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Show Utah Geynty Gains harm Members of the Utah County Farm Bureau attended the Utah Farm Bureau Federation's Federa-tion's Annual Convention held recently at the Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City. The County Organization again gained top honors during the Awards and Recognition Program, receiving receiv-ing six of the 10 awards presented. The County delegation delega-tion was led by County Farm Bureau President, Robert Hol-daway, Hol-daway, Vineyard and Vice President Boyd Sunderland, Lehi. Other voting delegates were Stephen Holbrook and Merrill Fox of Lehi; Ferrell Rawlings, Orem; Dick Burr, Provo; Edward Boyer, Spring-ville; Spring-ville; Carl Lindstrom, Benjamin; Benja-min; and Richard Saunders, Spring Lake. Utah Savings Bond Sales Reach $26.7 Million in 76 Volunteer U.S. Savings Bonds Chairman Kay L. Jacobs for Utah County reported '128,930 in sales of Series E-H Bonds for October which brings the year-to-date sales to $1,578,942. State Chairman Wendell E. LETTERS TO SANTA Dear Santa, I love you. I want Evil Knivel, roller skates. Travis Hall Dear Santa Claus, I promise I will go to bed every night early. I will leave some cookies for you and your elves. I want a doll and a lot of toys. The reason we celebrate Christmas is because Jesus was born and its his birthday. I have a little borhter Todd who would like a big truck. Rochelle I love you Santa Todd Both of us children are your friends. I want to fold it silly. it ! lAii.t I he spirit of Christmas is everywhere filling the world with happiness and joy. We hope your holiday is brimming with all good things. Harding Realty May your hearth and home be blessed this Christmas. Thanks to our loyal friends and patrons for putting your confidence in our hands. Ken Cardon Farmer's Insurance American Fork Sureau Delegates fdrom each of the 29 counties of Utah met to review and develop policies for the Utah Federation for 1977. The Farm Bureau group re-emphasized the Farm Bureau Bur-eau philosophy of support to the Free Enterprize system, the Constitution of the United States, property rights and the responsibility and opportunity of individual citizens to be involved in-volved in the governing processes. The Federation opposed op-posed excessive government regulations and voted to support sup-port legislative review of the Federal Bureaucracy. Speakers at the general sessions ses-sions of the Convention were Governor-elect Scott Mathe-son, Mathe-son, Senator-elect Orrin Gile and 1976 TSIA Campaign Chairmn John E. Lattin announced an-nounced jointly that October E-H bond sales for the state amounted to $2,263,262 which brings the year-to-date sa'es to $26,741,122 or 82 percent of the 1976 goal of $32,500,00. Fourteen Counties have exceeded ex-ceeded their quotas. Seven Counties are above the state's average of 82 percent. Emery County, Stanley Mathis Volunteer Chairman, leads all other counties with 207 percent of his quota attained. Nationally, Savings Bonds had the best October sales of E and H Bonds since the initial H offering in 1952 and brought the 1976 10-month total for E-H Savings Bonds sales to more than $6.3 billion. Sales also have exceeded redemptions at cost price for 37 consecutive months. With the approach of the holiday season, Chairman Kay L. Jacobs reminded county Bond buyers that- the attractive attrac-tive colorful gift envelopes are available, free of charge, at their banks upon request. WW Hatch, and American Farm Bureau staff member John Datt, director of the Washington Washing-ton D.C. office. The members were pleased to hear the newly new-ly elected leaders express concern con-cern for the decline in prices farmers receive and acknowledged acknow-ledged agriculture as the basic industry of our nation. The convention was climaxed at the annual banquet ban-quet by the attendance of over 750 members and guests. Speaker for the event was Dal-lin Dal-lin Oaks, president of Brigham Young University. Of special interest to Utah County, Paul and Glenna Prior, Springville, won third place and $100.00 in the Young Farmers and Ranchers contest; con-test; Mrs. Charlene (Eldon) Money, Palmyra, was reelected re-elected to the Utah Farm Bureau Bur-eau Women's Committee; Carl Lindstrom, Benjamin, and Vesta Boyer, Springville, each won an automobile tire presented by Intermountain Farmers Association. Enjoy a Danger-Free Christmas at Home . 'Tis the season to be careful, as well as jolly! Making things merry for Christmas can also increase the risk of fire and accidents in the home, cautions the Insurance In-surance Information Institute. Christmas trees, lights, candles, can-dles, gift-wrappings-all part of the Yule spirit-can pose special safety hazards, the Institute In-stitute stressed. To underline the potential danger, the Institute noted that last year 25,500 persons died as a result of accidents in the home and one out of every 53 persons in the nationsus-tained nationsus-tained disabling injuries from such mishaps. Fire was the leading cause of residential deaths in 1975, the Institute reported. "It is clear that the Christmas Christ-mas season, which brings home decorating and other spirited activities to the home, is an important time of the year to be safety conscious," said the Institute.. The Institute offers the following fol-lowing suggestions to help minimize potential fire hazards associated with the holiday season: Make sure the Christmas tree is positioned away from heating units and fireplaces. In addition, do not block doorways door-ways or other means of exit Oooo o O 0 o o O 5 Ashing you 11 n and those ip Jl , I you hold j -f J - most dear GjKjr ' old fashioned f'i joys of llP Christmas! ( EJ Hearty thank,. JiW Gene Harvey Chevrolet American Fork Original holiday decorations add to merriment! For a shimmering effect, ef-fect, swag long strips of tinsel at the top of your windows, over whatever curtains or drapes are already there. Add glistening glis-tening Christmas tree balls and you'll have a picture window that is lovely inside and out. For a festive indoor window-sill box, fill a long planter with evergreens ever-greens and tuck bright tinsel flowers thickly through the greens. You might also want to stand this Christmas garden on a long book shelf. Hang a silver metal lettuce basket in some unexpected corner of your house, filled with large and small balls of colored yarn accented with gleaming Christmas tree balls ... all silver would be spectacular! A simple and sophisticated sophisti-cated table centerpiece can be a conversation piece when entertaining. Fill a glass hurricane chimney with cranberries, cranber-ries, kumquats or crab apples and top with a tuft of graceful seasonal greenery. Flanked by graceful candles it is a lovely sight. If you're lucky enough to have a mantelpiece, this colorful color-ful arrangement will look charming on it as well. with the tree. Place the tree in a stand which has a water container, and remember to keep the container filled. Keep the tree indoors only as long as necessary. neces-sary. Check strings of lights before they are put on the tree to make sure that wires are not frayed and there are no loose connections. Avoid overloading electric outlets and use approved fuses only. Never leave tree lights on when you leave the house or retire for the evening. Keep candles away from flammable materials and out of the reach of children. ,..'.. Equip fireplaces with a sturdy metal screen which fits securely into place. Make sure that mantle decorations are a safe distance from the flame. After Christmas presents are opened, do not burn the wrappings in the fireplace. As an additional reminder for the holiday season, the Institute In-stitute urges shoppers to lock packages in the trunk of their car. Packages left on the seats and floor are visible targets ; for thieves. As always, whenever you . leave your car-even if it will be only for a few moments--remember to lock the vehicle. ' Christmas Christmas is for loving, Christmas is for joy Christmas is for memory time for every girl and boy. It isn't the gift that matters, It's the spirit of the day. Let's have an old fashioned Christmas, In the good old fashioned way. Christmas was such a happy time in our humble home. We did not have the modern conveniences con-veniences that everyone takes so much for granted today. Preparations for winter and Christmas had to be made early, ear-ly, before the heavy snow began to fall. My father and brother made daily trips to the canyons, after the morning chores were done, to cut "scrub oak" for our winter's supply of wood. Our home was heated by a "pot-bellied stove" in the front room, and a wood burning "cook stove" in the kitchen. How well I remember that old cook stove with it's warming oven to keep food warm. The "reservoir" where water was heated for household chores, and the oven door! What a wonderful oven door! It was strong and oh, so comfortable on cold days for warming one's self, especially for. warming the feet. My father and brother would continue to haul wood until a week before Christmas. On their last trip to the canyon they would bring a Christmas tree home with them. How eagerly we awaited their return! With noses pressed against the window, it seemed as though the day would never end when that tree would be in our house. We did not have elegant trimmings to put on it - a string or two of tinsel, a few ornaments, homemade paper chains, but when trimmed, that was the most beautiful tree in the world to us. All around was excitement and it seemed forever before Santa came. The morning before Christmas Christ-mas day, mom would arise early and soon delicious odors would permeate the house as she baked pies and her own special sugar cookies. After the baking was done. Daddy would bring some big flat rocks in the house and put them into the oven to heat for always on Christmas Eve, a Christmas program was held in our church house. This was the social event of the season and everyone attended. Father would drive his jjj merrV neighbors and friendsA W i e hope the season is nappy 03P i W d 'n every way. Our thanks to all. V- 4 Mountain View Bank is Remembering by Norma M. Smith powerful team of horses attached at-tached to a bob-sleigh up to the door. The sleigh was filled with fragrant hay and the rocks that had been heated in the oven would be carried out and laid on the hay. Over this would be spread home made quilts. We would all climb into the sleigh and cover ourselves with more quilts and snuggle up close and off we would go into the wintry night. We should pick up our uncle, aunt and consins and what fun we had, laughing and singing on our way! I remember rememb-er those nights so well. Sometimes Some-times dollar-size flakes of snow would float gently down on our faces as we went on our merry way. Other times it would be clear and so crisp and cold, the runners of the sleigh would make a crunchy squeak as they traveled over the snow. Many times on bright moonlit moon-lit nights, a coyote would cross the road in front of us and slither away over the snowy fields. Sometimes we would leave our warm covers and climb out onto the back runners run-ners of the sleigh. This was great sport, but always there was the merry jingle of the sleigh bells as they were slung across the ample rumps of the loved team of horses. How beautiful they sounded as each bell rang in its individual tone, making a heavenly sound always al-ways to be remembered and treasured. v;y)ne of the many joys of this dazzling holiday is the opportunity to say thanks to many friends. We would reach the church house. Other families had arrived ar-rived and soon the program would begin. The story of the Nativity was given and as the program progressed the children's chil-dren's excitement would mount for the.y knew Old Santa Claus would make his entrance en-trance at the program's end. The magical moment would arrive! Santa Claus would make his appearance to bring joy and a treat to every child. We were tired, happy children chil-dren after all this excitement and some of us had already drifted off to dreamland by the time our sleigh arrived home. Then off to bed we would go without any urging for we knew "Old Santa Claus" would not come until we were fast asleep. Mom always left a pie and some goodies on the table for Santa Claus for we would not want him to leave our home hungry. Christmas morning we were up before dawn to see what Santa had left us. Always there was a doll and some new clothes to wear and our stockings stock-ings filled with candy, nuts and down in the very bottom, the best treat of all, an orange. Oranges were a special treat as they were not available at any other time of the year in our little town. My Christmas memories are so precious and a vital part of my life, as I am sure are yours to you. i ' i , W A x-Ai mu ! X- ' . Hcrth Utah Co. Kivanis WEDNESDAY. Dec. 22, 1976 A Festive Name "Merry Christmas" in June? September? It is for a lovely young lady in Sacramento, Sac-ramento, California, whose name is truly Merry Cheree Christmas! In answer to endless inquiries in-quiries and as many jokes, this charming young woman wom-an never tires of explaining that her name really is Merry Christmas, and is spelled Just that way. She is used to people thinking it's funny and the constant teasing, but enjoys the fun of it as much as others. Miss Christmas, whose fame has spread all over the world, spends a considerable consid-erable amount of time answering an-swering the many people who write her. She starts writing her Christmas cards in September. Asked about marriage proposals and changing her name, Miss Christmas responded re-sponded "Well, I've seriously serious-ly thought about marriage a couple of times, but I was raised the old-fashioned way and I guess I'm looking for an old-fashioned type of person who thinks like I do. I really like the traditional tra-ditional things like Christmas." 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