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Show THE DRUMMING LOG Looking Ahead by JOHN MADSON Conservation Department Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation NIGHT In any one year, I never have time to do alt the Hunting and fishing I'd like. So I usually operate in cycles. I go hot and heavy for or chuckhunting for a year or two and then set these aside temporarily and start something else. That way, favorite sports never wear thin and I return to them often with pleasure and comfort, like an old boar hog to a favorite scratch tree. But now and then I renew one of those sports with such keen delight that I wonder why I ever put it aside in the first place. Such aa Several of ua have been running raccoons this fall and winter the first I've done for years. And I'm dogged If I can see why I haven't done more , of It. . Woods and creek valleys are 'different at night. The tamest woodlot takes on wildneas and mystery, filled with strange stirrings and invisible sounds. Part of this change comes from knowing that you have the country to yourself. Other hunters are at home, farmers have gone indoors, and you have inherited endless forests and deserted fields from the day shift. The rest of the world is wrapped in slumber or the late movie, and you've become brother to the owl, the fox and the raccoon. We have a ridge where we sit while the dogs work through the dark valleys. It's a fine time to gab, for this is waiting-tal- k and leads into the sort of rambling discussions that you have on trains or in army chow w F K06RAM tetter, AiUmm valley forcstfi and ridge shoulders, the dog cries are barely audible. Thoy seem to come from each of a dozen different hollows and creek branches now faint, now bold, fading and building as the 'coon lay down his crooked trail. It isn't d really dog music; this is coon-houn- noise and not the g. OWDOES COTTON bell- like tonguing of Walkers on a fox trail. It's the harsh, sporadic chop of mongrel blueticka making game, and is aa functional and direct as a corn knife. Ray knows his dogs by voice and usually yowps back just to let them know that he's on hand and ready. Then, as thi hounds begin chopping stronu. down a freshening 'coon trail, Ray may throw back his head and yell: "Speak to 'im!" At this, the dogs go slightly out of their minds and really open up. We knock out the pipes and listen carefully until Ray opines: "Reckon they're barking treed. Let's take a walk." And off we go, busting through tangles of cat briar, blackberry, grapevines, sumac, and slipping down clay banks and over wet down logs, coal oil lanterns swinging and everybody trying to get there first. Up ahead, frantic at the foot of some huge oak, is Old Mac a scarred, sinewy hound who hates 'coons like nothing has ever been hated before. Then there's the hanging minute when we sweep the tree with flashlights to spot the 'coon that Mac insists is there. Then the shot, the fight, and r.?i blowing in Old Mac's ear t"n make him turn loose. You never come in from such a hunt without feeling cocky. Driving through the dark suburbs where birdhunters and trout fishermen are pounding their ears, you know that you've capitalized on darkness, defeated television, andouthave of wrung splendid sport the autumn night A PLEA FOR LEADERSHIP In this explosive, wobbly world it beconxn clear increasingly 'hat the US. can contribute most soundly toward peace and stabii ity by pursuing a policy of firm resistance toward the spread of Communism in this hemisphere or anywhere ele. Then, secondly, the US. in its relations toward less fortunate nations should show the world how to do a real job of building a free, dynamic economy based upon private ownership of property and freedom of enterprise. Our position in world leadership seems to demand these things of us. Our national leaders seem at times to unden tand the Russians. At other times, perhaps the Pres ident speaks more for himself than for his top officers, who are somewhat clorer to the action along the front lines than he is. As James Reston of the New York Times, suggested, Pree ident Kennedy rpeaks like the challenger Churchill tout acts more like the appeaser Chamber lain. To say the leat, the President so far has not been handicapped by his rhetoric, except that it has sometimes provided marked contract with the deeds of his administration. (EOnOR S NOTE: Dorothy E. Breast, young Coumboi, Ohio, mother, tmllt of th) rtmarkabtm progress modi by her daughter in overcoming fhe diiability cavsej by a severe birth ) dfct . COTTON REINFORCED CONVEYOR BELTS CARRY OUT THE COAL. aid, far more things in her five j$(JPa WjMWji that will prevent these from undoing us? NO APOLOGIES, PLEASE ! need men in public serwho are more devoted to principle than pragmatic politicians are to pleal ing everybody. It simly will not do to play with pinciples when the future of the nation and the free world is at stake, If we can shore up our attitude at home We vice hide-and-se- ek (toward .government-do-a- ll govemment-takE-1- trends 1 ing to socialism, ope, in Southeast Asia, and expanding even to our own doorstep in Cuba and South America. Why has so little opposition come from America? Is It possible that come thing has been wrong with our .policies, or with out understanding upon which the policies are constructed t FIRST - pick oat the 'Car or track you want to buy. . : . i fjrT. I years than most people even dream of being able to do in an entire lifetime. 'IjSw , .... (Utah) I0URNAB ' 1962 PAGE 4 Hi 51 V I and lead As the March of Dimes 1961 National Poster Child, she met President Kennedy-iperson and rode on a float in his parade. She starred in an hour-lon- g television program with some of the country's most popular television and movie stars. Linda has traveled from roast to coast and seen her picture in nearly every newspaper printed. She has autograph oooks filled with the signatures nf celebrities and famous people she has visited. These are just some of the things Linda has done that are beyond the reach of most of us. But the one thing we wanted most for her was something the average person takes for granted the ability to walk alone and unaided. There were many times during the years that my husband, Dean, and I thought that Linda would never be able to throw away her braces and crutches. And to be truthful, there were terrifying moments when we feared we might even lose her. Linda was born with an opening in her spinal column, a condition known medically as spina bifida. As a result, her body was seriously affected from the waist down. When she was only a few hours old, Linda underwent a delicate operation that partially corrected this condition. The surgery was performed at Children's Hospital in Columbus where subsequently The National Foundation with March of Dimes funds established the first of its Birth Defects Clinical Study Centers in 1959. When she was nine months old, it was found that Linda had water on the brain, which has the medical name of hydrocephalus. This condition was . Ml Linda at operations 23 months after two for birth defects. And . . . treated ' by the insertion of a "shunt" tube which drains the excess fluid from the head into the blood stream. You can imagine how much we worried about our little girl in those early days, because we knew she was never far from death. It could have come at any time. After all, 250,000 infants are born in this country each year with a significant birth defect and 21,000 of them die. But Linda continued to improve. She received specialized treatment at the March of Dimes - supported center. She got her leg braces and crutches. Linda hated them, but she learned to use them. if ever When, though would she be able to run and play with her sister and two. older brothers and the other neighborhood children? The answer to that question depended on Linda, her doctors, the rehabilitation therapists, and us. We all worked together. We worked long, and we worked hard, but it was worth it. MAKE IT NEED IT . . . Linda today, now abl to walk without htr crutches or log bracts. Only the other day, Linda took her first halting steps across our living room without her crutches or leg braces. It was an unforgettable experience. In my excitement. I telephoned the good news to everyone I knew and probably quite a few I didn't know. It was a real event. Linda has won through. She improves every day. Now her trips to the birth defects center have been cut to just one every three months. Best of all we have been able to enroll her in kindergarten. Dean and I and the children remember the gloomy days. We know that many other parents of afflicted children are going through similar days of anxiety and heartbreak right now. But we also know that The Na- - tional Foundation-Marc- purchase GOT IT Through the years, some of the men determining policies and serving in high government pos itions have not been dedicated to halting the advance of socialistic and communistic systems ' thru-othe world. Rather, they them selves have been willing to go along with what they consider "the Wave of the future." Let ua try a little socialism along ut Third - Let our Loan Department make out loan forms and suggest plans to you - And teH you about the easy payments at equitable bank rates. Finance locally and save! THE HELPER STATE BANK Helper, , Utah with them, they seem to say. Among the nations coming to lst Washington for handouts, the nationfe never seem to find their political system a handicap. In fact, being an active Comnvun ist back home seems to be an asset in their quests for dollars. Then there are the Yugoslavs. who with the handy assistance of the Russians have played Uncle Sam for a sucker for years to the tune of more than 2 billion dollars. Admittedly, there may have been a time when aid to Tito looked promising, but who is responsible for allowing the money flow to continue all these years? And now Cheddi Jagan newly-electe- d the Communist premier of British Guiana, tries the same sort of international blackmail. Do we not need a foreign policy, including a policy on so-cil- JUY IT Income Tax Retains Federal and State to your buolnooo ao your tolophono Ao clooo Mm pne mam tNMI0. WnCM, MIMf m . I J. wnovsanw T ottic y MUM mJ wwklm dtvicM hot cm speed your business call will ml ym nwMyt A jvkk HUphono horo . . . MvrttWM right pwmpt. krinsj y f Filled.Contact John Daskalos, Jr. t 387 North 4th East, Price Phone: .! pill, trvkt ME Professionals THORIT HATCH Lawyer CAIU 155 IIELFER JOURNAL OFFICE SUPPLY YOUX IOCM So. Main Phone GR 621 MITCHELL FUNERAL HOME Dick Mitchell Bntbakner to a t of r ft IT Helper, Utah funeral Dlraotor . means better living for you Once a manufacturer was looking for a better product. "I want to be lure that people NEED IT," he said. So he asked a lot of them boat IT. The taswers told him how to MAM IT. Finally he GOT IT. Bui IT cost ao twfal lot to nuke. To tell it for less, he'd havt to make IT by the million. Which aw had so bt told by the million, ua. It So he let his advertising man SEE it. Ads to millions 'who might began to subw it to BUY IT. And they did. s product that they indeed was For IT ' at needed, i price they could afford to pay. Then a big sign, MORI HELP WANTED sppeared on the factory door. Everybody k twppy, (at now ib) it suade. like it enough Ur h Kp RollUtg Ah9m4 ' ' of Dimes is looking for the cause and cure of birth defects. March of Dimes contributions led to the triumph over polio, and I'm a firm believer in the slogan that "Your Dimes Win Do It Again." WHY GO ALONG? SECOND - Ifind oat how much money yoa will need to cover the SEVfJT lly DOROTHY E. HKKESK My little Linda has done here at home, .we then may, when we have the opportunity, patiently teach other peoples the methods by fHAT BASIC POLICY? which we have become the most Time has not yet permitted favored nation. Just whait do we the American people to interpret stand for J The free capitalistic and no apologies are (What meaning the President in- system, lines. needed. Without something to tended when a he weeks few ago Then, far down the hollow, believe in ourselves, however, declared that it our determin was there's a single "yowp". Someone says that he reckons one ation to have a "wider choice" we shall have nothing to offer of the dogs has struck trail than either annihilation or ap- them. and you say that you reckon peasement. Our foreign aid spending so Mb right, and the talk stoos Was this an invitation to Khru far has made us few friends. Y7 and pretty soon there's another phchev to relax and negotiate, on have not used this &i an opporyowp". Muffled by the dense the basis that whatever belongs tunity to build respect, a thing to America is negotiable t Let us difficult to do when increasingly BASE UP ! meals and enjoyed fewer luxur- - hope net. It is my belief that the Uncle Sam has a reputation for The old philosopher who claims ies, may have been wiser than Russian premier will respect only picking .up the checks. But inwe would be a stronger nation the present generation of Am-- if firmness and strength. He likes stead of acting like weak apolowe went without a few more ericaas seems to think. ip turn the tension on and off gists for our system, we ought when it suits him, and he will to speak up and promote what it exioloit any signs of weakness. has to offer. America needs to With and without negotiations, play it fair and straight in forthe Reds have marched ahead eign relations. When we learn to for the pact 20 years, strength- do that, we, shall find favor and ening their hold in Eastern Eur- friends the world over. HERE'S HOW 1, Linda Discards Braces, Crufches; Mother Praises March of Dimes MINE COAL? HINT bull-frogli- 'coon-huntin- nriTRSQAY, FEB. ..by Or. Gtorg S. Bnion f RESIDENT NATIONAL VOCATION HELPER The , |