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Show OREM-GENEVA TLW--S THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1948 Utah MST&T Co. Workers Honored The Utah Plant Department, comprising construction, main tenance and service personel,, of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company has been awarded the annual Safety Trophy for having the lowest accident rating in the inter mountain region from Canada lo Mexico during 1947. This is an area serving over a quarter of the entire United States in a territory where the hazards to telephone operation are perhaps more severe than in- any other major section of the country, which adds to the significance of the award. There are 18,000 telephone tel-ephone employees, 5000 of whom are in the Plant Depart-.ment, Depart-.ment, competing in this activity. activ-ity. There are also approximately approximate-ly 1200 motor vehicles in use throughout the company, their safe operation playing an Important Im-portant role in this program. The Safety Award was presented pres-ented to the Provo plant forces through Mr. Arthur Brown, Provo District Plant Superintendent, Superin-tendent, by J. J. Corlett, General Gener-al Plant Safety Supervisor, and R. II. Jones, Utah riant Employment Employ-ment Supervisor, at a meeting held in Provo on April 19. Mr. Corlett stated that safety was just sound business in dollars dol-lars and cents, but that the real 'v V" V" t success of a safety program was measured in the amount of human hum-an suffering that was avoided. The low rate of injuries to employees em-ployees in Utah during the past year was a good example of such an objective. Evil thoughts, lusts, and malicious mal-icious purposes cannot go forth, like wandering pollen, from one human mind to another, finding find-ing unsuspected lodgment, if virtue and truth build a strong defence. Mary Baker Eddy There is between my will and all offences A guard of patience. Learn to say "No"; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. Spurgeon THIS 'II THAT By Ethyl N. Ilair I HAVE A FRIEND Hi, I have a friend who, when we first met was trying to dry up Provo by drinking all the brands just about all the time. I was called in to care for his little child who was neglected, and had pneumonia. The woman who had been left with her had gone on a binge with the father. The mother was in the hospital. It was a mess. The furnace was out. The child should have been in a hospital I called a doctor and told him my predicament. He said, "I wouldn't come into that house to save an alcoholic's rhild. call another doctor." I did and he was just as disgusted as the first but ne gave me instructions in-structions as to how to care for the child and phoned to a drug store for sulfa, etc. The child is now ten vears old. Her father lacked nothing in personality or education. He had a fine job made plenty of money, belonged be-longed to the best clubs. In the last seven or eight years this man has changed he looks much the same and is charming to a degree that he could sell ice to the Eskimoes. But he has joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Now he spends his time working with people such as he once was. Talking to him recently was like talking to a ! man who was resurrected. He says that rarely indeed I does a man or woman who fol-i fol-i lows this formula fail to conquer ! the "acholic obsession." I have 'read the 12 steps, and they might apply to personality traits of people who don't drink to excess ex-cess to all of us. In this world of greed and confusion, any person per-son who wishes to find happiness happin-ess might apply the 12 steps. THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS AL-COHOLICS ANONYMOUS 1. We admit that we were powerless pow-erless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable. unmanage-able. 2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood under-stood him. 4. Made a searching and moral inventory. 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to other human beings the exact nature of their wrong. (i. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and become willing FIVE YEARS. AGO From the files of lh Orem-Geneva Timet A very sucessful Fathers and Daughters party was held by the Orem Lions club. Miss Lor-na Lor-na Call, BYU student and former for-mer resident of Mexico, enter- to make amends. 9. Made direct amends to such exceDt when to do so would injure them or others. 10. Continued to make personal invontnrv. and when wrong promptly admitted it. 11. Sought tnrougn prayer anu mpditation to improve our con- SCIOUS CUllLcJi-i. wim viuu hlj j understood mm. 12. Tried to carry this message to the alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs. af-fairs. As I think of my friend today, T know that in these 12 princip les may be found the reason for his resurrection. Just to talK to him seems like he is a glorified human being his faith is contagious. con-tagious. I sometimes wonder in what different forms Jesus walks this old earth just waiting wait-ing and trying to help all who need and want it. 1 mi P Oil 7 to IN AN ENDEAVOR to aid in halting further advances in living costs, U.S. Steel will decrease certain steel prices on May 1, 1948, to the extent of $25,000,000 annually, these price reductions being applicable so far as possible to steel products prod-ucts related to the cost of living. Announcement of these price reductions was made on April 22, 1948, concurrently with the denial by U. S. Steel of the request of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO) for a "substantial "substant-ial wage increase." United States Steel believes that costs and prices in general are too high for the good of the nation. It shares the firm conviction that American Amer-ican industry and labor should cooperatively do everything in their power to avoid further increases in-creases in costs, which if permitted to occur must result in higher prices for almost everything every-thing we buy. Certainly the best interests of all of our people will not be served by a further lowering in the purchasing power of the dollar. We are hopeful that our action in reducing the prices of a number of steel products associated associ-ated with the cost of living may have a beneficial effect throughout the nation and may be helpful in bringing about an early stabilization or reduction reduc-tion in the cost of living. If this should prove to be the outcome, everyone in this country will benefit. If, on the contrary, costs should continue to advance, then in fairness to our employees and to our stockholders we will have to consider at some later date the adequacy of both wages and steel prices under then-existing conditions. Our answer to the Union was that the granting grant-ing of its request for a "substantial wage increase" in-crease" will not in the long run bring benefit to anyone, as it will lead to similar substantial wage increases in other industries and to higher prices generally. Such a wage increase would make necessary a general advance in our steel prices. We are unwilling so to increase steel prices at this time, as we believe this would be contrary to the best interests of the nation. The Union's demand for a "subsantial wage increase" was based on increases in the cost of living. The index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Statis-tics, U. .S Department of Labor, records an increase in-crease of 67.20o in the cost of living between 1940 and February, 1948. During the same period, average straight-time hourly earnings of our steel workers rose 73.3; their average actual hourly earnings advanced 81.3 and their average aver-age actual weekly earnings advanced 91.7 These advances are substantially in excess of the increase in the cost of living during that period. . . If there is to be a halt in the surge of rising costs, there must be full and effective cooperation cooperat-ion to this end on the part of every segment of our economy. tained the group with her discussion dis-cussion of the art, literature, history and people of Mexico, i Orem Literary club members individually, subscribed to $500 worth of war bonds. It was announced that 260 of the 300 trailers complete and ready for use had been rented. The Orem City Council voted to' add one more officer to the police department to aid in the law enforcement of the city. A general clean-up of the Orem City garbage dump was decided upon by the members of the city council. EDITORIAL: With the opening open-ing of the U. S. trailer park in the heart of Orem a Post Office in Orem has become an absolute necessity .... Altogether, by autumn aut-umn Orem shall double its 1940 population of 2,995 inhabitants with a total of 6000 or more people .... It is understood that plans are now underway to es tablish a 4th class Post Office at the Orem City Hall .... The Post Office is long overdue. Nothing should stop it this time. Mrs. James Pinegar was elected el-ected president of the Alpine council of Parent Teacher Ass ociations, succeeding Mrs. C. S. Ebenstein. 1 Mrs. Dora Peterson and son, Rawl, and son, Charles, wife and children and Gloria Thomas were visitors at the C. Lucuis Laudie home. Arlington Snow underwent a major operation at the L D S hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Royal Hunter, Mrs. P. K. Nielsen and dauqht-er, dauqht-er, Elaine visited with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jones of Ogden. Mrs. Judith Bone and Mrs. Clara Burkener each completed a quilt for the Relief Society. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hunn and daughter, Frances visited with Mrs. Hunn's niece, Mrs. Marian Elmer at Payson. Mrs. Polly Harris received word that her son, Pvt. Lester Harris, was confined in a case hospital overseas, suffering from rheumatism. Milton Johnson completed his army schooling at San Diego, California and spent a short furlough fur-lough at home with his parents. Sterling Johnson of the U. S. Navy enjoyed a furlough at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Rawlings received word that their son, Verl, had arrived safely overseas. over-seas. Mrs. Nellie Ludlum of Salt Lake City spent the weekend here with Mrs. Lydia Hogan and family. fam-ily. Miss Zenda Booth of Heber City spent a few days here visiting vis-iting with Miss Irene Hansen. Orval Osier, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Osier, was promoted ,u FTrst 0Class Petty Officer in the U. S. Coast Guard. Mr .and Mrs. James Pinegar visited at Wellington with Mr Pinegar's family and other relatives. EXPANSION OF COMMUNISM IN EUROPE-ln timetable fashion, Czechosloakia became the seventh state in eastern Europ to be engulfed by the red tide of Communism. The map shows the progress of encirclement. The schedule so far: March, 1945, Yugo. slavia and Rumania; December, 1945; Albania; May, 1947, Hungary; September, 1947, Bulgaria; October, 1947, Poland; February, 19 Czechoslovakia. The speed and ease with which the Communists gained control im Prague may encourage them to take similar action elsewhere. Coffl. munism, like Fascism or Nazism and the other totalitarian ideai, seems unable to stand still. Where will it strike npx ? Jkmkm::: Mr. and Mrs. Clair Thompson cf Spanish Fork visited with Mr. and Mrs. J. Clayton Watts and family on Sunday. "Harry, do you think I am crazy because sometimes I talk to myself?" Harry: "No, but you are if you listen." 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