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Show o Sunlit Ceithag Utok Supplement To: Gunnison Valley News - The Salina Sun Garfield County News - The Richfield Reaper VOLUME 2 THURSDAY, NUMBER 45 NOVEMBER 5, 1981 Donny Osmond Makes Dream Come True for Salina Girl herself Donnys biggest fan and has the bedroom wall to prove it. She visited Donny at Orem studios. Donny Osmond shows off his purple foot with its creator, Marsha Kiesel of Salina. Marsha has declared High Altitude Needs Recipe Adjustments If your cakes, breads and increase the baking candies dont turn out perfect- temperature 25 degrees F, add ly, you can curse the Utah a few more tablespoons of altitude or you can adjust for water and add one or two it. tablespoons of flour to the normal recipe. Lauritzen says that Utah State University Exten- this can be applied to scratch infor- cake recipes also. sion offices have mation on adjusting your most There is one brand of flour prized recipes to altitude, but Georgia Lauritzen, nutrition that advertises high altitude and food specialist, says there on label. Closer inspection of are a few rules of thumb you the package though, reveals can follow. that they are speaking of high th The Osmonds make music hot water after a violent and they make money; and for seizure, Mrs. Kiesel related. one South Central Utah girl While she was at the Univerthey make dreams come true. sity of Utah Burn Center, she Ever since Donny Osmond had all of Donny and Maries first began warbling about pup- shows taped and played for her py love, Marsha Kiesel of at the center, she said. to Salina has had one dream But with all her faithfulness meet her idol. This dream, as a fan, Marsha was never however, would take many able to meet Donny until just years and be fraught with one last month. major difficulty: Marsha has That story really begins four had severe epilepsy since short21 birth after her ly years ago. years ago when Marsha and her mother ran into Merrill OsMarsha attends Mt. Nebo mond at the Manti Mormon Trianing School when her Miracle Pageant. seizures are not too violent, her mother, Evelyn Kiesel, told It was a miracle that MarSpotlight. Doctors have been sha actually found a real live unable to find a drug to adeOsmond among all those peoquately control the seizures ple, Mrs. Kiesel said. Merrill although Marsha currently is invited us to come to Osmond taking more than 20 tranquilizers a day. In spite of her handicap, Marsha has been and is the Osmond familys biggest fan and Donny is her family favorite. she wears purple socks, sports purple blouses and skirts, sleeps on purple every television show associated with the Osmonds including their com- $366. Adjusted Utah inpatient hospital charges John Billings, director of the Utah Health Cost Management Foundation. Until about four years ago, Utah had an enviable position among its sister states, having hospital costs near the bottom range. That advantage still exists, but is disappearing under the effect of percantage increases in the state that have exceeded national averages over the four-yeperiod. One explanation for the increasing costs in Utah is an area of great expansion for the industry. Many health care ar facilities are enlarging, rebuilding or adding equipment. Whether the spending binge has been more than necessary is one of the questions the foundation will study. In 1955, Americans spent 4.4 percent of the gross national product for health care. By big-capit- al 1980, the percentage had reached 9 percent, and there as no in- Forest Fire Season One of Most Severe dication of a reversal. As the largest consumer of health care services (through Medicare and Medicaid and related programs) the federal government has become concerned, along with leaders of business, industry and consumers. The money that goes into health care is, of necessity, being taken from other budget areas including education, military, social and others. The 1981 fire season for the Forest Service firefighters Intermountain Region of the had an excellent safety record Forest Service was one of the this year, Bird said. There worst in recent years, accor- were no major injuries or airding to Doug Birds, Regional craft accidents during the enDirector of Aviation and Fire tire fire season. Management. h, Donny was really floored, Mrs. Kiesel said, when Marsha told him, You are only 55 there know, Donny, non-challant- ly more until days your birthday. Marsha knows how many days there are until every Osmonds birthday and does not forget to send a card when each one arrives. It was a dream come true, Marsha will continue to line The Mrs. Kiesel sighed. her wall with Osmond posters Osmonds are such a wonderful and autographed pictures of family and Donny was so nice. her idol. Shell probably keep He put his arm around Marsha on sleeping purple pillow cases. and told her how much he apBut she most likely wont be preciated her. dreaming about meeting her To show her appreciation of idol in the flesh. Donny Osmond Donny, Marsha presented the made that dream a reality. - altitude. more body. Most box cake mixes come For further information on with altitude adjustment in- high altitude food preparation, structions. They usually say to contact USU Extension offices. in-Uta- For four years the Kiesels and Donny kept just missing each other. Finally in October of this year, Donny told them he would be home in the middle of the month and that he would be happy to show Marsha around the studio and have his picture taken with her. The foundation has developed That doesnt mean the least an extensive profile of hospital efmost costly hospital had the mercials. and nor physician costs in the ficient operation that the United States and Utah in an efMarsha was severely burned highest-price- d overflagrantly from falling in a tub of scalding charged its customers, said fort to pinpoint factors that are contributing to rising health care costs. altitude lifestyles rather than The higher the altitude, the any difference in their product. less the atmospheric pressure. This means that water which Canning directions also reboils at 212 degrees F at sea quire adjusting. Add one-ha- lf level, will boil at 202 degrees F point pressure for each addiat 5,000 feet, Lauritzen says. tional 1,000 feet over sea level, Most of Utah falls between if you use a pressure cooker. When using a water bath, in4,000and 4,500 feet. crease the processing time 1 Yeast doughs will rise faster minute for each 1,000 feet at high altitudes and the baking altitude. temperatures need to be adLauritzen says the rapid justed slightly higher (usually about 25 degrees F). Breads change in sugar concentration need more structure because at high altitudes affects all they rise faster, Lauritzen methods of candy cookery. The says, so you may want to general rule is to cook candy reduce the sugar and add a lit- and jelly one degree lower for tle more flour to give the bread each 500 foot increase in From June through October, more than 112,000 acres were burned in National Forests southern Idaho, Nevada, and western Wyoming. Several communities, water systems, and communciation sites were threatened. Severe fire weather conditions combined with heavy grass growth and a large amount of dry lightning contributed to the unusual amount of fire activity. Control efforts on major fires required 8,500 firefighters, 42 airtankers, 53 helicopters, and 182 fire engines. singing star with a large homemade purple foot. Why Are Hospital Costs So High? Foundation Tries to Find Answers The average one-da- y pillowcases and sheets. She hospital knows every Osmond song, has stay in Utah in 1979 cost $66 to videotaped Studios and gave us a number to call to arrange to have Donny there to have Marsha picture taken with him. National Forests in southern Idaho had 369 lightning-cause- d d and 161 fires, with a total burned area of 23,668 acres. in its second year, the Utah foundation is examining all aspects of health care delivery to ferret out and cost weaknesses and identify strengths. The profile of costs is the first step in analyzing the present-statuBillings said. Since a multitude of factors influence medical costs, he said, making comparisons is very difficult. A small, publicly owned hospital that serves the primary needs of a community, for instance, cannot possibly compare with the large Wasatch Front facility that serves critically ill patients. s, Other factors that affect a hospitals costs include the service areas population mix (old people and the socially and economically deprived tend to use more medical services), whether the area is agricultural or industrialized, if the birth rate is high or low, the income of residents and education levels. There are many more variables. When has a hospital expands and considerable capital outlay, that cost is passed on to consumers. When the costs of salaries and of supplies go up, the consumer pays. In general, Utahns are healthier than their counterparts in other states. The state has a younger population (one of the youngest in the nation), (Continued on Page 8) man-cause- In Utah, 298 d and 108 ed 6,445 acres. man-cause- lightning-cause- d fires burn- The Bridger-Teto- n National Forest in western Wyoming had 87 lightning-cause- d and 68 d 173 with fires, acres burned. National Forests in Nevada and 46 had 110 lightning-cause- d d fires, with a total burned area of 21,537 acres. man-cause- a major national debate appears to be growing as to the most effective means for control of health care costs (regulation vs. stimulation of market forces) a preface to the foundations profile says. . . . The Utah Health Cost Note: Increases in charges may reflect changes in price, mix. intensity and quantity ot services - accordingly, caution should be exercised in interpreting the data Because of differences in case mix, caution should also be exercised m any attempt to compare charges among hospitals. Charges are adjusted to incfcjde any state or local subsidy and to exclude expenses attributable to hospital based physicians Annual increases for Davis North are tor 0 Asterisk indicates hospital has substantial teaching program Medicare Cost Reports. 1976-81977-198- man-cause- Source 0 i Management Foundation Inc. was established under a three-yea- r grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation to experiment with the theory that competition among health care providers and insurers is a possible solution to escalation. Now Note S average charges from U art average at prevaemg unweighted recoding distrots Source Merftcare Directory ot P'vattmg Charges. Heaflh Care Fmancmg Admwstrgiov Pub No OOO7 |