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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR This 'N That That was ' surely a fine Fathers and Sons program put over by the district Scout leaders on last Thursday night. There were, more fathers and sons present than at any other one held ' here since" I have been attending them. There is one constructive criticism I would like to offer, and that is that the program be cut shorter. The one Thursday stretched out over a 2V2 hour Deriod. This seems to me to be at least an hour too long. I have had a number of people make the same comment to me about this program pro-gram and others held down through the years. . . Dixie is really having some of its famous winter weather. We have been able to leave the front door of the News Office open each afternoon after-noon now for sometime. These beautiful warm sunny days are something to write about. . . Coach Monte D. Bailey of Cedar City was heard to make the comment com-ment before the game with Dixie last Friday night that he expected ex-pected a harder game with Dixie, even though they were almost on the bottom rung of the ladder in the Dixie district, than he did with Kanab the next night. When asked if he thought the Dixie boys played harder against his team than they did against others, he intimated that it must be so . . . Cedar really ran into hard luck loosing to Dixie and Kanab by one and two points, with the winning points in both cases being made via the free throw route. . . A real hand should be given Enterprise for their showing this year. With only a handful of students to choose from, Coach Heber Holt has produced pro-duced a fine team. If they maintain main-tain their present position in second place, they will get a chance at the play-off with the Millard district team and if they win that they can go to the state tournament. Here's wishing them the best of luck. . . Melvin Woodard really came through in the pinch the other night when he pitched in both of his free throws to win the game for Dixie. Boy, I would hate to have been in his shoes! . . . It's garden time again, but there will be no garden this year for the Simpsons it's "agin" the doctor's orders. Anyone Any-one interested in a good garden spot, please contact said Simpsons. Simp-sons. . . There seems to be a "house-selling fever" sweeping the town. We are all willing to sell providing we get enough that we feel the other fellow wants our homes worse than we do. f r Kindliness and Friendship The kindness and helpful friendliness friend-liness of the Dixie people was j brought forceably to my attention atten-tion in my recent illness. Everyone Every-one was most cooperative and willing to help. We were, gone five weeks and when we got back Dixie surely looked good to all of us. . . Dr. L. W. McGregor, one of Dixie's sons, certainly proved a real friend to us when ' we ran into trouble in L. A. He took over our health problems and did everything possible to provide ,' the- finest medical care. . . Incidentally when the nurse was taking the information for the hospital records, I gave St. George as my home address. She immediately im-mediately smiled and said, "No wonder you are one of Dr. McGregor's Mc-Gregor's patients." She went on to say that she was connected with the hospital when the "McGregor "Mc-Gregor Boys" were serving their internship there. and that she and the rest of the staff had a soft place in their hearts for them. Two of the first three nurses I came in contact with also were there when Mac and Alpine were. They commented highly on the skill and abilities of both. The fact that they knew and remembered remem-bered them gave us a friendly interest something that is a big help when one is in a big city hospital a long ways from home. . . . Hazel and I both had talks with Mary Whitehurst and Jerry dropped in at the hospital for a chat with us, all of which helped bring the old spirits out of the cellar. (I don't mean the alcoholic variety either.) . . My experience with doctors brings to me an appreciation of why they have always been held in high regard down through the years. Here at home, Dr. W. J. Reichmann has been a true friend and doctor, coming to my assistance assist-ance at any hour of the day or night. . . When they talk about socialized medicine, I always wonder won-der if there isn't a danger of breaking down the fine tradition of service to their patients that Doctors have shown. It would seem like a system of insurance whereby the individual could choose his own doctor would be a much better solution. |