Show i I dri On the Right Side 1 e o of t the e Le Ledger bel z SARA 1 YO YOU U CAN 13 BL Y HAT filAt Ni NEW VJ WINTER OAT ry r YOU HAVE BEEN WANTING rr l lJ LAST FIVE YEARS J y Q Ij I 0 O OT Ol l i USHERING IN T THE HOLIDAYS One Duchesne Duchesne- store at least has felt the spirit of the coming holiday season and has its windows vs attractively attractively attractively at at- dressed with Christmas ChristInas merchandise We hope the idea will vill spread so that all the stores will vill be similarly dressed up shortly While V ile Christmas is still a month away vay wise vise folks are already shopping around for the annual list of Christmas ChristInas gifts and the stores who vho have the right merchandise l properly displayed are the ones which make the sales Salt Lake City stores have all been displaying holiday goods for several days now nov and mail or order el cat catalogues logue of special holiday merchandise ar are in the hands of all the people If local merchants want their share of this holiday business and th their ir share should b be ALL of it they l must display their then wares vares just as early and J justas efficiently as the tIle cit city store and th the mail order house Shoppers themselves if they care to he help develop their own communities can go a long g way vay in spreading spreading spread spread- ing the holiday spirit if they will viII adopt the slogan Do All Your Christmas Shopping At Home THE ROUGH ROAD HAZARD Twice vice in the last thirty days Duchesne county has been shocked with the news vs of accidental death on the public highway high While road conditions condition s apparently did not enter into the cause of the death of little Ronald i Baum a month ago we ve can most certainly blame the I death last Saturday of Olaf Anderson to the rough condition of highway high 40 between Heber and Du Du- chesne Automobiles have haye not yet been made with lighting systems good enough to stand the constant vibration they are submitted to over this kind of road and the great wonder vonder is that more lives have not been sacrificed sacrificed sacrificed to this condition We have all experienced at various t times being plunged into complete darkness darkness darkness dark dark- ness while traveling along one of these rough roads and one does not have to be traveling at a high speed to be thoroughly frightened before our car or truck is brought to a stop and the trouble located Fortunately the law v of averages causes most of the light failures to happen on straight stretches of road v where here nothing mo more e serious than tha a good scare results I Last Saturday however vevel the conditions were vere reversed and Buster Stevenson's lights failed him at just the right place for his truck to climb a slanting ledge out of the bar barrow v pit it overturn and take the life of Olaf Anderson a passenger Olaf was vas wasa a fine young man just ripening into nto the prime of life a joy to his parents brothers and sisters sisters sis sis- teis tei's and made of the kind of stuff that builds good citizens And while Duchesne county is joining with ith his relatives and friends in in grieving the apparently unwarranted un loss of such a one of its citizens it is well vell that we ve consider the cause of his death and put added energy into the fight for a properly surfaced highway high before the incident is is repeated HELP PREVENT FIRES A fire school for the local fire department was vas held in Duchesne Thursday with Battalion Chief J. J K IC Pierce Piercey y of the Salt Lake Fire Department and chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of the educational committee of the State Firemen's Firemen's Fire Fire- mens men's association in charge During the day the firemen firemen fire fire- Ine men were vere given given instructions and in the evening a public meeting was vas held with pictures and eson fire prevention Duchesne can well veIl be proud of the fire department that has been developed under the able leadership of Chief W W. D D. Bishop Thousands of dollars worth of threatened property has already been saved Duchesne property owners o by this department department depart depart- ment and with the better cooperation of the citizens in fire prevention the elimination of fire losses should soon be reflected reflect in decreased ins insurance once rates q a |