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Show rage Ben Lomond Beacon 2 Thursday, February 3, 1977 TTDud ejdOs ud G5ue 4DW!! Letter to the pennies by She inch, help scaue Hues Give help to the east BY Melinda Sowerby The cold snap that has hit the eastern half of the United States is devestating that section of the country. Whereas we have not had anywhere near our share of the snow we should have by this time of year, easterners are being buried under editor Geological hazards Doctors were puzzled when Melinda, a baby, weighed only 3 4 pounds at birth. She was, apparently, a normal baby, if rather tiny. At six days she developed spinal meningitis and almost lost her life to the disease. She developed hydrocephalus and it was necessary to surgically place a shunt in her head to drain the fluid from her brain. At the age of three, Melinda began to seizure. From the seizures and problems that followed, she became paralyzed on the right side. Melinda lived in one of the southern states with her parents. A relative living in Salt Lake City, told Melindas parents about Primary Childrens Medical Center. Because Melinda's condition had worsened her parents decided to leave their home and drive to Salt Lake City in an effort to find help for their daughter. In a family council, it had been decided to take up residence in Utah until Melinda improved. She had begun to lapse into comas. It was found that Melinda needed a shunt revision. A new brace was made for Melindas paralyzed leg which has made it much easier for her to walk. Her parents feel that for the first time Melinda is being treated as a total person with physicians and therapists working together to give their daughter a new hope for the future. The Birth Defects Clinic at Primary Childrens Medical Center sees many children such as Melinda. The Clinic had its inception in 1963 and provides care for infants and children with multiple problems. The purpose of the clinic is to offer families a center for comprehensive medical care, as well as support in coping with a situation that has changed the course of their lives. They derive benefits from a new dimension in treatment where multiple disciplines are gathered together in a cooperative effort to treat the myriad and complicated problems which these children possess. The Childrens Fund Campaign, Pennies by the Inch, will help provide care for these children and many more whose parents are unable to pay the medical bills. The campaign begins on February 1 and runs through February 18. Volunteers will call on a door to door Basis. full-ter- the avalanches. President Spencer W. Kimball, or the LDS Church has called for a day of prayer and fast for the people of the east and the hard conditions they face. This is comendable on the part of the LDS Church, and I think the people of the east ought to be in our prayers every day until their terrible condition has been relieved. We can give more material help also. The Salvation Army has issued a plea for blankets to be sent back east to the many homeless victims of the weather and to those poor who do not have an adequate supply. By taking an extra blanket or two or an extra coat to be sent back east we may be responsible for saving a life. President Carter has asked that thermostats be lowered to 65 degrees during the day and 55 degrees at night. If we westerners can save a little of our fuel supplies, maybe, with the help of the utility companies some of our fuel that isnt being used because of our abnormally warm winter can help folks back east. Everyone by now knows what the east is facing and Im sure most are glad it isnt us, although heaven knows we need some more snow, but we should remember the people who are suffering under the hardest winter faced by anyone alive, in our prayers, in our hearts and with material possessions. Editor: There is controversy over developing 800 acres of ground below the face of Ben Lomond. The committee in to this opposition develop- ment have based their case primarily on the proposition that the area is subject to earthquake damage, flooding, slides, etc. The North Ogden Planning Commission is well aware of these conditions and have, over the past two years or so, been studying this problem and trying to evaluate the hazards. There have been who several geologists discussed this problem with the planning commission, the City Fathers and the protest group. There seems to be a concensus among geologists that the greatest damage from earthquakes usually occurs below the fault line. As the members of the committee all live in the area which would be most severely damaged from an earthquake, one wonders if using the hazard geological situation as the prime reason for denying the development isnt a scare tactic to frighten people away from this area. The real reason could well be they desire to keep people -- from moving to North Ogden. One also wonders if the the people opposing development would do so if they owned the land. The problem is not unique to North Ogden. It is state wide. Geological sensitive areas are found throughout the state. The Wasatch Front is a particularly sensitive area and about 80 percent of the people of Utah live here. a INTERNATIONAL - Twelve bomb explosions ripped Oxford Street shopping district in the through central London early Saturday and an anonymous telephone caller claimed the blasts were the work of the Irish Republican Army. member of the IRA said, The The Provisional IRA claim full responsibility or the bombings in London. The campaign will ontinue throughout England until the British government announces a celebration of of its army out of Northern Ireland. The bombings were the first to occur in London once last June. The blasts erupted between midnight and 5 i.m. before tourists flocked to one of the worlds largest shopping districts. London with-lraw- al New Delhi, India - Former Deputy Prime Minister Morarji Desai Sunday urged an .'Stimated 50,000 persons to vote against the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in Indias upcoming elections. Desai addressed the first opposition rally allowed in the country in more than 19 months. He was released from detention on January 18 after being held for the same length of time. Saying he never expected the turnout to be so great, Desai told the large, enthusiastic the people of India, there cannot be For crowd, than fear because the country worse anything becomes worthless. Denouncing the emergency rule declared by Mr. Gandhi on June 25, 1975, the former high official called for the release of 8,000 political workers held in preventative detention and declared that all emergency measures must be lifted. Referring to the suspension of civil liberties, censorship and arrests which followed the emergency declaration, Desai said, Even the British would not dare to pass such a drastic law. Vatican City - Saying Christ was a man and did not confer the priesthood on his own mother, the ope Paul last Thursday firmly rejected Catholic ossibility of women becoming Roman nests. Vatican officials said the papal decision was mal and not subject to change or review. Madrid - A wave of political violence which claimed seven lives in four days of last week prompted the Spanish government to outlaw all mass demonstrations and give the police expanded powers in an attempt to quell the upheaval. The government said the violence was an attempt to provoke the military into taking control of the country and it empowered the police to search homes without warrants and to detain terrorist suspects for up to ten days without pressing charges. The announcement was made as an estimated 100,000 persons gathered at the funeral of five 'ommunists lawyers slain in a machinegun at-- 1 ack. i NATIONAL The East and Midwest - The unrelenting cold wave which is plaguing much of the nation has forced the shutdown of many factories and businesses, causing more than 1.5 million persons to be unemployed. As of Monday, 45 deaths weather afwere linked to the flicting eastern and midwestern states. Sporting a sweater and long underwear Sunday, President Jimmy Carter toured a partially closed Pittsburg factory Sunday and called on Americans to follow his fashion lead and to reduce fuel consumption as much as possible. It is expected that Congressional leaders soon will attempt to give Carter authority to ration natural gas which is in extremely short supply. record-breakin- g Apparently driven by a fit of Prinze despair, television comedian Freddie and brain the Friday early shot himself through work of intensive 33 hours died Saturday despite by doctors to save his life. star of Chico and the Man The television series was described as being despondent over a recent separation from his wife of one year and the pressures of his hectic professional career. After a telephone conversation with his estranged wife Kathy early Friday, the comedian pulled out a gun, placed it to his right temple and pulled the trigger as his horrified manager Marvin Snyder watched. Los Angeles Washington - United Nations ambassador Andrew Young will leave February 1 for a trip to Africa, President Carter anne'"?ed Saturday. The former Georgia congressman gnd civil rights leader will visit Tanzania and Nigeria and plans to meet with several black African leaders to hear their views on African problems and U.S. African cooperation at the United States. ten-da- y New York - Out of office for only a month, , for- mer President Ford wasted little time in negotiating a future in television. Ford has signed a contract with the NBC network to appear in a series of news programs concerning the presidency. Network officials and Ford representatives refused to disclose terms of the contract. The first special is expected to be aired sometime in 1978. Something should be done to people who may desire homes in sensitive areas, but who are unfamiliar " with such however hazards, by using the not ap- proach the protest group is following. One thing which should be done on a state-wid- e basis is to require full disclosure to the purchaser by the developer concerning ground stability, along with a certificate from a licensed geologist certifying the ground is suitable for building the type of structure desired. This would give the purchaser the right of choice and would protect the from any community liability in case of disaster. This certificate would be presented to the appropriate city when a building permit is applied for. The fee paid the geologist would be paid by the seller. Another idea is that we ; should follow New Jerseys a develop Development Right Law." Briefly, this law would assign one development right to each acre of private hr corporate land. It would cover items which are generally considered under the word Development. The right would cover a one family or office unit, etc. Such a right would be in the form of a legal document which could be transferred hr sold. The land itself would nqt change hands, but the owner of such ground who sells his development rights would be required to certify the land would not be sold at a future time for development purlead and poses. Example: One person might own a piece of ground of one acre. It is in an area zoned where he could build a high rise building. He only has one development right which prevents the construction of a high rise building. He goes to a farmer who may have 100 acres of ground who also has 100 development rights and makes a deal with him to purchase his development rights. The man with the one acre is able to build his high rise building. The farmer capitalizes on his 100 acres of farmland, still owns it, and can continue to use it as he has in the past. The assessed value for tax purposes would be as farmland and not as potential development land. Francis W. Woods North Ogden The Ben Lomond Beacon is published each Thursday. Deadlines for each week's issue is Monday at 5 p.m. We welcome all articles from those who wish to contribute. Business office Is 2009 N. 400 E.. Phone 782-390- Washington - In yet another setback for formei President Richard Nixon, the U.S. Court of Ap peals Friday ruled he must yield the famou White House tapes in civil as well as crimina cases. Nixon had fought to keep the tapes out c public domain. 0. Publisher J. Howard Stahle Mrs. Bonnie Stahle Melinda Sowerby Advertising Manager Editor-in-chie- f Correspondent Joyce Gregory - Washington - Bert Lance, President Carters adbudget director, said last week that the ministrations $31 billion economic program may include a $50 cash payment to almost every American, even those not paying taxes. The payments would come mostly in the form of tax rebates and Lance said, We will try to reach all we can: unfortunately, there may be some we cant reach. 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