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Show Mossongor-Entorprls- What lurks in the depths of the kitchen drawer? BY PATMELLOR A workman is known by his used my to quote sagely. He was a master carpenter, and his workbench was adorned with vise grips, saws, hand planes, augers, levels, squares and plumb bobs cleaned and shined, with smooth handles and a place for everything and everything in its tools, place. The tool drawer in my kitchen, I daresay he would view in much the same light as he would view the gates of hell. grasp to stock three Peace Corps d nation. outposts in a This thought occurred to me most recently when I watched my husband pry up the frozen hood of the car with the clearly neglected blade of the pruning saw. It worked without breaking the blade of the saw. Another milestone This accounts for the spatula, which is never in the silverware drawer when you need to turn over a pancake. Its in the car, right under the drivers seat. This is because the 173rd snow scraper has disappeared and the spatula is necessary to scrape the ice from the cars window. Why in Mellor repair work . At least we could find the pruning saw. Over the years enough tool inventory has disappeared from our doesnt the' spatula get lost, too? Simple. The family knows if the spatula gets lost, theyre out of pancakes forever. So the spatula makes the transition from skillet to window with amazing efficiency. I know there are others out there this type of with somewhere arrangement, because the other day I overheard my son and a friend debating the qualities of for ice scraping. metal-vs-tefl- Parents can help with school discipline. When children have problems, it to rescue them. But teenagers are becoming adults; they must learn firsthand that were all accountable for our actions. is tempting First, though, understand the schools code. Most discipline districts have a written policy on discipline. It outlines unacceptable behavior and establishes penalties. Ask your child, or the school, for a copy. Read it, and let your child know youre reading it! You gain the respect of your child and the school staff when you take an interest in the rules of behavior. Stress the importance of an orderly school environment. The first fundamental of good discipline is setting standards. Dont assume children know what you expect. Tell them. Then apply those standards consistently showing concern for the childs The behavior may be unacceptable, but the child is still a worthwhile, loved human being. Make sure you say that. self-estee- Painful as it may be for both children and parents, teenagers must accept the consequences of their behavior. They must take responsibility for their own actions. It is also tempting to blame ourselves. Parents often ask, "Where did we go wrong? A healthier question is, How can we help our child to go right? Children must sense parents respect them. that their Even when you "know your children are wrong, you must listen to them. Sharing feelings and reasons is essential to their wellas well as to our being understanding. If you stop listening, theyll stop talking. Recognize the impact of peer pressure. To many teenagers, their friends views are more important than their parents views. Dont friends those or downgrade relinquish your role and become "one of the gang. seam-rippe- Aside from the ice scraper and hood lifter, the kitchen drawer is with specialized instruments traveling incognito. function smoothly and create reasonable repairs with a hammer, a screwdriver, and a pair of Most slip-joi- homes pliers. Ive bought all those things a number of times, but they tend to defect. Brigham used the hammer to open his peanuts from the Santa Claus visit on November 30 and it hasnt been seen since. The screwdriver was last seen being used as a tackhammer (you hold the skinny metal part and hit the tack with the handle, thats how), and the pliers are made of disappearing metal that would be a big help if we could build spy planes from it. but now we are getting r, . Some other tool tips; a vise is ; handy for flattening the ends of curtain rods you are trying to straighten, or for denting the soft wood of the picture frame you are A vise' used to trying to forms an something super-glu- e pop-art sculpture when it interesting adheres to the original broken item. Dont believe what they say about Klissolving. super glue with acetone, and don't hold the item in your hand while you try to figure out what to do about it, unless you are planning to be part of the sculpture. Many home projects require measuring. Some require accurate measuring. If you are using a tape measure be sure to allow for the first three or four inches that are broken off. If you are using the cloth sewing tape', youll need some masking tape to hold it straight. Dont press the masking tape too tightly to the wall or youll peel off the paint, creating another home repair project. If you have a wooden folding tape, it will refuse to straighten completely and will look sort of like a dead safety gate on command. You need to figure each angle of the gate and allow for this difference when computing your final linear measurement. The sewing tape is easier. Failing all of the above, a standard piece of paper is 8'i by 11 inches. Eleven inches is easier to multiply then 12 anyway. On the rare occasions when we actually line up a few of these instruments, we try to keep them in the tool drawer. When tools hear e. Tweezers make fair pliers for very small projects. For a bigger project, you need to be an EMT, and then you will be equipped with Kelly clamps in various sizes. If you are married to the EMT, see the rules wood about disclosure under chisel and "carpenters level". 1 approaching, they disappear Wrenches are nice. Ive seen and in their place you find lamb plumbers use them. Ours are around nipples, scraps of wood, and very here somewhere. I think they were d sharp tacks. Also the cake server, last used by the who which was used last as a spatula needed a robot arm for something. Children need responsible adults (because the car was gone). The Wrenches are always the wrong size, with high standards who care about drawer will not open. The reason the anyway. Years ago, when people their welfare. drawer will not open is that the actually kept track of their tools, screwdriver, which is the tool you ,jqol companies had to make money need to open the drawer in the first somehow. They made wrenches in place, is lying across another several sizes, and nuts, bolts, and valuable tool and preventing the in several other sizes. It jjpes drawer from opening. worked out well. Look at Howard H The stuck drawer is located under S1Vlughes and Hughes Tool Company. another drawer, but that drawer Sometimes I feel that we are going wont open, either. That drawer, backward in time, and that someday which contains the .power, drill and. (like today) I will end up working the saber saw is not stuck'. It is seated t with a rock and a sharp itick.: Last' forever. summer while plowing the garden. Rod found an arrowhead in the back is a tool the out of drawer Getting a game: Kitchen Roulette. The yard. Who do you suppose made , object is to get the tool you need that? he asked, examining the care-before the serrated edge of the steak edge. .1 knife cuts off the end of your finger. and Manny, the family tool-usOne of the handiest tools around general fixer, eyed the pointed top the house is a small wood chisel. A and replied, "Probably Mom, trying chisel something. sturdy wood chisel makes an excellent screwdriver, although if someone actually wants to use it as a wood chisel, its dangerous to mention that youve been using it for a screwdriver. Putty knives are the j The same shape, only thinner, and they Daughters of the Utah make terrible screwdrivers, but if Pioneers will hold their monthly meeting Monday, January 13th at 2 you are careful how you tap their handles with the hammer, they make p.m. at the Ephraim Ladies Gub Rooms. The lesson will be given by fair wood chisels. The trick is to disDr. A.W. Smith tribute the force so that you dont Connie Schnakenburg and a history by Marva snap the blade. It requires expert will be presented Why the move to Manti? of your tools and their Peterson. AH members and others knowledge For several reasons, Dr. Smith abilities to do this. Who says hand interested are invited to attend. We want to be a says. workmanship is dying out? Anyway, family, with a garden, keeping your real use for the chisel a cows (they bought several milk cows secret can add years to your life, in White Mountain), and chickens. if the person who actually especially White Mountain, at an elevation of wants to use it for a chisel is a lot 7,000 feet, had too short a growing bigger than you (and already armed season. you three-year-ol- New chiropractor hangs out shingle in Sanpete Dr. A.W. Smith has opened a chiropractic health care practice in Manti and expects to open a similar practice in Mt. Pleasant as soon as arrangements for office space have been completed. Dr. Smith will receive patients at the family home at 492 South Main in Manti, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and will be at his office in Mt. Pleasant Tuesdays and Thursdays. Dr. and Mrs. Smith and their family recently moved to Manti from White Mountain, Arizona, where he had practiced for six years. He had previously practiced in Mississippi for five years. A native of Mesa, Arizona, Dr. Smith followed a career in business in administration Arizona, California and Utah for several years before deciding to change careers in mid-life. in a He secured degree chiropractic health care from the Palmer College in Davenport, Iowa in 1974. In addition to carrying on a practice, sometimes with several offices and other practitioners. Dr. Smith has worked in a research foundation and as a consultant in his profession. His wife is the former Lillian Koughn, a native of Indiana, whom he met in Mesa. They are the parents of 12 children, all but 10, he says, are boys. Four of the children are married, a daughter is serving a mission in Honduras, and seven, including a daughter who recently graduated from BYU, are still at home. v 4 investigating and decided Manti was the place. Another reason for the change. is because we Dr. Smith noted, decided it was time to slow down to get out of the fast lane. I was involved too much in my profession, maintaining several offices, working with as a associates, serving consultant, flying from place to place. We concluded that a change of pace would be best for the family. Chiropractor Health Hours: Mon., Weds., Fri. - 3 p.Ri. to 6 p.Ri. 92 S. Main, Manti , . Substitution is the name of the tool game at our house. The fiat side of a pair of pliers forms a popular ineffective hammer. The hammer makes a good prop for windows which are raised in the summer. In the winter it goes south, 1 guess. The screwdriver sometimes work as a hammer if the nail isnt too big. The screwdriver is good for small wood chiseling jobs, too, after you have ruined the wood chisel using it for a screwdriver. Its sort of useless to go into mourning for the hammer, because even when you find it, it will be ineffective. Used to kill ants on a sidewalk all afternoon, a hammer develops a rounded head. My father used to have a hammer that did have a rounded head and was called a n hammer, and it took dents out of fenders. Its hard to believe, when youre pounding in a nail with r, that there a rounded would actually be a market for something like this. (If you decide to straighten out any fenders with the by the way, you need to hit the fender from the inside.) The hammer can also be used to crack ice in plastic bags. This is especially good to know if you have used the ice pick for a belt-hol- e punch, chipping caulk out of window panes, or as a temporary tack for bulletin board messages. If you have ice that really needs to be picked, a crowbar is handy, or a ball-pee- ant-kille- ant-kille- r, ant-kill- er a tvuAta idfi you, doll winners V. ;C announced J 4 On December 20 at the Manti Citys auction, a drawing was held to find the two winners for the Manti Homemakers Gub Cabbage Patch Dolls. The two lucky winners were Betty Stevens and Doris Cox, both of Manti. Along with the dolls these two lucky ladies also carried away complete layettes and clothes bags for the two little "kids." The Homemakers Gub wishes to thank everyone in the communmity who helped to make this fund raising local effort a success. Many businesses aided in this worthwhile cause by selling tickets in their respective establishments. A total of S358.00 was raised. This money will be used to purchase a childs respirator for the "With ambulance. everyone working together, we can Manti-Ephrai- m 1 Batty Stavana it olroody In lova with th Cabbaga Patch doll aha won in tha Chriatmaa drawing, aponaorad by tha Utah Homamokara. Dorla Cox waa tha othar happy wlnnar. help our ambulance help our kids, commented Paulette Patterson, chairman. "Hopefully this new equipment will gather dust for a long time, but in the event it is needed it will be available. F ormer Miss Sanpete addresses students "You have powers you never dreamed of. The only limitations are in your mind. The students at the Ephraim Middle School heard this advice at the on on assembly 7. December Tuesday, Alena Krouth spoke to the students and gave them many good ideas on how to develop Miss Krouth was Miss Sanpete in 1984 and is the Snow Homecoming Queen for 1985. Her own life demonstrates the benefits that can come by developing !- PTA-sponsor- Self-Estee- m 1 - 4' 5;:! y self-estee- I J-- 'T'l- - 1 Cv - I : t, 'f-- A. "i- ' I I - tV; - self-estee- The students were advised that some of the best steps in gaining are to think positively, to set goals and taste success by achieving them, always be working on something for your work hard at your goals, help others whenever you get the chance, and organize your time. Each student was given the assignment to go home and write . , - i v m Alona Krouth I Am Great on a paper and hang it on their mirror where they can see it every day. They were also given the assignment to set two goals, one of them a short range goal that can be accomplished in a week, the other e a goal that might take several months. long-rang- . a CITy t&Keil OUl OI SerVlCC w The Lake Powell ferry John Atlantic Burr will be taken out of service for approximately two weeks starting Jan. I . The United States Coast Guard has agreed to minor changes in the ballast and fuel systems of the ferry as recommended by the Utah Department of Transportation. The shutdown will allow those changes to be made and allow time for Coast Guard inspection and the granting of a permanent operating certificate. The John Atlantic Burr had been operating under a temporary certificate of operation since it began ferry service on southern Utahs Lake Powell last July. The first summer of feity operation on Lake Powell was considered a big success. From the ferrys July 3 opening through the end of September, the John Atlantic Burr carried over 4,600 vehicles and almost 500 walk-o- n passengers across Lake Powell. The Utah Travel Council estimates San Juan and Kane Counties realize an additional thousand dollars in tourist revenue each day the ferry is operating its full schedule. modifications are After completed, the Burr will resume winter operating hours between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily. The ferry leaves the Bullfrog Marina on the odd hours of its schedule and will leave the Halls Crossing Marina on even hours. Support Local Business BlTOESi" with a chipped chisel). The same rule applies if you have been using the carpenters level to pound the tomato stakes into the ground. "We looked at the map, did some Dr. "Vac Smith p.m. er DUPNotes ' 9a.m.tol ' fully-chippe- d For Return of, or Information Leading to return of The Ambulance Ephraim-Man- ti Hand-Hel- d I Cabbage patch into sewing. third-worl- Pago Thursdoy, January 9. 19M o, Walkie-Talki- e The Walkie-Talki- e Radio was lost in Ephraim. It is black with a set of blue keys on the front that tune in to the hospital system. The crystals are set to contact the Sanpete Sheriffs Office. Without the recharging base the radio is useless to anyone else. If you know who has it; or just picked it up not knowing what you had, its return iT vital to the volunteer Ephraim-Man- ti Ambulance. Please return it. Contact any EMT you know, or Fred Lohrengel Rod Mellor, or 9 Paul Fore, 283-450- 1, 835-206- 1, 283-664- |