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Show jnrjrj)n iiniirnjl''t"r'l'lliriir n fri iii?jxrt- T -i dawn-to-dus- Hlltt R Him al- - ple n a ung and mne me , to look rital About Butch By HARRY JONES Lulu Betenson is 85. She certainly doesnt look it, nor does she act her age. And I mean that as a compliment. But I didnt have Lulu pegged as an Ivy Lea- guer. ... k However, Lulu is going to Yale! She came to our Valley of Salt from her home in Grcleville the other day. And she boarded a jet for New York today. Flying is old stuff for Lulu, but New York wall be a new adventure. Dr. Laurence C. Jones his dream grew end grew used to house sheep. Then Jones, completely broke before he started his project, went to Webster to explain he needed a real school and quarters to house the poorly clad little black boys and girls. Webster gave Jones 10,000 board feet of lumber and granted him credit to help tide him over the difficult starting period. Jones was a dedicated and successful fund raiser. University acquaintances and other friends in the North, white and Hack, received steady appeals in behalf of Piney Woods School. More often than not, the appeals drew favorable responses, if not always much money. Other including a herd of Ayrshire things cattle were donated. The choice of the site for the institution proved a fortunate one. Because the land was not particularly good for growing crops, it was cheaper than more fertile acreage. Jones was able to buy up land at $10 an are. The campus was well planned, with In buildings constructed in a addition to the library and classroom buildings, there were dormitories, workshops for teaching boys to become mechanics, carpenters, plumbers, electricians and other trade occupations. The emphasis on instructing young Negroes in crafts and trades is one reason Piney Woods School has met with favor in a white community that was very much skeptical in the early days. Townspeople found that graduates of the school were ab'e to make more semi-circl- e. In the big city, Lulu will be interviewed by the press and will make several television appearances. Its not be- cause Lulu is going to Yale that the interviews have been lined up. The Yale bit is the the money when skilled to do a job, and thus spent their wages in the community. was being Since not only book lumin taught, they did not object as they otherwise might have done. Webster recalled that Jones seemed just as anxious ,j help the white members of the community as he was to educate the black. He would send his choir out to sing for aged people who could not go to He would send his students church to help some sick family with their crop, or as a servant in the house if there were a new baby or a death in the family. ... Word of the success of Piney Woods School spread largely by word of mouth for almost a was a constant labor for Jones. Fund-raisin- g Then in 1955, a national television program, Ralph Edwards This Is Your Life, brought the story of Jones and the school to all America. Graduates of the school, some of whom had been only sharecroppers with no hope of obtaining an education, appeared on television to tell what Piney Woods had meant to them. At tne close of the program, Edwards suggested those who wished to do so con- tribute $1. Within two weeks, Jones recently recalled, we received $1,017,000. Some sent $10 and $20. With increased public attention also has come academic and community recognition of Jones achievements, including honorary university degrees and a Freedoms Foundation Medal. Jones Is proud of such honors, of course, but his greatest sense of satisfaction comes from the success attained by his former students. Weed Control For The Lawn By JACK ANDERSON to build his school. The religious climate and niutal attitude are synonymous with the values of an earlier period of American history. Dr. Jones makes this altitude evident even in routine correspondence. He will conclude a letter with the phrase: In the joy of spraying a human orchard. Although well along in years, Jones is still the active head of the school He recently summed up his sense of accomplishment: Im glad that God has blessed me to He pointed out that three generations see some of my fondest dreams come of three families had gone to Piney true in the development of this Piney Woods. Woods way of life school. As I face the For example, he said, One is a chief sunset rays of my life, I am hoping that steward on an iron ore boat on the Great the glow will continue to light up my Lakes, his son is a medical doctor in pathway as I endeavor to make every Ind. Gary, minute count, witn Divine guidance as In a sense, Piney Woods is the prodmy daily companion, toward making this uct of rural America, a phenomenon that Way of Life School a miniature world, perhaps could not succeed in an urban inhabited by those who can carry on area. Dr, Jones recognized this when he lifes activities in a most efficient way. WASHINGTON President Nixon is reported to be looking for another reluctant regulator to head the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to protect the consumers. The President apparently wants a chairman who will placate consumers without being too hard on corporations. As discreetly as possible, Nixon has been filling vacancies on the regulatory agencies with reluctant regulators who can be depended upon to keep his campaign promise to businessmen to reduce government controls. of ir to Zan: pper lent, ted? rard, and sach save SEN lalif. the cent ered that s, or )und. i our By DAVID E. LOFGREN Deseret News Consultant Chickweed, , Mouse-Ea- r, Spurge, Morning-gloryand those other things that have those funny leaves and blossoms, are all causing concern and consternation to the lawn owner. This is to say nothing of Crab Grass, Orchard Grass, Mountain Fescue, Bent Grass, etc. Broad loafed weeds (the types) can usually be controlled with one Oi the fortified products, one of not-gra- those also containing Banvel or other booster. Sylvex, Fall is a good time for clean up weed control in lawns, as the warm days and cool nights make ideal growing conditions for blue grass plants. As the weeds die out, the grass can readily fill in the empty spots. Lawns can fill in better, of course, if they are properly fertilized, watered and mowed to leave enough tops to feed the roots. Field tests have proved that as the top height drops h h cut to a from a cut with grass, the weed invasion rate can climb as high as thirty times as many weeds m the short cut lawns as the tall. Even though our weather is cooler, dont forget your lawns and other landscape plants still need water, usually more than will come from the occasional showers we get. This is especially true in shaded or protected areas or locations. Most weeds will withstand very dry soils better than lawn grasses. In case you find the weeds dont respond to the first weed spray within two weeks, a second follow-u- p spray is usually desirable. Dont expect the weeds to be dead in two weeks, but they should be and showing contortion, discoloration, other ailments. The weedy grasses are a different situation. Crab grass is best controlled by good lawn culture and ' hemleals. We like to use these in early pring. Most of these can be applied in he fall, but their major activity is not ffected until spring anyway. If Annual Hue Grass is also a problem, we recommend the use of one of the arsenical type two-inc- half-inc- For the bunch type grasses such as he Mountain Fescue and Orchard Grass, pot poisoning with amino friozol or istove oil is our favorite method. Next best, comes digging them out and runner spreading grasses such Grass and Quack Grass, we have ound, can usually be controlled with ;ood cultural practices, such as fertiliz-nhigh mowing, adequate but not water, etc. Where these grasses re growing at the lawn edge and out Jnto the beds, we always try to use The s Salt rep-- i hip-the- ICES Wajf g, mino triozol to kill them out. This mateis systemic and spreads through the froots and stems. It also is rapid in dissipation and leaves harmful lasting residue to build up in the sod. rial YOUR HEALTH Some however, are becoming altogether too cozy with the businessmen they are supposed to regulate. Result: A windfall state is beginning to emerge in the place of the welfare state that Republican regulars love to decry. Certain business leaders have been grumping lately about the Federal Trade Commissions crackdown on corporate mergers. One FTC target, for lnstan e, is Litton Industries, whose president, Roy Ash, happens to be chain nan nf a presidential advisory committee. He is known to have expressed his annoyance with the FTC around the White House. The President, therefore, is trying to find a new chairman who wifi be acceptable to the business community. Two prospects whose names have been recommended to the White House are WashDavid Murchison ington lawyer-lobbyi- together. and Gov. Ronald Reagans consumer adviser, Kay Valory. The FTCs lone Republican commissioner, Mary Gardiner Jones, would seem to be in line for the chairmanship. But she has shown an inclination to protect the consumers and to overhaul the bureaucratic machinery, which makes businessmen uneasy. Before President Nixon was sworn in, Miss Jones wrote him a blunt letter, dated last Dec. 16, proposing some sweeping FTC reforms to reverse the rising tide of criticism of its bureaucratic ineptitude. Miss Jones later talked to White House aide John Ehrlichman in more detail about her Ideas for reforming the Kosygin Agreed to a meeting, but Chou held back until the Soviet Premier had left Hanoi. Thus Kosygin was obliged to double back to Peking in order to keep the date a typically adroit Chinese maneuver which gave them a small psychologi- cal advantage. So far as our diplomats have been able to learn from the Romanians, however, nothing was settled in Peking. The Chinese, whose borders are bursting from a population explosion, started the border trouble by publishing maps and statements claiming territory that the Russian czars had ripped away from China in the 19th Century. The Russians disputed the Chinese claims in agonized memos that were disFTC. tributed to major governments around But being fight, apparently, Isnt the world. i enough. The new chairman must also be The confidential language was inflamright for big business. matory, warning that any Chinese border encroachment would be met with a Pow-Wocrushing rebuff. Peking To add force to these words, the RussSoviet Premier Aleksei Kosygins surians have beefed up their strength on the prise visit with Chinese Premier Chou Far Eastern frontier from 15 to 21 diviEn-lin Peking apparently hasnt lesssions. The Chinese have also sent comborened the tension along the 5,000-mil-e bat troops to the frontier to replace der that separates the two Communist border militiamen. giants. - Despite the courtesies in Peking, The dramatic visit, It is now known, meanwhile, the Russians and Chinese was arranged by the Romanians, who continue to glare at each other across sought to take advantage of the Ho Chi the somber steppes of Siberia. 1 w ai Which instrument For Junior? By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor LETS LOOK Now that your Littl Guy or Doll has settled down (dreamer?) to the routine of his daily Three Rs, this could be the propitious time to drop into his hands a copy of the little book, Lets Look at Musical Instruments and the Orchestra. (It is part of a series of seven' L e ts Look books.) Written by C. A. the Rhodes, modem orchestra. I am sure that the reader will find an added interest and enjoyment in his concert-goin- g of but my hope is that he will be excited to undertake the playing of an instrument, first of all for his own pleasure, and, secondly, for tne pleasure he can give other people. We need more professional orchestras (which means the employment of more musicians), and I cannot exaggerate the joy of amateur communal home-listenin- It just might be, that this little ume, could not only inspire junior to want to study an instrument but also help him decide which one. Kent StowWHEE! THE DANCER ed, a former member of the University of Utah Ballet Theatre (predecessor to the Utah Cic Ballet and now Ballet Wst), has teen gwn one of the plums of the academic ballet world. He has been named head of the ballet department at the University of Indiana easily the most endowed state university College of Fine Arts in the nation. He has also been requested to open an acad vol- has a Foreword, by the distinguished Eritlsh conductor Malcolm Sargent In his recommendation, Mr. Sargent suggests: . . . It is an error of the unobservant to believe that only the howls and hangs of pop music appeal to the young. Concert audiences and the record clubs all over the world prove the contrary to be true. In this book we hare a succinct history of the development of the instruments for and a clear description of the many instruments of the - students emy of ballet for that will eventually supply trained dancers for the Department of Ballet. ON POINTE Thursday is the final day for registration for auditions for the BalM students Nutcracker Ballet. wishing to audition for the annual holiday classic must make an appointment at the Ballet Studio between 2:30 and 7:30 pm., Wiliam Christensen, Ballet West artistic director, has announced. The phone number is Parts are available for students between nine and 12 years of age with a minimum of one year of formal ballet training. Dancers in this category must be between four feet and five feet one inch in height. There are also parts for dancers between the ages of 12 and 16 who have had a minimum of four years of formal ballet training. Candidates must be between five feet one inch and five feet pre-colle- music-makin- book music-makin- MUSICAL WHIRL - four inches tall. APPOGGIATURAS The Westmin- ster College Community Symphony Orchestra has begun its regular Monday evening rehearsals under the direction of its conductor, Kenneth Kuchler. There are still a few vacant chairs thaf can be had for the auditions, Professor Kuchler reports. By GEORGE Dont ask me why the premiere is being held at Yale, but it beats the other kind of violence. He rode in the three corners urea of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming in Hole-- t country. Butch apparently didnt have a mean streak like others of he was a jolly sort. He did his trade have this bit about making withdrawals from banks of the area . . . without any , ... , assets. Once Wyoming a bank robber was killed in and the sheriff up that way claimed it was Butch. Butch was there ail right, but as a spectator out of curiosity. Then he rode out of town, probably chuckling to himself. J Part of the movie was screened down in the St. George area. Lulu went down that way to look on and tour the sets. Shes an expert on the life of Butch Cassidy. Handsome Paul Newman plays the part of Buch Cassidy, and he has picked up some of the mannerisms of Butch. Hes the best they could have picked to . play Butch Cassidy," Lulu said. And it may have been Lulu who .taught Mr, Newman some of Eutchs mannerisms. When Lulu came up to Salt Lake a week or two ago to see a screening of the movie, she was a little unhappy with the ending. It didnt happen that way at all, j Why Hardening Of Arteries? Minh funeral to bring Kosygin and Chou MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Century Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. first went to Mississippi, and rejected the recommendations of his white acquaintances that he go to the Midwest or East 'Nixon Looks For New FTC Head' of premiere 20th Fox Panavision movie, Butch Piney Woods' original log cabin has been replaced by this complex of modern buildings. i YOUR GARDEN ping why ; or to a 13 16, 1969 Tuesday, September The Truth of ife? - Lulu Knows igiy the jrwfcijjg OUR MAN JOKES sharecroppers. It was a time in Southern history, the late John R. Webster wro. when educating Negro children seemed an extravagance. I told him I could not advise him favorably, for the white people were not able to educate ourselves, let alone the Negro, the Jackson businessman wrote in recounting events leading up to the founding of Piney Woods SchooL But Jones, a deeply religious man who impressed the white Southerners with his speech and manners, was not about to give up. ' He talked Uncle Ed Taylor, a former slave, into giving him 40 acres of land for a start The first schoolhouse was an old log cabin which had been hat r DESERET NEWS Piney Woods School: A I riumph Of The Spirit By COPLEY NEWS SERVICE There is no PINEY WOODS, MISS. ivory tower at the Piney WToods Country Life School. The school, the product of one mans dedication and determination to teach and train the uneducated Negro, seeks not only to instruct but to show students how to use what they have learned. Laurence C. Jones, the Negro founder of Piney Woods, expressed it this way: Piney Woods is not imitative of what too many small colleges think is the big tiadition of places like Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Too much emphasis has been placed on the preparation for college. Piney Woods has changed the nature of emphasis. Our present trend is to relate what goes on m the classroom much more directly to what goes on in the world around relevant to the world we are in. At Piney Woods, ihat philosophy is translated into study, work and play, in that order. The 350 students who board here have a program that keeps their minds and bodies active. Although there is an academic program through the junior college level, young people also are taught trades so that they can make a living. There is little or no time for students, ranging in age from 5 or 6 to the early 20s, to get into trouble. Everybodys too busy, Dr. Tones said. Piney Woods is a heavily wooded area 22 miles southeast of Jackson, Miss. The majority of students are from Mississippi, but 20 states are represented in the current enrollment, in addition to Mexico and Africa. The school has an endowment fund of $4 million, and controls 1,600 acres of land. That is a far cry from the day in 1909 when Jones, as a recent graduate of Iowa State, decided to start a school for largely uneducated children of Negro j she says. C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: Please discuss symptoms of hardening of the arteries. J.L.C. - Answer: So far as you are concerned, there probably are no direct symptoms that you can detect But you may notice some secondary ones. Hardening of the arteries is primarily a matter of fatty plaques building up gradually, so the inside of the arteries is smaller. As the artery walls thicken in this way, the arteries lose some of their suppleness, too, so hardening is not altogether a misnomer. Essentially, however, it comes down to the fact that blood cannot flow as freely through the arteries. One result is that blood pressure will rise. (Other factors are involved, too.) But in the main, hardening of the artieries is indicated by the consequences rather than by any direct sign. If circulation is considerably impaired in the legs and feet, coldness and cramps are likely. If the circulation is seriously cut down, walking can become difficult. Sores or small injuries may refuse to heal. In other parts of the body, quite problems may arise. Senility, in the sense of behavioral deterioration, can result if circulation to the brain is drastically reduced. In fact, any organ greatly depnved of circulation will suffer. Just by asking you some questions, noting your age, and taking year blood pressure, a doctor can form a pretty valid opinion of the degree cf hardening of the arteries, but more specific proof, if required, can be obtained by arterafter injectthat is, by iograms ing a dye that will make the arteries vis- Its possible that Lulu may scold who screenwriter William Goldman wrote that ending. Its a good movie with a lot of light -comedy, and I dont want to spoil it for you. But it does give the impression that Butch and Sundance were killed in South America. The history books of the West claim the same thing. in fact, But Lulu is an authority probably the greatest authority on Butch ... Cassidy. He wasnt killed T in South Amer- - , ica, says Lulu. She has a book just about the ready for editing and publishing authentic version of the life of Butch. It tells of his real death . . . first time it has been told. Youll have to buy the ... book to find out for yourself. How did Lulu get to be such an au- thority on Mr. Cassidy? Well, Butch Cassidys name was real- ly Robert LeRoy Parker. And Lulus maiden name was Lulu Parker.. . She is butchs youngest sister! Now you know why Butch Cassidy's youngest and only surviving sister is going to Yale! Wit's End Theres a teenagers parents! movie in town so bad that allowed to bring their arent dif-tere-nt BIG TALK ible. While all of us develop some hardenits a part of the ing of the arteries the degree process of growing older varies greatly from one perron to another. It is also true that hardening can be more severe in one part of the body than another. In some locations, a section of clogged artery can be replaced surgically. It depends on where. In general, though, there isnt much you can do about this natural process of hardening except to eat sensibly and remain as active as you reasonably can. Note to Mrs. HY.: Buffered aspirin may be easier on some sensitive stombut it is still achs than straight aspirin aspirin, and overdosage may be annoying. Do not interpret this remark as being critical of moderate use of aspirin, buffered or otherwise. "Status symbols are what we buy to prove to others we're not the jerks we suspect we are!" From photos taken tar tha Dasarat dally Birthday featurt. Nsws popular ' ' |