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BUSTLING
BORING
A Founders’ Day
program, honoring past presidents
in particular, will highlight this
Thursday evening’s 8 p.m. meet
ing of Boring PTA according to
Mrs,
B. Comer, president
Mothers of fourth grade students
will be hostesses, presiding at the
tea table following the evening’s
program.
Mr. and Mrs. John Gantenbein
and children, Steve, Sharon and Di
ana, were center of festivities at
A KOUHD
February 13, 19« I
QUESTION: I hired a maid the
other day and I would like to
know who pays her social security
tax.
ANSWER: The taxes are shared
equally by you and the worker.
QUESTION: I am a widow re
ceiving a check tor myself and
one minor child. The child is en
tering the Army. Must I report
Mrs. Loretta Hollister, daughter this to social security?
ANSWER: Yes. Since you are
ol Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hossner,
is still in Gresham General hos receiving a benifit because you
pital recuperating from injuries have a minor child In your care,
received in a car accident last your benifit will stop as of the
month the child enters the Army.
month.
Everyone Is happy to see Mrs. The child may thereafter be able
Clayton Bjork walking once more, to receive his own benefit on his
even though it’s with the aid of own behalf up to the month before
crutches. She has had a long con he reaches age 18. There Is also
valescent period after being in a the question of his earnings af
fecting his social security pay
collision last year.
ments while in military service.
BORING
a housewarming in their new home
last Sunday. Friends dropped in
throughout the afternoon, bring
baked goods for a kaffeeklatsch.
The hosts were presented with a
money tree.
Jerry Hale’s family observed
his birthday last weekend with a
family assemblage, which inclu
ded Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bennett,
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dether-
age and their children, and Ger
ald Hale.
I
GUEST EDITORIAL
By Geo. L. Howeller
The Powell Valley Mission
Covenant Church was filled to
overflowing one day last week
when several hundred persons
came to hear a memorial ser-
vice. It was a memorial ser-
vice to a lovely girl who had lost
her life beneath the wheels of
a truck the evening of Jan. 31
at Compton’s Corners west of
Sandy. It was given for a girl
whose sun, as the officiating
clergyman expressed It, went down
in the morning of her life, and
she lay down to eternal sleep.
Mary Jane Meier was only six
teen years old.
And yet it was not the youth
ful age of this girl that gate the
memorial service its pathos and
sadness. Rather It was the great
loss that her death occasioned,
for she was a girl of fine quali
ty, of gifted ability, of high
principles and moral standards.
She was a girl who one day would
most probably have become a de
voted wife and mother, the guid
ing light In a respectable home,
a pillar of goodness and strength
within her own community. She
was reserved but not timid, kind
but not over-sollcltous, talented
but not ostentatious. She was
genuine.
How did this tragedy occur?
This is a relatively simple quest
ion to answer. Janie, as her parents
affectionately called her, was on
her way home. While waiting
at Compton’s Corners to make
a turn to the left, her car was
struck from the rear by another.
The Impact catapulted her into
the lane of on-coming traffic, and
she died instantly.
Why did it happen? This quest
ion, too, can be answered with
out too much difficulty. For one
thing, the driver of the car who
struck Janie from the rear was
probably not completely alert to for himself. They are questions
the situation confronting him, in that have been asked from time
The fatalist and
view of the fact that he was arres Immemorial.
ted for driving while under the the cynic answers them one way;
influence of alcohol. Secondly, the followers of Christianity ans
Janie apparently had her wheels
wer them another.
For my own part,
I would
turned to the left while waiting
to make her turn.
When the like to think of Janie’s death as
having had a purpose. She worked
car struck her from the rear,
at my office after school, tidv-
her car plummeted forward in
the direction her wheels were Ing up my desk, reading the stat
turned and into the pathway of utes to me, typing letters. I
an oncoming truck, Finally, there
got to know her quite well dur-
may be some flaw in the traffic
ing the all-too brief period that
control system at Compton’s
she was with me, and I liked
Corners, Inasmuch as there have
her very much. I am reluct-
been similar accidents there prior
ant to think that her sun went
down in the morning all in vain.
to this one. Certainly there have
been enough of them to warrant
I would like to think that, be
a closer examination of the area
cause it did, some of us may
by the authorities.
become a little more careful In
We may ask, what was the pur
our driving habits, that our author
pose behind this tragedy? Or was ities may examine more closely
there any purpose at all?
the situation out at Compton’s
These are questions that are Corners, and that all of us will
essentially of a phllosphical nature be just a bit better for having
and each person must answer them know this lovely girl.
.Letter to Editor
Would like to reflect on the
Sandy High School Board Meet
ing of Feb. 5th: have questions
relating to our superintendant’s
philosophy
on sports. (Quote)
“That all boys should start sports
together and progress at the same
level through school.’’ To move
ahead beyond his class, a boy
becomes a misfit and his whole
personality will suffer as he will
find it hard to be accepted again
by his own classmates.’’
Doesn’t the students own pet
ition with nearly 400 of the stud
ent body signatures (time ran out
to gather more) speak for Itself?
cause they are mature enough—
but should wait for their own
age group’’--
How do you account that fresh
men are allowed to take place
ment tests to see if they have
the ability to take advanced sub
jects not offered to Frosh? What
is this doing to their personal
ities to be taking subjects above
their class level? Do they belong
in classes with older youngsters
or should they too be held back
according to grade?
Aren’s these placements tests
very similiar to the tests the
coaches are putting the boys
through to see where they belong
In sports?
These students signed in protest
at the board’s ruling on varsity
competition. The boy presenting
the petition said it so nicely, “We
feel that If a boy has the ability,
he should be able to compete.’’
He said, “We feel that if a boy
from “our class’’ be it fresh
men, sophomores, junior or senior
Is out there playing, he is repres
enting all of us from that class.
We are proud of him, not jealous
of him.’’
Following this same theory
“that children should not be given
a chance to move ahead just be-
Wonder if the board will consider
the hundreds of students names
on the petition and the feelings
of those who did take the time to
state their views at the last meeting
when they re-vote on varsity comp-
etltlon? Or will it be just the
opinions of a five man board?
Name Withheld
Note:
The Post Is always glad to print
the views of Its readers. Letters
must be signed by the writer.
However, your name will be with
held upon request.
Ed.
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