| Show Chicago Scribe Paints Rowdy Picture of Moab After Flying Visit to Uranium Boom Town m Moab is a roaring rip-roaring boom town own We have Impromptu singing sing sing- Ing ng festivals loud load street corner comer arguments argument and an occasional street fight which makes It noisy and boisterous fur fr Into the night Moab doesn't have a hotel hotel hotel-be- be because cause there never was one There are three motels motel Two of them to the ex expansion of trailer parks and the judicious pla placing of the near beer near beer Joints are now enjoying such Juch novelties as no noIse noU far into the night Some of them are arl not entirely out of the zone where tavern gather at ot midnight to sing fight and say farewell A third motel Is U about a half hall mile mil out of town on th the tha l Grand Junction highway It H I is new air all conditioned well run and supports a an excellent kitchen But Dut when you try to get to 0 or from it you are ire again astonished to learn Moab has lias no taxi tad service The Tho fire tire department of Moab Isone is isone isone I one that has a considerable program program program pro pro- gram of work It is i. amateur and doesn't seem to be big enough or orwell orwell w well ll enough equipped for the tho program program program pro pro- gram it hasi hm to deliver There Va lra Isa lr V- a growing feeling among numerous numer numer-i numer ous 04 folks folk that someday a sturdy lire fire in a high wind will burn bum the whole town down If you drive out of Moab over the route of Charles Chance Steen you arent aren't likely to see lift e anything but butte Steens Steen's te n's ns tru trucks and machinery As you follow the winding road through one of the grimmest wildernesses wildernesses wild wild- that you c can cant n remember you are tore only onlY of extreme I For anyone reading in iii the Chicago Chi CM cago Tribune of Sept 1 11 11 1 this was the he picture they received of the theold theold theold old home town It was the fourth article in a It series written under the he line by of Robert Casey Tribune Tribune Tri Tri- Th- Th bune bune reporter There was another scheduled In the next issue Anyone from froni Moab who might have chanced to read Jt It ti they are ore probably wondering where that town is Or maybe we have ha Just been going to bed too early Inthe Inthe in inthe the loud evenings As for the three motels and no hotels we wonder if it is a mirage in which the guests of two hotels hotel and eight motels in the city have been hanging their bal haL hau and cal cat Continued on page 6 0 I Chicago Scribe Scribe- I Continued from page I J 1 I ling it home I Casey paid Moab a It flying visit during the summer and Visited In The Times Independent office then took a bus out for Durango In the afternoon He evidently was wu not Impressed to any degree by what he saw or heard while payIng paying pay pay- paying ing his flying visit to Utah Since Moab skyrocketed to fame as the Uranium Capital of the World a lot of writers and visitors tors of note have chanced to drop In for a visit Their stories reported back home have vard varied var led greatly from those of the Chicago Chicago Chi cago scribe In fact one of the most remarked remark ed cd about features of the Moab boom has been the orderly fash fash- Ion on in which the town has taken its ts Its sudden growth in stride So It it Is with great surprise that hat we learn how rough and rowdy we have hav become here in Moab Guilty 7 Not guilty 7 Let the home folks be the Jury |
