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Show Pftffo LAKE POWELL CHRONICLE, Page, Arizona Two NATIONAL Sitl LETTERS TO THE EDITOR NEWSPAPER following: letter was sent to the Deseret News by Dick Hamblin, Tuesday, following: the articles and cartoon which ran In the News oncernlng: gauging: of tourists in Utah. We think it aptly expresses the feelings of the nongougers.) Editor, Deseret News Dear Sir, Yesterday I let a customer drive on his way with two definitely hazardous tires on his car and two that were just on the brink of being dangerous. As soon as we raised his ear to change the oil and lu!e it, we could see that he was headed for trouble. Two of my hclpeis and myself discussed what we should do. We decided all we could do to stay clear of any entanglements was to tell the cutsomer and let it go at that. This we did. Without looking at the tires the customer said they were all right. l",c0T,7H (Tike SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF KANE COUNTY, UTAH Published every Thursday at Kanab, Utah MEMBER UTAH STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION Marlin B. Brown, Publisher Subscriptions $4.00 per year, $2.50 for Entered as second-clas- s Six Months matter October 6, 1944 at the post office in Kanab, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879 A PAT ON THE BACK Just in case you havent heard Kane County won second place for their entry in the Utah State Fair. We as residents have plenty of reason to be proud of this fine showing, (see story page one) We understand that Kane County has not had a display in the State Fair for several years so this honor is even more significant. A hardy pat on the back and a vote of thanks goes to those who helped put this exhibit together and to those who went to Salt Lake City and fixed the booth which housed the exhibit. Funds for preparing this exhibit were made available by the Kane County Commission. In the article on page one of this issue is mentioned some of those who helped with the booth by supplying various articles for display. However, we would here like to especially compliment those who did most of the work in this very outstanding exhibit Mr. and Mrs Dale Clarkson, and Mr. and Mrs. Forace Green For people who have been in this area a relatively short period of time, these folks have done a great amount of good for us. Dale Clarkson is a young, energetic, and likeable person who is here with the Utah State University Extension Division, to help the area (Kane, Garfield, Beaver, Iron and Washington develop the resources within their own area. We feel he has done much good for Kane County during the time we have known him. When he takes an assignment ( as with the Fair ) it is always carried through. He was the moving force behind the forming of the Kanab Development Corporation. He has written scores of letters in search for answers to questions concerning the vast coal deposits in our County and has helped tremendously in this area with those who are already interested in our coal, and is trying to find ways to make this resource attractive to others. Forace Green moved to Kanab in 1965 for his health sake. Since we have become acquainted with him and his activities we have said several times, For a retired man, moved here for health reasons, he sure is busy. Forace has been writing a weekly article About Town for the Southern Utah News since its January 12 issue of this year, and has not missed an issue. As writers ourselves we say this is a monumental task in itself. But on top of this he has helped get the Chamber of Commerce on its feet and working. He is now executive secretarv of that group. He helped organize Western Hills Rocks and Gems Corporation, which produces the beautiful Kanab Wonderstone. And he has been in the middle of the efforts of the Kanab Development Corporation. One local resident, Scott Betenson, who has seen the State Fair display prepared under the direction of these twro men and their wives, was very lavish in his praise of the booth, and of these men for their contribution to Kane County. We personally are grateful to be associated with these men and their wives, from a business standpoint and also as personal friends. While our ability to tastefully give thanks to someone is very poor we do feel that they are deserving of our thanks as a county. five-coun- The point I am trying to make your overall condemnation of the whole of us you have done a great disservice to our customers as well as to each individual service station operator. We are hamstrung, instead of giving our customers .he kind of service most of them have come to expect from us, we are hesitant to tell them if there is anything wrong. The mere mention of Kanab in your article, without also naming the station, has put all of us in a bad light, the innocent along with the guilty. This I resent with all my being. is this: By the good tires laying around back of the stations. Did your reporter take the time to ask how much money was invested in these so called junk tires? In the tire business as well as other selling business we give allowances on the partially used tires when the customer decides to buy a set, instead of one or two. Right now we have a campaign whic.i gives the customer free gaso line with the purchase of four tires instead of one or two. I You ty ) TURNED ON reported by Keith Bryner Superintendent Fredonia School Fredonia High School District and Elementary District No. 6 tax rates show a decrease from last year. Fredonia and Chevelon Butte, a school, are the only one-roo- schools in Coconino County to show a decrease in taxes. The total decrease in the Fredonia School District levy is $1.18 per by Forace Green What helps my neighbor, helps me. tions of needed service is THE WRONG KIND The other day there appeared in a feature story in The Deseret Nws an item about Kanab. The story told of service stations in Utah cheating motorists by selling them items they didnt rued, by gouging tires with ice picks, and by doing other unethical things. The item from Kanab read: In Kanab they said the tire was flaky and the seam was weak. I called my husband. He said it was a racket. I didnt get now tires. But we went to Grand Canyon, Bryce and home over that hot desert scared to death all the way. The letter was signed by Mrs. D. M. W., Pasadena. When this lady went from the Grand Canyon to Bryce we would imagine she didnt stop again in Kanab. When we first came to Kanab about the same thing happened to us. We drove into one of the local stations and the attendant told us that we had a break in a tire and needed a new one. We rode on that tire for nearly two years and just replaced it this summer. We have considered naming this station. We have written to The Deseret News to see if we can secure the station involved in their article. If it happens to be the same cne the least we will do is turn it over to the local police. Too much is involved when the entire community is attempting to increase tourist traffic to let one or two businesses ruin the reputation of the town. Of course honest recommenda- - for newspapers too. Guilty by association, John Richard Hamblin Dicks American Service by Harold G. Lindsay Are flies a problem dollars assessed valuation. This should account for a considerable savings to taxpayers in the district. The assessed valuation for the district increased from $1,538,-376.0for fiscal year 1966-6to $1,614,309.00 for the present fiscal year. The following is a listing of tax rates and levies as obtained from the ounty Board of $100.00 0 7 around your heme? This is the time of the year that flies can certainly be bothersome around the home and yards. If you are looking for a good control, I would suggest that you try some of the sugar baits that are available on the market. Two that have proven very popular and very effective by home owners in the past are DIPTREX and DIAZINON The best place to put these baits would be around garbage cans or areas where flies will normally congregate. them in area? where flies can work on them. Put the watermelon rinds or other materials out of the reach of children and pets. We have available in the Ex- - High School Mainteru District School Bonds Interest High School Bonds Interest Total Total State taxes increased from 1.66 to 1.70 this year. The total tax cost per $100 sessed valuation will be: as- State 1.70 County School 1.1728 5.5459 Total 4-- Club news H luncheon was made by the four Lunehettes. It was served Monday for our mothers, Ella McArthur. Ila Mae Campbell, Ruth S. Anderson and Lena Brinkerhoff Reporter, Mariann Anderson A Help Last year Fredonias total tax rate was 9.4781. keep America 8.4187 Strong U.S. SAVINGS BONDS NEW rc-CO- M ?'J rT desir- able. Duke Aiken tells of a tme that he drove into a service station and the attendant told him he needed a new fan belt. Duke told him to forget it and put the hood down. A few miles out of town the fan belt broke. When goo I advice was given it wes ignored because of previous attempts to sell fan belts when they were not needed. Mo-- t of the experiences of most of the visitors to Kanab are good ones. Unfortunately it is the bad ones that reach the headlines. This is why we can not put up with even a ft w wrong ar ts. Last week our daughter had clutch trouble coming from Arkansas. She drove into the Spendlove Garage and had it fixed. She was amazed when he charged her $2. She says it runs like a new car. He could easily have charged her $5 or $10 and she would not have objected. He probably only had to tighten the clutch, but she didnt know that. In this day of gougers, thank goodness for men like Tren Spendlove. And thank goodness there are more like him than the others. SIDELIGHTS ON THE STATE FAIR When Madge Little asked us a few weeks ago if Kane County was going to have an exhibt in the Utah State Fair we didn't anticipate then that it would lead into the very nice experience that it has been. Incidentally Mrs. Little, who as you probably know, is a member of the State Fair Board, LesLr, rode in a lead car in the fair parade Saturday. They have attended reception by the Governor and several other important functions in connection with the fair. Kanab can be proud of the important part they play in this annual event. While the Kane County booth received the second award their were actually two booths rated ahead of it. Weber and Wasatch were tied for first and were both given first awards. Salt Lake County has the large center section of the building and was given a special award. We were told they spent over on it. Sevier County $3,000 placed third. Several counties hired professional help to build their displays. Dale and Pat Clarkson should be given scial commendation for putting our booth together. Securing the display place we had was made possible at the late date we applied by the withdrawal of Box Elder County. The State Fair was held earlier this year and it upset the schedule of their county fair and the ripening of some of their fruit. From comments we heard from many who stopped at the booth we are sure it is an effective way of getting people to think about visiting our area. Our own colored pamphlets should be ready for distribution by the time the next fair rolls around. It should add to the effectiveness of tlie principle purpose of the State Fair booth, that of increasing our tourist traffic. and uer hu-ba- County Agent Gives Suggestions For Getting Rid of Pesky Fiies I like to take watermelon rinds and sprinkle the sugar bait liberally on these and leave Coconino County levy increased from $1.0925 to $1.1728 this year. 81, 1967 About Town think this is wrong, I is good business. it think In your pa; i of August 21, 1967 you have a cartoon that depicts one station attendant tossing a knife to the other attendant and saying, "Ill check the oil Frank. You take care of the tires. This is slanderous to me personally. I am the only American service station in Kanab, and I am the only station that has the final filter, which shows plainly on your cartoon, on my gas pumps. I have had many coplo bring this to my attention and ask if there wasnt something I could do about it. Evidently they dont hold me in the same repute you do. I dont feel that it is my place to do something about this type of slander. It falls back on my company to get their tail from between their legs and contest you on your high handed tac tics, I think that your reporter had a personal rather than a public axe to grind. IE has singled out one segment of all service selling industries to attack. In my opinion his article in your paper, without naming the specific culprits, has done more damage to the states tot rist industry than all the unscrupulous sta tion operators put together. I, like the majority of the service station operators, want to know if something underhanded is going on in my station. Bu I want specific and definite claims, not smears and generalities. By the way, what is a flaking tire? That certainly is a nev one. The poor lady that went clear through Utah telling attendants to stay away from her car, by the Grace of God, made it home without mishap. Harrah for her. How many others just as bull headed havent made it and wish they had listened? Let he who is without guilt cast the first stone. This goes dont' Fredonia School Superintendent Lists Decrease In School Taxes (The following article appear!: g this week in the Lake Powell Chronicle, by Elizabeth .Mayes, of Page, reflects our opinions of the Hippie problem.) by Elizalxdh Mayes It has been a frequent remark of mine that all teachers should be parents because if you have enough self control to keep from killing your own children, its a cinch you wont kill anybody rises. But there is a disadvantage, having your own children, because you find out how little you really know. And when parents come to ask what should be done about little Johnny, how they can help, I cant come out surely and positively with the right answers whether about behavior problems or learning problems. I wish I knew as much now, as I did before I ever had any! Which is a round-abou- t way of leading up to the hippies. I can t seem to ignore them, even tho our only sight of them ls when they pass through town. But the communications media are very' much thrm. and they seem to be from middle-clas- s families, and my own kids aie close to the age of some teeny boppers. Since I have taught every grade from third through 12th, I have some working knowledge of the minds of kids. My empathy usually works overtime, so that even while I discipline, I can find reasons or excuses for misbehavior. But I have to admit to complete bewilderment as far as the hippies are concerned. We stand for peace, they say, "and for brotherhood. We are spot-lgihtin- mention Thursday, August ' love children. Material things mean nothing to us. Ahhh this is fine and good and right. But you cant stand for anything, and accomplish. You have to work and pray and plod ahead, and do something. Sitting around a psychedelic shop, talking, talking, talking; getting your senses assaulted by disrordant sounds; getting turned on by a trip via LSD; letting vom hair grow, and filth;-lo- ok. kids, how in the'uorld can you justify this. Or dont you have to is that part of b,:ng turned on? Do you really love everyone? Or are you iust indifferent, and dont care enough to hate Is an LSD i trip , ally a spiritual ex penence? Or are you just so stupidly bor.-d- , and so blind to what is about you that you need drugs to make hie bearable? Are you really unmindful of material things? Or are vou just too lazv to make the effort, even to wash? Like I said, Im bewildered by the whole hit. And why should I be bothered? Because Im a teacher and a mother, and the terrible waste of their livTs bothers me. Whos to blame? I dont know. I can t get the oil empathy working. I cant seem to even work up any sympathy for a group of bright young people who piofess disdain for the workers, yet stand on the streets and beg money from them. I say they have no guts. NOTICE OF SALE ON FORECLOSURE OF LIEN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Clark Swapp, of Kanab, Utah, claims and holds a lien as a mechanic and warehouseman on the following described trailer house: MAKE: Leisure Home YEAR: 1957 MODEL: House Trailer MOTOR NO. 7225923 in the amount of $1,250.00 lor repairs conf erred as a benefit upon said property and the warehousing and storage of the same for one year. The names and last known addresses of the owners thereof and the names of anyone claiming any interest or lien thereon are as follows: Paul J. Hansen Moab, Utah George R. Schultz Escalante, Utah Barbara K. Schultz Escalante, Utah NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, the undersigned Sheriff of Kane County, Utah, will sett at public auction at the hour of 1:00 oclock P.M. at Clarks Mobile Service Station, 179 West Center Street, in Kanab, Utah, on Tuesday, the 12th day of September, 1967, the aforesaid trailer house to satisfy said lien and costs. LA NARD JOHNSON Kane County Sheriff Published in the Southern Utah News, Kana'o, Utah September 1, and 8, 1967. tension Office the most recent bulletins on fly control if you will just call the office or drop in and pick one up. Each year the Extension Service sponsors an adult leaders school for women, which is held at the Utah State University in Lcgan. This year the school will be held October 8 through 12. We are allowed to send one car lead cf ladies from Kane County to this school. Details of this school will be sent to Relief Society Presidents and Womens Clubs throughout Kane County. Anyone interested in attending this school should contact the Kane County Extension Office at Kanab. The County Agent will be able to give you additional in formation on this school. Ladies here is a chance for you to take a weeks vacation from your husbands and families and enjoy the association with other women throughout the state in an enjoyable school, and you may even learn something new. The cost will be very reasonable. I would like to take the opto thank everyone who in any way helped with the Kane County Fair this year. I thought we had a real good fair in every department. It took a lot of hard work on the part of many people. Everyone who took the time and effort to bring things to the fair certainly helped to make this fair a success. portunity I handle Six generations of care. Care in following Beams famous formula. All here in the half gallon size. We put a handle on it. And just for good measure: a built-ipouring spout. The taste is distinctive. The pouring is easy. The Bourbon is Jim Beam Worlds finest Bourbon ld n since 1795. 86 THE PROOF KENTUCKY JAMES B STRAIGHT BEAM DISTILLING BOURBON CO WHISKEY CLERMONT, DiSTIUED BEAM, AND BOTTLED KENTUCKY BT |
