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Show Workshop stresses family needs drug abuses. Then he said "It is time that we in the state of Utah adopted adopt-ed strengthening the family, broadly and realistically defined, de-fined, as a major public objective. ob-jective. I would like ... to propose a broad state-wide program pro-gram to accomplish that end. We must examine carefully how a society can and should affect the conditions in which a family rears a child, how a family determines its values in the hope that such an approach will better enable the family to function as a unit . . . and enhance the ability of children to later function as parents." Keith Stroud, Administrative Coordinator of Five County Family Life Services, the Five County Association of Government's Govern-ment's Health and Social Services Ser-vices system, attended the workshop, and has said the entire en-tire three days were spent discussing dis-cussing and planning programs that would bolster the family and provide a climate in which parents could pass on to their children calues that would tend to eliminate or at least curb the problems found In our society that tend to undermine the family. Now, according to Mr. Stroud, those people from the five county area who attended the workshop are charged by the Governor to apply what they learned to the local level, and to Initiate programs within our communities that will .carry out the stated goals, advocated in part by the Governor and spelled out and enlarged upon in the workshop. Those representing the Five County District were Keith Stroud, who acted as group leader, Reverend Jim Sloan of Milford, Chairman of the Five County Health and Social Ser-vices Ser-vices Council, Ada Carpenter, rep resenting Southern Utah State College; Larry Davis, Juvenile Probation Officer of Cedar City; and LaVarr and Eleanor Webb of St. George. Mr. Webb represented Dixie College. Some time ago, Governor Calvin Cal-vin Rampton said "... other than the church, the family is the only agency that we can depend upon to induce worthwhile worth-while and enduring changes in its members, character and committment." He went on to say "Next to the family and church, the community is the most Important center of the activities that maKe life, human, hu-man, civilized, and cultured." The Governor was speaking at a workshop on "Family Values" Val-ues" held at Park City, Utah. Governor Rampton had expressed expres-sed concern in his inaugural address lor the deterioration in family values in Utah. The workshop was brought into existence as a .result of that expression of concern, and in his keynote speech he set the objectives for the workshop. The Governor went on to point out the many problems within our society that tend to disrupt the family, Including the "snowballing "snow-balling divorce rate," illegitimacy, illegiti-macy, child abuse, venereal disease, "one of the most prevalent pre-valent communicable diseases, second only to the common cold," alcoholism, and other |