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Show OREM-GENEVA TIMES TIIUSRDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1048 Published Every Thursday at Orem, Utah M- NEFF SMART, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter November 19, 1944 at the postoffice Bt Orem. Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. MEMBER: Utah State Press Association Subscription Rates: One year, strictly in advance S300 Six Months 2 0 DON'T LET DEATH TAKE YOUR HOLIDAY! Is your Christmas gift list all made out? Waft a min ute here's something you may have forgotten. How about giving one extra gift this year? No, we can't tell you who to give it to. That's up to you. Maybe you will give it to your, wife or husband, or one of your children, or a complete stranger. You may even end up giving it to yourself. The gift is life! Each year hundreds of persons are killed by accidents during the Christmas-New Year's holiday celebration. Most of these deaths and injuries are in traffic mishaps. The National Safety Council has found that the traffic death toll on Christmas is (two or three times the annual daily average the most dangerous single period of the year. You may be one of the many drivers and pedestrians who will have it in his power to give a gift of life this Christmas. How? Well, if you refuse to take that holiday drink before you get behind the wheel you may be giving life to someone. If you don't try to pass that car on the hill life can be your gift. If you slow down when you see that pedestrian step hesitantly from the, curb you may give the best present pres-ent of all. It is an ironic fact that the most joyous season of the year is the one most likely to bring traffic tragedy. The reasons are simple, but too often overlooked. Family gatherings and other festivities" of the year-end year-end holiday season bring about the peak travel of the winter, and when more cars are on the move, there is more chance of an accident. Early darkness plus bad weather add up to poor visibility. visib-ility. Fogged windshields also make it difficult to see and avoid accident situations. - The good fellowship of the season stimulates more drinking, and too often the celebrants clink glasses with death. Rain, snow and ice. when they are present during the holiday, mean slippery streets and highways. Thousands Thous-ands of drivers still fail to adjust their speed to such adverse ad-verse condtions. - So get out that Christmas list again and write down one more' gift ently and safely "'TIS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS Automobile Scrappage Sorappago of motor vehicles in the 23-year period, 1925 through 1947, averages nearly two million units a year, R. L. Pollf and Co.re ports. However, the scrappape ratp y m recent years has .pccxi sreatly. ri .J.....l ITM a i i . it. nn ... . . i i k icuuueu. ine LULai in ins zz vpars the lite you may give u you anve prua was 4, fil7 j,., consis1i " nt il.VTZ.ysi passenger caTS-EncTl.-674.134 trucks. AMD ALL THROUGH TeiHOUSE H ii . 'ill; 8 1 ! WATERFOWL SHIPPING NOW PROHIBITED Salt Lake City The State Fish and Game Department today to-day warned hunters that shipment ship-ment of all waterfowl is now prohibited by state and federal law. Hunters, a state spokes.nan said, were able to ship ducks and geese only 48 hours after the season closed in Utah on December 7. Hunters have until March 7 to get rid of all their 1948 waterfowl. water-fowl. After this date it will be unlawful to possess waterfowl of any kind-Reason kind-Reason for the shipping restrictions, res-trictions, the spokesman pointed point-ed out. is to protect a person from over-possession of water fowl. If he has a possession limit lim-it of ten birds in his locker and a friend sends him five more he would be subject to prosecution prosecu-tion under state and federal laws. Not So Cold Mean temperature of Idaho Is 56 degrees, milder by S degrees than Ohio and 12 degress milder than Main and New Hampshire. tons Tine Ri-tween Drinks Camels can drink '2 to IS gallons of water in half an hour and carry seeral hundred pounds 300 miles or more without drinking. Annual Ring of Trees A new ring of wood is added to the outside of a tree each year. This Is called an annual ring and the variation In the rate of growth of the cells gives us the spring wood and summer wood so frequently fre-quently referred to in determining the quality of lumber. Women Take to Sawing Before the war approximately 45 million patterns were sold as compared com-pared to 1C8 million In 1947. Horns sewers bought SO million dollars worth of patterns in 1947. One pattern pat-tern company reported net tales last year of $9,319,737, and said that its sewing book has been purchased by 250,000 home sewers and printed In three languages. Sale of yard goods In 1047 represented an Increase In-crease of 300 per cent over 1940 and the sewing women and girls spent eight million dollars in sewing sew-ing classes and clinics. We do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render' , The deeds of mercy. Shakespeare When Ua'io Was Young For the first theatrical produc tion In Idaho territory, "William Tall," two men had to travel 46 mils to secure fiddle strlnri for us In the musical numbers. ARNOLD JJARBERING AGAIN! P 0 jJfeui flEl Professional Barbering NO RUSH JOBS WELL FITTED AS WELL AS WELL CUT LOCATED 2 BLKS. SOUTH OF LINCOLN HIGH ,SCHOOL "HAUNTED HOUSE" POSTPONED The Orem Stake MIA officers announced this week that the three-act play. "The Haunted House," which was slated for Tuesday and cancelled, will be presented sometime during the holidays. Refrigeration Frost Frost on the freezing compartment compart-ment of electric refrigerators has no chemical impurities because It is condensed from moisture in the air. , f i rfnuy asaingran li! Mimmmm i m WADE EXCLUSIVELY BY :;WlikjHMM(0N J iS tirlTH heavy budgetary expendi-tures expendi-tures coming up before the next congress for national defense, which Includes the Marshall plan and other oth-er foreign aid, the word has gone out to governmental agencies from President Pres-ident Truman's executive department depart-ment to slash expenditures to the bone. As a matter of fact, for the 100 Hscal year which starts next Ju'y 1, the order has been that governmental gov-ernmental agencies must cut to absorb ab-sorb the pay increases for personnel wh;.;'i was granted by the 80th congress. con-gress. 7i,"7--v"fif rairrv"v that most federal agencies received a $330 annual an-nual pay Increase for federal workers work-ers with a flat $450 annual boost being be-ing given the post oSice department at the hands of the 80th congress. The postoffice department, however, how-ever, is one department which is expected ex-pected to be 6 en additional funds to meet Its pay raises. This depart-, ment runs in the red anyway and alt'-.oug':'. the department annually asks corijress to give it sufficient revenuss to put it on a paying basis, the congress, looking to the folks back home who might kick about additional postage costs In either first, se0i-d or third class mr-.lls merely f irks over deliclts each year In the form of subsidies to the de partment. Senator Wl'lt.im E. Jenner (R.p Ind.) has gathered a lot of evidence in election Investigations which he likely will never use. Senator Jenner is chairman of a sub-committee of the senate privileges and elections committee and has been lnvestlgat-lr? lnvestlgat-lr? senatori&l elections in West Virgin: Vir-gin: i, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma and other states. The GOP plan was that if Democrats won in these stater, the Rsoublican majority In the senate would question their election elec-tion and hold up the swearing-in process. Hoyever, the Democratic senatorial candidates won not only In these states but in enough other states to give the Democrats a ma-jorH" ma-jorH" In the senate so now the possibility pos-sibility of any long dtawn-out election elec-tion cont"?t r-galnst these Democrats is virlurlly euntnated and party reorganisation re-organisation of the senate will likely take place on a cut-and-drled basis, but with the Democrats in command. There is every livelihood that the next congress early on its agenda wUl take up extension of the reci procal trade agreements act on a three-year basts as wns dPM r''' to the action of the 80th congress The last congress made an extension exten-sion of only one year and hemmed the power of the President to such an extent that his action was dependent de-pendent only upon congressional approval. ap-proval. Most trade organizations and lobbying or pressure groups favor the extension of the reciprocal trade act as originally proposed but strangely enough while large business organizations organ-izations are for the extension, soma of the smaller business trade group's are rpainrf or snlit on their stand 'toward extension. 1 " Another revision of exlstln; law likely to be taken up early in tht session will be that of the enlaced persons act. This act was the only law of the 80th congress which Governor Gov-ernor Thomas E. Dewey, the GOP presidential candidate asked to bf revised at the .hands of the Repub lican majority. Mainly through th' opposition of Ecna'.or Chpmnr Revercomb (R., West Va.), however no revision was forthcoming aw' Senator Revercomb was defeated it1 reelection. Some Democratic leader" claim the act as now constituted discriminates dis-criminates against Catholics am' Jews and other European national who fled before the Russians to coii centra tion camps. There Is considerable discussion ' Washington tills week over possibir congressional action toward revisloi. of the charter of the United Nation.-in Nation.-in some respects. While congressional action cannot actually revise the the charter, a congressional resolution resolu-tion placed before the United Nations Na-tions body to be voted upon by thr.t organization might have standing with members and delegates. T!e American Legion and the Am vets have adopted resolutions urging . modified use of the veto power, usoJ so consistently by Russia, and ar-arms ar-arms production limitation, and tb Legion Is demanding adoption of ti" United States formula for atom control con-trol and the creation of a world r" lice force under the Security Cou:. cil. The American Federation of Lab -. adopted a resolution asking the I social and economic council to inti v duce a measure making it a crum against international law for ar government to have a fifth cclun. in a country with which it is f-peace. :::::u::::::::::::::::i:::::is:::::::::::::i::i:::i:i:nma :::::::::::::::::i:::::::::::::::::::::::::::!:i;:::::::::::;:::i:::::itunir.i'.': AN OREM INSTITUTION SERVING OREM AND VICINITY i i t ... , . , I in O THE COUNTY'S MOST BEAUTIFUL MORTUARY O THE COUNTY'S FINEST SERVICE Fairbanks Mortuary' - AMBULANCE SERVICE 1 1 1 A l Fire Chief Asks Elimination of Yule Hazards Orem Fire Chief Scott Tiiom- pson warned today that flammable flam-mable Christmas decorations in- t trrduce a needless fire hazard during the current holiday season, sea-son, and asked local citizens to avoid the possibility of turning the cheerful Yuletide period Into In-to a time of grief and tragedy. 'Tlany of the tragic holiday fires of the past were caused by the use of flammable decorations," decor-ations," he said. "A few years ago ninety-nine people were killed at a Christmas party In St. Johns. Newfoundland as a result of this dangerous practice" pract-ice" Non flammable decorations of glass or metal are available, and "fireproof" snow should be ui ed around the Christmas uee. It is dangerous to use paper or cotton in decorating the tree. Decorations should never We used near chairs or other places where people may smoke, ad plenty of ash trays should be placed around the house ouwng the holiday season, as always. It is preferable to put decorations decorat-ions up near the ceiling, well a-bove a-bove the head of anyone standing stand-ing up Candles should not be used as part of the Yuletide decorations. decorat-ions. Curtains and other flammable flam-mable materials should be pulled pull-ed back at least six inches from any electric light- The Fir2 Lhitl emphasized that these simple precautions would help prevent the tragedies traged-ies which have masred previous holiday seasons. . . . stroll while you ride For Comfort, Convenience Go By Train and RENT A NEW CAR on arrival. Atk for dsfalts. One of the many advantages of train travel is freedom of action. You can stroll about as you please ... be per fectty relaxed as you speed to your destination. Then, too, there's the pleasure of enjoying choice foods in the din ing cor . of sleeping soundly in a comfortable Pullman so that you arrive completely refreshed. |