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Show CLAUDE'S flamnuw& by Claude Ortnij First off, I want to say some-thing some-thing for a nice person, who just moved to Parowan last fall and who wants to express her thanks and appreciation to a few Parown City employees employ-ees who keep the snow off the city streets and sidewalks. I am sure you all know who she is alluding to; I have said the same thing once or twice this long winter. After complimenting the workers for the fine job they do, she went on to say that a while back she visited her former home town and went out to the home of her mother. It was a day or two after a big recent storms and she said the streets and sidewalks in Parowan had been cleared in a matter of hours after the storm. The streets in her former for-mer town hadn't received any atntion; the sidewaks were still clogged with snow too. She thinks we do a very fine job with snow removal in our city. So do I. Well, all the nations of the world are now at peace with each other, the war is over, the fighting has ceased! That is what all the highup world leaders thought, or at least said as they gathered around the big table in Paris to sign lots of sheets of paper. All of this had been arranged over a long period of time by Henry Hen-ry Kissenger in the luxurious Paris halls. Now, maybe we should send him over to southeast Asia and have him use his resourcefe'lness in putting it over to the Vietnamese, both North and South, that they are at peace, should stop shooting each other, and live In peace and harmony- It seems that everyone is at peace except thost who are fighting. Maybe Mr. Kissenger Kissen-ger had better go talk to them. Then maybe our other high government officials ought to stay out of Russia and China. Chi-na. Even President Nixon should know that we can't afford af-ford to dicker with those communistic com-munistic nations without com-ing com-ing off second best. It is just not their philisiphy of life to let us trade with them on an even basis. Now we hear that President Nixon Is going to groom the rich Texan, John Connally as his successor in the White-house, White-house, by naming him secretary secre-tary of State, when he can get rid of the present one. We wonder how many different horses this Texan is going to ride before he retires to private pri-vate life. Now let's extend a word of praise to a couple of organizations organiza-tions who are getting their fund drives going and encourage encour-age citizens to support them. First of all is the penny drive of the Primary Association of the LDS Church. It's drive is the first 15 days in February. The second one is the annual March of Dimes fund drive. Its plea this year is for funds to help retarded children of all races, and religions. The Primary Children's hospital helps in the same cause and Is open to all children; we all know of children from our own area who have benefitted benefit-ted from its services. It seems that the March of Dimes drive was inaugurated in the days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was a victim of infantile paralysis. par-alysis. The fund came into be-lng be-lng to start a fight against that dread disease, and it worked. Do you remember how it was then what do you hear about it now. This fund drive always turns its attention atten-tion to some dreaded malady that is preying upon our people, peo-ple, mostly the. young, as it is this year. , So let us support both of these fund drives when the solicitor calls at our door. Last week and this another old landmark in our fair city fell to the wrecking crew. I mean particularly the old home on East Center which has been unoccupied since Dr, and Mrs. James Green left our town upwards of 40 years ago to live, and die in southern California. I am old but not old enough to know who built the home. The Dr. Greens were the first occupants occu-pants of the home that I remember, re-member, But anyway it "bit the dust" during the past few days. The property was purchased pur-chased some months ago by the Bank of Iron County, from Karl Mitchell who got it from the Greens, as I understand un-derstand it. It had become quite an eyesore, in its rundown run-down condition, with one of the three large evergreens in front of th house now dead. With this house went a few rather fond memories of the i former residents whom I was rather well acquainted with. 1 |