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Show Just Between You And Me "Red"wuson In these days of inflation, everybody is looking for a bargain, or a way to get the most for their ever shrinking dollar. The difficult thing is to tell a real bargain when you see it. Certainly price alone is no criteria. Few of us are qualified to evaluate the electronics or mechanics of a given applicance. Therefore, There-fore, it pays to deal with reliable, established businesses, busi-nesses, that you can trust, and who back up their merchandise. mer-chandise. You are more likely to find this reliability among your friends and neighbors who operate the businesses of Southern Utah, than through the volumes of mail order brochures that fill your mail box daily. And you'll find them much more sensitive to your needs and satisfaction that the cut-rate shopping centers of the metropolitan centers. They must be, because they depend upon your business busi-ness week after week, and year after year. Most of them are more than happy r to advise you, and guide you, to help you get the most for your money. We found this sign on the wall of one of these businesses busi-nesses and felt It appropriate, appropri-ate, as well as good advice. - 0 -TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE "There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. It's unwise to pay too much, but its worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money mon-ey that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable incapa-ble of doing what it was bought to do. The common law of business busi-ness balance prohibits paying pay-ing a little and getting a lot . . . It just can't be done." - 0 - And what about those giant sweepstakes to entice you to purchase everything from magazines to a home and lot in some far away paradise. Some are legitimate and some are strictly a come on. It's difficult to tell one from another. You can be sure of one thing though, the odds are huge with the legitimate sweepstakes, and you probably pay more for the merchandise than it's worth. Remember, the first obligation of any business is to stay In business, and to do that they must make a profit. - 0 - Last week's warm weather considerable flooding with melting snow waters, until the city crews could divert the water. City Foreman, Jake Schow, and Glen Rollins Rol-lins finally cut the road above the golf course to divert water from the western mountains from flooding the town. The city crew did their best to keep water out of homes, but were not entirely entire-ly successful, and some were surrounded, and some had water damage. Several basements were flooded. The warm weather helped to curtail heating bills, but by the time you read this, another snow storm will likely have covered the ground. 0 - The world situation doesn't look good, with the Iranian situation still unstable, un-stable, and China and Vietnam Viet-nam baring their teeth. The Carter idminist ration will have to walk a thin line un -til things are settled. We've got plenty of our own problems prob-lems internally, without another wartime economy to add to the inflationary spiral. |