Show Paae 2 - Millard County t SPS I ffinntments - We get a lot of strant mail hete at the hronule Progress Some is annis mg like our letters Irom God some is annoying hie sohcitiations from the save the killer hies society but the mail that makes me really cross (besides 3rd class junk mail) is the big fanes folders and public relations milk sseget from big companies It never ceases to amaze me why they think we give a damn They wouldn't consider running an advertisment which is the means to pav (he bills so we can continue to supply the news because we don't have a jillion ctrcula tion but they think we will write a lit tie story to tell our leaders how wondeiful thev are In the last week have received 4 folders Irom huge chains The money thev spent on the production and distribution ol their propagnda would buy a lot ol space in small newspapers nd foi the life ol me can’t underI lieu stand their mentality attitude toward us and out readers is insulting W e aie good enough lor tree space but not good enough lor paid space Same old story - middle class Amcnca cairies the country m all aspects - from taxes to our ability to reul a newspaper and the big ones always expect a lice ride Editor Dutson Editorial Marge Mark Editor Managing Amott Fillmore at Large Reporter Advertising Dennis Ashbrook Sales Production 6 Design Fillmore Office Manager Evelyn Mallet Deb Greathouse Accounts Receivable Riley Wood Legal Billing Circulation Julie Ward CirculationComp Commercial Jane PC Printing Beckwith advance Subscriptions 00 months year 6 months year 00 00 out county for county for cents Single Copy Send Address changes to ok 349 Delta Utah 84624 Pella tuTtooM UU Guest Editorial $ You Can’t Have it Both Ways April Horse Council Meeting 3 00 p m (Call 864 3512 for location Mrs Rich (Rhonda Allen) While Bridal Tea 3 5 65 W 300 S Fillmore April 12 Pahvant Senior Citizen Easter Hal Parade and Dance Center Fillmore 7 00 p m April 13 Dance at the Cellar Club Swimming pool’s 2nd Annual Plant Sale 9 am to 12 noon pool patio Della 4 F illmore kite Making workshop ibrary Fillmore Senior Little League tryouts Ball park behind elementary school 5 00 p m April 15 MHS School Musical “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” 7 30 p m MHS Auditorium April 15 & 16 Story Festival Fillmore Library April 16 Millard Scout District Mini Pow W'ow and MHS School Musical “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” 7 30 p m MHS Auditorium Immunization Fillmore Clinic Public Health Olfice 9am to noon April 17 Republican County Organizing Con 7 00 p m Della Noith venlion lementary April 18 7 00 p m Area Giants Banquet Delta High School I unchroom Adult Reading discussion series rdlmore Library Horse Health tare 7 30 p m Delta City Bldg Council Chamber April 20 Dance at the Cellar Club Milford High School Alumni Ir Prom 8 30 12 00 Millord High Gvm illmore kite Festival 10 a m p m North Park fillmoic Fillmore kite Festival North Park 10 (X) a m Ann Juskiewicz and lorry mlmson reception Leamington Ward Chapel USPS Barton - 1985 Community Calendar Millard County Chronicle Progress Susan Apr It W hen vou see things ou like in our paper shop our advertisers and tell them how much ou appreciate all thev do for our communities from advertise so ou know what thev have to offer to all the services we enjoy paid for b the sales taxes they collect When you see things ou don’t like send us a letter to the editor The Publisher Ihurs nnrsearo & Sunflower In the early days of our valley there were many real estate salesmen and promoters They went into other states promoting buying land in this new development Many came and put everything they had into clearing the greasewoods from the land building a home and planting the crops They expected the land to produce like the pictures in the promotion brochures The land did produce well for a few years sugar beets grain and alfalfa seed Then drainage problems and drouth along with the marginal land caused most of the early settlers to leave and the land abandoned In 1909 the Sugarville area was known as Alfalfa then changed to Omaha and then to Sugarville Sunflower was three and one half miles west of Sugarville Mr Janies Ephriam Twitched of Roosevelt Utah heard the stories of the great seed crops and the many opportunities in the Delta valley and moved his family to the new farm in Sunllower His daughter Dora went school to the in Sunflower schoolhouse MI1 The Sunllower Schoolhouse bv Dora Twitched Rose Imagine if you will having eight grades m one room the size of this building It was small in size but the accomplishments and achievements from students who graduated from the eighth grade there were numerous The little band ol learners of this little school attained for qualifications adteachers executive becoming ministrators and exceptional examples I ach year at the closing of school each received a certificate of graduation remember how the students with competent instructors treated and produced their own fun and entertainment The entne school would join together m playing bad dare base Ante-Over pm iMi Clew in Air Force Band Concert rdlmore 8 (X) p m SPRING really is coming Don't let it catch you UNPREPARED FERTILIZERS— 50 lbs Am Sulfate ! plaved There were no buses to carry us to and from school Most of the children rode a horse or walked It was two and one half miles one way for my sister W hen we rode the horse vve rode and double One time the horse slipped and tell on the slick snowy road which was scarcely a road We weie not hurt but we had to struggle to free our legs from underneath the horse One of the earliest teachers was Cora Heise The one we knew was S Ira who Jensen a strict disciplinarian demanded the most explicit response from the students but who took sulfi uent time in assisting all necessary He was my needs of the pupils showed no but hi favoritism towards his relatives 1 he school was named for the native It was Bower of Kansas the sunllower named by the VVicklands and some the Neutches say When there was no more need for school to be held in Sunllower the building housed several families at different times The one little rusted stove is a leg found by the old foundation reminder of the old time pot bellied stov e (hat we stood around to freeze on one side and roast on the other Some say the little building was and burned struck by lightning that is no more another “landmark” Tven though it has gone to rubble the sounds of this “little old school house” still echos those youthful voices once heard here and which will linger in the minds of those ol us who attended school in Sunllower As stood by the old foundation the joy of achieving remembered of tears straight A’s ol anxiety sometimes from fear of the feeling of bchindness but for all most of all the IFA Iron-S- Weed & A& lx V $795 6“8(garden) 1 20 50 Feed 20 40 I M 1980 CALL Garden Seeder Metal Drop Fertilizer Spreader 5 hp Swing Handle Rear Tyne Tiller $695 (All power equipment is $3995 $2295 $72900 serviced running) 5 hp Compact Chain Drive Tiller WHEELBARROWS (unassembled) $2995 April 13 1985 Come see us NOW ! EVERYONE is WELCOME INTERMOUNTAIN 864 2110 Ephraim South Hyw 89 283 4529 federal salat tes should be ttimmed at the top And should liter to all levels without a stop Many taxpayers appear willing to pay a little mote If is would balance things out and pievent a wot Id war Tcdcral taxes could be shitted to the locals or state Honesty and reliability is bettei than federal ted tape ( aly m ( toll lot met Is ol Deseict (hem Utah All memory of unity and ongemahty that existed when all of the families forgot the worries and cares of the day Thete 529 7407 was security true friendship and love that created a desirable atmosphere among the early settlers of Sunllower 2 days 00 w Info: 864-215- 0 INSPECTION evenings SEM 302200 ODiffiEQ) Q5Mb (35EBQlhQF (MDa®0GED G® (HOB G&£njp !!! FARMERS STORES Salma South Hwy 864-353- 000 (it QSSSSb $29900 Prices effective thru Delta 498 West Main Man Congiessmen have inteiests m then “sneted cow And won’t corral the ‘‘beast’’ at least not now They believe m maintaining the old status quo The new may he better but the old will not go What is best lor the country thev won’t or can’t see Thev ate too deep m the toiesi ot behind the tiec For Rental GARDENING EQUIPMENT AMES 4 Cubic Foot Honesty and reliability ate not what thev used to he I) t and it appeals to be restricted m Washington With a huge Federal deficit stating us in the luce Nothing is being done and it is a national disgrace Our elected leadets arc too buss with international allatts Neglecting the deficit and it seems nobodv cares Unique Shopping Experience 2 left spaces Only Spreader A Washington DC OPENING SOON $419 $789 $995 ORTHO Whirlybird for gain7 the their parents Will students school staff and the community at large really be any wiser about drug abuse as a result of an undercover operation7 and their All these questions When answers are very important and detection apprehension are a community’s punishments primary focus it creates an atmosphere not of helping but of alienation and mistrust In light of the adverse affects we would ask ourselves one more question Do we really need undercover detectives to identify students who are No1 Just ask teachers and using drugs7 other school staff members they already know If they do not act on what they know it is because they think school policy is excessively punitive ratically enforced or support services are lacking-they fear reprisals and lawsuits from parents Some community members advocate the use of undercover police in the schools because they say “It is necessaiy to do all we can to stop the ” Well the catch is that drug pioblem these efforts are not comulative The tear and distrust generated and the tual harm done to the students by undercover operations in the school ate antithetical to the kind of atmosphere needed to develop truly effective programs You cannot have it both ways 284 W Main Downtown Delta $8-3- 1 questions: - Who will be apprehended-heausers or casual experimenters7 Will the kids whose drug of choice is alcohol believe that liquor is “safe” because no one is paying any attention to it7 Will the kids who are referred to the judicial system be given any help? Does include Juvenile Court’s approach counseling and treatment? Will future transfer students face other from suspicion and hostility students who fear new students are not who they say they are? - W hat values do young people learn when they grow up in a community where people covertly report on one another not out of loving concern but MAIM STREET MINI MALL f $495 $755 34"0“0(lawn) ! jacks hop scotch and running races tor ad ages to participate At Christmas tunc programs were acted out by the students On Valentine's day there was a decorated box which held valentines to be passed by the teacher to each of the students Dances were often held in the little schoolhouse It was the first time some of the folks had danced but they joined in and enjoyed the good times My lather played the accordtan for the Schottiche the Virginia reel the Waltz and the Tox Trot Sometimes they danced the Quadrille if a caller could be found There was an expert caller in the area Refreshments were served There were many house parties held in Sunflower Many fun games were An American editor and author H L Mencken once said “For every complicated problem there is a simple and it’s usually wrong ” solution Now that vve are being faced with a stu dent’s determined behavior and blase’ attitude about drugs we would like to cling to some “simple solutions” in crackdowns eluding paraphernalia r and bounty programs Too bad none of police operations them are effective Indeed these operations do result in numerous arrests and much publicity as demonstrated in the recent Delta High School undercover exercise Supporters contend that arrest punishment and publicity makes the consequences and they of drug abuse obvious presume incorrectly that the leal ol those consequences is enough to keep from abusing drugs the students Undercover and bounty operations elfect on may have a preventative marginal drug users but thev are not likely to have any serious impact oil kids who are aheady harmfully involved with drugs understand and applaud While what they were trying to accomplish what they did was useless Even the conservative students ones who you might call “straight” have become disillusioned with the police and other institutions involved The kids who got caught were punished not helped to change and most of those were not heavy users or sellers The real dealers and the heavy users got quite a chuckle out of it It was poorly handled on all do not see sides including the media anything constructive came out of it for or for the kids for the schools anybody else Drug use continues unabated in the school tuture consider Before we “ding busts” at the high school we might do well to ask ourselves some serious 89 448 Richfield East 1st So Loa 80 South ffiSSsKil Main 896 6451 bicBwsnii ilrofTtjrofnjir°"(i |