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Show j Atomic-aches . . . j FROM TITE EDITOR'S PEN I Well, Christmas is over and the ! many pleasures and pains that I help to make it remembered by I all have gone with it . . . inot I to mention the numerous traffic f casualties that are an accepted I ' if -non-essential part of the j Yuletide season . . . We pause J to ask why people have so lit- l Oe of it what it takes to drink I ana then drive . . . though we I may as well ask why they have j so little of what it takes to j drink in the first place. 5 While St. George could have i stood the strain of finer weath- 5 er for the great day, the Christ-I Christ-I mas spirit that shone from the hearts of its citizens dispelled J, I any sense of gloom occasioned f fcy cloudy skies . . Sixteen IT" i facsimiles of Santa gave good coverage to the town Monday I night, well burdened with large S.SiJ7i supplies of everything needed to ' ' bring cheer to the homes of their little hosts . . . homes were decorated festively and appropriately ap-propriately both inside and out, end the hearthsides that were warmed by the presence of dear ones absent for months or years more than offset those that still await the return of loved ones. We have learned forcefully that wartime conditions have not M ended with the cessation of hos-j hos-j tilities on the battlefronts . . Travelers no longer are consid-rs;t4 consid-rs;t4 erate of the problems being faced by the people who strive to serve them as they were a few scant weeks ago . . . Too many who in their individual - transitions from war to peace have merely changed pace, fail to realize the condition is not universal . . . Anticipating our ' usual Christmas and New Year Greeting editions of The News, we ordered extra paper many weeks ago . . . We were dum-JK dum-JK founded to be advised a week before Christmas that our order could not be filled for an indefinite indef-inite time ... So we made long distance calls, we curtailed our ...j Christmas number and served .fWS first he who came first in order jj to extend our paper supply over j another week . . . the skilled I help demand is still greater I than is the supply, and so we ( were faced with a multiple U problem lack of material and t lack of help . . . However a I friendly salesman solved the d first problem by sending a very U short shipment of paper but I sufficient for our need . . . Wil- ling help put in long hours to absorb the extra work without i making it necessary to work on I Christmas day .... So now we're ready to proffer our read-l read-l ers a fine set of New Year res-, res-, J olutions all of course based on a"5 I the assumption that problems EB beyond our control won't make Das I 'It necessary for us to break them. Among these are more pages 'h Vj in our paper; more news for our ? readers; more publicity for our 1(1 S' advertisers others; Jj more pay for our help; less r orlt for our crew; a man for 1) j I every task and a tool for every jl job . . . Now all we have to do ..3 18 try to live up to it . . . May Jj God give us strength and plenty ' j of newsprint! , i Well, they say every cloud has a silver lining, and in this case 1 't walked into our office in the ' J shape of a party of three from Oil J Portland, enroute to Los Ange- , . !es . . . And they wished to ex- 1 Press a very sincere apprecia- J tion to the folk of St. George J lor the courtesy and friendliness shown them during the two I weeks they were unavoidably J detained Nowhere, they tell J us, have they experienced the ' ( sense of friendship and warmth i expressed to them here . J .1' J And that is the most potent ad-J ad-J vertising a community can do! 3 ' a Also, and since we're dealing , fiL J ith iU winds, etc., et . J ,UU J he recent dampness has greatly i !essered the danger of someone L jU "i breaking a leg in the ditch J S along our main street here . . - i lis Statisticians have arrived at the J) ,1 jj inclusion that it will be com- Jjj P'rtely filled in by Jan. 15 sS':' "th or without more rain! AND THIS IS NEWS! Our """ i Undercover department has un-flPifarthed un-flPifarthed the information that at p0 U st one recipient in St. George Jf came the proud possessor of nrfCw , ree Pairs of nylons via Santa cfaf ors 10t ATOMIC ACHES (Continued from first pae) Claus . . . but we won't tell! Following a 4-yr. vacation due to wartime conditions and limitations, lim-itations, Conoco has revived its "TOURAIDE" service for the benefit of meandering motorists and is it good . . . During the few minutes it took Pete to wax and polish our car, we looked over his sample kit and learned that all. we have to do planning plan-ning a trip somewhere is to send in a form to the Denver office, and they will supply us with all details of said trip, including in-cluding "strip" maps, complete mileage charts, rates of motels and auto courts in all the towns we go through, and exhaustive details of all points of interest enroute . . . Well, we didn't know such a service existed, but now we do, so we're passing it along to you fellow motorists! |