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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR Some of our people do not seem to realize that tire stealing is a Federal offense and as such, if anyone is caught stealing a tire he can be sent to the Federal penitentiary for 5 years. In one recent case that has come to my attention, a tire was stolen off a trailer while the owner was away on a vacation trip. In the boy's hurry to get away, he left his tire iron. With this to work on Sheriff Antone B. Prince was able to run the case to earth and get a confession from the youth stealing steal-ing the tire. When confronted with the fact that as a tire theft criminal he could be sent to the "pen", the boy was very much insulted in-sulted to be called a criminal. One of the troubles in these cases is that no one connected with them wants to see the "criminal" get the full penalty of the law and so he goes free with a lecture. Youth in particular is tempted by what seems an easy way to get a tire, and parents and educators should bring it forcefully to their attention that this is a very serious ser-ious offense and carrys with it a very severe penatly. As tires become more scarce, the temptation tempta-tion becomes greater and some where along the line some boy will receive the full penalty. Let's educate our people so that they will not be influenced to stoop to such an offense. Incidentally Sheriff Sher-iff Prince did a fine job of running run-ning this case to earth. I don't care to enter into the coming political campaign and take sides with any candidate, but certainly Antone is entitled to credit for his work. THIS-N-THAT ... McKay Larson seems to be using us-ing his talents and making rapid progress. He, wth a lot of other Dixie lads, have shown that they have the stuff when they are given a chance to use it. . . . Ez McArthur reports that he now has three boys in Uncle Sam's Army. One, Sgt. James McArthur, is with the 160th Infantry in the Medical department; two others, Cecil and Max enlisted last Thursday Thurs-day in the Army Air Corps. Max has gone to Shepherd Field in Texas. . . . Carlos Hartley, son of Mrs. Alvaretta Stratton of Hurricane enlisted in the Naval Reserve this past week. . . . For the information of those interested in-terested we will send the News to boys in the armed forces for $1.50 a year. This is below cost, but the News force is glad to contribute this small service to those who are giving so much more. Ten copies are sent free to the boys of Company "C" at Fort Lewis, Wash. . . . Garland Gar-land Neilson of Washington and Richard Ross Michelson of Mid-dleton Mid-dleton enlisted in the Navy this week. They left Monday night on the bus for Salt Lake City, where they were given their physical examination on Tuesday. Political Pot Simmers The political pot is beginning to simmer a little this week with the Democrats holding a meeting Saturday night on the Sugar Loaf. Mrs. Roxey Romney, democratic county vice chairwoman, indicates that some of the big guns of the Democratic party will be here to line up the wavering party members' mem-bers' and get them back in the New Deal fold. Some special features fea-tures are promised. Voters are invited to come out and meet the candidates and learn why each candidate feels he should be given the vote of the people. Slightly Warm! Even Ye Editor will have to admit that it was slightly warm the last few days. Tuesday night seemed to get the nod from most people as the "hottest yet". Due to the fact that we haven't had our usual July rains, it has seemed hotter than (censored) usual. Well, it always rains sometimes and perhaps it will rain before this is published (I am writing this Wednesday Wed-nesday evening). (P. S. The linotype lino-type operator will have to make an insert here, as it is raining now and plenty hard!) School teaching seems to be a good stepping stone in Dixie. This conclusion was formed by Ye Editor Edi-tor at a recent Rotary club meeting meet-ing when a check revealed that 11 of the 14 men present started life as school teachers. The three black sheep were E. Eric Snow, Gordon Mathis and myself. Those who are or were teachers included Supt. Milton E. Moody, Pres. Glenn E. Snow, W. O. Bentley, Chauncey Sandberg, Emil Graff, Laron Andrus, president of the club; Anson B. Call, Elwood Man-waring, Man-waring, Dr. W. J. Reichmann, Maurice Miles and James V. Iliff, a guest, who is here teaching the ground school work to the Ventura Ven-tura college students. Of the other present and past Rotarians a number more could be added in the teacher group. |