Show Dear Vi: I seldom write opinions to newspaper columns but yours on pet odors prompts me to share these suggestions from a video on house- February lfi T99t THE RTCHHKI J) PFAPER Wednesday The oil it contains will contribute to glossy fur and in cats often avoids the formation of fur balls For some reason (don't ask me why) the top of cat food bags are usually stronger than the bottoms 5-- Thus the bags are less likely to tear if you leave the top closed and dispense the food through a small cut in the bottom of the bag A week or two before taking a puppy from its mother put an old bath towel and a couple of toys in the whelping pen Take these home with the puppy to help keep him from missing his mother and sib- breaking dogs: Don't use any product containing ammonia because that smells so much like urine to dogs they think it is an invitation to use that spot Rather use diluted lings so much white vinegar I've found that a rug Hang a bell near the door at a cleaning product RESOLVE is efheight your dog can reach and every fective and I also spray with Lysol time you let your dog out push his to dispel odors Sometimes even a nose against it to make it ring d Soon he will learn to ring the bell dog will have an accident especially if left alone too when he needs to go out long My poodle is well trained To avoid nuisance barking the but my son brought home a small untrained dog and when it would minute it starts squirt lemon juice go my dog would too Training a in your dog's mouth and say "Quiet" (Take care not to get it in puppy requires kindness and pahis eyes) After a few squirts just a tients but it’s worth it firm "Quiet" will stop the barking Margie Tomow well-traine- Sl George The following from a dog lover amused me Weary of hearing her friends talk about their boyfriends she began talking about her Jerry She never mentioned of course that Jerry loved to be out in the rain relished chopped liver and ran around in the park stark naked Sev- eral months passed before her friends discovered that Jerry was a poodle Here arc some miscellaneous tips: pet-ca- re To keep a cat from scratching around house plants try: A heavy coaling of pepper on the soil a bunch of pincconcs around the plants misting with a vinegar solution or a few yards of adhesive-backe- d paper (sticky side up) around the surface on which plants sit Since dogs won't soil the place where they sleep tic your dog to a short leash overnight Be sure to walk him before and after Dear Vi: Little shocks from static electricity in our new carpet whenever we walked over were driving us crazy so we complained to the carpet dealer He told us to keep a vase full of water in the room It works! Frccda Hclpstcad Thought For The Day: "I once had a nurse" said Groucho Marx "who was so conceited that when she took my pulse she subtracted ten points for her personality" Readers thanks for sharing your good ideas Address It Makes Cents 328 South 300 East St George Utah 84770 If used here I'll send you S2 or a copy of one of my helpful book’its "Kitchen Tricks" or "Discard Tricks" Please state your choice These booklets are also available to others Price S249 plus Sl for postage and handling Whites Celebrate 60th Wedding Date Waters Celebrate 50th Max and Roien White were Dale and Betty Waters celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Feb 14 They were honored at a family dinner Saturday night They were married in Tulsa Okla Feb 14 1944 and scaled in the Manti LDS Temple Feb 14 1946 1934 later solemnized in the Manti honored on their 60th wedding anniversary with a family party this week They were married Feb 16 LDS Temple They arc the parents of six children Don White Lois Jean Ogden Billy While JoAnn Lambcrtsen Doug White and Judy Drew They also have 28 grandchildren and 70 Poetry Is Study Club Richfield Meet Topic Seniors Members of the Richfield Study Club were entertained with a book review covering the lives and careers of two of the best loved poets in their fields LaNcll Lee of the Monroe Litcrosc Club gave a detailed account of their lives together and quoted some best know n lines from their work The program was under the direction of Melba Mortcnscn Mr Waters was bom in Richfield and graduated from Richfield High School He has lived and worked here most of his life He currently works with his family at Set Dinner Club Seeks More Recipes MONROE — "We need more recipes like main dishes cookies The Richfield Senior Citizens monthly dinner will be Saturday Feb 19 at 6 pm with a special spaghetti dinner and a program by the Brent and Rosalyn Dailey and Mike and Patti Davis families Make reservations by noon Feb 18 by calling the center 896-680- 7 1 or Gail Stott salads and pics" said Mavis Buchanan president of the Litcrosc Club of Monroe which is putting together The Cookie Jar' cookbook g as a project for the club Deadline is now extended until March 1 for members to contribute fund-raisin- 896-849- Central Electric Supply Company in Richfield Mrs Waters was bom in Elsinore and graduated from South Sevier High School She has lived and worked here almost her entire life and also works in the family business Their children arc Roger (Donna) Waters Marilyn (Joe) Staley Mark (Sheri) Waters Keith (Kathy) Waters and Carolyn Waters They have 18 grandchildren and two their family favorites whether it is for lunch dinner or even breakfast Persons may mail recipes to Mavis Buchanan PO Box 70 Monroe Utah 84754 or take them to the next meeting Feb 16 at 3:30 pm The book will be printed and ready for distribution in the near future A bristly welcome mat or a piece of carpet in front of a litter box will clean a cat's claws as it leaves This saves a lot of indoor-outdo- sweeping up around the litter box o If your cal ignores the scratching (Dll Q post you provided for it an ordinaiy sisal doormat may satisfy his scratching urges I When giving your dog a bath protect yourself with a garbage bag with holes cut out for your arms To avoid spills secure your pet's feeding bowl to a pizza pan with epoxy glue Or put a vinyl place mat underneath for easy M 0 II N T A I N QUO III A ID T II I OQQQ Q (lit Rural Health Care? pill box with the appro- them that much and no more Pour the liquid from canned tuna fish over your dog or cat's food enues to urban hospitals Sometimes this is necessary as when a rural hospital lacks the capability to treat a patient but sometimes it is not necessary 2 Lack of economies of scale It’s hard to maintain low pnees when you're dealing wnth nTa’ivcly sall numbers of patients Imagine for example that a rural hospital and an urban hospital each invest in identical $75000 mammogra-physystem- s The urban hospital has 10 Steve Kohlert SENIOR V'Kf PrJnIMNT Intermix main Health Carl Rural health care is not just resirural concern of Most of us who live in dents the larger cities of the Intermountain West travel through rural areas often in pursuit of business or recreation Tounsm mining ranching transportation and many other mdustnes depend on the existence of rural health services and these businesses support many jobs in cities as well as in rural areas Scott Hawley Observes 80th Birthday CENTRAL — The family of Scott C Hawley celebrated his 80th birthday Feb 14 He was bom Feb 16 1914 in Central and has lived there all his life Mr Hawley married Beatrice Nielsen May 29 1935 in the Manti LDS Temple They were called to serve in the Salt Lake City South LDS Mission in Sl George 1982-198- R 11)0 (DO) clean-u- p priate amount of fish food for one day and instruct children to give in T i: 0 ft TOO What Can Be Done to Reform Overfed goldfish soon die To avoid this fill each section of a seven-da- y N LI 3 He was a dairyman and farmer for many years and served as Sevier County Zoning administrator He has been an active member of the LDS Church serving as bishop on the high council high priests group leader stake auditor for 23 years various teaching positions in Sunday School and priesthood quo- rums He has four children: Claudette Brown Central Dr Jerald S Haw- ley Richfield Gayle Anderson Sugar Land Texas Dr Don B Hawley Las Vegas 15 grandchildren arid 14 The family celebrated this occasion in Central with a dinner at the home of daughter Claudette Broun mammogram it forms 3 CURRENT CONCERNS together to provide a full range of health services Although com- J4! the uninsured — this means that rural hospitals have o (2334 t'Giiifii r!2 greater difficulty m covering their ccts Labor shortage 4 al We believe o our region needs to accomplish two rarciw goals: 1 Define essential vffliTTIMh health services which should be Wt located in rural areas 2 Identify a structure to assure the efficient deliver)’ of these services m rural areas The most effective way to accomplish these goals is undoubtedly through a combination of public and private initiatives In the Intermountam region there are already many examples of successful partnerships between rural facilities health systems and c where transport services out-rea- h programs and other services are brought to rural areas These rural providers benefit from integration while retaining significant local and often no reimbursement at all when treating services (SB cost-effecti- Payment prob- non-ciimc- patients are suspicious of participating m health systems where hospitals physicians and managed care plans such as HMOsjom per- Physicians nurses and technicians lUliGVi- clinical and 1 other Competition staff with urban hospitals members arc often In dollar terms most difficult to recruit health care to resiand delivered dents of rural areas is retain in rural areas One rural hospital in this region in the cities Rural hospitals and rcv- often lose recently lost two of its physi HEALTHCARE Reluctance to align with systems Some rural hospitals 4 percentage of Medicare and uninsured patients compared to urban hospitals Since hospitals receive lower reimbursement for treating Medicare patients — approach ABOUT RURAL Lack of competition Most reform proposals rely on managed competition which depends on a mixture of government regulation and competition between health care providers These models may not work well in rural settings because a community can only support one hospital 1 lems Rural hospitals tend to see a higher equate attention in public policy debates about reform because rural health issues are different in many ways from urban health issues Here are some thoughts on the special nature of rural care and how issues of reform: OBSTACLES TO RURAL RET0RM system is vital to our regions citizens and economy Intermountam Health Care with 12 rural hospitals and numerous clinics is committed to providing rural health care heart of managed competition reform proposals mammography patients a day but the rural hospital only has three Because of the higher volume the urban hospital can charge less for each Readers of this column have asked how health care reform will affect rural care Indeed the impact of reform proposals on rural care remains a nagging question that has often been given inad- we might cians — half its medical staff Cost with is the primary problem health care in urban areas but access to services is the primary problem m rural areas 2 Cost versus access Managed competition is designed pnmanly to control cost 3 Low managed care pene- petition between these integrated systems is the cornerstone of most reform proposals some rural hospitals may view such integration as a threat to their autonomy and another way to lose revenue and patients to urban areas representation If you have a question related to health care please call or write IH( DIALOGUE ON HEALTH 3b South State Street Salt LafceCitv Utah 84111 A RURAL AGENDA tration Currently most rural residents m the Intermountam area are not enrolled in HMOs and other managed care plans and managed care is at the The first step in bringing the benefits of health care reform to rural areas is to recognize that a strong rural health care CARE srvii R vauty HOSPITAL I HC A Srre of |