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Show Review - Wednesday, April 23, 1986 -- Page 2 (" fcwieosa?Mp "I think our fair aty has an image problem." 'Edmund Halley Johnson 'sounds heavenly grassroots I - ' " Copyright 1986 Becky Grass Johnson Another bundle of joy is due to arrive in just a few days. The countdown is on and hubby and I are still trying to find a name that we can agree on. Naming a baby shouldn't be that hard! After all, people do it every day. But somehow it was a whole lot easier for us to find a suitable n ame for the family cat than for junior. Perhaps it is because there is so much criterion that has to be met when it comes to naming a baby. It should be a respectable name that both grandmothers like and that the . baby can learn to spell before he enters junior high school. Some parents like to refer to their genealogy sheets for inspiration. It does seem like a nice idea to carry on the family names from generations before. But after scanning through our genealogy sheets and finding names like Wilhelmina, Orva, Fritz and Jesse James, I decided not to tag junior with any ancestral titles. It could be enough to make him saw his branch off the family tree. 15,000 others in the country by (he same name. (Unless we decidetogo with Ezekiel, Nehemiah or Moses,) Some people say they have to wait to see what the baby looks like before they know what to name it. That never did help us. I've never seen a baby that looked like a Raquel, a Colton or an Edmund. Most babies look like a "Snookums," a "Dollibug" or "Wart." Anyone who would namea pink and wrinkled little creature with no hair or teeth "John Rambo" is doing so with a great deal of faith. This last year' has been memorable. I suppose if I just relied on a few current events I could come up with some winning names. "Rocky Balboa Johnson" packs a punch. "Edmund Halley Johnson" sounds just heavenly. "Ramses Johnson" would make any mummy proud. , , - I would really like to name junior after someone that everyone knows and loves. Someone who is brave, suave and good looking. If, pe-rchance, our pink and wrinkled little bundle with no hair or teeth just happens to have a trace of stubble, we're in luck. We'll name him "Don Johnson." anymore. Hubby refuses to even discuss names until we are in the 1 abor room. He says that there's strategy behind it. He claims that I am more willing to compromise on a name when I'm in labor. Who cares what the baby gets called at that point? I'd agree to the name Bozo in the middle of a hard contraction. I'll be trying to remember the breathing techniques I learned in LaMaze class and trying not to hyperventilate while hubby is pouring through a pile of telephone books for a name that sounds good with Johnson. (There are just some names that you do not put with Johnson . . . like Howard, Lyndon B. or Jeremiah.) Hubby and I are from large families and it is a real trick, trying to come up with a cute name that hasn't already been used. We always like the biblical names. Unfortunately so did the rest of the family and the only ones that haven't been used are Ezekiel, Nehemiah and Moses. And because the name Johnson is the second most common name in the United States, it won't matter what we name the baby, we can rest assured that there are at least mmmmm- ii wntcum by BECKI GRASS JOHNSON Sometimes parents feel that they have to carry on the names of all the grandparents. These are usually given as middle names so that no one has to hear them. (One of the easiest ways to make a person wince is to ask them what their ..middle name is.) It has done me little good to select a name before the baby comes. I'll find a name that sounds wonderful, but after a few months the name doesn't sound all that great Lehi doesn't have to be smut center Without ever seeking the distinction, Lehi City has become the last community in Utah County where adult magazines can be bought over the counter at your or-dinary, every day convenience store. As the site of Utah Valley's only Circle K store, the city has also become the valley's smut center. The title fell to Lehi recently when Southland Cor-poration's stores decided to pull the adult magazines from the behind-the-count- er magazine racks. While the stores in Orem and Provo had stopped carrying the adult titles after reaching an agreement with city officials, other stores in the county still sold Penthouse and Playboy magazines to adult customers who requested it -- - until the company made the decision to drop the magazines in all its stores. That leaves Lehi's lone Circle K as the main distributor of adult magazines in the county, and the store does a lot of business. According to company records, 450 copies of Pen-thouse magazine are sold in the Lehi store each month. While Penthouse is the store's best seller, six other sex-orient-magazines enjoy comparable sales. In other words, close to 3,000 adult magazines are sold each month from that one small store - that's more than one for every household in Lehi. Of course, not all of the purchasers of the magazines are Lehi residents. In fact, most of them come from other Utah County communities where the sexually explicit material is not available. That makes a lot of Lehi residents uncomfortable, and with good reason. The type of material found in Pen-thouse and magazines of its ilk is not consistent with the standards Lehi residents set for their community. To most, it is offensive, degrading and possibly dangerous. Exposure to such sexual explicit magazines contributes to a variety of societal ills, such as child sexual abuse. It's no wonder the other communities of Utah County have worked to drive the influence out of their city limits. Now Lehi City officials must work to do the same. Circle K officials say a simple ordinance prohibiting the sale of the magazines would be sufficient to stop the sale of the magazines. And that's one option for Lehi City. But such ordinances have been ruled time and time again, and the city doesn't want to fight that expensive battle again. The city could negotiate with Circle K to take the material out of the Lehi store, if the corporation is willing. That would be the preferred method of ap-proaching the problem. However, in setting it's policy regarding the sale of the magazines, the company argues that individuals have a right to their own opinions and set of values, and that limiting access to adult magazines is comparable to limiting access to any kind of written material, good and bad. That really isn't the case. By withdrawing the material from the Circle K store, the corporation would be upholding community's standards. They would not limit anyone's access to adult magazines, since the material is readily available in Salt Lake City stores. True, the buyers will have to travel a little further to make their purchase. But at least they won't be traveling to Lehi to do it. In return, Lehi residents should be willing to show increased support for the business, since Circle K would be giving up thousands of dollars of monthly net income by refusing to sell questionable material. But Lehi would be gaining a great deal. The city would not have the infamous honor of being Utah County's last source of sexually explicit literature. That's worth the cost. r letters to y the editor J Home delivery is for pizza and I have made, knowing we have done everything possible to insure the safe delivery of our children. The best way I can summarize my feelings about home delivery is by sharing with you a well phrased bumper sticker "Home Delivery is For Pizza." You are right, I did criticize a little, but then no one is perfect. Sorensen Pleasant Grove Editor: During the past few weeks I have followed the editorials concerning what started out to be a doctor's concerns about the trend of home delivery and has since become a discussion on the evils of abortion. My experience with Pleasant Grove Ambulance Association for the past four years has shown me that apparently home birth must be reasonably safe due to the limited number of calls due to com-plications at birth. The major problem I have seen in the calls I have responded to is the lack of training of the individuals present at the birth. CP. R. is a skill that is relatively easy to learn, and for someone who is responsible for, or is attempting to bring a newslife into this world, C.P.R. should be as essential as knowing how to boil water, cut an umbilical cord or collect the modest fee charged for such services. In my opinion basic C.P.R. skills would have saved the lives of two of the infants I have responded to. I didn't write this letter to criticize those who elect to have , their babies at home or to condone abortion. We have our free agency to choose between either of these choices but we also must accept the responsibility for these decisions. In my personal experience two of my four children would not have survived home delivery. I feel very good about the decisions my wife Pleasant Qkoue ffietmui ISSN No. U.S.P.S. 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