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Show 1 from where I sit ... Joe Marsh Easy Makes His "Cat" Tread Lightly Driving home on Three Ponds roads belong to all of us and I I Road yesterday, I was flagged down guess I'd get mad if someone else by Easy Roberts' boy Skeeter. chewed them up." Take it slow," he advised. "Dad's From where I sit, Easy is my kind crossing this road with our tractor, 0f citizen. He doesn't just pye just beyond the bend." democracy lip service. He honestly Around the curve I saw why believes it's his duty to consider Skeeter stopped me. Easy had laid the other fellow's interests, two rows of old truck tires across Whether it's the right to use the the road, and was driving his new public highways or the right to en- "Cat" tractor over them! joy an occasional glass of beer, "More trouble this way," Easy Easv's out to Protect his neighbor's explains, "but it does keep those "right of way." tank tracks from tearing up the ' asphalt when I have to cross over Gv Jf to our other fields. After all, the V Copyright, 1951, United States Brewers Foundatim fr-r-y-- D:S "Honestly, now- ' f-Jrl aren't gasoline I, r,. Vj'-'Si prices too high?" rUr 3' Everyone who can remember what things used ,t; '. f' to cost only ten or twenty years ago may well think I i - v "V'k of those times as "the good old days." Recalling them, ' and extreme bargains offered during the depres- XtMi, i J - -Mfl sion, people have asked Standard such questions as ! VX'"" " "Honestly, now aren't gasoline prices too high?" 1 In answer to a question like that, Standard asks - ' - Cj1101 yu to consider the broad situation. All prices ! 'p&ti'iS'?'' '. , , ' should be kept as low as possible. But in judging L . JJZr. what's "too high," let's see what's happened: ! Price comparisons 1926 and 195 1 fJ0 litde " il fd in 1926Zatcta.fl J r less than 4 , except for taxes, now 6)i to Si a gal- Let's look back on those "good old days" to Ion in the West. Most people's income has gone up 1926, a fairly normal year. Since then, most prices enough in those years so that gasoline takes a far i have varied greatly. By 1951, farm products cost smaller share of their budget. So gasoline today , over twice as much as in 1926, groceries and cloth- ' far from being "too high" is an exceptionally ing about two-thirds more. But in 1951, gasoline good buy. See how and why this has come about HOW have gas prices been kept from getting WHY have gas prices been kept from getting "too high"? Partly through improvement in refin- "too high"? Because there's intense competition, ing methods, developed by big companies' research. To stay in business, all oil companies are always We've learned to get more gas out of every barrel looking for ways to cut costs of producing, trans-of trans-of crude. (And it's better gas; 2 gallons now do porting, refining, and marketing. We keep finding work that took 3 only 25 years ago.) them, passing benefits on to you. V I'd Like tO KnOW . . . Many people write to Standard asking pertinent questions about the Company. We answer all letters individually, but some points seem of general interest. We take this way of discussing them for everyone. If you have a question, we urge you to write in care of: "I'd Like to Know," 225 Bush Street, San Francisco 20, California. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA plans ahead to serve you better JjWL A 180-MQDEL CTOiCI 0fx assures you a truck ixMzw exactly nqht for your job ! I ? s For ary load from rocks to roincoats, Ford has $ 1$ 1 " i" - one of the biggest lines of trucks In the . I v! P I J I '2-ton to 3-ton field! A ' 1 y" 51 Pf For UBht. fast wrk in city traffic ... for hundreds v o ' ' ' of jobs on farms ... and for America's heaviest haul- VI" ? kfw- i ing, Ford builds economy-priced trucks that cost . 1l ,4 '-r.., J mighty little to run. See your Ford Dealer-lea"1 1 ' 2JLZ ' '"'V about the special features and the power choices Z)mi& V ' Ford offers for your job! gSI FORD TRUCKING COJFS IKS 1 5-STARand,atMjhtaddidcoU,thc6-STAR . . , EXTRA ishovm) jot greater dririna ease! " because Ford Ttucks Inst lontoc! UsinR Inlosl rmistuti"" , 7,318,000 trucks, lile Insurance exports prove lord trucks last loW1 SEE YOUR FRIENDLY FORD DEALER Expert Eye Care by ) Dr.C.II.lIeindseliiiaii optometrist ) quick service for Lense Replacements ) Eye Examinations Gifts Diamonds ) Watches Jewelry Heindselman Optical & Jewelry Co. ) 124 West Center Provo ) (A norjEY for Jrf It will soon be school time again. Get cash from us to VJL. outfit the children and buy books and other needed sup- j I plies. Monthly repayment. Prompt service. Come in or j f )bone. , j Intermountain Finance & Thrift Company j Room 9 Springrville Bank Building- Phone 701 J |