School Variety Show Driver Of Year Looks Back Mark Arvidson plays a blind doctor who needs to be guided to his patient by Lynn Lupo and Gerri Kocher. Mark Leslie plays the patient in "Warning About Doctors", just one of the 10 skits in the Johnsburg high school variety show, "Warning to the World". One performance will be given Saturday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. in the new school auditorium at 2002 W. Ringwood road. Rick Martin Photo One day in February, 1976, Frank M. Waldron looked out his truck window and could see nothing but snow blowing at 35 mph across a stretch of Idaho prairie. And, the veteran trucker knew that he could freeze if he skidded down a ledge and into an icy ditch. Frank Waldron didn't freeze that day two years ago. In stead, he led a convoy of five heavily loaded trucks for 17 days in a blizzard that stret ched from northern Texas to Washington state. And, as he has done on every trip for over 40 years, the driver delivered his load. In this case, it was five giant in dustrial heat exchangers. Waldron has been named the 1979 Driver of the Year of the A m e r i c a n T r u c k i n g Associations, Inc. He was among 39 state drivers con sidered for the honor, and is sponsored by the Arizona Motor Transport association. "And it only took me 43 years and about three-and a-half million miles to do it," the crew-cut 67-year-old Waldron said with a grin. Waldron has driven those miles without a single chargeable accident, a feat he didn't think possible back in 1932 when he got in the business "for the money." As Waldron recalls it, he was making $15 per week at picking cotton in his hometown of Phoenix. Since there didn't seem to be that much future in the cotton picking business for an am bitious 23-year-old, Waldron became a driver for a local produce concern. By driving more than 100 hours per week to California and back, he could make $30 "if I unloaded my truck myself and ;did all the mechanical work." Since then, he has hauled almost every type of cargo, including livestock, cement, heavy tubing, large scale in dustrial equipment, and even dynamite. Waldron has driven in every state in the continental United States as well as in Canada, never once losing a load. He has driven through "too many blizzards to count," over winding mountain roads with heavy and wide loads, and avoided "at least 1,000 drunks." His most dangerous trip was through the 1976 blizzard, a journey that required 17 days and lots of patience. As he recalls it. "We were taking the heat exchangers up in convoy fashion, and had pretty smooth sailing until we hit northern Oklahoma There, the snow really began to fall and visibility was very bad " Adding to the problems for the convoy were the extremely icy conditions on very narrow roads--and that their loads were almost 16 feet wide and top heavy. "Several times we had to stop for two days until the blizzard blew itself out and so we could see to go on But after 40 years of driving, you get through by being very careful and relying on experience," he recalls of the trip During the 1950s, Waldron had a special reason to be concerned with safe driving. he was hauling dynamite to construction sites in Arizona "People would look at me like l» Y<.l 19 PI MNDKAI.FH - WKDNKSDAY 1 was crazy when ! told them 1 hauled dynamite But, unless it has blasting caps, the stuff won't go off And. i t 's a stable Joad that won't shift on you." Waldron remembers of those days He added "Of course, then you could also carry the blasting caps in the cab with you. which you can't do now Having them in the same truck did make me nervous sometimes " When asked how he's driven over three million miles without an accident. Waldron's answer is simple: "Defensive driving and taking good Care of your equipment He adds, "Always assume the other driver is going to do something he shouldn't , and he prepared for it Don't tailgate. and leave plenty of room for passing The -best thing to remember is always think of what you can do to escape an accident if an emergency comes up FFBRLARY 14, 1979 BIBLE VERSE "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. " 1. Who was the author of the above statement? 2. Through whom was it spoken? 3. What was his position at the time? 4. Where may this prom ise be found? Answers To Bible Verse 1. Jehovah. 2. Isaiah. 3. The foremost prophet of the Jews. 4. A part of Isaiah 30:15. Golden Gleams Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. -Matthew 12:34. Faint heart never won fair lady. -William Camden. Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart. -P.B. Shelley. Students at Johnsburg high school are preparing their first Variety show to be performed Saturday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. The variety show is titled "Warning To The World" and will be performed in Johnsburg high school's new auditorium at 2002 W. Ringwood road. "Warning To The World" is a series of skits and songs that deal with things people need to be warned about. It will be the first presentation at Johnsburg to be performed completely in the round. Some of the comedy skits include "Warning About Doctors", "Warning About Teachers", "Warning About Marriage"' and "Warning About Death". Other skits involve musical numbers and they include "Warning About Winter", "Warning About Friends", and "Warning About Success". Many of the skits were written by students and some of them have been performed by members of the speech team in interscholastic competition. Musical accompaniment will be provided by the Johnsburg high school stage band under the direction of Hal Thomp son. "Warning to the World" is being directedy by Roger Zawacki, who co-directed several variety shows at McHenry high school. Student assistant director is Lynn Lupo. Because of the large capacity of the auditoriumm. "Warning to the World" will only be presented once, Feb. 17. Anyone wishing tickets can call Johnsburg high school at 385- 9233 and make a phone reservation. Senior citizens are welcome to attend the per formance free of charge. Perspective " ADVERTISING AND THE NATURAL NANNY By RONALD REAGAN "Big Brother Consumer Protector is dead." So declared one Robert B. Reich, the Federal Trade commission's director of policy planning, one day last Fall. But, in this age of bureaucratic miracles, Big Brother Consumer Protector has risen from the dead and has been reincarnated in the form of a sort of national nanny. Though the FTC, under arch- consumerist Michael Pert- schuk, has made a great deal of noise about its commitment to free enterprise and competition by pushing for advertising by doctors, lawyers, accountants and other professionals, it just can't resist reverting to its old ways of deciding what's best for you and your kids. Just like a nanny, the FTC wants tQ take care of the children. In the current "children's advertising proceeding" they are proposing to ban children's ads during of fiendish schemes to sell Frosted Crispies and the like. Mr. Pertschuk's friends may succeed in pushing through their Big Brother-National Nanny scheme for saving us all from the forces of evil, but they'll have to do without Mr. Pertschuk's direct aid. You see, a federal court has banished Pertschuk from the proceeding. U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell said Pertschuk had ruled himself out "by his emotional use of derogatory terms and characterizations > and his affirmative efforts to propagate his settled views." So much for Mr Pertschuk's objectivity. The FTC champion of free enterprise - is appealing the judge's ruling. Lest the nation's newspapers rest on their laurels, thinking the FTC zealots have overlooked them, they are wrong. In another proceeding, lume ad rate discounts for large "advertisers are "discriminatory" and "an ticompetitive." They ignore, of course, the underlying logic of volume discounts; that it costs proportionately less to sell and service a large order than a 'small one, hence a better rate. Alas, when our national nanny decides what's good or bad for us, there is no telling where she'll stoop. The Right Doctor He was dug out of the wreck of his automobile and carried to the nearest doctor's office. "I can't do anything for this man," said the doctor. "I'm a veterinary surgeon/' "You're the right man, doc," ^aid the amateur motor ist. "I was a jackass to think I could run that machine." involving the Los Angeles program times wherMihildrofr--T^mes, the FTC charges that are likely to be watching; to vofu require toy commercials to meet with prior FTC approval (Catch-22?); -to ban all com mercials that might appeal to children 8 years of age or un der; and to ban advertising of many sugared foods products to kids 12 or under. Vincent Wasilewski, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, worries about the First amendment implications of these proposed bans. He says, "Broadcasters would be prohibited from carrying commercials for diet*'drinks, some chewing gums, some toothpastes and mouthwashes-- anything containing saccharin- -unless they want to carry a 'commercial' devoted in its entirety to describing the health hazards of saccharin products." If it.becomes law, that restriction would have the effect of banning such com mercials altogether. Do we really want to prevent the companies making those products from having the ability to tell about them? Since we don't have access to the inside of Mr. Pertschuk's head or that of his aides, we can only guess at what makes them tick But it seems clear from their determined actions that they really don't think you have enough sense to say "no" to your children when you don't want them to have too many sweets. Despite the flurry of free enterprise talk at the FTC it's the same old operation. Don't worry about thinking, folks, we'll do that for you -- it seems to be saying. 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