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Show Special Call Saves A Life . . . The telephone rang. ' Frank Anzalone of Independence, La., picked up the receiver to hear the voice at the other end say: "This is Mr. Murphy ' in Albany. I want to thank you for saving my wife's life." For a minute Mr. Anzalone drew a blank. He hadn't' gone down any wells or dived into the river to heroically rescue someone. Remembered a Call Then he remembered pulling up for a service call at the home of one of his customers. Being active in the Louisiana Division as a campaign chairman in Tangipahoa Parish, Mr. Anzalone began talking about cancer's seven danger signals. Reaching into his pocket he pulled out an ACS leaflet. This started off the ' chain of events leading to theis telephone tele-phone call. A lady visiting at the, home of Mrs. Clarence P. Murphy, had read a few things about cancer, but had never tied it up with the little lump she had accidentally , discovered on herself. That one. danger signal' on the leaflet caught her attention at-tention "Any lump or thickening." At home she discussed it with her husband. He urged her to see a doctor. Cancer was diagnosed and she was immediately operated upon. This prompted her husband to call Mr. Angalone to let him know that he had saved a life. 1 A CITY WITHOUT A NEWSPAPER .' . . What is it like to live in a city without a regular newspaper? news-paper? The people of Detroit know after a prolonged strike 'that shut down all three of its dailies. The' meTchants of the city learned it particularly well. the hard way. They used' all the other media to the limit. Some stores put out handbills of their own, to advertise' their holiday wares. Yet, though Christmas trade for the country as a whole was well above last year, many Detroit stores did less business. The lack of newspapers was responsible. , Again, the merchants faced a fresh problem at post-holiday sale time. They had bargains and specials to offer as usual but moving them was another matter, without advertising space. The community problems that arise from lack of newspaers are certainly not limited to the big cities. The small towns are equally dependent upon the weeklies and dailies that serve them. In the small town, especially, the newspaper is a running record of its history a thread that constantly touches the lives of all the people who live there. And, despite' the newer media, it remains the most effective means of advertising for merchants and others. Infinitely more important, the newspaper, small or large, Is a guardian of our rights and liberties which is always on duty. FORSYTH (Mont.) INDEPENDENT: "Darned if I know why everybody is interested' in the weather. It's the one thing under the sun that everybody should know about without having to read it. If if s blowing, they want to kqow what's going to be in the paper. If it's snowing, the same'; if it's raining, the same; and last summer when the mercury was boiling at 105 above they still wanted to know what was going to be in the paper as regarded the' weather. "Don't ever say we don't aim to please (and please don't count the misses). And with that comes this week's story on the weather. "Several inches of snow are on the ground at this time. . . with a warmer day this is expected to melt next spring at the latest. "The temperature may remain the sam for some time if it doesn't get colder or warmer. . . "There will be windy days, and days when the wind does not blow. At times it may appear that a warmer trend is developing; de-veloping; but that doesn't necessarily mean it will be that way. May even get colder. Nobody knows for sure. On the other hand, it could get warmer. Nobody knows for sure about that either. BUT IF IT DOESN'T EVER WARM UP it's going to be a a gol-danged blankety-blank long winter. You can bet on that, too." 30 j |