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Show 2 Uintah Basin Standard Zoning in the Citys best interest? Roosevelt City leaders, acting in what they termed the "City's best interest", Tuesday denied a request for a zoning change that would have allowed plans to proceed for a shopping mall on Roosevelt's east end. There are many questions that arise out of such a decision, many of which cannot, or will not, be answered for years. One of the questions that we have had to ask is whether the City should or should not interfere with such matters. Many people may consider this infringment upon the free enterprise system. The City Council uses the argument that they had a strong desire to keep the downtown business district strong, and to do this they could only allow one mall into the city. They didn't feel the market could support two malls, one on each end of town. We will not argue that point, but we must ask whether the City's intervention was necessary to obtain those ends. We must put forth the question of "won't the free enterprise system take care of matters such as this?" A shopping mall is a large investment for any organization, one which The UinUh Bull STANDARD welcome all letter te the editor. AD letter meat be signed, but seme will be withheld upon request. Opinion expreaeed in letter te the editor do not nece rfly reflect the editorial policy of the STANDARD. would no be taken Dear Editor: I was a little dismayed at all the advene publicity about Myton in the near the last little .while. Coming just before Homecoming, my first thought was, how will it affect that celebration? Then I got to thinking about yean ago when we wen involved with the American Legion, helping run the Saturday night dances to pay off our Legion HalL Every time we had a disagreement" in the parking lot at the dance, we would all get very tense about how it would affect the crowd the following Saturday. What we found out was, after every little fracas at our dance, the next week we would inevitably have about double our normal crowd. Sueh is human nature. So it seems that even bad publicity doesnt seem to hurt much, just so you get some publicity. Not that our financial situation is front page news to anyone that has bothered to read the last two audits or talk with the mayor or city secretary. It has been in bad shape for quite some time. Any time your output is more than your intake, you are in trouble! I am sure to the mayor, council and secretary, sitting there trying to cope with an impossible situation, it has been extremely frustrating. In my mind, speaking strictly as a citizen who has been fairly active in community affairs the past few years, the blame for the situation we are in BASIN STANDARD A Consolidation of the Roosevelt Standard and Uintah Basin Record Published Weekly at Roosevelt, Utah 84066 P.O. Box 188 Second-Clas- s Postage paid at Roosevelt, Utah (USPS Mb-90- f) Subscription Rates: One Year, $7.00 Two Years, $12.00-P- aid in Advace PUBLISHER KEVIN ASHBY EDITOR MARK E. IBACH REPORTER DAVID NOYCE REPORTER BETH NOYCE JOAN Z. CROZIER . BUSINESS MGR. CRAIG ASHBY. . . .GENERAL MGR. YVONNE ROBERTS. CIRCULATION TYPESETTER ANGIE FISHER TYPESETTER ROBERTA GIBBS CORRESPONDENTS GLADYS ROSS, ROOSEVELT 722-277- 6 646-328- 9 IDA HORROCKS, ARCADIA TELINTHA RASMUSSEN, BALLAR0722-487- 5 454-318GARDA SEELEY, BLUEBELL 848-547- 6 TRACY ROBERTS. HANNA ARDA MANSFIELD, LAPOINT. . . .247-237- 5 LOLA JONES, ALTAM0NT NOlA NELSON, MONTWELL 454-336353-454- 4 LUDY COOPER, MVT0N CONNIE LEE, TABIONA IORNA McKEE. TRIDELL 722-48- 10 848-547- 1 247-235- 0 LORRAINE BROADHEAD, UTAHN IVY CHANDLER, RANDIETT 84B-552- 2 ORINDA GEE, DUCHESNE 738-263- 4 ZOLA SPENCER, NEOLA EDNAl SIMMONS, WHITEROCKS BARBARA ORME, MT. HOME 353-452- 8 .. 545-243- 353-483454-369- 9 0 A GRSfif 510IMM6R, U&L wm U semi, is good m Gerot) Bflstff if!0&S (i & g Gme, If RBIN5... the city, one which is already near commercial trade. On the other hand, however, to condemn the City Council's decision would be a mistake also. The decision, even had it been decided in favor of the other developer, is not one whose merits or demerits would be recognized immediately. Both developers were basing their projects on expected growth, something which has proven to be unreliable in the past. Only time will tell whether or not the Roosevelt City Council made the decision which will best meet the needs of the Roosevelt residents and businessmen. After all, isn't that what we all want? should be laid squarely at the feet of the State Board of Health, spurred on by the State, who were a bit miffed with Myton for not accepting the Johnson water system because the council at that time felt that it was inadequate for our needs. We were literally forced into taking on more than we could handle to survive. boom period During the five-yeMyton sat with her hands tied, unable to allow anyone to build in our town label because of the No new hook-up-" put on ua by the State Board of Health, until we accepted the purification system of their choice. We submitted several other purification plant plans to them that were more nearly within our budget and all were rejected. The plant that we have (and I must say its a great system if we had 500 is the only one that they would accept. One thing led to another, the school was threatened, contractors were forced out of the city limits to build. The people were ready to vote for almost anything to get us back into progress. The banks, V.A., F. H.A., all were forbidden to lend money within Myton City limits. While the Basin blossomed, we the rest-osat still This could be one reason we were not as thorough as we should have been in our research on what it would actually cost to run this plant and still be able to repay the bonds. After arguing and fighting over the situation, and being treated like f second class citizens at every lending institution in the State for five years, it seemed everyone just wanted to get it settled and get on with living. Then, as you all know, The Boom dwindled away. The projected population growth did not materialize. In fact, we lost many residents out of the Uintah Basin. Myton lost about 60 hook-up- s (families). Each one of these represented a water bill that was counted on to help pay the bonds. Now we have pure water, new water lines, and a new sewer system but because of the high interest rates very few people are building. These are the things that delemmas like ours are made of. I believe that everyone in Myton has done their part. It just seems that the situation is too big for us. We are however, still going to have a bang up HOMECOMING!!! We hope that you will all come out and support it It could be the last one we have as Myton City. Ludy Cooper Senator Flamms letter is that he knows better. A a member of the Dear Editor: Recently your paper printed a letter from State Senator Bryce Flamm of Ogden. Both the tone and contents of his letter require rebuttal, since he details the income of a woman with two children receiving every possible State or Federal benefit and asks us to believe that her case is typical, that women with children on welfare regularly receive the equivalent of $1,569 per month, counting taxes and tuition not paid. Senator Flamms choice of an example is both misleading and damaging to the thousands of assistance recipients in Utah, almost exclusively women with children, who struggle to five on far, far less. The average cash grant in Utah is $313.23 per month; the combination of grant, food stamps, and medical benefits averages $588 per month, and this figure is misleadingly high because the average for medical expenditures takes into account the small number of seriously ill children who require much greater medical care. Senator Flamm included education grants and federally subsidized housing in his example, as well as the curiosity of $25 in free legal services per month. Not only are these programs all federally funded, but it is extremely rare for a welfare recipient to obtain any of these benefits. The average welfare mother with children pays closer to 50 percent of the family income for shelter alone. The moat discouraging thing about Americans must demand return of all POWs legislative committee dealing with ublic assistance, he was given the igures stated above. He knows that the average stay on welfare in Utah is 22 months. When he appeals to the workers for input, he is choosing to ignore the truth that present welfare recipients are workers, who have paid taxes and will again. Testimony before Senator Flamms committee from women on public assistance was not a demand for money. They were pleas, often tearful and frightened, for the means to survive. These women spoke of their desire to move off public assistance, not some impossible dream of prospering on welfare. They asked for day care so they could work. We hope this information doesnt come too late to undo the damage of Senator Flamms representation of the family on public assistance in Utah. Jeffrey Montague Assistant Director Utah Issued Information Program Americans were rightfully inflamed when 53 of their citizens were held hostage 444 days in Iran. During this peroid, protests were staged on college campuses throughout the United States. Numerous marches were held as Americans publically showed the world of their dissapproval of the situation in Iran. The time has come for another demonstration. This time the hostages number almost five time those in Iran. These captives have't been held 444 days, most have been held almost 10 years. American POWs are still being held in Southeast Asia, almost eight years after the Kissinger Peace Accords were signed. Currently;.- there are 2,553 American military men still unacounted for in Southeast Asia. Of this number, the government estimates that ,336 are being held captive. The others are "presumed dead." But none of these men are presumed dead by their families. The United States government must obtain a full accounting from the Vietnamese government as to the status of each missing serviceman. These men must be "proven" dead or alive not "presumed." Last week, Vietnam returned the bodies of three Americans. Many more need to be accounted for. Senator Orrin Hatch is convinced that unrepatriated servicemen are still being held. Congressman Robert K. Dornan, chairman of the House's Asian and Pacific Affairs subcommittee, said that communist armies have withheld prisoners after every war since 1917. "Vietnam in certainly no different, "he anti-Irani- Tentless Show received poorly 1 The Utah Endowment for the Humanities Tentless Show has come and gone in Roosevelt, but I doubt that folks here know or care. I attended several of the sessions and got to know the two or three regular attenders fairly well. Only two people showed up for the Readers' Theatre on Saturday night, an excellent play about Utah pioneer women. What's the matter with this town? Several of the performer came a long way to put on these productions for us - the ladies in the pioneer play were from Provo and then nobody came to see them. I was very embarrassed for our town. These folks are liable to think we're just a bunch of deadheads out here. Is that what we want? Name Withheld by Request in Provo Canyon, e Mr. and Mrs. Jerry and Turnbow family came to spend a week wtih Mr. and Mrs. Leo Turnbow! While here they received word Jer- ry's Loure daughter an - Dear Editor. Utah Issues deny senators charges THE UINTAH by Barry McWilliams the threat of failure were paramount. A second question we must ask deals with the area of business growth within Roosevelt. We recognize the need for Roosevelt to expand in a direction which offers the most space, namely the south and west, but should the city curtail growth because a certain business desires to locate in another area of hook-ups- ), Mytons problems blamed on State if &P.fkodb$ D. Gines, of Doris Gines and the late Floyd Gines, passed away Monday, July 6, at her home in Salt Lake. Funeral services were held Thursday in Salt Lake with burial in Salt Lake. Loure was born Dec. 2, 1964 in Murray where she spent her life. She is survived by two brothers, Alvin and Brent and three sisters, Juanita, Burgess and Deloris, Salt Lake. Also surviving is her Ben Neff. step-fatheDoris is the daughter of Elthora and Clinton Casper. She lived here many years. Those attending the funeral from this area were Ha Casper, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Casper, Grace Giles, Nina and Ferron Gines, Edna Giles and Irene Robb. Mrs. Florence Turn-bospent a week taking care of Marva Anderson and Marsha Harmon's children while they went to Stake MIA Camp in southern Utah. e A week ago Florence and Leo Turnbow attended the Turnbow reunion r, w 93 year-ol- d grand- mother had passed away. Jerry's wife had lived with her tor some years, so they returned home before the vacation was over. e Visitors at the home of Evelyn and Wayne Jones for the 4th of July were Mr. and Mrs. Craig Nielson and family, Salt Lake; and Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Jones and grandchildren, Bonanza, e Mrs. Evelyn Jones and Dolly Lindsay and son went to Salt Lake Monday to keep doctor and dentist appointments. Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lee this weekend were Robert Lee and a friend of the Lee's, Reba Redding, Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Skewes and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lee this weekend on their way to their new home in VernaL A large crowd attended the July 4th celebration at the Tabiona cultural center, where there was a breakfast, ball parade, games, games, rodeo, food, and a dance to complete the day. Insulate and Giaanino Expert Carpet Geaning General Geaning) Services Insulation Tim Rockwood said. -m Alexander Solzhenitsyn said it best: ' "There was such a hurry to make this truce (the Kissinger Peace Accords) that they forgot to liberate your own Americans from captivity. They were in such a hurry to sign this cIoclh ment that some 1 ,300 Americans, 'Well, they have vanished; we can get by without them. How is that done? How can this be? Part o.f them, indeed can be missing in actjon, but the leaders of North Vietnam themselves have admitted that some of them are still be a part of your returned ing kept in prison POWs told you they were tortured. Thi means that those who have remained were tortured even more, but did not yeild. These are your best people, these are yoiF heroeslll" , ..President Reagan, has designotedJulyiAX as a National Recognition Day of POWs and those still missing in action. Brian Hayes, the local representative of the National League of Families of American POWs and Missing in Southeast Asia, said that Roosevelt's recognition day will be July 18.; A "Silent Brigade" march will start at 10. a.m. It will begin at Roosevelt Elementary-SchoolEveryone is invited to participate.; After the march, about 10:30 a.m.V' ceremonies will be held at the Old City Park. Government and civic leaders will be the speakers. People are also asked to pray for the nearly 2,600 missing men and their families on; Sunday, July 19. Here is a chance for Basin residents to publically show that they care about these! men and their families. Americans must demand an accounting of their heroes. . ... . e Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lee for the holiday were Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Pace and Travis; Lee, Jerry Mike and the Lees Friday were Stephanie, Shawn, and Jill Schiller. Dorothy Moon and Jean They are staying up Fabrizio. North Fork for a week vacation. Also visiting WE ARE STILL STUDYING PHARMACY W hen a pharmacist graduates from his College of Pharmacy (now it takes 5 years or more), he must pass a state examination to prove his knowledge, so that he can safely be trusted to compound and dispense drugs and prescriptions. At that time he is an expert on the storage, uses, safe dosage and the incompatibilities of every medicine. The next day, an entirely new drug discovery may be released. To keep up to date with these frequent new products we carefully read our drug journals, medical publications and pharmaceutics suppliers literature. Often a physician will phone us to find out if we have a new product in our prescription laboratory. The odds are we do, or we can get it the same day. "Retail for RiliabilHy" Rootmlt, 722-245- 4 722-209- 0 RfiRHtRL&KQRHftMOA m |