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Show Sugar House, Utah Thursday, Jan. 24, 1957 SOUTH EAST INDEPENDENT Page 7 'Twixt Us Teens by Tibby Tucker Only 340 more days before a new year ... or there abouts. At any rate . . . time does plug along. And while from where we're sit-ting now 340 days may seem like a mighty long time . . . 'twas only a minute (or so it seems) since we were singing Auld Lang Syne and now this new year is 25 or so days old. And what's with it? I, Tibby, mean this: what have you to show for what you've lived so far? And then fifty days from now . . . and one hundred . . and then 340 . . . until this year is done. What'll it be for you and your life ? Something wonderful we hope. " I, Tibby, think we teens should be pretty special people what with all the help we're getting these days. I mean . . . simply EV-ery-bo- dy wants to give us the know-ho- w and all. And honestly, don't you think sometimes we sort of person as you talk to them and if the opportunity arises in the con-versation why you can tell them one or two things. (Sometimes I just had to MAKE myself do it, I felt kind of shy and all but when I did, well, the results were ter-rific!) Maybe another day you could plan a surprise for somebody. Like your teacher at church or at school. If all the kids in class brought half a dozen cookies or so there'd be enough or a real cookie shine in honor of said teacher. Enough to pass around ... enough for teacher to take home, too. Or maybe another day you could set the alarm for an early hour . . . beat Mom to the kitchen and have the table all set pretty and break-fast under way (fruit dished up, cereal cooking, sweet rolls wrap-ped in tinfoil and warming in the oven or muffins mixed). Well, the day I, Tibby, pulled that trick the whole family nearly died. And, well, they were so special to me and we had such a eood familv- - miss the trolley? Doesn't it seem to you and your crowd that maybe we could be pushing it more . . . this living it well, I mean? Like today . . . did you do any-thing special or different or help-ful or worthy or delightful? Or was it just the same old wind of a day ? I, Tibby, have resolved to make each day unusual . . . different from the way my days were last year. So far it has paid off. I mean I've had so much more FUN . . . and I've made new friends . . . and I've learned so much . . . and I feel as though I've grabbed on to life, not just pawing at it, you know? Maybe you might like to try this idea, too ... of making each day unusual. One day you could think of all the nice things about each start-the-da- y - off - right - feeling. Mom looked years younger . . . she really did! Or that new girl inschool . . . you could bake a cake and deco-rate it in school colors with "wel-come o" and invite her to eat lunch with your crowd. Even if you think she's not as hep as your bunch . . . even if you hardly know her . . . well, you'd really be giving her a time and you'd feel so special about it! Really fun! 9 Or maybe one day do an extra assignment for class ... or stay after and ask interested questions to teachers ... or compliment the office secretaries on the good work they do and how they make things tick and all. I, Tibby, am sure you'll feel hap-py as I have when I've put myself out to live well one day. Let's all keep it in practice as well aa in mind for '57, hm ? "Teen-Talkers- " HIGHLAND HIGH Dotti Duncan, Reporter How perfect can a week be? Ask the sophomores of Highland High and they'll tell you how per-fect it can be when the Four Freshmen come and serenade them personally and they win their basketball game against Murray. It all began when Mr. Glen Slight, a music teacher at High-land and a close friend of the Freshmen, received a note asking him to call Ross Barboer, spokes-man for the group, at the New-hous- e Hotel. Within a couple of hours they were putting on a show for us, signing autographs and tell-ing us about their new album etc. Why couldn't we have more days like this one ? Thursday was another happy day for all our sophomores. We defeated Murray High school's sophomore team. This marks the third win for Highland since they beat Olympus and Jordan in prev-ious games. Our next game will be with South High Thursday (to-day). Named In Betty Crocker Homemakers Contest Six high school girls of this area have been named Bettty Crocker Homemakers of Tomorrow. They received the highest scores in their schools on a written ex-amination of homemaking know-ledge and attitudes taken by grad-uating high school girls. The local school winners are: Jean Robinson of Granite High School, Judie Marie O'Hair of Judge Memorial High School, Dor-othy Anne Walton of Olympus High School, Gertrude Butler Hor-to-n of Rowland High ' School, Frances Mary Campanaro of South High School and Judith Gold of West High School. Their examination papers now will be entered in competition with those of 61 other school winners to name this state's candidate for the title of All-Americ- an Homemaker of Tomorrow and will also be con .s!iuJe. reuI lur Au1ie runnerup awardI in the state. For their achievement, they will each receive an award pin designed by Trifari of New York. Each state winner will receive a $1,500 scholarship and an educa-tional trip with her school advisor to Washington, D. C, colonial Williamsburg, Va., and New York City. A $500 scholarship will.be awarded the runnerup girl in each state. The school of the state winner receives a set of the En-cyclopedia Britannica. The national winner will be named May 2 at the American Table banquet in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City. The scholarship of the All-Amer-i- Homemaker of Tomorrow will be increased to $5,000. This year for the first time girls who rank second, third, and fourth in the na-tional finals will receive $4,000, $3,000 and $2,000 scholarships re-spectively. P-T- A Officers (Continued from Page 1) principal, with his assistants and social workers. The Feb. 21st meet-ing will cover helpful and damag-ing counseling techniques under the direction of Dr. F. L. Magleby, of the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Utah. A film will be shown, too. Recent contributions of psycho-logy applied to understanding chil-dren's behavior will be taken up Feb. 28 by Dr. Cecil O. Samuelson of the University of Utah. March 7 will consider training and voca-tional opportunities in the skilled trades with Mr. Jay L. 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' " ' " 'jLjwjimwu uJf I ' r.r. ...r r -- - - toAv...-.-A"-- BLUE BLADES IN .HANDY DISPENSER used-Mad- e aMir ACHING MUSCLES Relieve paint of tirtd, tor; aching miis cits with STAN BACK, tablets or powder STAN BACK act fart to bring comforting ralitf. . . btcausa tha STAN BACK formula combine ttvaral proscription typa in gradionU for fast raliaf of pain. Service Men . . Two local soldiers are scheduled to complete six month of active military training Jan. 26 at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., under the Re-serve Forces Act program. Pvt. James W. Van Katwyk, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Van Kat-wyk, 2409 S. Seventh E., is a 1956 graduate of South High School. Pvt. John M. Van Staveren, 17, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Van Staveren, 3753 S. Second E. A six-mont- hs' active duty train-ing tour will be in the offing for young Utah men enlisting in the National Guard after April 1. This was the announcement to-day by Major General Maxwell E. Rich, Utah adjutant general, fol-lowing a statement by the National Guard Bureau in the Pentagon. Non-pri- or service enlistees join-ing after April 1 will be required to take the half-ye-ar training course, General Rich said. Persons already in the National Guard those- - who enroll before April 1 will not be affected by the impending regulation. Another new policy announced at the same time allows returning draftees 60 days in which to affil-iate with a National Guard unit. After that time, they will auto-matically be assigned to an Army Reserve unit for completion of their military obligation. Limited vacancies exist in some Utah National Guard units at thfc time. Interested persons should contact Guard employees at home town armories. |