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Show - ... V H 7v Stall column Costs at gas pump vs. per gallon price tags By KEVIN ASHBY Sun Advocate publisher Nobody likes to see as prices increase, especially not me with my business and personal driving habits. So when gas prices started increasing I was one of the first people to start bellyaching at least to myself. But as time and life goes on, I started wondering about other liquid products we purchase, but probably have no idea how much per gallon they cost as compared to gasoline. You think a gallon of gasoline is expensive, check these prices out Diet apple juice, 16 ounces for $1.29 $10.32 pergalkm Ice tea, 16 ounces for $1.19 $ 9.52 per gallon for 20 ounces $1.59 drink, $ 10.17 per Sports gallon - $ 10.00 juice.16 ounces for $1.25 Cranberry pergalkm Pint of milk, 16 ounces for $1.59 $12.72 per gallon Brake fluid, 12 ounces for $3.15 $ 33.60 per ' gallon Nighttime cold medicine, 6 ounces for $8.35 $ 178.13 per gallon Liquid stomach medicine, 4 ounces $123.20 per gallon k cover liquid, 7 ounces for $1.39 antacid-ups- for $3.85 Typewriter-in- et $25.42 pergalkm Mouth wash, 1.5 ounces for 99 cents pergalkm And this is the real kicker. $ 84.48 bottled water, 9 ounces for $1.49 amount of cash he got from the drawer? $15. $ 21.19 per gallon. That's $21.19 a gallon If someone points a gun at you and gives you for Water! money, is So next time you're at the pump, be glad your car a crime committed?' Seems one guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He doesnt run on cold medicine, mouth wash or even water! decided that hed just throw a cinder Mock through a And another column I enjoy writing are the stupid quor store window; grab some boon and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the winthings criminals do. The following examples are different types of advertisements for people to stay in school dow; The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-b- e or go back to school and get an education. The Am Arbor News crime column reported that a thief on. the head, knocking him unconscious. Seems the man walked into a fast food restaurant mYpsilanti,Midi, The whole liquor store window was made of event was caught on videotape. at 8:50 a.m., flashed a gun and demanded cash. The clerk turned the armed man down because he As a female shopper exited a convenience store, a said he couldnt open the cash register without a food man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 imorder. mediately and the woman was able to give the police a When the would-b- e robber ordered onion rings, the detailed description of the snatcher. clerk said they weren't available for breakfast The man, Within minutes, the police had apprehended the purse snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the frustrated, walked away. Two men tried to pun the front off a cash machine store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of stand there for positive identification. their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off Yes, officer - that's her. That's the lady I stole the the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off the truck. purse from," replied the thief. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a Scared, the two men left the scene and drove home - with the chain still attached to the machine, with the motor home parked on a Seattle street he got much mote bumper still attached to the chain and with the vehicle's than he bargained for. I Police arrived at the scene to find an PI man, curled up 10 me Dumper. license piaie sun fluacneo U A man walked into a convenience store, put a $20 next to a motor home hear spilled sewage. A police spokesbill on the counter and asked for change. When the clerk man said the man admitted to hying to steal gasoline and opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked plugged his hose into the motor home's sewage tank by for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, provided. The man took the cash from the store clerk and fled saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had. the scene, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total li- Plexi-Gla- ss. loawnw BNtNT1WHUN- MiwumH ewrfWMmwaue KMNNtMV - T(W MO ML, MeilutImi DAMlU! 1WIWIIIIW T Towns me wm. . f tm. PWCNaN.MIW w xwcBiDm-wwmm! DEttmcmt bmfmois. Burner . Sul Letters to the Saddened by possible middle school closure. ' editor lems and will always be problems with some children of this age whether they are in a middle school, elementary or otherwise. I have had three children pass through the halls ofWestridge so far liking school, having respect for the teachers and leaving with good memorable experiences. It saddens me to think of the possibilities of closure to a school and an Idea that has benefited the majority and given our children a cutting edge. Rhonda Sorensen' , Price: ; : ; Editor I realize I do not take a popular stance when I say how glad I am that we have had a middle school, in our community I feel the majority of students have benefited from .the school and that there are many pluses to having such. First and foremost Is the education the students receive. I have For readers who already have children past the age I smoke, and lots of it By KEVIN ASHBY always thought that having one Sun Advocate publisher A am referring to, the examples should be funny. For parcan start a fire with a flint rock even teacher specializing in a subject is ents who have children nearingthe age, the lessons will though a man insists people can only do it in far and away better than one teacher teaching many ; f I There are times when have an overwhelming urge be a warning. For people who have not yet had children, the movies. . a music such Having program to warn wannabe parents of what to expect when raisA magnifying glass can start a fire even on an overcast the examples could be construed as birth control Questions regulation as band and choir, advocacy, The following lessons are things I've learned from da ing a family. : math for those that of US. ' energy higher quality Then common sense sets in and I think that they children: Certain plastic building blocks will pass through the and in the past a language, can Editor; A should have the same opportunities to learn from their waterbed holds enough water to fill a digestive tract of a only benefit our childrens educaIs our nations security in jeop- children as I had. 2,000 square foot house four inches deep. Modeling dough and mforowave should never be used tion. ardy? When Sandra and I were engaged and we went If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run in the same sentence. . Grouping children in grades six The recent jump in oil prices home to break the exciting news to my parents, my over them with roller blades, they can ignite. and Beven Is logically better than evokes fears of a growing depenSuper glue is forever. mom just sat there on the couch in a daze. A FVom the books in dence on voice is louder than 200 adults in a No matter how much gelatin or pudding you put in a grouping a foreign Interests ami a It took a few moments before my mom looked at its library to the variety In lunch dwindling crowded restaurant swimming pool, you still can't walk on water. supply at home. The,, menu and choice of classes all truth is Americas Sandra and asked: 'Are you sure? If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling ton, the motor Pool filters do not like gelatin or pudding. energy endow--; On many occasions afterward, Sandra has said she geared specifically to this age ment is virtually unlimited. is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing VCRs do not qjeetpeanut butterand jellie sandwiches . group. should have paid more attention to that question as Batman underwearand a Superman cape. The motor is even though television commercials show they do. Early in 1978, for example, ther A middle school is also a great Congressional she finally realized that she had to raise one more child to strong enough, however, Quarterly re--, spread paint on all four walls Garbage bags do not make good parachutes. Neither transitional before entering ported period Iua to some than she bargained for. that, of a 20X20 foot room. according go sneeis oy noioing to Tour comers. . Junior high. Students are already forecasts, the United Sates only , Our children have been everything we ever wanted. ' fou should notthrow baseballs up when therceiling Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when you used to class changes, remember- had enough oil and natural gas to-fan is on. They have lived a full life. They have experienced many are driving the vehicle. two or three decades. ing a locker combination and taklast p wonderful things. Afterward, they had many long hours When using the ceiling fan as a bat you have to throw You probably do not want to know what that odor is. ing responsibility The dire report appeared cred- ' to think about what they did so they could improve on the ball up a few times before you get a hit look in the oven before you him it on. Plastic The teachers are mindful of the ible cri- f 'Always during the 1973-7- 4 the next activity. A ceiling ton can hit a baseball a long way. transitional time in middle school sis, when Americans energy toys do not like ovens. Inf waited And our children did improve. and will occasionally make lee- long lines In order to The glass in windows (even double pane) doesnt Thefire department in Safina has a 5 minute response limited buy So today, am putting common sense aside to extime. - ways for students at this stags In stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan. amounts of gasoline and were , I some from When you hear the toilet flush and the words plain asked to turn down their thermo--- ; things that have learned The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make their lives. my own After middle school, I am conn-dechildren as well as other youth in the neighborhoods stats in order to conserve fuel, ij earth worms dizzy. It will, however, make cats dizzy. And already too late. are and they prepared .But the summer of 1974 earned where have lived. ready Brake fluid mixed with chlorine bleach makes cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy. for junior high. and, with it, the long lines and the, I realize there are some prob- (Continued on page &V,. ; Stall column Relates unusual lessons taught by children . . - . sector king-si- ze ' K-- 6. - ., . , I . . . nt I . r.J' The voice of Carbon : County since 1892 ADMINISTRATION ' Kevin Ashby ' Sue Mosher Lyimette Lessar Shirley Stubbs Loretta Tmjo Christa Kaminski Lynda Barnett Ad Director, Display Publisher $37 pa yea in Carbon and Emery counties. $40 in Utah and $54 outside of Utah per year by ma. Classifieds Deadikie: Monday ' Display . layout Ciasslfled, legals EDITORIAL Lynnda Johnson Jackie Anderson GaURaby - . at10a.ru forTuesday publication and Wednes- -' day at 10 a.m. for Thursdays publication. , . 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