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Show ROLLO-glyphics Couldn't help but pick up these little tid bits from a speech by one of the state's political candidates made this past week. Stephen M. Harmensen, a candidate for congress quoted from reports by the National Taxpayers' Union the following statistics on government spending; spen-ding; $71,000 for a study on the history of comic books; $375,000 to study frisbee; $2 million for a yacht for Tito; and $162,000 for chandeliers and furnishings for Carl Albert's office, Speaker of the house. Is it any wonder that we have trouble balancing the national budget? Also this week an interesting note from the Utah Travel Council concerning their all-season all-season recreation report. Residents in the area who deal with the traveling public would do well to memorize or at least? make available for ready reference the telephone number for this service which is, 521-8102. According to the UTC the taped the next nickel due to lack of pennies to make change. Again, I'd like to emphasize. There are plenty of pennies. But they are in the wrong places." The Mint director estimates that over 30 billion pennies are in circulation - doing the job for which they were intended. Somewhere in this vast conntrv of ours, however, in excess of 30 billion pennies are in hiding. These are the pennies that are being sought. They are in dresser drawers, shoe boxes, pickle jars; most anyplace you can think of that will get them out of the pocket and out of sight. They are unwanted, unused and unappreciated, unap-preciated, Mrs. Brooks suggests. It seems that all of us could help in this situation. Truly it is a challenging project for anyone who participates. As Mrs. Brooks suggests, "It will give every American family a chance to help control inflation, protect the environment and cut government expenses. Aren't we all interested in accomplishing those goals? report includes weather information in-formation for major recreation areas in Utah and a calendar of coming events. The report is updated daily. During the summer months, the report details weather conditions con-ditions for Lake Powell, Canyonlands National Park and southeastern Utah, Capitol Reef National Park, and in our own area Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, Fish Lake and in addition Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Bear Lake, Strawberry Reservoir, Reser-voir, and the Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake. Weather information on the report includes predicted wind direction and intensity for major lakes, highs and lows for each area, and predicted precipitation. precipita-tion. During the skiing season, the report shifts to daily information on snow depth, weather conditions con-ditions and new snow reports for all resort areas including Brian Head. The service has been in use for five years and every tourist oriented business in the area should become acquainted and familiar with the service and its availability. We call your attention this week to an appeal that is being made by the Department of the treasury, Bureau of the Mint. In a statement issued by Mrs. Mary Brooks, Mint Director, she issued a call for every American, especially young people, to get the penny back in circulation and keep it there. "I'm urging churches, charities, retail establishments and others to examine ways and means to involve their members in collecting pennies for deposit." Mrs. Brooks points out that 62 billion pennies produced during the past 15 years have no numismatic value and because of the huge mintage they w ill never attain great value. Nevertheless, speculators and hoarders of pennies have caused what seems to be a shortage of pennies in certain areas of the country. She points out, however, that there is no shortage of supply of pennies. "Creating a shortage where it does not exist can adversely affect every public spirited citizen, taxpayer and conservator con-servator of the earth's resources. It is inflationary should merchants mer-chants start to round off sales to |