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Show Farmer's Bank Loans Up BERKELEY, CALIF - Farm needs of farmers and ranchers and ranch loans of the Federal for capital funds in order to Land Bank of Berkeley have operate successfully under to-reached to-reached a new high of $34 day's market conditions. "It billion, George P. Bloxham, demonstrates the ability of the president, announced today.Our Berkeley Land Bank to meet the volume of loans outstanding has long-term credit requirements increased by 50 percent in less of agriculture in spite of in-tnan in-tnan 4 years,' Bloxham added, creasing money costs and un- The substantial increase in settled conditions in the money loans reflects the unprecedented markets,' Bloxham said. ta5LK James E. Talmage Journal Donated To BYU "ivcoiuia uiw nas marKetea over Orem-Geneva Times April 5, 1973 $2- 13 billion of its securities through a nationwide group of dealers during the DG-year history his-tory of the bank. Bloxham Blox-ham pointed out that the Berkeley Berk-eley Land Bank is a farmer-owned farmer-owned bank that nukes long-term loans on farms and randies through 34 Federal Land Bank Associations 1 i V. x - Van Farnworth Receives $1000 Scholarship Van Farworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean B. Farnworth of 318 East 400 West, has been awarded the Saul Haas scholarship of $1,000.00. The scholarship was presented to him by Mr. Arch L. Madsen, president of the Bonneville Corporation of Salt Lake City, Utah. Van, who is a junior at the Brigham Young University, will use his scholarship in his senior year of studies. An outstanding student in the Commerce Department at the University, Van is employed at KIXX B roadcasting Company in Provo. Specialist Warns Against Pain Killers A specialist in internal medicine med-icine says prolonged and excessive exces-sive use of some common pain killers can cause chronic kidney disease. Dr. H. Allan Bloomer, head of the Division of Kidney Diseases at the University of Utah Medical Center, said his studies indicate that six percent of a group of 128 patients with end-stage kidney disease were guilty of what he termed "analgesic abuse." Those patients are now on chronic hemodialysis with the artificial kidney or have received re-ceived kidney transplants, he noted. . An analygesic is anything short of a narcotic drug that relieves pain, Dr. Bloomer said. Persons who abuse these medications take more than six tablets daily for many years to relieve minor aches and pains. These analgesics can be purchased pur-chased without aprescriptionand are usually a combination of in-grediants, in-grediants, including aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine. "We've found that pure aspirin probably doesn't cause the kidney damage," said the doctor. "Most authorities believe phenacetin is the culprit." The reason people take these medications is rarely a result of a doctor's prescription," he said. "The majority take it on their own. Persons suffering from anxiety-producing anxiety-producing tension headaches sometimes "take handfuls of these spills. It is not unusual for such individuals to take more than 20 such pills daily for more than 15 years. "But I want to emphasize the damage comes from prolonged use of these compounds in excessive ex-cessive amounts," the specialist emphasized. "What is needed is for more physicians to recognize that these medications can be harmful when abused," he said. "And they must realize that plain aspirin can do just as good a job in most cases cases as many combination analgesics." anal-gesics." Girl Scout Cookies Arrive Keep the dog in and stay home until your Girl Scout Cookies arrive at the door. Girl Scouts will be delivering cookies ordered or-dered in March between April 6 and 14. If you are one of the unfortunate unfor-tunate ones whose home was not reached during March, booths will be set up by Cadette Girl Scouts at all the malls in the metroplitan area. You may purchase pur-chase the five declicious flavors fla-vors and assist the Girl Scouts to conduct a successful camping camp-ing program, as well as support their troop activities. If all these efforts fail, call the service center next to you and a Girl Scout with extra boxes will be dispatched to your door. The fastest plain-paper copier cop-ier in the iiuiustry-it makes the first copy in 3.5 seconds -Ls the VHS Copier made by the 3M Company, which also holds the record for selling the most copying machines each year. The machine can produce three copies in !l..r seconds, which is about the time most copiers take to make the first copy. Thirty volumes of the lifelong personal journal of Elder James L. Talmage, prominent educator, scientist, author, and apostle of The Church of Jesus Chirsf o f Latter-day Saints, have been donated do-nated to the Brigham Young University Uni-versity Library by the Talmage family. The valuable journals, written mostly in Elder Talmage's own beautiful Spencerian penmanship with flourises and varied strokes, were given to the University by Elder Talni.iges' only living son and daughter uf a family of eight children - John H. Talmage of Salt Lake City and Mrs. lioland Parry (Helen) of Ogden. The presentation was made this week to Dr. Hubert K. Thomas, BYU academic vice-president, by John H. Talmage and his daughters, Carol, a BYU graduate, grad-uate, and Mary, now a sophomore at BYU. "This is a priceless gift," Dr. Thomas commented. 'It is the tremendous legacy of a great man not only to his family but to the University which he loved and to the Church membership which reveres him. John K. Talmage has used the journals as the basis for a book about his father, "The Talmage Tal-mage Story," which recently has been published. He explained that the personal records were retained by the family until the story was completed for public distribution, and now could be placed in the safe-keeping of the BYU Library. Some of the volumes - those pertaining to Elder Talmage's activities at Brigham Young University Uni-versity - had been borrowed previously by Dr. Ernest L.Wilkinson, L.Wil-kinson, former president of BYU and chairman of the Centennial History Committee, ana Dr. James K. Clark, chief researcher, research-er, who are supervising the preparation of a history of the University's first 100 years.The centennial will be celebrated in the 197D-7G school year. Monuments of Quality Serving Utah for 83 Years Beesley Monument & Vault Co. 725 South State-Provo Ph. 374-0580 DISCOUNT 658 NO STATE 0REM mm ROUWD ST STORE HOURS tMii-SAT qkU b Hp.M. SUN AY lOA-M.toSpM. 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