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Show Miniitia By Kwth LouiM ' Partridge vs 4. been 7ridy. Sept. il which I never receivieg encourage because I can't amwer iti about our loss of those wood trees on Upper Campus. One came today (Monday) that la typical. The writer says the and her Hitter went up to see the devastation for themselves, and counted M VOTED TO TWt 135J-H- TWENTY-EIGHT-bark- twenty-eig- ht COUNTY,' UTAH PROVO; fan-ma- VlNTtfttSTaOf UTAH UTAH FRIDAY. COUNTY 1 1 SEPTEMBER j 1953 4, .. J FOR BACll-- f O-SCflO- OL ed trees! "We live right at the loot of the hill," ihe continue! "and there has sever been enough cotton float down to be . . . notice able." And suppos It WERE no ticeable, I want to know. How any human being who contaminates everything he comes la contact with can complain about a white fall of summer snow, I'll never understand. Well, the writer goes on: "To think of looking up our street to , see a bare .'. . hill . . . just sickens me. Those trees have been a part of our home ever since we were little children." Kow well I know e that. Ill be years old in December, and ever since 1 can remember those trees have looked Just as they do now or rather as they did aWew weeks ago. They are beginn;sSS to die now. Those trees were rearer one hundred than fifty years old. K - : - ". ' ; .r - :, , 1 IWi'f; : . . - . : fifty-fiv- taPJX. i I am hippy to say that my Alma Mater.. BYU was NOT guilty of the crime as was at first thought. After going up there to see for myself that which I. hoped I wouldn't see, 1 came home sick at heart and asked myself "WHY?" How could a university be so lacking? -If 'The Glory of God is Intelligence" " I told myself, "then someone has been fooling with the witch, that's all." Eldest Wilkinson and Alice Ludlow courted under those trees as have many and many another. I couldn't believe as President Ernest would be guilty of such a thing as the , loss of our trees. So I wrote a note, and I received an answer, dated August 27, 1953. Miss Partridge: fs 'S W""H itVUI : w IW h- 1 1 " - -- r w-v- S$&j ' " ; ers have passed. So they can racejand nurses., of powered flight. back In and fight the resulting! Sirens have been Installed to He was on his way from Boise. ' give you whatever warning there Idaho, to Olympia. Wash., when fires. That Is civil defense planning. It i:. The broadcasting industry is he made the forced landing In the TV pasture. Is one small but important parready to silence its of an overall plan into" Which a broadcasts and will switch its d lot more work has been put than AM stations to a special emergen willowware The called cy system most people realize. Lonelrad, pattern as .engraved by Thomas which can stay on the air without Minton, famous English potter, Russia Can Deliver enemy bombers a direction- made its bow in i730 for Thorn a g giving work? We won't al beam to ride. Will the plan Turner. know for sure until too late. Thal is why Val Peterson, boss of the federal Civil Defense Administratiothe team of experts he n,-and has working with him lake . their Jobs seriously. The problem. In a nutshell. Is that Kuss'a now has atomic bombs, has set off a hydrogen bomb, and could put in the air plenty of B23 type bombers (esti" mates of the number run as high Special Purchase as 2000) to deliver them. been done t0 mlnimlze . " j FM-an- Chinese-inspire- . . ; j rfv' Tlrst- - t.; $)50 OL that Reg. $24.95; $27.50, $29.95 LAST 00 to yd. 46 TO 56 INCHES WIDE 20 COLORS1 e. ALL-WO- ' easy, natural look! Flannels, Tweeds, Houndjstooth Checks, and .others. Colors to match any wardjobe, in all sizes! . THEY 1 NEW Hand Tailored Coats with Originally sold up to $8.40 yd. WHILE -- I 400 YARDS ELASTlt NAUGAHYDE , yu ve tk V pzn'fc f Sale 80t to know the That is an Air with Canada, Force Job. Working iiif rtrt.irr continent with next thing he knew, the trees were U Jh" ringed murdered. Twenty-eigh- t of them!.rad,r warJmnl tUon8- - LnfortuAs you can see by the letter I " y ' Iauai u" "Ui,B VL vul quoted at the beginning of this 150 miles 45 Minutes Warning stint, not everyone feels alike about falling cotton. Falling cot The Air Force says 15 minutes' ton was to me and always will be. notice is the most we can hope one of the delights of cottonwood for now, at least in coastal pities trees. In more civilized portions of nee enemy planes are spotted the globe one can't cut down a tree the Job Is up to 'civil defense. In one'j own yard without permis- - Since early 1931, when FCDA wa3 sion from, a responsible commis- - created, a lot has been done. More sin or something. This Is true in remains to be done. FCDA's Job some parts of California. Bui.ls education, training, and organi-herIn dear old Provo. the public jzation. When the time comes, state of the past, the present and the and local CD directors will "run" future can be deprived of the sight,! civil defense.the sound, the fragrance of twenty-- ! CD directors have been named ei?ht trees that are nearer to' being! in all the 71 critical target areas, one hundred years old, than fifty,) and others too. With FCDA help and this quite aside from their! they have developed plans and irreplaceable. jganizations ranging from very Something must be done to save,' us from another such catastrophe Only 25,000 of Connecticut's there is darned little left 202.000 acres of land is used for to save. A curse on such selfish' crowine vecetables. d of wanton, destruction, I say the 25,000 acres is land. ii, txVvHvi1 civ, ELEAZER l- BU1I1CU11C Wild few - . I Vi luat couldn't bear It for 'XM V : CLE ELUM. Wash. (UP) Max (good In 5ew York and California Conrad, who is on a flying tour of the nation's 43 state' capitals In to not .much. a light plane, was forced down in So have workers 4.272,000 far,atomic bombers, ever head for' a pasture here yesterday because an of estimated been recruited of engine trouble. . . , " ae millmn cAKAr. nunlaH riira " tne fire trucks. Tney prooaDiy , Conrad, of Winona, Minn., flew uaracore civil oi l"e ueiense. out town. of will be racing a Piper Cub airplane across the are arouna "eing organized Peculiar?,1 No. Civil defense Atlantic last year. So far this surp thA fire '"Professionals" like firemen, po-- year he- - has visited 45 state capi riri.i. M nt tn ce. utility, workers, physicians, tals to herald the 50th anniversary trucks are intact after the By FRANK ... i if . . m nn the school had received comjlaimsTn,t,has n . Conrad Forced Down By Trouble Fire Trucks Will De Racing Out Of Town In Cass of Atomic Bomb Strike spent considerable time yesterday to find out what could be done about our cottonwood trees. I talked to the forest rangjy. In Ogden and to Dr. Tanner of our Biology Department, as well as to Mr. Joseph Deane In Nephi" (Mr. Deane Is my gentile brother-in-lawho is a native of Michigan where trees are appreciated. "The forest ranger and Dr. Tanner are both of the opinion it will be Impossible to save the trees. They say when large trees like these have been completely girdled as these have, and as deeply as they have, there is nothing you can do to bridge the gap . . "Naturally, we are disappointed and extremely unhappy about what has happened, as are all the good friends of the University . . . Sincerely, Harvey L. Taylor Executive Assistant to the President." nr-- - NEATaUpkwto An Army band (foreground) strikes up as the 1953 AmerLEGIONNAIRES BY THE THOUSANDS under way in St Louis. An estimated ,100,000 marchers took part ican Legion Convention parade gets in the spectacle that lasted 10 hours. master-s- "Dear :'- FINE SHORT SLEEVE - 5) BOltOW g, 'i 14S North 1st West ' PHONE One-thir- 519-- J Colors and patterns galore , LUXURIOUS PARIS (UP) Francois Mitter-ar.minister of state for European affairs, has resiened from Premier Joseph Larttel's irovern- ment in protest against French North African policy, it was announced today. Mltterand. president of the mHdleto-W- t Union of Republican and Social Resistance party In Parliament, quit because the Cabinet refused to follow his ideas oi a "new deal" nolirv in Mnrwi-and Tunisia. - ORLONS, RAYONS, COTTONS! potato-produci- Minister Resigns French Government ! . .. plain colors, shepherd checks, polka dots Ryi2E2 FOAM and others. d, AT PRICES VOU CAM Fu3 CoHoad ScU Now In id ill V ATrOCf Reg. $3.95, $4.95 $5.95! Prc-rre- s f i V; t n . COXTRACT AWARDED ; ... t:: V f-sj- a PORTLAND (UP) The Utilities Construction Company. Ontario. Ore., has been awarded a $38,550 contract for flood control work on the Little Wood river near Gooding. Jda., the Army Engineers announced today. 1 I for good car service j and savt money foe. ; ASM : SICTICHAt . . 8T SOFA 2-P- L SUPER SPECIAL!! OU!2 $1C7 ;,-lS- MEN'S HOSE 4 $22f Ycung's Scrvico" 119 S. StiU St PROVO end cotton - nyloml Plaids, plains, stripes 'and fancies. Sixes 10 to. .13. Reg. 55e and 75c Cotton 0 chais. g e ' ...... $4?'" . ....... $145 t 1 39c |