Cedar Hill Citizen (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1973 Page: 15 of 16
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GALLERY PAGE THREE
Do your Christmas
shopping here and
Save Money
Fruit in Boxes
Vi Bushel or Dozen
Fresh vegetables
Daily
Birdbaths &
Donkey & Carts
Other Yard Ornaments
Large Selection of
Mexican Imports
Lowest Prices
Anywhere
Mountain Creek Philosopher
Group collecting JRY A GREAT
tpys, other items
Employes of {he Army and GALLERY /
Avon Bottles
COME IN & BROWZE
| Pfeiffer's Fruit Stand
107 E. Broad
Mansfield, Texas
Editor’s note: The Mountain
Creek Philosopher on his John-
son grass farm on Mountain
Creek discusses human nature
this week, we think.
Dear editor;
Some people are saying,
look, even if we get by this
year and next year and even a
few more years, everyobdy
knows that sooner or later the
oil inside the earth is going to
play out and then what are we
going to do? Can you imagine
a world without automobiles?
How can the modern world
survive without oil?
I certainly don’t have the
answer but I’ll bet somebody
will figure out a substitute, on
account of the nature of the
human animal. When a pro-
blem arises, somebody eventu-
ally figures out an answer, ex-
cusing Washington.
Take a minor problem, more
or less. I read in a newspaper
last night during an unexplain-
ed gap in a taped T. V. show
that big cities are plagued by
false fire alarms. One city re-
ported that out of 9,013 alarms
in one year, 5,329 were false.
People see an alarm box and
just for the fun of it throw
the switch, and the fire depart-
ment has to respond, wasting
an emtimated Million dollars a
year. The only thing the city
could think to do was launcch
an educational campaign to
try to get people to stop turning
in false alarms. This would be
called the Washington ap-
proacch.
But a musician and an elec-
tronics engineer had a better
idea. They invented a fool-
proof alarjp box. I ’tsinside a
booth. To sound an alarm you
have to go inside and shut the
door. When you throw the
switch the door locks and you
can’t get out till the fire de-
partment arrives with the key.
Best educational device you can
imagine.
This reminds me of a fire deh
partment in a small town I
know about. Human nature
being what it is, when the fire
siren went off calling the vol-
unteer firement to the station,
half the townspeople would
jump into their cars and follow
the engine to the fire, getting
in the way of the firemen, run-
ning over the hoses, fouling up
traffic, etc. So the town passed
a stiff ordinance against it, but
people kept on chasing the fire
engine.
Instead of locking up two-
thirds of the town for violating
the law, the fire department
hit on an idea. It bought a-
nother fire truck. When a fire
broke out and the siren went
off, one fireman would jump
in the decoy truck and tear off
in the wrong direction with the
townspeople in hot pursuit.
With the way clearen, the other
truck went to the fire uninter-
rupted. When people started
catching on and waiting for the)
second truck, the firemen
switched and sent the first one
straight to the fire and the
other in the wrong direction.
You can’t change human ua-
ture much, but you can out-
maneuver it.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Air Force Exchange Service
(AAFES) headquarters in Oak
Cliff are collecting toys, books,
games, candy and other items
to help make Christmas a little
more plefcsant for youngsters
in a number of local children’s
homes. '
The first donations of the
campaign have been made by
2- year-old Roger Walbanks and
3- and-a-half-year-old twins Tra-
cy and Teri Demers.
Roger is the grandson of Vi-
vien Gray, assistant chairman
Of the campaign, and fee twins
are daughters of Anne De-
mers, a campaign member.
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Mobley, James F. & Mobley, Peggy. Cedar Hill Citizen (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1973, newspaper, December 20, 1973; Cedar Hill, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth591851/m1/15/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Zula B. Wylie Memorial Library.