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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1964
Page
7
A reader describes Vernil's Volunteer Fire Department as a diverse group from Limon including bank officials mechanics and salesmen who drop all at a call even in winter or parties to fight fires. The piece praises their devotion and community service and expresses gratitude for their efforts.
A humorous but cautionary note cites the old saying about glass houses and adds a medical caution. It warns that thousands attempt to walk through glass doors annually, with about 6,000 sustaining severe injuries and some fatalities.
The American Mayan Bureau Federation urges gradual elimination of federal controls on agriculture. It criticizes a proposed wheat program that would empower government agencies over producers and consumers, arguing production patterns should not be frozen to sustain high costs. The group advocates a free agriculture and stepwise removal of controls in the national interest.
The 18 day Yuletide visits involved thousands, perhaps a million, passing through holes in the Berlin Wall. The passages were organized by West Berlin and East German officials, granting one way visits only to West Germans on passes issued by Communists. This act is seen as a calculated move toward recognizing East German sovereignty and a possible step to a demilitarized free Berlin.
A humorous wartime era exchange tests a job applicant as a witchman. He proposes to switch tracks if two trains approach, uses a red flag if jammed, and jokes that his sister would watch train wrecks rather than help. The dialogue highlights risk and dark humor.
Babson Park Mass. discusses how national mood may steer the business cycle and prosperity. The essay argues emotions influence decision making in sales politics and industry, urging collaboration between social scientists and business leaders to forecast economic trends and identify mental health factors shaping markets.
Art Wilson of Bonanza is to be released from Uintah County hospital in a week after a two week stay for a heart attack. His wife Mrs. Wilson remains at the hospital with him. They recently spent ten days in California visiting his brother Richard Wilson in Torrance and Mrs. Wilson’s uncle Lawrence Anderson of Bell. Anderson is a former Vernal resident. Mrs. Wilson notes two of her sisters and their husbands are in hospitals in Washington, wondering if family togetherness has gone too far.
The author argues emotional currents influence business cycles more than wages or hours. They question relying solely on money and employment as prosperity measures and suggest mental health and spiritual well being may mold future business patterns, urging study of these impacts for 1964 and beyond.
Postmaster Orlo Goodrich argues citizens should study the vast range of functions beyond mail handling performed by the Postal Service. He cites collaboration with law enforcement, housing surveys, stamp sales, bird hunting stamps, veterans’ funeral flags, Civil Service support, State Department allowances, charity fund handling, and absentee ballot witness duties as evidence of the department’s broad public service.
Kenneth D. Stephens was in Logan last week to attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs. H. G. Stephens.
The postmaster described actions including furnishing booklets on fall out shelters and steps in a nuclear attack, and serving as a post attack registration center for federal employees. He urged inquiries by writing the postmaster or calling 789-2393.
Vernal drugstores report a sharp week long increase in pipe sales. It is believed the newly released U.S. studies on lung disease and smoking are driving some cigarette smokers to switch to pipes and cigars.
A doctor examines a man and declares he should live to eighty. The man protests that he is already eighty, prompting the doctor to ask what he told him, exposing the joke’s twist about age and expectations.
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