Show o O r Can you remember the first book you read I can It was the First Grade Header Remember See the dog Do you see eee the dog Yes I see the dog Does poes the dog see ee me I read this book the first night of school Every time we got a new reader I took It Ithome Ithome home homo and read It through meanwhile falling failing In arithmetic The kids who got 95 In arithmetic ari arl- never did get through the reader Isn't lant that silly This Is not to suggest that I Iwas Iwas was a smart kid Smart Smart aleck aleck kid yes But I had three older sisters sis sis- sisters who taught me things Spare time Between and egg gatherings I First fiction faction book I 1 can oan remember re- re member was Jack Harkaway Among the Brigands Set In Sicily Sicily Sic Sic- ily It averaged three violent deaths per day and how It got past the publishers publisher's back door Ill I'll never know Jack heard some some- thing He turned around It was another another brigand Jack pierced J him lm through with his knife The brigand screamed Maybe l this early training Is Ie what makes me meso meso meso so violent spore Out In the harness shop well hidden there was a book about The Horrors of telling of life In the Civil War prison camp It was vai more than slightly uncensored even by today today's to to- to days day standards and I still remember re reo re member one passage In which several groups of prisoners gambled and then fought over who was to get the new and andI fat prisoner Seems food supplies supplies sup sup- I plies were short I And so flO on to Horatio Alger and me imagining myself as the poor bu proud orphan l lad d who turned his back upon all aces noes and finally won the hand band of the rich manufacturers manufacturer's daughter after saving her from the hooves of the runaway nag Whatever i happened Well I was no orphan or orPhan phan and I was p poor or but not so proud and wickedness became so so oh-so glamorous I At school the teacher read excerpts ex ex- ex from the Motor Boys every everyday everyday day dar and this too was thrilling I There was avas quite a fra fracas as over one title The Motor Boys Boye Overland Did this mean they drove an Overland car or Just traveled over overland overland overland land I Iy My y older brother had a three volume set on the Revolutionary Revolution Revolution- ary War Val and this I devoured while white the chores suffered You'd think Id I'd be on no expert epert on onVa Va WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- h. h ington and his G 0 Generals e n e era r a I s a wouldn't you But I cant can't ever remember their names Except Lafayette And Gates Oates And Benedict Arnold In high school I read everything everything everything every every- thing except school books The Tarzan series was most popular Just then And all the Westerns I and finally who I I know Edgar Allen Poe and O. O Henry by heart Not Shakespeare Him u rn I dont don't dig Today the tho only decent thing about a siege of illness is that I I. have Lava time even It Its It's enforced to read Which I do Maybe alt all this ia is why I resent I am becoming too mentally lazy to do dothe dothe dothe the one thing I enjoy the most How about you you you- you Mac S II II JU Jt J tIP f I 1 t f AY e 1 h ht r t f b 1 A lil I 1 5 A w S SI I jj x l I. I II I d. d The old Stagecoach Inn at atI I field Fairfield has been restored to Its pioneer appearance by the Utah Park and Recreation Commission Commission Com Com- mission and is now in need of furnishings The state has sent out a plea for the public to donate donate don don- ate antiques STATE ASKS S FOR OLD FURNITURE Editors Editor's note This is another another an an- other in a series of See Utah articles designed to better acquaint acquaint ac nc- ac- ac quaint with their home state The articles are prepare prepared l by the Utah Tourist and nod Pub Pub- Council Each week a different dif dlf different ferent sector or subject will be featured Sends Out Me Ilea a aThe The Utah Park and Recreation Commission has sent out a plea to citizens of the state for lor antique furnishings to be bo used In m the r restored newly-restored Stagecoach Inn at Fairfield airfield the Brigham Young Winter Home in St. St George and the Jacob Hamblin Home in Santa Clara Director Aldin O. O Hayward In making waking the plea said there are no funds available to purchase antiques antiques anti anti- ques for these pioneer homes GO so GOthe the commission must moat rely on furniture furniture fur fur- donated by the public The three homes now part of the State Park system will be open to visitors during the corning coming com corn ing tourist season Mr Hayward said many pieces ot of authentic early Utah furniture can be found throughout Utah and andI I much of It Is Just gathering dust dustin dustin fin in attics garages and basements I A search for these antiques Isnow Is Isnow Isnow now underway headed by Mrs O. O I Preston Robinson of Salt Lake LakeI City Mrs Robinson is experienced experienc experienc- I ed In this type of work having worked on the Heber C. C KImball home homo in Nauvoo Illinois The state hopes to acquire some of the original furnishings used inthe Inthe in inthe the pioneer homes but any authentic authentic au au- au- au pieces that date before the turn of the century will be used Build Civic Pride The furnishings dont don't have to tobe tobe be in perfect condition Mrs Mra Robinson said If It they are n not t too badly warped and are in fairly good shape we can refinish them At the Stagecoach Inn lon theres there's a particular seed Reed for old beds wash stands water pitchers and anda a long dining room table Weve Veve also so got our eyes peeled for pioneer kitchen utensils quilts lace curtains spinning wheels makers candle-makers and anything else used by Utah people around 1877 Mrs V Robinson continued She added that anyone interested interest interest- ed In donating furniture or obtaining obtaining obtain obtain- ing information on the project should write or contact her at this address Christine H H. Robinson care ot of the Utah Park Commission Union Pacific Annex Salt Lake City 1 Utah In commenting on the plea for antique furniture D. D James Cannon Cannon Can Can- n non n director of the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council said Donon Donore Don IDon on ors will be doing their state a great service Not only will they help attract tourists but will wilt also alBa build civic pride N FL t II I I s 3 S H w x rr SLIMMING WITH DAIRY FOODS Thomas Q Williams member of the board of directors directors directors tors of Utah's Utah Dairy Council joins other Utah dairy leaders lead lead- era ers In going on a dairy foods diet Checking nt at the weighing In Is Utah Dairy Princess Sue SueAnn SueAnn SueAn An Ann Summit County residents are I Invited to Join twelve prominent Utah dairy leaders In an out all-out assault on freak and fad reducIng reducing reducing ing diets The invitation was 1 OJ 1 v I given this week weck by Louis R. R Curtis Curtis Cur Cur- Salt Lake City president of the Dairy Dalry Council of ot Utah The twelve dairymen all members mem memo bers bera of the board of directors of the Dairy Council of Utah are i r currently on special weight con con- diets dicta that will witt continue until May May 15 16 The rhe intention of ot the project Is ia two twofold First the men wilt will gala gain galathe the tile physical fitness benefits ot of reducing or maintaining their weight on a nutritionally adequate ate diet Second by they will wilt demonstrate to Utah consumers ers era that milk milk products and other basic foods should hould play an essential role rote In weight control We as DB dairy executives are impatient nt with unfounded notions that bizarre diets are needed for lor weight control Mr Curtis saId eald Fad Tad diet patterns he said can be dangerously lacking in essential nutrients |