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Show QDmtisilh (Basin lt analartl November 5, 1968, Pege 11 Three hospitalized in Monday accident front of the Sireech car, which was headed east on Highway 40, ' started to turn right at the road that runs south of Duane Hall Trucking. Sireech moved to pass the truck just as Spradden started out to turn left from the road onto Highway 40. An accident which injured Nettie Spracklen on Highway 40 near Duane Hall Trucking occurred Monday morning about 11:30 a:m. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Annette Hatch waa investigating the accident and said Spracklen, sustained a 28 of Rooshvelt, slightly fractured back from the accident. She waa transported and admitted to Duchesne County Hospital Monday. Also injured in the accident was Venita Sireech and her brother V incept Sireech, both of Randlett. They were treated and released from the county hospital The Sireech vehicle hit the Spracklen vehicle fully in the drivers door. Witnesses said the eastbound vehicle slowed down but I cant say an accurate speed of any of the vehicles at this time," Trooper Hatch said. The investigation is still underway and no citations were issued as of press time by the Highway Patrol Trooper Hatch. ' Monday. ' Hatch said the accident apparently occurred when the truck in Lamanite Generation plans to visit West .In an ancient language the term "Lamanite" refers to the native peoples of Latin America, Polynesia and North America. To modem audiences the title Lamanite Generation means a colorful kaleidoscope of song and dance by a Brigham ' Young University performing group. The Lamanite Generation will musical breing their celebration to West Junior High on Monday, December 1, at 7:30 p.m. perfbr- During a mance ' the group, representing nearly. 20 different Latin American, Polynesian and American Indian cultures, will perform everything from Polynesian "Hana Chant, to an American Indian Spear and Shield " te The yellow Mercury, driven by Nettie Spracklen, 28 of Roosevelt, was hit by the maroon Mercury, driven by Venita Sireech of Randlett. Spracklen, Sireech and her brother were all transported to Duchesne County Hospital.The Sireech's were both treated and released, Spracklen was admitted with a broken back. . Dance. Latin American Lanianites will entertain the audience as six senoritas in colorful skirts balance lighted candles on their Continued on page 13 ; te National diabetes month spotlight treatment changes Two patients, diabetes. say, tragically, If only Id have belfoved what could happen to me I would have done the things you told me and more. Now I see the mistakes I made. Diabetes affects about 11. million ' Americans,'" only about ' half of whom know they have the .one Patient One doesnt believe he has diabetes, despite what his doctor has told him. He continues to live much the, way he always has', eating pretty much what he wants, when he wants it, and dismisses the other care steps he was told to take. He is afraid of the truth, so he ignores the symptoms that are punishing his vital organs. When he finally returns to his doctor, his kidneys are failing, his eyesight is weakening, and he is impotent Patient Two listened to his doctor carefully and from the first day has followed directions on nutrition, foot care, exercise and other aspects of care vitally important to a person with diabetes. He feels good, is no complications, experiencing and if he sticks to his regimen he has excellent prospects for living an otherwise normal life. Those are very common scenarios, says Dr. Dana Clarke, medical director of the Diabetes Treatment Center at Holy Cross Hospital. During National Diabetes Month, we hope we can use this special time to reach the thousands of Utahns who have diabetes and dont realize it and others who know they have it but fail to take it seriously. "Patients come to see me after they've started to develop complications of diabetes and. they process. . . ' Possibly the most important thing we can tell people is that in 1986 they can have a great deal of control over the outcome of their ' diabetes, Dr. Clarke said. Taking good care of themselves will make the major difference in how long and how well they live. disease. The third leading cause of death by disease in the United Diabetes treatment has States, diabetes is also one of the . changed significantly in just the nation's leading causes of: kidney past few years, he said. The staff of the Diabetes Treatment failure, new cases of adult Mind-- . Center at Holy Cross Hospital inness, im potency, pregnancy comdisdudes a nurse educator, a plications, dietitian, an exercise specialist, a ease, limb amputation. Diabetes results in increased counselor, and a specially trained amounts of sugar (glucose) in the - nursing staff. Three people play a vitally blood, caused by a decrease or lack of insulin. Without insulin important role in instructing patients on how to manage their the body cannot convert food into diabetes, of keeping them advised energy. As blood sugar levels is of the latest information on done the to damage high, stay diabetes, and showing them how body. to get the most out of their The two forms of diabetes are lives. Type I and Type II. Type I He rited several examples of diabetes, commonly called the differences hi diabetes treatgenerally strikes ment from just 10 years ago. children and young adults. Type glucose monitoring (a II, which mainly affects persons check of blood sugar levels) was over 40, may be controlled not widely used. People were without insulin, using diet and exercise and good injecting themselves with insulin without knowing what their Mood habits under a physicians direction. sugar levels were, which makes as The key warning signs of much sense as a pitcher going into a World Series game diabetes are excessive thirst, Even today many people unexplained weight loss, frequent dont monitor their Mood sugar, urination, fatigue, increased though the consensus is that appetite, frequent infections and a slowdown in the body's healing everyone who has diabetes or is . cardio-vascul- ar ' insul- in-dependent, UDOT MEETING A good sized crowd meeting at East Elementary School Self-Moo- d nt Mind-folde- d. attended the with UDOT representatives. Comments kept some on the edge of their chairs while others sat back and took it all in. Beverly Hansen was only one of the panel in front of the audience that gave comments before the session the high risk group should. few years ago a pregnant jvoman with diabetes had an increased chance of losing the baby or six times greater chance of the 4iaby having birth defects. "The " chancre of her having a healthy Continued on page 3 In A -- ' 1 UDOT meeting airs Highway 40 issues Last week, citizens of Roosevelt and representatives of the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) held a meeting. Over three years ago the first wrinkles in the fight with UDOT surfaced with the petitions for a traffic light at 600 East and Highway 40. More recently the repainting of part of Highway 40 brought a cry of protest about UDOT to the ears of several elected officials. Under the urging of Utah Legislator Alrik Myrin, UCOT agreed to meet with Roosevelt citizens to air their reasons for dealing with Roosevelt as they have in the past Representing UDOT were Skip Anderson, dis- - was opened to questions and answers from the audience. The general concensus of the citizens at the meeting was they would like a traffic light at 600 East and the highway repainted to a three lane road (one lane each direction with a center turn lane). trict director; Dave Graves, traffic engineer; Fred Lewis, a traffic engineer from the Salt Lake office; Mark Musuris, a safety engineer from the Salt Lake office. The UDOT officials met at 5:30 p.m. last Wednesday night, October 29, with the elected officials of Roosevelt City and the local PTA district council officers. At 8 p.m. they faced a sizeable number of citizens. The people attending the meeting filled about half of the East Elementary School gym and covered citizens that lived in the who were area, business-peopl- e affected by the UDOT decision, interested individuals and representatives of the media. Opening statements from the UDOT representatives were followed by brief statements from Mayor Lawrence Yack and Police Chief Cecil Gurr. Bev Hansen, as vice president of the PTA district council, made a comment or two and then it was opened up to questions from the floor. The first question was from Father David Schorr of St Helens Parish. In the opening comments by UDOT they referred to the study they did in April which generated the repainting and no parking provisions along Highway 40. The study mentioned a crosswalk that should be deleted, it is reportedly used only for special occasions, the report states. Father Schorr asked the UDOT personnel if they knew the name of the small private school that only used the crosswalk for special occasions. None of the UDOT officials ventured an answer to that particular question but Anderson did say the report was accepted by UDOT as having "local approval. Anderson said the author of ' the report, Alex Mansour, was out of the country and unable to attend the meeting. The report was used for the UDOT recommendations to make the section of highway a five lane road and he said the paint crew was told by him to stop when he heard of the controversy. Schorr said he had almost district gotten hit crossing in the crosswalk to his church only as recently as last Sunday and felt that the crosswalk was a necessity. Anderson rebuted the comment by saying statistics showed it was safer to cross a street outside the crosswalk. The rational for the statement, which was made a couple of other times during the evening, comes from the apparent attitude pedestrians have in the crosswalk. They are more concerned about getting across the street than getting through the traffic, one commented. The attitude of hit me and 111 sue you also adds to the problem of pedestrians in crosswalks. One resident summed up the feelings of many of those present, Sheila Landry said if UDOT made it a five lane road we'd never get across. She urged a traffic light which would at least give a break in the traffic for pedestrians to cross. Mursuri said four lanes of traffic was considered safer for pedestrians because it provided Continued on page 13 Dan F. Nelson will become director of Utah Department of Transportation district 6. He replaces "Skip" Anderson. District 6 encompasses Duchesne and Uintah Counties. |