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Show A THURSDAY, FLB. 27, PAGE 3 193 Recent years there has len a steady influx of venereal vagrants in PAUL HARVEY NEWS vans rolling communes of young people-ma- ny or most on narcotics. Lauderdale Faces Tribulation By PAI L HARVEY You can run but you can't hide. If Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has gonorrhea, then our nation's last Eden has been defiled. Fort Lauderdale is the longtime retreat for refined Floridians just enough north of noisy Miami for gracious living. BUT THERE and thereabouts in Broward County e last year was an all-tim- record year for murders, including seven in one weekend. They were stabbed, beaten, bludgeoned, drowned, shot or strangled found in ditches, floating in water, sprawled across beds or cut up in pieces. The Fort Lauderdale News, seeking a pattern, found none. One policeman, three Hells Angels, a go-g- o dancer, a union man, a sec- retary Crime nationally was up 16 per cent last year; in Broward County it was up 40 per cent. Unemployment nationally is 8.2 per cent; in Broward County it's 10 per cent plus. In the once-slaistreets of n stores is a proliferation of porno shops and massage parlors. . . . Six epidemics are raging in Fort Lauderdale' at the same time. They are gonor- rhea, syphilis, scabies, flu, lice and fleas. THOUGH THE cause-efferelationship is circumstantial, with this invasion d ct came the What is the source of this infestation of ugly maladies in one of the world's love-hea- d cities? high-fashio- d epidemics, skyrocketing unemployment and pyramiding crime. LOCAL NEWSPAPER ed- itorials recount a steady and a rainbow of hibiscus, of a Baptist church with a thousand regulars in Sunday exodus of Fort Iauderdales longtime social elite, urge the city to pull up its socks. Personally, I am most reticent to remonstrate any city. Living in the glass house of Chicago I recognize that crime and disease statistics may be pimples on an otherwise beautiful face. My recollection of Fort Lauderdale is of palm and d oleander pine and School. SO MY VOICE goes out not as a remonstrance but as an expression of sympathy for a sick friend. That other cities are rotting at the core, as much or more, is regrettable, but a pox on Fort Lauderdale is a mustache on the Mona Lisa! red-leafe- TWO THOUSAND cases of gonorrhea constitute epidemic level. There were 4,000 reported cases in Fort Lauderdale last year and an estimated 5,000 additional cases un reported. Health department nurses report head lice in all county schools another BEEF YOUNG FRESH I LB. FRIED CHICKEN WILSONS FOR Q LABEL BLACK HORMELL SLICED 12 CORN WATERPROOF PLENTY RIGHT GUARD KLEENEX SALAD DRESSING TORTILLAS INSULATED BOOTS 9" uppers of silicone impregnated Boulder Leather sealed soles Crepe lug or Vibram soles SAVE FAMILY WEST WILSONS OZ. 1.40 REG. C 12 ! PAKS ly Warmly insulated, glove leather lined (REG. CASHEWS 10 MID LADIES THOSE THE ABOVE PUIS 1.0. ?ci -- j jvio-Ji- A A rlOiJ t IV'iv OZ. PKG CHEESE BROWNING SHOES GAL BLEACH . . 3 CREAM PHIL W.S. OZ. PKG MARSHMALLOWS 66c PEPPER 12 OZ. 1.29) KRAFT MENS BLACK SHILLINGS FRESH SHASTA DIET POP ALL m ONLY FLAVORS CASE 2.98 SOUR FRESH "VAC DOUGH Y QCANS FAMOUS: PRICE RIDGE RO AMERS FRESH 8 OZ. PECAN HALVES BOOT OTHER FOR PRICE BRANDS & STYLES Jhmles BANQUET la fflBHHKflj RUSSET Golf Shoes ORE-ID- OFF Mens and Ladles Shoes A HASH BROWNS EXPIRES . LBS. 2 MARCH EXPIRES 1975 MMCH G.M. G.M. OUR FLOUR BUC WHEATS OFF GOOD SKI SALE CONTINUES CARL AT MARCH EXPIRES WITHOUT 97 COUPON ONLY I DON'S G000 1975 I 4.59 COUPON AT ONLY FOLGERS BISQUICK COFTH 60 (C23125) - SPORTING GOODS p- CENTER, IOGAN . ,.juti donn'f Irani rirrybitriv't buninmn WCOUPOR wcoupor Serving Cache Valley with the finest sporting equipment for 53 years. .41 BUNCH RADISHES LB. DOITS EXPIRES 1975 MARCH EXPIRES CELERY ONIONS 19751 MARCH AJAX OZ. EXPIRES WITHOUT IgOOO 3.23 coupon ONLY AT TREMONTON PRESTON nurt! SMITHFIELD CARL 4 WITHOUT DONS 3 I GOOD $119 I COUPON ONLY AT CARL 1.35 I DONS WITHOUT G000 COUPON ONLY AT CARL 9, 1975 22 oz. 88C WCOUPON MARCH AJAX LIQUID DETERGENT GT HURRY IN NOW WHILE STOCKS LAST 99 WEST 4 CARL 3 LB. NrmrmSrr, LBS. $419 WOOUPON 77C wcoupor 25 (C23126) CRISP . GREEN OZ. 15 (C23128) WITHOUT 9, 19753 1.10 I DONS There's More To Corf and Don't Than low Prices 44c WCOUPON WITHOUT COUPON 70 IGOOO ONLY AT CARL 4 DOTS TREMONTON PRESTON SMITHF1ELD |