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Show &sJtL VIEW P O INT CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor A BOWL OF ORCHIDS TO EARL JORDAN OF DUCHESNE CITY. . . . This week I'd like to nominate Earl Jordan, ardent Boy Scout and civic worker in Duchesne, for the orchid of the week in recognition for the big job he tackled and saw completed in the recent Korean Clothes Drive. Reports have come to me via some good citizen of Duchesne Du-chesne that Earl Jordan realized Duchesne must get behind the Korean Clothes Drive. He went to the Lions Club, Duchesne Du-chesne City and the American Legion to determine if they had plans to spear-head the project. Neither had done anything any-thing about it. The LDS ward leadership assured Earl that they were unable to head the drive, but would support him and give all the help he needed. From there Earl, assisted by Bishop Porter Merrell, began be-gan planning the campaign. Four fine citizens, Rachel Wilson, Wil-son, Artello Foy, Titus Jones and George Wilcken as- 1 sumed the responsibility of supervising the drive in the city as it was divided into four districts. Everyone in Duchesne rallied to the call, and the drive was slated to end on Sunday, Jan. 3rd. By the time the final day arrived, and with Mayor Johnsen using his truck to make pickups, and Chester Lyman leading the drive with the fire truck, and the Boy Scouts, under the direction of Scoutmaster Lowell Coleman, the town was canvased. The Linck Trucking Company of Myton, picked up the clothes from the first drive, and later hauled another load to Salt Lake City, another fine gesture and one deserving of commendation. Maybe Duchesne would have responded to' the plea for clothes for the Koreans but it takes men like Earl Jordan to make sure the job gets done. . . I commend Earl Jordan and the others who assisted him when the call was made. . . That's America In Action. v E v WILL SELECT ANOTHER DIVISION ALL-STAR BASKETBALL TEAM. ... Time is rapidly approaching the end of the current basketball season for high schools in the Uintah Basin league. . . . Again the Roosevelt Standard - Uintah Basin Record will pick an all-star team. . . During the past two years, coaches and officials have submitted choices of individual in-dividual players, and the boys receiving the highest number of votes rated the honors. . . The same procedure will be used, and we hope to be able to make the announcment the week following the end of the season. . . It isn't, going to' be easy there are a lot of fine players on each of the five teams. v E v DRINKING AND DRIVING IN GREAT BRITAIN. . . . The report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Road Accidents in Great Britain, has an alcohol section which says: The effect of even moderate quantities of alcohol on drivers is not generally realized. . . It should be emphasized that, even where there is no question of drunkenness, a small quantity of alcohol is for many drivers most dangerous. dan-gerous. The driver who has imbibed alcohol experiences a feeling of "euphoria," or careless well-being, and entertains enter-tains a mistaken idea that he is1 driving better than usual. He does not realize that his reactions are slower, that his neuro-muscular control is impaired and that his vision is restricted. . . It is estimated that magistrates and their clerks and the public generally should realize that 'under the influence' does not necessarily mean intoxication in the ordinary sense, but that driving skill is affected long before be-fore a man is consciously under the influence of alcohol. . . It is not in the public interest that so serious an offense should be insufficiently punished, as it often is today. . . , "The percentage of alcohol circulating in the blood al any given moment can be calculated with scientific accuracy. The Committee recommended thai blood tests should be recognized and that arrangements should be made to carry them out on a voluntary basis. . . They hope that at a later date the public will be so educated educat-ed as to agree that these tests should be made obligatory obli-gatory in appropriate cases." v E v An anti-fire paint helps to stop blazes from spreading by giving off carbon dioxide and calcium chloride when fire licks surfaces coated with it. I will let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him. Booker T. Washington. : It just seems to happen that by the time most of us get a little money to burn, the fire's gone out! . 30 ' |