Show Page t'SPS Millard Coaaty 2 (Comments on the was the grandmother weekend so Rita and I took Chelsie Maliori and Chasity to the zoo It was a pretty nice day the animals were full of frolic and entertained the attendees Chelsie said the gorilla and the train I think she picked were her favorites the gorilla because he apparently became threatened when we were looking through the glass and jumped up thumping his chest roaring and kicked the window which made Maliori make a loud and hasty retreat Maliori seemed to like the cats and snakes the best though she was quicker to offer objections than approval Chass seemed to like it all except the 2nd train ride but shrimp for lunch seemed to have a special appeal When we tired of the zoo we decidHer ed to visit Marilyn Greenwood Thar - Oct 23 i 6 198S TO THE &ue house is not designed for 20 and 21 month old babies but it didn’t take them long to make it comfortable She provided crayons (?) and color books and other books but they tired of that traditional stuff real soon and moved on to much more fascinating objects: candle holders with candles photos the knobs on the TV a bowl of nuts toothbrushes and sliding down the stairs like a slide The worst was when I caught the little ones making a pyramid of the glasses plates and soup bowls Well the house was complete shambles when we left I’m sure it took them all week to restore order Marilyn was most gracious and kept telling us to let them go but I really think that she probably hopes it will be awhile before we make a return visit Mv Opinion Where’s the beef? by Ken Rand We’re getting fewer letters to the editor lately and it’s beginning to worry me Just a few weeks ago this page was filled with venom and wrath It was exfun Reading it citing envigorating was about the only time during the week my pulse rose above 40 beats per minute Isn’t anybody mad at anybody about hazardous waste anymore? About the tax initiatives? About the upcoming elections? About people driving too fasttoo slow on Main Street? About those towel dispensers in restaurants and gas station bathrooms that never give you enough towel? Surely the gubernatorial race must be inspiring We have several guys who want to be our next goober Doesn’t anybody have anything at all to say about any of them nasty or otherwise? Me neither No controversy no letters I guess And I’m concerned I’m not a young guy anymore and I need my exercise Radio talkshow hosts have a method a bored authey use to dience They take a verbal jab at the listeners most sacred cow usually or sex and the religion politics listener duly insulted will call in to yell Success is host at the talkshow measured by the number of phone calls In that same petty spirit here is a short list of sharp jabs designed to provoke a few letters to the editor: Hazardous waste helps build strong bodies 12 ways Why not serve some to your family today? Mix some in a salad or bake a batch of hazardous waste brownies MMMM good The lax initiatives will make your hair fall out You’ve beard the story - about the guy who voted for Proposition 13 in California and was killed by a runaway school bus after he left the voting booth? You have been warned canTwo of the gubernatorial didates are secretly married to each other I can’t tell you which two but it should be obvious BYU has a crummy bowling team sack Wyoming has a better racing team than BYU If George gets elected it’ll be illegal to beat around the bush Two Dukakis make one Dukaki Your mother’s beef stew tastes like boiled combat boots Federal farm subsidies should be cancelled the Social Security System abandoned our military gutted the movie rating system stopped troops the ERA withdrawn from Europe should be passed the IRA recognized by the UN Nicaragua should be bombed students who spit on the sidewalk jailed motherhood renounced and apple pie made illegal without a permit from the Internal Revenue Service The factoids on the front page of when read the Chronicle Progress contain backwards messages encouraging teenagers to go out and buy rock n roll records with tasteless jacket illustrations and lyrics their parents It’s a conspiracy led don’t understand by a cult headquartered in Los Angeles There is more but you get the - - - - point This page is dedicated to encourage a lively and free discussion about issues of interest to our readers We encourage you to use it And if you don’t you’re obviously a dirty no good Commie pinko ratfmk So there Nyah Community Calendar Motor Vehicle Schedule: Fillmore & Millard Delta weekdays County Assessor's offices Oct 6 Annual Potato Bash pm MHS cafeteria East Millard Fine Arts Guild Millard Fillmore 4 pm meeting Library American Legion Post 61 meeting 8 pm Legion Hall Fillmore Hardin Davis DHS Little Theater 7:30 pm Sponsored by West Millard Cultural Council S3 each $10 family Oct 7 sponsoring Dance DHS Cafeteria pm movie 11 pm-- l a m Oct 7 - Nov 4 Utah Arts Council Traveling exhibition "Block Prints by Everett Ruess" Millard County The Chronicle Progress USPS Htini mmy Mu tinns Uu UMIMM m a mm mu mu Publisher cm Editor - Shim MCI Dwtsofi Editorial Itra tmd Reporter t Large Advertising I Sale Riley Wood Rita Robinson Legal Billing Sales Jute Ward Goertz Dewgn fitmore Office Manager ‘tveKyii Msftrt Receivable Deb Greathome - Accounts Crculation Jube Goertz Circulation Comp Oculationf roductxm Circulation Traduction Ward Rita Rrebt Rita Robuuoo Commercial Printing Dutton Sbethe In Advance Subscription County Stl00 per year In County - f 10 00 per months Out of County f 20 00 per year 00 per months Out of County cents Single Copy In Send IPOSTMAJTER PO InU 349 Bos Unrfs CUn susan j! Utah m changes M634 to! triu MshUM hno as3SO0 m Mar — ouwt Address Delta inn ruausHiNc puTson i ?” Rn — coso aw owum or wtuon t wxuao v Virol UWUUB UU auguDON leaoooaoaoaoooaaoooooooooooaei ‘n Fillmore Library Oct 8 Orvil and Donna Jeffery 60th Wedding Anniversary pm M E Bird Center 240 West 100 South Delta Oct 9 mission Sister Faith Thompson report Delta 2nd Ward 12:50 pm Elder Chert Robins mission report Ward 11:50 am Scipio Chapel Oct 11 “Emotions and Diabetes” 7 pm Fillmore Community Med Center Barbara Faigle speaker Blood Pressure Clinic Delta Public Health (Not the regular day) Oct 12 "Brown Bagging It” noon pm Center Guest speaker Vocational Garth Johnson Sevier Tech examiner Oct 14 Flu Shot Clinic Lynndyl noon Town Hall Leamington pm Town Hall Oak City pm Church House and David J Kristine Robinson Condie wedding open house pm Holden Ward Chapel Laura Hime and Robert W Hare wedding reception pm Delta Utah Stake Center 72 N Center Oct 15 Karen Donohue and James Brinkerhoff wedding open house Pahvant Senior Center Fillmore pm Martha Lovell Anderson 80th birth3 - 6 pm Oak City day celebration Church House Oct 18 Emotions and Diabetes Delta Com Med Center 7 pm Food Handlers Class Delta Public Health Office 2:30 S5 fee) Oct If Flu Shot Clinic Delta residents M E Bird Center Other noon residents pm M E Bird Center Oct 21 VFW Field Service Officer Delta Job Service 1:30-- p m Oct 22 Annual Fillmore Library Christmas 4 10 a m Craft Bazaar pm to Fillmore Legion Hall Call rent tables Oct 24 Clinic Della Public Immunization Health 1:30 am & pm Oct 25 Cancer Screening Clinic Contact Public Health for appointment Fillmore and Delta Oct 26 Cancer Screening Clinic Delta for appt call Nov 4 1988 Cub Scout p m Delta Stake Center EDITOR Tax Rollback and Tax Limitation -too good to be true Dear Editor: Many Utahns are upset about the large tax increases passied by the 1987 legislature and what they perceive as wasted inefficiency in state government With the best of intentions they signed a petition to place on the ballot three initiative proposals this fall Initiative A: The people’s spending and limitation amendment would limit residential property tax to 14 th of IV of other of fair market value and property Currently they average about 11 Vs state wide Higher in lower in rural areas metropolitan areas Five hundred different school county and municipal taxing districts would be adversely effected by passage of this proposition A first year loss of revenue of at least one hundred million according to the State Tax Commission Initiative B: The people’s tax reduction act repeals all the tax increases come gas sales cigarettes passed in 1987 at a loss to the state of one hundred point nine million in the first year alone Initiative C: the family choice in education act gives tuition tax credits for enrollment in private and home Schools A potential loss of revenue to the state of three point one million Total first year loss to the state would be three hundred thirty million Who are they? Taxpayers for Utah Taxpayers for Utah is a bipartisan group of concerned private citizens experienced business and community leaders and educators who have studied the three proposals thoroughly and have thoughtfully analyzed their conThey urge you to read sequences through the proposals and ask yourself where they could cut three hundred thirty million from the state and local government budgets They are convinced that once you understand the consequences of the three proposals you will decide and vote “No” on all three It worked in California and Massachusetts and it can work here Or can it? The tax protesters believe that there is a lot of fat and waste in the county state and local government and the public education system although their members have little or no experience in any of them They won’t say what can be or should be cut They simply point to the success of proposition 13 in California and proposition in Massachusetts and say if they can do it there we can do it here but there are vast differences between three states and propositions They are: The California and Massachusetts initiatives were strictly property tax limitations a local government tax But Utah initiatives rollback taxes on both the state and local levels and are much more drastic 2 When proposition 13 was passed in the state had a surplus of California four billion and the tax rate was high 3 percent Their rollback to percent of fair market value on new or resold homes is low but only slightly lower than Utah’s 11 percent statewide average today Proposition 13 has not been an unqualified success Since the bill was passed the four billion surplus is gone and some counties are virtual You Their once proud school ly bankrupt system no longer has local control They have one of the two highest ratios in the country and their pupil expenditure has dropped from 19th in the nation to 26th 3 There was no rollback in Massachusetts only a property tax reduction from 55 percent to a cap of 25 percent Their residential rate today is 135 percent compared to Utah’s 11 percent statewide average for all property Residents of both states pay higher property taxes than we do A home in Salt Lake City all based on 1800 sq ft is valued at $8460000 or a rate of 0101 percent and the taxes would be $85446 in San Diego the house would be valued at $15800000 at 01 percent rate with the taxes being $158000 In Boston the value of the home would be rated at $22500000 at a rate of 0135 percent and the taxes would be $303750 These figures are taken from the American Chamber of Commerce Research Association and they show where residential property in inand Massachusetts California itiatives were passed the country was enjoying boom times Both states had huge surpluses and very high property taxes By contrast Utah’s economy has been flat or recessionary for four years bringing about a severe cost containment program during that time After adjusting for inflation and population grdwth state expenditures have declined by 71 percent since 1985 although the demand for services has increased The state budget for fiscal is actually lower than last year Jack Olson President of the Conservative Utah Tax Payers Association wrote "In my years of working with Utah taxes I have never seen a governor present a tighter budget You have made the appropriate cuts in state spending” Why are the problems in Utah so different? Only in Utah does public education require nearly 50 percent of the entire state operating budget compared to a national average of 34 percent Utah not only leads the nation in percent of population under five years of age but also in percent of population of school age children 5 - 15 At the same time Utah ranks last of the percent of its population of working 64 What this age adults ages 18 means is that Utah has the most children to educate with the fewest number of working adults to pay for it and by a considerable margin For every two school age children the workUtah’s ing age US adults support working age adults must support three Utah has always had big families and why are they such a problem now? In the lat 1970’s early 1980’s Utah’s economy was flourishing with expanding oil coal mining and manufacturing industries At the same time a Utah baby boom was occurring with record births each year but the babies didn’t enter the school age population until five years ago just as oil prices on the world market collapsed and foreign competition and the national recession began to severly impact Utah’s mining Naindustries and manufacturing tionally the number of school age children per hundred working adults has dropped from 33 in 1980 to 30 in 1986 Utah during the same period has grown from 33 per 100 to 48 Utah’s percentage of school age children grew by 23 percent during while the working age the period population to support them grew only 124 percent half as much In short fewer people pay for more children N S Bassett Susanne Limburg Millard County Taxpayers for Utah and Your Child: Success in School by JIM CAMPBELL Utah Education Association President Leadership Among Educators It’s often been said that ordinary people are capable of extaordinary things Charles A Reavis a Texas Tech educator showed that saying to be true once again in an interesting study he did on leadership among educators He decided to study the attributes of several teachers and principals whose achievements could be verified by test scores victories in competitions prizes "or other ’’ forms of objective recognition Reavis was looking for common characteristics of these leaders He confesses that he expected “drill sergeants” and tense students Instead he reported a wholesome relationship between the educators and students These educators gave a high number of corrective statements to their students Reavis said he was surprised that the It students accepted the correction produced confidence and pride rather How? than anxiety and Reavis gave these reasons: -- The educators first identified areas in which their students have a strong interest and only then did they begin to demand perfection -- They were experts in their fields and stayed current -- They used their expertise K free their students to think —The educators provided support and encouragement -- They had an unshakable faith that their charges could do far better than they themselves realized --The educators genuine' cared for their students and cominu icated this caring Parents who have those qualities are probably good leaders too Precp of the water year normal which is 7'z inches of precipitation bringing the end ibout 100V of ut Newspapers: What you hold in your hands is freedom This is National Newspaper Week As you read this consider what you hold In your hands Not just a copy of a familiar harbinger of news whether weekly daily or something Not just a newspaper that we expect to be delivered at a regular time a comfortable reference and such an integral part of our lives that we rarely give it special heed What you hold in your hands is unique This and all the newspapers across the nation not only brings you information but also independent opinion Not what the government wants you to think But opinions whose rlfit to be expressed is protected in the fiber of our country the First Amendment to our Constitution What you are holding is unique because you not only can read what those in government— national state or local —do and say but also what those out of government think and da What you hold in your hands is documented proof that we are a nation of divergent voices all of whom have the right to be heard whether we agree or not And that is truly unique compared with the majority of the world What you are holding Is unique because this newspaper brings you commercial choices —what to feed your family what to wear what to enjoy where to work and live what to drive where to ga Compare this uniqueness with other areas of the world where drab lines wait for drab choices or where suffering lines wait for nourishment that may never come JOHN WATERBURY Dear John Letters Dear John: My husband and I enjoy fighting with each other Not physically but verbally And we enjoy making up to each other That’s the best part Does anything sound wrong with that? One of my friends says we’re crazy Are we? Willing Involved Dear Will: Could be But who’s to say A lot of fighting happens in a lot of marriages and not much of it is enjoyed The fighting is so common that particular pathological patterns tend to develop The following list identifies 10 ways to fight dirty in a marriage Hopefully unless you enjoy they can be avoided such things! TEN WAYS TO FIGHT DIRTY IN MARRIAGE 1 Spy on each other - watch for shortcomings weaknesses defenses try to figure out how much one can stand before cracking remember faults 2 Time your attack - when spouse is least prepared least able to defend self just as spouse gets home from work or busy at work pick fight when you are strongest - spouse weakest 3 Shotgun attack don’t stick to the issue strike out in all directions attacking family friends past failings perhow much you have sonality quirks suffered and sacrificed in past good way to make partner feel guilty and helpless 4 Tease - seems friendly and fun put spouse at disadvantage - say "What’s the matter? Don’t you have a sense of When confronted humor?” merely “I was only joking” An say underhanded way of venting hostility 5 Overkill bottle up anger and resentment until some minor incident lets out total accumulation of rage - border cident results in total warfare 6 Act like a martyr - give up wishes and desires then act sad depressed ill so make will recognize and appreciate your sacrifice can make them feel guilty AND punish them at the same time 7 Spouse analyzer and labeler call them “insecure” “inadequate” “neurotic” “sadist”' “paranoid” “frigid” “animal’ "abnormal” - this can hurt and give air of sophistication at the same time 8 Don't listen - assume you are right While spouse talks don’t listen Use time planning what you’ll say to wipe spouse out - don’t give 9 Don't communicate clear message don’t give unnecessary advantage by telling spouse what is wrong excellent technique for prolonging the fight 10 Insist on making-uat once don’t give time to cool off regain composure to get over hurt feelings Don’t give spouse time to work through upset feelings Insist on kissing and making up immediately This can cause further aggravation while appearing loving and peacemaking Dear John: For some reason people have always sought me out to tell me their problems I guess maybe I'm just a good listener Anyway I don’t really feel comfortable or qualified to give out advice or make decisions for other people If I had a Ph D it might be different but I don’t How can I handle this? Inadequate But Involved Dear I I: Good counselors do not become good counselors by being taught magic answers to all problems Care and concern are the main curative factors To that add training Training concentrates as much on what NOT to do as it does on what TO do For instance counselors are trained not to give out What you are holding is unique and powerful because the news Informaadvice public tion facts opinions guides and notices advertisements lustrations in your hands help you make your own Individual decisions on how to conduct your life— safely successfully more fidfilling What you hold In your hands is unique because this newspaper is a symbol of a distinctly American concept the idea of a free press — not an end in itself but a means to maintain our free the free flow of society through Information What you hold in your hands is your ability to disagree— expressed in your freedom to express your ideas in our letters column in a uniquely American dialog As we observe National Newspaper Week think of those who bring you what you hold in your hands: the staffs editors circulation reporters staff people production advertising members who made sure this powerful expression of America comes to you regularly and is so much a part of your life that too often we take it for granted What you hold in your hands is freedom fcrtbskl National Webster Hawkins President Association Newspaper advice and not to make decisions for others The therapeutic process is aimed at getting the patient to do that Since you seem to have some interest in helping others the following steps may prove useful Listen with caring Most people can solve their own problems Many times they only need a sounding board 2 Let the person know you are concerned 3 Help him sort out the pieces of the problem 4 Help him to identify the options and consequences 5 Encourage him to implement the plan and support him with realistic hope 7 Don't do anything for him that he can and should do for himself Dear John: I’ve had my share of problems in life and I guess I’ve pulled myself out of most of them but something is wrong I’ve always considered myself to be successful and yet when I look at myself now I don’t even know what success is supposed to be And what’s worse I really don't care Dangling in Dalton Dear Dangling: It’s been said that there are only two real tragedies in life One is not getting what we want and the other is getting it It sounds like you’ve gotten what you wanted but it also sounds like you’re in a rut To pull yourself out you need to recognize that success is a dynamic principle It’s not something you achieve once and then coast from that point on My own personal philosophy is as follows: “SUCCESS” Two things are necessary for success: First see yourself as someone who is able to change Second and even more understand that the importantly change occurs slowly Develop patience and persistence by taking one step at a time Know what you want to accomplish and set your goals just beyond your reach But not out of reason Try to remember that Success is never final and failure is never fatal Being successful means never accepting failures as your final destination Challenge yourself to grow Be your own friend encourage yourself Be honest with yourself and be open with others Manipulating others tends to become a way of life so easily and in the process usually everyone loses Appreciate who you are and strive to become who you want to be You’re the only one who knows enough about you to accomplish that Remember-N- o one rolls to the top of the mountain It always takes a lot of effort and receive anything worth having and it requires even more to hold on to it later Refuse to let and fear stop your procrastination development and avoid taking only the path of least resistence Continually mind yourself that mediocrity is always that your destiny rests entirely on what you think and what you choose to be No one can do it for you because after all you are the master of your fate Sugarloafers say thanks The Race Officials of the Moto-Race Event sponsored by the Sugarloafers Motorcycle Club held on September 24th and 25th would like to thank all of the local businesses and people who contributed prizes equipment time and effort in support of this race Your much needed help made it possible to put on the best organized racing event in this season’s Utah Sportsman Riders Association (USRA) schedule Dixie Harris Race Chairman Carl Aadersoa Track Official Kevia Bogwc Referee |