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Show Massangar-Entarprla- Poga 6 Thursday, January 23, 1984 a, Expensive vandalism rears ugly head in Manti are considering placing a fence, with a locked gate, around the childrens play area at the city park since play has once again been equipment Manti police are seeking information in the hope of solving the latest vandalized and a small backhoe designed for children under about in an expensive string of vandalism in incidents culminating the theft of six years of age, stolen. a pay telephone from the floodlit The equipment at the park was front of the Manti Telephone Co. obtained less than two years ago on a office last Thursday night. grant and has been wrecked a The incident in which the number of times. For the city to telephone was unbolted and ripped attempt on its own to replace the from the wall is just the latest in a playground equipment would be Bill two-yestring of more than 60 prohibitive, says city recorder would Mickelson, and anyway incidents of unexplained, deliberate damage, much of it to public probably invite more damage. Other acts of vandalism to the city property, which Manti City officials say is being done by local people, not park include deliberate destruction "outsiders. of the plumbing system in the Earlier this month, the pay restrooms by dropping dirt clods into the toilets, damage to the fence telephone in front of the LDS Information office at the base of around the swimming pool, window Temple Hill was blown up. damage, breaking the lights, lights broken and garbage strewn in the tired officials, Telephone company of vandalism incidents of this type, boweries, and damage to fixtures. Funds to replace such items come simply removed the pay phone booth and there will no longer be the confrom the city coffers. But the public venience of a phone at that location. also pays for the time and labor spent to replace or repair damage done by Costing the public vandals. Telephones are just one facility Police records also show six that seems to attract vandals in instances of streetlights being shot Manti. At the moment, city officials BY PAT MELLOR The Extension Cord by Mary Lois Madsea USU Extension Sendee House Guest The Mouse Known to science as Mus musculus, which originally meant little thief, the housemouse can trace its family tree back to the Russian steppes, where its ancestors busily devoured weed seed. House mice came to our shores with the Virginia colonists. Little thief' still describes the mouse well, because mice do rob their human hosts of billions of dollars worth of food each year. This they do not so much by eating the mice eat very little as by food gnawing into supplies and causing spillage and waste. Mice also contaminate food. They track all kinds of undesirable microbes in on their feet and bodies. And smaller mice bring s disease-carrier- even into your other, home too. These are the lice, mites, ticks and fleas. mice-bom- e Mighty Mouse Physically, the average house mouse, a mere 6-- 7 inches long and weighing less than an ounce, is powerful indeed. didnt You probably mouse can: know that a Consumer interest bills prefiled in legislature BY DENNIS H1NKAMP The following is a preview of prefiled bills of consumer interest for the 1986 Utah legislature session. Smokeless Tobacco Labeling (House Bill 11): This would require all smokeless tobacco products sold in Utah to carry a warning label stating Use of this product may cause oral cancer and other mouth disorders and is addictive. Mandatory SeatBelt Use (H.B. Similar to many other states around the country, this would make seat belt use mandatory. Bicycles Defined as a Vehicle (H.B. 21): Utah is the only state in the country that does not define a bicycle as a vehicle. This creates legal problems when automobiles and bicycles share the road. This act would provide bike riders with all the rights and duties of motorcycle and automobile drivers. 16): Squeeze through an opening the size of a dime. Baby mice, naturally, can slip through even smaller openings. Perform like an Olympic athlete! A mouse can jump 12 inches, and fall 8 feet and land on its toes without injury. It can swim, run up steep vertical surfaces and over cables and wires. It can even run upside down along surfaces if it can get a foothold. Use its whiskers, slightly longer guard hairs on its body and its fine sense of taste, touch and hearing to quickly familiarize itself with new surroundings. (The "blind mice in the nursery rhyme have some basis in fact, as mice have poor eyesight and may be color-blind- .) Survive fairly well without water if there is enough moisture in its food. Survive even in commercial food freezers if it has nesting material to protect it from the cold. Reproduce in litters of 0 young at 35 days of life. The average female, who lives about a year, produces 100 young. The Mouse "House Guest What is life like for the mouse (more likely mice) who's just moved into your place? The house mouse normally nests in walls, cabinets, furniture, stacked boxes, rag piles or stored food. Menu? Not fussy in its tastes, the mouse will nibble cereals, grain, nuts, seeds, lard, butter, meat, bacon, pastry, candy. And when very hungry, mice have been known to eat almost anything . . . including gloves, shoes and glue. Considered a loner, the male house mouse stakes out a small territory of 10 to 30 square feet. He patrols this area about once every 24 hours. This home base contains his food supply, and normally, one or more females. Increase Small Gaims Jurisdiction (H.B.24): Small Gaims Court currently can only process cases involving less than S600. This act would raise the jurisdiction limit to $1,600. Divorce Grounds (H.B. 33): This act would add irreconcilable differences to Utah domestic law as a ground for divorce. Whole Cent Gasoline Pricing (H.B. 39): This would require retail gasoline stations to advertise and sell their gasoline at prices rounded to the nearest penny. For instance, $1.19.9 would be rounded to $1.20 per gallon. Credit Card Surcharges (Senate Bill 23): This is mainly just a change of perspective for marketing purposes. It would prohibit charging people who pay with credit cards an extra charge, but would allow merchants to give a discount to those who pay cash. Charitable Bingo and Raffles (Senate Joint Resolution 1): This would enable the legislature to authorize charitable bingo and raffles. These bills may never make it past their respective committee, much less become law. If you are interested in supporting or opposing any of these pieces of consumer legislation it isn't too early to make your views known to your local house representatives and state senators. Statewide survey to assess health needs A statewide survey of 6,000 households will be undertaken by the Utah Department of Health to measure the health needs of Utah's residents. This is the first time such a comprehensive health survey has been done in Utah. According to John E. Brockert, director, Bureau of Health Statistics, "We don't know the extent of illness and injury for the residents of Utah. The lack of this type of information seriously limits the planning and evaluation capabilities of the Department of Health. The random sample survey will provide baseline information for many of the Department's public health programs. Data will be obtained on such high risk factors as hypertension (high blood pressure), inadequate exercise, excess alcohol consumption, tobacco use, use of automobile seat belts and child restraints, and the frequency of automobile speeding. Brockert noted, "The survey will provide information to estimate the prevalence of diseases and the amount of health insurance coverage Utahns carry. The study will also collect data on the use of medical out by vandals. In one instance, a shotgun was apparently used to blast a light pole. Once again, city residents foot the bill not only for materials to effect repairs, but for time used to make the repairs. Other public facilities damaged in the past two years mostly in the include city vehicles past year such asbackhoes, etc. which had dirt dropped in the gas tanks, cemetery stones destroyed and tipped over, LDS Temple property damaged, windows on public buildings broken, tires slashed, a fire set in a phone booth, a Forest Service trailer vandalized, and safety barricades repeatedly destroyed or thrown into the creeks and flood channel. Private citizens hit, too At least the city residents share the costs of damage done by vandals for these types of incidents. Harder hit are many private citizens who suddenly find themselves singled out, perhaps by chance, perhaps by design, for attacks by vandals. The city police log reports numerous incidents of tire slashings, windshield smashings, or just deliberate battering of vehicles. Fires have been set in sheds, lawns tom up and even driven over, and even a pipe bomb incident has been reported. Shots have been fired into buildings, homes and vehicles. Local businesses have had windows broken, doors kicked in, and other attacks made on their premises. One resident reported a bus vandalized to the tune of more than $5,000 in damage. Even Coke machines have been tipped over and broken. "Wed have trouble placing a dollar value on these incidents, a police officer observed. Even if you can put a cost directly on replacement or repair of an item, you have to add labor, time lost to make all repairs, additional patrol time the things that begin to add up, including investigation time. Even if a private citizen is the victim, we all suffer in the pocketbook one way or another. City officials have discounted the popular notion that vandalism to the community is being done by "outsiders. They point out that during the months of June, July and August last year, when one would expect vandalism by visitors or tourists to be most prevalent, there were only five reported incidents. ' he months Yo' heavy hitter damage appeared to be November, December, February and March hardly the height of the tourist season. Police themselves discount the theory, too, that damage is being done solely by teenagers. Some of the damage has been accomplished with the use of explosives more familiar to adults and generally inaccessible to young people in this area. Police think the culprit who deliberately filled the city equipment gas tanks with dirt may have been four or five years old. Its our attitude, I think, observed Mayor May Peterson. You don't generally see this much damage to public parks and property in bigger cities in California. It has to be a local problem, and it has to have its origins in a local outlook. Were going to have to face up to it: were doing this to ourselves. The rising number of damage reports, and the brazenness of the latest incidents, has city officials worried. They wonder if they dare to make significant improvements to public property, or to invest the public's money in decent play and recreation areas. They wonder what their liability will be if they take the precaution to set up barricades or flashers at temporary work sites or danger spots in the streets, only to have them removed or destroyed. And they worry about the impression Manti City will leave on visitors, when they can't even find a pay telephone because the public cant be trusted to let such conveniences stand without destroying them. "We need to present the image of a town with pride, a town with honesty and character. We need to look like a place where a business would want to be located, where people want to bring up their kids. We don't need this (vandalism) and we don't need the added burden of paying for damage done by a certain class of citizen, a city councilman concluded. Salina Auction Friday, January 17, 1986 Salable at auction 1173 compared to 1302 last week and 972 last year. Good attendance, Good demand. Feeder steers and heifers 1.50 to instances 3.50 higher. Slaughter cows 1.00-2.0- 0 higher. Slaughter bulls 1.00-1.5- 0 higher. Supply about 75 feeder cattle. Feeder steers: Medium and large lbs. 68.00-71.5frame 1: 250-50- 0 500-60- 0 lbs. 61.00-66.2- 5 mostly 0; lbs. 600-70- 0 61.50-63.0700-90- 0 lbs. 57.00-60.0- 0; 900-100- 0 55.00-59.0- lbs. 53.75-57.5mostly partly fattened. Large Frame 2 Holstein steers package 330 lbs. at 44.00; 975-12lbs. 40.00-43.5- 0. 0, Medium and Feeder Heifers: 400-50- 0 1: lbs. 55.00-58.5Frame Large 500-60- 0 lbs. 53.00-56.5package 502 lbs. at 57.25; 600-70- 0 0; 0, lbs. 51.50-54.0900-98- 0 700-90- 0 lbs. lbs. 49.00-51.0- 50.00-53.2- mostly partly fattened. Stock Cows: Medium and Large Frame 1 first class heifers, checked 8 with calf, months pregnant 290.00-385.0- 0 per head. Mixed age cows 7 months pregnant 295.00-350.0- 0 per head. 6-- 4-- Slaughter Cows: High Cutter and 32.75-36.5boning Utility Commercial 4 and Breaking Utility 2-- Few 31.00-34.0- Commercial g Cutter and 35.00-38.0- Utility Canner 30.00-32.5- Good heiferettes 26.00-29.0- 0 41.00-46.5- 0. Slaughter Bulls: Yield Grade lbs. 1395-19- Grade 1150-139- 5 2 and 42.00-45.5- 0. 1 Yield bulls for further feeding lbs. 38.50-42.0- 0. Commissioners install Styler as chairman Millard County Commissioner Michael Styler has been selected as ComChairman of the missioners Organization for 1986. Styler replaces Basil Lay of Piute County who was honored by the group for his service as chairman V , during 1985. ty Commissioner Newton Donaldson of Sanpete County was elected as and organizational Commissioner John Brinkerhoff of Wayne County, as Secretary-Treasurer. Offices are rotated among the six participating counties with nominations made from the commissioners of the eligible county. Other members of the Executive Committee include Commissioners J. Elmer Collings of Sevier, Tom Fowkes of Juab and Basil Lay of Piute. The Executive Committee meets the first Wednesday of each month in the Sevier County Courthouse. General board meetings include all commissioners and are held bimonthly. They are rotated among the participating counties. The Organization represents its member counties on regional issues and operkes several region-wid- e programs in behalf of those participating counties. Carvel V. Maglcby serves as the Executive Director. services for the early identification of health problems. The survey will include a sample of 500 households in each of the twelve local health department service areas. The results will establish a valuable data base for the public health programs offered by the local health departments as well as the Utah Department of Health. The information will greatly enhance the state and local departments capabilities to identify health needs and to plan appropriate prevention and intervention programs. The survey will be conducted using random digit dialing and a computer assisted telephone interview. Staff from the Department of Health and the University of Utah Center are currently Survey pretesting the survey. "We plan to start the survey on January 25, 1986, said Brockert. 1 hope that all those who are called will cooperate with us in this important survey. The time spent answering these questions will provide extremely important information for the future of public health programs in Utah, said Brockert. 12" beater bar Dial-a-na- p Huge top fill bag eONflUMCM PACFtftftCD SPONSOR or THE WEEK The comma is the most frequentlyuised punctuation mark in English and indicates a slight separation in ideps of construction. 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