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Show Page A4 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Wednesday, December 6, 1995 GOP aovernors attac Clinton Medicaid plan nzona juniper mysteriously decorate PHOENIX (AP) It's about as unlikely a spot for a Christ-- " mas tree as one can imagine the middle of the median on .,.4 V Interstate 17, miles from the nearest town. But each year for the past 10 years, someone has decorated the big juniper tree w ith brightly colored ribbons, tinsel, rag dolls and teddy bears. "They do it every year, and no one can find out who it is," said Naomi Emerson, who w orks at the Copper Star Cafe & Bar up the road in Cordes Junction. Highway Patrolman Mark Richardson, who grew up in Mayer just a few miles off the freeway and now patrols the area, said he's long been mystified about the freeway Christmas tree. "It's been there ever since I can ; ; remember." said Richardson, 24. "They really put some weird stuff on it and go to a lot of trouble." Most of the y ear, the juniper tree is just another bit of desert brush growing along a scenic stetch of high desert highway about 70 miles north of Phoenix. But. as has happened each of the last 10 years, someone ha covered it with an eclectic array of holiday ornaments, streamers, - stuffed animals, balloons, a couple of Frisbees and some aluminium pie plates. A big Christmas star sprouts from the top branches. "I have no idea who it is, but this year, it's really extra nice," said Kathy Castle at the counter of the Exxon minimarket, across from the Copper Star. State Department of Transportation officials say they don't know what to make of the mys-- ; tery decorator. Technically, it's illegal to put up such a display in 4r -- WASHINGTON (AP) Short of money, the Library of Congress has postponed for at least a year a $1 million exhibition of Sigmund Freud and the impact that the father of psychoanalysis has had on society. , The library still would need to raise about $352,900 in private funds for the exhibit to open as slated in December 1996, "and that's just not enough time or money to keep on schedule." Jill Brett, spokeswoman for the library. But some library officials said the primary factor in the decision was criticism of the exhibit's content, the Washington Post said in today's editions. "This exhibition needed to be discredited as something conceived in bad faith." Peter Swales, a historian of psychoanalysis who is leading the opposition to the exhibit, told the Post. "Canceling it is the only decent and honorable thing to do." Swales said the exhibit was not intended to educate the public about psychoanalysis, but was them intended to "force-fee- d tot cfp M t AP Photo This juniper tree in the median of Interstate 17 in up displays on the freeway, transportation has been mysteriously decorated each year cials don't bother the decorations. The decorations for the past 10 years. Even though it is illegal to put are removed as mysteriously as they appeared. the median. But no one has the futile. The only thing she could one killed on that lonely stretch heart to do anything about it. come up with was that lifelong of highway. such it's a small But whatever the identity or "Really, thing," area resident Joel Bais might be ADOT area supervisor Felix the one with the answer. motive of the trimmer, the mysGabaldon said. "And they take it It was another dead end. tery of the freeway Christmas all back down again every year." "I don't have a clue," Bais tree is a piece Christy Woodford, an employsaid the next day. "I just go of seasonal lore. ee at ADOT's maintenance yard down through there one day and, And some people would like in Cordes Junction, said she tried bang, it's been decorated." to say thanks. last week to use her contacts in There are a few theories floatTucked up in the branches of small towns around the area to ing around. The most popular the tree is a more recent addition, track down the mysterious tree seems to be that a family decoa plastic bag with a Christmas trimmer. But the effort proved rates the tree in honor of a loved card inside. offi-Arizo- Library of Congress delays Freud exhibit Freud by securing advertising space in a federal institution. ... Now is not the time for any kind of Freud exhibit." Critics contend that many of Freud's most famous case studies are bogus or have been misinterpreted. Library officials disputed the critics' charges that the postpone- least a year, she said. 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If the two parties fail to broker a deal now, Ginbalanced-budgwill see interasserted, "you grich est rates skyrocket and the stock market crash." He was greeted with a headline in The New York Times that read, "Leaders of A.M.A. Critical of Plan to Alter Medicaid." The organization of almost 300,000 physicians has been an enthusiastic supporter of ' the GOP's sweeping plan to overhaul the Medicare program and save $270 billion, but has refrained from endorsing the Republican Medicaid proposal. The AMAs policy is to "continue to support efforts to lower the level of reductions in Medicaid funding." according to a report to the AM As board of trustees. AM A President Lonnie R. Bris-toissued a statement saying, "American Medical Association policy on Medicaid has been in effect for a long time. "We agree that state governments should have considerable flexibility in deciding how these federal funds are to be used. 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