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Show CLAUDE'S fommsmiA by Claude Ortor. We swipped this one from the July Elks Bulletin of the Cedar City Lodge 1556, of which Bob Tuckett is the editor. edi-tor. There is so much truth in it that I feel that it should be passed on. Here it is: "Mother", dad said, "I'm going go-ing to find out what Jackie wants to be when he grows up. Watch." He put a ten dollar dol-lar bill on the table; it represented repre-sented the banker. Next to it he placed a brand new Bible, representing the clergyman. And beside the Bible he placed plac-ed a bottle of whiskey, representing repre-senting the bum. Mother and Dad hid where they could see the articles on the table. Jackie, whistling happily, entered the room and spied the arrangement on the table. He looked around to see that he was alone. Satisfied, Satis-fied, he picked up the bill and held it to the light, and replaced re-placed it .He fingered the pages pag-es of the new Bible. He looked around once more. Then he quickly uncorked the bottle and smelled the contents. And then, in one motion, he stuffed stuf-fed the bill in his pocket, lodged the Bible under his arm, grabbed the bottle by the neck and slip out of the room, still whistling. "Good Lord," Dad said to Mother. "He's going to be a politician." One of the Iron County Record Rec-ord force and his family took a vacation trip to the Pacific Coast last week, and on their return the man of the family reported visiting a museum and art center in the Los Angeles An-geles area. He told of the various var-ious pieces of statuary and the painting of persons, many of which lacked clothes, and of the crowd, both men and women, who stopped to gaze on them. Then he explained that this was real art, only cultured people went to such places. Then he added that it is only dirty old men who see the same kind of pictures, in beautiful color in the Playboy Play-boy Magazine. . We'll our nation is really in clover, according to President Nixon, last week as he expressed ex-pressed strong confidence in the continued economic ex-pansion. ex-pansion. He ruled out any tax cuts or new spending, and he said he would not use his powers to institute a wage. price freeze. All this in spite of the 6.2 national unemployment rate; in spite of the fact that the federal deficit for the year which ended last Wednesday, will be "substantially in excess" ex-cess" of the $18.6 billion predicted pre-dicted in January. The secretary secre-tary of the treasury wouldn't say how much higher the def-ficit def-ficit will be, but may go to $24 billion. And already they are predicting that the deficit for the year just starting will be up considerably from the $11.6 billion estimated in January. That's really looking ahead. Oh, well, it looks like the government is in about the same boat as its citizens. Many of them are spending their way to prosperity. If you don't believe it, watch them buy anything they can on a long time purchase plan. The people and the government are in the samp boat. As proof of the fact that the fire situation is critical two fires during the week brings it to our attention rather forcefully. Sunday a fire in the brush and juniper area south and east of Beaver, burned over several hundred acres of lower range land. It took upwards of 35 men that day and again on Monday, to extinguish that blaze. Then on Monday, a cleanup day at the Parowan race track and rodeo grounds, even with the use of the fire truck, must have left to spark, as early Tuesday morning a fire there burned up the loading chute at the arena corrals. That is a vulnerable area, with its many ma-ny wooden structures, and along with others in our community, com-munity, should be watched closely during this dry, hot weather. Next week we hope to come up with some comments on the past week's July 4 celebration; cele-bration; some good and some bad. |