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Show CLAUDE'S f jomnwth by Claude Orton I spent Saturday morning working in the Orton botanical botani-cal garden, that area behind my house, that is usually my garden. At least I think it is a botanical garden; isn't that one of those areas where all sorts of plant life thrives, especially es-pecially weeds, to the detriment detri-ment of planted crops; That is just what has appeared there this spring Many of the plants were new, some old, one especially, es-pecially, cheese plant; they aren't new, even this year's plants aren't new ones. They are the old ones that had hold there when I moved to that place in 1937; just the same plants turned over each year. Oh, there is one variety of plants that are not in the plot, tropical ones, too cold and too dry. Of course you can't expect ex-pect a hot weather or wet weather plant to grow in our area. But don't worry, there are enough of the other variety, varie-ty, so we need not worry. This is rather a touchy subject, sub-ject, but we wonder if it is not some kind of a record: two funerals and three burials bur-ials in one day, in Parowan? And all were for people who have lived out of town for a while.. And over the past several sev-eral months, our community has suffered what we feel to be is more than our share of deaths, and more funerals. City workers were working on my street Saturday, and I went out and talked to Wood Decker about the deluge of funerals we have had recently. recent-ly. He volunteered the information infor-mation that the city crew has participated in 17 burials since March 15, most of which were for former residents, who have lived away from Parowan for many years. I feel that this is some sort of a record for a community the size of Parowan. Par-owan. But maybe there is a reason: Many people feel, and do not hesitate to say it, that the local cemetery, by reason of its selected spot, up under the red hill, and the way it is kept, is one of the most beautiful beau-tiful burial spots in the entire en-tire area, and a large area at that. Let's all contribute and work to keep it that way, or even make it more beautiful. We don't know whether to congratulate Sam Pritchard on his election as commander command-er of Parowan Post No. 20 of the American Legion. If we remember right, this -is- the third time he has served that organization as post commander, comman-der, and it shows that he is interested in keeping it going, which isn't so easy in our town. And each time he has served, he has done a very good job in our eyes. We all know that Sam is a horse racing fan,, so much so that he has been chairman or co-chairman of the Iron County Fair Race meet for several years, and again he does a good job and puts in a lot of time, time he might use to good advantage for himself. I feel that Sam serves his community and area very well. While I don't seem to understand un-derstand just what this new organization that is being formed to take over the job that has formerly been done by the Five County Organization, Organiza-tion, an organization which has done a lot of good for this area at very little cost to the citizens. But I am a little skeptical of this organizations, which starts out the way this one is doing; starting with paid personnel, to take the place of one which has been doing a good job for nothing. They tend to mushroom into something bigger than is intended. in-tended. Maybe it is all right, but I'll wait and see what it does before be-fore I fall for it hook, line and sinker. I am beginning to wonder if these primary elections reveal re-veal anything important. Last Tuesday in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, Hubert Hum-phery Hum-phery won one of them and Sen McGovern won the other, both after a hard-fought fight. But coming in a good third in one of them and a bad third in the other was Governor George Wallace. And he wasn't was-n't even running. Wonder how he will come out when he gets closer to home. It may be rather ra-ther interesting. One thing those primaries did show was that Senator Muskie is not doing do-ing so well; in fact, he is about out of it. |
