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Show uatto-, By STEV WILLIAMS Move over, Rainmakers . . . B. Bowers and Amasa Barton of Beaver have you oul-mois-tured. It seems the Nowers-Barton duo, traveling to Phoenix, Ariz., last week for the National Cattlemen's Cat-tlemen's Ass'n meeting, "picked up" a few rainclouds at Kingman, King-man, Ariz., and time they got lo Phoenix had parleyed the drizzle into 50,000 acre feet of water, which the Arizonians gave them credit for conjuring up, and the cattlemen even awarded them a "Golden Calf," which they haven't received yet, but Nowers says he's watching every mail and expecting the trophy any day. But that ain't all. En route home, they brought the rains along with them, dropping off 6 inches at Jacob's Lake, and 4 inches at Kanab, then for three days after their return, Beaver-ites Beaver-ites had to go around in rain capes and hoods. At least, that's their story, and they're sticking to it. j Up at the State Press director's direc-tor's meeting last Saturday, Pub-1 lisher Cliff Memmott of the j Roosevelt Standard, who has just combined the Roosevelt and Duchesne papers, told of a "name-seeking" contest that cost him a lot of free subscriptions. Seems some of the folks up Roosevelt way were wondering how many local folks "got their name in the paper" and Cliff had a unique way of finding out. He offered a free subscription to any one who would count all the local folks' names in one issue. It resulted in a surprising number of folks who counted a surprising number of names and one lady even counted how many times each name was repeated re-peated in, the various news items, how many times "Mr. and Mrs-" appeared, and quite a few other interesting statistics. We'll go Cliff one better to anyone (or everyone) who counts the Beaver County names in this issue of The Beaver County News, and tells us how many names there are, we'll give credit for two years additional on their present subscription to The Beaver County News. Time limit is next Thursday, Jan 24th- Last week we had Max Baxter Bax-ter pegged as West Beaver County road supervisor. That's correct, as far as it went. Max is West Beaver County road supervisor for the Stale Highway High-way Department. And while we're mentioning ' Max, we'll pass along a nic5 "' pat on the back 'for the way he's improved the slate roads in his end of the county. Don't think there's a better highway builder or maintainor anywhere any-where in the state than Max, and we're fortunate to have him on the job keeping state roads in such good shape. Beaver folks (and residents of other sections of the county too) are in for a hilarious evening, eve-ning, the last of the month, when they turn out for the annual Lions Club polio bene--v fit. They're following last year's schedule and having a basketball basket-ball game with the Jaycees, as their contribution to polio entertainment en-tertainment for 1957. And if they follow last year's pattern, it'll be entertainment par excellence. ex-cellence. In addition to the pratt falls and slips and slides, we understand their "uniforms" "uni-forms" will be good for a lot of belly-laughs. Plan now to attend the exact ex-act date will be announced next week. Maybe the folks who voted for the $550,000 school bond issue are going to be a little disappointed. Latest word is that construction of school buildings, with the money they approved, won't start before spring of 1958. That's another 15 to 18 months. Supt. Pearce explained that architects want from six months to a year to complete their planning, plan-ning, and they always like to call for bids from contractors in the fall, when the contractors aren't so busy, but they can't begin work in the fall because they'd be taking too big a chance of running into bad weather at the wrong time, so work can't be expected to start before the spring of 1958. It don't seem to make sense. We understand several architects archi-tects who have already worked on modern school buildings build-ings have contacted the board of education, wanting this B.e aver County work Surely a competent architect can be found who can get plans drawn and approved by spring, and there's enough contrac- (Continued on BacK Page) I HERE'S MORE ABOUT i DUNNO Continued from Page One tors in Utah that ALL of 'em won't be too busy to start construction con-struction of our badly needed school buildings in the spring or summer of 1957. Let's get the work started we need the buildings or we wouldn't have approved issue of the bonds-Rex bonds-Rex Packard is the new Red Cross chairman for Beaver, and recently took a "leaders training train-ing course" in Red Cross work from 'field agent Virginia Glenn of Salt Lake. Rex says he's going to do I everything he's supposed to do i to turn in a:i outstanding record rec-ord of servi .e for the year . I Rex was ''convinced" .1 id he should accept the assignment 1 when he learned of the 550 "forgotten patients" at the Utah State Mental Hospital in Provo, who have no families, but who each received four or five gifts at Christmas writing writ-ing materials, hose, bedroom slippers, etc. from the Utah Red Cross Hospital Council. Representative Jack Mahon-ey Mahon-ey of Mil'ford has been assigned to four legislative committees, including the Industry committee, commit-tee, Labor, Military Affairs and Civil Defense, and the important import-ant Rules committee. Senator Gronning was appointed ap-pointed to the Agriculture and Irrigation, Political Subdivisions, Subdivi-sions, Industry, and State and Federal Affairs committees. Both Beaver County legislators legis-lators have dropped a bill into the hopper, Sen. Gronning co-sponsoring co-sponsoring a measure that would empower cities to set aside sites for television trans mission and relay facilities, and Rep. Mahoney co-sponsoring a bill to permit the State Industrial Indus-trial Commission to take assignments as-signments on wage claims up to $400 instead of $200. See where Senator Watkins has co-sponsored a bill to pour five million dollars down the rainmaking drain. The money would be appropriated for "experimental "ex-perimental research in cloud, modification, particularly in areas effected by drought." The rainmakers admit they can't make rain unless there's clouds, and when you have a drought there ain't no clouds. The dryest years Southern Utah has known in modern times was when the rainmakers were operating their rainmaking rainmak-ing machines. And in spite of the fact the rainmakers claim they DID increase precipita-talion, precipita-talion, the Minersville Reservoir Reser-voir still .went bone dry. To us It just don't make sense. |