Show I Q By Jack Wallis The sudden snow storm Monday put the winter mantle mantic on the thc basin this week Slick icy roads road caught many motorists unprepared and unaccustomed to driving in extra hazardous conditions Ten traffic accidents were investigated in Monday afternoon by law enforcement officers due to the snow slick roads Several good things about the snowy colder weather are arc that It gets one in inthe inthe inthe the Christmas spirit its good for snow tire business and it helps halt the out the out of- of town traffic to the Wasatch Front for Christmas shopping US U.S. 40 through Strawberry and Parleys Parleys Par Par- leys Canyon has been very dangerous and difficult to travel this week Visibility Visibility lity has been almost zero during the snow and wind storms that are arc typical in these high-elevation high passes 11 The local Utah Highway Patrol office has installed their telephone line recorders record record- ers for up-to-date up road conditions mation By calling the latest road read conditions can be obtained before heading out on that trip on US U.S. 40 Indian Indian Indian In In- dian Canyon or SR 44 to Flaming Gorge 4 JJ 4 M. M T if tr IT The most unpopular automobile right now is a 1965 tan or gold Ford We were told that a person in the Rangely area has been stopped about nine times by different law enforcement officers because because be be- cause his car answered the description in an points all-points bulletin on the Nickell murder The best get away thing to do with a model of this type is to trade it in on a new one But Cut right now it would be pretty hard for the dealer to resell it As far as we know knew the real 1965 Ford suspect vehicle has never been found yc The Vernal Jaycees were ere out in mass Sunday and did their annual community service project of dressing Main Iain Street for Christmas The big the Jaycees Jaycees Jaycees Jay- Jay cees had this year was that someone stole over half of the light bulbs out of the decorations wl while le they were in stor stor- age New ones one had to be ordered and this means the faithful workers will again ha have ve to climb elim b their ladders to install the new globes when they come later this week The lights should officially go goon goon goon on about Friday or Saturday we were told 44 11 r t Another problem has also developed in the local Christmas festivities Someone Some one forgot to invite Santa Claus to come cometo cometo cometo to Vernal with his candy and nuts before Christmas and listen to the local boys and girls As far as I can tell only a special few will get to see Santa before Christmas this year in our area I guess he is so busy this year he just cant can't make the trip special Accepting special government funds is facing many communities through the US U.S. Checks for revenue sharing should arrive this week The question asked is how and where should this money be spent Right now most county governments governments governments govern govern- ments are arc setting up next years year's budgets and its it's a real temptation to add some of the frills in anticipating the federal so called sharing money The amount of money an area gets is based on a special formula and one phase of this formula is based on the tax effort of the area If you pay more taxes you get more money You guessed it il if you use your Christmas Uncle Sam money to lower taxes then next year you get cut because your tax effort has decreased So the incentive is again to be a big spender With the poor example ex ex- example ample of the federal government how can we ever balance our budgets |