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Show With Tom Griffiths- For many, many years, America has been known as a land of fulfillment of hopes and desires. Thousands upon thousands thou-sands of immigrants left their native lands to come here. They came because America was an answer to a dream or even a prayer. They brought with them their old country customs that has helped to enrich en-rich this country. But, I am beginning to wonder wond-er that in the years ahead America will be known as the land of broken dreams. For example, one of our learned men has supposedly made a study of the life of George Washington and has dug up all the bad things he could find. He has classed him as a womanizer and many other things. Not once, mind you, did he mention all the good things this great President did, but only the smut. I wonder how this man's life would read if it was uncovered? All of us, with perhaps a few exceptions have things in our lives that are better left in the dark. But, thanks to a kindly providence, we have the opportunity oppor-tunity to correct mistakes we have made. Now another brain comes forward and says that after study, he is convinced there were no miracles as recorded in the scriptures. All of the incidents such as the crossing of the Red Sea were natural phenomina. Again someone is trying to destroy our dreams and ideals. Instead of saying "this is my personal belief," he comes forth with statements as if they were facts. I once had a friend who claimed to be an athiest. In his conceit, he felt he was the master mas-ter of his own fate. That no outside influence could affect his life. This man joined the Air Force in World War II. After completing his training, he was assigned to ferry bombers from the States to England. On one of his flights a motor conked out. As they approached the shores of Ireland, a second motor went out. What happened hap-pened to this athiest? That's right, he prayed. I just wish that these studious people would stay within the realms of reality. Without the belief in miracles, mira-cles, my life would be pretty drab. I thrill to see the morning sun come up, and to give the world a touch of gold as it sets in the west, or 'iie stars in the firmament. A:id the moon, even though man has desecrated desecrat-ed it with his footprints is a miracle to me. I am like Will Rogers, all I know is what I read in the newspapers. In Sunday's Tribune there was an interesting interest-ing article titled "U.S. Prestige Continues to Slip Abroad." It is no wonder, we are becoming a gutless nation. Large areas of the world which had become accustomed to AMerican vision and leadership are floundering without it. Here at home we have torn the C.I.A. and the F.B.I, apart. We have even given the names of some of the members so they can be marked men. Do you see the Russians doing things like this? Not on your life. They have the biggest and most proficient spy organization in the world and they do everything everyth-ing in their power to protect them. Detente or not, we cannot go on playing ostrich and burying our heads in the sand and pretending the Russian menace will go away. It will not, and while it would be costly to stop their aggression now, the time is coming when it will be far mora costly in lives and money to stop this march of communism. commun-ism. What are we afraid of? No victory has ever been won through compromise. Americans Ameri-cans are laughing at this word "Detente." The Russians are laughing, too. The bread made from American wheat tastes real good, and they get it so easy. There are those who say we should not barter with our foodstuffs. food-stuffs. But it takes as much, if not more hard work to raise food than it does oil. Someday in the future historians histor-ians will write that America was the first nation to feed their enemies and gave to them information that made them strong. The Veterans Administration is training two new kinds of personnel-nurse practitioners and nurse clinicians-and assigning as-signing them to agency health care teams. our Seasons Names Enviromenfalist As Vice President club. He was also in the Fairbanks Fair-banks L.D.S. bishopric. Dr. Sykes has been a frequent dinner speaker on the environmental conservation movement and on wiidlands of Brazil and Alaska. He resides in Orem with his wife, the former Patricia Pack of Pleasant Plea-sant Grove, and five children. Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, him-self, being especially free from admirers then. AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1976 The whole is never greater than the sum of its parts. Of course, that's before finance charges. Being put on a pedestal has disadvantages which you're apt to discover the first time you fail to watch your step. Too often we enjoy the comfort com-fort of opinion without the discomfort dis-comfort of thought. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Someday, we are told, the machines will take over the world, which is why we always talk very politely on telephones when a recording answers. Nearly 3.9 million veterans insured under World Wars I and II government life insurance insur-ance policies will receive a record $303.8 million in dividends divi-dends during 1974, according to the Veterans Administration. Dr. Dwane J. Sykes has been appointed vice president for Environment and Natural Resources of Wilderness Associates, Asso-ciates, the developers of the Four Seasons ski resort and Cultural Center east of Provo, Utah. In announcing the appointment, ap-pointment, Gary Williamson, president of Wilderness Associates, Asso-ciates, said: "Dr. Sykes has a rich, diversified background in environmental conservation, watershed management, and private business. Dr. Sykes will be responsible to see that the project is planned and executed execut-ed with the best environmental safeguards available and that the aesthetics and natural resources are fully protected and mitigated against abuse. An internationally known scientist scien-tist and executive, recently returned to Utah after fifteen years away, Dr. Sykes has been endorsed even by opponents oppon-ents of the Four Seasons project," Mr. Williamson continued. con-tinued. A Pleasant Grove native, Dr. Sykes was named Outstanding Citizen of Utah County in 1956 by Provo City. As a watershed specialist with the Uinta Forest in that period, he mapped and located the watershed protection protec-tion terraces visible along the Wasatch Front mountains in which the Four Seasons ski project is proposed. Dr. Sykes operated his own consulting firm and has been a consultant in environment and agriculture to forty agencies and firms throughout the U.S. and abroad, which has taken him to all countries of the American continents. He has authored seventy-five technical and popular publications translated trans-lated into seventeen languages. He is listed in "American Men of Science," "Who's Who in America," "Who's Who in Consulting," Con-sulting," and several such directories dir-ectories plus ten professional societies. Dr. Sykes is adjunct professor profes-sor of botany at Brigham Young University, and president presi-dent and board chairman of Frontier International Land Corporation of Fairbanks, Alaska. 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For five years Dr. Sykes was a research forester and range conservationist with the U.S. Forest Service in Utah and North Carolina. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow at the University of Costa Cos-ta Rica. Dr. Sykes graduated in watershed management from Utah State University as valedictorian vale-dictorian and completed his Ph.D. in enviromental botany at Iowa State University. Dr. Sykes has received recognition for his geographic exploring, and his activities in! scouting and trophy bow and arrow hunting. He was a big game guide in Alaska and is a member of Pope and Young, a national honorary archery EL STAIN EL h i ! EXTERIOR STAIN f J ' fCTRATWG I NOW $A9 Reg. $6.45 palntc supplies r VI"K House Paint 9Lonzec Reg. $12.28 NOW 0870 Latest qm Sss 1 coLorizer. 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