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Show Page 24-THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Friday, December 17, 1971 Second of TwoStories Christmas Alone Only Memories ‘| remember the old Christmases when I'd cook up a storm. Everybody came then. Friends, neighbors—everybody. | used to pile the table with food and they'd laugh and eat and... .’ SS hour, and my husband about the same. But, my, vou could at least live on that then. You could buy rolls for three (Ms iny Americans will oberve Christmas this year in health, prosperity and security. Others, however, won't be so fortunate. This is a story of one of the others.) By TOM TIEDE NEW YORK—(NEA)—Ann George will not have a they came? Months ago, I don't get many callers up here any more. an inscription which designates them as a gift for 25 years of up-and-down marriage. And a small, gold-colored 50-cent trophy “My husband won that trophy for bowling or some- And so it is Ann George, thing. 1 forget exactly what. Dead now, mostly. There is still the woman in Brooklyn and the luag-time pal who lives on 14th Street, but “My, when wasthe last time age 76, will observe Christmas this year by herself. In a dreary and overly hot pub- Christmas tree this year. lic housing apartment, 18 Nor will she send cards to floors above West 9st friends, or exchange gifts Street. On the edge of Manwith relatives, or have com- hattan’s scrubby, unpleasant pany for holiday dinner—or, Spanish Harlem. actually, do any of the happy No tinsel. things so muchof the nation Nocarols, is doing to celebrate the i97ist birthday of Jesus “Maybe there'll be a Christ. Christmas show on thetelevision. I don’t know what Bon George is in her late I'd do withoutthe television. iyoH ow terribly strange,” I turn it on at two every day and watch it until I fall says the song, “‘to be 70. asleep. That’s about seven She is all alone this sea- or eight, Sometimes I try to on, stay up to watch Flip WilHer husband died last son or Dean Martin, but May. He was a decent man otherwise I fall asleep, I —not rich or successful, but wish I could see the Middecent. He was an elevator night Mass, butit’s way too operator until he got old, and late. I don’t think I've ever after that he was nothing had the TV on ’til midnight.” but old. They buried him too Thetelevision occupies one far away, now, for Ann to of two places of honor and even visit. availability in Ann George’s Her family has disap- small, $80-a-month flat. The peared. She never had chil- only piece of furniture that dren of her own. She has takes precedence over it is two nieces and three step- a mahogany credenza which children — yet the nieces stands against an entrance “don’t care about me much” wall and is the showplace and the stepkids have, well, for the old woman’s memorscattered so far “1 can’t abilia. Some inexpensive even remember the ad- china. A pine scented candle dresses.”’ in a glittered holder. Some Herfriends,too, have gone. plates and teacups bearing He wae always very proud of it, I sever could bring myself io throwit away. There is a smile on the old woman's face as she remembersthe winning of the trophy. The past. It’s everything now. Memories. ‘I’m so old, I got nothing left. I can’t do work no more. I use to be a cleaning woman, you know, but now I can't even hold a broom. The only thing I can do right any more is think.” About what? “About the past. I had good times in the years I’ve lived.” Indeed, good times. Home planning, church going, life living. “I was a very fine cook, you know. At least I never had any complaints. I remember the old Christmases when I’d cook up a storm. Everybody came then. Friends, neighbors — everybody.I used topile the table with food and they'd laughand eat and . Even the Depression, which occupied nearly a decade of Ann George’slife, wasn’t so bad.“You couldn’t get relief unless you were married,” she recalls, so she got married only to find she didn’t need the relief after all. “I made 25 cents an an.wther depression, for which she can say nothing cheery. It is the depression of being old. It is the poverty of alienation and obscurity. Twenty million Americans over 65 are faced with it, to some degree or another. One of every four of them are living in privation, two million s:‘bsist on bare Social S- rity payments alone, one-third of the jot are forcedto live in the deteriorating coresofbig cities, four out of every five are suffering from one form cr other of chronic illness-disease. And, most importantly, many of them are alone, desperately alone Like Ann George. “I’ve got a maid from the Welfare Department who comes up three times a week. I got a godson who’s a nice boy and he stops by after school sometimes to see how I'm doing. And every so often the priest visits to hear my confession.” Otherwise, the old woman has nobody. She is poor and sick and forgotten, “I hope they have a Christmas show this year,’ she says, staring out through the sweat of her public housing window, seeinglittle but the tops of other buildings. “T really don’t know what I'd do without my. television. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) Dock Strikes Drive Shippers to Canada Ports By LeROY POPE banana York shipping circles, news. United Fruit said that since it made a change someyears ago to boxing its bananas in the tropics instead of shipping them on steras, it no longer needed the specialized handling equip- U.S. mints at Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco will produce a record 9.2 billion coins in six denominations in the fiscal year 1972. today’s FUNNY mentinstalled in its New York terminal. Other considerations also made it desirable to letits ships move up the river to a convenient truck and rail center. These “other considerations” apparently are driving huge amounts of import and expori ocean freight out of New York and other American poris to Canada,particularly to Halifax. The other considerations are (1), the Canay experience the frequent dockworker strikes that tie up U.S. ports for weeks at a time, (2) Halifax and Montreal have new intermodal container loading and unloading facilities that save time and mae?ane and @) for some imports, the rail and ocean ein to a John R, Immer, president of to Halifax and Montreal during Work Saving International, a the recentstrikewill not return Washington managerial consult- to New York. He said that Europeans are pleased with the ing firm, way their shipments were diversion of U.S. American ports to Canadian ane in Halifax and Monports already is so far advanced that he #4 He also said the ports of billion of such traffic to move Boston and Philadelphia do not through the dominion ports on stand to lose as much to the Canadian ports as New York. both coasts next year. Hesaid the diversion began But, said Swartverwer the de during previous dock strikes in facto devaluation of the dollar U.S. ports and accelerated and the U.S. 10 per cent tax during the longshoremen’s surcharge have made European strikes on the Atlantic, Gulf exporters determined to explore and Pacific coasts this year. every opportunity for savings in Archaic regulations, huge pil- time and money in reaching the ferage and other expensive U.S. market. drains in the U.S. ports drove New Louis F, Swartverwer, manager for trade development in Europe of the Port of New cities is less than by way of recently in a statement by York when jes are added. despite its far north location, is ice free the year around and its harbor is deep enough for the largest conventional or container ships. Montreal, the other principai Canadian port, is more convenient to U.S. markets but has winter ice problems. York Authority. Swartverwer said dock unions in the United States have “killed the goose that lays the He predicted that many European shippers who diverted cargo for the United States 1. T, Otte Author Gives New Idea on Jesus Convicted Of Charge PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — Three men have been found guilty of 11 counts of conspiracy, fogery and passing stolen moneyorders. Four other persons were acquitted by the same U.S. District Court jury. Convieted were Elmer BigelPlane Vanishes ’ ow Cozad and Fred Albert Cozad Sr., both of Coos Bay, MANILA (UPI) —A US. and William Leslie Hailey, Navy C-2 “Greyhound”aircraft with six passengers and four SaltLake City, Utah. Acquitted were Beverly Faith crewmen aboard disappeared Alderman, Charlie Henry Gib- Sunday during a flight to son, Verna Charlene Cozad and Saigon and apparently crashed Sea, a navy Katherine Ann Richards, all in = South ns esman sai from the Coos Bay area. nr the The money orders had a to- rhe spokesman tal value of $1,069 and were sto- aircraft left the“Naval len from postal substation at Station at Cubi Point, 90 miles northwest of Manila, at 7:45 Ogden, Utah, Nov. 14, 1969. Originally 17 persons were p.m. EST Sunday for a ferry charged in connection with the flight to Saigon. At 10:30 p.m. EST Sunday, forgery and passing of the money orders. Three pleaded guilty the aircraft carrier USS Coral and are awaiting sentencing. Sea reported it had sighted Nine went on trial Dec. 6. debris and mail bags in an area Charges against Dorothy M. about 200 miles southwest of Subic Bay adjacent to Cubi Cozad and George au were dismissed before Point, the spokesman said. He added that a search is under e case went to the jury. wartEy Everet Giguire will be way. Two 4‘those indicted have not been arrest pasS. District Court Judge AlT. Goddwin, who presided i the trial, ordered @ presenteuce investigation for the three convicted men, Maximum penalties for the crimes are50 peersinemis andfines totaling $70,000. from Provo Municipal Airport 373-1508 The Go AheadPeople thinks and writes like a layman ratherthan like a theologian. There is no denominational slant to his book, and it would be as helpful to Protestants as to Catholics. It probably would be most helpful of al! to nonChristians who have been rejecting a caricature of Jesus’ message because they never heard the real thing id out before. Greeley says Jesus’ message is very simple, but its simplicity should not obscure the fact that it responds to the O sorry. - @ MODEL 719 TIPPER-LIGHT to:95 SMITH-CORONA‘ NOW $ ] 34” MODEL SCM 220 With Case ELECTRIC W/PWR RETURN 5 Yr. 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But he believed it with a passionate and unwavering conviction, even though his preaching of it led him to an agonizing death on a cross. Millions of people since have bet their lives that Jesus was right—and have not been author is Dr. Andrew Greeley, who in his youth, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest. But he has worked nearly all of his adultlife as a sociologist, MERRY CHRISTMAS SR anley Peters, Mgr 235 W. First South Salt Lake City, Utah 322-5603 the New Testament gospels, published by Doubleday. Its MRVSInstalled eg. °179% | and New Year's Day, an ngton’s birthday, even next Monday. Flying @ inodern Piper Cherokee is certavily most basic of all human questions; Is everything going’ to be all right in the end? Jesus’ answer was: “You bet your life it is!” Hecites many passages from 5 YR. GUARANTEE CHRISTMAS GIFTS Give the gift of flight to someone (or give it t0 yourself!) this Christmas. Or choose from other fine gifts at interwest Aviation: Portable Radios Sun Glasses Computers Watches Survival Kits and many otters hearing a clear and confident answer to that question, Preachers who are forthright enough on **her subjects seem to get marbles in the mouth when they try to explain what's so good about the good news. Some of them wind up it sound like dreadful and frightening news. This glaring gap in contemporary Christian proclamation has been filled in by a new book called “The Jesus Myth,” WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Air Force has finished installing 150 multiple warhead issi — called MIRVs — at missiles Minot AFB, N.D. Each Minuteman III missile has three warheads which are launched as a cluster but which can then be sent independently against separate targets. 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