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Show CREM-GENEVA TIMES THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22. i84, Orem - Geneva Times Published every Thursday at Orem, Utah M. NEFF SMART, Editor and Publisher (Entered at lecond class matter November 19. 1944 at the poaloffice at Orem. Utah, under the act of March 3. 1897. MEMBER: Utah State Press Association One year, Subscription Rates: in advance $3-00 . . . MR. SANTA CLAUS Nearly 34 years of service to the Orem-Frovo area as Santa Claus' chief stand-in is the record of Leonard Madsen, Vineyard farmer and sports enthusiast. Each year for the past three decades and more Mr. Madsen has heightened the Christmas spirit of hundreds of youngsters and adults by his appearance and cheerful cheer-ful greeting 0n city streets in his familiar whiskers and fur-trimmed outfit. At Primary and Sunday School parties, at hospitals and in sick rooms at Christmastime "Lennie" has brought gladness to thousands of little hearts. Mr. Madsen reports that Christmas, 1949, is likely to go down as one in which puppy dogs have their day, for pups have been first choice on the lists of dozens of youngsters. Dolls will be popular again this year for the little girls. Mr. Madsen comes by his Santa Claus hobby rightfully, for his love for young people is exceeded by few. "Lennie" is known the length and breadth of the state for the fine athletic teams which he has produced at Vineyard ward. His enthusiasm for sporting events and" his leadership of M Men basketball and sof tball teams at Vineyard ward. His enthusiasm for sporting events and which have won honors, both for victories and for sportsmanship nearly every year during the past decade. dec-ade. Our hat goes off and. up to Ionard Madsen. Few people avail themselves of the opportunity to do so much good to gladden the hearts of so many youngsters young-sters and to guide youth so effectively as does our own Leonard (Mr. Santa Claus) Madsen. WHO'S THE GUILTY ONE? Senator Flanders of Vermont, who consistently refuses re-fuses to be blinded by the dazzling lights of political expediency, said the other day that the administration and congress are about equally to blame for the prospective pros-pective federal deficit. "The administration is to. blame for throwing the budget out of balance as a result of its free spending policies," Flanders explained. "But congress is just about as much at fault for permitting the situation, and failing to. remedy it." These words may constitute political and Republican heresy but they happen to be true. They should be kept in mind next year, when charges and countercharges about respinsibility for the deficit will be as thick as confetti on New Year's eve. Milwaukee Journal HAPPIER ON THE FARM You never hear much about juvenile delinquency on the farm. That is not to say that rural children are per- feet, but it does seem a natural result of the fact that youngsters in most farm families have a host of useful, interesting, constructive things to do, which helps keep them out of mischief. G. L. Noble, an official of the National 4-II Clubs, believes cities would have fewer ploblems with youthful youth-ful behavior if they sponsored programs comparable to those of the young agriculturists' clubs. Apart from supervised recreation and leisure-time activities, city youngsters need something to do with their hands that has as much visible relation to living as has the country child's chores or the 4-H club pig he is raising for market. This calls for a little inventive-nSS- CSM ON THE ficfWa-ttTKlGm for ;( -1 z$ mssr s Jlj ? m , - ' i srj( rk? i J t W' v 5 , ,T TEST PILOT , May flew the , . Eugene F. navy's Douglas Skyrocket faster than the speed of sound at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif. The long-feared supersonic superson-ic barrier was no barrier at all, May said, crediting plane's design. Glen Aiken, son of Mr. and Mrs. C G- Aiken is at home on a 30 day furlough from Louisiana, Louis-iana, where he is receiving training train-ing as a gunner. Before going to Louisiana, Glen was stationed station-ed at Topeka, Kansas with the radar division. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Car-rell Car-rell and Mrs. Gladys Mitchell went to Kamas last week to at tend funeral services for an uncle. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Murphy have purchased the home formerly form-erly owned by Mr. and Mrs. L B. Bennett. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Simp son are the parents of a baby boy born at the Maud Park home. To Shed Light on the World This Week THESE MEN HAD THIS TO SAY: "We have failed and failed repeatedly to offer the Am erican people any reason to remove the Democratic party from power. Gid knows we need a change in trof egy and tactics." ARTHUR E. SUMMERFIELD. MiT an, keynoter at recent GOU strategy committee meeting ' "But see? I crack jokes, I wear clothes, I am a human being. Foreigners are human beings endowed with the dignity of the human soul. When you learn that and apply it, you will be contributing more to international peace than any diplomatic treaties." CARLOS P. ROMULO Filipino, president of the United Nations general assem' bly in speech before youth forum in New York. "Perhaps people modify or intensify or otherwise alter their opinions by something someone else has said r written, writ-ten, but basically opinions are like fingerprints; they never change, and no two are precisely alike in every respect You can't change an opinion by attacking the opinion or the holder thereof, or by praising and ballyhooing an opposite opinion. Opinions are changed from within, never from without." FRANK GRIMES, editor ed-itor of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News, commenting on his 35th year of writing editorials. "No, no, no, I positively am not a candidate for nolit ical office." DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER to reporters on Saturday. " the race for atomic armaments is accelerating accelerat-ing at a frightening rate. The technical improvements of atomic weapons and the stockpiling of fissionable materials and bombs may soon have proceeded so far that any plan for effective control will have become practically prac-tically impossible " Brig. Gen. CARLOS P. ROMULO, president of the United Nations general assembly, on Tuesday. "The very existense of a tank (or a warplane, or an atomic bomb) means there are fewers hoes and scythes ' and tractors and less food for the children." PETER DUBERG, UNESCO staff writer. - a I ii t If I r l'l Ellis Slack has 'arrived from rlrANArJI M" f J I Washington, D. C. to spend the . ' holidays with his sisters, Mrs. Edna Hansen 2028 M Grace McEwan and Mrs. Ida I Cowley. A Christmas pageant and par- . .' . - . . ty will be held Saturday even-) ing under the. direction of the Primary officers. The program will begin at 6 p.m. in the ward I amusement hall. All ward mem- j bers are invited to be present. Santa Claus will be there with a surorise for all the children- 1 Rollo Jones and Cleon Mill j er gave the two ana one-nan minute talks in Sunday School. ' A Christmas program will be presented Sunday morning instead in-stead of the regular Sunday School class work. I The ward choir, under the direction dir-ection of C. Sterling Cluff, director, dir-ector, and Ruth S. Colvin, accompanist, ac-companist, will present the program pro-gram at Sacrament meeting at 7 p m. I Those from Pleasant View who sang in the Messiah were Mary Jean Miller, Noreen All-red, All-red, .JpAnn Brakei Geraldine Searle, Donna Ashton, Nyra Col vin, Helen Hansen, Kenneth Ashton, Roger Hansen, Dwayne Lowry, Rell Reynolds and Rhea Lowry. Robert Collingham suffered suffer-ed a painful knee injury a week ago when he fell on the ice. He was operated on the first part of the week and is reported to be doing as well as can be expected. HILL G REST Vaneese Woffinden 0553 Rl The children of the Primary association enjoyed a Christmas party on Wednesday afternoon. The life of Christ was shown to them in silhouette pictures. Mrs. Bernice Young was in charge of the songs that accompanied accom-panied the pictures and special numbers were sung by Sylvia Sumner and Brenda Young. The children saw two puppet shows, under the direction of Emily Hoover. Jennie Rowley wrote one of the shows, "The Kitten Who wanted to be a Christmas Present." Voices heard in the their records. show were Merline Skinner, Willard Gerber has gone to Malibu Beach. California to Jimmy Bird, Earla Dean, and spend the holidays with his Patty Rowley. The other show, mother and other members of "The Three Kittens", was pre- his family. sested by Bonnie K. Jameson, Bonny Andrews, Asal Bown and A Christmas program has been Bob Oliphant. Santa was there Planned by the Sunday School with a present for each child. officers for the Senior and Jun- nearly two hundred children ior Sunday School on Sunday participated. morning. Santa visited the MIA dance Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Huntsman on Wednesday evening and pre- and family have moved into the sented all those present with a Hill Crest ward. They are build- gift. ing a new home on 16th South. The ward choir met at the Bishop q(Mlltbn Jlamesoni church on Monday evening after will be at the Grand View chap- Priesthood meeting and went el for tithing settlement on Jan. caroling. Later they all gather- i ana . au wara members are ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. invited to come and look at Murrav Youns whprp thpv pn. joyed a social and refreshments. "IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY" By PLOTNER (jARAGF sx wttrus ago you wAi?iteD ME WT If I VWm, 6ET MV WAE1S AUbNfcD SOMETHING VlASTlC WUUUtf HA WEN V UN 3! Are Nor WEA12M6- Mdlj rfe A VOti'TVlUt) IT, COMB Hi TODAY COMPANY 57-71 WlsrOMTM P"ovo, urn . wov tooo U Diffm WHEN LARRY ADLER was a boy in Baltimore he loved to push air through a harmonica. No one else in his family played one, but Larry played until be almost drove his family into the snake pit. In 1927 he read in a Baltimore newspaper that the paper would sponsor a harmonica contest Larry's eyes grew as big as flying saucers. He had been selling magazine subscription, so he took three dollars of his savings and bought himself a new mouth-organ. It would do tricks that his old one couldn't manage. Now he began practicing against the day of the contest; his family suffered; so did the neighbors. to send season's greetings this way 1 v W L 1 $? -J VCS t- ..,,1 if QUA .A - '-FH I I LZJ i m uf '? j - , k il A NEW BEGINNING . . . Mrs. Kesenis Psocik, 90, nd Wladlslaw Tyz, one month, were the oldest and youngest displaced person in a group of 58 who arrived in New York recently. Mrs. Psocik, who spent fonr years In D. P. camp in Germany, will live la Clifton, N. J. The baby will live in New Windsor, Md. Mrs. Psocik was accompanied on the flight by two other generations of her family. At last the Big Night! Practically all of Baltimore was present! The judges were impressive, one being the music critic of the paper, another the head of the Peabody Music Institute, which was the last wrd . the very last comma in music in Baltimore. The third was the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony orchestra. The Matterhorns of music. OAK HILLS Madge McKell 2261 M Carnegie Hugh Woodford and Wallace Chatwin were the speakers at sacrament meeting last Sunday evening. Florence Rogers sang two vocal solos. The Relief Society ladies met at the home of Counselor Elma Young. Barbara Jacobs presented present-ed the literary lesson and Celes-tia Celes-tia Taylor sang two numbers. The ernim saner P.hristmae far. Larry noticed that all of them .played jazz. For that matter ols and refreshments were serv-jazz serv-jazz was all Larry had planned in his repertoire. He said to ed. mmseir, lm going to be different. At least, that will attract The other contestants poured in, 23 in all, loaded, cocked and primed. Depressing! Some of them played exceedingly well as well as Larry maybe better and Larry got lower and lower in his mind. An enjoyable evening was spent by those who attended the Family Christmas party. Groups were divided according to age I for special games and recreation. All joined together in the amuse ment hall for a special program. Santa was there with gifts for . everyone. I A special Christmas program When the judges returned from deliberation, they announced SuSy" Ichoof N? cfawork ?eWi will be held TaS SfjS befitting the spirit of the day attention." The only classical piece he could remember was Beeth- oven's Minuet in G. He had only his memory to depend upon, and his memory was as full of holes as a Swiss cheese. But he tore into it, did the best he could. Not very hopefully for he knew he was bad, but he also knew he was doing something different. After all, there was a sameness to the selection of the other contestants, no one outstanding, no one too easy to recall. - j - - niiw jyiajrcu d I cal selection, and he was the only outstanding contestant. FRANK J, EARL 525 South Univ. Ave. Telephone 950 eVvB & 00 From us to you, sincere good wishes for a Happy Yuletide! NORM'S 182 West Center, Provo will be presented. The Junior Sunday School had a Christmas program last Sunday and will join the Senior Sunday School this week and present part of the program. The Book of Mormon study group will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Muhlestein on Christmas evening. Your reporter would like to publicly thank all her kind neigh bors and friends who were so kind to her family during her recent re-cent illness. The tokens of flowers, flow-ers, cards and food sent, not to mention the kind wishes of those vho called and assisted with routine work. Also special thanks to niece Jean and daugh ter for writing up the items tor the paper the past two weeks aiid to my son Jim, for delivering deliver-ing them to the editor. "Miners and farmers are pretty close kin. One gets his living from the soil of our valleys; the other from the rocks of our hills. And the two of them bring out of the ground an abundant life for everyone." mm UTAH MINING ASSOCIATION |