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Show BEAVER CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1946 MIXEItSVILLE NEW YEAR. WISHES and gladdened spirit we welcome the New Year. Here's hoping that the rose-color- 1947 "picture" one ed for you and yours. , the tempo of a New Year's Eve ebration grew in intensity. It was quiet, sitting there by candlelight, a beautiful moment to reflect back over the 12 months just ending except that tonight was so crucial! Tonight he vigil would end, the problem would resolve itself. But which way? It was a strange thing they had done. Just a year ago tonight, while all New York was going mad welcoming the New Year with raucous gaiety, they had been sitting in this very room yes, Harry over there in the big arm chair and she, Laurette, in the very chair she occupied at this moment. "Laurie," he used to call her; not "Laurette," the name everyone else used, but "Laurie," the convenient abbreviation he had invented. "I'm a failure, Laurie," he had said. "Five years on the same job with nothing to show save a thinhead of hair and an almost ning m empty bank account." Laurette remembered how she had tried to comfort him, and then the bombshell: "No, honey," he had said flatly". "It's no use. We can't be married, for I'd merely be fastening a millstone around your neck. I'm leavingleaving you right now!" She had cried, protested, and then he had agreed to make a game of it. His parting words, still vivid, were: "If you'll wait a year, Laurie, dear a year from tonight. If I've succeeded, if I've made something of myself by then, I'll be back. A year from tonight. If not, well, probably you'll never see me cel- With light heart is a SAILOR TAKES PART IS "OPERATION BUCK" Lyle N. Barton, motor machinist's mate, first clas, USN, hti3band of Mrs. Lyle Barton of Minersville, has participated in "Operation Duck," the joint Army and Navy aniDhibious training exercises held in off the southern coast of Califor was alone dining LAURETTE while outside nia, while serving aboard the LSS SMITH'S FROZEN FOODS LOCKER PLANT EARL T. SMITH MABEL SMITH wisiiiiiiiioiiwi LST 1138. Twenty thousand Army, Navy, and Marine personnel. 500 planes. and 60 ships were engaged in tne operation which was conciuaea with tne landing of the bixui Army's Second Infantry Division on San t'lemente Isand, and the bottFORTUNEM AT THE OPENING OF ANOTTIER sure!" YEAR clared this week Most people way with agriculture . r8 PROSPEROUS PATRONS NEW A . " tin- - SWING OPEN, WE PAUSE TO CONSIDER WHAT THE OLD YEAR HAS BROUGHT AND WHAT THE NEW YEAR MAY BRING. OUR FRIENDS HAVE, INDEED, BEEN GOOD TO US IN 1946. ACCEPT OUR SINCERE THANKS. IN APPRECIATION WE PLEDGE TO MAINTAIN OUR HIGH STANDARDS OF SERVICE, EVER STRIVING TOWARDS STILL HIGHER GOALS. MAY THE NEW YEAR BE ONE OF HEALTH, HAPPINESS, AND SUCCESS TO ALL. BROOKLAWN CREAMERY HAPPY AND YEAR, AND THE p THE UTMOST IN SERVICE DURING 1917. LOW'S FARM EQUIPMENT Midnite came, and the noise reached a mighty crescendo. So tonight she was waiting. Only God and she and Harry knew how important was this New Year's Eve. Bill Collins had asked her out for the evening but she said, no, she wasn't feeling well and would stay home. Then he asked if he might drop around to her apartment and she begged off. Bill had given her a puzzled look, but only God and she and Harry knew. . . . Laurette washed the dinner dishes, brushed her hair and straightened up the living room, because Harry used to enjoy sitting in front of the hearth with his pipe. At eleven o'clock there was a knock at the door, and Laurette'i heart jumped. But it was only the lady next door, pausing long enough to extend the inevitable "Happy New STRIKE UP THE BAND! Mail 1947! Good health, good luck, to you, our friendi, every day in the coming year. And thank millionl BURGESS OPTICAL CO. RE- NEWAL OF OUR PLEDGE TO GIVE YOU Year!" "What's happy about it?" Lau rette wanted to ask her. She picked up a book and tried to read, but it was no use. Midnight came, and outside the noise reached a mighty crescendo. At that moment Laurette suddenlv realized that Harry had failed her; New Year's Eve was over, and he hadn't kept the rendezvous! Then the telephone Jangled and Laurette leaped to answer. "San Francisco calling Miss Windsor," said the operator. Then a long silence, while Laurette held her breath. Hadn't Bill thought he'd seen Harry in San Francisco? Finally the operator came back: 'Tm sorry, Miss Windsor, but our lines have apparently gone out somewhere. I'll have to call you back." Then Laurette had an idea. "Operator," she asked, "was that call addressed just to Miss Windsor? Wasn't there a first name?" "Why, I guess so," came the reply. "Yes, here it is to Miss LauWindsor. That's you, rie, isn't it?" "I'll say it Is!" Laurette shouted gleefully. "But only one person in the world ever called ine that!" Brief if NEW (YEAR io Qjou NEW YEAR'S AGAIN! ' 22 u ,B rr from individuals instead f ftm. Purchases of government bonds banks, cash wm u ut 0' n hv farmers will stabilize the price circulation." Mr Cash reserves of indivifi'f level of farm products and cushion Uhe fall to lower prices when it m oonos rather th. 1 "tie .... dni comes, W. W. Owens, director ances accomrnh ("'"lil e Pur;Utah State Extension Service, de pose, he said. JOINS WITH US IN WISHING ALL OUR AND a: ,"V. 'One wav tn i lnflati0n for those who h invest in it U. S. savta SAVINGS BONDS WILL AID It the government FARM PRODI ( TS PRICK LEVEL EVERY MEMBER OF THIS ORGANIZATION FRIENDS d ' agree that there will h DeW; 4 tion in the prices of Director Owens said fa,Th mipi uA nii,.. o ttiA mi wucu Will it coma, AS THE PORTALS OF THE NEW YEAR again." She still remembered the firm set of his shoulders as he walked out the door that night, bound he knew not where. She remembered the questions their friends had asked. Where was Harry? Away on a long trip she had replied, at first. Then she had ceased to offer excuses, and of course the friends stopped asking questions. Only once had there been word of him, and then only very indefinite news. "I saw him getting into a cab on Market street," Bill Collins had told her upon returning from a trip to San Francisco. "At least I think it was Harry. Saw him only an instant, though, and I couldn't be California mainland, near the mouth of Aliso Canyon, Oceanside. Rear Admiral A. Struble, USN, commander amphibious forces, Pacific Fleet, and Major General G. P. Hays, commanding general of the Sixth Army, directed the overall planning of the exercises. With its noisy celebrations, laugh- ter and of thoughtful its moments retrospect and purpose. 22 Enjoy the holiday. Accept our thanks for past favors and our good light-heartedne- wishes for ss, ... A Happy Jw Year. BRADSHAW CHEVROLET CO. Cedar City |