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Show 18-T- HE Page Sunday, March 26, HERALD, Provo, Utah 197k 4'4 .;j tr-Y- j- V S'' 8 I PrVafe Heafh Insurance Grows At Rapid Rate In Past Few Years By DEAN C MILLER UPI Business Editor NEW YORK (UPI)Privatfi health insurance, including the "mail r ft? 0 1 J "1 order" has variety, become big business as Americans try to hedge against the financial disaster of a major illness or accident Frightened by $100 per day hospital costs and doctor bills that resemble war debts, some 187 million people have bought some form of private health insurance. Last year they received a record $18.5 billion in benefits. Eleven million of the 20 million people 65 or over have private insurance to supplement Medicare. How much of it is bought through the mails is unknown. But the amount is large. And Levy Is demolition baC and tt was doubtful further evacuation of homes would be necessary. Two families have been i By Judge evacuated. - Western warnings against cynicism: and hundreds loquacity, West African: "Being poor thousands of words were uttered at the recent Peking summit makes it hard to have friends but not impossible." Chinese: "He meeting. But then both sides may have who has wealth and wine will had in mind another Chinese always have friends." English: "When poverty comes in at the proverb: "Listen to a man's words if you wish to know his door, love flies out the window." mind" and the Western: "A bird is known by its note and a man by his talk." Bricklayers and Cooks similar Many strikingly proverbs crop up in widely separated parts of the world, the National Geographic Society says. The Chinese say that too many bricklayers build a lopsided house, echoing the English belief that too many cooks spoil the broth and the Russian fear that a child with seven nurses loses an SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -A three month winter drought in southern Utah has reduced the once favorable water prospects in the area. A number of reporting stations in the southern portion of the state said very limited amounts of precipitation has fallen since Christmas time, resulting in dry conditions. However, Utah's 24 major reservoirs contained .3.2 million acre feet of usable water as of 1, the second largest amount in storage ever for this time of year and 99 per cent of March '1971's record. The water supply outlook for 1972, based on the reservoir storage and snowpack as of the first of March is good in the northern part of Utah. Irrigation water for crops and pastures in southern Utah is now expected to be in short supply for the 1972 season. By RICHARD M. SUDHALTER LONDON (UPI) --It is only a stopover on the homeward leg of a dazzling tour of the Far East, but Queen Elizabeth's few bound ill King George VI in his sleep. His daughter, laughted stilled, climbed down from her tree a queen. It is one irony of several that the news which brought her to organization. The clause limiting full membership to women only, McManus said, is "particularly ironic for an organization which grew out of the women's suffrage movement." The group has been holding his check for full membership until McManus advised whether he would like to join as an associate member. An associate member does not have voting rights. J 4 by upheaval to an independent nation whose stability has set an example for black Africa. The queen will lunch at Nairobi airport with Jomo n Kenyatta, then an elusive, Monday Tuesday Wednesday Only -- jt PIANOS insurgent leader, now president and a "grand old man" of African politics. For the queen, 20 years have brought changes no less great. She still reigns today, but over a Britain in many respects worlds removed from that she inherited standing there in her yellow slacks and blouse, under a searing African sun, two decades ago. Elizabeth's two decades on the throne have witnessed steady diminution of British political and military influence in the world and something akin to social revolution at home. There has been mounting criticism of the monarchy and assault on the class stratification it symbolizes undreamt of empire see as the ultimate sacrifice of sovereignty successful application for membership in the European Common Market. Across From Provo High QUICK CLEAN WURLITZER - FRIENDLY QUALITY MONTH-EN- D BUNK BEDS Superb Savings, now on our finest quality mattress and box spring sets. 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The economic necessities of what one 1952 commentator dubbed the "New Elizabethan Era" have forced Britain to what many with memories of Beautiful Workmanship Great Sound ' jt vjrger rmlu little-know- nn uTfl n down at De?s protectorate hours, not days. Kenya has But on Feb. 6, 1952, all that grown steadily from a British was yet to come. MADISON, clause," has threatened a lawsuit to get men into the enough To the throne found the young in princess on the first stop of a tour which was to have taken her to many of the countries she has just visited. The king was to have made the journey 20 years ago but he was too ill to go. His elder daughter represented him. This stop in the east African nation will be a matter of Threatens Suit (UPI)-Attor- ney Wis. Jack McManus, charging that the Dane County League of Women Voters has a "female chauvinist membership "A woman's hair is strong to keep an elephant tied," while the English claim, But being poor has its com- "One hair of a woman draws pensations, according to the more than a team of oxen." English: "Little goods, little Colorful Adaptations care" and the Chinese: "He who In British and former some has wealth has many cares; he British areas, local proverbs are who has none can sleep souncolorful adaptations of old dly." English saws. Jamaicans say, Women Are Popular Thousands of proverbs have "Puss may look 'pon king but been coined about women. A him radder not." In British "Coward man keep group of West African sayings Honduras, has a familiar ring: "If you want soun' bone" is the Creole way of that discretion is the peace, give ear to your wives' declaring better part of valor. Who marries a ... proposals Though useful, proverbs may beautiful woman marries torment ... Women take up their be contradictory, as in "Look market baskets and also take up before you leap" and "He who hesitates is lost." The proverbial gossip." The Japanese pay tribute to solution to this stalemate is The businessmen filed suit the tenacity of women by saying, "Circumstances alter cases." The last word might be "Wise claiming the levying of the men make proverbs, and fools tax was unconstitutional and against the city charter. repeat them." Italian: "It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it." king Have Kenya Stopover Extra Meaning for Queen torn internal hours in Kenya Sunday are to be an emotional reminder of her own moment of royal destiny. eye. Twenty years have passed, Anthropologists believe and myth rapidly outgrows to one proverbs were man's first great fact. But according attempt a, abstract thinking, reliable account, Princess Elicoming after magical thinking zabeth Alexandra Mary, 25 and and before deductive reasoning. laughing, was perched high in a When a civilization reaches the fig tree in Kenya, lobbing sweet potatoes down to a flock of baboons, when word came her father was dead. Feb. 6, 1952. In London, 4,400 miies distant, a heart attack had killed an already mortally South Utah In Need Of Wafer condi-tion- two-yea- - SPOKANE (UPI) Superior Court Judge George T. Shields Wednesday upheld the city of Spokane's right to levy a business and occupation tax to finance its share of the Expc-7- 4 Environmental Exposition. Shields' decision came in a suit filed by four local businessmen challenging the city's right to collect the tax due to go into effect next month. The judge ruled the tax is a license tax and first class cities in the state have the power to enact license taxes. He also ruled the city has the right, within its debt limit, to issue general obligation bonds without a vote of the people. The bonds will be used to finish purchasing and clearing Island in the middle of the Spokane River site of the international exposition slated for May through October, 1974. Last September the city council approved the tax to pay for the bonds after city residents narrowly defeated a bond issue to raise the $5.7 million needed for the city's portion of the exposition. Anthropologists Believe Proverbs Were Man's First Attempt at Abstract Thinking An old proverb stage, it has the WASHINGTON Chinese proverb says, "Talk beginnings of philosophy, ethics, and law. does not cook rice." Traditional Chinese wisdom Importance of Proverbs The importance of proverbs in also holds that a great talker never wants for enemies; a primitive society is summed mischief all comes from much up by a West African saying: opening of the mouth; and one "Talking a palaver without word may be better than hun- proverbs is like going on a dreds or thousands. journey without rice in your These and dozens of similar bag." Certain themes are universal Chinese sayings all add up to wealth and poverty for talk is cheap and button your lip. and laced with In spite of many Oriental and example nrm!tims. 're-existin- Upheld SPRING FLOODING hu tamed op in few scattered areai of Minnesota in the part few dayi. An Ice Jam on the Sauk River near St. Cloud, caused several homes to be flooded. 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