Show I'SPS Millard County Page Ihurs 21 August 1986 Back to School THE SE GHHHG OE SCHOOL CAH MEAN AEtV T CAHMEAH f Off ACHAHCE L x(4 ffffiEssnjffes HLEAffHHGf JOHN WATERBURY Dear John Letters EOff STUOEHT TO make a ekesh SUK ¥ H u' ' TV ME IT ME A HS MVE cohg i MOHTHS Editor’ notoi John Walerbury is Director of Dayspring Chemical Dependency Services for Intermountain Health Care and questions or requests tor information may be a iW'it Self sufficient seniors can handle changes on volunteeis for most ot the woik done in telephoning seniors helping those in need with visits and shopping providing escorts to the center and working on the various committees which plan the comets’ vaiiety of aeitivities The senioi s like Sebrina who continues to woik as volunteer in the Delta think that forced cutback center could build the spirit of the seniors working to support one another like never before The Delta center has alieady proven they can and will direct their own program by demanding the right to pick a successor to long time duector Nell Callister Sorensen When officials came to direcDelta in June with a tor in mind for the new job Delta seniors said they wanted a voice in the choice After assutmg the county commission that it was impoitant the center have a new director everyone could support a few key calls were made and let the Delta seniors choose their new director "There is a good feeling among everyone now" said Delta Advisory Board member Floyd Bradfield "I think the seniors have really shown their support for the center and feel we have just as good a program with the budget cuts as without” funding Since that time funding has been Now deiived from many sources however with federal funds dtying up under Reagan Administration budget cuts the eenteis are being asked to rely Teacher to Parent Helping your child succeed fT J President by Betty Condie Utah Education Association ach veai million students drop out ol school In Boston thediopout rate among high school students now exceeds the giaduation rate Boston is not unique Other latge cities are struggling to keep the dropout rate fiom ceeding 50 pet cent Utah is lucky We have one of the lowest diopout rates Though we are not yet touched by an extremely high diopout late we must consider it a tragedy when even one student drops out last year 2813 Utah students diopped out of school Schools try to provide alternative piogiams to buy young dropouts time to get their lives m oidei and come to the tealiation that dioppmg out of school creates mote problems than it solves Though reasons lor dtopping out a dropouts usually have these chaiaeteiistics: Poor academic skills low low and double with human status lelationslups Parents can prevent the heartache and waste of a child dioppmg out of ww wm wsp w scliool if they begin cat ly to help children succeed in school and in their personal lives We may not be able to do much about our status but we can set the stage for school success It isn’t wise to wait until a child is in the vulnerable junior high school yeats to help academic performance and and the development of social skills pt event ion should begin Diopout before a young child enters school with frequent positive statements about the value of learning It will pay dividends to the child the family and society Sixty percent of all prison inmates in the USA are high school dropouts Taxpayers ate billed about $30000 a year for each inmate That’s more than 10 times the amount necessary to pay for one year of schooling Fach year dropouts cost taxpayers ol this country $75 billion in welfare benefits and lost revenues a high cost those who abanto evety don learning at an early age Augusl 12 13 19 21 CPR course pnt Public Safety Building Aug 18 20 22 27 29 30 Hunter Education Class Delta High School before Aug pm 18 s USPS August 21 Millard High School registration Alcoholics Anonymous 1 Meetings: Mon & Wed 8 pm at Delta City Bldg 2 Chamber of Commerce office 76 N 200 W Delta Tuesdays: 8 pm at IPP Housing Community Center am-- Editor Susan Dutson Editorial Mark Amott Reporter at pm Advertising ! ALANON: Sales Riley Wood legal Billing Dawn Carder Sales Design Evelyn Mallet Deb Fillmore Greathouse Office Accounts Receivable Circulation Commercial County 'Production Printing Dutson Shellie In Advance Subscriptions 00 per year 00 per 6 months $18 00 per year $10 00 per 6 months Copy 50 cents County Out of County Out of County Single POSTMASTER Send Address O Box 249 Delta changes 84624 Utah Advening Pad at 2400 or 8622(4 i PROBLEMS? Call Geno: TEENAGE i CirculationComp Rita Bullcreek For info call j Manager Circulation Julie Ward g j large to 9 pm Fillmore Civic Arts Council annual meeting 8 pm Fillmore City Library reading room August 22 Lorie Jones and Terry Petersen wedding reception Meadow Ward Chapel 1 Publisher Dear John I’m the adult child of an alcoholic father I can admit that now but it’s taken five years to be able to do so That's when I left home thought I was free once I got out I thought I was leaving all the problems behind but it hasn't worked out that way I can’t break away I hate my father for what he did to my family and (Hat hate is destroying me My life is a mess don’t understand Sequestered and Decadent Dear SAD Your last statement sums it all up: You don’t understand And that’s understandable Many times children of alcoholics can’t understand because their perception of reality becomes distorted by the alcoholic parent So much so that their life becomes unmanageable First of all I’d recommend you contact Alanon Alanon consists of family members of alcoholics who ban together and in so doing find support relief and hope You’ll also find that alone not you're Next I’d recommend ordering some material on children of alcoholics to provide some insight into the special The problems you are encountering National Clearinghouse for Alcohol formation has a good supply Their address is PO Box 2345 Rockville Maryland 20852 But while you’re waiting for their formation consider the following list that was written by Thomas W Perrin about children of alcoholics think It describes you’ll find it applies characteristics of this group have difficulty following projects from beginning to end lie when it would be just as easy to tell the truth judge myself without mercy take myself very seriously and find it difficult to have fun with intimate have difficulty telationships overreact to changes over which have no control feel different from other people constantly seek approval and affirmation am either or am extremely loyal even in the face of evidence that loyalty is undeserved look for immediate as opposed to deferred gratification seek tension and crisis and complain about the results avoid conflict or aggiavate it raredeal with it ly do fear rejection and abandonment yet am rejecting of others fear failure but sabotage my success fear criticism and judgement yet criticize and judge others For years we have known that alcoholism is a family disease that it affects everyone in the family not onBut until recently the ly the alcoholic mm Millard County Chronicle Progress The The Old Spillway sent to him at IHC 36 South Slate Street 21 si floor Sail lake City Utah 84111 These letters form the basts for the "Dear John Letters " Staff editorial IXpsitc dtasiic cuts in admmxtintive lunds hoth illmoie and Delia senioi ccntcts are seeing a lejuvenaiion ol' sell upon sufficiency and volunieeiisin which the original piogiams weie built The eenieis have for mote than 20 counfederal and on stale yeats lelyed ty lunds to a larger degiee than evei hoped for Now with diteetor funds cut by a third an old piophecv has been fulllilled “In the beginning we were told not to expect help from the but it has always been government there and now we ate going back to what we originally thought would re reliance on our own resources" said Sebiina Ikitis who coordinated both I illmore and Delta piogiams fioni 1065 to 1980 A tiadition ol sell sulficiency has been the tiademaik ot the senioi s in this aiea Beginning with the initiative it took to get the senior piogranis going in the eat ly sixties enthusiasm spread to an el lot needed to build the two beautiful buildings to house the centers The MF Bird Center in Delta was built m 1965 followed by the Pahvant Senioi C'itiens Center in 66 They weie both build with county and local f £ "Creating a New You” 9 am-pm West Central Vocational Center sponsored by Women for Work August 23 Richard Jacobson and Relda Harris openhouse pm Jacobson home 640 N 100 W Delta (ME Bird Center in case of inclement weather) Cindy Lee Losee and Justin Bruce Peatross wedding reception Sutherland 9:30 Program pm Church Joseph Terry Wade and Larry James Naillon open house pm Pahvant Senior Citizen Center 55 S 400 W Tillmore This is a picture of a time when one could sit by the old spillway in the shade of the cottonwoods and wait for the fish to bite It was a time when no one had ever imagined the floods that would come a year later The old spillway was built when the reservoir dam site was moved up the river after the first and second dams had gone out leaving the farms dry until a new dam could be built farther up the river in 1910 and 1911 There is no bedrock in our valley upon which to build a dam a spillway a reservoir There are only layers of clay sand gravel and more clay washed into our valley by millennia of floods layered into blue clay red clay The white clay sand and gravel building had to be done on what was there clay and sand When the new DMAD dam was enlarged and a new spillway built the old spillway was not needed as a diversion dam New diversions systems wete built into the new dam The water had so the old spillway to be was used as a drop for the streams The ed by all the water companies water went through the outlet from the reservoir into the old canal and over the spillway and into the systems ol iirigation 1 hen in the spring of 1983 the great flood more than anyone in our valley could remember in a hundied yeats poured around the old spillway The blue clay the red clay the white clay and the sand could not hold up undei the pressure and washed away The old spillway disappcated into the ton cut like a dtied leaf in the flood All could see the washing away advancing toward the new spillway Some said “The spillway will go there is no way to save it" They tried Everything that could be done was done Tons of rock and rip rap old car bodies by the dozens ed with cement were pouted into the advancing washing stream Men wot ked "aioutid the clock" to save the new spillway and the full reservoir of water behind it About one o’clock in the afternoon of June 23 1983 the new spillway built m the winter and spting of I960 by the host engmeeis that could be found to last (K) yeats popped out into the Hood like a coik Horn a bottle of the wateis The impounded DMAD full and ovet flowing poured thtough the breach to flood the river bottom meadows the liver pastutes the Humes on toward the Gunnison Bend Reset voit on toward Oasis and Dcscici and finally the west desert by Mary Hcnrle Postmarks connection between alcoholic parents and the related of their children was somewhat vague Children of alcoholics have been the unfortunate recipients of a disease process of which they had no ability to direct or control These children have been the real losers Dear John I thought you might like this little piece It's a favorite of mine But don't try to thank me It's nothing NOTHING People tend to look down at (he word nothing and belittle its importance however it can mean life or death success or failure joy or sadness Mountain climbers have died when they stepped on it Parachutists are upset when they pull the ripcord and it comes out Farmers have lost their farms when they grew it Ball players and coaches have lost their jobs when they scored it Women have been whistled at when they wore it and many women make a good living when they dance in it It’s also reason for joy when it represents the sum total of your debts It’s what you earn when you do It I have saved it over the years and now have it in my bank account I could go on but it will mean nothing I just want you to be aware as you go through life that when you get some time to relax you should think about this subject Please do not think that I have been trying to give you a sermon because I have nothing in mind Don’t try to (hank me It’s nothing Readers Digest Something For Nothing Dear Something Thanks for Nothing CONFIDENTIALLY: Being puffed up with pride doesn't mean you’re a swell person PM m £25 &f62 F Franklin shapes postal era 1707 In lie Bntisli Government bought the rights of west and the widow of Andrew Hamilton and appointed John Hamilton Andrew's son as Deputy Postmaster General of America He served until 1721 when he was succeeded by John Lloyd ol Chatlston South Carolina In 1730 a Alexander fotmer Spotswood Lieutenant Governor ol Viiginia became Deputy Postmaster General of America His most notable achievement was the appointment of Benjamin tanklin as Postmaster of Philadelphia in 1727 When Ftanklin became Postmaster of Philadelphia he was only 31 years old and at the beginning of his career Later he was to become one of the most popular men of the age if not most popular But he was then a somewhat unsuccessful printer publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette It’s interesting to note that at the time the Revolution in America Ben of I ranklin was about 80 years old That’s kind of old to be just starting out in the Post Office Head ynch succeeded Spotswood m 1739 and in 1743 Elliot Benger followed ynch When Benger died in 1753 Community Calendar Orvil Beckstrand 90th birthday pm Meadow Town Patk Miss Millard Rendezvous Queen contest 6 pm Fillnioie Tair Grounds Street dance Statehouse pat king lot 9 pm August 24 Leamington Ward Fireside Dee Jay Bowden speaker 7 pm Elder Rick Tolley mission teport 10:45 am Delta First Ward E by Postmaster Tom Hamilton Fldet Wm Hans Rasmussen mission illmore 4th Ward report 10:45 am I lder Cary Fdwatds mission report ft h Watd 9 a m Delta August 25 American Legion’s Dept Service Delta Job Dave Parkinson 11 am noon August 27 1st day ot school Millatd School District Middie America ranklin and Willian Hunter Postmaster of Williamsburg VA were appointed by the (’town as Joint Postmasiets Genctal for the colonies Hunici died in 1761 and John oxeroft of New Yotk succeeded him serving until the outbteak of the (evolution As a Joint Postmaster General for the Ci own I tanklin ellcctcd many in the portant lasting impiovements colonial posts He immediately began to teoiganie the service setting out oil a long tour of inspection of all post offices in the north and as far south as New surveys were made Virginia milestones weie set up on principal roads and new and shorter routes laid out Mail was cat ried by night between Philadelphia and New Yotk and weekbetween ly nips were inaugurated Philadelphia and Boston shortening the travel by at least one half By 1760 Franklin was able to teport his first to the British Postmaster smplus Genetal When he left office post roads weie m opetation from Maine to Florida and ftoni New York to Canada And mail between the colonies and the mother country operated on a tegiilai schedule August West 28 Millatd Cultutal opening luncheon Rick's Restaurant Council pm August list Annual Millatd Mule Rendezvous illmoie arena August 30 Hoise Patade illmoie Main Stieet 10 am Sept 3 Delta High Booster Club annual kick 011 pie and ice eieam social 6:30 pm Delta High cafetena - Oct 9 Sept classes Delta Community Medical Center 7 pm You just can’t get away from Utah by Bob Thomas All about Utah Gotcha! You thought I’d never write about anything but life in San Francisco again didn’t you? Well if forced to could do that and know a guy or two doing exactly making a pretty fair living at it too But this is about Utah The place makes the news over here believe me I've read three stories in recent weeks-at concerning put Utah either at the top or bottom of the 50 states The results of one poll didn’t surprise me at all One never thought about and the latest survey backed up what would have been my first guess From the beginning: It should come as no surprise to any of us that Utah ranks No in literacy in the nation Less than one in 15000 Utahns admit to being unable to either read or write No one questions the state’s superior school system or the of its teachers And professionalism then there is the Mormon ethic that stresses the importance of learning beyond those initial years of grammar and high schools Alas another Mormon tenet of to producing large the state’s placing 50th in per capita come for 1985 And now for the third set of figures that has been compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics You’ve placed either first or on your point of view The topic here is “Unwed Births” Permit me to back into this In 1984 (the last full year for which statistics are available) there were 770355 births to unwed mothers in this country That was a four percent jump over the previous year Those 770355 births represented about 21 percent of the nation’s 3669141 live births in a birthrate of 155 per 1000 population 000 Take a guess here Ol every births in the nation’s capital in 1984 how many would you think were to unwed mothers: a) 150 b) 322 c) 140 d) 5689? If you guessed “d" go to the head of the delivery room Now for Utah: a) 410 b) 322 c) 150 or d) 771? It’s “d” again And no other state even came close to challenging that figure Wyoming in the penultimate position registered 1116 unwed births should yOu be per 1000 California had a ratio of 2384 wondering Mississippi was a distant second behind the District of Columbia with 3232 ot maybe not not all Sutprisingly of the unwed births were unplanned The biggest increase in unwed births appeared with women 35 years and It ciedited older the center reported that to “making up for delayed mg” and “a decline in social piessure on single women to marry after becoming pregnant” Before you all start taking bows for winning “two out of three” consider the case ol Elisa Florez aka Missy Manners She’s big in the news this morning Missy is the star of “Behind the Green Door: The Sequel” She recently became disgusted with the Meese Commission Report (on porSo she quit her job to star nography in an film The Chronicle Progress identifies Tlorez as a former administrative assistant to Sen Orrin Hatch Well we can’t win ’em all huh? And then there’s poor old Morton Thiokol the space contractor and manufacturer of the infamous “O" rings That company is also back in the news this morning It missed says a board of inquiry three major checks on the spections Challenger And so it goes |