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Show SE VAVi 11, By 1 OVE11121 THE VAST - At last ç3 (Q91;t1 (r WAIT atriM 1.44 crrotAM117ttt011;rAM atillIT 1:4 '- - I: a green fringe appears along the sandhills in the distance, and then the friendly cotton. woods that crowd' the river bank come into sight. Nothing has ever been so welcome to weary travelers anywhere as those gnarled monarchs of the Wed.heralds of water and people on the desert. Finally the jaded tourists come round 'a bend where a service station greets them, and they drag themselves, and Ihnp, from their overcrowded cars. They go straight for the water or pop Cooler. And after the first refreshing draught has revived them, they accost the service Station 'attendant with the hackneyed does anyone make a living in ,.lour4t, question:: this , country?" flat-topp- te l'4 4,r1 iS,?ltr-177c2-- : ar...:. - V E21 aef, JslusIness tycoons and shy young peo plo alike thaw out and lava fun kerning to dance the new Arthur Murray way. They seam to (mare-do- : , ro-..- sun-blind- f ' Wave." v 4(11 n. a ;-- sa ' IP 1,4 1 45aZ . a 1 If ' questioner's-stoov,--weathered-fi- ni.sooar fi.irst-ste- -- :. ' - -- ' - - Iwbb , e f r'llt., , - 14 - IZ, , ki. t I 1 . ; J r t 0 ( ps ( V oi:, C7,ot , 111.1 ff., Oli ::;? ') '' aenanears ' I sums of money would be made. i Then frost came, cruelly killing the young trees and the hopes of the farmers. Bankrupt, defeated, they moved qn, leaving fine homes vacant and the land un- . tendcl. The Kansan shakes his head and, getting back into his car, wonders how this weather ever cools off enough to freeze. the the draw l of the Texan' on the customary question, he prepares to impress him with the great possibilities of oil that lie hidden in those anticlines that push far to the south' in the desert. "Why man," he declares, "this country is so punctured with test wells that jackrabbits have trouble put- ting down a good clean burrow. All the big oil outfits have looked here, and they're holding this as an oil re- serve for future years." The Texan doesn't question this, for surely the economy of nature meant such apparent waste for something. He doesn't remember that he didn't hear precisely how anyone makes a living out here. , g to fete d acquiring grecs and is demo ono of the of on Art h yr mum", donca soon . Thom ups aasy to Room th. ayt steps " --- ce -- - rr 1. HE '''' at hand before he begins his answer: He sees by the and plateandby the keen eyes that he is talking with a prairie man from Kansas. This man will hear how the land in this valley (,.....) once sold for MOO an acre to farmers from the Middle-- . -')west, lured here by promises that this would become a peach empire. In four years the thriving young orchards t. th , covered the valley, and hopes were high that fabulous V , Endo patient Arthur Murroy 10' ' oc ' Om ,,,., Lip HE GLANCES hastilyt)Pat the license plate of the tourist 5 ' te !!Pl God-forsak- This busy mule grease-smeare- d and sweating, is not annoyed by the question. Indeed, he has rehearsed his answers on tourists before these, and he is himself in- terested in seeing how the answer comes out this time. Nobody, he knows, is going to know enough about this country to call him a liar. nIXE oine. ;rr,-- - WSW 111T (atartolcrentyral' d beside the road. I 0 1 'lir 'MAT' dry stretches of the Greenriver Desert, and shimmering in the July beat, leave tourists bewildered and depressed. Miragestheir tool, linvitlpg.,!thadows so deceptivedance before them in that endless gray waste, and the only sign off life they see in miles may be a single prairie dog standing at attention sun-bake- t GILLIS U,NA AVA ' 4).,,1 1 - ..--- - --- "Beginners, timid dancers and good' dancers oil find Murray class- es a lot of fun. Thanks to the'.: ,A11:7's N'f , A 1 ' :: . , -,- . -- '1 A ' 1 - new Arthur Murray Way, they're dons-- , ,È like experts in al- hug New Yorker inSKEPTICAL, - spires the attendant's best powers of imagination; His service becomes narrow-eye- d and deliberate as he cat ually asks this critical traveler whether he has ever heard of Zane Gray's "Robber's Roost." With his questioner thus already put at a disadvantage, he accounts some of the adventures of the venturesome outlaw gang that used this very townGreenriveras its outfitting post. He gives it an added air of romance by referring to the Robber's Roost chief, Butch Cassidy, as "the Robin Hood of the West"never guilty of killing a man or molesting the poor. He incidentally implies that those box canyons still harbor characters the law wouldn't mind catching. The tourist moves on, his question unanswered but his skepticism a bit The day draws to a close. The purple mists rise -- - from the - river- - and drift over the breaking the grip of the day's searing heat. The tired attendant locks up for the night, at peace with the world because he has had good profits and good listeners. Walkwellca' ing the few .ilocks to his comfortable home and answers of some the over red-for runs he idly family, he's turned out today. And then he notices how silent and uncommunicative the desert has becomehow much the river still seems to be the only thing with a meaning here. Lacking a better way to put the mystery, he wonders to himself area. how anybody makes a living in this et; &sr:4 hard-to-impre- ss I A most ett m 0 '"'-w- SO time." 0;!,,em r for Information DIAL In Ogden, Phone ' 60 cam doom amp am. IMO onno i. , I e'Y' rl'''4 r ':t 1,- ,-- f - - - p CLIP --Se- nd I 611101111.all., STUDIOS: me your magaitneHPOPII7 of Social Suc, LARITY," the Manual cross. I enclose 25c Name sly mop Seem SIT, & St Labe City s4 I. ses 1 INS KITIMAT Wag COUPON - w: ... .... valley,-,effortles- God-forsak- 1 Address I Cirt ...State Aomf k3 tc, si SUNDAY, JUNI IL 1949 21' |