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Show 1 JEverbofc's 1 IRummator In which anyone and everyone is invited to express their opin-( opin-( ion about anything and every- j thing that will help Blilford so long as they "don't cuss no one out" that privilege is reserved. Mr. Karl Carlton of Los Angeles, for many years editor ed-itor and owner of The News and the Beaver Press, is in town, visiting at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, I Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carlton. I The former editor dropped in at The News office about press time Thursday, and promised I us a feature story for next . i week's edition on "Milford , Then and Now." i ' Mr. Carlton said he "don't j know whether one or two col umns will be enough to tell i about all the changes thai have I taken place since I first was a citizen of Milford." LADIES, BUY ALL THE SUGAR YOU WANT The Department of Agriculture Agri-culture boys who are handling sugar rationing beat Congress to the punch last night, when sugar rationing came to an end at midnight. Congress was moving pretty swiftly toward the demise of the final rationed ra-tioned commodity. Price control con-trol is retained, but that, too, will probably end soon, removing re-moving the final wartime restrictions re-strictions on the pursestrings and purchasing privileges of r the American people. 1 The sixth annual , United Service to China appeal for aid to a friendly peoples has begun. The campaign will run until July 1, with Mrs. Loretta - Cline directing the appeal to the Milford Valley citizens. Unlike previous fund-raising campaigns, the United Service to China drive will not feature a house - to - house and business block solicitation. Rather, direct di-rect mail contacts will be used, with Mrs. Cline mailing literature litera-ture to individuals, and enclos-ng enclos-ng a handy, self-addressed envelope en-velope in which contributions may be mailed. China, the oldest nation in the world, and probably the most backward, most undeveloped of I the civilized nations, is probably S the most needy nation on the ' face of the earth. Torn by inter nal dissension when this nation was at war with one of their traditional enemies, they forgot their own discord laid their persolan wars aside to aid us in our fight against Japan. Hundreds Hun-dreds of American lives were saved by these ancient peoples, who risked their own skins to hide our boys from the Japs and eventually return them, usually with their wounds healed and in sound body, to their own lines. Now it is time for us to repay them. Dollars contributed to China relief thru the United Service to China will be spend in supplying badly needed medical med-ical aid, feeding the hungry children chil-dren of this over-populated nation, na-tion, setting up recreation and health centers for the children, assisting in planting and harvesting harvest-ing crops, and in education for the growing children. A contribution mailed in the envelope you will receive from Mrs. Cline will be spent in helping others, who have helped us, to help themselves. e v e Ruminator enjoyed a visil and a long chat a few days ago with Mrs. Susan Glenn, registrar of vital statistics for this area. The main topic of conversation was birth certificates. Those who served in the armed forces, and others who 1 have been called upon to show positive proof of birth, know the value of birth certificates. We remember Will Rogers once running into difficulties with , passport bureau officials whe insisted on proof of birth before (Continued on Back Page) HERE'S MORE ABOUT ! RUM1NAT0R (Continued from Page One) I i . birth, 53 per cent of the names were obtained after the parents I received the query form, and 35.6 of the parents completely ignored the efforts of the state and federal governments to furnish fur-nish the parents with authentic birth certificates for their children. chil-dren. rarer! Is should realize that government agencies and th-armed th-armed forces will not accep; church birth certificates in lieu ot those filed with the state divi sion of vital statistics, and when the name is not shown on the birth certificate, complications always arise. rarents will save themselves and their children future trouble if thev see to it that the child is ! named at birth, make sure that the correct name is entered on hc state birth certificate, and have the same name given to the child when christened in a churt'h. A few years oack the royal I family of England started a cam- paign to get their subjects to issue "more common" names to their offspring, and leave the fancier" handles for princes and princesses and other blue-bloods. ' The State of Utah doesn't give a j hang whether you name your I son Mike or Archibald or Ferdi-j Ferdi-j nand or Johnnie, but they do want you to name him, and name ! him within a few days after i birth. And you'll be saving him a lot of future trouble if you do. issuing a passport to the great humorist. But Will was deadly serious when he told the clerk, "Heck, I'm here ain't I? Ain't that proof that I was born?" And when the clerk, in lieu of a birth ! certificate, suggested maybe Will could produce a friend who would swear he knew all about when and where the flabbergasted flabbergast-ed Oklahoman first saw the light j of day, Will replied that "It wasn't quite a public event. We sort of kept those things private in those days." A birth certificate, now more than ever, is a vital necessity. The main trouble, it seems, is that parents can't figure out a name for the offspring. It seems the blessed event was sort of a i surprise to them, and they didn't have time- to figure out a name. Of course, every dad wants his son named for him, but it don't do any harm to figure maybe you guessed wrong, and it just could be a girl. That way you could have a name all picked j out and do both the bureau of vital statistics and the offspring, a big favor by namng him or her a few days after birth, and being be-ing certain that the youngster will reeclve an authentic birth certificate. We quote from a letter Mrs. Glenn received: Whether or not a newly born baby is to be blessed or named in a church, it is important that the baby's name is entered on the birth certificate which is filled out a few days after birth. Parents who do not believe it necessary to name their child until he is old enough to be taken to a church service are committing a serious error. A name previously decided upon should be entered on the birth certificate when the mother is interviewed after the birth of a child, and it should be considered his permanent name. With the exception of Salt Lake City (where the mother is Mr. Jack Sargent of Salt Lake City, manager of the Horn Silver Sil-ver and other Milford area mining min-ing companies, has been in Milford Mil-ford the past week attending to business. personally contacted by the Vital Statistics office), the State Division of Vital Statistics, in conjunction with the U. S. Bureau Bu-reau of Census, mails to the parents par-ents a photostat copy of the birth certificate, a blank form on which corrections or additions to the record may be made, and a postage-free envelope for the re turn of this information. In spite of this effort to secure complete com-plete and correct birth certificates, certifi-cates, results have not been satisfactory. sat-isfactory. A survey conducted on births which occurred in Og-den, Og-den, and may be considered typical typ-ical of the state, shows that of 174 births in February, only 8.6 of the children were named at |