Show I Hg1 Nasty insensitive editor spurns Yule stress Remember the good old days when your only concern about the holidays was whether your cash reserve would run out before your niHttnn Charlie stopping list did? £09 Ah nostalgia of course is Nowadays money just one of literally scores of worries we must all cope with this aftershave lotions only to find it actually time of the year Like whether we're all tilling trendy smells like the back of a bam Of course he thinks ourselves with too mrii cholesterol and too many calories at all those holiday meals Or if we've you think it’s sexy so he practically bathes in it and won’t have the heart to tell him it reeks projected the proper image by wearing a lamndia ( you And naturally your son is going to break foe at die company ChritimM paxty Or foe emit trip about whether we're letting old friends Aint too family Nintendo game 'just after you’ve purchased much at the News Year's Eve bash every video game cassette known to man as But foe worst forest of aU is the grim specter of Christmas presents and it will be Memorial Day seasonal stress Believe me if Ebenezer Scrooge before foe repairman can get around to fixing it But is all this aggravation any different this year were alive today he’d be visited on Christmas Eve last year? Or for Oat matter any different than dun by the Ghost of Holiday Stress To be honest I’d never heard of foe supposedly the trials and tribulations our parents suffered chronic holiday Hues until very recently After all through during past Christmas seasons? So there's what’s there to be downcast about at ChHimat realty nothing to get all stressed out about right? time? Wrong! This Christmas it seems like you can’t Ok so you mistakenly buy your wife a size 8 open a newspaper or magazine or listen to a radio dress instead of foe size 12 die's actually been without being warned by some psychologist to wearing for years and then aren’t able to convince watch out for holiday stress They suggest that you her that you didn’t intend foe present for someone should stick to an affordable budget when spending smaller and more shapely than die for Christmas presents give gifts that have deeper Or perhaps you'll buy your husband one of those meaning Aan foe dollars and cents they cost ami 'Schill maintain a spirit of inner peace IF this problem is getting this much attention it must be pretty widespread But I don’t have any of the symptoms — no panic buying no sweitty palms no sleepless night no suicidal tendencies If all these experts say holiday stress is natural it must be unnatural not to feel it That worries me Since I don’t fed holiday stress I must not be a sensitive guy So I started seeing a psychiatrist to find out what’s wrong with me He says it will take about 100 visits at $49 an hour to tap my inner core of sensitivity But luckily we found my hidden guilty conscience right away To assuage that guilty conscience my shrink has me sending Christmas cards to all die people I’ve neglected for years especially people I don’t like — old wives old girlfriends old tosses But I don’t remember any of their addresses although I’ve always prided myself on having an excellent memory That worries me too I really can’t even afford foe postage on all these cards going to people I hate bid a sensitive (slbeit guilty) guy like me esn’t renew acquaintance with all three people and not send them presents as welL So there goes my stopping budget Hut also worries me But not enough to keep me from sending muzzles although none of them have to ail my I realize that no one however does On reflection take such a cheap would inner peace wto a spirit of human being mother shot So now I’m feeling stress because I’m not worried that foe deeper meanings of all my gifts arc realty pretty hateful I’ve talked this over with my shrink He says we can cure my shortage of inner peace with a mere 100 visits at $49 an hour Of course that’s on top of the 100 visits already needed to cure my insensitivity to holiday stress Naturally that worries me as wdL If I spend an hour on Ms couch every Monday I can be cured of both through Thursday of inner peace by next Dec lack insensitivity and But I’ll have spent Christmas for time IS just in will I be able to how so then on therapy by $9800 afford enough presents next year to prove my newfound sensitivity and spirit of inner peace? And isn’t that likely to produce more holiday stress that will cause me to need mote therapy at more expense so I’ll be able to afford even fewer gifts for Phrifm in 1991? That realty worries me ex-wiv- es Ctwte ScM la w ety adlor atlhs Herald Journal 'r Education lawsuit? To the editor '- Superintendent Clark Puffer and School Board President Carol Funk have repeatedly stated that the Cache County School District is not receiving its just share of state funds They cimw that the district receives near die lowest per pupil funding in die state because education appropriations are based on assessed property valuation rather than on student population The Cache district has a high per capita student enrollment tot a low total -S is pnpHywhuHwi KUSU reporter Lee Austin addressed this problem to Gov Bangerfer during a recent KUED news conference but foe governor 0 ' t fjl jliv rf Ifl 1 i: Hli ducked die question I ngge that The Herald Journal ask state Sen Lyle Hillyard to respond to this issue in a guest editorial He not only sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee but as a lawyer should be able to comment on the following legal recourse: States like Kentucky are being sued by parents in school districts with low property valuations because they receive less money per child then those in weshMcr districts if Puffer and Funk arc Indeed justified in their complaint then piWit In Cache County may have cause to file a class action suit n ITtah far agnaHratinn ftf chool funding again Om Gary Gettman Millville o!ii '1 - 3IT- 'jifl f H'SI’ WIlV-- ' ?:? Take care of pets To foe editor In extremely cold weadwr those of us who own horses dogs cats to keep in rnind font anfanab anJottiwriiHiiiak that live fflrtdwyi" need special cane in winter to be able to stay sufficiently warm and hetdtty Some things to consider are: 1) If you have been feeding your horse dog or cat once a day it would be a good idea to divide the food into two feedings per day during cold weather of food ""Mtty fed to an outdoor pet should be 2)- The iwyt 3) Hones need hot fbod such as oats in addition to a hsy fed at least once per day houses that are large enough 4) Dogs and call need for foe animal to turn around in comfortably but small enough to retain sufficient body beat The floor should be covered with strew A flapmadeof carpet or other heavy material should be stapled to the top of foe door opening need special care An animal’s metabolism 3) Older changes as he grows older nd he may not tolerate extreme cold as well as he did in his younger years To avoid hypothermia some older dogs and eats may have to be nought into foe house for foe winter high-quali- ty well-insulat- ed English text proves donkeys are smart Some people think coyotes are lovable littto canines that need to be protected from their enemfe which include people and donkeys Sometimes telling the difference between those two species is difficult especially when foe donkeys seem smarter For instance you will never catch anyone trying to convince a donkey that the coyotes are its friends Donkeys instinctively hate amines and literally kick them out of any territory the donkeys consider their own For this reason donkeys are being used to keep coyotes away from livestock People on the other hand often distrust their instincts and can be swayed to believe just about anything — just ask Jim "send money have faith" Bakker Charlie "my word's as good as my bond" Keating or Fidel "foe true Marxist" Castro Thus die coyote conservation dub keeps trying to convince people the coyote is their folk in direct friend This puts the conflict with sheep and cattle growers who would like to keep die coyote population down folk have produced TV The shows mat make the coyote look as lovable as Lassie In addition a very sympathetic book has been written: God’s Dog: A Celebration - See LETTERS on page 7 Berry's World pro-coyo- te pro-coyo- te Arnold liiiiiamimiiiiii of the North American Coyote All this is well and good Coyote lovers have a right to have their say But surety they would not try to dip the book’s propaganda into a high school English textbook That would be tricky even for foe wilyepyote English grammar texts are expected to be No pretty straightforward and actual nonsense Their aole purpose is to teach students to speak and write English correctly We must assume therefore that foe disinformation in appearance of Engliah Writing and Skills a text used in Utah and Idaho high schools is strictly a coincidence In an exercise on identifying nouns foe book has this sentence: "The most widespread misperception about coyotes is that they prey on catde and sheep" The exercise continues "Scientists have never documented a single case of coyotes killing either cattle or sheep’ ’ pro-coyo- C 1HfcNfAlnc g-- t "Oh yeah and one other thing — I'd like to have a GORBY DOLL" note-tak- er te pro-coyo- te New book adds to WASHINGTON — White House memoirs from the Reagan era are beginning to sound like a broken record Everybody liked the president Nobody liked Nancy He was too disinterested She was too much of a meddler Now along comes Peggy Noona Reagan’s top speeds writer foe brain behind the mouth or the "great communicator" Her memoirs What I Saw at foe Revolution are due to be published by Random House in February We took an advance look at die unrevised' proofs of the book Yes indeed Reagan was a nice superficial guy and Nancy was a dragon lady Noonan didn't spend every day in the Oval Office observing the president but she when apparently was an avid others shuvd their observations She passes on those observations from sources who remain anonymous in the book (Without requesting anonymity even we got It One of Noonan’s long unattributed quotes from rvil16 Depends on what scientists we’re talking about I guess Facts in foe files of foe woolgrowen association and other livestock groups show coyotes kill calves and lambs Last year in Idaho alone 13700 sheep valued at $13 million were lost to predators mostly coyotes Well people may be dumber than donkeys some of foe time but not all foe time An Idaho mother took a look a foe ridiculous ’ statements in her HqgHfh book id Mew the whistle She got the immediate attention of Stan Boyd director of foe Idaho Association He alerted associations in other states As a result Utah schools are getting a corrected page to put in their copies of foe text Idaho schools are expecting to get a revised edition of die book next year But very likely students in many states throughout die nation will read die erroneous statements and believe Who’s to tell foem anything different? Not foe coyote Wool-growe-rs fenders Thaks to their English lesson awkn will grow up disliking foe people who don’t want coyotes fraternizing with the " and catvea Maybe the students won’t even like donkeys stories Reagan-er- a Jack Anderson Reagan on being president comes from an interview we had with him) Some of Reagan’s finest words were Noonan's words including his speech given in Ranee on foe 40th anniversary of and his short but moving remarks after foe Challenger explosion Noonan wrote much of George Bush’s lance speech for foe Republican foe "thousand points of light” rdhrase She capped her career as wordsmlfo by writing Reagan's farewell message and Bush's Inaugural address Her memoirs are not as graceful She takes pugilistic Jabs at foe villains and gushes over her heroes D-D- ay Con-includi- ng Rcngan began as a hero but foe shine off At first Noonan was frustrated thi couldn’t spend more time with foe ms whom she was writing speeches Then she saw more of die president fours to be leu brilliant engaged than sh imagined The moat devastating commentsr Reagan comes from the ge bet Noonan and her boss BentteylTElliot: Noonan: "The president is clear! intelligent man but I get foe irnpn romeutnu his top aides don't rMwfc he'i bright" filioit: ‘There are people who say why the first laity is so protective of h Because she thinks he’s not smart - be she realty thinks he'd do anything hr Innocent and dumb " Noonan gives the first lady a modki ympathy After aQ it’s lough to be cor ' SeeBOOCon |