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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By E. K. S. Our water bill arrived! Just $16.06 plus the S3 for the minimum, mini-mum, making a total of 19.06. And this, on top of the cool summer sum-mer we had, plus a Couple of weeks of rain and the fact that most of the summer the number of people using the water was greatly reduced due to vacations, sojourns to hospital, etc. Of course, we aren't suggesting that we wouldn't be willing to pay more for the good water we have, but at the same time that certainly cer-tainly did give the bank account a jolt. Took the Hide Off We got a couple of letters this week that kind'a took the hide off. It seems that we left out an item or two which was of far greater interest than most of those we published. And, maybe they were right. Sometimes when Ye Editor gets down to the point of making five galleys go in the place of two, with the mail deadline dead-line just around the corner, he may err in judgment in the selection selec-tion of news. Or perhaps one fits the space available better and "gets the break". Picture Has Two Sides But, the picture has two sides. We got a nice letter from John P. Terry, who was in charge of the publicity for the Rockville Yoo Hoo Rodeo. Mr. Terry sent along a check and wrote some kind words for our cooperation in helping put over the celebration. We appreciate both. Sometimes we give a lot of space and get nothing in return. Perhaps we shouldn't mention Rodeos, though. It was all this space for Rodeos and advertising that drew one of the hide-scorchers. Trip to Los Angeles We hadn't been to L. A. since April so got quite a surprise when we saw the barracks and grounds that the government has planted out in the middle of the desert this side of Las Vegas. Couple this with the acres of buildings, hundreds of planes in various phases of completion that are now standing on the production line, that we saw on the various factory fac-tory sites near L. A., and one gets some idea of what the war production is bringing to this country. The trip from here to Vegas was profitably spent learning something about the grocery business busi-ness from the IGA grocer in Murray. From Las Vegas on we had as a fellow passenger a young fellow from Wyoming, who admitted ad-mitted he was well-paid for his work in the Douglas plant, but who yearned to be back "home on the range" in Wyoming helping his father with sheep and horses. Yeah man, he surely was a lonesome lone-some lad and would have traded all of the Douglas plant for one good whiff of sheep and horses. Safety First We have preached safety first through the columns of this paper, but it was brought home more forcefully to us personally when we had two front tires blow out within a two-week's period. Fortunately, Fort-unately, the car was not being driven at a high rate of speed, or someone else might have been writing an "obit" about us, instead in-stead of our pecking out this column. col-umn. The number of people killed in car wrecks in this county this year had slowed us down, and you can bet these tire blow outs have taken all of the speed out of us. |