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Show Wednesday, July 2, I98Q Sun Advocate, Price, Utah 3b k;.w .jV CONSUMERS' CORHER 1 LINDA MUINKER ,Conumer Information Utah State University CASTLE HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY CARBCN COUNTY 8RCOI6ICI I SCHOOL DIST R ICT MOWtll CCIISTUCTION WARDS DAN, AW IdftuM ft tHi tf ic t xtari fJ i. .' .yp ir-, r,'-- (IS ( ASSOCIATES MllfCI fa 41 ., i. CCwr-AA- ' r f SCHOOL v-- ?'. - - l - . t(S v. 7 J TT 4i c I .TS 5SrT How Utah residents will handle an un- the '80s will be precedented growth discussed on July 9, in Price. Topics of taxation, community planning and in The Patchw0rk Kristen Diamanti Taylor by By KRISTEN DIAMANTI TAYLOR Can we control our own destiny? Governor Matheson strongly feels that Utahns must take the responsibility for the quality of life in the next decade. In fact, he has formed a commission of approximately 100 members to implement a study of Utahs Agenda for the Eighties future. Three people from our own area have been chosen as part of the committee Phyllis Sillitoe, Grant Fausett, and lee Semken. Wednesday, July 9th, at 7 p.m., a town meeting will be held in the courtroom of the Carbon County Courthouse to discuss the future of Utah. Why all the fuss? According to the most informed researchers, Utah will face definite changes in the coming years. First, it is estimated that by the year 2000, Utah population will increase by 60 percent. Because of its geographic location and energy resources, the labor force in Utah will increase dramatically. In simple terms, it may include many of the following changes for all Utah citizens: If growth in the urban region of Utah follows the current pattern of single family housing on relatively large lots, much existing agricultural land could be consumed, thus contributing to the creation of a continuous metropolis stretching from Brigham City to Pay son. I' . , .' education will be discussed. The outcome of these meetings will help determine how, where and when such buildings as the Castle Heights School will be erected. The patterns of merging urban sprawl threaten the unique identity of Utahs historical and cultural town centers and increase energy consumption and the costs of providing government services. New growth and development creates benefits of new employment opportunities and higher per capita incomes but costs are incurred in the areas of decreasing air quality, loss of open space and increased congestion. Associated with a deteriorating environment, are numerous social problems including increased health problems, crime, and the incidence of mental disorders. Continued population growth and urbanization is associated with a reduction of area for recreation in the valleys, which places increased pressures upon the Wasatch canyons for public recreation. The canyons also become more critical for wildlife habitat and for a continued clean culinary water supply. Our growing population has demanded new highways, new water storage and distribution system, new sewer systems, larger airports and new schools and college facilities. These needs all have significant land use affects. State programs and policies for maintenance of air and water quality, industrial and travel promotion also affect subsequent land use patterns. Currently these programs are administered on a functional or categorical basis with little regard to present and future land use impacts. Programs affecting land use need to be brought together into some coordinated form. All citizens are urged to attend and offer constructive ideas on problems. Members of the commission urge clubs to send informed representatives. This town meeting offers an opportunity for citizens to control not only growth and its problems, but also forms of taxation. Farmers can obtain IRS help Crystal M.s plight began when she was 15. She became pregnant and choose to bear her baby. Crystal quit school and stayed home, helping her mother take care of the house, and supervising her nine young brothers and sisters, while her mother worked. Crystals family is one of the 40,000 families in Utah living at or below the poverty line, according to Dr. Charles Lowe of the National Institute of Child Care and Human There Development. is not enough income to meet the costs of many of the essentials of life, including the most essential essential of all: Proper food, he said. In due time Crystals child was a very small born underweight boy. And as months passed, it became evident something that besides physical growth was wrong with Crystals baby. Crystals little boy is mentally retarded. He is of one of the countless children in the United States who are born damaged by a disease malnutrition simply because they are born to poor families. In September percent fewer cells about $23 per month than those who have for the right kind of been well fed. supplementary food to the for each prospective Prior initiation of the WIC mother during her program, a four - year pregnancy and about investigation by a the same amount per team of doctors and month for an infant researchers at St. during the first 19 Judes Hospital, months of life. Less cost Memphis, Tenn., cost to the The the that height, proved inand taxpayer of one weight retarded ti lligence distribution mentally is of children born into person appoor families could be proximately $900,000 raised significantly for the care of that through the proper individual during his practice of maternal lifetime. As the late Sen. and inf ant nutrition. Hubert Humphrey Data given The American pointed out: The total Medical Association cost of the WIC program would be less reports that three fourths of all retarded to a community than children come from the expense of caring impoverished families for only a few retarded and seven percent of infants over their all children from lifetimes. poverty appear Some people feel that WIC is a mentally retarded. What this means to duplication of the food the average taxpayer stamp program since is that billions of a person can receive dollars now spent to food stamps and also cv.re for people who be on WIC full time. cannot care for However, under the themselves may be food stamp program, a materially reduced if woman may select any the problem is at- food she wants, but her tacked at its source. own nutritional The cost in Utah of requirements must be the WIC program is weighed against a lot -- 1972, Congress passed a law to appropriate $10 million in an attempt to salvage some half a million high risk newborn babies and rescue many of them from the tragedy of lifetime dependency, if not actual hospitalization. Diet - Brain The program, which goes by the acronym of WIC (Women, Infants and Children), hinges on a vastly important scientific discovery: That there is a direct cause and effect link between and mental retardation, that malnutrition can diet actually stunt human brain. Science has learned the that Free publications wide range of sub- throughout the year, and pay only the damage is done very are available from the jects, including soil according to Salt Lake correct amount of tax. early in life, during the It can be ordered last months in the Internal Revenue sales, crop destruc- District Director womb and the crucial Service to answer tion, chicken pur- Roland V. Wise. by mail using the of life when first tax chases, and drought farmers Farmers Tax order form in the tax brainyearscells are Guide is written in a package, or by calling questions, the Director and share farming. If a growing. baby for Salt Lake District the IRS There are also clear, understandable number listed a full of the Internal examples for style, and provides in the local telephone hasnt developed of cells complement by Revenue Service says. preparation of the useful hints on the directory. If more convenient, the time hes 18 Publication 225, Form 1040 and related importance of good old, he never Farmers Tax schedules, and listings record keeping to help it can also be picked months will. Ill - nourished incontains most of important tax dates farmers IRS Guide, prepare up at children have been formation covering a which affect farmers accurate tax returns found to have 40 Valley View Homes in Castle Dale are just minutes from where you work at the Huntington and Hunter plants or the mines in Emery County. Living at Valley View will save you time and money every day. Spend less time on the road, more time enjoying the benefits of owning your own home. Interest rates are down. Immediate, flexible financing is available. New Garden Homes are now under construction, affordably priced from $52,000.00. Valley View also for information. lomes. Drop in or call 748-230features quality Precision-Bil- t 1 HtfCrSJOH 8 VALLEY VIEW HOMES IN CASTLE DALE fail HOMtl V family kinds of foods. You can of competing eat needs. just about remember, food anything and hunger stamps only provide 36 will go away. And cents a person per Of course, the no allowance meal of is made for the ex- problem not is malnutrition pectant mother who is confined to the poor. eating for two. But even though afFood only mothers are fluent current ioods vulnerable,shows specifies that research required for each malnutrition is 15 or nursing expectant mother and infant, and times higher among free poverty mothers. provides Also, as Sen. Charles redeemable vouchers points Percey, for those foods alone. of The goal of the WIC out: The problem is balance nutritional program is not only to many compounded nutritious provide for the low foods but also nutrition times over and mother income education. According because her they baby to WIC staff members, By contrast, WIC R-Il- l., -- the most serious are frequently hungry as well of both as shortcoming the food stamp and malnourished. now defunct comThe benefits of the modity programs as WIC program are far as expectant overwhelming and as mothers and babies Dr. Paulos Zee, are concerned is the director of nutrition at dubious nutritional St. Judes in Memphis, value of the food the says: poor will obtain. It is ironic to be The Institute of Nutrition spending $150 a day or makes a distinction more on hospital care between hunger and for a baby that has been damaged by a malnutrition: Malnutrition com- disease that can be es from not eating prevented for $5.50 a enough of the right week. Human |