Show r£rtii Page 2 Millard I SPS Count) Ihurx Dec 4 in irnm 1486 Teacher to Parent Helping your child succeed Betty Condie jS President byUtah Education Association For decades working mothers have been led to believe their time away from home was shortchanging their children That may not be the case According research to recent children of mothers better employed perform scholastically than their peers whose mothers follow a more traditional lifestyle A study at Kent State University demonstrates that social and academic development are higher in households where both parents work The research also clearly demonstrates children’s classroom that behavior and academic performance are positively not negatively related to the mother’s employment Of the first third and fifth graders studied those with working mothers scored higher in communication skills social adjustment and Their absentee rates are lower and they spend more time in recreational activities with their mothers In addition children from families hold a more realistic view of family role models-aare less likely lo stereotype adult roles into male and female categories Children did better if their mothers worked rather than They were also’ more successful if their mothers held a job with flexible hours and were satisfied with the combined role of working woman and mother Maternal employment jumped 225 percent from 1960 and 1985 and its fluence on child development is still not well known We do know children today are facing an entirely different home environment than children of the previous generation did If predictions hold by 1990 only 14 percent of children under the age of 18 will have a mother Community Calendar Dec 4 Curls Volleyball: High School St Cookies exchange luncheon 12 noon Bosco Catholic Church Blue Notes Concert Delta High School 7:30 pm Dee 10 Blue Notes Christmas Concert Delta High school auditorium 7 pm At this concert the Sub for Santa Committee will give away 5 nice prizes to contributors to the Sub for Santa program Dec H Girls basketball Delta High School Jolly Stitchers meeting pm Jerry Bunker home Dec 11 “Home for Chiistmus" Fine Arts Meeting home of Bill and Darlene Mundy Dec 13 Delta City libuuy to close for 3 weeks I aura Swallow Beckstrand 90th birthday Meadow Waid Cultural Hall at Delta Millard Stress Holiday ‘‘Handling Workshop" West Central Utah Voca- tional Center 310 E 2nd N Delta Dec 5 Idea Fair Pahvant Senior Citizen Center noon to 5 pm illmore Facelift Party 7 pm Pod Party Jolly Stitchers Christmas 6:30 Norma Jensen’s house Boys basketball Delta at Gunnison Tournament School Wrestling High two days Las Vegas NV Dec 6 Delta South Elementary PTA Yule air 12 noon to 6 pm Dual swim meet Delta vs Pleasant West Millard Community Grove Swimming Pool 9 am Trap Shoot River Dip (NE Delta) 10 am Santa to visit Fillmoie am 10 pm Dec 14 7 “Messiah’’ pm Della High School auditorium Dec 18 M E Bird Commodity disiiibution Center pm Dec 30 Dive for money and prizes 2 pm West Millard Pool 14 Jan Basic EMT Corn sc in illmoie Call Kent Dalton for information Legion Hall Kristy Castor and Tony Utley wedding reception 55 S 400 W Fillmore pm Eugene McBride 80th birthday home of Jack and Edna McBride pm Dec 7 Greening of the church - Delta Community Presbyterian Church potluck 12 noon dinnner Dec 9 Delta High School Band Concert 7 high school auditorium pm St Bosco Catholic Church presents a Parish Mission for married couples 7 Dec pm Delta Area ' i $ t lei tors Bv Reed Precp tr aicunuiics Anonymous t 1 Millard County The I Chronicle Progress 1 USPS located f i ALANON: Editor Publisher Pulson Susan Meetings: Mon & Wed pm at Delta City Bldg Chamber of Commerce office S ? 76 N 200 W Delta Tuesdays: 8 pm at IPP s 8 For info call Editorial Mark Amott Reporter PROBLEMS? Call Geno: The Clock That Counted The Hours Of Our Lives A good clock is necessary to start a marriage and a home Papa and Mama knew that They bought a beautiful carved eight day clock when they went to Salt Lake to be married They carried it home on the train to Leamington and then in the buggy to Oak City They placed it on a shelf against the whitewashed log walls of their first home It counted the hours of the first thirteen years of their marriage Papa bult a new yellow brick home in Delta in 1916 and Mama moved the clock carefully to its new place in the corner of the family dining room where it has stood and measured time these seventy years The clock had to be wound with key once a week Once in a while it would run down and stop We had to find the right time to set it again We would listen for the school bell that rang at 8 o’clock to warn the children that there was only an hour until school time The bell on the top of the ward hall tolled the 9 o’clock on Sunday and again at 10 o'clock when Sunday School began Everyone set their clocks by the bells It didn’t matter if we were a little off world time if we set our clocks to the same bells If someone had a “railroad watch” he had the absolute right time We could set our clocks by the passenger trains that whistled through Trains were called by the time they went through the 3:20 the 11:15 We could call the LA and SL depots JOHN WATERBURY Dear John Letters Dear John Sure use drugs! Not the hard stuff that is obtained In some dark alley but prescription medication prescribed by a physician and distributed by a pharmacist Everyone does And I’m not a junkie I have legitimate reasons for usMedicine was ing these prescriptions put on this earth to be of benefit to us all And you're wrong to indicate that there is any imminent danger when it’s used As with all causes of this type -- you tend to go overboard Things aren't as bad as you seem to think They couldn't be! SLC Realist Dear SLC Things are every bit as bad as stated earlier regarding alcohol and drug abuse That simple statement is supported by the following facts: ’About one of every six admissions to our treatment centers are for prescription medication abuse ’There is a “crack” epidemic among both youth anc! adults that has legislators concerned enough to be considering legislation to help curb it ’Not too long ago several well known athletes died as a result of overdose ’“Designer drugs’’ which are chemically altered versions of cocaine heroin and others are causing symptoms similar to Parkinson’s Disease And it’s happening across the country ’The number one cause of teenage fatalities across the country is drunk driving could go on but question whether these facts will get your attention When people feel the need to justify their drug use to me it’s usually a sign that they’re denying the severity of the in Happily pleasant hours flow along without much counting It is the hard anxious hours that we remember counting The old clock struck the slow counted hours when a little boy severely burned laid in his bed and the father and mother sat beside him through worried nights with long weary treatments and medication on the hour until he was out of danger It counted the days and hours in 1943 when a loved son would return home for a short stay after bombing missions as a pilot in a B 24 over Italy and the mother was lying ill What great times our family counted with the carved upright old clock that stood with us spqaking the hours like a member of the family disciplining and measuring the times of our lives Mary Henrie problem to themselves If they weren’t concerned they wouldn’t bring the subject up Not once does anyone ever write in to justify their use of spinach I think you or egg plant (Personally ought to abstain from these too!) But guess that’s life Dear John I don’t have an alcohol or drug problem but there’s something else I’m a loser I’m always at the bottom of the totem pole Things never work out for me Everyone else always gets the breaks It’s not fairl Frustrated and Fed Up Dear F & F Whoever told you life was supposed to be fair! There will always be those who are smarter or richer or better looking And there will always be the rest of us And another thing do you always use the terms always and never when talking about yourself in comparison with other people? I’ve always believed that you can never trust people who always do that (Except for me) The world is full of people who have turned from losers to winners simply because they hung in there They didn’t give up Look at Marco Polo When he wanted to become a world traveler his father almost refused to stake him because he had no abilities or perience But he hung in there! Today we don’t even remember his father’s name And the business world is full of people who were losers at one point but who turned things around because they hung in there This world is set up for us to learn and progress No one has it all to begin with When we get to feeling sorry for ourselves it often seems that we fail to measure up to other people but hang in there And remember the duck On the surface he appears calm cool and collected But underneath it all he paddles like there’s no tomorrow CONFIDENTIALLY: Everything cometh to him who waiteth so long as he who waiteth worketh like hell while he waiteth NEW PHONE NUMBERS i Fillmore City Fillmore City Library TEENAGE at Large Advertising and get the correct time or call a neighbor or even guess where the sun was in the sky for the time and be quite near The telephone operators were good to give us the right time to set our clock Mama kept our clock cleaned and oiled with a long chicken feather dipped in oil Our clock ticked and tocked but we got used to it and never heard it unless it stopped and we heard the stopping it struck on the half hour and the hours on the hour Papa and Mama could lie in bed and know exactly the time everyone came I by Barry McWilliams Circulation Ward Circulation Circulation Rita Bullcreek Commercial Shellie IMaSNSMbMU teKfaz Comp Production UMSlNlfam-ONt&- Dutson ma In Advance In Subscriptions SIS 00 per year In County 8 00 per 6 months County Out of County Out of County 00 per 00 per 6 SIS SI0 Adwlmnf Deha WlM1 year months cents Single Copy Send Address changes POSTMASTER P O Box 249 Delta Utah 84624 UK ttMft'timibMaDoesM Printing tlQHTPMZS? 'M( KM (mKttxpDs — IQOKSUte w' mssmu -- wm wmc mtsi to titn PW 64 3400 74540 DLWIl UllsON liurvit Gertie 4U The new street lights that were stalled during the summer are not spaced directly across the street from each other making the old decorations too sfiort to span the street The spacing of the street lights was alternated because of the greater illumination power of the new lighting systems which required fewer lights For each span of new lights Delta City would need approximately $2000 That comes to a tidy little sum to make lOUGaMffl don’t now West side residents Ralph and Beulah Ross Carl and Ruth Corry any kind of showing from individuals and Contributions groups would be very helpful in making it possible for Delta to improve its Christmas lighting Without this help it may be some time before funds will be available Or perhaps you would rather have Christmas lights over improved streets? Or maybe a tax increase? Ruth Hansen Dear Children: Lots of toys and goodies are wrapped and in my sleigh Rudolph’s nose is glowing anxiously waiting to help draw the sleigh We are really busy at the workshop Mrs Claus and some of the Lives are busy handling all the letters that are coming in If you haven’t written your letter better hurry as they should be here at the North Pole by December 16 have as my good friends in Delta Utah the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 135 to help me again this year Waiting to hear from you Love Santa Ciaus PS Please be sure to include your name and address Middle America Search for “Middle America” Hot Springs The area in and around Hot Springs Ark reminds me of New York’s It’s a lot of glitz hotels and schmaltz summertime health spas a race track with everpresent touts and a heavy feeling persists that maybe the “Boys of Kansas City” control most of the action “Seedy” sort of describes the downtown section and you have to suppose that' the big one thereabouts is hidden behind the facades of the grand resorts that dot the hills surrounding the town My first stop was the offices of The where made my usual Isabelle Peregrin associate pitch editor got approval from higher up to let me do three stories We agreed on a fee of $150 Two stories came easily wrote about a newsman’s jaundice-eyeobservations of the town as a season came to an end and knocked out a piece on “Martin’s" an restaurant-bawhere a snooker tournament had been continuously underway for the better part of two decades Snap stuff The third one was giving me some trouble And had agreed to “no pay” until turned them all in It is said that God looks after drunks and small children Add itinerant journalists to that list Enter Patricia stage right I’m nursing a bottle of Lone Star beer in one of the city’s countless saloons It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m desperate to get back out on the road cash in hand by Monday morning didn't see her approach me at the bar She came up on my blind side But heard her voice “Buy me a drink Sailor?” (Damned tattoes: give you away every time!) “Yeh” I said “if you’re drinking “1 only drink Glenhvet” she purred “Go find yourself a Scotsman” in my best burr hate pushy Fillmore Office Manager Evelyn Mallet Receivable Accounts Deb Greathouse they would put the people was water system in and the people would have to pay for the pipes and the labor so our water bill would be double for 20 years until it was paid for and then the water bill would drop down to city rates When the 20 years was up and we were still paying double for our water the people went to the city to see why the City Council minutes and the agreement on the water had conveniently disappeared and they would do nothing about it so we are still paying When Mr Zeunan went to the city council and got his out of city water hookup he was quoted on the Delta radio station as saying he didn’t think the people down here wanted to be annexed to the city at that time He was right We didn’t want to then and we What happened to decorations? beer” Sales Riley Wood legal Billing Dawn Carder Sales Design Julie West siders ask questions that In reference to Mr Zeunan’s comments to the city council meeting printed in the Chronicle Progress Nov 13 concerning an out of city water hookup Isn’t it a fact Mr Zeunan that the that for hookup is a partnerproperty ship between you and one of the present Delta City Councilmen? The west side residents are getting tired of hearing this quote of why buy the cow when you are getting the milk for nothing We are not getting i e milk for nothing we me still paying docble for it 42 years later Back in the year of 1944 or 1945 Delta City put in for a government grant to upgrade their ‘water system but they couldn’t get it as there wasn't quite enough people on their water system So the Delta City Authorities came to the people on the west side and asked if they would sign up to connect to the water system so they could get the grant Delta City’s agreement to the answered women Either she didn’t understand my or she Bobby Burns impersonation simply ignored it She took the stool next to me She crooked a finger at the bartender and said "I’ll have whatever he’s having” The bartender looked at me for approval I nodded “yes” “What do you do?” she asked “I’m a writer What do you do?” “I’m a solicitor” "You don’t look like any attorney ever met” She gave me a smile worthy of any Pepsodent ad “You’re not interested are you?” “Not in the least” “Good” she said “I don’t really feel up to it either” For a while we drank in silence and then she wondered aloud “What do you write?” All of the sudden she didn’t seem so pushy Or maybe I was in the mood for female conversation Anyway we chattold her about what was trying ted to do ‘‘And now it's your turn” She told me her name and then spelled it I thought she was a bit long in the tooth for her line of work but couldn't deny that she was still an tractive woman She was neat of person and stylishly although casually dressed We drank a few more treats at her insistence She had an ambivalence about her chosen profession she said She didn’t necessarily like it but “it’s not all that difficult " She used an old line on me: “You sell and you still have it” She confessed to a weakness She loved playing the horses There wasn’t a flat track in America where she hadn’t placed a bet Like most hooked gamblers she professed to be “about even” at the windows What she wanted out of life was enough money to own a fancy saloon and near a race track of course She saw a back room in the place where a loser could get a beer for a quarter and a shot of booze for fifty cents She’s made up the difference “up front” she said There’s to be no food in the place as she envisioned it and all the bartenders and cocktail waitresses would be retired (The woid didn’i seem lo piostituies o fend her) Some hours later we wandered out the of place and offered to walk her to her car wasn’t all that surprised to learn it was a Porsche convertible The color threw me off though It was sort of an innocent "Baby Blue” would have expected more of a “Red Light” red “Hungry?” she asked as she fumbled for her car keys in a purse the size of a saddle bag “Famished” “Here you drive Bacon and eggs sound okay?” She wasn’t a bad little cook After we cleared away the dishes we drank some white wine and listened to Frank Sinatra tapes I don’t remember falling asleep on her couch but I woke up Sunday morning with a blanket over me After coffee she drove me back to my van and wrote my third story Monday morning picked up my money and headed south to Louisjana and an old Cajun buddy from World War II For most of that drive through a landscape of loblolly pine and sharkbark hickory I thought about Patricia Demmurier I hope by now she has her saloon with the loser’s lounge in the back |