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Show 6 THE PAYSON CHRONICLE Thursday, February 3, 1972 by B. Davis Evans better chance of losing his or her cool when alone with a member of the opposite sex than a Dear Reader: The typical teen has to get his kicks from somewhere; everyone of them will do his thing whether we want them to or not. There are and always have been those who havent learned that theres a difference in boys and girls until theyre sophomore in college, and then theres those who notice the difference in the eighth grade. So the tiling Im endeavoring to say is that the parent of the bookworm or the slow starter cant write therules or laydown blanket laws for us all. One parent might say: I dont worry about my teenager. I trust him. He was out till 1 a.m., recently with his boy friends. They were playing monopoly. I didnt worry in the least. Why should she worry? The worst thing that could happen to him would be his losing a couple thousand imaginary dollars. But, the mother whose kid hates monopoly whose kid can take the books or leave them alone; whose kid starts dating early regardless of warnings; whose kid might be found in the back seat of a car in a drive-i- n movie with someone of the opposite sex, is a mother who finds she has a horse with a different collar, I mean ahorse of a different color. Regardless of training, ideals etc. etc., a 16 year old has a lot SAVE PARKING PROBLEMS Bus service will be available to TEMPLE DEDICATION for both afternoon evening - and $1.00 per person. Call Utah 465-285- 2 Valley Transit Between the Headlines By Shirtene R. Otteaen Hello everyone! Well, today Im in a reminiscing mood. We attended funeral services on Saturday for Aunt Emma Halverson and remembering her life brought back so many memories. I first became acquainted with her because she was one of Grandma Roachs best friends. They lived neighbors to each other when Halversons lived in Palmyra. I remember Grandma Roach telling me that she and Aunt Emma and Ella kid playing monopoly with one of the same sex. If you haven't got the gist of what Im trying to say, Ill put it another way: Parents dont really' know how lucky they are when they have slow starting children. We are indeed a fortunate people in having a missionary system such as ours and how fortunate we are when we can get our boys safely through their 18th, 19th year; especially those early starters. I understand they usually make the best missionaries. When a child arrives to adult-hoo- l, in this modern generation, without getting caught up in the whirl of the times, a parent can proudly hold his head high and Hallelujah! I made cry out: 17th, it! shudder to think of gambling houses coming our way to mislead our young, but we now have institutions worse than We The Milano Film Festival, MIFED, awarded its 1971 Gug-lieh- Marconi award tothe a gambling house all about us; they are these Drive in Theatres or Passion Pits. Your kids are gambling with something more than money when they enter one of them. We are told that one picture is worth a thousand words; a kid can learn more of the things he shouldnt know in one sitting at a drive-i- n than he can learn of what he should know in a thousand Sunday School classes. These places are a curse to modern civilization. They are legalized parking spots. Ive long since stopped attending them, not only because of the crumby movies that are floodbut ing the market lately, because I kept getting more interested in the show in the the car next door than the show on the big outdoor screen. Modern music and dancing trends are also traps to snare the young. I saw the handwriting on the wall many years ago when young people came to a dance and danced with the same partner all evening. I imagine one can get mighty familiar dancing with the same person for a couple or three hours; they dont last that long; they the floor gets leave and empty long before quitting time, and now there snot much beauty left to modern dancing. A boy wiggles here and the girls wig- gles over there. A stag can get onto the dance floor and start wiggling and no one could ever er together itself! RA Expeditions shown in no ex- citing documentary adventure The RA Expeditions. film, The film, an account of explorer Thor Heyerdahls two historic crossings of the Atlantic Ocean in boats made of papyrus reeds like those used by ancient men two thousand years before Columbus, will be shown at the Huish Show House Feb. 6 and at the Arch Theatre Feb. 7 and 8. In addition to the MIFED award the film was also awarded a gold plate at the XXth wise that partner. get hes without a If we could just sneak some good music onto those kids and teach them to dance in a way thatsfun, teach them to have a different partner for at least half the time. It would be new conversation, new challanges, and a new simple way of solving a problem. We could also sneak dancing teachers in even though it cost money. Well, Ive discussed a few weakness in the establishment. Now whats to do about it? 1. Outlaw Drive in Theatres, or slap a tax on them that is so high they can't operate. 2. Get the youth back on the dance floor once a week; sneak a little good music in on them occasionally and teach them to dance even though we have to ship in instructors. I know there, are other more important, things to help the kids , but we have to start somewhere. qxp OsOOcsos area International competition for evploration films in Trento, Italy. Heyerdahl subjects are frequent prize winners. The author of three best-selli- books, ng u, and most recently, The RA Expeditions, has among many other awards received an Academy Award (Oscar) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science for the movie version of Kon-Ti- Aku-Ak- Kon-Tik- i. The present film deals with Heyerdahls theory that there may have been much more travel around the ancient world than most people currently realize and scientists believe possible. This same theory which caused him to build and sail the balsa raft, i, from South America to Polynesia in 1947 now has him building boats of papyrus reeds and sailing them across the open Atlantic. The papyrus reed and other similar reed varities have been used for boat building since ancient Egypt and are still being used for this purpose in such diverse places as Bolivias Lake Titicaca; Easter Island; Sonora, Mexico; Chad, Africa and the Greek Island of Corfu. Egyptian tomb drawings and funerary art from South America led Heyerdahl to believe that ancients built large reed boats with sophisticated steering and sailing systems which could have sailed the high seas.. His efforts to prove the theory have resulted in a highly exciting film which at the same time teaches us a good deal about the similarities among ancient cultures andgive us an interesting look at many of the lands where earliest civilization was born. The film was produced and directed by Lennart Ehrenborg of Swedish Broadcasting Corporation and is distributed by Interwest Film Corporation of Kon-Tik- Salt Lake City, Utah. It is suggested for family viewing and is for all but the entertaining youngest children. The Ra Expeditions, award winning film account of Thor Heyerdahls epic voyages in a paper boat from Africa to the Americas opens Sunday at the in Payson Huish for one day and will play at the Arch Theatre in Spanish Fork for two nights, Feb., 7 & 8. Performance will begin at 1:00, Show-Hou- 0OD O0CDS6 gCxIXDO se 5:00 7:00 and 9:00 p.m, 3:00, Payson and 5:00, 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. in Spanish Fork. The book version of The Ra Expeditions is currently high on the best-selllists. Heyerdahl, famous for his in er 03 OKDGll) 03 PD (05)b That's why they really try to keep things moving before a line gets to be a line. Or why they may work right into a lunch or coffee break if there is a line. Because our tellers feel customers should never be kept waiting. And no matter how busy they are, they keep smiling. If Because good service isn't good enough in front of the teller's window. there's a grouch behind it. P.S. As much as we'd like to think all our tellers are always perfect, they have their bad days, too. So if you happen to gat a grouch, try a little tenderness. If that doesn't work, grouch back. (We trust you'll find the appropriate words.) Utah County's Home Owned and Home Operated Bank! advenand tures, made the voyages with 8 other brave men, a monkey and a duck to prove that a boat made only of papyrus reeds and rope--- a copy of those used thousands of years ago could have carried Egyptians across the Atlantic to South America many Kon-Ti- Aku-A- ki centuries before Columbus. His first attempt, through howling storms and deadly calms, failed only 500 miles short of landfall when the boats stern section broke up and sank. His second attempt succeeded dramatically. Ra II sailed 3, 270 miles in 57 days from Safi, Morocoo to Barbados in the r cos bought a pressure cookand they would take turns using it through the summer putting up their winter supply of vegetables. When Grandma was in a reminiscing mood she would tell how they used to bring different families home with them for Sunday dinner. They would go to church and shed say, Alright, Emma, you and Tom and the kids come to our place for dinner today. They didnt plan things a week or two ahead - theyd just ask them at church. Then the next week Grandpa and Grandma and their kids would go to L.P. and Jane Thomases place or to Moneys, or Hansens or Banks, and others. All the kids in the families knew each other real well and had a lot of fun together and the ties that they made then are still there now. Today, there are many homes in our community that my children have never been in. The only time we go to some of the homes are to collect money for the various charity drives. And, really too bad, isnt it! I remember Grandma telling me once when Aunt Emmas son, Lyman had a button caught in his throat. Aunt Emma had tried to get it out and couldnt so she tucked him under her arm and ran up the road with him, and just as she crossed the bridge into Grandmas yard it became dislodged and fell out. She had him turned upside down and I guess all the bouncing up and down finally loos-senit. By the time she got to the bridge, he was pretty blue and Aunt Emma was quite shook up by the whole incident and was glad to go on to the the house and relax after such an experience. I remember going to her house several times either with Grandma or going there on an errand for Grandma and Aunt Emma would show me all the beautiful items of handwork she was doing. She was always busy making a gift for a birthday or Christmas or for a grandchilds wedding or graduation. She loved to be busy, and doing things Nieh-'- n Heavy seas sweep over the deck of RA II, nearly swamping a crewman. The boat rode so low that the stern was awash most of the time and barnacles began growing on the deck for others. She celebrated her 100th birthday on the 20th of December. And, up until the last few years, all of those 100 years had been and worthwhile productive years. She endeared herself to many friends and relatives and as President LeGrande Smith said of her Saturday, She was a grand lady! West Indies. Movie cameraman for the voyage was Kei Ohara of Japan, who shot from every conceivable angle aboard the craft as well as from a rubber dinghy. He managed to have his camera focused on every exciting detail of the voyage-rag- ing storms, the crisis of a broken steering oar, t gMrfifOL shenanigans, then final triumph. The Ra Expeditions" has been called the most incredible adventure film of all time. It received warm acclaim at the 1971 MIFED International Film Festival in Milan, Italy, where it was a winner in the documentary category. Rated G, The Ra Expeditions is the most exciting family entertainment to come this way in a long time. film was proThe duced and driected by Lennart Ehrenborg and distributed by Interwest Film Corp. MMe PLATES tc PARfMWJT, shipboard sharks cruising hungrily around the tiny craft, near disaster, X A GtafSfM gift FIR BOARP 3 piMertsttMM. OR wme STAVNCD AN varnished READY TO HANG ONLY. pluWL4SC237 North Main - Spanish Fork Each year throughout the year the task goes on. The task of removing Big Game road kills. The area of the heaviest mortality in the Spanish area is Spanish Fork Canyon. The number of animals killed each year inSpanish Fork Canyon varies with the year and weather conditions, but the number of Deer killed usually ranges around 100 to 125, Elk from 2 to 4 animals. The heaviest mortality usually occurs in the winter and spring with a few animals being killed through the remainder of the year. Most of the animals killed by cars and trucks are and unfit for human consumption, but a few are salvageable and these are salvaged and are given to institutions or needy families. Methods to prevent road kills have been and are being exper Fork-Pay-s- on badly-man-gle- on roads the imented with throughout state, but no completely effective method has been found to date, except new highway construction taking into account Big Game migration routes and adequate fencing funneling the game into areas safe to migrate across or under highways. These methods are being taken into consideration on some of our new highways, but on the old highways costs would be prohibitive, until new construction is planned. Spanish Fork Canyon is one of our older highways and it has many areas of heavy Deer concentration. Even with warning signs to watch for game on the highway and with the motorist being able to see Deer browsing along the edge The Division of Wildlife ' Re- source would like to encourage people traveling Utah, both motorists and truck drivers to be aware of the big game animals and to help us preserve them by taking the proper precautions. When in areas like Spanish Fork Canyon watch for animals on the high way and control your speed so that you will be able to stop in time to avoid a collision with the animals. Take into consideration that hitting these animals not only causes their waste, but causes expensive damage to your motor vehicle and could cause the death of the driver and his occupants. of the highway people continue to speed through the canyon causing the carnage we exper- ience each year. ed SNll FOR THE Howe, Sane silled its rowo Miwe Conservation Officer Dale Gurley removing roadkills in Spanish Fork Canyon. - 62.4-7- - BOHlfe S16MS FOR- - IMF. RiviGme TEMPLE This is TOUR litter that will never be an eyesore on a canyon help fill a trash dump. It is part of more than 10,000 pounds of tin cans put into the Geneva Works recycling system by Utah County residents. The cans are being loaded here for crushing and baling. Later they will be charged into a Geneva open hearth furnace to begin a new and useful steel tin can trail or even Personalty Escorted March 20 life. Murdock Travel, Inc. 14 South Mam Street Salt Ijke City, Utah Cans begin recycling trip mountain of used tin cans to 12 tons of them gathered in Utah County, began a recycling trip this week that will put them back into new life as useful products. The tin cans, collected through the cooperative efforts of Utah County citizens and organizations, were picked up this A 10 Pimm ntf ma Tempi ymr Tour Brochure effort, since no money was paid for cans brought to the on centers. week at Geneva Works. They will be crushed and baled at the Intermountain Steel & Supply Co., in Salt Lake City, and then returned to Geneva where they will be charged into one of the open hearth furnaces and begin a new life as useful steel pro- ducts. Efforts to collect the cans began late last summer with Geneva Works employees spearheading the drive that was part of a nationwide can collecting campaign by the steel industry. Four collection stations were established, and are still open, just outside the plant at the four main gates on the plant road. Employees brought cans from home. Cans used inside the plant were collected . The Timpanogos District of Federated Womens Clubs joined the metal collecting drive as did numerous other organizations throughout the Valley. A sizeable boost in the collection came from Brigham Young Universitys numerous kitchens. The steel industry headed the tin can collecting drive to do its part to reduce the volume of litter and solid waste and to preserve the supply of raw materials. Scrap steel is an important raw material going into the open hearth steelmaking furnaces. Plant officials said the volume of cans collected indicates an acceptance on the part of concerned citizens to do their part in a meaningful ecological 1968 Mustang GT 4 speed . $1695 Radio, heater, real clean, low mileage 1 971 Ford LTD automatic trans 3795 Radio, heater, power steering, power brakes and air conditioning 1968 Volkswagen Bug, 1395 Real clean 1968 Falcon radio & heater. 1195 1968 Chevrolet 2 door Super sport, 1695 4 on the floor, real clean 1969Camaro Radio, 1995 heater, automatic transmission 1970 Toyoto station wagon Radio, . 1995 heater, standard transmission AUTO 324 North Main, Spanish Fork |