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Show Manti Meisenger, Thursday, July 30, 1981 Editorials, Opinions A Page 2 Report from Congress Trivia by Max E. . . . Call by Jim Hansen A few days ago offered, and the House passed, an amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization bill. The amendment freezes the spending of $1.1 billion earmarked for shell development of the MX MPS President until mode game" basing Reagan submits a final MX decision to Congress. Congress is then given 60 days within which it can act to disapprove the Presidents proposal. As I said in the course of debate on the House floor, it just doesnt make any sense to build a stadium before we know what kind of ballgame we will be playing in it. My amendment simply brought the Congress into a neutral position on all types of MX basing until President Reagan makes his final recommendation. The President may in fact choose a basing mode totally unrelated to the shell game mode. nor is The amendment is not anti-MInstead, it necessarily basing. it gives the President and the Congress the opportunity to make an open, objective decision on how to base the MX without being committed to prior, 1 anti-MP- S potentially less desirable basing decisions. Most people praised my amendment, but a number of anti-Mspokesmen discounted my amendment to freeze $1.1 billion and focused on a no vote I cast against an amendment offered by Congressman Paul Simon of Illionois to my amendment. These critics asserted I could have taken a tougher stance against the MX and implied that my vote against the Simon amendment was a a vote to keep the MX shell mode alive. game basing Utah-Nevad- respectfully disagree with these critics. Let me explain. Under my amendment, $1.1 billion for the MX MPS shell game mode is frozen until the President submits a written MX decision to Congress. Congress is then given 60 days to disapprove the Presidents proposal. Under Congressman Simon's amendment to the Hansen amendment, both Houses of Congress would have I been forced, within 60 days, to approve instead of disapprove any MX basing mode the President would have chosen. With passage of the Simon amendment, there would have been a strong possibility that delaying tactics' by congressional doves could have Americas strategic defense. Many of my colleagues feared that stalling tactics, along the lines of a Senate filibuster by super doves, could bottle up any MX basing mode legislation for months. These colleagues told me that if the Simon amendment to the Hansen amendment passed, they would be forced to vote against my amendment. A defeat of the Hansen amendment would have given the green light to the spending of $1.1 billion on the MX shell game mode. Because of this opposition to the Simon amendment, it became clear to me, that if Simons amendment passed, my amendment would fail. 1 therefore did not support Congressman Simons amendment and urged my colleagues to do the same. My position on the MX missile controversy is clear. I am not opposed to the MX missile itself. I think the United States desperately needs to find a viable replacement for its aging Tital and Minuteman missiles. However, like many, I have serious doubts about the feasibility of the MPS and other MX basing modes. 1 am awaiting the report of the Townes Commission the best information yet available on the issue of the MX basing mode before I decide which basing mode I would favor. My amendment retains for President Reagan and the Congress the opportunity to make an open, objective decision on how to base the MX missile. My vote against Simon ensured that my fellow Congressmen would not abandon my amendment. And finally, my amendment froze $1.1 billion that would have been needlessly spent on a basing mode that may never see the light of day. From the desk of your County Agent by Thomas Reeve Sanpete County Agent All work and no play makes Jack a dull and maybe a candidate for illness or accident. Thats well and good, but farmers and ranchers have little choice about work, especially during rush periods or at feeding or milking time. They often burn the "midnight oil, wrestling with management problems. People can work long and hard without ill effects, provided they respect their limitations of mind and body. But in the heat of the effort, many workers push beyond these boundaries and the results can be inefficiency, fatigue, health woes or accidents. The National Safety Council estimates that in 1979 agricultural work accidents resulted in 1,150 deaths and 115,000 disabling injuries to farm and ranch residents. The total cost of accidents to farm and ranch people exceeded $5 billion. In the past years several farm and ranch related accidents in Sanpete boy . . . County have resulted from minor to fatal. It is important that leisure activities intended to refresh mind and body and enrich our lives and make us safer workers do not themselves result in injury. Unfortunately, many thousands of rural people are hurt, sometimes fatally, during leisure activities such as swimming, boating, fishing, hunting biking, camping, hiking, skiing and sports. President Ronald Regan has pro1 as National Farm claimed July Safety Week. The National Safety Council slogan is Enjoy life Safely. Whether one is injured on the job or while enjoying leisure time activities the pain, medical cost, disability and reduced productivity are the same. Remember your support is needed and will be appreciated in helping Enjoy Life yourself and others to Safely". 25-3- Preserving Food by V. T. Mendenhall Food Science Specialist Utah State University Extension Service Much satisfaction can be had by preserving a winter food supply for the family. Although the family members may take all your labors for granted, it is rewarding to stand in a cool basement in October and admire the full jars neatly lining the shelves. Given a penny, most consumers would say Im glad its over for one more year. Most of us take great pains to make sure our processed food supply looks, tastes, feels and smells exactly like the family expects it to be. Pears that are pink, pickles that are slimy, meat that smells like paint and grape jam that tastes like beets probably don't go too well in most Utah homes. As much attention as we give to quality, it should never become more important than safety. It is important that we all follow the rules of preservation if we are to insure a safe food supply. Where does one find a copy of the rules or get help in them? Utah State understanding University Extension Service maintains offices in most counties or areas in Utah where trained home economists will be happy to help you obtain the information me son r you youi cmup yol ivns fCwC-- by Linnie M. Findlay Grasshopper Green is a comical chap. So began a poem that was in all the school books a few decades ago. Maybe that win 'give comfort to those of us who are watching our crops disappear in 1981, as corn stalks, edible leaves of plants, and the leaves of tuberous vegetables are chewed up by the thousands of grasshoppers that abound in the vacant lots, the gardens and lawns, and foothills surrounding the Sanpete Valley. But if we think grasshoppers in 1981 are a problem, there might be some philosophical release in knowing that they are not strangers to Sanpete. There are a number of accounts of grasshopper infestations here, since the first settlers arrived. In the early part of this century, there were infestations of grasshoppers so numerous that very few crops were harvested. "We worked for the state during those years, and made almost as much as we would if we had raised crops, remembered Joseph E. Olsen of St. George, recently, speaking of his youth in Ephraim. It would take three men and a boy to operate a balloon" that we used to catch the and we grasshoppers, them brought by the load to the wagon grasshopper graveyard on 1st North, just west of town." The boy would ride a horse, which pulled the "balloon made of canvas. The canvas was fastened to a frame about 3 feet wide and 3 feet high, and the canvas was tied at the other end. As the boy rode the horse, either at a fast trot or a gallop around the field, the grasshoppers would fly up and be caught in the balloon". When it got so heavy it was hard for the horse to pull it, the boy would bring in to be the balloon The would men emptied. shake the grasshoppers down, untie the end, and dump the entire contents into muslin sacks, and load the sacks onto a waiting wagon. And the boy and horse would ? kJ USPS 328-40- Published every Thursday at Manti, Utah. Entered in the Post Office at matter under the act of Congress of Marc h 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. Utah 84642. Max I. Call Bruce lennings 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, Carma Morgan, Cathy Buchanan Editor & Publisher Associate Editor Phone Number: Sl 835-42- I you seek. Supermarket chains, utility companies and many professional organizations retain the services of trained competent home economists to assist the general public. Perhaps a quick review of a few simple rules will help all of us provide a safer food supply for our families. Obtain a copy of the latest information on the preservation method you wish to use. Most instruction for canning, freezing and dehydration have changed even in the last 3 years. 2. Follow instructions carefully. Dont cut corners. Modification or omission may mean an increase in the safety risk. 3. Use only tested recipes from reliable sources. Just because we have followed a certain procedure for SO years doesnt necessarily mean that it is safe. 4. Do not formulate your own preservation methods. Home canners do not have adequate equipment to determine a safe process. 5. Remember that the cost of a jar of fruits or vegetables rarely exceeds $1.00. A good funeral is about $8,000. Always make safety your number one 1. 2-- priority. stay. But this is the first time for met I wasnt born in a hospital, never had my tonsils out, in fact I've never been a patient at a hospital. So suddenly at age 60 Im introduced to: the embarrassment of backless gowns (they're really quite convenient) bed pans and urinals push button nurse call bells three roommates who groan (or talk to themselves) all night big shot needles little shot needles medium shot needles for IVs (intra-venou- s n water sugar-ladedirectly dripping into your veins when you cant eat or drink) taking a bath (?) in bed giving more blood every day than you give to the blood bank in a year friendly nurses unfriendly nurses nurses aides, LPNs, RNs, student nurses, 3rd year medical students, interns, residents, chief residents (I think that's what technicians, Trapper John is), IV teams, pharmacists, labotomists, physical respiratory therapists, X-r- therapists, occupational therapists, social workers, etc., etc. This much is for certain . . . there are a lot of people who are interested in your welfare. Hospitals are places where most everyone knows about everyone else (You cant keep too many secrets with everybody running around in open in the rear gowns.) Where else can you find a place where a team of six doctors stand by your bedside, where with a supreme effort you pass a whisper of gas , . . and they all break out in applause?? All in all it was a great experience. After a week back in the shop, maybe Ill conjure up some other illness so I can have another leave of absence. Here's a piece of good advices Never, never, never play leapfrog with a unicorn! A lady patient stalked out to the nurses station and announced indignantly: I thought this was supposed to be a respectable hospital. "Why it is, the nurse replied. "Is something wrong? Well, said the lady, "I just saw a doctor chasing a nurse down the hall. "Did he catch her? asked the nurse. "No, replied the lady. Then the hospital remains respectable, said the nurse. Not ao trivial! In the presence of trouble, some people grow wings; others buy crutches. Grasshoppers brought lc per pound, but not now! catching grasshoppers, S0N, For those of you who've undergone surgery, no explanation for this column is necessary; for those who haven't, none is possible! Many of you have had far more serious surgery (some many times) than my simple gall bladder operation. So 1 certainly don't pretend to be an expert about the trials and tribulations of a hopsital return to the field and go on with the harvest. Each wagonload would be taken to the grass- insect bodies are dried, ground into a powder, and mixed with flour for bread. This is also done in the hopper graveyard where plains of North Africa near the sacks of grasshoppers the Red Sea. Some people would be weighed and in Europe and the United dropped into the trenches. States eat grasshoppers as The late Seymour E. delicacies. Christensen remembered In North America, the that grasshoppers brought about one cent per pound, Indians in the Great Plains and it took the cooperation region enjoyed roasted of many people working grasshoppers. Some arch together to rid the valley of the pests sufficiently that crops could be raised in subsequent years. According to World Book Encyclopedia (1963, Vol. 7, p. 319), grasshoppers include all the insects commonly called locusts, but not all grassshoppers are locusts. The main difference between locusts and other grasshoppers lies in the length of the feelers or antennae, sometimes aeologists believe that paign of 1965 proved to be plagues of grasshoppers effective. and locusts may explain Scientists tell us that the migrations of ancient spray is much more American civilizations. effective when the grassBe that as it may, it is hoppers are young,' and insect is my hope that some of the the adult means used to get rid of extremely difficult to get the voracious little pests in rid of. Guess if it is going to take all of us working 1981 will do it. I remember of in together, we ought to get newspapers reading the area that the grass- busy and take some action hopper spraying cam to rid the valley of grasshoppers, while they are still young. We need to spray not only in yards and fields, but in the vacant the hills area. ' the surrounding lots, and ' My diet preference would definitely be the food that the grasshoppers destroy, rather than having to rely on grasshopper steak after the gardens and fields have been devoured by them. called Locusts horns. shorter antennae grasshoppers. have than Grasshoppers leap through fields and meadows and along dusty roadsides all summer long. They have long, slender hind legs with large thighs. These make it possible for them to 10 times as high jump as their own body length. If a boy could jump as far in proportion to his size as a grasshopper can, he could jump over a barn. Another statement from World Book: "Meadow grasshoppers eat pieces out of tender leaves and stems, but usually do not harm the farmer's crops, might suggest that 1981 would not be considered usual in terms of grasshopper population. It's not really any consolation that grasshoppers are included in edible foods according to the Mosaic law or that many people in the world at the present time include grasshoppers in thier diet. Quoting World Book Shake-spea- r again, p. 320: mentions food lucious as locusts' in his play Othello, Saint Matthew said that John the Baptists meat was locusts and wild honey'. Locusts are candied in an China, and form Important part of the diet. In the Filipino Arabian deserts, the ... MMsaQ My names McGruff, the Crime Dog. And thats Mimi Marth up there. Shes a volunteer crime fighter makes crime prevention a part of her day. If Mimi sees something suspicious, she reports it. Ihst. So the cops can act. Hast. There are over 100 other folks like her, who make up the Eyes and Ears Patrol in Hartford, Connecticut. There are groups like this all over the country, working together to help prevent crime. Find out what you and your community can do. 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