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IjOCAL Stale C3 Opinions C4 Comics C10-11 EDITOR: ERIC RUTAR 344-2547 ci THE DAILY HERALD FRIDAY. Al'Gl ST Contestants discover they won new phone charge Meanwhile, McArthur remains confused about took place. "When I signed up for the drawing, they never said word about joining." McArthur said. "When 1 asked them later why I wasn't told anything, they ju.4 kind of hum-hawed around. I was just innocently filling out a form for a drawing." Officials at the State Attorney General's Office said they had not received any complaints about the company or organization.

grant a business or organization permission to initiate or change phone services, the West operator said. When McArthur called Hold to question the bills, they also told her she was locked into an 11-month membership with the Veterans Association at $4.85 a month. When McArthur complained, the Veterans Association rescinded the imposed costs and canceled her membership, she said. When The Daily Herald called the phone number for ment of her sister's house. When she signed up to win a $25,000 car, she decided to enter her mother and sister, too.

This month, her mother and sister found a glitch in their West phone bills: A $10 charge from a voice messaging service called Hold. It is possible to unknowingly be signed on to a new phone service through drawings like the one McArthur is concerned about, according to West officials. Sometimes the fine print on the drawing form will By RYAN VAN BENTHUYSEN The Daily Herald OREM Even people without a telephone can sign up for phone services they didn't ask for. When Elayne McArthur and her boyfriend signed up for a drawing in the parking lot in front of the Orem Shop-Ko in June, they didn't realize they were joining the Veterans Association of America. McArthur doesn't even have a telephone in her name because she lives in the base Robert Kirby Billings A dventure seekers, lend an ear lis '7 7 P.

,0 Hold issued by West operators there answered with "Veterans Association of America." There is a separate phone number listed as the Veterans Association of America. Both are toll-free numbers. Directory assistance in Salt Lake City or Provo could not find a business listing for a company called Hold. Operators there referred all questions to an executive vice president of marketing, who did not return repeated phone messages left by The Daily Herald. 1 '4 WW passed on from one generation to the next." He is charging $5 for adults and $3 for children under 12, but he will have discount rates for families and groups that want to go through.

The park will be open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to dark through October. If the weather stays nice enough, Carlisle said he would stay open for Halloween and maybe even Thanksgiving. sr. i -aw Saga seems corny, but amazing maze is made up of maize What's Friday without a few healthy chuckles? One again, a little Friday humor culled from the Internet.

First some more bumper stickers sent in response to last Friday's column. A squirrel is just a rat with good P.R. Help, I've fallen and I Hey, nice carpet! A)bort, R)etry, Dnfluence with a large hammer. Toad: what happens to an illegal-, ly parked frog. Guillotine operator wanted.

Chance to get ahead. Compost! Because a rind is a ter- rible thing to waste. I can see clearly now, the brain is i i Dijon vu: the feeling you've tast-? ed that mustard before. Tactics: breath freshener for dyslexics. Smith Wesson: the original "point and click" interface.

GOOD QUESTION: Here are the kinds of things to ask people you don't mind driving crazy. After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of the water? How can there be self-help i "groups?" If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi? If a mute swears, does his mother make him wash his hands with soap? If someone has a mid-life crisis while playing hide seek, does he automatically lose because he can't i find himself? If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and i insecure? I Is there another word for syn-J onym? Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their picket i signs? When you open a new bag of cot- ton "balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away? BIG MESS: In a recent issue of "Meat Poultry" magazine, editors quoted from "Feathers," the publica-1 tion of the California Poultry Industry Federation, telling the following story. It seems the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device 1 for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies.

The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass impact, itU survive a real collision with a bird during flight. It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new, speedy locomotive they're developing. They borrowed FAA's i chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired. The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, broke the engineer's chair and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine cab. The British were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly.

The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation: "Use a thawed chicken." Kirby welcomes responses to his column at P.O. Box 684, Springville, UT, 84663, or rkirbyitsnet.com sssti Ex-Provo CAO in mayoral race By RUSTY PAYNE The Daily Herald PROVO Lewis Billint stepped out of the mayor's office Wednesday and kicked off a campaign he hopes leads him back to that same place. Billings officially filed for candidacy in the Provo mayoral election Thursday at the city recorder's office, then Lewi Billings spoke to a group of about 7r) friends and supporters to officially announce his intentions. "I believe I stand here with a good idea of what it takes to run the city," Billings said a day after he stepped down as the city's chief administrative officer, a job which features much work alongside the mayor. "The theme of this campaign is 'Quality of We need to work to preserve what we love most about Provo," he said.

Billings said the biggest issue is dealing with growth. He addressed crime and traffic and key issues tied into the growth, as well as afford able housing and taxes. "We have neighborhoods and we need to protect them," he said. "We've got to ensure quality growth. I will regularly seek to meet wilh people.

It's not possible to give everyone what thev want, but it's possible for everyone to get their say." With Billings in the race, speculation is now focused on whether Councilman Kail Thalman will also file. Thalman said he hasn't decided yet. He hasn't filed yet to retain his council seal, either. The filing deadline is Aug. 15.

The only other candidate to file for the mayoral race is Salvador Melo. Orem looking for economic help OREM If you want to guide the city's economic development, you've got until Aug. 15 to send in your resume. CEDO will begin evaluating the applications Aug. 21.

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The puzzle is not as long and tiring as the maze, which was cut into seven acres of sweet corn. The puzzle corn has already reached 9 feet tall and is still growing, which Carlisle said is unique even for the hybrid corn he used. He hopes to add a "corn room" to the puzzle later this year to offer a little hiding place in the corn. He said it takes about a half-hour to an hour to go through the puzzle, depending on which challenges a person follows. Carlisle made up the challenge levels to add a little more fun to the puzzle.

Three age groups determine the challenge of the puzzle: toddlers, kindergart-ners and adults. For toddlers, the challenge is just to get through the puzzle. Kindergartners are challenged to go over the two bridges before they finish, and adults are challenged to complete the maze and go over the two bridges. For people who get bored or frustrated, Carlisle made sure there was always access to the exit, which is clearly marked with two huge beehives and yellow flags. Carlisle also plans to sell the sweet corn from the maze for $3 a dozen.

The corn from the puzzle will be used as By BEKKI JANSON The Daily Herald AMERICAN FORK Growing corn just wasn't enough for Bob Carlisle. As owner of 40 acres in American Fork that holds corn crops and horse boarding stables, Carlisle decided that he wanted something new to spice up the old family business. What he came up with is a corn puzzle and maze park called the Carlisle Garden and Corn Maze, 1021 E. 1100 North, American Fork (one block north of the Mount Timpanogos Temple). "I wanted to farm the 40 acres to pass on to my kids," he said.

"But I wanted it to generate some more money for them than just from the crops." So he spent five years designing and plotting his dream. After strategically planting corn to create a puzzle, building two 70-foot-long, 12-foot-tall ramps and landscaping the outside of the maze, Carlisle is proud to claim that the park is open today. "It's a lot of work, but it is worth it," he said. "I plan to change the design every year so every year will be different." The Carlisle Garden and Corn Maze features a four-acre corn puzzle park, which, Carlisle said, requires more JASON Ol.SON The Duly Herald Cornfuslon rules: Now that he's built it, Bob Carlisle hopes they come to his corn maze and puzzle in American Fork. feed for his goats.

Although this is more of a commercial venture for Carlisle than the usual family business of farming, he believes it will keep a taste of the country after new development engulfs the land surrounding him. "I think I'll be the only farmer left in the area because of all the construction around the new temple," he said. "What I'm doing will preserve the land and be JPOORCOPY.