Show Joe Straws Stars By Jack Wallis The conversation for the past week has been the moaning and groaning over the zero sub-zero weather that has a tight hold holdon on the local area Most roads are still icy slick making driving hazardous Heating furnaces are working overtime some never seem to shut off and many mobile homes have experienced freeze- freeze ups in their entire plumbing systems This area has been warmer when compared compared compared com com- pared to other parts of the state though We have been in the teens below zero readings whereas other parts of the state stale have been in the and below below below be be- low zero So this year the Uintah Basin is not the traditional ice box of the state We are glad to give this honor to Logan Randolph or Richfield who have had near 30 below zero tempera tempera- tures But for some reason whether the temperature is teens or below zero is all too cold you can just put so much on and stay out so long before feeling frozen fro in any below zero er Lets Let's hope it warms up for winter when it officially gets here next Thurs Thurs- day sharing The local revenue sharing checks finally finally fin fin- ally arrived Monday and county and city officials felt pretty sporty showing off the green piece of paper representing represent represent- ing our share of the so-called so federal revenues revenues revenues re re- re- re venues going to some counties and cities throughout the US U.S. Uintah county received a check for and Vernal City got one for This is about third one of the full amount expected expected ex ex- peeLed which will be in hi later checks if the plan goes as planned and the money doesn't run out Will the real Bob Allen please come forward Last week we ran a letter to the Editor concerning predators signed by Bob Allen that may have been beena a hoax The letter was mailed from here and had Bill Allen Vernal Utah as the return address A Bill Allen and his son Bob Allen from Browns Brown's Park and Rock RockSprings RockSprings RockSprings Springs Wyoming contacted us and are very unhappy since thay hay are arc cattle ranchers ranchers ran ran- chers and have opposite views to those expressed in the letter and stated they did not write it Larry Gurr has also been trying to find out who wrote the letter Just to set the record straight we would like to know who the Bob Dob Allen is that wrote the letter to us last week As a reminder to a very few that may get the idea of signing someone else's name to a letter to the Editor or any other Information sent into a newspaper for general publication according to Utah Law Code 76 40 any person who willfully conveys false information to a newspaper is guilty of a meanor meaner As far as we can tell nothing has developed on the Greg Nickell murder case It seems strange to us that something something some some- thing more does docs not turn up with all the work and time that has been expended trying to find the possible suspects I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess weve we've become a little impatient resulting from watching so many TV programs where they always get their man in a little less than one one- half hour |