Weekly make-up meetings, National Hotel each Wednesday, 6 P.M.

The late William S. Knudson, immigrated to America at the age of 16. Before he could speak our language he landed a job with General Motors Corporation...eventually working his way to the presidency of that great company. During World War II, President Roosevelt made him a Lieutenant-General in charge of the production of all war material. He was one of the great production experts of all time. He also was a very humble, down-to-earth man who applied himself every minute of every day.

One of the things he lived by was, "Above all, make yourself do the things you know you should do." A simple statement but very hard to live by.

It means many things....if we make a promise we should abide by it. If we recognize a fault in ourselves we should strive to correct it. We should deal only in the truth. We should not procrastinate. The list could go on and on but only we can complete it as it applies to ourselves.

He goes on to tell us that he kept three words paramount in his thinking, recognize--analyze--corect.

Recognize that a situation exists. A job to be done, a fault to correct, a decision to make. Regardless of what may face each of us, take the second step. Analyze the situation. Think it out to the best of your ability and determine what course of action must be taken. Then do not delay...act. Get the job done and off your mind.

Mr. Knudson states that during his life he constantly had to prod himself to follow this course of action and in his own words, "Make my lazy body do the things my mind knows I should." Words of infinite wisdom.

To change ourselves and our habits is one job that is the most difficult of all. To slip, slide and procrastinate is the easiest, yet most difficult. To get a job done constitutes much thinking, planning, and pushing of one's self. To follow these simple rules we can greatly simplify our own problems and certainly our life will run a much smoother course.

If you want to leave your footprints in the sands of time, wear your workshoes

Vital Statistics from the Secretary's report to Lions International--

1 new member... 2 dropped... total 85.

August is an active month for our club. Members were active in the publication and sales of the Fair Book, our major money making project of the year. We entered a float in the fair parade. We presented a registered Holstein Calf to the oustanding 4-H boy.

In July 5 pairs of glasses were bought by the club and 3 pairs during August.

Lion Zone Chairman, Fred Allen, attended the District Governors Cabinet Meeting in Boise.

We presented 22 100% pins, 4 five year 100% perfect attendance pins, 7 ten year Old Monarch chevrons, 5 fifteen year Old Monarch chevrons and 3 twenty year chevrons. The three twenty year men are Lions Olin Baker, Kales Lowe and Joe Weldon. Hats off to all of these old-timers.

Now that the big push of the fair book is history, there are few projects that utilize the help of the entire membership. We would like to make a suggestion to the Vice-Presidents and the Directors of the club concerning the activities of the appointed standing committees. When the Board annually sets up the committees at the first of the year there is a division of these committees placed under the direction of each Vice-President and it is his job to over-see the committee to make sure it is active. Each of these committees has a vital function and obligation to the club. The President does not have the time from his business to see that each committee is active and the responsibility is placed on the officer in charge. The Chairman of each committee should take it upon himself to hold meetings with his members and invite the officer in charge to attend also. They should make plans for their various activities and then present the plans to the Board of Directors for their approval. Propere planning and concrete ideas are a must. Planning is a tradition of the club and the successful completion of any project is dependent entirely on the groundwork that is laid beforehand.

The Board of Directors cannot possibly instigate all activities. It is your club and your ideasx are as good as those presented by the next man. Out of eighty-five men there surely can be much good. If you are not active, you have no right to criticize those things which the other members may do. We should at least do enough to earn that right.

We urge the committee chairmen to contact their officer in charge when looking for someone with whom to have a cup of coffee and discuss the committee function. Then call your committee together and get something rolling.

From time to time the Lioneer will publish the committees and their members who have started a project on their own and will be happy to have a story to print. We sincerely hope we do not have to do this in reverse and print those who are not and have not been active.

Let's get on the stick and make this a banner year.

In the August issue of The Lioneer wherein we set forth a copy of the District 39-W District Governors contest rules, we made mention of "Rule 14." There was no clarification whatsoever of what Rule 14 meant.

The reason is that we had an article written about the tentative list of rules as given us by Lion Zone Chairman Fred Allen that he brought from the Boise Cabinet Meeting. On the Sunday morning that we were to finish cutting stencils and print the Lioneer, we were called by President Truman and given the list of rules as we printed them. We had to destroy the stencil on our original article and make a reprint. In doing so we ended up having no explanation whatsoever of said Rule 14.

Rule 14 was tentatively set up to allow points to each club for hours and dollars expended for community betterment as suggested by the Lioneer in a previous issue. It was so worded that it would put the smaller clubs to a disadvantage and it was protested by Lion Fred so vigerously that final ratification of the rules was delayed while a special committee of four was appointed to make recommendations to the Governor. While we do not know what their report was, Rule 14 and five other rules were deleted. These other rules thrown out had to do with points for attendance at sister club meetings and their Charter Nights.

We thought we at least owed our readers an explanation of "Rule 14."

Lion Zone Chairman Fred Allen has set the date of September 21 for the next Zone Meeting. We understand from Lion Fred that one of the main topics will be that of setting up the dates for the annual sale of Live, Inc. products in our Zone.

We would like to again comment on the worthiness of this project and the value if has as a money-making project for the individual clubs, as well as the tremendous lift it gives to the Lions sponsored organization to assist the handicapped to learn to make their own way. With proper organization within the club and the proper advertising to the people in each community, both city and rural, it beats the tar out of selling light bulbs or fruit cake. The community welcomes with open arms the chance to buy goods worth the money and at the same time help its local Lions Club and Live, Inc.

We have found it to be the easiest selling job that can be found. Not only that, but it brings great joy and satisfaction to the members together with wonderful fellowship. Get the Lionesses out to do the driving and have a get-together with coffee and sandwiches afterward. It is the finest all-around project of the year for any Club. Don't miss the boat.

To the other clubs who may read this we say, "Do not let Lion Fred, Live, Inc.. nor your own members down on this one."

During the summer several Burley Lion Club members visited TEXAS. While out on the town one evening for dinner a typical TEXAS shower ensued. By the time the evening's festivities were over, 4 inches of rain had fallen. Yes, you're right - you guessed it - the morning newspaper report on the weather for the preceding 24 hour period read, "Traces of dew and a slight overcast."

Well, that's TEXAS for you!

The Lioneer is the monthly news bulletin for the Burley Lions Club. It is the voice of the club collectively, the voice of committees and the voice of individuals. The Lioneer invites committees and/or individuals to take advantage of this publication for expressions of general interest.

If The Lioneer has a worthwhile purpose and if its existence can be justified, it should serve as a menas of orientation of new members. It should keep the members of the club up to date on the current program and projects. It should carry information to other clubs, to the Zone, to the District and to Lions International. It should help to formulate the District programs. The one thing it must always be conscious of and strive to do is to be constructive and fair at all times in dealing with all matters which are or may be controversial.

The Lioneer committee holds a planning meeting at which time assignments are made to each member as to what he is to do for the next publication. After each member has rough drafted his assignment, another meeting is held in which each draft is edited by the group. It is most common to alter and change the rough draft for final publication. These changes are approved and agreed upon by the committee. The point which is to be made clear here is simply this - that The Lioneer is not an expression of several individuals but rather an expression of the collective thinking of the Lioneer committee. The committee also feels that this is enough of a collective expression that it is desirous of having The Lioneer remain such, and in no way does the committee have any intention of letting expressions be identified as those of any individual member of the committee. We wish The Lioneer to remain a personality of The Lioneer rather than facets of many personalities.

Now, should The Lioneer carry comments from a committee or from an individual (other than those of The Lioneer committee members), then that author will be identified.

And again, we welcome contributions from each and everyone of you. Just remember to make your copy in columns a half-page wide and typed for easy reading. This will help us tremendously in knowing how much space will be taken up in cutting the stencils.

It may be of interest to you to know that the cover of The Lioneer is a product of the silk screen process. This process, while no easy task, is easier to work than to describe. Those not familiar with this kind of work would have to see it done to fully appreciate what is involved. We could not do the process justice by attempting to describe it here. Perhaps at some future time we could put on a program in the club demonstrating this intricate process.

Before you can score you must first have a goal.

------------------- Goethe

For the sixth year the Burley Lions Club has awarded a registered heifer calf to the outstanding 4-H boy at the Cassia County Fair. On this Golden Anniversary of the Fair, the winner was Lane Gochnour, Route 2, Burley.

We congratulate Lane on his good fortune and also the Boys and Girls committee headed by Jim Henson for their fine work.

To bring you up to date on the past winners, we are listing their names in order for the preceding five years.

1955 - LaMont Anderson. His cow has produced 5 head of registered stock.
1556 - Dean Allen - 3 head of registered stock.
1957 - Max Fowler - 3 head of registered stock.
1958 - Royce Sorenson - 2 head of registered stock
1959 - Calvin Edwards - 1 calf.

These calves we have presented now make a total of 20 head of registered dairy cattle. One of the requirements of the winner is that he must breed only to registered bulls, thereby continuing the unbroken line of only registered dairy cattle.

We have added one requirement of this year's winner - that he must bring the first heifer calf back to be presented to another boy. Thereby making two winners two years from now and giving another boy a chance to start a dairy herd.

We urge the future board of directors to continue the project for we are sure the past winners have benefitted greatly from the start the Lions Club of Burley has given them and in talking to some of the boys we know they are very appreciative of this worthwhile gift.

Those of you who visited the 4-H cattle showing in the Fair could not help but be very proud of the array of fine heifers that were gifts of the Burley Lions Club.

Your attendance Committee has dedicated itself to achieve an average attendance at regular club meetings above the 85% goal set up for District 39-W. it is the attendance at regular meetings that increases interest in the club and in Lionism. See your next issue of the Lioneer for a plan we intend to use to stimulate attendance.

The weekly make-up meetings on Wednesday at 6 P.M. at the National Hotel will be continued so those of you who are unable to attend a regular meeting can make it up at this meeting. A member of the committee will remind you of this make-up meeting by telephone. Each week a different member of the committee will be in charge of this make-up meeting. Beginning Wednesday, September 14, Wilbur Biermann will be in charge; Wednesday, September 21, Don Dumas, September 28, Jim Miller, and Vern Roberts on October 5.

If you are a club officer, director, or committee chairman, and are planning a special director's meeting or committee meeting please advise a member of the Attendance Committee of this meeting so if necessary it can be used for a make-up meeting. The committee members' office and home phone numbers are listed below.

We herewith list Attendance Make-Up Rules as set forth by Lions International.

Absence from a regular meeting of the Lions Club may be made up within the time limits of six days prior to and six days following the date of the meeting missed, through attendance at any of the following.

1. Meeting of any other Lions Club, regular or special;
2. Meeting of the Members home club Board of Directors;
3. Duly constituted meeting of a standing committee of member's home club; (any com. meeting)
4. Any meeting scheduled or sponsored by the member's own club. (National Hotel any Wednesday, 6 P.M.)
5. Regional meeting;
6. Zone meeting;
7. International, State, District of area convention or any other recognized Lions meeting.
8. Lions who visit the office of Lions International when in Chicago, are allowed attendance make-up if such visit is made within the above named time limits. Cards announcing such visits are presented to Lions when they visit the International Office.
9. A member who is forced to miss meetings by reason of illness shall automatically be granted attendance credit for meeting(s) missed upon acceptable evidence of said illness.
10. A member who is forced to miss meetings as a result of Military Service, jury duty or other statutory requirements will be given attendance credit for meeting(s) missed.

Phone numbers of committee members:

Wilbur Biermann Home -8-8115; Off-8-7266
Don Dumas       Home          Off-8-5381
Jim Miller      Home -8-7540  Off-8-2281
Vern Roberts    Home -8-7791  Off-8-8020

Don't think your children are entirely hopeless, look at your own love letters.

Who??????

This Lion was born in the neighboring town of Paul but began school in Burley and graduated from the Burley High School.

He began accepting challenges at an early age. Although he was the smallest kid in the Pep Band, in which he played for five years, he chose the largest instrument - the bass horn.

He attended I. S. C. where he specialized in a good time. He joined the Army Signal Corp and spent two years in New Guinea.

He was married in 1946 to the daughter of a Burley Lion Charter Member, then spent a year at school in San Francisco. He has worked as truck driver and service station attendant his wife informs us that his favorite food is food. He has two daughters. He is an ardent skier and also likes golf and dabbles with bowling and hunting.

He has served on the Board of Directors and came up through the ranks to become Burley's youngest Lion President. He enjoys his club and is always on hand to do his share of any activity sponsored by the club.

Natives who beat drums to frighten away evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow their horns in traffic jams.

As has been announced at our regular club meetings - October has been set aside by Lions International as the time for the annual Membership Development Program. This program is necessary in every club. It provides a means of getting the top notch people in the community in our club. It is a program designed to keep new blood coming into the club.

It is the duty of every active member to refer the names of any good prospective members to the membership committee. Do it now --- let's initiate a large class in October.

International President Finis Davis has sent out a request to all Lions Clubs to initiate a "Crash Program" - of getting all eligible voters registered so they may vote in the forthcoming general election, November 8. Those not registered by November 5 will not be allowed to exercise their most Priceless Heritage.

At the next Board of Directors meeting we will discuss our club's activity in this important field. Meantime, find out if you are registered -- and where to go to register -- so that you may direct others. You need to register if: You have become of age -- You have moved -- You didn't vote in the last General Election.

The Malta Lions Club is sponsoring a local rodeo in Malta next Saturday, September 24. As I understand it, they are having the rodeo at Lion Glen Parks Ranch. In the evening there will be dinner and a dance. I know that some are planning to go -- hope you can make it.

August was a most active month for our club. As you know, this club participated in several activities of the County Fair and Rodeo. We certainly appreciate all that each of you did to help keep this club the Top Service Club in the area. We are still hoping that the rural intersection project will be completed this month so that we can have a money making project in October. We must keep working -- the eyes of the community are on this club. It takes a lot of work to reach and hold the Top Spot.

The month of October has been designated by Lions International for membership development. Our president has set a goal of twelve new qualified members for the Burley Lions Club.

Every member should be on the lookout for business and professional men who have a sincere desire to be of greater service to this community. membership in the Burley Lions Club offers a man the opportunity to combine his efforts with club members to accomplish worthwhile projects. We all know that individually we can do little, but by working together as a group, a great deal can be done.

The long list of projects and the eyesight work of the Burley Lions Club should convince prospective members that we are a working club ready to serve.

In looking for new members let's find who can merge themselves into the spirit of Lionism and community service. ????? addition of new members to our roster, let's be more proud than ever to say, "It's great to be a Lion!"

One to Know ---

Ormand Burch who with his wife, Verlie and their children, Terri and ?lanne reside at 3000 Normal Avenue. Ormand attended school in Heyburn, Idaho where he graduated in 1948. Verlie attended school in Burley, graduating in 1949... she attended the L.D.S. Business College, Salt Lake and I.S.C., Pocatello. The couple was married in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple, Feb. 24, 1955 Ormand was employed by Handy Truck Line in Heyburn for approximately six years before attending the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science, from which he was graduated December 1959. He is now associated with McCulloch Funeral Home, Burley. Ormand enjoys flying and holds a private pilots license. He likes to participate in all sporting activities. He has greatly enjoyed being a Lion member thus far.

The completion of the sales of the Fair Book for the fiftieth Cassia County Fair was the culmination of months of planning and work by the committees involved. It is illustrative of the drive and cooperation of Lions in getting a big project done. The willingness with which the subscribers bought advertising and the fair-goers bought books attest to the community's esteem for the service projects promoted by the Lions.

Although the final count is not in, the total take promises to be near the amount received last year. Although the attendance at the fair was lower, the sale of advertising was good. Lions Hap Reynolds, Jim Lynch, Guy Newman, Charles Skaggs and Robert Walkup report there were more than 475 advertisers represented in the fair book.

The attractive makup of the book was the result of the hard work of Lions Jim Henson, Lloyd Hollinger, Rulon Budge, Dick Fullmer and Earl Carlson. Lions Waldo Fletcher, Wilbur Malone and Frank Lukens put on the old Lions sales pressure to get the books into the hands of the fair crowds. They found the Lions' booth built by Karl Detton to be a big help in keeping everything in hand.

The fair book project goes on with the 1961 fair committees already appointed and ready to profit from the suggestions of the 1960 committees, which we thank for a job well done.

Wanted--------

POST HOLE DIGGERS - Lions who are strong of arm, possessed with energy, and filled with a desire to serve. you are needed to dig post holes for road markers. Road markers will be furnished -- bring your own tools. See Lion Herman Bedke.

Wanted-------

Lady Post Hole Diggers - Lionesses who can provide encouragement and sustenance for Lion Post Hole Diggers. You are invited to come along.

Even though our club is one of the largest in the district, we are constantly in need of new members. We are constantly in need of new members. We are constantly losing our members to other communities and various other reasons. We must keep our membership up or we will lose our effectiveness in Burley.

Each one of us should be on the lookout for men who can qualify as a member of the Burley Lions Club. Pick your man carefully--we want good members.

Before you invite a man to become a member, be certain that he has been approved by the membership committee and the Board of Directors. Give the name of your prospective member to Jack Holland, Herman Bedke or Newel Nelson, the membership committee, bring him to a regular meeting so that other club members may get acquainted with him, then, after he has been approved, invite him to join our club.

Remember, new members assure our existence.

Time, like a river, rolls imperceptibly away, till it loses itself in the vast ocean of eternity. Happy they who mark its periods by deeds which shall bear record when time itself shall be no more.