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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR With the announcement that J. C. Penney will visit the local Penney store next Wednesday and greet the friends of this store, one is reminded of the tremendous growth of the system which he started in Kemmerer, Wyo., in 1902. From the first humble store he has seen his idea grow into a chain of 1600 stores. In commenting com-menting on the part that Penney stores have taken in the development develop-ment of merchandising in rural areas, he points out that they brought the same "reliable merchandise, merch-andise, the same prices, the same crisp new styles, that were available avail-able in the bigger cities", to the small towns. In Mr. Penney's opinion this service has done much toward keeping the people more contented in the rural and small town areas. It must be pointed out that any system is no better than the men who run it. Let poor management take hold and the larger the system sys-tem the faster it could fall. That the Penney system continues to improve each year is a tribute to this management. Those of you who would like to meet Mr. Penney, are invited by H. C. Thomas, local manager, to come in next Wednesday, while Mr. Penney is here. Complete Coverage One of our subscribers reports that he receives the paper in Washington, then sends it to a relative in Salt Lake, who then sends it on to a relative in Order-ville, Order-ville, who passes it on to a relative rela-tive in Black Duck, Minn. That's a pretty nice compliment, but of course Ye Editor thinks it would be nicer if they all were on the list. I am in receipt of a letter from Rodney Ashby, convention chairman chair-man for the Lions district convention con-vention recently held here. Mr. Ashby expresses the appreciation of the Lions and convention committee com-mittee for "your willing cooperation coopera-tion and efforts in helping us to make our recent Lions club convention con-vention a success". Thanks Rodney, Rod-ney, we admit that we (the News staff) did go to extra work to help in every way that we could. Oh the other hand, we wish to express our appreciation for the fine support that the Lions have always given us. The additional work made some long hours for us, but the checks we received for the work certainly gave us a big lift, when we really needed it. Three Year Books This year the News printed year books for the Woodward high, Enterprise high and Virgin Valley high at Bunkerville. This, thrown in with the Lions club work and that attending the closing of school meant that there were some mighty long hours put in at the News office. However, now that it is over, we are very 'happy to see the bank account in a healthier condition that it has been in a long time. (It's been scraping the bottom). We, of the News staff, are right proud of the work that we did on these year books, and the many fine compliments that we have received from officials of the school show that they were well pleased with the work ... Of the three books, Enterprise had the largest, (36 pages), both as to number of pages and to the number of cuts used. Woodward and Valley high books had 32 pages each. The Valley students showed that they had real salesmanship ability, when they went out and sold nearly enough ads to pay for the book. However, they had Las Vegas, a major source for their revenue as well as their own valley val-ley and St. George. The students, -who are in charge of the work on the books, get a lot of good ex- . perience. They all breath a sigh of relief when the book is finally fin-ally delivered and found to be up to their hopes and expectations. Fine Program-Meal That was a fine program that the Alumni committee presented the other night. It was interesting interest-ing all the way through, with each of the speakers presenting some fine thoughts for consideration. Mrs. Ann Robinson, Mrs. Marg Vance and their staff are to be congratulated on the fine meal that they served. It was one of the best that I have ever had at a large banquet. Hey, Youse Guys! Say Chauncey and Emil, how about that strawberry feast that you promised the Rotary club? When it comes to strawberries, I believe that Dixie's top the nation. According to reliable estimates, capacity of the steel industry by the end of this year will be approximately ap-proximately 92,000,000 tons. By the end of next year it will be 98,000,000 tons. |