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Show Millard County Chronicle GIVING OUR WORLD o nee Over . . . By Dick Morrison "Civilized people have never mur-j dered those they defeated in war, j except when sanctimonious hypo-crites hypo-crites have taken over,"' Oliver, Warbucks. I Big Year Ahead promises to be a big year. With 3G6 days instead of the usual 3G5, it will include at least one day when girls may at least drop gentle hints to bashful boys, and it will also include a political campaign cam-paign and presidential election. As to the latter, this column went on record about two years ago with the prediction that Richard Nixon would be the next president of the U. S., and there is certainly no reason rea-son to want to hedge that prediction predic-tion now. With Rocky Rockefeller out of the way, assuming his withdrawal with-drawal was on the level and not some sort of tricky maneuver, which possibility must not be ruled out entirely, Nixon seems, if anything, any-thing, almost too sure of the Republican Re-publican nomination. Of course, the Democrats are bound to nominate somebody. But in view 6f their distressing propensity pro-pensity for putting up third-rate political hacks, the chance for a strong candidate to run against Nixon looks pretty slim. It will not be at all surprising if the Demos choose a Humphrey or Kefauver. The one ray of hope concerning the Demoncatic party is that the southerners will take over, and if they can't control the convention, then at. least bring about a stalemate stale-mate and throw the election into Congress. But as of right now, Nixon looks like the best bet, and 1 hope to put his victory down as one more proof of an accurate prediction. Of course my predictions have not always al-ways proven right. I went on record re-cord flatly to the effect that Frank Moss couldn't possibly make the grade. As to that, I must admit I was later proven wrong, but can only say it would have "been better Uzvj Year's resolution . Boost Utah's mineral industries! Experts predict a population popu-lation growth of 54 by 1975 in the Pacific and Mountain Moun-tain States. To share fully in this growth, Utah must furnish thousands of new jobs and the basis for this expansion must come from mineral industries. Given the right economic climate, Utah's minerals inevitably will attract the investment capital needed for maximum development. Utah .mmm association "From ths ecrth comes on abundant life for all" Thursday, Jan. 14, 1960 THE if he hadn't made it. He is proving prov-ing himself an even worse senator than Watkins and Bennett, and that's going some. The big political news for Utah the past year was the election of J. Bracken Lee as mayor of Salt Lake. There is a man. The most enjoyable news the Salt Lake papers pa-pers have printed since the beginning begin-ning of the year has been the stories stor-ies of the doings inside the City Commission up there. As' was to have been expected, Lee has already al-ready got everybody's dander up. He has a way of asking other politicians poli-ticians the most awkward questions. ques-tions. Why spend $350,000 for a new golf course? -How about buying buy-ing Forest Dale back from the Church? Why should he sign a lot of vouchers identified only by number", num-ber", when he can't tell what the money is going for? How about straightening out the system under und-er which the police court has been sending summonses to people who have already paid their fine for traffic violations? In short, why not conduct a city government in a sensible, orderly, efficient, manner? Run-of-the-mill politicians in the Lake city are either fighting mad or in confusion, already. Would that we can send Lee on to Washington one of these days. Oh, what a sounding board the Senate floor would make for a few common sense utterances! What's This ? Watching the Rose Parade on television, we saw, among other beautiful spectacles, a group of horsemen from Utah Highway Patrol Pa-trol showing off down there, and the announcer told us the trappings on their half-dozen horses cost $60, 000 dollars. Now, what I'd like to know, for the edification of my fellow taxpayers, tax-payers, is just where that money came from. And not only that, but why do any of our Highway Patrolmen Pa-trolmen need to be riding horses -mr, f a "The plan of paying myself first before buying anything certainly worki for me. And, for the first time in my life I'm really saving money. "I feel that part of every paycheck should be mine and I put part of all I earn in my savings account at First Security Bank. Maybe you'll want to try this plan, too? If so, start today." (ill-liinol In this day and age, anyway? And even if they do need horses for some legitimate purposes, why the 5G0.000 worth of saddlry? That figures fi-gures out about $10,000 per horse. On top of that, it must of cost something to send those boys down to Pasadena for the weekend, and I'll bet they didn't stand their own expenses. My stand toward extravagances extra-vagances of this kind is this: First, let them dispense with horses altogether al-together unless it can be shown they really need them, and, second, if they do, let'em ride bareback. The Payola I wasn't at all surprised at the revelations of shenanigans in the TV quiz shows. A search of the 'back columns will show that I was expressing my doubts as to the veracity of these spectacles even before Congress got to invesigat-ing. invesigat-ing. The payola, however, came as a surprise. About three months ago, there appeared in the Trib's Forum a letter let-ter by Adrian Hansen, deploring the surfeit of rock and roll music on the radio. It seemed Mrs. Hansen Han-sen had a somewhat higher taste in music than most teen agers, and she put in a plug for better music. Mrs. Hansen's plea might have proven just one more voice lost in the wilderness had not Congress got to inquiring into the question of why the platter-spinners disc jockeys, to you were playing what they played. It has developed that they were getting paid for it. And that explains a lot. Nobody with an ounce of music appreciation in his make-up could possibly have played that kind of stuff by the hour without a reason. The reason has turned out to be money. Record makers who wanted to sell their stuff were slipping gratuities quietly quiet-ly into the pockets of the guys at the turntables. Now that clandestine clande-stine payment for that sort of thing is being stopped, we may look forward for-ward to a better grade of music. And I was happy to see that one radio station recently advertised that it was going to play whole performances of the "Million Sellers", Sel-lers", uninterrupted by commercials. commer-cials. Music like "Flower Drum Song", and "South Pacific". What an improvement! The Bloopers It probably wouldn't do to jump to the conclusion that Kay Bassett is more refined than Howard Clayton, Clay-ton, but there's reason to wonder. Howard received a new stero outfit out-fit for Christmas, and the report is he never turns it off except when leaving the house, and not always then. The other Sunday, Howard came over, bearing a stack of records for us to hear. They were all of a kind, being what is known as Bloopers. That is, they are true-life recordings record-ings of some of the awful mistakes radio and TV people have made on the air. 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It wasj a sad occasion and our sympathy, certainly goes out to them in their bereavement. It was a double tra-j gedy. So many, priceless possessions posses-sions were lost with the home, but , none so priceless as the life of their little girl. The other children are getting along pretty well. Stan-! ley has returned to school. Bert1 took David to Salt Lake City Satur-j day to have his broken shouder taken care of. Rawlene's hands will be bandaged for quite a while yet face LP's of them. I never laughed so hard in my life. But what worries me is how Howard got them. He traded for them. It seems Kay Bassett owned them to begin with, but Kay is a serious music lover, so he decided to trade them off. Howard had a fine album of, The Messiah, which, he says, he was finding rather dulL So Kay wound up with the Messiah, and Howard with the Bloopers. You'd have to hear the Bloopers to appreciate them, and, of course, that goes for the Messiah, too. But, not being able to describe the Messiah Mes-siah in words, I'll just have to give a hint of what the Bloopers are liKe. There was the newscaster who suddenly broke off his newscast-ing newscast-ing to yell, frantically, "Hey, you've pulled out my plug. Put it back! Put it back! You've cut off my AC! I'm off the air!" But he wasn't off the air at all. He had mistaken somebody else's plug for his, and his listeners were from coast to coast. Again, there was the preacher who was running overtime, as pre-chers pre-chers will. When a network program pro-gram is coming up, a station just can't let anybody keep going beyond be-yond the allotted time. So the studio stu-dio announcer, having to do something some-thing desperate, switched back to the studio and closed the sermon abruptly with the words, "Amen. This is the CBS network". And there was the cooking-lesson announcer who calmly informed his audience, "We will now give a demonstration of how to goose the cook". Not to mention the news reporter who seriously advised the radio audience that, "John L. Lewis has just dropped his Union Suit". Well, did Kay or Howard get the best of the trade, and which showed the more refined taste? What do you think? it i& you '"-fir MRS. EDNA CHHISTENSEN and she can't wear shoes, but the burns on her face and on David's face are healing nicely. The family is settled in Oral Blacks home trying try-ing to adjust to a new life, a life without Louise and in a strange home. Let's not forget them. Those of you far away, write often, those near by, call in for a visit whenever you can. I am sure they will ap-reciate ap-reciate it. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Elack and family fa-mily returned home Monday from their tr;;p to Texas. I haven't talked to them but I am sure thev had a nice time. Norman Cahoon is home with his parents again. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Cropper celebrated ce-lebrated New Year's in Las Vegas, Nevada. They report good weather down there but too many people to have a real good time. Mrs. Lois Eliason came home for a few days. Her sister, Mrs. Roy Davies from Fillmore was staying with her. Mrs. Davies was called home because of illness in her family, fa-mily, so Mrs. Eliason is back in Delta with her son, Eldon and family. fa-mily. Cecil Warner brought his wife home Monday night. She looks and feels fairly good. They returned to Salt Lake City on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ormus Dutson and son, Gill spent Sunday and Monday Mon-day with their son, Gary. Gary leaves this evening (Monday) for the West Central States Mission. Norma and Ray Moody have returned re-turned after being gone quite some time in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. An-geles. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Allred returned home Monday night after their tour to Mexico and California. They saw the Rose Parade but almost froze to death while doing it. Thomas will watch it on TV from now on, he said. Mrs. Amanda Dewsnup has returned re-turned after a visit with her children child-ren in Salt Lake City and Dugway. Some of our college boys were home for the weekend. Ray Western, West-ern, who is attending Snow College, reported his mission in Conference Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Stanworth and family visited at the home of Mrs. Stanworth's father, J. H. Dewsnup. Two fire side chats were held in the ward Sunday evening, one at the home of Millie Dewsnup and one at the home of Karane Davis. They report a good attendance and enjoyable time at both meetings. They were especially (pleased that Rawlene Hales was able to attend. She reported that her father and David had returned from Salt Lake and that David's shoulder is doing allright without an operation. Phil Eliason went with other members of the Irrigation Company to a trip to the U. B. Dam, today. I hope they find lots of water in it and plenty more coming. We are really thankful for the moisture we have received and that the weather has moderated. Mr. ond Mrs. Donald J. Pratt, Salt Lake, were in Delta Monday for the funeral services of Almira Pratt. Mrs. Lynn Warnick, Mr. Pratt's grandmother, returned with them to visit in Salt Lake and American Fork. WHAT'S THE INSIDE STORY ON COMPACT CAR QUALITY? INSIDE THE Comparison is the only way to tell quality. Skeptics are especially espe-cially welcomed to submit The Lark to these quality tests.' SLAM THE DOOR-and listen to the solid sound that tells you The Lark is quality-built.SIT INSIDE-see how quality pays off in fashion fresh interiors and more overall roomy comfort than the average new compact car.-LIFT THE IIOOD-examine die thrifty Lark V-8 (leader in most recent Mobilgas Economy Run) engine, or the new improved Super Economical Si. TEST DRIVE The Lark now proven by more than a billion owner-driven owner-driven miles. 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FOSTER first flutist, and GAYLAI'D IIATTOll horn player with Utah Symphony Orchestra Saturday, Jan. 23, 7:30 p. m. in new Millard High gym, Fillmore ADMISSION: $1.00 STUDENTS: 50c One Rack Ladies' Dresses 90c to $10.98 LAPSES' SWEATERS 25 OFF LAPSES' COATS 25 Off Boys' Winter Sheepiierder Coats 25 OFF ; r YnV ul I w A in ' lM B Y JlZJMLd to us so beautifully at the time of our recent sorrow. Our thnnks, also, to the Delta Fire Dept. in their efforts ef-forts in trying to save our home. May God bless you all. The Bert Hales family ADVERTISING HELPS YOU LIVE BETTER fos LESS SIUDEBA KER |