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Show leview - V comment rffS, city post bvacomrrm-Lueu- i . v... tome nc Vfofselecting cit Lake newspapers as Pvpcutive session to discuss the merits of the rt; "ern for th nee it would not be es. That's legal, -- i app; of d.fferent applicants the personaht.es in an 0pen chase th The net result of how the selection was made .Anowmobil 'illthem,: unsatistactoiy- - True, this is an appointed position, and the , ieer S appoint whomever he wants for the job - with orwhen sor committee or a meeting. That s one of nr a the thin they 6vi"ood, they him to do. mergy.Th ;o eat in tl However, when this type ot major appointmenti. The de almost clandestine fashion, it is bound to stir up u,ee hill in of the citizenry, who feel strongly about their right- -e; ngt the business of the city is conducted. A more open selection process would better Serv(l residents of American Fork and the City Council. ) ft heJ0b was advertised in the wnich the ad d a "blind" ad, that means the newspapers, P0Sit'n' nnForkfromknowing Italsopreventedthepeople was o be f households in that the position ntofthe abou v especially true since only Lake newspaper. American Fork subscribe to a St d Usually openings for nPew police chiefand a new Used. When the city ymei without the secrecy librarian, it was done new Director of City Services post. theywere screened After the appl i how do it that can Sometimes it's not what you do, but you controversy. And American Fork Cty offers a good B,erate a nev. example this week about how to not go about selecting person to fill a key city position. officials decided last June to reorganize the cty depart ments" and to appoint a Director of City Services. Ih.s would ae and the individual hired a new position in city government, would be in charge of four city departments " tnPnee""& Streets and Roads, Sewer and Water and a new Physical 1 acui-ties department. that the move was a good one, Most of the city council agreed and council members voted four to one to implement the new " Andhatwas the last most people in American Fork heard of the proposal, until this week, when the appointment of the new Director of City Services was listed as an agenda item for Tuesday night's City Council meeting. Police Investigation" n any ui l Pleasant Grove Police have re-sponded to several more auto bur-glary reports in the past week, according to police sources Craig Veenker reported that someone had done $100 damage to the interior of his vehicle on Jan. 3 while it was parked on the drag strip at Pleasant Grove High School. Tina Anderson told police that 50 cassette tapes and tape boxes had been taken from her car while it was parked in her driveway. There was also damage to a rear left wing window of her car where entry was made. The items taken and the window were valued at $735. Brent Astrope, Pleasant Grove, reported that his rear right wing window had been broken and 24 cassette tapes and a tape box had been taken with a total valued of $475. His car was parked across the street from his home when the theft occurred. Barbara Giles, Heber, told offi-cers that while she was stopped at DanD3es Cafe in Lindon to get something to eat someone had broken the wing window of her car van and had taken binoculars val-ued at $80. Ruth Nehring reported that an eel skin purse valued at $150, an eel skin wallet valued at $50 and $56 in cash had been taken from her locked car while it was parked in her driveway. Police have arrested a female for DUI at 300 E. 30C South in Pleasant Grove. Kristin A. Rose, Pleasant Grove Agmwalkingto, In the that a man expoeved re. near 700 E. and herald She hurried to oman wi house after she parking walked away buiV;.-m- . whei cated by police. HejSask cam the girl told police "iade her Pleasant Grow She wa arrested a to charged $73 worttie man a Smith Bros. Marlrasn,t su ant Grove Fifth ' Hedr0' Ward leaders r&twhere woman was not ini'. er he w? Kaye L.Bone ? u.ontl reported thatm. Plerp0 the windshield of th- T V night of Jan. 6. He I jl p&cts Officers havek,!ontim high property dc"1!1.1!0 dents the past wed' 3 A one-ca- r accife iayav Jan. 6 at 1100 N.r6,1 driven by KathrpC,? en was eastbound w. . e oene when it slid on tti:'Dart-ti- r went off the right 6 yj halfway around r.:)ouse t again with the rer:vorn'st vehicle. )Veredi There was $l,2Cfe Empl( car and $200 damage "sing Another onz a, pay f0 i curred on Jan. 5 a: i Tne s I South when a ve:i 5u qUit i JoAnn Thomai, fc:lVe to 1 around a curveii's Mayo driver lostconhwlttias tim snow and hit a Mr the ) There was $l,Kikist agr car The 1 Anaccidentmv th lu"e1uuu:. yed u East. A carte : Lindseywastrave::idare South and stopped ;.:'g add; turn onto 700 East m wjj Another car, ,ring Hansen, was easts:: dg South and tried to nd m Lindsey car but g be which pushed it ir.tf: orize, car driven by Pair.e.s-- C0I Damage to listed at $6,000. Tteck. damage to the Jensen App $500 damage to the h'e roa There were no inking a at $200. An employee at Alpine Valley Care Center, Rose had left her watch in her coat in the laundry room at the center. There are no suspects. Electronic Chassis Corp. of Lin-don and Deverl Byington reported that 400 to 500 pounds of scrap aluminum and parts valued at $350 had been taken from a bin at the plant. There are possible suspects. Stanley J. Rosencrans, Juneau, Alaska, reported the theft of a 1979 Honda Accord valued at $2,000 while it was parked at Frontier Cafe in Lindon. Rosencrans told officers that he had picked up a hitchhiker in Salt Lake City. They had stopped at the Frontier and after several hours, the hitchhiker, known only as Paul, went out to put his backpack in the car. The driver gave him the keys to unlock the car. After about 20 minutes, when the man did not return, Rosencrans checked up on him and found that his car was gone. pet. Cody Cullimore said that a bulletin had been sent out on the vehicle but it has not been located yet. L Democrats look for new symbol - necarpl " I st-- where your liberal buddies in the Utah Democratic Party are looking for a new symbol," Crumble said with a gleam in his rye. He can't resist taking a free shot when he gets a chance. So what's wrong? I asked. Are they trying to abandon the tradi-tional donkey? "Not a donkey, a chicken." A chicken? Since when has the chicken been a Democratic symbol? "Well, not really a chicken, but a rooster. And it's not a national symbol, but one chosen by the state Democratic officials. Don't you ever look at the ballot when you vote?" Sure. I read the names. I read the initiatives. But I just assumed there was a donkey there for the Democrats and an elephant for the Republicans. "Well, go back in your paper and look at the sample ballots you pub-lished, and you'll find a 100 per-cent, Grade A chicken at the top of the ballot where it says 'Democrat.' Oh, it may look like a rooster, but after all, a rooster's just a male chicken." Then what symbol do you Utah Republicans have? "Why, an eagle, of course," Grumble gloated. "Yessir, the bald eagle, the national symbol, that most noble predator of rodents and roosters. No wonder we keep clean-ing up each election. An eagle in-spires so much more confidence than a rooster." But where did the Democrats come up with a rooster as the state the editor's column By MARC HADDOCK symbol? "That's a good question, but I doubt any one can answer it. Utah's Democratic chicken dates back far enough that no one still in the party in Utah can remember how it started. "Maybe it came with the cam-paign slogan, 'A chicken in every pot.' Times were tough during the Depression, and Utah Democrats may have opted for a chicken on every ballot. "And some of your Democratic friends apparently like the rooster the early bird of the morning and all that stuff. But I don't think he can compete with the national symbol. So where did the Republican eagle come from? "Who knows and who cares What better way to demonstrate your patriotism than to use the national bird as your party sym-bol." I'm not so sure, Grumble. It may have been more appropriate if Ben Franklin had had his way and the turkey had been made the national bird. "That would have been fine. Then the Republicans would be identified with the bird of Thanks-giving, and the Democrats would still be stuck with Foghorn Leg-horn," Grumble chuckled. So, I asked, if the Democrats are throwing over the noble rooster, what animal do they propose to take its place? "Why, the donkey, ofcourse. But not a docile donkey. Utah Demo-crats want a feisty donkey with its ears up and its tail up. You'd think the Democrats would know what it means when a donkey puts its tail up." Yea, that sounds pretty asinine to me. After all, a feisty donkey would just look noisy, and stub-born, and messy. "How appropriate," Grumble chortled. No word from the Republicans about a similar change, I suppose. "Not on your life," Grumble smirked with satisfaction. "Who wants to be associated with an overweight, smelly pachyderm that isn't even native to this conti-nent when you can tie your image the eagle. After all the and the elephant were "mages dreamed up by political cartoonists, not by the parties themselves. It's so much better to pick what you want to be known as, don't you think?" So how did the Utah Republi-cans end up with the eagle? "Why, they picked first, ot course." ., I still don't understand, I said. Why a rooster? There are very few ennobling features about the bird. Even the fighting roosters I saw m Mexico, while they were beautiful, looked vicious rather than noble. And now they want to switch to a donkey? I would think the last thing Utah Democrats would want is to be associated with the national Democrats, who most Utahns iden-tify with high taxes and libertine lifestyles. "But Utah Democrats don't understand that. If they did, they would change their symbol and their party name. Then maybe a couple would get elected." Change them to what? "Why, the eagle and Republican, of course that's the only way to get elected in Utah. "Of course, those Democrats do have another option. They could pick a symbol that more clearly typifies the Democratic part in Utah." Oh, yea? Like what? "Oh, the June sucker, maybe. It doesn't really matter, as long as it's on the list of endangered species." Memories of Elvis linger on after birthday By MARCELLA WALKER Sunday was Elvis Presley's birthday. He would have been 54. Although I am not one of those Elvis devotees who would scream and yell when he sang, nor would I become involved in all this Elvis worship that has evolved since he died, I did enjoy watching and lis-tening to the man. Back in the 1950's when he was justbecomingpopular, Ithoughthe was really terrific stuff. I would watch him every time he was on the old Ed Sullivan Show. As I sat there with my eyesglued to the TV, my mother would come in and say that she didn't think it was good for me to watch someone who moved their hips that way. I liked the way he moved his hips. I liked the way he moved his lips, too. I loved all of his songs and would listen to him every chance I got. My friends and I would see all of his movies and, even though the critics said if you'd seen one Elvis movie you had seen them all, we didn't care. Now when I see those old movies on TV, I still enjoy them, but I can see what the critics were talking about. They all have basically the same plot with just different names and faces. The movies were a good vehicle for his songs and we did love his p.ff. blab x: songs. I have a cousin who is the same age as Elvis. He really liked him too, and in fact, he kind of looked like him. When we got together we spent a lot of time talking about and listening to Elvis. It is interesting that when Elvis died we had just returned from Missouri and a visit to this cousin of mine. I cannot understand all this hullabaloo about Elvis still being alive. That is ridiculous. I guess it does sell a lot of scan-dal sheets, though. And I suppose it gives the Elvis worshippers something to cling to. Poor guy, he cannot even rest in peace. My mom did get to see Graceland one time when she was back there visiting her sister. She didn't go in but they saw it from outside. She said there is always a crowd there. I felt very badly when he died, though. He seemed so young. (After all, two years older than me is not very old, even now.) It seemed such a waste that a fine talent, and he did have a very listenable voice, should go down as a result of drugs and heart prob-lems. And his life was not all that happy, it seems. He was divorced from his lovely wife who had made all of us jealous when he married her in the first place. His life was run by people who were probably more interested in their own gain rather than doing what was best for the performer. There was a special on PBS a while back about Elvis. It was mostly filmed at one concert but there were some excerpts from other shows, too. Elvis sang so many great songs in this special. The audience was up close and he mingled with them. The women sighed and some screamed and he lapped it up. He got that sexy grin on his face and laid it on even a little thicker I found that I was almost breathless myself, just watching him. As the concert continued, he had sweat running down his face and chest. He was putting a lot into the performance. It was not all a bowl of cherries. He wore that white one-piec- e . outfit he wore so often which had silver studs on it. There are laces down the front which are held in place with more silver studs. The laces come undone and soon his chest is revealed pretty far down. Wow! That was all part of the Elvis image, along with the longish black hair, the little piece that came down onto his forehead as he sang and his boots. Sometimes he sang and played his guitar, sometimes he sang without it and as he would almost kiss the microphone because it was so close to his lips, it kind of did tunny things to your insides He sang so many wonderful songs. He was kind of like Niel Diamond m that he could make myally "eat sounds in his carried all the women Awa.y, ' Elvis is gone but his memory hngers on and so dohis songs. They wi l never die and "Love Me Ten dfdwTi Ulways Eleven like it we were just young. Happy 54th Elvis, wherever you pleasant (Srow'p ISSN No.E'&j u.s.p.s.No.tf' r Published' , for tt- -V 1 and Christmas bJ KJl Pleasant GroK, Telepho ' Advertising 4 1 Ne All Publisher . Edi,ors Th( Subscription priFre Second class pftme atPleasa.hav District to name new president Oneofthefirst items of business at the Alpine School District Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 10, was to be the election of new officers. The five member group was scheduled to elect a new president and vice president. Mrs. Jan lewis ofOrem has been serving as president for the past two years, with Richard Gappmayer, alsoof Orem, carrying out the duties of vice president during the past year. Tuesdays' meeting was held at board headquarters in American Fork, and included a "Public Op portunity to Address the Board" near the beginning of the session. Other action on the agenda in- cluded approving the seventh-grad- e Quest Program, the secon-dary ACE Curriculum (foreign peCrrneflEmplyment"f0istrict Discussion items include Policy on "Copyright Laws the eir mm - A s - J(O) ' Intensive Cail(1 x- -..' Trt Automotive Repair & Painting Si Hartsl U -- FREE Estimate s 3 .Foreign & Domlf mtmmJ"k'sl "Insurance Work M ' p'ofessionai,tm Unibodv Frame ? -- Quality Faint Wi. jr ay ,ai ' "uJZZ3 .Ono Year Writ"'" ( Quality Care Worth Finding Fersonal Service IC sr ur. DeR Greene ;d 'IIAWNU n Ctfs 880 No. 100 East, Lehi 768-35- - i b "bw tt"u a P0"cy on the & leBis'ative update High tech courses now offered High schools in Alpine School District have initiated new tech-nology courses which have been designed and adopted by the Utah State Department of Education (Vocational) and the Utah State Board for Vocational Education. Neil Christensen, Alpine Dis-trict h Director, said the district is pursuing a commitment to better prepare students for the requirements of high-tec- h which are jobs emerging in the workplace. American Fork High School is in its second year of instruction in the course "Principles of Technology," said, with Mountain View High r.uo initiating the program this year. Principles of Technology (POT is a two-yea- r course in applied sci- ence that teaches technical prin- ciples, concepts, science and mathematical skills through hands-o- n laboratory exoe riences. It can best be described applied physics course ChwT tensen said, with learning experi" ences in mechnical fluid tu for Ifl sTuTl are Amended consider the technology mvolved in today's busi ness and industry but tU Particularly w"h |
