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Show I (' . ' Summer unforgettable with Uncle Tom he could not be late for ,Pdee it was the only way sacrarw That is when j p.g. blab By v ' MABXELLA jA WALKER , church? H' morningandintheeveni?: talk to that ma? that he had beer!?0VfS ' himself and had tried to "8' over the rocks as a shortly found himself in the hft' I position that we found him I have often wondered wl"; f have happened if we hadw f M the canyon that day i stopped in that particular!,6 hli I Uncle Tom had not been?' that young man back 1 i ledge. up o; j I will never forget how Un, c barked out orders to r i forcing him to try sometrl f scary, in order to save hirS 1 a fall which would have s death. Uncle Tom minced no worHt r told the youth what would L? fl he did not get himself back? truth might have been bruhu waswhatwas needed to eel u to safety. It worked. That was the kind of man Tom was. He was kind n '' helpful. He was what all'th, law stands for. He saved a b'. day. I know he did. But, then, it was all in a H,, I for Uncle Tom. !s makeit through this ordeal. After a lot of hollering, ordering Uncle Tom, and fear, the boys by was able to get himself back up onto thdegeTom had sent his co workers from the cave or Forest Rangers to climb up above the man-o-the brow of the hill. The men had to go quite a way up the canyon and hen double back to the man They ropes down but the ledge ES was on was back in too far and he could not reach the ropes- - Tom and the police officers theUn Sent for the BYU moun-ainclimbi-team. It was getting dark when these people arrived and their ascent to the stranded began man. They went up the face of the diff, step by step bj driving ; theu-piton-or whatever they are called, into the rock. After dark, with the police spotlight shining on the cliffs, they the man down in a were able to lower basket-lik- e contraption. Safely, he touched the ground after several hours of an unbelieveable ordeal. Uncle Tom gave a good lecture on the importance of never hiking or mountain climbing alone I will always remember his good advice. Before the youth was lowered to the ground, we left so that we would Tom Walker passed away last week. Many remember him as the superintendent at Timpanogos Cave for 27 years. He loved nature, scouting, and working for the Parks Service. At his funeral, as family members and friends, recalled experiences they had had with Uncle Tom, my mind went back to an incident which happened about 27 years ago. It was a Sunday afternoon in the summer. We had been for a drive up American Fork Canyon, one of our most favorite places. As we came down the canyon, my husband stopped occasionally to look down into his favorite fishing holes, just to see if anything was moving around. As we stopped at one spot, and got down near the water, away from the traffic on the road, we could hear someone yelling, "Help"! We looked all around and then up in the cliffs, high above, we could see someone hanging by his hands from a ledge. Beneath him were gigantic, jagged boulders. Sure death if he fell. We yelled to the man to hold on and we would go for help. We were just a ways up the canyon from the Cave Trail. We set out to find Uncle Tom. As soon as we told him the situation, he was on his feet, for equipment and asKing gis wS notify the highway patrol nr sheriff's office. When he arrived at the spot, and we had a" mossed the river so that we could see and hear the man in the that it would be to him and told him could get to some time before they meantime he would have him. In the to help himself. He then told the man, who turned out to be a youth from Lehi, that he would have to get back up onto that ledge that he was holding to. The youth was afraid but Uncle Tom told uncertain terms that he him in no had to get himself back up onto that Q (Snmm&mt ) Review - Wednesday, January 21, 1987 - Page 2 People, Politics and Policy in PI. Grove By K. MARK BEZZANT While .people in Pleasant Grove are going about their daily business, state legislators are in a panic trying to hammer out a budget. Over in Proo, county com-missioners are doing the same as they reexamine the budget in hopes of avoiding a six mill increase in your county property taxes. Last week county Republican leaders were briefed by representatives of these two bodies and there was some give and take, during a question and answer period. It would be presumptuous to try to report on the whole m eeting in such a short space but there were without question some clear messages given. From the legislator's point of view the message seemed clear. State revenue is going down. No, it isn't going up slowly, it is going down, and hence the tax increase the government is proposing. Second, economic growth is the answer in providing new jobs and revenue for the state. That raises the dilema, even the big dilema. Do you cut, and I mean cut government services, or do you raise taxes? Senator Paul Rogers gave some pointed examples. Suppose for example you cut highway funds and allow the roads to fall in further disrepair. It is pretty hard to at-tract industry and tourists to the state if the-- ' find our highways the shambles. When companies are looking to locate, one of the keys is the type of education they and their employee's children will get. He said that when the governor proposed cutting kindergarten, it sent a negative wave that you could not believe. On the other hand, you' can increase taxes. The governor said that he needed 500 million but he only asked for a little over 200 million. Not many businesses are anxious to have their taxes raised. There are some. That is not a misprint. During briefings some businesses supported tax increases for specific types of education, noting that without an educated population their business would not survive. So what did the people have to say to all of this? This did not waste a minute, expressing their views to the representatives. One fellow rose and was very angry. He said that he had a video on what another state had done to cope and that the governor would not even listen to him or view the tape. The legislators were not so reluctant! During a straw vote taken I would say that at least half of the Republicans at the meeting voted for no tax increase! The message I saw in that vote was that many of them and their neighbors had taken wage cuts and lost their jobs and it wouldn't hurt the state to do the same. In other words forget the image of the state and face the same reality others have had to face. A much smaller block of people voted to continue cutting and reforming government and also raise taxes. At this point, it looks from all indications, that, along with percentage cuts in state government, you will see programs being eliminated at the state level. And what about the county situation? I will save that for another article or you would be as mad as the county workers who are facing possible cuts, so that you won't have your county taxes go up by 30 percent. Now that would be a hard one to swallow! That 30 per-cent would be on top of any state tax increase. What you will find on the state level is a compromise. Most of the money will go to help the kids in school. I mean your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Beware of Richard Burton Ghomboo grassroots f U r i :....S.V.J Copyright L;i986 Becky Grass Johnson or an invitation to the movies. It seems to be triggered by things like a pending geometry test, a grouchy substitute teacher, Mondays, or a bully on the playground. Sometimes, something as simple as beef stew on the cafeteria menu can inflict a severe case of R.B. Ghomboo. There are some things a parent can do to confirm a case of the Richard Burton Ghomboo. If the afflicted offspring happens to be under the age of 13, stand in another room within earshot of your child and rattle a Snickers bar wrapper. If the child charges into the room to investigate what it is you're munching, you can bet that he has the R.B. Ghomboo. If your child is thirteen simply pick up the phone & 18 something about what a Ja shame it is to have to canj surprise tickets to Lionel f 19 When you suddenly hearscr th anguish from under their y se instead of a few moans, you'lit G( they've got the Ghomboo. Ac Parents have witnessed t W spectacular performances pK who have the Richard E:""6,! Ghomboo. If you suspect , child might be afflicted, k , minister aspirin. Don't call a if Don't call the school to enrol: drama. er' The cure is simple. Watch!:. miraculous recovery after fe ," the sound of the school bus !" 'her away. inc. This is a warning to all parents. There is a strange illness going around this time of year. It is more common than the cold and more contagious than chicken pox. It is called the Richard Burton Ghomboo. I call it the Richard Burton Ghomboo because it requires a display of incredible dramatic ability. It usually strikes kids from kindergarten to Jr. High, although I've heard of a few seniors who have been afflicted with this strange ailment. The first indication that your child may have the Richard Burton Ghomboo is if your child's bed covers fly up over his head the minute you flip on the bedroom light in the morning. This will be ac-companied by a series of moans and groans which are emitted from under the pillow. The second sure sign of the Richard Burton Ghomboo is intense pain. It won't matter where you touch your child, he'll hurt. , Poke, poke. "Does it hurt here?" "Ooh, yes. Yes it does." ; "How about over here? " "Ooh, ow! Oh, ya . . . it really hurts there!" "What about . . ." "YEOW!!!" The Richard Burton Ghomboo has some unusual symptoms. Here are a few things that you'll want to watch for: Your child will feel shaky, dizzy and weak. He may feel feverish or chilled. He will complain of a buz-zing in his head and a ringing in his by BECKI GRASS JOHNSON ears. His stomach hurts. His nose is stuffed or runny and his back will itch. His toenails and earlobes ache. He will start going blind in one eye and will see pink spots out of the other. His tongue will swell and there may or may not be a discoloration around the belly button. Delirium sets in and he'll say that if he stands up, he'll throw up. All this is accompanied by coughing, sneezing, whining and wheezing. The final tip off is when he requests one last bite of pizza in case he dies. You'll notice that the Richard Burton Ghomboo appears to be highly contagious. After one of your children has it, others will soon begin complaining of the same weird symptoms. I have observed that this sickness never strikes on Saturdays, holidays or vacation. No one has ever come down with the R.B. Ghomboo on a day when there was a party to attend the LindonCity s Council to meet Lindon City Council will meet in regular session on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 7 p.m. in the council room of the City Hall, 383 W. 300 North. The public is invited to attend. The agenda includes the 1985-8- 6 audit report by Jess Johnson -- Wiggins and Co.; a report from Dave Thurgood on water rates for the city and report on a secondary water system; adoption of an or-dinance to comply with the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control; and approval i'i binding commitments forTp grant. A The Redevelopment Age also give approval of legal;? ' commitments for the UDAG: The city administrator; will be given along with the and councilmen's reports. T:; be allowed then for the p. J1"1 address the council. : An executive session K personnel matters will than ov . ...A .. i t t X " . ' i -''' : . p-T.- .. I ' ' - I rant Fowler, Streets and Roads Superintendent in Pleasant Grove, talks with crews on his new radio which will give Pleasant Grove City better communication with its workers than its ever had before. City employees to communicate by radio Frank Mills, Pleasant Grove Public Works Director, announced today that the city has acquired new high frequency band radios for the employees in the department. A radio has been assigned to each employee and this will make it possible for the city to have the best communication it has ever had. The Police Department has had the high band radios for some time. Mills said they chose to assign a radio to each man rather than put them in the vehicles because none of the vehicles are all in service at the same time and the radios would be of no value sitting in an unused vehicle. This way, too, the employee can respond as soon as he is contacted rather than having to stop what he is doing and return to the truck to talk on the radio. Mills noted that the high frequency band is more versatile and will cover all over town or even all through the county. This will provide the city with communication abilities that it never has had before. The radios will make it possible to have better coordination between the city crews also. Mills said that employees will be notified by phone when they need to be called out after hours but then they can use their radio to communicate any messages to even before they leave the house. The old low frequency band radios will be turned over to the Fire Department, Mills added. This will give the Fire Departmentt a channel almost all to themselves. The new radios cost about $7,000, including the base station at the repeater on the hill. The city budgeted for the radios this year, Mills explained. They are testing the radios now and they should be in use by the end of the week. Tom Walker, long-tim-e supt. of Timp Cave, dies at age 83 ftiin : I x y I '' i 1 ld Allen, instilled their love a rr canyon, of scouting and munity servide in their sixi'JJI Thomas Alan Walker, J Gordon Lee Walker, 1 tains; Mrs. Roger T. Sni Fuller, Lakewood, Colo.; Vrtei Walker, Vernal; ArnellKa)"1 Soda Springs, Idaho; Mr irte' (Catherine) Shenod, hiu ur British Columbia. hls They also have 20 gran: J1' and 20 r jr1! He is also survived by Hi", and two brothers. Mm''1 " Kaysville; J. II. Fails; Emma Munsoii.t'L-Moyl- e, Alpine; lion I' Pasadena, Calif. Thomas A. Walker, area native and long time superintendent of Timpanogos Cave National Monument, died Jan. 15 in a Provo hospital at the age of 83. Walker was "Mr. Timpanogos" to many, having been connected with the National Park in some official capacity from 1924 to his retirement from the Parks Service in 1969, and prior to that when exploring the area as a youth. At the time of his retirement he received a citation from the Department of Interior for "meritorious service and important contributions to the field of park administration, particularly in its relationship to community affairs." A certificate accompanying the citation said although it is the National Park Service practice to transfer field employees from time to time for the benefit of the National, Park Service and the employees,, Walker was an exception "because his knowledge of the area and the key part he played in it's planning and development could never be matched; his position in the com-munity, attained through his many years of work with the Boy Scouts and Red Cross and civic organizations, could not have been regained; and also, his weather and snow surveys for the U.S. Weather Bureau and Soil Conservation Service, gathered through ski patrols and snowpack measurements in the high country, made him especially valuable to these agencies." He was a guide to the area in 1924, working on weekends while at-tending Utah State University to study forestry, then began work at the Monument under the Forest Service in 1934. opening the visitors center at the base of the cave trail in 1966. On one occasion he jokingly recalled one of the "silliest yet not infrequent questions" put to him and other park guides was, "How many undiscovered caves are there in the area?" Born and raised in Pleasant Grove, he first explored the Cave as a Boy Scout, becoming fascinated with the area and its many beauties at that time. For many years, he operated a reporting station for the US Weather Bureau and took snow surveys for the Soil Conservation Serv.ce. He was one of nine recipients of the services' Jefferson Award. Even after his retirement, he kept a weather gauge in his backyard and could give you the amount of moisture that has fallen in any one period. His love for the canyon was matched by his love for scouting and what it could do for boys. He had been a scout or scout PahSraSn;.eCeiVine hiS Ic w'u awarded the Silver Beaver award. He was his four proud tl, a sons, all of his grandsons who were old enough, and grandsons-by-marriag- e thr ee tamed the Eagle rank had Jt" yearsWaaSnda man counselor Dur nB .1 T''" bad nature to them 8 love of k'? - Thomas A. Walker When the Park Service took over the area in July of that year, he was appointed as Acting Custodian by the National Park Servide and served under the sponsorship of the Timpanogos Cave Committee for 10 years. After serving as Ranger-in-charg- e at Bryce and Zions Canyon for years, he returned to Timpanogos Cave National Monument as Superintendent He served in this capacity from Dec l 1946 until his retirement ' When he became cave custodian only the Timpanogos Cave was open and the trail entrance was a half! mile below its present site. Later the Middle and Hansen caves were opened, joined by a man-mad- e tunnel. He was involved in developing and pleasant Ckuuc M ISSN No. 8755-90- "x1 U.S.P.S. 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