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Show Millard County Chronicle GIVING OUR WORLD Once Over . . . By Dick Morrison '.'There is a certain blend of courage, cour-age, integrity, character and principle prin-ciple which has no satisfactory dictionary dic-tionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American Ameri-can name for it is guts. Louis Ad-amic, Ad-amic, quoted in Forbes. Hoops, My Dear I don't know about you, but I'll be glad when this hula hoop thing runs its course. Wherever you go, people of all ages, singly, in pairs, and in while crowds are gently undulating, un-dulating, or gyrating, or whatever you call that motion, to keep the hoops suspended in midair around their middles. Things have gotten so bad that at social events anybody any-body who can't keep at least three hula hoops going at once is considered con-sidered a party poop. The darn things are absolutely useless. Maybe that explains everything. ev-erything. It is well known that the more useless a thing is, the more the American people go for it. The notion that hoops provide healthful exercise is ridiculous. People just don't need that much exercise, particularly of the muscles that get this kind of workout. If they've got that much energy, they should be doing something useful. It is easy to see why they are called hula hoops. They make everybody ev-erybody swing like hula dancers, and regardless of what the experts say about how we ought to watch the hands of the hula doncers, I know what it is I watch at a hula dance, and I'll bet you do, too. Now, even sedate grandmothers, like everybody else, can be seen throwing it around like island girls on every front lawn. Such fads usually go a long way before they burn themselves out. It's about time for somebody to "bring out special deluxe hoops made of Stardust or neon lights, with bells. And if a hula hoop marathon mar-athon hasn't yet gotten under way, it will. Already, I've heard of one girl who kept it up for eight hours. If she doesn't look out, she'll find she can't stop when she wants to. People have even thrown vertebrae verte-brae out in extreme cases. Did you ever see such a silly fad get such a hold on so many people, peo-ple, in so short a time? We have had some inexplicable crazes before, be-fore, like the pogo stick of the twenties, or was it the thirties? And like Mah Jong. But never anything any-thing like this. What won't they think of next? Autos I know several mechanics who have been somewhat puzzled by the "over square" engines of the last four or five years. All, or almost al-most all, of the companies have been building engines with larger bores than strokes, and to old MADE TO MEASURE OR IN STOCK A cowboy uses the same care when selecting se-lecting his boots as when selecting his saddle. He knows that durability and comfort ore neeessory for the rough work he must do. That's why, for 73 years, cowboys have relied on HYER BOOTS to serve their needs in the saddle, on foot. ARE The DELMART Thursday, Oct. 2, 1953 THE line mechanics this looks somehow some-how out of proportion. It is. In spite of the fact that the auto makers have taken up this fad of design as enthusiastically enthusiastic-ally as the public has taken up hula hoops, it has its disadvantages. disadvant-ages. You don't need to take my word for it. Popular Science for October says this: "The bigger the bor and the shorter the stroke the less the thermal efficiency. The flame has to travel farther a-cross a-cross the cylinder to consume the gas charge and the sheer size of the head makes it radiate more heat. Lost heat is lost energy." The advantage of the "over-square" "over-square" engine, on the other hand, is that the short stroke results in less piston ring wear per mile of travel. Thus, we get less gas mileage mile-age and, theoretically, greater piston-ring mileage. However, I am inclined to think that the large bores more than countefbalance this theoretical gain. This is because greater piston pis-ton and ring clearance must be allowed al-lowed for large bores, so it is probable prob-able the new engines won't give any better oil mileage than older ones used to. Furthermore, this greater clearance, among other things, is one of the things that makes the newer engines noisier than the old ones. Anyone who hasn't noticed that the engines of recent years sound like rock crushers crush-ers must have had his attention diverted by the flashy tail fins. Auto designers will all agree on this that every auto ever 'built represents a bundle of compromises. compromis-es. Taking all of the factors, such as cost, efficiency, speed, quietness, and every other single factor considered con-sidered desirable, there has never been a model, and, of course, never nev-er can be one, in which any single quality could not have been more strongly emphasized at the expense ex-pense of others. It is quite apparent ap-parent that in today's cars, the de signers have put in a flock of I other qualities at the expense of efficiency. But few, indeed, will hold that the end results, as of today, to-day, warrants the price in overall efficiency and economy of operation opera-tion and upkeep. He Didn't Get This Done In his campaign for nomination for a third term, last month, our aging senior senator, Arthur V. Watkins, used the slogan, "He Gets Things Done." Of course there can be no doubt that Senator Watkins may have gotten some things done. Nor can there be any doubt that at least some things that were done would have been done anyway, without his help; nor is it quite beyond dis pute that some things were done not because of, but in spite of his 1 - RIDING THE RANGE $27.50 to $45.00 Both Chevron Gasolines Gas-olines have exclusive Detergent-Action to keep carburetors factory clean...assure smoother idling. JssYt 4 ' "" best efforts. But one matter of great interest to Millard County peopie Is significant to this discussion dis-cussion because it holds the story of something which Senator Watkins Wat-kins didn't get done, though he should have. It is the story of how our market for alfalfa seed was undermined by the government, as an indirect result of the efforts of the Dept. of Agriculture to aid cotton cot-ton growers. Utah alfalfa seed growers were the unoffending victims vic-tims of this ill-conceived attempt, yet when we appealed for redress it was not forthcoming. Rep. Dixon, Dix-on, Senator Watkins, and Sec. Exra Taft Benson were the public officials of-ficials to whom the appeal was made. It was unavailing. The incident seemed to prove that when our government gets hell-bent on some course to give aid to large, wealthy, or influential groups, the little people who get hurt in the process are not entitled en-titled to redress. For that Is what we were asking redress of a wrong inadvertantly done us by a gov- 1912 fter comln t0 Delta-ernment Delta-ernment "aid"' program,' Delay in Visit It will be remembered that the A telegram reached Mr. and Mrs. price of common alfalfa seed In R. J. Law Tuesday that while on the fall of 1954 was above 35 his way home on a furlough from cents per pound. This price was be- Ft. Foote, Md., their son, La Grande, lng obtained without government had been taken so sick that he help, subsidies, or aid programs, ' was compelled to be taken from the Alfalfa seed had adjusted nicely train at Coalville, Utah. Mrs. Law to the sound economic demands of left last night to be with him. A the free markets. Seed can be pro-1 duced profitably in our communi ty at this base price. But soon thereafter, disaster hit the seed market. The price declined de-clined to approximately half of the 33 cent level, and "It. has not approached ap-proached it since. The reason was this: Our federal government decided de-cided to help cotton growers. In doing so, it caused vast acreages of cotton lands, In ' California and elsewhere, to be withdrawn from production of cotton. Much of this land was planted to alfalfa and seed produced on.it, with the result re-sult that in 1955 production of alfalfa al-falfa seed went from "a normal of 106 millin pounds In the U.S. to more than double 213 million pounds." Naturally, the price collapsed. col-lapsed. . So, our fine local product, which was doing well, without any government gov-ernment "aid," was forced to compete com-pete in a market flooded witn seed produced entirely as a result of a government "aid" program for growers of another crop! The situation sit-uation was extremely . unfair. As one who dislikes all forms of gov ernment interference in the economic eco-nomic processes, I felt this was a case where people hurt, indirectly, as a result of a government aid program were entitled to, redress, and I joined in an appeal for redress re-dress of this wrong. I and others sent appeals to Rep, Dixon and Senator Watkins, for some form of redress to our 'local victims of the government's cot - rnn-aiH nrnc-rnm Wo HMn't oof anv. Wo riirt p-At th fooling thnt our Representatives and Senator were too busy with "important" things, such as running errands for the bureaucrats, to even really pay attention to the realities of our situation. Rep. Dixon expressed sympathy, but proved unable to get any help. In that autumn, at one of the "clinics" he held at the Delta High School, we were told that, for one thing, we hadn't publicized the matter sufficiently. I was able to reply that on that very day a letter let-ter of mine on the subject had appeared ap-peared in the Wall Street Journal. I had already publicized It locally. Incidentally, my letter may have been rather good. The Omaho World Herald, another great newspaper, news-paper, picked it up and used It as the basis of an editorial. So that bit of fault-fining was demolished. But the real payoff came in a telegram from Senator Watkins to our then Republican County chairman, chair-man, which I published here Dec. 22, 1955. It said this: "Benson declines a program for purchase of alfalfa seed. Thinks it unwise and in the long run will be detrimental to seed producers, (As if what had already happened wasn t detrimental to seed produe ers! DM). Senator Watkins tele gram connnuea: "ii seed were purchased it would . be a threat over the market which is already heavily oversupplied." (Nice logic, Dut why doesn t the D of A apply it to wheat and cotton? DM) To quote Watkins further: "I present ed all the reasons for a program. but the secretary declines. Sorry the news is not better for your people, but there is considerable merit to the secretary's position. Signed, Arthur V. Watkins, USS." L10 RE POWER FOR GRADES Chevron Gasoline gives you extra ping-free power on grades, more pep for straightaways. It's the popular gasoline for engines that do not require re-quire Chevron Supreme. New Blue Chevron Supreme is a super gasoline to put today's high-compression high-compression cars on a new level of pickup and performance . . . you get more value for your gasoline dollar. I UMtaMI V Utntrt J For any Standard Oil product, call L H. (Speed) RIDING Phone 4551 Delta, Utah FROM THE FILES 40 Years Popular Delta Man Dies The saddest incident of the war for Delta and vicinity fell on us Tuesday (Oct. 1, 1918) when a telegram tel-egram reached Mrs. W. L. Lackyard that Mr. Lackyard had passed away of pneumonia at Pensacola, Florida. Mr. Lackyard left here in August for training as a seaplane mechanic mech-anic and was made Master Mechanic's Mech-anic's First Mate. He had nearly finished his course there. W. L. Lackyard came here in the early days of Delta and established estab-lished himself in the jewelry business bus-iness and continued as one of the business men of this town until his departure for the training camp. Mr. Lackyard was married to Miss Nathalia Cooper in the fall of telegram came Wednesday morn- ing that he was much better and ahle to travel and will soon be home. G. O. P. Conrentlon Last Monday the Republicans jf Millard County assembled at Delta and proceeded to nominate a Republican Rep-ublican county ticket for the com ing convention convened in the Lincoln theatre, thru the courtesy of Mrs. N. G. Peterson, who kindly offered this elegant modern play house to the convention, foregoing an afternoon matinee which she had previously outlined Nominations were made as fol low: Representative, Joseph Finlin son, Oak City; County Commissioner, Commis-sioner, 4-year term, R. E. Robin' son, Hinckley; County Commissioner, Commis-sioner, 2-year term, H. Watts, Kan- osh; County Clerk, Carl Day (by acclamation); Assessor, A. T. Rap-pleye, Rap-pleye, Kanosh; Recorder, Mrs. War ner, Fillmore; Treasurer, Frank Partridge, Fillmore Cby acclama tion); County Atty., M. M. Steele, Jr., Delta; Sheriff, Abner Johnson, Delta; Surveyor, T. George Theobald, Theo-bald, Hinckley, unanimous. Jos. D. Mercer spent the fore part of the week in Salt Lake City on 'business and pleasure. Noble G. Peterson, who is at present pre-sent at the U. of U., was recently recommended for the Officers training camp, and having qualified, quali-fied, will leave that Institution about t,he,13tfl of thls mnth t0 ', receive instruction as an officer rt, o. w orRiuaii, 01., wnu runs uic I school wagon from the reservoir west of town, has been fixing up the wagon In fine shape with linoleum lin-oleum on the floors and seats and we see where the South and West He might have added that there was considerable merit, not just to the Secretary's position, but to our appeal for redress of an inad-vertant inad-vertant wrong done us, don't you think? Anyway, I offer this as a prime example of something of vital importance im-portance to our community, that Senator Watkins did NOT get done. "Sorry the news is not better for your people," is what he said. He wasn't saying, right then, that he got things done. STATEMENT REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AS AMENDED BY THE ACTS OF MARCH 3, 1933, AND JULY 2, 1946 (Title 39, United States Code, Section 233) SHOWING THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, MANAGE-MENT, AND CIRCULATION OF Millard County Chronicle published weekly (Thursday) at Delta, Millard Mil-lard County, Utah for Octcber 2, 1958. . 1. The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing edi tor, and business managers are: Publisher: R. H. Riding; Editor, same; Managing Editor, same; Business Manager, same, Delta, Utah. 2. The owner is: R. H. Riding, Delta, Utah. 3. The known bondholders, mortgagees, mort-gagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 percent cr more of total amount of bonds, mortgagees, or other securities are: NONE. 4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the bocks of the company as trustees or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation corpor-ation for whom such trustee is acting; also the statements In the two paragraphs show the affiant'.; full knowledge and belief as to the .circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security se-curity holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities securi-ties in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner. 5. The average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers sub-scribers during the 12 months preceding pre-ceding the date shown above was 1248. R. H. RIDING, Owner-Publisher Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of September, 1958. (Seal) Athena B. Cook. Notary Public (My Commission expires June 25, 1959. PHONE YOUR NEWS TO THE CHRONICLE 4731 Ago . side school children are going to have a warm place to ride to school this winter. Hew Amendments On Social Security Signed by President The new amendments to the soc ial security law, signed by President Pres-ident Eisenhower will effect almost al-most every American family. The amendments will bring; high er benefit checks beginning in February Feb-ruary 1959, to the 12 million men, women and children now receiving monthly old-age surivor's, and dis ability benefits. The amendments will also in crease the social security tax, be ginning January 1, on the earnings of the 74 million people whose work now counts toward social security sec-urity benefits In addition, changes In a number num-ber of existing eligibility requir-ments requir-ments will make benefits payable to many more thousands of individuals in-dividuals and families. The average increase for retired workers now receiving social security sec-urity old-age insurance benifits will be about 7 percent. Payments to those receiving 'benefits 'ben-efits as dependants and survivors will also be increased by amounts up to 7 percent, effective with the checks delivered in February. However, How-ever, where several members of on family are receiving payments, each person may not get a full 7 percent increase. The maximum payment to a family, formerly $200 will now be $254. The increase in the checks of people drawing old-age survivors', and disability insurance benefits will tie automatic. No one needs to apply for them. The new amendments for the first tie make it possible for dependents de-pendents of disabled workers to get social security benefits. Disability insurance benefits have been payable to disabled workers 50 to 65 years of age since July 1957. These disability insurance payents are equal in amount to the monthly old-age insurance benefit ben-efit the worker would receive if he wer already 65 years of age. Uuder the new amendments, the disabled person's dependents will also be paid the same benefits they would receive if he were 65 and n fU:'r"ooiii trr; : YIRAKilfT il . V- 11. f Mini a monl H;l FULL V TPROO JT'f v - v: ;: 'iFULlk'0p7''';-rt - 1 The Lighter, fj YEARS U OLD I Lr- l STRAIGHT BO'I fk " - tl'-V I ' 1 -Vr XT 11 rim n-i--, :- 3 La li BEIMONT DISTIUINO CO.. LAW t Bond Soles Millard county savings 'bonds for August amounted to $1,077.00 according ac-cording to word received from the state office, Herman Munster, West Millard county savings bonds chairman, chair-man, announced here today. State sales for August were $1,513,431 and' the eight months' total this year is $13,145,806 as compared with $11,780,120 for the same period a year ago. Sales through August in Millard county totaled $22,65S, or 56.6 percent of the 1958 goal, the chairman stated. School Activities Start The starting of school will give an additional impetus to sales for the balance of the year as schools renew their Savings Stamp Programs, Pro-grams, according to Clem S. Schramm, Sch-ramm, State Savings Bonds Director. Dir-ector. "Last year over one million stamps were bought by students in Utah at more than 100 schools that carry on the program one that teaches thrift and ecompasses many other functional teaching aids. "Many P. T. A.., American Legion Anxiliary and Federated Woman's Club units and other civic organizations organ-izations sponsor and help the schools in this program," said Mr. Schramm. "Many more schools would carry on this patriotic and economically sound program if groups and individuals would encourage en-courage the school officials to put it in operation and offer to cooperate. cooper-ate. We have some schools that have continued the program since World War 2." "Every American who buys savings bonds is not only building personal person-al financial security, but is also helping in the vital job of helping America retain a free way of life by contributing to this country's financial stability through savings," County Chairman Munster said. "America can stay free and have lasting peace only if she remains drawing benefits as a returned worker. Pay can be made to any of his children who are under age 18. or who have been totally disabled dis-abled since before their 18th birth days; and to his wife, regardless of her age, if she has in her care children who are eligible for these dependents' benefits. If there is no child in the family eligible for benefits, ben-efits, the wife of a disabled person can qualify for benefits when she reaches 62. Watch for more important information in-formation regarding the 1958 am- endments to the Social Security Law. 8 I pjDffl 9e everything you Qifl vanr in flit 2 , Better Bourbon Buy I IIWUI L 3 vv . n i ' r ' m r ...-tsw wu it i r -m . , i ;j . r-t. .. .. . refill' I : - : It , I '-XTT 11 STRAIGHT BOU IEY l tlllfltl 1 strong," he continued. "We can have a free way of life only so '.o.ig as we v.o.k to keep it that way and one contribution we can make Is to see that our families and our country remain stable financially." POOR Ferrin Lovell and Otis Walch they have no interest in life except insuring other people's property. When you come to us we say, oh OY let's get the right insurance for these people and in the proper amount. 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