Show Weep By FLORENCE BITTNER Early in B. decided he wanted to find out whether sunshine really helped eliminate the aches in his So we boarded the bus and went to and very nearly didn't come WHILE SALT Lake and vicinity was digging out from another of our snow Phoenix was basking and not really paying much attention to the The attitude there seems to of course the weather Is What did you THE LAST time I was in Phoenix was prior to world war when It was a middle sized Mesa was about the size of and between Mesa and was the site of a small college and the unlikely cactus-encircled castle of and little Scottsdale was a country store Camel-Back Inn was out in the beginning of but a few rich men were beginning to build expensive homes out there in the We considered their choice of locations an indication that rich men haven't the sense of sensible HERE it is about four decades and those dumb rich men have gone on to get richer from their desert real Those little country towns are now in the middle of another Los Phoenix and vicinity are really exploding in SUN CITY is where all good Utahn's go to retire if they can afford Mile after mile of take-it-easy living with never a care about such winter worries as shoveling or slipping or bundling A few miles northwest of Sun City is a retirement community but with a limit of at least 18 years old for any resident THOSE WHO have their live in the Arizona desert sunshine during the winter and go north in Just as the birds have been doing for some time the necessity of earning a living puts a damper on the druthers of such as I. WHILE WE were my a generously loaned us a car so we could do some tourist type We to Southeast of the way to Florence is a town time Still in use are the wooden buildings with the false the wooden porches with plank sidewalks just like we had in the town where I grew THE OLD adobe buildings with walls feet shingle roofed and stilt in use look like the setting for a John Wayne I expected to see the gunfight at the OK corral replayed for my tourist Stilt standing and in use is the old stockade according to a several men were a number committed suicide and a few gun battles were The weather is remarkable to us even if the residents take it for common ordinary every day But I would have to become accustomed to the the total lack of By Utah is THE MOUNTAINS stand there awaiting the fourth day of Barren-appearing as if God had not yet brought forth trees and shrubs and Approach and the vegetation is but it is all rock leafless and all of it Many homes have which means no grass or trees and only cactus for It has its but though each summer 1 threaten to plant cement so I won't have to still I would have to become accustomed to no WE CAME The sunshine did help B.'s aching bones and my but we left our children We looked and contemplated and but found our roots were planted too In spite of the snow and the roots as I remember from my pre-war is another When I was it was before air but don't let anyone tell you the low humidity makes degrees anything but |