Show r Pc 2 tSPS ( ounly MMIard ffiomments Thun - - Jurw u 22 8 had to fill out a kind of questionaire this week for Publisher's Auxfor a story they are doing on iliary the National Newspaper publication State Chairmen The questions it asked like how long have you been in the business? what was the best advice you have received? and what is the best and worst thing about the business? really put me to thinking used to really love all the things about running a newspaper even on a bad day There are so pluses I get to meet so many people and learn so many things or at least used to Now 90 percent of my time is spent filling out forms hosting auditors fixing broken equipment and every other anseldom have the time or the energy noying task know to man (or woman) to do any actual newspaper work No wonder am such a grouchy person Now the latest in my barage of audits will be a state tax audit They only want three days of my time plus heaven knows how much time it will take me to find all the records (July 1986 to June 1989) they want to sec Most of the stuff they asked about don’t even know what they are talking about often think there is a major plot to just Hell it's fun to be in business make life so miserable for business owners that we just shut our doors and say "to hell with it” And you may have noticed that many are responding in just that way found an old yellowed dipping the other day and the following excerpt feel this week think it was reprinted in from it kind of sums up how the Chronicle because on the back of the clipping is the name Ruebcn hynoweth but don’t have any idea what year It shows that things don’t change but get worse "In reply to your request to send a check wish to inform you that you that the present condition of my bank account makes it almost impossible My shattered financial condition is due to f edcral laws state laws county laws corporation laws brother in laws mother in laws sister in laws and outlaws “Through these laws am compelled to pay a business lax amusement tax head tax school tax gas lax carpet tax income tax food tax furam required to get niture tax and excise (ax Even my brains arc taxed a business license car license hunting and fishing license truck license and dog license “I am also required to contribute to every society and organization which the genius of man is capable of bringing to life to women’ relief the unemployment relief the gold digger’s relief Also to every hospital and charitable institution in the city including the Red Cross the black cross the purple cross and the double cross "I or my own safety am required to carry life insurance properly surance liability insurance burglar insurance accident insurance business tornado insurance insurance insurance earthquake unemployment and fire insurance surance “My business is so governed it is no easy matter for me to find out who am inspected expected suspected disrespected rejected dejected owns it informed required summoned fined commandexamined ed and compelled until provide and inexhaustible supply of money for need of the human race known every am boycotrefuse to donate to something or other “Simply because am ted talked about lied about held up field down and robbed until almost ruined "I can tell you honestly that except for a miracle that happened I could not enclose this check The wolf that comes to many doors nowadays just sold them and here is the monev” had pups in my kitchen cfr32uCip Fillmore Area Delta Area Ht Krrll lir ti Bs Jut I Media Man!: Confusius say I9S9 Rogers so solly democlacy today Open letter to Mrs Clayton ht) dangling participle and not even kno W'e make all kinds of mistakes in (his life Some are errors made by not doing the things we should do It has been over years from Delta High since I graduated School During those years have paid made in not taking for the mistake your senior Lnglish class Lvery time had to write an essay in college or a technical report at work kicked myself for not having a better foundation in Lnglish It’s hell to be stuck with a it The sad part is that I had the opportunity of having the best Yes Mrs Clayton in my opinion and that of a significant number of other students from Delta “you were the best” You have had a positive influence on a lot of lives over the years Even on students you didn't teach just want to say thank you for a job well done Eldon Poulsen No more HEY YOU calls please "W” in front or after your identification unless you are a member of the Sheriff’s Posse or other organization authorized by FCC identification If children do at some time use the channel they should be taught the proper use and how to call Did you know there are around 140 mobile radio units and about half that many home bases listening to your call? Remember this is a business channel licensed by the I CC Please no more of these HEY! YOU! calls A Radio User (Name withheld on request) Letter to the Water Radio Channel Users: Did you know the channel is licensed by the I edcral Communication Commission and as such is subject to the rules and regulations of the FCC? They can and do monitor channels to sec these regulations are enforced Did you know it is ILLEGAL to call for someone without giving your RETURN or IDENTII ICATION call number? I believe it is also unlawful to answer someone without their identification number but I couldn't find that in the manual Did you know you are to use the Beef is back Beef is back That's good news to those of us who enjoy eating beef whether it’s a lean tender steak a convenient flavorful roast or a burger with all the trimmings It's also good news to those of u who raise cattle Beef is big business The beef dustry is the single largest segment of American agriculture with sales of cattle and calves accounting for about 22 percent of total receipts from farm marketing In Utah cash receipts from cattle and calves totaled 5267 million in 1988 And every dollar of cattle sales generates an additional $5 to 56 of business activity in the farm supply and food business There's an important reason why beef is hack Beef producers became part of a new era in the beef industry 986 when the national on October beef checkoff program began Through the checkoff beef producers invest one dollar per head of cattle sales in a program which funds beef promotion education and research at both the national and state levels June 27 1989 marks the 100th day of the national checkoff program days of solid progress for us in the beef industry The result is a better more nutritous and enjoyable product lor consumers and improved for the biggest single sector of the agricultural economy Cary Rose President Utah Cattlemen's Association Consumerism in (he new age by Dennis llinkamp Information Writer Utah Stale University Is there anything new about the New is it worth worrying about? Age and The New Age is much easier to make jokes about than it is to describe but it is beginning to reach the mainstream of consumerism and deserves a closer look There has been little investigative reporting on New Age products and services One reason is most of them cannot be scientifically disproved Most rely on personal experience and anecdotal evidence In the laic 70s' I read an investigative report that found that Transcendental Meditation ( LM the fad of the times) was fraudulent in the way it was being presented in the US The report said that although TM was supposed to supply everyone their Individually unique secret mantra in reality there were really only six or seven mantras Participants were told to keep it secret so others wouldn’t find this out The report also found that although TM was being marketed as the mantras were in fact names ol Hindu gods T his is the type of investigation that needs to be done on New Age claims Aitacking the New Age on religious or scientific grounds won't probably work The New Age is based on the premise that everything is subjective I could imagine substituting plastic imitation crysials for the real thing just to sec if anyone could tell the dil fcrcnce Several actors and magicians have already admitted to faking channeling sessions just to see if they could fool people They found they could easily W'hcn it comes to motivations there’s nothing new about the New Age Most products play on the same old anxieties that have been with us since the invention of breath mints Possible exception is hat they make more claims about anxieties lhal are hard to pin down Mirid expansion ner healing enlightenment and spiritual of the empowerment are the New Age Reaching these raiher misty goals tan be achieved with the help ol number of products: any New Age Music: Nobody seems to be able to quite quantify what actually It’s New Age music constitutes generally generally instrumental but there arc many cxccp find it vxiihing but lions Pcrvinally repetitive If there is a waiting room or elevator in Heaven this is the type ol music you’ll hear there Various cults magiChannelling cians fortune tellers have been calling up the voices of the dead since the beginning of time The idea is notnew What is new is the mainstream acceptance of the practice in front of auditoriums full of people One of the most famous channcllcrs has even written several books allegedly of the dead person’s wisdom My question is if these channelled spirits are past residents of Atlantis or queens of the Nile why do they speak Lnglish so fluently? Crystal f or some unknown reason crystals have become the power source ol the New Age movement They are rocks There isn’t much more you can say about them except that they also make attractive jewelry If anyone can olfcr the slightest proof that "they balance your body’s energy centers purify your mind and magnify the power of affirmations and self probetter than a pint of gramming” chocolate chocolate chip ice cream Pm all ears folk Medicine Scanning the publications and catalogs you sec an teresting mix of Lastcrn Mysticism and Native American Indian folklore and medicine New Age gurus urge participants to look for cures from the land and within themselves The New Age may end up being the most memorable SO’s buzz word As a consumer trend though it really isn’t anything new at all The New Age movement is just another repackaging anxiclies of Consumer Community Calendar Motor Vehicle Schedule: illmore & Delta weekdays Millard County Assessor's offices 10:30 am Mondays "Women and Self Esteem” Turning I’omt Office Voc Center Della and Tuesdays Mondays pm “Assertion I” Wed 10 noon "l ife Management Skills" Tucs for 3 weeks June 22 Delta Library Hoard meeting T hurs June 22 7:30 pm June 23 "Miss l iberty” pageant Delta City offices 7 pm Julie lightncr and Richard Ott wedding reception p m Delta lst2rid ward I mlinson Carmen and Michael Hcnric wedding reception 830 11 p m Oak City Ward Chapel Horace A & f ranees Ballard Harmon froldcn Wedding anniversary p m Holden Ward Millard County The Chronicle Progress USPS Publither Editor - Dutton Susan Editorial gen Band at Baporter Large Advertising fairs ( Brte y Wood Accounts Ward Ooerti Juke fvrtyn Bee fairs Bits Bobsnton fdhwore MaMet Design Office Manager Circulation Juke Ward Coern Cuculalion Comp CsrcuUtron'ProducUon Bn a Bobsnton Commercial Printing Dutton Shrike In Advance Subscriptions 120 bs County 00 per year months In County Sll 00 per f Out of County I2S 00 pee Out of County tlj 00 pee I cents SsngW Copy Send POSTMASTfB PO Bos 24B tnUfi SmaaS baa Pens' SUMS I Dries tmd Das I 7 to 4g)4 Usat 44)4 oeiric or W1SO pm 3 - 2B year months changes Utah tt me sr Hull MS4M0 out JTT Address June 24 Darin and Dcardcn Iynctta McGowan wedding opcnhousc pm home of groom’s parents 53 South 100 f’illmore Ml Wheeler Lower Inc annual meeting pm Bristlccorie Convention Center 150 Sixth Street Fly Ncv Panamora Horse Show illmore I airgrourid 9 a m June 25 Sister P at Roundy mission farewell 9 am Oasis Chapel Elder Jeff Davis mission report Meadow Ward 11:50 am Elder Peterson mission Justin farewell am Delia Slake enter Mdcr Russ lowles mission report 2:15 Sutherland Stake (enter Delta Utah Stake Young Men and Women I treside 7 pm Slake Center Speaker will be Isaac Iavern T homas June 26 Clinic iJelta Public Immunization & Health :45 Blood Immunization Clinic 9 Fillmore Pressures Public Health Dept June 2B Millard Orientation Tea for Miss contestant and mothers 2 pm Delta 2nd Ward June 2B 30 fntry dates for Millard High Alumni Art Show ! illmore Library Anyone who ever attended or taught at MHS is eligible T wo and three dimension work is welcome June 30 DAV expert to be in illmore 9 am - noon Pahvant Senior Center 550 South 400 West f illmore July I Stephanie Cordon and Reggie R Bliss wedding openhousc home of griorn’s parents 152 l ast 100 North Delta 7 - 9:30 pm (Delta Utah Stake (enter in case of inclement weather) Llizabeth Stoker and Joel Dean I mlinson wedding 1:30 reception 8 p m program 9:30 p m Oak City Ward Chapel 3 July Open House for MHS Alumni Art Show I illmore Library 3 5 pm Ldward O Aldrich and Myrtle Hare Aldrich Oolden W'edding Anivcrsary 142 South Second Last I illmore 4 July MHS Alumni Art Show Millard illmore library Deadline for entries for writing contest Millard County fair July 4 3rd Annual f illmore I rcedom Mile V30 am start lst4th t illmore Ward LDS Chapel by Last Sponsored Millard Tourism July 5 T here will NOT be a blood pressure clinic ai the IMta Public Health office today ("3 no ( AA MEETING SCHEDULE Monday - 8 pm Mental Health 51 North Center Open Meeting Wednesday - 8 pm Mental Health Office 51 North Center Closed Meeting ALAN0N Wednesday - 8 pm Mental Health Office Call Rand by Ken (Wo shwo Jungwo Media Man! (Humor columnist Humor columnists are Pseudonym) avoiding the tragedy of the Chinese Massacre with good reason: it isn’t funny But humor is a pain reliever that needs no warning lable In America we need no prescription to use it Despite a headache the size of Tiananmen Square nobody is laughing in China Imagine a people so shocked so grieved by the horror the injustice the betrayal of their own government Cato: (Wonder Kitty Sidekick) Meow (Those of you smarter than the average Beagle puppy are Invited to move on to the Letters to the Editor column before It’s too late Have you forgotten the last time His Nibs started pontificating out In the middle of the West Desert and not a tuna fish sandwich within 20 miles? He’s on the soapbox again I’m warning you It could be a while before lunch) faithful MM: Stop interrupting feline this is important promise I won’t pontificate Cato: Meow (MM is going to pontificate you can bet your entire catnip stash on it 11 me save you all a lot of time and give you the Cliff Note’s version okay? After preaching a few column Inches about the cathartic value of humor to a society faced with tragedy and it’s even greater liberating value to a society faced with oppression MM will do some jokes and stuff Some highlights: “Sign on the dollar bill changer machine: ‘Temporarily Out of Service When IJt’ Me too” Don’t ask me what that has to do with China but he’ll throw it in On the government rationalization for the massacre: “T here Is no need to attribute to malice that which can be more easily explained by stupidity” Once in a while he comes up with some real zlngers even if they are stolen He will concoct some tired joke about the parallel between official on student comments government and Spiro Agnew’s “hooliganism” “nattering nabobs of negativism” of things On his understanding Chinese: expect him to brag about his ability to speak and understand Mandarin Chinese Don’t believe it It’s been 20 years He still uses Anglicization Ills most frequently used phrase Is “Wo bu jrdau” which means "I don’t know” He also can count to ten sing "Yellow Submarine” and "Jesus ltves Me” and ask directions to the bathroom a There Chinese phrase he say when he accidentally erases a whole day work on computer but I can’t tell you what it means because (his is a family newspaper Often I hide his car keys to hear him say it His little bald spot turns red and he starts jabbering It’s ever so much fun - l)o not expect him to lapse Into dialect No “so solly no democlacy today comlade" stuff from Media Man! no sir He may be tacky now and then even tasteless crude offensive Infantile mindless crass and pedestrian but you’d never catch him stooping to ethnic humor No sir No way He’ll draw parallels with Kent Slate a reference to the Prague Spring Shanghai 1927 and something about Mao’s assertion that power comes out of the barrel of a gun He’ll also do something about soldier’s yelling at people “The People’s Iiberation Army loves the people the party and the while pointing at capital” them funny but not funny you know what I mean? I expect His Nibs will call for an investigation of littering In Tiananmen Square He’ll make Jokes like: “Why did the People’s Liberation Army tank cross Tiananmen Square? To run over somebody on the other side” the Chinese people's “Supressing hunger for democracy won't work An hour latrr they'll be hungry again” "What do you get when you cross a movement with the People's Iiberation Army? Red Square” "One soldier to another: ‘Was that a counterrevolutionary ruffian you Just shot?' The other soldier: ‘Must have been I shot him’' "What Army did the People’s Liberation soldier say to the people? Bang bang you’re liberated” We’re talking rich so pay atpolitical insight here folks tention There’ll be a quiz right after lunch) This is my MM: Cato please column Cato: Meow (Speaking of lunch) MM: Cato if you don’t mind I’m trying to do something very important here Cato: Meow (Not here use the Listen Klmosabe this Is peoplebox to 17 colgetting old We're already up y umn Inches and you haven’t done Cheetah wasn’t Tarzan’i first choice for a sidekick I'll have you know Maybe I should call my agent and renegotiate What do you think about that? MM: I was going to say instead of trying to do a column about the Chinese Massacre why don’t we do one about how wonderful cats are? What do you think about that? Cato: Meow (Uh) MM: But I'm afraid we’re all out of space this week Just say goodbye to the good folks and I’ll open a nice can of salmon for you okay? Or would you prefer shrimp? Cato: Meow (Uh) Keeping up with the changing family by Dennis Hinkamp Information Writer Utah State University haven’t been too acAs a nation We built curate with predictions cars in the 50’s because we were sure gas would be plentiful and we were rationcheap In the ing gas and predicted the price to go up to 55 per gallon by 1985 We are doing just as bad a job predicting changes in the family as we are changes in transportation According to Dr Glen Jenson family and human development specialist in the College of Family Life at Utah State University we really need something like a "family dex” similar to the leading economic indicators or consumer price index This would help social service agencies and educators the types of f problems families encounter Utah State University recently was host to a teleconference on “Forecasting the Future of America’s Families” The idea behind the conference was to get family educators to start thinking the same way corporate America does that is to try to recognize emerging trends and try to anticipate problems before they reach a crisis stage So far we’re not doing a very good job says Dr Ann Austin early childhood specialist in the USU College of Family Life For instance she says in the 60’s many people were predicting that we would have so much lesiure time on our hands that we wouldn't know what to do with it The opposite has happened Most people are too busy and feel pressured to keep up Also Austin says the trend of women going into the work force developed much faster than most people expected and we were caught lacking sufficient child care facilities for ail the families that needed them We were caught still debating whether day care was a good thing or not without looking at the reality of what families were already doing in regards to child care she says Child care facilities still don't meet the demand especially in the area of care for infants Jenson says in addition to the continued influence of women in the work force futurists are predicting more terracial marriages continued migration from rural areas to cities and what is termed the “sandwich generation” - these are older parents who are spending equal amounts of time caring for their young children and their own aging parents Consumer we or You and Your Child: easy on your heart and start cutting back on foods that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol The change’ll do you good tRA I)j Go American Heart Association WET FIGHTING FOR voupuft jimmimTniTTTxtTTr t Deadlines Contributors to the Chroni- Progress are reminded news f deadline is I ridays by 5 pm to £ be included in the next issue deadline is g Advertising £ Monday Observing these deadlines is r not only a courtesy to the stafr £ but it helps prevent errors r ck stmuumm tmnn Success in School JIM CAMPBELL Utah Education Association President by When school is out parents and children alike shift gears for summer activities such as gardening ball games vacations camping-an- d reading for pleasure Yes I said reading Jean Marshall suggests a good place to start is the local library Public libraries offer summer reading programs to motivate children to read through the summer months because it has been established that when children do not read for even a few weeks their reading level goes backward Studies have shown that students who do well in the classroom are often those who read independently at home Home and to Better According Garden Magazine other studies show that kids who use the library get better kids than who don’t grades They are also more likely to be library users as adults Since this is the year of the young reader what better excuse do you need than to spend some of the summer I reading together? For adults: Read to a child on a regular basis Give the gift of a book to a child Take a child to the library regularly a favorite book from your own childhood Take time to share a favorite story with a child For children: Sign up for the library's summer reading program Keep a list of the books you read this summer Read aloud to younger brothers and sisters Read a chapter or story you really like to Mom or Dad Organize a family refreshments plan a locationliving room floor backyard park or canyon Have time for silent reading as well as a sharing time So why not have some fun while keeping the kids reading skills sham too? |