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Show PAGE FOUK THE BINGHAM BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1953 THE PRIZE BOOB I By Ona F. Larhrop Bill Baylis wai the prize boob of U tlte neighbors in "The Cuurt." If anybody as much as started a paint job on one ot the little white houkea that dotted the street like itring of china beads, Bill would come sauntering . across, paint-brush in hand, with that look in his eye. "Hi there, ella. See you Rot your-ntl- l a nice pie,.i of work cut out. Want a little help?" And he'd not to and paint as lung as the job held out. If there was a lawn to grade or a fence to build. Bill would turn up with the proper tools, grinning in lus good-nature- way, and help un-til the job was done. When Janet West wanted to her bridge club in her new-ly pme-pancllc- d living-roo- last spring before their sidewalks were ill and their front yard a rnudhole, here came Bill trundling a wheel- - opened our eyes. Polly and the children had been gone weeks caring for her sick mother when Bill went home dog-tire- from help-ing Jim Curtis with his porch, and fell asleep with a cigarette In his hand. The next thing The Cuurt knew, the fire department was tearing down the street trying to save the little white house that wasn't finished yet. Bill didn't even let Polly know, and the next day he started all over again. But this time he wasn't alone. Every one of us had a debt to pay BUI Bayliss In one way or another and we were there too. That house got repaired in nothinf flat, and we all turned in and paint-ed it inside and out. The girls washed up the curtains and fixed the inside. We put up the shelves for the canned fruit and painted the kids' room In circus colors. W graded up the lawn that Bill had barrow of his own stepping stones that he'd taken up and brought over for Janet's 'girls' to walk In on. You couldn't hate a guy like that, and yet he made the rest of US feel like pikers! Polly, his wife, complained a little. They had built their own house, moving in before the parti-tion were In to save rent and they were still 'finishing' only there didn't seem to be any hurry about it for Bill. "If only Bill took as much in-terest in our own place as he does In th rest of yours," Polly would wall. "I've been trying to get him to put up shelves for my canned fruit for two years, and the chil-dren's room still isn't painted but he lays that makes it nice they can mark on the walls all they want to and then we'll Jo it over when they know better!" The other wives sympathized with Polly, but they all welcomed his help and plied him with coffee and cokes, and you always heard them bragging what a wonderful fellow Bill was, and how possessive Polly was. But when calamity struck, we never got around to doing, and each of us contributed some planting or perennials where the firemen had trampled theirs out. Bob West even took up the stepping stones aud came trundling them back to set In place the night before Polly came home. When Polly walked In and saw things shining and heard what had happened, she broke down and wept on Bill's shoulder. We all stood around grinning proudly as if we'd originated the 'help one an-other' theory, until Polly said, "I know I don't rate all this, but I realize you did it for Bill, and he certainly deserves It. If ever a man was a d boob, It's Bill, and I'll never complain again when he goes off to help the rest of you." We murmured silly things sheep-ishly about neighbors always stand iug ready to help, and that's what friends were for. But the look on Bill's face was enough to repay us a hundred times over for the little we had done. Now there's a guy that The Court is proud to have living in it, even if he is one prize boob! From The IfcrlnKtnn Advertiser-Tiinc- s, lleritigton, Kansas: A man serving overseas ui the war area of Korea was asked what could be dune for the fighting men in the way of gifts. He replied in no un-certain terms that "the finest thing to be done is the maintenance of a politically and economically sound home front." He said further that, With a reasonable deg.ee of in-tegrity on the part of most people that will be brought about." To do the things necessary to assure riien on the war fronts that there will be such an America Ui return to is not too much demand of every American on the home front. From the Catsklll Mountain Star, Saugerties, New Vork: The weekly newspaper is more important than ever. Because the world is moving so swiftly there is need of the in-timate, grass-root- s touch which the weekly can and must give. Since there are so many demands on everyone's time, readers demand the happenings of the week wrapped up in a neat condensed and newsy package From the Ocean Grove Times, Ocean Grove, New Jersey: A sure sign that inflation is over will be when auto makers start mentioning the price of their cars In their ad-vertising. Benjamin J Fairless, president of the United States Steel Corporation, has even a better idea. He would not only reveal the price of the car; he would reveal all the hidden taxes buried in that price. The tax on a $2,000 auto- - mobile fur instance, is $fi25, but the buer does not know this. From the Mount Airy Community Ucpiirler, Mount Airy, Maryland: Here in the United States . . . our bullets are ballots and the only heads that roll are those which figuratively topple as the people demand a change peacefully and get it. It's a good system. Here's hoping we can continue to keep it. Revolutions like these are good ones. They keep a country strong, healthy and sound. From the Free Press, South Charleston, West Virginia: The commentators and columnists hava been speculating on what Mr. Eis-enhower's government fiscal policy will be. The consensus, based on his statements and those of his close advisors, run uitout as fol-lows: Spending will he cot in every possible direction. Wa.e and non-essentials mil be cut bed. Every ef-fort will be made to balance the; budget immediately. Once that is done, taxes will be reduced both for businesses and individuals. There is a possibility that the excess-profit- s tax will be abandoned entirely when the cur-rent law expires next June. This tax, most economists agree, is an unfair and dangerous burden on business and most especially on the smaller business, which is de-prived of funds needed for growth purposes. Thut, so far as one can see now. will be the Eisenhower program. It Is the only kind of program that can be trusted to save this country from bankruptcy. No nation and no system of government can for-ever survive official coriuption and deficits in the national treasury. DIXIE GOVERNORS SEE PRESIDENT . . . Pres. Eisenhuwer poses with Gov. Allan Shivers (left) or Texas, and Cov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina after lunching with a group of rovernors aud congressional leaders at the White House. . W9M 60RVX Ladies Race Harry Hurvllle of To,ikawa, Oklahoma, president of the l'. S. Highway 60 Association, Inc., has announced that a marathon (not f 3,100 miles will he staged over the highway from ' Los to Norfolk, Va. The race will be for women only with, a prize of $75,000 awaiting, the winner. An-other $50,000 will he distributed . among, second, third, fourth and fifth place contestants. The field will start the rare April 28 from Los Angeles . . . National Amateur Biseliall Federation men report college training Is wonderful for tome things, but not (or a profes-sional baseball career. "When a boy turns 18 and gets a chance to play pro ball he'd better take It quickly," they Say . .", Dr. John Hannah, president of Michigan State, Is now eating the words witb which he described the- - college's success In keeping its athletic pro-gram clean. Michigan State has been put on probation for a year by the Big Ten. TO DEFEND CROWN . Rocky Marclano, world's heavyweight boxing champion, Hexes his muscles for trainer Charley Goldman. Rocky Is In training at Holland, Mich., for his title bout with Joe Walcott in Chicago, April 10. ifw (AM) t Z GL FLIGHT MODEL . . First aerial fashion show was staged by Los Angeles designer for 64 newspaper, radio, TV and movie men In a 750-mi- le Right. Here Betty Kock poses In airliner wearing broadtail swimsult with diamond-encruste- d bra. 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