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Show Southern Utah News and Kane County Standard Page Four The Old West breaks loose again Letters To The l A FREDONIA. brawl involving words, fists and gun, over an alledged debt, has brought charges and countercharges against all participants and some not involved in the fight. to testimony in According hearings here before Justice of the Peace Joseph Brooksby, the argument took place 5 miles north of Marble Canyon at the Vermillion Cliff Trading Post which is leased by Hank Jones. Buck Rodgers, owner of the Post, claims he was visiting with his brother Jack,' who works at the Post, when they were attacked by flene and J. O Baker, who were accompanied by Richard Terrill, a brother i law and free-for-al- Editor Editor Southern Utah News Dear Sir: ' t We have just concluded reading your ROVEING REPORTERS column in this weeks isof the SOUTHERN sue UTAH NEWS. I believe your reporter has dealt with us a little harshly and unfairly in his report of our activities regarding the Glen Canyon Dam road, as lest your readers judge us accordingly hasten to write you to avoid any further misunderstand ing. First let me say that I was a part of the Delegation from Garfield at that Richfield meeting. No effort was made to sabatog the Kanab-GleCanyon Road at that meeting. I am sure that if your reporter will check with jlayor Aiken, and Commissioner Smirl they will tell you that the Garfield Delegation told Commissioner Bott that they favored the immediate construction of the road from Kanab to Glen Canyon, and that they had no quarell with the construction of such a road. Should you also feel disposed to check with the State David L. (Duke) Billie. The Baiters claim that Rodgers owed them $700 for previous work on some water tanks, and upon asking Rodgers fof it anar-gumen- t ensued. When the situation got past the word stage, the Bakers say that Rodgers brought a pistol into the fracas and Gene Baker was knocked out by the discharge of the heavy caliber gun. The Rodger brothers who were treated for injuries received in the fight filed charges of assault against the Bakers and companDoe, Road Chairman Corliesen I am ions, and also against John be located or was who cant will that he tell certain that you he received the same message never there. The Bakers are charging the from the Garfield Delegation. Fredonia current news events murder. Judge Brooksby set $50 bonds on" all men involved except for Buck Rodgers who is free on $250 bond, awaiting superior court trail. Trial on simple assault charges has been set for April 23. Deputy Sheriff Wayne (Slim) Lathim investigated the brawl. A . V f Rodger brothers with assult, and and charging Buck Rodgers with assault with intent to commit about this development as sensible people. Name calling and creation of bad feeling should have no part in that growth. prac-tiabl- (Continued from page three) Mr. Sellman was elected president, and Mrs. Barbara Bentley, secretary-treasurer- . Out going officers who have served so successfully the past year are Mrs. Veryle Baker, president: Mrs. Lavell Wittwer, and Mrs. Sue Jensen. secretary-treasurer- . Members of the Fredonia Town Council and other Interested parties have spent considerable time lately pushing for the Hurricane Fredonia highway via Short Creek. In efforts to gain attention of state and county officials In this vice- -' matter representatives from this locale recently attended a dinner in Flagstaff honoring Frank Christensen, newly appointed State Highway Commissioner. Attending the dinner were n That Garfield County la attempting to get a road built from Cannonville to the Dam Site is a matter of record. We shall continue an effort for we feel that such a road is feasible and However, we believe that this rtjad may become a part of a network or roads into the dam, certainly not the only road. Naturally with the comelng of this tremendous asset to the Southern part of the State, all communities are anxious and eager to take their fair share. However, I hope that we can go .Thursday, April 19, 1936 Nv Mayor Arland Brooksby, Milton Whiting, Malissa Jensen, Mr. t TAX and Mrs. Barney Burch and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Finicum. The representatives were able to met and discuss the situation with Mr. Christensen, Coconino County Supervisors and State Senator Robert Prochnow, chairman of the State Legislative Highway Planning Committee. Many difficulties arise in promoting this highway as approval-o- f funds includes Coconino and Mohave Counties as well as the U.S. Indian Service, National Park Service and Arizona and Utah State highway depts. in order to accomplish the project. Mayor Brooksby, Councilman Len McKinney, Dale Finnicum and Mason Cottam also met in Phoenix recently with State Highway officials and commissioners in efforts to further the possibilities of working oat a solution to the financing BURDEN REMAINS AT WARTIME FISWT AGAINST CANCER. LETS DOUBLE OUR CONTRIBUTION TO TWE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY! LEVELS BiMinG-8Y-r.- ... Seven league boots for busy men and women Local News Items Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Adams Jr. and daughter Zola of Mid- vale visited their mother, Mrs. J. Q. Adams and relatives and friends in the old home town of Kanab. Govt Receipts as Percent of Gross National Product IV 1929 1935 1945 Belle Zr CONVENIENT! RICHFIELD COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS BANK Optometrist and at the Specialist, 24th, TH FRIENDLY . I M - ULr t t 'y Organized AYOUR DEPOSITS Member of Federal 1898 INSURED TO $10,000.00 Deposit Insurance Corporation - .i ' tV , ' Southern Utah People BANK Serving take care i m MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT he-d- y U.N. mooting to tpook U. of U. pa Friday. April 20, NOTICE r- I JIST WHAT PIP, N STEVIE, BOY I KNOW ALL VtXifR REAPERS WILL IDO ! APPY, WE STILL NEEO AV3RE FUNDS FOR RESEARCH IN THE W Prepared by NAM from Govt Statistics MacDonald returned to her home in Kanab last week Panguitch, Utah folowing several months spent Taxes Assessed Against the total output. This output Gross In California visiting with her P.S. Please place, my name on sister and in Salt Lake City. Peopdes Output The chart shows National Product is the final and bill me for that the tax burden (local, state market value of all the goods your mailing-li- st Mrs. Ftancls Duffy and chil- and federal) of the population and services produced by the peoa subscription. dren and Mrs. Venice Palvador of the United States has grown ple. The tax on that output is, in and children, returned to Kanab faster than 'the peoples ability the last analysis, an assessment the past week where they will to produce. Since 1929 this bur- against the peoples productive reside again. They have spent den has Increased from about 10 effort. the past winter in Phoenix, Ariz- percent to about 25 percent of the A temporary increase in the ona. value of our production. Put an- tax burden to wager a major war other way, on the average, one is understandable, but the deMrs. Merrillin Robinson has out of four is now crease in that burden after World labor days to Kanab after being returned VisDr. M. F. BURGESS, for the support of government, War II was meager and shortaway for the past five months husband who is in the compared to only one day In ten lived. The percentages of gross her with ion will be in KANAB, national production now being In 1929. service. no mat- used to support governmental opGovernment receipts, to .KANAB MOTEL on Tueday April ter how designated or how charg- erations is again at wartime Our town didnt have much ed, are taxes on the nations off your Visual Needs. get up and go and if you did get up, there was no place to Herb Shriner When a man and women go! Why not go out on a limb? one. become The that where the fruit is? Isnt marry, they Love your enemies. Itll sure trouble starts when they try to vu make them feel silly! decide which one! Very truly yours, Wm. G. Bruhn By'M.ilton Caniff Steve Canyon V Champs of every weight class ! IJew 53 Chevrolet Thols-Forc-e lkucks ! UlUD , - . Model 3104 pickup. e Forward Control chassis. Model 3442. e Mode! 3803 with refrigerator body, NEW LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPS , " V e ' Model 3805 panel. 1, I IWliein ' miminiim ooo 7 I ' ; j i inyiV .tan SV 1 ns S 4000 Series stake. 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