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Show Dear Sam: With all due respect to the story featured in last week's paper picturing a table, I must protest. It was not hand carved. Mr. Frank Probasco made the table from a giant gi-ant burl which grew on a box elder growing on upper up-per Pack Creek. My husband, hus-band, the late Merle Win-bourn, Win-bourn, polished and applied ap-plied a satin finish top to it, in a wood working class at the local high school when he was just a young boy. The uniqueness of the table belonged to Frank, the evenly polished wood to my husband Merle. The table was in my house for many years and used as a planter. The small top was, I am sure, applied when Merle polished polish-ed it. It was as I recall straight grained oak. The polishing was indeed beautiful. beau-tiful. Yours Sincerely, Mrs. Berdene Winbourn Dear Sam: I am forwarding you a copy of my last correspondence correspon-dence with Congressman Laurence J. Burton with reference to the Forest Service attempting to confiscate con-fiscate the spring on the old Gardner property, now owned by Rosalie Robertson Robert-son and her daughter. I think sometimes we don't take the time to point out through publication publica-tion all of the efforts set forth by some of our individual in-dividual Congressmen, even ev-en though we realize the danger -.to our locality without such men as Laurence Lau-rence J. Burton. I have taken many cases to him for assistance and he has never failed to not only act promptly, but to con tinue his work until there is . a final .conclusion, one way or another. I have -worked with many Senators Senat-ors and Congressmen in Colorado, Utah and California, Cali-fornia, but none of them have ever exerted the ef-'fo;rt ef-'fo;rt that Congressman Burton has in every case. I have taken two different differ-ent cases from the Moab area to his opponent, Senator Sen-ator Frank Moss, and while I did get a quick reply re-ply back that he had contacted con-tacted whatever agency I was in difficulty with and what they had said (which of course was the opposite oppo-site from my statements), never did he follow through with the case and I was not able to pursuade him to do so. I think therefore that all of the voters in Utah, regardless of political party, par-ty, had better set forth every effort to see that Congressman Laurence J. Burton is placed in Congress Con-gress where he can continue contin-ue to safeguard the interests inter-ests of all citizens of the state. Sincerely, J. D. Dillard Grazing & Lands Consultant |