Show Mosquito Abatement District Being Set Up Up- Up Will Prove Beneficial Following recent approval by bythe bythe bythe the Moab ty cl-ty council of the set setting ting up of a abatement abate ment district the Grand County Coun ty Board of Commissioners also acted and formation of the district dis now seems assured The action t taken l will provide the I I when legal sanction for action needed and does docs not necessarily mean a tax increase It will provide for Int intelligent control measures calculated to control the pests which when carried out at the proper time as cal calculated calculated cal cal- by an expert entomologist gist will cost only only only-a a fraction of wh what t desperation sprays will by catching the when it copies comes out O lefore e having a chance to lay eggs This writer saw saw aw proof to hIs his satisfaction that control can be had A ii strip o of the swamp was left unsprayed Kicking thru grass up to this area he was not bothered and a tamarack bush a favorite lI lighting place did not give forth its usual cloud of famished mosquitoes A little further on however entering an unsprayed test strip the mo mo- r were evident In vast numbers and their appetites were we excellent Had that spray been timed to catch the hatch before they could lay eggs a much more effective control could have been had we are ore told but the fog of DDT down by Fred Frazier just be fore the coming of the Universal movie company for tor the shootIng shoot shoot- Ing of Son of Cochise certain ly did have an effect a very beneficial one It certainly did thin out the bug and fly lation of Moab The spraying done the first of this week the by Frazier Flying Fly Fly- ing Service covered both cr creeks eks v t the swamps and the lower val Ie ley As soon oon as the weather Is settled settle another nother spraying of the city will be carried out and will result In control of flies files and mo mo- for the rest nest of the sum mer men |