February 11, 1960 (6 pages)

age insurance gram this week competes its first 20 years of monthly benefit payments, Taking note insurance benefits. monthly benefits have received a total.of $50.4 bilpayments the law. $38.1 billion; i monthly benefits have béen paid have died (in addition to $1,2 billion in lump sum death benefits), and since July, 1957, $750 million have been paid to diabled workers aged 50 to 65, and their depenents. : At the end of 1959, $850 million a month was being paid out nationally in old-age, survivor, and disability insurance benefits, For the month of February, 1959, the last count for Nevada County, $145,790 was being paid to 2,377 persons. He added that the numof the event, on Morasch, field representaee of the Sacramento social security office, pointed out that this is the 25th anniversary year of the social security law. Although monthly old-age payments had not been originally scheduled to start until 1942, he said, Congress amended the law in turn to move < up the starting date to January, 1940, and also to provide for the payment of dependents and survivors benefits as well as old-age Since January, 1940, when the first became payable, 21 million beneficiaries lion in monthly benefit payments, Mr. Morasch said. This includes to disabled workers under the 1956 amendments to Over the 20-year period, Mr. Morasch said, retired’ workers and their dependents Have received $11.6 billion -in to the survivor8 of workers who as a matter of right based upon a worker’s record of earnigs in employment or self-employment covered by socia) security. When the program started, only about 26 million employees in commerce and industry were covered. Today, about 9 out of 10 gainfully employed people, both employed and self-employed, are covered. About 76 million Americans have worked long enough under social security to be fully insured for the payment of survivors insurance benefits. Old-age, ‘survivors and disability insurance benefits are paid out of(two separate trust funds maintained in the U.S. Tredsury, These funds have been built up with the social security tax contributions of employees, their employers, and the self-employed. That money not needed for the current the funds. and. surviyors insurance fund, established on January 1, 1957, amounted to $1.7 billion at the end of the fiscal year. Women's Rights Take A New ‘Turn’ payment of benefits and administrative costs is invested in interest-bearing obligations of the U.S. government, The interest earned on these investments is added -to At the end of the last fiscal year, in June, 1959, the old-age trust fund amounted: to $21.5 billion. Twenty years ago, it was $1.7 billion. The disability insurance trust ber of beneficiaries and the total monthly payments have increased somewhat since that time. Citing the “remarkable growth” of social security over the last 20 years, Mr. Morasch said that payments certified for January, 1949, amounted to only $76,000 for the country as a whole, and went to only 4,000 beneficiaries. With 13% million pedple now on Win A Lifetime. Of Beauty, Care Something new has been added to a ‘woman’s prerogatives’ — turning over the china! It has long been an approved action, etiquette-wise, for the diswoman to rate dress or drape material by feeling it or to judge cleanliness by the casual finger-dusting test. But never before has the fair sex applied its ‘show-me’ techniques to dining out—until now;-that is! The turnover or plate-flipping club, as it’s being calléd with mixed feeling by restauranteurs from coast-to-coast, is burgeoning fast. Club ‘rules’ are simple. The ‘member’, sometime during or immediately after being served, picks up and eXamines a piece of the china on which she has een served. Then, she turns it over! She quickly but carefully notes who made. the china, then where and when. With—this inside—or other-side—information at hand, she is then in a Position to form her ultimate opinion of the modernity and.modishness of the particular restaurant. The restaurant with the up-todate, chic china,” designed to Please the eyes, as well as contain the food, of its guests, naturally passes the turnover test with flying colors-—-and you can be sure the ladies will remember and come flying back! Would you like to win free beauty salon services for the rest of your life? That is just what somé woman in the United States will win this year as first prize in a jingle contest with 100 beauty ineluding a new Gentle-tress. hair style, as shown above. The contest is being sponsored by the National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association in .observance of National Beauty Salon Week, February 7-13, according to Florian W. Harvat, President of the Association. * All any woman needs to do to be eligible is to complete the following jingle, submitting it on an official contest entry blank, obtainable free of charge at any member salon of the ‘ Association: Here’s a secret of beauty * all women can share=It’s wise sional The Twelfth Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco has assets in.excess of $6 billion. to rely on profes-' care ~ “Gute 7 An estimated 400 million copies . Gente eee ” sah aia of paper back books are distrib(Add your last Une, last word . uted annualy in the United States. to rhyme with salon. Example: Keeps you lovely and loved as life dances on.) > The first prize of a lifetime of free professional beauty care goes to the winner, regardless of her age, and lasts as long as she lives. Funds have been set aside in escrow by the Association for payment of the beauty treatments for the ‘winner. i Quick Retief of HEADACHE. For faster, mere complete relief of headache, neuralgia, neuritis pains, take STANBACK Tablets or Powders. STANBACK’s S. A. (Synergistic Action) —the combined action of several medically-approved ingredients in one easy-to-take dose—eases anxiety eral to shorter periods. The = starts bringing relief prizes are non-transferright away. able, and will be available vet aah Back wis only at NHCA salons, STANBACK STANBACK ) The salon providing the ser? agning avy vices to the winner will be paid poe wo igh oe by the National Association for sed Grass Valley-N evada City Area . Tops in Listening . Tops in News and Music lic et OLYMPIA, WASH. fascinate visitors at —Time capsules from prehistoric era Washington State’s Ginkgo Petrified Forest—but no one has found the key to their mystery, Centuries ag 0, aboriginal tribes of the sun-baked Columbia B asin daubed crude pictures and carved symbols on basalt rocks along the Columbia River. The nomadic peoples vanished, leaving only these pictographs as clues to their lives, This primitive art is displayed in the Ginkgo Museum at Vantage, on a sagee covered hill above the Columbia River. Archeologists and Indian experts have studied these symbols, but none has deciphered their ancient meaning. The picture puzzles are among the unique attractions of Ginkgo State Park, located 26 miles east of Ellensburg, Washington, on U.S. Highway 10. On the museum grounds are 100 petrified logs of prehistoric trees which Once thrived in Washington, including the only known prehistoric specimens of the Oriental Ginkgo tree. More than 200 varieties of trees have been uncovered at the park. For some 10 to 30 million years the trees . were covered by molten lava, according to archeologists, with wind, rain and river aetion later exposing the petrified treasures. These and many other wonders are fully described: and pictured in Washington State’s new 36 -page, fullcolor travel book. Readers of this newspaper may obtain a copy free by writing to the Department of Commerce, Administration Building, Olympia, Washington. Local Man To Attend Hardware Show In S. F. Nevada City hardware dealer . William C. Briggs of Alpha Hardware Co. will be a delegate to the 59th Annual Convention and Western: States Hardware-Housewares Show presented by the}! California Retai] Hardware Association in San Francisco, February 14 to 16, Mr. Briggs, a member of the CRHA, will participate with $2,000,000 of hardware, housewares Salmon Trollers Will Pay Higher Boat-Fee Ocean. salmon trollers, scheduled to’ go into action for nine months starting Saturday, will find their sport slightly more expensive this season. Golden Gate Sportfishers, Inc., to which most of the partyboat owners belong, announced that a combination of costs has forced it to hike the fee for a day of trolling to $10, This is an increase of $1.50 over the charges made last year. including bait. and allied items on display during the three-day event. The show will be held at Brooks Hall, Civic Center, which features 100,000 square feet of exhibit space. Convention headquarters will be the Whitcomb Hotel. More than 250 national manuThe principal diseases threatening California forests are heart rot, rusts, root diseases, mistletoes and needle diseases. The German pilot, Fritz Wendel, set a world record of 469 miles per hour with a Messerschmidt 109R fighter in 1939. plans for the forthcoming regional meeting to be held on May 7 and & at the El Mirador Hotel in Sacramento. A short history of Valentine’s Day was read by Mrs. Patty Marchal, followed by a talk of papier mache -dolls by Mrs. Florence Stradan. Mrs. Stradan had also made some papier mache and put it into a mold, making a doll head. for demonstration of her subject. Many wonderful papier mache dolls were also exhibited for study. Mrs, Lenore Coughlin of. Nevada City and Mrs. Gladys Cross of Grass Valley attended this meeting. No Change In Auburn Postal Service The Post Office Department in Washington, D.C., has advised Congressman Harld T. (Bizz) Johnson, representing Nevada and Placer Gounties, that it will continue serving a group of rural patrons from the Auburn post office. Verne Scoggins, regional operations director for the post office in San Francisco, said the department had received petitions for and against the transfer of a rural area from the Auburn office to the Grass Valley postal district. “Investigation disclosed that while approximately. 56 families were in: favor of this change,” Scoggins wrote Congressman Johnson, “115 are desirous of retaining their present Auburn addresses,” . Consequently the postmasters concerned have been informed that any change in the present delivery service would be inadvisable, SEE US FOR YOUR ‘Insulation and We carry a complete supply. BUILDERS AND CONSUMERS LUMBER COMPANY G. V.-N. C. Hwy. at Glenbrook Phones: G. V. 1050, N. C. 1192 facturers from 41 states will display their products, which will include hundreds of new items not yet on the market. Business meetings, clinic sessions, a fashion show for the ladies, and the annual banquet and stage show will round out the convention program. John Morley, world news correspondent, will deliver an authoritative report on “The Prospects For Peace” in a keynote address: at the opening business meeting, the sixth annual CRHA Western Breakfast, February 15. The steamboat invented by Robert Fulton in 1807 was the first successfuly operated in the United States. The nutmeg tree produces two Spices—mace and nutmep. NEW AND USED FURNITURE _@ WE BUY @ WE SELL @ ALSO TRADE We do not charge for carrying charges. We carry our “Own accounts. Load of new furniture approximately every two weeks. FREE ESTIMATES Phone G: V. 602-wW Grass Valley-Nevada City Highway : I'M TAKIN’ MY MONEY OUTOF THIS COFFEE POT AND PUTTIN! IT TO WORK AT ‘PLACER SAVINGS! . Special meeting on the 18th of February will be held to make} amount of $25 is sent membership fund of the ¢ nia Congress of Parents Teachers which-is a fund through college. Mrs, J. Howard Keene made the surprise presentation and listed some of the activities of Mrs. Roberts as follows: Louise has served as member of the Neyada County Board of Education for the past three years and is currently chairman and is Secretary of the County Trustees Association. She is past president of the Nevada City Elementary Parent _She has been a leader in the Nevada City Girl Scouts for many years and is president of the Girl Scout Council for 1959 and 1960. ; She was a Cub Scout den mother for Pack 23 for three years. She was chairman of the Mothers March. of Dimes for three years, and an active worker for Red Cross drives. for student loans and scholar-. ships to help ‘worthy students Teacher Association and has been for ge agp be held at Fire an active worker for years, serHouse 2, opposite the ving on many committees, Cedar Theatre in Nevada City on Monday 15 February 1960 from 5 to 7 p.m. . The vaccination fee will be $2.00. The State law requires every dog, months of age, to be and licensed, and every dog owner, keeper or must produce evidence of vaccination t rabies before the dog license is issued. She has worked with the Boy SAM HOOPER, Scouts in their activities. whenCity Clerk. ever needed, furnishing transporCOC CO OOOO OES EOEeoeeecroecoseceoces WHAT'S your Telephone Manager in Nevada City be George-0. Hutchins, COCO CHEESE LESCLECo OE eEeedOEeOCS . Safety’s always in style at the telephone company. _And though telephone man Don Bandoni may not look ~ dt, he’s dressed for safety from the top of his hardhat to his climbing boots. Those glasses aren’t to correct his eyesight, they’re strictly for protection. So are the insulated rubber gloves, safety belt, and ‘other equipment he carries. The special safety devices Don and other phone men have for each job pays off for them and their families, of course. Pays off for you, too, because safe jobs are good jobs—and good jobs attract the capable men like Don Bandoni who keep your service working right. ‘ In mid-summer of this year, dial telephone service for Grass Valley and Nevada City will be placed into operation. New phone numbers will then become effective for all telephones. In addition, these important service improvements will take place: 1. Calls between Grass Valley be considered “local” will be no long distance charge for these calls. . All customers—except coin—will be able to dial their own station-to-station calls direct to more than 1200 cities in the continental United States and Canada. ‘ The new Grass Valley-Nevada City phone numbers ‘will be listed in a special directory which will be issued shortly before dial service goes into effect. Now would be a good time to contact our business office if you wish to make changes in or additions to your present directory listing. You probably won’t want to order—or produce— any more printed material bearing your present phone number than will be needed between now and mid-sumand Nevada City will When was the last time you had & phone visit with an out-of-town relative or friend? And how many times have you meant to write, but just never got around to it! Well, nothing’s easier than picking up the calls. That means, there .

age insurance gram this week competes its first 20 years of monthly benefit payments, Taking note insurance benefits. monthly benefits have received a total.of $50.4 bilpayments the law. $38.1 billion; i monthly benefits have béen paid have died (in addition to $1,2 billion in lump sum death benefits), and since July, 1957, $750 million have been paid to diabled workers aged 50 to 65, and their depenents. : At the end of 1959, $850 million a month was being paid out nationally in old-age, survivor, and disability insurance benefits, For the month of February, 1959, the last count for Nevada County, $145,790 was being paid to 2,377 persons. He added that the numof the event, on Morasch, field representaee of the Sacramento social security office, pointed out that this is the 25th anniversary year of the social security law. Although monthly old-age payments had not been originally scheduled to start until 1942, he said, Congress amended the law in turn to move < up the starting date to January, 1940, and also to provide for the payment of dependents and survivors benefits as well as old-age Since January, 1940, when the first became payable, 21 million beneficiaries lion in monthly benefit payments, Mr. Morasch said. This includes to disabled workers under the 1956 amendments to Over the 20-year period, Mr. Morasch said, retired’ workers and their dependents Have received $11.6 billion -in to the survivor8 of workers who as a matter of right based upon a worker’s record of earnigs in employment or self-employment covered by socia) security. When the program started, only about 26 million employees in commerce and industry were covered. Today, about 9 out of 10 gainfully employed people, both employed and self-employed, are covered. About 76 million Americans have worked long enough under social security to be fully insured for the payment of survivors insurance benefits. Old-age, ‘survivors and disability insurance benefits are paid out of(two separate trust funds maintained in the U.S. Tredsury, These funds have been built up with the social security tax contributions of employees, their employers, and the self-employed. That money not needed for the current the funds. and. surviyors insurance fund, established on January 1, 1957, amounted to $1.7 billion at the end of the fiscal year. Women's Rights Take A New ‘Turn’ payment of benefits and administrative costs is invested in interest-bearing obligations of the U.S. government, The interest earned on these investments is added -to At the end of the last fiscal year, in June, 1959, the old-age trust fund amounted: to $21.5 billion. Twenty years ago, it was $1.7 billion. The disability insurance trust ber of beneficiaries and the total monthly payments have increased somewhat since that time. Citing the “remarkable growth” of social security over the last 20 years, Mr. Morasch said that payments certified for January, 1949, amounted to only $76,000 for the country as a whole, and went to only 4,000 beneficiaries. With 13% million pedple now on Win A Lifetime. Of Beauty, Care Something new has been added to a ‘woman’s prerogatives’ — turning over the china! It has long been an approved action, etiquette-wise, for the diswoman to rate dress or drape material by feeling it or to judge cleanliness by the casual finger-dusting test. But never before has the fair sex applied its ‘show-me’ techniques to dining out—until now;-that is! The turnover or plate-flipping club, as it’s being calléd with mixed feeling by restauranteurs from coast-to-coast, is burgeoning fast. Club ‘rules’ are simple. The ‘member’, sometime during or immediately after being served, picks up and eXamines a piece of the china on which she has een served. Then, she turns it over! She quickly but carefully notes who made. the china, then where and when. With—this inside—or other-side—information at hand, she is then in a Position to form her ultimate opinion of the modernity and.modishness of the particular restaurant. The restaurant with the up-todate, chic china,” designed to Please the eyes, as well as contain the food, of its guests, naturally passes the turnover test with flying colors-—-and you can be sure the ladies will remember and come flying back! Would you like to win free beauty salon services for the rest of your life? That is just what somé woman in the United States will win this year as first prize in a jingle contest with 100 beauty ineluding a new Gentle-tress. hair style, as shown above. The contest is being sponsored by the National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association in .observance of National Beauty Salon Week, February 7-13, according to Florian W. Harvat, President of the Association. * All any woman needs to do to be eligible is to complete the following jingle, submitting it on an official contest entry blank, obtainable free of charge at any member salon of the ‘ Association: Here’s a secret of beauty * all women can share=It’s wise sional The Twelfth Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco has assets in.excess of $6 billion. to rely on profes-' care ~ “Gute 7 An estimated 400 million copies . Gente eee ” sah aia of paper back books are distrib(Add your last Une, last word . uted annualy in the United States. to rhyme with salon. Example: Keeps you lovely and loved as life dances on.) > The first prize of a lifetime of free professional beauty care goes to the winner, regardless of her age, and lasts as long as she lives. Funds have been set aside in escrow by the Association for payment of the beauty treatments for the ‘winner. i Quick Retief of HEADACHE. For faster, mere complete relief of headache, neuralgia, neuritis pains, take STANBACK Tablets or Powders. STANBACK’s S. A. (Synergistic Action) —the combined action of several medically-approved ingredients in one easy-to-take dose—eases anxiety eral to shorter periods. The = starts bringing relief prizes are non-transferright away. able, and will be available vet aah Back wis only at NHCA salons, STANBACK STANBACK ) The salon providing the ser? agning avy vices to the winner will be paid poe wo igh oe by the National Association for sed Grass Valley-N evada City Area . Tops in Listening . Tops in News and Music lic et OLYMPIA, WASH. fascinate visitors at —Time capsules from prehistoric era Washington State’s Ginkgo Petrified Forest—but no one has found the key to their mystery, Centuries ag 0, aboriginal tribes of the sun-baked Columbia B asin daubed crude pictures and carved symbols on basalt rocks along the Columbia River. The nomadic peoples vanished, leaving only these pictographs as clues to their lives, This primitive art is displayed in the Ginkgo Museum at Vantage, on a sagee covered hill above the Columbia River. Archeologists and Indian experts have studied these symbols, but none has deciphered their ancient meaning. The picture puzzles are among the unique attractions of Ginkgo State Park, located 26 miles east of Ellensburg, Washington, on U.S. Highway 10. On the museum grounds are 100 petrified logs of prehistoric trees which Once thrived in Washington, including the only known prehistoric specimens of the Oriental Ginkgo tree. More than 200 varieties of trees have been uncovered at the park. For some 10 to 30 million years the trees . were covered by molten lava, according to archeologists, with wind, rain and river aetion later exposing the petrified treasures. These and many other wonders are fully described: and pictured in Washington State’s new 36 -page, fullcolor travel book. Readers of

this newspaper may obtain a copy free by writing to the Department of Commerce, Administration Building, Olympia, Washington. Local Man To Attend Hardware Show In S. F. Nevada City hardware dealer . William C. Briggs of Alpha Hardware Co. will be a delegate to the 59th Annual Convention and Western: States Hardware-Housewares Show presented by the}! California Retai] Hardware Association in San Francisco, February 14 to 16, Mr. Briggs, a member of the CRHA, will participate with $2,000,000 of hardware, housewares Salmon Trollers Will Pay Higher Boat-Fee Ocean. salmon trollers, scheduled to’ go into action for nine months starting Saturday, will find their sport slightly more expensive this season. Golden Gate Sportfishers, Inc., to which most of the partyboat owners belong, announced that a combination of costs has forced it to hike the fee for a day of trolling to $10, This is an increase of $1.50 over the charges made last year. including bait. and allied items on display during the three-day event. The show will be held at Brooks Hall, Civic Center, which features 100,000 square feet of exhibit space. Convention headquarters will be the Whitcomb Hotel. More than 250 national manuThe principal diseases threatening California forests are heart rot, rusts, root diseases, mistletoes and needle diseases. The German pilot, Fritz Wendel, set a world record of 469 miles per hour with a Messerschmidt 109R fighter in 1939. plans for the forthcoming regional meeting to be held on May 7 and & at the El Mirador Hotel in Sacramento. A short history of Valentine’s Day was read by Mrs. Patty Marchal, followed by a talk of papier mache -dolls by Mrs. Florence Stradan. Mrs. Stradan had also made some papier mache and put it into a mold, making a doll head. for demonstration of her subject. Many wonderful papier mache dolls were also exhibited for study. Mrs, Lenore Coughlin of. Nevada City and Mrs. Gladys Cross of Grass Valley attended this meeting. No Change In Auburn Postal Service The Post Office Department in Washington, D.C., has advised Congressman Harld T. (Bizz) Johnson, representing Nevada and Placer Gounties, that it will continue serving a group of rural patrons from the Auburn post office. Verne Scoggins, regional operations director for the post office in San Francisco, said the department had received petitions for and against the transfer of a rural area from the Auburn office to the Grass Valley postal district. “Investigation disclosed that while approximately. 56 families were in: favor of this change,” Scoggins wrote Congressman Johnson, “115 are desirous of retaining their present Auburn addresses,” . Consequently the postmasters concerned have been informed that any change in the present delivery service would be inadvisable, SEE US FOR YOUR ‘Insulation and We carry a complete supply. BUILDERS AND CONSUMERS LUMBER COMPANY G. V.-N. C. Hwy. at Glenbrook Phones: G. V. 1050, N. C. 1192 facturers from 41 states will display their products, which will include hundreds of new items not yet on the market. Business meetings, clinic sessions, a fashion show for the ladies, and the annual banquet and stage show will round out the convention program. John Morley, world news correspondent, will deliver an authoritative report on “The Prospects For Peace” in a keynote address: at the opening business meeting, the sixth annual CRHA Western Breakfast, February 15. The steamboat invented by Robert Fulton in 1807 was the first successfuly operated in the United States. The nutmeg tree produces two Spices—mace and nutmep. NEW AND USED FURNITURE _@ WE BUY @ WE SELL @ ALSO TRADE We do not charge for carrying charges. We carry our “Own accounts. Load of new furniture approximately every two weeks. FREE ESTIMATES Phone G: V. 602-wW Grass Valley-Nevada City Highway : I'M TAKIN’ MY MONEY OUTOF THIS COFFEE POT AND PUTTIN! IT TO WORK AT ‘PLACER SAVINGS! . Special meeting on the 18th of February will be held to make} amount of $25 is sent membership fund of the ¢ nia Congress of Parents Teachers which-is a fund through college. Mrs, J. Howard Keene made the surprise presentation and listed some of the activities of Mrs. Roberts as follows: Louise has served as member of the Neyada County Board of Education for the past three years and is currently chairman and is Secretary of the County Trustees Association. She is past president of the Nevada City Elementary Parent _She has been a leader in the Nevada City Girl Scouts for many years and is president of the Girl Scout Council for 1959 and 1960. ; She was a Cub Scout den mother for Pack 23 for three years. She was chairman of the Mothers March. of Dimes for three years, and an active worker for Red Cross drives. for student loans and scholar-. ships to help ‘worthy students Teacher Association and has been for ge agp be held at Fire an active worker for years, serHouse 2, opposite the ving on many committees, Cedar Theatre in Nevada City on Monday 15 February 1960 from 5 to 7 p.m. . The vaccination fee will be $2.00. The State law requires every dog, months of age, to be and licensed, and every dog owner, keeper or must produce evidence of vaccination t rabies before the dog license is issued. She has worked with the Boy SAM HOOPER, Scouts in their activities. whenCity Clerk. ever needed, furnishing transporCOC CO OOOO OES EOEeoeeecroecoseceoces WHAT'S your Telephone Manager in Nevada City be George-0. Hutchins, COCO CHEESE LESCLECo OE eEeedOEeOCS . Safety’s always in style at the telephone company. _And though telephone man Don Bandoni may not look ~ dt, he’s dressed for safety from the top of his hardhat to his climbing boots. Those glasses aren’t to correct his eyesight, they’re strictly for protection. So are the insulated rubber gloves, safety belt, and ‘other equipment he carries. The special safety devices Don and other phone men have for each job pays off for them and their families, of course. Pays off for you, too, because safe jobs are good jobs—and good jobs attract the capable men like Don Bandoni who keep your service working right. ‘ In mid-summer of this year, dial telephone service for Grass Valley and Nevada City will be placed into operation. New phone numbers will then become effective for all telephones. In addition, these important service improvements will take place: 1. Calls between Grass Valley be considered “local” will be no long distance charge for these calls. . All customers—except coin—will be able to dial their own station-to-station calls direct to more than 1200 cities in the continental United States and Canada. ‘ The new Grass Valley-Nevada City phone numbers ‘will be listed in a special directory which will be issued shortly before dial service goes into effect. Now would be a good time to contact our business office if you wish to make changes in or additions to your present directory listing. You probably won’t want to order—or produce— any more printed material bearing your present phone number than will be needed between now and mid-sumand Nevada City will When was the last time you had & phone visit with an out-of-town relative or friend? And how many times have you meant to write, but just never got around to it! Well, nothing’s easier than picking up the calls. That means, there .