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Show ULiijrii iif 1 1 Mothers V Day by Pat h kA Mellor 1 Trivia . Letters, jr We invite Letters to the Editor from our readers. Letters must be brief (we reserve the right to edit to 500 words), not libelous, and in good taste. Letters must be signed and names will be withheld only for justifiable if Stuff for baby We brought the kid home and he took one look around the crib and screamed. He spent six months sleeping in a bassinet in our room before we could even get him to look in the nursery again. Meanwhile, the cute little baby towels I'd stored in his drawer in the nursery got thrown in the bathroom towel drawer. They always seemed to be the ones I reached when I groped my way out of the shower with soap in my eyes. They were about as useful as a wet Kleenex, and the baby soon appropriated our big, fluffy beach towels, which worked much belter for drying off a wet, wriggling small person anyway. The dog found the tiny baby washcloths in the laundry and carried them all outside and buried them, under the illusion that if we couldn't keep the kid clean we'd send him back and she'd regain all the attention she'd had before he arrived. Baby powder and Baby Magic ended up on the kitchen sink, because most diapering was accomplished not on the special changing table, but on the kitchen counter. Toys formed an obstacle path in twotooms, the playpen took over the patio, the feeding table vied w ith the kitchen table for space in the dining area, and before long the entire house looked like the set for Romper Room. With each succeeding child, however, I persisted in fixing a place for the baby. Every baby has come to earth firmly convinced that its place is right with its mother. Since Mother tends to move from room to room, we are now at the point where if I gathered up all the babys items and furniture, it wouldn't all fit in one nursery, anyway. My kids must have been group leaders in the because they come convinced that being in a room of their own is some kind of punishment, and they must be surrounded by their own people to be happy. No hermits in this bunch. And of course as they travel around the house, they tend to sort of transport their projects, furniture, clothes, etc. with them. One of the more fascinating is their aspects of furniture. I'm not talking about cribs, beds, and dressers. 1 mean lawn furniture. This is something grandparents must buy. I can't imagine there being a market for this type of stuff unless one happened to be a very, very short adult. Every time we pass a miniature chair or chaise lounge in the store, one of the girls squeals, Oh, we ought to buy that for Brigham! child-rearin- g Get real, I say. "The kid is four and he doesnt walk or talk: he just runs and hollers. What would he do with a lawn chair?" I had a kid who actually down in a lawn chair for a minutes once. He was 16 and broken both bones in his left and was wearing a cast. sat few had leg, Other items of children's furniture serve a multitude of purposes. Brigham has a doll bed. A boy with a crew cut who thinks in terms of motors, wheels and footballs may find a doll bed very useful. He can force the cat to take naps in it (pajamas which have been clawed can be mended, but they never look quite the same). He can store trucks in it, and you can hide your baby brother in it and enjoy watching your mother try to telephone the police to report him kidnapped. This particular bed was built by my and has casters on the bottom, which make it ideal to wheel under the kitchen counter to reach food you aren't supposed to have till after supper. I guess one of the reasons that there's so much baby and children's furniture in the world is that we tend to think in terms of using things for the purpose they were designed. Kids see it differently. I think if 1 had it to do over, I'd get each kid four wooden boxes and a big barrel, and see w hat we ended up with. I'm pretty sure, however, that whatever the end result, it would have been on display in the living room, and not in solitary confinement in the Nursery. Gina Hermansen wins 3rd in nation in shorthand Gina Hermansen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Hermansen of Ephraim, brought pride, recognition and honor to Manti High School, Sanpete County, and the State of Utah, the past week in Washington D.C. by placing third in the nation in Shorthand 1 at the National Future of America Business Leaders Conference held in that historic city. Only two states bettered Ginas Utah also was privileged to place the top ten in ten of the other 27 categories. Gina Hermansen with classmate Gina, along Tammy Hansen (who competed in I) and adviser and Accounting teacher Becky Kjar, enjoyed an action-filleweek from June 30. In addition to attending four e d general sessions, two regional meetings and performance times, they were able to tour and visit famous sights in the Washington, D.C. area. Among the sights visited were: the Capitol, White House, Kennedy Center, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Arlington National Cemetery, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Memorial, Viet Nam Memorial, Ford's Theater, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Archives, Smithsonian Institute, several museums, and the Washington D.C. Temple. Over S600 was donated for the girls to compete at nationals by a number of local businesses. Pack it in, pack it out l National Forest, The including the Sanpete Ranger District, is implementing a Pack-It-I" garbage program in all recreation sites beginning the first week in July. Manti-LaSa- Pack-It-Out- The program eliminates the need for taxpayer-financegarbage collection by asking forest users to take their garbage home when they leave the forest. The substantial amount of money that is saved by this program d My wife and I returned to Manti to make our home early in 1981 after an absence of some 45 years. We returned because we wanted to, because it was the type of community in which we wanted to spend the rest of our lives, because we loved and admired the people who lived here. We have not been disappointed! Manti has proven to be everything we had dreamed of. Although I must admit there have been a few problems. After moving in my first concern was trying to get the irrigation ditch cleaned out so I could move the water to my lot to water the dried-ou- t and burned lawn and perhaps even plant a garden. I remember working for several days cutting through the willows that had grown up along the banks and trying to find a way to get the water over the streaks of gravel before it was lost to the dry ground. I fumed and fretted about the loss of the precious water through the process of evaporation and seepage before I could get it to my garden. It Other problems appeared. seemed that every time there was a heavy wind or an electrical storm the electric power would go off for a period of time; we were told a time or two to store drinking water as the water level in the water tank was getting critically low; at one time I thought the old cesspool was filled and that I would have to replace it with a septic tank; seasonal flooding took on a new meaning because it was affecting my neighbors and might affect me next; new and larger schools were needed which to me meant heavier taxes to be paid out of a fixed income; crimes against both people and property increased causing a corresponding increase in the cost of police protection; and the County, and then the City, passed zoning and development regulations trying to tell me what I could and could not do with my own property. We have now lived here five and one half years. During that time the City, together with the Manti Irrigation Company, has developed a system of pressurized irrigation O Best Editors Column by Utah Press Association including 1985 will be used to fund campground maintenance programs, and other recreation improvements on the district. Ranger Ben Black explained. Campers and other forest visitors should prepare now to pack out what they bring with them. Garbage can be easily packed out by using a few Use methods: paper simple containers wherever possible, crush cans, and pack plastic trash bags with your camping supplies. which has almost totally eliminated the worries and fears I had relative to my cherished lawn and garden. This in turn has increased the available supply of water for culinary use by the citizens. New and more efficient flood channels have been developed, and their worth was demonstrated very graphically during this past spring runoff when one of our heaviest snowpacks was handled very efficiently with little or no damage to the residents of the City. e A sewer system was installed which not only eliminated most of our worries about sewage and garbage disposal but also makes our city more attractive to potential business investment and residents. New schools have been built and by wise use of the old buildings a serious problem of housing our City government has been solved. This in the project has resulted beautification of two full blocks of our Main Street, and this together with the work done on our Temple and our other Church properties seems to have had a ripple effect upon surrounding neighborhoods.' As you drive around town many homes, neighborhoods, and in some instances entire areas have been cleaned up and beautified. The zoning and development regulations have caused may temporary problems for some directly affected but on the whole they have improved our City. Our police and fire protection has been greatly improved and yet it has been done in such a manner as to be almost unnoticed by the great majority of our residents. city-wid- I am sure there are problems remaining. Much still needs to be done. But we should not lose sight of the fact that our leaders have chosen wisely and well for the majority of us and. in my opinion, have not lost sight of the occasional seeming injustice to individuals concerned. My hat is off to our present Oty and County Government. And a vote of thanks is certainly due to those who served us in the past. Wilbur P. Lund Pearl E. Lund One dim hope (Continued from Page I) Rio Grande and allowed them to abandon the line. The State of Utah, alarmed at the declining economy of the Central Utah communities which found themselves without rail service, interceded and appealed the decision. From that appeal came the court's decision that the State could have until June 30 to purchase the line itself for SI. 3 million. The fact that the Denver and Rio Grande would, of its own accord, allow the State another 30 days to find a purchaser is an indication that the railroad might be more willing to have SI. 3 million in hand than to spend the time and money necessary to scrap the line and salvage its materials, Nielsen said. It also leaves open the possibility that, should the State be unable to find a purchaser for the line, the Denver and Rio Grande might be willing to negotiate privately with one of the companies for the sale of the line. Kentucky taking performance first place and Kansas second. in To the Editor: State was the Although successful in acquiring an option to purchase the line, the State is not interested in getting into the railroad business, and one of the conditions on which the sale of the line is predicated, is that the purchaser have a firm plan to repay the state, preferably at the time of the sale. The State is scrutinizing its bidders for the line with an eagle eye, making sure of their financial stability. Because none of the bidders on the first round demonstrated any firm plan to reimburse 3rd place in Nation for Editor's Column in 1981 Four times Manti is dream come true house the other night, picking up the baby's items all over the place, 1 could hear echoes of my mother's voice giving me advice 20 years ago. Dont worry about where you are going to have the Baby's she told me when we Room, were expecting our first. Every room in the house becomes the Baby's Room. True enough. For our first, I persisted in readying a nursery. I assembled, painted, quilted, curtained, pillowed, arranged and by Max E. Call reason. Any one writer may not submit a letter more than once a month. Letters must be submitted to the Messenger-Enterpris- e exclusively. As I was wandering through the . . the State for its $1.3 million purchase price, all bids were rejected. LaVaun Cox, a member of the task force, said he personally was disappointed in the number of bidders (three) and the proposals offered, none of which featured a plan to repay the State. More than 20 groups inquired about the bidding, he said, and eight or nine of those were solid firms with the type of financial backing the state felt would be adequate, he added, but in the end, only three firms actually bid on the line and none of those offers met the specifications set forth by the state. The State also wants to see a route plan and a firm commitment for operating the rail line, projections, etc. Task force members indicated they are not just concerned with handing over the rail line to another owner, but with seeing that the purchaser is firmly committed to operating the line, will get it into operation as soon as possible, and will adequately serve the industries of Sanpete and Sevier counties. Thats the real reason we got into this in the first place, a committee member noted. It's not going to do any good just to hand over ownership to someone whos just going to sit on it, or who doesnt have the funds to put into it to restore rail service. If these bidders cant come up with the $1.3 million, how are they going to come up with the SIS or $30 million its going to take to get the line back into service? We want to be sure, after all this work, that were not left with egg on our faces and a railroad that still isnt functional. The proofs on the way Some people are skeptical they dont believe I really had lunch with President Reagan. After all, you dont have any pictures to prove it, they say. hold Well, you skeptics, just on. galleons. As we sat down to the table there was a nice young lady and Bruce Nell enjoy on the lakes in southern boating Utah. Karen is a little nervous once in a while. On one such trip Karen (official photographer) who did snap some pictures of us. This week I received a short note from my host (Sue Mathis Richard not Pres. Reagan) saying that indeed they were sending me a but it hasnt yet picture arrived. Every day when the mail arrives, I hopefully search for that big envelope from the sky that will contain the proof I need, but as yet to no avail. recently. Karen was admonishing Bruce to be careful. Look, said Bruce. "Ive boated enough in this lake to know where each rock and sandbar is. At that point the boat struck a submerged rock, producing a crunch from stem to stern. There!" said Bruce. "Thats one of them now! If it doesnt come soon, I'll begin to wonder if it really did or if I just imagined it happen The other night I saw Harlan Ashby making a supreme effort to keep up with a large dog at the end of a leash. all. I promise to share it with when it comes naturally. you Where are you taking him?" asked as he trotted by. Beth and I always fasten our seatbelt when we get in the car. Well, almost always. If you are one of those seatbelt resistors, think about this: his mind where he wants to go, Im gonna take him there! While Kathleen Jensen was taking care of the drive-uwindow at Zions Bank, a lady drove up and asked to cash a check. I'll have to see your license before I can cash your check, Kathleen said. p y building; 2. Half of all deaths and serious injuries occur at speeds under 40 m.p.h.; Without a word the woman drove off, leaving the uncashed check at the window. 3. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among people between 5 and 34 years . , I "I don't know yet, Harlan replied. "But when he makes up 1. Slamming into a windshield while driving 30 m.p.h. carries the same force as jumping off a three-storheadf.rst old; Did you know that Christopher holds the world's Columbus He economy mileage record? crossed the ocean with just three A minute later she pulled up to the window again and asked for her money. Kathleen repeated that she would have to see her license. Well, for goodness sake!" the lady exploded. If you didn't look at ir the first time I pulled away, I'm not going to 4. You have a in 5 chance of being in a car accident this year; 1 5. A popular misconception is that seat belts can prevent you from escaping from a burning or submerged car. The opposite is true; first, less than .5 of all accidents involve car fires or water; second, a seat belt can help you remain conscious so you can exit faster; show it to you again!" Not so trivial: A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. 6. 3 out of 4 car crash deaths occur within 25 miles of home. State prisoners will bring in $30 day BY PAT MELLOR Effective Tuesday, July 1, Sanpete County will receive $30 per state prisoner per day, Sheriff Anderson told the Sanpete County Commission at their regular meeting. The Utah State Legislature approved the rise in compensation at their regular session, bringing the pay up from $23. per-die- Sanpete County now has four inmates from the Utah State Prison and the sheriff said five more will probably be brought in on July 21. The County plans to hold up to 10 state prisoners in the Sanpete County jail at a time. More prisoners from the state penitentiary, the sheriff said, would tax the capabilities of his staff and also create problems in housing the countys own prisoners. Deputy Curt Lund advised the commission that the county is scheduled to receive $10,044 from the State of Utah to house the countys own felony prisoners who are sentenced to the Sanpete County Jail by the Sixth District Court rather than being sent to the Point of the Mountain. This funding, Lund said, is in addition to that which the county will receive for housing prisoners from the state prison. Commission Chairman Wendell McGarry told his fellow commission members that he would be in favor of looking into the construction of a state regional prison with 100 units out in the county", as a means of providing employment for local people. We tried that once already," someone reminded him, speaking of the plan presented a few years ago to construct such a facility in Ephraim, which met with local opposition. Yes, but this time it would be out in the county, not in one of the towns," McGarry said. 1 think it would be well to look into something like that. Sheriff Kennard Anderson agreed, stating that such a regional state prison facility would employ 33 persons. Sperry workers eligible for assistance Approximately 430 workers at Sperry Corporation in Salt Lake City and Ephraim, Utah have been certified by the U.S. Department of Labor as eligible to apply for trade adjustment assistance. The certification covers workers separated on or after Jan. 1, 1985 who manufactured personal computer assemblies and at the affected facilities for at least six months out of the year prior to layoff. The Trade Act of 1974 provides that workers who believe they have been or will become totally or partially separated from employment as a result of increased imports may petition the secretary of labor for certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance. Assistance to workers under the Trade Act may include cash trade readjustment allowances, limited training opportunities, employment services (counseling, testing and job placement services), job search grants, and relocation allowances. A petition was filed with the Department in Nov. 1985. Trade Labor readjustment assistance payments will be administered through the Utah Job Service with funds provided by the federal government. Letters to the Editor Support Freedom of Speech! |