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Show A forum for opinion Revi w Wednesday July 8, 1987 6A Cancel plans to nix fireworks Watching fireworks against a night sky is great entertainIn ment for people of all ages. tradiAnd its a great The main concern is that tion in Roy, capping off the claim one against Roy citys annual festival, Roy could drain made the insurance risk Days. management pool the city and other communities are part of. ; But the cloud of high insurance costs is hanging over the The pool is a combined effort City Council, threatening to on the part of 30 Utah municrain and cancel the colorful ipalities to provide city insur, our view 20-ye- ar A ance display. against increasing premiums. Whether to cancel the display due to the threat of possiHowever, if the city elects ble liability and the cost of to, continue funding the fireinsurance necessary to protect works show, it must pay $900 the city is under debate. to $1,000 to insure the event The city tradition has pro- under a private carrier. The vided a fitting finale to the $900 would furnish $300,000 celebration for two decades. worth of insurance and the would provide $1 milRoy officials, if they really $1,000 dont want to put a damper on lion worth of insurance. This the celebration, will not cancel would be a prudent move, the show, but will prudently both protecting the insurance insure the city for the event pool and providing insurance for the display. and proceed with the plans. - Indeed, proceeding with a fireworks display without some type of insurance coverage, given todays society, would be a foolhardy move. : sue-hap- In addition, if safety precautions are taken, as one would assume they would be, there need not be undue fear that an accident will mar the event. According to City Council- - Its sad when the threat of time for the thousands of Roy continued funding and residents raised money liability and increasing insur- residents who watch the fire- man Willard Cragun, area res- idents feel strongly about fireworks displays, as wit- nessed when Ogden City dis- - through private donations to fund the show. ance costs can destroy a longstanding tradition and a good works display with enthusiasm. Letters to the editor beautiful blonde twin girls. As I remember they had pink dresses and bonnets trimmed in white with lace and white' shoes and Pitfalls, risks in life can teach lesson Lakeside Review editor: had to respond to the letter written by Mrs. Clayton Logan of Sunset, Wednesday, July 1, Lakeside Review. Her son was unfairly ticketed for squealing tires. ; i sympathize and agree with her assessment of the System, but this would have been a great opportunity to teach her son that life is not always fair, that even the innocent can be victimized, and that justice does not always prevail. Unfortunately, we are brought up to believe that no matter what, right always triumphs and this is only a fairy. I tale. Rather than being damaged, her son could be learning at an early age that life is full of risks and pitfalls which are totally unrelated to goodness or badness. It's just life, and we must simply learn to cope. What a head start he would have! Martha Pace ' Kaysville Heritage director, man, share birthday Lakeside Review editor In the 1950s my wife, Victoria, and I were in the chiropractors office in Ogden. Victoria was waiting for a treatment. Dr. wife came in with their Eck-hard- ts socks. Victoria asked the mother how old the girls were. She said they were a year old the 12th of July. I said that was my birthday. I guess that is how I remembered them. Karmen became Director of the Heritage Senior Center about seven years ago and we discovered we had the same birthday. For the last few years we have had a little birthday celebration at the center. A short time ago I asked Karmen what her fathers name was. She told me and I asked if he was related to the chiropractor who used to have his office in the Kie-sBuilding. She said, Oh, that is my Dad. el I never dreamed that I would be celebrating my birthday so many years later with one of the twins who has grown up to be such a fine young lady and is now the Director of the Heritage Center in Clearfield. Carl and Victoria Johnson Layton Governor deserves support of Utahns Lakeside Review editor: Do the citizens of Utah want a schoolteacherlifetime U.E.A. and delivery. We were surprised to find out that many countries had infant mortality rates lower than those in the United States. Utahns - open your eyes and In trying to determine why, we recognize that our present gover- learned that many of those counnor has made tough decisions, tries encourage mothers to deliver which were leftover from a previat home. ous administration of all talk, no We were also surprised to read action. that since the mid 1970s electronic fetal monitoring has been Governor Bangerter is a leader used for 0 of all births in and deserves our support for U.S. even though 5 randomthe guiding the state through some ized clinical trials between 1976 very difficult economic times. and 1981 found that electronic Mary Jacobson Salt Lake City monitoring was not associated with a lower perinatal mortality. What the tests did show was that electronic monitoring more than doubled the rate of cesarean section delivery, also without decreasing mortality. Lakeside Review editor: We found a 1982 report reWe urge the Department of Business Regulation to consider viewing 450 articles on episioto-mThe authors stated that there the following information while was no convincing data that supconducting their investigation of Dr. David Warden M.D., our ported the concepts that a routine episiotomy had benefits in ease family Doctor, for allegedly comof repair, fewer third degree mitting negligent homicide when a baby he delivered at home died lacerations," or preventing fetal brain damage. 12 hours later. The report concluded that in America episiotomies are perWhile we regret the infants formed on of all births we believe home birth to death, be rethat rate and the could be at least as safe as hospital half without one duced least at by birth and that parents should have the right to alternatives in harm to mother or baby. While reading about circumcihealth care. sion we found out the U.S. is the In 1982, my wife and I were only country practicing routine circumcision. The expecting our first child and we decided to go to the Medical LiAmerican Academy of Pediatrics brary to read up on pregnancy and the American College of Ob- member as its next governor? Would Betty Condie be the Lt. Governor? 60-7- Home delivery safe as hospital births y. two-thir- ds non-religio- us stetrics and Gynecologists are on record as being opposed to roucircumcision tine yet 85 percent of all newborn males still receive the painful surgery, which is performed without anesthesia. After reviewing the medical reports we concluded that gadgetry and intervention during the birth would be unnecessary and potentially dangerous and that the public has been falsely led to believe otherwise. As our family Doctor we have found Dr. Warden to be aware of the problems with births as now being practiced in hospital settings and to offer a choice to those patients who desire an alternative. We wonder if more Doctors would offer alternatives if they werent afraid of unfair rulings against them by the Department of Business Regulation. If the medical licenser laws grant a monopoly to a particular approach to health care, they will serve to assure an ineffective health care non-religio- us system. We would like to see the De- partment of Business Regulation look into unnecessary and expensive hospital birthing practices and to quit harassing Dr. Warden who is aware of the facts and willing to share then with his patients. Is the Deparment of Business Regulation protecting the medical monopoly or the public? Stephen and Jenae Westhoff Farmington Letter policy set for paper The Lakeside Review encourages readers to submit letters to the editor. 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