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Show The Deseret Sampler, Friday, Dec. 21, 1973 Homer Henderson lends a hand I was praying Homer would come driving along, Mrs. Francis Tennyson relates her struggle one day to get groceries home from the commissary. As if on cue, Homer Henderson came around the corner. Today he had the big car, and Mrs. Tennyson and her groceries were on their way home in style. THE RETIRED first sergeant's main preoccupation these days is spotting people in trouble and helping them out. Ten years ago Homer himself was in a lot of trouble. Given one chance in a hundred to survive, Homer underwent the first open-hea- rt surgery performed in Germany. He beat the odds, only to face another heart operation four months later in April 1964 at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex. By August of the same year Homer was assigned to Dugway Proving Ground. He retired from the military here in 1969 with just under 20 years in the Army. Faced with a lot of free time, Homer started driving around, his dog Holte perched on the car seat behind him. HOMER IS especially concerned with the needs of wives whose husbands are serving overseas. Waiting wives who are unable to drive find Horner a ready taxi service for themselves and their children. He makes it a With his dog I lobe liehind him, Iloiner Henderson drives the streets of Dugway with an eve out for those in need of a ride. habit to frequently check with the women to see if . things are all rigjit. Mrs. Donald Gardella, whose husband is presentfinds Homers visits ly serving as a chaplain in Korea, a.m. he comes 7:45 at school Each day reassuring. around to the Gardella home, has a cup of coffee and a chat with Mis. Gardella and then takes Jodi and Bret to school. On the mornings Jodi has a band class, he walk arrives an hour earlier so that she will not have to to school in the dark and the cold. Homer's wife of 11 wars, Betty, who works in the Transportation Office, also gets rave comments. You just couldn't find a couple more willing to help out, notes Mrs. Tennyson, also a waiting wife. HOMER TAKES on all kinds of tasks voluntarwhile ily. He keeps his neighbors lawns in top shape take offers to care also He they vacation in the summer. of their pets while they are away. One of Homer's neighlwrs went out to her car on a cold day last week and found Homer clearing the windshield 'of ice. With such small but numerous deeds Homer endears himself to the community. Mrs. Johnnie Johnson wrote a poem for Homer Henderson to mark his birthday in 1969. It reflects the feelings of many people at Dugway. Today is Homers Sfmial day And every little friend Is here to wish his best to one On whom we all dejxnd. . . His daily taxi services To those who need a lift. His deep ctficem for laddies, is To us a year-mun-d gift. No matter what the crisis is, Wftat help a family needs. Its Homer lends his services In countless thougjitful deeds. . . Our little ones are safe and snug, Secure in Homers Hack, Homer Henderson With Hobe riding shotgun, on The top of Homers back! ! Betty Henderson is one of Homers daily activities. The children's father. Chaplain (Major) Donald Gardella currently is serving in Korea. (iving Bret and Jodi Gardella a ride to school i A-- jZ-'- - r - - t.rieVnb ( 'T j ? r - . . ' f' ; - . 1 -; ' ' i nwi'jj. About Your Collision Insurance Gordon parked his car next to an apartment house, unaware that a burglary was taking place inside the building. The burglar winleaped from a second-stordow, landed on top of Gordons car, and made good his escape. Gordon, however, wasnt so car needed lucky. His jumped-o- n SI 80 worth of repairs. Was he entitled to collect insurance for the loss? Sorry," said the insurance but you are not covcompany, ered. You do have collision insurance, but this was not a collision. However, when Gordon took the mutter to court, the judge ruled in his favor. U.S. divided into 13 regions A i Lt1 ,1 h s; v I.. t b fi White honored y Wendel White of Dugways Boy Scout Troop 481 e (second from left) pauses after receiving the Beads during a Saltair District Banquet held recently. Woodbadge courses are taught annually by the Boy Scouts in the High Uinta area of Utah. Also receiving the award were Gerald Holliday (1), of Magna; Ronald Robinson (second from riit), of Erda, and Bill Nuttle of Granger (r). Wood-badg- iew books at said the judge, Collision, means the impact of objects through one of such objects movand this ing against the other incident fitted that description. Most motorists carry at least some collision insurance. Typically. this covers the damage done when one car bumps into another. However, it has often been held to extend to more unusual situations. One motorist collected collision insurance when his car hit a mailbox by the side of the road; another, when his car rolled into an open elevator shaft and fell to the bottom: another, when his car rammed into the curb. Nevertheless, there arc limits. In one case, the paint on a man's car was damaged when he ran into a hailstorm. He insisted that this was covered by his collision insurance, because his car had collided" with the pellets of ice. But the court decided this was stretching language too far. Tossing out his claim, the court said: We do not speak of falling bodies, such as sleet or hail, as colliding with the earth. In common parlance, the apple falls to the ground; it does not collide with the earth. An American Bar Association public service feature by Will Bernard. C 1973 American Bar Assqpiation Comcieiu-- IiflerpUnetory Beginner's Guide to Archaeology Approaches to Writing Tlie Wooden Shcjiherdcss The Creation of the World and Other Business Fix-u- s South America The Institutions! Imperative Presents: Stories Alfred Hitchcix-to lie Bead With The Uglits On Dragon I'nder the Hill AITHOR ii Beyond Stonehenge New Dimensions Itanning Your Financial Future So Far Fnan Heaven Stranglehold The Amazing World of Kreskin Gruel and I 'll usual Flight of the Grey Goose The Dictionary of Foreign Trade Terms Funk and Wagnalls Guide to Modern World Literature Drug, and Youth Tlie Dance of legislation The Submariner Automotive Service Business Kind and I'nusiial Punishment The Spirits of 7(i Kmergcncy Medical Guide Shoot The Living Presidency .banning Recreational Places Dwellers at the Simas: jug Night Mexican American Artists The Man Who Invented Baseliall Tlie Cixnpauy and the I'niim History of Nevada The Everglades Man The Presidency in Flux Tlie Asian Journal of Thixnas Merton (Coaching. Athletics, and Psychology Road Agents and Train Roliliers Sports Illustrated (aiding Speaking You English? The Way to DuXtv Death The Programmed Man The Goodliest Land The Traillilazers Hcinade in America Visceral Learning Green Brennan Morgan Hughes Miller Mianuch Hitchcock Honeycomlie Hawkins Newman Bradfo.o Knapp Kreskin Mcltsner v, .TsP O . facilities. year. The new plan, called the Armed Forces Regional Health Service System, is to provide maximum use of De- fense Department medical and to increase satisfaction. patient UNDER the system, pa- tients can lie referred to any Service facility in their region whenever a specialist treatment is not avail- locally. TITLE .. Servicemen and women, re-n: tirees, and all of their eli- - Vell IV gible dependents, now use Department of Defease hos- clinics. K pitaLs and regionalization on a worldwide basis may lie- L!- effective later come Intended to provide a more uniform delivery of health care services, the the post library W new health care pro- gram, which went into ef-feet on 1 Octolier, has di-vided the contiguous United States into 13 tri- - Service medical regioas based on military population and lo- cation of special treatment A system also offers a cooper- arrangement which af-fords the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment. In addition, it is designed to increase and productivity achieve without economy of duplication unnecessary resources and more efficient use of professional medical personnel. Each region has a Regional Review Committee to monitor health services and capabilities operations. AN estimated 10 million out-patie- nt Tri-Servi- ? The 13 Regions and States are: Region 1: Washington Idaho and State, Oregon, Montana; Region 2: Northern California and Nevada; Region 3: Southern California: Region 4: North Dakota, Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Utah; Region 5: Arizona and New Mexico; Region 6: Texas, Ar-kansas and Oklahoma; gion 7: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nor-them Tip of Illinois; Region 8: Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Balance of ,inois; Region 9: Tennessee, Ala- Louisiana, Mississippi. Florida; bmia, 10: Pennsylvania, Region New York, Massachusetts, f. New Connecticut, Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, Maine, and Rhode Island; Region 11: Maryland District of Q)lumJ)ia, and Northern Virginia; Region jjjL 12: Southern Virginia andjt North Carolina; Region 13: South Carolina, Georgia, and ilance of Florida (Nor- thwestem Panhandle). - J or Re-ab- le J n J Canning Carroll Scvinoor-Sinit- h Harms Redman Stephens Gnmse Milford Sloane Heiuk-rso- nannette n Fairhaim Hughes Shivers Vninian Malstroin originals (Hiirarte Peterson Cinderella Serrin Elliott CairT Prideaux Reedy Merton Singer Dragn Mulvuy Morgan Maclatan Hlankendiip Hoiierts Gilliert Brawn Jonas Santa's liclpors Volunteers help pack candy bags for distribution by Santa when lie visits Dugwav nursery and elementary school children today. Tlie ladies are Betty Mills Ann Skinner, Myrlc Nlauch, Sue Autry, Sarah ; King, and Doreen Bikfasv. . ): . t fc |