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Show Sunday December 26, Tha Poinsetta, America's Christmas Rower, Bloomed First In Mexico By GRACE M. CANDLAND The poinsetta has been adopted as Americas Christmas flower. If you should visit San Diego, Calif, you would see an amazing sight in the 400 acre poinsetta farm which belongs to Paul Ecke. . At Christmas the farm is ablaze with crimson and resembles a great fire. Mexico is the home of the poinsetta. A wild blossom, it was first used by the natives as a holiday decoration. In fact, it is regarded as a holy flower and kdorns the cathedrals, small churches and market places at Christmas. It was during the Christmas season of 1822 that the United States minister to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett of South Carolina, Caro-lina, on a diplomatic mission for i President Monroe, first saw .the scarlet wonders which he called the painted leaf. Poinsett was a botanist as well as a statesman and when he returned home in 1823 he brought with him-several slips of the painted leaf and had them oroDosated in his home state. Soon nursery men and -florists all over the country became interested in-terested in this gay alien flora . Small gardens be can showing them and it was from these early tarts that the. modern day farm of Paul Ecke was begun. The plant finally became known as the poinsetta in honor of the man who brought it here. It's brilliant red and green leaves have come ta be a Dart of Christmas and have been accepted as a token of goodwill from our southern neign-bor. neign-bor. Mnri work ffoes in to the rais ing of the poinsetta, which is started - from a bum or irom euttinff from the mother olant. '..In 'the spring, many thousands of them are set in the ground and left there until the tops die down. It is then that tractors plow up the bulbs and they are sent all over the country. They are plant A at Easter and harvested for Christmas. In the fields, skilled cutters rush to their jobs of snipping torn a at Drooer lengths. "Run ners" pick up the blooms and rush them to the sheds where tne tips of the stems are sealed to insure their keeping. In the warehouses, ware-houses, an acid bath further preserves pre-serves the blossom and they are CL1FT VOTED MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR NEW YORK. Dec. 25 '(U.R) Montgomery Clift, 21 -year-old movie star was selected today as America's most eligible bachelor by, the Barbizon models, who last year gave the honor to Gov. James (Big Jim) Folsom of Alabama. For the first time Clark Gable did not make the list, being nosed out by airplanexbuiider Howard Hughes, who won 10th place. 1 be caecwt dead i ef NWsS n WM PwWT Utah Timber & Coal You're invited to come in and take a look at our line of quality qual-ity lumber. Compare it. You won't find better anywhere at any price. While you're here we'll show you the biggest supply of building materials ever. YOU3 t0 st attractive km at & price f$ twa a f far 4! FIRESAFE: Yoa proMcc your family; pra-Mct pra-Mct your iavwtoKnt. and tower Art ioMiraoct ram . . . wMi Mrt Militant Buohaat Modoi WARM in WINTER, COOL in SUMMER: You mv oa wiour fuel bill bacam the built-ia inulatioa of Buchner blocks moan lew beat low, piui a quieter, more cow (ortaMc home eSe year arouad. WhETHER you're ptatuuof a large comweraal building, fte home, a aaodeat eocMfe, fat age, or a farm building, m at bow yott how weeloWl be ciawt dead in one reSltiSO MATERIALS COAL KUT 1 i i- CUf , " 1948 SUNDAY HERALD stood in deep cans of water until early December when they are packed in dry-ice and transport ed to all parts of the nation. ' Mr. Ecke has improved the variety until he now has a double blossom which be calls the "Hen rietta" in honor of his mother. The Mexican natives call the poinsetta, "Flower of the Na tivity." A poinsetta may be kept if it is kept warm and given plenty of liquid fertilizer. Letters To The Editor BAD ROADS NOT MAIN CAUSE OF ACCTOENTS Editor Herald: Very well done as far as you have gone Mr. Baker, that was a splendid piece of truth with which you filled up the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR column in the Sunday Herald, every word about the condition of our highways and safety of the present traffic is perfectly true as you put it. To be sure, our highways are be-tiig be-tiig badly neglected. The system of keeping the roads in a safe condition for travelers is poor. se me bad holes which coald easily eas-ily cause the breaking of an axle, many places need good strong railing, other dangerous places need widening, etc. and as you say, a ' center curbing in many places would be a safeguard. But there is one remark in your statement state-ment which does not quite fill the bill to my point of view. You claim the condition of our highways high-ways are the cause of most of the accidents. I differ with you there. I claim that jell over fifty percent of our highway accidents cccur from two causes, namely, cureless driving, and overspeed-ing. overspeed-ing. Of course, I can see and understand under-stand your point of view, in complaining com-plaining of the many improvements improve-ments of which we are in need along our highways for more safety driving. Much could be done with not a very great cost, to make it a much safer race track. I think our best bet to save lives, IF that is the aim of our people, is to have the mechanical mechani-cal make in the speed of cars reduced. re-duced. Why it seems as though the people think the time is running run-ning away from them, and they can't keep -up with it. I am giving giv-ing this as I see it with my own eye, if I was a speed cop and had the authority to pick up all the overspeeders in this canyon I'd have a corral full. But it seems a lot of our people will never learn. Just to show you the inclination cf i large portion of our people for speeding, what do you suppose would happen if all speed signs along the highways were taken down, and all speed cops1 retire? Why there would soon be a worse calamity in our nation than the bomb at Hiroshima. Very few people seem to be able to control con-trol their own good judgment in that line. They must have, or depend de-pend on, someone else to come up and tell them they are driving driv-ing too fast for their safety. I do not drive sf car now, but I used to, and when I did, no one had need to tell me I was driving too fast for my safety. If all people were of my calibre we would need no speed signs, or speed cops, ! But probably speed cops would not like that. However, the best plan for the safety driving of anyone, is to bear in mind that all other drivers driv-ers are crazy. Y. M. Offret, Wildwood. SALES TAX UNFAIR TO LOWER INCOME CLASSES . Editor Herald: The sales tax planners appear about as confident as were the polesters and the Republicans before be-fore the election, and they ought to meet the same fate. Sales taxes shift the burden from those able to pay and place it on those unable to pay. . All wealth comes from produc tion. It is produced by social labor. Under our system of "free enterprise" there is but one kind of tax that is near equitable; and that is the income tax. It alone places the burden on those most able to pay. A system of graduated grad-uated Income taxes would supply all the funds necessary for the ECONOMICAL: Vu r '" f .r --- - ...-! va wwttm gw pw vw w Moki t win aWf are targe an4 lightweight. eat be OURADLD: You OuUd for nrrnuoaejoa 1 Buchner block beciuw they aemaUy i acroate in wrengm with) age. Buetiacr'e modem Vibrapac uniform Mocfc' fl A Good Job Well Done :.';'::'. If. ; . v ' ,r f - , r i i , - . " ' T 1 't N -7"' 1 - " t i 'f. - A ? - .' , v.- v t 1. ' - 1 Santa Claus, Miss Leon a Mayberry who manned the Snb-For-Santa desk in the Daily Herald office, and Provo Fire Chief Lloyd B. Dickson look over the completed Sub-For-Santa, list containing: con-taining: better than 150 needy Provo children who received something on Christmas morning as a result of the prorram. Emergency UN Session Monday PARIS. Dec. 25 (U.R) The United Nations security council decided Friday to meetn emerg ency session at 3 p. m. (9 a. m. EST) Monday to consider alleged Jewish violations of the truce in Palestine. -The meeting was called at the demand of Syria, which asked that it be held, this afternoon. Only Colombia and China sup ported the Syrian request for a meeting immediately. The other council member abstained. Finally Final-ly they decided without a vote to meet Monday. cost of government and social services; and would prevent the accumulation of wealth for the few and poverty for the many. Sales taxes are the exact oppo- i site of income taxes. They are an outgo tax. The rich have the incomes; in-comes; the poor the; outgoes. The poor person having a wage of say $2500 a year has to' spend all he earns to pay the cost of Hying. So he is taxed 100 per cent by the sales tax. The rich person who gets say $100,000 doesn't have to spend more than 10 per cent of what he gets tp pay the cost of living. So he is taxed only 10 per cent by the sales tax. All these grand plans to levy sales faxes for cities, counties and what riot are the plans of the big corporations and the little politicians. poli-ticians. They should be exposed for what they are, namely attempts at-tempts to dodge taxes by the rich and have them fall on the poor. The common people --should or ganize and .fight the plans for sales taxes for cities, counties etc. Income taxes, the severance tax or resources tax, excess profits taxes etc. should be provided. No sales taxes should be imposed. E, A. MITCHELL AJfr v CT0OM nvce zr''j "Achmed's quitting his bed of nails since INTERMOUNTAIN HOUSING AND INSURANCE COMPANY found him this furnished house with-the wonderful bed in it." In the year 1949, We will make every effort to continue con-tinue to Merit your good will, loyalty and continued support and in return, we pledge to improve our service to you: By continuing to work together we may all look forward to a bigger and better year in 1949. ' " ' r : V It is with heartfelt thanks and appreciation that we wish you ail a HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. ' " t ' '' ' - .' , Jl -T 1 th Si Business Census Slated Jn March A . business census to include Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Tooele counties will be undertaken in late March or early April, according ac-cording to advice from the Salt PRICES STILL CLIMBING IN LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25 (U.R) Food prices declined in Denver, Den-ver, Butte, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City and San Francisco last month, the U. S. bureau of labor statistics reported today, but in Los Angeles, the overall consumer price indexhit an all-time peak. A pheasant flies faster than a grouse. ' x Low Cost C AS HI LOANS $5 " a month repays $50 loan $10.05 monthly repays $100 $20.14 monthly repays $20 $30.21 monthly repays $300 OFFICE HOURS a a. m. to S D- m. dally t a. m. to l p. m. Saturday Appointments may. b mad . for after hours. Phono S7S. KEN HOUSTON J Manager Lake district office of the U. S. Census Bureau. In charge of the census will be Milton E. Allred, district supervisor, who ,is leaving leav-ing for San Francisco, early in January for a four weeks' technical tech-nical training session. Upon his return he will employ and train a crew of enumerators, after which the actual enumeration of all retail, wholesale and service establishments in the four counties coun-ties will begin. 'a- I NrrW , 0,aoffnerbr W YS nter 'operator. For the kind of core that will keep your ear rolling yoor neighborhood Utoco station man is tho man to know. He knows ear thoroughly and has wharf they need. He also knows that real motoring servico today covers a lot more than gasoline and oil. Thafs why he always makes such a special effort to give you the kind of service you liko and want the personalised service which Utoco stations and dealers' conscientiously strive to deliver. Yes, you get finer, products plus finer, personalized service whenever you drive in at the Utoco ign! (I T A H O I L REFINING COMPANY Thera's a 'pbs for you in pttrcbsa prcsress City Recreation Heads Sponsor Alta Ski The Provo recreation department depart-ment will run a ski bus to Alta Monday, it was announced today Service Station Bandit Scared Off By Attendant SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 25 (U.R) A masked bandit who tried to rob a service station here Thursday Thurs-day night, was scared off by the quick thinking of the attendant. A. Higgins, told officers the man first asked him for some diesel fuel, which was at the rear of the station. .Higeins said when he started for the fuel,, the tnug told him, "This is a stickup. and demanded the money from the cash register. Higgins said he backed, into the station, locked the door, and called cal-led the police. The gunman fired one- wild shot and ran, Higgs said. Reds Withdraw From Tientsin NANKING. Dec. 25 (U.R) Chi nese Communist forces were reported re-ported today to have withdrawn from the outskirts of besieged Tientsin, easing the immediate .threat to North China's second largest city. A new danger threatened Tientsin's lifeline to the sea, however. A govefnment spokes man said Communist forces have moved up to within rifle shot of strategic Tangku harbor, outlet of the the" Ha i river 38 miles downstream from Tientsin. The spokesman said National- 1st forces evacuated the outpost of Hsinho, within easy rifle range of Tangku- harbor last night as the Reds brought up strong forces for a direct assault on the port. Capture of the port would complete the encirclement of Tientsin. SAD CHRISTMAS FOR THIS FAMILY DETROIT, Dec. 25 (U.R) Fred Leninger, 29, auto worker, took a few drinks with the boys on the job before leaving to get a Christmas tree for his three youngsters. , He called his wife, telling her he would be home shortly with the tree. But on the way, his car crashed into a telephone pole and he was arrested for drunk driving at suburban Belleville. ' A few minutes after he was locked in a cell, he hanged him- iself. Drive in at the Torch of Service and fill up with Pep 88 Gasoline the gasoline that's right for the season rcfincry-balanced to best performance weight for cold weather driving. ' Faster starting. No spluttering, bucking, stalling.; Silk-smooth engine performance at eveiy speed. j More miles between fill-ups. A tankful will show yqu the difference by Jessie Schofield, city recreation recre-ation department.- Miss Schofield said It was de cided to run the bus to Alta after it was learned that the Salt Lake Winter Sports association would make it possible for skiers from grade school to university age to use the tows at the famed Utah winter sports resort free of charge on that day. The bus will leave the city and county building at 9 a. m., and will make stops at 5th North and University, avenue and Lincoln high school in Orem. The round trip will cost $1.50. . Since the recreation office will be closed over the weekend, Miss schofield said it will not be ne -cessary for skiers to register, but she suggested that university and high school students take thir student stu-dent activity cards along with them. "I don't recommend Monday's trip to Alta for those youngsters who get new equipment for Christmas and are just learning to ski," the recreation leader said-. mis It's a smart rran that knows where to get the best values. Here at AHLANDER'S we believe be-lieve in giving full value. In our radiator repair department our expert mechanics combine their skill with top rate materials ma-terials to spell value. If your auto radiator needs repairing or recording, it will be to your advantage to try our service values today. AHLANDER'S 490 South Univ. Avenue PHONE 3700 Journey "There will be no supervision or. instruction given." The recreation department also will run a bus to Timp Haven Wednesday instead of Tuesday as originally planned, if enough sign up by Tuesday at 5 p. m. Reservations . may be made by. contacting the recreation office in' the city offices . building.-. The ; telephone is 2021.. ' ' . The :bus will leave the city and county building at 9 a. m. HEWS VIEWS By L. C Dunn For ladies who are too tired or too scared to scream when they're in trouble there's a new gadget on the market that'a as handy as a Boy Scout. It's about as big as a watch and can be carried in the purse or laid on a table beside be-side the bed. If a Peeping Tom is peeping a- little switch throws - the gadget into high gear and it lets out a scream like a Banshee Ban-shee getting a hotfoot. Now it's suggested the gadgeteers go a step farther and make one that says "Yes, Dear" over and oveKfor hen-pecked husbands. Or one that screams "Don't!' every 30 seconds for parents of small children. It could be a boon. An English farmer dropped drop-ped a wallet containing $160 and one of his pigs gulped it down. Instead of a "pig in a poke", he's stuck with a poke in a pig. Pigs remind us of squeals, and that reminds us that squealing squeal-ing brakes are worn brakes. Bring them in to PROVO LINCOLN & MERCURY CO., 1150 North 5th West. Our name may be changed, but nothing else. You still get that efficient, courteaus service and expert workmanship. work-manship. We'd like to wish all Our old and new friends a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Stop in soon! and 2307. Phone: 2306 4 V |