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Show o Soufli CeetM Utoli Supplement To: Gunnison Valley News - The Satina Sun Garfield County News The Richfield Reaper NUMBER 13 VOLUME 3 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1982 s'v High School Trailer Helps Cure Students of 'Career By Default' i ;s; c V HI By John Speer Spotlight Writer Richard White wants to save North Sevier High School students from career by default. V " . . and inat the education structor for career school. His clasess are held in a long trailer set up behind the current high school. White says the trailer probably will be moved to the new high school when it opens this fall. White is the administrator fi get a comprehensive look at what jobs and professions would be best for them. NSHS Career Guidance Counselor Richard White stands at the door of the Career Trailer, where students Aspirin: A Blessing, But Since the last century, the drug most prescribed for arthritis has been common aspirin because it relieves the symptoms of the disease pain and inflammation. Aspirin is relatively mild and safe when used as directed and most physicians consider it the best initial treatment for chronic arthritis. In fact, aspirin was orignally developed specifically for rheumatoid arthritis, one of the most serious and cripping forms of the disease. But, aspirin has its drawbacks. It can cause gastric distress, particiaurly in the large doses usually prescribed for an arthritis patient. So, not everyone can take it. Those with peptic ulcers, intestinal bleeding or people who are allergic to the drug have to deny themselves aspirin. Aspirin affects the symptoms of arthritis by inhibiting the bodys production of a natural substance called prostaglandins, which trigger pain and inflammation. However, this substance also plays an important role in protecting die stomach lining, so aspirin therefore can weaken that . . . protection and be the cuase for gastric distress. Thus, while aspirin is relatively safe, it should not be taken indiscriminately. The Arthritis Foundation regularly warns persons with the disease not to take aspirin lightly, and the Foundations DOs and DONTs provide a good guideline for the drugs use: 1. DO see a qualified physician for diagnosis and treatment of arthritis. Proper treatment can control the disease and prevent crippling. 2. DO take aspirin, if the doctor according to the prescribes it, strictly aspirin program he gives you. 3. DONT change your aspirin dosage schedule without first asking your physician. DONT try to diagnose your own arthritis problem or pick your own remedies from medicines available at the local drugstore. 4. 6. DONT be lured by aspirin adand dosing vertising into nt (Continued on Page 8) is the brainThe Career Trailer child of the Utah State Board of Education and traveled to high schools in North and South Sanpete and Sevier School districts last year. Officials decided to leave the trailer at North Sevier High School because of the schools success with the program, White said. The program is now a joint venture of Snow College and the Six Organization. County Comissioners They become unhappy, dissatisfied bcause they cant get a good job, or they get one that brings them emotional satisfaction, White said. Career and lifestyle planning is a very hit and miss affair. say, Gee I never though of that. We try to explain that the only thing money can do if youre unhappy in your work is allow you to suffer in comfort. Information for the profile is gathered through the students playing psychological games, watching a filmstrip and discussing it afterward, in self and group The Career Trailer program at NSHS participating evaluation using electronic and comNinth is for students in the grades. and other testing graders are required to take either puter equipment, procedures. career ed. or a vocational course Once the information is gathered, it is usually vocational agriculture. in a computer which then tells When the student begins the career placed the young person which career choices ed. Course he is told that the chief obbe best given the information would jective to the class is to develop a provided. The student makes his own career education profile. decision whether the computer gave the right answers for him, or whether The profile focuses on six basic new information should be added. areas, according to White: White says that although the system Personal needs (physical, security, is not perfect, he believs that a student has a better chance of job satisfaction social, ego and Lifestyle (intellectual, physical, etc.); by pursuing the careers that best fit his Personality; Interests; Abilities and lifestyle and values. Workstyle (Continued on Page 8) 2 Many young people depend too much on what they see their peers doing rather than on what is best for them, White continued. The biggest concern for many is to get through high school as quickly and as easily as possible, he said. Another problem in getting kids to get serious about career planning is their attitude toward the dollar. There is too much attention placed on money as if that is the Be All and End All of life, he lamented. When we ask a student if he would be happy in this or that money-makin- g job, hell Although other schools in the state have good projects, White says the North Sevier program is the most comprehensive in South Central Utah and certianly in rural Utah. The major difference between the Career Trailer and other career education concepts in Utah is dividual responsibility. in- Students have the responsibility here to pursue a career choice and research it, he said. In other schools career counselors sit down with a student and say, OK, this is what youre good for case closed. ,, We are much more he continued. The students must take open-minded- the greater share of the responsibility of making a career choice. The trailer is a new approach, White says, to customizing ones education. The potential is there for kids to get a handle on what they want to do with their lives, he said adding that many young people choose a career by default. He said many students predetermine in their minds that the town in which they grew up is the place where they should live, taking no thought for the job market. students eyes. Richard White and his assistant, Rosalind Anderson, work with the computer to study students aptitudes. inside the Career Trailer at North Sevier High School shows the walls covered with career pinwheels, work slogans and news articles and other things to catch A look Library Board Seeking Help to Improve Services of Facility By Loren R. Webb Associate Editor The man who does not read good books, has no advantage over the man who cant read them, said Mark Twain. Richfield City Council approved a motion to provide a suitable building site and maintain a free public library at a minimum cost of $1,000 a year. The Carnegie Foundation provided $10,000 and the library was built in 1913 and 1914. On May 23, 1912, Howver, it was one thing to construct the library and another thing to properly operate the facility. Mrs. Dorothy Buchanan, who was on the Richfield Library Board during the 1930s and 1940s remembers the library had steadily run down for a long time. who were running the library, and would do knitting and mending of socks while at work. We had worthy widows Nevertheless, continual efforts were made to upgrade and expand the ibrary and for 20 years, Mrs. Buchanan kept ordering books to the older ones. She also fought city As a result, she and others, took out a to get a bookmobile to :ouncil to a certified librarian get petition Richfield. Today, the library has seven hired to replace the widows. Although ows of books provided by the no money was available for adequate )ookmobile. upkeep and expansion, during the 1930s-40- s Mrs. Buchanan also wanted the concerted efforts to organize and segregate the books into separate basement for the childrens library in the 1930s, but she said the city council categories were made by certified librarian Dora B. Nielsen and later Lois wouldnt let it happen. And although Nielsen. Sadie Ogden and Mae Jensen many of the prominent men of the town also set up many books. were always chairmen of the library board, Buchanan said it seemed the Although Mrs. Buchanan was on the women did all the work. committee writing the book Golden Sheaves From A Rich Field, the There were other exciting moments in the librarys history, like the time the committee failed to do an adequate write-u-p on the library, she says. library stocked the shelves with From up-ia- te Here to Eternity, by James Jones. She said that book caused a furor over explicit language so the librarian would keep the book in a drawer for people who asked for it, instead of placing it out on shelves. Then there was the time Mrs. Buchanan posed for a Richfield Reaper article holding a book about Porter Rockwell by Harold Schindler. Shortly after the article came out, she received an anonymous phone call complaining that she shouldnt promote such a book on murderer, for the saints. organization, including Sevier Coounty. Yet the library is open to all Sevier County residents although Monroe and Salina both have smaller libraries. Ogden said he would like to see the county involved with supporting the library. However, he is optimsitic of getting the library budget raised by $4,000 to $5,000, which could go for a copy machine as well. The outside of the library has also fallen into a state of neglect. So with April as library month in Richfield City National Library Week, and April 18-2- several volunteer groups are anticipated to paint the northeast corner of the inside of the library and the outside as well, says Merrill Ogden, library board member. Both men want to see the library receive the necessary money for the library to function optimally and also (Continued on Pave 8) When Norine Jensen, first became Richfield City Librarian in September, 1970, she also had problems. She was not allowed to select books for the library, since the library board was to do that, but none were selected that year as a result. Mrs. Jensen now does all the selecting and cataloguing of books with the help fo a part-tim- e employee. Since that time, the library has grown to where 36,657 books were checked out in 1981, says Jensen. Today, the library has approximately 13,956 bound volumes, with a total of 17,9864 when records, magazines and paperback books are counted. However, one of the librarys current problems has been an inadequate budget to function effectively, says Glen Ogden, Richfield city council member and library board member. He said the state Bookmobile which regularly stops and trades books with the library has also been cut back budget wise. The Bookmoblie no longer stops at schools. Money is also the reason why the library has short hours 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturdays. The Richfield City Library, housed in the upper half of this building is becoming more crowded as additional books are added to it each week. improve service. Board seeks aid to Ogden says there is no opportunity for getting state or federal money for operating the library. Consequently, the library is financed and mantained by Richfield City with no help from any other local government Richfield City Librarian is having to work with less space while sorting books. The Norine Jensen, system also needs upgrading and updating. 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