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Show Dear Editor: I am a high school student that lives on the east side of town. Ever since I have attended at-tended the high school I have had to walk through the creek to get to and from the school. Many students will agree with me that it's terrible ter-rible to walk through. When Mrs. Helen M. Knight was the superintendent of our school, she had the money to build a bridge for us to walk on. The city or the school district, I'm not sure which, talked her out of doing so. why I'll never know. I'm writing this letter to you to ask if you would please print it. If you do, maybe our city "Dads" or someone will do something about it. I sure hope so. Signed A Muddy Foot Student DEAR EDITOR: I recently attempted to return re-turn pop bottles to the Bee-line Bee-line service station at the North end of town for a de-pasit de-pasit they had charged. I had Six bottles on which they hahd charged a 5 cents deposit de-posit they had charged. I posit each. I told the attend-ent attend-ent I would take 2 pops in exchange. ex-change. He then advised me that the bottles were worth only 3 cents. I told him that was not right. I had paid a 5 cent deposit and expected 5 cents in return. He then refused re-fused to make the exchange 'and said that if I was. going to do business there I was going go-ing to do it his way. As a citizen of this community, com-munity, I certainly cannot condone such business practice. prac-tice. If, a person charges a 5 cent deposit on an item, that 5 cent deposit should be returned re-turned upon return of that item or a comparable item. A deposit should be just that ."A Deposit" I feel that this business con cern, as well as any other business concern in this community com-munity should stop charging 5 cent deposits on pop bottles. Those who do not should be expected to pay 5 cents for returned bottles. (The public can profit 66 per cent by re- turning 3 cent bottles to these establishments this is a very good return on our money.) Paul L. Maughan 239 Walker. Dear Sam, The present hiatus over the Book Cliffs road has interested interest-ed me greatly. It has become not only a problem of right-of right-of ways, but also a political football. Before it is too late, I would like to make a few comments. After looking at a map of the area, it appears that Bill Cunningham will lost at most, two ten acre slices off his property. The road thru East Willow will cover about 6,000 linear feet of his property, prop-erty, with the total right-of-way adding to about twelve acres. This land is carried on the Grand county tax rolls at thirty dollars an acre. The pioneer road over the top for the National Guard will probably cost three to five thousand dollars. This road apparently will be rougher rou-gher than going thru East Willow canyon. So the point is that, regardless of the ridge road, people will use the canyon to get thru. The facts seems to point to one logical conclusion. That is the fact that sooner or later, we shall have to condemn Bill Cunningham's land and build the road thru East Wilow bottom. So why not do it now, use the money that would be spent on the pioneer road, on East Willow repairs, and pay condemnation condemna-tion costs. At an assessed value of thirty dollars an acre, a five to ten fold judgment judg-ment does not seem too unreasonable; un-reasonable; th's could amount am-ount from $W0 to $3600. It has been said that no traffic can be forecast or exists. ex-ists. This is true, but we must first have the road before be-fore we will have traffic. Grand county's long range plans must include building a stable industry inventory. I believe the tar sands, the possible urea plant, the additional ad-ditional railroad facilities to handle these, among others, are sound reasons to build the road. After all, business of any kind is pure speculation, specula-tion, and this is one of our better chances of succeeding. Sincerely yours, s Wesley Creed |