Show THIS IS B BOY SCOUT week All of us here extend sincere congratulations and best wishes to the Boy Scouts of America One of the remembered disappointments disappointments disappointments dis dis- appointments of fly my unusually carefree and happy youth was inability to join the Boy Scouts We lived about six miles out of town and nobody was about to take time to drive a small boy boyto boyto boyto to town eve every r ry y week for Scout Meetings Probably I was about as as s good gooda a Scout as one can be all by himself I practiced assiduously the salute in front of the mirror and learned the oath i Boy Scout that is and tried k to find a good deed to perform every day One big trouble trouble- there was no street to help old ladies across And no old ladies T THIS HIS D DISAPPOINTMENT I coupled with the fact that I never had a bicycle counts up to Just about the he only thing t a psychiatrist might dig out of s1 the dim past to account for my Cant Can't you imagine me on the couch muttering muttering My My boyhood boyhood boyhood boy boy- hood was just plain hell on earth Wonderful loving parents parents parents par par- soundly religious home life plenty of work but never I too much doting sisters comradely comradely comradely com com- but brothers no bicycle and no Boy Scout uniform No wonder Im I'm a mess mess' mess WE HEAR almost daily of how terribly h horribly 0 r rib 1 y inhuman some so-called so humans can be As for instance the Salt Lake ghoul who called a man and his wife to 10 hurry to the hospital because their son had been terribly in injured j u red in an auto uto wreck and then while they were gone on the false alarm robbed the house Not so cruel but just as nasty was the trick pulled recently on Mr and Mrs H. H J. J Fromm at the Wheel in Mountain Green A valuable conversation piece was the big silver candelabra candel candel- candelabra candelabra abra at the store in the Wheel It was not only valuable valuable-it it carried g great rea t sentiment because be because because be- be cause their son as a small boy was given the piece as part payment for hard work in helping helping helping help help- ing to clean out an old church He proudly presented the dirty I relic needing only cleaning and slight repair to his mother RECENTLY A STRANGER stopped at the store admired the beautiful candelabra and offered to buy It Not for sale The were away the boy keeping the store was not experienced in the wiles of t t crooks but the Fromm daughter daugh daugh- a t. t x ter tor was near The s stranger t r a n g e r went to the Ji i 4 ll tl daughter said he was an antique dealer commissioned to make repairs on the antiques and she sent word to the store to have havethe havethe havethe the candelabra released to this nice man That's all brother Gone without t a trace How low-down low crummy can you get ORDINARILY the matter of Sunday closing wouldn't disturb me in the A newspaperman newspaperman newspaperman news news- is on call 24 hours a day seven days a week However Id I'd like to go on record as resenting the recent passage of the Sunday closing bill for Utah utah not not so much that it was passed as the manner of its passage It went just like the mini-bottle mini bill hypocritical all the way To Rep Glen Thurston sincere sincere sincere sin sin- cere congratulations for voting against it To Senator Robert F. F Clyde who represents dozens of store-keepers store who are de depending depending depending de- de pending upon Sunday tourists and in drop-in visitors visitors a boot inthe in inthe inthe the butt for lacking guts and be being in g one of the 18 s state tat e senators who voted for it Mic |