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Show , V- f . i . IV. 'i ' , - A . j ' : 'd Sure Like To Bona 1 1 A while Your PockerDOOK oft Higher Number of People See Better Times Ahead ! The only daily newspaper devoted to tne progress and. advancement ol Central Utah and its people By FAYE HENLE Are you and your family better r worse off financially than you yere a year ago? ,1 When , a, picked-crosscientifically section of the nation's population replied to this question , a, few weeks ago, 73 per cent answered they were better or as well off-- , as thej were last fall;. 26 per cent felt' they' were worse SUNDAY, APRIL 17, i960 When Nothing Is There is no graver, issue than world disarmament. Yet there was something almost f tinny in the confusion that arose over the . big-pow- der starting April 29. Something ; ' The late comedian Fred Allen once defined a corporation .vice .who president as an executive collecbut do nothing "singly! can can that nothing can agree. tively ' 1 be done." Diplomats at Geneva, constantly harried over their inability to accord reach any sort - ' Fr on nuclear disarmament, 'Americans often feel like ,com- as ati. what r they regard plaining J? 11 ' wie inexact image many ioreiguers have of them. They, are pictured as selfish, grasping; arrogant, indifferent to the 'i real needs and interests of ' br-tfovembe- ; j ' .others.- - i . , 'together, by "remote control." Parts reflect reaction to Americans who work among .foreigners ' ny both private and government Whatever the truth of it, we obviously should sieze every chance to make pur image abroad clearer j and more accurate. now we One such opportunity have in "Project Hope," a program calling for health cooperation between Americans and people in y friendly nations. , the People to Itis sponsored by People Health Foundation, a pri- -- 1. - . j million : . cal men- can advance: their standing and practice of medicine. worfroject nope seemsofwnony Americans thy of contributions to already pressed spend extra dol-lafor good causes., It might help others to see them as they really atalls He under- - ilofj By ED KOTERBA Onde a week when my trousers go. to the press- - ers, the dresser gets piled high with stored bits of note paper, match covers bearing oded messages, and the margins of news papers upon which ard scr awied mysterious hieroglyphics Xnese are umpno ted gems j un born columns which often don't see the light of day. Here, for in- stance, is this'week's collectieh .j . . The scoop on Brig. Gen Ariel W. Nielsen. You may remei niber him as the general who put into force the "big brother" policy pt Forbes Air Force Base in Toplka, Kan. The Jsetup had keeping a watch on the private and , public lives of airmen. The unusual policy went over like a mud balloon. It w is scinded when nTwo U. S. Se iators questioned the propriety c f the j , non-co- be-co- policy. matter 'over me To begin with I was shy and awkward and perhaps overall conscious so I avoided people,; and as. a consequence people and they're tried to make me over and I became a rebel still doing it Life would have and , a been easier had, I become a joiner and. always went along with the crowd, but' I preferred to maintain myl independence, and some measure of integrity. A thorn may, not be as beautiful as a rose,, but who is .to say .that it doesn't have as , ..non-conformists . ''j miinW fun, W'avinrt pf Q rf mif ln vmmo manhood to ; become a thorn in other people's flesh I think I may safely' say that I have fulfilled my mission, j When my brothers became cowpunch-cr- s I went to herding sheep. Editors used to tell me, "Why don't you write : nobody glamorous cowboy stories eaucracy, n wants to read about sheepherders. The It seems that my only distinction when other day1 an editor wrote, "Stories , I go down to my grave will be to be about sheepherders haven't" any novelty hailed as the champion bobbler in these any more." I hobbled somewhere. I parts, but I wouldn't have 'it otherwise. fought to j start a trend; and when it It will be better to have them say, became, orient was too big to buck. I "There is a man who got what he dewalk through fields "of thistles while, than to have them Say, "There served," everyone else saunters through flowers . a is man who deserved better, but never I cross the fence and everybody else s gotit." . to back the thistles. goes I have made a few complacent people i remarked to the Provo Exchange uncomfortable, and it has ' made me .Club the other day that I disdained happy; and I shall doubtless make themy called an elder statesman, or even happy as they peer over the marble " an elder citizen, who are honored, be- -, walls of heaven to catch a glimpse of cause of their gray hairs even if they me being welcomed into the realms of are privately considered, to be old fosthe damned But what else could you ex- sils, but If laid claim to being an elder from a man who has. bobbled all pect maverick. I think I was his chances to share" the togetherness of claiming to be the father' of James the conservative majority? I shall still Garner. Tbelieve that getawayness is more imThe only thing I ever willingly gamble portant to me. like with, is the esteem ' in which I'd ' . 1. U liu uc uem in my community, ana I lose. I am held to be an anti- invariably . -l So ii . J auu anajt - Decause am l skeptical of Christ's devotion to business I am held to be They keep saying that I'm involved Yet when I faced up to the problem of in all sorts of rackets There's not. making a living I chose the' two most a bit of truth in what they're saying. precarious occupations of all; I became' A The truth is something different. Noand a farmer. As I placed my- body has told it and I guess maybev ' self at the mercy of a fickle public, and 'will. know-it-a- ll editors whom it kills to write Deported racketeer Charles (Lucky) a . check, but who hug themselves withLuciano. '. ; y forwards; nany postoffice mail to the from the district of Congressman r. Jetter-writethe Cuyahoga Falls '. is in Ayres' (district. The State of Wyoming was the last of the original '48 states to place the first of its two alotted statues' in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. Honoreet is Esther Hobard Morris, who lived in South; Pass, Wyo. Her statue towers above 'em C"';'all , She's best, known as a "champion of equal rights for women. She was once named justice jff the few historians know peace and this - her first act was to swear d vaguely-addresse- - f j - six-foot-tw- o.'. "i l P's and A's i . I Q :) vjv-:;- if formerly known as the East Indies. . i A Indonesia, " i 1 They Say : anu-progre- ss, anti-busine- ... ss. ; . no--bo- dy - , - - i ly fa-yor- ed, 1 il :UAnUt UCUU1 T7n,.. Uill J. VI jr.: iviiaim Z 111 ; " "'' . nt i Congress in 1958 provided lifetime pensions of," $10,000 a year for widows of ,'! What is a great attraction at Elsinore, Denmark? A The reputed grave of Hamlet, the Danish prince immortal ized by Shakespeare. '': 73, My widowed sister-in-lalives with me. She gets $75 - a month.. What would be the death benefit on each, of us. F.R. A The death benefit is paid only on a worker. Therefore, if your sister-in-la- w i$ getting Social Security as a widow, not as a worker, would be paid on her. The benefit is three times the Social Security payment, with $255 as top N:;.'i '.'amount..:.:' .v! "i f In anatomy what are the Islands of Langerhans? A They are a group of granu lar cells in the pancreas. . In the expression "beer I and skittles," what is skittles? AAn English game played by throwing wooden disks , atj pins,x like ninepins. . ; . jr. a solid a globe the sun source i We still don't know the exact answer to this. We are sure that the sun isn'jt simply ""burning." If it were, it would "burn up" someday. And since the sun has been hot for hundreds of millions of years, wt know its heat doesn't, come simply from, burning substance, because, no substance could remain burning ij V that long.' X Tv I Today Scientists believe that Mthe. process Which produces the sun's heat depends on Uhe electrical ma Iture of matter. Radioactivity il one process, for example, that re leases energy from matter. Or per- haps the heat, and pressure tiat exist in the sun nriay be changng matter into energy. is This is quite different1 from. ; he x ; - X "burning" of matter. When matt er iburns, it changes from one form to mother, releasing some heat.;- But when matter changes into ene - incredible forces are released For ; Alpine SK Bertha , Clark . i - -- example, one ounce of matter would yield enough energy to r xlt more han a million tons of ro kl. u In order for the sun to keep hot. Jn this way, 4,200,000 tons of riat-- : ter would havei to be chataged into But the sun ; energy each second. Isr so huge Nthat 1 per cent of its mass could keep it hot this" way for 150 billion years! The Riddle. Box 1. What keeps the, moon in place? 2. Why is tennisXsach a noisy Correspondents ; ! American' Fork Dena Grant ' l ;.f. 3. Why do we all go tombed f ;:; ''p'1- .Answers S to The families grandmother used call "bad managers' are now QMarcelene Cox. Paul" is today called Karma Criddle American Fork (Circ.) Jennie Gilbert PI Gr. SU Benjamin 0119-R- 3 Mrs. Regene Peay .. ;; Edgemont Laura N. Bendixsen FR Goshen. Elberts Msrguxite Waterbury CR Lake Shore 0410-- Jl Alba J Anderson Lake View. Vineyard AC Mrs. Kent A. Prue .Mil Lehl Edna Loveridg .1.. PO . Lehl, (Circ.) PO Paul WUles .. !'4naon Velma Walker " Mapleton Mrs. Preston Hooper HU Nephi ii 47XW Mrs. Grace Judd 31 Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bailey. . V'-;.i'- Its beams. 2. Because each player raises a racquet. 3.Because the bed won't come to us. v . 61 n K7 l . 4-- o9 k i1 : O Mona ii' Agnes 'iOrem f But no matler howxwe change - ones.-- ' Saying that a family was as "poor. as Job's turkey'' was cer- tainly more descriptive than call- un-ing them by today's label derprivileged." . . ' lAdd and isubtract the letter in the names 6f.i the. things shown., clue: You present it to the world. S3 .1. old-fashion- ed ; & ' the terms the situations remain much same. the pretty The only difference is that the terms were a little more colorful and usually ' a lot more to the point than today's more xbgnified- but. less definite r - . m 'refinanc-- y ;,. ..:.; ing." Putting oh a front' is now Te- ferred to as f'living graciously.". "Asking for 'a loan" now is "establishing credit." "says Yeah, and "putting on the dog" ' is how called "status seeking." "Going into debt"' for something is now dignified by the term, J "financing." to make ends meet" is "Trying r called "family budgeting." U "Putting something aside for a grainy day" is referred to as "plan-ning for future security." "Pin money" or egg moneyhas become the housewife's ''personal ' allowance." I "Breading for the poor farm" is now. referred" to as "living beyond means. irnu "Borrowing from Peter to pay ! ,' 1. 1S !'- labelled 'overextended,' ' 5-3- Life's Situations! the Same; '' "?:i' ':,: V::j '''';:H'-;4;Only Difference; is Terms 4 IT j PICTURE SECRET SK SK 1 i game?,. 87 S-2- ; i FUmTIME with problems concernins ' , of the paper, , Nam Phone Community w, M-- j Q ' ; Herg 'sue Herald itaff correspondents in the' various communities of Utah County. Contact them if you , hnwm news. District circulation agents arc listed also They stand ready to help de-ve-ry f . ! ) ' 8-3- ts. : ' ps per-Llia- Heroic) Ruth Milletr A T: More interesting than this is the fact that 10 yean ago 14 per cent of those surveyec! had pretax incomes,, under ' $1,000- -: There are but 7 pe- - cent .in this group now.j Sharply in con xast, a decade ago 3 per cent o those surveyed had pretax incomes over $10,000 ; now 11 per cent make up ' this group. - gas. So the sun cannot be like the earth, but must be of hot gas. But where does get its heat, what is the of this heat? way Social Security benefits are figured. Up to (five years of low or no earnings can be dropped out of the calculation!. I suggest that you visit your Social Security, office for specific information on what your benefits would, be. Qr-am a single woman of 75. I draw a Social Security benefit of $37. i ' Q '.- - . . What provision has been Q made for widows of U. $i V3 v'- s X. . - Q f "i the Britannica Junior Win knowi how much heat the earth re ceives from the sun, and we know the distance to the sun. and we can figure out how, hot the sun must be in order to deliver this amount of heat. The temperature of the sun at its surface is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit! also 'know that such great . Wc heat si enough to melt any metal or rock and make it a! glowing i : . i . - ;,;,.,; -- . . nWhat do we know about it? We ' A You are mistaken about the -- bracket. 15- - Everyone 'knows, that without.-thheat from the sun ; life would be impossible on our earth. So the sun's heat, how great; it is and how it is created, is of much inter-- , ' ' est to, us. I understand that, in figuring Social Security, the five biggest earning years are used . Is this correct? My five biggest years average $1,238. What will I get per month if I nstep1 working at age 62? I have worked part 'time since Social Security came into being. group-practi- ce x j Q ' . Bv" A. LEOKUM zona.- .,n'To treat psychiatric ailments I, ' f ar h; volume encyceiopedia for school and home. Send, your questions, name, age, address to "Tell Me Why!" care of Nthis paper. Today's winner is: r :J' : i Ari-i Pamela Mandel, 9, Tucson, i of, theelderlyj we must take into account the ''normal' mental health of this period of life," said Ross, who is medical director of the American Psychiatric Assn. r "We must also remember that the growth olf senescence varies among individuals, and - that here-- ; dity l and constitution help make the psychological picture." i; states Dr. Franz Goldmann, Beach. ' Goldmann predicted that home care programs now successfully serving the poor will become more and more available to sick people of all income brackets. He bases this on the trend toward extending Blue Cross benefits and the growth of plans. "Such payments cover all the "services needed by homebound patients," he said. "They encourage teamwork of various kinds of. professional and ! auxiliary personnel. They foster high .quality service. "Properly organized and super--. vised home care Is a gool thing f for. the sick because it keeps them .in their usual environment," Goldmann said. "It is care that con-- " itinues. 1 And it cuts down on the total medical bill." The doctor points out that home care is effective only if the condition of "the sick makes such serv-- : ice necessary, ;and if both patient and family h&te the right attitude ' toward it. I J j Dr. Mathew Ross, another speaker, criticized those who blame all the emotional disorders of older people on organic changes in tiie ' brain, for which nothing can be 1 done. He described five kinds of pre-payme- .1 Source of Sunys Heat some extent. associate professor emeritus of medical care at Harvard School of public Health. Dr. Goldmann talked about health needs of older people at the recent i.Na n : fmnnl i" Tell Me Why ' , ht . So Q What new ruling is in effect regarding vehicles on the Pennjl sylvania turnpike? A Any vehicle wider than 10 feet will, not be allowed on the turnpike. Turnpike lanes are 12 feet wide. - r- p. Which is the world's; larg- est archipelago? l ' ' J . group therapy which had helped to , be-ii- ng . ' gained him perhaps more nationwide publicity than a iy other member of Congress. j A few daystago a letter rfived in xWashington. from Ciahoga ; 7 Falls, Ohio addressed simply: "Di- vision of Publicity, Capitol Building." To whom it delivered? Why, Congressman Bill Ayres, of course. But there is an explanation. The Capitol k they-thoug- By MARIE DAERR For many a person who is ill, ; there's no place like home. - - ; For Ailing, Aged There's No Place Like Home "dynamic drive, who looks ujxm publicity as a comforting, grand ne- -' cessity.. His enlightening deeds have- - 1 j t honestly described as a nian of " could have exercised much control, but from there on most of my mistakes have been my . new job? Deputydirector of the staff's, polky-makin- g group . Rep. Bill Ayjes (R. Ohio) an be L - ' ,. ' 9,- Y - j happenedoj General Nielsent He is .being 'Wnsferjred, in nm serve August - to the Pentagon, with the Joint Chiefs v of 'Maf I His f I still fail' to see how 'I which- ' So what has - children. I erred in not choosing wealthy parents, but that was a ( '!,. j. Happy Times ms 24-ho- ur Nobody Knows the Bobbles I've Made glee if they can send back a rejection slip. But the worst bobble of all was to a farmer, especially a fruit farmer. My ; excuse for that was that- as a kid I had never had enough fruit to eat. Little did I realize that I would come to hate the sight of it. I am looking out now on my orchard in .full bloom, and it is a beautiful minutes I sight. In exactly twenty-fiv- e ' shall be listening to a weather report :" which will tell me that frost can be ex- -, pected tonight, and if it is hard enough it can wipe us out, just as it did last year. I pay hard cash for bees to pollinate the orchard,, but when I go out to watch those supposedly industrious in-- v sects working r find that not a. single one has the courage to stick its head out of the hive because it is too cold. I can't even; kick them ouC for if I do I'll get stung. V As if gambling with the weather , wasn't hazardous enough I have placed myself at the mercy of a horde of silly, temperamental bees. And now 1 read in '.the morning paper that the Utah State Tax Commission " is going to increase my taxes 400 per cent because , my .land happens to lie within the boundaries' of an incorporated town. No longer Will it be taxed on its worth as fanning land; but on its potential as a residential district. If I should live; another fifty to a hundred years, a most unlikely , event, it is possible somebody might want to buy my to build homes on. But I shall , land be long gone in bankruptcy before that ever happens. There is no escaping the clammy; grasping fingers of the bur' More people, think this is a good. .time to buy cars and other durable goods than .held this elief' last, fall. New car buying :nten tions are 20 percent ; higher .than they were a year ago. However, compared to June or November 1359,: the improvement is small. Compact cars are meaning less., total dollars will be spent for auto.nooiies; People are saying their a tjility to spend has increased and con- sumers' purchase plans fori most household equipment is mod rate- ly up over last year. . In what income bracket d- - we find thejargest number of s jend-fn- g units? The study1 shows 26 per cent in ' the $5,000 $8,00a-a-yebracket; 12 per cent each in the $1,000. $2,000 pretax income, bracket and ' the $4,000 $5,000;', 11 per cent each in the $3,000-$4,00- 0, the $7,500 $10,000 and over - $: 0,000 ' g, 1 1 By FRANK C, ROBERTSON Looking back over a rather long life it seems to me it hasJ5een a succession of mistakes. To begin with I wasted my youth, working for" others when! I should have been getting an education; though that was not entirely my fault. I was born, in the wrong era, when children were supposed to support their parents instead of having the parents s a c r i f i c e earn less. v !ost of finding out what we think ' of our financial well-bein4iwihjat we think of. the economic outlook and how we expect to spend our money. ptherxhigh lights of the study f .' '71 Shfcw. $ome 75 per cent ir of . those v queried expect good times to pre- -' vil during the next 12 months, against 61 per, cent who voiced sujch optimism last fall. t a cor .tinue people . thej men send the booklets out by the . millions. This year,- the bureau outdid It self. Sen.( Oren E. Long (D., Ha waii was thumbing through tne booklet and onj page 92 came! upon an illustration showing how a mother mixes the baby?s formula.1 The picture shocked the Senator It shows three hands! (Copyright,! 1960, by United Features' Syndicate, Inc.) Care." Each year, as demands on J :. income upper more optimistic than those who they now are so as regarded important to busi- neas that major corporations and a Ford ' Foundation grant share , parents grow; (the U. S. Children's Bureau improves it, and Congress-- : ! ; ;t... the Pentagon In out a warrant for the arrest of her husband! , The policy makers of the Repub-- . lican Campaign Committee got a lot of unusual ideas tossed a them. The latest is based on the Eisenhower pledge of 1852 "If felected " I shall go to Korea." ; Somebody suggested that Nixon start campaigning on the platform: "If elected; I shall go to Cuba. The Federal government's1 "best seller" free publication is Infant ; WASHINGTON (consumers;".'.: ed .those of upper income. peopl:, yet r, Studies.. However, Author of 'Big Brother7 P olicy - lie vuuppiuy uiuv.iv ;6im-prov- formerly the Federal Reserve Boird alone bore the cost of these Ass i gnment Wa s h i n g to n . ' er and middle income pocpl to a ..greater extent than . . rs ' - k recess. accepts the He reasons, inevitably, that if we can get an argreement with the Kremlin on doing nothing, maybe they'll grow less frightened of the idea of agreement as such, and will agree to do something. five-wee- t te. But he's a practical man.. He knows the .rarity of agreement with the Soviet Union on anything Its goal would be to instruct rather than treat, so foreign medi- ' K i jdg-nificant- ness.- j ' ': . 'I The proportion of people expecting to be "better off was higher than at any time during the past few years. source of my information is jthe Survey Research Center of thej University of Michigan which, since 1946, has made annual sur-vey-a of consumer finances. ,Sev-jera- jl times each yeai- this group jalsb studies consumer attitudes toward buying and the major jChinges in the financial position ' - ; . X! 1 . The project' plans a fully equipped hospital ship a kind of float- ino medical school to briner U.S. medical skills to other lands, It would visit only where invited by foreign authorities. .are.-- . j -- 3 Y2 - - Parts of this portrait are pieced further its end it seeks dollars the first year. in- 1 " : hap-d- v the spirit of Allen's "vice president," they had at least withn.Russian to agree' been able! , i i representatives to ao nouning iur five weeks. Yet even this achievement, if it is that, was- then promptly endangered by an evident breakdown between America's men at Geneva and Secretary of State Herter. He said flatly that while Russia wanted! a long recess the United States wanted a short "one. Ha vjng on just congratulatedin themselves their adroitness getting Soviet to agree on the length" diplomats should do conferees of time the," nothing, our representatives were stunned. The chief U.S. delegate, Frederick Eaton, rushed over to the villa of the top Soviet delegate, Valerian Zorin, to assure him there must be some misunderstanding in Washington, that we really were not for doing nothing for a shorter time than were the Russians. Herter, who somewhat missed published statements and official communications on the proposed adjournment period, still doesn't like the idea of five weeks of idle- that,, ; ' felt c s Interestingly enough, when asked this same question last Octo- 75 per cent repSed they were better off or the same as in the spring of 1959; only 23 per cent felt they were worse off. Queried on expectations of their financial'status a year from now, 40 per cent expected, betterment; another 40 per cent expect they'll bej faring as well; 7 per cent expect a drop in income.il I of-produc- tive Project Hope this year. What interests me most is the improvement in sentiment toward the business outlook rather than marked optimism regarding indi-- ; vidual financial expectations. Between November 1959 and last February the attitudes o low- ; -- decision at Geneva to recess the nuclear talks 'for five weeks The fear of inflation in stiU great," Some 72 per cent of those asked think' Prices will increase Myers ... - n ,; ' h-- j;.--- Carma Andersen .1. . AC Orem. (Circ) w: ll Karl Wood Orem Office Palmyra1. j ....... AC AC Answer to yesterday's "Pujzzle Box,,: 9' feet As the tide rises, the boat and everything in it. rises loo! iWlnTlhe Britannica World Alias r: U3 5-1- ' ,. Shlrlene Qttesen . i... . .031I-R- 3 Payson ... 421-Madoline Dixon J ' 327 Amber Jackman . . . Pleasant Grove V . SU Doris Buchanan Hiliman sports SU Guy Pleasant Grove (Cure.) SU --SiS Jennie Gilbert Pleasant View ... fR J 2a Yvonne Perry Salem , 0107 -- Rl Margrette Taylor ' Santaquin Estella Peterson SK Spanish Fork . Frank G Kins 088- - W . j 287; Virginia Evans, society i r Spanish Fork (Circ.) J B. Davis Evan 297 t Spring Lake 303-J- 3 . . . Tressa Lyman i" Springville j Josephine Zimmerman Hli Evelyn Bover. society HUm West Mountain m Elvere Bishop 0109-J- 5 . 1 1 i 28 i I 25. I 4-- 03 ; or Yearbook of Events. Send your riddles, jokes, tricks to ."Tell Me Why!," Today's winner is: ..Philip Santos, 10, Albany, Cali fornia. , Barbs An By HAL COCHRAN Ohio! man, arrested speeding, said it had" been a day for driving. Yep, $25 fine. for j . I i64 29 ........ Tne husband who gets homp real late for dinner may wind up with hot tongue and cold shoulder. t' - I",':-:.' '''i t A golf course is a good place to keep out of the d or get hit. . ' i fore-groun- 1 |