Show Pace 2 Millard County Chronicle Progress Mav 17 1993 TO THE EDITOR Doctors becoming extinct Preclp MJ22ia3LAI Dear Editor Rural doctors are going the way of the dinosaur Extinction is imminent of a breed of man whose lives are dedicated to the health of small town people And yet Delta is very fortunate indeed to have three such men Granted none of them can sew like a plastic surgeon or perform open heart surgery but there is a vital place for them in our society There are many people in our community walking around alive today because of them Rural medicine is difficult to practice It involves a very wide knowledge of many illnesses and interventions of these Men make mistakes and doctors are mere men Which is difficult to accept when the mistake happens to one of your children But criticism and maliciousness does nothing but produce fear and possibly the loss of the doctors we already have Delta has earned the reputation in the medical schools as a cut throat community with its doctors Which has made recruiting a new physician nearly impossible And so those who have be come over critical of the three doctors we are lucky enough to have may need to wake up Bid smell the roses! The reality is new doctors don't want to come here and work on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week The new generation of doctors want to work an 8 hour day with occasional call days and salaries much higher than we can offer here It’s very easy for those of us who can drive up north with our children for minor earaches to the “real” doctors there B ut there are two groups of people who may die if we lose our doctors due to lack of support Those are the elderly who are less mobile and can't just hop in the car and run to Provo and the life threatening emergencies which we are not exempt from (It might also pay to mention the babies who may be delivered in Dog Valley) I have worked side by side with each of our doctors and would trust any of them with the lives of my children Which is the best recommendation I can give any mortal man Ruth Hansen RN Libraries second to none looks pretty The words appear horizontally and diagonally in the above Can you find them? following vertically puzzle GRANDMOTHER CHILDREN HUSBAND CORSAGE KISSES DINNER SUNDAY HELP CARD HUGS in a dear jar with layers of different colors of salts presents and is a great flowers mother gift for your mom for Mother's Day COMMUNITY CALENDAR ' V Motor Vehicle Schedule: Fillmore & Delta weekdays Millard County Assessor’s Office 2nd Thursday of Month Great Basm Historical Society meeting 730 pm Museum open every day pm except Sunday Every Thursday TOPS meets at Delta Middle School dining room 5 pm 10 am Wednesdays Story Hour Delta City Library Wednesdays pm class for Spanish speaking English people Delta City Library April 16 May 18 Long Term Agreement Agricultural Conservation Program May 3 31 Leavitt ChrisPainting Exhibit tensen’s oil paintings with two by son Steven Openhouse May 4 pm Fillmore Library Multipurpose Room May 17 Food Handlers Class 2:30 pm Fillmore Public Health Dept ($5 fee) May 18 "Diabetes and Stress" 10 a m Delta Med 3 Center Community pm Fillmore Community Center Deadline for ACP signup Millard County Republican Party Millard County Chronicle Progress The USPS Published 0 every Utah at Della Thursday 84624 by DuWd Publishing at 40 N 300 W Located Publisher Susan B Della Utah Editor - 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midnight May 27 Stanley and Joy Harmon mission farewell 11:45 am Holden Ward May 30 Immunization Clinic 9 11:45 am Blood Ffressure Clinic 1:15-pm Fillmore Health Dept June 2 Horse Show Hinckley Arena 8 9 am Test June 6 Blood Pressure Ginic Delta Public 1:30 am & Health pm June 7 Holden Blood Pressure Ginic 3:30-- 4 pm Holden Fire Station June 9 Endurance Ride Base Camp Fillmore Rodeo Grounds Hinckley Rodeo Queen Competition June 15 ASCS deadline to report crops June 21 Horse Show Hinckley Arena 5 6 pm Test June 23 Miss Hinckley pageant July 19 Horse Show Fillmore Arena 5 6 pm Test August 16 Horse Show Millard County County Fairgrounds pm Test Utah Fillmore: DUWTL Convention 6 pm Pahvant Senior Citi55 South 400 West zen Building Fillmore Delta Chapter of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation annual banquet and auction County Fair Building ' May 19 A or Evelyn at 743-53- Letter to the Editor: I just wanted to comment on the outstanding library services we've received in our area At the Dcita City Library Deb Greathouse and her assistants have helped us find numerous bookj for school papers and projects When the Library didn’t have one particular magazine Deb personally delivered some of her own from home My Cub Scout Den has passed various requirements at the Library The Bookmobile has an impact on our town It’s a real treat an reward for kids and adults and “Bookmobile Day" is special Dixon Eliason has kept an eye out for a book I’ve needed bought a few new ones I’ve suggested or ordered some from the State Library The public schools each have in place or are now beginning a new computerized system which is extremely fast and efficient and offers quite a variety of materials which can be located in seconds Kevin Chapman is very innovative He and Diane Porter Velda Pace and Jane Beckwith are quite progressive and at the same time have been so helpful to my children I've received hours of help from the volunteers at the LDS Genealogical Library I’m constantly amazed at the records already on hand or available in just t few days I don’t need to go to Ireland or all right here materiWhen it comes to als or systems quantity or quality helpfulness or knowledgeability our libraries take second to none Merrily Anderson Oak City Loneliest road becomes lonelier Letter to editor The “loneliest road” just became lonelier I am another victim of that lonely road and tame tropper of Millar County nabbed by frontal radar assault along the shoroes of Sevier Lake where the highway runs flat and straight for 20 miles There is no question of safety at 70mph during daylight in clear weathrt along this road and the trooper doesn't work at night This so called law enforcement is an example of modem highwayman extracting an unreasonable unfair and capricious tax from the traveling public Apparently the local justice officials rationalize this activity as means to support themselves but at what cost to PTSA other local interests? Trooper Nellson is doing s good job The threat to the motorist from his efforts has become widely known Before my recent trip I had heard in Seattle that US SO in western Utah was a roadd to avoid I won't (ravel that road again! There are cXher choices to cross Utah where the speed limit is enforced in a reasonable way Local businessmen who are trying to make a living from gas stations restaurants and mtoels should be made aware of what Judge Hansen Trooper Nellson and the Millard County justice? court are doing to their livelihood Farrel Lytle Seattle WA says thank you We the Middle School PTSA would like to thank all those who helped in any way in organizing and responding to the mock disaster at the middle school We feel this had a two fold purpose: to find our communities strong points and weak points on handling a disaster in our area and to see how effective the disaster plan previously set up by the middle school would function We feel this was a real learning experience and much was accomplished in learning what needs to be done to ensure the safety of our student sin case of an actual disaster There are many areas that would be handled the same and many areas that would be handled differently if this were to happen again Experiencing the real disaster as much as possible made this a very beneficial learning drill for alL In the words of the State PT A Disaster Committee "Plan to Live" and this is our goaL Fillmore Middle School PTSA HOPE continued around" Hcame said "I found ramps and stuff that needs to be built and a little bit of concrete on the edge of a curb" Hearoe said a plaque should be put on tamps or other aid facilities honoring a handicapped person in each town along with the names of people who helped raise money for the facility The big goal is to build what he called Sunrise Miracle Centers a club equipped for the handicapped “It’s like a spa or fitness center" he said “It’s free to handicapped but it’ll be open to the public Employees will be handicapped people" The first will be in the Utah Valley area Seven will be built throughout the state A drunk driver struck Heame’s car in 1984 He was totally paralyzed not expected to live He did In time he regained use of one arm then the other In time he was able to use a wheelchair and sometimes crutches In his struggle to recover Hcame found a new purpose in his life He m ade the struggle faced by everyone in Utah with a disability his struggle The Kem M Hcame Education and Rehabilitation Foundation was bom Its purpose: to support the mentally and physically handicapped in Utah "I have a reason for being alive and not just existing" Hcame said "My goal is to find those handicapped who have given up and give them a reason to live" Hcame planned to reach Fillmore from Ncphi late Wednesday but was “I had a flat unexpectedly delayed tire" he said "Those kind of things do happen And the spare tores they gave me were fiat" So he had to bring them in to Fillmore to get them fixed "But I'm glad I did because I met a little boy with no arms and no legs" he said "And he’s going to go through town with me tomorrow" Carter Crosland of Holden is five "I heard about him a while back and I made a goal to get him arms and legs" Hcame said “I'm doing a lot of this run for him” “It’a like a walkathon" Carter’s mother Lisa said “He went around and got people to sponsor him with pledges and then he rode his wheelchair with Kem" The Fillmore Chamber of Commerce made a donation MHS students collected money at school and signed pledges of $1 a mile for Carter Public safety building and courthouse employees pitched in Crosland did not know how much "I don’t have it money was raised totaled yet" she said Hcame has a challenge for people: “Find somebody in your neighborhood Be their friend It doesn't take money It take friendship and kwe and earing" Donations to the Kem M Hcame Education and Rehabilitation Foundation may be made to: First Security Bank of Utah Ac222 count Zions First National Bank Ac3445506-count Box 959 Orem UT 8407 or call (Orem) or (Salt Lake CityX Hcame left Millard County just south of Cove Fort Friday afternoon where Beaver County officials took over escort - “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result” Winston Churchill Media Man! Four legs good two legs bad Rand by Ken (et to Cato?) column (Editor’s note: This week’s b once again written by Cato the Wonder Kitty who puts paw to keyMM! has board when her mentor time His Nibs gone totally blotto This with a thought we might be amused a vat of story linking Phyllis Diller who shall green Jello and an Editor The word “cavort” remain unnamed was used often as a verb In the piece We were not amused He calls It cenHence sorship we call It good taste this week Cato writes again) Thanks Ed There are several things about which I would like to take this moment on the soap box to gripe They are: bad outdoor kitty dogs in general and bad writing I hope I don’t get too whiney ie too Mcdiamanlish It has come to my attention of late that the arrival of spring has produced an increase in the number of kitty who frolic scamper and play in the jungle outside my apartment Whether this is a of good thing or a bad thing depends course on whether the kittys so deporting themselves are good outdoor kitty s or bad outdoor kittys Good outdoor kittys always share when they find a lizard to chew Even if it's wily a tail it's the thought that counts Bad outdoor kittys try to sneak in my apartment and eat my lunch while I’m out playing scorpion toss in the jungle They wait until MM! puts his earphones on (He listens to Dante and the Deadbeats while he writes This explains many things) before they sneak in and trash my Purina Wonder Kitty Chow Bad outdoor kittys hiss at good outdoor kittys MM! has taken to shutting my egress the window above the kitchen sink (alas still filled with last seasons dishes yet undone) when he is out of the apartment fetching me more catfood because he knows bad outdoor kittys will enter in his absence He has not yet made the distinction between bad outdoor kittys who enter uninvited and good outdoor kittys I ask in to help me gnaw on the sofa What is even more disconcerting is that while locking bad outdoor kittys out in his absence he locks me in I have tried to placate MM! but to no avail I have brought a mouse a lizard or two and once even a baby rabbit indoors for him to play with but he feigns disinterest He jumps up and down screams shrilly upsetting my guests Then he puts on a pair of garden gloves muttering something about rabies cooties or whatever and chases my guest until he catches it and then can you imagine? - throws it out the window A real I blame it on bad outdoor kittys Humans please take note: your bad outdoor kitty will make a better indoor kitty Keep himherit thus Thank you Dogs Ycch Humans keep taking their dogs away in their pickup trucks but they keep bringing them back Why? MM! tells me humans are superior because they can whistle and kittys can’t Big deaL Last time I heard a human whistle a dog came I don’t get it Humans seem to like dogs Even more so than declining SAT scores this is an eloquent comment on the depressing state of human intelligence Sure like dogs kittys shed and occasionally rip up sofas and pillows knock over Christmas trees hide your car keys under the bed and make no contribution to the tax roles but have you ever seen a kitty on welfare? Sure like dogs kittys nap all the time but while napping they do not drool or block the doorway Ha When kittys sit on your chest so that you can have the privilege of giving them mbs they don't drool all over you and thump their stupid tails and whimper Do kittys have to be tied to large dog houses to keep them from eating the mailman? Do kittys try to attack passing Volkswagens? Do kittys slobber all over your newspaper while you’re trying to read and bark when you’re trying to watch Arsenio? Ha Do dogs purr? Ha Finally an appeal to human readers: as you can see His Nibs is a few bricks shy of a full chimney again this week He gets that way when he can’t think of anything to say This happens frequently When he gets thus he mutters a lot tosses and turns in his sleep like Lenin in his grave since Gorbachev and for generally makes life miserable anykitty trying to nap at the foot of the bed MM! isn’t I’m not saying good human for a kitty to have He is very good catfood at He and catbox changing keeps shopping plenty of fly around for me to chase He keeps his computer warm for when I want to lay on it and look out the window (He could clean the windows now and then but why get picky?) It's this writing problem he has: he keeps doing it You can help Please send your ideas for future columns to the newspaper However stupid they are believe me they can’t be as bad as MMl’s latest whopper a remake of Moby Dick starring the Editor as Ahab and Roseanne Barr as -no no I can’t go on - Domestic Violence Part 10: Men may also be the victims of violence by Marie L Godfrey Ph D “The most un reported crime is not wife beaiing-i- t'j husband beating" says sociologist Suzanne Steinmetz Since men are expected to be and physically superior it’s not stronger surprising that they do not report abuse unless it requires medical attention And then they probably report “an accident" just as women often do Dr Steinmetz’s study of found that wives beat husbands as often as the reverse In studying four types of aggressiveness she found that men and women are equally likely to beat their partner "The data seem to indicate few differences between husbands and wives in the type and frequency of physically aggressive acts used" observes Dr Steinmetz Dr Richard Gelles of New Hampshire agrees “Husbands are certainly victimized too" Why then is reported abuse of male spouses always lower than that for females? Some feel that society’s concept of masculinity discourages husbands from reporting their abuse Few men can face the humiliation needed to file an official report Several law enforcement officers in New Horizons trainings have commented that women are often part of die battering Some hit their spouses while others seem to “egg them on" This makes decisions at the scene of a domestic violence even more difficult The officer cannot automatically arrest the stronger person Sometimes the woman strikes the first blow which may lead the husband to strike back This again leads to the question of intent Do women slap their own husbands to provoke them into beatings which they enjoy? Some do but it may be more reasonable says Dr Steinmetz to recognize that aggressive tendencies are equal in both sexes Marriages between weak passive men and strong aggressive women are fertile territories for husband abuse If THE AFFECTION the woman is temporarily stronger say in the illness or drunkenness of her husband abuse may be possible also Men who find themselves in these situations can feel as trapped as women do in similar circumstances Should he take it or fight back? Should he report it and be ridiculed? If he does he may find the same bewildering frustrating experiences the battered woman finds Also there are even fewer places for help Some women skillfully manipulate a husband into violence to obtain a vorce often on the instructions of others The stories where this happens are common Another situation where male spouse abuse can occur is in homosexual relationships Here the beatings are from husband to wife but both are males"The reason appears to be that homosexuals are conditioned by the same things in society as heterosexuals "says Dr B L Daly When it comes to spouse killing there appears to be true equality between the sexes Studies by the FBI and others have found that an equal number of wives kills their husbands as husbands kill their wives Some argue that the husband deaths result from a battered wife who "cannot take it any more" and kills her husband to avoid further battering Homicide statistics indicate that a good number of husbands end up in the morgue The condition of husband beating is real and is probably more widespread than most would assume But husband abuse should not be viewed as a simple opposite of wife beating Both re part of the same problem which should be described is one person busing another person And abuse against any person whether child or adult male or female must be faced and treated New Horizons also counsels men whether they are abusers or abused Our phone lines are always available at and “The minds of our statesmen like the pupil of the human eye contract themselves the more the stronger light there is shed upon them” — Thomas Moore American Heart Association WERE FIGHTING NOURUFE FOR |