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Show Bye Line by Good Guys Still Walk The Earth Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Page Laudable touring the country with Disney on Parade, has given his last pint. The rules of the American Assn. of Blood Banks (AABB) and the Red Cross state that the 66th birthday is the cutoff for giving blood. Actually it is possible to give blood at an older age in emergencies if a physician examines you on the day of donation and approves. This, however, is a lot of trouble and of New York celebrated his birthday. With it came mandatory retirement. Ross did not have to retire from his regular job as a professional drummer, but he had to quit his hobby giving blood. He has given about 17 gallons 135 pints since 1943 and he has never received paymeht for a drop gave his first pint of blood in 1943, when a fellow musician had a child with leukemia, who needed of it. Ross "I was deadly afraid of that needle," recalls Ross of his first terward, "I No. According to the American Medical Association, when a persons income goes up his health improves. Which proves a point. Us folks with poor health are not that way because of health alone. Wete sick about our income. sent us a letter Mark Hathaway, station manager at KBYU-Tthe other day that included a note that was left in his father-in-law- 's pickup truck while it was parked in the downtown Provo area. In trying times like today, Mark thought the note so unique that he thought it might deserve publication. I looked it over and agree with Mark. It's nice to know that some of these kind of people still walk the earth . Here is the note : 1 deior." Meanwhile, however, the vast majority of Americans have never given blood at all. Others sell their d for a few dollars precious per pint. The purchased blood, often from derelicts in need of some cash, has frequently been found to be rife with experience. But affelt so good about it I decided to continue." Now the drummer, I've ever seen!" generally discouraged. Ross has been cited by a largt number of organizations, as well as the President, as being "America's blood. g Record Blood-Givin- g Earlier this month Alfred Ross, 66, blood-givin- I've got to pass along a little story tlv .t Pallin Oaks, President of BYU told at the joint club meeing of Provo Rotary and Provo Kiwanis last week. It concerns an expectant father way back in the days of yore, waiting at the hospital for the new baby to arrive. When the blessed event finally came, the nurse carried it out to the father so he could observe his creation. As the father studied the child from one end to the other, the nurse asked the father if he had a name picked out? With somewhat of a puzzled look on his face, the father replied, " "Yes, yes I have a name for it. I'm going to name it Theophilus The nurse queried back, "Theophilus? Why would you name a baby that?" "Because," answered the father, "it's Theophilus looking baby Sunday, May 21, 1972 HERALD, Provo, Utah, 54--THE "Dear Sir, I broke your taillight. Sorry about that, but I was pinned in too close. Here is a check for (3.00 for a new light plus tax at P. E. Ashton. I called them to check the price." It was signed, Gary M. Cole, Sr., and listed his address. Wasn't that a nice thing to do. Makes you wish the streets were full of Gary Cole's. Incidentally, Gary is a student at BYU. life-flui- currently So They Say The wage rates of butchers ... have tripled in the last 20 years. I'm glad they are well paid, but on the other hand, I think we have got our priorities mixed up when we pay butchers in Chicago what we pay schoolteachers. Secretary of Agriculture Earl . L. Butz. viruses. Certainly every person is not expected to give as many gallons of blood as Al Ross has. But if each able person gave only a pint of blood per year it would go a long way toward allevating the current shortages, dangers and high costs associated with blood transfusions. ( disease-causin- g PreSi Nixon Has Muscle For Moscow Visit, Now - st White House. For that reason, say some of his friends, he had no wish to go to the "summit" in Moscow this spring in a weakened position, as leader of a nation whese ally, South Vietnam, was being pummeled by an adversary heavily dependent upon Russian arms. The President could not forget that, nearly every time he announced new U.S. troop withdrawals, he had warned Hanoi not to back him into a corner by taking advantage of our moves and perhaps threatening remaining American forces in Vietnam. It is clear enough that Hanoi's major in regular forces across the Zone fits his definition of "taking advantage." Yet, friends insist, his larger concern is not the immediate war scene itself, but its effect upon the dealing with Russia. The military experts have made it plain that a sea blockade and other disruptive measures cant have serious impact upon North Vietnam's offensive capabilities for weeks or even vasion with Demilitarized months. What Nton's actions have done is, for a time at least, to put Moscow on the diplomatic defensive. Even though the Soviet Union is Hanoi's chief arms supplier, we don't know that the Kremlin leaders were happy over the big spring offensive. But if they did have any tendency to smirk over our discomfort as we watched the faltering of Vietnamization plans, the smiles should now be gone. If Hanoi embarrassed the President, we have now placed Russia in a position where it must decide how, if at all, it can avoid embarrassment. The slowness of its first reaction to our blockade suggests some agonizing debate inside the Kremlin. And Soviet delay has told the President part of what he wanted to know: the Russians want that summit more than we do. It is Mr . Nixon who took the risk it might be canceled, and by so doing he threw upon Moscow the burden of deciding. And now Mr. Nixon believes that once again he can talk from strength. Still, the risks are huge. Popular support, gauged by quick polling, is evidently good. But it might vanish fast if Russia's responses greatly enlarged the military dangers. Personal Finance Investors' Challenge In Picking Fund Winners By CARLTON SMITH investment that appreciates 41.5 per cent in three months may sound like Wall me of those well-kep- t Street secrets that get tipped anly to insiders, but it's merely a mutual hind whose shares rose that much in value during the year's first quarter. That particular fund, it's true, is 1972's top performer thus far, but a few others performed almost as well, and the nearly 600 funds now being publicly offered have, as a group, treated investors well this year. Average gain for 598 funds in the year's first quarter was 8.8 per cent, reports 'Mutual Funds Scoreboard," published by the Hirsch Organization of Old Tappan, N.J. The top 25 funds on this list scored gains ranging from 22 to 41.5 per cent, over the three-montperiod. "Growth funds as usual in a market upswing outpaced other funds with an average gain of 11 per cent," notes Scoreboard editor Yale Hirsch Now that the top funds are beginning to turn in impressive performances (assuming the continuance of a bull market), some investors are An h sure to return to the game of "pick the winners" one played until the performance heyday of the funds came to an abrupt end in 1969. The current list of top performers indicates how chancy a game that is. Among these top 25 funds, 20 are small, new funds, none more than three years old. That would seem to reinforce the belief of many that only a small fund has the agility needed to move easily and quickly into promising portfolio positions, and out of them when that's called for. So it's temptingly true that among such funds this year's potential winners are probably to be found. But how is the average investor to identify them? Fifteen of them aren't even listed in the daily newspaper quotations, not yet having the requi te number of shareholders or dollar assets to qualify for NASD price-listinYou can. of course, dig then out by subscribing to one of the fund informaticn services. But once you have the names, there's little in the way of past performance records to guide you. The fact that a fund has fund-watche- Speaking of BYU, I happened to stop at the Riverside Country Club last week, to watch a little golf. As I watched some golfers come in on number 18, 1 noticed one of them was Chris Farosopolus. I couldnl recognize the other until he came up to the clubhouse. It happened to be Jeff Lyman. There was nothing unusual about the whole thing until Jeff walked by me and I noticed some artwork on the back of his tee , Lt-UKtE been a sparkler in the past three months doesn't tell you anything about what it's going to do in the next three months, or three years, because such funds most of them tend to bounce around like an India rubber ball. One that's up near the top currently, for example it shows a 30 per cent increase in share value this past suffered heavy quarter losses in 1969 and 1970. Let's say you had owned $1,000 worth of this fund's shares at the end of 1968. On this past March 31 despite a fairly spectacular gain of 30 per cent in the first three months of the year they would have been worth $755. A few funds have turned in l performances consistently over the past few years, but most of the hot ones bounce up and down too fast for the average investor to avoid getting whacked on a down bounce. Playing "pick the winners" is seldom profitable. As the record shows, it's the investors who have picked a dependable fund, on the basis of past performance, and invested with regperularity for long-terformance, who have on the whole been Seated well. high-leve- shirt. I really Business Today broke-u- when I read p in big bold letters, "BYU Skyjacking Team." I'm sure it's just my sense of humor, but I thought it very funny. I wonder if Dallin Oaks thinks it funny? Centuries of Experience, And Still Most of Siqns Don't Communicate Bruce Biossat What PORTLAND, Ore. (NEA) President Nixon is doing currently about the Vietnam war underscores again his supreme interest in the foreign affairs field, and his conviction that his greatest skills Ue there. Anyone who reads him as acting primarily from domestic political considerations probably will be off the mark. He began working for the diplomatic history books as soon as he was elected and before he was inaugurated. Political associates complained almost immediately of his neglect of strictly political problems. The President is consumed by thoughts about America's world power relationships and most particularly those with China and the Soviet Union. That's why, obviously, he opened talks with Peking, and that's why he has been willing to widen the power bargaining with Moscow on nuclear wuapons, Berlin, East-Weties, and other matters. But a strong tenet of his philosophy in this field is that this country must always bargain from strength. That may be an idea in some quarters, bul not in Mr. Nixon's Jensen ways and buildings are filled with signs that don't say anything meaningful. Stark simplicity is what is most meaningful to Wexler. For example, in a shopping center or on a street, he says, a sign that says "shoe store" in big good job. That's the opinion of Lee letters is a lot better than one name Wexler, a Los Angeles sign featuring the company's look in the show expert, who complains that and makes us most signs just don't communi- window to see what's offered cate. He manages a firm called for sale. Wexler drips with scorn in Graphics for Integraf. Does describing .the typical Main that name communicate? Wexler says American cities, Street store' villages, shopping centers, high- - write novels about themselves, By LEROY POPE UPI Business Writer NEW YORK (UPI)-Peo- ple have been putting up signs ever since the cave men learned to draw on the wall with clay or soot, and they still don't do a sign-"Merc- hants Letter to Editor Need Swift Punishment, Not More Gun Laws hang the storefronts novels Do you over the and call them remember back? when charity was a virtue not a billion dollar business? when mere was such a thing as treason? when people used the phrase, "His word is as good as signs." gold?" Wexler says government offiwhen you left your door unlocked? ces, civic centers, schools and when you greeted everyone with a smile and invited are worse than hospitals them in? business firms. Tho architects when you discharged a man, you didnt invite a lawsuit? and building planners do such a when the doctor first asked, "How do you feel?" not, "Do bad job that soon after the you have insurance?" buildings are opened, weary when you went to school only for an education? clerks, teachers and nurses when we gave our children sound moral realistic values have to paste not Dr. Spock's culture? signs in the halls, telling people when we didn't worry about where America was where to go. headed? Typically, the architect and contractor don't think about the The above are excerpts from a column written by W. F. Gratian sign problem until just before the building is ready to be in a Las Vegas newspaper. Have a nice day! occupied. Then they either do a hurry job themselves or call in a graphics expert for a quick job. In a very large building, Wexler said this can result in wasting $100,000 or more on bad hand-letter- Dr. Lamb signs. Outdoor signs are the worst offenders, Wexler said "Look around any major city, especially canyon cities such as New York or Chicago. You see big, handsome signs, but where are they? Way up on the tower roofs where pedestrians can't read them. Who are they appealing to, passing airplane pilots? Down on the sidewalk' where the action is you'll have to hunt hard to find the building's name or its street This 1 5-Year- -Old Had 13 Operations crimes have only increased. Surely this is proof that this tack is not working. Past experience has proven in Dear Dr. Lamb I am 15 why not become a real card many cases, that a lenient and old and have had 13 shark at bridge? It would years permissive attitude in the operations, including a help you socially and you rearing of children can produce tumor above my right eye, could play bridge with your a young adult who must be removal of friends or some other card tonsillectomy, restrained in a youth home, then of my bladder and my games if you preferred. You part a reform school and finally a right kidney. As you can could make a project out of prison. The pity and coddling imagine, I have spent a lot it, or if you really wanted to afforded the criminal element in number." of time in the hospital and work on something brainy, not become an expert on our society today can only lead Street signs and many road have missed quite a lot of why to a police state. This will be the chess? school. Because of this I deare ugly, plain signs just only alternative to anarchy. We Wexler complained. "Even if veloped slowly and am way will be protected and also it's behind most kids my age in necessary to make them The American Optometric I am weak policed and directed in all our large, and on the highways that body maturity. Assn. has a good safety sugactivities. We will then be 'safe,' is and exhausted the after necessary at today's high least get of but individual freedom will be a bit strain. They recommend gestion. doctor My to speeds, they can be made all wear that me from motorcyclists thing of the past. After all, what blend into the prohibited particilandscape and reflective material on all in football, basketball will be the use of free elections if pating still be fully functional." sides of their helmets to proand even physical education no one dare run for political Dramatic Example class. I would like to know vide greater safety at night. office for fear of his very life? Parking lots are a dramatic what The reflective material I feel that it is of vital imsports you think would example of failure to think hard be bad for one and what should be open triangles of to freedom every portance and straight about how to place about five square inches. Triwould do my physical sports loving American to press for signs and how to word them, condition angles of this size can be degood. Thank" you, tighter law enforcement and Wexler said. tected at distances of about from Kidney-less- . punishment of the ffiminal who The parking lot people knew 800 feet, which is three times Dear kills in cold blood, or those who Reader Of course are essential and put lots farther than a normal white would like to participate would commit acts of treason signs of them up "but they dont use you helmet can be seen at night. in I some 'Treason' but their sports, country. against really words correctly," he said. "In a think you had better rely on seems to be a word we seldom parking lot you may be in doctor's judgment, behear any more. Individuals now big trouble the minute you turn off your cause he knows all the decommit many acts which would the ignition. The signs don't tell tails of your problems. have been categorized as how to get in or you treasonable by our forefathers out ofproperly Although physical activity lot either on the and punished by death or at the foot or in parkingcar. The most is very good for individuals your very least deportation, and common failing is that the who are healthy, sometimes when one has had serious back on the mention a hardly get By United Press International signs don't make it easy to illnesses like you have had, pages of the newspapers. come back to the section of the In the past I have felt that the lot where they can be harmful. You Today is Sunday, May 21, the you parked an hour might talk to your doctor 142nd day of 1972. idea that communism was earlier." about the advisability of behind many of our internal The moon is between its first Wexler said the airport problems has been overrated. designers have shown the best walking and hiking, which quarter and full phase. could help build you up the increasing understanding of signing probHowever, to some extent. If are The stars morning frequency of such violent acts as lems up to now, but the physically over-al- l and Jupiter. conyour Mercury of physical bombings assassinations, highway authorities are learndition and The evening stars are Venus, government ing. For example, ihey are it is will permit this, and if public allowable it might help Mars and the treasonable acts, Saturn. buildings, to with beginning adopt signs you gain some strength. Those born on this day are phenomenal increase in drug use international traffic symbols on For anyone who has been under the and addiction in our young and them that will be understood sign of Gemini. by inactive for a long time, armed forces, make one wonder. Glenn American inCurtiss, penalty would be their punishof the people from many parts even a young person like ventor of the What more could our enemies world ment for this crime, I believe was hydroplane, of language regardless want than to see our free elec- barriers. yourself, the proper way to born May 21, 1878. most would be deterred. begin any physical program see us On this day in history: Instead of considering the tions jeopardized, before any sports activity In 1832 what is considered to demoralized, terrorized and abolishment of capital punishwould be a good walking probe the first Democratic Nationment, I believe the Supreme frightened into more and tighter Folks soon lose interest gram, carried out for a peon individual al Convention was held in Court should be considering the restrictions with people who have little riod of months until your Baltimore. freedoms, and finally led to the increased use of it as punishphysical condition will perbelief that a police state is better principle. 0 0 0 In 1881 Clara Barton orgament for the mit you to do something when that nized the first American Red taking of a life as well as various than freedom, is the when time more. Spring Cross in Washington. treasonable acts against our freedom means only that we are all roads lead to roam. If you are going to be who those have of the at In 1941 President Franklin D. p mercy country. physically limited for a long Roosevelt proclaimed "an unliThere are those who will argue abused freedom te the point of period of lime, you might at mited state of national emerthat the taking of a life for any continually dusregarding the least be able to compete with gency," seven months before reason is wrong. But I cannot rights and the very lives of other people by developing Pearl Harbor and the U.S. to known make it Let us others? of the a but feel that taking help your ability in games of entry into World War II. life for these crimes will surely such persons that their abuse of skill. You don't need to be S In 1948 President save the lives of many innocent these freedoms will result in '''"""les to be able to com- Truman sent a special Harry certain swift in and punishment. message political years, they persons. As our society has Mrs. David A. Holdaway .should name hurricanes pete with other people and to Congress proposing statehood become more permissive, and enjoy il. If you like cards. 469 S. 600 E., Provo after candidates. for Alaska. our courts more lenient, violent Editor Herald: With the assassination attempt on the life of Gov. George Wallace, we again hear the hue and cry of those who favor further legislation on firearms, headed as usual by Sen. Edward Kennedy. I cannot conceive of the thinking public swallowing that further the notion legislation in this area can be the answer to this problem. As persons who desire them have always been able to procure alcoholic beverages, pornographic materials, etc., regardless of laws passed forbidding them, so will they procure frearms, regardless of any additional laws which may be passed to control them. It follows that the only persons who will be this determined to have them will be those who have no compunctions against breaking the laws of the land, while the citizen will be further disarmed and helpless to defend himself against them. The real solution to this problem as I see it (and it is fast becoming a serious and pressing one), is swifter and more efficient court action and punishment of the offender. Particularly in assassination cases such as those occuring in the past decade, where there can be no doubt as to the guilt of the defendant, I believe the death penalty should be mandatory. Prison does not seem to be a sufficient deterrent to this type of offender, as they seem to have in common a maladjusted personality and inability to function in society. I believe in some cases this type may actually feel more secure and less threatened in a prison environment. Knowing the death law-abidi- Today In History BARBS |