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Show Sun Chronicle-Advertis- Thursday, December 23, 197i er I Leivor People Do Care! People are so quick to point out all the wrong things being done in this world today - few take time out to thank others for the good they do. So, I decided to take time out to personally thank the citizens of Roy, Utah for concern for rny his wife and their four children, when my entered the hospital on Nov. 12, for removal of a tumor on the pituitary gland; a very serious operation. True, the world is full of trouble and sorrow today, and some people may be hostile to life, but not my daughters neighbors in Roy, Utah. Nor are their hearts filled with apathy. They are neighbors in the true sense of the word.' They are people who show Gods Love in everything they do, as they try to make a small corner of the world a better son-in-la- son-in-la- w Happy Birthday Members of the ROY Roy Lions Club and the staff of the Sun Chronicle take pleasure in extending Happy Birthday wishes to the following patients at Weber County Hospital during November and De- cember. November: Viney Page, Ma-bChristensen, Violet Smith, Jennie Manning, Margaret Dawson, Bryan Downs, Glen Pew-treand Charles Session. December: Mary Effie Jeannie Guthrie, Devina Thomas, Ruby Mickelson, Zel-l- a Pribble, Pat Belcher, Albert Rackham, John Smythe, Julio Rameriz, Frank Praivitt and James Standerfer. Another neighbor, whos husband had just had serious stomach surgery, sat beside my daughter, while my was undergoing giving forth moral support, and helping my daughter strengthen her faith in Gods healing hands, saying, I am honored that you wanted me to be with you during this time, and for allowing me to help you in any way I can. Unbeknown to my daughter, as she waited in the reception room of St. Benedicts Hospital trying desperately to untangle her jumbled thoughts, neighbors entered her home - took over the care of the children, tidied the house, did the laund-arand prepared a pot roast, with all the trimmings, awaiting my daughters return home. sur-ger- oxy- The telephone jangled constantly throughout my daughters home when word spread throughout the community that had to have immy mediate surgery. Neighbors offered helping hands, words of faith, comfort and offering of Through the skill of the with God's guidance, plus the unending prayers being offered, the surgery was a success. On Nov. 20, my was released from the hospital. Prognosis excellent. One mother called my daughter saying, My son is The day before Thanksgiving, a ($oup of my co - workers, from Roys local Post Office, mailmen with large families ol their own, appeared at my front door. Their arms were filled with grocery sacks which contained a huge turkey, with all the trimmings including the dressing, plus a huge baked ham, eggnog for mom and dad, plus ice cream for the children. You name it, everything was there for a Real Thanksgiving! 1985 West 5600 South Roy, Utah So when you look at wins bitterness, over rivalry, and that is the secret of their greatness and difference. They are What human beings ought to be, and practice what they preach. Using knowledge for goodness, not for greed and their goodness is not vanity. Their great passions are used to add more life to life, not for deterioration. They are people of true worth, who believe Life Attracts Life! You know what? The Greatest Healer of the Western world - Jesus - taught most of all by EXAMPLE. He was most concerned with how we behave toward one another. Thank you Roy, Utah neigh- bors for helping my little family in their time of need. My 'e hope your Christmas glows prayers follow you. Sincerely, grateful mother in Peoria, Illinois Mrs. Elain Mattlin P.S. Editor; I would appreciate you printing my letter in your local newspaper, if it is possible for you to do with many happy hours spent with family and friends. Sincere A thanks for your kind patronage. ru GET Your FREE Calendar... For 1972 Come in and pick up one of these lovely 1972 appointment calendars free of charge. No purchase necessary. You can save 12.00 on your dry cleaning with the special discount coupons on each calendar. Your choice of 7 colors. Your Valet is close by so drop in today... CARPET 0GDEFI SKIRT IAUXDRY DRAPERY CLEANING DEST WISHES FOR THE HOLIDAY 2898 Wash. ROY 1 i t SEASON! ROY SHOPPING I CENTER name is Richard Locher, 2590 W. 5000 S., Roy Utah. 8 S id ONE HOUR DRY CLEANING The Christmas crunch is coming and for Mountain Bell that doesnt mean sampling holiday candy. It means that on Dec. 25, almost everyone in Utah will pick up a telephone and try to call someone locally or long distance -- - all at the same time, according to J.N. Neary, district manager. Mr. Neary said the volume of long distance calls placed on Christmas Day runs many times the number placed on an average day. Last Christmas, Utahns placed 147 percent more interstate telephone calls and 63 percent more local calls than they normally do on a given business day. The excessive simultaneous calling ties up the nations switching equipment causing customers to receive fast busy signals. Mr. Neary offered some suggestions to help cestomers complete their calls Dec. 25: . . Plan ahead, get long distance numbers early calling universal directory assistance (1 plus area code plus This will help prior to Dec. 25. down on the number of long distance calls being Christmas Day and improve the chances of com- pleting calls. Dial the call themselves. This can be done from 95 percent of the telephones presentl" served by the Bell System. Operators, when asked to complete calls for customers, have to compete for the same circuits cus-tomers do and generally are no more successful or any faster in getting the calls through Dont repeatedly dial over and over when they receive a busy signal. Wait a minimum of five minutes before attempting to call again. Place calls p the afternoon between the hours of 5 p.m. The busiest time of the day are in the mor-ning and evening. Also, avoid calling on the hour or half hour, since these times coincide with the beginning and end of most TV shows when telephone traffic edly increases. S. 8 555-121- 2) Scut tg S B 8 R S ... m ... ... m the scream.ng headlines in your newspapers, shudder, saying, People all over the world have become dehumanized and are hostile to life - do not judge all people the world over. For in Roy, Utah there are real, humane people. They are the positives who make up for the negatives. They look just the same as the negatives. The only difference is they are people in whom love dominated hate, intelligence controls impulse, joy conquers WAY CAY CLEAKIHB son-in-la- son-in-la- Beil Mountain I otters help tor I Christmas calls son-in-la- QUALITY My I son-in-la- w prayers. son-in-la- THE to my daughter and y, surgeons hands, son-in-la- w Fo-we- kind-heart- y, struggling life. ss so. I want the people in Roy to know that I thank them with all my heart for being such good neighbors son-in-la- w And that a helping gen. hand and a kind word, to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track, but one inch between a wreck and smooth rolling. That a smile, plus a helping hand at the right moment, may act like sunlight on a closed-u- p flower; it may be the turning point for a le UeMlvoir crying and offering up prayers, he wants his mailman back on his route. place. are people who They believe everyone should seize the opportunity togiveencour- -' agement, for they know en- couragement is powerful ifa v ft couldnt resist get their names having fun during their lunch time to build an artistic snowman on the pation. -- - Photo from Glen snowstorm THAT record-breakin- g g that hit northern Utah was fun for these three young ladies at the Accounting Branch of the Internal Revenue Service in Ogden. The II three beauties -- Perrins. - sorry we didnt The question arises . . When your boy wonts I have a son, so I knew the question might come up some day. It did . . . this year. Dad, when am I going to be permitted to have a gun? It was nearly 30 years that Id asked my own father the same question. Fortunately, the decision was a relatively easy one for him. At that t'.me we lived in Tucson, then a town of 30,000-onl- y one-ten- th its present population. Dad taught at the state university wrote for an outdoor magazine, and was also an incurable gun buff. He had no trouble taking two or three hours off from his jobs several times a month for target practice or to hunt jackrabbits and coyotes, which were plentiful in the nearby desert. And from to the time I was knee-hig- h 1 was an antelope jack, allowed to tag along with him. were fewer people There around then. And thus there were fewer hunters. By and large, those who hunted then did so because the hunting area seldom was more than a few miles from home. The kids hunted primarily because their fathers did, and hunting was considered by almost everyone to be a manly sport. There werent so many game laws in those days, either, and the science of game management was still in its infancy. But times change. The Tucson I knew as a child has disappeared. The residential suburbs, supermarkets, hamburger stands, bowling alleys, and industrial parks of the new Tucson sprawl far out into the desert. Houses costing $100,000 and more cling to the rocky foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains on ground over which I scrambled nearly three decades ago looking for bighorn sheep. And for this reason, the logistics of planning a hunt today in the Tucson area-a- s well as in Seattle where we live now and many be enough to other areas-ca- n stagger the mind of the most seasoned military commander. And sighting in a rifle near a metroplitan area also can require lengthy waits at shooting ranges, especially as hunting season approaches. Good outdoor manners (of which safety is part) are imperative because of the great competition for hunting, fishing, and recreational space. 1 bring all this up only by way of indicating that the decision as to whether or not to allow your youngster to have his own rifle these days is not as simple as it was years ago. So what did I tell my son John when he asked when hed be able to have a gun? I said that Id sleep on the matter. And I did for two nights. Then I told him he could have his rifle. I knew just the gun. d It was a Winchester .22, none the worse for wear almost 30 years after my dad had given it to me. When I have been able to dovetail mv time off from my sons days off from school, ... scope-sighte- he has accompanied me on a few hunting jaunts . As my own father did for me, Ive taken John out into the country, taught him the rudiments of shooting position, breath con- trol, how to squeeze a trigger gently, and the vital importance of gun safety. Yet my personal instruction on how to handle a gun properly is not enough. Before he can buy a hunting license, John and all youngsters up to age 18 must complete a firearms safety course. This course is an official function of the State Game Commission in 41 states and is required by law in 16 of those, including Washington. It is also mandatory in the other nine states (where it is taught by volunteer instructors who have been certified by the National Rifle Association), as well as in six Canadian provinces - British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. While there is no restriction as to age, applicants must be deemed capable of understandthe instruction and ing able to handle physically a firearm properly. Several weeks ago, John received a quick rundown from the local state coordinator for firearms safety on what he, John, should expect when he takes the course before the fall hunting season. Among other things, he will learn about; a) The parts of a gun and how to care for them b) The safe ways to enter a boat or cross a fence with a gun in the c) His place zones of with others fire when hunting d) The safest color (blaze orange) to wear in the field rs - e) of pointing a rifle at something that he doesnt intend to shoot f) The state game and gun laws g) Common Courtesy in the field, such as pot littering and The-dange- seeking an owners permission to hunt on his land. If this seems like a pretty big order to you for a lad Johns age, youre quite cor- rect, but the primary aim, after all, is to make him a The state cosafe hunter. ordinator always tells the fathers of youngsters who have satisfactorily completed the course, Its your responsibility to see that your child puts into practice what he learns in the course. Safety should become a habit. The choice of a gun should be no great problem. In my opinion, unless the youngster s, is in his unwise to start him out with anything that hurls more of a punch than a .22 or a .410 Whether its a bolt shotgun. its mid-teen- or lever action is largely a matter of personal taste, although I personally believe a clip-fe- d bolt action is safer than the automatics. Complete with telescopic sight, a suitable .22 rifle should cost somewhere between $55 and $90. My choice of a .410 shotgun would be either a Cost of these ranges from about $80 for a good single rifle shot to well over $200 for an outstanding pump type. Quality is usually in direct proportion to the cost. If you shop wisely, and if your boy treats his gun with the same loving care that I have given that .22 my dad gave me nearly 30 years ago, he can probably pass it along to his own son 30 years from now. Reprinted with permission from INNER CIRCLE Magazine, United Delco Division, General Motors Corporation. Coyp right 1971, CecoPblish-in- g Company. Former local couple report first arrival Thanks for being able fo live and work in this fine community, Thanks for wonderful friends and neighbors. And, thanks for the privilege of serving your insurance need?, May you all enjoy a safe and happy holidayl IOI STANCH 5335 So. 1950 W. Phone Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Folk-maformerly of Ogden and now of LeMoore, Calif., announce the arrival Dec. 9 of a 825-716- 9 n, new daughter, Stacey, their first child. Mrs. Folkmans mother is daughter of Mrs. Ralph (Louise) Smith, and Mr. Folk-ma- n is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Folkman of Layton. The baby is the first grandchild on both sides of the family. the STATf FARM i INSURANCE STATE FARM Insurance Companies Home Offices: Bloomington, Illinois State Farm is all you need to know about insurance. up Pharmacy ia oup Specially p. 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