Show West Millard History Millard Countv Chronicle Procress February 1 199C Pace 3 Mnemosynes given to museum Mrv Marvel Clayton retired teacher form Della High School recently gave the Great Basin Museum the remainder of all the Mnemosyne which were publiterary magazine lished at Della High when she taught there From 1962 to 1970 Mrs Clayton and her students published a small paperback literary mag azine which contained the best efforts of some of her students Each year a new during those year magazine was assembled and printed Each year a goodly number were sold but there were always some left over Eventually funding became difficult to obtain for the magazine and Mrs Clayton ended up Financing the last two issues heavily from her own funds After 1970 she felt that she could no longer underwrite the project even though it was a labor of love In 1975 Mrs Clayton retired and the magazines remained at the high school stored in a cupboard Then one day Ms Jane Beckwith a new English teacher at the school and a former student of Mrs Dayton’s came from their upon thcmagazinesremoved cupboard awaiting the trip to the dump Realizing the significance of the book- - Imago performers Geary left to leu he e got boxes packed the discarded Mnemosynes in them She took the booklets to Mrs Clayton who stored them in her home Now after close to 20 years of careful storage the like new magazines are at the Great Basin Museum Mrs Clayton would like them to be sold the receipts to fund projects at the museum The articles and poems contained in the magazines are all by people who graduated from Delta High between 1962 and 1970 The writing is still interesting and it is even mote interesting to see who has written the articles Many names will be familiar even to fairly new residents of the area Anyone who would like a Mnemosyne from a particular year please contact the Museum at PO Box 550 Delta Utah 84624 or call it Mon through Saturday 2 5 pm The cost will be S400 if it needs mailing and 5300 to pick up at the museum Also if your class is planning a reunion for 20 or 25 years the museum would be glad to make arrangements to provide Mnemosynes to be sold at the reunion Parents friends and relatives might give one as a birthday or Christmas gift Contact the Museum or come by and see one if you ire interested ad right: Bill Robison Mark Greenfield Barbara Imago draws big crowd in Delta - Based on attendance and audience response the presentation of Imago in Delta last week ranks as a major success for the West Millard Cultural Council Imago appeared before a nearly full house at the Della High School auditorium Thursday Jan 25 The program was presented in cooperation with the Utah Arts Council It’s pronounced ’Imago’ like ’Chicago' and it means ‘image' in Latin "It's also the stage in the development of a larva” performer Mark Greenfield said The group has been performing for about 10 years It is based in Portland Oregon Greenfield describes Imago as contemporary with much French and European influence yet rooted in traditional forms developed thousands of years ago in Greece and Africa “In a way it’s a combination of Fine arts like dance mime theater” he said “What we like to call it is human animation because we take the human form and we transform it into other images and shapes" Images from the presentation are difficult to translate into words but the writer of the program notes tried: “Imago the Theater Mask Ens amble whose unusual images and creatures show shades of humanity in the world of the fantastic: a larval insect performs impossible acrobatic feats a monkey defies the laws of anatomy a sphere transforms from eggplant to boulder to This creates in the circus performer viewer a sense of wonder reminding us all of our common link that we share with animals objects and phenomena in our Like futuristic magicrms universe Imago playfully distorts the scientific laws of our world and creates illusions that tickle a funny bone in our sense of ‘what we think to be true'" “Our primary concern is entertainment" Greenfield said “even though on the one hand it is intellectual We really like for our audiences to have fun We want to be as unsnobbish in our approach as possible" Greenfield said children provide a more fun audience than an group "The younger they are the beuer they are" he said “because the less impact we as adults have had on them For me working for kids is almost ways exciting almost always good In this type of performance we like a vocal audience Kids react They give us that" “We Imago has toured worldwide perform from the smallest of towns to the largest" Greenfield said "We go just While in Utah the about everywhere" group performed in DcltaKanab Gunnison and Brigham City Upcoming on the Cultural Council calendar is a performance by the Renaissance Chamber Ensamble Feb 16 and Missoula Children's Theater March A summer community musical is being planned for June The Council is sponsored by a group of local citizens and businesses including the Millard County Chronicle Progress by Ken Rand County jobless rate 46 percent in Dec '89 The jobless rate for Millard County for December 1989 was at 46 percent compared to 49 percent the month before and 42 percent the year before That information was part of the January 1990 Utah Labor Market Report published monthly by the Utah Department of Employment Security It showed statewide unemployment in the last month of 1989 was at 40 percent one tenth of t percent up &om the month before Other information offered in the report The slight December rise in ess appears to be merely a fluctuation within a larger trend and no cause far alarm The state closed the year with one of the best labor force records of the ’80a Since December 1988 employment has expanded by 31800 new positions for a growth rate of 5 percent Robust service industry employment expansion again provided the major impetus for Utah job creation While urban counties generally experience lower unemployment than their rural counterparts no Utah county Finished the decade with an unemployment rate higher than 84 percent Millard County's civilian labor force was at 5100 in Dec '89 down 18 percent from 5150 the year before Hansen makes academy nominations Congressman Tim Hansen has announced nominations for the entering class of 1990 at the US Merchant Marine Air Force Military and Naval academies Among the nominees w as Daniel Nielsen of Delta who was nominated to the Air Force Academy and the Naval Academy The selection of nominees is based on a composite of factors such as school records class rank SAT or ACT scores leadership potential athletic participation extracurricular activities and recommendations it Tnis sketch shows where the red trifobites are found National magazine features trilobite story Paul Bishop stands before his latest yob the JC Penney store in downtown Salt Lake City (Photo by Paul Fraughton Salt Lake Tribune) Demolition expert lowers the boom (Editor's note: This story is based on a more complete article written by Cathy Free that appeared in the Jan 8 1990 Salt Lake Tribune) Paul Bishop says he can't believe people pay him to have so much fun Bishop 36 a native of Hinckley r destroys buildings for a living of Mackay Kim Inc He calls his job fun "People think my job looks exciting and well it is" he says At one time Bis hep wanted to be an architect “I guess I got it backwards" he says “But row I don’t think I’d enjoy putting buildings up It’s more fun to take them down” In 17 years Bishop has knocked down more thn 150 buildings on the Wasatch Front They have included the Astronaut Lounge the Ambassador Chib the Jordan power plant and the Hotel Ncwhouse Occasionally Bishop says sometimes he feels sad when he has to tear down a beautiful old building “I really hate to bring some of those old houses down" he says "I have an old house in Delta that I'm fixing up and I wouldn't dream of tearing it down “On lots of jobs I feel sad about bringing the building down but since it’s not my property or money there’s nothing I can do about it I figure ‘Well Brush CEO resigns Brush Wellman Inc officials have announced Dr Raymond A Foos has resigned as chairman president chief executive officer and director In a news release dated Tuesday Jan 23 the company reported that until a new CEO is named Henry G Piper former chairman and CEO and presently a director of the company will assume the duties of president and CEO on an interim basis Dr Foos was elected president and CEO in January 1988 He was elected chairman in December 1988 when Piper retired Brush Wellman is headquartered in Cleveland Ohio The engineering materials manufacturer has subsidiaries worldwide It operates a beryllium mine in the West Desert and a mill north of Delta WASTE continued Millard County a ballot issue last year Zoning issues art not usually put before voters but Peterson felt it would be a good way to give the public input into resolving the issue The concept was endorsed by a local citizens group which had been largely responsible for pressuring Rollins Environmental Services Inc into reconsidering building a hazardous waste incinerator in the county Rollins is looking to Green River for a plant There is no specific timetable for further action on the issue by Ken Rand New law: farmers must withhold tax The Utah Farm Bureau Federation has reminded all Utah farm and ranch employers that they must begin withholding federal income tax from em1990 accordployees effective Jsn ing to a new law adopted by Congress Ken Ashby Delta UFBF president will have to keep on file said employers a completed form for each farm employee will also have to provide Employers form to workers each January (beginning in January 1991) which details how much the worker earned and what was paid to FICA (Social Security) and federal income tax accounts If the workers are seasonal or migrants and don’t live in the area farmers will have to be able to demonstrate that they made effort to locate the workers a in order to send their farms to them Therefore employer should enrure that they have the workers’ permanent addrescs on File Ashby said Employers may use the IRS Circular E to determine proper withhold in g rstes to Call IRS at obtain the Circular E and other tax forms somebody’s got to do the job it might as well be me’” The current job is the old JC Penney building in downtown Salt Lake City Most of it came down with a backhoe but some of it required the specialized equipment unique to Bishop's business: the wrecking balL At the end of the of the crane Bishop operates is a wrecking balL Handling the huge device requires skill "Demolition takes a long time to understand” Bishop says "There are different ways to bring a buildirg down but if you don’t take it down right then you've got it in your lap or it won't come down at alL" Bishop is proud of his work "Of course it's ilways a mess"he says“but that’s part of the fun When the building is gone and something new is put up it's fun to drive by and say ‘Hey remember that old building? I took it down'” A story about the trilobite beds of the West Desert of Millard County was 990 edition of featured in the February Rock 4k Gen magazine The article titled “Field trip: ’kinda was written by Earl red’ tnlobites" Spendlove It describes t trip the author made to find trilo bites where he discovered a different variety of the critters “Did you ever see the red tnlobites at Antelope Spring?" Spendlove quoted Wesley Peterson of Hinckley to introWithin a few paraduce his article graphs Spendlove and others had set out to find them Spendlove asked Peterson if they were really red “Well" he drawled red but "they’re not exactly they’re kinda red" The author then told his readers how to get to the site where the unusual fossils are located The trilobite beds at Wheeler Basin near Antelope Spring are well known and were the first stop on Spendlove’ The commercial diggings expedition operated by the Harris family of Delta were described in relation to the fossils available to the general public in the waste dump near those diggings But Spendlove was looking for the ’kinda red’ trilobitcs Those he found with the help of Wes and Lu wanna Peterson a few miles west of Wheeler Basin and to the south about three miles just off Dome Canyon Road The ‘kinda red’ tnlobites are difficult to see Spendlove wrote “since they were about the same rusty red color as the background" but apparently the Peterson’s knew what to look for and Spendlove was rewarded with several good specimens Spendlove wrote about the origins and physiology of the tnlobites particularly how the species was apparently the victim of “mass extinction" and is thus so plentiful in certain areas He also desert gave helpful hints to explorers When Rex Harris was contacted about tlie article he said he hadn't seen it but was aware of the red trilobitcs "They’re sort of tan really" he said "You have to have a good imaginationto see them as red" Anyway several specimens are on display at Tina’s Jewelry in Delta " S O HEAD INJURIES STROKES OR SPINAL CORD DAMAGE — all can lead to disabilities However with proper treatment and therapy a person who has had this type of injury can have a greater quality of life NEW INTERMOUNTAIN REHABILITATION CENTER Opened in 1988 the Intermountain Rehabilitation Center at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo is a new facility specializing in the treatment of persons with physically disThis conditions abling new facility features the newest in therapy and care for patients working to overcome a disability During our first year over 200 patients have been successfully treated HELP FOR MANY DISABILITIES The rehabilitation phy- sicians and specialists take a team approach to treatment providing care to patients related to the following: Stroke Head Injuries Spinal Lord Injury Neurological Disease or Arthritis Congenital Deformity Amputation BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE An effective treatment program is tailored to meet the needs of individual patients under the direction of a physia-tri(a medical doctor specializing in physical and rehabilitative medicine) This includes inpatient and outpatient services such as physical and occupational therapy vocation evaluations rehabilitation nursing nutrition services speech therapy psychology social work audiology and recreational therapy SERVING CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN UTAH Since the Intermountain Rehabilitation Center is in Provo it’s one step closer to home Family participation is welcomed as it contributes to a significantly patient's recovery Families assist in planning goals and help patients apply their newly acquired skills at home at work or in the community ADDITIONAL INFORMATION If you or someone you know could benefit the special services available at the Intermountain Rehabilitation Center talk with your physician Or call We'll answer your questions and send an informative brochure from Intermountain Rehabilitation Center UTAH VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 1034 North 500 West Provo Utah 84604 An Intermountain Health Care Facility |