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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR John R. Wallis called up to say that we gave him too much credit in our story on Mrs. Wallis and his wedding aniversary.. He states that it was his brother who was editor in Provo, and not he. He worked there between four and five years, but never edited a paper there. Perhaps we gave him too much credit in that respect, re-spect, but one thing sure, John R. Wallis was noted for publishing publish-ing one of the best weekly papers in the state when he was owner and published of the News. Last week. Maurice Miles dropped drop-ped in and asked me if I would like to take an airplane ride with him. I jumped at the chance and the result was that Maurice took me for a ride up over Snow's Canyon then back down the canyon can-yon along the hills north, of Highway High-way 91. From there we swung across to where we could see the Apex and from there east to the airnnrt Thp trin took ahout an hour, and anyone knowing that country can imagine how long it would have taken to cover the same distance on the ground. . . . I have always been an airplane enthusiast. I believe that after the war many of us will have our planes to make our trips to the parks, into Salt Lake and Los Angeles and other long trips. Travel by air is so much easier, cleaner, faster than ground travel that for long trips it will step into the picture in a large way. ... Of course, having a bum heart, they probably won't give me a license to pilot a plane, but I bet I sure make a good backseat back-seat driver. Since we got into war more Americans have died on the highways high-ways than on the battlefields. News from Service Boys One of the Army boys writes that he reads the News so thoroughly thor-oughly and so many times that he believes that he can almost repeat each issue by heart, including in-cluding the advertisements. When one is as lonesome as some of the boys are, it is easy to see how they are so vitally interested in the news from home. That is one reason that we of the News staff are trying so hard these days to put out the best possible paper. . . . Credit should go to Miss Mable Jarvis for the column, "News from Our People In the Armed Forces". She is the one who writes most of the items that go into this column. . . . Please don't hesitate to tell us of any news you have regarding your boy or girl in the service. Sometimes this news crowds out other items, but we believe that it should have first choice today. We sometimes find it necessary to hold an item over a week, but we make it a ' point to always get the Service news in if possible. pos-sible. Political Pot-pourri Two of St. George's political parties are presenting their tickets and Party Platforms in ads appearing ap-pearing in this week's issue of the News. I would suggest that News readers check these two tickets and also the platforms. While it is often said that Party Platforms mean little, at least they do give an insight as to the awareness of the problems that the candidates would face if elected. If the platform is sound and feasible, it at least shows that the candidates know the situation sit-uation and have given some thought as to ways and means of improving it. Both of these platforms indicate that study has been made of this city's problems, prob-lems, both present and future. . . . The Democrats present three candidates who are out for reelection. re-election. They can be judged by the voters on the job that they have done. These candidates are: E. Eric Snow, 2-year councilman; H. R. Bentley, recorder and Mrs. Annie Webb, treasurer. . . . The Republicans are presenting an entirely en-tirely new ticket so far as present holders of office are concerned. However, many of them have held civic positions before, so that they know the ropes, and can be judged by voters on their past records. . . . The Democrats are presenting two young men in Wesley A. Nelson and Maurice J. Miles. The Republicans have Karl Hutchings and Clark Blake. . . . The Citizens Party has indicated indi-cated that they will present their platform and candidates in next week's issue of the News. Four of the group: Mayor D. C. Watson, Wat-son, H. Val Hafen, Bryan Lund and Joseph T. Atkin are present encumbents and can be judged on their past record. ... All three parties are presenting good men and women. It will therefore be up to the voters of this community com-munity to indicate their choice at the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 2nd. |