Show THE OLD prospector SAYS dear editor more and more of the economic experts are bitting uneasy about the big amount of private debt that s being piled up and I 1 think it s high time folks owe seven times as much now as they did 10 years ago on cars appliances and other goods and services and they owe about 90 billion on homes compared to 28 billion in the babson institute says 10 mill ion american families are head over heels in debt A awful lots of folks can t resist buying things they can cant t afford as long as they can git em with nothing or little down and lon payments on ac count of interest and carrying ch arges a lots of em are paying one and a half prices or more for things any family not only living from hand to mouth which is bad en ough but dipping into the future to do it is all set for a long visit from old man trouble yours truly THE OLD prospector mr and mrs jessie ekker of hanksville Hanks ville are the proud parents of a six and a half pound baby girl the stork delivered his precious bundle at the lincoln park hospital in grand junction at 8 p in mrs ekker is the former miss barbara baldwin of green river and is the hanksville Hanks ville correspondent for the journal congratulations to mr and mrs ekker |