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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 VOLUME 63, NUMBER 26 JUNE 25, 1975
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK INDEPENDENCE NOTICE: THERE WILL BE NO VESTNIK PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 9th, 1975. a • * We repeat a portion of last week's editorial, in case some of our readers missed it, mentioning the fact that the Society's contract with the publisher for our Vestnik calls for 52 issues per year, and that counting from Wednesday, January 1, 1975 to Wednesday, December 31, 1975, we have 53 issues. This does not happen very often and the thought occurred that this presented an excellent opportunity to give the employees at the printshop a vacation from their duties with the Vestnik. We have checked with Brother Ed Mazanec, chairman of the Publication Committee, the publisher, and notified the Supreme Lodge that the issue of the Vestnik which would be dated Wednesday, July 9, 1975, will not be published and will be omitted this year. This will give some of the Vestnik personnel the week of June 30th - July 5th off. Your editor will take care of incoming mail and necessary replies during that period. a * Now and then some of us pause long enough to wonder if many people stop and realize when our four seasons really begin and the
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. —Ibsen * * He travels the fastest who travels alone. —Kipling * * I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. —Thoreau * * How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. —Sir Henry Wotton changes they bring. For instance, summer really began last weekend (June 21-22), and brought us the longest day of the year! Now the earth has begun its annual shift of the northern hemisphere back to the south, spinning on its axis of north and south poles, and, in September, the equator will be directly under the sun when we will have equal days and nights. Probably, not long ago, we were humming, "Bring Back Those Lazy, Crazy, Hazy Days of Summer" and, lo and behold, here they are and will continue until September, when fall is ushered in.
Yes, without these annual changes, life would become a drudgery and boresome. Let us, therefore, take life in our everyday stride and make the most of it. a Here we would like to reprint something from the Texas Highway Department News: Trigger-happy gunmen are endangering the lives of motorists. Texas Hwy. Dept. officials report an upsurge of vandalized signs and safety markers in the last several months. Self-styled "marks men" have been shooting out reflectorized object markers, delineators, flashing signal lights and stationary signs erected to guide and direct motorists at danger points on the highway. Motorists' lives are endangered when these safety devices are destroyed. One woman was lucky to escape death when her vehicle was struck broadside at a highway intersection north of Del Rio. Witnesses say they had seen two men shoot out lens on all sides of the flashing signal at this dangerous intersection. Some of the culprits are caught and punished. One man was fined $150, plus $44 court costs, by a district court judge and then ordered to pay $150 for replacing the lens of a flashing signal that he had shot out — $344 for his "hunting"