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Show Community Comments Common sights the past few weeks have been the people who've wandered wan-dered back and forth in front of our office a few times before sticking their heads in the front door and asking, "What's happened to the Times -Independent?" One gentlemen, representing repre-senting a national advertising adver-tising concern, even went so far as to say that our new quarters "smelled like a newspaper office even though there wasn't anything on the outside to indicate that it was." Our move next door has been accomplished over a period of a couple of months and is now nearly complete. Soon the old Times building will be leased to a retail firm, and hopefully our newly-painted newly-painted signs will let the public know where we are. Also underway is the construction in our back yard of a new press room to house a Goss Community Com-munity newspaper press we have purchased and which will be installed in the next month or two. We're pretty excited about ab-out this move. For the past year, we have prepared pre-pared our newspaper plates in our own sho- and then taken them to Cortez where the paper has actually been printed by Cortez Newspapers, Inc. HoDefullv. in Feb ruary we will again be doing the full job in Moab. Mo-ab. -sjt-- Our plea for copies of the Thanksgiving paper last week brought dozens of calls and visits from friends in the community, and for this we are appreciative. ap-preciative. In fact, we visited with a number of old friends we don't get to see very often, and we were prompted to deduct de-duct that a number of people have a lot of old newspapers tucked away around the house. It reminds us of Murray, Mur-ray, Utah colleague, Jim Cornwall's story about selling subscriptions during the depression years. When a farmer friend came into Jim's office to renew his subscription sub-scription and didn't have the money to pay for it, Jim offered to barter for it, being quite impressed that the old fellow wanted the paper so badly that he'd come in even though he had no money. "Don't worry about it," Jim said, "next time you come into town, just bring me a load of cobs or something in exchange." ex-change." "Hell," replied re-plied the farmer friend, '.'if I had a load of cobs, I wouldn't need your damned paper." --sjt-- OK, we were reminded a hundred times last week that a Christmas feature story, "The Old Lady and the Pepper Tree" was chopped off right in the middle. So to even things up, we're running the story again this week --this --this time complete. It's on Page B7. |