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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town Shaking of Calendars . . . It's funny how these guys around town delight in showing me these risque calendars. Seems they got the idea somewhere that I didn't approve of them. At that, all of our local business houses must have ordered nice refined ones this year, or else they ordered two kinds, because everyone that has ,been brought in to me could be given a clean bill of health. . . . W. O. Bentley brought in the first one this year. It was a fine dignified calendar with the theme thought around "insurance". Howard How-ard Judd was next with a eel-en eel-en d a r showing a "drum-majorette" you know, the little gal who leads the parade nice figure naturally! . . . Tony Reynolds Rey-nolds came next, and I will have to admit I was a bit dubious when I started to unroll this, but it turned out to be a beautiful mountain lake scene; one that would delight the heart of any fisherman . . . When Rudger McArthur came in and dropped one of Ashby and McQuaid's on the desk I was sure that "this would be the exception" (judging by the one they gave us last year) but, low and behold, it was a dandy with the three months (present, past and future) just the kind that we like so that we can check backward and forward on our publication dates. . . . Others received to date, and they're all ,nice sanitary ones too, were from Rocky Mountain Service, Ser-vice, Westover Feed Co., and Western Newspaper Union. This 'N That Several kind hearted people : have asked me why I haven't had my usual column of "Seen and Heard" in lately. I had to tell them that advertising came first when we had it, but I might i have added that every time lately that I have published my column those Rotary pals of mine have taken keen delight in socking sock-ing on a fine over some word or phrase that did not meet with their "Lordly" approval here we go again. ... A note from Capt. Calvert Andrus giving his new change of address states that he believes that he may visit every state in the Union before they send him overseas. Oh yes, Cal asks that "his paper include a little bit of dirt, even if it were a home-spun letter from Archie". . . . LeRoy and Ann Hafen sent me a unique Christmas card. 1 has the pictures of both their mothers and a poem by Ann entitled, en-titled, "My Mother's Hand". This poem is so interesting and portrays por-trays the life of our Dixie pioneer pio-neer mothers so clearly that I am publishing it in this issue of the paper. The Christmas card is a beautiful tribute to their inothers. Ann's mother is Mrs. Mary Evans Woodbury of this city and Roy's mother is Mrs. Mary Ann Stucki Hafen of Bunk-erville. Bunk-erville. . . . If all is not what it should be with this issue of the News it is because we have missed Archie Wallis' master hand. Archie has been sick at home for several days. Christmas Greetings Hazel and I have received so many nice Christmas cards (many with friendly little notes) that we have given up hope of ever acknowledging ac-knowledging them individually. We surely appreciate the fact that so many of the boys in the service . and men and women who are 1 away from Dixie, took time out ' to remember us with those cheer- , ing notes. We hope that all of you had a Merry 'Christmas and that the New Year will see the war drawing to a close and our boys and girls back home again with us. i Paper Scarce! . Who Publishes the Most? Who is- the nation's "No. 1 publisher" pub-lisher" in these days of paper shortage ? According to a survey an-unced an-unced by Rep. Bennett (Rep., .) it's the government turning ol some 441 publications! Washington, says the Missouri Congressman, is producing nine daily papers, 48 weeklies, 12 semimonthlies semi-monthlies and 241 monthly magazines maga-zines or papers. This was oni.- ''a-partial list", he added, covering ?. variety of subjects from shingl to honey. The Missiourian asserted that the only purpose of many of the publications pub-lications is to "advertise the agency which puts them out t. to drum up public and Congre sional support for a continuation of the respective agency's particular particu-lar brand of alphabetical bureaucracy". bu-reaucracy". Coming on top of a notice from our supply house that in the future fu-ture we will have to indicate to what purpose the paper we order is to be put before the order can be filled, the above information is enough to make an editor seeth ! away down deep and feel like I coming forth with some of those old bulldrivers cuss words. |