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Show I WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL. MARCH c. IS 1980 NORTH DAVIS LEADER. MARCH 6. 1980 High Time HOIIHIH m IU1 Ini Ini By FLORENCE BITTNER FARMINGTON Faced with the prospect of losing millions in federal impact aid, the Davis County School District has brought out the trimming shears. assignment included over- IN A move slated to save $172,000, district officials de- culum duties for the secondary level. Other changes will include elimination of elementary music and social science supervisory posts. Secondary Music Super- cided Wednesday morning to assignment consolidations and changes in administrative positions at the district level. Public information officer Bonnie Durrance said no replacement will be named for the deputy superintendent d post formerly held by schools chief Lawrrecently-appointe- ence Welling. Part of his seeing elementary school riculum. cur- THAT JOB will be taken up by Ass't. Supt. Gayle Stevenson, who will add it to his curri- visor Wayne James will assume responsibility for elementary grades, as well, while counterpart Larry Wilson will add the elementary grades to his social science post, she said. will find a way around such JEAN MADSEN, who had overseen elementary music, and Ralph Davis, former elementary social science supervisor, will both see as yet unnamed positions resulting from opening of three elementary schools this fall, Mrs. Durrance said. In further consolidation moves, Dallas Workman, elementary curriculum director, will act as administrator elementary instruction and personnel duties while Grant Steed, who worked with secondary curriculum under Mr. Stevenson, will oversee secondary personnel and curriculum, she said, tb We received such enthusiastic response from the last column of handy household hints that we have a tew requests for advice left over. Since this isnt a column on how to deal with leftovers, well clear them up immediately. REMINDS ME of an old knew back in my hometown Charlie South put ketchup on his stringbeans. Of course he ate out in the hills when only his burrow knew, and he put ketchup on everything else too. Once a y ear or so he got into town and would treat himself to a meal in Mas Home Cooking Cafe, and no matter what he ordered, he poured ketchup on it. Ma stood it about as long as he could (Ma. as you might suspect, was really a burly Dane name ol Hans Jensenl. prospector DEAR MRS. B. My husband is a good man. kind to dogs and children, never forgets birthdays. but he has one habit that will drive me to a hatchet or divorce court, depending upon which is handiest when finally flip. He puts ketchup on his string beans. What do y ou suggest? Nauseated. 1 Dear Nauseated. You do have a problem, dont you? A number of solutions suggest themselves such as separate but equal dining facilities, hiding the ketchup, cooking only corn, but a wily ketchup eater High Time 1 FLORENCE BITTNER South's Considerable has been said lately about the plight of the aged in our society, and theres no denying they have a plight, but it's not one sided. What about the plight of children who are denied close daily contact with their grandparents? These are kids without roots. If you don't know where you came from, how can you know where you're going. WHY GRANDPARENTS? Well, there are cookies, of course, and a lap to sit on when youre little, but what about when you get older and dont need cookies and laps? 1 know what my grandparents gave me. Though the last of mine died more than thirty five years ago, I still have ties to wagons and fireplace cooking and patchwork quilts and spinning wheels and cording wool and long horn cattle drives and wild cowboys who came into town on Saturday night, got liquored up and shot up the town. I didnt live these things except vicariously through listening to my grandparents, but because I grew up with this kind of talk, these experiences are fiber of me and will be handed down to my children. Naval Figure Nimitz The towering naval figure World War II in the American Navy was Admiral Chester Nimitz. Nimitz was born on the 24th of February, 1885, at Fredericksburg, Tex. he leaned toward West Point but won an AS A youngster appointment to the Navy Academy at Annapolis in 1901. After graduation in 1905, Nimitz was sent to China and thqugh he asked for duty abbard battleships was assigned submarines. In the First World War he served on the staff of the commander of the submarine force in the Atlantic. BY 1939, he was an admiral and chief of the Bureau of Navigation in Washington and already considered to be second in the Navy only to Admiral Harold Stark. Following the Pearl Harbor disaster, he was sent to the Pacific base (Dec. 17, 1941) to take command of the Pacific fleet. He served there for the rest of the war, eventually commanding the largest and most powerful naval force ever assembled. THE U.S. Navy began World War II with inferior and though the the earJapanese won many of between ly naval engagements the fleets, the Navy gradually emerged during 1942 and early 1943 as the more effective fleet. Submarines of the U.S. Nimitzs old specialty Navy were outstanding and did more than air power or surface units of the fleet to strangle the economy of Japan. BUT AIR and surface forces were also brilliantly utilized; the architect of this ocean triumph was Chester Nimitz. THERE IS a long thread leading from the past to tomorrow and if our children are to grasp it and feel they are part of a continuing life stream, they must know what has gone before. They must know what those who preceeded them built and what their inheritance is not money; life and how to live it. My children are all out of grandparents, but while they lasted, they filled our next generation with the lore and learning of a generation with which they will have no more contact. THROUGH MY father they learned to love the country down around the four corners. They know where Bull Holler is and where Whipstock is and where the cowboys used to hold the cattle on roundup and who named shirt-tacorners. They know where Posey and his gang came up out of Recapture and shot the tires on Uncle Edson's car and where Joe Bishop's boy got shot and where the old flour mill used to il be. They have seen and touched the huge steam tractor my father drove out at Grayson Ranch soon after World War I. FROM THEIR father they learned another life. They learned about city life and how people lived in New York City neighborhoods when they emigrated to the new world, and Recreation Area Use Fees Set that their grandmother was caretaker on Governors Is- head. doubt that Charlie South land in New York Harbor and that their grandfather sang m the church choir where the wealthy from New York came on Sunday dressed in their beaded and tucked and bustled finery. A child who has no contact with his past will have a gap in his foundation stones. He will never really know who he is. FROM TIME immemorial grandparents have been tellers of tales. In ancient cultures, this recounting and passing on of the history and traditions and beliefs of the people was the duty of the older members of the tribe and was not taken lightly. It was a responsibility, and it was the responsibility of younger people to listen and learn and remember. Today we are in danger of losing this generation span to television's pablum so we wont have any past except soap operas. If our young seem rootless, perhaps it is because no one took time to plant those roots deep into the past. Perhaps grandparents have Elected To Four Terms BUT BU'k to your problem. Have vou considred serving ketchup as a vegetable forgotten it is their job to tell stories. NOT SO with my father w ho was the last of my children's grandparents. He loved to tell almost as much as they loved to listen. When we drove in our car. he had one boy on each side, rapt and as absorbent as sponges, as he told how he used to drive the mail in a Model T over dirt and sand roads in all kinds of weather. As 1 listened to him, I went back another generation and remembered niy Uncle Sam A Clown? Did you know that the familiar Uncle Sam figure was modeled after a circus clown? THE TALL thin man in the mothers top hat, gray goatee and striped pants was patterned after Dan Rice, highest-paiclown of his time. His time father telling me how he and another cowboy trapped a d mountain lion and brought it into town and sold it to a zoo and how frightened all the livestock in the town were when the animal roared from its rope and pole cage. was from 1840 to 1870. At 17 years, Rice bought a Lord half interest in Byron, a pig who was trained to count and to forecast coming events. Rice spent his life following the circus. WHEN RICE became a clown, the standard clown makeup was white, with red and black. But Rice added the new famous Uncle Sam goatee, then designed his own suit of stars and stripes to complete the outfit. When political cartoonist Thomas Nast saw Dan Rice perform his act, he was inspired to draw the cartoon that eventually became known as Uncle Sam. Rice earned the then staggering sum of $1,000 a week. AT ONE time Rice owned his own circus but fire and financial problems caused his 30 years to be spent in near poverty. I CAN see now his busy mustache as he told the story and how his eyes sparkled with the telling and how his hands showed the size and shape of the cage. In my dreams through all the years I have heard that lion roar and shivered. but not with fright because always with the lion came the memory of rough, gentle hands and love which could keep even mountain lions at bay. Grandparents are great for cookies and pennies for the piggy bank and for babysitting, but that is not their function. They are links in a chain : they are the repositories of history: they are the gateway of tomorrow. The only president ever elected to four terms, and the only one likely to be. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was born at Hyde Park. New York. Jan. 30 March, 1980 in 1882. THOUGH appraisals on FDR vary widely, he was a With the establishment of a master politician beyond boat slip allocation and use doubt. His unquestioned conpolicy by the Utah State Board tribution to the nation was resof Parks and Recreation. Feb. confidence and hope 8. 1980. an approved Park and toring and bringing the country out of Recreation Area Use Fee the depths of its worst deschedule is now available. pression. Many now in their seventies THE 1980 fee schedule is in or eighties can testify that they keeping with legislative direcavoided losing their home or tive which charged the Utah were able to educate their chiState Division of Parks and Reldren. only because of the creation to become more and emergency with respect to park measures of the first Roosevelt 1979 The Utah Administration (1933-36operations. State Legislature directed the division to: "diligently pursue NO AMOUNT of argument plans to increase fee collecthat many of the emergency tions to 40 percent of costs of were faulty or wasteprograms state operating parks. ful will convince them they The division responded to were not badly needed, that this directive in 1979 by colends didnt justify the the 36 lecting percent of its operatmeans. ing costs supported by the There is dispute over FDRs rationale that those who use in leading the nation into role park facilities should foot the War II. though the PresWorld bill. ident undoubtedly felt this course was necessary to safeTHIS SAME rationale preguard democracy and crush vails with 27 park and recreaHitler and Japanese milition areas charging $1 day use tarism. fees; five will have a $3 camping fee; 10 will charge $4 for AT THE time, when camping; 13 will collect a $5 Roosevelt was quietly aiding will a collect one camping fee; England, attacking $6 camping fee; 19 will not and pushing Japan into a corThe fee. a camping charge ner, most Americans were unhigher the camping fee the aware of the whole story. But more facilities there will be the United States available to the camper, e.g. A certainly from the Second emerged $6.00 fee provides sites with the most powerful War World elecsew'er hookups and-o- r in the world. country trical hookups. Yet world communism was Other fees have been inalso greatly strengthened, creased as evidenced by the while democracies like Eng1980 fee schedule. Imposed land and France were devasbudget restrictions and general tated. austerity in slate government have made Xiese increases Repeat Performance necessary' in order to permit Who was that blonde I saw the division to continue operyou with last night? ating park and recreation faciThe redhead I was with lities at a level demanded by the user. Thursday night. pump-primin- g ). unseen, Spring faintly cries; Bidding her earliest child arise, March! Bayard Taylor States Supreme Court; March 18, that of Grover Cleveland, the only American president to March is a turning-poin- t, when winter at times begins to give way to warmer weather and the first signs of spring appear. In early colonial days, the year began in March. The name of the month comes from Mars, which in ancient Italian meaning was the name of the God of War. Bryan, and March 29, that of President John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States. Girl Scouts Day is March 12 and March 30 is the anniversary of the day in 1868 when Russia ceded Alaska to the United States for $7,200,000. Far-of- serve two terms as president; March 19, -- SPRING OFFICIALLY that of William Jennings Syracuse be- gins on the 20th this year. St. Patricks Day is the 17th and the month is a notable one for Births New York. Texas. M.,.nd and Massachusetts. Maryland Day falls on March 25. Albany became the capital of New York on March 10, 1797, and A boy arrived to Mr. and Mrs. Glen A. Cook of 507 West 2700 South, Syracuse at the Davis North Medical Center in Layton on Tuesday, Feb. 26 and weighed in at 7 lbs. 6 oz. His parents have decided that his name will be Brody Willard, and he was welcomed home by a brother Cory and three sisters, Glenna, Melanie and Faylyn. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Willard Miller of Larkspur, Colo., and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cook of Syracuse. Mrs. the United States Military Academy was established at West Point on March 16, 1802. EvacuaIn Massachusetts, tion Day in Boston is commemorated on March 17. The Boston Massacre took place in March of 1770. FOR TEXAS, March is historical. On March 2, 1836, even while Santa Ana was the Alamo, Texas was declared independent of Mexico. March 6 is Alamo Day in Texas, anniversary of the fall of the Alamo, in 1836. Many birthday anniversaries occur in March. March 3 is the anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell; March 7, that of Luther Burbank; March 8, that Elizabeth Stevenson of Layton is the greatg- randmother. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Waite are parents of a baby daughter who arrived at the McKay-De- e Hospital in Ogden. She tipped the scales at 7 lbs. 9 oz. She is the couples second child. of Simon Cameron, who founded a political dynasty in Pennsylvania which lasted for decades. MARCH 16, that of President James Madison ;, March-17that of Roger B. Taney, fif- teenth justice of the United , COLOGNES and aftershave lotions are good examples, according to the lntermountain Regional never heard of course? putting string beans on their ketchup. Dear Mrs B I decided to make mvsell a satin party dress ami got along just line until came to the gusset. Can you tell me an easv way to put in a gusset Puzzled. would have been much upset except that tie had to take a bath. Nobodv ever knew of Charlies taking a bath before, but he said the ketchup drew flies. Don't know whether that ended the ketchup feud, but it did make Charlie pleasanter to stand downwind ol lorawhile. By Christ- innocent-lookin- mas gift might be a hazard to a small child ONE DAY when Charlie South showed up and ordered the blue plate special and began dousing everv thing with ketchup, ketchup in the soup, ketchup on the salad, ketchup on the potatoes. Hans stormed out of the kitchen and poured the rest o! the tannly sized bottle ot ketchup right on Charlie I An They have a son Clint, 2 Vi. The new miss will be named Stephanie Lynn. Mrs. Waite was the former Jeri Thurgood. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Grant B. Thurgood of Syracuse, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Rasmussen of East Layton, and Rodney Waite of Roy. 1 anv-on- e Poison Control Center. These common Christmas gifts contain ethyl alcohol or ethanol 1 - DEAR FIZZLED. Ive heard ol splitting a and flipping a but whoever heard of .' could putting in a gusset probublv help vou more effectively it knew u si what a consists ol From u ar question. I've guessed a gusset is part ot a dress and is in some manner constructed on a sewing machine. don't know who referred you to me as an expert on sewing. but let me tell you about my high school sewing teacher who left the teaching profession and took up professional golf alter the yeai was in her class. 1 i Shave-Ye- s, Swallow, No A GHints lpp measures. lifts $1 ll, iil Slap Of After A the same type alcohol found in alcoholic beverages A child rarely is seriously hurt by drinking an after- harm a small child Initial symptoms are that of drunkenness, nausea, vomiting, slurred speech and stupor. The more serious symptoms are coma, lowered body temperature and breathing difficulties Inexpensive perfumes also uintain high concentrations of alcohol, according to Dr Nail Gullekson polish remove) is anothei similar that substance regulailv poisons children EAEN though most ingestions of colognes, lotions and the likes are not serious, paients should con- shave lotion or cologne because the taste is so bad that little is ingested," says Dr. De Gulleksoo noison pharmacist Ji Lmveisity ol But Utah Medical Center atter-shav- sult Contiol Poison the e Center," sas Dr Gullekson These pioducts cause manv accidental poisonings, we avciage two to three calls a dav the chance exists that an infant could swallow enough to cause a coma and respiratory failure " telephone the Intel 1 MANY OF moun- tain Regional Poison Control or (outside Center at these products contain as much as 90 percent alcohol and as little as f ounce mav to the one-thir- d 800-66- one-hal- Lake Salt area) 4225 1 SHE SAID at least in go'1 c was allowed to use a s. where she thought it would do the most good. It was pure rumor that she named hei golf balls altei loi mer students, but I will sav most of us steered clear ot goll courses where she might be plaving As to your question, may ask if vou've considred strategic zippers.' 1 DEAR MRS. B. My son has taken a fancy to snakes. He brings them home and hides them away in boxes and things and I'm afraid of snakes. Frightened. Dear Frightened. You has e cause. Fd fear not onlv the snakes, but the son as well I KNEW a boy once who loved snakes, and while don't want to upset you. I should warn you that he progressed to even more peculiar actions. He slept with a pet turtle and was seen talking to eorpions. Teens A & new, respected study by Cincinnati scientists has found that cigarette smoking among teenagers causes immediate University of and damaging changes in the bodys blood supply. THE involved STUDY thousands of youngsters, some as young as ten, and the finding of Dr. John Morrison and his colleagues was that the damage caused could lead to early artery and heart disease problems for young smokers. Financed by the National Institute of Healtj), the study reported recently its findings to the American Heart Association. Cigs THEYRE considered highly relevant in todavs society because tobacco companies are today openly aiming their advertisements at wuh one picyoung people ture after another of an especially healthy, robust young man or woman testifying as to what he or she likes about this or that cig It's timely too, because girls are being increasingly and their lung addicted as cancer rate is soaring they emulate the behavioral pattern of males, who have in recent years somewhat turned away from cigarette - addiction 1 1 don't know wi,..i lin.dlv be- came ol him. but the last time I saw him. he had the strangest habit of flicking his tongue in and out very rapidly. That takes care of most of the backlog of mail, and thank you. dear readers, for your confidence. Always glad to be of service. Clean Humidiliep Unexplained respiratory problems could be caused by Owners organisms which can grow in humidifiers. should clean portable equipment at least once a week with a detergent and refill with fresh water containing a chemical such as copper sulfate. For units built into furnaces, the screens should be cleaned frequently and treated with a growth deterrent. growth-deterre- Small Businesses And Government . GRANT EVANS. Acting District Director Dear Mi . Evans: As a small business owner 1 am determined to stay in business de- By spite some tough survival odds against me. I can take competition. labor troubles, difficulties in getting capital, but trying to get government off my back regulations, paperwork. taxation, inflation seems almost hopeless. I would like to sound oft to someone but how do do it'' WHAT VOU say makes s bering reading. Small businesses identity government actions as their greatest source ol more than market difficulty competition or anv other private sector difficulty. Small businesses are increasingly irked at the amount of employee time spent on doing what government not the requires them maiketplace to do. All of this was brought out clearly at the recently held White House Conference on Small Business attended by approximately 2(H) Utah Business persons. WE FOUND that Small business owners are upset at the number of government hums they have to fill out. They also feel discriminated against in the tax process. Recently, several avenues of relief from government taxation and red tape have opened up for small business. That's because small business is beginning to speak as a unified voice. SMALL businesses and small business organizations are forming their own big" lobby that will work for their interests, just as big" lobbies work for big business, big government. and big labor. Last year, for example, this big" small business lobby and got campaigned for remedial lax relief for small business despite opposition from some government agencies. labor organizations, and other interest groups. THE NEW undying voices for small business came from three sources. First, coalitions among small business trade groups have been formed to support major public policy issues affecting small business. The changes in tax policy voted last year are one example. SECOND. THE House and Senate of the U.S. Congress have formed separate Small Business Committees that now' have the power to di alt legislation lot small business. Ihird. the Small Business Admimsti ation itself, a old government agenev created to lostei a good climate loi small business, has taken on a g'eatei advocacv. or ''ombudsman'' role loi small business SB A continues to of let standout services loi getting government contracts, loans and management assistance THESE THREE laclois bode well for small business. lwo impoitunt developments enietce Horn these m- ct cased "lobbving activities th.it otter an excellent chance lor small business pel sons, like you. to be heaid he Inst wasamaiorWhite House loi Small Business C held in Januaiy. in Washing- ton About 2.000 delegates attended SB A also is dealing "Pio-te'e- t 200 Plus. with a goal ol oigunizing 200 or moie small business opinion leadeis horn each state to "tell it us it is" to the government Upsets Affects nullify To Learn By DR. DARYL J. MCCARTY Funny how we sometimes overlook the things that can seriously affect the ability of children to learn in school. LET A family argument occur just before young Carl leaves for school. It may upset him so much that he simply can't concentrate on his studies foi hours. A problem with a friend or another student can affect a young person the same way. SOME youngsters come to school hungry . and teachers will tell you emphatically: Hungry kids can't learn. Many a teacher is confronted with the problem of a youngster falling asleep in class. Parents can help to remedy this problem by making certain that students get to bed early enough to get proper rest. SOMETIMES, it's a physical problem that stands between the youngster and learning. If a child cannot hear well, that child may not be able to learn well If Carl can t see the blackboard, he may be missing a major part of his lessons. Those are problems that often are easily overcome. once recognized. As important as any of those learning problems is one in our society today. It's child abuse physical injuries inflicted on a child. Often the abuser is a parent. that's growing MORE AND more cases of child abuse are being ported to authorities. re- frustrations on children in this the harming them physically and emotionally adults are making it difficult, if not impossible, for the schools to teach these battered youngsters. As parents take out their way THE PROCESS of education involves the "whole child. All parents should do everything they can to see that their children are treated fairly, kindly and with high regard. Mental, physical and emotional stability add up to a child, capable of getting the very happy, most out of school. d |