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Show A Vital Issue The problem of united effort in securing the best possible pos-sible route for the interstate highway to pass through or around Cedar City seems to have created a lot of confusion confu-sion which certainly has done little to achieve any fair and unbiased decision as to what is best for the community, commun-ity, or what may serve the most people at the smallest inconvenience in-convenience or damage to the smallest possible number of citizens. Rather the question seems to have created a lot of confusion and accusations against the Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, its officers and members, rather than to reach a fair solution to the problem. The Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce should be interested in the problem of highway service to the community, because nothing has more far-reaching effect on any community than does the highway connections connec-tions that community has. Certainly the pfficers should study carefully any problem as important as this to the community, and do everything possible in the interest of the community as a whole. The Chamber has proposed to study all possible or probable routes to determine which would be the most feasible and the most beneficial. The officers shouK iake the Jead in such a study and in bringing the people as much information on the subject as possible, in order that the community as a whole might unite for what the citizens think would be the best for the city and its people. This is. what these officers have attempted at-tempted to do, and in doing so they have asked that all people interested express their opinions openly and frankly frank-ly so that a fair decision might be reached. A divided commun'ty will result in the city losing any voice it may have had in a. selection of the route. A united community may succeed in bringing a far-reaching and worthwhile service to the community. The time for the final decision on the highway route is not far off, and we feel that all citizens, whether businessmen, business-men, laborers, home owners, or just citizens, should strive to reach a fair and unbiased decision and then unite behind that decision in order to do the most good for the community com-munity in which we make our homes and earn our living liv-ing and in which we raise our children. Certainly there should be no bickering on this issue, but rather sound, rational ra-tional study of the problem. |