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Show American Fork Civic Chorus Tabernacle 8 p.m. Still llll&IS J One nice thing about egotists, they don't talk about other people. Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now...always. The wise man reads both books and life itself. AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday. December 7. 1978 Appreciation is memory of the heart. the sFor Past 37 Years . t '; v r. 3ll flo taws- fi "rn'MO wouysii n Mary Pul Christma ley Dalies Special Si. I ' Everyone knows Mary Pulley. Everyone knows about her Christmas lights and candy canes, and everyone knows about her warm heart. For the past 37 years Mary has been offering American Fork and surrounding towns a little bit of a special glimpse of Christmas, a Christmas that to her is the symbol of peace. "I've done everything but work on the railroad during my life," says Mary. "I have raised turkeys, worked in offices of-fices and done just hundreds of things." Out of all those things, Mary's Christmas yard is perhaps the thing that people around here remember most. Her thousands of lights and decorations have caused many an eye to twinkle during the Christmas season. "My mother was a wonderful person," Mary recalls, "and she had a special gift for making people happy." "She tried to do one good thing for someone at least every day ; and, that was such a good motto, it is one that I have tried to follow in my own life." The idea for Mary's Christmas yard started back during World War II. Mary said she used to correspond with all of the local servicemen and their return letters were full of thoughts of peace. "They said that all they ever wanted was peace, and to them that would be the most beautiful thing in the entire world." she said. "So I thought about peace, and Christmas to me is a very special-and peaceful time $of the year." Before Mary could make her Christmas yard dream come true, she had to turn the carrot patch into a lush green yard. German prisoners helped her do that. "There was a German prison camp in Orem and we got them to come over and help us put in the yard and do all of the work." According to Mary, the German prisoners were hard WORKERS WHO QUIT JOBS INELIGIBLE FOR FOOD STAMPS Primary wage-earners who quit their jobs without good cause would find their families ineligible for food stamps for two months under a U.S. Department of Agriculture proposal. Assistant Secretary Carol Tucker Foreman said the proposed regulations will insure that an able-bodied head of household cannot quit a job in order to start receiving food stamps. The proposal implements im-plements a provision of the Food Stamp Act of 1977. "The new rule is consistant with the desire of the. Administration Ad-ministration and Congress to assure that those not in need of food stamps not receive them, while doing more to get stamps to those who truly are in need, such as the elderly and the working poor," Foreman said. The proposed rule appeared in the November 24 Federal Register. Comments should be sent to Nancy Snyder, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington D C. 20250. Deadline for receiving comments is December 21. workers and she enjoyed working with them. "Tools were so scarce I can remember buying every wheelbarrow I could find in Utah County to help get in the yard," she said. "We put in one-half one-half ton of grass seed, and all of that was put in by hand; and every single piece of grass came up." After getting in the grass and planting trees, Mary said she started looking for someone who would paint her some Christmas scenes. She found a man in Salt Lake who painted her Santa Claus and a nativity scene and she bought some Christmas lights and her yard was ready for the first Christmas back in 1947. "People line up here every year to see my yard and Santa Claus," Mary says. "Some of the parents in the cars came to see the house when they were just little children like their own." Mary also plays Christmas music and stands out in the yard with Santa to greet the passing cars. Although she is 78 this year, Mary says she can still keep up the yard herself and she intends to have her Christmas yard for the rest of her life. "The power company helped me put up the lights and I wanted to get up in the basket and help, but they wouldn't let me because of their rules or something." Mary admitted. ad-mitted. "But, they sure did a good job." She said she is still using the original 1 decorations and 'the son of the man who painted the first scene for her just re-painted them. "When he came to bring them back, he asked if I was going to be around for another 25 years to watch Christmas," Christ-mas," Mary explained: "I told him that in 25 years I would only be 92 and, of course, I will still be around here," she said. We hope so. Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without Mary Pulley standing by that fence passing out candy canes and Christmas smiles. Am. Fork City Council to Meet Dec. 12 Notice is hereby given that the City Council of American Fork, will hold its regular council meeting on December 12, 1978, at the American Fork City Hall, 31 North Church Street, American Fork, Utah. The meeting shall begin promptly at 7:30 o'clock p.m. The agenda shall be as follows: 1. Roll call. 2. Discussion of Personnel Ordinance by Darrell Cook. 3. Discussion on the Senior Citizen building. 4. Approval of city audit. 5. Council action on roof repair at city owned hospital. 6. Discussion on Cedar Hills request for sewer hookup. 7. Approval of bills. 8. Approval of previous minutes. 9. Other business. Dated this 5th day of December, 1978. f ' ' . !) " irj, Success is often just an idea away. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. .)' CHORAL CONCERT-choral students are preparing for their annual Winter Concert Among them are, left to right, Michael Fugal, Keith Robinson, Chris Crouse, Chris Graves, Michelle Turner, Lisa Wootton, Denise Griffin, and Crystal Bell. Julie Hill, seated at the piano, is accompanist. The Concert will be December 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Junior High School auditorium. Seventh, eighth and ninth grade choruses, the Junior Patriots and a Barbershop Bar-bershop Quartet will be performing. The concert in under the direction of Paul Mortensen. Douglas Johnson will direct the Barbershop Chorus. Workers Who Quit Jobs Ineligible For Food Stamps Local representatives of the Bureau of the Census will conduct a survey of employment in this area during the work week of December 11-15, 1978, Richard C. Burt, Director of the Bureau's Regional Office in Denver, announced recently. The survey is conducted con-ducted for the U.S. Department of Labor in a scientifically designed sample of approximately 70,000 households throughout the United States. Employment and unemployment statistics statisti-cs based on results of this survey are used to provide a continuing measure of the economic health of the Nation. For example, in October Oc-tober the survey indicated in-dicated that of the 101.1 million men and women in the civilian labor force, 95.2 million were employed. 'The nation's MOUNTAIN West CrilMNEV SWEEPS Last Winter, Did you heat your house with wood or coal? If you did, your chimney probably needs cleaning. 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