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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR The attention of parents, relatives rela-tives and friends of the following service boys is directed to the fact that their subscriptions for the News have now expired. Anyone Any-one desiring to pay their subscription sub-scription for them (and, so many have told us to advise them when the subscriptions are up that we are taking this way of doing it) please contact the News office at once, as a number of these subscriptions are now past due. The names are as follows: Major C. W. Anderson, Pvt. Thomas Q. Beatty, Cpl. James Bowler, Pvt. Justin M. Covington, Ensign E. F. Cox, Pvt. Don Gibson, Pvt. Lyle Gibson, Pvt. Rodney Gibson, Pfc. Vere Hafen, Pvt. Miles W. Rom-ney, Rom-ney, Pvt. E. T. Spendlove, Lieut. Glade Wittwer, Pvt. M. W. Beck-Strom, Beck-Strom, Sgt. Anthony C. Earl, Capt. M. O. Hutchings and Pfc. George W. Whipple. High Crossing My attention has been called by a number of people to the high crossings that have been left at the corners of Main and Highway 91, and Highway 91 and 1st West. These crossings have to be negotiated carefully or the "backseat drivers" have plenty to say. It looks like something ought to be done to lower these or make a more gradual slant to eliminate these bumps. Paving On 91 The present sandy condition of Highway 91 in the business district dis-trict is due to the fact that the state highway plant at Cedar was destroyed when they were heating the "chips" for the top coating, which was to have given us a finished paving. One of the workmen work-men passed near the plant with an open lantern when they were heating the "chips" and the fumes from the naphtha used in the material were exploded by the flame in the lantern. The resulting explosion and fire burned the workmen severely and de stroyed the material and plant. . . . The result has been that the road was deteriorating badly and a top coat had to be applied. For the top coat, penetrating oil was applied and this was covered with sand, so that the road could be used. When the sand finally blows away Morton Morris states, we should have a road that will stand up under winter weather until they will be able to place the final coating on next spring. I have noticed by the mail changes that, a number of our boys received their training at the bombardier school located near Ephrata, Wash. I happen to have a brother by the name of J. P. Simpson, who is publisher of the Grant County Journal, located in that city, so that if any of the boys are up there now or in the future, I invite them to drop in at the Journal and introduce themselves to J. P. . . . Some of you will recall that J. P. came here and managed the News for a month when I first came here, permitting me to go to the Coast for a month to recover1 my health. . . . The town of Ephrata is similarly sim-ilarly located to the Grand Coulee dam as Las Vegas is to the Boulder Dam. It isn't as large a town however. . . . J. P. is one of those dyed-in-the-wool New Dealers. In fact, he was a good Democrat workhorse long before it paid to be a Democrat. He went to the legislature in the State of Washington this last session and was chairman of the Reclamation committee. As chairman chair-man he introduced and helped put over a reclamation bill which he feels will justify his having lived, even if he doesn't do anything else in life. ... Of course, his county has been well repaid for its efforts in backing the New Deal with the Grand Coulee dam, its power plants and subsequent irrigation possibilities. This dam will probably bring more good land under cultivation than there is in the entire State of Utah. The war came along just right to help utilize the power development develop-ment at the dam. Otherwise, they would have oodles of power and no place to .put it. Perhaps' the aftermath of the war will justify the completion of the dam and its irrigation possibilities. It certainly cer-tainly will provide a lot of land for farming. . . . Anyway, any of you boys from Dixie up that way are invited to drop in and see J. P. |