarks to ourselves unless we can point to some way that we might be able to help. In marriage and family relationships, treating others the way that we want to be treated, loving ourselves and overlooking some of our faults helps us to love our spouse and our children. Helping our spouse and our children to become their best selves enhances ourselves. We learn to love more and more by helping and we feel more loved when we are helped by others. Yet we often damage relationship because we ignore these basic rules. The better we can apply them to our families, the better we will keep our marriage together and raise our children. l7o cen'Q awcrcl Co vjaeflo iff. semi-tropic- al id and the hard objectionable seeds are removed. The plant is propagated from seeds or from woody cuttings. The second advertised tomato special is called the tomato-potat- o plant. Schemes which tomatoes and potatoes may be grown in the same hill have been promoted by certain concerns. There is no plant that normally produces tomato fruits above the ground and potato tubers below the ground. The scheme most widely promoted involves placing a tomato seed in a slit in the piece of potato tuber containing an eye. The two are then planted together. If the seed germinates and a plant grows from the potato eye, then both a tomato plant and a potato plant will appear at the same location. Results are not likely to be very successful, for tomatoes require a long warm season, while potatoes generally require a shorter, cooler season. Aside from temperature and length of season requirement, competition between the two plants growing in the same hill will be seriously detrimental to both plants. For more help and information about growing gardens in this area contact the local extension office in Manti. Fitness Tips by Dr. Dale Nelson Professor of Health, Physical Education and Recreation Utah Slate University Vitamin C, oftentimes controversial, comes into focus again in a study reported in the February, 1981 Journal of Human Nutrition. Over half of a e group of elderly sufferers proved to be deficient in vitamin heart-diseas- C. Their HDL cholesterol (considered protective against heart disease) was also found to be low. Daily doses of one gram of vitamin C subsequently improved the HDL cholesterol condition, for whatever this is worth. The PUBLIC NOTICES BECAUSE THE PEOPLE MUST KNOW; NOTICE TO WATER USERS Notice is hereby given that the site is feasible for a dam and reservoir. Additional time is needed to complete the project and to make and submit Proof of Appropriation. Protests resisting the granting of this request with reasons therefore must be filed in duplicate with the State Engineer, 231 E. 400 S., Salt Lake City, UT 84111, on or before June 13, 1981. DeeC. Hansen, P.E. Muddy Creek Irrigation Co., Emery, UT has filed for an extension of time with the State Engineer to make and submit Proof of Appropriation under Appl. cover-in- g No. 30375 250.0 ac. ft. of water from North Fork, Muddy Creek, tributary to Fremont River to be used for STATE ENGINEER irrigation purposes. It Is represented that studies have been made Publish Manti Messenger and a test drilling program Apr. 30, May 7 and 14, will begin to determine if 1981. (95-42- author concluded that latent ascorbic acid" (vitamin C) deficiency may be one of several preventable heart disease risk factors. Incidentally, aerobic exercise and even small amounts of alcohol also improve the HDL cholesterol ratio. At any rate, the improvement of cholesterol HDL amounts seems to be a significant consideration. Too much salt Most people should be aware that the American diet includes too much salt, which, over the long haul, is bad for may overconsumers. A 1980 Mineral and Electrolyte Metabolism report indicates that excess salt apparently removes calcium from the blood via the urine which, in turn, forces the body to replace this calcium by borrowing it from the bones a situation that could lead to osteoporosis (Continued on Page 3) |