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By N. La Varl Christensen Midway. Driller WIIUIKWB Correspondent Thirty-five years nge. the historic Berlin AirlIft was winding down to an official ending Sept. 80, 1949, after thw arting a cruel Soviet plan to starve allied-held Berlin into submission by blockading road, rail and waterway transportation. By the post-World War ll strategem, according to news… Continue reading Anniversary of
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Scrlpu League Newspapers Owning a home ls part of the American drum – and building all or part of it yourself can add to the satisfaction besides helping to make the project financially feasible. Cutting costs ls the name of the game durmm current housing crunch brought on by ‘ tion and high interest rates.… Continue reading How to Cut Costs in Building Home

Edlwr’1 Note: This In ihe lint nl n series of four enlclee explorIng “allordsble nlterutives” In the housing crhls Induced by Inflntlnn ud hlqllhlnterest rates. By N. VER!. CIIIIISTENSEN Scripps Lupe Newspapers Remember when your father, grandfather or other kinsman with the help of an expert or two and an occasional assist from a neighbor… Continue reading Home Acquisition Pcses Challenges

In the wake 1 of lour state high school basketball tournaments 11A through 4Al, let’s take a tew minutes to remirnisce about the era when Utah had only a single tourney. Until 1944. old-timers will remember. little and bng schools were lumped together and the winner oi the 16-team tournament was the one and only… Continue reading HinE IZI6y Cuge Tecsm of 1930 Beat Expert’s Odds

By Ruth Louise Partridse On a bitter cold morning 1 February, 1896, Will Slick, a stl dent at the Tc-lluridc Sz-tmnl 4 Electrical Engineering, a r o s from his bed, went to the windn as people will on getting up, an what he saw startled him. Dres lng hastily he went out in in… Continue reading Remember Provo Canyon Snowslide
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By N. L. CHRISTENSEN Ever bear of the Onland School in Hubble Creek Canyon? Since time has a way of dimming memory and ohliterating facts, the story of this “one-room school” might have been lost to the puhllc were it not for a small volume edited and authored by Lucy A. Phillips of Springville, The… Continue reading Volume Details History of 1-Room School in Pioneering Ero

Bv V. LAVERL CHRISTENSEN Scripps League Wrlter An “American Inns of Court” pilot project – designed to help train law students in a non-academic setting, hone skills of trained lawyers. and generally strengthen processes of justice i is underway in Utah. with units functioning at Provo and Salt Lake City, The program. established as a… Continue reading ‘ Inns of Court’ Pioneered Here

By RENEE C. NELSON Herald Women’s Editor It is an innovative approadi for a 90-yearold man to publish a book of poems, many of them about old age – “especially,” as he says, “those aspects that are somewhat less than ‘golden.”‘ Lowry Nelson notes in the preface of his book, “Desert llide.” (which was also… Continue reading And Poems After 80

By N. LA VERI. Cl-IRISTENSEN I-lerald Edltor Emerltus A number of new irtdustrles in Utah Valley will be adding jobs and payrolls as t.hey develop plroduction capability, says ichard M. Bradford. manager of Utah Valley Industrial Development Association. UVIDA has assisted with location of three small industries thus far this year Bradford said: -Overland Recreation… Continue reading Volley Industry, Jobs Grow

American pride received a boost – as did scientific space accomplishment in. successful completion Tuesday of the eight-day orbital voyage of the space shuttle Columbia. The 105-ton winged rocket plane swooped into sight over surrounding mountains and landed on the Northrup Strip of the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico as 5,000 spectators cheered.… Continue reading Space Shuttle Lifts Our Spirits