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Show Dear Sam: In an age when some of the so-called old fashioned virtues- seem to have gone-by-the board it is worth noting that there are still some wonderfully won-derfully kind and thoughtful people left. Last, week in what ' would have been a real tragedy, Collette Johnston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vion. John ston, was struck by a car otv the highway near the bowling alley. Long before Vion md Colleen Johnston knew the extent of their daughter's injuries in-juries they both tried to reassure re-assure and console the driver of the car. This takes a special spec-ial kind of thoughtfulness and indicates a special kind of person. I think it is worthy of note and commendation. Thanks, D. S. Wimmer Dear Sam: In last week's T-I Ken Sleight took the State Highway High-way Department to task as well as Mr. Helland, the director, dir-ector, for their "many past mistakes." He characterized the Comb Ridge cut and the "ill-designed and ugly road leading from U-95 toward Halls Crossing as two of these "awful mistakes." He also stated that there was far too little and inadequate planning. I quesion if Mr. Sleight has .any . knowledge of what the planning, the alternatives, the design requirements, etc., even consisted of. I don't know what qualifications qualifi-cations Mr. Sleight has regarding re-garding the location, design, and construction of roads. Apparently he thinks he is an expert as he constantly says the State does everything wrong. Perhaps Mr. Sleight should, faith his profound wisdom, tell us, and submit total aspects as-pects of a design on how the Halls Crosing road and the Comb should have been built. He should tell us how to get down a nearly 800 foot near vertical drop without making a cut, and if a tunnel, give all the particulars on how he-would he-would solve all the problems that brings up. It appears he is like most of the "Sahara Clubbers." They've got all the answers on how someone else ought to do things. The funny thing is that they never seem , to be able to do anything productive pro-ductive or constructive themselves;. them-selves;. They make people think they are the voice of ,the majority on many issues because they are well organized organ-ized in writing letters, 1 tut they never seem to be able to get into positions that require re-quire the vote of the people. It would be interesting to see one of them run for local or State wide office on the far out things they advocate and see just how many people peo-ple they really represent. Very trulv yours. Calvin Black Blanding Dear Sam: Time and again throughout the school year we hear fellow fel-low students complaining that "there is nothing to do in Moab." If these young people really want something to do that will help themselves and their community, I feel that we have the answer. The newly organized Leo Club of Moab is now accepting accept-ing applications for membership. member-ship. This is a civic service organization for young people, peo-ple, male and female, between be-tween the ages of 15 and 20. We hope to provide the opportunity op-portunity for young people to have "something to rio" something worthwhile. The Leo Club program was originally established by Lions Li-ons International and is locally lo-cally sponsored by the Moab Lions Club. There are numerous num-erous Leo Clubs throughout many countries of the free world. However, we are the 'third to be established in Utah and the first in our District Dis-trict which covers the entire eastern portion of the Stale from Wyoming to the Arizona border. We, as Leos, elect our own officers ,run our own club, and have complete responsibility re-sponsibility for our actions. Members of the Lions Club are available for guidance and advice, but the financing and general operation of our club is entirely in the hands N of its members. The letters of our name, LEO, stand for Leadership, Experience and Opportunity. When a young person becomes becom-es a Leo, he has an excellent opportunity to obtain and -develop these traits. If he isn't interested in our cause, we suggest he should seek one suitable to his personal needs. However, any young person wishing to further develop himself is asked to attend one of our meetings which are held in the Courtroom of the County Courthouse each Thursday evening at 7:30. For further information they may call Leo President Tommy Reynolds at 25&-639E or , Debbie Mabery at 259-259-6766. We wil he-available to answer their questions. Sincerely, Debbie Mabery, ' Vice President Moab Leo Club |