Show 2 Page - Millard County Thurs May 20t L'SPS (Snmmcnis 1987 My Opinion “They were just having a little fun Why can’t you leave them alone?” A little fun? Pretty expensive fun for the young women whose $1000 car paint job was ruined in the annual egg s - - THE BOSS IS PUBLISHIN'A CAfr do BOOK USIN' THE CAVSGVEP LEi ALL m JUSTGOSS0 THE EPfTOR JERS-T- O WE VE - THAT-I- T'S RECEIVED vMm ©'86 VX""" IN A LETTER IT'S GOSSIP — IT'S LITERATURE IN A BOOK fight A little fun? Not to those home owners who lost fences flower beds and gardens from the trampling feet of thoughtless young people having a little fun If this fun continues someone is gohurt The report ing to be has come in that one home owner who has been the recipient of too much attention during the egg fight armed himself with a shotgun loaded with rock salt to protect his property A public spirited citizen who has made recreational facilities available to the school and students found his home the target of this “egg fight fun” Visitors from our neighbor state to the west were not impressed by the “fun” reception they received A motorcyclist hit in the head by an in escaped an accident It ceases to be fun when the damage and the clean up expenses run to thousands of dollars It is time for parents to realize that an activity cluding several hundred young people running through the streets and yards of the community throwing eggs is not an acceptable activity for anyone needs to be done Something teachers students citizens Parents your cooperation is needed Ruth Hansen We miss Delta It’s been Delta for friends we We look nearly a year since we left Kansas and miss all our left behind forward to the Chronicle Progress every week Our daughters were disappointed to see the “Hunk Calendar” didn’t make it Good luck and our best wishes for another healthy and happy year Barbara Sirard Editor’s Note: The Hunk of the Month has been put on the back burner awaiting more nominations Hopefully young men or their parents and friends will stop being so modest and in their names get Community Calendar May 24 - 31 Delta Soil Conservation District Soil Stewardship Week May 30 Delta High School Class of ’37 50th Events start at ME Bird anniversary Center 10 am Gena Mark and John Webster wedding Grace Baptist Church 5 pm reception to follow Bran Stephenson and Kaye Johnson Holden Ward reception wedding Cultural Hall pm May 31 2nd Annual Fillmore Utah Stake Choir Festival 8 pm Fillmore Stake Center Deadline to purchase Swimming Passes West Millard Pool Sister Valinda Jensen mission report Delta 1st Ward 12:50 pm June 1 for Summer School Registration Drivers Ed 10 am noon Vocational Center June 3 Blood pressure clinic Delta Public Health Office am & pm June 5 Miss Hinckley Pageant V i Jt'llm Rml Jina Kae Finlinson Guy Harris wedOak City Church ding reception pm June 6 Endurance Race 10 Red Cliff am Sam Starley’s Fillmore June 9 Hinckley Rodeo Queen tryouts 7 pm Hinckley arena June 11 60 and distribution Commodities older M E Bird Center 2 pm Food Handlers class Delta Public Health Office 2:30 pm ($500 fee) June 12 - 13 Arts in the Park International Fillmore North Park June 17 59 and distribution Commodities under 2 pm M E Bird Center July 2 - 23 Annual Millard High School Alumni Art Exhibit July 7 Millard High School Class of ’52 reunion Scipio Senior Center August Seventh World Conference on Gifted and Talented Children Salt Palace and Symphony Hall Salt Lake City IWBttTiHEEl Delta Area B l j Fillmore Area B lm T Rogers Millard County The Chronicle Progress USPS Just for Today Editor Publisher Dutson Susan Editorial Dawn Carder Reporter at Large Advertising Sale Riley Wood 6 Legal Billing Julie Ward Goertz Design Fillmore Office Manager Evelyn Mallet Receivable Deb Greathouse Accounts Circulation Ward Julie Goertz Rita Robinson Commercial Shellie In ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Printing Dutson In Advance Subscriptions In County $18 00 per year County $10 00 per 6 months Out of County Out of County P O 00 50 per Delta year 6 months Utah changes 84624 to Rjtei Otw Deha 2400 MTtOIM T & Wed 8 cents Send Address Box 249 iMeetings: Mon 00 per $20 Single Copy POSTMASTER With age and maturity my attitude and opinion of people and things have changed I have grown to accept people for what they are and hopefully they me With the strength and support of family friends and the grace of God miraculous changes have taken place in my world of confusion and turmoil a world which was seen through blood shot eyes and perceived by a brain under the influence of mood altering substances I thank everyone I come in contact with for allowing me one more day of sobriety and serenity A grateful recovering alcoholic Call Geno CirculationComp CirculationProduction CirculationProduction Rita Krebs UtlOOU by Jillyn Smith Science Writer Utah State University When was 20 thought that by the time I was 30 I’d get everything together Instead I got wrinkles pm ALAN0N: Wed 8 pm Delta Mental Health Offices 51 North Center For info call: PR0BLEMS& Call Geno: TEENAGE JOHN WATERBURY Dear John Letters Dear John: W hen it comes to cocaine usage here in the valley I’m still in the dark I’ve been told that it's here and that it’s a problem but I haven’t really seen it on a large scale basis Is it something to worry about? Worry Wart Dear WW: Should you worry? That depends Do you have kids who may be getting to the age of possible drug users? (The average age of first use is 125) Do you have friends who use? Generally no one worries unless the problems occur close to home Or put a little differently we never do any deep thinking until we get ourselves into a hole By then it’s too late to sorry Many of the major cities have worse problems than Salt Lake City regarding drug use and abuse but history has shown that those problems tend to follow a pattern in their development It’s to our advantage to learn from their problems One of the problems which is spreading across the country is the use of “crack” a form of cocaine that is smoked It is easy to see the similarity in the patterns of use across the country: houses (where crack is made) are showing up in the metropolitan area is showing up in places where only heroin has been traditionally sold the past seven years Chicago-ov-er cocaine is the only crug to show a steady increase room visits for cocaine use are the highest of any previous period is being sold on street corners $3000 for match head size and $10000 for pencil eraser size Los es for crack are purity has dropped to about 36 percent use is creasing significantly New abuse has been seen Crack sells for about $2500 New arrests have creased 53 percent Vials can be bought for Newark-8- 0 percent of street busts are for crack The price has increased 100 percent in the last six months are converting Philadelphia-use- rs the cocaine to crack themselves but “hit” houses have begun to appear admissions for cocaine have increased 41 percent San sells for $2500 accounts for 50 percent of all busts Well armed crack houses are located in the southern section of the city use is Washington the fastest growing drug problem in the city Is it something to worry about? ou could Again everything is relative say we’re not as bad as the rest of these cities Or you could say we’re followThe problem ing the same patterns doesn’t change only our perception and willingness to act This current drug epidemic won’t go away simply because we choose not to worry about it We’re getting beat! It’s definitely time to worry CONFIDENTIALLY: Most people who worry worry about people who should jbut don’t I looked into the mirror and remembered a line from an Ardyth Kennelly novel: “She had skin that would wrinkle like seersucker by the time she was 30” It was not the happiest day of my life A decade later my wrinkles have crosshatches Sort of like a geology exercise Which faults are the later ones? I had spent the decade getting used to them I didn’t remember Kennelly saying anything about 40 But I was (w)rankled when I read in Curtis Pesman’s book “How a Man Ages” that a woman’s skin is thinner and drier than a man’s so it begins to droop and sag and lose its texture earlier Nuts to chromosomes and hormones And I was even more (w)rankled when I read Ed Abbey’s statement: ‘women obeying the biological imstrive harder than men to perative of appearance preserve an youthfulness-treproductive look and lost it sooner” This got under my skin Oh yeah Abbey I thought males too are people They’re biological aren't they? Don’t they also have midlife crises buy contact lenses machines and tanning tion? What about hair transplants toupees and creative covering? I quit reading Abbey I should have quit after “Desert Solitaire” where he wrote about important things: snakes and scorpions and sand If the reproductive look is all I have going for me I’m in trouble I turned to Judith Viorst Viorst’s bittersweet book “Necessary Losses” is about life and about saying goodbye: Goodbye to our mother’s womb to the security of our parents’ nest to imperfect connections to loved ones And to our younger selves Viorst tastefully does not call it ‘the reproductive look” It goes deeper Each goodbye is difficult but the goodbyes happen to all of us and at each stage the goodbye allows us to grow And I’ve grown to the conclusion that a raisin is just as good as a grape but just as Different admittedly good And sometimes better Helping your child succeed X) President by Betty Condie Utah Education Association habits Give them notebooks for recorIf you’re a working parent you proHelp assignments bably worry that you can’t spend as ding homework much time with your children as you them develop a calendar of all feel you should Maybe you’re one of assignments and exams so they families so common the won’t leave everything until the last today-percent of all mothers of minute Set high standards Make sure your or preschool children are children know you expect them to do employed Twice as many women are in the their best Make sure you look at all of Don’t Utah workforce today as in 1950 homework their completed re allow sloppy papers to be handed in Perhaps you’re a single are about 12 million of them Utah’s Regulate what your children watch on TV Sit down as a family with the divorce rate is equal to the national weekly TV schedule and list the shows average Or maybe you’re a parent who wants to give your you will watch Keep the TV off unless kids more help and attention one of the chosen shows is on Whatever the reason you can’t be Take your children to the library with your kids 24 hours a day so how and encourage them to read at least one do you help them make good choices long book every month-- or every two and encourage them to try hard in weeks! Younger children can read one school? small book each week Check comHere are some tips for busy parents: prehension by having them tell you Schedule a regular time for about what they read Each evening have older homework Initiate contact with your children’s teachers Don’t wait until a children study for an hour Younger children can read or write for 15 problem develops Call frequently and minutes each night ask how your children are doing in Help children establish good study 'school Signs of the times by Dennis Hinkamp Information Writer Utah State University Gone today hair tommorrow: Here it comes the first approved hair growth Oh what questions! what drug this marvel of science possibilities! brings about If your aren’t careful will you end up growing hair on your hands when you apply it? Can people who’ve never been able to grow a beard use it on their faces? What about men who want more chest hair? People who want to look like the werewolf? Are we really ready for Jerry Tarkanian with hair? Fish and the national debt: All of a sudden people have become fish crazy Unfortunately the US can’t produce as much fish as it can beef pork and chicken So we’ll have to import more fish The net effect may be a great trade deficit sommething we really don’t need “New” “Improved” are old hat: Food advertising and products go in cycles The adjectives “new and imand “natural” are being proved” and replaced by “premium” “gourmet” Our tastes seem to have changed from quantity to quality Why THANKS r Following Memorial Day activities in we would like which we participated to praise the people who maintain and care for the Delta Cemetery They have painted the pump house and have generally cared for the grounds to the extent that the cemetery is nicer than it ever has been in the past An excellent job has been done and we are most appreciative of Howard Allred and Grant Bennett Maude and Newell Iverson Teacher to Parent All wrinkle in time I Cemetery caretakers praised Consumer A LOX YOU GUYS OW£ IT ALL else would we be willing to pay $21£ s ice cream for a pint of when we could buy a gallon of other brands for the same price? Why else would one company be selling "premium” dog food and another selling premium bathroom tissue? McClothes for small fries: No longer content to do battle on the field of fast food McDonald’s and Burger King will soon be introducing their own lines of clothes Both burger makers plan to market children’s sport clothes later and this summer Coca Cola Jell-Can Hershey’s already sell clothes Levi’s hamburgers be far behind? 80s: the Business opportunity for of What we need is a combination You could voodoo and acupuncture a lock of send the acupuncturist just treatyour hair and he could give you a ment without you ever having to leave your house Computers obsolete: Who needs a home computer now that we have refrigerator magnets? Go in any house and you’ll see that all the really important information is right there on the fridge behind the magnetic piece of pizza I i PON 'T THANK US SON JUST EXPLAIN HOW YOU INTEND TO PAY US BACK t I |