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Show Page Twelve The Springvilb Herald January 10, 1974 J 8J LA6NAIPPE By Betty McMillan What's the everyday person going to do : Seems this upside down world is changing faster than most of us can keep up with. I was reading recently that four out of every 10 wives are working at a job outside the home now. Seems that rises in costs are forcing many women of all ages back into working. Where in a lot of cases in the past the woman worked only in order to buy those "little extras", or as in my case, when the last child started to school (one can go nuts in a quiet house with no one at home.) However, even then, I only worked half a day, until Kevin was of junior high school age. Also read that one of the most going businesses is the business of child tending (we call it baby-sitting in the south no matter how. old the 'baby' was) for working mothers. Many mothers are working because they would prefer to keep food on the table and keep their children warm. Seems the husband's salary goes for "little things", like the house payment, the car payment, the dentist, junior's college or his mission. Like that popular song of a few years ago said, "What goes up must come down", similar to the arrow, but all I want to know is just now high is "up". All of this is fired up because when I filled my gasoline tank today, where at one time it cost me about eight dollars, today, it lacked only a few cents of being ten dollars. Taint right. Guess the new generation of millionaries will be the gas station owners. Ah ha, guess that will bring in a flood of irate letters, but bring them on. Just fooling. But seriously, I wonder what amount is legal in gas prices, seems every station has a different price. I think the public has been trusting too long. To many of us, are used to gliding up to the gas pump saying, "fill her little tummy with regular, please", signing the ticket, and off we go, "never paying no mind to the prices." Now suddenly like, pow, a fortune it takes to ride from here to Salt Lake City. And to make it worse, the television shows are ROTTEN. And even the movie prices are so high that one cannot attend without a guilty feeling that perhaps you are taking the dog food out of your dog's mouth. Which comes to another question, how on earth do people with large dogs afford to feed them? My "old fat dachshund named Pizza" only eats half a can of dog food a day, but this runs up. And she "sho nuf ain't finiky bout her vittles, no sufr. She eats anything what don't eat her first". We attribute it to the fact that she is 12 years and maybe getting senile. (Do dogs get senile?). Still the fact remains that she is a glutton. Back to television do you realize that some of those dumb shows are already repeating before the year is even started? This is sheer laziness, as by next fall we will be so tired of reruns of the reruns that we will be able to recite the actor's lines along with them. Why don't they just have a few prime hours on tv like in England and get some really good shows. Just about the time a good series gets to going someone comes along and cancels it either because it is too sexy or because it is not sexy enough. What do they want, an egg in their beer? Dumb reasons like that. ' They (I love that word "they", as one can blame anything on "they") say they are trying to appeal to the age group that purchases more products advertised, ad-vertised, but can't seem to decide just what that age group is. I must be in a grouchy mood, as another thing that is bugging me is the fact they decided to let those horrid triple trailers get on Utah roads. Maybe this is not so bad on a road with several lanes, but on a simple two-way traffic road, ever try to get past one? It is next to impossible. Besides these heavy monsters are absolutely tearing up our highways. high-ways. Anything that big and heavy belongs on railroad tracks that were built to carry the such. Remember the railroads, well, it seems they are coming back into their own, and I wish they would hurry. The railroads in Japan and Europe have re-vamped and set up some real snazzy traveling. I under stand that the Rocky Mountains have been a problem for years to transport goods across, but where these trucks chug and choke, the engines with two or three power units behind them just wizz on their merry ways. This is because the rails had been laid in a manner that places not as much strain as some of the roads do. Admittedly the new interstates are helping, but not many states have finished building all of theirs. Another thing that puzzles me is why do so many trains get derailed up here? In Texas it was a comparatively com-paratively rare thing, not many seemed to get-derailed. get-derailed. And I am not "just whistling Dixie", as my daddy was a railroad engineer, and I cut my baby teeth on his time schedules and the railroad labor unions. Again it is gem time. 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