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Show Editorial ... ' 7 . TuesCiy, November 4, willbe a day of civic responsibility for very r festered Toter in Am Fork City. On this fcy, some 4000 will have the opportunity of going to the polls to select a new mayor and two new numbers of the Am. Fork City Council The decision will be made by those who care enough about their civic responsibility to take the few minutes It requires - and east their ballot. In 1963. only 1967 voters cast their ballots Id the municipal lection year, voting in three new ceuncilmen. In 1965 with the mayoralty Mat at stake, 2496 Am. Fork residents cast their ballot. In 1967 another off-year, three councllmen were elected by 2183 persons who went totae polls. The vote record will be deter mined for 1969 by the effort YOU put forth. The election can only be decided by those who vote. Persons who proclaim their rights of citizenship will have no voice in the actual election of any of the candidates, if they do not exercise their rights and obligation of citizenship and vote! More than the future of six men is at stake. Tour decision, your vote, will influence the future of out community for the next four years and perhaps, far into the future. The men who sit at the council table administer the city budget, which last year was In excess of $319,000. Their votes will pass or defeat city or dinances, amend existing laws and set the policies under which all of us live for the next four years. Their decisions will be vital to each of us as they meet the challenge of providing city services ser-vices to an expanding population, U!:h County Assn. Fcr Refcrdsd uiwIVll riifvl On Wednesday evening, Octo ber 15, the general membership and friends of the Utah County Association for Retarded Child ren met at the Provo Utilities Building to hear Dr. Moreno Robins, Pediatrician, discuss parental attutudes toward men tal retardation and the stages of adaptation. Dr. Robins noted also six stages parents go through in searching for help when there Is retardation in the family. These stages are first, non-acceptance, then guilt, resentment, hope for some magic cure, wishing and advice ad-vice in that order. Most parents also go through three stages upon learning they have a retarded child. According to Dr. Robbing, the first stage is emotional disintegration, then a reintegration and, hopefully, they pass into a mature adaptation or acceptance. One of the objectives of the Utah County Association is to aid parents in obtaining this third stage of acceptance through par ent education, discussion groups and presentations ofknowledg able speakers at . the monthly meetings. Gary Boyack, Program Chairman along with Mrs. Grant (LaReal) Mace and Paul Christ opherson, Vice President, have planned varied and Interesting programs for the coming year. The next meeting will be held November 19. Mrs. John Cunningham of Pro vo, President of the Utah County Association for Retarded Child ren recently was appointed by Governor Calvin Rampton to serve on the State Advisory Committee Com-mittee for Handicapped Children. She reported activities of that Committee at the October IS meeilng. In these modern times the family circle is sometimes the steering wheel. The optimist always wants you to cheer up when things are going his way ChtBikU For 1 will satisfy t" e weary soul (Jer. 31:25). When we seek more satisfaction satis-faction in life we often find that fulfillment is not dependent depend-ent on anything physical or mental, that it is not dependent depend-ent on having or not having. What we actually need is to become more involved with the Christ within ourselves, so that we can recognize our personal per-sonal purpose for livinjf. Prayer helps us to commune with our Christ self, and we discover that there is no longer self and Christ, but a merging into one. Our life is no longer empty, but satisfied and purposeful. pur-poseful. 1 Fcr Ever Cui :n wage an aggressive campaign to attract industrial firms to our community and continue programs pro-grams which will make our city a better place to live. The 1969MnnlcipalElection campaign has been marked bythe moderate approach taken by both parties. Although all six candidates can-didates hive conducted an aggressive ag-gressive personal campaign, there have been no major Issues raised by either party. Both the Democratic seven point platform and the Republican ten point platform plat-form promise no tax Increase. Both platforms avow active campaigns cam-paigns to encourage Industrial growth of the community and to maintain communication between P J4 ---J j. a".ii.m 0 0 Q 0 Q 0 0 a IJIUIZD PlBKQ COUNCILMAN A 0 D 0 0 0 0 D 0 i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 D D D I Q fl oicnicz3iciiae the citizenry and the new council It is unfortunate that neither mayoralty candidate has had previous pre-vious city council experience which would give him a basic understanding of the responsibilities respon-sibilities he will face. However, both candidates are capable, sincere individuals who have the capacity to administer the responsibilities re-sponsibilities which will become the obligation of one of them Nov. 4. Both parties offer slates of newcomers to the political scene. One of the mayoralty candidates can-didates and two of the council candidates have spoken. Now the responsibility of each citizen begins. be-gins. Inform yourself of thequal-ificatlons thequal-ificatlons xif the candidates. Choose the candidate who most closely adhere to the programs which you want the Am. Fork City Council to provide. Cast your ballot on Nov. 4. The choice Is yours. The future of our community com-munity Is in your hands! m 1. 1 mi it ..if pwl . . - v A QL POSITIV at m mam urns : 1. PDOUS SAFETY Pbd3 immedofa get ion to resolve the fcmtvx ditch problem coupled with a long renge pba for a solution to the city irrigation problem. Imnisdete eclion to instill warning lights at hazardous haz-ardous railroad crossings within the city lidts. 2. OEnuTincATion Landscapeand beautify the city pzrks and the entrances en-trances to American Fork City. 3. HI1A1IG! M:in!2in sound mm prir.icip!es of government. govern-ment. i I8S1I1ESS II II1ST0IL OEfELOPOEOT Yage an aggressive, enthusiastic campaign to attract the kind of desirable new industry to Am. Fork that will create new job opportunities. VOTE QEPUDLI6AH FOB TEE 0S8D 0 Paid PoUUcal Adv. By Betty G. Spenser A new era in household management man-agement is just edging onto the scene. It ir sure to cause a lot of women a lot of trouble. Used to be that you could catch a husband just by being a good cook, a stimulating intellectual companion, or a beautiful cur vy girl, but no longer. These archaic standards will not be A gendeman farmer is a fellow fel-low with more hay in the bank than in the barn. The person who says youth is a state of mind Invariably has more state of mind than youth. mfn'im - im m m.mwwm a IP. imvm m PLfl by Republican Committee Barbara Hymes, Chairman. utilized as the boys of today become the men of tomorrow and start looking around for wives. In addition to being good looking, look-ing, smart enough to balance the checkbook and able to cook up a storm without opening a lot of cans, the girls wanting to be snapped up to tomarrow's marriage mar-riage market will have to display dis-play an additional skill Window Win-dow decorating! You don't believe it? Take a good look around the neighborhood, neigh-borhood, friend! You will be amazed at the number of windows adorned with cutouts of Halloween this week. Remember back in what we laughingly laugh-ingly call the good old days when front roon windows and entry ways were decorated for one hollday-the Christmas season. Decorations were not visible for Halloween, Thanksgiving, St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, Veteran's Day, or even m " a pia jmn a fnmmMnj a iysa Soiep MAYOR m f tee mvm National Pickle Week or any of the other holidays that dot the calendar. Somewhere along; the line, I slipped from the old school and went along with the younger mothers who happily hung pumpkins, pump-kins, gobblins, skeletons, and other neat Halloween decorations which the children proudly carried car-ried home to be displayed. We hardly got the scotch tape off the windows when the little darlings dar-lings began bringing home turkeys, tur-keys, Indians, more pumpkins and giant Pilgrims. Well, by this timt, I had set a precedent. Since I had hung up scraggly pumpkins, pump-kins, turkeys, witches, goblins, etc., for my eldest child, I could not very well deny the younger kids the same pleasure. Since I have four children, it soon became a rare occasion when we didn't have some modern art form displayed in the front window or on the family bulletin bul-letin board. Lincoln's Birthday, Ni-iwiiH m imiu.uiiii. a mm una a hmm a at if tf r r 5. OmZEll riUOLUECHlT Establish t :!!:r communications with YOU, the citizens, cit-izens, by organizing the old fashlonid "town meeting" on a regulir basis. Estiblish a youth advisory council for the purpose of involving the youth in city government. B. eOLTBSAL BETTEROEOT Promote culture within the community in cr::s cl music and the arts. THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCT. 30, 1969 Mother's Day, Flag Day, Independence Inde-pendence Day, Columbus Day, just to mention a few, were appropriately observed, my windows plastered with mis-shanea mis-shanea hearts, ducks, rabbits, and all the rest. Soon I needed an extra shelf to store t boughian decorations I had purchased out of sheer necessity. I learned that a few professional additions did wonders won-ders for hand-shaped turkeys, crooked hearts and lopsided pumpkins. Unfortunately, In some neighborhoods, neigh-borhoods, window decorating has become fiercely xmpetitlve. If the picture window of oue bouse of the block is artistically festooned fes-tooned with childish art work more than a day or two before the others, somebody is going to lose face. It isn't going to be the woman who stayed up until 1:15 a.m. getting the first win mmmm m aiuiwwina m pwwsww. a wmjm m COUNCILMAN i m ir n un r REPUBLIdl II O For Mjori Twr NEAL SAVAGE For ComieflaMiw i Tw Im WILLIAM 14 PIERCE . For OonaoilniM 4 Ymt Ttrm NOALL T. WOOTTOII . O dow decorated, either. She is just apt to be a bit smug when she sees the other neighborhood windows win-dows hastily assembled by distraught dis-traught mothers who were nagged by both children and husbands. The late decorating mother endures en-dures enough sarcastic comments com-ments from the family that she silently resolves that she will be the first one up with the Thanksgiving Thanks-giving decoration if It kills her. This new art form is bound to have an effect on the educational education-al system. Right now, I know that some junior high school admin istrator is trying to adjust the next year's class schedule, trying to eliminate a chorus class for a crash course in residential window win-dow decorating. It is a logical move. Most suburban housewives are so busy changing window displays to keep up with the current cur-rent holiday season, they hardly ever have time to sing anymore. muMmmtm a ipwiii.uiiiuii jf jj pb a ainuiiivmM Q 0 i mm 0 0 0 D D i D B D i 0 0 D 0 0 0 0 0 Q 6 D i i o 0 I D 0 0 Torra I c3 1 a ii ma i oxa i era i ehj i ma i a i a 1 ez3 i ezz |