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Show SHOULD YOU SAVE TRADING STAMPS? Trading stamps small pieces of gummed paper inscribed with a symbol or trademark which a retailer retail-er hands out to customers (usually at the rate of one stamp for each 10c spent in the store) have been the biggest news in food retailing for the better part of a year now. They cost the merchant 2 percent to 3 percent of his sales, and many food stores claim that their net profit on sales amounts to less than that. That is why many grocers fear trading stamps. On the other hand consumers, who can accumulate stamps and redeem them with premium merchandise, have been giving ample evidence that they like stamps. They flock to the stores issuing them. Sales increases as high as 30 percent are frequently reported when a store introduces stamps and even 50 percent and 60 percent increases are heard of. Why do consumers like stamps? The psychological psychologi-cal experts say that women feel thrifty when they save stamps, that they obtain with stamps goods they would not buy otherwise, and that they are convinced that what they get with their stamp books costs them nothing. Spokesmen for the anti.stamp position, among them many economists, maintain that the consumer con-sumer does pay for the stamps and the premium she gets she pays in higher prices for all the food she buys. So the answer to the question "Are stamps good or bad for consumers?" is that for the time being stamps have probably been more good than bad. The attempt of stores not issuing stamps to combat them with price cuts has, so far, meant that in most markets mar-kets the stamp stores have met the advertised price cuts while continuing to issue stamps. And the answer to the question "Should I start saving stamps?" is a qualified ''yes". All other things being equal convenience con-venience of store location, shopping conditions within the store and, most important of all, competitive prices for food the stamp saver benefits. She may not benefit as much as stamp companies and grocers issuing the stamps would have her believe. be-lieve. The value of a stamp book is not easy to figure. It depends, for example, on whether the value of the premium is figured at the high, fair.traded price or a discount-house price. Even at the higher prices, the value per book is seldom more than $2.50. And keep in mind that it takes from $120 to ?150 of spending to fill one stamp book. In buying groceries from stores which offer stamp plans consumers will benefit from these precautions: pre-cautions: Check prices. And be sure to checjc prices other than the special sales offerings. Never spend foolishly just to fill up a book. Remember that on an item that costs, say 50c, your five stamps are apt to be worth less than lVfcc. Since, in one way or another, you are paying for the premium merchandise, shop the stamp plan redemtion center (where premium merchandise is made available) or the premium catalog as carefully as you would if you were paying cash. There are dif ferences in quality and usefulness in the items offered as premiums. If what you obtain through stamp premiums turns out to be defective, marred, or otherwise poorly poor-ly functioning, return the product to the stamp company com-pany and get an article in good condition in exchange. Reputable stamp premium companies all maintain that any quaranteei warranty, or quality assurance available avail-able from an ordinary retail outlet is also provided by them. Check to see how many stamps it takes to fill a given book, and compare stamp company offerings by comparing the "book price" of premiums in differ ent calalogues. This often takes careful arithmetic, for books are generally not directly comparable. In a given community, competing stamp plans may require for example, 1200 stamps ($120 worth of mercnan. dise) in Plan A, 1440 in Plan B. 1500 in Plan C, to fill a book. Be sure that the stamp given by the market is either from an old established stamp company or is one that is backed by a well established firm because fly-by-night stamp companies do exist. Reprinted from "Consumer Reports" AM through OREM - GET EVA times Thursday, Dec. 27, 1956 ill e liolid ays V jf To please the crowd, have plenty of 7-Up. Get the 24-bottle supply! M v ' III Nothing does it like Seven-Up! OREM -GENEVA TIMES Published Every Thursday at Orem, Utah HAROLD B. SUMNER, PUBLISHER Hollis Scott Editor, Advertising Mgr. Entered as second class matter November 19, 1944 at the postoffice at Orem, Utah under the act of March 3, 1897. Member Utah State Press Association BOB TAYLOR V. S. Press Assn. Washington National Editorial Assoliation Subscription Rates: One year, in advance $3.00 People You Should Know In Orem J Washington 1 Zxclusioe HEADS OF CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS Chamber of Commerce Glenn Robertson Lions Club William L. Jacob- on Auxiliary Police M. Verne Thurber Lady Lions Mrs. Thorit C Hebertson Jaycees Jack Childress Orem Women's Club Mrs. Merlin Finch O. F. Club Mrs. Dale Larsen men Helen T. Wentz Business and Professional Wo-Orem Wo-Orem Garden Club Mrs. O. V. Farnsworth Melodian Chorus Mrs. J. D. Pyne Orem AAUW Mrs. Joan H. Thomas i .at Cos Mrs. Herald Vance rap Saddliers Mrs. LeMar Ercanbrack (ycee Wives Mrs. Wayne Gammon merican Legion M. L. Drake, region Auxiliary Mr. M. L. Drake Disableld American Veterans Wesley Graff Veterans of Foreign Wan Stanley C. Houston VFW Auxiliary Mrs. Grant J. Johnson DAV Auxiliary Mr. Bill Baker Kiwanis Club DeLance Squire Orem Literary- Club Mrs. Boyd C. Davis Civil Defense Torval Nelson, director Mrs. D. Orlo Allen, women's director STATE LEGISLATOR Rep. C. Wilford Larsen FARM BUREAU Orem President Dean GIU-man GIU-man POST OFFICE Postmaster Clyde E. Weeks Jr. Manager Orem-Geneva branch of First Security Bank Joseph Jos-eph T. Smith SCERA BOARD LaGrande Jarman, Woodruff Jensen, Leeman Bennett, Orson Or-son Prestwich, Sharp Gillespie, Gilles-pie, August Johnson, Horace Bean, Rex Blake, Morris Bird, Henry D. Taylor. Manager Is M. Dover Hunt CITY OFFICIALS Mayor LeGrande Jarman City Councilmen V. Emil Han sen, Elwood Baxter, Merlin R. Maning, Weston Kofford, Par-lell Par-lell Peterson. City Manager O. V. Farns worth City Recorder Anne Cooper City Treasurer E. H. (Ted) Calder City Attorney Hugh Vera Wentz City Judge E. H. Johnson Chief of Police Reed Burgen-er Burgen-er City Building Inspector Lloyd Louder City Engineer Leonard Beck-man City Librarian Mrs. Bernlce Cox City Receptionist Mrs. Lenora Johnson City Planning and Zoning Committee Com-mittee chairman Joseph T. Smith Metropolitan Water Board chairman Luzell Bobbins SCHOOL. OFFICIALS Alpine School District Supt Alma P. Burton School Board members PhiSo T. Edwards, Clarence Ashton Orem High School Princrpal L. B. Bennett Lincoln Junior High Principal Qulnn A. Hatch Geneva Principal Thorit C Hebertson Westmore Principal Miss Alice Reld Sharon Principal Elwood Baxter Edgemont Principal Ivan Perry. Union Principal Garth Sea-strand. Sea-strand. Windsor Principal Keith Hor-ton Hor-ton Hillcrest Principal Lyle Tre-gaskis Tre-gaskis COMMUNITY CHURCH Minister Rev. Verne A. Robinson Rob-inson CHURCH OF CHRIST Minister Don Nielson CHURCH OFFICIALS OREM STAKE Presidency Walter R. Hold- away, President, E. Carlyle Bunker, M. Dover Hunt, J. LaMar Johnson, clerk WARD BISHOPS: . Oiem Second Lloyd Louder I (Vermont) Orem Tmrd -Wm.il. Vernon I (Sharon) Orem Fourth Harold R. Baker (Geneva) Orem Fifth Phil Shumway (Geneva Second) Orem Sixth Milton Smith (Windsor) Orem Seventh Clay Benson (Timp View) Orem Eighth Rulon H. Petty (Beverly) Orem Ninth Vernon L. Greenland Green-land (same) Orem Tenth Owen C. Ben- nion (same) Vineyard Ray Gammon (same) SHARON STAKE Presidency Philo T. Edwards, President, G. Milton Jameson Clyde M. Lunceford, Murray Rawson, clerk. WARD BISHOPS Orem Eleventh Lawrence M. Palmer (Timpanogos) Orem Twelfth Laird Billings (Hill Crest) Orem Thirteenth William Dalebout (Lincoln) Orem Fourteenth C. Elden Bitter (Crest View) Orem Fifteenth Bruce Clark (Lincoln) Orem Sixteenth Luzell Rob- Teen-agers and their elders who drop quarters and dimes -even nichels - in the festive juke box to hear Bing Crosby or Patience and Prudence may be surprised to know they are contributing to the half-billion a year "take" of a big industry. In 1957, the juke box impresarios impres-arios will put in grills, taverns, diners, drugstores, motels ind highway amusement spots some 500,000 machines that will each swallow an average of at least $1,000 worth of coins during the year! Yet an old quirk in the copyright copy-right law - passed in 1909 before be-fore Congress had heard of Juke boxes - exempts "coin-operated music machines'' from the customary cus-tomary obligation of paying royalties to the creators of the popular songs they peddle to the public. This strange exemption date from the "penny arcade" days, when grandpa could clap on, earphones, put a penny in the slot and get a load of "Shine On Harvest Moon". Songwriters then made their money from sheet music and regarded the penny arcade as a "plugger" for bin, (Lincoln) Ptfovo Seventeenth Clarence Robinson, (Grand View Se-' Se-' cond) Provo Eighteenth LeRoy Taylor (Grand View) Lake View Paul Taylor (same) their creations. But when the : upright piano all but vanished from the parlor, the composers looked hopefully to mechanized1 music for Income. And, so far, they have asserted in their right to share In the quarters and dimes their music woos from juke box patrons. j A Senate report on the pere-ennial pere-ennial hassle between the operators op-erators who wish to continue this legalized poaching, and the composers who would like to be j paid for the use of their proper- j ty, has recently been issued by Chairman Joseph C. O'Ma-honey O'Ma-honey of the Senate Judiciary Copyright subcommittee. He hopes, he sa.id, in an accompany ing statement, that this will provide the basis for a compromise compro-mise between the song-writers and the song-sellers that his group can consider when Congress Con-gress goes back to work in January. Jan-uary. Immediately, President Paul Cunningham of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers declared that he would seek a meeting with the operators in an effort to carry out the Senator's suggestion. The American Bar Association, Associa-tion, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the US Government itself, are on record re-cord as favoring modernization of the copyright law to put the juke boxes on the same basis as all other commercial music users. After all, the juke box exists only to reproduce music that Americans like - well enough to dig down for the torrent tor-rent of dimes and quarters that cascade through half a million Justice to the tunesmiths who create that music has been delayed de-layed long enough. PROTECT YOUR FAMILY 1 jTOMORROW PREPARING IN ADVANCE TODAY BERG MORTUARY 115 EAST CENTER -FRANKLIN 1-1840 TINY TOTS RECOVERING FROM PNEUMONIA Little Kevin Smith, 18 months ' and Steven, four years, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Smith of i Orem, are recovering from cases ' of pneumonia which they con-j tracted during the holidays. Steven spent some time in the hospital, but both youngsters are doing nicely now. II III L ftHI I I I I M -T v&mxt PHONE 226 mm i n 1 11 1 II r All year long, copper serves Americans in many ways. The everlasting ever-lasting metal produced in Utah is in daily use in our homes, on our farms and in our industries. At Christmas time, however, copper takes on a special glow, when its exceptional qualities help brighten the Yule tide season. In churches, copper helps provide light, as worshipers give thanks for the birth of the Saviour. Families separated by thousands of miles hold reunions their voices carried to loved ones on copper wire by long distance telephone calls. Copper helps airplanes, automobiles, busses and trains bring scattered members of families together for this most important occasion. For the thousands engaged in the production of copper in Utah, there is a special satisfaction that comes from knowing the metal they produce is helping others enjoy Christmas. Theirs is also the satisfaction satis-faction of knowing that their efforts in the production of copper help create better living for Utahns throughout the year. Eennecott Copper Corporation A Good Neighbor Helping to Build Better Utah I "" 1" ' I'lH'tliMj i ,,, ''iliMHTrjtj 1 V V i, i ii S """ 11 '" " iiiii ii ii I pi h I ffjwf " Orem First Fay R. Johnson (same) |