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Show TOM FOOLERY Automobiles have killed 12 less people in Utah this year than last. Next thing you know people will be using their cars for transportation. Despite the drop in enrollment reported in this year's North Sanpete School district census, there is a cheerful note in the extra high count of pre-school children in the district. Parents of the war baby crop are to be commended com-mended for remembering their multiplication tables so well. If all the footbowl games scheduled for New Year's Day were laid end to end, we'd still try to boot a pun from behind the guileline. Panama has had three uneasy presidents in the past uneasy week. This has no doubt prompted Panamanian mamas to inspire junior with the hope he won't grow up to be president some day. Panama's neighbors in Columbia, on the other hand, are currently enjoying a dearth of presidents. The fact the ballot in their recent presidential election listed but a single candidate impeded not at all observance of an old Latin custom. The Columbians had their usual good time, albeit they had to shoot at each other instead of at candidates. candi-dates. David E. Lilienthal's resignation as atomic energy commission chairman finds President Truman without ar. immediate successor for the post. Applicants have probably prob-ably been warned that the man who takes the job must come into intimate and frequent contact with the hottest seat in the land to say nothing of that old buzzsaw. Senator Sena-tor Hickenlooper. The Census bureau is making plans to send 770 workers into the byways of Utah for the 1950 decennial roundup. Only requirement for those wishing to qualify as a number in the world's greatest nose count is to be alive during the coming year. |