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Show WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, NOVEMBER 22, 1979 lEasti Lay tion Cifiy CommcSI Passes Three rdnmaraces East Layton passed three ordinances as part of the business they conducted at their regular council meeting of Nov. 13. All ordinances were passed with the does not apply in areas where THE FIRST ordinance passed will prohibit storing, THE CITY attorney recommended an ordinance to permit towing away vehicles illegally parked be dropped until the problem exists, if it The I ' il City-Counc- unanimous vote of the four council members present. ft i or dumping streets or city property. Building materials that are left in the street must be properly abandoning, materials ft-- V on city barricaded according to the state code. In the past, homeowners and developers have created traffic hazards by placing materials in the street. The second new ordinance is closely related to the first. It prohibits obstructing sidewalks by placing soil, debris or other materials on the sidewalks or in thg gutters. sidewalks and other improvements will not be installed for several years. An ordinance requiring a service deposit for water connections will be ready for adoption at the Nov. 27 meeting. ever really becomes the complete the well. THE COUNCIL of the suit by (1) posting no bond and (2) not filing the suit within a period. The request for dismissal has been postponed in the court to give the Home Builders Association a chance to study the charges. The Association has prepared an amended proposal they have asked the council to consider. The council must respond to this request by early January, dmg the terms tank tests out, the well drilling people will return to as y finished up their meeting by discussing the status of a law suit between East Layton city and the Weber Basin Home Builders Association. According to the city attorney, Steven Bailey, the city has asked for a dismissal of the suit on the grounds the Home Builders Association violated a problem. In other action, the council voted to post for public hearing a recommendation of the The Family Cannot Be Scrapped planning commission that would allow an building zone in the city. This proposal would also create a new building zone in the hillside ordinance. Rl-1- 2 The family cannot be scrapped in a changing civilization because it does too many things too well, says Dr. Frank Bockus, visiting professor of child and family THE CITY currently has an Rl-1zone of 4 acre lots and an zone of full acre lots. The Rl-1zone would allow building on lots with sizes between the two existing zones. City administrator, Tracy Barnes, asked that work be done to codify the city ordinances into an order that would make looking up laws easier. The city attorney will work on this. DR. BOCKUS started his career as a Methodist minister in San Antonio, Tex., began to concentrate on pastoral counseling, then got a doctors degree in theology and psychology and moved into a specialization on marriage and family therapy. MR. BARNES reported the work on Rainbow Drive was counseling last year. 0 studies at Weber State College. Re-2- 0 2 ACCORDING TO this orsnow must be removed from the sidewalks 72 hours after the end of the snow storm. Mailboxes and dinance, paper holders are exempt tt:fR0lpS from the ordinance. They will be allowed on the curb or near the sidewalk. No other ;DAiSf:& temporary or permanent structure can be constructed in the planting area between JV: ITS the sidewalk and the curb. The last ordinance passed is really an amendment of an ordinance that requires all individuals developers as well as people building a to post an single dwelling e adequate bond for improvements. In the past, only developers who are building several houses have been required to post this bond. - Theres a new arrival at Davis North Medical Center but hes different from other new babies. Hes not real. Called a resc baby, the $200 baby was donated by hospital volunteers for staff training in resuscitation of children and babies. Checking him out are volunteer Nina Palmer of Kaysville and Carla Johnson, hospital education NOT REAL off-sit- coordinator. NOW individuals will also be required to post a bond for off-sit- e Thanks For The amount of radiation to which Utahns are exposed today is no greater than that of other Americans living at similar altitudes, according to a study recently released by the U.S. Department of Energy and received af the University of Utah Mcflical Center. f THE REPORT, prepared Foods by By FLORENCE BITTNER Since that autumn day more than 300 years ago when who the Pilgrims precariously occupied and tilled a tiny portion of our Eastern shore, gathered to give thanks for their harvest, have annually celebrated the yield from our bounteous land. we Americans t BUT SINCE only a small percentage of our population now has anything to do with harvests, except to consume them, it has become, and rightly so, a holiday on which we give thanks for all our blessings. Among the blessings for which I give thanks, as sider preparing the Thanksgiving feast, is all the work that has gone before I begin my cooking chores. I con- I CAN immediately think of one thing I am thankful about. I am glad I dont have to kill and pluck the turkey. There, in its icy sanitary package, it sits plump and beautiful, now more nearly ready for the cooking than they used to be, the means we use to cook them are much simpler. Stoking a wood stove for the hours it took to cook i turkey took more work than I now spend preparing the entire meal. Im thankful have I buttons to push instead of a woodbox to fill. IM ALSO grateful for all the mechanical aids I have in my kitchen. When it comes to help, they are just as efficient as the relatives who used to abound in most homes, and much quieter. I give thanks for my electric mixer, though Id trade it for Grandmas left hand, if it included a chance to visit with her again. Im glad have all the little heck gadgets in my drawer. (So called because I always have to paw through it calling, Where the heck is that thing? I STILL, THERE are some things I do just the way my mother and grandmother did them. Unce the aressing is , mixed and the turkey is lying with its empty inside, I still stuff the turkey the way they did and use the same three ' generation recipe. Why quarrel with success? We still bring out the best china and linen and silverware. Our numbers around the festive board have dwindled, but all the more reason to make each years celebration memorable. We still use the same decorations which may appear scraggly to the uninitiated, but to us they are Thanksgiving. GRATEFUL IM on Thanksgiving for family who gather each year. Theres nothing like real live aunts and uncles and young people and a few children to stumble over, while heaped platters are carried to the dining room. This year, however, my sisters have one more thing to be thankful for than I have. This year its my turn to cook the dinner. Theyre coming to my house. pinfeathers removed, its insides out and its edible insides tucked in a neat little paper package all ready to be plopped into boiling water. Having spent some uns- peakably awful weeks in my youth earning a little money plucking turkeys and removing pinfeathers, I know exactly what it is Im glad I dont have to do. I have also disemboweled my share of fowl, and a fowler job I hope never to have to do again. 1 love having my turkey prim, packaged and featherless. IM THANKFUL for corn, off the cob and in a can. Im grateful for whoever dug the potatoes and sweet potatoes and sent them to me in a plastic bag. Imagine salad greens for Thanksgiving. I had to learn to like salad in- my twenties - because before that time out of season vegetables were only found on the tables of wealthy folk. IM appreciative of the foods I have learned to enjoy without ever having been in their cultivation, such as cranberries. I under- stand those little berries which make such a perfect accompaniment to turkey, are the very dickens to pick. Thanks to whoever waded into the bogs to pick my berries. Or are there cranberry machines now? Not only are the things we bring home from the store Teens Referred On Prank Pumpkin - Two FARMINGTON teenagers have been referred to First District Court, Farmington, on charges that they participated in a prank in which pumpkins were thrown from a pickup truck, knocking down scores of mailboxes. THIS INCIDENT reportedly occurred throughout Fruit Heights, West Layton and West Kaysville on Sunday night, Nov. 11, during which time 57 mailboxes were damaged or destroyed. Lt. Dean Egbert of the Davis County Sheriffs Office said vandals apparently stole from a the pumpkins farmers truck and then went on a spree of knocking over mailboxes throughout the rural area of central Davis SIMILAR, but apparently unrelated incident, occurred in North Salt Lake the same weekend, according to Police Chief Val Wilson. A He said that in this case youths were reportedly driving a car onto yards and damaging lawn, shrubs and Vandals also damaged eight mail boxes, he said. THE TWO boys arrested in connection with the vandalism in central Davis County are 16 and 17 years of age. Both are from Kaysville, according to Lt. Egbert. Chief Wilson said no arrests have been made in North Salt Lake, but investigation is continuing. HOUDAY GIFT SHOP All items handmade 10 Days Only -- Nov. 23 -- Dec. 3rd Hours: Mile So. Mon-Sa- t. Thurgoods Mkt. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Environmental Measurements Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, says that external radiation exposure rates in MEANS THIS that presently there is no danger of This data comparable to the mean exposure rate for the entire United States. Open air radiation or the total radiation that would be received by an individual standing at a particular site at a particular time was measured at more than 150 sites in 56 different cities and towns in Utah between June 5 and July 3, 1979. WHILE THE DOE report says that there is no sig- nificant danger due to radiation at the present time, it does not answer the questions as to what the exposures were during the testing aand what the results of that exposure might be, Dr. Mays said. Dr. Joseph L. Lyon, asof sociated professor epidemiology at the Univer residual levels of fission products. . .in soils as a result of nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site during 1951-5- fallout ( The most significant change in the family today is its shift toward an accord with the political system, said Dr. Gisela Konopka, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. THE RECENT tests determined the amount of radia- and plutonium in Utah soils. The results in this report deal only with cesium. Strontium and plutonium radiation were also measured but it will be several months before the results are available. FOR RESIDUAL radiation from aged fallout outside the body, cesium 137 is considered the most dangerous as it can penetrate the body, according to Dr. Charles W. Mays, research professor of radiobiology at the University of Utah Medical Center. "Radiation from strontium and plutonium can enter the body only through the food chain, Dr. Mays said. The tests measured the radiation coming from both naturally occurring radioactive materials and radioactive materials left in the soil as a result of fallout from the open air atomic tests at both the Nevada Test Sites in the 1950s. It also recorded the radiation received as a result of past Soviet and Chinese open air nuclear testing. THE DOE report concludes that radiation rates are fairly uniform throughout Utah and are comparable to other parts from the Energy con- Department of firms an earlier study done by the Utah State Division of Health and says once again that Utah today is a safe place to live and visit, Gov. Scott M. Matheson said. ONE PURPOSE of these tests was to determine the The DOE report states that although about 20 years have elapsed since the cessation of these weapons tests, it was felt that valuable corrobera-tiv- e data could be obtained by examining the residual levels long-live- d certain of radionuclides still present in Utah soils as a result of significant exposure to radioactivity in Utah as the result of past nuclear testing. Utah are fairly uniform throughout the state and are WHILE 2182 So. 2000 W.. Syracuse Vi the percent more radiation from cosmic rays than in most other parts of the countiy. This is due to our higher altitudes. The DOE report shows that Utahns receive between one and four millirads of radiation per year from fallout compared to between 37 and 56 millirads per year from cosmic rays. 50 tion being produced as a result of cesium, strontium County. bushes. This An completed. improvement district will need to be formed before curb and guttering can be installed. Mayor Johnson nearly of the United States, Utahns receive about DR. KONOPKA, a noted social science researcher, was the keynote speaker for Utah State Universitys College of Family Life Week. The people who immigrated to the United States came mostly from European and Asian countries ruled by abThe solute monarchies. families mirrored the political system, Dr. Konopka said. . THE FATHER had total authority over all family members, she said. But during the 18th century, revolutions in the United States and France changed the political system, Dr. ci- Konopka explained. Every tizen was asked to participate in government. WE ARE TOLD we not only have the right, but the responsibility to be involved the professor in governing, said. We teach that the highest value in our society is the dignity of human beings. Then we put people into little systems where we do not allow dignity, she said. ARE only CONFLICTS signs of change. Schools and come to WSC THE FAMILY provides a setting for the necessary intimacy of adults, for the development of children and for the many other things which go to make satisfactory and developmental living, asked the council to spend money in an emergency road fund to gravel and patch Rainbow Drive before winter. The council agreed with this request. Mr. Barnes reported the new city well and storage tank is nearing completion. The storage tank will be tested for use this week. As soon Other substitutes, even in a changing society, just dont work and the family needs to be taken more well worthy of study and planning and seriously, development, Dr. Bockus believes. FACT, families and family living are so important mustnt leave a young couple with only the skills they have learned from their own families, some of which may be faulty. Weve never given the family the chance it deserves to do what it can, he says, adding that all the good things relating to the family just wont happen, but need help and development: IN that we M Radiation: do Higher HIGH TIME Give improvements. has by way of the University of Wiscowhere he helped establish a masters program in family counseling, and Brigham Young University', where he was a visiting professor in family He nsin-Stout, DR. BOCKUS is full of concern for the explosion of family formations which will come with the 1980s, when the children from the post World War war of sity ot utan and the Utah Cancer Registry, period reach marrying age. One of the obvious problems is going to be economic. with inflation, are they going to be able to get the required housing, furniture, and other things which are basic to family life? recently published a study which shows a 2.4 fold How increase in leukemia? in some Utah children during the testing. DR. LYON and other scientists at the University of Utah presently are preparing a research proposal to the federal government for a study of definitive, long-terthe possible effects of radiation as is believed to have occurred in Utah and ; THE SCARCITY of housing will be one of the major factors which almost surely will continue :the,. family. Readjustments can be strenuous for two young people who have both had their own vocations and their expensive sports cars when family responsibilities come. k low-lev- HE IS concerned about split-lev- el families where the children are reared by television and their peers, but still need their parents as primary models. Dr. Bockus sees the coming family explosion as helping to bring a renewed interest in religion because the new parents very likely will want to have their adjacent states during the period of the Nevada tests, Dr. Mays said. The recent DOE study shows that the highest radiation rates were measured in Beaver County and western Iron County. The lowest were in Logan, Cache County. These higher levels are due in general, to greater amounts of all of the naturally nucleides occurring radioactivity-producin- terials, g children adopt the moral values which most religions try to inculcate. PEOPLE, HE says, are hungry to put religious standards back into the family. Sex, or the study said. THE HIGHEST single exposure rate measured was on a private lawn in Monticello which is located near an abandoned uranium mill. THE CONFLICTS in family life have been blamed on rapid changes in technology, Dr. Konopka said. But I dont suppose the impact of current technological changes is greater than when the printing press was invented or when it was discovered that the world was round, she added. Dr. Konopka says there is something wonderful happening in changing families. Young people expect their parents to talk with them. are discovering that parents are people, not just parents, the researcher Adolescents noted. AND IN SPITE of the fact that they are often defined in terms of troubles, adolescents are people, too, and not to be feared. Adolescence is a wonderful and a frightening time for youth. It is almost a time of Dr. Konopka It is a touchy explained. time when youth must find out who they are." rebirth, IT IS ALSO a difficult time s, and the other traditional sources THAT IS, the couple may be having difficulties of some other basic kind which show up as sex problems, alcohol addiction, or quarrels over money. Couples with effective communications skills are able to ride over such things. ma- families are beginning to focus on the human dignity of each individual, Dr. Konopka said. The wish to establish equal rights for all people is not new, the professor said. What is specific and new to our time is that there is an outspoken discontent. The action on that wish is new. money, conflict in a marriage are often only the tip of the iceberg. of Increasingly effective communication is essential as a such experiences as pregdeath, loss of a job, etc., he believes. couple lives togefW through nancy, the first child, illness, for parents, she said. It is a time in their lives when they realize they are growing older and that they may not be able to do all the things they had planned to do in life. Parents of adolescents are questioning and having conflicts, too," she said. . EVERY TIME in life has its problems and exhilarations, Dr. Konopka noted. We must prepare people to cope with doubt. We must teach them to use both their brains and their feelings, she said. SHE URGED the audience to respect the dignity of each individual, regardless of age to express ear love to others. Dr. Konopka was born ii Germany in the early part o and to learn nest, sincere this century. She graduate' from the University of Ham burg and later joined forfe against the Nazis. Af spending a short time ii concentration camp, she caped to Austria and latei France. SHE CAME TO the Uni States in 1941 and becam naturalized citizen in 14 She holds a Ph.D. from Cjoi nell University and is author of over 30 books numerous research article ; John Harvard the nations university. Harvard, had a modest beginning in 1638. The man who founded the school, John Harvard, is remembered each year on the tate tmteen JOHN HARVARD was the son of a builder, was ordained as a dissenting minister (he refused to accept all old church dogma) and soon decided to come to America, arriving in Massachusetts in ITS interesting to cor this modest endowment a recent bequest $100,000,000 to F Perhaps best-know- n 26th of November, the day of his birth in London. 1637. But his life was a short one he died the verv next year. 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