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Show Thursday June 17, 1982 The Salina Sun The Salma Sun SECD 478980 East Main Street 9 Salina, Utah 84654 Telephone The Salina Sun (SECD 478060) is published each Thursday for $8.00 per year in Utah and $10.00 per year out of Utah, by the Salina Sun, 73 East Main Street, Salina, Utah 84654. Second class postage paid at Salina, Utah 84654. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Salina Sun, P. O. Box C, Salina, Utah 73 84654' 529-783- Single Copy :25c Mark G. Fuellenbach, Publisher John Speer, Editor Teresa Thompson, Office Manager Police Wives Sunspots Elected To State Posts In Search Of Two wives of Salina policemen have been elected to state positions with the Peace Officers Association Auxiliary. C. Mrs. Gordon (Margaret) Kiesel and Mrs. Ray (Kathy) Anderson were director and regional elected first-yerepresentative, respectively, by their peers in St. George. The Lost Word By John ('. Speer Salina Sun Editor ar Editorial . . . Poisoning not the Answer To Salina Dog Problem A short time ago in The wives, with their husbands, were attending a state convention of the Peace Officers Association in St. George last week. Four Dogs this space we blasted dog owners who refused to keep their mongrels (pedigreed dogs do not seem to be much of a nuisance) on leashes or in their own yards. The problem has not been resolved. One gentleman, in fact, reported to the Salina City Council that he saw 17 dogs congregate in front of his and a Salina City Police Officer Tom neighbors home recently. Jensen reported that a person or The city council says it will look into staging a campaign to fine persons have been poisoning dogs persons with unlicensed dogs which could help solve the problem. near the southeast section of town. Some people in Salina are trying to solve the problem another He said at least four dogs have been way. Unfortunately, their cure might be worse than the ail- victims of such poisoning, and that he Poisoned has been investigating these incidents. ment. These barbarous people have been poisoning dogs in the A dog owner in the area, whose dog southeast area of town. Salina policeman, Tom Jensen, said four has been poisoned, said he believes the culprits not only are using poison dogs have been victims of recent poisonings. in food to kill wandering dogs, but also A dogowner in that part of town said poisoners were putting the ground glass. deadly formula into food which they set out for the wandering This is not the way to solve the animals to eat. He said ground glass is sometimes put in with the food. The implications of such irresponsible acts are staggering. Besides the suffering of afflicted mongrels, the possibility of young children being victims of the poisoning exists. There is no doubt that the dog problem in Salina has not diminished one iota since our first editorial on the subject. But we believe the disgusting actions of those who would torture and kill these animals and possibly young children is to be condemned and he said, referring to the problem, problem of unlicensed and wandering dogs in town. 1 f elf We was sitting around here at The Sun Office talking about the state of grammatical affairs, when we was struck with this thought: Where has that word gone? What word? said our office manager and typesetter, Teresa Visiting at Mrs. George people from one line said. from all over christened. the home of Mr. and Steinbrain was 25 Kitchkooma, Kan., People was gathered to see the new baby she asked. searching for a word that doesnt seem to be used very often in this area, and . . . How about in the ws. After all, it must be related to was, since thats the word that seems to be used in its place. You was what, lady? plural subjects or nominatives. Oh, that one. Last time I heard it was in Texas about 27 years ago. Its a word people was using but suddenly stopped, I said. I seem to notice its absence here more, though. j The two of us decided to go on an exciting exploration of North Sevier and the surrounding communities to see if we was able to find the missing word. Thats she said. Never mind, right. Lets hit the Ws. We looked hour after hour. We By midnight, we was still searching, but hadnt found a thing. My wife and kids was calling every half hour to see how we was. Both of us started listening more closely to church sermons. One speaker gave a talk for 45 minutes and managed to avoid ever using the word during the entire speech. didnt miss a word. Amazing, I thought as I pondered how his high school English teachers managed to overlook four years of Finally, at a.m., we was looking of Ws in the last dictionary in the office. 1 at the last page this persons total abstinence from a perfectly good grammatical expression. Well never find it, I cried. Not here, Teresa said. Did she mean in the dictionary, or in Salina? I My first experience was reading the unedited locals column for another weekly newspaper. wrong Great idea. What should we look under? Weve been You know, I said impatiently. Hie word we was using when we was in high school? The past tense of that intransitive verb used with it. We the dictionary. , Can you help us, all We should look in the Sure. efforts began with a who stopped into our office person Thompson. in We was? Teresas first last week. Ive got I yelled. Hey, was looking places. It was when we was looking over some public relations releases that it finally hit us. We was still searching when we went to press. are is Essence of LBS Gospel repudiated. Speaker Says In addition, we encourage the city council to act quickly on its proposed program to help solve the problem by fining owners of unlicensed dogs. Budget Hearing Attendance Reveals Citizens Apathy hearThis week, two government entities in Sevier County held !"1 : 4 r"v 1983 on fiscal their budgets. year ings Combined, these two budgets will involve the spending of more than $10M million. ' ' The Salina City budget involves the spending of more than $368,000. It is a responsible budget for which the city councilmen and others who decided the figures from their own departments should be commended. The nine citizens who attended the budget hearing asked intelligent questions and received, in our opinion, credible answers and replies. But why only nine citizens? Certainly nine is better than none, but when elected officials are deciding how the publics tax dollars are going to be spent, one would think more interest would be generated. Although nine is better than none in a less than half million dollar budget, none was the case at a hearing to decide how to Not one citizen other than a press represenspend tative from the entire Sevier County School District showed up last Thursday to give input to School Board members about how n that ought to be spent. $10.3-millio- n. $10.3-millio- Yet when something comes along which requires major taxing or budget changes, the public is right there to protest. The eternal question is, why dont these concerned citizens go to the budget hearings where these things are being decided BEFORE the budget is adopted. Public notices are always given prior to these hearings and any taxpayer is invited to attend, to give input, to as questions and to protest, if they so desire. Many times changes are made before the budget is adopted if public sentiment is expressed. But elected officials, as with the rest of us, can only do what they think is best with the information and moneys they have to work with. Again the question? Where was the public when the decision was originally made? The same situation occurred recently in Salina when a road to a new sanitary land fill was scheduled for construction near Eastside Cemetery. Notices were posted concerning the proposal and articles and legal notices were run in the newspaper. But not until the road construction was underway did the public wake up, and then the protests began. We dont expect to see the present trend change much. People are generally apathetic, and until something has already happened and the bam door is locked after the horse is gone, the public generally stays pretty much dead. But we would say one more time, that if the unhappy citizens of any community or county or school district really want to be heard, they ought to attend the budget hearings and make themselves known. It seems rather silly to let things get to the point they do, right or wrong, and then start to squawk. all of them public When there are millions of dollars .involved tax moneys, it would seem the public would have a little more interest than they do. If people are willing to let their elected officials make all their decisions and decide where all the money is to go, then they should accept that. Building a fence around a cliff is better than keeping an ambulance in the valley says a noted LD.S. Church welfare expert. Mary Ellen Edmunds explained some principles of prevention .versus temporary assistance to , chapelful of people at the LD.S. Stake Center in Salina Sunday evening. a-- Miss Edmunds talk was the first of four such seminars on family and individual preparation and the church welfare program. The other three firesides will be July 11, The Ninety and Nine Preparedness; Aug. 8, "The Royal Law of Gospel Love; and Sept. 19. All three seminars will be conducted by Miss Edmunds at 6 p.m. at the Stake Center. Sundays fireside speaker said the churchs temporary assistance program (bishops storehouses, that a religion that has not the power to save people temporally and make them prosperous and happy here cannot be depended upon to save them spiritually and to exalt them in the life to come, she said, quoting LD.S. Prophet Joseph F. Smith. . She said because of faulty assumptions by LD.S. Church members, the church ran out of fast offering monies last year. .She active said it was because members living in relative affluence, but temporarily set back, thought the church owed them temporary assistance. She said these people could have sold snowmobiles or other items to help them through their trying times. She said the church welfare philosophy is designed to make people whole and complete and to prepare them to become a Zion people. welfare farms, etc.) can support only five percent of the churtii at one time. Because of that fact, she said, the church is emphasizing prevention rather than cures, or fences rather than ambulances. about blessings that church members expect from being generous with fast offerings, Miss Edmunds told the people gathered what she believed the main blessing was. She said she defines basic welfare as back to the basics. She said the welfare program is not really a program, but the essence of the gospel, as illustrated by President Spencer W. Kimball in a conference speech in 1977. I learned that God is not going to shower money down upon you; He will simply bless you to be satisfied with what you have. It has always been a cardinal Saints teaching with the Latter-da- y Talking Besides being an administrator and instructor at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, the fireside speaker has served three missions for the LD.S. Church. Salina Court Hears 69 Criminal Cases in May May records for the Salina City Court show that out of 69 criminal cases heard by Judge Thad Wasden, four were dismissed, 59 resulted in convictions, and six resulted in other action. Fines assessed by the court amounted to $1,448.50. Fines collected amounted to the same. of this year, fines collected from 56 convictions amounted to $1,756. In February, fines assessed and collected from 49 convictions came to $1,297. In January assessed and In March only $1,816 of the $3,266 of assessed fines were collected. This discrepancy was explained by Judge Wasden as those fines assessed persons who If they have any kind of question or opposition, let it be known against the law - usually traffic laws at the budget hearings. Its really a violated when it will do some good - in Salina. He said the violators were matter of put up or shut up. tried in abstentia. convicted, and fined. These conviction notices usually to the violators home state, where the convictions appear on their driving records and can be used against them when they apply for new drivers licenses. are sent North Sevier Court Action point.-Anythin- Editor, Sun: An article in The Salina Sun Thursday, March 25, concerns a zoning change for 204 S. 100 E. This article says a straw poll was taken at the council meeting Monday, March 22. We are now told this straw was retroactively poll turned into a final decision by the city council. This raises some questions. Number one: How can this be a legal act when the party who conducted the meeting had already signed the verdict against the zoning before conducting the hearing? That would be like a judge rendering a verdict pronouncing a prison sentence before holding the trial. Number two: Legally and certainly morally, shouldnt the biased councilman have disqualified himself? Shouldnt this action automatically call for a rehearing at which we, the victims, could be present? Although we presented a written petition to the city council, apparently it was not officially presented. From our inforthe time was mation, given to the opponents whose leading petitioner was not a resident of Salina for a number of years before and after we began renovating 204 S. 100 E. Another head scrat-che- r: For years, we watched (because it was in our immediate eyesight) a piece of property to daily become disreputable in its deterioration - a city eyesore. We are now informed this leading petitioner, during all these years, was the owner of said property. To be true, where was he and his white charger then? What causes Again such a person to avidly promote a petition, stir up enmity to a boiling -- The north precinct of Sevier County heard 223 criminal cases in May. With Judge Thad Wasden presiding, the court dismissed nine cases. Seventeen cases were resolved in other ways than dismissal or conviction, and 197 cases resulted in convictions. out-of-sta- I What is your opinion? This newspaper welcomes opinions from its readers concerning any subject pertinent to southern Utah. While there is no restriction iii length, we request good judgmenf and letters which are to the of a libelous nature or defamation of character must be avoided. Letters must be signed, but if the writer requests, his name will be omit-teDeadline for letters to the editor is Friday, 4 p.m. fines assessed amounted to $6,701.10. Total in May Of that amount, $6,531.10 were collected. - i point in a neighborhood, magnifying false and questionable statements and deliberately try to hamper the progress of Salina, a city they profess to love, by preying on the imagination of the unwary? Why play the childs game of follow the leader? Head scratcher. We renovated 204 S. 100 E. to the point of having it placed on both the State and National Historical Registers. These historical buildings are electronically con- nected to the Salt Lake City library and are widely used for educational and historical purposes. Anyone can, by pushing buttons, obtain Have you seen the crew bashers and street smashers working their way up Richfield Main The Street? of boulevard are g d. visual and auditory information concerning the buildings, their construction and historical significance. This widespread notoriety of historical structures has proven to be of considerable commercial advantage to any location where its use is properly directed. Why knock it? Its a new day. To get down to the nitty-gritt- y in simple words, the generation traveling toward the grave should be willing to make a slight sacrifice for the young now fighting to get into the mainstream of life. Sincerely, M. Carter the mess and the muck, in their shirts and ties eyeballing the work, making sure each trench is dug deep enough, each pipe is set in place, each pile of dirt is removed revamping the sewer and just right. storm drains of Main Street. Of course, theyre not alone. A large majority of They brought with the supervisors consists them thier picks and shovels, their tripods and survey tools, and their yellow monsters that bleep, bleep all day long and unbeknownst to the crew they also brought an entourage of sidewalk supervisors. innocent passers-b- y sauntering down the of sidewalk. They stand on the sidelines and gaze into the trenches watching the busy boys bustling, and offer advice, point out ask questions; established ideas, some look at the torn Any just business on Main Street has a maintstay of main up macadem, the ripped up cement and the piles of supervisors, mainly the red dirt and merely shake dubious demolition their heads. directors consist of such men as Bill Toomer, Gene Its going to be a long Mendenhall and Dennis summer of detours and Larsen and other mer- trenches, backhoes and chants and employees . bleeps, but eventually it They stand amid the will be back to a normal hubble-bubblthe dust. state, and in better shape. e, |