Show m Page 2 Millard County Chronicle Progress March Tn T5 1994 10 TO THE " Community Calendar Motor Vehicle Schedule: Fillmore & Dclu weekdays Millard County Assessors Office Great Basin Historical Society Museum Delta Tuesday open Wednesday Thursday Friday 10 am 3 pm Tours and after hours call Job Service hours in Delta: Wed & Thurs in Fillmore Drivers License Examiner Schedule: Delta (Suite 2 58 East Main) every Friday 8 am - 5 pm Fillmore 1st 3rd & 5th Wed 9 am - 4 pm Center (PAF) Family History Fillmore Utah Stake Mon pm Tues Wed & Thurs pm SaL 7 Ext 14 (on am - noon Call touch tone phone) for reservations for Family Search Computer Personal Ancestral File (PAF) Computer Instruction Wednesdays tory Center pm Delta Stakes Family Phone His- Sunday Services at the Full Gospel Fellowship Church 10 am & 7:30 pm All faiths invited Beehive Baptist Church 200 W 400 N Fillmore 10 am Sunday School 11 am Morning Service 7 Service pm Evening Second & Fourth Sundays Beehive B aptist Church 200 W 400 North Fillmore Christmas Play Practice noon Fourth Sunday services Ffresbyterian worship Catholic Church 390 North Main Fillmore Mondays CUFS Food Bank pm Oct March 30 162 West 100 South Delta A A & ALANON meeting 8 pm 51 North Center Delta 8 AA meeting pm 290 North Main Fillmore Monday Thursday Saturday Alcoholics Anonymous 8 pm 280 N Main Fillmore Last Monday of Month Parents Support Group for families who have children with disabilities meet 7 pm Millard School District Offices Delta More information call Sandy Nielson Thursday Tuesday Wednesday Lunch at ME Bird Center for Seniors pm Lunch at Pahvant Senior Center Fillmore noon Every Tuesday & Thursday Parenting Class For Info call Delta Technical Center Social Services 864- 3869 or Sarah Jo Louder ' s Every 4th Tuesday Social Security Rep Delta City Offices Every Tuesday Basic Life Skills classes pm Turning Point Delta Technical Center No Charge Narcoucs Anonymous open meeting 8 pm 51 N Center Delta AWANA for children kindergarten to 6th grade 58 S Center Delta pm Wednesday Full Gospel Fellowship Church bible Study 7:30 pm Weekly activities Delta Extension Office pm Call Mon Wed Fit or Tues Thurs for information A A meeting 51 North Center Delta B echive B aptist Church 200 W 400 N Fillmore 10:30 am Ladies Prayer Meeting 3:30 pm Childrens Good Samaritan Club 7 pm Evening Scrv- ice Story Hour Delta City Library 10 am 3 5 year olds First & Third Wednesday Beehive B aptist Church 200 W 400 N Fillmore 6 pm Children's Choir Second Wednesday Holden firemen’s Auxiliary regular meeting 8 pm Fire Station Every 4th Wednesday Social Security Rep Fillmore City The Millard County Chronicle Progress US PS Published every Thursday al Delta Utah 84624 by DttWi Publishing Located al 40 N 300 W Delta Utah Publisher Editor Susan B Dutson Reporting - Editorial Kata Hellanbrand Afrerfojofl Julia Ward Goarlz Design Accta Rac FtUey Wood Salta Evelyn Mallet Flllmora Office Mgr Ad Sales Kathy Walker CimlaM Fourth Thursday Utah League of Writers Delta Chapter meeting 7 pm AA meeting 8 pm 290 North Main Fillmore Every Friday A A meeting 8 pm 51 North Center Delta Saturday Fillmore Family History Center open 7 Every Other Saturday A A Women's group 5 North Center Delta March 3 18 Signup for Girls Volleyball League 9 am - 5 pm 81 South Manzanita Delta March 3 - 25 Registration for baseball and Mon thru Fri 8 am - 5 pm 81 South Manzanita Ave Della March 3 31 Rula Christensen's Quills on display Fillmore Library during library hours March 7 11 Delta Middle School Book Fair March 10 ASCS Committee Meeting and ACP or approval Call March 11 BYU International Folk Dance Ensemble MHS Auditorium 7:30 pm Tickets S6 in advance $8 at door Christine Bloomfield and Scott L Sorensen wedding reception 7 - 9 pm Delta Stake Center March 13 Mission farewell for Elder Caleb Brent Johnson 10:40 am Sutherland First Ward Mission farewell for Dale & Pat Wood Kanosh Ward March 14 Millard Fillmore Library board meeting 5 pm library March 14 & 15 Tryouts for Delta Hcst Tournament Dclu Middle School 4:30 - 6 pm March 15 Deadline to enter Millard County Farm Bureau Essay Contest Cancer Screening and Prevention Clinic Fillmore lst4th Ward Building 340 E 50PS9 am- - 3:30 pnv Call ' ' ' Food Handler Class Delta Public Health 428 E Topaz Blvd 2:30 pm March 16 Cancer Screening and Prevention Clinic Delta lst2nd Ward Building 222 W 200 N 8:30 am - 3:30 pm for appt Call Book Group Delta City Library of Gloris Naylor’s "The Women Brewster" 7:30 pm March 18 Rebecca Burton & Jason Amundsen Miller wedding reception pm Dclu Suke Center Nicole Sumsion & Jeff Hansen wedding reception pm Oak City 1st Ward Jennifer Sabey & Blaine Kohler Millard County wedding reception Exhibit Bldg pm March 19 Fillmore Quilling Guild meeting 2 Fillmore Room North Library pm March 20 Mission farewell for David 9:00 am Delta lst2nd Ward building Reception pm at rcsidcnce4 423 W 300 S Delu March 21 Cholesterol Screening Clinic Dclu Public Health 248 East Topaz Blvde by appt March 22 Cholesterol Screening Clinic Fillmore Public Health Office by appt March 26 Barbershop program Millard High Auditorium 7 pm S5 in advance S6 at S20 the door Seniors SI discount family Proceeds go to MHS Choral Dept March 26 Color Country Chorus MHS Auditorium 7:00 pm March 27 Special Easter Musical Presentation Fillmore March 28 Immmunization Clinic Dclu Public Health 248 East Topaz Blvd & - 7 pm March 29 Slim For Life classes begin at Extension Office 83 South Manzaniia Ave Ext Delu 5:30 pm Call Tues & Thurs Julia Ward Goartz - CkcJComp Prirlna Dutton Subscriptions in Advance In County $2000 per year $1300 per 6 months Out of County - $2500 per year Single Copy 50 cents Shipmates sought Commercial Shell! The National LST Association is looking for shipmates for reunions held each year The next National reunion will be held in Las Vegas NV in Sept 1994 For information write: United PO Box States LST Association or 167438 Oregon Ohio contact Bob Gamer LST 461 HC 52 Box 362 Hemphill TX 75948 Ph (409) POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Box 249 Delta UT 64624 Rales on Request Advertising Second Class Postage Paid al Delta UT 84624 FAX Delta Fltmore: COMPANY DUWl PUBLISHING P0 OWNED BY SUSAN WILLIAM B DUTSON V WILSON Deadlines & The Chronicle Progress deadlines are as follows: 5 PM Fridays New articles 12 Noon Mondays Advertisemenu Anything received after these deadlines will only be printed on a space available basis Southern Exposure EDITOR J Office Building 8:30 pm West Desert Archealogical Society 7 pm Fillmore Library meeting room Every Thursday Judge Stanley K Robison Justice Court 9 and pm Project Change 8 pm 51 North Center Della First Thursday East Millard Fine Arts Guild am m Response to “Concerned Bowler” Dear Editor Answer to concerned bowler Your article was interesting and your concern justified but the bottom line remains that we as ux payers need more for our dollar than we are receiving Our county has invested megamoney into this investment and are being by a con artist first class Present management has done a great job in areas where it will reap the most financially without becoming volved with local patrons or organizations We need more than a manager with employees doing a great job covering up for you in your absence Y es Concerned we need more Both the present and past managemenu have had outstanding features but we need a combination of them plus more Y our concern for the bickering is just - and maybe another year I’ll do less of it but I also know iu contract renewal time shortly and yes - I’m concerned Unlike you - Concerned Bowler-will leave my name So toot your horn and I’ll toot mine June Dutson No Free Lunch By Edwin Feulner It’s a basic fact of life that there’s no such thing as a free lunch - unless you’re the US Congress When the folks on Capitol Hill want to enact some costly law or regulation - but don’t want to pay for it they've discovered a solution that gets them off the hook: make state and local governments (or the perennial favorite businesses) pay for it instead If one of Harry Truman’s sayings was “The buck slops here" Congress’ saying seems to be “The buck slops way over there" Take a town like Lancaster NH (population 3486) which collects just $14 million in tax revenue each year Complying with expensive new Safe Water Drinking Act requirements - costs for which the feds should be responsible since its their law - will force Lancaster to shell out $2 million a year That's times Lancaster's entire budget to comply with just one of Big Brother’s orders Such “unfunded mandates”on towns cities and states are becoming an intolerable buidcn For example the most recent Clean Air Act amendments passed by the beds will force Chicago to spend $73 million to upgrade an incinerator Royal Oak Mich will have to spend at least $25 million to install wheelchair ramps at intersections to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Thecity of Philadelphia was “eaten alive" in 1993 in Mayor Ed Rendcll's words when it had to spend nearly $9 million to comply with just 10 federal mandates The government shows no signs of relenting The number of federal mandates has aeon Act forced state and local governments grown from just two in 960 (the Davis-to pay union wages on construction projects involving federal funds and the Hatch Act subjected state employees to the same rules that applied to federal employees) to 66 in 1993 - a 3000 percent increase State and local governments are in a real bind There are only two ways they can get the money to pay for the mandates One is to demand more from the taxpayers A recent study by the city of Columbus Ohio showed that its total bill for complying with federal environmental laws and regulations between now and the year 2000 will be $ 6 billion That’s $856 per household - a tax for which the Columbus city council will be blamed but for which Congress is actually responsible The other way to pay for the mandates is to slash other services A recent survey by the US Conference of Mayors found that this is exactly what is happening: Local officials are sacrificing basic services such as police and fire protection and street repair to comply with federal mandates The result is that a city like Ft Lauderdale Fla spent $76 million in 1993 complying with federal mandates money that could have been used to hire 153 new police officers So got a problem with potholes on your street? Maybe it's because the federal government is making your city put in a new wheelchair ramp to comply with the ADA Feel like your local police are failing to protect you? Maybe it’s because under the Safe Water Drinking Act your city government must test the water for DBCP - a pesticide last used on pineapples in Hawaii 15 years ago Chicago Mayor Richard Daley calls unfunded mandates “hidden federal taxes bleeding our limited resources and cutting into direct services" He’s right Congress must learn that if it goes to lunch it was to pick up the tab Note: Edwin Feulner Is president of The Heritage Foundation a Washington-basepublic policy research Institute Bom to be wild I guess you’ve heard that the Governor has a plan to rid Utah of its gang members He’s planning on turning the problem over to the DWR Now wait a don’t get in an uproar - it’s minute a joke But also sadly it’s more true than funny I’m worried about the beleagured DWR and its disappearing agents And I’m very worried about wildlife and its future It’s not a given that wild animals will forever grace our yards farms and fields It’s not a given that wildlife will forever roam the hills mountains and plains It is possible say some scientists that one day we may find only 120 species on the planet and those species will all be domesticated The others will be managed away I reflect back on my favorite story of wildlife management and how predictably it goes awry In Hawaii there is a creature called a MongoRat It’s a funny looking thing - long and hairy it streaks across rural roads like a nightmare on amphetamines Yet this animal isn’t native to the islands Not long ago there was no such creature but man in his infinite wisdom cooked this one up in his attempt to control the world in which he is only a player (I'm not being sexist here - it was men who rowed the boats to conquer new lands and claim them for the throne Women had no such power They sat in the backroom creating calico dresses that would cover the natives nakedness) in the lovely isles of H awaii' were many birds: song Anyway once upon a lime birds finches genuine birds of paradise The valleys of the Islands would explode with their songs each dawn The Hawaiian natives reveared their feathered friends They would trap the birds and pluck a few feathers from each before freeing them to grow more The Hawaiians used the feathers in the construction of bright yellow and red cloaks headdresses and other symbols of power for the mighty King and Queen and their Court This went on for many centuries The birds were a renewable resource and the islanders knew it They let the birds live to die a natural death But then white man came in big wooden boats and along with him came disease disruption death (Isolated for centuries the Islanders had no immunity to even common childhood illnesses) Rats were introduced to the islands by man coming along for the ride and once ashore they quickly climbed into the coconut trees to set their stake While building nests they gnawed through the fibrous coconut’s stem freeing the coconut into an earthly plunge Many a lazy native boy thought this was kinda neat after all why build up a tropical sweat climbing trees to get fruit when some little creature will cut it down for you? But native boys also like to doze under the trees inbetween a long morning of surfing and a afternoon luau It wasn't long before a few of these poi boys came before the King with lumps on their heads where a falling These pesky rats they coconut had bonked them while they were gotta go! they cried Also the king’s gatherers began to discover that the eggs of the beautiful birds so the Court from reveried the The were nests rats it was learned long missing by adored a succulent egg or a delectable chick The sqawking neon colored parents were no deterent to this tasty treat Once again the cry went up: Get rid of these nasty rats! The Island royalty now convinced of their ignorance by white man’s standards turned to the newcomers for help After all these people knew about everything and whiskey and how to set a boat in water toward a fiat horizon And after all they brought the pesky little buggers in the first place Surely they would have the answer The Court was relieved to hear they did In possibly one of the earliest attempts at animal control these great white fathers remembered the mongoose that hairy cranky little fellow they’d seen while conquerof India Ah yes that's it they cried and off they went to capture ing the some mongoose - or is that mongecse I don’t know (This trip probably began that venerable process called the business excursion too) After trapping a bunch of mongoose in India (and killing a lot in the process) and then shipping the mongoose across the mighty oceans (where a lot more died) the beautiful Hawaiian islands were finally in sight The ship’s plank was lowered and the little furry creatures scurried ashore What happened? Well they and the rats met cm the moonlit beaches under the swaying a whole new species coconut trees and before you can say “Kaomonawannaleiya” a hideous was bom - the MongoRat creature that just loves to nest in coconut trees and suck the life out of birds' eggs Now the head scratchers are asking what will kill a MongoRat? Only a rental car driven by a tourist from Sandusky we’ve discovered but an idea comes Maybe instead of believing Once again I don't have answers we can manage much of anything we ought to do more research watch and learn And besides we have the wildlife of our own species to worry about - those pesky gang members remember? What are we to do about them? Hey here’s a thought of releasing them to the DWR let’s trap ’em put them on a big boat and ship them all to Hawaii! Nah they have enough problems already - - The great state of Utah From time to lime our Chamber receives publications from other chambers in the state The following article is taken from the ProvoOrem Chamber's monthly magazine The keynote speaker at their annual awards and installation banquet held January 12 was Governor Leavitt Although some time has passed what was discussed by Governor Leavitt is still very pertinent With permission from the Provo Orem Chamber here is what Governor Leavitt had to say about our great state "Things in our stale are just remarkably good right now There is not an economy in the country that is sizzling the way ours is today If you can just imagine that during the last year one in twenty of the jobs that exist in this state has been created--ione year We now have nearly 45000 jobs that we didn't have just one year ago And they are improving jobs Not only does our income increase at a rate exceeded only by our is good news" neighbor Nevada but they are good jobs The wages arc up This “We are not without our challenges The future is never clear but we are very fortunate This year the Slate budget for example has nearly $200 million available based on the same lax base that we had last year without any tax increases because of the growth in our economy I have made it clear during the time that I’ve done public service that I think it is an important obligation for those of us who serve to maintain the growth of government within the context of what our personal income is If we let it continue to grow faster than personal income we are losing ground So we have got to be very careful And frankly if our economy continues it is very possible that we will have a lax cut in our future something that I think will be very good for our citizens and frankly would be good for our economy It would help us to continue to fuel it in a positive way” “There are some things on the horizon that worry me One is the fact that our income is growing so rapidly One has to look at it to make certain that there aren’t some temporary circumstances As I look at it I think there may be For example our sales tax increases today are up over 2 over last year That is remarkable Yet our That gap between 12 and good as it is— is up only around 8 personal income-8 means one thing: People are feeling so optimistic that they are buildingnew homes at record pace they are buying automobiles at record pace and they are investing in the future making investments they will likely have to pay for in the future which means we may not always have this kind of income growth So this year I have proposed a new budgetary tool Those of you who have been involved in government finance may not have heard of this before but I call it the 'boom buffer’ It is simply this: We need to hold back some of our spending and make sure that we don’t build it likely at we are it into our base in a way that if this doesn’t continue-anot in a position of having to cut spending radically or raise taxes" “Good times not only call for celebration but they call for prudence The reality is that sometimes when you ate defying gravity you need to be careful and realize that this is exactly what is you will normalize We may go in our budget from what I have referred to as stunning back to plain old vibrant" “We live in the best of limes and I think w e should look around and ask ourselves: Why is this occurring? I think it is occurring because we have what the world wants right now We have quality living quality workers and quality people Quality will become I believe the comparative advantage of the future" “As we grow and our vibrant economy continues we will move into an era and to an atmosphere where possible problems will surface We are dealing with some of those now But it the best of limes and we need to keep it the best of limes by remembering why we are where we ire" Weather Delta Reed Jeffery Fillmore Jay T Rogers Helping your child Succeed in school by Lily Eskelsen president Utah Education Association Secret Places There was the most dangerous wonderful place where my sisters and I used to play when we were small It was an old quarry site that we called The fifty Feet because fifty was a big number to us so it must be fifty feet deep We rode our bikes from our house and had to climb down on a rope that was hung from a tree limb overhanging the gorge There were rocks to find and great hide and seek places and at least 37 ways to tear clothing get dirty and scrape your knee It all came to an end one day when my Mom got curious as to what exactly The Fifty Feet was and screamed when she saw us swinging on the tree rope out over the treacherous heights of the pit It was a wild place and I remember it more fondly than the safe city playgrounds (where my sister broke her arm falling off a slide) Wild places are important And they become more important as they become harder to find told me he was going fishing Now fishing is not a Last summer my 11 common activity in the Walden Hills subdivision in Murray but he told me he had found a secret fishing hole He look me down the street out of the houses under the power lines and into a vacant field that I'm sure will someday hold the next vital strip mall in our area But right now there’s a tiny pond surrounded with willow bushes In its deepest part it almost touches his bellybution It has a few carp in it Jared showed me the best rock to sit and fish from And we sat for a few minutes We saw an old submerged shoe We could hear the highway traffic We could see the power lines But there was still something wonderfully secret and wild about that little place And he spent a lot of time there last summer I'm a very structured person I live by calendars and clocks I always had good lesson plans for my students and ordered activities for my sons especially in the summer when the sun causes brain cells to soften But I was glad Jared had his fishing hole Every now and then it’s good to stop and sit on a rock It’s good to wade In pools that don't have cement bottoms It’s good to get calluses on your hands from swinging from a rope It’s a hard world out there and there are many dangers Parents are more careful and they should be But what a pity so many of our kids will have no memories of some place they’ve discovered all by themselves A place they’ve secretly owned A place that's as carefree and reckless and wild as they are Millard County Travel Guide Veterans program During the month of March 1994 those seeking assistance with Depart- - |