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Show . Sun Advocate Price, Utah Tuesday October 1,2002 5A of OvmmMp, ManagMMl and Sen Houai IWfcw 7 . jmiMo jfir. '' jkmU .wsof-tf- ot rfif-tmUn- ISmMXSSs Tjjfwda 'jihnSPt ffirZaffiM 7ft0f-27- 0 fatrifok r (Continued from page BA) totally gone. Cbsde Gate was aho no nunc. Sunnydale wu where we lint made our home when we married in 19SS. It too wai not recognizable. We couldn't even find where our house had stood. Ah progress! What it can do. Yet, as I think emit, perhaps the word "progress isn't what really happened. I wonder. Well now for the past 12 years I have been trying to make a col- lection of the pictures of the coal camps as I new them. I have been fairty successful. Each time someone allows me to make a copy of an old picture I think to myselt how I wish I could have J?A? four, (fa Tfmt rt fa 0b &-?- ftS.f' 7iJt Aits ihk & Tfat-fi- et HR . H Bit 136 'MWCmV'SifrL. ' Lmii XhA- - SUL m RSBRSaSKEC imSujkhtocdrr that picture talk and tell me of jT00 JZL JUL the people that lived within it So, with that thought in mind I have been trying to convince those who lived m and around those L places to write some of their memories concerning their days as a coal camp person. I have not been too successful in that endeavor, but have had some -- JUS. r&. ML In irr: v to the n-t-- jaw kleelti ffs s. Letters CbnMfai editor Times fun despite thoughtful and concerned folks do so. As a result the Carbon County Historical Society has published four journals with those memoirs we have received. This has been an effort to par. our ignorance (Continued tom page BA) haver crossed my mind. When school was released every after-m- e noon we didnt have safety offic-wh-en ers to help us cross the street I grew up playing hockey and the only player to get a helmet was the . arm that would fling out in front of to stop me from hitting the dash the pickup came to a sudden tially keep alive those coal camps that prowled an environment so unique to Carbon County. Now, I guess I will have to hurry and take pictures of the Bruno Fkrm before it too will go the way of progress, oh, I wasn't going to use that word. I'm not sure, though, what word I can use. Perhaps desecration might be strong enough to match my feelings of what our county has lost by the thoughtless razing of our heritage. It is my sincere hope that UDOT will be able to build the overpass without taking away another ofour few remaining historical sites. I know that I, for one, will encourage than to do stop.:. When in went to the cijy about 60 miles away I would sit in the truck with the motor running, doors unlocked patiently waiting for my folks, to finish shopping. The city I grew up I remember served as a backdrop to keep us from running into the river. , I , ponder in my mind today, how we baby boomers, having never weathered the depression or stormea me oeacnes or normanoy are still the last generation to live on the edge, not having a due how unsafe we were and stiD having a lot of fun in the process. - swim-- 1 ming and boating at the local reservoir having never heard of a We jacket as we explored the coves along tin dam or teamed how to water ski. I remember my first bike and the thought of a safety helmet Eldon Miller Helper tl games iKo swung ana ujoaggair ing down steep hits, going way too tost for safety's sake end crashing Mo a hand butt snow drift which 1.1 . had about 2000 people and I re member how big it seemed, but town with more than two grain elevators seemed laige to me at that time. I HL JSL , .mi. Z2ZL aowriw Wft-- y 91.00 you cant get there from here g tw, 2. have invented the telephone in a repressive land where his rights to the fruits of his labors would go to someone else, and he might even lose his life for inventing such a heinous device? What about Orvid and Wilbur Wright er even There would be no one to call on to provide help in natural disasters or when famine struck. There would be no freedom, or little of it Without foe United States, there would be Bill Gates? Inventors need freedom to really invent My guess woukt be that foe world would not technologically be the same, in fed it mafwefl be that it would sbU be in the 18th century when it came to health care, 1 mg wim uwir onooara computBrs or liddfing with their CD players. Boyd Bell foster than ever-increasi-ng for School and trucks. And we are doing next to nothing about tying to find alternatives. You would think that the Board Member greatest country on Earth would do better than that Wouldn't Commitment you? of driv- 38 Yean experience in education grid. Driving would be bad enough if foe roads were in good shape, but they're not It's much safer in cities, of course. You cant have an wish I knew how I could contact that guy. I would send him a video of Wonderful Life" with a note foat read, "Be careful of what you wish for; because if you got it you wouldnt t it Believes in the Carbon County School District accident if you cant move: Our answer to all of this has People Person been... nothing. Basically nothing. There has not been a real innovative transportation initiative in this country since Dwight Eisenhowers National Defense Highway Act, have much to do with There are much worse things than a worid dominated by a super power that has a conscious behind which didn't it high-spe- ed nutrition and even human longevity. - But let's say, by some miracle,' technology would have advanced. World War I could have gone on for there's foe tiutt for 75 mites per hour and ing in looking your rearview mirror to see it filled by a gigantic radiator to the would have no one because moon, had foe dream to do it and the freedom to pursue that dream. It would be a sad world indeed. like often cutting off tailgate, fail to st.r .-- along at No one would have gone I weave in use foeir turn signals and otherwise rfisptay horrendous road maimers. All that of course, is when they're not usuk their cell ohones or rtav- - And then no one to step in when guys like Sadam Hussein wanted to invade foe country next door. Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, a hurry. They and out of lanes drivers to do so yvhat would have it been like? world in terms of technology. Do you think Alexander Graham Bell would is-i- n sm Those roads are now falling apart wo repair them under an onslaught of cars (Continued from page 4A), erybody (Continued tom page 4A) bben for the example of the new torld? Si or out Deyono oetng me Deacon ng consider must we also ffeedom, what that freedom has meant to the iw amf.ru You know, :- SBSSSSSBSt defense but did give us a decent road system. 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