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Show A Dark Day f cdb. Your Pocketbools Jim'' Tre. only daily newspaper devoted to the progress ajid advancement of Central Utah and its people " T Joe's Dream House Project Turned Into Big Nightmare "V SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1959 Just Mr. ' Blanding's . Dream House these days does not mean that if ryou are planning to build ' .or .remodel. ou can proceed with abandon; , Here is a sad but true tale to ' prove 'my point: A zealous exuberanite let's na him Joe intent upon building his dream house, let a builder tai's s contract. him into a Total estimated cost, said the builder, would be $30,000. When the house was half up, the builder admitted to Joe that he had underestimated by $10,000. Joe upped his mortgage. When the house was SO per cent complete, the builder walked off the job claiming he had spent $58,OC0 for labor and materials. The next day, the subcontractor put a lien against the property for the unpaid $26,000. Still intent upon his dream house, Joe now borrowed every, cent he could lay his hands upon and plowed in an additional $3,000 to.ret it finished. This meant that he had just about $30,000 of his own money In the property the sum total of 20 years' savings plus a $23,000 mortgage, plus a lawsuit. It took three years to ge.t the case to court. One of the first discoveries Joe made was that the builder had been $25,000 in debt when he started tlTe job and much in need of the sucker, he found. The outcome: Joe was ordered to dig up another $13,000 to satisfy the subcontractor's claims. Worse still, appraisers estimated the house at only $40,000. (And-- Joe had legal fees to pay.) It would have cost Joe the tidy about 1 1 g h way Ent ra nee Si g ns i Since the wind has wrecked the . Ch1 i':er of Commerce's "Welcome , to Provo" sign at Ironton, this seems' like a good time to start planning some type of sign of identification and welcome for the major entrances into the city. As it now stands, there is no' pretentious sign at any Provo entrance only the small State Road Commission, signs which are stand. ard for every community. At one time, the Chamber of . Commerce had a" good sign at he the Perhaps, with proper planning . outstanding signs. Possibilities of landscaping, the immediate area of the sign should also be investigated. At the north entrance, it is not hard to. envision the hill on either side of the highway being landscaped with grass and 'shrubs to form an attractive atmosphere and backdrop for the "Welcome to Provo" sign. And on the subject of signs, some type of large and. impressive marker is needed on Highway 189 in Provo Canyon at the junction of the highway with the North Fork road to Aspen Grove. As it now stands, tourists who enter the Alpine Scenic Loop from the American Fork Canyon side, find nothing, as they enter Highway 189 at Wildwood, to entice them to visit Provo and other Utah Against Communism A while back reports were rife that Marilyn Monroe might go to Moscow this summer to help out at our scheduled trade fair, explain- ing what America is all about. The general feeling is that if anyone can deliver the message, she can. Now we hear that France's Brig-itt-e Bardot is going to Moscow in June. Her purposes are more limited and selfish. She wants to promote the world premiere there of her new film, "Babette Goes to War." , .. Rumors have it that while she's on the Soviet premises she may talk: to Nikita Khrushchev. Not ex- -, actly a summit conference, but we'd better not assume too hastily that no international good will emerge if it comes off. This much seems likely: Nikita 4 . ' r . rather learn, ... signs distinctive to grab the eye of every and support, such materials as steel, concrete ,and masonry could be used to construct some really Bold Front would al motorist, and with a message that will give, every tourist a splendid first impresion of the city. . forcefully, that there are more things on earth than communism. Lenin didn't cover everything. What Brigitte has, Nikita and his 'black-bear- d colleagues in the Kremlin, are going to have to learn to coexist with. ' Valley communities. A goodrsized sign, giving mileage to Provo and other Utah Valley points probably would pay for itself many times in one season in added tourist business lured, to t.he valley. Without the sign, it. is possible that many tourists who might-hav- e spent one or more days in Utah County, turn in the other direction and proceed on their way. Entrance signs of- the proper kind and character could mean new dollars as well as new friends for the Provo area - The Chopping Block Even the Law Has Its Vagaries ' . By FRANK C. ROBERTSON ' snovy and storm and sleet without even a warbonnet to protect his noble head, while his successor stands snug and warm beneath the capitol dome. Maybe it is just and right since -- our greatest heroes are those who collect the most wampum for themselves, and in this At the murder trial of one of the youths involved in the sensational prison murder the testimony was. so sordid, I read in a Salt Lake paper, that the judge ordered the courtroom cleared of young people, i.e. of boys under twenty-one- , and gnii) uiiuer eignreen Are, I wonder, the ears of girls of eighteen more hardened against obscenities than are the ears of boys of twenty? I had supposed that 1 " 1 girls were more pure and innocent, more to be protected than boys, but apparently I am. 1 -and be- nuuawuu me times. nina iut, The law, of course, 'always knows'best. For instance, I know . of a young newly wed couple, both eighteen years of age The leading chain store, adhering rigidly to the letter of the' law, will not sell the young man a package of cigarettes, but his equally young wife, a. little younger, I believe, can go to the same store and buy them for him. legally. - Some fuss and feathers was kicked up during the recent session of the legislature about a law permitting cities and counties to increase tne sales tax by half a cent. It' passed, and as everyone anticipated the tax is being slapped on. Salt Lake will be the first. A small story in the Salt Lake paper, so small it almost escaped my notice, stated that in view of this increased 'revenue a certain tax on .business would 1L me previous now ue reauteuJ 10 une-si-xamount. The revenue lost on one tax would, the mayor claimed,, balance, the 1 other. Just It iVj old-fashion- ed . A. 2 . in ; ":' how many people who favored in- creasing the sales tax realized that its real purpose was to transfer the tax burden from businessmen to the common people? Certainly the newspapers of the city did nothing to give them this Speaking of the legislature reminds me that when I, was up there when it was in session, it was the first time I had been at the State Capitol since the statue of Massasoit, the great chief of the Wampanoags, and friend of the Pilgrim fathers, was removel from Its home in the rotunda to be replaced by the statue ' . of a local businessman. So now, there stands Massasoit out on the capitol steps exposed to rain and respect Mr; Jackling had it all over poor old Massasoit. But Massasoit has two compensations for his loss of dignity. One, he is outside where he isn't compelled to listen to the politicians inside, and two, millions of people are familiar with his name who never heard of D. C. Jackling. - - . Is a habit with us to hold that we do not believe in the confiscation of prop erty; yet in one fell swoop a hundred million dollar industry in the state of Oklahoma was destroyed. And it was done by1 the sovereign people with no other weapon than the ballot. They voted g the industry of the state out of business. It was a - real industry, they tell me. were listed in the telephone books and all you had. to do to get liquor was to pick up your phone and it would be delivered to your house within the Hour, even on Sunday. It was, as my friend Bill Burchardt of Oklahoma City, told us last summer, "flourishing." ; and Newspaper reports are dumping tell, us the on the merchandise their open market will for whatever it bring, and looking v for less respectable (in Oklahoma) em' ployment. At that, it must have been quite a cam, paign, with the bootleggers and the Protestant ministers leading the fight fof the little drys and using placard-bearin- g children as one of their chief weapons, and the Catholic priests and the heading the battle ' for the . boot-leggin- Boot-legge- rs A-ia- ck a-d- boot-legge-rs Johnny-come-lateli- WetS. ' .' . cost-plu- past enough . . ter since the south sign blew down last month. The C. of C. is aware of the problem, but we imagine it -- Both were of lumber. .Wind, perhaps aided by vandals, sent the north sign crashing into the! mud some 10 years ago. The big Iron-to- n sign served its purpose gallantly until the high. March winds toppled it this "year. The Chamber of Commerce has. taken the lead heretofore in maintaining highway entrance signstand has already discussed the ma : - agricultural-educational-industri- north Highway 91 entrance as well as the one at the south entrance. . . would welcome ideas and support from civic clubs, Provo City, businesses, industries any source with ideas, energies and financial backing. Of course, any move should be well planned and coordinated, and on a level befitting the size and character of the city. It seems. to us that a beautiful, growing city and center like Provo needs "some very outstanding signs . . something better and more substantial than the signs of , By FAYE IIENLE because no one is talking es .'V'; I am going down to Oklahoma City in te June to a convention of Western writers, and it would be just my luck to land there after the bootlegging supply of White Mule has been exhausted, and the state1 owned liquor stores haven't yet started to operate! What I mean is, I won't have anything to write about. 1: Query to Senator Bennett: You say you are going to introduce a bill to allow Utah to tax the U. S. Military installations in the state. If you really want to ease the tax burden in' this state why don't you extend your bill to tax the tax free property owned by various religious institutions, which allegedly runs into millions of dollars? sum of '$51033 to keep his dream house and isomelio vv it didn't look anymore. Out afford, 'Joe turned: Ihciliouse back; to the bank 'and subcontractors,, g'athered his family" and" possessions and mov ed into a rental, 'property. How caii;. you avoid Joe's pit falls? Thfi- answer: know your build er. Be was v of those who. offer you bar;i '"is or bonuses. Read the small print in any contract pi fe5 Inc. L" . ' Wl- - 'V i vi ' Assignment: Washington , Congressmen Ride Flying Saucers at Hearings By ED KOTERBA WASHINGTON I tell you, it Isn't safe around the old House Office Building these days. A Congressman is harmles's as long as he keeps talking. And for weeks I felt secure sitting on a' hard chair in the Space Goiumittp-room. Those earthly Solomons never-estopp- ed talking, glued to . their seats. But nowadays when you approach their committee room you've got to watch your step and, something, you've gotta duck. Flying saucers, it is, with Congressmen riding 'em. What I write here is not the product of exotic fumes from pr nter's ink. h really happened, so help ' me, Jules Verne. A gentleman from Spacetron-Ics,-Inc- ., a Washington, D. C. firm, hauled onto the committee room carpet a thing that looked like a metal mattress. "Let's send the chairman up," said an assistant. Chairman Overton Brooks (D., La.) sat down on 4he thing and somebody plugged it onto a wall socket And our space chairman took off. Our new Buck Rogers hung L you si:rn. Ask the builder to show .you similar job s 'that he has finished., Inquire into how much they cost and into hew much they have de- - - f pillar. The leash was a rubber hos? attached. to an oxygen tank which gave it the power. Another f ellow, walkedtipwith ng saucer . . " free-wheeli- Written for NEA Service number of readers have recently asked for more information on mucous colitis. There is actually no material difference between this condition and What is also known as irritable bowel or spastic colon. Incidentally, I do not like to call this a disease because it has many contributing factors and does not constitute a menace to life or to the health in general. Diarrhea followed by constipation, often accompanied by discomfort': in the abdomen and growling sounds, are the most Common signs of this uncomfortable ailment. Most of those who have a spastic colon think they are constipated because after a period of fairly loose movements, there may be a delay of a day or more before another occurs. This idea is wrong. The waste material is passing through the come more frequently. This of course makes the symptoms of a spastic colon, worse. Nearly all who have it, therefore, notice that the symptoms are worse when they are angry, anxious or annoyed. Some foods, particularly raw fruits and vegetables, irritate the walls of the bowel and stimulate to increased periMost cathartics waves. staltic and Jaxitives do the same thirig, only more so. The emotional strain of life today appears to have an unfavorable effect. The diet, too, is of course important. The foods and laxative and laxative cathartic drugs s h o,u Id be avoided. A diet which contains a high proportion of what are called bland foods is desirable. Such a diet consists largely of such things as cooked cereals, milk products, creamed soups, eggs and fish. Drugs may help somewhat, but It is best whenever possible, to do without any drugs as they merely bring temporary relief. A disappointing feature of this uncomfortble, but not dangerous, condition is that even when recovery seems to be complete, almost any emotional strain or. indiscretion in' eating will start it off again. or so - called Spastic colon mucous colitis does not predispose to cancer or other serious complications, though it certainly is troublesome. A cradled-i- n his arms. He wouldn't launch ir for fear it would get out of hand, sail through an open window and scare the living daylights out" of Washington. The young men standing around In what looked like space suits were really motorcycle messengers from the wire services waiting ttPdispatch films to their offices. All those flying machines were for real, except they were only prototypes of what's to come in the next 10 years. The magic mattress that sent Rep, Brooks flying was operated by four tiny one h.p. vacuum sweeper motors. The floating platform runs on the ducted fan principle something like, tiny helicopter blades built into metal collars. The downdraft of air i3 what lifts it. The Army .and Navy research people call their vehicles "ground machines because proximity" or they depend on the ground to give them the upward water bowels too fast slowly. . the-intestine- . . rather than too The wavelike motion of the intestines which carry the waste matter downward ccur too often, and produce discomfort. When there is nothing remaining in the intestines there can, of course, be no bowel movement no matter how often the wavelike mo tions occur.' People who are nervous, thin and easily upset are particular liable to spastic colon. The nervous system sends unconscious messages to the bowel which causes the intestinal waves to By A. LEOKUM '" : Barbs some devilish little kid?, doing right would be more popular if it were wrong, With Conducted with a dentist's ad. Great Pains" What a sense of humorl . the Britannica Junior 13- encyclopedia for school and home. Send-ycuquestions, name, age, address to "Tell ?lve WbyJ" care of this paper. To day's winner is: Jeffrey SehU'tcl Mansfield, Ohio. Win 13-vo'u- r llockets are certainly in the news. We have sputniks, satellites, rockets being aimed at the moon! You" might imagine that the rocket is the very latest development of science. Actually, rockets are .hundred of years old. What has happened is that we have learned how to make bigger and better rockets. The Chinese yere probably the first to use rockets in' war. As early as the 13th century they 4he Mongols with rockets! European armies treicl them later. A BriiisJi army officer, Sir William Congrcve, developed rockets with explosive heads and these were used in the war against Napoleon and in the War of 1812. Our own- "Star' Spangled Banner" was written when Francis Scott Key watched British warships bombard Fort McHenry with Coifgreve rockets. That's why. the song contains the line "the rocket's red glare"! How does a rocket work? its action is based on a fundamental law of nature, first stated by Sir Isaac Newton. It is his third law of motion and itisays: "To every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction." What is the action in. a rocket?" It sends out burning gases from 'one end at very high speed. This action, of the gases coming out at high speed, has to have a reaction. The reaction is that the gases push the rocket. This means the gases; push the rocket directly. They don't push, against anything at the rear, they, push the rocket itself merely because this is the reaction to their"' comwere-fighti- , ing out. , This is ."why a rocket: doesn't" need air for it to !go forward. And if. it doesn't need air, it can go up into high altitudes where the air is thin, or even into empty space? In fact, where there is no air at all there is no friction, and the rocket works, even better. Most military rockets ' use a fuel made of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin. This is .a smokeless . Qs and A7s your builder gives, you with local realtors. Ak ''these-- realtors to rec ommend builders whose work they know You will d i s.c o ye r th a t in this av c of "developments," there is a growintr trcn l toward bran:! n"!'hupriers , in. some - areas. prod-voik.m st hraml-namtbese builders ucts, ti e must be :r,eUy good to win a Like good" an unkind remark someone has made about you she's a a acquaintance. If instead, she tells you something nice she has heard about you that is sure to build up your ego, she's a friend.. If she talks about herself all the not to say e of reputation.; 't for ycu without checking with your local bank or savings and loan asscd lation. If the lending institution approve, his credit, you can relax and ask for, bids. Builders who have won the ap- like' bank prov'al cf ers and lumber crs, realtq yards arc ccfta:'hly trustworthy: Fur- thcr, I'm told thr:r credit rating will stand ycu in good'-- ' stead when ycti col: the best possible terms for financing your con struction or, remodeling job. 1 , j ut. Jcal-citizen- power wh: :h contains in , it the oxygen' np; cssary 'for burning. But ma ay of 0"r larger fockes use a Uqu'. fii: and: get oxygen for burnin bV pumping! in air. Once a rodket escaped from the earth's atmosphere, since there is no faction it wox'd- tonlinur to travel elvcn after jit used up nil its fuel! .1 jT.v ti?ii: 1. eyes? The KiJdie Box When arc your eyes .not 2. Why di white sheep eat more than black sheep?3. 'Which book most stirri: the contains.' '; p.lTS? Answers Z ' 1. When, the wind makes them water. 2. Because there are more of them. 3.i A cook book. -- - ..' PICTUIIE SECRET Add and subtract the letters ia the names I'of the things shown. Clue, Every wcel has one. Win the Britannica World Atlas or Yearbook of Event!,. Send your riddles", jokes, tricks to "Tell Me Why!'f Today's winner Is: Martha MaHin, 11, Ephrata, Pa. J .Herald Correspondents Here are Hvrald staff correspondents in the various communities of Utah Contact them if you have County. news. District circulation agents ar 'listed also. Thc ctond ready io help you! with problems concerning dei livery of the; paper. , Phone Comwuniry . Name Alpine ' A very IMarlejie Dena (Jtfant ioo:w American Fork (Cire.) Jennie ilbcrt PI. Gr. "StJ Benjamin Mrs. J. it. Pcay 0119-R- 3 " it.agemont Laura N, Eendixsen FR Goshen. 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Check ng . , N "since, What Is a Rocket? j How to tell whether a woman is a friend or just an acquaintance: If she says, "What an attractive room; who did your decorating?" she's an acquaintance. If she says, "I love the way you've combined the colors in this room," she's a iriend. If she expresses regret when Ufa deals you an unkind blow sne may be either a friend or an acquaintance. But if she is obviously pleased when something good comes your way, she's a friend. If she tells you "for your own ' precialcd . Discomfort Than Danger ill could Tell Me Why? . By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. dreamy " i Bowel Trouble Holds More the man pulled the plug. Rep.. Jim Quigley (D., Pa.! watched that wheelless dervish of the future in long silence, and then "said, sadly: "To think, I. just invested in four new tires." The hydro-ai- r vehicle, as they call it, was just one of a fleet of weird models inventors showed off before- the Congressmen. That committee room looked like a 1960 flying auto carnival on Mars. And outside the hall, a Marine major earner trundling by, leading a floating baby saucer around like a dog on a leash. It a fiendish-soundin- g whine as it bobbled around a marble a the closest thing to the generally-accepte- d concept of true flying saucer. Full capability of the Avrocar Is so secret that the general decided to give the details behind closed doors. I had heard enough anyway, so I hopped on a floating carpet and got out of there, (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate,' Inc.) . Your Family Doctor on while that flying mattress wobbled above the rug and across the room on a cushion of air, and just when it looked like he was going, to sail over a chair let-of- , push. Rear Adm. Rawson Ben- nett, Chief of Naval Research, said the Navy's machines could be used eventually for hunting and bombing enemy subs. Brig. Gen. Frank H. 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