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Show 1 ' r ' '- :'":.;.. i.. - "I'll LeayeNo (Unh!) Stone Unturned (Unh!) ' Or-- r' ." k . . Your Pocketbook Credit Stretched Too Far Can Snap sYou in Pocketbook daily newspaper devoted to the progress and advancement of Central Utah and its people The only SUNDAY; DECEMBER 61959 Soviet Troops Stay in Hungary that Soviet one seriously imagined ! their . ! Actually,! Soviet fears, probably are exaggerated. Even without the threat of . Russian soliders, the Hungarians today hardly have the incentive for another try. : k : testyof passing time. You can't always understand what he's saying,- but it cerainly sounds im- - portant. That's why the Senate could use him. Most of what bounces off the' Senate walls not only isn't irri- portant, it doesn't even sound, vital. Ticket to Prague" Ominous Sound "One-Wa- y By ED KOTERBA harsh fact that liberation is a very barring the unforseen means No of short long wayoff. generalWar seems a possible path Je't though we acknowledge we can never concede Rusthis, mere was sometnmg wroa with the way that sounded. A first I thought nothing of it whe j said it, but the words seemed to bounce ho! sia's authority over Eastern Europe. We can never yield the principle that these people should be free if they want to; be. Liberation must remain a goal, however re- station. maybe it was the way the s t a tionmaster, or whatever he How To Wear Out a Welcome By FRANK C. ROBERTSON. Today is Thanksgiving; and the excuse friend Winnie and I have used to get a . couple? weeks of free jaoard with our children here. You see, Winnie and I were raised in the, "Bring; along the tww auu siajr a wccn,. tradition. Sine e few people any more . will I know whaf I'm talking about I offer this explanation. In pioneer days when your nearest neighbor might, 1 i ve miles away; and you traveled I by wagon to visit them you had at least to stay all night, and since every family Mi Robertson had a milk cow, and the cow had to be milked, you tied her behind the wagon, loaded the calf in1 the backj and away you went. By taking the chores with you you didn't haye to hurry) home until you wor out your welcome'. So, when wt Robertsons go to California I take along my typewriter, and. jwe stay a v. hile. In fact, we went nearly three weeks "early to have Thanksgiving din' ner. Of course we really went for the visit, but being Americans we have to have, some excuse, no matier how illogical, for everything we do. Now we have no excuse for not going home; We celebrate Thanksgiving day because, several hundred years ago some o3Pilgrim; father was lucky enough to shoot 'a wild turkey,- though I have a suspicion it was really given to him by jp- N t ; I ; . ' , . - j - - a -- Those iendly (Indian. jold fellows guv; us Thanksgiving; but, they also be- -; queathec us puritanism, which still is breeding bigotry; fanaticism and intolerance, and its pretty hard for me to separate the two. Maybe we have some tfcings to be thankful for, but I could name you a lot of thingsj we suffer from for which we have no reason to be thankful.1 I have enjoyed meeting some of the young teachers from College ,of the Sequoias. These young intellectuals are always .stimulating, even though most of the time II don't know what they are talking about. They come in and they start talking about Antigone for example, and they know her like she. was their next door neighbor. How ami I going5 to join in the? conversation when I never heard of the gal? Honestly, I thought Antigone was a man.) Yesterday an attractive young woman college teacher dropped in. I heard voices in the living- room so being me, l .left the study to see what was going on. My wife said, "This (is, Carolyn Warren from the English 'department." I was taken aback when Mrs. Warren said, "Oh ' I would have, known Mr. robertson anywhere from' his picture h the Provo Herald." Turned out she v. wS a former English .teacher at Brig-haYoung University; So: we talked about P?ovo and mutual acquaintances such as Dr. Clinton Larsen and Mrs Orea Tanner, and we discussed what we considered the virtues, and shortcomings of BYU. That is, she praised the virtues, aiid I damned the shortcoming . y, -- m 1 time. ed She lives in a philanthropic home and gets her spending money from e assistance proher state's gram. Writing as one who knows, she gives some practical pointers on the care and treatment of older old-ag- people. "Why don't towns where there are a large population of older people, and maybe even an old folk's home, keep their sidewalks in decent condition?" she writes. "Rough walks, broken pavements, small stones to get under one's heel and trip one, bicycling chilail in an, area intended for dren these do not walking the aged to go beyond their gate, "Churches should meticulously iand their icy entrances, - have rails along steps and even on steps leading to chancel. Old people dislike having to ask for communion to be brought to them in the pew, They also dislike being helped too hastened to explain tha really; I had full intentions j man, and thdt being a round-tri- p had I already my return-tickef- .. return trip a "You vant he asked. And I sai no I hadn't been there yet, and thus was not returning, out tnac I had already purchased my back to Frankfort trip in the States. J He peered along his nose, agaUj, like looking over the rims df glasses which he wasn't wearing. "You see," I said, trying to sound reasonable. But I don't think I e ' much. "A touch on the elbow shows a friendly hand is near. But affiliou 'help' can cause a fall.0 And talli are humiliating and lay old people up, sometimes permanently. "Old people like to be taken out to museums and other recreation spots. But I'd like to suggest that the host or hostess should ask out he saw. "I was1 booked on thp Afghan Airlines from Frankforjt tc Prague, and the plane crashed into a .mountain." The result wi that there was no flight, but b still had my return ticket air-'-on another airline, and thfs only way I could get to Czech!- Slovakia within the weex was ' train. largely so because doctors and hospitals j - Keys to asked you?" edlj, Instead, he asked "Tourist or first class?" And wheji I said first class, he replied wit-o- I an inflection: "First class; .$21. p even ask to see the passport. Ie shoved an onion-ski- n slip of papx across Jthe counter, gathered n his money and waddled back ji, j his seat. , "The train," he "said coldlk "leaves at 4:02. a.m." j ; On jmy way out'I looked over njy shoulder at him and caught him ., , All she needs to do is treat. her! husband's parents just as she; with treats her own parents and kindness genuine loving and she won't have any warmth real problems. One word ' of warning, though: A wife shouldn't even think of her husband's mother and father Their relation-as her fship to her isn't the important re lationship. The important relationship is the natural one; their relationship to their son. That should be the important relationship to her, too. If she loves him, then she should find it easy to love the parents who molded him into the person he is, who gave t looking over his shoulder at. mjp. Only he was shaking his head. This change in" plans has me . a little worried. The Afghan plane crashed on the flight 1 1 a 1X3-was to take, killing practically in-la- w -- So They Say (Russia) can do nothing whatsoever in the face of the yellow multitude which is China, numberless and proverty-rid-de, indestructible and ambitious. French Premier Charles de Gaulle; giving" reason for Premier Khrushchev's peace drive. ; "in-laws- ." 4, n, : In a democracy, you, the people, set ' ' the standards, you set the control. What- ever the people are willing to accept, ' they are responsible for. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, on the TV quiz scandals. Barbs An Illinois man broke the nofe of a thief who tried to rob Ms store. Keep your nose out of otMr people's business . . .'... Cheer up! Eventually old man winter is bound to freeze himself out. -- in-la- -- j. in une. I applied Social for Secuity on Oct. 7. I was told is might take 30. 60, 90 days before I received a check? Why all the delay? J.H.L. A Each case Is an individual one. Often delays are caused y long Waits for birth certificates or other documents to prove age. When there is no complication, the beneficiary should receive his check in six to eight weeks. Q Can a woman aged 63 collect on her husband's Social Security before he retires? Mrs. B. Y. A No. Her benefits depend on his.' Q . I was 65 Harmony aw , didnft He I n-L- i him his start in life, and who are every bit as concerned about his happiness and his welfare as she . Anything that she, as a wife, can do to make her husband's parents as welcome in her home as her own parents are anything that she can do to encourage her husband to show them affection and loyalty,1' anything that she can do to let thtem know that she regards them as, "family" and not s" is all to the good. t as It will help, make her husband happy. It will, reassure his parents that she doesn't want to take their son from them, that she knows a man can and should be both a loyal husband and a loyal son. And if she treats her husband's parents with such loving kindness, there isn't much chance that he won't treat her own parents like. wise. .1 'What any young wife needs is not a set of rules for 'getting along , with She does need to be to let her love for her big enough husband include those he loves and . who love him. "in-law- . in-law- s. It's really as simple as that. i im-posib- le . ii-len- ' tly ' ' Beginningjof Protestants SECRET PICTURE j Junior 15 Early in the 16th century a re- ligious revolution, called the Reformation, began. Out of it grew the many Protestant religions. As both words "Reformation" and "Protestant" indicate, the basis ' oi fthis religious revolution was a desire to change or protest against what was then happening in ' the Catholic Church. M What did these people iwant" to change and wrhy? One thing they objected to was the kind of ; lives many of the clergy led. They didn't feel the clergy was con-- , centrating enough on spiritual, matters and was too concerned with material things. The reformers also objected o These the sale xf indulgences statements releasing people Jvere 'punishments for their sins, litany of the people were jealous too, of the huge possessions of the monasteries,- even though many of them were good landlords. There were other forcea at work at this time too. Many of the princes and people followed the reformers largely for political and reasons economic Nationalism was rising, and with the feeling of nationalism there came the dej Add and subtract the iletteri in the names of the things shown. Oue: It'i what lazy people do. : Win the Britannlca World Atlas or Yearbook of Events. Send your riddles, Jokes, trick to "Tell Me Why!" Today's winner Is: Herbert and Edward Nickens, Kilmarnock, Va. , , Herald Correspondents j Her arc Herald taff correspondent tn the varloiu communltie of Utah Contact them If. you hava County. newa. District circulation arent ara listed alo They stand ready to help you with problema concerning delivery of tha paper. Fhona Nam Community - sire for a national church. Another factor was that the authority of the Pope was beinii questioned as far as it concerned, h affairs'. And there 'wai division a great (schism) when more popes two or there were each disputing the right of the others. In 1517, the sale of Indulgences by dishonest agents became no widespread that Martin Luther, a German scholar of the .order of St. Augustine, protested. He was excommunicated and condemned e a heretic, but his doctrine f .;. pread. 1950 he In drew, up the Augs- which contained Confession' burg 21 articles of the Protestant faith. This resulted in a complete break between the Lutherans and the Catholics. In time the reformed doctrines were accepted in various forms in different; countries arid Protestant churches developed based on them. 55 21 , 33 I . . ' ' 8-3- t - . , , 25 . 4-- 03 W !.;.... 64 r Billy .(in tears): Papa just hit . his h end with a hammer. to Mother: Well, that's nothing cry about. Why didn't' you laugh? ' Billy: I did! ; Q's and A's What is a "Single Tax?" This is the theory that i. ernments , should get all their revenues by a' single tax on land', A j j : Mary. Mary: Who, me? Teacher: Correct! two ' : .', IIow do spores differ AA pronouns, . " Q seeds? ' Name 237 society ...... ' ' s Spanish Fork (Circ ) " 297 B Davis Evan r, Sprinu Lake 303-J- 2 Tressa Lyman ' SDrlngville Josephine Zimmerman ITU Evelyn Boyer society HU ; West Mountain 0100-J- 3 Elvera Bishop you j ' 82 . : .'.!: Teacher: ....... Virginia-Evan- like a chair? Mary: No, thanks. We have two of them at, home. ' Woman: Do I have to stick the ' stamps on myself? Postal Clerk: No, Mam, I think you'd better, stick them on the package. ! W . i FUN TIME The Chuckle Box Hostess: Mary, wouldn't ' Alpine EEC Marlena Avery . American Fork CK Dena Grant .'. .. hK 3 iei Karma Criddle . American Fork (Circ.) Jennia GUbert PL Or. SU Benjamin 0119-R- S Mra. J, R. Peay ,J Edgemont Laura N. Bendlxaen FR Goshen, Elberta Msrgruerlta Waterbury Lalce Shore . , 0410-J- 1 Alba J. Anderson Lake View. Vineyard AC Mrs. Kent A Pru Eklna Loverldga PO Labi, (Circ) PO Paul WlUea .., Lino on Velma Walker ManletonMrs. Preston Hooper HTJ6-58D- 3 " Nephi ,471-Mrs. Graca Judd 21 Mr. and Mra. Lea Bailey Orem Carma Andersen J. . AC Orem, (Clrc.) . Karl Wood AC . . Orem Offlca ' ,.....L. .AC Palmyra Shlrlena Ottesen .....03U-R- 3 Payson 223-- J Madeline Dixon 327 Amber Jackman ........ Pleasant Grove SU Marilynn Potter Guy Hillman snorts SU Pleasant Grove (Clrc.) Jennie .Gilbert .. . t SU Pleasant View . Yvonne Perry 12 .. ,.FH Salem .0107-R1 Margrette Taylor .... Santaquin . 9902 Estella Peterson Spanish Fork 988-Frank G Kins' . 6-- hon-churc- j "Can you give me a set of rules for getting along with my inlaws?" asks a young wife who reads this column. No young wife needs a set o! ru'es for getting along with her ut marks." (About e! Ruth Millett 4 What added insult to my long e planation was that he suddenly seemed disgusted with 'it; and hft glared at me as if to say, "Who have boosted prices to ai unreasonable extent. Joe King began his crusade because he had.- - incifrred some sixteen hundred dollars in medical expenses, and though he had! paid nearly five hundred dollars on health insurance he was able to collect only a little - over three hundred dollars J; jThere is undoubtedly something wrong with a system which creates such injustice. I have reached the A;e where I, am considered a poor insurance risk, and so two companies to which I have paid premiums for years have1 cancelled my; policies. Conservative, las everybody knows "me to be, even 1 may become a "' .U rebel. help those who try to help us. Kindest regards to you all." And a salute to you, young "Old Woman!" Xour letter was "loaded" and I hope you scored a bull's-ey- ; ( o , "Letters, frequent and newsy, are a vast consolation, when visits can't be managed. Letters once a week, say, from children; once a month from grandchildren; post cards on those days when letters can't be managed. "I hope these comments will en-coura- c4-lu- rn is familiar withthe4. At least he ought to be, for Lord knows' I have told him about them often enough. I fear he is stuck with me. Now health insurance i another matter. Usually, it is far too high, and . ( volume, encyclopedia and home. Send your questions, name, age, address to ?'Tell Me Why!" care of this paper. Today V winner is: Mario Cade, 13, Norfolk, Va. , in homes for the aged and friends in general," comes from a reader .who signs herself "The Old Woman," but whose viewpoint and language are as young as spring: rague?" g i - for: school one, or at the most two, people at a time. This makes us feel the invitation is prompted by .personal interest, not charitable impulse. Each of us likes to think she is still good company. "We like to see a fe younger people.- - I. know I do feel, dreary when I'm too much with old people exclusively. It is hard enough to endure your own gradually failing powers, without watching your friends' progress in the same dren,' when we know we are adults." This plea, addressed to "workers -- j - in- man iron-curtain- Tell Me Why Win the Britannlca By MARIE DAERIt "Please don't treat us like chil- Mr. Koterba looked at, me. It was like he was looking over the top of rim med glasses, although he wasn' wearing any glasses. "One way ticket to Praguef meant only one thing to him1 there would be a single journe into the country. No announced, or indicated v prei vision for return. imI just Then, again, maybe agined the stationmaster thought that. It was I, really, who gavs a little jump at the sound of thoste I words. . V wir. The man, a robust German nose wni a laree button-roun- d knew just enough English, final! repeated it: "Vun vay to P- - ri Single-handedl- the formation Another teacher I found most fascinating to talk with is f Joseph A. King, a natural-borcrusader from the East. Mr. King, is taking on the powerful American Medical Association, the strongest union we have in this country He has organized The American Patients Association, and his dream is to make it nationwide to give ' patients a chance to fight against overcharges; and to provide adequate health insurance at reasonable rates. If dedicated enthusiam will do the job Joe King will get it done. As usual, I find my theory and practice at war with' each other. I believe firmly that the American Medical Association is a monopoly that will have to be broken. If its arrogance continues the people will eventually demand socialized medicine, which is far more successful in Europe than the A.M.A. would 4 have us lelieve. On he other hand, I cling to my own doctor like an orphan ilchild to a visitor who has given it a simile and a kind word. I have complete! faith in his skill, his honesty and his hunianity. We are personal friends, yet I know he would like to get rid of me if he could, but what can he do when j I lock my arms around his neck and howl like a banshee. He is a surgeon, land his office girl tries with all the skill .at her command to divert me to another doctor, but I will have none of it. When I get an ache or a pain I want my own doctor-vh- . ff" By A. LEOKUM Elderly Are Surrounded With Thoughtless Barriers Or was ... The against my it the almost' deserted r a i The Chopping Block a Happy Titries llowly back ears v lest "the Reds say I must turn back. So there's one alternative Go in and ask questions later. questions can; Bankers Association has is-- v sued the following suggestions fo the users of installment' credit, those couples under 45 who spend between 10 and 40. per! cent of their income on installment payments. They advise: Avoid a state of- perpetual debt. Though there are no rules as to how much of your income you can use! for installment credit, anything over 20 per cent is considered dangerous. When figuring Low much you should spend, don't ' count your salary as it ' appears on paper. Count only take-hom- e pay. Use this formulai .monthly take-hom- e pay minus expenses and savings equals the amount available for installment 'buying. "Never budget monthly payments too close t6 monthly income. Beware the temptation to spread .out your loan over Uoo long a ,! period of time. Borrow the least you need, not the most you can get. Shop for your loan and add interest and other costs before signing a loan contracts Make sure there are no hidden costs., Keep your credit record spotless. If it becomes difficult or for you to meet payments, contact your banker or whoever ' extended your credit for loan and explain your situation. Don't default. two-out-of-fi- ve train. There is no one here to clarify the situation, and even if there were I'd be afraid to ask about 30 everyone on board reduced the total persons. That of number planes of the airlines by about, one-hal- f. What has me really shaky is that my passport states explicitly not that I am to arrive by air (Editor's note: Ed Koterba is heading behind the iron curtain of Czechoslovakia. Today's dispatch was written en route.) FRANKFORT, Germany "On Way to Prague , to freedom. mote of its achievement. To guide you wisely, the Ameri- . Assignment Washington with 6 per cent mortgage, really carried a $47,000 price tag. e. j , 20-yea- x, nation we are oyercommitted debt-wi'They point out that we have more right to buying than we did a decade ago, because we are far better provided for! when it comes to present emergencies and the retirement years. And, they cite that the', record of'" repayment of debt is a good one. Credit WISELY used, believe, is one of our finest personal money management tools. Credit! WISELY used is proving of value and importnace to our type of economy. Notice, I've emphasized wise-l- y , Several times in the past I've suggested that when you buy an item on credit, consider the total cost of that ..item. By total cost I mean the price plus what you'll have to pay " to finance your "on-the-cu- ' j bought Your $30,000 house $6,000 down and a record." Is this good, or bad. Are we reaching a danger point?; Few economists feel that as a We vmust hope, however; that a good share of the satellite people realize the! risk of World War III that was clearly involved in any move to help Hungary against the armed might of the Soviet Union. We, and they, must face the sad, ;. f4,5oo. i During the past 10 years' our debt limit has climbed at a faster rate than our disposable income. (The debt; that I'mspeaking of includes what, we owe on our homes the money andj consumer credit we ow on personal bank loans and installment purchases.) Right his minute, we owe 51 per! cent of our annual incomes. The economists say our debt-to- income ratio is the highest on I 1 Too bad. Quill speaks of he invests with enormous, senatorial 'dignity He's an actor who makes most of those he deals with-looas if they'd studied dramatics through 7a j correspondence school. He's , got an Irish brogue that has stood like granite against the 4P y 1 gets virtually no national attention at all, and he's, a bright spot on the New York scene only periodically, when it's time to talk contract for the city's7 bus and sub' ill lit realized: I satellites. They studied well the lesson of Hungary. Moreover, except for Poland, none of the others showed any real sign of lattempting to throw off the Kremlin's irons.' an They are held in tight ' grip thev know it. , and others, Many Hungarians, are bitter against ;the West for failing to aid the 1956 prising. The United States Senate can olwava ofarj mnva pnlnr isinrl ifl i a pity it cannot enjoy phe rich hued personality of a man like Michael J. Quill, president of the Transit Workers union in 7New York, City. Jn the nature of things, Quill 7 Whatever II is that rebellion and liberation will come to Russia's, other- - East European ' way workers. I guesshow unlikelyl.it; Local Talent . I Having tried oncethey, are under much closer surveillance than before. Not only the Russians but the Hungarian Communist leaders are constantly busy ferreting out potential rebels. There is far less; prospect that the Reds would be J caught by If it is this way in Hungary, which dared to revolt, we can i : III f .! their appeals to the free world for help could not 'be answered, and they recall how quickly Soviet troops crossed their 'borders to quell the uprising. Premier Nikita Khrushchev' would order removel of Russian troops from repressed Hungary. J Now he has: reaffirmed that they will stay. The' official reason: "the international situation." The real reason,' of course, is that the Russians are afraid of what the freedom-lovin- g Hungarians might do if the iron boot were .taken off necks.' - They look back upon the bloodshed of 1956, they remember that Although1, it was talked of, no a $4,000 car example: bought with $1,000 "down and $3,000 to be paid out in 36 monthly could actually' cost For By FAYE HENLE "We went shopping," my, little t daughter told her daddy. "Where are the things you bought?" he wanted to know. In a blase tone she explained? "We charge and, send." That is the way we live today, you and I. Yet, it was not until I took a look at the figures that I spore is a tiny fro-- one-cell- ed body that is able to grow Into a new organism. It takes the place of "the seed of higher plants.; 1 |